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Another Chance
Chapter 1
Slowly, she regained her consciousness, and to her pleasant surprise, she didn't have a headache; she was just feeling a little lightheaded. She kept her eyes closed, not wanting to know her situation right away. She felt she was lying in a bed, and it was very quiet around her.
The alarm wasn't ringing anymore. Was that a good sign? Many questions popped up in her mind, and she was again slightly panicking. Was she still in that spaceship? Had she crashed? Was she dead? Or maybe, it had all been a bad dream, and her alarmclock would start ringing any moment now. Well, she thought, I just have to open my eyes, right?
As she opened her eyes, she blinked at the bright light. She immediatley felt a dull ache in the back of her head. Maybe this wasn't the smartest thing to do. But she quickly forgot her headache when she noticed her strange surroundings. She was lying in a very simple looking bed, but it was surrounded with not so simple looking machines. While she was looking at them, she came to the conclusion that she must be in some kind of hospital. The little screen beside her head was showing something that looked like her pulse. Yes!!! She was in a hospital!!! Yes!! Ok, maybe lying in a hospital because of her carcrash wasn't such fun, but it beat the hell out of having died because of a malfunctional, crashing spaceship!
She made herself a bit more comfortable in her bed. She felt good! Nothing really hurt, so that meant that she hadn't been severly wounded in the accident. But still, her body felt a little... odd. She figured that it was a normal reaction from being unconscious for some time. Her body didn't experienced that every day.
Suddenly, a door at the end of her room opened, and a man walked in, looking down at some kind of parcel he held in his hands. He was apparently deep in thoughts. He was around his sixties, and had the funniest haircolor she had ever seen; a kind of greish purple, or was it purplish grey? She noticed that he had a large moustache in nearly the same color.
He didn't look at her, but walked directly to one of the monitors against the wall. When he turned his back at her, she saw a tiny cat, holding on to his shoulder, but it was obviously slipping away. The man shoved it up his shoulder, and mumured something like: "Be careful, Kitty." A cat in an hospital, with a doctor? Strange...
She was becoming a little unpatient. Wasn't a doctor supposed to check out his patient? She wanted to ask so many questions, and she also wanted to see her parents and tell them she was all right. They were probably very worried about her. So she spoke up:
"Excuse me, sir?
The man turned around real fast. And stared at her in shock.
"She's awake! Kitty, she's awake! Let's tell the others! And he turned around and hastily strode out of the room, leaving her behind.
Her mouth dropped. What was he doing? What kind of a doctor was he, leaving her in a state like this? Wasn't he supposed to examine her, like shining one of those irritating little lights in her eyes? She felt confused, angry,... and scared. Sh ehad just gone through a very traumatic experience (she didn't count the spaceship) and she would like to recieve some comfort and the reassurance that everything was going to be all right. Because it was, wasn't it?
Her headache started to increase. She was feeling miserable now. It also scared her, that her emotions were so strong, and chaotic. Usually, they were well balanced. She wanted her parents, now! They should be here, waiting for any news, so what took them? That excuse for a doctor, should have them informed by now!
She forced herself to relaxe. She closed her eyes, and tried to fight the sudden panic, flowing through her body, telling her to jolt out of her bed, and find her parents. She prayed that that doctor would soon return. This insecurity was driving her crazy!
Suddenly she heard voices outside her room. She propped herself a little up, using her elbows, and waited for them to enter her room.
The door was thrown open, and then a woman came running in, followed by the doctor. The woman had blue hair! She didn't have much time to wonder about it, when she saw the group of people, who had followed the doctor into the room.
She gaped at them, and they gaped back; what she saw before her was the oddest group of people she had ever seen! Right in front of her stood a little man, without a nose! He was dressed in some kind of training equipement, but so were two other men. The little man was flanked by a beautiful blondine, with cold, emotionless grey eyes. She looked at the other two men. They were fairly tall. One had short black hair, and lots of scars on his face. The other was bald, but had a third eye on his forehead. Was that a tattoo or something? When the bald man shifted a little, she could see a little... child? It was as small as a child, and it looked like a china doll. But its face held a kind of wisdom, giving the implication that he wasn't a child.
While she gaped at them, they stared back at her with a mixture of curiousity, wonder and... fear?
The blue haired woman, together with the 'doctor', was checking out all the monitors in the room. They were whispering excitedly, and were constantly throwing glances her way. The blue haired woman suddenly came walking towards her bed, when scarface jumped before her. She blinked: she hadn't seen him move!
