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A/N: Okay, I know I upload this chapter now the third time, but I'm not sure, if you read it already. So, if you have, wait till tomorrow, then I've the next chapter finished, and if not, have fun and read!
The last time in "TLW-TNG":
Alina thought she heard something and as she opened her eyes, she saw that the window was a bit open. She climbed out of her bed, wondering how it could be open. She looked out of the window, but couldn't see anybody. Who could climb into a room, which was on the third floor anyway? Shrugging she closed it again, but before she climbed back into her own bed, she could see on Faith's face in the moonlight that she had cried. That surprised the blond-haired girl. Faith had made the impression that nothing could shock her, but there was obviously something that troubled her. The girl got back to bed, but had a hard time to fall asleep again, always thinking what could trouble a strong girl like Faith that much that she cried in her sleep.
Chapter 5: "The Party"
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The first week in College and school had passed very fast for the three half-Saiyajins. Everything went well in that time: Michael and Faith got all courses they wanted to have, Michael was glad that he could finally spent some time again with his cousins Will and Chris, Joey became fast friends with Lily, but still denied considering Jack as a friend of hers, because of his annoyance, even though he was permanently hanging out with those two girl in the breaks, and much to everyone's surprise Faith seemed to have found a friend in Alina and even spent some time with her.
It was a sunny Friday noon, as Faith and Alina walked out of the building where their economy lecture was being held. As Faith stepped into the warm sun, she stretched her arms to the side and yawned. "Finally! We're out! I thought I would fall asleep in there…"
"Well… I-I thought that it was very interesting what our professor told us… But, when you're not interested in economy, why did you take this class?" Alina wanted to know, as they walked over the campus.
"My parents thought it might be 'useful' for me and my brother, who is by the way more interested in that stuff than I and took the advanced course, since it's possible that we should take over…" Faith hesitated. She almost told the other girl that her parents own Capsule Corporation. Something she wanted to avoid at any prize.
"Take over what?"
"Uhm… never mind…" Faith tried to sound casual, but didn't succeed fully.
"No, come on… You never told me, what your parents are doing…"
"Well… they… they own a-a firm, where they make and provide capsules… It's some kind of subsidiary company of Capsule Corporation…" Faith said, telling her the story, her family and friends made up, in case someone asked this question.
"Aha, that's…" the blond girl wanted to say, but was interrupted, as a guy held a flyer in front of them.
"Tomorrow night at eight. Party at the house of Planet V. Just for Freshmen," he said as he handed them the flyer. "Tell your friends about it." With that, the guy went to another small group of Freshmen, handing them the same flyer.
"Planet V?" Faith asked herself, as she read the flyer, raising an eyebrow.
"Wow, that boy was in a hurry…" a young woman said, approaching them. She had shoulder-lengths smooth brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a short yellow dress with flowers on it.
"Hey Mary," Alina greeted the young woman.
"Hey Alina!" the young woman said and saw the flyer in the blond girl's hand. "Wow, is it already time again? Planet V also held a party last year, and it was really good there. The perfect place for Freshmen to get to know each other. Will you go?"
"I don't know yet. By the way, you didn't meet my roommate yet. Mary, this is Faith. Faith, this is my one year older sister Mary," the blond girl introduced them.
"So, this is the infamous Faith. Hi! You look like you like parties. When you go, can you do me the favor and maybe talk my little sis into going there?" Mary said.
"Sure! I'll be there and I'll do my best," Faith said smirking and then turned to Alina, playing upset. "Infamous? Alina, what did you tell her about me?"
"She didn't tell anything… it was just…" Mary was interrupted, as Alina dug her into the ribs. "Oww…" The siblings scowled at each other, but then Mary realized why her sister was scowling. "Oh… As I already said, Alina didn't talk bad about you. I think we should go now, or what do you think sis? We wanted to meet the others at the cafeteria to have lunch."
"You're right… See ya later Faith!" Alina said, and turned to go.
"Bye!"
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"Hey you two!" greeted Mary the two boys, who were sitting at a table in the cafeteria, and sat down, followed by her younger sister.
"Hi!" answered Ryan and smiled at the two girls.
"Have you already heard from that party tomorrow?" Alina wanted to know and handed John the flyer.
"Sure, everyone is talking about it," he answered and gave the flyer to Ryan. "Will you go?"
"Maybe…" the girl answered. "I don't know yet."
"I'm also not sure… I think I will stay and relax a bit…" Ryan said yawning.
