Lost- Chapter 4
Bulma burst through the Gravity Room doors, panting. She had just spent the last ten minutes running through the maze of hallways inside the palace.
Vegeta and Kakkarot had already begun training because they both arrived at 6:30 to stretch. They stopped, however, when Bulma ran through the doors, but only for Vegeta to scold her.
"What are you doing, baka! I told you to be here at 7:00 on the dot and I expect my orders to be followed! If this is the kind of behavior that I'm gonna have to put up with, I'd gladly waste a day of training to take you back to my father and have him kill you!..." Vegeta roared.
Bulma sat there, not seriousely scared or threatened by anything Vegeta said. Finally she decided that they were wasting enough time listeneing to Vegeta, and therefore cut him off.
"Ok Vegeta, I get it- I'm late. Get over it!" Bulma yelled back at him, " You do realize that while you're yelling at me all that's being accomplished is the fact that we're wasting our time that could be spent training. And, if I understand you correctly, that's all you want to do! Right? So let's start!"Bulma didn't even wait for Vegeta to answer before she shot up her knee and connected it with Vegeta's gut.
Kakkarot, who had been leaning against the wall during this whole conversation, watched as Vegeta chased Bulma down and landed a punch in the gut. She may have had a head start, but it was obvious that Vegeta had the upper hand. After about ten minutes of watching them fight, Kakkarot finally decided to join in as well.
Kakkarot flew up and was about to punch Vegeta in the back when Bulma let out a ki blast that Vegeta dodged but Kakkarot couldn't; he was hit squarely in the chest. Without a second thought, Bulma flew for Kakkarot and started sending a barrage of punches at him, all of which he blocked, while Vegeta came up from behind Bulma and held her in a death grip. He was laughing at the way she was kicking her legs and desprately trying to escape his powerful clutch when Kakkarot came up and started attacking Vegeta, making him let Bulma go and let her drop down a little while she analyzed the situation.
Both Vegeta and Kakkarot were too distracted by each other to notice her while she stayed out of their direct line of vision. She knew, only from fighting them for less than one day, that both Vegeta and Kakkarot were stronger than her physically, but she hadn't tried her luck mentally. She powered up and shot a ki beam that landed directly inbetween Vegeta and Kakkarot, making them stop fighting for a minute to realize that Bulma was there. While this realization was coming to them, Bulma siezed the moment and followed the path of her ki beam, knocking both Vegeta and Kakkarot out of the way as she flew past.
'Let's see if the guys would like to play a little game of tag..." Bulma thought as she looked behind her to see that Vegeta and Kakkarot were following her. Bulma knew that since the GR wasn't big enough to be able to hold a race, speed wouldn't count as much as logic would, and logic was her area of expertiese. Bulma flew around the perimeter of the GR, letting Kakkarot and Vegeta think that she would try to outrun them and so they sped up. When they were about a foot away from her, Bulma sped straight for a wall and, when she was about three inches from it she quickly used her arms to direct her away from it.
Following Bulma too closely to be able to change their course, Kakkarot and Vegeta crashed headfirst into the wall. When Bulma saw this, she collapsed onto the floor, laughing, she couldn't believe that the great Sayian Prince and his best elite guard didn't have enough control to stop themselves. This would be the material for taunting for next few weeks.
Vegeta pulled himself off of the wall, mentally beating himself for not seeing that coming. He looked down and saw Bulma lying on her back on the floor, laughing at him. His face burned and he would have attacked her, but he couldn't force himself to look away from that joyous, beautiful face. This was the first time he'd seen her truely happy, seeming so carefree, for the moment. He heard another laugh, this time from behind him and looked at Kakkarot, still smashed against the wall, who, ironically, found his own stupidity amusing as well.
"Vegeta," Kakkarot said, fighting himself to keep from laughing so that Vegeta could make out what he was saying, "can you believe we did that? I mean, it was so.. completely... obvious...." He joined Bulma laughing on the floor. Vegeta waited until the laughter had subsided to join Bulma and Kakkarot on the ground.
"Well, now that we've had our little 'fun', I suggest that we get back to training." Vegeta spat at the two seated figures in front of him.
