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Chapter Nine:
::: That's No Rock :::
(Finish date: ..... Somewhere between Jan. and Feb.)
(Shiga)
"Tree. Tree. Tree. BIG tree. Tree. Tree. Rock. OOOH! A Squerrel! Tree."
Kasan let out a LOUD sigh. I think I was getting on his nerves. Oh well.
"Tree. Rock. Branch. Tree."
"SHIGA!" Kasan yelled and spun back to look at me.
"Yes?" I asked humbly.
"Good grief, Shiga, ENOUGH with the trees!"
I cocked my head to one side and blinked. I guess I WAS getting on his nerves.
"Okay."
There was a long pause as Kasan stared at me with some-what disbelieving eyes, apparently thinking that it was too good to be true for me to shut up.
I took another look around me. "........... Rock. Bush. Rock. Rock."
Kasan just growled and turned around to resume his lead.
I had been hiking for way too long. I don't think the dried peaches did much to give me fuel, either.
"Where are we going, anyway? I mean, you don't even know if this is the right DIRECTION, do you?"
Kasan said nothing in return.
"Kasan?"
No answer again. I guess I deserved to be ignored though, I'd been bugging the life outta him for the last hour.
"... We're going to a hidden grove. I know there's something there that will lead us the right way." Oh, so he hadn't gone mute after all.
"What kind of grove? Sounds pretty mysterious."
"... Actually, yeah, it's a mystery. I don't know what it's like yet... I've never been there. But I uh... knew someone who had. Just trust me."
'Just trust me'... hmm, I didn't like the sound of that. Famous last words in numerous situations and movies, as well as Soap Opera's.
"... I wonder where Piccolo is." I thought aloud. I had always found Piccolo quite amusing... not that I'd known him very long, but I felt like maybe I could read him or something. I could have sworn Kasan jerked when I said it. He really worries me sometimes... I mean, whenever I say 'Piccolo' he jumps about five feet! YEESH! He doesn't jump when I say 'Bulma' or 'Gohan' or 'Vegeta'. Kind of made me think that he knows him. Or, possibly, 'knew' him. But obviously enough, he wouldn't fess up to it. I'd come to discover that it seems I'm not exactly fond of secrets being kept from me. I'd find out what he was hiding if it's the last thing I did.
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(Piccolo)
No meditation. Not for the last three days had I gotten ANY meditation. Why? Who knows. Just when I had thought I could actually concentrait on my training, something would block my thoughts... and the worst thing was, I couldn't figure out what it was that was blocking the channel. Maybe it was because I felt a new energy... one that had just popped up out of nowhere. But whenever I'd felt the decent amount of energy, it would dissappear moments later. I couldn't even hope to track it... I was sure it wasn't Goku's or Vegeta's, it wasn't powerful enough... but at the same time, I'm sure, whatever it was, was blocking it's true strength. But how could that be possible? Only Goku and the others know how to pull that stunt... or at least, the only people who know how that are still ALIVE. I guess you could call it a vicious cycle... I wasn't going to get any answers just by guessing. Even more strange about this power, was that it felt familiar. Like it was a part of something else... something, or someone, I'd known before. Like I said, a vicious cycle.
However, one thing was for sure.
I was, positively, absolutely, over my DEAD BODY: NOT going back to Capsule Corporation to see how Shiga was doing. That, indeed, was a death wish in motion. I don't care who she is, or how weak she may be, but she's got some stinking deadly fighting words. And her grip was IMPOSSIBLE. Who can compete against THAT? Vegeta, maybe, could stand up against her. I don't think he'd last long though. Not without hurting his pride, anyway. She specializes in that. He has too much pride anyway... the arrogant little... well, lets just say he has his own view of things.
I grumbled and stood up. Shiga disturbed me. Probably always would. More than Vegeta could ever get on my nerves, and on a completely different level. She disturbed me in a way PAST anger. More in the zone of... frustration. Yet she seemed to get along with pretty much all BUT me. I think if she'd gone all-out world-war-two with Vegeta, I would've known about it... but it seemed like she was only attacking me. Why was that? What had I ever done to push her into torturing ME?
"... It doesn't matter."
