Sorry for the extremely long delay in the new chapter.*bows* First
Fanfiction.net was messing up and then I got discouraged with chapter 3.
Then there was school and I had writers block when I was rewriting
chapter 3. I would like to thank Alikia for being my muse and
encouraging me to finish 3 after my confidence was shattered. Arigatou!
I don't think I ever put a disclaimer on the other chapters so..
I don't own Dragonball Z or Sailor Moon.
Chapter 3
Trunks watched in fascination as Serenity began to consume vast amounts
of food. More that his sensei Gohan could eat in one meal. But at least
the food was at least eaten in a polite manner. Now he knew what his
mother experienced when she watched him or Gohan eat.
"I'll be back in a few minutes okay Serenity?" said Trunks getting up
from the table. "Okay Trunks" replied Serenity in-between bites to eat.
Trunks got up and went down the hallways of Capsule Corp. Both his
mother and his sensei would want to know that their guest had awoken. On
the way to his mother's lab he stopped at the gravity room and thought
about his father.
Once a room like it had been used by his father, Vegita the Saiyan no
Ouji but his father had been dead for many years now. He had died when
he was still an infant so of course Trunks didn't remember him, killed
by the androids 17 and 18.
From stories told by his mother and Gohan, Vegita had been an arrogant,
uncaring, proud man, but with immense power. His mother had been
convinced that under Vegita's cold exterior was a softer, caring person.
But his mother had loved Vegita and had maybe seen things in him that
couldn't and hadn't existed.
He stopped and let his hands trail over the cold metal door before
pressing a circular yellow button on a keypad. Then he leaned up against
the wall and waited for Son Gohan to exit from inside. Idly Trunks began
to play with his pale lavender hair as he waited for Gohan. It seemed
that recently he had been thinking about his father a lot. His mother
would probably say it was because he was growing up, or something like
that.
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After about an hour of watching over the strange, beautiful girl he had
found who had said her name was Serenity, Gohan left the room and headed
towards the gravity chamber to train and mediate. He knew that when she
awoke Trunks would come and find him. But the girl would probably be
unconscious for a while yet and he didn't want to waste time that could
be spent training.
When she awoke, he wanted answers. Who was she? Where had she come from?
Why was she here? Was she a threat or in danger? And most important, he
wanted to know about the strange power he saw within her. Power that was
kind of familiar to him.
He sat in a meditative position and closed his eyes, taking a deep
breath. Then he recalled a rainy day nearly three years ago, a day he
could and would never forget. The day he had nearly died at the hands of
the Androids.
The day had started out cheerful enough. He had taken Trunks out to a
meadow to train, trying to make him be able to transform into a Super
Saiyan. But Trunks never managed to quite reach and obtain the next
level in power.
Gohan knew he was hard on Trunks in training, but Trunks had to be
strong enough or the androids would kill him one day. They had murdered
all of the other fighters, his friends and millions upon millions of
others.
But then they had shown up, the android's 17 and 18. He had tried to
protect Trunks. He had yelled at him to go back to Capsule Corporation
but the boy had still gotten beaten up by Juuhachigou and Juunanagou
despite his best efforts likewise. Then laughing like it was funny that
they had nearly killed Trunks, the androids had flown off.
After Gohan had brought Trunks back to Capsule Corporation, he had gone
in search of the androids. He had been so angry, he had let anger and
revenge blind him to reason and he had almost died because of it.
In one of the many devastated cities they had ambushed him. Turning
Super Saiyan he had obtained the upper hand. But that hadn't lasted for
very long. After he had been smashed into a building for a third time,
Gohan had realized that going after them had been a bad decision. He
couldn't defeat them on his own.
It had begun to rain softly as he fought for his life against Juunanagou
and Juuhachigou. The rain was good at washing away the blood that seeped
from several wounds he had. Several more bones were broken. One of his
ribs had broken and had punctured his left lung. Slowly he was choking
on his own blood and bodily fluids that were flowing inevitably into his
lungs. However he doubted that he would live long enough to die that
way.
