I'm sorry that this is a short chapter, but I thought it would be best for me to end it here, seeing as how I'm going to have quite the busy day in school tomorrow and I haven't started on my homework yet AND it's 1:20am :) Have fun reading!
Echo Hunter
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* LAST TIME *
'Hmm, now what to do about Goku...' Serena knew that he wouldn't be able to resist her scent for very long but she had a great time thinking up ways to drive him crazy. She wouldn't normally think like this, but her body clock was telling her that it was beyond the normal mating time and her Saiyan instincts were becoming more and more dominant.
Serena stood up and with a mischievous grin on her face and with a twinkle in her eyes she spread her wings and flew back to her home.
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CHAPTER 14: Meeting the Time Travelers
The sun rose and shone its rays through the French doors the next morning, warming the slumbering angel. She stretched as the light touched her eyes. It had been a long time since she had slept in her room. Serena rolled out of bed and onto the floor in a sorry attempt to get out of bed. She kept the lights in her room off since it was bathed in natural sunlight and headed for the bathroom. Once she safely made it in she hopped into the bathtub and took a nice, relaxing hour-long bath. As she rested, the grime of training and sparring melted away as her body was enveloped in warm water and bubbles and her mind drifted to a different time and dimension.
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"Serena!" Bulma was surprised to see her sister-in-law awake. She would normally still be in bed.
"Hi Bulma!" Serena beamed. It had been two years since she had seen her friend.
"I have this great idea! I've been feeling down in the dumps lately since the house has been so quiet with the boys behaving and all, and I figured that since you're a couple years older, you've probably grown out of your other clothes so I think we should go shopping today!" Serena laughed, amazed at how much one person could say with no breath.
"Bulma, I think that would be a great idea!" Serena changed her clothes right in front of Bulma, a trick that she had been working on while training. She finally learned how the disguise pen worked and could transform without it. This was another trick that she taught the boys. Bulma and Serena spent all day at the mall and bought many new things. Both were sure glad that Serena had her space pocket or they would have never made it out of there alive.
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Mirai and Gohan decided it was time to head home to Gohan's time. They had cleared out the city and that was quite a task in itself. They had already been there a month and decided it was time for a break.
When they arrived home, no one was there to greet them. They searched for familiar ki signatures and found their fathers in the gravity room on the other side of the house and Goten and Trunks were in the forest. Both of their ki signatures were high so they figured they were training too. The two young men walked into the house to find it empty.
"Mom! Mom are you home?" Trunks called out but no one answered.
"Hello Mirai. Your mother is shopping right now. She said not expect her home until later tonight."
"Thanks Sam." They walked into the kitchen and made themselves something to eat. After they filled themselves, they walked back out of the house.
"I want to spar, but not with you. I've been with you way too long," Mirai said to his best friend.
"I know what you mean. Let's go find Goten and Trunks."
Goten and Trunks were playing around with their new powers until they felt familiar ki's coming at them.
"Quick, hide your powers!" Both boys masked their ki's with the little bit of light that Serena had given them.
Mirai and Gohan were so close to the boys when all of a sudden they couldn't *feel* them anymore. "Where'd they go?" Mirai shrugged his shoulders and they dipped into the forest where they felt the little one's ki's last. When they landed, they couldn't find Goten or Trunks anywhere.
"Where'd they go?" Gohan was taking one trail and Mirai took another. Goten and Trunks were in the high branches of a tree, watching silently as the two other boys were looking for them.
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Serena could feel the boys using their 'light' as she called it to block their ki from something.
What are you boys up to? Serena's voice startled them. Gohan looked up to the sky because he thought he had heard someone gasp. 'Must be my ears,' he thought and kept walking.
The two boys snickered mentally. Oh nothing, we're playing hide and go seek. Mirai and Gohan are trying to look for us so they can spar. Goten answered.
Serena smiled and told them, Just stay out of trouble and don't make a huge mess!
We won't both voices answered and disappeared. Serena just shook her head.
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"Where are those two?" Mirai was getting a little frustrated and then he felt their ki signatures. They were in the place they had just come from. "How?" Gohan just shook his head and started flying back.
Goten and Trunks hid their ki as soon as they felt them getting too close and hid in a different spot. With another failed attempt at finding his younger self and his best friend's little brother, he decided to go home. He turned around and right as he was about to lift into the sky, he heard a voice call out.
