Princess of Saiyans
Chapter 4: Kami
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Okay guys, thanks for yor patience. Here it is the newly added in chapter that I promised. I do hope that you like what you read in this chapter. Don't forget that chapter 9 is also up, so if you haven't read it yet please go check it out when you are finished with this. Please enjoy and review. Thanks!
When Kami and Nonica returned to the Lookout Mr. Popo showed her to her new room. It was huge with white walls and a white marble floor. She had a canopy bed with white curtains and a large cherry wood wardrobe in the corner of the room. Mr. Popo told her that she would have plenty of clothes in it by the next day. Being that she was a princess this, of course, made her very happy. After Nonica was given the grand tour Mr. Popo went to prepare their dinner. The little princess stepped back outside and wondered around for a bit. Curiosity once again got the best of her and she decided to have a look over the edge of the Lookout. To her amazement, she could see everything down on Earth. "This is incredible." she said to herself.
"It is quite breathtaking." said Kami as he came walking over to stand beside the small girl.
"You're home is so beautiful. I'm very grateful that you would open it up to me like this, but I have to ask. Why?" she said.
The older gentlemen simply and answered, "My dear, I can sense that you possess a great power. I do believe that you can be a greater warrior than you are now with a little direction."
"I don't want to fight anymore. What you saw today was just me making sure that I can defend myself if I need to." the small girl replied.
"Yes, I could sense that you had something horrible has happen to you, but you are still a child. You will come to find that time heals all wounds and whatever it was that happened will become less painful and one day it won't even hurt at all." Kami told her.
Little Nonica looked up at him, "Being a fighter doesn't mean I'm bad, does it?" she asked.
Kami looked at her in shock. "Of course, it doesn't mean you're bad. There are people that use their fighting ability for their own personal gain and then there are people that use their abilities to protect the safety of others. It will up to you to decided which of those fighters you will become."
Though she was a child she understood that she didn't have to be evil just because of the bad things she was taught on her home planet and that she could be different. She realized that she could teach herself to control her Saiyan urges with the right training. "I guess a little training couldn't hurt." she said.
Kami smiled down at her, "So be it then." he said and began to walk toward the temple, "Follow me."
"We're going to start now?" Nonica asked.
"No time like the present. Don't you agree?"
A slight smirk crept across the small girl's face. The possibility that this elderly man was going to challenge her abilities and somehow make her a better fighter than she is now began to get her excited. This might actually be worth it. she thought she began to run after Kami. They began the training that very day.
The training went on for months and it turned out that Kami was a great teacher. Nonica had been challenged every step of the way, but, true to her breeding, Nonica had become cocky and at times petulant. She effortlessly completed every task that Kami and Mr. Popo put in front in of her. As the tiny child's ego grew Kami could sense that same darkness that he'd felt inside her on the day he met her growing as well. He knew he had to take her down a few notches. One day he met her outside the temple. She was standing there with a very self satisfied smirk on her face, "So what test am I going to have to ace today?" she asked.
Kami frowned at her overconfidence, "You won't be training today." he said.
"What?" Nonica said in astonishment, "What do you mean? Am I finished? Have a learned all I'm going to learn?" Nonica couldn't understand what the older man was saying to her. She didn't feel like she had learned anything.
"You haven't learned a thing. Instead you have grown cocky and conceited. Your ego has grown more than your fighting ability." Kami answered.
"I don't understand. I've done everything you've told me to do." Nonica snapped back.
"And you've completely ignored the point of all of it!" Kami exclaimed. He's outburst silenced Nonica. She had remembered what had happened the one time she had snapped back at Zarbon like that during a training session. Although she felt totally entitled to voice her opinion about the "monkey" comments, Zarbon did not share in her vision and she was punished for insolence, or at least that's what he had told Frieza. Kami didn't beat her though, instead he said, in a calmer tone, "Nonica, when we first met I sensed this dark presence within you. Almost like an evil presence in your very soul. Over the course of your training I've since it time and time again. It's was if you delight in fighting and a lust for it. If you are going to continue on and be the warrior that I know you can be you must learn to control your urges and channel it into something that you can use for good. I do not believe that you are naturally evil, I believe it was something instilled by whatever your previous situation was." Nonica opened her mouth to say something, but Kami lifted his hand and she closed her mouth. He continued, "I am not asking you to tell because it isn't relevant anymore. You are no longer in that world and it is time to let go of those evil teachings. If it is true that you do not want to become something for the forces of evil then you must let go of your anger and hate. You are still young enough to overcome the resentment you feel."
Nonica stood in silence. She felt all those feelings she felt on the day she lost everything flooding through her body. Feeling the shock, the agony of losing her father, the pain of watching her home being destroyed, the hatred she felt toward Frieza, the fear that her brother would be next she told him, she struggle with self loathing she went through at the realization of she had done to others, the torture she endured for her refusal to do as she was told, the anguish of being torn away from her brother, and, finally, the sorrow in her heart of knowing that she may never see her Vegeta ever again. It was too much! She was feeling it all at once. The small girl thought that she was going to explode from all the confusion and emotion flowing through her. She wrapped her arms around herself and began to bawl. She feel to her knees. Her body was shaking and she couldn't control herself anymore. "I can't take it! I'm only a little girl, how much pain do I have to endure?" she cried.