They were toying with him, like they always did. The androids could have
easily killed him anytime, yet they seemed to enjoy torturing him, as if
seeing him and others in pain was their pleasure. But this time was
different, they had tired of their little games with him and this fight
was for keeps.
He wouldn't be a coward, he would die bravely like the other Z fighters
had. Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Piccolo-San, Yamcha, Choatzu, Vegita had all
been brave when they had died at their hands.
Then Juuhachigou had kicked him, sending him crashing into the ground
unable to get up anymore even though he wanted to. His hair had darkened
and turned back to black as he had slipped out of Super saiyajin mode.
Juunanagou and Juuhachigou had hovered over him with cruel smirks on
their faces. They knew that Gohan knew that they weren't going to let
him live this time.
Juunanagou had powered up a small energy blast, small but still enough
to kill him easily."We are being nice in ending your misery like this
Saiyan. Do you see that? " Had asked Juuhachigou with a small unpleasant
smile plastered on her face. Not bothering trying to answer her, Gohan
had let his eyes close peacefully waiting for the end. He had tried his
hardest but it just hadn't been good enough to defeat them.
But the end had never come. He heard the blast coming towards him but it
never reached him. A warm, tingly feeling encased his body and shielded
him. Sighing he had welcomed the feeling thinking he was dying where in
the afterlife he would be reunited with his friends and family, but that
wasn't the case.
Trunks had found him hours later unconscious and healed of all his
injuries. How he had survived the androids and where they had gone he
couldn't explain. Trunks had asked too many questions, questions that
Gohan couldn't answer if he wanted to.
Sweat trickled down Gohan's back, plastering his shirt to his back as he
opened his eyes and stood up. The gravity suddenly began dropping and
reverted back to one in the room.
Someone from outside must have turned it off to get his attention.
Scanning quickly he picked out Trunks distinctive energy signature just
outside the room. That must have meant the girl was awake then.
Before he left the room, he stared down at his left arm thoughtfully
before flexing his fingers experimentally. He was lucky it was still
there for it had been almost lost in a different battle with the
androids.
Maybe the fight where he had almost died and the fight where he had
almost lost his arm were connected somehow. Though he didn't recall any
of the strange energy during the battle where his arm had been nearly
severed.
Sighing Gohan went out the door and saw Trunks leaning lazily against
the wall. "Is she awake?" asked Gohan brushing damp sweat drenched hair
out of his eyes. "Uh huh" replied Trunks standing up to stand in front
of him and stretching his arms. "She's in the kitchen eating..a lot of
food" he added with an amused smile.
"Girls are very sensitive about how much they eat and weigh Trunks, I
wouldn't say that to her it might hurt her feelings." grimaced Gohan in
remembrance thinking back to the time he had asked Bulma how much she
weighed. "What's wrong with asking that if you're just curious?" frowned
Trunks crossing his arms in perplexity. "Trust me Trunks," assured
Gohan, "I don't want to see you in serious trouble, one of the worst
things you can do is to ask much they weigh. That or ask them how old
they are." "When did you learn so much about women sensei?" teased
Trunks with an impish smile. "Why don't you go get your mother? She
wanted to know when Serenity was awake. Then we can ask Serenity a few
questions." Requested Gohan sternly as he began to push Trunks down the
hallway towards Bulma's lab. "Umm okay." Agreed Trunks walking down the
hallway.
Gohan smiled a bit wistfully before walking down the hallway in the
opposite direction towards the kitchen. Sometimes he was a bit envious
of Trunks, who could still sometimes be happy and carefree despite all
that had happened to him and the world.
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Juunanagou laughed cruelly as he put his right foot down harder on the
petal. The black roofless car's engine roared as it sped up. The screams
of people running out in front of the car was like beautiful music to
his ears.
