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Chapter 3
He feels the wind whipping at his bangs, the smell of earth and sea. How many years did he dream for this? To be mortal again, the big adventure it is makes him excited at the thought. 'Get a grip Maxwell,' he thought to himself. 'Not even one hour of mortality and hormones are kicking in already! I thought I had more self-control then that. Whens the last time I got some anyway?'
While doing dives and barrel rolls in the sky and flying in circles around Piccolo unconciously, he was deep in thought. He mentally played back his old mortality when the old universe was still around and his violet eyes widened slightly. Oh right, he died a virgin. Goody. 'Man, who woulda thought that Death was pure?' He chuckles in his mind, laughing at his own ironic and sadistic humor. His eyes sparkle and he grins at Piccolo's back.
"Oi, P-chan! Are we there yet?" Duo shouted over the wind to Piccolo in a child-like voice that seems to annoy all adults when going on a trip with endless 'Are we there yet?' questions.
Piccolo grunts and ignores Shinigami-or Duo Maxwell hes calling himself now. How could anyone be this annoying!? Thats the fifth time Duo asked him if they arrived yet and if Shinigami says it one more time, just once, he'll stuff his braid into his mouth!
After two minutes comes that annoying voice again. "Are we there YET, P-chan?"
2.5 seconds later, he solved the problem. With a braid down his throat he wouldn't be able to talk and therefore shut him up. Well, that solved that!
P-chan, I have only one rule. DON'T. TOUCH. THE. HAIR. Shouted a voice in his mind and he hears Shinigami takes the braid out of his mouth, making gaging noices.
Piccolo groans, and wonders what the hell he did to deserve this damnable, mortal god, in his company.
Life just isn't fair.
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Krillan looked up and shouted something that Trunks couldn't make out. He looked up and saw Piccolo about to land with a figure he couldn't quite make out in the blazing sun. 'Who is that?' He gazed at the figure carefully.
"Er..uh..Piccolo! Who's the girl? And did you join with Kami-sama?" asked Krillan nervously, fearing for his life.
Duo cheerfully bounded over to Krillan and shakes his hand feriously, nearly taking his arm out the socket. In his daze, Trunks watched this beautiful long haired wonder in a fogged mind. He faintly heard the figure say, "I'm Duo, Duo Maxwell! I run, I hide, but I never tell a lie!". Then, their eyes connected and all thoughts left his mind except those bright, violet eyes.
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Duo landed beside Piccolo, watching the other two figures carefully. When he heard baldy call him a girl, it really ticked him off. 'Call me a girl, will 'ya? Lets see if you like me tearing your arm out your socket, cue ball!' he thought angrily as he put up a cheerful mask and walked over to Krillan and shaked his hand fast and hard.
"I'm Duo, Duo Maxwell! I run, I hide, but I never tell a lie!" He looked over at the other figure and his breath caught. He looked into cold, blue eyes that have seen so much in a such a short mortal life. It seemed they stared at each other for an eternity and he never wanted it to end. An endless afterlife staring at this pre-Adonis, would be his heaven. A nervous cough brought them back to the present as Krillan looked at the two.
"Is everything okay?" he asked. Both Trunks and Duo blushed slightly.
"Hai, Hai!" Duo grinned and held out his hand. "I'm Duo. And you are?" Trunks looked at Duo's hand, then at Duo and he smiled faintly. "Trunks." He grips Duo's hand firmly in his and reluctantly, after a few seconds, let go.
Krillan smiled and rubbed his arm a bit where Duo almost took it out the socket. "So uh, Duo right? What are ya here for dude? And why were you with Piccolo?" Duo glanced at him and folded his fingers behind his head and looked at the sky, smirking.
"You can call me an old friend of Kami-sama's, baldy. And I'm here to help you fight the Andriods. But everything else is confidentcial and if I tell ya, I'll have to kill ya." His serious tone shows that he wasn't joking about killing Krillan if he made him tell. Trunks stole a quick glance at Duo wondering what could be so important that he couldn't tell them and would have to kill them if he did. It didn't make sense.
They all got into the air car, bringing Goku to the Turtle hut.