"Catch!" Mirai and Gohan caught the balls before they hit the ground and stared at them for a good minute. The light slowly died out and the balls disappeared before they thought to move.
Goten and Trunks ran out from behind the rock where they were hiding. Their hiding spot was 15 feet away from the two older boys and luckily they hadn't been found. "Ha ha! Can't catch us!" the two boys chided and quickly flew off in the direction of home.
"You better fly fast!" Gohan yelled as he leapt into the sky, only to fall back down to the ground again. Mirai laughed at him until he found out that he couldn't even move. "Hey! What's going on!"
Goten turned to Trunks while they were *slowly* making their way home. "What moon ball did you use on Mirai?"
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BACK IN THE FOREST...
"What do you mean you can't move?" Gohan was now laughing at his paralyzed friend.
"I mean I CAN'T MOVE! WHAT DID THOSE BOYS DO?!" Mirai was turning bright red, seeing as how that was the only thing he could do.
Gohan had enough energy to walk over to his friend and thought that flying was the only thing he couldn't do. His idea was to just drag Mirai home, but when he tipped Mirai back, they both fell because Gohan wasn't strong enough to lift anything but himself. "Sorry," Gohan said before giving up and laying next to his friend.
Gohan and Mirai were getting more and more peeved at the two younger half-breeds as the hours passed. Slowly Gohan regained his strength but not enough to carry Mirai back home. Mirai had an idea. He calmed himself down and concentrated on the ki flowing through his body. When he opened his eyes again, he was in the air, still stiff as a board however. Gohan climbed onto his back when he landed again and they awkwardly made their way home.
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It was dark by the time the two women made it home from the mall. Their feet were throbbing from all the walking they had done that day. They had endured 9 hours of shopping and when they walked into the house, their only thoughts were to sit down. When they stepped through the front door they headed straight for the couch. Serena and Bulma could hear the two younger boys laughing in another room and called them into the living room.
"What's so funny?" Bulma asked. The two boys looked at each other and gave the blue-haired lady a gigantic smile.
"Nothing mom."
"Nothing Aunt Bulma."
Serena could hear their thoughts clearly in her own head as she started chuckling. "So, did you guys have fun playing with Gohan and Mirai?"
The boys looked at Serena with shock evident on their faces. "Umm," they both mumbled.
"It's okay boys. Just stay right here and I'll fix everything." Once again, not wanting to disobey their tenshi whom they loved very much, they sat next to her. Also because they knew that the other two wouldn't try to get them while she was there.
A few minutes later there was a thud at the door. Muffled voices could be heard as the boys quieted down. They hung onto Serena for protection against the older boys. Bulma tried to think of what the boys could have possibly done this time to make the others upset at them. There was another thud as the thick door slid open to let in two very exhausted saiyans. Mirai was still frozen with his hand cupped in front of him, the same position he was in when he caught that moon ball that Trunks threw. He hovered in a few inches off of the floor and landed in front of the 4 people on the couches. Mirai's face was able to move now and anyone could clearly see how pissed he was.
"TRUNKS! I swear whatever you did to me, as soon as it wears off, I'm going to eat you in your sleep!" He landed and Gohan slid off his back and stood next to Trunks looking perfectly normal.
"What's wrong with you, Gohan?" Bulma asked. She figured out that her future son was paralyzed but couldn't figure out what was wrong with the other boy.
"I don't know. I couldn't fly or drag Mirai home. I think that little brat of a brother drained my energy, but how?"
After turning their attention away from Bulma and towards the boys, they saw Serena and their faces returned to normal.
Mirai was the first to apologize. "I'm sorry miss. We're not usually like this. It just so happened that those two little miscreants that you're sheltering did something to us." Mirai glared at his younger self.
"You must be Mirai," she said "and you must be Gohan. It's a pleasure to meet you finally."
Gohan just stared at the beauty that his brother and Trunks were holding on to. "Yes ma'am."
"Gohan! This is my tenshi! Her name is Serena." Serena smiled and hugged the little boys closer to her.
"I'm sorry for what they did to you. I just taught them that and they've been waiting for you to come home so they could test it out." She started to laugh again and soon everyone but Gohan and Mirai joined in.
"I can't believe you! I don't even know you and you were in on this too. What is this world coming to?" Trunks as asking his mother with his eyes who this stranger was to do such things to them.
"Trunks, this is your Aunt Serena." If Trunks could have fallen to the floor, he would have. His face fell instead.
