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AN: Hi, I'm sorry I took so to post this chapter. I had exams and and assessments during the week. Well, I hope you enjoy this chapter. Happy reading.
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Beyond Higher Things- Chapter Two
Written by: MistY AnGeL (pink_angel91@hotmail.com)
Vegeta kept on walking towards Bulma's direction. "Silly woman. Does she really think she can get away from me?" He kept his slow pace. "You can run. But you can't hide!"
Bulma kept on running anxiously. She could feel her heart pounding heavily inside her. "Maybe if I blend in with this immense crowd of people, he'll lose me!" She suddenly saw him walking in from the entrance. She turned the other direction and started running again.
Vegeta looked around. Where is that pathetic woman? He thought.
He then started smirking. "I would blast these weak humans if I didn't decide to sell this planet." He suddenly saw a flash of blue hair. "I guess I'll have to catch her the old fashioned way! It¡¯s more amusing for me that way." He then began to run towards the direction where he thought he saw her.
"For the next hour, all rides are free for the celebration of our freedom!" the loudspeaker called out. There was a loud cheer followed by a crowd of people rushing to line up for their favourite rides.
"If only they knew they would be recaptured after this Frieza guy gets defeated," Bulma muttered. She turned around and saw Vegeta coming towards her direction. "Uh- Oh!" She kept on running, her mind was rapidly trying to figure out a place to hide. She saw a ride and cut through all the people in line.
"Hey! Get back in line!" everyone she passed said.
"Sorry. It's a matter of life and death," Bulma said quickly, not even looking at the people who were talking to her. She pushed to the front and got on the ride, ignoring the protest of the people around her. She put on her seat belt and looked around. Vegeta was getting on the carriage after hers, pushing angry people out of his way.
"Kuso!" She was about to get off but the ride had already started. "What sort of ride is this anyway?" She looked ahead and gulped. She had just gotten on a roller coaster, which stretched halfway across the whole amusement park. She started to feel fear inside her.
Vegeta had put on his seat belt. "What is this?" He stretched his head to see who was on the carriage in front of him. "It's that woman! I'll catch her this time!" He then stared at how far the track stretched. "Is this some sort of thing humans call "fun"? It looks pathetic!" He then realised his carriage started moving.
"Damn! I¡¯ve always hate these rides!" Bulma¡¯s carriage moved faster and she felt scared. The carriage had just started to increase its speed and it was still moving ahead. All of a sudden, the speed greatly rose and it tilted down. Bulma screamed and she gripped onto the railing next to her so hard, that her knuckles turned white. "This is all Vegeta's fault! I hate him!" But this was just the beginning. She had no idea that she had only started her adventure at the amusement Park.
Vegeta's carriage started to increase its speed. Then it started to descend at a very high speed. "This really is pathetic." In his mind, he actually was enjoying the ride. He had no idea why he was wasting his time chasing after the woman. If it was someone else, he would have just blasted the whole lot. But today was different. Why am I being so pathetic today? He growled to himself.
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Zarbon ran in. His long, green braided hair flying behind him.
"Master Frieza! I have good news!"
Frieza turned as Zarbon ran in front of him and kneeled to his master.
"I have just discovered that he Earth has dragonballs."
"And what exactly do they do?" Frieza asked inquisitively.
Neither of them knew that someone, who has remained in the dark, was now watching them.
I better record this and send it to Prince Vegeta. It could be interesting.
The mystery person turned on his scouter.
Zarbon looked at Frieza.
"If you collect all seven of the dragonballs, you will be granted a wish. Don't you realise that you could wish for anything you want. Like immortality?"
Frieza suddenly showed interest. "Sounds motivating. But how do we find the dragonballs?"
"We use our scouters,¡± Zarbon replied quickly.
Frieza¡¯s face started to show anger. "You fool! We don't have any scouters with us, remember?"
"We can stop one of your nearest planet and get some," Zarbon suggested.
