Chapter 2
Piccolo's hospitality! Guess whose back!
Seeasa flew though the air; Piccolo didn't bother this time to mask his Ki, but followed next to her. "Don't you have somewhere to be?" She asked him, a bit curtly. "Ya, if you won't stay with Bulma, then you'll stay with me, for the night that is, just to make sure nothing happens." Piccolo's voice held authority, kinda like Freiza's voice but kinda, more gentle then Freiza's voice, but it held the same kind of command that Freiza held, no questions asked. So, with out a word, Piccolo took the lead and led her toward the desert, which wasn't that far from Goten, but too far from Trunks for her confert, 'What if something happened to him?' she thought to herself.
'I'll be fine! Jeez do you have to worry about us all the time? GOTEN TELL HER I'LL BE FINE! Stop mothering us.'
'Seeasa, he'll be find, I can always get to him quicker cause I'm closer,'
'But Goten, you don't know where he is!'
'I can always follow his Ki trail,'
'All right, all right, good night you two see you in the morning. I'm closing my link to you, well, most of the way you can brake through it if it's an emergency. I need to think things through, but I also don't want you to be disturbed by my thinking while trying to sleep, I'll also take first watch.'
'Trunks can go next, then I'll go. Goten said before he left the conversation.
'He always goes last, why can't I go last for once?' Trunks complained before he left also. They each knew that one or the other would go to them if something were wrong. She couldn't get to Trunks because she was too far away, but Goten could, he was closer, if Goten were in trouble, she could race to his side and hold off what ever the problem was until Trunks got there, same way around for here.
And then she was alone with her thoughts; Trunks had left her mind. She realized that The Green Man, she still liked to think of him as, was looking at her funny.
"What?" she asked, confused at his expression. "Do you always mother them?" he asked, using the expression that Trunks used.
"Stop going into my head." She said, blocking him out and ignoring him completely. He stopped though, and continued onward. He stopped somewhere in the middle of the desert, under an over hanging rock. There was a campsite set up already. A fire was going, a blanket roll was on the near the fire, and some other assorted things littered the site. But it was light and few, and could be replaced in a hurry should he have to leave it or it 'accidentally' got blown up. She landed on the ground, just outside the ring of light. She sat down on the sand, and began to dig a small trench. When it was big enough to fit her whole body, she piled some sand as a pillow, and laid down in it. Should anyone fly over head and spot her, they would have to look really hard to find her in the dark with her training outfit, which, thankfully, had been a dark off yellowish brown, about the same color as the sand, but a bit darker.
Piccolo smirked at this, watching her every movement with curiosity. "There is no one in these parts." He said. "Never hurt ta take precautions" she shot back. She half smiled and closed her eyes. "Hungry?" he asked, "No," she lied, knowing that Namak's didn't have to eat as long as they had water, but it was thoughtful of him, not that she would say that aloud. But she was hungry; she would make due though. She could go Earth weeks without food as long as she had water. She pretended to sleep, while keeping her mind on Trunks, Goten, and The Green Man. She kept her breathing evened and even toss and turned a bit before she settled down. When it turned pitch back a few hours later, she told Trunks to take the next watch. She closed her mind down, keeping her alertness up though, and rested lightly. The slightest noise, no matter how faint it was, would wake her up immediately.
Her alertness proved helpful near the middle of the night, when she heard a slight footstep in the sand. She was up and in a fighting stance, powering up, before Piccolo knew what happened. "Ohh, its just you." she growled falling back down onto the ground. "Yes, just me, I like to meditate during the night when I can't sleep." He said, a bit sarcastic if there was ever any.
She didn't respond, just listened to him walk around, when he was gone. She shivered slightly, cold, and burrowed a bit down in the sand, covering her legs. It wasn't much, but it helped. Rubbing her arms, she closed her eyes. She turned onto her side, putting one arm under her head and the other on her side, ready to attack anything with a quick Ki blast.
She had restless dreams, so restless, that she didn't hear the Namak come back to the camp. She dreamed about Freiza finding them, beating them up; then refusing them the Regeneration chambers and letting them die a slow painful death. The dream was so real to her that she felt numb all over, like the pain from the dream was making her numb. She woke up at dawn, when Goten said that it was dawn, time to get up. She sat up cold, shivering slightly. To warm up some, she did a few exercises to make her body go but she left the sleeping Namak far behind her so she wouldn't wake him. When she returned to the camp, she covered up her trench, and all signs that she had been there. She even went as far as to pile sand like waves, making it look like it had been there years undisturbed, before she got up and headed for Goten's house, which was closer and probably warmer.
As soon as she entered his window, she grinned; he already had some food waiting for me. "That's the first time I've actually seen grin and actual grin." He said quietly. "I made breakfast before mother got up, maybe she'll be happy that she won't have to do it this morning?" he asked. "So, where did you stay last night, I know it wasn't the cave, and the Namak was with you." "I stayed in the desert with him, I don't know why, but I somehow feel a bit safer with him around." She picked up one of the full cups of water and downed it quickly. "Trunks on his way over?" she asked. "No, Trunks is already here." Trunks said, hopping through the window. "I'm starving," he said quietly. They quickly ate the food that was given to them. Several times on different planets they had to make there own food, here was no different. Three plates each, all from habbit, they ate there food in silence, physically and mentally, listening to the house and its occupants wake up. Chi-chi had checked on Goten when she woke up, they had already washed and put away there dishes, and was shocked to find that Seeasa and Trunks were there as well.
