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Maturity



Chapter Ten: Naki's First Adventure







Nanake and Ophillia ran through the Hyperbolic Time Chamber following a red star. Naki giggled happily on her mother's back.

"Think we'll make it in time?" Nanake shouted over to Ophillia.

"Yeah! I made sure we were early! Just keep running!" Ophillia answered, never taking her eyes off the red star.



Soon they were in space, looking down upon a red planet. Nanake scanned it quickly for any visible disturbances.

"Funny... it looks peaceful enough..."

"Well... remember when I said we'd get here early?" Ophillia watched the planet.

"Yeah...? Go on..."

"Well they're not even here yet."

Nanake did a classic "anime fall-over" and then exclaimed,

"They're not even HERE yet?!?! When are they coming!?!?"

Ophillia chuckled and pointed beyond the planet where two bright star-like lights appeared just for a second.

"Settle down, Kawaii, here they come."

"Oh?" Nanake looked on and soon enough two space pods came crashing down through the planet Arlia's atmosphere. She cringed when she recognized the design of the pods- Saiyan.

"AUGH! It's Nappa and Vegeta!!! You didn't tell me that THEY were here!"

"How was I s'posed to know?!?!?!"

Nanake growled and crossed her arms, giving her a "Vegeta look" and said,

"Well I'm NOT going down there..."

"Oh yes you are! We've got a job to do, remember?" Ophillia inched closer to her.

"No I'm not!"

There was a long silence before Ophillia swiftly took Naki from Nanake's back.

"HEY!!!" Nanake roared.

"Well if you won't go, I'm sure Vegeta would like to get aquainted with his daughter!"

"YOU WOULDN'T!!!" Nanake's eyes widened.

"Oh... WOULDN'T I?" Ophillia smirked playfully and blasted through the atmosphere quickly with Nanake hot on her heels.

"OPHIE GET BACK HERE!!!"







They landed close by to see some bug creatures throwing Nappa and Vegeta into a huge cage. Nanake glared at the scene and muttered to Ophillia,

"That doesn't make sense... those bug people... I don't sense that they're very strong... yet they captured Nappa and Vegeta... I don't get it!"

"It's gotta be a trick..." Ophillia hissed lowly at the idea, "They must be playing some sick game for their own amusement!"







Vegeta's scouter bleeped and he looked behind him. He could have swore he saw to people hide behind a large rock right before he could fully see it. Hmm. Oh well... perhaps her was imagining things.





Nanake and Ophillia held their breath until they heard the cart and cage start moving away.

"That was close..." Nanake let out a breath of relief.

"Yeah... No kidding... I don't think we need to let THEM know we're here..." Ophillia chuckled quietly.

They both nearly jumped out of their skins when Naki squealed loudly with glee. They gasped when they heard the carts stop and one of the bug creatures speak.

"There's something over there."



Nanake gulped and held her child close to her, covering her mouth. The three huddle together, but much to their dismay, within seconds, a huge grasshopper looking thing stood over them. It picked them up and quickly hurled them into the same cage as the other two prisoners. Nanake looked at Vegeta and he smirked at her. She could tell it was going to be a long ride.









"You have a tail. You must be Saiyan. Same with the child." He spoke with a hint of evil in his voice. He had his trademark smirk on and his eyes narrowed down to menacing slits.

Nanake only nodded, and Vegeta continued,

"Why don't you come and sit by me woman? I promise I won't bite... yet." He chukled at his last remark and she silently shook her head, holding Naki close, afraid to look him in the eyes.



"Fine then..." Vegeta shrugged. Nanake sighed in relief and closed her eyes. Then she heard him say,

"If you won't come over her, then I'll come over there."

Her eyes shot open and she saw Vegeta strolling towards her. She tried to scoot away, but she was already in the corner of the cage. She whimpered and held one arm over her face, while the other clung onto Naki for dear life. Vegeta sat down next to her and started a surprisingly friendly conversation.



"So... how did you escape Planet Vegeta's demise? I don't remember ever seeing you before."

