In a Time rift Some where in between times, A City sits, Hanging in the balance. Canton City, full of many different races, working together to fix the on going changes that keep popping up through history. Trunks and The Stranger stepped into the outskirts of the city through the rift that the Supreme Kia of time created.
Trunks stepped away and stared at the odd being infront of him. She was much taller than him...alot like all the other namekians that arrived here.
She looked at him as she tossed her mask to the ground.
"You know what has to happen...I have to go back or Towa will kill Piccolo...and..., They will both die."
"Well Your going to gave to explain that to the Kia." Trunks offered as he reached down to pick up her discarded mask. As he held it out to her, She simply looked away and walked off towards the Tower. The tower In the center of the city was where the dragon pedestal sat and below was where the Phoenix stayed. It was no secret to anyone that his partner was connected somehow to the phoenix but no one ever pushed the topic so now shouldn't be any different. Trunks sighed and sadly headed towards the time scrolls and Supreme Kia. There was alot he was going to have to discuss and he felt sad for his partner. He knew what it felt to want to change history. He sighed and headed off.
As the She-namek neared the tower, she realized, that not putting her mask back, was drawing attention by everyone. She strolled on like she didn't notice and for once she didn't really care.
The Phoenix was standing inside the inner chamber waiting on her arrival. She still held that distant look as her yellowish eyes flitted about and when they landed on the she-namek the Phoenix dropped her persona and returned to normal. A smile graced her lips as she reached up to the Namek.
"Welcome back...how did your mission go?" Came her soft voice and It soothed the Stranger's nerves.
"...Neshwah...I...I'm Sorry, I failed and now..." The she-namek sadly said as she kneeled before the Phoenix. A hand was gently placed against the green skin of her cheek. Instinctfully She leaned into it.
"My dearest Melody...You did not fail...You did exactly what I wanted you to do." Came her soft voice and a kiss soon followed to her forehead.
To any outsider this would look like a mother-daughter interaction, which is exactly what it was.
"Mother, I changed the Past...The supreme Kia of Time will no doubt be upset with me." Melody spoke and the Phoenix laughed.
"Ah yes, ...She has said that hasn't she...But don't you think that changing the time flow is her job?...I highly doubt that directing Towa from Killing Piccolo in that time will change much." The Phoenix joked but she did have a point. suddenly a tiny chirping voice alerted Both that the Supreme Kia was coming.
Melody looked back up to her Mother, the Phoenix sighed and rolled her eyes. Melody sniggered.
In barged the Kia of Time with her dainty hands on her hips and looking all ferice. Only problem was she was only 4 foot tall and to Melody who was almost 7 foot, It only made her smile at the Kia.
"What was That? You Jumped into a crumbling wall, Your Mother was suppose to learn about her powers then, instead you let her see your face and Piccolo was suppose to loose control." The Kia raged.
"At the hands of Towa?, I thought I was sent there to stop her...That is why I trained all those years here wasn't it.?" Melody Snarked and her mother scoffed at her. Melody lowered her gaze, "I'm Sorry Supreme Kia...It's just...I Learned the truth and...wouldn't you change the past to secure your future?"
"Yes...She would." came an elderly voice and the Supreme Kia gapsed loudly. They all looked behind her to find the Elder Kia standing there with his fists behind him. He gave a glare to Supreme Kia and then continued into the room.
"Not when it's my duty to perserve it and make sure nothing changes off course." The Supreme Kia bated back and the elder Kia for once just shook his head and looked back towards Melody aand her Mother.
"Solarah...how do you fare?...not very conversational these days...wouldn't happen to be that we forced Melody to train under Piccolo now would it?" The Elder Kia questioned and Melody looked to her mother. Her mother stared at the floor.
All at once she brought her eyes up to everyone in the room. Melody could feel the anger welling up inside.
"Why are you here? If your here to question my Daughter then know that none of this was her doing, She followed out my wishes, And Supreme Kia, At the beginning of all of this when I had just given birth to Solarah...what did you tell me?, Was it not that Towa And Mira was out changing history and that I could help you be rid of them...Is that not correct?" Melody just watched her Mother and marvelled at the power she was displaying.
"Well, Yes...But" The kia answered but when she went to continue Solarah rose up her hand and cut her off.
"So...Now, Are you going to tell me that Melody going in, and protecting Piccolo from that time period...from the hands of none other than Towa herself...was wrong?"
