CHAPTER ONE: RABBITS
Baba sat in the labratory high above the earth in Kamis lookout. She floated around mixing herbs ina cauldren. Dende stood close by watching as she tossed some mugwort.
"Mugwort," Baba explained. "is a very potent plant. Not only does it help with astreal projections and manifestations, it aids in simple transformations. Such as we are trying to do today. Do you understand?"
Dende noddded, listening to her every word. Piccolo and Popo had said that as the new Kami, he needed to know the basics of witch craft. So they had enlisted Baba as his teacher.
"Good." Baba said as she picked up an apple. "Now if you say these word out loud, it will change the proporties of one thing into another. Watch." She placed the apple next to the cauldern. Baba waved her hands over the mix and said:
"Fresh mugwort in the pot/ boils and twists till it's hot/ Make this object begin to glow/ Change it now as I say so!"
She poured a spoonful on to the apple. The fruit glowed blue then expanded like it was going to explode. Then it slowly pulsed down to a normal shape. The glow disappeared to reveal a ripe orange.
"Apple to orange." Baba said. "Simple enough. You try."
"Are you sure?" Dende asked.
"Positive." Baba said. "It's a harmless spell. Just don't get any potion on you."
Dende nodded feeling a little nervious and put another apple on the table. He cleared his throat.
"Fresh mugwort in the pot/ Boils and twists till it's hot/ Make this object begin to glow/ Change it now as I say so!"
He dipped a spoon in with a shakey hand.
"Easy boy." Baba said trying to calm him down.
Dende poured the potion on the apple.
"DENDE!" a voice boomed. "Didn't I tell you to fold your robes?" Piccolo opened the door and Dende dropped the spoon on the apple. His elbow jolted out as he turned to face his predisesore, and hit the cauldren. It toppled into the floor. The potion oozed out and spilled onto Piccolos feet.
"What is this stuff?" he asked. No one had time to answer as it began to glow and spread over Piccolos body.
"What the #@!% -!!" Piccolo yelled, but he didn't finish. He glowed and pulsed like he was ready to pop and he knelt down in pain. He let out a horrish yell and fell over as the glow faded.
Oh, please don't let me have changed Piccolo into an orange! Dende thought as he approched the fallen form.
Piccolo got up grabing the back of his head. He had a major head ache. But that was nothing compared to the pain he wanted to enflict on Baba. He stood up and stared at Baba and Dende.
"What happened?" he demanded.
The pair only stared open jawed at him. Piccolo was confused. He came in, yelled at Dende, Dende knocked over some pot, then Piccolo felt sometype of twisting pain. Like someone was rearanging his insides.
"Well the good news is that Dende did a successful apple to orange spell." Baba said holding up an orange.
"And the bad news?" Piccolo growled.
"Uhhhhhhhhh." Dende uttered still in shock.
"The bad news is that, well," Baba sais trying to think of a nice way of putting it.
"Spit it out you hag!"
"HAG!" Baba said in rage. "Look in the mirror you big dummy!"
Piccolo turned and looked in the full length mirror. At first he though someone else was in the room, but the he saw the turban on his head. His human head.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!!!" Piccolo screamed.
"Now,now," Baba said. "calm down. I didn't do it. It was just a miscalculation."
"Miscalculation!" Piccolo said grabing the mirror by the frame. "I'm a human!"
"I said calm down! I can fix this." Baba said pulling a book off of the bookcase.
He sighed in releif and sat down in one of the chairs. He looked so-so pale. He was still as tall and had the same deep voice but that was it. He had no hair on his head but he did on his brow. He had bushy black eyebrows and deep green eyes. That was the only green on his body. No antinas and no pink muscles. His ears were still a little pointy, as was his teeth. He ran his tounge over his K-9s and noticed that they were still just as sharp fangs. Piccolo took off his turban and his hand over his smooth head. He tossed the turban aside. At least he still had his strength.
"Acording to this you should be an orange." Baba said reading a book. "I don't get it." She turned to Dende. "You were thinking about a orange right?"
"Yes an orange." Dende said. "How did he go human?"