"But that would delay our trip," Frieza stated the obvious.
Zarbon ran to the computer and punched some keys. "About one week."
Frieza smiled. "Alright, I guess this is worth our effort. I want these dragonballs."
The Saiyan that was in the corner had already transferred their conversation back to Earth.
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The carriage started to slow down and then stopped. Bulma stepped out, her face starting to turn green. She felt quite nauseous as her head was spinning. "I hate this," she muttered under her breath. She then remembered that Vegeta was still there and tried to shake the wooziness out of her. She turned around. Vegeta's carriage had just stopped. She turned and started running again.
Vegeta quickly jumped out of the carriage and spotted her running off. "Run all you like woman! I'll always find you!" He then started walking towards her direction. Bulma turned around but kept on running. She was amazed to see that he was walking. Amazing, I am tiring myself out here. And he¡¯s not even trying hard to catch me, yet he¡¯s so close behind. She then saw that he started to increase his speed. Damnit, I just cursed myself.
"Uh- Oh!" She ran as fast as her legs could carry her and she then had an idea in her mind. She ran to the bumper cars rink. On the side stood a row of neatly, just-polished bumper cars. She jumped on one that was parked outside. "Yippee! Here I go!" She yelled out loud as she put her foot down the acceleration pedal.
¡°Hey!! What do you think you¡¯re doing!!!¡± she heard someone not too far shout to her. She ignored them took off. People were rushing to get out of her way.
Vegeta saw her riding her bumper car and speeding away from him. He jumped into one of the bumper cars. "If she uses that to escape me, then I will use the same thing to catch her!" He looked around to see how to make it start. He then saw a pedal and pushed it with his feet. The bumper car took off.
Bulma turned around and saw Vegeta, feeling surprised. "Damn him! And he's catching up!" She stepped on the accelerator and it went to the maximum speed. She turned around and saw he was trailing right behind her. "How did he- "? She turned around and screamed. She frantically turned right, her bumper car erratically swerved right. She had nearly hit a cotton candy machine!
She turned around and saw Vegeta crash right into it. He didn¡¯t even hesitate as turned his bumper car and continued to chase after her. Unfortunately for him, he didn't hit it very hard. He did have cotton candy all over his steering wheel. "What is this?" Still driving, with one hand on the steering wheel, he picked up a small amount of cotton candy. Earlier he had seen people eating it so he put it in his mouth. The cotton candy dissolved in his mouth and was very sweet. He liked it. "Maybe I'll get more after catching that woman,¡± he grumbled. He was getting very close to her bumper car.
Bulma kept driving at maximum speed. It seemed almost impossible with all those people in the way. They all seemed to get out of the way at the last second, and Bulma¡¯s heart thumped loudly as she was expecting to run over someone. She turned around and saw Vegeta was close behind. She hoped that he wouldn't catch her.
~*~
Goku and the Z crew walked out of the spaceship. "It was about time they let us go!" Krillen exclaimed, brushing dust off his dirty, red clothes.
"But Krillen, what about this Frieza guy. He seems really strong," Gohan said.
"I've got an idea!" Goku suddenly yelled out.
Everyone turned to Goku and stared at him.
"How about we help Vegeta defeat Frieza for peace on this planet."
Yamcha started laugh. "You're joking right? Why would we help Vegeta?"
Piccolo cut in. "Actually, Goku's right. Vegeta would almost certainly agree. After all, even Vegeta realizes that Frieza is way out of his league for him to handle alone."
"But Mr. Piccolo, what if Vegeta turned against us after we help him?" Gohan asked.
"I don't think so. A Saiyan prince like himself should have the dignity to remain loyal. But I¡¯m not sure if he would keep the alliance afterwards," Piccolo replied.
"By the way, where's Vegeta?" Tien asked.
~*~
Bulma turned around and realised that Vegeta was practically right behind her. She slammed on the brakes and ran to the nearest ride. She ran in and sat in a carriage. She saw Vegeta jump in the one behind hers. She looked around and saw she was on the ghost train. "At least this is a slow ride!"