"Aww, come on Vegeta, can't you enjoy yourself for at least one minute?" Bulma teased. " You have to admit, it was funny..." she gave him a pleading glance. "Ha! I knew it!" she shouted triumphantly as she saw a smirk creep onto Vegeta's lips, but it vanished as quickly as it had appeared.
"As I said, we should get back to our training now." And with that, he threw a punch at Kakkarot and they flew up into the air.
Bulma looked over to the digital clock on the far wall, it was only 9:00. 'It's only nine,' she thought, ' how am I going to be able to last the whole day with these guys? Oh well, at least I'll be getting a workout. Isure hope that Chi chi makes something good for lunch, I'm gonna need it.' And with that, she flew up and joined Vegeta and Kakkarot.
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By the end of the day, Bulma was on the brink of collapsing. Both Vegeta and Kakkarot seemed to have the endurance of the energizer bunny, (A/N- don't ask me why I put that in there) they were able to spar for six hours straight, scarf down lunch, and then continue sparring for another six! About every four hours, Bulma would collapse onto the floor and not get up for at least forty-five minutes, while Vegeta and Kakkarot hadn't shown any signs of exhaustion at all! Bulma had prided herself on being able to train in her own GR for hours at a time at an impressive three times Vegetasei's normal gravity- but now she felt like a child compared to the fact that Vegeta and Kakkarot were training at twenty times normal gravity!
Bulma slumped back to her room and, after pressing her hand to the keypad and unlocking her door, collapsed onto her bed. Half an hour later, Chi chi bustled in, preparing Kakkarot and Vegeta's dinner. She completely overlooked Bulma, lying like a lump on the bed, until she greeted her.
"Hey Chi chi." Bulma mumbled.
"Oh my gosh Bulma, is that you? Good gracious girl, you look like you've been to hell and back. What hapened?" Chi chi inquired while pulling three whole turkeys from the oven.
"Training. I didn't even make it through half of the day before collapsing." Bulma said as she suddenly caught a wiff of Chi chi's wonderful smelling turkeys. "Chi chi, those turkeys smell soooo good, I'm practically drooling. Iwish I could cook."
"Well," Chi chi said, as she was putting the turkeys on some trays, "that's something we'll work at when you have more energy. But for now, will you help me take these over to the guys?"
Bulma picked up a tray and followed Chi chi through the tunnel and into Kakkarot's room. If she had been more awake, she probably would have noticed that her tray was slipping out of her grasp. Luckily, Kakkarot was there and saved his precious food before it hit the floor.
"Here Bulma," He said, trying his best to be polite to her, "Let me get that. You know, I'm really suprised that you lasted so long training today. Normally, on the rare occasions that the King sends someone to train with us, they're sent in the hopes that they will either die or the King will have material to ridicule them and cast them out of the palace." He said this casually, as he strolled into the kitchen and put the turkey onto the counter. "Vegeta!" He yelled, "Dinner's Ready!"
Vegeta came strolling into the kitchen to find Kakkarot sitting at the table, staring at his plate and trying his best to keep himself from eating it. Next to Kakkarot was Bulma, who looked as if she could fall asleep right there and not wake up for the next three days. The only reason that she was still awake was that she was famished and couldn't wait for Chi chi to finish up so that they could get back to their quarters and eat. The moment that Vegeta sat down into his seat, Kakkarot devoured his plate and looked up expectantly at Chi chi for more. Chi chi, upon seeing that the guys' dinner was fine, tapped Bulma on the shoulder and motioned for them to leave and get their own.
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About an hour later, Bulma and Chi chi finished their dinner and started loading their dishes into the washer. (I don't know... think dishwasher but it puts the plates back for you and... um... is really small- if you can't tell I'm making this up as I go, so don't pester me about appliances.)
"So, Bulma," Chi chi asked, breaking the comfortable silence that dinner had set upon them, "how was your first day of training?"
"Oh, I'm so exhausted I don't think that I'll be able to get up once I lay down for about a week." She answered. "I don't see how those guys do it, do you know that they were training for six hours straight at 20 times the normal gravity? And that was before lunch! They did the same thing afterwards and made it look like a simple workout."
