Little Girl Lost 2
Disclaimer: Gargoyles belongs to Buena Vista, and Dragon Ball Z belongs to Funimation, and Akira Toyamira. (I hope I spelled that right.)
A/N: This takes place after the Cell Saga in DBZ, with Kim being the same age as Goten and Trunks.
"I don't know," said Bulma, looking at the monitors attached to the tiny infant," if she will survive or not. Something extremely traumatic happened to her as an embryo. And these readings are more confusing than a Saiya-jins."
There was a loud humph in the background from Vegeta, who was sitting the lab along with his mate, Chi-Chi, and Gohan.
Bulma sighed and gave her 'husband' a long-suffering look.
"I mean, that whatever her other parent was, it was even less related to humans than your kind are. I think they were intelligent, the little one," the name she had dubbed the girl with," has a high intelligence indicator, but look at this," she gestured at the girl. She had five fingers, but at the ends of those fingers, which were shaped like talons, was a sharp bone spur. It would be years before they were hard enough to hurt anyone, but there they were. Her feet were splayed, with grasping toes, also tipped with bone. Her face, though, was sweet as any baby's could be. Dark haired and pale skinned, she looked like she could have been Chi-Chi's child naturally.
Chi-Chi looked down tenderly at the child, and put her finger in the baby's hand. It clenched reflexively. To anyone else, the strength would have been disturbing, but Gohan's had been more.
"There is some strange bone growth in her back," Bulma added, "but nothing damaging. Her muscles there are intensely strong, as well as along her front. It makes me wonder if one of her parents could have had wings."
"Wings?" echoed everyone, with Gohan asking Vegeta," Do you know anybody out there were wings?"
Vegeta shook his head in a negative.
"Most winged species don't get large enough to have sentience. Not enough space for a brain, or if they do, they are so frail that they are insignificant."
"Then what is she?" muttered Bulma, this new puzzle giving her a headache.
Chi-Chi smiled as she lifted the little girl into her arms, despite the wires and other gadgets
"She's a baby."
It was then that a ripple went through her abdomen, causing her to gasp with surprise and pain.
"She's also going to get a playmate, now."
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Chi-Chi's labor hadn't been all that easy. She had also had a rough time delivering Gohan, but she assumed that it was because it was her first time. Now she knew that her children weren't all human, and expected it to be a little worse.
Eight hours, and counting.
Gohan was with her, and Bulma was monitoring it all. Vegeta, oddly enough, was just outside the door, pacing. It was like he was the one in labor.
"Mom, are you okay?"
Chi-Chi was gripping his hand, was about to try throwing him across the room as she yelled.
"NO, I'M NOT OKAY!!!"
Twelve hours, and counting.
"There's something wrong with the readings," said Bulma after looking at something.
Chi-Chi, gasping and shouting, then rasped out, "Is there something wrong with the baby?"
Bulma looked up.
"Yes, I don't know what the hell these readings mean."
There was a gasp from Chi-Chi and Gohan, and she put her hand protectively over her belly.
"I'm going to loose the baby?" she squeaked. Tears started to fill her eyes, and there was a loud thump from the hallway. Vegeta had just fainted.
"Oh," Bulma answered, looking up again. "I meant the girl."
"Blast it, woman, what are you talking about," said a groggy Vegeta, who was stumbling back to his feet. He was glad he was male; he didn't think even the mighty Prince of the Saiya-jins was up to childbearing.
"She's started to have a massive build up of minerals in her bloodstream."
"What- ahhh!- do you mean?" asked Chi-Chi, who was clutching her son's hand tightly. It was turning an interesting shade of purple.
"I don't know!" she shouted, annoyance making her shout. This little hybrid was giving her fits.
There was a very loud scream from Chi-Chi then, and a final push, and Goten came into the world, with his umbilical cord around his neck.
"NO!" shouted Gohan when he saw that his little brother was blue.
There was a loud moan from Bulma as she realized what had happened, and started to try to resuscitate the small body.
Chi-Chi had fainted from the pain.
There was no sound from the newborn.
Bulma desperately tried to find a pulse on the baby, but nothing happened, no matter what she did.
Over in a corner, Gohan watched, wanting to cry.
Bulma didn't know what else to do, and put the little boy into the same place she was keeping the little girl, hoping that she could get some sort of readings to find out what to do.
She looked away, not noticing the sun coming up.
There were several gasps, even from Vegeta, and she whirled around.
Both babies were stone.
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No one knew what to do when both children had changed. It was something that no one could explain. Bulma finally cornered the gape-mouthed Vegeta to ask if he knew of any species that did that. He didn't. In fact, he shouted for his woman to shut up, her yelling might shattered the stone, and they would never get the children back.
The thought of him actually worried stopped her short.
Chi-Chi and Gohan sat together, looking at the newest member of their family, and prayed.