Title || Tears of a Warrior
Chapter 07 || Feathers and Scales
Written By || Sailor MarZ
E-mail || Shortcinderella@hotmail.com
Rated || PG -13
Editor || Dee

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"Okay" Bulma said as she flung her laboratory doors opened. Harris quickly grabbed for her cardigan that she held out for him. She walked fast to the micro-inter-lens. She grabbed a pair of gloved and placed the feather underneath the powerful lens. It showed nothing. She sighed and took the feather to the scanner. She placed on the belt as it pulled it into the computer. It beeped and scanned. A bunch of words popped onto the computer. Bulma scanned the words and zipped down the screen. "There is a sign of blood on it" Bulma exclaimed a bit happy.

"Why are we happy?" Trunks asked confused.

"Well...there's blood, we can track to whoever this belongs too" She said.

"Oh" Trunks understood

She went to one of her other machines. She put in the glass box. It made a hissing noise and extracted the sample onto a small dish. Bulma took the dish back to the scanner. She placed the dish where the feather was. The scanner beeped again and a jumble of words came on. Bulma took a look at it. She froze and then fainted into her son's arms.

"Kassan!!" Trunks caught his mother and he was worried. "Liliana!" He called out for the other doctor in the house. He carried his mother out to the Bio room and placed her on the table. Liliana ran in seeing this, she wasted no time she went to work immediately.

When Liliana told him she fainted and nothing was serious Trunks returned to the lab. He went straight to the computer. His eyes widened the information was deleted. He looked on the belt and to his disbelief the dish was gone. He looked around the room and saw something that made his eyes grow wider...another feather.

"You sure Harris?" Trunks asked

"Yes sir, no one came into that room after you left with Mrs.Vegeta" He said a matter-of-factly. Trunks sighed and walked to the bio-room.

"Lili is she alright?" He asked as she sat down beside Bulma.

"She is fine...something startled her that's all," She said as she put her equipment down.

"Miss Liliana" Harris opened the door. "There is a phone call for you"

Liliana took the call in the Bio room. "Hello?" She said as Bulma began waking up. "Is it bad? Is she showing any signs of pain? I see, does she have a red dot on the inner of the left arm? Okay I will wait. She does? I will be right over" Liliana placed the receiver back. She started to gather her equipment once more. "Trunks I have to--" She began.

"Go, it sounds serious I will see to my mother" He smiled. She ran out of the door. "Harris! My jacket"

"Trunks?" Bulma sat up rubbing her head. "What am I doing here?"

"You fainted Kassan" He told her. "What did it say?"

"What did what say?" She asked in confusion.

Trunks looked at her bewildered, "The computer..."

"What computer? What are you talking about?" Bulma asked as she got off the table. "Harris"

"The feather?" Trunks trying to re-kindle her memory.

"Yes Madame?" Harris peeked in.

"Is dinner ready?" She asked

"Yes ma'am" Harris said as he left.

"Feather? What feather?" Bulma looked at her son as if he was crazy. Trunks stared at her. Anger started to boil. He took his mom into the dining room and told her everything. It seemed like that was the only thing she forgot. She remembers everything up until she entered the lab. She barely remembers the feather.

"Here I found another feather in the room after the computer info was deleted" he passed it to her. She examined it close and followed the procedure. But this time she found no blood or anything on the feather and the on her feather was already extracted so it was no use. "All I know is its not a bird feather" She said, " I have never seen any feather like it."

Trunks' cargo pants lay low on his waist and his black muscle tank hung close to his body. He walked out on his balcony and looked up at the sky. He sighed out loud and grieved for his Pan. He suddenly felt someone around him...yet there was no ki...no anything. He just felt it. He flew into the air and stayed there looking around the forest and the air. There was no one. "Whose there?! Show yourself!" he yelled. No one showed. Suddenly the feeling died. He felt nothing now he felt like there was no one there. He flew around the corner and felt a gust of wind as if someone just flew away. To his dread he looked up and saw another feather fall from the sky. "Dammit" She swore under his breath.

*** Two weeks ***

He never saw any more feathers or felt any strange presence. He sighed...he couldn't even keep Pan's body with him. Trunks walked around the courtyard and near the river. A splash disturbed the quietness. He looked over and in the near distance he saw Liliana. Her pink hair was wet from the dive and fell on her back. He saw a glimmer of pink and silver out of the water. He paid no attention and walked over.

"Isn't it late for a swim?" Trunks laughed behind her. She spun around shocked.

"Trunks!!" She exclaimed. She as trying to hide something.

"What are you hiding?" Trunks smiled. He avoided the temptation and jumped into the water. Trunks swam around the lake looking for what she was hiding. But she swam away. She was fast. "Ouch!" She bumped into a rock and that slowed her down. The water was dark so he couldn't see what she was hiding under water. He was about to dive under to see what is was until she dived in with him and grabbed him and kissed him. Trunks astonished pulled away and got to the surface.

"Liliana...we..." Trunks began.

"Can't, I know" She said quickly and sounded like she didn't care. They looked at each other in dead silence. A bright beautiful smile crept on her lips. "Okay" She said cheerfully and got out of the water.

"Don't think anything about it" She said as she grabbed her towel and walked towards the house.

Trunks stood there and thought Liliana was acting strange. He saw something glitter in the water and dived back in and grabbed it. It was a scale. It was a shimmery pink with a glow of silver to it...just like her hair. Trunks thought to himself.

Trunks walked into the lab and put on gloves. He scanned the scale. The computer flashed "species not identified". Trunks creased his eyebrows in interest. "What the?" How could this not be identified, it was only a fish scale. The lab computer is the highest-powered computer and scans everything. To make sure he ran the scale through again. The same message came back on. "Odd" He whispered.

He walked out to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat and saw Liliana gulping down three glasses of water. "Thirsty?" He asked.

She turned around surprised like when she was in the water. "Uh…Yeah, you know swimming gets you really thirsty" She gave a wide smile then slipped out of the room. "Good night Trunks"