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Maturity



Chapter Four: Welcome Home Nanake!







The Time Children giggled happily and waved to the two Time Warriors as they set out on their first journey together. They waved back as they left the Temple of the Time Kai. First step into the Upper Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and Nanake, once again, fell flat on her face.

Ophillia giggled and offered a hand, which Nanake accepted.

"You still have much to learn, Kawaii... But first... you must know who you are." She smiled.

"But I know that I'm Nanake Kawaii, the last surviving female of the Saiyan race-- er... well... not for long that is..." She patted her stomach warmly.

"You are expecting a child?" Ophillia frowned and looked at her stomach.

"What do you mean, 'am I expecting a child?!' You think I'm ALWAYS this big?!" Nanake exclaimed.

"This may be dangerous... We'll have to change your body."

"Wha--!!!"

Ophillia held her pendant up to Nanake's forehead. Nanake nervously stuttered with wide eyes,

"Uh-uhm... O-Ophie...?? Wha-wha-what are you doing?"

"Shh shh." She closed her eyes and whispered. Nanake stared from Ophillia to the pendant, and then back at Ophillia again.

Ophillia grunted and flinched a bit, and then the pendant started to glow. Nanake watched in awe as it started to pulse a blinding white color and cringed when a burning sensation errupted from her stomach.

"My... baby..." She gasped, cringing in pain. She watched her stomach shrink and a tear escaped from her eye. She shrieked, completely mad and flung herself at Ophillia.

"NOOO!!! MY BABY!!! HOW COULD YOU?! THAT WAS ALL THAT I HAD LEFT OF US!!! OF HIM!!! MY BABY!!! NO!!!!" She sobbed insanely and she started beating Ophillia, who flickered a small force field, pushing Nanake away, causing her to stumble to the blinding white ground.

"Nanake." She stated calmly, "Your baby is just fine. I simply sent your body back in time before you were impregnated. You will be weaker, yes, but we will experience no battles on this quest. This is a quest for knowledge. Trust me, once we return, I will bring your body back to this time's state. Trust me. I beg you to trust me, my friend. How can we begin a partnership when we don't even have the most important element of all- trust?"

Nanake sniffled softly and then smiled, nodding,

"I'm sorry."

"Did that hurt you? Your loss?"

"Yes." Nanake looked down.

"Very good. Now, tell me, was it emotional as well? Or was it meerly a physical pain?"

"It was both."

"Yes. You realize that people close to you can die, as you can. Know these truths. Never forget them. Nothing lasts forever. Everyone dies, and the world doesn't care. It live without them and moves on. So creates time and understanding of time, that things change. We, of all people, The Time Warriors must understand this most of all. Never forget that." She turned and started walking towards the hole to go down to the first level of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

"But that sounds so cruel..." Nanake narrowed her eyes sadly with a twinge of pain in them.

"Nanake. You will soon realize that life is very cruel, not only wonderous and beautiful. You will both physically and mentally mature... all in due time. But first, as I said, you cannot become a Time Warrior, if you do not know who you are. If you have a clouded past, being that past is an important element of time, you cannot control time successfully, or as successfully as you would if you knew yourself."

"I... I don't understand."

"In time..." Ophillia smiled, "...you will." She bowed her head and continued walking, Nanake soon followed.







"Time's flow...

Bring us to this chapter of the past.

So we can understand...

At last."

Ophillia chanted once they were back on level one. A red light flashed and then another flashed in the distance. Ophillia dashed forward shouting.

"Follow that red star! Otherwise we'll lose it and be lost forever!"

"But why?!" Nanake shouted back, chasing after her.

"The Hyperbolid Time Chamber knows nothing of Time Warriors or what we live and stand for! It will punish us just the same for tampering with time!"



They dashed along the bleak whiteness, all the while getting closer and closer to the shining red beacon in the distance. Once it looked like they would be able to snatch it within ten feet, it shined even brighter, causing Nanake and Ophillia to shield their eyes and stop running. When they opened them again, they were in a different world.





Nanake opened her eyes and looked around the dark and hard landscape. It was desolate, gloomy and large uninviting rocks towered above them with razor sharp peaks. Nanake shuddered and looked around,

"What is this place...?"

Ophillia said nothing but walked forward beyond the towering rocks. Beyond the sharp rock towers, was a city, high above on what seemed like a thin white tower.

"Wow!" Nanake excalimed at the huge city, "That little towers holding it all up?"

Ophillia stepped forward smiling, and spoke with her back to Nanake.

"Nanake Kawaii... welcome home."

Nanake's gasped.







Nanake's eyes explored the large round buildings as they walked. She looked over to her friend, who had shape-shifted into a female Saiyan. She was too busy looking at the architecture, when she ran into someone who was about as rockhard as a wall.

"Hey! Watch it!" A gruff voice spoke to her. She looked up and saw a male Saiyan with a scar over his left eye. He glared down at her malevolently with his head tilted to the side.

Nanake blushed both frightened and embarassed.

"Oh I'm sorry- so sorry!" She jumped up and bowed repectfully. She then turned to flee, but a strong hands clasped around her wrist. She turned and saw the man gazing at her with an eyebrow raised.

"You're not like everyone else. What's your name?" He questioned.

"N-Nanake..."

"Nanake huh... strange... Nanake was just born today..." He eyed her, and then quickly added, "But of course you're different..."

"I was... I mean... she was born today?"

"Yes... She's not ranking very as high as required to stay here though... she'll be jettisoned into space in the morning to the planet Zimper.

A few steps ahead, Ophillia coughed.

The man ignored her and commented suspiciously, "Your hair... it's so very different. I don't think anyone here puts it up... and your clothes... what are they?"

Nanake looked down at her Time Warrior robes.

"We just came back from a different planet..." She lied quickly, "They looked cool... so we stole them."

"Really what planet?" He asked, narrowing his eyes at her.

"Where are the parents of the Nanake born today?" Ophillia whirled around, glaring at the man.

"Over in the south quadrant of the city. Why?"

"That..." Ophillia smirked, holding up her pendant, "...is not your concern..."

She put two fingers to the pendant and closed her eyes, concentrating. Suddenly the blue pendant emitted a blinding flash. When it dimmed, the man was rubbing his eyes. Ophillia whispered to Nanake,

"Come... before he sees us."

"What did you do?" Nanake whispered back, running with her.

"I used a power of the pendant. That flash that just happened... that will erase any memory of us that that man will ever have."

"Oh... I see..."



They continued running until they stood outside a small, round building.

"This is the south quadrant..." Nanake breathed, "And that means..."

"That means..." Ophillia smiled softly, "That your parents are inside."

They looked at eachother for a moment in silence until Ophillia said,

"I'll wait out here... but don't forget the incantation. Hold your pendant up where they can see it, touch the pendant and speak thew incantation with your mind."

"But... what's the incantation?"

"It can be anything you want as long as you start with the phrase, 'Let the memory fade,' got it?"

Nanake nodded and ran into the building. Ophillia watched her until she could only hear the sounds of her footsteps.





To Be Continued...



Next up, Nanake meets her parents. The after that, she goes to see her past- form self. But wait! Who's the two-year old toddler running in the halls? Find out next time!

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