A/N Please remember to re-read Chapter 9. It is no longer an authors note as it was before. Its an actually chapter this time. Any way now to continue...
Chapter 10: An Series of mistakes
The cold wind brushed along his body as he flew through the air. Being in his dragon form now seemed so natural to him. Night fall couldn't come fast enough for Krillin. It had been way to long since he had seen his loved ones, and now more then ever he was feeling home sick. Millions of thought rushed through his head as he made the long journey back home. Little did he know, that the things back at home changed just as much as he did.
Earlier in the day, Juunana's finding on the "dragons" where getting closer then expected. He still had no support but managed to find some old documents hidden within some old forgot book cases. The evil thoughts and plans that were brewing in his mind would frighten anyone. There was just one secret of the puzzle that he couldn't figure out. What did these dragons do during the day? What form or main characteristic do all these dragons seem to have in common?
Juunana knew that his father had wiped his memory of everything, but he never trusted any of his fathers machines. He knew something would trigger his memory back, he would just have to find out what. Juunana spend most of the day looking for this information and pestering his father over it.
Even though the King thought all the work his son was doing, was a complete waste of time, he also had a feeling that this was doing his son good. It was keeping him busy and teaching him skills he would need to learn to be a great King.
King Gero was sitting in his office looking over documents, when Juunana came in holding a stack of papers.
"Father, I think you need to see this." he stated coolly as dropped the papers on his desk "It has to do with..."
"I am aware of what it has to do with." Gero said. "I don't have time for that dribble right now..."
A heavy cough then came from Gero's mouth. He was feeling ill, but didn't want everyone to know to much about it.
"Father, that was a nasty cough," his eye brow lifted
"Forget that...just show me what you wanted to, then leave."
Juunana moved the papers for him to see. They were old wore out photos of the dragons with faded notes written around them.
"Why are you showing me this crap? This isn't anything new, the notes on the side of the paper are too faded for me to see, your younger eyes should be able to read them..." He went back into his coughs
"That's not the point father." he then started pointed to different parts of the photo. "These things don't stay as dragons all the time...I know they have to morph into something, we would see them during the day."
"...you point on bringing this to me still? I know nothing of these dragon things."
"That war you fought, the one you stupidly whipped your memory from, I bet my life that these are the things you fought!"
Gero was now starting to get mad. "I still don't see your point! Even if you are right I can't remember anything."
"I believe that you can, father!" he points forcefully on the desk. "Just look at the photos!"
Gero started to cough again. "You try my patients, I have more important things right now. So go!" he pointed out to the door to cover his mouth from another cough.
Juunana, now aggravated, turns around and leave. He hears his father coughing as he walks away, and starts to smile 'Keep coughing old man...this will all be mine sooner then you think"
Gero finished his coughing and placed one hand on top of one of the photos. This photo the dragon had two horns and big gash over his right eye and many scratches over the left cheek. Something about this dragon looked very, very familiar.
He moved it and saw the other photos of the dragons. He noticed that every dragon had a different number of horns on its head. But something about that first photo stuck him. 'I have a strange feeling about this photo...'
The sun was setting fast as Krillin was now rushing to get to the castle. He's orders were to land and make sure not to bring much attention to him-self, grab his loves ones and make it safely back without being seen.
His heart was rushing as he landed and transformed back into his human form. Took the clothes out of his bag and quickly put them on...his servant clothes. It has been too long since he has worn these clothes, that was the one thing he didn't miss.
He made the walk back to the castle gate as he went toward the servant path way. Just as he got there he heard a someone from the tower yell out.
"HEY" they yelled "That one missing servant that was taken is back!"
'Shit' thought Krillin
"That servant is back!" yelled the man as he started to run down the halls.
"What...what did I just hear?" said Roshi as leaned forward from the hay stack that he now calls his bed. Since he started to get ill he could no longer lay on the floor. He let out a couple of hard coughs before saying "...did he just say Krillin is back?"
"I'm not sure." said Goku as he looked confused. He got up from sitting next to Roshi and walked to the door. "I'll go and check it out."
"That one guy lived!" the man continued as he ran passed Juuhachi's room "The one that was taken by the dragons made it back alive!"
Juuhachi was sitting on her bed, when she heard the male servant yell pass her door. Her head turned toward the door, but she remained in her bed. She then put her hand on her belly as a small lone tear started to fall from her cheek.
"He's back..." she whispered. She looked to her stomach and said nothing else on the subject.
As Krillin was making his way back into the castle, he was bombarded by everyone who once hated him asked questions about his escape. They weren't really interested in his well being, just how to escape if they get caught. Questions included 'where you tortured? How did you make it out? What happened to your hair?'
Krillin didn't care, he just wanted to see Goku and Roshi as fast as possible. Then make his way to see Juuhachi, if he could. As he went toward his old room, he saw Goku walking down the hall way. The joy that was in each others faces could not be described. Goku thought that Krillin was long gone, to see his "brother" again was better then he could have imaged.
"Krillin!" Yelled Goku as he ran toward him give him a huge bear hug.
Tears started to form in Krillin's eyes. He never thought that seeing his brother again would cause this much emotion.
"What happened to your hair?" said Goku "Took forever for it to grow, its all gone!"