Scarface had positioned himself between her and the woman.
"Bulma, be careful now, babe! She could attack you! I know you have her sedated and all, but honest, she is a saiyan, and there's no telling what they could do!"
Was he talking about her? She, a Saiyan, and attacking someone? With her headache?! This was so confusing! Who were those people! And what were they thinking about! She doubted that she was even able to sit upright, let alone jumping out her bed and attack someone!
Wham! Suddenly the door was thrown open against the wall (apparently, somebody had closed it again). Two other persons entered the room.
"He," yelled the blue haired woman, Bulma, "Try to keep the door in one piece, Vegeta!"
She only heard that vaguely, because she was stunned by the sight of the men who walked into room.
Green!
One of them was... green! With large pointed ears, little antennas on his forhead, and a very strange wardrobe to make the picture of a marsman complete!
She slowly raised her hand, and touched her forhead. It must be a severe headinjury! Her brains were probably smashed. Green men. Ookaay... Would she be locked away in a mental facility somewhere?
She closed her eyes firmly, and opened them again. Well, it seemed to be very strong hallucination: the green man still stood there, arms crossed, looking at her with a blank look on his face.
The other man, who had accompanied the green man into the room, was now advancing towards her. Was she already been hospitilazed in a freakhouse or something! She seriously started to think that, because this man wasn't normal either! He had a very strange hairdo: it shot up like a flame, defying gravity! He wasn't tall, but fairly muscled (A/N maybe an understatement...). Taking a quick look around, she noticed that every male in this room was overly muscled. But back to the flame-haired guy. He gave her the creeps; he just kept staring at her, with black eyes. She couldn't distinct the irisses from the pupils. They were like bottomless black pits, sucking her in. She shivered. He stood still before her bed, arms crossed, and continued to stare at her. Suddenly he snapped:
"Name and rank!"
She blinked.
Bulma grapped his hand. "Now, Vegeta, I understand you want some answers, we all do, but we don't know if she's capable of answering them. She just woke up, and we still don't know what sort of effects her headinjury will have.
The man, Vegeta ( odd name, she thought), roughly pulled his hand out of Bulma's grasp. "I thought you said that the scans showed no damage! So she should be able to function properly. So stay out of this woman!"
And he turned his glare back at her, and asked, with a growl: "Name and rank!!!"
She had listened with confusement to the short conversation. When she heard his... command again, she didn't know how to reply. So she said:
"I beg your pardon? I know my name, but my rank?! What kind of nonsense is that?"
"Well, what's your name than?" He snarled at her.
"My name is Ariel MacLean. And I am a student. Is that a rank also?"
She heard gasps from everyone in the room, except maybe from Vegeta and the Green Man.
The last looked somewhat curious, but Vegeta looked enraged. He leaned over her and said very softly, but very dangerously: "Don't play games with me, girl!"
Games!! What the hell was he thinking. She just had it with him, with everyone in this room. So, she pushed him away, with more power than she thought she had, and she struggled to sit upright. Bulma made a move, but she fended her off.
"Hey mister, I don't know who you think you are, but what the hell are you doing?! I don't play games with you. The idea! Do you think me capable of playing games with you, when the only thing I want, is some information, about what happened after the accident! You could start with in which hospital I'm in, what sort of injuries I've suffered, what the consequences will be, but first: where my parents are!!!" She finaly managed to sit up properly, and looked at them.
Everybody looked at her, and nobody said a thing.
"Well?" She said frustrated.
"Uhm, that headinjury is more severe than we anticipated." The 'doctor' said thoughtful, stroking his moustache.
"Well, duh! If I'm seeing green man with antennas in the room, that must be the case than!"
"He is green," said Bulma, " what else would he be. He is a Namek after all."
"Riight," Ariel (A/N yes she does have a name now! Now you people don't have to figure out anymore to whom I'm referring to when I write 'she' !)
"Right, so he is an alien. Okay.... So, you are telling me, that you know this alien, and that it is a very common thing. Um,... how long have I been unconscious? Because before I blacked out, aliens weren't a very common thing on Earth-" "How do you mean, Earth?!" This was asked by that Vegeta, and he appeared to get angrier by the minute.
"Earth like in, planet Earth, where we are all living on."
"Okay, this nonsense has gone far enough, just tell us who you are, and how you have gotten here." Bulma looked at her, Ariel stared back.