Serena stood up and headed towards the two boys. "Here, let me help." She placed a hand on both of their shoulders and sent a little of her energy to them. "There, all better."
Mirai could finally move his arms again and evil thoughts about torturing his little self took over his mind. Gohan started hovering just to make sure and suddenly had the same idea as Mirai. They lunged forward to attack the two boys when they suddenly disappeared. Mirai and Gohan fell into the couch head first, knocking it over. Luckily, nothing else was around to be broken. They sat up and rubbed their heads and saw that Goten and Trunks were right behind Serena looking over her shoulders.
"How'd they do that?" Gohan rubbed the sore spot on his head.
"We've been training with Aunt Serena! We know all sorts of tricks now!"
"Yeah, you two better watch out!" Gohan stuck his tongue out before Serena asked them to settle down.
Tonight was a full moon again, which meant that the boys' tails were silver. Serena walked out into the moonlight with her wings spread out away from her body. She had figured out how to make all of her feathers soft and how to make them hard again for battle. It was nice to not have to worry about cutting people now. Her knee-length hair was a beautiful silver now, catching the rays of moonlight as it lightly swayed in the wind.
Serena could feel a familiar ki coming towards her so she took off into the sky, gliding on the warm wind currents. The person was still following her and she smiled. She stopped over her "spot" in the forest and slowly descended. The angel waited for the other man to appear above her but she felt him land a little ways away behind the cover of trees.
"Its okay to come out. You don't have to hide from me." Gohan slowly walked out from behind the grand oak.
"Hi."
"Hi Gohan." Serena waved him over to her and he came. "Can I help you with something?"
Gohan turned his head away before talking again. "I wanted to ask you a few questions..." he started off.
'This boy's a lot like his father.' "Go ahead. Ask away." She answered all of his questions with a smile and this time she told him the story of how she became 'Goten's' Tenshi without tears. She was proud of herself. Serena told Gohan how her and his father were lovers in another life and how she had finally found him. There was a slight difficulty though. "He's been ignoring me lately and I don't know what it is."
Gohan tried to explain his father to Serena and did a fairly good job.
"So I was wondering if you'd be willing to help me get your father to come to his senses."
Gohan was always looking for an adventure and he was going to find some if it had anything to do with his dad. And then he saw the look of a predator in her eyes. "Sure."
"Thank you so much! But first I'm going to have to make you immune to my scent..."
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Echo Hunter
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* LAST TIME *
'Hmm, now what to do about Goku...' Serena knew that he wouldn't be able to resist her scent for very long but she had a great time thinking up ways to drive him crazy. She wouldn't normally think like this, but her body clock was telling her that it was beyond the normal mating time and her Saiyan instincts were becoming more and more dominant.
Serena stood up and with a mischievous grin on her face and with a twinkle in her eyes she spread her wings and flew back to her home.
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CHAPTER 14: Meeting the Time Travelers
The sun rose and shone its rays through the French doors the next morning, warming the slumbering angel. She stretched as the light touched her eyes. It had been a long time since she had slept in her room. Serena rolled out of bed and onto the floor in a sorry attempt to get out of bed. She kept the lights in her room off since it was bathed in natural sunlight and headed for the bathroom. Once she safely made it in she hopped into the bathtub and took a nice, relaxing hour-long bath. As she rested, the grime of training and sparring melted away as her body was enveloped in warm water and bubbles and her mind drifted to a different time and dimension.
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"Serena!" Bulma was surprised to see her sister-in-law awake. She would normally still be in bed.
"Hi Bulma!" Serena beamed. It had been two years since she had seen her friend.
"I have this great idea! I've been feeling down in the dumps lately since the house has been so quiet with the boys behaving and all, and I figured that since you're a couple years older, you've probably grown out of your other clothes so I think we should go shopping today!" Serena laughed, amazed at how much one person could say with no breath.
"Bulma, I think that would be a great idea!" Serena changed her clothes right in front of Bulma, a trick that she had been working on while training. She finally learned how the disguise pen worked and could transform without it. This was another trick that she taught the boys. Bulma and Serena spent all day at the mall and bought many new things. Both were sure glad that Serena had her space pocket or they would have never made it out of there alive.
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Mirai and Gohan decided it was time to head home to Gohan's time. They had cleared out the city and that was quite a task in itself. They had already been there a month and decided it was time for a break.
When they arrived home, no one was there to greet them. They searched for familiar ki signatures and found their fathers in the gravity room on the other side of the house and Goten and Trunks were in the forest. Both of their ki signatures were high so they figured they were training too. The two young men walked into the house to find it empty.
