Chapter 11
A/N: I hate what fanfiction.net does to my story when I upload it! Whenever I typed a '.' the edit system makes it just a period! It makes some of the thoughts look incomplete! And in between scenes, when I do ~~~~~~~ X~~~~~~~, sometimes it doesn't upload all my spaces! ARGH! But anyway, thanks for all of the positive feedback! And I'm going to skip ahead a little. Nothing important goes on until now. if you didn't gather that already.
~~~~~~~4 months later~~~~~~~
Everyone was settling in. All the teenagers had gotten to know Bulma and they all liked her. They spent their rest hour at the infirmary if they could. Bulma and Vegeta were extremely comfortable around each other and spent time together without the rest of their friends. Bulma became more open and friendly and not nearly as self-conscious about her looks. Lyra held nothing against Bulma and was very close with her. She also continued to learn her skills from Master Sakuno. (A/N: you'll hear about those later.) Vegeta learned everything he could possibly want to know about being charming, nice, polite, rude, stubborn, right. he was almost disgusted with his newly acquired skills! Yokito was a lot happier, for which Adrian was happy in turn. They still hadn't gotten Toto back but Adrian was always scheming. Radu and Radditz continued to be happy.
The only problem anyone could see was the girl's new roommate Ka'tel. She didn't want to hang out in their group; she was extremely shy and quiet when all the girls were in the tent. they didn't know what to do!
The morning started out normal enough. Radu slowly got up when the bell rang. Lyra, being her normal chirpy self, got up quickly.
"Another great day!" She sang. She waltzed over to Adrian's bed, who was still asleep. "Adrian, time to get up!" Radu rolled her eyes. Adrian always tried to sleep past the bell and Lyra always tried to get her up. Ka'tel had already quietly left the tent and was headed to the dining hall.
"Shurrup." Adrian slurred. She pulled her blanket over her head.
"Ah, ah, ah! I don't think so!" Lyra chided. She yanked the blankets off her bed. Adrian shivered and rolled up into a ball. Radu pulled her armor on and walked over to Adrian's bed and made a ki ball. This wasn't a normal ki ball though. Radu gave a malicious smile to Lyra and then put the ki ball on Adrian's feet.
"AHHH! Oh! Ouch! Ah!" Adrian screamed, jumping out of her bed and hopping around. "What the hell was that?!"
"Oh, just a little something I've been thinking about doing for a while now. I wondered what I could do to you that would make you get up. I guess a negatively charged ki ball worked." Radu said with a laugh. "Look, we need to eat. Will you just hurry up and get dressed? I'm hungry!"
"Me too!" Lyra said. Adrian scowled and put on her armor. Lyra jogged over to her bed, grabbed her own armor, and put it on. "Hey, do you think we need our robes? I mean, we did yesterday."
"Good idea!" Radu said. "I forgot about that!"
~~~~~~~In the dining hall~~~~~~~
The din in the dining hall was deafening. But when Master Aiikichi stood up, it silenced quickly. Normally, Master Aiikichi only made announcements after dinner. He must have had something important to say.
"Today, some of you shall be graduating. A new draft is being posted. They King's royal guards need 10 more trainees. That means that the training arena is closed to everyone except those eligible to try out. If you wish to do so, the west end is where you should meet. There is also another draft of purgers. Freiza needs 10 more Saiyain purgers. The east end will be used. Everyone else has a day off." He sat back down. The noise started up again, louder then before.
"Hey Lyra, that means your loverboy will be going away!" Kakkarot laughed. Everyone laughed except for Lyra, who looked towards the ceiling and mimicked praying.
"A free day. I wonder what we should do." Radu though aloud.
"Well, first we should go to the infirmary. Vegeta and Bulma should both still be there if we leave now." Radditz suggested. Vegeta had formed a habit of eating breakfast in the infirmary on some days. The others just accepted it.
They all got up and left.
~~~~~~~At the infirmary~~~~~~~
At the infirmary, Vegeta and Bulma had finished eating. Now, Vegeta was on a seat and had pulled Bulma into his lap. When he had done this, Bulma had giggled and given his cheek a peck. They were an extremely touchy-feely couple, as much as Vegeta tried to hide it in public. However, he never refused to hold hands with Bulma, and indeed, on many occasions, it was Vegeta who initiated the contact. Now they were talking about random things. Suddenly, Vegeta interrupted Bulma.
