Chapter 38
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Guldo struggled to get his vision and footing strait. When he finally accomplished that task, he took note of the broken tree and Bulma still hovering in the air -and she didn't have her ki flared around her. He let out a low chuckle and held his breath. He made his way to the tree and used another physic ability of his to make it hover in mid air.
She knew what was coming next. Bulma struggled to break free of the invisible force field that molded her into air. 'I'm going to die!' was all she could think as she watched the tree raise higher in the air.
The tree swung back. Bulma felt like she was a baseball and the tree was Ken Griffy Jounior's bat -the bat just waiting to swing her out of the park. She was trembling despite the hold of the ESP she could feel her bones shake and rattle inside her. Her vision became blurred with tears as she watched the tree swing toward her. She tried to scream but just little squeaks would come out.
Bulma wanted to close her eyes but found she couldn't. She couldn't even turn her head away -she had to watch the tree come and 'swing her out of the park'.
The tree came closer...closer...closer. The tree was so close to her she could already feel the rough bark of the tree scrape and tear her skin. The tree was a mere 15 inches from her face now 'Kami help me!' she though.
The all of a sudden it stopped -everything stopped. The tip of the tree touched her nose and stayed there for about a second the plummeted toward the ground. The whole world seemed to shake as the tree collided with the ground.
"W- What j- just -t hap-p-pened-?" she stuttered slurring her words together. "Am I alive?" she said feeling her hands and her face. "There's no way unless..." she looked down to ground where Guldo was standing.
"Vegeta!" she whispered putting a hand over her heart. There stood Vegeta holding Guldo's decapitated head in his hand. He tossed it aside and was probably saying something to Kuwi. Bulma couldn't hear though.
"BULMA!" a child's voice shouted from behind her. She turned around it was Gohan, Piccolo, Choutzu, Tein, Nappa, and of course Yamcha. "Oh, hi G- Gohan" she managed to say. She nodded to the rest as a sign of acknowledgment.
"Are you okay? What's going on?" Krillen asked.
"I'm... fine" she managed to say. No sense getting them all tied up in knots about what happened -almost happened to her.
She looked back down on the ground "But I think we have a problem down there"
"No doubt" Nappa interjected "There the- "
Bulma held up a hand and smiled a little "Don't say it. Please don't say it"
"Shouldn't we be down there?" Piccolo asked annoyed. He was never the one to goof-off -but really this wasn't a time too.
Bulma nodded realizing too that this was not a time for idol chitchat. "Right" she said looking down at Vegeta. "Let's go" she finished. ~
"Prince Vegeta," Kuwi said crossing his arms over his chest. "I see -or rather should I say smell-" Kuwi paused dragging his eyes to Bulma who had just landed behind Vegeta, fire licked at the pupils of her eyes as she sneered at him. A laugh drowned in his words "That you are quite taken with this little woman. You left your scent all over the poor dear" A few soldiers snickered along with Kuwi.
"You think you can beat me?" Vegeta said raising a heavy brow. "Because if that's what you're saying..."
Kuwi shrugged his face expressionless "Of course. Why couldn't I now that I know your weakness?" Kuwi snapped his fingers "Burter"
A bolt of blue lightning zoomed across the field whizzing right over Vegeta's shoulder. He froze for a second, the slowly he turned his head around over his shoulder.
There behind him stood Burter with Bulma in a choke hold.
"Let me go!" Bulma shouted kicking furiously. "I said let me go!" she screamed along with a string of curses.
Burter laughed at her feeble attempt to escape. "Oh so you think this is funny, huh?" Bulma sneered "Well lets see how funny you think this is!" Bulma mumbled. She sunk her teeth deep into Burter's flesh.
Burter screamed in pain releasing her, but she didn't detach her fangs from his skin. He could feel her teeth rip through his veins tearing them apart like a child does a coloring book. Blood sprayed out from the wound as Bulma jolted her head back, tearing off a good portion of skin and muscle tissues.
She bought her face to his agonized face. She drew her head back and spat the flesh into his face. "You make me sick" she said as she backhanded him across the face. She continued to beat on him, punching, kicking and all that whatnot.
"You ever going to touch me again" Bulma asked tossing Burter aside. "Now anyone else got something to say?" Bulma asked eyeing all the shocked faces that gaped words but no sound emitted from them. Bulma was amused greatly by this but kept her stoic expression.