They were like insects to him, small, powerless nothings, though he
admitted to himself that they could be amusing at times. He laughed
louder as the car smashed into someone with a bone crushing crunch. The
body hit the windshield cracking it slightly before falling limply to
the ground to rest in the dust raised up by the speeding car.
"Stupid human cracked the windshield of the car." Sneered Juunanagou in
anger as he ran over another screaming human. "What's so great about
this car?" yawned Juuhachigou in extreme bordrem as she brushed her
windblown hair back behind her ears. "This is a top of the line classic
car Juuhachigou, and a GTX Convertible manufactured 25 years ago. Only
500 were made so of course they're very rare. You should appreciate good
machinery when you see it." Smirked Juunanagou as he patted the posh
leather upholstery seats.
Juuhachigou rolled her eyes and slid her feet down from the dashboard.
"I'll never understand you Juunanagou or your weird interest in cars.
Gero left in too many human traits in you for my liking." She stood up
dramatically and stretched her arms before flying out of the car."I'm
going to go do something that's actually fun. Enjoy running over these
humans." "You just have no sense of what real fun is Juuhachigou." He
replied speeding up even more as Juuhachigou flew off.
He chuckled softly as he drove along off-roading and running over humans
he happened to drive near. It was calming in a way for him when he was
doing this. Doing something he had complete, utter control over. Control
no one could take from him. Power. Power he enjoyed welding over those
who were weaker, like humans who were so weak and fragile.
Juunanagou knew that he was vastly different from them. Similar in
appearances but then the resemblances stopped. He couldn't help
resenting humans and what they had because of what he had lost. No, he
didn't just resent them for it, he hated and despised them for it.
Somehow he felt cheated by Gero and the rest of the world. They knew
what their purpose in life was, while his had been taken away from him.
They had their precious emotions and each other, while that had yet
again been taken all away from him.
Or at least most of it. Juuhachigou kept on complaining that he was too
human and displayed too many of their desires for her liking. Feh. What
did she know? She just wanted to kill everyone and be done with it, but
where was the enjoyment and satisfaction in that?
It would only prove one thing, that they truly were just soul less
machines in the guise of humans. Only carefully camouflaged weapons of
mass destruction.
Then he couldn't help thinking about her. Serenity. She was so
unforgettably human in her small personality quirks. Oh how he had
savored how what she was thinking showed so plainly on her face. Her
obvious fear and terror of him.
He hadn't killed her either. Oh the brat Gohan being around was just an
excuse for himself not to kill her. How ironic it would have been for
Gohan to come onto the scene, see beautiful Serenity then watch as she
was blasted into thousands of pieces with him being able to do nothing
to stop it.
Something deep down inside him had stopped himself from killing
Serenity. Something buried beneath his artificial and false existence.
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Bulma, Trunks, and Gohan walked into the kitchen together and stopped
when they saw Serenity waiting for them there.
The plates were stacked into a neat pile by the sink and a teenage girl
was sitting in a chair with her head held high and her hands crossed
sedately in her lap.
Bulma found her eyes watering when she looked into Serenity's eyes. Her
cerulean blue eyes held such a sadness in them that it was so
heartbreaking to see them.
"This is my mom Bulma Briefs." Trunks said as he motioned towards her.
Bulma smiled warmly at the girl before asking, "Your name is Serenity
right dear?" "Yes," nodded Serenity, "Thank you for the hospitality
you've shown me, when I'm a complete stranger to you." "It's no problem,
though we do have a few questions for you to answer because of our
circumstances.""I understand." Nodded Serenity in understanding as she
looked into Bulma's eyes.
Bulma, Gohan and Trunks each took seats around the table. "I suppose
you're wondering where I am from?" asked Serenity smiling gently as she
looked at each of them in turn. "Well the clothes you were found in are
quite exaggarant thats for sure." Replied Trunks as he turned to smile
at Serenity. Serenity blushed and lowered her head in embarassment.
