Evening
Disclaimer- I don't own Dragon Ball Z. I don't own the rights to anything in the whole DBZ universe which I worship so.
Well this story is about to make a few twists and turns. About time huh? Well I was building the story up! Anyway. I'm actually planning ahead now, not so much just randomly saying, "Oh, lets have this happen now.." Any who.. Let us continue with the story! The rating is likely going to change to R next chapter or so. Graphic scenes are on the horizon. Can't say what though, it'd ruin the surprise! Don't worry, no NC-17 type stuff. Just stuff that might catch squeamish people off guard Oh and this chapter contains references to the series. So try to remember that this is an A/U, not everything is the same.
-------------------- = Changing view points or location. (Such as switching from Goku's point of view to Piccolo's) '...' = Thoughts -------~*~--------- = Time Lapse
Chapter Two: Do you remember me?..
Eve stirred slightly and opened her eyes to the warmth of the sun. She yawned and stretched. A low rolling purr fell from her jowls. 'Ah yes.' she sighed and looked at her outstretched paws. 'How could I have forgotten?' She stood slowly. The evening with Piccolo had been so refreshing that her memory of her daytime form had slipped her mind.
She sighed, but something resembling a smile lifted her ebony whiskers. The day no longer seemed unbearable. 'The promise of spending the coming twilight in your company. You give me something to look forward to My Love..'
Her tail swished as she watched her asleep on his back, close to where she had last seen him the night before. 'So yesterday's exertions left you yearning sleep? Like wise. Thank you for the bed, it was very accommodating.'
She stalked over to the slumbering warrior, her stealth nearly un-matched, as he did not stir. She purred softly, as she gathered his image into her memory. How the newborn daylight warmed his emerald skin. 'He looks so peaceful. When he sleeps' her eyes softened as she turned.
Eve trotted up to the cave's edge. The sun had not been up more than an hour at most. 'Now remember. He does not want us to venture far from here.' A growl came from her throat. 'Terrific.' She could feel the rebellious spirit of the tigress shrug off her request. 'Well I tried Piccolo.' Before she knew it, she was traveling down a narrow rocky path leading downwards. A path that without her feline instincts in control would have never found.
She felt the earth beneath her paws, still chilled from the previous night, and wet from the morning dew. Her stomach ached faintly, the fruit not pleasing to her carnivorous tastes. Eve more or less sat back as her sleek onyx form disappeared into the foliage after prey.
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An hour or so later, Piccolo sits up slowly. 'When did I fall asleep?' His hands moved up to rub his weary face softly. His eyes turned slowly to meet the rising sun casting shadows into the cave. '..It's late..' He groaned loudly as he stood. He knew Eve was not in the cave. If he knew anything she was in the jungle hours ago.
He silently cursed himself for sleeping later than normal, and for agreeing to this babysitting job. Piccolo narrowed his eyes. "I guess I should go find her, make sure she isn't in any sort of trouble." The exasperation in his voice didn't sound true, even to him. He wanted to see her, plain and simple.
Piccolo popped his stiff neck to the left, followed by the right as he so often did. His cave bellowed behind him as he approached the edge of his dwelling. His gaze turned upward to the clouds scattered across the sky." Great.it will most likely be storming tonight.." They looked like pretty white puffy clouds now, but Piccolo knew they would pour later. At least them, combined with the bless 'Ed breeze would make for good training. 'If I can find her and get to work anyway.'
With that Piccolo blasted into the wind, he could feel her ki already. 'She's by the lake.' He was still curious to why her ki seemed so confident during the day, and so weak at night. 'Doesn't matter to me.' he dove and pulled up just before hitting the water, it flying around his ki burst erratically
He saw something stir in a clearing on just the other side of the trees lining the large body of water by his cave. 'That must be her.' He landed on the bank, and felt the soil give slightly. He looked down as the mud threatening to cover his shoes "..Humph.." His sights turned back up. He saw a fringe of black fur. 'Yeah, that's Eve..' he stepped closer until the sun fell across his face and Eve jerked to look at him.