He spoke to her with his head cocked to the side with a smirk still on his face.

She stammered, totally unprepared for the question,

"I er, uhm... was away... I was... taking a break. Thought I needed one- I mean... y'know, leaving the battle field for once..."

"Hmph." He snorted mockingly, "How can you become stronger if you allow yourself to slack off? I prefer to stay on the battle field- constantly growing stronger- defeating all who oppose me... and destroying anyone in the way of my goal."

"Wh-what... IS your goal...?"

He stopped and looked at her dangerously,

"What's your name?"

Nanake blushed and then looked away.

"WELL?"

"Nanake." She answered quietly.

Ophillia watched the two a little bit edgey.

"Nanake huh..." He repeated. He crossed his arms and an ankle over his knee and leaned back against the caged walls, "Nice." He looked into the deep red sky.

Nanake blushed and looked at him. His hair was tinted a reddish brown color from the lighting of the atmosphere and his armor looked green and orange. He had his constant scowl on his face and he must have noticed her staring at him, because he snapped,

"What do you want?"

Nanake jumped and said,

"Nothing! Nothing... It's just that... uhm... why are you being so nice to me?"

He looked at her again and raised an eyebrow suspisciously,

"Shouldn't I be? And who says I'm being nice? You don't know anything about me you stupid wench!"

It was then that he saw he scar on her neck. He softened a bit and asked,

"So you were claimed then huh... Did he die in the planet's explosion?"

It took Nanake awhile to figure out what he was talking about and then she saw his gaze stuck on her scar. But before she could answer, he had looked closer at the scar and sensed something VERY peculiar about it. He lurched forward and, almost painfully, pressed two fingers against the bite marks on her neck. Nanake let out a gasp and tried to push his hand away. Vegeta's expression darkened and he roared with the look of rage and confusion on his face,

"WHAT'S GOING ON?! WHY DO I FEEL MYSELF INSIDE OF YOU?! WHY DO I FEEL MYSELF COURSING THROUGH YOUR BLOOD?!?!?!"

Nanake pressed her back hard against the wall, as if trying to disappear.

"ANSWER ME!!!" He glared red at her and the little baby, who was almost at the point of bawling. But then, the carraige stopped and they were to be transported to the prisons.







"They're some kind of aliens..."



"Look how hideous they look!"



"You never know... they might think WE'RE the ugly ones...



"You're sick!"



Nanake looked around, trying to make her eyes adjust to the darkness of the prison cell to see where all of the voices were coming from. Soon she saw red eyes everywhere and she backed away from them- right into Vegeta's armored chest. His hands fell upon her shoulders and she held Naki tightly as they gripped down on them.



A bug creature with a gold band on his forearms spoke of his wife who was captured and how their kingdom was ruled by a ruthless king. Nanake bowed her head respectfully and murmured,

"How awful... sir I hope that your planet will not have to go through anymore pain..."

Vegeta scoffed and said,

"Some Saiyan... You'r almost PEACEFUL..." He drug her to a corner and threw her against it. He stood right in front of her, bleakening any chances of escaping.

"What do you want?" She asked shakily.

"To talk. I want to know why that it MY mark on your shoulder." He ordered. Nappa turned and looked at them surprised.

"Really? Have you ever even seen her before, Vegeta?"

"NO NAPPA NOW SHUT UP AND LEAVE US!!!" Vegeta whirled around, snarling.

"I... I don't know what you're talking about..." Nanake looked down nervously, holding Naki close, even tighter.

"DON'T TOY WITH ME!!!" Vegeta roared and shook her by the shoulders, "DO YOU THINK I'M STUPID?! I CAN FEEL IT!!!!"

"Hey! She said she doesn't know anything now lay off!" Ophillia shouted, only to have Nappa smack her across the face.

"No one speaks to the prince like that!"

This, however, blew her last fuse and she attacked Nappa, angrily.

"Tell me woman..." Vegeta glared at her warningly with a threatening gaze, "Now."



"Please Vegeta... I really don't-" She screeched as she was cut off by a swift backhand across her cheek.

