OH MY KAMI, I am SOOOOOOO sorry it took so long to add another chapter! _ We're going to be moving this month to somewhere that is twelve hours away from where we live now, so you can imagine the chaos.... sadly, it will probably take a while to get ANOTHER chapter up, so.... well, at least I have plenty of time to brainstorm! ^_~
Thanks for being patient,
Autumn
Chapter Four: A Baby's First Steps
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
"Sh! Sh! Sh!" Piccolo tried to calm her down. "BULMA!!!"
"What!?" Bulma had been standing behind him.
"Oh." Piccolo shrugged. "How do I shut her up?"
Bulma laughed. "Well it depends on what she wants, silly!"
"Well what does she want!?" Piccolo asked desperately.
"Honestly!" Bulma took Teale from Piccolo. "I don't know HOW you Namekians survived without women!"
Bulma walked past Vegeta, who was sitting on the counter, on her way to the refrigerator. Vegeta had his arms crossed as he glared at Piccolo, watching his EVERY move… Piccolo stared back for a moment, then questioned: "You don't trust me, do you?"
"No." Came his IMMEDIATE response. Piccolo sighed and spotted Bulma, who was sitting down, and watched as she started to feed Teale the Formula milk. Everyone else was outside because they could stand Teale's crying NO longer! The only one who had been forced out of the house was Chi-Chi ("Bulma, you baby hog!!!").
"So…" Piccolo said, trying to start conversation with Vegeta. Vegeta raised an eyebrow at him. "Never mind, Vegeta!" Vegeta shrugged and his eyebrow lowered to its normal position. "How can mothers tell what their baby's cry means?"
"I don't know," Bulma admitted. "You just get used to their crying in some odd way… I'm sure men could do it, too-" Bulma looked at Vegeta. "-but they're all just too stupid." Vegeta scoffed and Bulma smiled. "But it's sort of like my cat. She has different 'meows' that indicate she wants to be fed, pet, let out, or let in. Of course, there are more, but I'm not going to go into all of them. Understand?"
"Sort of…" Piccolo said, scratching his head. Bulma laughed.
"Don't worry, it's not like any man REALLY gets it, anyway!"
"I understand PERFECTLY!" Vegeta said suddenly, trying to prove he was smarter than he looked. Piccolo and Bulma looked at each other and shook their heads. "Really, I do!"
"SURE, you do, Vegeta…" Bulma rolled her eyes. "Piccolo, why don't you take Teale outside to play in the first snow of FHI?"
"I don't know if that's such a good idea…" Bulma shoved an already heavily clothed Teale in Piccolo's arms.
"Go." Bulma shoved Piccolo's coat at him. "NOW."
"Okay, okay, I'm going!" Piccolo put Teale down for a second and put his coat on. "Sheesh!"
Piccolo picked Teale back up, walked out the door with her, and slammed the door behind him. Vegeta covered his ears in disgust.
*~*~*
"Okay!" Piccolo sat down and grinned. "Come on, Teale! Come on, you can do it!" Cell let Teale stand up on her own and she began to wobble. She looked up at Piccolo and started crying. "Oh…"
"She's just not ready yet," Cell told him, handing Teale to a slightly disappointed Piccolo. "Give her some time. She'll walk when she's ready."
"But she can already fly…" Piccolo stated with a frown. Cell shrugged.
"She's just afraid to take that big step."
"Piccolo, Piccolo, does Teale wanna make a snowman!?" Goten asked, rather excited. Piccolo opened his mouth and was about to say something, when Teale giggled and nodded. Piccolo shrugged.
"I guess so."
"YAY!!!!!!" Goten ran off to the site of the already being built snowman. "Trunks, Trunks, Teale's gonna help us!"
"That's good." Trunks' voice came. "With Teale and Piccolo helping us, we're sure to beat Gohan and your Dad!"