'Well,' thought Bulma to herself, the girl certainly wasn't used to a
compliment. So sad. Though the girl tried to hide it, Bulma could tell
that Serenity was upset about something. Something very terrible had
happened to her, and talking about it would probably make Serenity feel
better. "Why don't you tell us about where you are from? About
yourself." Requested Bulma as she got up from her chair. "All right,"
replied Serenity hesitantly, "But it will take awhile to tell.." "That's
why I'm going to make tea." Bulma said as she grabbed the teakettle and
set it on the stove.
"Well I guess I should start with that I'm not from the Earth," began
Serenity, "This is the Earth right?" Bulma tried to keep from laughing
as Trunks nodded his head positively with his eyes widened in a very
comical way.
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A beautiful sobbing blond haired girl was crying more than one of the
bodies as he drove back a short time later. She looked up with a
horrified gasp as she finally noticed that he was driving directly
towards her. She reminded him of the other girl named Serenity from
earlier. Smirking to himself he turned the wheel slightly and avoided
hitting the girl who was paralyzed with fear in the same spot by mere
inches.
Serenity. Why he couldn't get the human girl out of his head? Juunanagou
found that whenever his mind wandered he would find himself thinking
about her. It was beginning to annoy him because he didn't know why he
was thinking about her so much. Grudgingly he admitted to himself
privately that she was beautiful. Of all the human girls he had looked
at before killing them, she was the most beautiful.
But it wasn't just that. There was something more to her, besides the
strange power that she had shown briefly. He was curious about the power
and wanted answers because obviously she wasn't a normal girl.
He skidded the car to a stop and jumped out walking towards the
frightened girl who was still crying. Her sobbing was grating on his
sensors and he began to frown angerly as he glared icily at her.
When she took a moment to stop crying and look up, she saw him looming
over her ominously. With a squeak of panic she began to crawl away from
him. "Oh please miss!" he begged trying to sound nice and harmless, "I
promise I wouldn't hurt you, I just want to ask you something."
While he was saying this, he casually blocked the girl from crawling
away."Tell me," he asked as he helped the girl stand up, "There is this
girl I can't stop thinking about. Do you have any ideas on why I just
can't stop thinking about her?"
Blondie was still sobbing after he asked her the question. His question
had been kind of lame but maybe the girl knew the answer he didn't have.
Sighing in exasperation Juunanagou patted her back trying to calm her
down so he could get an answer out of her. " There, There. I promised I
wouldn't hurt you and I won't. I just want you to answer my question and
then I'll leave."
Eventually after what seemed an eternity to him, Blondie stopped crying
and began to hiccup repeatedly. "You'll let me go if I tell you?" she
hiccuped while glancing back at the motionless body behind them. Clearly
the fool lying back there meant something to the girl.
Juunanagou nodded his head and replied smoothly, "I promise." Blondie
looked down and whispered softly, "Sometimes when a guy can't stop
thinking about a girl, he has feelings for her."
He stared down at the girl for several seconds in faint shock. What she
suggested couldn't possibly be true, WASN'T true. He was Juunanagou, the
most powerful being in the world. He wasn't human and he didn't have the
weak, pathetic emotions that they had. There had to be another answer.
Gradually his eyes began to narrow in rage as he moved away from the
girl. " I don't think I like what you said Blondie." Juunanagou growled
as he powered up a small sphere of energy. "You promised to let me go."
Accused the blond haired girl as tears began to trail down her cheeks
again. "Oh I promised but she never did" Juunanagou pointed up into the
sky while laughing.
The girls' puffy red eyes traveled upwards and widened to nearly the
size of saucers when she saw Juuhachigou hovering up above with her arms
crossed. Once again she began to try to escape by crawling away.