"Wrong answer." Vegeta growled lowly, "I'm LOSING my patience, woman! Now TELL me NOW or it's LIGHTS OUT!"



Nanake remained silent, looking down. Vegeta growled and snatched Naki from her arms,

"Clearly you won't tell me if I endanger you... but let's see when I endanger this child here..." He formed a ki ball, aiming it directly at the giggling baby.

"STOP!!!" She shrieked, "PLEASE!!! I BEG YOU STOP!"

He gritted his teeth angrily as the ki ball got bigger.

"Alright! Stop! I'll tell you, just stop!" She whimpered helplessly.

"I'm listening..." He growled, still aiming the ki ball close to Naki's small head.

"I... I'm your mate from the future... I'm a Time Warrior... the child is your daughter..."

Vegeta let the ki ball disappear with a shocked look on his face.

"My---"

"OUR child... actually..." Nanake looked down.



There was a silence in the prison cell that made everyone listening uncomfertable. The bugs were listening, Nappa and Ophillia had stopped fighting and were now listening, and Naki had stopped cooing.





"Well... in that case..." He finally spoke, "Let's get you out of here." He lifted her chin to meet his eyes.







They ran down the halls, Nappa and Vegeta blasting things right and left until they came to a stop in front of a large door. They opened it quietly, and heared a guard inform the king that they were captured earlier that day.

"Wonderful." The bug king hissed lowly, "Send for them at once!"

"We're already here!" Vegeta smirked as he and his party stalked forward.

"What's the meaning of this?! Why aren't these prisoners with an armed escort?!" The king bellowed.



"I don't know, sire!" The guard replied shakily.

"The guards met with an... unfortunate accident..." Vegeta chuckled grimly.

"Now it will be YOU who will meet with an "unfortunate accident." You don't have to look..." The bug king turned to a pink lady sitting next to him. She grumbled and turned away from him.

"I'm fine..."

"Even I find them repulsing!" The king spat the word out with venom.

"Save it, ya stupid looking cricket-thing!" Nappa growled.

"Nappa!" Vegeta scolded with some mock in his voice.



"Ahh... the bald one is passionate... it will be interesting to see how he fares against our combat champion! I'm afraid there is not much hope for the three little ones and the child." The king rubbed his chin.



"You'd kill a CHILD?!" Nanake yelled incredulously, holding Naki tightly to her bosom and turning away a bit. She glared up at him dangerously and the king laughed.

"What is that child to us? Just another UGLY alien."



"WHY YOU!" She raised a hand to blast him to bits, only to have Vegeta catch it and speak to her through telepathy.

"Just wait... let's play this out."

"But Vegeta..."

"Trust me."



"Eesah!" The king bellowed, "Would you like to teach these aliens a lesson in combat?"

"Yes sire!" Eesah answered.

"Eesah... you'll retire a wealthy man if you can defeat ALL of them!"

"Yes sire!"

"Now let the games begin!!!" The king threw a hankerchief into the air and the bug champion leapt forward. In meer seconds, his body had exploded, and everyone looked at Vegeta, who lowered his hand from his attack.

"I guess that makes YOU the new champion." Nappa drawled. Vegeta smirked and chuckled evilly.



"Hmmm... not bad..." Murmured the bug king, "But ten of our elite warriors have already mastered similar techniques using energy!"



They all turned and faced him and Vegeta grinned evilly,

"They have... Interesting... Well we'd like to fight them."



The king chuckled evilly and Nappa growled with an evil smirk upon his face,

"C'mon yer highness! Bring on the cricket brigade!"



Suddenly ten bug warriors landed on the floor and surrounded them all quickly. Naki blew rasberries at them all with a Vegeta-like scowl on her face. Vegeta looked at the infant in Nanake's arms and chuckled before turning his attention back to the bugs.



"Take a good look, space men! The royal elite guards that yuo were so eager to fight!" The king spoke with an "I told you so" tone in his voice.



"MEN?!" Nanake shook a fist.

"Hah. They don't look so tough!" Ophillia lowered into fighting stance.