Piccolo tightened his jaw as the ghastly sight before him. Eve's front was nearly soaked in the blood of her recent kill, a deer. She licked her jowls her shimmering white fangs stark against her black pelt and the crimson fluid dripping from her whiskers. "..Good Morning Eve.." his voice remained flat and deep.
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Eve turned sharply as someone came from behind. 'Something wants my kill!!' was the first thought that the tigress gave her. But when the light graced Piccolo's green features. 'Piccolo!' she licked her jaws, tasting the cop perish blood in her mouth.
'..oh.kami.' she looked down at the masticated beast in which her talon like claws were embedded. Her blue eyes returned to him as he spoke. '.I am covered in blood.he must be disgusted..'
But when Piccolo nodded to her and flew off. She felt relieved as well as depressed. 'I think I will watch him train today.. If he does not object ' She purred softly and finished her ravenous meal before trotting off in the direction Piccolo had flown.
----------------------------------------------- ~*~ ------------------------ ------------------------------------------ ~ hours later~ Piccolo had begun his training nearly right after reaching his normal spot. An open field surrounded by dense forest, the clearing about a hundred feet in diameter. He was sparing with two of his split forms.
He was desperately trying to get Eve out of his mind. But It didn't seem to matter how hard he hit, or was hit. She kept creeping back into his thoughts. 'What is it about her!' he gritted his teeth as he was flung into the ground, the soil molding around his back. "Focus!!" his one of his forms shouted and shout a ki blast at him. Piccolo dodged easily and kicked the form across the clearing and gripped the other, throwing him into the other one. All of this still did not help the feels that welled inside of him. It was un-nerving to him.
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She was crouched in the thick underbrush, her belly resting heavily on the shady earth. She watched his exchange plows with his significant others and smiled. 'As if one Piccolo was not enough..'
Her thoughts drifted back to the first time she encountered this namake. To her knowledge he had just hatched. Because he was huddled against a tree, and egg near by. It was a cold morning, she had smelled something odd, and had gone to investigate.
He radiated hatred and sorrow when she found him. Then she was at first frightened by this angry green creature. But he was shivering uncontrollably. So she had decided he could not hurt her in his current condition. She approached him and began bathing him. She lapped up the purple fluid, which she assumed came from his egg, he protested the act greatly, but the warmth of her tongue must have pleased him because he soon quieted down. Eve had picked him up into her jaws as a mother Tigress would her cub. She had found an old den and kept him warm again her until the night came and he had become strong enough to fend off her efforts.
Her eyes widened a touch as she warped back into reality. She watched him fuse back with his fellow forms and sit under his shade tree to mediate. She remembered lapping up that purple fluid. 'Of course.. That is why I feel this strong tie to him!' If her memory served, from what Goku and Gohan have said about namakes on their camping trips. Their blood has certain properties. 'When I drank that substance, from that day I must have grown to be blood bonded to him, since I started watching him closely.'
Her midnight hued eyes fell on the namakian warrior with new admiration. 'So.. you are in me, that is why you have my heart.. so be it my love.. ' she smiled, knowing they were meant for each other.
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Piccolo was truly enjoying the cool breeze and the sound of the wind rushing through the leaves and over the grass. One of his favorite aspects to having ultra sensitive hearing. The sounds in the natural setting. Soon the peaceful state he fell into gave way to a deep meditation, in which reality melted away.
He began to see images of an impossibly large black tiger loaming over him. He felt hatred, and fear, the same sinking feeling he posed in his younger years. But he was too cold to act on his anger, so he allowed the tiger to taste him. At least he wasn't cold any more. Then he was in the air, his hands and legs dangling. He fought to get free, but the teeth around him would not move, and he was so tired.
When he awoke he was in a nest of incredibly soft black fur, and he was warm through and through. He snuggled against the beast for a moment, and felt safe and loved, his hurting paused, but only for the briefest of moments. Because soon he was fighting it. The tiger at first would not leave, it was reluctant.
