Three Hours... Hurry Back Goku!
Nappa chuckled at the four staring at Tien's body.
"Im-impossible..." Piccolo stammered, looking back up at Nappa, "Is he immortal?"
Krillin and Gohan stuttered vowels at Tien who lied motionless on the ground. Dead. Nanake looked away, closing her eyes and flinching back the tears.
"They're... They're monsters... MONSTERS."
"Th-this can't be happening..." Krillin spoke through gritted teeth, his whole body, straining with rage and sorrow, "It's like a nightmare... I-I can't believe that Tien... ALL of them... One after the other... Dying..."
"GOKUUUUUU! HURRY UP! WE NEED YOU!!!!!!!!!!" Krillin roared in a fit of rage.
Vegeta looked up at Krillin in wonder, muttering to himself,
"'Goku"...? This isn't the first time they've... ...Wait..."
"Heh... Another one down..." Nappa chuckled at them, "Now it's YOUR turn..."
Piccolo and Krillin glared at him. Nanake gasped and involuntarily floated backwards a bit. Nappa smirked and continued,
"Although I'll let the Namek called Piccolo live... More or less... So he can tell us more about the Dragon Balls..."
"Lucky you, Piccolo..." Krillin muttered, "They think you're the only one who knows about the Dragon Balls..."
"Psh. It won't matter." Piccolo replied, "They plan to kill us all anyway..."
Krillin smiled a little, still looking ahead at Nappa,
"But listen... I'm glad you're on our side... even if it was temporary. I never thought this would happen..."
"So how much confidence do you have that you'll win?" Nanake asked him.
Piccolo gritted his teeth angrilly,
"None. ...I never dreamed there was such power. They far outstrip the Saiyan who came before."
Nanake bowed her head,
"Then..."
"Then this is... Really it..." Krillin finished for her.
Nanake squeezed her eyes shut, fighting back tears as one escaped her eye and rolled down her cheek. Her voice choked with a tiny sob,
"No..."
"Listen you two... We have to fight him on the ground!" Piccolo growled, "He's too accustomed to aerial combat!"
"Wherever you want..." Nappa drawled, "It'll be the same result."
Piccolo, Krillin and Nanake flew to the ground. The second they touched down, Nappa zoomed down towards them. Nanake screamed, staring up at him with pure authentic fear, Gohan covered his eyes and Piccolo and Krillin just stared, as doom came fast. They thought the end had come, until Vegeta's voice rang out like a bell,
"NAPPA--WAIT!!!!!"
Nappa cringed and skid to a stop in mid-air. All eyes were on Vegeta.
"What's wrong with you Vegeta...?!" Nappa eyed his comrade suspiciously, "All I have to do is..."
Gohan gulped.
"Don't be in such hurry, that's all." Vegeta smirked, "I want to ask them something..."
He looked at the four defenders and spoke again with a vile smirk on his face.
"This "Son Goku" you keep mentioning is Kakarrot... Isn't it? Am I right?"
"Y-yeah... so what?" Krillin glared at him.
"Well, well. Then he really did come back to life with the Dragon Balls, just as we heard... But..." Vegeta laughed, "Kakarrot is your only hope?!"
Nanake glared at him,
"What's so funny?!"
"That you think Kakarrot can beat us! What good will he be if he wasn't even a match for Raditz?" He smirked at her.
"He should be different from before... NO!!! He WILL be different! More powerful than EVER BEFORE!!!" Krillin shouted, clenching a fist.
"Son Goku is a bad one to underestimate..." Piccolo growled warningly.
"WA HA HA! Then where is he?" Nappa roared with laughter, "Maybe he's not coming back... coz he's SCARED!!!!"
"HE'LL COME!!! DADDY'LL COME BACK AND HE'LL BEAT YOU GUYS UP!!" Gohan leaped out of hiding and shouted angrilly.
"Heh heh... Such faith..." Vegeta chuckled, "Touching. All right, then. We'll wait until he comes."
Nanake's eyes widened and she whispered,
"What?!"