*~*~*
"………" Trunks and Goten sat cross-legged in front of two snowmen. A normal sized one, and one that was eight feet taller, and ten feet wider. Trunks sighed and looked at the snowmen, puzzled. "I don't get it."
"Me NEITHER!" Goten agreed.
"That's nothing," Cell said. "Look at mine!"
"Whoa!"
"Dear Kami, it's HUGE!" Trunks declared. Cell grinned and nodded with pride:
"Uh-huh!" Cell's snowman was twenty feet tall, and was sixteen feet wide. The only thing wrong with it was the fact that it was rectangular.
"Hm…." Eighteen cocked her head at it.
"A rectangular prism for a snowman!" Krillin stated the obvious. "Why didn't *I* think of that?"
"Because you're too stupid, dear?" Eighteen suggested.
"Oh, yeah!" Krillin said with a nod. Then added in a whisper: "I forgot about that…" (A/n: no offense, Krillin fans, just thought it would be funny)
They all heard a gasp and looked at Chi-Chi. Chi-Chi pointed at the foot of the rectangular snowman. "Look at Teale!" She could barely speak she was so shocked.
They all looked down to see Teale stand up, both hands on the snowman's side supporting her. Piccolo fell to his knees, his cape following him gracefully (A/n: gracefully….hm…..). "Come on, Teale, you can do it!"
"Daddy…!" Teale's eyes watered and her legs began to wobble.
"Come on, just one step, you can do it!" Piccolo told her. Teale bit her bottom lip and lifted her left leg. Everyone but Piccolo gasped. "Come on!" Teale swung the lifted leg forward and took her first step.
"Alright!" Goku exclaimed.
"Great job!" Gohan congratulated. Piccolo smiled.
"Come to 'Daddy'!" Teale giggled and wobbled as she quickly made her way over to Piccolo.
"Not too fast, not too fast!" Bulma warned. "Not too-" Teale fell face-forward in the snow, right in front of Piccolo.
"Ooh!" Everyone winced.
"-fast…" Bulma sighed. Piccolo quickly picked Teale up and she began to cry.
"Oh!" Videl and Chi-Chi said in unison. Piccolo frowned and cradled her in his arms, which seemed to cheer her up a little.
"Come on, let's all go get something to eat." Bulma told them all. Vegeta grinned.
"Alright!"
"Yeah!" Goten and Trunks said in unison.
*~*~*
Teale giggled as she seemed to run around the kitchen. Piccolo watched Goten jog by him, going backwards, pointing his index fingers out. Teale was holding onto his outstretched fingers, running along with him. Teale slipped, but Goten steadied her again, causing her to laugh even more. Goten laughed as they ran by Piccolo again. Trunks couldn't help but giggle as they ran by him.
"Hey, squirt, my turn." Gohan told his little brother.
"Okay!" Goten pried his fingers from Teale's grip and she started to cry.
"Hey, kid, cheer up!" Gohan told her, holding his fingers out as Goten did. Teale continued crying and Gohan frowned. "What's the matter…?"
"Teale, what's the matter?" Goten asked, walking back over to her. Teale stopped crying and reached for his hands. Goten shook his head. "No, Gohan's gonna run with you."
Teale started crying again and Gohan frowned even more. "I think she likes you better!"
"Goten, you're spoiling her!" Chi-Chi scolded.
"It doesn't matter," Piccolo told her. "I don't mind. She's an only child anyway."
"Better run around again!" Bulma suggested.
"Yes, please do!" Vegeta yelled from the couch, where he was covering his ears.
"Oh, alright…" Goten held his hands out and Teale stopped crying immediately. She grinned, flew up, grabbed his fingers, and landed. "He-Hey!" Teale giggled and began to swing his hands back and forth with hers, slightly twisting her body. "I don't get it…"
"Ooooooh!" Trunks 'oohed'. "Teale's got a crush on Goten!" Teale blushed, smiled sheepishly, and continued to swing his hands back and forth. "Teale and Goten, sittin' in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Are not!" Goten protested. Vegeta (who was now looking at them all from his spot on the couch) quirked and eyebrow. He rolled his eyes and flipped back around.