"Mom! Mom are you home?" Trunks called out but no one answered.
"Hello Mirai. Your mother is shopping right now. She said not expect her home until later tonight."
"Thanks Sam." They walked into the kitchen and made themselves something to eat. After they filled themselves, they walked back out of the house.
"I want to spar, but not with you. I've been with you way too long," Mirai said to his best friend.
"I know what you mean. Let's go find Goten and Trunks."
Goten and Trunks were playing around with their new powers until they felt familiar ki's coming at them.
"Quick, hide your powers!" Both boys masked their ki's with the little bit of light that Serena had given them.
Mirai and Gohan were so close to the boys when all of a sudden they couldn't *feel* them anymore. "Where'd they go?" Mirai shrugged his shoulders and they dipped into the forest where they felt the little one's ki's last. When they landed, they couldn't find Goten or Trunks anywhere.
"Where'd they go?" Gohan was taking one trail and Mirai took another. Goten and Trunks were in the high branches of a tree, watching silently as the two other boys were looking for them.
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Serena could feel the boys using their 'light' as she called it to block their ki from something.
What are you boys up to? Serena's voice startled them. Gohan looked up to the sky because he thought he had heard someone gasp. 'Must be my ears,' he thought and kept walking.
The two boys snickered mentally. Oh nothing, we're playing hide and go seek. Mirai and Gohan are trying to look for us so they can spar. Goten answered.
Serena smiled and told them, Just stay out of trouble and don't make a huge mess!
We won't both voices answered and disappeared. Serena just shook her head.
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"Where are those two?" Mirai was getting a little frustrated and then he felt their ki signatures. They were in the place they had just come from. "How?" Gohan just shook his head and started flying back.
Goten and Trunks hid their ki as soon as they felt them getting too close and hid in a different spot. With another failed attempt at finding his younger self and his best friend's little brother, he decided to go home. He turned around and right as he was about to lift into the sky, he heard a voice call out.
"Catch!" Mirai and Gohan caught the balls before they hit the ground and stared at them for a good minute. The light slowly died out and the balls disappeared before they thought to move.
Goten and Trunks ran out from behind the rock where they were hiding. Their hiding spot was 15 feet away from the two older boys and luckily they hadn't been found. "Ha ha! Can't catch us!" the two boys chided and quickly flew off in the direction of home.
"You better fly fast!" Gohan yelled as he leapt into the sky, only to fall back down to the ground again. Mirai laughed at him until he found out that he couldn't even move. "Hey! What's going on!"
Goten turned to Trunks while they were *slowly* making their way home. "What moon ball did you use on Mirai?"
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BACK IN THE FOREST...
"What do you mean you can't move?" Gohan was now laughing at his paralyzed friend.
"I mean I CAN'T MOVE! WHAT DID THOSE BOYS DO?!" Mirai was turning bright red, seeing as how that was the only thing he could do.
Gohan had enough energy to walk over to his friend and thought that flying was the only thing he couldn't do. His idea was to just drag Mirai home, but when he tipped Mirai back, they both fell because Gohan wasn't strong enough to lift anything but himself. "Sorry," Gohan said before giving up and laying next to his friend.
Gohan and Mirai were getting more and more peeved at the two younger half-breeds as the hours passed. Slowly Gohan regained his strength but not enough to carry Mirai back home. Mirai had an idea. He calmed himself down and concentrated on the ki flowing through his body. When he opened his eyes again, he was in the air, still stiff as a board however. Gohan climbed onto his back when he landed again and they awkwardly made their way home.
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It was dark by the time the two women made it home from the mall. Their feet were throbbing from all the walking they had done that day. They had endured 9 hours of shopping and when they walked into the house, their only thoughts were to sit down. When they stepped through the front door they headed straight for the couch. Serena and Bulma could hear the two younger boys laughing in another room and called them into the living room.
"What's so funny?" Bulma asked. The two boys looked at each other and gave the blue-haired lady a gigantic smile.
"Nothing mom."
"Nothing Aunt Bulma."
Serena could hear their thoughts clearly in her own head as she started chuckling. "So, did you guys have fun playing with Gohan and Mirai?"
The boys looked at Serena with shock evident on their faces. "Umm," they both mumbled.
"It's okay boys. Just stay right here and I'll fix everything." Once again, not wanting to disobey their tenshi whom they loved very much, they sat next to her. Also because they knew that the other two wouldn't try to get them while she was there.