"What?! Vegeta you're joking! He's NEVER going to come!" Nappa whined, "Let's just finish them off NOW!"
Vegeta smirked to his comrade and held up three fingers.
"We'll wait for three hours..." He flashed an evil grin at Krillin, "...and no longer." He smirked at Nanake. "Three."
"THREE HOURS!!!" Nappa shouted in a tantrum, "WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO FOR THREE HOURS?! I'VE BEEN IN SUSPENDED ANIMATION FOR TOO LONG! MY BODY CRAVES SOME ACTION!!!!!! TO HELL WITH WAITING!!!!!!!" Nappa blasted off towards them again. Nanake screamed as a fist came rushing towards her face. She squeezed her eyes shut.
"NAPPA!!!!! DO WHAT I SAY!!!!!" Vegeta roared, enraged. Nappa screeched to a halt once again.
"S...Sorry... I... got carried away..."
Nanake opened her eyes and staggered vowels in a high pitched voice as she saw Nappa's fist, a full inch in front of her face.
"...Well... There you go." Vegeta snickered, "Three extra hours of life. Enjoy them."
"I'm... I'm sorry... But I got so s-scared..." Gohan whimpered to Piccolo.
"Away with you then! We have no use for a coward." Piccolo growled lowly at him, "I was a fool to expect so much."
"Hey... take it easy on him Piccolo... It's only his first fight." Krillin butted in.
"Just go home." Piccolo turned away from Gohan. Gohan sniffled and started to walk away.
"I still don't get it... Why do we want to wait for Kakarrot?" Nappa asked.
"Because he's a traitor to all Saiyans. A traaitor deserves to see his son and friends die before his eyes..." Vegeta grinned callously, putting on his scouter and setting a timer, "Deserves to feel how powerless he is... How much agony we can inflict... Until, after three or four hours... heh... he'll beg us to send him to hell."
"Ha! Great! I should've had more faith in you!" Nappa laughed.
"That's IF he shows up in three hours..."
"You can have Kakarrot, but let me do those four!" Nappa clenched his fists excitedly.
"Do whichever you want... But AFTER we make the Namek talk about the Dragon Balls." Vegeta crossed his arms with a smirk.
"Mmm... I hope he shows up..." Nappa chuckled and then caught Gohan walking away out of the corner of his eye. He chuckled evilly, sending a beam right in front of Gohan's nose and blasting a large rock by him.
"GOHAN!" Nanake flew in front of him protectively.
Nappa howled in laughter at her.
"Oooo! I'm so SCARED of the little girl!"
"You said THREE HOURS you ASSHOLE!" She spread her arms out wide, making herself a barrier in front of Gohan.
"Aw I wasn't gonna KILL him, wench!"
"Makes no difference! How can you pick on a little boy like that when he's been through this much HELL you BASTARD!"
"Heh..." Nappa smirked as he lit fire in his hand and shouted before throwing it straight at her, "C'MON BABY LIGHT MY FIRE!!!!!!"
The fire ball landed on her cape, setting it aflame. Nanake shrieked in alarm as Nappa and Vegeta roared with laughter. Nanake freaked out, jumping around until she flung her cape off and to the ground. The laughter immediately stopped after that. Nanake sat on the ground bawling,
"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! YOU LIT ME ON FIRE! THAT WASN'T FAIR!" Her bawling quieted to sniffles as she looked at Nappa and Vegeta staring wide-eyed and slack-jawed at her. She gasped and scooted away a bit, confused as to why they were staring at her like that.
"NANAKE!" Piccolo roared angrilly, "IT'S YOUR TAIL! THEY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE NOW!!!"
She let out a small whimper as she saw her tail beside her, shivering. She picked it up in her hands and shoved it behind her. Vegeta broke out in a fit a evil laughter. Nanake stared at him full of fear. She didn't know what to expect now. Was she to die a worse death than her friends because she was supposedly a traitor? But they knew Gohan was a Saiyan, why wasn't he being killed gruesomely because he was too?
"Well well well, what have we here..." Vegeta chuckled, "It's looks like a Saiyan... and a female too. What do you think, Nappa?"