I formed a small ki blast in one palm and stared into it for a moment. I always found it quite amazing that one being could create something so small, but powerful, out of nothing but thier own will and power.
I consentraited, numbing all my thoughts and channeling them towards making the ki sphere grow, and slowly it grew larger and more powerful in my palm. When I was done with it, there was only one thing left to do...
Get rid of it.
I lifted the sphere above my head in a swift steady movement. It was almost complete....
" - THERE IT IS AGAIN!!" I lost consentraition on my large ki ball and it disappeared into thin air.
"That power... where on EARTH is it coming from?" The power, the one that wasn't Goku's OR Vegeta's was there again... somewhere... east? Maybe north? No way of telling for sure... but it was definately there. I reached out with my senses, trying to pinpoint it... it was.... was...
lost.
"Curse it!" There had to be a way to track it! There HAD to be! Why would someone be hiding thier power level anyway? Either they didn't know how to control it right... or they were purposely hiding it from someone. Even if I couldn't grow it back, I would have bet my right arm then that they were hiding it... and from us, more specifically.
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(Shiga)
"Kaaaaaaaaasan!!" I whined. Feet should NOT be that sore. "Are we ALMOST there?"
"... Um...." Kasan looked left, and then right when he reached a large boulder. A... VERY large boulder. Like... the Godzilla of boulders.
"Kasan...?"
Kasan turned around to look at me, with a look of both confusion, frustration, and sorrow. "I don't know."
"WHAT?"
"This boulder!! It's NOT supposed to be here! We must've taken a wrong turn or something..."
"Oh GREAT!!" I smacked my forehead in frustration. "So we're lost!?"
"It would appear to be so... I just could have SWORN we were going the right way..."
"Wonderful. Just WONDERFUL." I was mad. I hiked alllll this way for WHAT? TO GET LOST!?
I huffed angrily and leaned up against the gargantuous boulder, severely ticked.
Kasan put a hand to his chin and paced back and forth, glancing at different possibilites.
"... How could this have happened...? All the markings pointed in this direction..." He mumbled to himself and pulled out a compass. Kasan brushed back a rebellious handfull of red hair and turned around with the compass in circles. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!?"
Wow, I'd never actually seen him MAD before. It was kinna funny.
In fact, I decided to lighten myself up and chuckled.
"Oh, and what's so funny? This flower is IMPORTANT, Shiga!" He turned and gave me a half-glare, like he WANTED to be angry with me but just couldn't do it.
"What's funny? I hate to say it Kasan, buddy, but you're HILARIOUS."
"I AM NOT!! Wait... was that a compliment?"
"Depends on how you take it."
"... Oh. Um... thanks?" Kasan put on his now familiar clueless look, raising one eyebrow at me. Then, both his eyes grew wide and his mouth slowly crept open in what seemed to be a silent gasp. Wait a second... that wasn't part of his trade-mark look! What was he doing?
Kasan's jaw flapped for a moment and he seemed to look past me and up. What on EARTH was wrong with him?
"Sh..Sh... Shiga? Dooon... doooon't move..." He stuttered and looked further above me.
"Uh... what?"
"Don't say a WORD!" He hissed, and his head kept looking up.
"Kasan, what ARE you talking about?"
"Shiga! Silence!" He wasn't even looking at me now, just further up and up like he was following an airplane in the sky.
"You're freakin' me out, man cut it---"
"For the LOVE OF DAD SHIGA, SHUT UP!!" He said loudly and very soon afterward his eyes grew a WHOLE lot bigger. Somehow I got the feeling I was being watched... or sumthin'.
"OOooOOooh CRAP!!" Kasan yapped out and I looked up just in time to see the 'boulder''s long neck start leaning over with a roar down on me.
"HOLY CR---" I started as the dragon's head came down on me.
WOOSH!
What the hay!??
The Dragon ate dust and I was, uncomfortably, slung over Kasan's shoulder. And Kasan, possibly more uncomfortably, was running like no tomorrow. It all happened so fast I couldn't even begin to figure out how Kasan had grabbed me so quickly. I mean, last thing I knew I was Kentucky Fried Chicken to that Dragon.