Krillin laughed. "its a long story, but I'll explain that later. Where is Roshi?"
"He's in the room," Goku said sadly. Krillin could hear the happy tone that was once in Goku's voice fade away. Something wasn't right
"What's wrong with him? what happened?" Krillin said worried
"He's sick, really sick. It started to happen maybe a week after you were taken, i'm not 100% sure, but its been getting worst and worst...I honestly don't know how lon..."
Krillin cut him off. "Don't...just let me see him"
They walked to the room and Krillin could see what Goku meant. Roshi was laying on the hay bed and looked worsted that what Goku had stated.
"Master?" said Krillin quietly
"Who's there?" said Roshi weakly " Is that...Krillin?"
Krillin went up to Roshi and gave him a big hug with tears in his eyes. "Yea, its me."
Roshi raised his weak arms and hugged him back. "Krillin, you need to know something..."
"Its ok, you don't need to saying anything..."
"No..." he coughed "You need to know this. I know what you are Krillin, I've always known you are a dra..." he continued to cough
"You have?" Krillin said confused "Why didn't you tell me anything?"
"I'm sorry I never told you before, but with you living and serving the King I thought if the word got out, you'd be killed."
Krillin wiped a tear from his face, "I understand, I wouldn't know any other way my-self."
"I need to give you something...something I should have given you a long time ago."
Krillin looked confused as Roshi put his hand in his pocket and brought out an old necklace.
"Hey" said Goku as he looked closer "Is that the necklace I found all that time ago? You had it in your pocket this whole time?"
"Hell no" joked Roshi "I keep it hidden. I put it in my pocket when you left the room"
"What? you had the energy to get up and..."
"Hush!" ordered Roshi "That's not the point right now, the point is that this is for you Krillin. Goku found it in the same area we found you, I was planning to give it to you when the time was right, seeing my health, I think this is good as any!"
Krillin grabbed the necklace and took a good look at it. He saw that the dog tag on it read "Natdar".
His eyes widen "It's my fathers...This belonged to my father."
"Oh wow." said Goku "What luck."
"Thank you for this Master." said Krillin as he put the necklace on. He then turned to Goku. "Can I talk you for a moment outside?"
"Yea sure."
They both made there way out of Roshi's sight and hearing range. Krillin was a bit nervous but he knew if it was anyone he could trust with this information, it would Be Goku. He told him every detail that he could, about the Dragoneyrs plan to attack and him taking his loved ones back. Goku's reaction wasn't what Krillin was hoping for.
"I'm not sure about this Krillin, all this information is pretty hard to swallow. I'm not sure leaving is the best thing right now."
"What?" said Krillin confused "Why?"
"Well for one, Look at Master! He's so ill, the flight might kill him. It's best if he just stays here."
Krillin looked to the floor. "You might be right on that one, but staying here is just going be trouble. I'm just worried about the safely of you guys. I mean I can arrange for Master to be specially lifted or something..."
"Its more then that Krillin..." said Goku honestly "Look, This is my home, and I need to protect it."
"Whoa, what? Protect it? These people have treated the both of us horribly all of our lives! Out of no where you feel you need to protect them?"
"What about you? You just meet these dragons, a few months ago and all of a sudden they are the most important people to you?"
"Goku, I'm a part of them! They were almost killed off, I need to do everything in my power to help them. All my life, I felt worthless. When they took me back there i saw the poverty that they were forced into. They deserver better then that! Everyone here made me feel like I wasn't worth the breathe of life."
"And that makes it ok to kill them? Because they made you feel bad?"
"Because they tried to kill of a race of people! I'm not saying all humans need to die, but a lesson needs to be taught!"
Goku's face started to look worried and shocked. "Krillin...what did they do to you out there? This isn't like you at all, what happened?"
"They beat some sense into me that's what." Krillin said as he thought of all the things Nappa told him, and literally beat him. "Someone needs to pay for all the death and horror they caused. He killed my father Goku."
"Who did?"
"King Gero. He broke my father down and slit his throat. He's the one that planed the attack...the reason my mother and father are dead."
Goku just looked to the floor, not being able to think of anything useful to say, until he was able to mutter "I'm sorry Krillin...but we aren't going with you."
A tear came to Krillin's eye. "Can you at least give me a good reason?"
"For the same reason you feel you need to fight. Its the cowardly way to run and you know I never run anyway when a chance to fight comes around."
Krillin gave a half smile, for this was a fact. Goku was the kindest person Krillin knew, and also the strongest. A chance to fight came around, Goku never backed down. He always found it a way to better him-self. Krillin never won a fight against him and it wasn't such a huge shock that he would want to stay behind to fight.
"...Plus I'm engaged."
"Wait...what?" Krillin said bright eyed. "Too who? Was it that one girl from the..."
"Chichi? yea, yes it is."
More tears came to his eyes and he quickly hugged his brother. "Why didn't you tell me this first?"
"I guess I just didn't think of that till now. I was a little mad at you a little while ago."
"Goku, I wish you would change your mind, now that I found out you have a bride, that's ever more reason for you to be safe."
"I need to protect her, Krillin. I doubt she's going to believe that my "brother" is a dragon...I'm sorry."
"I think that's more reason to leave! This still makes no sense to me! You can't protect her here!"