"Why don't you believe me? I have told you how I've gotten here: I've been in an accident! And my name is Ariel Maclean. Look at my id. It was in the bag I was carrying when I got into that accident, so I hope that somebody had the common sense to take that along, so people could identify me, and warn my family."
Bulma looked like she was deep in thought. Everybody else just looked at Ariel in confusion.
"How are you feeling now?"
"Well, I have an headache, but I'am not feeling any pain anywhere else."
"Aha, a headache, that is a very common, of course, and it could explain-"
"Yes Dad, I can figure that one out myself, now" Bulma suddenly smiled reassuring at Ariel, " tell us your name again, because it appears that your 'bag' hasn't been found yet."
Ariel frowned, but answered: "My full name is Ariel Deborah Maclean."
"That's a nice name, but it is an human name."
Ariel rolled her eyes: "I'm not even going to respond to that."
"Well, we think it is a little ... er, strange, because, you are not from earth. Actually, you are a Saiyan!
Ariel just stared at Bulma. Then suddenly she yelled: "That's it! Stop it! Of course I'm human. What do you mean with 'Saiyan'! What kind of people are you?! I want a normal, qualified doctor, right now! And where are my parents? Is this some kind of sick joke?!"
Ariel pushed a hand against her forehead, it felt like her head was going to explode. Bulma saw this and tried to get her to lay down: "Relax girl! You must remain calm. We don't know what the extents of your headinjurie are! Dad, where's the sedative I gave you?"
"I don't want to sleep, I want answers!"
Suddenly, Vegeta appeared in front of her, and pushed her effortless back at her bed.
"You want answers? Fine. You crashed two days ago on earth. You are of a race called Saiyan. I am a Saiyan too, your prince as a matter of fact. Where you are now, is Capsule Corporation. So stop whining! It is not befitting to Saiyan, even not to a low class creature like yourself! And stop making up those nonsense about your name-"
"Vegeta, she might be telling us the truth!" Suddenly everybody looked startled at the Green Man, as Ariel had titled him. He actually looked a tiny bit surprised himself. Then he frowned and looked down at his crossed arms. Then he looked up at them. I just heard something from Dende. He said he had some important news about this girl. Apparently, she isn't what she appears to be. He quickly raised his hand to stop any questions.
"She isn't dangerous at all, Dende insured me. The news he recieved came from King Kai and King Enma. But, before he will tell us more, he wants to speak with the girl first. So, is it safe to move her?"
"Well, we still don't know exactly how much the headwound will effect her, and the-"
"Bulma, you said she was perfectly fine."
"Yes, and that is amazing, considering her crash, but..."
"If there are any futher injuries or complications, I'm sure Dende can deal with them. Now, I will take her to Dende-"
"You can't!" Bulma shrieked (everybody flinched, but ignored her).
Vegeta was also apparently not too pleased with the way things were going, but he was not so easily to ignore. He was very angry, and it seemed like it actually radiated of off him. It kinf of pushed Ariel deeper in her bed. What was going on?
All the people in the room took a stap back, even Bulma. Only the Green Man stood his ground, and looked Vegeta straight in the eyes.
"She is a siayan, which means she is my subject, and so I decide if she's going to Dende!"
Who did he think he was, asked Ariel herself, she had never met somebody that arrogant, and domineering and short-tempered and... Well, she surely didn't like him!
The Green Man just marched to Ariel and reached for her. Ariel didn't really know if this was such a good idea; an unknown green man, with antennas was planning to take her to see some other man she also didn't know. Could she trust him? Any of them?
"Ehm, I would feel much better if you could just tell me what's going on?"
The Green man looked reassuringly at her when he heard her soft question. The poor girl was very disstressed and confused. Still, he thought, she did handle it quite well so far.
"Girl, er... Ariel, everything will be explained when we are at the Lookout." Seeing Ariel confused look, he said: "At Dende's."
"Can I wait for my... I guess you haven't called my parents." Ariel felt really confused inside. What was going on?
The Green Man suddenly rested his hand on her shoulder, and squeezed it softly. Then he stretched his hand out.
While she was thinking about it, Vegeta opened his mouth: "What the hell do you think you're doing! Don't even think about touching her, Namek, or face the consequences!"
That did it. Everything was better than staying with this arrogant maniac with his crazy ideas.
So she grapped the green hand. The Green Man pulled her up with no trouble at all. Ariel tried to stand, but her legs buckled, and she slid to the floor.