... Or maybe just a nice dinner salad. Yeah, I'd rather be a dinner salad, less fattening. However, being human was cool too.
The humongoid Dragon pulled his head out of the dirt and shook it like a wet dog, looking over to Kasan and I. Otherwise known as: "LUNCH".
"Kasan, keeeeep runnin'! PLEASE keep running!" I yelled at him. "Dragon on your tail-gate!"
"Backseat drivers..." I heard him mutter.
Funny how your funny bone hits you when a probably fire-breathing dragon of death is ripping through the forest chasing after you with a roar that could make you wet your pants. Although I'm sure Kasan probably wouldn't appreciate that right then, considering we were facing opposite ends.
"Kasan he's GAINING!"
"Think I don't know that!?" Kasan barked back as he mis-judged dodging a tree and smacked my head on it's trunk.
"OW!"
"Stop being a wimp!"
"You could at least TRY to avoid the trees! Good grief, where'd you get your license young man!?"
I abruptly felt Kasan jerk forward as he yelped and landed flat on his face.
Bad position. VERY bad position.
"I SO DO NOT WANT TO BE HERE RIGHT NOW!" I hollered at him as he got up to his feet.
Kasan took on a more serious look. "I was hoping it wouldn't come to this." He said quietly.
"Uh... YEAH, me too! I was HOPING TO LIVE TO HAVE CHILDREN OR SOMETHING!!"
Kasan rolled up his long red sleeves. He was feeling primpy NOW!? What's next, is he gunna comb his hair!!???
Kasan then raised one hand at the sky, palm up, and a light seemed to flash from it, like a beacon.
"What the..." I muffled out, wondering what on earth he was doing.
Then, a large bright light enveloped all of Kasan, and he brought his hand down towards his chest.
"KUUUURRRAAA..... SAAAA.... YAH!" He bellowed and yanked his lighted hand forward, tumbling some sort of beam of light at the beast. The dragon halted to a very enthusiastic stop as the light hit him and it covered the entire beast's body.
I sheilded my eyes and then felt the pressure of the wave as an aftershock of the raw power hit me. I flew backwards about ten feet and into yet another tree, which BOUNCED me right over the hill and tumbled all over the place, hand and legs flying everywhere.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" I couldn't help but scream as my battered body smack right into a knee-high rock and I felt a sharp stab in my leg.
I could practically see freakin' stars by now.
My stumach was pressed up against the boulder and I grabbed it with my hands. At least THEY didn't seem to be broken or anything. I turned my head the other way to where I had original fallen from and noticed that the light Kasan had caused was dying down.
A few moments later I heard Kasan's voice yelling my name in what couldn't be mistaken as anything BUT desperation. He was that worried for me? One of the only things that DID feel good right then.
I tried hollering after him but instead I coughed up blood, all over the rock.
I felt like DYING. So I merely moaned and rested my head on the bloody rock.
About ten seconds later I felt Kasan's warm hand on my shoulder, shaking me just barely enough to make me notice it.
"SHIGA! Are you okay!?"
I moaned in response.
"How do you feel!? I'm really sorry about that!!"
"... Oooow."
This was becoming a really long day.
(Piccolo)
THERE! There it was! The energy was BACK again! And... wow, respectfully strong! And, better yet, I could TRACE it.
I was off like a bullet. I'd finally pin-pointed the position. WHO EVER had been hiding their energy was now... mine.
I couldn't help but grin as I headed straight for it.
(Kasan)
"... Oooow." Shiga moaned again.
What had I done!? I hadn't meant to hurt HER in the process! But that stupid monster wouldn't relent... I had to do SOMETHING. And worse yet, I let everyone else know exactly where I was and that I actually had some power. The attack I'd used, Kurasayah, had put out too much energy, and I knew EXACTLY what that meant.
They'd figure me out.
"Curse it!" I hissed and turned over Shiga to see just how beat up she really was.
Unfortunately, worse than I had thought.
I looked down to discover a stick right there in her leg. Gotta say, that didn't look so good. Hey, I'm no doctor, but I'm not STUPID.
"Oh Shiga... I'm so sorry..."
How could I? Shiga, of all people? There was no telling if her leg would ever work as well as it used to! That is, if I could even get the stick out.
