Hi people. I'm incredibly bored. It's the second week of the school holidays (mind you I write this at least three weeks before I update.) and I've only had one friend over and have seen only one movie. (We just got cinemas in the little ol' town that I live in. ^_~)
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball Z or any of the characters. I do own Keira and Safira though. Should I write their names with ® on the end? Nah, stuff it. Here we go.
Stranded.
Chapter 10.
A Family Ends.
"Oh, okay. What does a Super Saiyan look like?" Keira asked.
"I never found that out, either. We'll have to ask Goku to show us." Bulma said. Vegeta just grunted. "What's up? You jealous?"
"No. Why don't you just go off and live with him, Keira? Is he your new hero?"
"No, father. I have no heroes."
"Good. See, I'm not jealous, Woman. Never have been and never will be."
"Okay."
"Did you guys leave me anything to eat? I'm starving."
"Yes. Your mother saved you some." Keira said.
"Okay." Bulma said as she hobbled into the kitchen. Vegeta was watching her every move.
"The least you could do is be discreet about it when around us." Keira snapped.
"What?" Vegeta asked, purely confused.
"You're staring at her. I'm disappointed with you. You're in love with a human woman. I should have known that you would have found someone else after ten years."
"I was making sure she was alright."
"Mother isn't going to be happy."
"About what?" Safira asked as she walked into the room. (A/N: They seem to do that a lot.)
"Father's in love with Bulma."
"Wha, what?"
"Safira, I don't." Vegeta said in his defence.
"He was staring at her intently and was making no effort to hide it." Keira said.
Safira walked up to Vegeta and slapped him across the face just as Goku and co. (Chi-Chi and Gohan.) appeared. The force of her slap sent Vegeta flying into Goku, knocking him down. Vegeta sat up but was then knocked back down by Safira stepping on his chest. She looked down at him and he saw the tears that were just about ready to fall.
"We waited ten years to see you again." She said, giving each word more meaning by stepping on him after saying each word. "Ten years and then when we do see you, we find out that you're in love with another."
"Safira, trust me. I don't love the Woman. I love you." Vegeta said every chance he could. By now his sternum had cracked along with three of his ribs. Goku got up and grabbed Safira from behind in a headlock. Keira jumped on his back, forcing him to let go.
"You leave my mother alone!" she screamed.
Gohan sat down next to Vegeta and tried to get him to sit up while Goku tried to get Keira off his back. Safira walked past all of them and went into the kitchen and found Bulma eating.
"Hi, Safira. What happened?" Bulma asked, noticing her tears.
"You did, I'm afraid. It seems that my mate likes you better."
"What do you mean?"
"Kakarot! Put her down now!" Vegeta said from outside the room. Goku had gotten Keira off his back and now had her by the back of her neck.
"No. She'll attack me again." Goku said.
"What's going on?" Bulma asked Safira.
"Keira told me that Vegeta loves you."
"That's insane. He wouldn't like me."
"Then why was he staring at you intently?"
"I, I don't know. He loves you and Keira and I couldn't come between you three."
"Well, you already have. I have broken most of Vegeta's bones now. And now I really can't give a damn if he loves you or not. You can have him. I really don't care anymore." She said.
She walked right up to Bulma and punched her in the face. The strength made her fly back into the kitchen wall, getting everyone's attention. Everyone made their way there to see Safira pick up the still conscious Bulma by the neck and slam her into the wall repetitively. On the sixth time, she brought her hand back to see that it no longer held Bulma. Instead, Goku stood back at the doorway with Gohan, Vegeta and Chi-Chi with Bulma in his arms. Keira ran over to her mother, the back of her neck as red as a tomato. Bulma stirred and Goku handed her over to the injured Vegeta, who sat her down against the wall where he tried to see if she had any broken bones or any other big injuries, but it was hard enough for him with his ribs without the urge to make sure that his mate and daughter weren't wounded.
"Kakarot, don't hurt them too badly." Vegeta said.
"What? Look what they did to you and Bulma." Chi-Chi said.
"They're being protective. Safira's jealous. Saiyans usually kill the one that they're mate supposably likes and then they kill their mate because mates are forever and they don't want to stay with them any longer."
"That doesn't give them permission to kill Bulma. You don't love her."
"You try telling that to Safira." Vegeta said. Safira was now powering up along with Keira. Gohan and Goku stood at the doorway and they powered up too.
"Gohan, I don't think that they're going to be so hard, but keep an eye out for Keira. She's insane."
"Okay. Do you just want to save time and kick their butts Super Saiyan style so I can protect mum?"
"Hm, sounds good." Goku said. Gohan stopped powering up and then Goku walked over to the mother-daughter team and transported them out of the house and onto the front garden where he powered up to Super Saiyan. Everyone but Bulma watched them out the window.
"Go Goku! Kick their butts!" Chi-Chi screamed to her now blond-haired husband.
"Kakarot, keep in mind that they're going back soon and they already dead." Vegeta said.
"What sort of mate are you supposed to be? First you fall in love with another and then you watch and hope that your mate gets killed." Safira screamed to Vegeta.