"Now where does Blondie think she's going off to?" chuckled Juunanagou
as he fired the small blast off in front of the girl, creating a large
crater leaving her unharmed but unable to escape. "I don't know."
Responded Juuhachigou as she floated in front of the girl and starred at
her. "Oh she's pretty Juunanagou. Did you play games with her?" teased
Juuhachigou as she grabbed the girl roughly by the chin and tilted her
head up to get a better look at her. "Don't be absurd Juuhachigou you
know she's not my type." Snorted Juunanagou disdainfully. "Ah yes,"
Juuhachigou smirked as she looked at the prone figure still lying by the
car, "I forgot that you prefer the more innocent, untouched types."
"Whatever Juuhachigou. I thought that it was you who went for the
innocent, untouched types, I'm leaving now too, by the way." Snapped
Juunanagou in irritation as he stalked off towards the car. " I guess
that means Blondie here is mine to dispose of." Concluded Juuhachigou as
she released the girls' head and floated back a bit.
A blood curdling scream was heard a few seconds later followed closely
by an explosion.
After the dust cleared Juunanagou was relieved to see that the
convertible was unharmed. Juuhachigou was sitting in the passenger seat
with her legs back up on the dashboard. "Hurry up and get your butt in
here!" she yelled out impatiently.
Snorting indignantly Juunanagou walked over and climbed into the
driver's seat. "So sis," he grinned impishly, "Anywhere special you
wanna go?"
"Let's go to an amusement park." Grinned back Juuhachigou.
So once again they went on their merry way to have more fun.
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Bulma stared down at her teacup, with her long delicate fingers wrapped
around the china cup tightly. Teardrops fell unnoticed into the murky
depths of the cup. Trunks and Gohan were shifting uncomfortably in their
seats. Bulma was still trying to grasp all that the teenage girl had
said. It was just so unbelievable and terrible.
It just made Bulma unhappy knowing that in other dimensions people had
to go through simular situations that had happened here. Serenity had
lost everything. Her family, friends and home had all been taken away by
an evil simular to that of the androids. She was a lone survivor who had
been sent here somehow. Serenity had said that she suspected that her
mother Queen Serenity had as a last ditch effort, had sacrificed herself
to save her.
Even now Serenity had a miserable look on her face. Bulma knew all too
well what the expression was too. For she herself had felt that way when
almost everyone she knew had died. People she had cared deeply about.
Serenity was feeling guilty.
She could almost imagine what Serenity was thinking right now. Why was
she alive when everyone else was dead? If she had done something
different would they still be alive? Why did she deserve to live more
than the thousands of others who had perished?
"Listen Serenity," sighed Bulma as she put a reassuring hand on the
younger woman's shoulder, "You can stay here for as long as you like."
"Thank you Bulma, but I don't want to impose on your hospitality."
Replied Serenity in gratitude as another tear slide down her face to
spill onto her cup. "Nonsense!" exclaimed Bulma startling Trunks into
falling out of his seat, "You've seen what it's like outside. Being on
your own out there would just be foolish." "She's right." Agreed Trunks
as he got from the floor massaging his head as he winced in pain,
"Besides Gohan and I can protect you easier if you're here!"
An image of Gohan and Trunks in knights armor kneeling before Serenity
on a throne flashed into Bulma's head. She hid the tiny smile that broke
out onto her face. Serenity was a princess after all but she had made it
quite clear when she had been talking that she preferred to be called
just Serenity and not Princess Serenity. Titles it seemed made Serenity
very uncomfortable.
"You would protect me?" blinked Serenity in surprise as Trunks sat back
down in his seat. "Of course!" agreed Trunks, "Right Gohan?" he asked
turning to look at his sensei Gohan who had remained mostly silent
throughout the discussion, only asking a few questions now and then.
"Umm if she needs to be, I guess I will." Gohan responded carefully.
"Thank you." Said Serenity as she bowed her head gratefully in thanks.