The imaged started to get static, and irregular. He saw a woman for a moment and her running away.
Piccolo blinked awake, almost violently as he realized what he just witnessed. Memories, ones long since forgotten, the day he was born. 'It was her. Eve..' He looked at his hands.' When she bathed me, that is why I cannot remover her from my thoughts, my blood courses in her veins too.'
He then looked up sharply as he heard laughter. The lips it came from were unmistakably Gohan's. He smirked for a moment as he saw Gohan chasing Eve. They were frolicking around the clearing. By chance Gohan glanced over to the tree. Piccolo nodded to him. "Mr. Piccolo! You're done mediating!" the boy shouted happily. It warmed him to know that the boy loved him the way he did. Gohan mounted the large Tigress and rode her over to the shade tree.
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Gohan saw his sensei was back to reality, finally. 'At least Eve was here, other wise I would have been here for an hour with no one to play with.'
He smoothed his hand over Eve's back and hopped onto her back. "Lets go say hi Eve" He saw her nod and she began to gallop, for lack of a better term, over to his mentor. 'She's so sweet, and big. I'm glad she likes me' he though with a jubilant smile
They stopped in front of him as he stood. "How are you Piccolo?" he asked as he slid from Eve's back. He nodded and smiled to Piccolo's routine answer to his question. "Fine. ". Gohan looked around as the clouds passed over the field, casting huge rolling shadows.
He returned his gaze to Piccolo, Eve was sitting beside him, half expecting her to brush her face against his hip. "So how was last night? You two managed not to kill each other at least."
--------------------------------- Eve wished she could voice her opinion at that moment. 'It was wonderful Gohan! He allowed me to sleep in his bed, and he gave me food. I love him Gohan! Thank you for suggesting I stay with him! Thank you!' She purred softly, hoping that would express her contentment.
She looked up at Piccolo, her tail swaying idly, "Did you enjoy my company?.."
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Piccolo crossed his arms. 'This is Gohan. I should be able to tell him the truth.'
He then glanced down at Eve and met those enchanted blue eyes of hers. Though this time he managed not to become entangled in their gaze.
He turned back to Gohan, " It feels like it did back when I was training you Gohan." He looked down. "It's just been so long since I have had to worry about anyone but myself out here." He shrugged. "I'll get used to it."
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The young saiyan lit up at his reference to the days he trained under him. Gohan smiled "Well if you wanted company all you had to do was ask Mr. Piccolo." He crossed his arms in the same manner his sensei did, almost mockingly.
He watched Piccolo raise a brow and forget the boy's comment. 'That's my Piccolo.' His eyes went to Eve, her gaze was fixed on Piccolo and the look on her feline face was nothing but love and admiration.
'I wonder if she. But this is Piccolo. He's namake.' He thought about it for a moment 'I love Piccolo, I guess it doesn't matter. I think she is in love with Piccolo! That must be it!'
He smiled and stepped back giving the Tigress, who was not watching him, a wink. "He Piccolo, wanna spar?"
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Eve watched the wink, and vaguely wondered what it was for. Her eyes turned to the grin on Piccolo's face as he nodded. Before she could blink, the two were high in the sky duking it out.
She circled the spot Piccolo had been sitting on, and soon sat there, watching their aerial ballet. He listened to their shouts and the crashing of their powers. But her mind still wandered to the night ahead, where it would be only her and Piccolo. 'Maybe we'll get to engage in some conversation.' Part of her doubted it, though she found relief in hoping.
There it is! Chapter 9 completed. Its one of my longer Chapters, I'm happy with it *smiles* Anyway. Tell me what you guys think of the plot twist, there are more on the way, bigger ones. Don't hesitate to tell me if this plot development is stupid or anything. Its one thing to be stupid, its another to be stupid and not realize it. lol. Well It might be a little while before the next one, I feel writer's block. But hey, I could be wrong. Catch you guys next Chapter! Be ready for a rating change *me's thinks its going to get graphic*
Disclaimer- I don't own Dragon Ball Z. I don't own the rights to anything in the whole DBZ universe which I worship so.