"Well," Chi chi said, " they have been training every day since they were both about seven...."
"What I can't believe is that they do this every day!" Bulma said, cutting Chi chi off, " I don't see why Vegeta's building up his strength like that- I mean, if he's shooting for a chance to kill the King he could do it with one arm behind his back."
"Bulma, don't you know that the Prince's lifelong goal is to become the legendary Super Sayian?" Chi chi asked and was shocked when Bulma shook her head, for even the King knew that his son wouldn't kill him until he'd achieved this goal.
"Really?" Bulma asked, amazed, "I'll bet that, at the rate he's going, he'll reach it before he turns twenty."
"Well," Chi chi said, "This year especially, he has nothing to distract him from it."
"What do you mean 'this year especially'?" Bulma asked, puzzled.
"I forgot how much you missed by not being in constant contact with civilization," Chi chi began, "The Prince recently turned eighteen and, according to the traditions that the Kings have been following for centuries, he's not allowed to be with any sort of female until the day he turnes ninteen, the day he chooses his mate."
"Really?" Bulma said, intrigued, ' Maybe that's why he's so disconnected and cold' she thought to herself, 'maybe I should look intyo that.' Bulma yawned, "Well Chi chi, I'm going to go to bed, I can't believe that those two actually train and expect me to be awake at seven in the morning." With that, Bulma turned and strolled into her room, and five minutes later was sleeping peacefully.
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Author's Note: Hello there, I'm really sorry about getting this out a week late, parents are so bothersome. This is about the length of the next few chapters, so I hope that you're happy with it, yes, some will be longer. I want to let you know that I'll get the next chapter out around Friday or Saturday, and from now on you can start looking for them weekly, around that time. Oh, by the way, I know that the characters are a little OOC, so don't flame me 'bout that. I know that there wasn't a lot of physical/appearance discription in this, but there will be more in the next chapters- I didn't think that you needed them for the training
Disclamer: OK, does anyone here think I own DBZ and/ or the energizer bunny? FYI: I don't.
Bulma burst through the Gravity Room doors, panting. She had just spent the last ten minutes running through the maze of hallways inside the palace.
Vegeta and Kakkarot had already begun training because they both arrived at 6:30 to stretch. They stopped, however, when Bulma ran through the doors, but only for Vegeta to scold her.
"What are you doing, baka! I told you to be here at 7:00 on the dot and I expect my orders to be followed! If this is the kind of behavior that I'm gonna have to put up with, I'd gladly waste a day of training to take you back to my father and have him kill you!..." Vegeta roared.
Bulma sat there, not seriousely scared or threatened by anything Vegeta said. Finally she decided that they were wasting enough time listeneing to Vegeta, and therefore cut him off.
"Ok Vegeta, I get it- I'm late. Get over it!" Bulma yelled back at him, " You do realize that while you're yelling at me all that's being accomplished is the fact that we're wasting our time that could be spent training. And, if I understand you correctly, that's all you want to do! Right? So let's start!"Bulma didn't even wait for Vegeta to answer before she shot up her knee and connected it with Vegeta's gut.
Kakkarot, who had been leaning against the wall during this whole conversation, watched as Vegeta chased Bulma down and landed a punch in the gut. She may have had a head start, but it was obvious that Vegeta had the upper hand. After about ten minutes of watching them fight, Kakkarot finally decided to join in as well.
Kakkarot flew up and was about to punch Vegeta in the back when Bulma let out a ki blast that Vegeta dodged but Kakkarot couldn't; he was hit squarely in the chest. Without a second thought, Bulma flew for Kakkarot and started sending a barrage of punches at him, all of which he blocked, while Vegeta came up from behind Bulma and held her in a death grip. He was laughing at the way she was kicking her legs and desprately trying to escape his powerful clutch when Kakkarot came up and started attacking Vegeta, making him let Bulma go and let her drop down a little while she analyzed the situation.