"You know what? I'll be a better mate." He said turning away from the window. "I won't watch it now." Chi-Chi laughed at Vegeta's joke.
"Mum, do you think dad's going to control himself against them? He looked pretty mad when he saw what Safira was doing to Bulma." Gohan said.
"I know. I'm not too sure, now that you mention it."
"Neither do I. He was angry when he saw what Nappa and I had done but I guess the Woman must be closer to him."
"Try using her name."
"Why? What good would that do?"
"Never mind."
"I won't."
"I wonder how she's doing."
"Go over and see for yourself. She is awake, y'know." (A/N: No, I am not trying to get out of writing the fighting scene. Yes, I really do suck at them, but hey.)
"Okay." Chi-Chi said. She walked over to Bulma. "How are you going?"
"I feel like I'm gonna die." Bulma laughed.
"Well, don't die on us."
"I now know why you quit fighting. It hurts like hell."
"Yeah. I leave the fighting to Goku. Why exactly did you fight her?"
"I didn't. She came up to me and told me that Vegeta loved me more then her, that she doesn't give a damn about him anymore and that I could have him, like I'd want to, and then punched me and rammed me into the wall."
"Safira got her information wrong. I don't love you." Vegeta said.
"I know. You love Safira only." Bulma said.
"I'm not too sure about that."
"You don't anymore?"
"Well, she did tell you that she couldn't care less if I chose you as my mate and she did break my rib cage."
"So, do you hate her?"
"Hell yeah."
"What about Goku fighting her and your daughter?"
"What is this? One of those stupid human shows that have women crying and guys calling them fat slobs?"
"You watch that?" Gohan asked.
"No, mind your own business, brat. I overhear the stupid shows that Bunny watches."
"No, I'm not trying to be like that." Bulma said.
"Good."
"So, what is it like to feel that your daughter's about to get hurt badly?"
"It hurts." Vegeta said quietly. "She just came back and now she's fighting Kakarot. One of the biggest mistakes she'll ever make."
"You know from personal experience." Bulma laughed, only to cause herself pain. Safira had damaged her ribs. "I really hate your family. Why is it that Saiyans like killing and pain as long as it doesn't happen to them?"
"Because they like feeling strong. Being hurt means you're weak."
"Then I guess you won't admit that you were beaten by Safira."
"Are you really that dumb that you think that I would say that I'm hurt?"
"No. I guess not. Why the hell did she have to take all her anger out on me? I feel like if I move, I'm dead."
"Well, don't move."
"Trust me, I won't. What did she do to you?"
"Step on me a few times. Nothing much."
"It's just that you seemed to flinch when Goku gave me to you."
"She broke my ribs. It's not like that's never happened to me before."
"Have they changed much since the last time you saw them?"
"Well, they aren't crying for their lives and trying to fight off Frieza's henchmen."
"I meant their personality, baka."
"Oh, well yeah. Keira told me that she never wanted to fight. She said that when she was older, she'd live somewhere that's never attacked and very peaceful. Then I had to tell her that there was no such place and she started to cry. I hated that. And Safira was so different. She knew that I would have to be away a lot and that I'd have to sweet talk a lot of princesses so we could form an alliance and she never got jealous. And now I don't even talk to you and she thinks that I like you. She thought that because I watched you go off to make sure that you weren't about to fall that I was checking you out, which I know I wasn't. I can't believe that she would think that. We've been separated for ten years and when we meet again, she thinks that I don't love her anymore."
"Wow, Vegeta. I think that's the most I've ever heard you say at once." Gohan laughed.
"Shut up, brat."
"Don't tell my Gohan to shut up." Chi-Chi yelled. "And never, ever call him a brat."
"Fine then, Mate of Kakarot."
"Don't call me that."
"I will call you and your brat what I please."
"No you will not."
"Shut up, Banshee!" Vegeta growled. She turned back to watch the fight. Goku had punched Safira to the ground and Keira had been out of it from the start. Vegeta looked at his family and then looked down at the ground.
"Vegeta, they're already dead. They can't die again. They're just hurt. Don't worry." Bulma said.
"I guess you're right. I mean if they hadn't have been so stupid as to think that I was in love with you then they need some sense beaten into them. Who best to do that but the dimmest of us all."
"Don't say that about Goku." Chi-Chi said.
"I will say what I want when I want. I am Prince and princes do as they please."
"You're a prince of a pretty much dead race."
"There's me, Kakarot and Gohan, along with the one that's supposably coming in the future." Vegeta said.
"Does that mean that you really are pregnant, Bulma?" Gohan asked.
"No, Gohan." Bulma answered.
"Then what's Vegeta going on about?"
"The kid from the future told Kakarot that he was mine and the Woman's son." Vegeta said.
"How do you know?"
"I overheard Goku and Chi-Chi talking about it." Bulma said. "You guys better be telling the truth."
"We are. Well, at least I am." Chi-Chi said. "I don't know if Goku was lying or not."
"He better had been. There is no way I'd mate with her." Vegeta said.