"No...But We have to be careful...She allowed you while you were still pregnant to see her face." the Supreme Kia pointed out and Melody lowered her gaze to the floor then. That part she was guilty for.
" Is this true Melody?" Came that firm voice that Melody learned over the years to fear.
"Yes...Mother." she answered and chanced a glance to Solarah.
"And what about Piccolo...does he know?" Her mothers voice came again and she instantly shook her heard no.
"Then were still safe, Melody You will stay in confinment for one whole day and your rank will drop 3 levels." Came the Elder's voice and Melody felt her heart sank. They both turned to head out and Melody was forcing herself to follow.
As she exited the tower and bade her mother farwell she flew after the kias to the time nest, where she would sit in what looks like a bird cage for 24 hours and listen to toki sqwauk and go on. As she followed them to the portal. A lone figure caught her attention. She stopped and looked to him, She knew it was him. He was from a timeline before he met her mother. before he knew how to love. She met his eyes and then sadly dropped her gaze. She could feel his stare on her.
"Melody, Lets go." The Supreme Kia spoke and Melody smiled at him sadly then followed them in through the portal.
"So the rumor was true, the Namekian that I trained all these years, was female...But how? and what was with that look she gave me just now?" Piccolo thought as he looked back towards the tower. There were many questions running wild inside his head and he knew of one person whom could answer them. He looked at the base of the tower that served as a base for the support of the dragonpedestal. His eyes fell on her standing at the window. She looked somewhat different.
She Left the window and Piccolo silently flew towards the tower. His curiosity was now peaked as he stealthly slipped inside unannounced. He had been in the main room before but never anywhere else. The sound of water splashing made him look towards a door that lead downstairs.
'She must have went down there.' He thought as he quietly slipped down the stairs. When he reached the bottom he suddenly started to feel pensive about what he was actually doing here?
A sound broke his thoughts and as he crept up to the door leading off of the stairs. What greeted his eyes was very much different In the middle of this vastly large room was the Phoenix, But she wasn't flaming like all the other times he had seen her. She was training from what it looked to him and there was two swirls of light circling around her, A blue flame that looked like a dragon, and a red flame that looked like a bird.
He was so mesmerized at her that he did not realize that he stepped completely into the room. The minute he was slammed against a wall so hard that his breath huffed out of him.
He looked to her then and she was back to her flaming self, as she approached him. Upon realizing that it was him she softened slightly.
'Well that's odd' he thought as she growled at him.
"What do YOU want?"
he thought maybe he should just apologize for intruding and leave but then, him sneaking in here would have been pointless so he decided he would just ask.
"Who is Melody?"
She looked back at him shocked, and then lowered her gaze sadly, then she replied "I cannot tell you this. I know it was decieving of me to trick everyone like this, decieve you like this, she is the only female Namekian and to keep her safe she had to hide her ture identy. She is so much like her father she longed to fight. After I told her what happened to her Father...which I had to keep secret from her as well as everyone else. She decided all those years ago that she was going to fight...I..." She trailed off and Piccolo could see the tears as they stole away down her cheek.
Her Hold on him suddenly released and she stepped away from him.
"Tell me then, who her Father is?" He asked and she stopped. She looked at him over her shoulder and sadly replied, "I can't tell you that either, Please stop...I can't help you."
Piccolo had just about heard enough exscuses he grabbed her by the shoulder and whirled her around to face him. "What can you do then?...You know what...Melody will do, What she has always done...She is very Strong heart driven and when she gets something in that head of hers she will die trying to do it."
Solarah suddenly raged and once again Piccolo was slammed to the wall and she was in his face. His whole body tingled from her power.
'Why in the hell is she effecting me like this?' he thought as he stared into her flaming eyes.
There was a fire he had never seen in her eyes then and he quickly wondered if she was human or something else.
"YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW THAT! I GAVE BIRTH TO HER!!!" She raged in his face and when the realization hit her she instantly backed away and relesed him again.
He was gently set to the floor as she pulled away from him. The words she just said still rang in his ears. It was all starting to make sense, except for one question.
"So Your Her Mother?...How...Who...Phoenix...Please." He spoke softly to her now and slowly approached her. He remembered her severally injuring one guy that got to close to her, but for some reason, she had two chances to hurt him and even kill him and both times she backed away...why?