A few minutes later there was a thud at the door. Muffled voices could be heard as the boys quieted down. They hung onto Serena for protection against the older boys. Bulma tried to think of what the boys could have possibly done this time to make the others upset at them. There was another thud as the thick door slid open to let in two very exhausted saiyans. Mirai was still frozen with his hand cupped in front of him, the same position he was in when he caught that moon ball that Trunks threw. He hovered in a few inches off of the floor and landed in front of the 4 people on the couches. Mirai's face was able to move now and anyone could clearly see how pissed he was.
"TRUNKS! I swear whatever you did to me, as soon as it wears off, I'm going to eat you in your sleep!" He landed and Gohan slid off his back and stood next to Trunks looking perfectly normal.
"What's wrong with you, Gohan?" Bulma asked. She figured out that her future son was paralyzed but couldn't figure out what was wrong with the other boy.
"I don't know. I couldn't fly or drag Mirai home. I think that little brat of a brother drained my energy, but how?"
After turning their attention away from Bulma and towards the boys, they saw Serena and their faces returned to normal.
Mirai was the first to apologize. "I'm sorry miss. We're not usually like this. It just so happened that those two little miscreants that you're sheltering did something to us." Mirai glared at his younger self.
"You must be Mirai," she said "and you must be Gohan. It's a pleasure to meet you finally."
Gohan just stared at the beauty that his brother and Trunks were holding on to. "Yes ma'am."
"Gohan! This is my tenshi! Her name is Serena." Serena smiled and hugged the little boys closer to her.
"I'm sorry for what they did to you. I just taught them that and they've been waiting for you to come home so they could test it out." She started to laugh again and soon everyone but Gohan and Mirai joined in.
"I can't believe you! I don't even know you and you were in on this too. What is this world coming to?" Trunks as asking his mother with his eyes who this stranger was to do such things to them.
"Trunks, this is your Aunt Serena." If Trunks could have fallen to the floor, he would have. His face fell instead.
Serena stood up and headed towards the two boys. "Here, let me help." She placed a hand on both of their shoulders and sent a little of her energy to them. "There, all better."
Mirai could finally move his arms again and evil thoughts about torturing his little self took over his mind. Gohan started hovering just to make sure and suddenly had the same idea as Mirai. They lunged forward to attack the two boys when they suddenly disappeared. Mirai and Gohan fell into the couch head first, knocking it over. Luckily, nothing else was around to be broken. They sat up and rubbed their heads and saw that Goten and Trunks were right behind Serena looking over her shoulders.
"How'd they do that?" Gohan rubbed the sore spot on his head.
"We've been training with Aunt Serena! We know all sorts of tricks now!"
"Yeah, you two better watch out!" Gohan stuck his tongue out before Serena asked them to settle down.
Tonight was a full moon again, which meant that the boys' tails were silver. Serena walked out into the moonlight with her wings spread out away from her body. She had figured out how to make all of her feathers soft and how to make them hard again for battle. It was nice to not have to worry about cutting people now. Her knee-length hair was a beautiful silver now, catching the rays of moonlight as it lightly swayed in the wind.
Serena could feel a familiar ki coming towards her so she took off into the sky, gliding on the warm wind currents. The person was still following her and she smiled. She stopped over her "spot" in the forest and slowly descended. The angel waited for the other man to appear above her but she felt him land a little ways away behind the cover of trees.
"Its okay to come out. You don't have to hide from me." Gohan slowly walked out from behind the grand oak.
"Hi."
"Hi Gohan." Serena waved him over to her and he came. "Can I help you with something?"
Gohan turned his head away before talking again. "I wanted to ask you a few questions..." he started off.
'This boy's a lot like his father.' "Go ahead. Ask away." She answered all of his questions with a smile and this time she told him the story of how she became 'Goten's' Tenshi without tears. She was proud of herself. Serena told Gohan how her and his father were lovers in another life and how she had finally found him. There was a slight difficulty though. "He's been ignoring me lately and I don't know what it is."
Gohan tried to explain his father to Serena and did a fairly good job.
"So I was wondering if you'd be willing to help me get your father to come to his senses."
Gohan was always looking for an adventure and he was going to find some if it had anything to do with his dad. And then he saw the look of a predator in her eyes. "Sure."
"Thank you so much! But first I'm going to have to make you immune to my scent..."
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