Well this story is about to make a few twists and turns. About time huh? Well I was building the story up! Anyway. I'm actually planning ahead now, not so much just randomly saying, "Oh, lets have this happen now.." Any who.. Let us continue with the story! The rating is likely going to change to R next chapter or so. Graphic scenes are on the horizon. Can't say what though, it'd ruin the surprise! Don't worry, no NC-17 type stuff. Just stuff that might catch squeamish people off guard Oh and this chapter contains references to the series. So try to remember that this is an A/U, not everything is the same.
-------------------- = Changing view points or location. (Such as switching from Goku's point of view to Piccolo's) '...' = Thoughts -------~*~--------- = Time Lapse
Chapter Two: Do you remember me?..
Eve stirred slightly and opened her eyes to the warmth of the sun. She yawned and stretched. A low rolling purr fell from her jowls. 'Ah yes.' she sighed and looked at her outstretched paws. 'How could I have forgotten?' She stood slowly. The evening with Piccolo had been so refreshing that her memory of her daytime form had slipped her mind.
She sighed, but something resembling a smile lifted her ebony whiskers. The day no longer seemed unbearable. 'The promise of spending the coming twilight in your company. You give me something to look forward to My Love..'
Her tail swished as she watched her asleep on his back, close to where she had last seen him the night before. 'So yesterday's exertions left you yearning sleep? Like wise. Thank you for the bed, it was very accommodating.'
She stalked over to the slumbering warrior, her stealth nearly un-matched, as he did not stir. She purred softly, as she gathered his image into her memory. How the newborn daylight warmed his emerald skin. 'He looks so peaceful. When he sleeps' her eyes softened as she turned.
Eve trotted up to the cave's edge. The sun had not been up more than an hour at most. 'Now remember. He does not want us to venture far from here.' A growl came from her throat. 'Terrific.' She could feel the rebellious spirit of the tigress shrug off her request. 'Well I tried Piccolo.' Before she knew it, she was traveling down a narrow rocky path leading downwards. A path that without her feline instincts in control would have never found.
She felt the earth beneath her paws, still chilled from the previous night, and wet from the morning dew. Her stomach ached faintly, the fruit not pleasing to her carnivorous tastes. Eve more or less sat back as her sleek onyx form disappeared into the foliage after prey.
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An hour or so later, Piccolo sits up slowly. 'When did I fall asleep?' His hands moved up to rub his weary face softly. His eyes turned slowly to meet the rising sun casting shadows into the cave. '..It's late..' He groaned loudly as he stood. He knew Eve was not in the cave. If he knew anything she was in the jungle hours ago.
He silently cursed himself for sleeping later than normal, and for agreeing to this babysitting job. Piccolo narrowed his eyes. "I guess I should go find her, make sure she isn't in any sort of trouble." The exasperation in his voice didn't sound true, even to him. He wanted to see her, plain and simple.
Piccolo popped his stiff neck to the left, followed by the right as he so often did. His cave bellowed behind him as he approached the edge of his dwelling. His gaze turned upward to the clouds scattered across the sky." Great.it will most likely be storming tonight.." They looked like pretty white puffy clouds now, but Piccolo knew they would pour later. At least them, combined with the bless 'Ed breeze would make for good training. 'If I can find her and get to work anyway.'
With that Piccolo blasted into the wind, he could feel her ki already. 'She's by the lake.' He was still curious to why her ki seemed so confident during the day, and so weak at night. 'Doesn't matter to me.' he dove and pulled up just before hitting the water, it flying around his ki burst erratically
He saw something stir in a clearing on just the other side of the trees lining the large body of water by his cave. 'That must be her.' He landed on the bank, and felt the soil give slightly. He looked down as the mud threatening to cover his shoes "..Humph.." His sights turned back up. He saw a fringe of black fur. 'Yeah, that's Eve..' he stepped closer until the sun fell across his face and Eve jerked to look at him.