Both Vegeta and Kakkarot were too distracted by each other to notice her while she stayed out of their direct line of vision. She knew, only from fighting them for less than one day, that both Vegeta and Kakkarot were stronger than her physically, but she hadn't tried her luck mentally. She powered up and shot a ki beam that landed directly inbetween Vegeta and Kakkarot, making them stop fighting for a minute to realize that Bulma was there. While this realization was coming to them, Bulma siezed the moment and followed the path of her ki beam, knocking both Vegeta and Kakkarot out of the way as she flew past.
'Let's see if the guys would like to play a little game of tag..." Bulma thought as she looked behind her to see that Vegeta and Kakkarot were following her. Bulma knew that since the GR wasn't big enough to be able to hold a race, speed wouldn't count as much as logic would, and logic was her area of expertiese. Bulma flew around the perimeter of the GR, letting Kakkarot and Vegeta think that she would try to outrun them and so they sped up. When they were about a foot away from her, Bulma sped straight for a wall and, when she was about three inches from it she quickly used her arms to direct her away from it.
Following Bulma too closely to be able to change their course, Kakkarot and Vegeta crashed headfirst into the wall. When Bulma saw this, she collapsed onto the floor, laughing, she couldn't believe that the great Sayian Prince and his best elite guard didn't have enough control to stop themselves. This would be the material for taunting for next few weeks.
Vegeta pulled himself off of the wall, mentally beating himself for not seeing that coming. He looked down and saw Bulma lying on her back on the floor, laughing at him. His face burned and he would have attacked her, but he couldn't force himself to look away from that joyous, beautiful face. This was the first time he'd seen her truely happy, seeming so carefree, for the moment. He heard another laugh, this time from behind him and looked at Kakkarot, still smashed against the wall, who, ironically, found his own stupidity amusing as well.
"Vegeta," Kakkarot said, fighting himself to keep from laughing so that Vegeta could make out what he was saying, "can you believe we did that? I mean, it was so.. completely... obvious...." He joined Bulma laughing on the floor. Vegeta waited until the laughter had subsided to join Bulma and Kakkarot on the ground.
"Well, now that we've had our little 'fun', I suggest that we get back to training." Vegeta spat at the two seated figures in front of him.
"Aww, come on Vegeta, can't you enjoy yourself for at least one minute?" Bulma teased. " You have to admit, it was funny..." she gave him a pleading glance. "Ha! I knew it!" she shouted triumphantly as she saw a smirk creep onto Vegeta's lips, but it vanished as quickly as it had appeared.
"As I said, we should get back to our training now." And with that, he threw a punch at Kakkarot and they flew up into the air.
Bulma looked over to the digital clock on the far wall, it was only 9:00. 'It's only nine,' she thought, ' how am I going to be able to last the whole day with these guys? Oh well, at least I'll be getting a workout. Isure hope that Chi chi makes something good for lunch, I'm gonna need it.' And with that, she flew up and joined Vegeta and Kakkarot.
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By the end of the day, Bulma was on the brink of collapsing. Both Vegeta and Kakkarot seemed to have the endurance of the energizer bunny, (A/N- don't ask me why I put that in there) they were able to spar for six hours straight, scarf down lunch, and then continue sparring for another six! About every four hours, Bulma would collapse onto the floor and not get up for at least forty-five minutes, while Vegeta and Kakkarot hadn't shown any signs of exhaustion at all! Bulma had prided herself on being able to train in her own GR for hours at a time at an impressive three times Vegetasei's normal gravity- but now she felt like a child compared to the fact that Vegeta and Kakkarot were training at twenty times normal gravity!
Bulma slumped back to her room and, after pressing her hand to the keypad and unlocking her door, collapsed onto her bed. Half an hour later, Chi chi bustled in, preparing Kakkarot and Vegeta's dinner. She completely overlooked Bulma, lying like a lump on the bed, until she greeted her.
"Hey Chi chi." Bulma mumbled.
"Oh my gosh Bulma, is that you? Good gracious girl, you look like you've been to hell and back. What hapened?" Chi chi inquired while pulling three whole turkeys from the oven.
"Training. I didn't even make it through half of the day before collapsing." Bulma said as she suddenly caught a wiff of Chi chi's wonderful smelling turkeys. "Chi chi, those turkeys smell soooo good, I'm practically drooling. Iwish I could cook."