'I'd better get home soon, mother will be wondering where I am.'
'See ya Trunks, be careful' Goten said.
'I doubt that, I go to school today, and mother even went as far as to enroll you two, just incase. By the way Seeasa, you're a distant cousin if anyone asks.'
'K, Trunks, why don't we all go over to Trunks house before they wake up, and go to school together?' Seeasa reasoned with them. Goten nodded and went down stairs. There were a few exclaims but Goten was allowed to go. Gohan would have to keep an eye on them, sense the High school was located right in front of the middle school, he could see them for lunch and keep a eye on there Ki's. They took off into the air, Goten and Seeasa, with help from Chi-chi, carrying book bags. Once at Trunks's house, he grabbed a bag, Bulma had ready made it, and off they went. They had to walk though. It turned into a race though, and they ended up late to class because of stops at places where they had never seen things.
They were excused the first day and were told to be on time the next day. It turned out that one or the other was in each other's classes, so they could stick together during the day. During science though, Trunks was with her and all through the class he kept commenting through her mind and Goten's mind, 'This stuff is so off, why do they even bother with it? I mean come on! This is NOT the universal language! This is ONE Galaxies Language!
By the sounds of Goten's mental laughter, he had as hard a time as Seeasa paying attention in class. But Outwardly, they appeared clam and attentive. They even helped each other in different classes. They had however, started school a bit and they kinda cheated on a few tests, but they really didn't understand the tests, so it didn't really count. And it wasn't really cheating, it was questioning and they gave helpful answers.
Well it just goes to say that Trunks, Seeasa, AND Goten failed every test that they took because they gave answers like, "Why would anyone want to blow something up with Vinegar and baking soda?" or "Why would anyone want to pay attention to anything as simple as bodily functions? I mean you eat, sleep, BEEP and fight? Whats there to get?" On their first day, they had been labeled punks and smart asses, though they were anything but that.
At the end of the day, she had skipped dinner and was off on her own, trying decide where to go, to spend the night that is, when the solution came to her. She would find somewhere in the desert, a warmer place that is, but she would need to fix the cave. So she spent the rest of the afternoon, which wasn't much time left, fixing the cave, actually she caved it in as quietly as possible. She floated around the desert for a while, noticing that there was only the one rock to shelter under. She decided that she would need to find something different.
She found a place; it was walled in by rocks, a perfect camp place. Instead of skipping dinner as she had planned, she caught a small wild pig and ate it for dinner of an open fire. She told the two that she would take first watch again, Trunks got last watch this time. Eating dinner, she noticed the Namak close by. She spoke to him, so only he could hear her, 'If your looking for me, you don't have to look far.'
She could feel him smirk, and knew that he was looking for her. He soon landed just inside the firelight. She said nothing as he made himself confertable on the ground on the opposite side of the fire from her. He said nothing for a while, so she started the questions first, memorizing the conversation for later to give to the boys.
"Why do you follow me?"
"Because you are a curiosity to me," he said calmly.
"Why is that?"
"Because, for some reason, you three are holding back some things I want to know about."
"Sometimes its best not to know." She didn't elaborate, so he asked a question.
"How come you stay awake at night until three hours till midnight, every night?"
It was a simple enough question, one that wouldn't cause much harm in answering so she did. "We each have watch each other. A different watch every few hours while the other rests."
"How can you watch them, if they are not here?"
"Through my telepathic link, we can correspond, talk to each other. We can sense when one another is in trouble, if Trunks is in trouble, Goten can go to him, hold off whatever the problem is until I get there, then we solve it together. Or the other way around, it's always been like that." she trailed off, realizing she was saying too much.
"And that brings me back to my question from before, I high doubt that Saiya-jins are Telepathic, and its rare that humans have telepathy, how is it that you do?"
She didn't want to answer, so she stayed quiet and contemplated the question, debating weather or not to answer it. She decided to evade it. After careful thinking she said
"You're right," she paused to think of a quick way to get him off the question, "I'm mostly Saiya-jin, but who said anything about my other half being Human?"
Piccolo nodded slowly, then asked, "Why do you keep watches? Nothing will harm you on this planet."
She stared at Piccolo with a death stare. She would answer his question, but he would not like the answer. "Because, You, nore Them, know what He is capable of. He will return, and we will have no choice but to train on a different planet. Even though they are powerful, He is ten times more powerful then the time the last met him. He will destroy the planet looking for us. Once He has his mind set on something, there is no changing it. We keep the watches to keep a look out for his Ki, even suppressed; it is still quiet powerful. We will notice it when it enters the Nessamok galaxy."
"But that's over twelve galaxies over!" He exclaimed, surprised.
He didn't seemed angry at the sarcastic tones she had used, "You cannot sense Ki in that short distance?" she asked back, equally surprised.
There was a short silence in which she used to spread her Ki out and try and sense Him.
"If you can sense his Ki from that far away, but can't he sense yours?" he finally asked.
"No, not matter how much He tries to learn how, his body, mind, and spirit are incapable of sense Ki, He is too corrupt in mind, body, and spirit." She explained. "Which is why, when you fought him before, he could not sense your power levels without the help of devices. Even if he had one, my Ki is masked to well. He would have to be around me a lot to know my Ki from the one I project as weakling. It wouldn't matter even if he were telepathic, like me, because he is too far away to probe my mind, but he would also have to get past all of my mind blocks, which are a lot against him sense he is telepathic." She explained with a shrug.
