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The last time in "The Lost Warrior":
Half an hour later the friends met down for breakfast. As they got into the room, they noticed that everyone was standing in front of the TV, out of curiosity they decided to look, what was so interesting. "Hey, is there anything good on TV?" Trunks asked.
"The news." a student answered.
"Hey, make that louder." another student demanded. "… Last night a few police officers found two beaten up and scared men in front of the police department, with a note, which said that The Lost Warrior brought them there. The police interrogated the two as soon as they were awake again and they confessed to have committed many crimes in the last few month…" Trunks looked down at Jenny.
'Is there something you want to tell me?'
'I swear… I didn't do this. I was in my bed the whole night, and you know it. But who did…'
'I knew it!'
'What?'
'It was dad. I knew I felt his ki last night.'
'Vegeta? Yeah, you could be right…'
"So, everyone…" Mr. Smith said, "I want you to eat now your breakfast, so that we will be at the station in time and get our train home."
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Chapter 30: "The Meeting"Time passed quickly with the whole tests they had to write in school and the training the Saiyajins had to do and so faster then expected they had December. They still had no clue, who the guy of Jenny's dream was, but they were still training very hard for the upcoming battle. Bulma and her father had eventually succeeded in making capsules with this earth's technology and they already had taken out a patent for them. They now just had to found Capsule Corporation in this dimension.
One winter afternoon Jenny was at Trunks'. They didn't have school that day, because of the snow and ice outside and so they were just lying lazily on the couch, watching TV. The weather was even too bad to train outside. Of course, they could have gone somewhere else, but they just felt like taking a day off. As they were surfing channels, Bulma and Dr. Briefs just came back from a press conference to present the capsules. "Hi mom! Hi grandpa! How was the conference?"
"Great! The capsules are already famous. And that what people like most is that they will be available to low prices."
"Sounds good," Jenny told her.
"So, and what are you two doing here?"
"Just being lazy and Trunks enjoys his last days of being nineteen."
"Speaking of… Jenny, I want you to invite your parents to the party on Saturday."
"What? Why?"
"Because I'm curious about them. You and Trunks are now together for almost 9 month, and we didn't meet them in that time. But don't worry, we will behave normal and I will take care that Vegeta will be at least polite."
"Okay, then I think I have no other choice," Jenny admitted.
As Jenny got home that evening, she met her parents in the living room. "Hi mom, hi dad!"
"Hey Jenny!" her mother greeted her.
"Uhm mom, before I forget. Tom's mom want to invite you and dad for Tom's birthday party on Saturday, so that you'll finally meet each other."
"Oh, that's nice. Tell them, that we'll be glad to come," Mrs. Collin answered.
"Okay… and by the way. I just want to warn you… Tom's father… uhm… he's a bit strange and doesn't talk much."
"Don't worry about that Jenny. I think we will get along well."
"Okay mom. I go now to my room. I still have to do some homework and I fear that I have to go to school again tomorrow."
Jenny was right and all the students had to go back to school the following day. But to Jenny's luck, her first classes began at 9.30am, so she could sleep a bit longer, but even though, it was hard for Jenny to not fall asleep in her history class. But she wasn't the only one. Almost everyone had a hard time to stay awake while their teacher was standing in front of class, telling them something about the WWII they all already knew. And so it was no wonder that the voice of the teacher slowly began fade in her ears and she was drifting to sleep.
She opened her eyes and saw that she was again in the dark hall. She looked around and saw the battered and bruised bodies of the other fighters on the floor. 'Oh no, not again,' she thought, when she heard someone laughing. She grabbed Trunks' sword and lunged at the laughing figure, but he easily took it out of her hand tossed her to the ground. She could see the mocking cold blue eyes looking down at her.
"Now that's everything, huh? No weapons… No friends… No hope." Jenny closed her eyes, knowing what was coming. "Take all that away… and what's left?" Before the sword could connect with her face, she woke up.