Goku still would change his mind. Banter went on like this for at least 10 more minutes.
Krillin was really disappointed, So far nothing was going to plan. Started to walk away from Goku towards the hall just to get some air, when Goku said, "Have you seen Juuhachi yet?"
Krillin stopped dead in his tracks. To be honest, he was a little scared to see her. He had been thinking about the last time he saw her everyday. So much so, that the memories of what actually happened that day started to become a blur. He couldn't separate dreams for reality anymore.
"Umm...no I have not, W-why do you ask?"
"Cause" said Goku as he started to walk back to the room "She hasn't really been the same since you left. It's kind of sad."
Krillin gulped and blushed. He knew he had to face her at some point, why not now.
The King was on his way to his room to call it a night, When General Nineteen stepped into his office.
"Sir, Can I have a quick word with you?"
"Ugh, make it fast General, I'm very tried and need my rest."
"I'm sorry, but you remember the dragon attack?"
Gero got pissed. "You came here to bug me about that? My son did that earlier that's not something I feel like discussing right now."
"Well its not about the dragons them-selves sir, its about the prisoner they took with them."
Now Gero seemed a little bit interested. "What about him? We assumed he was eaten, what's the big deal?"
"That's just it, he wasn't sir. He survived the attack and is back."
"What? How does anyone survive that?" Gero then started to cough a bit, since this news was out of the ordinary.
General got a little closer to him. "I'm not sure sir, that's why I was thinking we could have a private conference with him. Find out how he lived through it and pass on the secrets."
"That's not a bad idea. We could do that first thing in the morning."
"Actually sir, I was thinking we could meet with him as soon as possible, since the memories are still fresh in his mind. Don't want him to repress them or anything."
"You have a point..." He thought it over for a couple of minutes before he said "Alright, go find him, but I want to talk with him alone. He could consider it an honor to have a private meeting with the King."
General Nineteen looked a little upset. This was his idea and he couldn't sit in. "Yes sir, I'll try and find him immediately."
Krillin was making his way to Juuhachi's room. On his way he couldn't help but think of that night one more time. The warmth of her bed, the soft kisses they both shared, How nice her body felt up against his, the sounds of her breathing as she lay asleep...he couldn't tell if any of these was real or just a very detailed dream.
He got to her door, he was so nervous he almost didn't knock. 'How will see react when she sees me?' thought Krillin 'Will she be happy? I've changed a lot, I'm a lot stronger now and my muscles are bigger then the last time she saw them . What if she cries? Did she miss me? what if she...'
"Come in already!"
The yell came from inside the door, it was Juuhachi. Apparently Krillin had been knocking on the door without realizing it. He stopped and took a deep breathe. 'Here we go'
Juuhachi was still sitting on her bed looking out her window, when the door started to open slowly. She was already in a bad mood due to hormones, but the continuous knocking drove her nuts. She was ready to bite the head off of whoever the idiot was at her door.
She looked to the door and the first thing she saw was a bald head. Then she quickly realized who was at her door...it was him.
Krillin's head peeked in as he saw her sitting on her bed. She looked just as beautiful as he remembered, she also looked really sad. Something about her was a little different, but he could put his finger on it, since she was sitting. His dragon sense could feel a weird third force in the room as well, but for the moment he ignored it.
He walked in just a little further into the room and shut the door behind him.
Neither of them moved, or said a word. The tension in the room was really tight, so many things wanted to be said, but neither of them wanted to talk first. It stayed like this for what felt like hours, but was only 2 minutes.
Juuhachi's eyes quickly observed Krillin. He looked very different from what she remembers of him last time. Finally she decided to say something.
"I liked you better with hair."
Krillin chuckled. He rubbed his bald head "Uh, yea...I kinda think I did too. Forgot how cold it gets at night and with..."
"Did you want something?" she interrupted rudely
Krillin looked at her in shock. "Um, kinda but its a little hard to explain."
"If it going to take to long to explain, just forget it." She then looked away from him. "Now please leave. Its late and I need to my rest."
"W-well...I-I..."
"Leave, servant." she said harshly, not giving him much time to say what he wanted.
This wasn't what Krillin was expecting at all, she was very cold to him. 'She's never called me that before.' he thought. His heart sunk deep as he turned around to leave. He wasn't going to argue with her, looks like he was going back alone.
Juuhachi still looking out the window, felt a tear fall from her eye as she let out a small sniff from her nose.
Krillin heard that. He looked over toward her mirror before he was about to leave and saw her refection. He saw the now tears coming from her face.
He turned around. "Your crying."
She said nothing to him and refused to look at him.
He came back into the room and shut the door. "Juuhachi, why are you crying?"
Nothing from her, she continued to give a blank stare at the window.
"Juuhachi will you talk to me please? You used to trust me so well, can you just tell me why your crying, there has to be some..."
She quickly turned her head to glare at him with her eyes now filled with water. "Cause you left Krillin!" she said in the harshest saddest tone he had ever heard.
He stopped and stood there with his mouth open slightly. He couldn't think of anything to say as she whipped the tears from her face and looked down at the bed, staring in a cold emotionless way,
"You said you'd never leave me. You said you'd take me away from everything and for months I waited for you, and you never came back. I cant..." her voice started to crack as the tears feel from her eyes. "I can't deal with this alone!"