"Faith will be there," Alina said, stealing some of Ryan's fries.
"I'll go!" the boy suddenly changed his opinion, causing the rest of the group to laugh. "What?"
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"You really wanna go there?" Will asked Faith, as he inspected the flyer during lunch.
"Sure. Why not? Sounds like fun. Alina's sister Mary was there last year, and she told me that it was really good," she told him, taking a sip from her coke.
"Wait a minute…" Chris said. "You're not talking about Mary Christens, do you?"
"Mmh, could be. I think Alina's last name was Christens. Why do you ask?"
"Uhm… nothing… nothing special…" The second look-a-like of Goku blushed lightly.
"Really?" Faith wanted to know. She was getting curious about what her older cousin kept from her.
"R-really." His blush went even deeper.
"Ha!" the girl shouted smirking. "I got it. You want her. Has the hunting season already begun?"
"Shut up Faith." The boy gritted his teeth. "I don't want her. I just like her a bit… maybe more than a bit… But I don't want her."
"Pathetic…" Faith mumbled under her breath, impossible for Will and Chris to hear, even with their Saiyajin hearings.
Just Michael noticed what she had said and became immediately a bit worried. Even though Faith has loosened up a bit in the last week, she still didn't show her feelings. Sure, she was already laughing and smiling more than before, but it did almost never come from her heart. And when it did, and someone noticed it, she immediately put on a mask. It seemed that she didn't care for anyone.
The last time he saw his sister really worried about others, had been in the other timeline. The moment she woke up from a nightmare on the Lookout and stormed to the surface, where he tried to talk to her to get back down, but she didn't want to leave, because she thought that something had been wrong with their mother and Pan.
From that day on, after Buu was defeated, Michael did often feel that something wasn't right with his sister. He could tell that she was afraid, but he couldn't feel, how much fear she was hiding. She told him once, in one of her rare 'open moments', that she didn't believe in love. Maybe she did believe in it, was just too afraid to show it to anyone, that she didn't even admit it to herself, that she just had another poor guy every weekend to prove herself that love was unnecessary, something disturbing, a weak feeling.
Michael sighed inwardly. His sister didn't know how wrong she was. Love was the strongest feeling existing. Love gave everyone the strength to reach new levels. But no matter how often he tried to tell her that in the last years, she did never listen. Michael didn't know what scared her so much that she locked out all those feelings, that she was still troubled in her sleep. It couldn't just be Buu, it must also be something else. But he couldn't tell what…
"And what did you now want to tell me about this party?" Faith asked her cousins, interrupting Michael's thoughts.
"Well," Will said, "Robin, that's the name of the guy who founded Planet V, did hold this party every year in the last three years, since he came to that college. I've heard that the first party had been for all students, but that he just invited Freshmen in the last two years. They say that at this party is some kind of election. Those he elected, have to go through various tests. He decides then, who might be able to get into Planet V. No one knows, how he chooses the members, and they do also say that all the students who suddenly left the college were members of Planet V."
"That's it?" Faith asked disbelieving. "That's why you didn't want me to go to that party? Guys, first of all, I'm a big girl. To be precise the only girl here on campus, who could destroy this planet with ease. I can take care of myself. And who said that I wanted to be a member of Planet V? As if I need to go there…And it would be really nice of you," She turned to her brother, "when you would go with me. It would be surely fun. And I promise, I won't drink as much as the last time."
"Faith," Chris began, but didn't know exactly how to continue, "we, we just want to help you to not get into any trouble…"
"You know what?" Faith asked annoyed, as she got up. "Screw that. I don't need any of you to protect me." She turned around to go, but was held back by her brother, who was holding her at her wrist. "Let go of me."
"No Faith. Please listen. I will come with you tomorrow. I promise. You know I promised mom and dad to take care of you," Michael said softly.
"I know." Faith sighed, but didn't sit down again. Michael let go of her hand and smiled at her. And he thought he saw her for a short moment smiling back. "But I have to go. See ya later," she said and left the cafeteria. But she ran into a middle-aged blond man as she turned around a corner behind the exit without looking. It was the same man, who had been in her room the night a few days ago. "Oh, sorry," she said quickly.
"Never mind," he answered. As Faith heard the voice of the man, she could swear she heard it before, but couldn't tell where. She looked at him, but he wasn't in the least bit familiar to her, not in that moment. As she went past him, she could swear that she felt his blue eyes in her back, but as she threw one last look back, the man was gone.
