Why can't we be friends?: Chapter 4
(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.)
Sapphire slumped down on her bed. It had been two whole years since Frieza had arrived with his morbid message of a great enemy. But after training for a few years, and with no sign of this threat, it was starting to take its toll on an impatient girl. She would like to think she had matured a little at the age of eight, but she sure didn't feel much different.
"Goodnight Sapphire." said Jade's soothing voice, as she pulled the covers over her already half asleep daughter.
"Goodnight mommy..." she mumbled in return, as she felts herself fall into a deep sleep.
Suddenly Sapphire felt herself surrounded by darkness, she knew immediately that this must be some sorta dream. But she seemed fully aware of her surroundings, and everything felt quite real. Out of the darkness materialized three white shaddows.
She immediately could identify two of them as being the outline of Frieza and her father Cell. But the third she had no idea who it belonged to. But something told her that it was not of her concern. Her focus for some reason had been set on the shadow of her father, the focus became so great that the other two shadows dissapeared in its presence.
Suddenly the shadow grew large, and engulfed Sapphire in a bright white light, and for a second she could hear her father and mother's screams of despair. This caused her to immediately wake up. She looked around the dark room, sweating and very very scared. She knew that this was no ordinary dream, something was coming. And it had to something to do with her dad.
Feeling that she didn't want to be alone, she wandered out of her room, to search out her parents for comfort. She turned on the living room light so that she could see better, when she was startled to see Frieza sleeping on the couch.
"Argh, Frieza must of slept over the house again. I really wish he wouldn't stay so late, as he doesn't have the energy to go back to his apartment." she thought to herself angrily, trying to tip-toe by the tyrant. Though this was all to no avail since suddenly she saw that he was stirring. And the next thing she knew, he was looking at her.
"Kid? What are you doing here?" he said with a slight edge to his voice, which seemed to show a little annoyance. She just stared at him, twidling her hands, then had an idea.
"Hey Frieza, you and my dad have become good friends over the past two years haven't you?" she asked, not really knowing if he'll have any idea about what she was going to ask.
"Yeah? What of it?" Frieza replied, still having a very grouchy mood, since he had been woken up in the middle of the night.
"Well by any chance has he been acting strange lately. Or maybe has he told you something?" she asked, her eyes gleaming with hope that he might know the answer.
"Nope, sorry kid. Go back to sleep, before I do something hasty." Frieza said with at harumph, and turned over and went back to sleep.
"Grrrr. I don't know what my parents see in him." she growled to herself, not liking his attitude at all. She stalked back to her bedroom, totally forgetting why she had come out in the first place.
"He's a nice guy when you get to know him. Ha, thats a laugh. I don't think Frieza has a good bone in his body." she grumbled some more, slipping under the covers. She soon fell asleep, her mind forgetting about her dream, and focused more on her dislike for Frieza.
The next morning Sapphire walked out of her room, rubbing the sleep from her eyes, to find her family sitting at the dinner table. She walked over with a curious look in her eyes, since she smelled food. And being that neither she nor her family had any need to eat, it aroused her curiosity that there would be food on the table.
When she had the table in sight, she saw Frieza sitting at the table with her father and mother. All three of them looked rather happy, which was surprising, since she rarely ever saw Frieza happy. Unless he saw that someone was scared of him.
Frieza glanced at the her as she approached the table, then swallowed some food, and gave her smile.
"Well look who's awake." he said sarcastically, continuing that weird smile of his. She replied by sticking her tongue out, and heading into the bathroom to change out of her night clothes.
"What was that about?" asked Jade as she looked at Frieza for an answer.
"I don't know. Was it something I said?" he said, pretending that last night had never happened.
"Oh don't worry about it. Sapphire's always been sorta moody, and since you been hanging around here more. I think she just wants attention." said Jade, Cell nodding in agreement.
"Oh well, I'll talk to her later." Frieza said nodding, then continued to finish his meal.
Sapphire slipped on a shirt as she continuely went over in her mind how much she disliked that man. Everytime he smiled at her with those black lips she just knew he was up to something, but what. And what did it have to do with her father. She shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts.
She walked outside and started to search around to where Trunx might of gotten off to. She having a need for a training partner.