He tried to get closer to her to hold her, but she smacked him away. "Deal with what alone?" he whispered "Your not alone, I came back for you now...I plan to take you away like I promised and..."
"Krillin..." she cut him off quickly and started to whisper. "I'm pregnant." More tears feel faster down her face, for this was the first time she admitted it to anyone aloud.
Krillin took a step back as his jaw almost dropped to the floor. "W-what...how..."
"That night you came back. I thought that night was a dream, but a couple weeks after I started to throw up in the mornings and my period didn't come." She whipped some tears from her face.
Krillin was in total shock. This wasn't what he was expecting at all, but at the same time, wishes that he knew this information sooner.
"Some of the women servants know, but my father, my brother and General Nineteen are clueless. They don't seem to pay much attention to what going on with me anyway, well at least my father and brother don't. I don't know what I'm going to do..."
She then felt some warmth on her wet cheek. Krillin choose this time to give her a small kiss hoping that it would show his affection and calm her down. This however just pissed her off.
She pushed him away. "Don't touch me!"
Krillin looked at her confused. "I-I'm trying to help you..."
"Don't! You weren't hear the first 4 months, I don't need you here for the next 5. You were well enough to get away from the kidnapper dragons to come down and fuck me, but not well enough to stay and help me deal with this?"
"Juuhachi, It's not like that at all! I mean that's why I came in here in the first place, I need to tell you why I was taken!"
"I don't care! The fact of the matter is you left when you could have stayed! You slept with me and left, no Bull shit reason is going to change that. Even if you where kidnapped again by "dragons" or whatever. You know how much dishonor this will be for me, having your baby?"
Krillin's eyes widened. 'She's never said anything that harsh to me before.'
"A princess having a servants baby, they might as well banish me now. Knowing my father he will do it without a second thought."
Krillin let out a heavy, worried sigh. Those words she had just spat out 'dishonor for your baby' really hurt him, but he needed to tell her the truth anyway. "Juuhachi, there's something that you really need to understand about me."
"What? that your un-reliable and just as horrible as everyone else is?"
He hated knowing that Juuhachi felt this way about him so Krillin just took a deep breathe and just blurted it out. "That I'm not human. I'm a dragon."
Her face lost all harshness and began to look puzzled. "What?"
He let out a half smile. "I-I'm, I'm a dragon. I can change into a dragon at any point in time, I've been able to all my life."
She stared at him blankly. "That's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. You couldn't come up with a little more realistic lie?"
Krillin knew it wasn't going to be easy to explain. "I guess, I'll just have to show you..." He then started to take off his shirt.
Juuhachi looked at him in confusion and made a weird face toward him. He took a step away from her bed, and started to breathe slowly in and out. Then in a matter of seconds, he transformed the top half of his body, the torso up into a dragon. He made sure to keep his wings close for he was afraid to make to much noise.
Juuhachi's confused look turned into a frighten and scared one. She had never seen anything like this before. Never had she even seen a dragon, let alone one this close and it being Krillin. Krillin noticing the fear in her eyes, quickly as he could changed back.
"Who...who are you?" said Juuhachi as she started to motion back to the bed post. He started to move back closer to her. "Stay away from me!" she ordered.
He stopped. "Please Juuhachi, let me explain..."
"You better explain your self fast...what the hell are you?"
"I'm what is known as a Dragoneyr. Its a form a people who can turn into dragons at will."
"H-have you always been like this?"
"Yea, There used to be plenty of us apparently. Most of my people got whipped out by your father, when he first became King. He started a war to get rid of all Dragoneyrs.
The survivors fled, and I was left behind. Master Roshi and Goku found me when the servants were looking through the old things that once belonged to the Dragoneyrs."
"So that's what that war was about..." She gave Krillin a semi smile, "So don't tell me. Your father was the king of the Dragoneyrs and this baby we are having is going to bridge the gap between the humans and dragons like some fairy tail right?"
Krillin let out a half sigh, half chuckle. "Actually, I'm just a peasant son of a knight...A very proud and famous knight, that the Dragoneyrs honor...but no royal ties to the king."
"Figures"
"Apparently my father was the last to speak to our king though. That put him into high honors with everyone." He then picked up the dog tag, necklace that said he father name. "He died because he found out his wife, my mother, was killed by a raiding knight. He thought I was dead as well."
"Was he killed by another knight?"
"No..." he looked up into Juuhachi's eyes. "By your father."
She closed her eyes and shook her head. "Why is that not too shocking? This is so much information to take in."
"Tell me about it, I only found all this out 5 months ago. That's why they took me, so I can help them with the next war."
"Next war? What do you mean, next war?"
"The Dragoneyrs never meant to stay in hiding like they are now. They are running out of food, and need more space. Plus they planed to take revenge for trying to make an entire race extinct. They figured the son of Natder, my father, would be just as strong if not stronger to lead them into battle."
Just then Juuhachi felt the baby move. She put her hand over her belly. Krillin couldn't help up notice this as well.
"Is something wrong?" he questioned.
"No, the baby is just kicking."
"C-can I feel it kick?" He was excepting the answer to be no, since she had been very distance with him this whole time.
