The Princess and the Outlaw
by Chibi Makoto
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that has to do with DBZ/GT. ^^; So that means the characters.
Oh yeah and this is my disclaimer to my last chapter. I forgot to put one up! Eep!
AN: Ok well my computer was being screwy with the last chapter and it ended up putting two of these ' in between words like "I'll, he'll, they'll" Stupid computer! So sorry for that. X_x It could've been confusing for some. Now onto the story. ^^ Oh yes and thank you anyone who reviewed my last chapter. I have to thank Vegeta's lil Princess twice because I forgot her in the last thank you part of my AN last chapter. EEP! Sorry about that. So thank you. ^^;; Now onto the story...
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Now these ropes that were tying the Princess down did not want to seem to give way. She could feel them ever so slowly starting to loosen little by little but not good enough for her to get out of them. Her wrists burned as she struggled some more and it almost felt like the ropes were cutting into her. In fact they were probably cutting into her with how forcefully she was trying to pull out of them.
"Oh come on...dammit!" she said to herself and decided to give her wrists a little break from the pain that she just now started to feel coming from them. They burned a lot, but she just couldn't give up, not right now. Otherwise 17 would be back soon and probably get some new ropes to tie her down with like some sort of criminal.
All of his little comment to her over the past hours came flooding back into her mind once again as she thought about him tying her back up with new ropes. Just thinking of him and how he treated her made her angry. She gritted her teeth together and started to tug on the ropes once again more forcefully if that was possible. Her wrists were now throbbing with pain but she still went on.
Finally one of the pieces of the rope decided to give way and with a little "ping" sound as it broke in half. Not really noticing that she had succeed in at least starting to break through the rope the Princess still struggled. She stopped for a second giving her wrists another little break and stared down at the ropes.
"Well at least I got somewhere," she said with a little sigh seeing the piece of the rope that had broken. She was actually starting to give up hope by now. She closed her eyes and slumped back in her chair. Well she shot right back up again once she felt a pain shooting up from her spine after leaning up against the chair. She glanced behind her and then mentally slapped herself for not seeing this sooner.
She had leaned up against her own tail. (Yes they have tails, I just forgot to mention that in the beginning ^^ ) It soon popped out of the little hole in the pants that was made for the tail and started to sway back and forth behind her.
'Hm...' she thought to herself, maybe her tail could work to her advantage and help her out of this predicament. It would be easier for her tail to untie the knots of the ropes that were around her chest and stomach area but what good would that do if she couldn't get her hands out of their ties in the end. She decided to give up on the tail idea and start going back to what she was originally doing. She wiggled her wrists around trying to loosen the ties a little more.
Her hands were tiny they could fit through... eventually.
After what seemed like another good half hour of struggling against those ropes she finally got one of her hands through.
"Oh, yes, yes! I did it!" She squealed with delight and then started to until her other hand and reach behind her and undo those ropes.
She stood up on her feet and started to stretch out. It can get very uncomfortable from being in a sitting position for so long and then being tied up also didn't help any. She glanced down at her wrists which still burned with pain and saw that they were red and a little cut up.
"I should probably wash them," she said to herself glancing around the ship for any kind of water supply that could cool down her rope burned wrists. She found a sink and quickly went over to it, just to find out that it didn't work when she turned it on.
"Great just great!" she said. She had already wasted enough time already getting free and 17 would be back soon if she didn't get out of there. So ignoring her burning wrists she set out to the main door of the ship.
She saw the main door and pushed the button that sat next to it to open it up, only the button was cracked and the door wasn't looking all that nice anymore.
'Probably from our crash landing,' she thought, 'or maybe the giant rock I made us hit.'
At least now she would be able to escape from 17. So she wasn't regretting hitting that big asteroid anymore now.
The door creaked and squeaked open enough for her to step outside of it. It was daytime she saw as the one of the sun's of the planet beamed down on her making her squint her eyes. She looked around to see exactly where they had landed. They were in the middle of what looked like a large forest. Except the tree's looked kind of blue? She shook her head to make sure that she was seeing things right and sure enough her eyes were fine and not seeing things. The "forest" looked eerie and wasn't looking like it wanted any outsider's to wander into it.
Well she basically had two choices: either wait here for 17 to come back and see that she disobeyed him yet again and endure his wrath or go into this creepy blue weird "forest" and maybe never come out alive. Well if she actually thought about it either way she had a chance of getting killed.