"Oh I don't know why I'm so worried about him anyway. I mean Frieza's to stupid and weak to try anything." she said, thinking outloud, her thoughts about Frieza still having not subsided.
"Who's weak and stupid?" came Frieza's voice, as he was leaning against a wall.
"You are of course." she said turning towards him, not caring what her thought about her.
"I don't suggest you go on talking such things about me. You would make the others upset. I mean I have changed after all ya know." he said smiling at her.
"Ugh, don't smile at me. I know your fooling the others. You act so nice around them, but I know when they're not around your plotting something. And I don't like it, I don't like it one bit." she said glaring at him, her tail twitching behind her.
"How would you know of such things little girl. Everything you see is just in your mind." he replied, as his own tail twitched behind him.
"Maybe your right, besides your way to weak to try anything as I said before. I mean I bet you can't even defeat me." she said with a smirk on her face.
"I do not fight little girls. Besides I have a date to train with Goku. And at the rate I'm going, I'll soon be just as strong as he is, so I would watch my mouth." he stated, and began to walk away from her.
Suddenly something clicked in her mind. She had just figured out what Frieza was planning. He had been acting this whole time to gain the other's trust. His target was Goku, he was trying to be trained until he was as strong as him. Her face contorted in anger, and helplessness as she didn't know what she could do about this evil plot.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Sapphire started laughing hysterically as she had completely forgotten who she had been talking about. This was Frieza, the guy who Goku could knock out when he didn't even mean it. She was pretty sure that she herself could beat the white lizard.
She wiped the tears from her eyes from the laughing, and continued on her way feeling much better.
"I still have to figure out what that dream meant. All I know now is that Frieza has nothing to do with it, evident by how my father's shadow clearly overshadowed his. But who's was that other shadow, and what does this all have to with my father?" Sapphire asked herself, as she talked out loud, still searching for Trunx.
"Ya know, you sure talk to yourself a lot." came Goten's voice from behind her.
"Oh leave me alone, I had a bad dream last night, and I'm just trying to figure it out." she said angrily turning towards him.
"Awww did widdle baby have a bad dweam." he said mockingly as he put a hand on her shoulder, like he was trying to comfort her. This turned out to be a bad idea, as bones could be heard cracking. Since she had grabbed his hand, not liking when people made fun of her.
Goten stepped back from her, cradling his hand.
"Gee whiz, it was just a joke, you didn't have to break my hand." he whined.
"Oh stop complaining, I thought you were the son of Goku. Anyways, I need to know where Trunx is." she said looking around.
"Oh him. I saw him hanging around with Bulma in the lab. You can find them there." he said, blowing on his hand.
"Thanx." she said brightly, hitting him on the back as she passed by him. This of course sent Goten sprawling to the ground.
"Oh I hates her." he grumbled getting back up.
When Sapphire reached the lab, she noticed that Trunx seemed to be complaining about something. She stepped closer to hear what was going on.
"But mom, he's evil. You told me all those stories about what happened on Namek. He's been getting creepier and creepier these past two years. I actualy thought for a while that he had turned good. But as he gets stronger he's seemed to become more secretive." Trunx said, as he followed his mother around the lab, as she did small tasks.
"Oh come on Trunx. I trust Goku's judgement. If he thinks Frieza has changed, then who am I to believe otherwise. He hasn't done anything wrong in two years, other then being very very nice. So I don't think you have anything to worry about." she stated, typing something on the computer.
"Don't you find it weird though. I mean he was the this universe's worst tyrant. Isn't it odd that he's so "very very nice" now?" he asked pleadingly, trying to get his mother to listen to him. Before Bulma could answer though, Trunx had suddenly dissapeared.
"Hey what's going on!" he demanded, looking around the living room, wondering what the heck had just happened.
"Shhhhh." came Sapphire's voice as she clamped her hand over his mouth, her tail un-encircling from his leg.
"I believe what you've been saying about Frieza. Something's up with him." she said with a smile on her face.
"If you believe me, then why are you smiling?" he said, looking at her strangely.
"Well....because its Frieza we're talking about. I mean in the past few months he has been steadily increasing in strength, but still he is nowhere near the power level that we are at. He thinks he's going to match Goku some day, but Goku is always increasing along with him. As are we." she stated. The look on Trunx's face brightened as he considered this.