"Stick to your own kind…!"
"Hey, Saiyan, you married a human!" Bulma shouted.
"D'oh!" Bulma smiled triumphantly.
"Alright!" Chi-Chi said, holding up a hand. Bulma turned to her and they gave each other a high-five.
"Go!" Teale said, pushing Goten's leg.
"Okay, okay!" Goten began to run around the kitchen again, causing Teale to giggle. Everyone sitting on barstools at the island/bar in the middle of the kitchen watched them go around and around, disappearing around the side, and appearing again. Goten and Teale disappeared, and the giggling suddenly stopped.
They all stood up and walked around the bar to see Teale looking at her reflection in the dishwasher's side, and Goten crouching next to her. Teale made a noise and pointed at her reflection, looking at Goten. "Yeah, that's yourself! It's a…. um…"
"Yeah, it's a baby!" Chi-Chi told Teale.
"Kiss the baby!" Bulma exclaimed. Piccolo quirked an eyebrow at the blue-haired woman, then looked back down at Teale. Teale grinned and gave the dishwasher a big, wet, slobbery kiss.
"EW!" Trunks shouted. Goten laughed at his friend's reaction and Piccolo frowned.
"Teale!" Piccolo crouched down next to her and shook his head. "No, we don't kiss the dishwasher!"
"Oh, Piccolo, let her be!" Chi-Chi told him.
"It's not a problem to clean it!" Bulma assured him. "Besides, we'll be leaving this island before you know it!"
"Okay…" Piccolo said.
"Hey, Teale," Videl crouched down beside the little Namekian. "Go give Gohan a kiss for me!"
Teale grinned and flew up next to Gohan. She gave him a slobbery kiss on the cheek. "Hey!" Gohan looked down at her. She grinned up at him. Gohan smiled and crouched down next to her. "What'd you do that for?" Teale swayed, then pointed at Videl. Gohan looked up at Videl. "Oh, is THAT why you did it?" Teale nodded. "Well go give her one for me!"
"Okay!" Teale ran over to Videl and Piccolo scowled.
"Quit using my child as a kissing tool!" Piccolo snatched her up and she giggled.
"It's FIIIIIIIIINIIIIISHED!!!!!"
*~*~*
Frieza opened a door and smoke leaked out of the room behind it. Once the smoke cleared, a dark and empty appearing room was unveiled. Teale hid herself behind Piccolo's leg and he glanced down at her. "What is it?"
"Well, my dear-" Frieza paused his British accent as he spotted Vegeta's death glare. "Never mind that… it's my new and improved hyperbolic time chamber!" Everyone gasped. "Nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be afraid of! It comes with lights!"
Frieza pressed a button and the hyperbolic time chamber was lit up with darkness. Frieza smiled and nodded. "But this is no ORDINARY time chamber! Stick someone in there for a MINUTE and they come out fifty years older!"
"Ew…." Videl said as she got chills up her spine. What would she look like if she went in that thing!?
"Alright, then, come on, Teale!" Frieza began to push Teale into the time chamber. Teale screamed as Frieza pushed her in, and Frieza was about to close the door when:
"WAIT!!!" Frieza glanced at his watch.
"Right on time…" He whispered. "Yes, what is it?" Piccolo pushed Frieza out of the way, pulled the door open, and picked Teale up. He glared at Frieza, who was looking at his watch. "Yes, that was on time, too…"
"Frieza, I will NOT allow you to steal my daughter's childhood from her!" Piccolo yelled.
"Odd, but that was a little EARLY…"
"FRIEZA!!!" Frieza looked up to see everybody staring at him.
"………….WHAT!?"
"But what about Dende?" Yamcha asked.
"Hmph!" Piccolo stuck his nose in the air. "Dende can wait."
And with that the proud Namekian left them all standing, flabbergasted, in Frieza's secret laboratory.
