Author's Note:….Oi….And yet, the Writer's block continues to relentlessly
plague me…-_-6…*sigh* I apologize up front for this chapter. Not only was
it late(as usual) but completely un-fulfilling as well. Oh well*shrug*.
Flame me if you like, but hey, at least I got a chapter out. ^^6 Well
anyhow, Here it goes…I hope you find some relative enjoyment in this since
yet _again_ nothing happens but me trying to prolong this with description
~-^.
Disclaimer: Ya know…. sometimes I really wonder what the point of this is. I mean obviously I don't own DBZ, or Piccolo, or anything else but my own characters—which in itself is obvious because of the evident poor character development. And no one is actually going to take the time to figure out who I am, where I live, and just so happen to be one of the people who reads this and be just insane enough to track me down and sue me. But anywayz, yeah. DBZ ain't mine, it belongs to Akari Toriyama and FUNimation Studios. I own only Kasei and Siriana Tomodatchi…and even then, they aren't copyrighted, so there's really not much I can do about theft anyway except to ask you not to use them…at least not without asking first. ~.^
~Chapter 2~ Answers
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It was almost 7:00 AM before Kasei reached the waterfront. It had been so hard for her to see in the dim morning light that she had to be very careful as to not stray off the path. She tried to focus intently on her goal rather than think about the consequences she was sure to receive from the alien being. So many questions though, that's what ran through her mind as she had trudged onward in the 6 o'clock morning dim, trying to reach the river. It didn't even enter her mind until she got there that she would need to cross the water.
"…ugh…."She plopped down in the damp grass at the water's edge. "Great…now what?" She asked aloud, very frustrated. 'I was SO SURE today would be the day!! There's gotta be a way to get across…' She rested for only a moment or so longer before taking up her quest again as she attempted to followed the river to its source, looking for a thinner area to cross by. The morning sun gleamed warmly, just hovering over the orange and pink- blanketed horizon. As she continued her trek upstream, the trees began to grow heavier, the forest thicker, vegetation growing right up to the water's edge forcing her to walk between them through spider webs and scratchy bramble. As she struggled through the inner undergrowth, she eventually came to a wall of dirt and rock. Looking up the steep incline, she saw that it was about ten foot high and dropped off at the water's edge creating an odd overhang. Seeing no other option, she began working her way towards the base where the cliff met ground so she could walk around or over it. Many minutes passed as Kasei was having trouble with the dense underbrush as she worked her way back along the sloping rocky wall and away from the security of the water's edge which she could no longer see. 'Maybe following wasn't such a good idea...' Kasei thought with a sigh as she came also to the realization that there was no turning back now, but the cliff's height had seemingly dropped to about five foot, almost her height, lightening her mood slightly. And by standing on her toes, she could see all that inhabited the incline were many more trees, though not as dense as the part she currently traveled through, and she was anxious to get there. As the rise dropped more, to about four foot, she jumped it by grasping the top with her dirty, scratched up hands, and getting a foot hold with her right foot, swung the other leg over the top, and hoisted herself up. She sat for a moment or two with her legs dangling over the side so she could regain her breath from the hour or so of hard hiking and glanced at her watch. '…7:36…not too bad…I'll have to hurry though if I wanna make it back in time…' Kasei thought, deciding that the break was over, and, getting to her feet, she began walking briskly up the rise to get a good view on where she was. Contrary to the steep walls, the actual mount of the cliff was a very gentle slope, and as she looked on to her left, she was surprised to see that the land oriented out at a generally level pace. The lush tress, full in bloom, spread out for miles, and the 'cliff' she was on seemed to spread out endlessly all along the narrowing riverside. She tried to remain very quiet through this part of her stroll as she listened to the gleeful songbirds singing their heart out in the cool morning air. The spongy green moss covering the spacious forest floor left her footsteps silent as she continued towards her destination. Many minutes later her walk, though still vigorous, had lead her high enough on the mount that she could see for miles in all directions if she stood in a certain spot amidst the unusually large clearing.