"I guess you got a point." he said simply, his worries having been eerily lifted from him.
"Well then, lets go train just to make sure he never catches up to us." she said with a wink, walking out of the room. Trunx quickly followed behind her, no longer having any fears over Frieza.
Elsewhere, Frieza felt his whole body ache as he came sliding to a stop near a tree on Kami's lookout.
"Don't think I'm done with you yet!" yelled Frieza, as he came charging at Goku. Goku just watched the lizard with a look that wasn't exactly used during a battle.
"I have you now....." Frieza started before once again he went flying across Kami's lookout.
Gohan looked over to his father.
"Is it just my imagination or does Frieza seem to change his personality just when he fights you?" he asked, looking at his father's odd facial expression.
"I guess, but I don't think he's really getting into the fights. I mean he must not use his full power when he fights me, maybe he still feels sorry for what happened way back on Namek." Goku said, feeling the need to power down from a super saiyan to make the odds more fair.
"Ah ha, the monkey has powered down. Now he is vunerable and I have a chance to strike!" Frieza thought to himself, as he charged at Goku, who still had his attention on Gohan.
"I mean, I just barely touched him, and he flew all the way over there." Goku said, pointing towards where Frieza had last landed. Gohan nodded, as he looked to see Frieza still lying there.
"Curse you monkey, attacking me when you had your back towards me. You must be mocking me!" Frieza yelled, getting up to charge at Goku again.
This process when on for a little while longer, where Goku would accidently defeat Frieza over and over again. And Frieza, being like he was, would refuse to give up, continuing to attack Goku whenever he was knocked down.
"Argh!" Frieza yelled as he stood up from yet another attack. A skid mark had formed since he had been knocked across the ground so many times. Frieza tried to stand up, but fell right back down.
"Things aren't going exactly as planned." he grumbled to himself, as he let his head flop down onto the ground.
To be Continued.
(Sorry if this seemed sorta like Frieza bashing. But to be honest Frieza is nowhere near the strength Goku is at. Since while Goku had all this time to train, Frieza spent most of it stuck in space with no worthy opponents. So I truelly believe that even after 2 years, Frieza would have no chance against Goku.)
(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.)
Sapphire slumped down on her bed. It had been two whole years since Frieza had arrived with his morbid message of a great enemy. But after training for a few years, and with no sign of this threat, it was starting to take its toll on an impatient girl. She would like to think she had matured a little at the age of eight, but she sure didn't feel much different.
"Goodnight Sapphire." said Jade's soothing voice, as she pulled the covers over her already half asleep daughter.
"Goodnight mommy..." she mumbled in return, as she felts herself fall into a deep sleep.
Suddenly Sapphire felt herself surrounded by darkness, she knew immediately that this must be some sorta dream. But she seemed fully aware of her surroundings, and everything felt quite real. Out of the darkness materialized three white shaddows.
She immediately could identify two of them as being the outline of Frieza and her father Cell. But the third she had no idea who it belonged to. But something told her that it was not of her concern. Her focus for some reason had been set on the shadow of her father, the focus became so great that the other two shadows dissapeared in its presence.
Suddenly the shadow grew large, and engulfed Sapphire in a bright white light, and for a second she could hear her father and mother's screams of despair. This caused her to immediately wake up. She looked around the dark room, sweating and very very scared. She knew that this was no ordinary dream, something was coming. And it had to something to do with her dad.
Feeling that she didn't want to be alone, she wandered out of her room, to search out her parents for comfort. She turned on the living room light so that she could see better, when she was startled to see Frieza sleeping on the couch.
"Argh, Frieza must of slept over the house again. I really wish he wouldn't stay so late, as he doesn't have the energy to go back to his apartment." she thought to herself angrily, trying to tip-toe by the tyrant. Though this was all to no avail since suddenly she saw that he was stirring. And the next thing she knew, he was looking at her.
"Kid? What are you doing here?" he said with a slight edge to his voice, which seemed to show a little annoyance. She just stared at him, twidling her hands, then had an idea.
"Hey Frieza, you and my dad have become good friends over the past two years haven't you?" she asked, not really knowing if he'll have any idea about what she was going to ask.
"Yeah? What of it?" Frieza replied, still having a very grouchy mood, since he had been woken up in the middle of the night.