"Is anyone up for a challenge?" Bulma said charging a ki ball in her hand. Every one remained silent "What, no takers?" she said disintegrating the ball of energy.
"Then I'll just have to pick" she laughed disappearing leaving only a thin film of waving airs. Her laughed still echoed through the field. The rows of wheat swayed from the vibrations.
"Where'd she go?" Kuwi shouted "Jeice, give me a reading!" he ordered. Jeice fumbled with the buttons on his scouter.
"What the...?" Jeice mumbled amazed as he stared wide-eyed into the lens of the scouter.
"Where is she Jeice?" Kuwi bellowed as he ripped the scouter off his ear. He quickly fastened it to the side of his head. He ferociously pounded the key inserting codes and locations -she was nowhere on the planet!
"Damn her!" Kuwi screamed as he smashed the scouter to the ground. He turned to his men whom all seemed to be fumbling with their scouters as well with the same bewildered expression "Find her, you fools! She has to be on this planet somewhere!" Kuwi barked turning red in the face.
"We'll see who wins this game, Sayain" Kuwi mumbled looking around the sky.
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"Where did she go?" Vegeta asked trying to sense her ki. He still was new at this trick so it was a work in progress -most defiantly his most reliable skill.
Piccolo spoke up "Vegeta, remember when you first came to the planet"
"Of course I do! What's your point?" Vegeta snapped.
"Well, your scouter could only detect Bulma's surface power -not when she masks it. That's why you expected her to be so weak" Piccolo explained.
Vegeta was about to speak but Nappa cut in "So basically she's shielding her ki"
"Exactly" Piccolo nodded.
Vegeta looked out at Kuwi's troops all taking off in different directions in search of Bulma and narrowed his eyes "So where is she now?"
Piccolo chuckled a bit "I don't know, but their not going to find her anytime soon"
Vegeta turned to him his eyebrow raised "What do you mean you don't know? I thought you could detect shielded ki?"
"I can" Piccolo said and smirked "But she hides hers too well"
Vegeta looked back out into the early twilight and felt a strange sense of pride sweep over him. A small smirk tug at his lips "Does she, really?"
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Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!
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Guldo struggled to get his vision and footing strait. When he finally accomplished that task, he took note of the broken tree and Bulma still hovering in the air -and she didn't have her ki flared around her. He let out a low chuckle and held his breath. He made his way to the tree and used another physic ability of his to make it hover in mid air.
She knew what was coming next. Bulma struggled to break free of the invisible force field that molded her into air. 'I'm going to die!' was all she could think as she watched the tree raise higher in the air.
The tree swung back. Bulma felt like she was a baseball and the tree was Ken Griffy Jounior's bat -the bat just waiting to swing her out of the park. She was trembling despite the hold of the ESP she could feel her bones shake and rattle inside her. Her vision became blurred with tears as she watched the tree swing toward her. She tried to scream but just little squeaks would come out.
Bulma wanted to close her eyes but found she couldn't. She couldn't even turn her head away -she had to watch the tree come and 'swing her out of the park'.
The tree came closer...closer...closer. The tree was so close to her she could already feel the rough bark of the tree scrape and tear her skin. The tree was a mere 15 inches from her face now 'Kami help me!' she though.
The all of a sudden it stopped -everything stopped. The tip of the tree touched her nose and stayed there for about a second the plummeted toward the ground. The whole world seemed to shake as the tree collided with the ground.
"W- What j- just -t hap-p-pened-?" she stuttered slurring her words together. "Am I alive?" she said feeling her hands and her face. "There's no way unless..." she looked down to ground where Guldo was standing.
"Vegeta!" she whispered putting a hand over her heart. There stood Vegeta holding Guldo's decapitated head in his hand. He tossed it aside and was probably saying something to Kuwi. Bulma couldn't hear though.
"BULMA!" a child's voice shouted from behind her. She turned around it was Gohan, Piccolo, Choutzu, Tein, Nappa, and of course Yamcha. "Oh, hi G- Gohan" she managed to say. She nodded to the rest as a sign of acknowledgment.
"Are you okay? What's going on?" Krillen asked.
"I'm... fine" she managed to say. No sense getting them all tied up in knots about what happened -almost happened to her.
