DBNE: New Earth Chapter 6
Zenko sat on a log at the campsite with his face in his hands. 'Does she ever shut up?' Zenko asked himself. Sakura was behind him, her hands on his shoulders and was shaking him back and forth while she pleaded, "I-wanna-go-shopping! I-wanna-go-shopping! I-wanna-go..."
Zenko sprang up, throwing Sakura back and catching her by surprise. "Something wrong, Zenko?" she asked with a worried look. Zenko turned, a heavily exasperated look on his face and replied, "Fine, we'll go...shopping..." He said the last word with a note of disgust. Sakura beamed, however, and threw her arms around him while yelling "Oh, thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you!" Zenko hugged her back while trying not to choke from her grip and set her back on the ground. Sakura smiled again then took a few steps towards the woods.
"But before we go out I'm going to wash up," Sakura told Zenko, "I saw a hot spring in the forest and I'm dying to use it. No peeking, got it?" she said sternly.
"Of course I got it," Zenko reassured her.
"Good," she replied, nodding, "I'll be ready in, oh, about twenty minutes. See ya'," she called back as she left into the woods. Three minutes ticked by and Zenko quickly grew bored just sitting on a log waiting for Sakura to get back. Then he got an idea.
"Aw, what she doesn't know won't hurt, right?" Zenko said to himself as he ran into the woods, leaping from tree branch to tree branch. It didn't take him too long to find Sakura, due to his Saiya-jin instincts for tracking and because he could hear her as she sighed contently, soaking in the warm waters of the spring.
"Ah," Sakura cooed, "This is wonderful!" She slid further down into the water until she was submerged up to her nose. Meanwhile, Zenko was watching Sakura bathe from the branch of one of the trees that stood by the edge of the pool. He felt a bit ashamed for being here, but it was certainly far better than sitting around all alone.
As Zenko continued to watch, he began to feel a tickle in his nose. He sniffed, trying to ignore it, but it kept pestering him and was getting worse. Zenko made an attempt to alleviate the tickle by rubbing his nose, but it persisted. Finally, he couldn't hold it back any longer and let loose with a sneeze so powerful that the sound reverberated around the forest clearing and blew him clear out of the tree.
Sakura sprang up from the water to see what had caused the racket and spotted Zenko as he sat up rubbing his head.
"KYAAAAAAAAA!" Sakura screamed when she saw him. She raised her hands at the blunderer and attacked with burst of ki energy. Zenko was too absorbed with the good view of her chest to notice the incoming blast, and stood motionless until it impacted. The attack sent him flying backwards, smashing him into the tree he had fallen out of, whereupon he promptly passed out.
"Oh my gosh! Zenko?!" Sakura yelled, putting a hand over her mouth. She quickly grabbed her shirt (it was actually Zenko's, she had stolen it) and tugged it on. Then she ran over and knelt beside Zenko.
"Zenko? Zenko, can you hear me?" Sakura asked desperately, shaking him violently. Zenko's eyes blinked open and he sat up suddenly.
"Oh, Zenko, you're alright!" Sakura said with a hug and a smile, "I thought I'd killed you!" Zenko started to laugh and say something, but Sakura suddenly hit him over the head. "Why are you still alive?" she snarled. Zenko grabbed his head and tried to apologize. She huffed and got up.
"Well, I'm going to go change, so don't even think about peeking this time, or I'll shoot to kill!" she shrieked, the pitch of her voice disturbing the forest wild life and sending flocks of birds into the air. Zenko nodded numbly and watched her walk back to the spring to pick up her clothes, sort of leaning his head to try and get a better look at her. Once she had gone further into the forest, Zenko got up and walked back to campsite. Sakura came a few minutes behind him, dressed, dry and ready to go.
"So, where do you find a place to shop on this planet?" she asked.
"I don't know," Zenko said, "Probably where there's people."
"Okay!" she replied and hovered in the air, "Let's go already!" She placed her scouter to her eye and hit the scan button. Numbers flashed by for a few seconds before highlighting an area off in the distance. "I think there's some humans this way. Geez, they sure are weak things." Zenko just shrugged, and followed her to the town called Sanyo City.
It didn't take the two Saiya-jins long to figure out that the enormous building with a parking lot miles wide was the main shopping center of the city. Zenko and Sakura landed in front of the main doors amid much gaping and pointing from the other shoppers. Someone had left their car idled in front of the mall doors.
"How inconsiderate," Zenko said. He fired a ki blast that blew the car off to the side. "Better." As they got to the doors, Zenko could feel the eyes of all the people on him, so he spun around and shouted, "Stop staring!" Everyone quickly ran.