"Well by any chance has he been acting strange lately. Or maybe has he told you something?" she asked, her eyes gleaming with hope that he might know the answer.
"Nope, sorry kid. Go back to sleep, before I do something hasty." Frieza said with at harumph, and turned over and went back to sleep.
"Grrrr. I don't know what my parents see in him." she growled to herself, not liking his attitude at all. She stalked back to her bedroom, totally forgetting why she had come out in the first place.
"He's a nice guy when you get to know him. Ha, thats a laugh. I don't think Frieza has a good bone in his body." she grumbled some more, slipping under the covers. She soon fell asleep, her mind forgetting about her dream, and focused more on her dislike for Frieza.
The next morning Sapphire walked out of her room, rubbing the sleep from her eyes, to find her family sitting at the dinner table. She walked over with a curious look in her eyes, since she smelled food. And being that neither she nor her family had any need to eat, it aroused her curiosity that there would be food on the table.
When she had the table in sight, she saw Frieza sitting at the table with her father and mother. All three of them looked rather happy, which was surprising, since she rarely ever saw Frieza happy. Unless he saw that someone was scared of him.
Frieza glanced at the her as she approached the table, then swallowed some food, and gave her smile.
"Well look who's awake." he said sarcastically, continuing that weird smile of his. She replied by sticking her tongue out, and heading into the bathroom to change out of her night clothes.
"What was that about?" asked Jade as she looked at Frieza for an answer.
"I don't know. Was it something I said?" he said, pretending that last night had never happened.
"Oh don't worry about it. Sapphire's always been sorta moody, and since you been hanging around here more. I think she just wants attention." said Jade, Cell nodding in agreement.
"Oh well, I'll talk to her later." Frieza said nodding, then continued to finish his meal.
Sapphire slipped on a shirt as she continuely went over in her mind how much she disliked that man. Everytime he smiled at her with those black lips she just knew he was up to something, but what. And what did it have to do with her father. She shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts.
She walked outside and started to search around to where Trunx might of gotten off to. She having a need for a training partner.
"Oh I don't know why I'm so worried about him anyway. I mean Frieza's to stupid and weak to try anything." she said, thinking outloud, her thoughts about Frieza still having not subsided.
"Who's weak and stupid?" came Frieza's voice, as he was leaning against a wall.
"You are of course." she said turning towards him, not caring what her thought about her.
"I don't suggest you go on talking such things about me. You would make the others upset. I mean I have changed after all ya know." he said smiling at her.
"Ugh, don't smile at me. I know your fooling the others. You act so nice around them, but I know when they're not around your plotting something. And I don't like it, I don't like it one bit." she said glaring at him, her tail twitching behind her.
"How would you know of such things little girl. Everything you see is just in your mind." he replied, as his own tail twitched behind him.
"Maybe your right, besides your way to weak to try anything as I said before. I mean I bet you can't even defeat me." she said with a smirk on her face.
"I do not fight little girls. Besides I have a date to train with Goku. And at the rate I'm going, I'll soon be just as strong as he is, so I would watch my mouth." he stated, and began to walk away from her.
Suddenly something clicked in her mind. She had just figured out what Frieza was planning. He had been acting this whole time to gain the other's trust. His target was Goku, he was trying to be trained until he was as strong as him. Her face contorted in anger, and helplessness as she didn't know what she could do about this evil plot.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Sapphire started laughing hysterically as she had completely forgotten who she had been talking about. This was Frieza, the guy who Goku could knock out when he didn't even mean it. She was pretty sure that she herself could beat the white lizard.
She wiped the tears from her eyes from the laughing, and continued on her way feeling much better.
"I still have to figure out what that dream meant. All I know now is that Frieza has nothing to do with it, evident by how my father's shadow clearly overshadowed his. But who's was that other shadow, and what does this all have to with my father?" Sapphire asked herself, as she talked out loud, still searching for Trunx.
"Ya know, you sure talk to yourself a lot." came Goten's voice from behind her.
"Oh leave me alone, I had a bad dream last night, and I'm just trying to figure it out." she said angrily turning towards him.
"Awww did widdle baby have a bad dweam." he said mockingly as he put a hand on her shoulder, like he was trying to comfort her. This turned out to be a bad idea, as bones could be heard cracking. Since she had grabbed his hand, not liking when people made fun of her.