I have no idea what the next chapter is going to be about, so could you (my fans) try to give me some ideas...? Heheh.... ^^;;;;; I'm caught up in the steps of moving....
Thanks for being patient,
Autumn
Chapter Four: A Baby's First Steps
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
"Sh! Sh! Sh!" Piccolo tried to calm her down. "BULMA!!!"
"What!?" Bulma had been standing behind him.
"Oh." Piccolo shrugged. "How do I shut her up?"
Bulma laughed. "Well it depends on what she wants, silly!"
"Well what does she want!?" Piccolo asked desperately.
"Honestly!" Bulma took Teale from Piccolo. "I don't know HOW you Namekians survived without women!"
Bulma walked past Vegeta, who was sitting on the counter, on her way to the refrigerator. Vegeta had his arms crossed as he glared at Piccolo, watching his EVERY move… Piccolo stared back for a moment, then questioned: "You don't trust me, do you?"
"No." Came his IMMEDIATE response. Piccolo sighed and spotted Bulma, who was sitting down, and watched as she started to feed Teale the Formula milk. Everyone else was outside because they could stand Teale's crying NO longer! The only one who had been forced out of the house was Chi-Chi ("Bulma, you baby hog!!!").
"So…" Piccolo said, trying to start conversation with Vegeta. Vegeta raised an eyebrow at him. "Never mind, Vegeta!" Vegeta shrugged and his eyebrow lowered to its normal position. "How can mothers tell what their baby's cry means?"
"I don't know," Bulma admitted. "You just get used to their crying in some odd way… I'm sure men could do it, too-" Bulma looked at Vegeta. "-but they're all just too stupid." Vegeta scoffed and Bulma smiled. "But it's sort of like my cat. She has different 'meows' that indicate she wants to be fed, pet, let out, or let in. Of course, there are more, but I'm not going to go into all of them. Understand?"
"Sort of…" Piccolo said, scratching his head. Bulma laughed.
"Don't worry, it's not like any man REALLY gets it, anyway!"
"I understand PERFECTLY!" Vegeta said suddenly, trying to prove he was smarter than he looked. Piccolo and Bulma looked at each other and shook their heads. "Really, I do!"
"SURE, you do, Vegeta…" Bulma rolled her eyes. "Piccolo, why don't you take Teale outside to play in the first snow of FHI?"
"I don't know if that's such a good idea…" Bulma shoved an already heavily clothed Teale in Piccolo's arms.
"Go." Bulma shoved Piccolo's coat at him. "NOW."
"Okay, okay, I'm going!" Piccolo put Teale down for a second and put his coat on. "Sheesh!"
Piccolo picked Teale back up, walked out the door with her, and slammed the door behind him. Vegeta covered his ears in disgust.
*~*~*
"Okay!" Piccolo sat down and grinned. "Come on, Teale! Come on, you can do it!" Cell let Teale stand up on her own and she began to wobble. She looked up at Piccolo and started crying. "Oh…"
"She's just not ready yet," Cell told him, handing Teale to a slightly disappointed Piccolo. "Give her some time. She'll walk when she's ready."
"But she can already fly…" Piccolo stated with a frown. Cell shrugged.
"She's just afraid to take that big step."
"Piccolo, Piccolo, does Teale wanna make a snowman!?" Goten asked, rather excited. Piccolo opened his mouth and was about to say something, when Teale giggled and nodded. Piccolo shrugged.
"I guess so."
"YAY!!!!!!" Goten ran off to the site of the already being built snowman. "Trunks, Trunks, Teale's gonna help us!"
"That's good." Trunks' voice came. "With Teale and Piccolo helping us, we're sure to beat Gohan and your Dad!"
*~*~*
"………" Trunks and Goten sat cross-legged in front of two snowmen. A normal sized one, and one that was eight feet taller, and ten feet wider. Trunks sighed and looked at the snowmen, puzzled. "I don't get it."
"Me NEITHER!" Goten agreed.