"Zenko, do you have to be so loud?" Sakura asked him. He sighed in reply and followed her into the mall. Sakura didn't seem interested in too much, until they came to the clothing stores. She shrieked with joy, and rushed to the display windows, pressing her palms and face against the glass.
"Zenkoooo! I want those!" she cried gleefully.
"Then take them…" he groaned. Sakura giggled, and dashed into the department store. Zenko let out another long sigh and sat down on one of the benches that dotted the interior of the mall and glared at any human that dared stop to stare.
Inside the store, Sakura was having more fun than a kid in a candy store. She had only spent a day on Earth and didn't think very highly of the locals, but she soon decided that despite their shortcomings in the area of strength, they had good taste in clothing. She selected a number of things, some with frills, some with flowers and others with swirls of pretty colors. Sakura placed all the clothes in one of the bags she had grabbed at the front of the store and walked out the door. The clerk working at the desk saw her leave and ran after her.
"Hey! You can't just take all that! You have to pay!" the clerk shouted. Sakura spun around, a horrible glint in her deep blue eyes. She snarled back at the man.
"Pay? What's this about paying?"
"W-well…" the clerk said, beginning to tremble, "You know… with m-money!"
"Feh! Don't bother me, I don't need to pay," she growled. She raised her palm and it started glowing with pale light. A moment later a beam of ki burst forth from her open hand and ignited the entire store into flames, all the dresses catching flame and turning into charred rags and the clerk went up with it all. Sakura "hmph'd" one more time then walked over to Zenko. Her expression had quickly changed from fierce anger to sugar-sweetness. "I'm ready to go to the next store!"
Nikka was still resting in Heinz's forest cabin when she felt a surge of ki in the distance. She bolted up in bed and growled in the back of her throat.
"Is that… Zenko?" she hissed. Nikka leapt out of bed and charged out of the house. Heinz, who was outside cooking a deer he had killed, heard Nikka storm out.
"Whoa! Where are you going in such a hurry? Shouldn't you still be resting?"
Nikka spun around and growled, "It's Zenko! I felt it! I'm gonna get that bastard!" Her tail thrashed behind her, a manifestation of her agitation. She started to run off again, but Heinz caught her by the arm.
"Wait a sec! You're still recovering, you can't-"
"I'm fine!" Nikka shouted in Heinz's face, snatching her arm back, "Saiya-jin aren't as fragile as you humans!"
Heinz paused and looked at her. "Saiya-jin…" When he looked back up, Nikka was already taking off again. He let out a shallow sigh, and chased after her. Though he did not know the technique for flight, he was very fast.
"Hey!" Heinz shouted, calling out to Nikka, who zoomed above the treetops. "If you're heading out, I think I'll come with you!" Nikka looked down at Heinz as he ran through the forest below.
"You idiot! You think a weakling like you can take on Zenko?"
"Well, I might as well give it a shot. It's my planet, ain't it?" Heinz added with a wry smile. Nikka glared, but then her expression softened somewhat.
"At least he's no coward," she thought. Nikka dove past the trees and skimmed the ground alongside Heinz, both of them heading to the distant Sanyo City.
Most of the shoppers had fled the mall. Only a few clerks remained in their stores, fearing that if they ran the deranged woman would shoot them down for abandoning their posts. Half a dozen stores were in flames. Sakura had been displeased with the service she received. In another store, she hadn't like the dressing rooms.
Meanwhile, Zenko remained sitting stoically in the bench. He had become a shopping bag receptacle, Sakura dropped off her numerous bags with him on each return trip, and so he now guarded a towering stack of shopping backs containing various products ranging from clothing to bakery sweets. Sakura had caught him munching on some of the donuts she had "bought" and helped Zenko decide that it was better to leave her things alone. The welt on his cheek was just beginning to fade.
"Geez," Zenko muttered grumpily, "What's so great about this mall? I never shoulda let Sakura talk me into taking her here…" Something began to beep rapidly beside him. Zenko fumbled through a few bags before finding the scouter. He placed it up to his eye and found that it was indicating that a notable power was approaching. He rose from the bench, dislodging several shopping bags and sending their contents tumbling to the floor, and stood just in time to see the arrival anticipated warrior.
He appeared to be in his teenage years, wearing an orange fighting gi. His black hair stood out in messy spikes, his dark eyes had a fierce look underneath his brows. He didn't seem pleased to find Zenko her amidst the semi-destroyed mall.
"And… who are you?" Zenko asked, feeling a little bit better since it looked like he might get a fight after all.
"I'm Goku Jr., and I'm here to stop you!" the boy replied.