Piccolo tightened his jaw as the ghastly sight before him. Eve's front was nearly soaked in the blood of her recent kill, a deer. She licked her jowls her shimmering white fangs stark against her black pelt and the crimson fluid dripping from her whiskers. "..Good Morning Eve.." his voice remained flat and deep.
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Eve turned sharply as someone came from behind. 'Something wants my kill!!' was the first thought that the tigress gave her. But when the light graced Piccolo's green features. 'Piccolo!' she licked her jaws, tasting the cop perish blood in her mouth.
'..oh.kami.' she looked down at the masticated beast in which her talon like claws were embedded. Her blue eyes returned to him as he spoke. '.I am covered in blood.he must be disgusted..'
But when Piccolo nodded to her and flew off. She felt relieved as well as depressed. 'I think I will watch him train today.. If he does not object ' She purred softly and finished her ravenous meal before trotting off in the direction Piccolo had flown.
----------------------------------------------- ~*~ ------------------------ ------------------------------------------ ~ hours later~ Piccolo had begun his training nearly right after reaching his normal spot. An open field surrounded by dense forest, the clearing about a hundred feet in diameter. He was sparing with two of his split forms.
He was desperately trying to get Eve out of his mind. But It didn't seem to matter how hard he hit, or was hit. She kept creeping back into his thoughts. 'What is it about her!' he gritted his teeth as he was flung into the ground, the soil molding around his back. "Focus!!" his one of his forms shouted and shout a ki blast at him. Piccolo dodged easily and kicked the form across the clearing and gripped the other, throwing him into the other one. All of this still did not help the feels that welled inside of him. It was un-nerving to him.
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She was crouched in the thick underbrush, her belly resting heavily on the shady earth. She watched his exchange plows with his significant others and smiled. 'As if one Piccolo was not enough..'
Her thoughts drifted back to the first time she encountered this namake. To her knowledge he had just hatched. Because he was huddled against a tree, and egg near by. It was a cold morning, she had smelled something odd, and had gone to investigate.
He radiated hatred and sorrow when she found him. Then she was at first frightened by this angry green creature. But he was shivering uncontrollably. So she had decided he could not hurt her in his current condition. She approached him and began bathing him. She lapped up the purple fluid, which she assumed came from his egg, he protested the act greatly, but the warmth of her tongue must have pleased him because he soon quieted down. Eve had picked him up into her jaws as a mother Tigress would her cub. She had found an old den and kept him warm again her until the night came and he had become strong enough to fend off her efforts.
Her eyes widened a touch as she warped back into reality. She watched him fuse back with his fellow forms and sit under his shade tree to mediate. She remembered lapping up that purple fluid. 'Of course.. That is why I feel this strong tie to him!' If her memory served, from what Goku and Gohan have said about namakes on their camping trips. Their blood has certain properties. 'When I drank that substance, from that day I must have grown to be blood bonded to him, since I started watching him closely.'
Her midnight hued eyes fell on the namakian warrior with new admiration. 'So.. you are in me, that is why you have my heart.. so be it my love.. ' she smiled, knowing they were meant for each other.
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Piccolo was truly enjoying the cool breeze and the sound of the wind rushing through the leaves and over the grass. One of his favorite aspects to having ultra sensitive hearing. The sounds in the natural setting. Soon the peaceful state he fell into gave way to a deep meditation, in which reality melted away.
He began to see images of an impossibly large black tiger loaming over him. He felt hatred, and fear, the same sinking feeling he posed in his younger years. But he was too cold to act on his anger, so he allowed the tiger to taste him. At least he wasn't cold any more. Then he was in the air, his hands and legs dangling. He fought to get free, but the teeth around him would not move, and he was so tired.
When he awoke he was in a nest of incredibly soft black fur, and he was warm through and through. He snuggled against the beast for a moment, and felt safe and loved, his hurting paused, but only for the briefest of moments. Because soon he was fighting it. The tiger at first would not leave, it was reluctant.
