Chapter eight: So close
I spent a while in the regan tank. She had hit me a lot harder than I realized. But I was actually glad she had come on the scene, I now knew he had a weak point. I had seen him catch her and shoot away. I also now had a way of tracing him, whenever she used her power I would be able to track her. And even if he was not there I had bait to set a trap.
I had stopped caring about fighting fair. I would not kill her. I was not capable of it. But that didn't mean I wouldn't threaten to.
*
I watched my son deep in meditation, he came back pretty beat up but refused to talk about it. I didn't understand how the android could do this, after all, he was more powerful by far. But he did ask me to rig up a device that would broadcast to an android though.
I didn't understand why but I did it anyway. Deep down I wanted android seventeen to suffer just as much as Trunks did. But even deeper I did not want to make anyone suffer, no one.
Not even android seventeen.
*
I looked up and smirked. I had felt her ki rise a little, jus enough to know what part of the world she was in. I decided to monitor it but not do anything just yet. It suddenly died down again. I cursed.
I spent the next three weeks scouting for her ki but it was as if she had just dropped off the face of the earth. I was becoming more and more obsessed. I had to find her.
It had not yet occurred to me to wonder just where she got this power of hers.
Then one day I picked her up, very close. So close in fact I was certain she was within twenty miles.
*
I bent down to pull a flower out of the ground. I inspected the roots before throwing It over my shoulder.
Ven and I had stayed at the cottage by the sea for about four weeks now. I was collecting plants for myself to eat. Ven hardly ate at all. Which was a good thing considering how finicky he was about other things; he most likely would have refused most of what I eat anyway.
I'm used to roughing it. I bath in the sea or mountain stream I wear animal hide all over me and I run barefoot.
I don't even really know what "fashion" is, except that it had something to do with females and what they wear.
Ven on the other hand, is what I imagine to be a some sort of pretty boy, he likes his looks and gets all superior when I tell him he looks like an idiot.
We didn't normally fight, but when we do it gets weird. Ven is so much smarter than me, he just starts analyzing me, just to annoy me. And correcting me and so on. When I'm angry enough I fight back though. He always has this cool expression,
I found what I was looking for and sank my teeth into the flesh of the leaf. I look like an animal when I do this but it tastes alright and I don't give a dam.
Having swallowed the snack I head into the forest I had been sticking to the edges of with the idea of finding some game. Cooked to perfection the way Ven did so well.
*
I was stalking a small doe when a noise in the distance made me prick up my ears. I scowled and leapt up into a tree. Crouching on the branch and out of sight.
I heard a thud and chanced a look down. The purple haired boy from earlier was standing right below me. Glancing around he took a step towards the tree.
I watched as he inspected the fresh track the doe had left. I had lived by instinct for my whole life and left no track behind me.
Suddenly he looked up.
I spent a while in the regan tank. She had hit me a lot harder than I realized. But I was actually glad she had come on the scene, I now knew he had a weak point. I had seen him catch her and shoot away. I also now had a way of tracing him, whenever she used her power I would be able to track her. And even if he was not there I had bait to set a trap.
I had stopped caring about fighting fair. I would not kill her. I was not capable of it. But that didn't mean I wouldn't threaten to.
*
I watched my son deep in meditation, he came back pretty beat up but refused to talk about it. I didn't understand how the android could do this, after all, he was more powerful by far. But he did ask me to rig up a device that would broadcast to an android though.
I didn't understand why but I did it anyway. Deep down I wanted android seventeen to suffer just as much as Trunks did. But even deeper I did not want to make anyone suffer, no one.
Not even android seventeen.
*
I looked up and smirked. I had felt her ki rise a little, jus enough to know what part of the world she was in. I decided to monitor it but not do anything just yet. It suddenly died down again. I cursed.
I spent the next three weeks scouting for her ki but it was as if she had just dropped off the face of the earth. I was becoming more and more obsessed. I had to find her.
It had not yet occurred to me to wonder just where she got this power of hers.
Then one day I picked her up, very close. So close in fact I was certain she was within twenty miles.
*
I bent down to pull a flower out of the ground. I inspected the roots before throwing It over my shoulder.
Ven and I had stayed at the cottage by the sea for about four weeks now. I was collecting plants for myself to eat. Ven hardly ate at all. Which was a good thing considering how finicky he was about other things; he most likely would have refused most of what I eat anyway.
I'm used to roughing it. I bath in the sea or mountain stream I wear animal hide all over me and I run barefoot.
I don't even really know what "fashion" is, except that it had something to do with females and what they wear.
Ven on the other hand, is what I imagine to be a some sort of pretty boy, he likes his looks and gets all superior when I tell him he looks like an idiot.
We didn't normally fight, but when we do it gets weird. Ven is so much smarter than me, he just starts analyzing me, just to annoy me. And correcting me and so on. When I'm angry enough I fight back though. He always has this cool expression,
I found what I was looking for and sank my teeth into the flesh of the leaf. I look like an animal when I do this but it tastes alright and I don't give a dam.
Having swallowed the snack I head into the forest I had been sticking to the edges of with the idea of finding some game. Cooked to perfection the way Ven did so well.
*
I was stalking a small doe when a noise in the distance made me prick up my ears. I scowled and leapt up into a tree. Crouching on the branch and out of sight.
I heard a thud and chanced a look down. The purple haired boy from earlier was standing right below me. Glancing around he took a step towards the tree.
I watched as he inspected the fresh track the doe had left. I had lived by instinct for my whole life and left no track behind me.
Suddenly he looked up.