"I guess." she groaned
He came up to her and gently touched her belly. At first the baby stopped moving, Krillin was worried he did something wrong.
Then, something unexplainable happened. It was unknown to Krillin, that Dragoneyr fathers have a special bond with there babies. Unlike human males, they can feel and understand the development of the baby just as well as the mother can. The only difference being Dragoneyrs are normally hatch from eggs. Since this baby is half it will be birth normally.
He put his head onto her belly. The baby, feeling its fathers warmth started to wiggle.
"Wow, it must know your its father or something..." Juuhachi questioned. "Its never moved this much with another person present."
He chuckled "Yea, I guess so. I can feel its heart beat."
Juuhachi made a face. "Feel? you mean hear."
"No...weirdly enough I mean feel. It's really happy right now, its even smiling. Its wiggling its tail..."
"UGH, you mean it's going to have a tail too?" she made a gross discomfort face. "What kind of a weird baby am I carrying?"
"It can feel that your uncomfortable, so it stopped wiggling the tail."
"How can you know that? I take it that is one of those weird dragon thingy, things between you and the baby right?"
"Yea" Krillin said with the biggest smile. He had never been this happy, he was going to be a daddy. The bond he had with his baby was like nothing he had ever experience. "and its a girl."
"You can tell that too?"
"No" Krillin joked as he took his head off her belly. "That was just a guess, I can't really tell."
She hit Krillin in the shoulder. "Don't lie to me. With all this news today, I can't tell what's real anymore."
He felt a little better after she hit him, she didn't seem too pissed at him anymore. "I'm sorry you have had to deal with this all alone so far, if I would have known some how I would have come back."
"Well," she started to joke a little "We did have sex, that should have been your first clue I might get pregnant."
Krillin started to blush "I-I think I ended up convincing my-self that it was all a dream. It just didn't seem like someone like you would sleep with me, you know the dishonor and all."
Juuhachi then realized what she had said in her anger. "I'm sorry." She looked him in the eyes. "I was really upset at you when I yelled that."
"I don't blame you for being upset, I shouldn't have left. In fact, I shouldn't have come back that first time. That was my mistake, I should have just stayed with the Dragoneyrs."
"Well," She said as she motioned for Krillin to sit next to her on the bed. "Believe it or not, even with all the shit that's happened because of it, that was one of the happiest and best nights of my life."
Krillin looked at her and gave her a huge smile as he sat next to her on the bed. "Mine too" he stated.
She placed her hand on top of her belly and he put his hand on top of hers. They stayed silent for at least a minute. "So," she said trying to start up a newer topic. "What happened to you when they dragons took you back?"
Krillin sighed. " A hell of a lot actually...to start..."
General Nineteen spent most of his time looking threw the barns and the lower class rooms, searching for the one that survived the dragons. He was having a harder time then he though he would.
'Where could he have gone' Thought Nineteen 'I've looked everywhere that the servants hang out at.'
He started to walk by Goku and Roshi's room. He thought he'd ask there. When he got to the room Goku was trying to help Roshi up so he can use the restroom.
"Hey! You Two!"
The yelled shocked Goku, making him drop Roshi.
"Have you seen the one that survived the dragon attack? The King requested a talk with him."
"You mean Krillin?" said Roshi as he started to cough.
"Sure, whatever his name is. Do you know where I can find him?"
"Oh I think he's..." Goku started to say until Roshi hit his foot "Ouch..."
"He might be peeing sir. Have you checked the toilets sir?" said Roshi
"Hmm...no I have not..." he started to leave. "continue doing whatever you up too."
Goku started to whisper to Roshi. "Why did you do that?"
"Goku have you lost your mind? You can't tell him where he really is, he would be in huge trouble if they found him alone with the princess. I'm sick and I still knew that!"
"Oh...right, oops."
"Quick! Go to her room fast and warn him before the General some how makes it there first!"
"Right!" he stated as he bolted out of the room.
"Wait...WAIT! I STILL NEED TO PEE FIRST!" Yelled a helpless Roshi as he started to cough.
"And that's when I learned in training, that your insides aren't fire proof." said Krillin as he rubbed his stomach.
Juuhachi let out a small giggle. Its been a long time since she left this calm and open to anyone. It was a good feeling. "Seems like that Nappa guy really gave you a hard time."
"Yea you don't even know the half of it. He's the toughest trainer there. Plus I think he secretly hated me. "
"That Tien guy," she said "He seems like he knows what he's doing."
"He does. He's very smart, and polite. You'll like him when you meet him."
"Krillin," she sighed. "I don't know about this whole leaving thing..."
He lead forward from the bed and looked at her with a worried face. "Oh come on, don't tell me you want to stay too!"
"I just have doubts"
"Look, this war is going to happen and I want you and our baby safe. I may have not been there but damn it I'm going to do something about it now!"
"How would we escape?" she questioned
"I don't know, out the window or something I guess. Its big enough to fit my dragon form out and its late enough no one will notice."
She made a face. "No ones going to notice a giant dragon flying out my window?"
He smiled "They didn't the first time!"
"True."
He started to plead with her. "Please, please come with me. I'd kill my-self if I found out anything bad happened to you or the baby."