"Please keep all parts of your body inside and remain seated," the loudspeaker said.
Bulma didn't listen and jumped out. She didn't want to risk Vegeta to catching her, especially when he was so close. She stepped out and saw blood on the floor and a coffin. She then saw a skeleton. She knew that it was just part of the theme of horror, but she couldn¡¯t control herself. She opened her mouth and started screaming. She knew it was fake but she was still scared. Shivers ran up her spine and her legs felt like jelly. She was also shaking.
"What's wrong, woman?" A harsh voice came from behind her. She spun around quickly and saw Vegeta. She was so scared of her surrounds that she shut her eyes tightly and ran up to him and threw her arms around him. She didn't know what she was doing, it was her subconscious mind controlling her movement. She was too scared to notice. "I give up! Just get me out of this creepy place!"
Vegeta nearly flinched when she touched him but then started to smirk. "Okay, woman, I win this chase." He blasted a hole and flew out. She then realised she still had her arms around him. She also realised that he was holding her. His body felt so warm against hers. She could feel the strong muscles on his body. What am I thinking? She thought, he is so cruel and evil, why would I think like that about him? But I do admit, he has a great body.
Vegeta landed next to his spaceship. He saw Goku and the others. They ran towards him. Vegeta let Bulma go and started crossing his arms. "What do you want, Kakarot?" he said scowling.
Bulma saw Yamcha and ran to his arms. "Yamcha! I missed you!"
Vegeta started scowling at the sight of the young couple. Goku turned back to Vegeta. "Listen here. We know that you are no match against this Frieza. We'll help you if you promise to leave this planet in peace."
Vegeta thought for a moment. What Goku had said was the truth, he was evidently not strong to face Frieza alone.
"Alright Kakarot! But once we defeat Frieza, I'm going to forget about our alliance and I will leave this planet."
Suddenly, Zydos ran to Vegeta. "Sire, we have just received something from one of our spies we sent on Frieza's ship earlier." He held out a strange looking device and pressed a button. It started playing Zarbon and Frieza's conversation.
When it finished, Vegeta turned to Goku. "Are there really such things called dragonballs?"
Goku didn¡¯t say anything first, then slowly nodded. Suddenly, Bulma stepped in. "I know! We can look for the dragonballs and make a wish so Frieza can't make his wish! At least, not until next year."
Everyone nodded in agreement. Bulma smiled. "I still have my dragonball radar. Anybody want to join me?" Nobody volunteered. Bulma looked disappointed. "I guess I have to go by myself."
Goku cut in. "You can't go by yourself. It's far too dangerous!"
Krillen joined in. "Yeah Bulma. What if you accidentally fell off a cliff or something? Nobody will be there to save you."
"I got an idea." Everyone turned to Piccolo. "Why don't Vegeta go with Bulma? We do need more training then he does."
"You're right Piccolo! That's a great idea!" Goku said, smiling.
"WHAT?!" Vegeta and Bulma both cried out at the same time.
"No way! I'm not going with Vegeta and that's final!" Bulma yelled.
"I'm not going with that loud mouthed woman!" Vegeta yelled.
Goku covered his ears. "That's enough! Please Vegeta. You have to cooperate with us. You too, Bulma." Vegeta and Bulma both scowled at him and then at each other.
"Alright, I'll go. But I'm only doing this for your sake, Goku," Bulma said.
Vegeta finally agreed to go too. ¡°I¡¯m only doing this for the sake of defeating Frieza,¡± he muttered.
"Good! I guess it's all settled," Goku said cheerfully.
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What do you think so far?
What's going to happen on Chapter Three: Bulma and Vegeta enjoys a wonderful day of dragonball hunting. pfffftt!!! Yeh right! Fighting mummies in Egypt, getting lost in a maze, digging through cemeteries, you get the idea?
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