"My leg reaaally hurts..." She mumbled and closed her eyes, torn and bruised all over. If only I'd been more careful...
"WHO'RE YOU!?" I whipped my head around to hear the familiar voice.
Oh crap.
It was him. My... .. it was Piccolo. Really not good right now. I was hoping to avoid even seeing him, it was bad enough that I'd already interferred with Shiga's life! Not to mention manage to get a stick shoved in her right leg.
"I asked you a question, boy!" He barked at me from up on the hill. I silently wondered why he didn't have his cape or turban with him.
"I'm... I'm... Ri... I'm Kasan." I stuttered, not taking my eyes off of the Namek. He was so... DIFFERENT looking from the Piccolo I knew. SO different. I always wondered what he'd looked like before my time.
"Good, now, mind telling me what you did to Shiga?" Piccolo glared at me like old ladies would if I kicked puppies.
"I... I... she uh... she fell."
"Piccolo......?" Shiga weakly looked up at him, creeking her eyelids open, then quickly shut them again and rested her head against my arm.
"I can uh... explain." I fumbled with the words. He was such a spectacle to see.
"Then DO IT!" He leaped down the rest of the hill with cat-like grace and walked over to Shiga and I.
"First of all, how did this happen? I ASSUME that you 'caused that energy signal, seeing that Shiga clearly couldn't have done it."
I paled but nodded at him. There was no use hiding my power anymore. But... at least I could conceal my true identity. I didn't have to tell him that.
"Well... see, I was following directions I got from... a friend with Shiga so we could---"
"Hurry up and explain, would you?!"
"RIGHT! Sir, yessir!" What was this, Military School? "A dragon attacked us and I was forced to use an energy wave, sir."
Piccolo ignored me for the time-being, getting the information he needed. He ran his fingers accross the wound as gently as possible and Shiga let out another pitiful whimper. I looked down at Shiga to notice that... oh, sweet mercy, Shiga was crying.
I'd NEVER seen or heard of Shiga crying. Though I've never seen a stick shoved through her leg, either.
"Get it out..." She whimpered in a voice so quiet only someone with sensative hearing could possible understand it.
Piccolo bent down further to inspect her leg, holding it carefully. "This can be repaired... where does it hurt, Shiga?"
Shiga's eyes flew open, "Where do you think!? IN MY LEG, GENIUS!" She sure did come-to quick.
If Shiga wasn't so distracted by the blinding pain, she probably would have noticed how nice Piccolo was actually being to her, or caring to ask at all.
"Okay, fine fine, I understand... just hold still." Piccolo grimaced. "It won't take that long."
"WHAT? What're you gunna --"
- YANK -
Soon followed a very very long, very very LOUD, and very very agonizing sounding scream. And that scream lasted for quite some time.
Piccolo had um... just pulled a limb from her limb. Very quickly, and almost in a professional manner, but it didn't exactly feel nice to Shiga, evidently.
I don't think it would be proper for me to repeat the words that followed. She didn't curse, but she may as well have.
"I guess that kinna... hurt." Is all that Piccolo said, sweat dripping off of his forehead in nervous energy.
"DID YOU THINK THAT IT WOULD FEEL GOOOD!??" Shiga bent over and clutched the newly-found hole in her leg, trying with all her might not to touch the actual wound.
Next Piccolo tore off a patch of his dark gi from his leg and bent over her wound.
"What are you doing?" Shiga asked him with distrusting eyes, still clutching her leg protectively.
"I'm going to give that seeping gush of a leg a bandage..." He muttered back. "Hold still, please."
'Please'? Since when did he say 'please'?
Shiga merely squinted as Piccolo wrapped the "bandage" around her leg in an amazingly careful manner.
"... That should help. It will hold for a while, anyway. Until we get some senzu beans at least."
Shiga nodded in return, keeping her eyes slammed shut.
"It's been a REALLY long day..." She muttered.
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Chapter Nine:
::: That's No Rock :::
(Finish date: ..... Somewhere between Jan. and Feb.)
(Shiga)
"Tree. Tree. Tree. BIG tree. Tree. Tree. Rock. OOOH! A Squerrel! Tree."