She stared at his eyes. She could see how much this meant to him for her to go, he really did care for her. This was a feeling she wasn't really used too. She took a deep breathe.
"Ok...I'll go."
Krillin got really excided and all most cheered loudly until Juuhachi slapped him.
"I'll need to pack."
"No need! What would you take with you?"
"How about clothes stupid."
"Oh...right."
She started to get out of the bed, until the baby started to move again. "Oh, it sure picks weird times to move."
"I'll start to pack for you." Said Krillin as he got off the bed.
She made a face. She hated how people would make her feel helpless. "I'm pregnant, not ill...I can still do things on my own."
"I know, but I want to do it for you. That's technically what I'm hear for anyway."
She smirked "Right, I guess just take all the clothes from the right side of the closet." she said as she started to move her-self back into the bed.
He started to take some of the clothes when he noticed something near the dresser. He walked toward it and saw it was a doll made from cow skin, hay and chicken feathers.
"Oh my...I made this." He looked over toward her. "You keep this ugly thing all these years?"
She smiled "It reminds me of you. Plus I figured the baby could have fun with it."
"Lets hope for your sake its girl then. A boy will destroy this poor thing!" he joked. As he was going to take it to the clothes they were taking with them, he also noticed something shinny on the dresser. He walked over toward it and saw that it was a very expensive ring. He picked it up
"Juuhachi...where did this come from?"
She gave a face..."Oh, I kind of forgot to tell you. I'm Engaged."
He dropped the ring. "W-what?" Did everyone decided to get engaged when I was gone? "To who?"
"General Nineteen"
Krillin's jaw hit the floor. He was speechless.
"Not by choice, My father gave him my hand in marriage."
"Well...all the more reason for us to leave tonight." he said kind of angry.
"Krillin...there's something I need to tell you. Something I never told anyone." she had a very uncomfortable look on her face as she ended the sentence
"What?" he said as he stopped packing and walked closer to her bed.
There was small discomfort in her face. "When we were kids, Nineteen always had a weird thing for me...a couple times he..."
Krillin started to get angry. He didn't want her to say it "No...he didn't"
"Yea, he tried. Once when I was 7 and again when I was 15. It never happened, but he did touch me."
He got back on the bed and put his arms around her. "Why didn't you tell anyone?"
"My father didn't care, plus I was too scare to admit it too anyone that it was happening. He never got far, I was always able to fight him off, but now I have to marry the man that tried to molest me." she said the last part sounding just a little scared
Krillin looked her at her in the eyes. "No, no you don't. We are leaving, now!"
"Krillin what about..."
"Screw it! No way am I going to let that man anywhere near you, not if I can make sure you're safe right here, right now."
She smiled. She never felt so sure of anything like she did now. They were just about ready to leave, when they heard foot steps coming from the hall way.
"Some ones coming!" whispered Krillin "They'll kill me if saw me here alone with you..."
Juuhachi took that moment to push him off the bed. She then made sure there were sheets to cover up her belly.
There was a knock at the door as Krillin hid under the bed. "Who is it?" said Juuhachi
"It's Goku! Can I come in please?"
There was a hug sigh of relief coming from both Krillin and Juuhachi.
"Yes come in."
Goku quickly and quietly rushed in. "Is Krillin in here?"
Krillin crawled out from under the bed. "What's wrong Goku? Is Roshi ok?"
"He's fine, its just General Nineteen is looking for you."
"HMM, what the hell does he want?" said Krillin angrily.
"Its not what he wants, its what the King wants. He wants to speak with you."
"What? Why?" asked Juuhachi.
"He wants to know how you survived from the dragons. This doesn't feel right."
"Shit, we need to leave right now then!"
"No wait," said Juuhachi. She seemed to be the only one in the room thinking logically at the moment. "They are looking for, if you and I leave that would be really suspicious and they would just go looking for us. You should just tell some lie to my father, then come right back here."
"She has a point Krillin. If you leave right now they will just track you down."
"Look" he said as he held Juuhachi's hands and started to get worried. "I just don't want to make another mistake. What if I say something stupid or..."
Juuhachi leaded forward and gentility and quickly kissed his cheek. "You'll do fine. Just make up a heroic lie. I'll still be here when you get back."
"But..."
"Just obey me." she said forcefully.
He blushed and said "I know. I promise I won't leave you this time." He squeezed her hands just before he let go of them and started to walk to the door with Goku. He took a quick glimpse back at her, She was still sitting upright on the bed and for once had a gentle look on her face. Goku and Krillin both walked outside the room and then shut the door.
They were walking down the hall way when Krillin muttered "Something about this just doesn't feel right...I still thing we should leave now."
Goku turned "You should leave when they aren't looking for you. Just wait."
As they turned the corner, they saw General Nineteen making his way over there. "There you are!" He yelled. "I've spent almost all night looking for you, Where have you been?"
Krillin started to get nervous, "I was...umm..."
"Oh never mind, I really don't care, come with me, the King has been waiting for you."
He started to sweat bullets as he followed General Nineteen to the kings main room.
Tien was half way to the castle by now. Just a couple hours earlier he was waiting back with the Wise men waiting for Krillin to come back with his loved ones. He was supposed to make it back as soon as he could manage, but something didn't seem right.