-End chapter-
Zenko sat on a log at the campsite with his face in his hands. 'Does she ever shut up?' Zenko asked himself. Sakura was behind him, her hands on his shoulders and was shaking him back and forth while she pleaded, "I-wanna-go-shopping! I-wanna-go-shopping! I-wanna-go..."
Zenko sprang up, throwing Sakura back and catching her by surprise. "Something wrong, Zenko?" she asked with a worried look. Zenko turned, a heavily exasperated look on his face and replied, "Fine, we'll go...shopping..." He said the last word with a note of disgust. Sakura beamed, however, and threw her arms around him while yelling "Oh, thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you!" Zenko hugged her back while trying not to choke from her grip and set her back on the ground. Sakura smiled again then took a few steps towards the woods.
"But before we go out I'm going to wash up," Sakura told Zenko, "I saw a hot spring in the forest and I'm dying to use it. No peeking, got it?" she said sternly.
"Of course I got it," Zenko reassured her.
"Good," she replied, nodding, "I'll be ready in, oh, about twenty minutes. See ya'," she called back as she left into the woods. Three minutes ticked by and Zenko quickly grew bored just sitting on a log waiting for Sakura to get back. Then he got an idea.
"Aw, what she doesn't know won't hurt, right?" Zenko said to himself as he ran into the woods, leaping from tree branch to tree branch. It didn't take him too long to find Sakura, due to his Saiya-jin instincts for tracking and because he could hear her as she sighed contently, soaking in the warm waters of the spring.
"Ah," Sakura cooed, "This is wonderful!" She slid further down into the water until she was submerged up to her nose. Meanwhile, Zenko was watching Sakura bathe from the branch of one of the trees that stood by the edge of the pool. He felt a bit ashamed for being here, but it was certainly far better than sitting around all alone.
As Zenko continued to watch, he began to feel a tickle in his nose. He sniffed, trying to ignore it, but it kept pestering him and was getting worse. Zenko made an attempt to alleviate the tickle by rubbing his nose, but it persisted. Finally, he couldn't hold it back any longer and let loose with a sneeze so powerful that the sound reverberated around the forest clearing and blew him clear out of the tree.
Sakura sprang up from the water to see what had caused the racket and spotted Zenko as he sat up rubbing his head.
"KYAAAAAAAAA!" Sakura screamed when she saw him. She raised her hands at the blunderer and attacked with burst of ki energy. Zenko was too absorbed with the good view of her chest to notice the incoming blast, and stood motionless until it impacted. The attack sent him flying backwards, smashing him into the tree he had fallen out of, whereupon he promptly passed out.
"Oh my gosh! Zenko?!" Sakura yelled, putting a hand over her mouth. She quickly grabbed her shirt (it was actually Zenko's, she had stolen it) and tugged it on. Then she ran over and knelt beside Zenko.
"Zenko? Zenko, can you hear me?" Sakura asked desperately, shaking him violently. Zenko's eyes blinked open and he sat up suddenly.
"Oh, Zenko, you're alright!" Sakura said with a hug and a smile, "I thought I'd killed you!" Zenko started to laugh and say something, but Sakura suddenly hit him over the head. "Why are you still alive?" she snarled. Zenko grabbed his head and tried to apologize. She huffed and got up.
"Well, I'm going to go change, so don't even think about peeking this time, or I'll shoot to kill!" she shrieked, the pitch of her voice disturbing the forest wild life and sending flocks of birds into the air. Zenko nodded numbly and watched her walk back to the spring to pick up her clothes, sort of leaning his head to try and get a better look at her. Once she had gone further into the forest, Zenko got up and walked back to campsite. Sakura came a few minutes behind him, dressed, dry and ready to go.
"So, where do you find a place to shop on this planet?" she asked.
"I don't know," Zenko said, "Probably where there's people."
"Okay!" she replied and hovered in the air, "Let's go already!" She placed her scouter to her eye and hit the scan button. Numbers flashed by for a few seconds before highlighting an area off in the distance. "I think there's some humans this way. Geez, they sure are weak things." Zenko just shrugged, and followed her to the town called Sanyo City.
It didn't take the two Saiya-jins long to figure out that the enormous building with a parking lot miles wide was the main shopping center of the city. Zenko and Sakura landed in front of the main doors amid much gaping and pointing from the other shoppers. Someone had left their car idled in front of the mall doors.
"How inconsiderate," Zenko said. He fired a ki blast that blew the car off to the side. "Better." As they got to the doors, Zenko could feel the eyes of all the people on him, so he spun around and shouted, "Stop staring!" Everyone quickly ran.
