Disclaimer: None of the things you recognize belong to me. DBZ and everything involved with it belongs to Akira Toriyama. Anything you don't recognize belongs to me.
Warnings for this chapter: None that I can think of.
Namek Saga:
Chapter VII: A New Goal: Namek.
762 A.D. November the 14th.
The big day had finally arrived and Gohan couldn't be happier. Well, he could have been if Chiara had been going with them but their mother and father had been adamant that she stay on Earth, so he supposed there was nothing that could be done.
Kame's Spaceship, which would be taking them to Namek, had been fixed up completely five days earlier and Bulma had only just finished up learning the Namekian language, and now they would be heading for the planet, Namek. Gohan had to admit, he was nervous.
Not only would he be going to another planet, not only would he once again be away from his mom, he would also be away from his twin, for the first time ever. He didn't know if their mental link would hold up when one of them was on another planet but he hoped it would.
The large spaceship loomed in front of them and they prepared to board. His mother was fussing as always and as always Gohan just stood back and let her. She had cut his hair and made him wear clean and neat clothes. Krillin had just about burst a bloodvessel trying not to laugh when he saw. Gohan looked around before he was to board the vessel but didn't see who he was looking for. He was about to ask his mother about it when Krillin beat him to it.
"Where's Chiara, ChiChi?" Krillin asked.
ChiChi frowned and put her hands on her hips, "At home, sulking as she has been for the past week. Well, she can just stay there if she doesn't stop throwing those tantrums."
"She's been throwing tantrums?" Krillin asked in disbelief.
"Like you wouldn't believe," ChiChi seethed. "I've had to send her to bed with no supper twice already. Goku will have to have a talk with her when he leaves the hospital."
Krillin nodded, still trying to picture the quiet and sweet little girl yelling and stomping her feet.
"It's time we go," Bulma snapped from inside the spaceship.
They all stepped onto the platform and after Bulma spoke the password, it began to ascend. Gohan took one last look around, hoping to see Chiara standing there but he saw nothing and the spaceship closed.
The trip to Namek was anything but uneventful for the three known occupants of the spaceship, but it was even worse for the unknown occupant. The cargo room wasn't spacious and without anything to really hold on to, Chiara was thrown back and forth every time the spaceship moved even slightly.
Time passed slowly as the trip went from calm, to rough, back to calm again. Chiara wondered whether they were far enough for her to reveal herself without immediately being brought back to Earth. She hoped so because her head was beginning to hurt.
She didn't know how long she had been in there but she had gone through most of her food supply already and she had no idea when she would be able to show herself. She found herself nodding off periodically until suddenly the spaceship started shaking violently and the small door to the cargo room opened and everything spilled out, including Chiara.
"Great," Bulma snapped as stuff flew all around them. "Who left the cargo..."
Bulma broke off abruptly when her eyes fell on the small girl lying on the ground, looking up at them sheepishly.
"Hi," Chiara said softly.
Bulma's jaw dropped as Krillin and Gohan helped Chiara up, stunned looks on their faces as well.
"Chi, how did you get in there?" Gohan asked.
"Never mind that, what are you doing here?" Bulma snapped.
"I'm coming with you to Namek," Chiara said.
"I can see that, but have you forgotten your father told you you couldn't go?" Bulma asked angrily.
Chiara momentarily deflated. She had disobeyed her daddy, something she had never done before. Then she raised her chin defiantly. "I didn't forget, but I wanna come too."
"Why?" Bulma demanded. "You don't even like the dragonballs."
"No, I don't," Chiara had to admit. She didn't know why, but there was something about the dragonballs that bothered her. "But I like Piccolo, and Tien, and Yamcha, and..." she trailed off.
"Chao-Su," Krillin offered.
Chiara smiled gratefully and nodded. "And I want them to come back."
Bulma stood there seething for a moment, before she huffed in resignation. "Well, we can't go back now, so you might as well come."
Chiara sighed in relief as Bulma turned away, at least she wasn't going to be taken back. "I'm not gonna be in the way, I'll help, you'll see."
'I hope,' she thought as she turned away to pick up the things that had fallen out of the cargo space.
While she was picking things up a question suddenly occured to her.
"How long have we been in space?" Chiara asked.
Bulma ignored her and Gohan didn't know but Krillin answered. "A week now."
Chiara nodded. 'No wonder I nearly ran out of food,' she thought.
762 A.D. December the 18th.
It had been just under a month since Chiara had been discovered on board the spaceship and the tension had been unbearable for a while. Or at least, the tension between Chiara and Bulma was unbearable. Bulma was either ignoring or snapping at Chiara and though Chiara never snapped back, it was clear she didn't like Bulma one bit.
Krillin knew better than to think Bulma really disliked Chiara. Bulma had a good heart and he knew her snapping at Chiara was her way of covering up how worried she was for the girl's safety. As if worrying about Gohan wasn't enough, she now had to worry about Chiara as well.
In the mean time, Krillin had so far seen no evidence of any penchant for temper tantrums in Chiara, something he had been wondering about ever since ChiChi mentioned the tantrums. He had been looking closely but Chiara didn't appear to be anything other than a sweet and innocent little girl, something that worried him to no end.
There was a reason Goku didn't want her to go, and though she was undoubtedly capable of defending herself against the average human, they weren't going to be encountering any of those on Namek. He sighed and resolved to keep a close eye on his best friend's daughter for as long as he had to. They were just going to have to go to Namek, quickly gather the dragonballs and then leave again. 'Yeah,' Krillin thought wryly. 'As if things are ever that easy.' The past month certainly hadn't been easy.
They had landed in an invisible ship that belonged to a people called the Ritojin. They had been suspected of being in league with someone called Frieza, and though Krillin had no idea who Frieza was, he knew it had to be bad because the Ritojin had been just about ready to shoot them. They had helped the Ritojin, had proven that they weren't in league with any evil and had been allowed to leave.
Then they had landed on the wrong planet altogether and had been led to believe they were on Namek. They had gone off in search of the dragonballs, only to find that the aliens they had thought to be Nameks were really pink aliens of some sort who had been after their ship.
During this particular adventure, Krillin had seen the first signs of a temper in Chiara when they had found out they had been deceived. Though no tantrum had been forthcoming, he could see the anger in her and Chiara had also been less than pleased with Bulma for letting herself get caught and giving the password to the ship. This had only added to the tension.
Krillin sighed again and prayed that when they finally did get to Namek, things would be easier than they had been so far. That wasn't too much to ask for, was it?. He winced when he heard Bulma screaming at Chiara for dropping something and shook his head. Who was he kidding?.
Note: Okay, I realize I skipped a whole lot of things but the whole adventure with the Ritojin wasn't really important and I always thought that the adventure with the pink aliens was just annoying, so I skipped both and we're going straight to Namek.