"Yes...Piccolo, I am Melody's Mother...Her father died years ago but to you it would be in the future...anyways she was but an infant when he died and it was because of Towa...Melody is now in confinment due to changing a part of history where her father lost all control of himself. He changed and wouldn't let anyone around him...and when Melody was born...He came back to himself just in time to save his new born daughter and me. I have learned that Namekians have excellent memory and even as a baby She still remembers his face...of course at the time she didn't realize that he was her father." Piccolo litsened very closely to her as she spoke. She Sighed and then continued. "It was some years later when we found him in another timeline, and after much convincing, I finally got the Supreme Kia to ok bringing him here. You have no Idea how hard it was for me to do this...to see him here everyday, with all of my memories and yet he would not...because he had yet to meet me. He had yet to learn what love was. Oh The Look in Melody's eyes when she learned the truth." She stopped and Piccolo didn't miss the tremble that quaked her now quieted form. She was shaking and He felt compelled to hold her. That's when it hit him...and it hit him hard. All this time. All those odd glances from this woman, and the overly happy namekian child that was entrusted to him to train...It was suddenly clear...That child that he felt a strong connection to all this time...She was his. In his future he meets this woman and he learns to love her. Piccolo stared at her back as she wipes her face. Her flaming persona was suddenly dropped and she returned to normal. She dropped to her knees and spoke in a trembling voice. "Please, Just go...you don't belong here."
"How Long was I dead in your time? How long have you lived without me?" he asked and he could already sense the shocked expression on her face even though she wasn't looking at him. He wasn't going to leave her like this, And now since he knew the answer to his questions everything made perfect sense. When she didn't answer he drug her up from the ground by her forarm and pulled her to him. "Show me what I learned." He said deeper than he intended but now he was curious.
"I...I Can't Do That. What if the Kia sends you back to your time." She spoke hurriedly and he felt as if he had pushed her into a corner...which should not excite him like it is but Damned if he wasn't enjoying, toying with the most powerful person here.
"Then I will find you in my time." He spoke and she looked up at him then.
"But That will change the course of History...I...I..." She couldn't finish as he leaned in closer to her. He was suddenly aware of that inticing scent of hers and the way her body was pressed up to his.This was all new to him, and yet when He looked at her, it all felt familiar to him.
"Then I will stay here...Even the Kia has said that If I wished to reside here that it would not be a problem." As the words left his lips a tear escaped the corner of her eye and travelled down her cheek. Without thinking he reached and caught it with his index finger.
"If it was you that showed me love...Then Thats what I want...It does not matter the Time of when it happened...Because here, in this City there isn't a time line...Isn't that correct...I have felt this connection to you and her since I arrived here...and now all My questions answered...I couldn't feel more happy to learn the truths...I just wished that I had learned them sooner." Piccolo admitted and when she openly embraced him, It didn't feel awkward, It felt special to him.
'Not going to lie, This feels good...yeah...I definately wanna stay here' Piccolo thought as he slid a finger under her chin and slowly rose her face towards him. There was a smile that had formed from the corner of her lips and when he leaned down and pressed his to hers. He felt a jolt of tingling electricly shoot through his whole being. It deliciously danced through his system, and whenhe pulled back he regretted the retreat.
"So the question now is, what are we going to do about Melody who is currently sitting in Toki Toki's Cage and Cleaning it out as punishment.
Solarah asked and Piccolo scrunched up his face, which made Solarah giggle slightly.
"I have an Idea...But the Supreme Kia going to not like me." Piccolo replied and smiled.
Solarah shrugged and then Piccolo smiled bigger almost sinster and leaned in closer.
"If you can get her out...I'll get her another one of those...Rift Devices."
"We'll end up cleaning out Toki Toki's cage together...wouldn't that be something to talk about." Solarah joked and Piccolo tilted his head at her
"I'm sure you could think of something else for them to talk about." He spoke deeply again and couldn't for the life of him, figure out where that actually came from or why...But It sounded right. and judging by the look she was giving him then, He was becoming more curious...then a thought struck him and he looked stragight into her eyes and asked.
"So...Um...In order for you to be...pregnant with a child...My Child...You...And I...We..." he felt flush all over as he tried to form words but he didn't exactly have a very diverse knowledge of all things and it was still eluding him how this little bit of information actually happened.
She smiled up to him and very sweetly nodded, Then she spoke "Yes Piccolo we had sex...If you wish it...I will show you later...If we make it out of this little triade in one piece, Just know...You Instigated this." She ended that with a laugh and pushed away from him and then walked around him and up the steps.
He couldn't help but smile as he followed her a few minutes later up those same flight of steps. First they had work to do.