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Chapter Twenty One

Bulma woke up to the half moon and smiled. She always loved the moon. Frieza wouldn't allow her to ever see a full one though. She couldn't figure out why. This planet had one moon and even though it had two suns, there weren't many full moons. The blue saiyan had been here for one week and she had been training and upgrading the gravity of the building. Bulma looked out at the now abandoned city around her in the moonlight. Bulma could stay here forever. She did what she wanted to with no restraints. Her power had gone beyond what she could have imagined and without having to hold back as she does on the ship, she felt this new sense of freedom.

Bulma got up and though her stomach growled at her, she felt hardly any draw back from being hungry. She was a warrior and had to eat like one when on a mission. She had already eaten all of her rations that she was supplied with and was forced to go out hunting for food. She was never that good at cooking but as long as it was edible, she would make do.

Hours after starting her training, the sun was out and she felt ki blasts headed toward her. They barely missed her as she moved away from them. "Look at who got an early start." She heard Zarbon say from behind her as she was still doing upside down push ups.

"I had to. I couldn't have the wake up call I had yesterday when I wanted to sleep in and you 'accidentally' hit me with a blast." She glared at him. He had said that he was aiming for something near her but something distracted him and he missed. Like she could believe that. He always had a pretty good aim at where he hits. Zarbon had meant to hit her. If only to wake her up, he still meant it.

Zarbon smirked at her and then started warming up. "I take it that you've eaten breakfast then?"

"Not much but enough." She stood up and walked over to him. "I've got a new move I'd like to show you." The gleam in her eyes when she thought about it, made Zarbon smirk.

"Another one? How many is that now?"

"Five since we landed." Bulma smiled. "This one is when I… I'll show you." She smirked and aimed her hand at a pillar inside the building. Six small blue balls of ki started circling around her palm. She let all of them go at the same time. They formed a line and when they each, individually, hit the tree there was an explosion that went around the tree. "They are very concentrated, very small orbs of ki. That allows them to expand around what they are about to hit and when they contract around it, they explode, doing maximum damage to the object." When she finished her explanation, Zarbon walked up to the pillar. There was now a very deep cut around it and it was barely holding up. If it were a being such as a Saiyan they would most likely be split in half with those blasts.

"Impressive. How long does it usually take to form those?"

"Not long. We are working on battle techniques. What good would it do if it took a while to charge the attack?"

"Good point." He looked around and got in his fighting pose. "You ready?"

"Always." Bulma smirked and just before she started running at him, she heard growling. She frowned and turned, seeing a pack of hungry wolves that were walking towards them. In the past week, Bulma had taken to killing the people of the planet and was sure to have gotten all of them. These wolves were probably looking for something to eat and she had killed what they hunt.

Zarbon crossed his arms. "I told you we should have exterminated all living creatures on the planet. Not just the intelligent life forms. Those wolves are going to keep coming around. And as you saw when we purged, there are a lot of them."

"Don't worry about them. They aren't a threat. If anything, they are really friendly and delicious." The young saiyan said taking a few steps towards the approaching pack. One of them was brave enough and came running, jumping at her. "And they make excellent target practice." Bulma put her hand out as it was in mid air and fired a palm sized deep red ki blast at its stomach. It instantly fell and started wailing, twisting and turning, trying to stop what was causing the pain. The sounds stopped after a few minutes and she watched the bone of the dead animal turn to ashes and smiled a sadistic smile. When she looked at the glowing red eyes of the other wolves, they started running away. "Let them run for now. We still need to spar." She turned back and threw several ki blasts towards Zarbon, effectively missing but were enough detraction as he was dodging them for her to get close and punch his gut, throwing him back slightly.

Her spar with Zarbon lasted a few hours and she had only used her nonlethal moves on him. He hated when she chose to use her paralyzing move as her finishing move on him. He didn't even see it coming either. Zarbon was just now, two hours later, recovering from it. "I'd say that you came a long ways in your power since we started training." Zarbon said lying down on the ground next to the fire that Bulma had made to cook her food. "Lord Frieza will be proud."

"Yeah." Bulma sighed. "I know he will."

"What's wrong?"

"What about the others?"

"Others?"

"You know, the Ginyu force. Aren't they on a mission right now too?"

"Actually they are getting back right about now. Jeice will be happy about how far you've come. He's been training hard too."

"He better be." She looked around and then sighed again. "I don't want this to end."

"Don't want what to end?"

"This. I don't want to go to my home planet. I don't even wish to go back to the main ship. I want to just stay on this planet getting stronger and not have to hold back."

"Oh, but going to your home planet... that mission will be extra fun. You'll get to see and be part of bringing down those that exiled you. Don't you want your revenge?"

"Yeah. Of course I do but I don't want another month with them. And this time I won't have anything to get away from them."

"Don't worry about it. You'll be fine. If you ever need to get away and talk, I'll be only a scouter call away."

"That's comforting." Bulma said standing. "If you need me, I'll be upgrading the training room." She walked to the panel on the wall and started to mess with the controls.

Zarbon took this time to go up to the roof and call Frieza. "I've been waiting for an update. I take it you have good news." The lizard said over the scouter. Zarbon could tell he wasn't in a good mood as it had been a while since he last called Frieza for an update on her.

"All is going well Lord Frieza. Though she's not looking forward to her next mission, she has been getting exponentially stronger. I might have to use my second form soon for training with her if she keeps it up like this."

"That is good news. Just don't let her get stronger than you Zarbon. You are there to monitor her and keep tabs on her power level. Are there any serious concerns you have about her?"

"Not yet." Zarbon said thinking about their talk and how Bulma didn't seem to even want to go back to the ship. "Not any that I would call a serious concern. You might want to take a trip to your father for an updated ship that could hold her new power so she can train." Zarbon didn't like that Bulma had those thought but if they could keep her where they wanted her in their favor, transitions would go smoothly for the next phase in their plan.

"I'll think about it. If this concern of yours does become serious, do please tell me right away." Frieza said and cut the call.

AN: I am feeling super inspired for writing this recently. Here, have another chapter. Apologies for it being another smaller chapter this time around.

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