The imaged started to get static, and irregular. He saw a woman for a moment and her running away.
Piccolo blinked awake, almost violently as he realized what he just witnessed. Memories, ones long since forgotten, the day he was born. 'It was her. Eve..' He looked at his hands.' When she bathed me, that is why I cannot remover her from my thoughts, my blood courses in her veins too.'
He then looked up sharply as he heard laughter. The lips it came from were unmistakably Gohan's. He smirked for a moment as he saw Gohan chasing Eve. They were frolicking around the clearing. By chance Gohan glanced over to the tree. Piccolo nodded to him. "Mr. Piccolo! You're done mediating!" the boy shouted happily. It warmed him to know that the boy loved him the way he did. Gohan mounted the large Tigress and rode her over to the shade tree.
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Gohan saw his sensei was back to reality, finally. 'At least Eve was here, other wise I would have been here for an hour with no one to play with.'
He smoothed his hand over Eve's back and hopped onto her back. "Lets go say hi Eve" He saw her nod and she began to gallop, for lack of a better term, over to his mentor. 'She's so sweet, and big. I'm glad she likes me' he though with a jubilant smile
They stopped in front of him as he stood. "How are you Piccolo?" he asked as he slid from Eve's back. He nodded and smiled to Piccolo's routine answer to his question. "Fine. ". Gohan looked around as the clouds passed over the field, casting huge rolling shadows.
He returned his gaze to Piccolo, Eve was sitting beside him, half expecting her to brush her face against his hip. "So how was last night? You two managed not to kill each other at least."
--------------------------------- Eve wished she could voice her opinion at that moment. 'It was wonderful Gohan! He allowed me to sleep in his bed, and he gave me food. I love him Gohan! Thank you for suggesting I stay with him! Thank you!' She purred softly, hoping that would express her contentment.
She looked up at Piccolo, her tail swaying idly, "Did you enjoy my company?.."
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Piccolo crossed his arms. 'This is Gohan. I should be able to tell him the truth.'
He then glanced down at Eve and met those enchanted blue eyes of hers. Though this time he managed not to become entangled in their gaze.
He turned back to Gohan, " It feels like it did back when I was training you Gohan." He looked down. "It's just been so long since I have had to worry about anyone but myself out here." He shrugged. "I'll get used to it."
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The young saiyan lit up at his reference to the days he trained under him. Gohan smiled "Well if you wanted company all you had to do was ask Mr. Piccolo." He crossed his arms in the same manner his sensei did, almost mockingly.
He watched Piccolo raise a brow and forget the boy's comment. 'That's my Piccolo.' His eyes went to Eve, her gaze was fixed on Piccolo and the look on her feline face was nothing but love and admiration.
'I wonder if she. But this is Piccolo. He's namake.' He thought about it for a moment 'I love Piccolo, I guess it doesn't matter. I think she is in love with Piccolo! That must be it!'
He smiled and stepped back giving the Tigress, who was not watching him, a wink. "He Piccolo, wanna spar?"
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Eve watched the wink, and vaguely wondered what it was for. Her eyes turned to the grin on Piccolo's face as he nodded. Before she could blink, the two were high in the sky duking it out.
She circled the spot Piccolo had been sitting on, and soon sat there, watching their aerial ballet. He listened to their shouts and the crashing of their powers. But her mind still wandered to the night ahead, where it would be only her and Piccolo. 'Maybe we'll get to engage in some conversation.' Part of her doubted it, though she found relief in hoping.
There it is! Chapter 9 completed. Its one of my longer Chapters, I'm happy with it *smiles* Anyway. Tell me what you guys think of the plot twist, there are more on the way, bigger ones. Don't hesitate to tell me if this plot development is stupid or anything. Its one thing to be stupid, its another to be stupid and not realize it. lol. Well It might be a little while before the next one, I feel writer's block. But hey, I could be wrong. Catch you guys next Chapter! Be ready for a rating change *me's thinks its going to get graphic*