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"You can come out now!" Vegeta said and two figures stepped out of the dark behind him, "But still hide your ki. She's very good at feeling it."
"I know." the larger figure answered.
"Vegeta, that was quite an impressive speech. I must say, I'm surprised hearing something like that from you." the smaller figure now said.
Vegeta almost smiled and turned to them with a serious face. "And you two are really sure about it?"
The smaller one now also got serious. "As hard as it is. Yes, I'm sure about it."
Then the larger one looked straight at Vegeta. "And you really know that she will come tonight?"
The prince nodded. "When you're right and she feels your kis, I'm pretty sure she'll come to you. That's why I will stay with you. But don't worry, she won't even notice that I'm here."
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Chapter 33: "Graduation Day, Part One"Jenny was standing in the middle of a park. The sun was shining and the birds were singing. 'What the hell am I doing here? And what the hell is that?' She looked down at herself and saw that she was wearing a long, white dress that was flying in the wind. Suddenly she heard voices and decided to walk towards them. She stopped behind a tree and saw two children, a boy and a girl about seven playing in the grass. She gazed around and saw a woman and a young girl sitting under a tree. The girl with the shoulder length black hair talked to the woman, who had blond hair. Both of them were playing with a small child, which couldn't be older than one and a half year. Jenny smiled as she saw this. 'They are so happy. I just wished I could have a family like this in the future.'
"You can't escape your destiny!" a voice hissed and shortly after the family fainted and everything went dark around her. Jenny looked down at herself and noticed that she wasn't wearing the dress anymore, but her dark blue Saiyan armor. In the right hand she held a sword. When she looked up again, she saw Mr. Fieldner standing a few meters away from her and the bodies of the other fighters on the ground.
"I know. That's why I'm here," Jenny said and was surprised how calm her voice was. She then tightened her grip at the sword and lunged at her enemy, but he grabbed the sword and tossed Jenny back, who let go of her weapon and fell on the floor.
"Now that's everything, huh? No weapons… No friends… No hope." Jenny closed her eyes again and steeled herself for whatever was coming. "Take all that away… and what's left?" He drew the sword back and thrust it directly at her body. Jenny felt the sword sliding into her chest, but she didn't scream.
Jenny woke up as she felt a sharp pain in her chest and tasted blood in her mouth. The pain was unbearable and no matter how often she swallowed the blood, it was always replaced by new blood. 'No… not here… not like this!' She noticed that she was about to faint, so she opened with her last strength her drawer and took out the small bag with the senzu beans and swallowed one. Jenny felt immediately as the pain vanished, switched on the light and got out of the bed. As she looked in the mirror in her bedroom, she saw that her shirt was drenched with blood at the spot, where she felt the pain. "Oh my god…" she whispered.
Suddenly all the pictures of the dream flashed again in front of her eyes. The happy family, the moment everything vanished and the moment the blade slid into her flesh. And the whole time the words were repeated in her head. 'You can't escape your destiny! … No weapons… no friend… no hope… Take all that away… and what's left? … You can't escape your destiny!'
She remembered the pain and what she had thought. 'They are so lucky. I just wished I could have a family like this in the future.'
At that moment Jenny was happy that she always had her mental wall up in the night, so that Trunks wouldn't have her dreams. She looked first looked at her clock, which showed 3.18am and then at her bed. But the girl shook her head. No, she wouldn't be able to sleep right now. She quickly changed her clothes from her shirt to a pair of blue baggy pants and a black T-shirt. That was, as she felt two familiar kis a few kilometers from her house. She switched off the light and put two fingers on her forehead. 'I just hope they're here to tell me that my dream didn't mean anything.'
Jenny reappeared directly in front of them. "Hey Piccolo! Hey Dende!"
"Hello Jenny!" Dende greeted the girl friendly, but Piccolo just nodded.
"What are you two doing here? I hope you're here to tell me that the big party tomorrow won't take place," she said, staring nervously at her feet, still hoping that they were not here because of her dream.
"I think you know exactly why we're here," Piccolo stated.
'Shit!' "My destiny…." She looked back up, directly in Dende's eyes. "So? What will my destiny look like?"
"Jenny… First of all…"
"Dende, please… Just say it!" Jenny interrupted the god.
"I'm sorry… But you won't survive the battle tomorrow. You must know, you're the only one who can defeat him. I don't know why you're the only one, but this is written in some prophecies."
"So, what you want to tell me is that whether I kill him or not, I'll die. But how? How can I die, when I kill him before?" Jenny felt now tears in her eyes.