"Hold on." he said. Bulma regarded Vegeta with a confused expression.
"What is it?" She questioned. Then Vegeta scowled.
"This morning is being cut short. The others are approaching for some reason." Vegeta grumbled. Bulma got up, followed by Vegeta.
"Is there something wrong? Are they coming quickly?" Bulma asked, a little worried.
"No, they aren't approaching with an extreme speed." Vegeta said. He walked over to the door and, pausing for about thirty seconds, he opened it quickly. Just outside the door, Bulma could make out the surprised faces of Radu, Radditz, Lyra, Kakkarot, Yokito, Adrian, and Gio. And for the second time in two minutes (A/N: And we know he's gone a shorter amount of time.), Vegeta scowled.
"Oi! Vegeta!" Kakkarot smiled. "You knew we were coming!"
"Duh!" Adrian said with a roll of her eyes.
"Hello!" Lyra sang, stepping inside behind Radu. Once everyone was inside, Vegeta slammed the door shut. Lyra jumped a bit and turned to face Vegeta. "Well! You aren't in a very good mood!"
"And to think." Radu said wistfully. "We were coming to bring you good news."
Bulma walked over to Vegeta and took his hand. It no longer bothered anyone to see them do so, although when it had first started, everyone's eyes had bulged out.
"Well? What is it?" Bulma asked with a big smile.
Lyra began to get excited. She started speaking rapidly.
"Ohmigoddess! So at breakfast, Aiikichi got up and said there would be a tryout for 10 new Royal Guards and 10 planet purgers! And since the training grounds are being used, we get a day off! Isn't that great!"
"Eh. heh heh." Bulma stuttered. "That is good news! What do you guys wanna do then?" She was greeted with silence. Everyone looked at each other.
"Oh please tell me you guys have things you do for fun." Bulma muttered.
"We fight," Yokito offered. "That's fun."
"Well, today is a day off. I don't really see that as taking a break." Bulma responded. She wanted to utilize this whole day she could spend with her friends, not spend half of it watching them fight and the other half healing them back to health!
"Ummm. we could fly really high and see who can throw a ki blast the farthest," Kakkarot said. "That's always fun."
"Nah," Radditz nixed. "Ever since Yokito got those blades of his, we haven't been able to beat him." Yokito jokingly gloated. Lyra elbowed him innocently.
"Hey!" Yokito said, taking a step to the side. "That wasn't necessary!"
"Hmmm? Oh! Yokito! Didn't see you standing there! Do you have any suggestions?" Lyra asked innocently.
"Fighting sounded good to me. I mean, around here, what else can we do? We're here to train, right?" Yokito asked.
To Bulma's relief, both Lyra and Adrian shook their heads. Lyra spoke up.
"No. Don't you see? Bulma won't be able to participate."
"Yeah," Adrian added. "And don't you even just want to do something different? I mean, Yokito said exactly the problem. We're here to train, but we've done nothing but train."
"Hey, I have an idea." Bulma said. "Do you guys know how to dance?" Everyone regarded her with apprehension. Vegeta snorted and looked away.
"What, Vegeta?" Bulma asked.
"Dance." Vegeta muttered. "Can I dance? I can dance. I tango, waltz, cha- cha, square dance. name it and I can do it. That old man drilled me until I could dance in my sleep! And there is no way I'm going to waste this day dancing."
"Okay." Bulma said. She continued the conversation mentally with Vegeta.
I didn't know you could dance.
Yes, you did.
No, I didn't. I don't know everything about you.
Yes, you do.
ARGH! Well, apparently not! And with that, Bulma slammed up her mental walls. All this had happened in two seconds. Bulma caught the last part of Kakkarot's comment.
".dance?" Kakkarot said. He doubled over and started laughing. Everyone else had amused smiles on their faces. Yokito grabbed K'Naki and started dancing around the others. Vegeta growled and made to chase after them, but Bulma situated herself in his arms so that they started dancing.
Radu let out a whoop and grabbed her twin just as Adrian and Gio started dancing, as did Kakkarot and Lyra. Soon, all the couples were dancing around, laughing and whooping the whole time. (A/N: okay. that was sudden inspiration. just a little fun for today. whoa that idea is weird.)