Goten stepped back from her, cradling his hand.
"Gee whiz, it was just a joke, you didn't have to break my hand." he whined.
"Oh stop complaining, I thought you were the son of Goku. Anyways, I need to know where Trunx is." she said looking around.
"Oh him. I saw him hanging around with Bulma in the lab. You can find them there." he said, blowing on his hand.
"Thanx." she said brightly, hitting him on the back as she passed by him. This of course sent Goten sprawling to the ground.
"Oh I hates her." he grumbled getting back up.
When Sapphire reached the lab, she noticed that Trunx seemed to be complaining about something. She stepped closer to hear what was going on.
"But mom, he's evil. You told me all those stories about what happened on Namek. He's been getting creepier and creepier these past two years. I actualy thought for a while that he had turned good. But as he gets stronger he's seemed to become more secretive." Trunx said, as he followed his mother around the lab, as she did small tasks.
"Oh come on Trunx. I trust Goku's judgement. If he thinks Frieza has changed, then who am I to believe otherwise. He hasn't done anything wrong in two years, other then being very very nice. So I don't think you have anything to worry about." she stated, typing something on the computer.
"Don't you find it weird though. I mean he was the this universe's worst tyrant. Isn't it odd that he's so "very very nice" now?" he asked pleadingly, trying to get his mother to listen to him. Before Bulma could answer though, Trunx had suddenly dissapeared.
"Hey what's going on!" he demanded, looking around the living room, wondering what the heck had just happened.
"Shhhhh." came Sapphire's voice as she clamped her hand over his mouth, her tail un-encircling from his leg.
"I believe what you've been saying about Frieza. Something's up with him." she said with a smile on her face.
"If you believe me, then why are you smiling?" he said, looking at her strangely.
"Well....because its Frieza we're talking about. I mean in the past few months he has been steadily increasing in strength, but still he is nowhere near the power level that we are at. He thinks he's going to match Goku some day, but Goku is always increasing along with him. As are we." she stated. The look on Trunx's face brightened as he considered this.
"I guess you got a point." he said simply, his worries having been eerily lifted from him.
"Well then, lets go train just to make sure he never catches up to us." she said with a wink, walking out of the room. Trunx quickly followed behind her, no longer having any fears over Frieza.
Elsewhere, Frieza felt his whole body ache as he came sliding to a stop near a tree on Kami's lookout.
"Don't think I'm done with you yet!" yelled Frieza, as he came charging at Goku. Goku just watched the lizard with a look that wasn't exactly used during a battle.
"I have you now....." Frieza started before once again he went flying across Kami's lookout.
Gohan looked over to his father.
"Is it just my imagination or does Frieza seem to change his personality just when he fights you?" he asked, looking at his father's odd facial expression.
"I guess, but I don't think he's really getting into the fights. I mean he must not use his full power when he fights me, maybe he still feels sorry for what happened way back on Namek." Goku said, feeling the need to power down from a super saiyan to make the odds more fair.
"Ah ha, the monkey has powered down. Now he is vunerable and I have a chance to strike!" Frieza thought to himself, as he charged at Goku, who still had his attention on Gohan.
"I mean, I just barely touched him, and he flew all the way over there." Goku said, pointing towards where Frieza had last landed. Gohan nodded, as he looked to see Frieza still lying there.
"Curse you monkey, attacking me when you had your back towards me. You must be mocking me!" Frieza yelled, getting up to charge at Goku again.
This process when on for a little while longer, where Goku would accidently defeat Frieza over and over again. And Frieza, being like he was, would refuse to give up, continuing to attack Goku whenever he was knocked down.
"Argh!" Frieza yelled as he stood up from yet another attack. A skid mark had formed since he had been knocked across the ground so many times. Frieza tried to stand up, but fell right back down.
"Things aren't going exactly as planned." he grumbled to himself, as he let his head flop down onto the ground.
To be Continued.
(Sorry if this seemed sorta like Frieza bashing. But to be honest Frieza is nowhere near the strength Goku is at. Since while Goku had all this time to train, Frieza spent most of it stuck in space with no worthy opponents. So I truelly believe that even after 2 years, Frieza would have no chance against Goku.)