"Well," Chi chi said, as she was putting the turkeys on some trays, "that's something we'll work at when you have more energy. But for now, will you help me take these over to the guys?"
Bulma picked up a tray and followed Chi chi through the tunnel and into Kakkarot's room. If she had been more awake, she probably would have noticed that her tray was slipping out of her grasp. Luckily, Kakkarot was there and saved his precious food before it hit the floor.
"Here Bulma," He said, trying his best to be polite to her, "Let me get that. You know, I'm really suprised that you lasted so long training today. Normally, on the rare occasions that the King sends someone to train with us, they're sent in the hopes that they will either die or the King will have material to ridicule them and cast them out of the palace." He said this casually, as he strolled into the kitchen and put the turkey onto the counter. "Vegeta!" He yelled, "Dinner's Ready!"
Vegeta came strolling into the kitchen to find Kakkarot sitting at the table, staring at his plate and trying his best to keep himself from eating it. Next to Kakkarot was Bulma, who looked as if she could fall asleep right there and not wake up for the next three days. The only reason that she was still awake was that she was famished and couldn't wait for Chi chi to finish up so that they could get back to their quarters and eat. The moment that Vegeta sat down into his seat, Kakkarot devoured his plate and looked up expectantly at Chi chi for more. Chi chi, upon seeing that the guys' dinner was fine, tapped Bulma on the shoulder and motioned for them to leave and get their own.
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About an hour later, Bulma and Chi chi finished their dinner and started loading their dishes into the washer. (I don't know... think dishwasher but it puts the plates back for you and... um... is really small- if you can't tell I'm making this up as I go, so don't pester me about appliances.)
"So, Bulma," Chi chi asked, breaking the comfortable silence that dinner had set upon them, "how was your first day of training?"
"Oh, I'm so exhausted I don't think that I'll be able to get up once I lay down for about a week." She answered. "I don't see how those guys do it, do you know that they were training for six hours straight at 20 times the normal gravity? And that was before lunch! They did the same thing afterwards and made it look like a simple workout."
"Well," Chi chi said, " they have been training every day since they were both about seven...."
"What I can't believe is that they do this every day!" Bulma said, cutting Chi chi off, " I don't see why Vegeta's building up his strength like that- I mean, if he's shooting for a chance to kill the King he could do it with one arm behind his back."
"Bulma, don't you know that the Prince's lifelong goal is to become the legendary Super Sayian?" Chi chi asked and was shocked when Bulma shook her head, for even the King knew that his son wouldn't kill him until he'd achieved this goal.
"Really?" Bulma asked, amazed, "I'll bet that, at the rate he's going, he'll reach it before he turns twenty."
"Well," Chi chi said, "This year especially, he has nothing to distract him from it."
"What do you mean 'this year especially'?" Bulma asked, puzzled.
"I forgot how much you missed by not being in constant contact with civilization," Chi chi began, "The Prince recently turned eighteen and, according to the traditions that the Kings have been following for centuries, he's not allowed to be with any sort of female until the day he turnes ninteen, the day he chooses his mate."
"Really?" Bulma said, intrigued, ' Maybe that's why he's so disconnected and cold' she thought to herself, 'maybe I should look intyo that.' Bulma yawned, "Well Chi chi, I'm going to go to bed, I can't believe that those two actually train and expect me to be awake at seven in the morning." With that, Bulma turned and strolled into her room, and five minutes later was sleeping peacefully.
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Author's Note: Hello there, I'm really sorry about getting this out a week late, parents are so bothersome. This is about the length of the next few chapters, so I hope that you're happy with it, yes, some will be longer. I want to let you know that I'll get the next chapter out around Friday or Saturday, and from now on you can start looking for them weekly, around that time. Oh, by the way, I know that the characters are a little OOC, so don't flame me 'bout that. I know that there wasn't a lot of physical/appearance discription in this, but there will be more in the next chapters- I didn't think that you needed them for the training
Disclamer: OK, does anyone here think I own DBZ and/ or the energizer bunny? FYI: I don't.