"That's nothing," Cell said. "Look at mine!"
"Whoa!"
"Dear Kami, it's HUGE!" Trunks declared. Cell grinned and nodded with pride:
"Uh-huh!" Cell's snowman was twenty feet tall, and was sixteen feet wide. The only thing wrong with it was the fact that it was rectangular.
"Hm…." Eighteen cocked her head at it.
"A rectangular prism for a snowman!" Krillin stated the obvious. "Why didn't *I* think of that?"
"Because you're too stupid, dear?" Eighteen suggested.
"Oh, yeah!" Krillin said with a nod. Then added in a whisper: "I forgot about that…" (A/n: no offense, Krillin fans, just thought it would be funny)
They all heard a gasp and looked at Chi-Chi. Chi-Chi pointed at the foot of the rectangular snowman. "Look at Teale!" She could barely speak she was so shocked.
They all looked down to see Teale stand up, both hands on the snowman's side supporting her. Piccolo fell to his knees, his cape following him gracefully (A/n: gracefully….hm…..). "Come on, Teale, you can do it!"
"Daddy…!" Teale's eyes watered and her legs began to wobble.
"Come on, just one step, you can do it!" Piccolo told her. Teale bit her bottom lip and lifted her left leg. Everyone but Piccolo gasped. "Come on!" Teale swung the lifted leg forward and took her first step.
"Alright!" Goku exclaimed.
"Great job!" Gohan congratulated. Piccolo smiled.
"Come to 'Daddy'!" Teale giggled and wobbled as she quickly made her way over to Piccolo.
"Not too fast, not too fast!" Bulma warned. "Not too-" Teale fell face-forward in the snow, right in front of Piccolo.
"Ooh!" Everyone winced.
"-fast…" Bulma sighed. Piccolo quickly picked Teale up and she began to cry.
"Oh!" Videl and Chi-Chi said in unison. Piccolo frowned and cradled her in his arms, which seemed to cheer her up a little.
"Come on, let's all go get something to eat." Bulma told them all. Vegeta grinned.
"Alright!"
"Yeah!" Goten and Trunks said in unison.
*~*~*
Teale giggled as she seemed to run around the kitchen. Piccolo watched Goten jog by him, going backwards, pointing his index fingers out. Teale was holding onto his outstretched fingers, running along with him. Teale slipped, but Goten steadied her again, causing her to laugh even more. Goten laughed as they ran by Piccolo again. Trunks couldn't help but giggle as they ran by him.
"Hey, squirt, my turn." Gohan told his little brother.
"Okay!" Goten pried his fingers from Teale's grip and she started to cry.
"Hey, kid, cheer up!" Gohan told her, holding his fingers out as Goten did. Teale continued crying and Gohan frowned. "What's the matter…?"
"Teale, what's the matter?" Goten asked, walking back over to her. Teale stopped crying and reached for his hands. Goten shook his head. "No, Gohan's gonna run with you."
Teale started crying again and Gohan frowned even more. "I think she likes you better!"
"Goten, you're spoiling her!" Chi-Chi scolded.
"It doesn't matter," Piccolo told her. "I don't mind. She's an only child anyway."
"Better run around again!" Bulma suggested.
"Yes, please do!" Vegeta yelled from the couch, where he was covering his ears.
"Oh, alright…" Goten held his hands out and Teale stopped crying immediately. She grinned, flew up, grabbed his fingers, and landed. "He-Hey!" Teale giggled and began to swing his hands back and forth with hers, slightly twisting her body. "I don't get it…"
"Ooooooh!" Trunks 'oohed'. "Teale's got a crush on Goten!" Teale blushed, smiled sheepishly, and continued to swing his hands back and forth. "Teale and Goten, sittin' in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Are not!" Goten protested. Vegeta (who was now looking at them all from his spot on the couch) quirked and eyebrow. He rolled his eyes and flipped back around.
"Stick to your own kind…!"