Kasan let out a LOUD sigh. I think I was getting on his nerves. Oh well.
"Tree. Rock. Branch. Tree."
"SHIGA!" Kasan yelled and spun back to look at me.
"Yes?" I asked humbly.
"Good grief, Shiga, ENOUGH with the trees!"
I cocked my head to one side and blinked. I guess I WAS getting on his nerves.
"Okay."
There was a long pause as Kasan stared at me with some-what disbelieving eyes, apparently thinking that it was too good to be true for me to shut up.
I took another look around me. "........... Rock. Bush. Rock. Rock."
Kasan just growled and turned around to resume his lead.
I had been hiking for way too long. I don't think the dried peaches did much to give me fuel, either.
"Where are we going, anyway? I mean, you don't even know if this is the right DIRECTION, do you?"
Kasan said nothing in return.
"Kasan?"
No answer again. I guess I deserved to be ignored though, I'd been bugging the life outta him for the last hour.
"... We're going to a hidden grove. I know there's something there that will lead us the right way." Oh, so he hadn't gone mute after all.
"What kind of grove? Sounds pretty mysterious."
"... Actually, yeah, it's a mystery. I don't know what it's like yet... I've never been there. But I uh... knew someone who had. Just trust me."
'Just trust me'... hmm, I didn't like the sound of that. Famous last words in numerous situations and movies, as well as Soap Opera's.
"... I wonder where Piccolo is." I thought aloud. I had always found Piccolo quite amusing... not that I'd known him very long, but I felt like maybe I could read him or something. I could have sworn Kasan jerked when I said it. He really worries me sometimes... I mean, whenever I say 'Piccolo' he jumps about five feet! YEESH! He doesn't jump when I say 'Bulma' or 'Gohan' or 'Vegeta'. Kind of made me think that he knows him. Or, possibly, 'knew' him. But obviously enough, he wouldn't fess up to it. I'd come to discover that it seems I'm not exactly fond of secrets being kept from me. I'd find out what he was hiding if it's the last thing I did.
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(Piccolo)
No meditation. Not for the last three days had I gotten ANY meditation. Why? Who knows. Just when I had thought I could actually concentrait on my training, something would block my thoughts... and the worst thing was, I couldn't figure out what it was that was blocking the channel. Maybe it was because I felt a new energy... one that had just popped up out of nowhere. But whenever I'd felt the decent amount of energy, it would dissappear moments later. I couldn't even hope to track it... I was sure it wasn't Goku's or Vegeta's, it wasn't powerful enough... but at the same time, I'm sure, whatever it was, was blocking it's true strength. But how could that be possible? Only Goku and the others know how to pull that stunt... or at least, the only people who know how that are still ALIVE. I guess you could call it a vicious cycle... I wasn't going to get any answers just by guessing. Even more strange about this power, was that it felt familiar. Like it was a part of something else... something, or someone, I'd known before. Like I said, a vicious cycle.
However, one thing was for sure.
I was, positively, absolutely, over my DEAD BODY: NOT going back to Capsule Corporation to see how Shiga was doing. That, indeed, was a death wish in motion. I don't care who she is, or how weak she may be, but she's got some stinking deadly fighting words. And her grip was IMPOSSIBLE. Who can compete against THAT? Vegeta, maybe, could stand up against her. I don't think he'd last long though. Not without hurting his pride, anyway. She specializes in that. He has too much pride anyway... the arrogant little... well, lets just say he has his own view of things.
I grumbled and stood up. Shiga disturbed me. Probably always would. More than Vegeta could ever get on my nerves, and on a completely different level. She disturbed me in a way PAST anger. More in the zone of... frustration. Yet she seemed to get along with pretty much all BUT me. I think if she'd gone all-out world-war-two with Vegeta, I would've known about it... but it seemed like she was only attacking me. Why was that? What had I ever done to push her into torturing ME?
"... It doesn't matter."
I formed a small ki blast in one palm and stared into it for a moment. I always found it quite amazing that one being could create something so small, but powerful, out of nothing but thier own will and power.
I consentraited, numbing all my thoughts and channeling them towards making the ki sphere grow, and slowly it grew larger and more powerful in my palm. When I was done with it, there was only one thing left to do...