~~~~~~~An hour later~~~~~~~~
Soon, everyone had stopped dancing. They were now in Bulma's lab, all perched in different positions. Bulma was sitting at the main computer terminal, Vegeta right behind her.
They were still trying to think of things to do on their free day.
"We could whittle." Kakkarot suggested. He was hit with various pieces of lab trash. "Okay, okay. just a suggestion." he grumbled. "Not like you guys are throwing out better ideas."
"So what?" Adrian retorted from her spot on one of Bulma's lab tables. "Even if we don't have an idea, we can still tell when yours sucks!"
"Alright!" Bulma exclaimed. "It's ready! I just have to get a couple of things from the supply room so don't go anywhere!" With that, Bulma ran out.
"Okay. thanks. I guess." Radu stuttered.
"What was that about?" Gio asked.
"You'll see." was Vegeta's stoic response. Many people rolled their eyes. No one bothered to try and get anymore information out of him. Fortunately, a couple of minutes later, Bulma ran back in followed by many bots hold what looked like metal armor.
"Okay," Bulma began excitedly. "Now, it occurred to me that if we don't have anything to do, I'd design a game!"
"You can do that?" Radu gasped.
"And how long did this take you?" Yokito wondered aloud. Everyone else had various expressions of wonder on their face.
"Oh, I did it in the last hour." Bulma said nonchalantly. "But that isn't important. Okay. Here's how it works. What I designed is a fantasyland at any one time, all ten of us can be hooked up. What will happen is the armor," she motioned behind her to the bots who were in the process of hooking up the armor to the main terminal. "Will read your brain waves and adapt the game to the kind of person you are. It will be a quest of sorts, a strategy game. We'll be able to see each other and our quests might interact, but mostly the computer will design a suitable objective for you and you'll attempt to accomplish."
Amazed expressions regarded her. She blushed slightly.
"Okay." she said slowly. "Let me show you on the main screen. You can see my quest for now, but then you'll all have to start your own."
And with that, she slipped on one of the armors and on the main screen, a picture of a beautiful land zoomed in on a castle.
A/N: Okay, this chapter was really short and I can't believe I didn't finish it later. Sorry about not updating. I have some good ideas for where I'm taking this story and I've had a sequel formulating for a while now. I can't wait, but I can't write my life away!
A/N: I hate what fanfiction.net does to my story when I upload it! Whenever I typed a '.' the edit system makes it just a period! It makes some of the thoughts look incomplete! And in between scenes, when I do ~~~~~~~ X~~~~~~~, sometimes it doesn't upload all my spaces! ARGH! But anyway, thanks for all of the positive feedback! And I'm going to skip ahead a little. Nothing important goes on until now. if you didn't gather that already.
~~~~~~~4 months later~~~~~~~
Everyone was settling in. All the teenagers had gotten to know Bulma and they all liked her. They spent their rest hour at the infirmary if they could. Bulma and Vegeta were extremely comfortable around each other and spent time together without the rest of their friends. Bulma became more open and friendly and not nearly as self-conscious about her looks. Lyra held nothing against Bulma and was very close with her. She also continued to learn her skills from Master Sakuno. (A/N: you'll hear about those later.) Vegeta learned everything he could possibly want to know about being charming, nice, polite, rude, stubborn, right. he was almost disgusted with his newly acquired skills! Yokito was a lot happier, for which Adrian was happy in turn. They still hadn't gotten Toto back but Adrian was always scheming. Radu and Radditz continued to be happy.
The only problem anyone could see was the girl's new roommate Ka'tel. She didn't want to hang out in their group; she was extremely shy and quiet when all the girls were in the tent. they didn't know what to do!
The morning started out normal enough. Radu slowly got up when the bell rang. Lyra, being her normal chirpy self, got up quickly.
"Another great day!" She sang. She waltzed over to Adrian's bed, who was still asleep. "Adrian, time to get up!" Radu rolled her eyes. Adrian always tried to sleep past the bell and Lyra always tried to get her up. Ka'tel had already quietly left the tent and was headed to the dining hall.
"Shurrup." Adrian slurred. She pulled her blanket over her head.
"Ah, ah, ah! I don't think so!" Lyra chided. She yanked the blankets off her bed. Adrian shivered and rolled up into a ball. Radu pulled her armor on and walked over to Adrian's bed and made a ki ball. This wasn't a normal ki ball though. Radu gave a malicious smile to Lyra and then put the ki ball on Adrian's feet.