"There's something Vegeta didn't know about the race of the Oryx-jin," Piccolo now told her. "When you kill someone who got the power of an Oryx-jin, his body will explode with an impact that no one who's near him will be able to survive. Not even a Saiyajin."
"But I could teleport myself away from him, before the shockwave reaches me…" Jenny thought.
"Forget it," Piccolo informed her. "The energy that will be built up in his body, will be too big, so that you won't be able anymore to concentrate on other energies."
"Oh… and what about the Dragonballs?" Jenny asked, clutching at her last straw of hope. Dende shook his head.
"They don't work in this dimension…"
"Okay… Then I think, I'll have no other choice…" Jenny said with a confident smile, blinking away her tears, "No matter how you look at it, this seems to be the only way to save the earth." She turned to go but looked back again. "And Dende, thank you…"
"Huh?"
"For not lying to me." Dende was speechless and Jenny then turned to Piccolo. "Will I see you tomorrow at the battle?"
"No, I don't think so. The people will panic when they see me."
"Okay," Jenny said, putting two fingers at her forehead, "Bye bye! I guess I'll see ya someday in the afterlife." With that, she disappeared.
"She took it better than I thought," Dende said.
"She's a Saiyajin. She would never show her true emotions. But I think she's strong enough to cope with it," Vegeta told him, as he walked out of the shadows.
"How do you want to know?" Piccolo asked him.
"Did you see the look on her face as she accepted her destiny?" the prince asked the Namek.
"Huh? Right! Now that you say it!"
"What are you two talking about?" the younger Namek wanted to know.
"She had the same look and the same confident smile on her face as Kakarotto as he sacrificed his life in the battle with Cell."
They stood there a moment in silence until Vegeta said goodbye and flew back home. "Dende, there's something I wanted to ask you since we got here. Why did you choose Vegeta as the one who should know about the prophecy?"
"That's easy. I needed someone who understands what it means to sacrifice his life for others and who does know Jenny very good. That would have been Goku or Vegeta. But Vegeta is the only one who wouldn't stop her from fighting. Goku would do everything to protect his only daughter and he would've probably sent here to some distant planet, so that she wouldn't have been able to fight. Vegeta on the other hand wouldn't do that, because he knows about the Saiyajin pride and I'm sure he'll do anything to help or to protect her in the fight."
"I understand… But she's still so young…"
When Jenny was back in her bedroom, she felt like crying or going somewhere, where she didn't have to face HIM and her destiny. But her pride wouldn't allow that. She's a Saiyajin, after all. Born to fight and not to let herself go like this. She must be strong.
She opened her drawer and took out the letters she wrote in the last week. They were for her friends in case that she wouldn't come back and a letter for her parents, in which she explained everything and which she wanted to give them in any case, so that she didn't need to lie to them anymore when this is over. Jenny thought of writing this one new, but then decided against it, because her parents would possibly freak out more, when she tells them that she would die, rather than when she just tells them, that she has a fight and doesn't know if she would come back.
After she put the letters back, she took out her diary, which she started as her true identity was revealed. She wrote so much in it. Her dreams, her improvements in training, her worries, her fears… Everything. And now she would make the last entry.
*June, 21st 2002
This will be my last entry, because today I will die. I know it sounds strange and it is even stranger to write it down. I had a dream last night in which Mr. Fieldner killed me and in which he said that I couldn't escape my destiny. I know what you would say now: "A dream! This can't be true!" I thought the same thing, but as I woke up with blood in my mouth and a wound at my chest I realized that the dream was true. I talked to Dende and Piccolo about it. They came here to tell me that I would die. Dende told me that I'm the only one who can defeat this guy, but he couldn't tell my why. He just talked about a prophecy. But I know why. I will be the only one left. Referring to my dreams, all the others are knocked out and just I'm left. But I didn't tell him that. Piccolo told me further that I'll die, because when I'll kill Mr. Fieldner, there will be a huge explosion, which would destroy everything and everyone near it. And the nearest person to Mr. Fieldner would be me, because I'll kill him. So, I would either die, because he would kill me before I could kill him, or I would die, because of the explosion. I just hope that I will get him first and far away from the others, so that the explosion won't harm them. I also hope that Trunks will be okay with this, because I accepted it, even though Vegeta always says that you can change your destiny. The last thing I want to do is to hurt Trunks, but I must thank him. The last year was the most happiest I had in my life, thanks to him. He showed me what true love means. Trunks, I love you more than anything else and I hope you forgive me for not telling you. Ask your father, if you want to know why I didn't tell anyone. He was there, when I was talking to Dende and Piccolo, even though I think that he doesn't know that I know. I felt him. Not through his ki, but through the special bond we share. A bond of friendship. It's deeper that the one I have with my other friends. He understands me and knows when not to stop me from doing something, like now. So, I say now my farewells. Goodbye!