She looked back down on the ground "But I think we have a problem down there"
"No doubt" Nappa interjected "There the- "
Bulma held up a hand and smiled a little "Don't say it. Please don't say it"
"Shouldn't we be down there?" Piccolo asked annoyed. He was never the one to goof-off -but really this wasn't a time too.
Bulma nodded realizing too that this was not a time for idol chitchat. "Right" she said looking down at Vegeta. "Let's go" she finished. ~
"Prince Vegeta," Kuwi said crossing his arms over his chest. "I see -or rather should I say smell-" Kuwi paused dragging his eyes to Bulma who had just landed behind Vegeta, fire licked at the pupils of her eyes as she sneered at him. A laugh drowned in his words "That you are quite taken with this little woman. You left your scent all over the poor dear" A few soldiers snickered along with Kuwi.
"You think you can beat me?" Vegeta said raising a heavy brow. "Because if that's what you're saying..."
Kuwi shrugged his face expressionless "Of course. Why couldn't I now that I know your weakness?" Kuwi snapped his fingers "Burter"
A bolt of blue lightning zoomed across the field whizzing right over Vegeta's shoulder. He froze for a second, the slowly he turned his head around over his shoulder.
There behind him stood Burter with Bulma in a choke hold.
"Let me go!" Bulma shouted kicking furiously. "I said let me go!" she screamed along with a string of curses.
Burter laughed at her feeble attempt to escape. "Oh so you think this is funny, huh?" Bulma sneered "Well lets see how funny you think this is!" Bulma mumbled. She sunk her teeth deep into Burter's flesh.
Burter screamed in pain releasing her, but she didn't detach her fangs from his skin. He could feel her teeth rip through his veins tearing them apart like a child does a coloring book. Blood sprayed out from the wound as Bulma jolted her head back, tearing off a good portion of skin and muscle tissues.
She bought her face to his agonized face. She drew her head back and spat the flesh into his face. "You make me sick" she said as she backhanded him across the face. She continued to beat on him, punching, kicking and all that whatnot.
"You ever going to touch me again" Bulma asked tossing Burter aside. "Now anyone else got something to say?" Bulma asked eyeing all the shocked faces that gaped words but no sound emitted from them. Bulma was amused greatly by this but kept her stoic expression.
"Is anyone up for a challenge?" Bulma said charging a ki ball in her hand. Every one remained silent "What, no takers?" she said disintegrating the ball of energy.
"Then I'll just have to pick" she laughed disappearing leaving only a thin film of waving airs. Her laughed still echoed through the field. The rows of wheat swayed from the vibrations.
"Where'd she go?" Kuwi shouted "Jeice, give me a reading!" he ordered. Jeice fumbled with the buttons on his scouter.
"What the...?" Jeice mumbled amazed as he stared wide-eyed into the lens of the scouter.
"Where is she Jeice?" Kuwi bellowed as he ripped the scouter off his ear. He quickly fastened it to the side of his head. He ferociously pounded the key inserting codes and locations -she was nowhere on the planet!
"Damn her!" Kuwi screamed as he smashed the scouter to the ground. He turned to his men whom all seemed to be fumbling with their scouters as well with the same bewildered expression "Find her, you fools! She has to be on this planet somewhere!" Kuwi barked turning red in the face.
"We'll see who wins this game, Sayain" Kuwi mumbled looking around the sky.
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"Where did she go?" Vegeta asked trying to sense her ki. He still was new at this trick so it was a work in progress -most defiantly his most reliable skill.
Piccolo spoke up "Vegeta, remember when you first came to the planet"
"Of course I do! What's your point?" Vegeta snapped.
"Well, your scouter could only detect Bulma's surface power -not when she masks it. That's why you expected her to be so weak" Piccolo explained.
Vegeta was about to speak but Nappa cut in "So basically she's shielding her ki"
"Exactly" Piccolo nodded.
Vegeta looked out at Kuwi's troops all taking off in different directions in search of Bulma and narrowed his eyes "So where is she now?"
Piccolo chuckled a bit "I don't know, but their not going to find her anytime soon"
Vegeta turned to him his eyebrow raised "What do you mean you don't know? I thought you could detect shielded ki?"
"I can" Piccolo said and smirked "But she hides hers too well"
Vegeta looked back out into the early twilight and felt a strange sense of pride sweep over him. A small smirk tug at his lips "Does she, really?"
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Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!