"Zenko, do you have to be so loud?" Sakura asked him. He sighed in reply and followed her into the mall. Sakura didn't seem interested in too much, until they came to the clothing stores. She shrieked with joy, and rushed to the display windows, pressing her palms and face against the glass.
"Zenkoooo! I want those!" she cried gleefully.
"Then take them…" he groaned. Sakura giggled, and dashed into the department store. Zenko let out another long sigh and sat down on one of the benches that dotted the interior of the mall and glared at any human that dared stop to stare.
Inside the store, Sakura was having more fun than a kid in a candy store. She had only spent a day on Earth and didn't think very highly of the locals, but she soon decided that despite their shortcomings in the area of strength, they had good taste in clothing. She selected a number of things, some with frills, some with flowers and others with swirls of pretty colors. Sakura placed all the clothes in one of the bags she had grabbed at the front of the store and walked out the door. The clerk working at the desk saw her leave and ran after her.
"Hey! You can't just take all that! You have to pay!" the clerk shouted. Sakura spun around, a horrible glint in her deep blue eyes. She snarled back at the man.
"Pay? What's this about paying?"
"W-well…" the clerk said, beginning to tremble, "You know… with m-money!"
"Feh! Don't bother me, I don't need to pay," she growled. She raised her palm and it started glowing with pale light. A moment later a beam of ki burst forth from her open hand and ignited the entire store into flames, all the dresses catching flame and turning into charred rags and the clerk went up with it all. Sakura "hmph'd" one more time then walked over to Zenko. Her expression had quickly changed from fierce anger to sugar-sweetness. "I'm ready to go to the next store!"
Nikka was still resting in Heinz's forest cabin when she felt a surge of ki in the distance. She bolted up in bed and growled in the back of her throat.
"Is that… Zenko?" she hissed. Nikka leapt out of bed and charged out of the house. Heinz, who was outside cooking a deer he had killed, heard Nikka storm out.
"Whoa! Where are you going in such a hurry? Shouldn't you still be resting?"
Nikka spun around and growled, "It's Zenko! I felt it! I'm gonna get that bastard!" Her tail thrashed behind her, a manifestation of her agitation. She started to run off again, but Heinz caught her by the arm.
"Wait a sec! You're still recovering, you can't-"
"I'm fine!" Nikka shouted in Heinz's face, snatching her arm back, "Saiya-jin aren't as fragile as you humans!"
Heinz paused and looked at her. "Saiya-jin…" When he looked back up, Nikka was already taking off again. He let out a shallow sigh, and chased after her. Though he did not know the technique for flight, he was very fast.
"Hey!" Heinz shouted, calling out to Nikka, who zoomed above the treetops. "If you're heading out, I think I'll come with you!" Nikka looked down at Heinz as he ran through the forest below.
"You idiot! You think a weakling like you can take on Zenko?"
"Well, I might as well give it a shot. It's my planet, ain't it?" Heinz added with a wry smile. Nikka glared, but then her expression softened somewhat.
"At least he's no coward," she thought. Nikka dove past the trees and skimmed the ground alongside Heinz, both of them heading to the distant Sanyo City.
Most of the shoppers had fled the mall. Only a few clerks remained in their stores, fearing that if they ran the deranged woman would shoot them down for abandoning their posts. Half a dozen stores were in flames. Sakura had been displeased with the service she received. In another store, she hadn't like the dressing rooms.
Meanwhile, Zenko remained sitting stoically in the bench. He had become a shopping bag receptacle, Sakura dropped off her numerous bags with him on each return trip, and so he now guarded a towering stack of shopping backs containing various products ranging from clothing to bakery sweets. Sakura had caught him munching on some of the donuts she had "bought" and helped Zenko decide that it was better to leave her things alone. The welt on his cheek was just beginning to fade.
"Geez," Zenko muttered grumpily, "What's so great about this mall? I never shoulda let Sakura talk me into taking her here…" Something began to beep rapidly beside him. Zenko fumbled through a few bags before finding the scouter. He placed it up to his eye and found that it was indicating that a notable power was approaching. He rose from the bench, dislodging several shopping bags and sending their contents tumbling to the floor, and stood just in time to see the arrival anticipated warrior.
He appeared to be in his teenage years, wearing an orange fighting gi. His black hair stood out in messy spikes, his dark eyes had a fierce look underneath his brows. He didn't seem pleased to find Zenko her amidst the semi-destroyed mall.
"And… who are you?" Zenko asked, feeling a little bit better since it looked like he might get a fight after all.
"I'm Goku Jr., and I'm here to stop you!" the boy replied.
-End chapter-