All right, this is my first shared DBZ fanfiction and my first one up on FanFiction.net, so don't brutally flame me, please. I'll just say it because I've seen everyone else say it so it must be tradition or somethin': I do not own Dragon Ball Z or Dragon Ball and so on.
Yes, I use slang, sorry. Yes, my grammar is far from stellar, sorry. Yes, sometimes my spelling incorrect, sorry. Yes, some of my humor could be offensive, very sorry.
*shifts nervously* Let's just get to the story, 'kay? Hurray!
(Saga-Chapter: Chapter name)
1-1: Salsada
I sniffed the air.
It was clean, within reason. Thanks to Nappa's sudden attack the air that carried the scent of thousands of humans, their fuel, their food, their lives had been replaced the smells of burning earth. What had once been a thriving city was only wasteland now. A scorched crater that stretched as far as I could see over the ground. We had arrived and boy, did it feel good to stretch my legs.
"So this is Earth?" Nappa snorted, "Not made of much."
Nappa was tall, I forgot how tall exactly, but I only came up to about his waist, Vegeta slightly taller than me came up to about the same spot. We were short, but Nappa was still a giant, a very large giant, unfortunately, not a very bright one. Maybe he shaved his head too much or was he naturally bald? I forgot, but he was large, not very intelligent, bald, and had a very long thin moustache around his big, arrogant mouth.
He also, surprisingly, had a bit of a maternal streak in him. If you were sick, Nappa was your doctor. If you need a shoulder to cry on Nappa would offer you his oversized ones. If you looked sad Nappa would give you a big hug that would crack your ribs. He was a very compassionate man, but not many people got to see that side of him sadly. I just wish he were a little bit smarter.
I pushed my chi out below me and levitated into the air eye level with Nappa. I glanced back and forth between Nappa and our leader Vegeta.
"Because it isn't made of much please refrain from destroying it. Just because we weren't assigned here doesn't mean we can't sell it," Vegeta told Nappa with his arms crossed.
Vegeta, like I said, was about the same height as me. His hair was black and spiky; the shape it generally took was that of a flame, unless he slept on it funny. Then it was a flame that was flat on one side. He was compactly built and very strong, but the place he scored the most points was intensity.
"Oh, right… Sorry damage effects profit."
Vegeta sighed, levitated him self above our heads, maybe to get away, and began scanning the planet with his scouter for the highest power readings. Nappa and I floated up to his side and began checking our scouters as well.
"The highest reading should be the one who killed Raditz, he will known where the 'dragon balls' are," Vegeta said. I assumed he believed the name "dragon balls" was a little ridiculous or gross, judging from the fact he wrinkled his nose every time he said it.
"Hey… Guys?" Nappa asked looking at the read outs the little machine over his eyes and ear was giving him.
Vegeta and I looked over at him.
"How come there are so many readings above a thousand on a little dust ball like this?"
"Let me see that," Vegeta snapped sounding surprised. He punched a few buttons on the scouter over his ear and glared at the readouts. He growled and looked over at me bobbing in the air in front of him and Nappa like a little toy in water. I held eye contact with him for a moment before I shrugged as my reply to his unspoken question. As he looked away I decided that Vegeta had very expressive eyes, a pretty shade of brown too. They had a bit of amber in them too, or maybe I imagined the amber, but he had very nice eyes.
"It doesn't matter, we'll just deal with the highest chi. Have you found it yet?"
"Yeah, that way," Nappa said pointing to the northwest, "Two readings very close together."
I wonder why they're so close together… Could be a number of reasons…
"Well, let's not keep them waiting," Vegeta said raising him self higher in the air then tipped himself horizontal and began flying towards the two power readings Nappa had pointed out. Nappa and I followed after him increasing the flow of chi through our bodies to keep up with the pace Vegeta was setting.
We rose into the air until everything below us was small and insignificant, continuously sending the message through our spirits and bodies to move through the air. The warm air began to chill from the altitude and the speed at which it passed our bodies and my eyes would of stung if it were not for the fact I was use to flying at such high speeds.
The thought began creeping up on me again…
The view in front of me began to get monotonous so I looked down and watched as the stone roadways weaved in between the green trees and yellow fields like a river. When we came close to the collections of big white buildings the humans called their cities we could see different colored dots moved up and down the gray roads at slow speeds compared to ours. Sometimes the little dots would stop at the white, boxy buildings and little humans got out to go in the buildings.
I would not think about the vision…
The dots must have been transportation, but how did the humans ever get anywhere when they traveled that slow? No wonder the poor things had never been to space…
While I busied myself with studying the human ways of life, not my vision, from thousands of feet up in the air, Nappa zoomed in and out of the clouds laughing giddily causing Vegeta and I to look at him with questionable glances. Nappa looked over at me and stopped whirling around long enough for him to pull up beside me and start small talk.
Please don't try to cheer me up…
"Ah," he sighed like a prisoner exhaling his first breath of freedom in a long time. "Hardly any gravity here, eh? This job is gonna be a piece of cake."
He's gonna try to cheer me up…
Nappa grinned good-naturedly at me as well as anyone could with inch long canine teeth could. He waited. And waited some more. Then thin, paintbrush mustache that stretched around his mouth began to twitch from the straining smile.
