As they were preparing for the trip back home, Ava's mother pulled her aside.
"Ava, my love, don't you want to stay?" she asked Ava.
"No, why?" Ava asked, looking at her people gathering around the new guru, her father.
"To stay with that Saiyan man, Vegeta." She whispered to Ava as Vegeta and the other aliens watched them.
"After he killed you, I could never have a future with that man. Even though no harm was done." She said, looking at Vegeta as he stared at her.
She wanted to rip the necklace off and show him that he was right. She had found out in the last few months that all the qualities she treasured in herself, were Saiyan qualities, qualities that Vegeta had as well. But she had one he didn't have.
"I can't stand the sight of him." she said, turning away from him and walking on with her mother as he watched her.
Vegeta knew there was something different about her. The Namekians kept her out of the moonlight at full moon after that Oozaru showed up out of nowhere and he had found a long black hair in their camp and all the Namekians were bald. But most importantly, her energy wavelength was more like Goku's than Piccolo's. She was no ordinary Namek.
"Everything turned out okay." Moori told her, coming up behind her.
"Ava, you are like him. You're two of a kind." He said to her.
"I could never be with him. It's the principle that matters, and he has none." She said, taking one last look at Vegeta.
This would be the last time she saw him. Although she did her best to avoid him, he followed her around, waiting for her to slip up. For the necklace to fall off or ripped off by some kid. Or get caught on a tree branch. Then he would see her real side, her Saiyan side. There was that moment when the wind caught her necklace while he was training and he saw something. And a moment when her father had made the new Namekian dragonballs that her necklace's magic was weakened and she saw him looking shocked at her. Then the others moved between her and him, hiding her from him, or else he would see that the magic was weak and she was in her Saiyan form for a few seconds.
Just as Dende was summoning the dragon, who he had created, staying behind as Earth's guardian, Vegeta walked up behind Ava and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned to see him standing there.
"Sorry…" she said, making to walk away, but he blocked her.
"Can we talk?" he asked her.
She was taken aback; he was using his manners, finally.
"Sure." She said as he led her away from the crowd.
"What's this about Vegeta?" she asked him.
"There's something I want to ask you." He said, looking over his shoulder at the crowd behind him.
"Are you a Saiyan?" he asked, looking back at her.
"I've told you before, no. What makes you think that?" she asked.
"Your family keep you out of the moonlight, and the other day, when your father made the new Namekian dragonballs, I saw a tail pop up behind you and you skin turn pale. Then the others moved so I couldn't see, but I did see a tail." He said to her.
"Vegeta, you were probably seeing things. I'm a Namek. Heart and soul." She smiled.
He nodded but he didn't believe her. He reached out for her necklace and she flinched, moving away from him.
"Ah, I thought something was up with that necklace. It's hiding your Saiyan form from me isn't it?" He said, moving closer to her as she pulled away, turning her back to him.
"Vegeta, hypothetically speaking, if I were a Saiyan…" she said, turning to face him.
"What would that mean to you? Why do you want to know so badly?" she asked him as Dende called the dragon Shenron out.
"It would mean that I wasn't alone, and that, if you were indeed a woman, that we could start our race up again. Bring it back from the edge." He said, looking at her.
He thought he saw a little tinge of something in her eyes, but then it was gone.
"Well, sorry, but I'm not. I'm Namek." She said, walking past him, towards the crowd.
She stopped and faced him. He turned and faced her. She turned and ran up to him, grabbing him and hugging him. He felt slightly awkward as he hugged her back.
"I'm really sorry…" she whispered to him.
"It's… okay…just let go now…" he said, as she let go.
They stared at each other as she felt the tingle start up again.
"Goodbye Vegeta, the prince of Saiyans." She said, reaching out to shake his hand. He reached out and made to grab it, but she was gone, wished back to Namek.
"Goodbye, Ava, the last female Saiyan." He said out into the blue.
She was standing on Namek, looking ahead of her, right where Vegeta was a just few seconds ago. She was still holding out her hand for him to shake. He was just there, and now, he was light-years away. She dropped her hand and looked at the ground. She would never see him again, she was sure about that. She turned to her family and took off her necklace, turning back into a Saiyan. She threw it on the ground and stepped out it, cracking the little green stone.
"Never again, will I hide my true self." She said, walking up to her mom and dad.