"Now that you're going to be staying here, we have to do something about
your clothes. You can't keep on wearing that ruined dress!" exclaimed
Bulma happily. She was going to like having another woman around the
place, besides her son Trunks seemed to have taken an immediate liking
to Serenity. It was about time her son became interested in girls. "My
dress is sort of wrecked, isn't it?" pointed out Serenity as she lifted
up the bottom of her dress for emphasis.
Bulma watched as Gohan turned his head away guiltily. It didn't go
unnoticed by Serenity however. "It's okay Gohan. I don't like wearing
dresses any ways. Is it okay for me to call you Gohan?" she asked
looking up into Gohan's face hopefully. "You can call me Gohan if you
want to." Shrugged Gohan not masking the relief that Serenity wasn't
upset at him from his face.
"Well then, lets go find something for you to wear. I think some of my
old clothes might fit you for now until we can get some better ones."
Bulma got up and motioned Serenity to follow her. Serenity got up and
followed her out of the kitchen
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Serenity couldn't help crying a bit more as they walked down the
hallway. She was just so thankful that there were nice people like
Bulma, Trunks and Gohan here on the Earth. If Gohan hadn't shown up when
he had...she closed her eyes and willed herself to not think about it
but she couldn't help it, she knew that most likely if he hadn't been
there she would have been killed. If she had died then she would have
been reunited with those she cared about. Serenity knew that they
wouldn't want her thinking that, but she couldn't help herself.
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"So it looks like we can sense that weird power in Serenity because
she's from the moon in another dimension." Said Trunks as he munched on
an apple with a calculating look on his face. "It would seem so."
Replied Gohan as he looked back at Trunks and figured out what he was
thinking about. " We can't let her get involved in our problems here."
Added Gohan as an afterthought.
Trunks looked up with a mouthful of apple with a confused look on his
face. "Mhy Mnnffot?" he asked with his face still stuffed. "Try
swallowing first before you say something Trunks." Chuckled Gohan in wry
amusement.
With a protesting gargling noise, or at least Gohan hoped it was that
and Trunks wasn't choking on the apple, Trunks swallowed the huge
mouthful and then asked, "Why not?" "She's an innocent and not from
here. The androids are something we have to deal with." Pointed out
Gohan firmly.
She was an innocent. If something bad happened to her because they
didn't protect her like they had promised, then they could only blame
themselves. Gohan knew that he would never be able to forgive himself if
something bad did happen.
"So you aren't the LEAST bit curious about what she could possibly do
with her power?" questioned Trunks as he looked around hungrily for more
food. "No." Answered Gohan. "Not even a little?" grinned Trunks "No."
"Not in the slightest..?" "No." Said Gohan again starting to get annoyed
with Trunks. " Not at all then?" asked Trunks with a lopsided grin.
"N..Yes not at all." Grumbled Gohan as he glared at Trunks who was
trying to keep from laughing at him.
"Well boys I hope we didn't miss anything fun." Laughed a voice from the
doorway. Gohan and Trunks looked and saw Bulma standing there with a
pleased smile on her face. "Now that I have your attention, I'd like to
present Princess Serenity of the Silver Moon Kingdom to you." Stated
Bulma as she moved out of the way.
Gohan watched as Serenity reluctantly moved into view from the hallway.
She was wearing a slightly tight pale blue tank top and loose white
shorts with a pair of sneakers and white socks. "Do I look okay? I've
never worn clothes like this before." She asked with a slight flustered
blush on her face.
Gohan felt his face heating up from a blush. He really didn't have a lot
of contact with members of the opposite sex because he spent most of his
time training. Trying to compose himself he stole a glance at Trunks and
saw that he was blushing too.
I know I said Serenity was going to have another major problem, but then
I rewrote the entire chapter and so that won't be happening until next
chapter. Sorry everyone. Next chapter there will be more action.
Arigatou to those who have reviewed so far. It means a lot to me.^_^ Oh
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