While they were talking, her time had passed. She yawned and mentally woke up Goten. Goten yawned and complained a bit about being hungry, but got up anyway. "Even as we speak, Goten is complaining about being hungry, but he is on watch, meaning I must rest." She stifled a yawn and laid on the hard ground, using her arm as a pillow. Without another thought, her breath evened and she was resting.
Piccolo however, was going over his conversation with the girl, who was surly replaying it for Goten, who would later play it for Trunks. 'He was positive that her father's side of the family was the Telepathic. He just had to figured out who, or rather, what. His curiosity was too great, though he tried to suppress it, something told him that this girl was dangerous, or something, or someone, close to her. At least she had answered some of his questions, no matter how she evaded him, he would find out.'
"Stop thinking about me!" Seeasa said. Piccolo was shocked. "I always know when someone is thinking about me, I can't sleep with you doing that." She said, albeit tiredly, so he stopped, and tired to clear his mind to rest himself, after all, if something were wrong, Goten and Trunks would come running, he was sure of it. The girl growled, he cleared his mind again and meditated.
The days slowly turned into weeks, and weeks into months. The boys soon got used to school and everything around them, and remembered everything about there past, including an incident before they were kidnapped, where Goten had bitten Trunks's tail. She grinned at that, even though Trunks bit poor Goten right back. Even though the boys were enjoying themselves, Seeasa could only get more agitated. Something was not right, every night she took watch later then she normally did, hunting for Him. It was hard, but she only felt confertable with the boys and Piccolo, but only at night with him. For some reason or another, she felt she could always talk to Piccolo in the dark, and he would keep their secrets, even Trunks and Goten told him stuff. Every conversation was replayed for each other benefit though. They never told him anything that would give them away though. And then IT happened.
Goten, Trunks, and Seeasa were playing around at school, it was near the middle of the morning when it happened. Seeasa had the longest range with sensing Ki, but she didn't need long range to figure out what was going to happen, they all felt it.
It had happened in History class, they were reenacting some civil war or another, actually laughing. This was the one class they all shared together. They were in the middle of 'killing' each other, when they felt the strong, evil Ki near them. Seeasa felt it first and fell down on the floor clutching her sides in pain, feeling the evil anger falling toward them. She suppressed her power down to an ant. Then Goten felt it, his eyes widened and then Trunks screamed "NOOO" and fell to his knees, Goten following suit soon after. They each looked at each other, ripping off the fake armor and rushing for the window. Sure enough, the Evil Ki was heading toward them. They didn't bother to open the window. Ignoring the cries of the students and teachers, they leapt though the window and into the sky. They flew as fast as they could, splitting up so He would have a hard time catching them.
Seeasa headed for Piccolo's weak Ki, and flew past him. He had decided that a nice family reunion was in order. She didn't want to hurt Piccolo, but he could not stop him. Piccolo knew something was amiss, so he followed her, he didn't feel the Ki because Namak's can't sense Ki. He felt the Evil though. "Seeasa, what is it?" he called. "I told you. I warn you all, but you wouldn't listen, now He will kill us all!" Piccolo knew that He was Freiza, and that Freiza was gaining on them.
It didn't take long for Freiza to blast Piccolo out of the sky and corner Seeasa. "My dear, why are you running?" he asked with a confused smirk. "Evading" she said. "We taught ourselves, it turns out we needed it on this planet." She said truthfully. Freiza nodded, "Come back, and you will not be harm." He said calmly, noticing that her collar was gone. She swallowed, then shook her head, unable to speak. "No? Well then, freedom has gone to your head, you will be punished, but if you come back now, it won't hurt for long." Again, swallowing she shook her head. She then got up enough nerve and blasted him with her largest Ki ball. She flew past a stunned Freiza and flew as far as she could to get away. She even stopped to grab Piccolo. Fear was her greatest speed. It got her a good head start, she even went Super Saiya-jin, as Vegeta had called it, and flew faster, but in the end, it didn't matter, it was all in vain.
He came up behind her, as she relayed everything to Goten and Trunks who were on their way with their parents and friends, and hit her in the back, hard. She knew that Goten and Trunks felt the attacks, and were smarting from it, it was a draw back from the link, but that caused them to fly faster. As she flew toward the ground, Freiza came up and knocked her and Piccolo into a wall, she dropped Piccolo. Piccolo came too, but was knocked out again by Freiza's tail as he came at her again. She was knocked out the same way as Piccolo. He waited until the others came, and he grinned evilly.
Goten had almost fell out of the sky when he felt the attacks on Seeasa, and by the looks of Trunks, he felt the same way. Goten went Super Saiya- jin, and so did Trunks, for the first time in front of his father. "WHAT?" he cried out when he saw this, but he got nothing else in because Freiza blasted him out of the sky. Goten growled and flew past Freiza to Seeasa, he wasn't stopped by him, if anything, he seamed happy that they were still helping each other out, it was either that or that they were all super Saiya-jin. More then likely it was the latter. Goten roused Seeasa from her painful slumber and helped her and Piccolo to their feet, Piccolo was still half out of it, but he was able to stand. "Get over her, Saiya-jin boy, or I'll kill them." He grabbed Seeasa, who was in a lot of pain, by the throat with his tail and lifted her off the ground. He knocked Goten to the ground with her body, when he tried to help free her. She kicked and tried to pry the tail away, but it was cutting of he air pipe. Trunks growled an oath that made Vegeta blush slightly and began to fly forward. "TRUNKS!" Vegeta yelled, but it was too late, Trunks was already standing behind Freiza, "All right, let her go!" he shouted angrily at him.