"Hey, Saiyan, you married a human!" Bulma shouted.
"D'oh!" Bulma smiled triumphantly.
"Alright!" Chi-Chi said, holding up a hand. Bulma turned to her and they gave each other a high-five.
"Go!" Teale said, pushing Goten's leg.
"Okay, okay!" Goten began to run around the kitchen again, causing Teale to giggle. Everyone sitting on barstools at the island/bar in the middle of the kitchen watched them go around and around, disappearing around the side, and appearing again. Goten and Teale disappeared, and the giggling suddenly stopped.
They all stood up and walked around the bar to see Teale looking at her reflection in the dishwasher's side, and Goten crouching next to her. Teale made a noise and pointed at her reflection, looking at Goten. "Yeah, that's yourself! It's a…. um…"
"Yeah, it's a baby!" Chi-Chi told Teale.
"Kiss the baby!" Bulma exclaimed. Piccolo quirked an eyebrow at the blue-haired woman, then looked back down at Teale. Teale grinned and gave the dishwasher a big, wet, slobbery kiss.
"EW!" Trunks shouted. Goten laughed at his friend's reaction and Piccolo frowned.
"Teale!" Piccolo crouched down next to her and shook his head. "No, we don't kiss the dishwasher!"
"Oh, Piccolo, let her be!" Chi-Chi told him.
"It's not a problem to clean it!" Bulma assured him. "Besides, we'll be leaving this island before you know it!"
"Okay…" Piccolo said.
"Hey, Teale," Videl crouched down beside the little Namekian. "Go give Gohan a kiss for me!"
Teale grinned and flew up next to Gohan. She gave him a slobbery kiss on the cheek. "Hey!" Gohan looked down at her. She grinned up at him. Gohan smiled and crouched down next to her. "What'd you do that for?" Teale swayed, then pointed at Videl. Gohan looked up at Videl. "Oh, is THAT why you did it?" Teale nodded. "Well go give her one for me!"
"Okay!" Teale ran over to Videl and Piccolo scowled.
"Quit using my child as a kissing tool!" Piccolo snatched her up and she giggled.
"It's FIIIIIIIIINIIIIISHED!!!!!"
*~*~*
Frieza opened a door and smoke leaked out of the room behind it. Once the smoke cleared, a dark and empty appearing room was unveiled. Teale hid herself behind Piccolo's leg and he glanced down at her. "What is it?"
"Well, my dear-" Frieza paused his British accent as he spotted Vegeta's death glare. "Never mind that… it's my new and improved hyperbolic time chamber!" Everyone gasped. "Nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be afraid of! It comes with lights!"
Frieza pressed a button and the hyperbolic time chamber was lit up with darkness. Frieza smiled and nodded. "But this is no ORDINARY time chamber! Stick someone in there for a MINUTE and they come out fifty years older!"
"Ew…." Videl said as she got chills up her spine. What would she look like if she went in that thing!?
"Alright, then, come on, Teale!" Frieza began to push Teale into the time chamber. Teale screamed as Frieza pushed her in, and Frieza was about to close the door when:
"WAIT!!!" Frieza glanced at his watch.
"Right on time…" He whispered. "Yes, what is it?" Piccolo pushed Frieza out of the way, pulled the door open, and picked Teale up. He glared at Frieza, who was looking at his watch. "Yes, that was on time, too…"
"Frieza, I will NOT allow you to steal my daughter's childhood from her!" Piccolo yelled.
"Odd, but that was a little EARLY…"
"FRIEZA!!!" Frieza looked up to see everybody staring at him.
"………….WHAT!?"
"But what about Dende?" Yamcha asked.
"Hmph!" Piccolo stuck his nose in the air. "Dende can wait."
And with that the proud Namekian left them all standing, flabbergasted, in Frieza's secret laboratory.
I have no idea what the next chapter is going to be about, so could you (my fans) try to give me some ideas...? Heheh.... ^^;;;;; I'm caught up in the steps of moving....