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The time till the next evening passed really fast. Like Faith has promised to Mary, she talked her shy roommate into going with her and her brother to the party.
The party should start at eight, so Michael was standing in front of the girl's room at 7.45 and knocked at the door. As he heard a faint "Come in!" he opened the door and walked inside. There he saw Alina already sitting on the bed, fully dressed, in a simple and long beige skirt and a white blouse with short sleeves. Her long blond hair was simply braided and almost reached the bed and she wore just light make-up. Even though she looked quite unobtrusive, Michael noticed that she was beautiful. At that moment, he realized that he was checking her out and didn't even greet her. "Hey," Michael said finally.
"Hey," Alina answered shyly. She still wasn't used that someone as handsome as Michael still hadn't a girlfriend and she wasn't used to talk to those boys. And she really felt uneasily under his gaze, after he entered the room.
"You look good," he told her with his typical inherited Son-grin, shifting nervously with his feet.
"You too," Alina said, looking away to hide her blushing. First this compliment, and then she noticed how good he was really looking in his black pants and black shirt.
"Is… uhm… Faith ready?" Michael asked uneasily.
"I'll be in a minute." Both looked at the bathroom door and saw Faith coming out. She quickly threw some clothes on her bed and then turned around, letting her long dark hair fly. "So, what do you think?" She was wearing some black leather pants, and a dark blue tight blouse.
"Beautiful as always, sis," Michael said smiling. "But please, don't break to many hearts tonight, okay?"
Faith's body tensed and she scowled at her brother and Alina thought that she could feel the air crack around them, and decided that it was time to say something. "Mmh, guys, shouldn't we go? I don't want to be late."
"Sure," Faith said, still scowling and grabbed the keys to the door and so the three Freshmen left the "Briefs-Hall".
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At the same moment, in some lab, a young man with short red hair and glasses sat in front of a monitor, which was the only thing that lightened the room a bit, so that you couldn't tell how big it was, as the computer suddenly began to beep. Startled, he looked at the monitor and immediately grabbed the phone, which was lying next to the keyboard. "Hey… it's me, Kev. Something strange just happened. Our sensors were just noticing a high power level not far away. … How big? … It says 7000. … I know that this is impossible … Okay, I check it again." He typed something and then a window on the monitor appeared. "It's gone. They don't sense anything anymore. … Yes, that could be right. Good, I'll keep an eye on it. Bye."
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On the whole way over the campus silence reigned in the group and after a walk of a few minutes the house of Planet V came finally into view. You could already hear loud music banging from the inside and many Freshmen were seen there. As they wanted to go inside, some big guy with blond hair stopped them at the door. In his hands he was holding a list with names and a pen. "Your names, please."
"Faith B… Collin. Name's Faith Collin. And that are my brother Michael and our friend Alina Christens," the dark-haired Saiyajin said.
The guy looked at his list and made a check at each name. "Good. You can go in. Have fun," he said and turned to the next Freshmen. "Your names, please."
As they got inside, they stared in awe at their surroundings. This house looked already huge from the outside, but from the inside… From the moment on Faith stepped into this house, she felt a tingling sensation in her body. She didn't know why and she couldn't describe it. But it felt good. Really good.
She looked more at her surroundings. Directly at her left were the stairs to the upper floors and to her right was a breakthrough to the large main room, which was going till the ceiling of the second floor, where you could find a small balcony in the wall, at the place where the second floor should be. As they walked into the main room of the house, they could see that almost every Freshman was already there. At the wall over the chimney hang some kind of flag. It was dark blue, with a golden V written on it.
"Hey baby," a handsome guy approached Faith. "Wanna dance?"
"Sure…" she answered with a sweet smile and as they disappeared on the dance floor, she threw a smirk back at Michael.
Shortly after Faith was gone, Alina looked around and saw Ryan and John in the crowd. She waved at them and they walked towards their friend. "Hey guys!" Alina greeted them smiling. "This is Michael. Faith's brother. Michael, those are my friends Ryan and John." They said hi to each other and shook hands.
"How long are you two already here?" John asked them.
"Oh, we just go here a few minutes ago," Michael answered.
Suddenly, Ryan took Alina aside. "Excuse us please," he said to the others and then turned to the girl. "And?" he whispered. "Where is she?"
"She's on the dance floor," she whispered back and motioned with her head to the couple.