"I don't like your tone," and he threw an air-deprived girl his way. Trunks barely caught her before he crashed into a wall from the force of the throw. Goten helped both of them up. 'Lets run for it Trunks' Goten suggested. Trunks nodded his head and they each took hold of Seeasa's arms and took off into the air. "Ohh no you don't brats!" Freiza yelled. Something flew from his hand and encircled all three. Seeasa opened her eyes to join in the screaming of pain. At that moment, the others started attacking the monster below. The howls of pain soon ceased as one by one passed out from too many electrical shocks at once to their bodies. They soon dissappered from sight.
Goten was the first to open his eyes, the all too familiar surroundings causing him to close his eyes again. Trunks groaned and opened his eyes, the realization of where they were and what had happened sunk in quickly and he groaned. Thee only one, who would not wake up, was Seeasa, who had actually gone up against Freiza and fought. They were in the process of getting her up to put her in the regeneration chamber, when Freiza walked in. They had barely sat her up on the bunk before he started grilling them. "Whom, may I ask, idea was it to run off like that?" he asked. Seeasa groaned and opened her eyes. "Mine," she said, then lied through her teeth halfway. She begged the boys to go through it with her and they agreed. "When the ship exploded, I put a Ki shield around us, to protect us. It wasn't strong enough because I had just gotten from a training session. We were injured. When we woke, we were surrounded on all sides. We quickly evaded them, but our injuries were too great. They lied to us, said that we were related to them. We didn't believe them, they are the enemies. As you have said many times, our parents are dead. Except you of course." She added. "Then why." he paused, trying to hold in his anger, "Did you resist me? Or better yet, why did you not destroy them?" "They were too powerful," Trunks said. "And you resisted why?"
"Because I was jealous." Seeasa quickly said, searching for a reason why she would be jealous. Then it came to her. "Jealous? Of what?" "You" she said. "Me?" he asked, incredulous.
"Yes," was all she said. "Why?" he asked, getting impatient. "You won't like the answer, but I was jealous because you would spar more with Trun.I mean the Saiya-jin boys and less with me! I mean.I felt.left out." she finished weakly, knowing that Trunks and Goten were laughing so hard mentally that they fought to keep their faces expressionless. Seeasa, however, was feeling queasy. She slowly stood up from the bed, teetered and held onto the wall. "You ran away because you were jealous of those two. If you were so jealous, then why did you take them with you?"
"I felt you might notice me more if I took them away, and after a while, when you didn't come back, we became.sort of bonded. It like we were the only ones who could trust each other, and not even that at times.but like we were meant to kill, side by side." She said, forcing sincerity into her voice. Freiza bought the story, but that didn't make her punishment any less. Sense she was so jealous of not spending time with him, he was upping her time with him in training, starting that moment. She was forced to make it look like she was enjoying being beaten into the ground. When, many, many hours later, he was finished, she forced her aching body up off the ground, and forced it to walk, one foot in front of the other toward their room. She rested all that night and most of the next day, barely eating anything, but the day after next, still hurting, he came again and they did training together, and again, she forced herself to look cheerful every time she hit the ground, wall, or ceiling and smile brightly. So it was every two days they spared.
Soon, it paid off. All the extra training, she soon could fit in a spar on the next morning after her training with Goten or Trunks, sometimes both. They were getting stronger too. The only two major downsides to everything, and they were that they were all wearing the collars again.
These were smaller, thinner, but more durable in battle. And now that Freiza knew they were all Super-Demi-Saiya-jin's, he made sure that each bout they turned into it to fight our fullest.
There was one more downside to everything, they had a home now, Earth. And people who missed them. They had to find a way to get out of here quickly.They were only twelve, it would be a long time before they would be strong enough to get anywhere. Once in a while, they would feel a familiar Ki, like someone was looking for them, but the collars prevented them from further searching by shocking them every time they tried to look for who ever it was that was looking for them. They had memories to haunt them every day and every night. It was worse then the beatings that came from Freiza. They kept the hope alive though, talking though the bond, remembering the good times, they even got away with a joke or two, when they had the time, on the Gen-u force, but it wasn't the same as dying Vegeta's hair pink. Or turning on the hot water while your older brother was in the shower, giving him a good cold shower. Or even, when they broke the gravity machine for a whole month while Bulma was in America and couldn't be reached.
No, it wasn't the same, it gave them hope and laughter, but it wasn't the same. They would live on through it though; they always did before, what would be so different now? After all, they only a few months of freedom while they purged a planet, actually they had never killed a living being in their lives, not even an ant, well, on purpose anyway. What they did was scare a race have to death while Freiza was there, then when he left, told them to go to Lady Jade's solar system, where they could live for a lot longer then they could here. They explained what Freiza would do, and the left. Whenever Freiza asked about the bodies, they always said that they disintegrated them so that he wouldn't have to bother with them. That's what he thought anyway.