The smile dropped off of Nappa's face and was replaced with disbelief, "Don't tell me your vision bothered you that much…"
I remained silent and tried to think about the big and happy and fluffy clouds ahead of me. I was happy… The vision didn't bother me at all…
"…I mean it was just a vision, a dream, a nightmare. There's no way it was real or going to happen—"
"Nappa!" I cried, clenching my fists. I wobbled slightly in the air as I tried to explain, "If you had been raised and told that your every thought and dream could be a prophecy for your entire planet, wouldn't you take it a little seriously?!"
"Er…"
"How many times have I been wrong?!"
"There was that time…you said it was going to be a full moon and it wasn't and we had to spend a whole week waiting on that—"
"Not that kind of wrong! When ever I've predicted something it has been correct, hasn't it?"
"Correct."
"Point made."
Nappa remained silent as we started passing over a huge body of water. He finally worked up enough courage to ask me a question.
"Are you mad about Raditz?"
"No, a little disappointed, but no."
"Oh…"
I continued with out prompting, "He was a horrible body guard! He let you know what happen…"
"I know," Nappa said being considerate and letting me avoid why I didn't work as one of Frieza's top henchmen any more.
"And he always under estimated whoever he fought because he was too stuck on how great he was! We always had to yank him out of trouble."
"I remember."
"We're better off with out him!"
Nappa went back to his silence. Then he ventured back. He really wasn't that bright.
"Is it…you know… That time of the month again?" he asked as if he had started yanking my tale as hard as he could then asked me if it hurt any.
"Nappa. Leave. Go play with your little clouds again."
I mean really. Ugh, I hated working with all men. What business of his was it…
"Alright," Nappa said taking his opportunity to flee like any smart being should have, "I think Vegeta wants to talk to you any way."
Fine, let the other fool have his turn with the cranky monkey.
Nappa swerved away and went back to his little clouds, but with less enthusiasm than before. A moment later he was replaced by Vegeta at my side. I glanced at Vegeta, but he didn't look like he was going to talk right away.
We flew silently for several minutes until I had almost forgotten he was there. He always did this… He'd wait until curiosity had replace anger so he never got yelled at.
"Do you think they're really a dragon's balls?"
I nearly fell out of the sky. I laughed nervously, but Vegeta ignored me with a look of fixed disgust at the subject he had brought up. I decided his intentions were not to make me laugh.
"Vegeta, you've been in suspended animation too long. Do you have any idea what you are saying?"
"Yes. Answer my question."
"Maybe… You know some alien cultures have some really… disturbing talismans and charms… Wait! Is this why you wore gloves?" I asked, suddenly wishing I had worn full gloves not ones with the fingers cut off. Vegeta remained silent.
I looked below us as the ocean turned into sand, which in turn be came a full desert. It appeared to be miles and miles of sandy dunes, but in the distance over the curve of the globe I could see rocks rising like hands out of the sand.
"Tell me about your vision again," Vegeta commanded.
"Wasn't once enough?" I whined trying to squirm my way out of his question.
"Tell me again."
I sighed and gave him the poorly summarized version of it, "Like I said, that annoying spirit that always contacts me told me about our little trip to Earth. He said many great things will come of it, but ultimately it will be our undoing. Oh, and he also told me to wear the blue priestess robes, because they make a nice impression and I look good in blue."
Vegeta scowled, "Does that spirit ever tell you anything useful?"
"I don't think so," I said as we passed over the rocky parts of the desert, "I can't really fight in this outfit…"
Vegeta ignored my lapse in warrior like attitude, "What great things? What undoing? Are you leaving out information or is this spirit really that stupid?"
"He said something like a sequence of events, but he really kept me in the dark about the undoing part," I said checking my scouter for where the two chi's were. Right ahead. The desert had become a stretch of open oasis full of cliff like mountains and lush trees. Weird mountains… Poor humans didn't even get normal mountains.
"Next time you see your spirit," Vegeta said pulling out of his flight and began descending, "Tell it to go—" he said something unrepeatable before he dropped to the ground in front of our soon to be opponents.
"There are three now…" Nappa said observantly as he stopped beside me.
"Like it matters," I said as I let my chi go and started to fall. I lifted my arms above my head for balance and tucked my left leg in to create more air resistance to slow my descent.
Yup, you defiantly want to go to Earth. Lots of good things are waiting for you there. Lots of good things…
I summoned my chi back to me and slowed my decent. I tried to not let my self become lost in my swarm of thoughts and emotions.
But like anything in this materialistic universe it's gonna cost you…a lot.
My foot touched the ground and I let my arms and knee drop somewhat relaxed at my side. I let out one long and shaky breath. I could feel my body becoming anxious at the thought of the spirit's words.
Nappa touched down to my right, beside Vegeta. I stood behind both of them hoping Earthlings wouldn't sense how nervous and scared I was.
"Well, it looks like you've been expecting us," Vegeta said eyeing the three Earthlings in front of us.
So I suggest to you, Salsada that you say good-bye to the few things you love in your life right now. I don't think it's likely you're ever going to see them again.
And now a word from our author, Rin:
Okay, I promised that at the end of anything I wrote I would stop saying, "Oh, I'm not happy with this!" "Oh, it sucks!" That kinda thing gets on my nerves so I really shouldn't do it.
I will, however, say: I'm sorry if any of that story and writing was unclear at any point in time I kinda space out when I write AND I'm sorry I don't like going back and editing and rereading. I think I spelled Frieza wrong too.
Okay thanks for reading you beautiful, wonderful person you.
Stay tuned and I might type up 1-2: Saiyans, now available in female.