Michael couldn't hold back a small smile. For normal humans it would have been impossible to listen to this conversation, but thanks to his Saiyajin-hearing he heard every bit of it. So, this Ryan threw a look at Faith. He seems to be nice. But Michael just hoped that his sister wouldn't crush the boy's heart, when she finds out.
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Unnoticed by everyone, the Freshmen in the main room were watched by two figures, who were standing behind the glass door of the balcony. Both figures were young men. A large one, a bit more than 6 feet high, with short black hair and eyes, wearing black pants and a dark blue muscle shirt, showing off his really well built body, and the one who was at the entrance earlier.
"Is everyone here?" the dark haired guy asked, still looking into the main room.
"Yes, like in the last years, all Freshmen have followed your invitation."
"Good. As soon as my sister is here, I will say hello to all those …" the first wanted to say, but stopped as his view fell on a dancing girl.
"What is it, Robin?" the blond asked.
"Who is this?" Robin wanted to know and pointed to the dark haired beauty on the dance floor, who seemed to be dancing with five boys at the same time.
"Her name is Faith. Faith Collin. She is living in the Briefs Hall."
"How old is she?"
"Nineteen."
"Family?"
"Her twin brother Michael, who is standing over there," the blond guy told him. "And her fourteen years old sister Josephine. She is going to the TSHS. They moved here a few weeks ago from the States. Their parents do own a subsidiary company of Capsule Corporation there. There is also something remarkable about the result of her SATs. She got 98%."
"98%? Wow, then why did she choose this college? She could have gone everywhere in the States," Robin said, somewhat surprised.
"Well, that's not clear. People say she was a troublemaker at her High School and was sent here to start a new life," he informed him.
"Okay, then put her on the list. I want to give her the chance to start a new life," Robin said smirking down at the girl, who dumped the guys and was on the way back to her brother.
At the same moment, a girl with long, black and unruly hair and dark eyes appeared behind the boys. "Hey guys, here I am," she greeted them.
"Hey Evania!" Robin said and turned around, facing her. "Wow, sis. You're beautiful. You look exactly like mom."
The nineteen years old girl, Evania, smirked. "I know." She was wearing a short, dark blue dress and black boots, which went up to her knees.
"Okay, then I guess, we can say hello. Are you ready?" Robin asked his sister and she nodded.
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In the meantime, Faith thought that she had wasted enough of her time for this scum and went back to his brother, who was already in company of two more guys. She didn't know the one with the blond hair, but she vaguely remembered the other one. But where had she already seen him? She couldn't remember. Maybe he was in one of her classes. She didn't know and she didn't care about that. Then why did she already start thinking about it? Faith shook her head and plastered a smirk on her face as she joined the group. "Hey, I'm back," she said and grabbed Michael's glass, drinking something from his drink.
"Hey sis, that was mine," he whined.
"Not anymore."
"Uhm, Faith…" Alina got her attention. "That are my friends John," He nodded at her smiling, "and Ryan."
"Hello," Ryan said and reached out his hand, but at that moment the door to the balcony was opened and Faith looked up to it, dismissing Ryan's offer.
At the same moment as this boy, Ryan, said hello, Faith felt suddenly strange. She didn't know why, but she turned around and looked up to the balcony, where the door was just opened. Faith couldn't describe it, but something drew her to the balcony. It was again this strange sensation in her body, she felt since she entered this house. It scared her a bit, but she liked it and it grew somehow stronger, when a young man appeared on the balcony, followed by a girl. She looked up to him, finding his eyes, and at that moment, he looked down at her, smirked and winked at her. Faith growled inwardly. Whoever this guy was, he was just like every one else in this room. But she couldn't shake off this sensation, and maybe, maybe, if he really wanted her, she would give him the chance to show her, if he's worth, worth of her, the princess of all Saiyajins.
Robin couldn't explain what was going on with him. As soon as he saw this girl, Faith, he felt attracted to her, something he never really felt before with a woman. Was this maybe a sign? He didn't know, but when she has passed the tests, he would maybe give her the chance to show him, if she's worth, worth of him, the….
His thoughts were interrupted as the music stopped and everyone in the room went silent and he knew that it was now his turn. "Hello everybody and welcome in the house of Planet V, my house. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Robin. As every year, I have invited all Freshmen on this campus and as you may have heard already, I will again look for people, who could be members of Planet V. You'll see that I have chosen you, when you get an invitation for further tests in the next weeks." The crowd in the main room cheered. "But this year is special for me, because my beautiful sister Evania graduated from High School and has decided to go to this College! Welcome Evania!" Most of the guys cheered again and yelled her name, as she went next to her brother. "Okay, and now I want you to have fun!" Robin and his sister walked back through the door and the music started again.