Seeasa flew though the air; Piccolo didn't bother this time to mask his Ki, but followed next to her. "Don't you have somewhere to be?" She asked him, a bit curtly. "Ya, if you won't stay with Bulma, then you'll stay with me, for the night that is, just to make sure nothing happens." Piccolo's voice held authority, kinda like Freiza's voice but kinda, more gentle then Freiza's voice, but it held the same kind of command that Freiza held, no questions asked. So, with out a word, Piccolo took the lead and led her toward the desert, which wasn't that far from Goten, but too far from Trunks for her confert, 'What if something happened to him?' she thought to herself.
'I'll be fine! Jeez do you have to worry about us all the time? GOTEN TELL HER I'LL BE FINE! Stop mothering us.'
'Seeasa, he'll be find, I can always get to him quicker cause I'm closer,'
'But Goten, you don't know where he is!'
'I can always follow his Ki trail,'
'All right, all right, good night you two see you in the morning. I'm closing my link to you, well, most of the way you can brake through it if it's an emergency. I need to think things through, but I also don't want you to be disturbed by my thinking while trying to sleep, I'll also take first watch.'
'Trunks can go next, then I'll go. Goten said before he left the conversation.
'He always goes last, why can't I go last for once?' Trunks complained before he left also. They each knew that one or the other would go to them if something were wrong. She couldn't get to Trunks because she was too far away, but Goten could, he was closer, if Goten were in trouble, she could race to his side and hold off what ever the problem was until Trunks got there, same way around for here.
And then she was alone with her thoughts; Trunks had left her mind. She realized that The Green Man, she still liked to think of him as, was looking at her funny.
"What?" she asked, confused at his expression. "Do you always mother them?" he asked, using the expression that Trunks used.
"Stop going into my head." She said, blocking him out and ignoring him completely. He stopped though, and continued onward. He stopped somewhere in the middle of the desert, under an over hanging rock. There was a campsite set up already. A fire was going, a blanket roll was on the near the fire, and some other assorted things littered the site. But it was light and few, and could be replaced in a hurry should he have to leave it or it 'accidentally' got blown up. She landed on the ground, just outside the ring of light. She sat down on the sand, and began to dig a small trench. When it was big enough to fit her whole body, she piled some sand as a pillow, and laid down in it. Should anyone fly over head and spot her, they would have to look really hard to find her in the dark with her training outfit, which, thankfully, had been a dark off yellowish brown, about the same color as the sand, but a bit darker.
Piccolo smirked at this, watching her every movement with curiosity. "There is no one in these parts." He said. "Never hurt ta take precautions" she shot back. She half smiled and closed her eyes. "Hungry?" he asked, "No," she lied, knowing that Namak's didn't have to eat as long as they had water, but it was thoughtful of him, not that she would say that aloud. But she was hungry; she would make due though. She could go Earth weeks without food as long as she had water. She pretended to sleep, while keeping her mind on Trunks, Goten, and The Green Man. She kept her breathing evened and even toss and turned a bit before she settled down. When it turned pitch back a few hours later, she told Trunks to take the next watch. She closed her mind down, keeping her alertness up though, and rested lightly. The slightest noise, no matter how faint it was, would wake her up immediately.
Her alertness proved helpful near the middle of the night, when she heard a slight footstep in the sand. She was up and in a fighting stance, powering up, before Piccolo knew what happened. "Ohh, its just you." she growled falling back down onto the ground. "Yes, just me, I like to meditate during the night when I can't sleep." He said, a bit sarcastic if there was ever any.
She didn't respond, just listened to him walk around, when he was gone. She shivered slightly, cold, and burrowed a bit down in the sand, covering her legs. It wasn't much, but it helped. Rubbing her arms, she closed her eyes. She turned onto her side, putting one arm under her head and the other on her side, ready to attack anything with a quick Ki blast.
She had restless dreams, so restless, that she didn't hear the Namak come back to the camp. She dreamed about Freiza finding them, beating them up; then refusing them the Regeneration chambers and letting them die a slow painful death. The dream was so real to her that she felt numb all over, like the pain from the dream was making her numb. She woke up at dawn, when Goten said that it was dawn, time to get up. She sat up cold, shivering slightly. To warm up some, she did a few exercises to make her body go but she left the sleeping Namak far behind her so she wouldn't wake him. When she returned to the camp, she covered up her trench, and all signs that she had been there. She even went as far as to pile sand like waves, making it look like it had been there years undisturbed, before she got up and headed for Goten's house, which was closer and probably warmer.
As soon as she entered his window, she grinned; he already had some food waiting for me. "That's the first time I've actually seen grin and actual grin." He said quietly. "I made breakfast before mother got up, maybe she'll be happy that she won't have to do it this morning?" he asked. "So, where did you stay last night, I know it wasn't the cave, and the Namak was with you." "I stayed in the desert with him, I don't know why, but I somehow feel a bit safer with him around." She picked up one of the full cups of water and downed it quickly. "Trunks on his way over?" she asked. "No, Trunks is already here." Trunks said, hopping through the window. "I'm starving," he said quietly. They quickly ate the food that was given to them. Several times on different planets they had to make there own food, here was no different. Three plates each, all from habbit, they ate there food in silence, physically and mentally, listening to the house and its occupants wake up. Chi-chi had checked on Goten when she woke up, they had already washed and put away there dishes, and was shocked to find that Seeasa and Trunks were there as well.