"No way whatsoever." Bulma agreed. She tried to look up at the fight through the window, but all she could see was Gohan sitting on the counter with Chi-Chi and Vegeta looking out the window from over the sink. "What's going on?"
"Kakarot just knocked Safira unconscious."
"I guess it's okay now. Keira isn't that strong, is she?"
"You're the one that got beaten up by both of them."
"Yeah, but one tried to kill me, the other was just a warning. I don't know which one was stronger."
"I would think that Safira is stronger. She seemed to put up a better fight."
"Dad just powered down and he's coming inside." Gohan said. Chi-Chi hopped down off the counter and she raced to hug Goku.
"Oh, hi Chi." He said. "I'm glad they were easier to beat then you, Vegeta."
"See, I'm still the strongest Saiyan that actually knows of the Saiyan ways." Vegeta said.
"Bulma, how are you." Goku asked.
"So bad I want to die." Bulma replied.
"You've tried it before." Vegeta grunted.
"I heard that."
"I wasn't trying to keep it quiet."
"You tried to commit suicide?" Gohan asked.
"It'll be in the newspapers soon." Bulma said. "Yes I did when Vegeta caught Yamcha cheating on me again. Vegeta stopped me the first time. Mum stopped me the second time."
"How could you do that to yourself over someone else?" Vegeta asked.
"Well, I always thought that I would be with Yamcha when I grew up. Finally realising that it isn't going to happen hurts and I just wanted the pain to go away." (A/N: I hope that doesn't make me sound that I've tried it before. I haven't and I haven't actually thought about it either. I just wrote that because that's how I think people would feel if they wanted to commit suicide.) Bulma explained. "But it didn't because you stopped me."
"Well in that case, should I be sorry?"
"No. If you hadn't have stopped her then we'd be the ones in pain. Most of the time, they just think about their own pain, not how other's would feel." Chi-Chi said.
"And besides, when you're dead, you're pretty much alive. You eat, talk, train and sleep. The only difference is you aren't there with your family." Goku said.
"When I was dead, I was waiting in to be told which side I'd have to go to. Off course, I knew it would be the bad one, but I was wished back before I could find out." Vegeta said.
"Well, we didn't mean to wish you back and just think, I wouldn't be hurting if we didn't." Bulma laughed. Vegeta scowled at her.
"You didn't have to wish them back."
"You just seemed so sad."
"So? It's worked very good for me."
"I know, but I wanted to see if you would actually smile." She laughed. "But all I got was a grin."
"Of course." Vegeta said. Goku chuckled. "What's so funny, Kakarot?"
"There might be hope for that kid after all."
"Goku! Don't say that. You'll give them nightmares." Chi-Chi said.
"Thanks, Chi. Like I'd start dreaming of Vegeta." Bulma said.
"And I'm not planning of thinking about her in my sleep." Vegeta said.
"You sleep? I thought you only ever trained."
"Saiyans have to sleep. I mightn't do it so often, but I do."
"Oh, okay. Um, a little help here?" Bulma asked. Goku walked over to her and picked her up.
"I'll take you up to your room and then go get a senzu bean from Korrin, kay? I'll get one for you, too, Vegeta." Goku said as he took Bulma up the stairs to her room. He sat her down on the bed and then used his instant transmission to get to Korrin's and then returned as fast as he could. "Here you go." He said to Bulma as he handed her one and then walked back downstairs to Vegeta who grunted about hating having to take the beans whenever he felt weak and broken. (A/N: Sorry if that didn't make any sense whatsoever.) Vegeta ate it and started to walk up to his room.
"Where are you going?" Chi-Chi demanded.
"To sleep and try to figure out what the hell just happened. Gotta problem?" Vegeta asked as he continued his pace. Chi-Chi got their stuff and set up for sleep in the lounge room. (A/N: Still sorry if that didn't make any sense. I have major writer's block.)
"Night Vegeta." Goku called up to him from downstairs. Vegeta huffed in response.
"Why are you nice to him?" Chi-Chi asked.
"Because he probably needs a friend."
"He has Bulma. He doesn't need you."
"Who cares? I like talking to him. It ticks him off." Goku laughed.
"I heard that, Kakarot." Vegeta yelled from upstairs.
"He hears everything that's offensive to him." Goku laughed again.
"Yes, he does." Chi-Chi agreed. "I wonder how Bulma is."
"She's probably fine. I need to sleep." Goku said as he yawned. "Goodnight."
"Night Goku. Night Gohan."
"Goodnight mum and dad." Gohan said as he crawled into the sleeping bag that Chi-Chi had put out for him on the floor.
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That's it for chapter ten. It took me so long to write because I'm working on some other Dragon Ball Z stories and also reading them. I just love Dragon Ball Z. It rules. Plus I live in Australia so the furthest that any channel has shown of this wicked show is in the Buu Saga and Vegeta sacrifices himself. Then they started all over again. What the hell happens? I'm left in the dark! Oh well. Please review. I'll be so happy, therefore my writing will get happier and better. Review! Review! Review! Review! PLEASE! ^_^ I'm not demanding at all, am I? Bye.