"AHHH! Oh! Ouch! Ah!" Adrian screamed, jumping out of her bed and hopping around. "What the hell was that?!"
"Oh, just a little something I've been thinking about doing for a while now. I wondered what I could do to you that would make you get up. I guess a negatively charged ki ball worked." Radu said with a laugh. "Look, we need to eat. Will you just hurry up and get dressed? I'm hungry!"
"Me too!" Lyra said. Adrian scowled and put on her armor. Lyra jogged over to her bed, grabbed her own armor, and put it on. "Hey, do you think we need our robes? I mean, we did yesterday."
"Good idea!" Radu said. "I forgot about that!"
~~~~~~~In the dining hall~~~~~~~
The din in the dining hall was deafening. But when Master Aiikichi stood up, it silenced quickly. Normally, Master Aiikichi only made announcements after dinner. He must have had something important to say.
"Today, some of you shall be graduating. A new draft is being posted. They King's royal guards need 10 more trainees. That means that the training arena is closed to everyone except those eligible to try out. If you wish to do so, the west end is where you should meet. There is also another draft of purgers. Freiza needs 10 more Saiyain purgers. The east end will be used. Everyone else has a day off." He sat back down. The noise started up again, louder then before.
"Hey Lyra, that means your loverboy will be going away!" Kakkarot laughed. Everyone laughed except for Lyra, who looked towards the ceiling and mimicked praying.
"A free day. I wonder what we should do." Radu though aloud.
"Well, first we should go to the infirmary. Vegeta and Bulma should both still be there if we leave now." Radditz suggested. Vegeta had formed a habit of eating breakfast in the infirmary on some days. The others just accepted it.
They all got up and left.
~~~~~~~At the infirmary~~~~~~~
At the infirmary, Vegeta and Bulma had finished eating. Now, Vegeta was on a seat and had pulled Bulma into his lap. When he had done this, Bulma had giggled and given his cheek a peck. They were an extremely touchy-feely couple, as much as Vegeta tried to hide it in public. However, he never refused to hold hands with Bulma, and indeed, on many occasions, it was Vegeta who initiated the contact. Now they were talking about random things. Suddenly, Vegeta interrupted Bulma.
"Hold on." he said. Bulma regarded Vegeta with a confused expression.
"What is it?" She questioned. Then Vegeta scowled.
"This morning is being cut short. The others are approaching for some reason." Vegeta grumbled. Bulma got up, followed by Vegeta.
"Is there something wrong? Are they coming quickly?" Bulma asked, a little worried.
"No, they aren't approaching with an extreme speed." Vegeta said. He walked over to the door and, pausing for about thirty seconds, he opened it quickly. Just outside the door, Bulma could make out the surprised faces of Radu, Radditz, Lyra, Kakkarot, Yokito, Adrian, and Gio. And for the second time in two minutes (A/N: And we know he's gone a shorter amount of time.), Vegeta scowled.
"Oi! Vegeta!" Kakkarot smiled. "You knew we were coming!"
"Duh!" Adrian said with a roll of her eyes.
"Hello!" Lyra sang, stepping inside behind Radu. Once everyone was inside, Vegeta slammed the door shut. Lyra jumped a bit and turned to face Vegeta. "Well! You aren't in a very good mood!"
"And to think." Radu said wistfully. "We were coming to bring you good news."
Bulma walked over to Vegeta and took his hand. It no longer bothered anyone to see them do so, although when it had first started, everyone's eyes had bulged out.
"Well? What is it?" Bulma asked with a big smile.
Lyra began to get excited. She started speaking rapidly.
"Ohmigoddess! So at breakfast, Aiikichi got up and said there would be a tryout for 10 new Royal Guards and 10 planet purgers! And since the training grounds are being used, we get a day off! Isn't that great!"
"Eh. heh heh." Bulma stuttered. "That is good news! What do you guys wanna do then?" She was greeted with silence. Everyone looked at each other.
"Oh please tell me you guys have things you do for fun." Bulma muttered.
"We fight," Yokito offered. "That's fun."
"Well, today is a day off. I don't really see that as taking a break." Bulma responded. She wanted to utilize this whole day she could spend with her friends, not spend half of it watching them fight and the other half healing them back to health!
"Ummm. we could fly really high and see who can throw a ki blast the farthest," Kakkarot said. "That's always fun."