'I'd better get home soon, mother will be wondering where I am.'
'See ya Trunks, be careful' Goten said.
'I doubt that, I go to school today, and mother even went as far as to enroll you two, just incase. By the way Seeasa, you're a distant cousin if anyone asks.'
'K, Trunks, why don't we all go over to Trunks house before they wake up, and go to school together?' Seeasa reasoned with them. Goten nodded and went down stairs. There were a few exclaims but Goten was allowed to go. Gohan would have to keep an eye on them, sense the High school was located right in front of the middle school, he could see them for lunch and keep a eye on there Ki's. They took off into the air, Goten and Seeasa, with help from Chi-chi, carrying book bags. Once at Trunks's house, he grabbed a bag, Bulma had ready made it, and off they went. They had to walk though. It turned into a race though, and they ended up late to class because of stops at places where they had never seen things.
They were excused the first day and were told to be on time the next day. It turned out that one or the other was in each other's classes, so they could stick together during the day. During science though, Trunks was with her and all through the class he kept commenting through her mind and Goten's mind, 'This stuff is so off, why do they even bother with it? I mean come on! This is NOT the universal language! This is ONE Galaxies Language!
By the sounds of Goten's mental laughter, he had as hard a time as Seeasa paying attention in class. But Outwardly, they appeared clam and attentive. They even helped each other in different classes. They had however, started school a bit and they kinda cheated on a few tests, but they really didn't understand the tests, so it didn't really count. And it wasn't really cheating, it was questioning and they gave helpful answers.
Well it just goes to say that Trunks, Seeasa, AND Goten failed every test that they took because they gave answers like, "Why would anyone want to blow something up with Vinegar and baking soda?" or "Why would anyone want to pay attention to anything as simple as bodily functions? I mean you eat, sleep, BEEP and fight? Whats there to get?" On their first day, they had been labeled punks and smart asses, though they were anything but that.
At the end of the day, she had skipped dinner and was off on her own, trying decide where to go, to spend the night that is, when the solution came to her. She would find somewhere in the desert, a warmer place that is, but she would need to fix the cave. So she spent the rest of the afternoon, which wasn't much time left, fixing the cave, actually she caved it in as quietly as possible. She floated around the desert for a while, noticing that there was only the one rock to shelter under. She decided that she would need to find something different.
She found a place; it was walled in by rocks, a perfect camp place. Instead of skipping dinner as she had planned, she caught a small wild pig and ate it for dinner of an open fire. She told the two that she would take first watch again, Trunks got last watch this time. Eating dinner, she noticed the Namak close by. She spoke to him, so only he could hear her, 'If your looking for me, you don't have to look far.'
She could feel him smirk, and knew that he was looking for her. He soon landed just inside the firelight. She said nothing as he made himself confertable on the ground on the opposite side of the fire from her. He said nothing for a while, so she started the questions first, memorizing the conversation for later to give to the boys.
"Why do you follow me?"
"Because you are a curiosity to me," he said calmly.
"Why is that?"
"Because, for some reason, you three are holding back some things I want to know about."
"Sometimes its best not to know." She didn't elaborate, so he asked a question.
"How come you stay awake at night until three hours till midnight, every night?"
It was a simple enough question, one that wouldn't cause much harm in answering so she did. "We each have watch each other. A different watch every few hours while the other rests."
"How can you watch them, if they are not here?"
"Through my telepathic link, we can correspond, talk to each other. We can sense when one another is in trouble, if Trunks is in trouble, Goten can go to him, hold off whatever the problem is until I get there, then we solve it together. Or the other way around, it's always been like that." she trailed off, realizing she was saying too much.
"And that brings me back to my question from before, I high doubt that Saiya-jins are Telepathic, and its rare that humans have telepathy, how is it that you do?"
She didn't want to answer, so she stayed quiet and contemplated the question, debating weather or not to answer it. She decided to evade it. After careful thinking she said
"You're right," she paused to think of a quick way to get him off the question, "I'm mostly Saiya-jin, but who said anything about my other half being Human?"
Piccolo nodded slowly, then asked, "Why do you keep watches? Nothing will harm you on this planet."
She stared at Piccolo with a death stare. She would answer his question, but he would not like the answer. "Because, You, nore Them, know what He is capable of. He will return, and we will have no choice but to train on a different planet. Even though they are powerful, He is ten times more powerful then the time the last met him. He will destroy the planet looking for us. Once He has his mind set on something, there is no changing it. We keep the watches to keep a look out for his Ki, even suppressed; it is still quiet powerful. We will notice it when it enters the Nessamok galaxy."
"But that's over twelve galaxies over!" He exclaimed, surprised.
He didn't seemed angry at the sarcastic tones she had used, "You cannot sense Ki in that short distance?" she asked back, equally surprised.
There was a short silence in which she used to spread her Ki out and try and sense Him.
"If you can sense his Ki from that far away, but can't he sense yours?" he finally asked.
"No, not matter how much He tries to learn how, his body, mind, and spirit are incapable of sense Ki, He is too corrupt in mind, body, and spirit." She explained. "Which is why, when you fought him before, he could not sense your power levels without the help of devices. Even if he had one, my Ki is masked to well. He would have to be around me a lot to know my Ki from the one I project as weakling. It wouldn't matter even if he were telepathic, like me, because he is too far away to probe my mind, but he would also have to get past all of my mind blocks, which are a lot against him sense he is telepathic." She explained with a shrug.