It was taking way to long. Even though the flight too and back was long enough there was no way it would take him this long if he followed the orders correctly. The Elder decided to speak up.
"Hmm, there is something in the air tonight...something bad."
"What do you mean Elder?"
"Hmm...Krillin is going to have to make a tough choice soon. I can sense it. He's going to have to choose wither to follow his heart or to swallow his pride, neither is going to be easy."
Tien turned to look toward the sky. "Do you know what the better choice is?"
The Elder smiled. "The better choice is to swallow your pride and do nothing...but who would honestly do that?"
"How bad is the situation? Should I go help him?"
"A wise man one said, 'Some times we make trouble when trying to avoid it.'" The Elder got up and started to walk off. "Do whatever you heart tells you to do."
Tien thought it over for a while, then started to get ready to leave. "I'll go, something tells me he might need my help."
With that, he turned into a dragon and flew off into the right direction. The Elder watched him fly off "This isn't going to end as well as everyone hoped." he muttered.
The cold air brought Tien back into reality. He was getting really close to the castle now, just a little less then a half hour more. 'I hope everything is fine.' he wondered
The General and Krillin now where walking in the kings main room. At the end of the room was a huge golden chair, that King Gero was now sitting in. The room it-self was big enough to have at least 4 dragons in it.
King Gero was looking tired and a bit sickly. When they got closer to the chair, Gero sat up. "That will be all General, you may leave us now."
"Yes sir." he said a little angry. They waited until he left the room before they started to talk.
General left the room but didn't wander to far off. He decided this would be the perfect time to go to the restroom.
Gero decided to take a long look at Krillin before he would speak. Something about him looked very familiar to him, it was the 6 dots on his forehead.
"So." said King Gero calmly. "You survived the dragon attack."
"Umm...y-yes, yes sir I did."
"Don't speak until I command you too, got it?" He ordered.
Krillin nodded his head and he started to sweat.
He looked him over, more. "I don't really remember you to much around this castle. To honest you disappearance wasn't that big of a deal. That fact that you, a pathetic servant, made it back from the mountain tops alive is shocking. You seemed incredible pathetic as a child and a failure. The dragons should have ate you."
Krillin started to clench his fist tightly. His words stung, but he could take it.
"Hmm...I think I might remember you now. You were that servant that hung around my daughter all the time, am I correct?
Krillin nodded
"I can't hear you!"
"Yes sir." Krillin said forcefully.
"Yes, you grew up here. You came around the time my twins were born, and right after the war..."
He looked closer at Krillin and saw the necklace. "What is that around your neck?"
Krillin got nervous. "Its an old dog tag...belong to someone I never knew."
"Get closer boy, let me see it."
Reluctantly Krillin got closer to him. Gero grabbed the necklace fast from Krillin's neck breaking the chain. Krillin walked fast back to his spot. Gero looked at it closely and read the tag, 'Natder.'
Gero's eyes grew large as a quick fastback to the photos ran threw his head. The horns, the number of horns on the head, something about the dots. The bald head...the lack of nose. This name 'Natder'. It had something to do with that one dragon...
Gero gave off an evil smile as he came to a realization. "I know how you survived the dragons."
He threw the necklace back at Krillin's feet. "You are one of them."
Krillin got super nervous. "W-what?"
Gero sat up straight. "My son has been doing research on your kind for months. I thought it was all crap but he had a point. That dumb necklace brought back the lost memories. Plus you look a lot like him."
Krillin was now staring down the King. The anger that was raging inside and it was hard keeping it in.
"Your father, I mean. They must have told you all the details they could about the war. I don't remember much, hell it wasn't until now I remember who we fought. But I do remember one thing...
...Killing the coward that was your father."
The rage inside Krillin was getting worst.
"It wasn't hard, by the time he was brought to me, he was already dead mentally. He muttered something about revenge, but I slit this throat before he could say anything else."
Krillin was now shaking with rage. He didn't know how much longer he could take this.
"Other then almost whipping out an entire race, a task my father was too dumb to do, that was the most satisfying kill, I had ever done. Yours will be just as good."
"What?" Krillin said out of shock
"You don't think I'm going to let you leave this room do you? You would just flock back to the other dragons and we can't have that now could we?"
Krillin started to panic for a little bit but was hiding it pretty well.
"Now since your going to be dead soon anyway, I don't mind sharing these with you. I'm pretty sick and as I would love to kill you the same way I killed your father, I think I'll let my son have that honor."
"How are you going to get him here?" questioned Krillin calmly. "Only you and me are in this room."
"Once this little 'meeting' of ours is done, I have arranged the guards to come and tie you down. General or anyone else for that matter doesn't know about it, but I had my suspicions about you from the start of hearing that you were back. Just in case I told the guards to come in 5 minutes after you have arrived. Which now that I think of it, is coming up shortly."
Krillin got into a fighting stands. He had to think of something and think of something fast.
"No use in trying to escape, Just take the defeat, like your pathetic father and pathetic race has."
Krillin could barely hold his rage anymore at this point. The slightest thing now would make him explode.
"That was your biggest mistake you know? Coming back to the enemies house. You dragons are the dumbest things I have ever know, if my memory serves me correctly. Once I'm done with you, I'm going to search the high mountains for the rest of your kind."