Nappa chuckled and with a flick of his wrist, pointing his index and middle finger upwards, the ten bug-warriors exploded. Naki giggled and waved her arms around happily as she watched body parts and flesh fly before they were turned to dust, while Nanake and Ophillia gritted their teeth and stared in disgust.



"RELEASE YETI!!! RELEASE YETI!!!" The king cried, covering his face from debri and flesh. A floor opened up and a gigantic bug warrior moved up on an elevated floor.

"So... it's the old giant under the floor trick huh?" Vegeta chuckled, crossing his arms.

"Yeti! Destroy those men! They're very BAD men!" The king ordered.

"We're bad?" Nappa looked over his shoulder at Vegeta.

"Well..." Vegeta snickered, "A little..."

"WHY does he keep calling us men?!" Ophillia growled.

"Let's teach him a lesson-WOAH!" Nanake yelped.

Yeti attacked them, shooting eye lasors at Vegeta who ran along the walls horizontally then landed close to Nanake again. Nanake shoved Naki into Vegeta's arms. Vegeta looked at her and then the child, a bit puzzled. She flew forward and caught the creature by it's index and middle finger. She strained, trying to hold the cricket-thing back, until finally she twisted and snapped the two fingers completely off. Yeti howled in pain as he deliriously staggered back, leaving a trail of green blood.

"OPHIE!! NOW!"

"Right!" Ophillia flew up and farmed a ki ball. She clapsed her hands around it, creating a ki sword. She soared straight at the injured mammoth cricket and chopped him completely in half.

The king screamed in terror and started to run away.

"Coward." Vegeta growled and lifted a finger, causing svereal large rocks to fly around, eventually smashing right through the bug king's fragile body, killing him. Vegeta licked his lips as Naki cooed with a sparkle in her eyes.

"Oooooooooooo!"

Vegeta looked down at the child in his arms and set her on his shoulder.

("Heh. I like this child...") He smirked to himself until she got ahold of two handfuls of his hair.



"YAAAAAAAUUGHH!!! DAMN KID! LET GO!" He tore the child from his shoulder and glared at her. She giggled and chirped, showing no fear as she reached her arms out to him in a hint that she wanted him to hold her closer.

("Persistant and brave little bugger aren't you?") He smirked once again. He tapped the button on his scouter and spoke,

"Computer."

"Yes, Prince Vegeta?" The computer's feminine voice chirped back.

"Come here at once."

Nappa and Vegeta's space pods took off souring towards them.



The bug who had tols them of the planet's troubles ran into the room. He thanked them all, deeming them heroes to their planet. The two space pods landed next to them and Vegeta courtingly took Nanake's hand. He led her into the pod, still holding the child and sat down, situating Nanake between his legs and giving her Naki to hold.

"But I can't-"

"Of course you can." Vegeta smirked and the door closed.





Ophillia looked at Nappa and then the tiny space pod.

"Oohhhhhh no. No way am I getting into that cramped thing with the likes of YOU!"

Nappa shrugged and picked her up, and tossed her into the pod before getting in, himself.

"Hey! Gimme some room, won't ya?" Ophillia elbowed Nappa hard in the gut as the pod took off.

"Stop moving around!"

"WELL THEN GIVE ME SOME FUCKING ROOM!"





Inside Vegeta's pod... it was a bit quieter... in fact... there was complete silence except for Naki's baby-talk. Nanake looked down at her child who was looking out the window excitedly. Suddenly, she felt Vegeta by her ear. His nose and mouth movedup a bit and nestled into her hair. He breathed in her scent and closed his eyes.

"How did we meet?"

She jumped at the suddenly destruction of the silence and quickly answered,

"On Earth."

He moaned lightly and slid his arms around her waist, pulling her back against his armored chest.

"That's where Nappa and I are headed next... We should be there in a matter of months."

"Vegeta... I can't be there when you meet my past self... please let me out of here..." She whispered nervously.