While they were talking, her time had passed. She yawned and mentally woke up Goten. Goten yawned and complained a bit about being hungry, but got up anyway. "Even as we speak, Goten is complaining about being hungry, but he is on watch, meaning I must rest." She stifled a yawn and laid on the hard ground, using her arm as a pillow. Without another thought, her breath evened and she was resting.
Piccolo however, was going over his conversation with the girl, who was surly replaying it for Goten, who would later play it for Trunks. 'He was positive that her father's side of the family was the Telepathic. He just had to figured out who, or rather, what. His curiosity was too great, though he tried to suppress it, something told him that this girl was dangerous, or something, or someone, close to her. At least she had answered some of his questions, no matter how she evaded him, he would find out.'
"Stop thinking about me!" Seeasa said. Piccolo was shocked. "I always know when someone is thinking about me, I can't sleep with you doing that." She said, albeit tiredly, so he stopped, and tired to clear his mind to rest himself, after all, if something were wrong, Goten and Trunks would come running, he was sure of it. The girl growled, he cleared his mind again and meditated.
The days slowly turned into weeks, and weeks into months. The boys soon got used to school and everything around them, and remembered everything about there past, including an incident before they were kidnapped, where Goten had bitten Trunks's tail. She grinned at that, even though Trunks bit poor Goten right back. Even though the boys were enjoying themselves, Seeasa could only get more agitated. Something was not right, every night she took watch later then she normally did, hunting for Him. It was hard, but she only felt confertable with the boys and Piccolo, but only at night with him. For some reason or another, she felt she could always talk to Piccolo in the dark, and he would keep their secrets, even Trunks and Goten told him stuff. Every conversation was replayed for each other benefit though. They never told him anything that would give them away though. And then IT happened.
Goten, Trunks, and Seeasa were playing around at school, it was near the middle of the morning when it happened. Seeasa had the longest range with sensing Ki, but she didn't need long range to figure out what was going to happen, they all felt it.
It had happened in History class, they were reenacting some civil war or another, actually laughing. This was the one class they all shared together. They were in the middle of 'killing' each other, when they felt the strong, evil Ki near them. Seeasa felt it first and fell down on the floor clutching her sides in pain, feeling the evil anger falling toward them. She suppressed her power down to an ant. Then Goten felt it, his eyes widened and then Trunks screamed "NOOO" and fell to his knees, Goten following suit soon after. They each looked at each other, ripping off the fake armor and rushing for the window. Sure enough, the Evil Ki was heading toward them. They didn't bother to open the window. Ignoring the cries of the students and teachers, they leapt though the window and into the sky. They flew as fast as they could, splitting up so He would have a hard time catching them.
Seeasa headed for Piccolo's weak Ki, and flew past him. He had decided that a nice family reunion was in order. She didn't want to hurt Piccolo, but he could not stop him. Piccolo knew something was amiss, so he followed her, he didn't feel the Ki because Namak's can't sense Ki. He felt the Evil though. "Seeasa, what is it?" he called. "I told you. I warn you all, but you wouldn't listen, now He will kill us all!" Piccolo knew that He was Freiza, and that Freiza was gaining on them.
It didn't take long for Freiza to blast Piccolo out of the sky and corner Seeasa. "My dear, why are you running?" he asked with a confused smirk. "Evading" she said. "We taught ourselves, it turns out we needed it on this planet." She said truthfully. Freiza nodded, "Come back, and you will not be harm." He said calmly, noticing that her collar was gone. She swallowed, then shook her head, unable to speak. "No? Well then, freedom has gone to your head, you will be punished, but if you come back now, it won't hurt for long." Again, swallowing she shook her head. She then got up enough nerve and blasted him with her largest Ki ball. She flew past a stunned Freiza and flew as far as she could to get away. She even stopped to grab Piccolo. Fear was her greatest speed. It got her a good head start, she even went Super Saiya-jin, as Vegeta had called it, and flew faster, but in the end, it didn't matter, it was all in vain.
He came up behind her, as she relayed everything to Goten and Trunks who were on their way with their parents and friends, and hit her in the back, hard. She knew that Goten and Trunks felt the attacks, and were smarting from it, it was a draw back from the link, but that caused them to fly faster. As she flew toward the ground, Freiza came up and knocked her and Piccolo into a wall, she dropped Piccolo. Piccolo came too, but was knocked out again by Freiza's tail as he came at her again. She was knocked out the same way as Piccolo. He waited until the others came, and he grinned evilly.
Goten had almost fell out of the sky when he felt the attacks on Seeasa, and by the looks of Trunks, he felt the same way. Goten went Super Saiya- jin, and so did Trunks, for the first time in front of his father. "WHAT?" he cried out when he saw this, but he got nothing else in because Freiza blasted him out of the sky. Goten growled and flew past Freiza to Seeasa, he wasn't stopped by him, if anything, he seamed happy that they were still helping each other out, it was either that or that they were all super Saiya-jin. More then likely it was the latter. Goten roused Seeasa from her painful slumber and helped her and Piccolo to their feet, Piccolo was still half out of it, but he was able to stand. "Get over her, Saiya-jin boy, or I'll kill them." He grabbed Seeasa, who was in a lot of pain, by the throat with his tail and lifted her off the ground. He knocked Goten to the ground with her body, when he tried to help free her. She kicked and tried to pry the tail away, but it was cutting of he air pipe. Trunks growled an oath that made Vegeta blush slightly and began to fly forward. "TRUNKS!" Vegeta yelled, but it was too late, Trunks was already standing behind Freiza, "All right, let her go!" he shouted angrily at him.