Kami rushed to her and put his arms around her, "It's alright, my dear. You have to let this out. Only then can you find peace." he said. Nonica then shook Kami off her. She got to her feet, tears streaming down her face, and ran to the edge of the Lookout. She leapt into the air and shot off into the sky. Kami was left there watching her rave.
Mr. Popo came running out the temple, "What's wrong? I heard Nonica screaming. Is she alright?" he asked.
"She is struggling with whatever is in her past. She is going to release her pain. I think she will be just fine." Kami said and began to walk toward the edge of the Lookout. Kami ascend into the air. He followed behind his enraged student.
When he found Nonica, she was in the middle of blowing up a mountain. She was so angered that she was using her full power. Her tiny body was surrounded by her aura and she was screaming continually. She raged on and on until she was exhausted. She then lowered herself to the ground and weakly went to her knees. She wrapped her arms around her stomach tightly and wept loudly. Kami landed and slowly walked over to her. He could see that she was in so much emotional pain, but he let her sod. He knew that it was the only way for her to let it go. Nonica's head was hung down as she continued to cry, "I just want my family back." she cried. "I want my daddy."
Kami kneeled down and placed his hand on her shoulder. "But he is gone, child. He would not want you to grieve this way." he told her.
"I know. But I miss him so much. I just want someone to care for me." she sniffled.
"Oh, my darling child, you are cared for. Mr. Popo and I adore you." Kami soothed. "You are like my own child. I love you as such. That is way I want you to let go of all this pain and anger and hatred before it devours you."
Nonica looked up at Kami and wiped her face, "You mean, we're a family?" she said. Kami nodded with a slight smile across his face. "I guess my daddy wouldn't mind if I found a family to take care of me." she said.
"I'm sure he wouldn't and I would like it very much if you would be my family. I never had any children." Kami confessed.
"I guess that would be okay." she said. She wiped her face with the backs of her hands and said, "I feel much better now. Let's go home."
Kami helped her up and the two went back to the Lookout.
The years went by and Nonica had grown to love Kami as a father. He and Mr. Popo were like a family to her. Kami loved her very much and she had become his adopted daughter. His child as well as his student. And, once she had let go of those negative feelings, Nonica was the ideal student. Kami had taught Nonica, through meditation and training, to tap into the darkness that he had sensed when he meet her and channel it into something for good. Nonica had made an oath to only use her teachings if the occasion called for it and to only use it for the forces of good. She wouldn't be the monster that Frieza was going to make her. And although Nonica had never forgotten her father, King Vegeta, she had made a better life for herself and knew that her father wouldn't want it any other way.
The day came when Nonica found out about another side to her adopted father at she was unaware of. This side was actually an evil person named King Piccolo and he used to be part of Kami. He was a monster and, after he was released, had began terrorizing villages. One day, a brave warrior went to fight the demon king and the residents of the Lookout watched on as the battle raged. All of the them expect Nonica. Kami had taught her to sense energy without the use of a scouter and could sense the warriors power before she even laid eyes on him. Before she even saw the fighter, she got worried that the evil king had meet his match and ran inside the temple. She knew that Kami and King Piccolo were connected and if one died then so would the other and she was afraid that this was the day that would happen. The daughter of the guardian sat in the floor with her knees pressed close to her chest and her arms wrapped around them. Her face was buried into her knees and she closely resembled a frightened child although she was 17-years-old. Soon she felt King Piccolo's energy disappear and she feared the worst. She sat there in tears, thinking that she had lost another father. Just then she felt a hand on her shoulder and, thinking it was Mr. Popo come to comfort her, she began to cry harder. As if having Mr. Popo comforting was conformation that Kami was gone. "Why are you crying, my daughter?"
Nonica quickly turned and threw her arms around Kami's neck, "I thought you were dead." she said the tears flowing even harder, but they were tears of joy this time.
"I did as well, but apparently as a last effort to save his life, King Piccolo spit out an egg before his death. His offspring now shares the same life line as me, so I am able to continue on in this life." explained Kami.
Nonica was relieved that he was still alive and that he wasn't going anywhere for any years.
A few hours later Nonica and Kami heard someone talking to Mr. Popo and Kami went to see who it was. Nonica could sense that it was the warrior who defeated the evil King Piccolo. She got up and went to meet the warrior who saved the Earth from the monstrous demon king. She was grateful that her home and her safe.
When Nonica meets this mystery fighter what will happen when she comes face to face with a member of her long forgotten race? And what of the offspring of King Piccolo? The answers to the questions and more in the next installment of Princess of Saiyans.