"So, Jenny finally decided to join us again," her teacher said, "If you can answer me the question I just asked, I'll let it slip, but if not, I'll have to talk to you after the lesson." Jenny swallowed and the whole class was silent, curious about what was going on. Trunks saw the desperate look on her paled face and decided to help her.
'He asked when Pearl Harbor was attacked.'
'Thank you, Trunks.'
"So, Jenny, I guess I'll see you after…"
"7th December of 1941," Jenny interrupted him. Her teacher was startled.
"Uh… That's right." At that moment, the bell ring and the students left the classroom. "Uhm Jenny," her teacher stopped her. Trunks wanted to wait, but Jenny mouthed him to wait outside. "I'm sorry to have accused you, but it really looked like you were sleeping."
"To be honest… I was… kind of. But I have my reasons. I didn't sleep well in the last weeks, that's why I'm so tired."
"It's okay. But please don't do that again, okay?"
"Okay."
Jenny met Trunks and Goten on the outside in the hallway. She leaned against the wall and sighed. "Blue eyes."
"What?" Trunks and Goten asked in unison.
"Blue eyes… The guy in my dreams has got mocking cold blue eyes. I've seen them shortly before … I woke up."
"Jenny, are you okay?" Trunks walked up to her and laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Yes, I am," she told him with a fake smile and pushed herself from the wall. "Are you two coming now? I'm hungry." With that she turned her back to them and walked away.
Trunks knew, she wanted to say something else instead of "I woke up", but he didn't know what. He didn't understand her. There were times when she seemed to open up a bit and there were times when she began to act as if everything was just fine and locked herself up, letting no one come near her, hiding her feelings from everyone, really EVERYONE, even him. At those times she was putting up her mental wall, making it impossible for him to feel what she feels. And he hated it, because he wanted to know what she was going through, so that he could help her.
"DAMN IT!" Trunks shouted, as he lunged at Vegeta two days after the history incident. He and his father were sparring in a lonesome desert, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Jenny still hadn't let down the mental wall. She put it up two days before, directly after she told him and Goten about the blue eyes. Trunks tried to talk to her, but she reassured him over and over again that she was all right. And unfortunately Jenny was a very good liar. She could look someone directly in the eyes and lie to them without flushing. He really was worried about her and he knew that he couldn't help her. He felt helpless and that let the anger in his body grow. Vegeta saw that his son was absent and used the chance to send him to the ground.
"It's enough for today, brat. You're not playing attention." He turned around and flew away.
Trunks got on his knees and tore his hair. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" His ki rose and soon his body was surrounded by flashes. He clenched his fist and hit the ground letting the earth shake. Vegeta felt the sudden rise of oh his son's power level and looked back. In the distance he saw a huge explosion of ki. He flew back, to check what had happened.
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Jenny was in the city with Diana and Alexandra looking for a present for Trunks and now sitting in a café as Jenny felt his ki rise. 'What's that? It feels like Trunks, but it's too large.'
"Jenny? Is everything okay?" Alexandra asked.
"Yeah, I just feel a bit dizzy. Excuse me please," she said and went to the bathrooms.
Vegeta landed and saw Trunks standing in front of him. The boy's hair did get spikier and an aura of flashes was now surrounding his body. Vegeta smirked. "I don't know what has happened, but whatever it was, it helped you to become SSJ2."
Trunks smirked as well and crossed his arms in front of his chest. "It feels good." The way he looked now, was the exactly mirror image of his father. Trunks had now the same look on his face as Gohan's as he was fighting Cell. It had lost all his gentleness.
Jenny was standing in one of the cabinets in the bathroom, eyes closed. Trunks' ki was unusual high and now she felt Vegeta power up. "So brat, now that you've ascended I'd like to fight you once again." He waited for an answer, but it never came. He saw Trunks disappear and the next thing he felt was Trunks elbow connecting with his jaw. He didn't expect this, and was totally unprepared. Trunks used this situation and began to pummel his father, using him as his punching bag. Jenny could feel Vegeta's ki dropping drastically. She had to do something, but going there was no option, because Trunks was stronger than her. So she had just one option left, she let her mental wall down.