"I don't want to wait that long... I want to... "get to know you..." right now..." He gripped his hands around two fistfuls of her robes. She gasped and squeezed her eyes shut. He started pulling then off, but then stopped and smirked as they broke through Arlia's atmosphere. Both of the Saiyan pods stopped outside of the planet and opened. The group floated outside of the pods, staring down at the planet.



"Gee Vegeta... that guy called us heroes." Nappa gazed down at the planet.

"Heroes aren't all they're cracked up to be..." Vegeta grinned, "Are they, love." He smirked cheekily and took her chin in his hand, sending her a sly gaze as he shot a slim white ki beam down at the planet. Nanake gasped as she saw it from the corner of her eye. Vegeta started kissing her and Ophillia screamed at her through telepathy.

"NANAKE DO SOMETHING!!!!!!"



Nanake closed her eyes as Vegeta continued to kiss her and slowly extended a hand, palm facing the planet, and recited inside her head as he snaked his arms around her waist.

("Planet Vegeta homing... SURROUND!")



Quick as light, a forcefield formed around the planet Arlia, but not quick enough for anyone to see it. Vegeta forced his tongue into her mouth and she let him work his magic on her while the ki beam hit the force field and a blinding white light flashed around them.



After Vegeta pulled away, Nanake held up the pendant for him to see before he noticed that the planet was still there. Ophillia did the same to Nappa.



"What's that?" Vegeta raised an eyebrow.





*FLASH!!!!*





~*Though nothing will keep us together

We could steal time

Just for one day

We could be heroes

Forever and ever!

We could be heroes

Forever and ever*~



Nanake watched the two Saiyan space pods zoom off until they were only a speck of light that you could have mistaken for a falling star.



To Be Continued...





Ok! Next time, Naki is a little bit older and Ophillia is training her ine the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for a year. What is Naki like and how will her training go? I bet you're wondering whether she'll be more like her father... or you might not be but I felt liek typing that question so NYAH! Well! See you guys next time! Please read and review and be nice when doing so! And remember to e-mail me if you want any pics coz my site still isn't ready for opening yet! Buh bye!





*Nanake Trilogy Vacation Special*

~Part One~





(A bus is seen driving down the road. Inside, there's kareoke going on as Heidi, the author, is driving the bus.)



Goku: (singing) "DYNA WON'T YA BLOW, DYNA WON'T YA BLOW, DYNA WON'T YOU BLOW THE HORN!!!"

Krillin: (muttering to Yamcha) "That's not ALL she'll blow..."

(The two snicker)

Nanake: (ears perk up from sensitive hearing. whirls around to the seat behind her and yells at them) "YOU TWO ARE SICK!"

Bulma: (reading a peice of paper) "Thanks for all of your hard work and effort. Please relaz and enjoy this lovely vacation at our lake cabin to our expense, thanks, your author, Heidi."

Chiaotzu: "But why a shabby cabin way out in the boonies?"

Bulma: (muttering to Chiaotzu) "The author's cheap."

(They both snicker)



Piccolo: "You're driving sucks! Why can't you pay more attention to the road?"

Heidi: "SHUT UP PICCOLO!!!! YOU WANNA BE DELETED FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEQUEL!?!?!"

Vegeta: "He's right, you're driving is horrendous."

Heidi: (growling) "I could easily delete YOU too mister!"

Vegeta: (crosses his arms and smirks) "No you can't- I'm an important character!"

(Heidi grumbles to herself)

(Gohan jumps up and down, looking out the window, smacking Freeza and Tien in the process)

Gohan: "LOOK! LOOK! THERE IT IS!!!"

Ophillia: "How can he get so excited over a crappy cabin?"

Tien: (rubbing his cheek) "Beats me..."

Freeza: "Literally."

Chichi: "Well anyway... is this cabin going to be tidy?"

Nanake: "It better be roomy!"



Heidi: "YAAAAUUGH!!!! GREEN GRASSHOPPER BOGEY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK!!!"

(Z-Fighters rush to the front of the bus and look out the wondow)

All: (shocked) "NO WAY!!!!!!"



~End of Part One~