"Nah," Radditz nixed. "Ever since Yokito got those blades of his, we haven't been able to beat him." Yokito jokingly gloated. Lyra elbowed him innocently.
"Hey!" Yokito said, taking a step to the side. "That wasn't necessary!"
"Hmmm? Oh! Yokito! Didn't see you standing there! Do you have any suggestions?" Lyra asked innocently.
"Fighting sounded good to me. I mean, around here, what else can we do? We're here to train, right?" Yokito asked.
To Bulma's relief, both Lyra and Adrian shook their heads. Lyra spoke up.
"No. Don't you see? Bulma won't be able to participate."
"Yeah," Adrian added. "And don't you even just want to do something different? I mean, Yokito said exactly the problem. We're here to train, but we've done nothing but train."
"Hey, I have an idea." Bulma said. "Do you guys know how to dance?" Everyone regarded her with apprehension. Vegeta snorted and looked away.
"What, Vegeta?" Bulma asked.
"Dance." Vegeta muttered. "Can I dance? I can dance. I tango, waltz, cha- cha, square dance. name it and I can do it. That old man drilled me until I could dance in my sleep! And there is no way I'm going to waste this day dancing."
"Okay." Bulma said. She continued the conversation mentally with Vegeta.
I didn't know you could dance.
Yes, you did.
No, I didn't. I don't know everything about you.
Yes, you do.
ARGH! Well, apparently not! And with that, Bulma slammed up her mental walls. All this had happened in two seconds. Bulma caught the last part of Kakkarot's comment.
".dance?" Kakkarot said. He doubled over and started laughing. Everyone else had amused smiles on their faces. Yokito grabbed K'Naki and started dancing around the others. Vegeta growled and made to chase after them, but Bulma situated herself in his arms so that they started dancing.
Radu let out a whoop and grabbed her twin just as Adrian and Gio started dancing, as did Kakkarot and Lyra. Soon, all the couples were dancing around, laughing and whooping the whole time. (A/N: okay. that was sudden inspiration. just a little fun for today. whoa that idea is weird.)
~~~~~~~An hour later~~~~~~~~
Soon, everyone had stopped dancing. They were now in Bulma's lab, all perched in different positions. Bulma was sitting at the main computer terminal, Vegeta right behind her.
They were still trying to think of things to do on their free day.
"We could whittle." Kakkarot suggested. He was hit with various pieces of lab trash. "Okay, okay. just a suggestion." he grumbled. "Not like you guys are throwing out better ideas."
"So what?" Adrian retorted from her spot on one of Bulma's lab tables. "Even if we don't have an idea, we can still tell when yours sucks!"
"Alright!" Bulma exclaimed. "It's ready! I just have to get a couple of things from the supply room so don't go anywhere!" With that, Bulma ran out.
"Okay. thanks. I guess." Radu stuttered.
"What was that about?" Gio asked.
"You'll see." was Vegeta's stoic response. Many people rolled their eyes. No one bothered to try and get anymore information out of him. Fortunately, a couple of minutes later, Bulma ran back in followed by many bots hold what looked like metal armor.
"Okay," Bulma began excitedly. "Now, it occurred to me that if we don't have anything to do, I'd design a game!"
"You can do that?" Radu gasped.
"And how long did this take you?" Yokito wondered aloud. Everyone else had various expressions of wonder on their face.
"Oh, I did it in the last hour." Bulma said nonchalantly. "But that isn't important. Okay. Here's how it works. What I designed is a fantasyland at any one time, all ten of us can be hooked up. What will happen is the armor," she motioned behind her to the bots who were in the process of hooking up the armor to the main terminal. "Will read your brain waves and adapt the game to the kind of person you are. It will be a quest of sorts, a strategy game. We'll be able to see each other and our quests might interact, but mostly the computer will design a suitable objective for you and you'll attempt to accomplish."
Amazed expressions regarded her. She blushed slightly.
"Okay." she said slowly. "Let me show you on the main screen. You can see my quest for now, but then you'll all have to start your own."
And with that, she slipped on one of the armors and on the main screen, a picture of a beautiful land zoomed in on a castle.
A/N: Okay, this chapter was really short and I can't believe I didn't finish it later. Sorry about not updating. I have some good ideas for where I'm taking this story and I've had a sequel formulating for a while now. I can't wait, but I can't write my life away!