'Trunks.' Trunks could hear a voice in his head, but ignored it completely. He had just kicked his father to the ground and was self floating down. He walked towards him. 'Trunks!' This time Jenny was firmer, but it didn't help. Trunks was now reaching a hand out, preparing the final blow. Jenny could feel that, and was now beginning to panic. 'DAMN IT! TRUNKS VEGETA BRIEFS! STOP IT! NOW!' This made Trunks snap back into reality.
Trunks looked down at his father, shocked. 'Did I do this?'
'Yes, you did.'
'Jenny? Is that you?'
'Yes, it's me. Who else?' Trunks smiled. It was good to hear her voice again in his head. 'Trunks? What happened?'
'I've gone SSJ2 and then my father and I fought. But I don't understand what has gotten into me.'
At this moment, Goku appeared in front of him. "Wow! Trunks, what has happened? Are you okay?"
"Yes, I am, but don't think that my dad is okay."
"Oh, I'll bring you home then and you can explain everything there."
"Okay." While Goku was picking up Vegeta, Trunks turned back to Jenny. 'Goku just got here. I'll see you tomorrow evening, okay?'
'Okay, see ya.'
Jenny sighed with relief. She was glad that nothing really bad had happened and so she walked back to the waiting Diana and Alexandra. "Hey, are you better now?" Alexandra asked her.
"Yep."
"Good. Then I'm sure we can go now. You still wanted to get something for Tom?" Diana asked her and Jenny nodded.
"I already ordered it a few days ago and I just have to get it."
"Okay, then let's go! I'm curious to see, what you want to give him!" Diana told her excitedly and dragged her friends out of the café.
The next day Jenny and her parents were standing in front of the Brief's and Son's house at about 7pm. Jenny was quite nervous. "Come on Jenny! Why are you that nervous? It isn't like we'll meet aliens or something like that." Jenny just smiled nervously at her mother. If she just knew how right she was. At that moment, Bulma opened the door.
"Oh hello!" she greeted them cheerfully.
"Hello Bryanne! May I introduce you to my parents?"
"Good evening Mrs. Briefs. Thank you for your invitation," Mrs. Collin said.
"Your welcome. And, just call me Bryanne. I hate formalities."
"Okay, I'm Bessie and this is my husband Jonathan," Jenny's father nodded politely.
"Oh, how rude of me. Please come in. Tom isn't ready yet, but Shana's already there with her parents and so are Diana, Gina, Alexandra, Naomi and Isabel."
"Huh? Shana's parents are here, too?"
"Yeah, I invited them, so that Gunnar and Ciara would get to know them."
Jenny sighed mentally. 'At least two normal people mom and dad could talk to.'
Bulma led them upstairs to the living room and introduced them to everyone and a few minutes later Trunks finally arrived. When Jenny saw him entering the room, she ran towards him, flung her arms around his neck and kissed him passionately. Trunks loved it, when Jenny was like this, because that meant that she was her cheerful and careless self, a typical Son. Jenny's father raised an eyebrow at this scene, but her mother quickly poked him in the ribs. As they broke apart, Jenny grinned at Trunks. She grabbed into the pocket of her jeans (Trunks wanted them to wear casual clothes) and pulled out a small box and gave it to Trunks. "Happy birthday!" He opened it and took out a silver necklace with a heart shaped pendant. In the heart was a small engraving, which said: J & T Not even death will tear us apart.
"Thank you Jenny." He kissed her, "it's beautiful."
After Jenny and Trunks were done, the other guests congratulated him. Diana, Gina, Alexandra, Naomi and Isabel made a special present for Trunks. They've collected the best photos they had from the clique and from him and Jenny and put them into a giant frame. Most of the pictures were from the trip to Prague and in the middle of the frame was a photo of all the people of the clique. "Wow, guys! That's great! Thank you!" He hugged them.