Jenny Collin/Son
"The Lost Warrior"*
The next morning when Jenny walked into the kitchen, she watched her father was reading the papers and her mother making breakfast. The thought of not seeing them again for a very long time broke her heart and she wanted to cry out loud, but she remained strong. During breakfast everyone was silent and when Jenny's mother asked her, if she was okay, she just answered that she was a bit nervous about the whole Graduation Day thing. Before Jenny left the house, she placed the letter for her parents unnoticed in the living room. "Jenny? Are you ready?" her mother asked her.
"Yes mom! One moment!" Jenny came back to the kitchen with her bag. She told her parents that Diana and her boyfriend Jenson would come and pick them up at the corner of their street, so that her parents didn't need to drive her. "I love you two!" Jenny said, as she hugged her parents one last time, before she left the house. "And don't forget! Don't come to the school! I warn you!"
"Okay, okay… We know! You don't want your parents to see you drunk!" Her mother said laughing. Jenny smiled, too and waved to her parents, when she was walking down the street and as she looked back to their house one last time, a small tear escaped her eye.
"Goodbye, mom, dad. I love you and take care of yourself."
Diana and Jenson were already waiting at the corner. During the ride to the school reigned silence. Trunks, Goten and Shana were already there and waited outside the building for their friends. Trunks was already a bit powered up, because his hair was lavender. He decided it would be better to be careful. When other students asked him, what he had done with his hair, he just answered that it has been a gag for the Graduation Day. Trunks and Jenny kissed passionately as greeting, but as they broke apart, Jenny spotted Mr. Fieldner at the entrance of the school. "He's here," she simply stated.
"I know," Trunks answered.
"Hey, we should go in. The others are already in the assembly hall," Goten told them. They agreed and entered the building. Everything was dark. Blinds were in front of the windows and there were just many small lights in the hall and corridors. Much to the friends disapproval it was hard to get through the hallways, because of tables and chairs and other things blocking it, but they couldn't convince the other school-leavers to let this be, because it is already a tradition.
At exactly eight o'clock the other students were called into the assembly hall. At the beginning, each school-leaver was introduced to the other students and then they got several teachers on the stage to 'torture' them a bit. Much to her surprise Jenny was totally calm and prepared, as were Trunks and Goten, while their other normal friends, who knew about the fight, began to get nervous. At about 8.30am Jenny could feel the kis of the other warriors on the outside. "Cavalry is here," she told the other sarcastically, trying to loosen them up a bit.
Twenty minutes later, Neena called Mr. Fieldner to the stage and as Jenny nodded to Mr. Wordman, he left the room and headed towards the secretary's office. The students forced Mr. Fieldner to sit down in a chair and Jenny stepped in front of him to face him. "You know that I'll make you pay for what you did to me."
"Oh, should I be afraid now? So, what did you and your friends plan? You know, you can't escape your destiny."
"I know. That's why I'm here and not on the Bahamas." The students cheered at her response. They all thought it was some kind of game, but the insiders questioned themselves what she meant with it. At the moment Trunks wanted to ask her about it, the fire alarm went off. Everyone thought first that it belonged to the show, but as the teachers headed to the outside, the students followed them.
"Be careful!" Shana said as she kissed Goten and was about to leave as Jenny stopped them.
"Here," she handed her friend her bag, "inside is a brown envelope. Open it when you're far away from school and in safety."
"Okay." With that she followed the others.
As everyone had left the building, there were just Jenny, Trunks, Goten and Mr. Fieldner left. "I must say I'm impressed. A good way to save the innocents. But I want to let you know, that after I'm finished with you, it's their turn."
"You can bark, but can you bite?" he heard a voice coming from the door.
"If that isn't Vegeta. The soft prince of the pathetic race called Saiyans. I'm disappointed of you. I thought you were a killer."
"I still am. But I just kill those who annoy me. And you're one of them." At this moment, everyone felt the dramatically rise of the teachers ki and he began to scream. It was 9 o'clock and Jenny, Goten and Trunks quickly pushed the buttons at their watch to change into their armors.
"Here it comes," Jenny said as the transformation of her ex-teacher came to an end.
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