"Hmmm." Baba thought as she studied the book. "Don't worry. I can fix it." She floated over and picked up some new herbs and bottles. She tossed in some ingretiants and opened up a book. She tossed some powder on Piccolo and said:
"Make him green with pointy ears/ Pinks skin and aged many years!"
A puff of smoke surrounded Piccolo and Dende coughed as he waved it away.
"Did it work?" Piccolo asked.
"Um, you're no longer a human." Baba said.
"Thank the Kis." he said.
"Don't celebrate yet, Piccolo." Dende said winceing.
Piccolo turned and once again screamed at his reflection. He was no longer human, that was the truth. He now was a green rabit! An ugly on at that. He was old and wrinkly with patches of fur missing.
"Well," Baba said. "you ARE green and aged many years."
"Try again, Baba." Dende said encouraging her.
Baba tried many times. She tried some mellows root and changed him into a parrot. Then she used red thiket and made him a racoon. There were many other shapes he took, such as a grapefruit, a stick, a dustpan, another old rabit, a weed, a pair of shoes, a puppy, a woodpecker, a fish and a egg.
It was during Piccolos 'Bambi' form that he came up with an idea.
"Look," he said. "Let's just go gather the dragon balls."
"Aw, but you're so cute in this form." Dende said reaching out to pet him. Piccolo let out a weird deer growel and bit Dende.
"OW!" Dende said holding his hand. "Change him back into an egg. At least then he didn't bite!"
"No. I'm not going through anymore transformations." he said. "Just go to Bulma and get the dragon radar."
"You're comming too!" Baba said as she tossed some shiny dust on him.
Piccolo poofed back to his human form. "What did you do that for?" He demanded.
"You need a form that is good for moving around in and won't draw attention." she explained. "A talking deer is asking to be shot!"
"I'd rather be the rabbit." Piccolo growled under his breath.
Baba waved her hands at him. "I can arrange that." she treatened.
He shook his head from side to side.
"Then be a good namek turned human." she said. "Dende tell Popo what's going on. Me and Piccolo will go get the radar from Bumla."
"Can't you do that alone?" Piccolo asked hopefully. He was embarassed to go outside in this form.
"Quite being such a baby." Baba said as she pushed him out into the freash air. "You aren't that bad looking."
The pair flew off towards Capsule Corp. and landed there twenty minutes later. Baba knocked and to their releif Bulma answered.
"Hi, Baba." she said. Bulma then noticed the tall man beside her. "New boyfriend? He's cute."
"WHAT?" Piccolo said amazed.
Bulmas eyes narrowed and looked at him from head to toe. "I know that voice."
"Let's go inside Bulma," Baba said. "we have something to tell you."
They went inside and down into Bulmas lab. When they werew there she asked, "How come this guy sounds like Piccolo?"
"Because I am Piccolo." he said crossing his arms and leaning against a wall. "Dende and the psycho witch here made me human. we need the dragon radar to wish me back."
"Then we have a problem." Bulma said bitting her lower lip. "Six months ago Trunks and Goten wished for all sayjins to have their tails back. Sort of like a scientific experement."
"BAKA!" Baba yelled. "Now we can have wild apes running around as soon as the moon is full."
"Lighten up Baba," Bulma said. "Piccolo destroyed the moon. Besides I thought you knew? After all don't you know all and see all?"
"That's Dendes job now." Piccolo said. "I have to have a serious talk with that boy." He looked up at Bulma. "How long ago did you use the dragonballs?"
Bulma thought for a minute then said, "Seven months I guess."
"Prefect. Five months till the dragonballs can be used again. Five months as a human." Piccolo muttered.
"It ain't that bad." Bulma said sticking her chin up.
Baba sighed. "I'll head back to Dende and tell him the bad news. You stay here untill the five months are up."
"Why should he stay here?" Bulma asked looking at the large namek turned man.
"One," Baba said counting on her fingers. "you have plenty of room. Two, you can help him to adjusting to being human and three I don't need this oaf interupting Dendes studies! I might end up changing him into a rabbit again!" In a flash of light, Baba was gone.
Bumla turned to Piccolo. "Rabbit?"