"Ok…" Kasei muttered with a sigh as she scrutinized the area, looking for any familiar signs of her green antagonism or the way home. "…Where to go…. " A slight breeze started up and tousled her hair playfully as she sat down to think about what she should do next. 'Okay Kasei, think…where would you be if you were a tall, strong, scary-looking green man…?' After a short pause Kasei almost laughed at herself as she rose back to her feet '…baka…' she thought, turning to her left. She knew that if she continued in her former direction she would just end up at the cliff, so since she was pretty much dead meat when she got home anyway, she figured she might as well do as much exploring as possible. Fervently, yet with orthodox silence, she began her quick step once more to find out about the mysterious creature that she sought. The wind was coming stronger now from her left didn't bother her but for the fact it ruffled and completely destroyed her well-combed curls, causing them more tangles and more inevitable trouble than she was willing to acknowledge. Yet as she continued her quest, she began to notice something as she was looking around her right after she noted the strengthening of the breeze. While the wind was hitting her left side, if she looked up at nearby trees, the current seemed to be sweeping up into them, which wouldn't have been such a big deal until she noticed that the air stream slowly changed direction as she moved. Not drastically, yet it was coming now from an angle to the left side of her back. 'Weird…' Kasei thought with a confused look as she backtracked a ways, which wasn't hard because all of this had occurred within the time frame of about two minutes. Just as she thought, when she went back, the wind returned to its original direction. Her eyebrows furrowed and she hummed a confused and slightly frustrated note before deciding to investigate. As she walked forward, she noticed a clump of tall trees and bushes that seemed to be swaying slightly outward, this assumption she could only make from the fact that each plant was leaning a slightly different direction than another. Quietly as possible, she crept up low and closer. There was a thick tree lingering right over the edge of the small grouping of foliage, and she slinked forward to it. First she leaned against the back of it, shaded from the view of any who might inhabit the circle as she leaned upward on her toes trying to see over the thick plants. All she could see was a small rippling pool of water and she plopped back to the ground wearing a disappointed look on her face. Nonetheless, she pursued, skulking low and trying to keep her breath quiet as she approached.
There! She had leaned over and seen something just below the edges of one of the bushes. Suddenly she felt her body thrown hard back against the tree from which she had just traveled as if by a swift and unseen force. Instantly as her back made contact with the trunk, something pieced her side and there was a bright, hot yellow light burning in her face. But pain shot through her from the stab wound and she cried out in shock and pain as tears squeezed through her eyes shut tight from the light and the throbbing pain. Her right arm, dangling by her side, brushed against splintered wood emerging from her skin and she could feel warm fluid –blood –seeping through her shirt and trickling down her back. When she braved to open her eyes, though breathing through teeth clenched from immense pain, she heard a gruff voice speaking but couldn't understand what he was saying. Her hearing was fogged over by the sound of her brain humming with the painful nerve impulses. She cried out once more, though muffled and weak as she was moved and after that she blacked out, having heard nothing and seen only one thing –green.
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Yeah ok, so something did happen. I'm trying my hand at cliffys, can you tell? -^^- Hey, I was proud of myself, even though I know I'm not as good as most. And yes, I know. This chapter is REALLY short. But I've been feeling so bad lately about not posting that I just _had_ to put something up! ^^6 ok, this time, I'm not making any promises as to when the next chapter will be out. You all know me, so I'm pretty sure you can guess. But HOPEFULLY, since I have some ideas now, it will be soon. The only opportunities I will have to write are going to be the rest of this week. So MAYBE I'll have another out in a few days. But don't get mad if it's another month before you see anything. Thanx for reading, and don't forget to review plz!!! ^^
Peace, Love, and Piccolo
~Kasei
Disclaimer: Ya know…. sometimes I really wonder what the point of this is. I mean obviously I don't own DBZ, or Piccolo, or anything else but my own characters—which in itself is obvious because of the evident poor character development. And no one is actually going to take the time to figure out who I am, where I live, and just so happen to be one of the people who reads this and be just insane enough to track me down and sue me. But anywayz, yeah. DBZ ain't mine, it belongs to Akari Toriyama and FUNimation Studios. I own only Kasei and Siriana Tomodatchi…and even then, they aren't copyrighted, so there's really not much I can do about theft anyway except to ask you not to use them…at least not without asking first. ~.^
~Chapter 2~ Answers
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
It was almost 7:00 AM before Kasei reached the waterfront. It had been so hard for her to see in the dim morning light that she had to be very careful as to not stray off the path. She tried to focus intently on her goal rather than think about the consequences she was sure to receive from the alien being. So many questions though, that's what ran through her mind as she had trudged onward in the 6 o'clock morning dim, trying to reach the river. It didn't even enter her mind until she got there that she would need to cross the water.