So she decided to go with her second choice and head out into the "forest."
She stepped away from the ship and heard the doors once again creak shut behind her. Well even if she wanted to go back and wait for 17 now she wouldn't know how to get back in. The outside of the ship looked like it was missing the open button.
With one last glance at the ship she took off into the "forest." She was at a somewhat slow and steady walk at first and kept her senses on guard at all times just incase she ran into someone or something unexpected. Her tail swished back and forth behind her as she started to rapidly gain speed in her walk from being so nervous.
It was actually kind of odd why she was so nervous. She had always tried to run away at home. Trying to get outside of the castle. But she usually only made it as far as the outer field's and was caught instantly. She would scream, kick, and throw out threats of what she would do to the guards if they didn't let her go that instant. She had always hated being cooped up in that stuffy old castle. Kind of ironic how she wished more than ever that she was back there at this very moment.
'Well you always wanted an adventure Bra,' she thought to herself, 'Now you've finally gotten one. Happy now?" A frown came across her face.
Unknown to her, she had been walking for quite sometime and had soon come across a clearing. She stopped at the edge of the forest to look out and see what was there. It seemed to be a little town.
'Great! Now I can find someway to contact daddy and he will know where I am and I'll be home in no time!' she though throwing a celebration inside her head. She walked out into the clearing beyond the forest with a new happier step in her walk.
As she approached the little town the noise started to increase rapidly of yells and laughter. She looked around and saw many creatures of many different species were gathered around here and there in this town. It was actually quite interesting, the Princess had never seen anything quite like it. She walked into the town and some people smiled at her as they passed by. Others would give her dirty looks and glance over at her tail and say something in their own tongue to the other creatures/being's they were with.
"Um..excuse me," Bra said to what looked like a lady wearing a blue sort of dress but she had purple scales on some parts of her face and arms. "Do you know where there is a communication's center around here?" Bra asked her.
The woman shook her head a little and then spoke something in a language Bra did not understand indicating that she did not understand Bra as well.
"Sorry, I don't understand you but thank you anyway," Bra gave the lady a smile and was soon on her way. She hadn't thought about anyone speaking a different language. She walked slowly down the town listening in on the other creature's conversations trying to see if she could understand anything they were saying but she couldn't. She half wished that some other Saiya-jin would come walking down the street and could translate for her what she wanted.
She sighed to herself as she walked into what looked like one of the local taverns. She took a seat by herself in the corner getting weird looks from many different creatures and some others not noticing her at all. Some stared at her tail as it swayed back and forth behind her.
A short creature man soon walked up to her and spoke in his own language towards her, eyeing her tail a little. It seemed like he had asked her a question. Bra assumed that he asked her either what kind of drink she wanted or what she wanted to eat. She gave him somewhat of a blank look seemingly very confused.
"Um...do you by chance speak, Saiyas?" She said to the man with more than a little hope that someone around here could understand her. But the man just shook his head and shrugged a little not getting anything that she had said also. Bra sighed and waved her hand at him indicating that she did not wish to have anything. So he strolled off in somewhat of a gruff manner and went to serve some other creatures, preferably one's that knew had to speak his language and would order something.
Bra then slouched down in her seat. 'I've finally escaped, gotten through that nasty awful forest thing and now no one can understand me here!' She thought.
Well...17 could understand her but she didn't wish to go and look for him. Besides asking him to translate for her, that is if he could speak the language, didn't seem like a good idea. He wouldn't be to happy with her for escaping from the ship to begin with let alone help her try and get back to her home planet.
Unknown to Bra at that very second a group of shady figures in the tavern had noticed what kind of language she had spoken...and didn't seem all to pleased with it when they realized what she was...
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AN: Dun Dun Dun. ^^ Well we've at least gotten out of that ruined ship. Poor Bra, she can't understand anyone! I guess I'm calling her language Saiyas, don't ask me why but I just typed that when I was writing. *lol* I'm surprised that I got this part done so quickly though. I was bored and so decided to write. ^^ YAY. I have to go and look for a job soon here so I guess I won't have as much free time as I would like. Plus school will start up again in two weeks. Maybe I'll be able to get out one or two more parts before that. Depends on how much time I have here. Ok, well I hope you liked this part. Please R&R! I would like to know what you guys think, and maybe you can give me an idea or two to help me along here. Until later days!
~*~ Makoto ~*~