What do you think? More soon!
Baba sat in the labratory high above the earth in Kamis lookout. She floated around mixing herbs ina cauldren. Dende stood close by watching as she tossed some mugwort.
"Mugwort," Baba explained. "is a very potent plant. Not only does it help with astreal projections and manifestations, it aids in simple transformations. Such as we are trying to do today. Do you understand?"
Dende noddded, listening to her every word. Piccolo and Popo had said that as the new Kami, he needed to know the basics of witch craft. So they had enlisted Baba as his teacher.
"Good." Baba said as she picked up an apple. "Now if you say these word out loud, it will change the proporties of one thing into another. Watch." She placed the apple next to the cauldern. Baba waved her hands over the mix and said:
"Fresh mugwort in the pot/ boils and twists till it's hot/ Make this object begin to glow/ Change it now as I say so!"
She poured a spoonful on to the apple. The fruit glowed blue then expanded like it was going to explode. Then it slowly pulsed down to a normal shape. The glow disappeared to reveal a ripe orange.
"Apple to orange." Baba said. "Simple enough. You try."
"Are you sure?" Dende asked.
"Positive." Baba said. "It's a harmless spell. Just don't get any potion on you."
Dende nodded feeling a little nervious and put another apple on the table. He cleared his throat.
"Fresh mugwort in the pot/ Boils and twists till it's hot/ Make this object begin to glow/ Change it now as I say so!"
He dipped a spoon in with a shakey hand.
"Easy boy." Baba said trying to calm him down.
Dende poured the potion on the apple.
"DENDE!" a voice boomed. "Didn't I tell you to fold your robes?" Piccolo opened the door and Dende dropped the spoon on the apple. His elbow jolted out as he turned to face his predisesore, and hit the cauldren. It toppled into the floor. The potion oozed out and spilled onto Piccolos feet.
"What is this stuff?" he asked. No one had time to answer as it began to glow and spread over Piccolos body.
"What the #@!% -!!" Piccolo yelled, but he didn't finish. He glowed and pulsed like he was ready to pop and he knelt down in pain. He let out a horrish yell and fell over as the glow faded.
Oh, please don't let me have changed Piccolo into an orange! Dende thought as he approched the fallen form.
Piccolo got up grabing the back of his head. He had a major head ache. But that was nothing compared to the pain he wanted to enflict on Baba. He stood up and stared at Baba and Dende.
"What happened?" he demanded.
The pair only stared open jawed at him. Piccolo was confused. He came in, yelled at Dende, Dende knocked over some pot, then Piccolo felt sometype of twisting pain. Like someone was rearanging his insides.
"Well the good news is that Dende did a successful apple to orange spell." Baba said holding up an orange.
"And the bad news?" Piccolo growled.
"Uhhhhhhhhh." Dende uttered still in shock.
"The bad news is that, well," Baba sais trying to think of a nice way of putting it.
"Spit it out you hag!"
"HAG!" Baba said in rage. "Look in the mirror you big dummy!"
Piccolo turned and looked in the full length mirror. At first he though someone else was in the room, but the he saw the turban on his head. His human head.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!!!" Piccolo screamed.
"Now,now," Baba said. "calm down. I didn't do it. It was just a miscalculation."
"Miscalculation!" Piccolo said grabing the mirror by the frame. "I'm a human!"
"I said calm down! I can fix this." Baba said pulling a book off of the bookcase.
He sighed in releif and sat down in one of the chairs. He looked so-so pale. He was still as tall and had the same deep voice but that was it. He had no hair on his head but he did on his brow. He had bushy black eyebrows and deep green eyes. That was the only green on his body. No antinas and no pink muscles. His ears were still a little pointy, as was his teeth. He ran his tounge over his K-9s and noticed that they were still just as sharp fangs. Piccolo took off his turban and his hand over his smooth head. He tossed the turban aside. At least he still had his strength.
"Acording to this you should be an orange." Baba said reading a book. "I don't get it." She turned to Dende. "You were thinking about a orange right?"
"Yes an orange." Dende said. "How did he go human?"