Get rid of it.
I lifted the sphere above my head in a swift steady movement. It was almost complete....
" - THERE IT IS AGAIN!!" I lost consentraition on my large ki ball and it disappeared into thin air.
"That power... where on EARTH is it coming from?" The power, the one that wasn't Goku's OR Vegeta's was there again... somewhere... east? Maybe north? No way of telling for sure... but it was definately there. I reached out with my senses, trying to pinpoint it... it was.... was...
lost.
"Curse it!" There had to be a way to track it! There HAD to be! Why would someone be hiding thier power level anyway? Either they didn't know how to control it right... or they were purposely hiding it from someone. Even if I couldn't grow it back, I would have bet my right arm then that they were hiding it... and from us, more specifically.
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(Shiga)
"Kaaaaaaaaasan!!" I whined. Feet should NOT be that sore. "Are we ALMOST there?"
"... Um...." Kasan looked left, and then right when he reached a large boulder. A... VERY large boulder. Like... the Godzilla of boulders.
"Kasan...?"
Kasan turned around to look at me, with a look of both confusion, frustration, and sorrow. "I don't know."
"WHAT?"
"This boulder!! It's NOT supposed to be here! We must've taken a wrong turn or something..."
"Oh GREAT!!" I smacked my forehead in frustration. "So we're lost!?"
"It would appear to be so... I just could have SWORN we were going the right way..."
"Wonderful. Just WONDERFUL." I was mad. I hiked alllll this way for WHAT? TO GET LOST!?
I huffed angrily and leaned up against the gargantuous boulder, severely ticked.
Kasan put a hand to his chin and paced back and forth, glancing at different possibilites.
"... How could this have happened...? All the markings pointed in this direction..." He mumbled to himself and pulled out a compass. Kasan brushed back a rebellious handfull of red hair and turned around with the compass in circles. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!?"
Wow, I'd never actually seen him MAD before. It was kinna funny.
In fact, I decided to lighten myself up and chuckled.
"Oh, and what's so funny? This flower is IMPORTANT, Shiga!" He turned and gave me a half-glare, like he WANTED to be angry with me but just couldn't do it.
"What's funny? I hate to say it Kasan, buddy, but you're HILARIOUS."
"I AM NOT!! Wait... was that a compliment?"
"Depends on how you take it."
"... Oh. Um... thanks?" Kasan put on his now familiar clueless look, raising one eyebrow at me. Then, both his eyes grew wide and his mouth slowly crept open in what seemed to be a silent gasp. Wait a second... that wasn't part of his trade-mark look! What was he doing?
Kasan's jaw flapped for a moment and he seemed to look past me and up. What on EARTH was wrong with him?
"Sh..Sh... Shiga? Dooon... doooon't move..." He stuttered and looked further above me.
"Uh... what?"
"Don't say a WORD!" He hissed, and his head kept looking up.
"Kasan, what ARE you talking about?"
"Shiga! Silence!" He wasn't even looking at me now, just further up and up like he was following an airplane in the sky.
"You're freakin' me out, man cut it---"
"For the LOVE OF DAD SHIGA, SHUT UP!!" He said loudly and very soon afterward his eyes grew a WHOLE lot bigger. Somehow I got the feeling I was being watched... or sumthin'.
"OOooOOooh CRAP!!" Kasan yapped out and I looked up just in time to see the 'boulder''s long neck start leaning over with a roar down on me.
"HOLY CR---" I started as the dragon's head came down on me.
WOOSH!
What the hay!??
The Dragon ate dust and I was, uncomfortably, slung over Kasan's shoulder. And Kasan, possibly more uncomfortably, was running like no tomorrow. It all happened so fast I couldn't even begin to figure out how Kasan had grabbed me so quickly. I mean, last thing I knew I was Kentucky Fried Chicken to that Dragon.
... Or maybe just a nice dinner salad. Yeah, I'd rather be a dinner salad, less fattening. However, being human was cool too.
The humongoid Dragon pulled his head out of the dirt and shook it like a wet dog, looking over to Kasan and I. Otherwise known as: "LUNCH".