"…ugh…."She plopped down in the damp grass at the water's edge. "Great…now what?" She asked aloud, very frustrated. 'I was SO SURE today would be the day!! There's gotta be a way to get across…' She rested for only a moment or so longer before taking up her quest again as she attempted to followed the river to its source, looking for a thinner area to cross by. The morning sun gleamed warmly, just hovering over the orange and pink- blanketed horizon. As she continued her trek upstream, the trees began to grow heavier, the forest thicker, vegetation growing right up to the water's edge forcing her to walk between them through spider webs and scratchy bramble. As she struggled through the inner undergrowth, she eventually came to a wall of dirt and rock. Looking up the steep incline, she saw that it was about ten foot high and dropped off at the water's edge creating an odd overhang. Seeing no other option, she began working her way towards the base where the cliff met ground so she could walk around or over it. Many minutes passed as Kasei was having trouble with the dense underbrush as she worked her way back along the sloping rocky wall and away from the security of the water's edge which she could no longer see. 'Maybe following wasn't such a good idea...' Kasei thought with a sigh as she came also to the realization that there was no turning back now, but the cliff's height had seemingly dropped to about five foot, almost her height, lightening her mood slightly. And by standing on her toes, she could see all that inhabited the incline were many more trees, though not as dense as the part she currently traveled through, and she was anxious to get there. As the rise dropped more, to about four foot, she jumped it by grasping the top with her dirty, scratched up hands, and getting a foot hold with her right foot, swung the other leg over the top, and hoisted herself up. She sat for a moment or two with her legs dangling over the side so she could regain her breath from the hour or so of hard hiking and glanced at her watch. '…7:36…not too bad…I'll have to hurry though if I wanna make it back in time…' Kasei thought, deciding that the break was over, and, getting to her feet, she began walking briskly up the rise to get a good view on where she was. Contrary to the steep walls, the actual mount of the cliff was a very gentle slope, and as she looked on to her left, she was surprised to see that the land oriented out at a generally level pace. The lush tress, full in bloom, spread out for miles, and the 'cliff' she was on seemed to spread out endlessly all along the narrowing riverside. She tried to remain very quiet through this part of her stroll as she listened to the gleeful songbirds singing their heart out in the cool morning air. The spongy green moss covering the spacious forest floor left her footsteps silent as she continued towards her destination. Many minutes later her walk, though still vigorous, had lead her high enough on the mount that she could see for miles in all directions if she stood in a certain spot amidst the unusually large clearing.
"Ok…" Kasei muttered with a sigh as she scrutinized the area, looking for any familiar signs of her green antagonism or the way home. "…Where to go…. " A slight breeze started up and tousled her hair playfully as she sat down to think about what she should do next. 'Okay Kasei, think…where would you be if you were a tall, strong, scary-looking green man…?' After a short pause Kasei almost laughed at herself as she rose back to her feet '…baka…' she thought, turning to her left. She knew that if she continued in her former direction she would just end up at the cliff, so since she was pretty much dead meat when she got home anyway, she figured she might as well do as much exploring as possible. Fervently, yet with orthodox silence, she began her quick step once more to find out about the mysterious creature that she sought. The wind was coming stronger now from her left didn't bother her but for the fact it ruffled and completely destroyed her well-combed curls, causing them more tangles and more inevitable trouble than she was willing to acknowledge. Yet as she continued her quest, she began to notice something as she was looking around her right after she noted the strengthening of the breeze. While the wind was hitting her left side, if she looked up at nearby trees, the current seemed to be sweeping up into them, which wouldn't have been such a big deal until she noticed that the air stream slowly changed direction as she moved. Not drastically, yet it was coming now from an angle to the left side of her back. 'Weird…' Kasei thought with a confused look as she backtracked a ways, which wasn't hard because all of this had occurred within the time frame of about two minutes. Just as she thought, when she went back, the wind returned to its original direction. Her eyebrows furrowed and she hummed a confused and slightly frustrated note before deciding to investigate. As she walked forward, she noticed a clump of tall trees and bushes that seemed to be swaying slightly outward, this assumption she could only make from the fact that each plant was leaning a slightly different direction than another. Quietly as possible, she crept up low and closer. There was a thick tree lingering right over the edge of the small grouping of foliage, and she slinked forward to it. First she leaned against the back of it, shaded from the view of any who might inhabit the circle as she leaned upward on her toes trying to see over the thick plants. All she could see was a small rippling pool of water and she plopped back to the ground wearing a disappointed look on her face. Nonetheless, she pursued, skulking low and trying to keep her breath quiet as she approached.
There! She had leaned over and seen something just below the edges of one of the bushes. Suddenly she felt her body thrown hard back against the tree from which she had just traveled as if by a swift and unseen force. Instantly as her back made contact with the trunk, something pieced her side and there was a bright, hot yellow light burning in her face. But pain shot through her from the stab wound and she cried out in shock and pain as tears squeezed through her eyes shut tight from the light and the throbbing pain. Her right arm, dangling by her side, brushed against splintered wood emerging from her skin and she could feel warm fluid –blood –seeping through her shirt and trickling down her back. When she braved to open her eyes, though breathing through teeth clenched from immense pain, she heard a gruff voice speaking but couldn't understand what he was saying. Her hearing was fogged over by the sound of her brain humming with the painful nerve impulses. She cried out once more, though muffled and weak as she was moved and after that she blacked out, having heard nothing and seen only one thing –green.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Yeah ok, so something did happen. I'm trying my hand at cliffys, can you tell? -^^- Hey, I was proud of myself, even though I know I'm not as good as most. And yes, I know. This chapter is REALLY short. But I've been feeling so bad lately about not posting that I just _had_ to put something up! ^^6 ok, this time, I'm not making any promises as to when the next chapter will be out. You all know me, so I'm pretty sure you can guess. But HOPEFULLY, since I have some ideas now, it will be soon. The only opportunities I will have to write are going to be the rest of this week. So MAYBE I'll have another out in a few days. But don't get mad if it's another month before you see anything. Thanx for reading, and don't forget to review plz!!! ^^
Peace, Love, and Piccolo
~Kasei