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As the music started again, the young people continued with what they've done before. Even after that strange feeling she just had, Faith disappeared again on the dance floor with some other guys, before Ryan could ask her for that dance, what he had been planning to do. John shook his head, excused himself and Ryan and dragged his friend away from the main room, so that just Alina and Michael were still standing at the wall in silence, both tapping or nodding lightly to the music. "Do you want something to drink?" Michael asked, breaking the silence.
"No, thank you," Alina answered, suddenly feeling uneasy.
"Okay…" he hesitated. "Do you want to … dance?"
"Yeah… okay…" She smiled shyly and they went to the other young people.
Some hours later, it was already past midnight, Faith took a small break from dancing and went to the bathrooms. Robin, who had been watching her the whole time from behind the door of the balcony, saw that and followed her. From what he had seen in the last few hours, he could tell that there was something special about this girl. The way she moved, her hair, her face, her lines. There was a lot of pride in this girl. He could see it. She was not like other girls. She had her own will, a strong will. She was dangerous, and he liked it. And he knew that it wouldn't be easy to get her, even for him. But the more he watched her, the more he felt drawn to her. He would have to start soon, he decided, when she's really the one and when he wanted to start with his plan.
He smirked and tossed himself from the wall he was leaning at, following the corridor to the bathrooms. She just got out again, as he arrived there and luckily they were the only ones there at that moment. "Faith," he said, when she came out.
She spun around, but relaxed a bit as she saw who it was. "It's you. So you already know my name," Faith stated coolly.
"Why shouldn't I know the name of a beautiful girl like you?" he wanted to know and walked closer to her.
"You're right. Many guys know my name," she answered, smirking self-confidently.
"Can I talk to you?" he asked, and then heard voices coming towards them. "In private?"
"Sure." He smirked at her and took her hand, leading her to a bedroom at the end of the corridor. As they were inside, she sat down on the bed and he closed the door. "So, now we're here. What did you want to talk about?"
"This." Robin went over to her and began to kiss her, while both were slowly leaning backwards until they were finally lying on the bed. As they broke the kiss, he took off his shirt, threw it into a corner and began unbuttoning her blouse. Suddenly, faster than he thought, he was lying on his back and Faith was sitting on top of him. "What was that?" he asked, lightly confused. He never expected such a thing from a normal girl.
"Did you really think that you would get me that easily?" she asked him with a wicked grin on her face, closing the buttons of her blouse again.
"To be honest, no. But I hoped it would be that easy. Tell me, how will I get you?" he wanted to know, a smirk plastered on his face.
She leaned down, so that her mouth was next to his ear. "You have to earn me." She climbed out of the bed and walked to the door, but before she walked through it, she threw a quick smirk back at the still on the bed lying Robin, and left.
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In the hallway near the entrance, Faith spotted Michael. "Hey bro! Where's Alina?" she wanted to know.
"She left about an hour ago. John and Ryan walked her back to the dorm and I've been looking for you since then, to ask you, if you wanted to go, too," he told her.
"John and Ryan?" Faith asked confused and then suddenly remembered the two boys standing with his brother and roommate a few hours ago. "Oh. Yeah. I remember. Well, okay… We can go. I promised Joey to spar tomorrow with her, so I don't want to sleep in."
Michael insisted to walk Faith back to the dorm, even though both of them knew that Faith would be able to go this way alone. He somehow felt a responsibility for her. He would protect her, no matter what. She was his sister, no, more than that. She was his other half and he would do anything for her and he would always believe in her, no matter in how much trouble she got. He would always be there for her, always, no matter what she was doing or what she got herself into.
On their way back to the Briefs hall, he noticed the self-satisfied smirk on his sister's face and suspected the worst. "Okay, sis. What have you done?"
"Me? I haven't done anything." Michael looked her directly in the eyes. "Really. I just had … fun. Nothing bad. I didn't hurt anyone. I swear!"
He sighed. "Okay sis. I believe you." A few minutes later they were standing in front of the Briefs Hall. "Goodnight sis. See ya tomorrow."
"Night, bro." With that, she went into the hall and her room.
Michael was still standing in front of the building for a few minutes, deep in thoughts. "Be careful, Faith. I don't want you to be hurt," he mumbled before he went to his own dorm.
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