Cell's Courtship: Chapter 1

(All characters except the ones I made up are from DBZ, in other words don't sue me. I'm just writing a fanfic here.)

Jade, sitting on a table next to Dr. Gero, looked up at her creator. Dr. Gero meanwhile was ranting and raving about how dissapointed he was of her performance that day. Earlier he had commanded her to destroy Northern City, which Jade had refused to do. And because of this, Gero had locked Jade up in his laboratory for the past few days.
"Jade!! Are you finally ready to do what I tell you to do!" Gero screamed at her.
"I....I'm sorry...I just can't do the things you ask..." Jade replied cowering in front of her creator.
"Well then I guess I'll just have to scrap you, and start on something new!" threatened Dr. Gero, placing his hand on a lever, on a machine nearbye.
"Please....let me live. I'll try really hard next time....I promise!" wimpered Jade, as she knew what Dr. Gero would do to her if she didn't obey.
"With an attitude like that! You will never be what I want you to be. I guess I'll just have to start on project Cell." said Dr. Gero casually, as he pulled the lever as if it were no big deal. Meanwhile Jade's tortured screams could be heard, as he growth process had been reversed, and she was painfully reverting to her larvae form.
In Jade's mind, the last thing she remembered was uttering in her mind the name which she hated the most. The name that had sealed her fate...
"Cell....."
The next time she was consious was when she saw a lady staring back at her through her tube. Though she was unable to show signs of life, she could hear and see everything that was going on around her. Then came that one faithful day.
"Mom...what is this thing?" asked Cell as he walked up to the green tube.
"I guess you could say thats you sister." replied Bulma as she continued typing away at her computer.
Ever since that day, Cell had become fascinated with the creature in the tube. And he found himself talking to it on a daily basis. Meanwhile in the tube, Jade only wished to free herself so she could destory this creature. This creature which had made Dr. Gero destroy her.
Though this all changed one day, as Cell came in for one of his daily visits. Though unlike other times, which he would just talk about general things, he seemed severly depressed.
"Jade....I just don't understand myself anymore. Everybody hates me. I mean they look at me, and all they see is a monster. Lately I've been starting to think maybe I shouldn't of been born at all. I wish....there was somebody who could understand me..." lamented Cell as he placed a hand on her tube. Then he said the thing that had changed her mind about him, and had transformed her hate, into pity, and then.....into love.
"I really wish you were here..."
******
Jade woke up suddenly in a heavy sweat as she looked around the room.
"Only a dream...." she said to herself softly. She continued to look around her room, her lonely room. The night before she had been the happiest she had ever been in a long time. It was the first time she was truelly able to make Cell's wish come true, and be there for him. But alas, almost all other times their hearts seemed so far apart. Cell was right when he said everyone was uneasy about them. The only ones who seemed to treat him and Jade like normal people were their mother, as well as Goku and Gohan. Chichi of course didn't approve of Gohan hanging around with such a "freak" or so she called him. Since she like the others couldn't see past his exterior.
She layed back down on her bed, constantly reassuring herself that she would never be scrapped again. But her thoughts weren't on that fact, actually she seemed to forgotten about the whole nightmare all together. Right now all she could think about was Cell. But this fact also really made her angry. She did not want to put her faith in anything, she had learned this the hard way when she had put her faith in Dr. Gero. And look what he did to her. Her angered thoughts soon tired her out, and she fell back into a deep sleep.
That next morning Jade awoke to hear a knock on her door.
"Who is it?" she managed to mumble as she sleepily awoke from her bed.
"It's me Cell." came the reply.
"C..come in." she managed to stutter, her heart skipping a beat when she heard his name. Cell stepped in, and his physical appearence surprised her very much. Cell like her had gotten rid of the odd looking head piece on his head, and black, spikey hair like her's stuck out of the top. Though unlike her's it was much shorter and didn't fall down to his neck. Other then that, he looked the same as he always did.
"Jade....breakfast is ready." said Cell shakily, noticing that either Jade wasn't wearing anything at all, or that just the bed sheets had covered up a very low cut night gown. Jade realizing this fact at the same time, and pulled the sheets up to her chin.
"I'll...be...right there." she said sharing his embarrasment.
"Could you please get out...." she said in a half stern voice. Which Cell hastily obeyed and zoomed out as fast as he could. Though afterwards, she made a promise to herself that she would apologize to him for this.
Uknown to most people, Jade and Cell both had the ability to take off the green locust like armor when they reached their perfect forms. Though neither them tended to do it much, since they sorta felt naked if they were wearing anything that didn't cover their entire body.
Jade stepped out of her room, wearing her usual armor, when she realized that it was incrediblly hot, and she wished that she had something different to wear. And being a person who has never gone shopping, she didn't.
She walked towards the main building in Kami's lookout to see that everyone else was already outside eating breakfast. Many were wearing skimpy clothing because of the heat, everyone that is except for Cell, who was wearing his armor as well. Most of them were trying to ignore Goku's atrocious eating habits, evident that they all kept their eyes glued to the table.
As Jade sat down across from Cell, she noticed that Goku was trying to choke out some words..
"So Cell, I didn't know you had hair?" he said as if making small talk.
"Yeah....well that headpiece helps me channel Ki better, but its also rather uncomfortable. So I would rather not wear it all the time." replied Cell sorta embarrased, not liking to talk about himself.
Jade slowly and uneventfully ate her food, casually glancing over to Cell. While Cell was doing pretty much the same thing. Everyone seemed to be noticing the odd feeling between the two, but didn't say anything. That is except for Goku.
"Hey you guys what's the matter? You two should be happy. Thanks to you, the androids are gone and we don't have to worry about the world being destroyed anymore." he said happily.
Cell basically nodded a "yeah", then whispered something into Goku's ear, which he then nodded. After doing this Cell got up and left the table, walking somewhere out of their sight. Jade, trying not to look to obvious said that she was done, and that she was going to look around. Though of course everyone but Goku knew what she where she was really going.
As she walked into the interior of Kami's place she saw Cell standing near the Hyperbolic time chamber. He spoke out loud almost knowing that she was coming up next to her.
"Goku said that he would take me into the time chamber with him today. He wanted me to help him learn some of the other's fighting techniques, and he would teach me how to become a better fighter over all." he spoke as if he had some sort of regret.
"Is that so.....well I hope you learn a lot in there." she said trying to sound cheerful, but she had really wanted to see a bit more of him. But as things were going, their very first normal day living would be disrupted by more fighting.
"I hope you have fun fighting." continued Jade coldly, pivoting on her heel and walking away from him. Cell tried to follow after her feeling really badly, when he suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Goku's.
"C'mon Cell, its time that you really learn how to fight." Goku said simply leading Cell into the chamber.
"But..." Cell started.
"No buts. This is the real thing now. You have to learn how to use a fighting technique of your own. So you don't have to copy others. Besides with Vegita around your going to have to be strong." Goku interrupted as he led him into the chamber. The doors starting to close behind them. The last thing Cell saw was Jade. Her back was turned away from him, but her head was facing him, her eyes looking like she was about to cry.
"I'm sorry...." he managed to whisper as the doors closed and he could no longer see her anymore.
"I hate you...." Jade whispered to herself.
"You know how I feel. But you don't care...your just like the others. I hate you so much Cell!" She yelled to everyone, and stomped off to her room. Leaving the others who were just out the door puzzled at what she could of meant.
"This is....not good." thought Bulma to herself as she looked at the dimishing figure of Jade worriedly...

To be Continued