Just around this time Tien started to fly near the castle, he quietly started to look threw the windows to see if he could find him. He passed by a huge window with two people, one looking like Krillin and the other sitting in a high expensive looking chair.
"Then after all that is said and done..." continued Gero "I'm going to allow the wedding of Nineteen and Juuhachi. He's wanted her for so long, I might as well allow it now. I mean when she was younger I didn't dismiss it either..."
"WHAT?" Krillin almost yelled "You knew...?"
"Of course I knew, I allowed it. General Nineteen is my right hand, anything he wanted he could have. If that included my dumb daughter at a young age then so be it. She wasn't really worth much to me anyway..."
That was the straw that broke the camels back. Krillin couldn't hold his rage anymore. "You know King, you'll never have to worry about your daughter or anything for that matter ever again."
The King gave him a glare. "Now why is that?"
Krillin gave off an evil smile. "Because your besting mistake, was calling this meeting. Only one of us is leaving this room..." and with that Krillin quickly changed into a dragon, ripping his servant clothes into shreds.
King Gero, who was all but calm a minute ago, now was in the biggest fear of his life. He had never seen a dragon this close up before, nor did it strike his mind that Krillin could change into one so fast. He started to quiver in fear in his chair as he saw the giant dragon coming closer to him. "P-please...s-stay back!"
Krillin started to growl. The King was trying to move as fast as he could out of the chair, but stared to have a quick cough attack. 'This is for the Dragoneyrs...' thought Krillin '.for my father...for Juuhachi'
"N-no...*cough, cough*...n-no..." Krillin enjoyed seeing the fear in King Gero's eyes.
With that Krillin let out a loud roar and lunged toward the king.
"KRILLIN NO!" Yelled Tien in his dragon form, from out the window.
A loud, painful scream was heard loud and clear through out the castle. General Nineteen who was still in the restroom, quickly tried to finish up and started to run toward the main room. The guards who were supposed to be near the door, but where now playing a game of poker, stopped what they were doing and began to run toward the scream.
Goku who was with Roshi now turned there head toward the sound of the painful scream.
"That sounds like the King!" said Roshi
"Krillin!" yelled Goku as he ran out his door toward the scream.
Prince Juunana, who was sleeping soundly this whole time, popped his head out from the bed. "What's all that noise? Father?"
Juuhachi, who decided to finish packing, heard the loud scream and her heat sank. The baby started to move wildly as well. "Krillin, what's happening?" she said to her-self.
Tien burst threw the window and turned into his human form, but it was all too late. The King was dead, killed violently by Krillin. The body was torn to pieces and was burning along with the gold chair. Krillin turned back into his human form as Tien grabbed him.
"Krillin you idiot! What have you done?" Yelled Tien as he stared at the burning corpse that was once King Gero.
"He had too...I had to kill him! Everything he had done, to our people, to my father, to Juuhachi!" Krillin said in a tearful violent rage.
Tien heard running footsteps coming from the hall way closer to the door. If the both of them were found they would be killed. They were no match, even in there dragon form, for every human knight the king had.
"We need to leave now!" Said Tien as he started to pull Krillin to the window.
"No! No we have to get Juuhachi!" yelled Krillin in a panic.
"Are you kidding? There's no time! They are on there way now! If we get caught we are dead! Now lets go!"
"NO!" yelled Krillin as Tien pulled toward the window. "NO! I promised her! I can't Leave her again!"
Tien turned into his dragon form and dragged Krillin out the window. Krillin fought him as much as he could, but with the grip he had on his neck he couldn't easy turn into his dragon form.
Just after they left, the door sung open. It was General Nineteen, with the guards behind him. The first thing they saw as they walked into the room was the blazing inferno on the melting chair.
"KING!" yelled General Nineteen as he ran over. "Some one gets some water!"
A couple of the guards ran off. As Juunana calmly started to walk toward the room. "What's all these yelling about..." he looked forward and saw the fire. "What happened?"
Juunana looked over to see that his father, the king, was in the fire. "Who did this?" he turned his head to the window and saw a dragon flying away holding someone.
The guards came and put out the fire, so it couldn't spread any further. With the fire out, they could actually see what happened to him. Most of his flesh was melted off due to the fire, but he looked as if he was ripped to pieces before hand.
"A knife couldn't have done all this damage." spoke one of the guards.
"What started the fire so quickly?" said another guard.
"I knew I should have been in here, like I told him! This wouldn't have happened!" said a teary eyed General.
"How did this happen?" demanded Juunana who was surprisingly taking his fathers death pretty well. "What was going on?"
"He had a private meeting with that one servant who survived the dragon attack. I knew something bad would happen, like a dragon would come back or something." General started to cry louder.
"Interesting" muttered Juunana. He looked to the ground and saw Krillin's servant clothes. 'I was planning to kill my father soon anyway...but a dragon beating me to the punch makes me angry. There is more to this servant then we think.'
"Krillin was it?" he stated "I remember him...I think its time to have a talk with my old pal Goku."
Truths come out, and the war is about to take place. What will happen next? Stay tuned for the next chap of "Dragoneyr: the lost race" to find out. Thank you for reading my story.