Nappa grinned maliciously at her.
"C'mere..."
Nanake staggered vowels as Nappa slowly walked over to her, each step, thundering like her heart in her chest. She scooted backwards shaking horribley. She shrieked and shot several blasts at him. Nappa chuckled and walked right through them. He yanked her up by the arm and she screamed, kicking him in the stomach with all her might,
"N-NOO! NO PLEASE!"
Piccolo blasted Nappa square in the back as he turned, walking back to Vegeta. He turned back with a growl at the Namek.
"You said three hours. Put her down. Now."
Nappa chuckled and tossed her aside and she fled over to Piccolo and Krillin, falling onto her knees, weeping.
"I don't wanna die... I don't wanna die today..."
"Nanake..." Krillin put a hand on her shoulder, "You won't die today... Goku will come. He will."
She shrugged his hand off and flew to the top of a rock pillar that was in between the Saiyans and Earth's defenders. She sat up there and hugged her knees, quietly sobbing. Krillin sighed and floated up to her. He sat by her side. Nanake looked up and began to sing gently,
"Where do we go from here?
This isn't where we intended to be...
We had it all, you believed in me
I believed in you
Certainties disappear
What do we do for our dream to survive?
How do we keep all our passions alive
As we used to do?
Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away...
You must love me...
You must love me...
You must love me..."
Vegeta looked up at her atop the pillar, raising an eyebrow at the emotional, frightened girl. Krillin held her quietly as she sang.
"Why are you at my side?
How can I be any use to you now?
Give me a chance, and I'll let you see how
Nothing has changed.
Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling...
Frightened you'll slip away...
You must love me...
You must love me..."
Krillin sat next to her cradling her from side to side, hushing the tears that fell after her song.
"That was very beautiful Nanake... If we live through this, you should sing more."
Nanake sniffled in his arms, feeling comfert in them, though not knowing why. She smiled a bit and held his arms. He seemed taller than he looked from the outside.
"Thank you Krillin. I'd like to be alone right now..."
Krillin smiled and nodded to her. He floated down to Piccolo. They looked up at Nanake, who sat humming her own tune.
Vegeta smirked and flew up to her. Krillin and Piccolo lurched forward,
"NANAKE!"
Nanake looked up at him like a deer caught in headlights.
"Please, allow me to apologize for my behavior earlier. That was inappropriate of me."
"EAH?!" Nanake squeaked, inching away.
"Here... let me help you..." He extended a hand to help her up. She looked at his hand and then up into his eyes. His eyes had a sort of glint in them. An evil glint that she didn't like. She bit her fear and scowled at him, which almost caught him off-guard. She backflipped off the pillar's cliff and fell headfirst toward the ground.
"SHIT! NAPPA CATCH HER! SHE'S SUICIDAL!" Vegeta roared, veins popping out of his forehead.
Before Nappa reached her, she did a flip in the air again with her leg extended, kicking Nappa in the side of his head, floating upwards again. Nappa glared up at her and charged a ki blast. He hurled it at her and she crossed her arms in an "X" over her face and screamed. Before impact, Vegeta phazed in right in front of her and smacked it away.
"Nappa! Three hours. Don't forget." He turned and glared at Nanake who was just coming out of defence stance, breathing heavily and trembling, "That means you too. I trust you want to keep your end of the deal if your friends want the extra three hours of life."
"I'm not taking orders from YOU, you MONSTER!"
He backhanded her, sending her straight to the ground, cringing and straining. Nappa and Vegeta floated to where they sat earlier and waited once again.
Nanake sat up, straining, with an eye shut, getting swollen. She had a smirk on her face as Krillin, Piccolo and Gohan stood by her side. She flopped back down on her back with a smiles and used her healing powers she had discovered during training. Vegeta glared at her as she sat back up, completely healed, but a little exhausted.
("She's very gutsy for how weak she is and how strong we are... She'd better strengthen up for what I'M gonna do to her...") He scowled at her, clenching a fist.
Nanake rested up for