"Kasan, keeeeep runnin'! PLEASE keep running!" I yelled at him. "Dragon on your tail-gate!"
"Backseat drivers..." I heard him mutter.
Funny how your funny bone hits you when a probably fire-breathing dragon of death is ripping through the forest chasing after you with a roar that could make you wet your pants. Although I'm sure Kasan probably wouldn't appreciate that right then, considering we were facing opposite ends.
"Kasan he's GAINING!"
"Think I don't know that!?" Kasan barked back as he mis-judged dodging a tree and smacked my head on it's trunk.
"OW!"
"Stop being a wimp!"
"You could at least TRY to avoid the trees! Good grief, where'd you get your license young man!?"
I abruptly felt Kasan jerk forward as he yelped and landed flat on his face.
Bad position. VERY bad position.
"I SO DO NOT WANT TO BE HERE RIGHT NOW!" I hollered at him as he got up to his feet.
Kasan took on a more serious look. "I was hoping it wouldn't come to this." He said quietly.
"Uh... YEAH, me too! I was HOPING TO LIVE TO HAVE CHILDREN OR SOMETHING!!"
Kasan rolled up his long red sleeves. He was feeling primpy NOW!? What's next, is he gunna comb his hair!!???
Kasan then raised one hand at the sky, palm up, and a light seemed to flash from it, like a beacon.
"What the..." I muffled out, wondering what on earth he was doing.
Then, a large bright light enveloped all of Kasan, and he brought his hand down towards his chest.
"KUUUURRRAAA..... SAAAA.... YAH!" He bellowed and yanked his lighted hand forward, tumbling some sort of beam of light at the beast. The dragon halted to a very enthusiastic stop as the light hit him and it covered the entire beast's body.
I sheilded my eyes and then felt the pressure of the wave as an aftershock of the raw power hit me. I flew backwards about ten feet and into yet another tree, which BOUNCED me right over the hill and tumbled all over the place, hand and legs flying everywhere.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" I couldn't help but scream as my battered body smack right into a knee-high rock and I felt a sharp stab in my leg.
I could practically see freakin' stars by now.
My stumach was pressed up against the boulder and I grabbed it with my hands. At least THEY didn't seem to be broken or anything. I turned my head the other way to where I had original fallen from and noticed that the light Kasan had caused was dying down.
A few moments later I heard Kasan's voice yelling my name in what couldn't be mistaken as anything BUT desperation. He was that worried for me? One of the only things that DID feel good right then.
I tried hollering after him but instead I coughed up blood, all over the rock.
I felt like DYING. So I merely moaned and rested my head on the bloody rock.
About ten seconds later I felt Kasan's warm hand on my shoulder, shaking me just barely enough to make me notice it.
"SHIGA! Are you okay!?"
I moaned in response.
"How do you feel!? I'm really sorry about that!!"
"... Oooow."
This was becoming a really long day.
(Piccolo)
THERE! There it was! The energy was BACK again! And... wow, respectfully strong! And, better yet, I could TRACE it.
I was off like a bullet. I'd finally pin-pointed the position. WHO EVER had been hiding their energy was now... mine.
I couldn't help but grin as I headed straight for it.
(Kasan)
"... Oooow." Shiga moaned again.
What had I done!? I hadn't meant to hurt HER in the process! But that stupid monster wouldn't relent... I had to do SOMETHING. And worse yet, I let everyone else know exactly where I was and that I actually had some power. The attack I'd used, Kurasayah, had put out too much energy, and I knew EXACTLY what that meant.
They'd figure me out.
"Curse it!" I hissed and turned over Shiga to see just how beat up she really was.
Unfortunately, worse than I had thought.
I looked down to discover a stick right there in her leg. Gotta say, that didn't look so good. Hey, I'm no doctor, but I'm not STUPID.
"Oh Shiga... I'm so sorry..."
How could I? Shiga, of all people? There was no telling if her leg would ever work as well as it used to! That is, if I could even get the stick out.
"My leg reaaally hurts..." She mumbled and closed her eyes, torn and bruised all over. If only I'd been more careful...
"WHO'RE YOU!?" I whipped my head around to hear the familiar voice.