"Hmmm." Baba thought as she studied the book. "Don't worry. I can fix it." She floated over and picked up some new herbs and bottles. She tossed in some ingretiants and opened up a book. She tossed some powder on Piccolo and said:
"Make him green with pointy ears/ Pinks skin and aged many years!"
A puff of smoke surrounded Piccolo and Dende coughed as he waved it away.
"Did it work?" Piccolo asked.
"Um, you're no longer a human." Baba said.
"Thank the Kis." he said.
"Don't celebrate yet, Piccolo." Dende said winceing.
Piccolo turned and once again screamed at his reflection. He was no longer human, that was the truth. He now was a green rabit! An ugly on at that. He was old and wrinkly with patches of fur missing.
"Well," Baba said. "you ARE green and aged many years."
"Try again, Baba." Dende said encouraging her.
Baba tried many times. She tried some mellows root and changed him into a parrot. Then she used red thiket and made him a racoon. There were many other shapes he took, such as a grapefruit, a stick, a dustpan, another old rabit, a weed, a pair of shoes, a puppy, a woodpecker, a fish and a egg.
It was during Piccolos 'Bambi' form that he came up with an idea.
"Look," he said. "Let's just go gather the dragon balls."
"Aw, but you're so cute in this form." Dende said reaching out to pet him. Piccolo let out a weird deer growel and bit Dende.
"OW!" Dende said holding his hand. "Change him back into an egg. At least then he didn't bite!"
"No. I'm not going through anymore transformations." he said. "Just go to Bulma and get the dragon radar."
"You're comming too!" Baba said as she tossed some shiny dust on him.
Piccolo poofed back to his human form. "What did you do that for?" He demanded.
"You need a form that is good for moving around in and won't draw attention." she explained. "A talking deer is asking to be shot!"
"I'd rather be the rabbit." Piccolo growled under his breath.
Baba waved her hands at him. "I can arrange that." she treatened.
He shook his head from side to side.
"Then be a good namek turned human." she said. "Dende tell Popo what's going on. Me and Piccolo will go get the radar from Bumla."
"Can't you do that alone?" Piccolo asked hopefully. He was embarassed to go outside in this form.
"Quite being such a baby." Baba said as she pushed him out into the freash air. "You aren't that bad looking."
The pair flew off towards Capsule Corp. and landed there twenty minutes later. Baba knocked and to their releif Bulma answered.
"Hi, Baba." she said. Bulma then noticed the tall man beside her. "New boyfriend? He's cute."
"WHAT?" Piccolo said amazed.
Bulmas eyes narrowed and looked at him from head to toe. "I know that voice."
"Let's go inside Bulma," Baba said. "we have something to tell you."
They went inside and down into Bulmas lab. When they werew there she asked, "How come this guy sounds like Piccolo?"
"Because I am Piccolo." he said crossing his arms and leaning against a wall. "Dende and the psycho witch here made me human. we need the dragon radar to wish me back."
"Then we have a problem." Bulma said bitting her lower lip. "Six months ago Trunks and Goten wished for all sayjins to have their tails back. Sort of like a scientific experement."
"BAKA!" Baba yelled. "Now we can have wild apes running around as soon as the moon is full."
"Lighten up Baba," Bulma said. "Piccolo destroyed the moon. Besides I thought you knew? After all don't you know all and see all?"
"That's Dendes job now." Piccolo said. "I have to have a serious talk with that boy." He looked up at Bulma. "How long ago did you use the dragonballs?"
Bulma thought for a minute then said, "Seven months I guess."
"Prefect. Five months till the dragonballs can be used again. Five months as a human." Piccolo muttered.
"It ain't that bad." Bulma said sticking her chin up.
Baba sighed. "I'll head back to Dende and tell him the bad news. You stay here untill the five months are up."
"Why should he stay here?" Bulma asked looking at the large namek turned man.
"One," Baba said counting on her fingers. "you have plenty of room. Two, you can help him to adjusting to being human and three I don't need this oaf interupting Dendes studies! I might end up changing him into a rabbit again!" In a flash of light, Baba was gone.
Bumla turned to Piccolo. "Rabbit?"
What do you think? More soon!