"I don't like your tone," and he threw an air-deprived girl his way. Trunks barely caught her before he crashed into a wall from the force of the throw. Goten helped both of them up. 'Lets run for it Trunks' Goten suggested. Trunks nodded his head and they each took hold of Seeasa's arms and took off into the air. "Ohh no you don't brats!" Freiza yelled. Something flew from his hand and encircled all three. Seeasa opened her eyes to join in the screaming of pain. At that moment, the others started attacking the monster below. The howls of pain soon ceased as one by one passed out from too many electrical shocks at once to their bodies. They soon dissappered from sight.
Goten was the first to open his eyes, the all too familiar surroundings causing him to close his eyes again. Trunks groaned and opened his eyes, the realization of where they were and what had happened sunk in quickly and he groaned. Thee only one, who would not wake up, was Seeasa, who had actually gone up against Freiza and fought. They were in the process of getting her up to put her in the regeneration chamber, when Freiza walked in. They had barely sat her up on the bunk before he started grilling them. "Whom, may I ask, idea was it to run off like that?" he asked. Seeasa groaned and opened her eyes. "Mine," she said, then lied through her teeth halfway. She begged the boys to go through it with her and they agreed. "When the ship exploded, I put a Ki shield around us, to protect us. It wasn't strong enough because I had just gotten from a training session. We were injured. When we woke, we were surrounded on all sides. We quickly evaded them, but our injuries were too great. They lied to us, said that we were related to them. We didn't believe them, they are the enemies. As you have said many times, our parents are dead. Except you of course." She added. "Then why." he paused, trying to hold in his anger, "Did you resist me? Or better yet, why did you not destroy them?" "They were too powerful," Trunks said. "And you resisted why?"
"Because I was jealous." Seeasa quickly said, searching for a reason why she would be jealous. Then it came to her. "Jealous? Of what?" "You" she said. "Me?" he asked, incredulous.
"Yes," was all she said. "Why?" he asked, getting impatient. "You won't like the answer, but I was jealous because you would spar more with Trun.I mean the Saiya-jin boys and less with me! I mean.I felt.left out." she finished weakly, knowing that Trunks and Goten were laughing so hard mentally that they fought to keep their faces expressionless. Seeasa, however, was feeling queasy. She slowly stood up from the bed, teetered and held onto the wall. "You ran away because you were jealous of those two. If you were so jealous, then why did you take them with you?"
"I felt you might notice me more if I took them away, and after a while, when you didn't come back, we became.sort of bonded. It like we were the only ones who could trust each other, and not even that at times.but like we were meant to kill, side by side." She said, forcing sincerity into her voice. Freiza bought the story, but that didn't make her punishment any less. Sense she was so jealous of not spending time with him, he was upping her time with him in training, starting that moment. She was forced to make it look like she was enjoying being beaten into the ground. When, many, many hours later, he was finished, she forced her aching body up off the ground, and forced it to walk, one foot in front of the other toward their room. She rested all that night and most of the next day, barely eating anything, but the day after next, still hurting, he came again and they did training together, and again, she forced herself to look cheerful every time she hit the ground, wall, or ceiling and smile brightly. So it was every two days they spared.
Soon, it paid off. All the extra training, she soon could fit in a spar on the next morning after her training with Goten or Trunks, sometimes both. They were getting stronger too. The only two major downsides to everything, and they were that they were all wearing the collars again.
These were smaller, thinner, but more durable in battle. And now that Freiza knew they were all Super-Demi-Saiya-jin's, he made sure that each bout they turned into it to fight our fullest.
There was one more downside to everything, they had a home now, Earth. And people who missed them. They had to find a way to get out of here quickly.They were only twelve, it would be a long time before they would be strong enough to get anywhere. Once in a while, they would feel a familiar Ki, like someone was looking for them, but the collars prevented them from further searching by shocking them every time they tried to look for who ever it was that was looking for them. They had memories to haunt them every day and every night. It was worse then the beatings that came from Freiza. They kept the hope alive though, talking though the bond, remembering the good times, they even got away with a joke or two, when they had the time, on the Gen-u force, but it wasn't the same as dying Vegeta's hair pink. Or turning on the hot water while your older brother was in the shower, giving him a good cold shower. Or even, when they broke the gravity machine for a whole month while Bulma was in America and couldn't be reached.
No, it wasn't the same, it gave them hope and laughter, but it wasn't the same. They would live on through it though; they always did before, what would be so different now? After all, they only a few months of freedom while they purged a planet, actually they had never killed a living being in their lives, not even an ant, well, on purpose anyway. What they did was scare a race have to death while Freiza was there, then when he left, told them to go to Lady Jade's solar system, where they could live for a lot longer then they could here. They explained what Freiza would do, and the left. Whenever Freiza asked about the bodies, they always said that they disintegrated them so that he wouldn't have to bother with them. That's what he thought anyway.