Oh crap.
It was him. My... .. it was Piccolo. Really not good right now. I was hoping to avoid even seeing him, it was bad enough that I'd already interferred with Shiga's life! Not to mention manage to get a stick shoved in her right leg.
"I asked you a question, boy!" He barked at me from up on the hill. I silently wondered why he didn't have his cape or turban with him.
"I'm... I'm... Ri... I'm Kasan." I stuttered, not taking my eyes off of the Namek. He was so... DIFFERENT looking from the Piccolo I knew. SO different. I always wondered what he'd looked like before my time.
"Good, now, mind telling me what you did to Shiga?" Piccolo glared at me like old ladies would if I kicked puppies.
"I... I... she uh... she fell."
"Piccolo......?" Shiga weakly looked up at him, creeking her eyelids open, then quickly shut them again and rested her head against my arm.
"I can uh... explain." I fumbled with the words. He was such a spectacle to see.
"Then DO IT!" He leaped down the rest of the hill with cat-like grace and walked over to Shiga and I.
"First of all, how did this happen? I ASSUME that you 'caused that energy signal, seeing that Shiga clearly couldn't have done it."
I paled but nodded at him. There was no use hiding my power anymore. But... at least I could conceal my true identity. I didn't have to tell him that.
"Well... see, I was following directions I got from... a friend with Shiga so we could---"
"Hurry up and explain, would you?!"
"RIGHT! Sir, yessir!" What was this, Military School? "A dragon attacked us and I was forced to use an energy wave, sir."
Piccolo ignored me for the time-being, getting the information he needed. He ran his fingers accross the wound as gently as possible and Shiga let out another pitiful whimper. I looked down at Shiga to notice that... oh, sweet mercy, Shiga was crying.
I'd NEVER seen or heard of Shiga crying. Though I've never seen a stick shoved through her leg, either.
"Get it out..." She whimpered in a voice so quiet only someone with sensative hearing could possible understand it.
Piccolo bent down further to inspect her leg, holding it carefully. "This can be repaired... where does it hurt, Shiga?"
Shiga's eyes flew open, "Where do you think!? IN MY LEG, GENIUS!" She sure did come-to quick.
If Shiga wasn't so distracted by the blinding pain, she probably would have noticed how nice Piccolo was actually being to her, or caring to ask at all.
"Okay, fine fine, I understand... just hold still." Piccolo grimaced. "It won't take that long."
"WHAT? What're you gunna --"
- YANK -
Soon followed a very very long, very very LOUD, and very very agonizing sounding scream. And that scream lasted for quite some time.
Piccolo had um... just pulled a limb from her limb. Very quickly, and almost in a professional manner, but it didn't exactly feel nice to Shiga, evidently.
I don't think it would be proper for me to repeat the words that followed. She didn't curse, but she may as well have.
"I guess that kinna... hurt." Is all that Piccolo said, sweat dripping off of his forehead in nervous energy.
"DID YOU THINK THAT IT WOULD FEEL GOOOD!??" Shiga bent over and clutched the newly-found hole in her leg, trying with all her might not to touch the actual wound.
Next Piccolo tore off a patch of his dark gi from his leg and bent over her wound.
"What are you doing?" Shiga asked him with distrusting eyes, still clutching her leg protectively.
"I'm going to give that seeping gush of a leg a bandage..." He muttered back. "Hold still, please."
'Please'? Since when did he say 'please'?
Shiga merely squinted as Piccolo wrapped the "bandage" around her leg in an amazingly careful manner.
"... That should help. It will hold for a while, anyway. Until we get some senzu beans at least."
Shiga nodded in return, keeping her eyes slammed shut.
"It's been a REALLY long day..." She muttered.
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Other A/N: WHEW!!! I just felt... INSPIRED for this one! Strange. Anywho, whatcha think? Kawaii? Not so kawaii? Or did is STINK!? I've been writing since 8:30PM, and it's almost 1:00 AM now. I made three fourths of this story in the last few hours. Though I've been writing other stuff too... and workin' on me website. I have picture of me on website now. ^-^ NOT that I'm proud of that or anything. I LOVE HTML!!!! :D REVIEW ME!!!
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