"Okay, now that all the presents are open, I guess we should eat now," Bulma announced and everyone took their seat at the table. The parents were sitting at one end of the table while the young persons were sitting at the other end.
During dinner, Jenny was still tensed and she noticed that Shana was also watching her parents to see, how they got along with the Sons and Briefs and much to both, Jenny's and Shana's surprise, they got along very well. Even Vegeta was talking with them. But the thing everyone surprised most was that the Saiyajins showed table manners and that they were eating as much as normal people. Jenny guessed that they either ate something before the guests arrived or that they would eat when everyone was gone.
After dinner, the women went to the kitchen to talk, the clique went to Trunks' room and Pan and Bra went to Bra's room, while the men decided to stay in the living room In the kitchen, the women were all seated around the table. "I wonder why Jenny was so nervous about the fact that we would finally meet you."
"What? Jenny was nervous? Strange… Shana was the same way."
"Maybe they were afraid that we wouldn't like each other and that you would forbid them to see our sons again," Bulma said and the other women laughed.
"But I don't see a reason about their nervousness. I mean, you're all really nice and I'm also glad that Jenny finally found someone. She has changed a lot since she knows Tom. I've never seen her that happy in a long time. Every time she talks about him, her eyes are really shining. I just hope that their relationship will last long."
"Don't worry Bessie. I'm sure it will. They share more than many other people in their age do. I can feel it," Bulma told her, "It's the same with Glenn and Shana. It almost seems like they belong together."
In the living room, the men were sitting around the coffee table. "So, Vincent… Jenny told me that you and Gunnar know how to fight?"
"That's right. We are martial artists," Vegeta answered the question of Jenny's father.
"Uhm, you know that we teach her martial arts, do you?" Goku asked him.
"No, I didn't know. I just knew that she took that class in school. Is she good?"
"Yes, she has a lot of potential," Goku told him proudly.
"You know what? Each time she's talking about you, she praises you. Jenny really looks up to you two. She once said that you are like second fathers to her. I just hope that nothing would be destroyed when they break up…"
"That won't happen. Trust me. I know it," Vegeta told him.
"Excuse me please… But I have a question…" Goku said, "Do you have any pictures with you, when Jenny was still a child? I mean, because she's like a daughter to me, too and I'm curious."
"Sure." Jenny's father took out his briefcase and handed Goku a few pictures.
"That's her? She was really a cute girl." One photo showed Jenny, as she was about four years old. She was wearing a white blouse and a bordeaux dress. Her hair was light blond and there were more locks than when she was older. Her eyes were big and shined blue and the grin on her face was the typical Son grin. 'Oh, how I wish I could have seen her grow up.'
In Trunks' room, the clique sat either on the bed, on the floor or on chairs which were standing in the room. Trunks was glad that Naomi and Alexandra were there, so nobody brought up the threat or something that had to do with fighting or Saiyajins. They mostly talked about school and what they would do in the winter holidays, but the main theme was the upcoming final examination. A bit more than four month and it would all be over.
About midnight, the guests thought it was about time to go home. Jenny and Shana stayed at Trunks and Goten, so they also said goodbye to their parents. Back in the Briefs' apartment, Jenny's guess was right. There was a huge meal on the kitchen table, enough to feed all the Saiyajins in the house. After they ate their small midnight snack, the families went back to their own apartments. Shana and Goten were tired and went directly to bed and Jenny and Trunks were also in Trunks room. As Trunks came back from the bathroom, he found Jenny lying on his bed with a black silk nightgown. She got up, when she saw him and walked towards him. She kissed him and he didn't notice that Jenny was slowly leading him to the bed, until he tripped and fell backwards on his bed. "What the…?" Jenny put a finger on his mouth and kissed him again.
"Did you really think, you already got all your presents?" she asked him smirking and switched off the light.
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So, Trunks finally became twenty and he reached SSJ2!And everything went well with the big parents meeting, much to the teens delight.
And finally, in the next chapter I will reveal the identity of the bad guy!!!
Eternally Yours
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