Bulma rushed forward, trying to help her, when she suddenly noticed a long, red, fluffy thing, which dragged behind her. She grabbed it and held it up close to examine it. "What is this," she asked. When she looked up at the others, she noticed that Vegeta's eyes were glued to it. She looked to Bulma.
"Well," she said, "it's your tail of course."
"My tail!?!"
A/N: so that was chapter 1. Any questions, remarks, complaints or just some praise ( yes, I do keep fooling myself)? Let me know
Another Chance
Chapter 1
Slowly, she regained her consciousness, and to her pleasant surprise, she didn't have a headache; she was just feeling a little lightheaded. She kept her eyes closed, not wanting to know her situation right away. She felt she was lying in a bed, and it was very quiet around her.
The alarm wasn't ringing anymore. Was that a good sign? Many questions popped up in her mind, and she was again slightly panicking. Was she still in that spaceship? Had she crashed? Was she dead? Or maybe, it had all been a bad dream, and her alarmclock would start ringing any moment now. Well, she thought, I just have to open my eyes, right?
As she opened her eyes, she blinked at the bright light. She immediatley felt a dull ache in the back of her head. Maybe this wasn't the smartest thing to do. But she quickly forgot her headache when she noticed her strange surroundings. She was lying in a very simple looking bed, but it was surrounded with not so simple looking machines. While she was looking at them, she came to the conclusion that she must be in some kind of hospital. The little screen beside her head was showing something that looked like her pulse. Yes!!! She was in a hospital!!! Yes!! Ok, maybe lying in a hospital because of her carcrash wasn't such fun, but it beat the hell out of having died because of a malfunctional, crashing spaceship!
She made herself a bit more comfortable in her bed. She felt good! Nothing really hurt, so that meant that she hadn't been severly wounded in the accident. But still, her body felt a little... odd. She figured that it was a normal reaction from being unconscious for some time. Her body didn't experienced that every day.
Suddenly, a door at the end of her room opened, and a man walked in, looking down at some kind of parcel he held in his hands. He was apparently deep in thoughts. He was around his sixties, and had the funniest haircolor she had ever seen; a kind of greish purple, or was it purplish grey? She noticed that he had a large moustache in nearly the same color.
He didn't look at her, but walked directly to one of the monitors against the wall. When he turned his back at her, she saw a tiny cat, holding on to his shoulder, but it was obviously slipping away. The man shoved it up his shoulder, and mumured something like: "Be careful, Kitty." A cat in an hospital, with a doctor? Strange...
She was becoming a little unpatient. Wasn't a doctor supposed to check out his patient? She wanted to ask so many questions, and she also wanted to see her parents and tell them she was all right. They were probably very worried about her. So she spoke up:
"Excuse me, sir?
The man turned around real fast. And stared at her in shock.
"She's awake! Kitty, she's awake! Let's tell the others! And he turned around and hastily strode out of the room, leaving her behind.
Her mouth dropped. What was he doing? What kind of a doctor was he, leaving her in a state like this? Wasn't he supposed to examine her, like shining one of those irritating little lights in her eyes? She felt confused, angry,... and scared. Sh ehad just gone through a very traumatic experience (she didn't count the spaceship) and she would like to recieve some comfort and the reassurance that everything was going to be all right. Because it was, wasn't it?
Her headache started to increase. She was feeling miserable now. It also scared her, that her emotions were so strong, and chaotic. Usually, they were well balanced. She wanted her parents, now! They should be here, waiting for any news, so what took them? That excuse for a doctor, should have them informed by now!
She forced herself to relaxe. She closed her eyes, and tried to fight the sudden panic, flowing through her body, telling her to jolt out of her bed, and find her parents. She prayed that that doctor would soon return. This insecurity was driving her crazy!
Suddenly she heard voices outside her room. She propped herself a little up, using her elbows, and waited for them to enter her room.
The door was thrown open, and then a woman came running in, followed by the doctor. The woman had blue hair! She didn't have much time to wonder about it, when she saw the group of people, who had followed the doctor into the room.
She gaped at them, and they gaped back; what she saw before her was the oddest group of people she had ever seen! Right in front of her stood a little man, without a nose! He was dressed in some kind of training equipement, but so were two other men. The little man was flanked by a beautiful blondine, with cold, emotionless grey eyes. She looked at the other two men. They were fairly tall. One had short black hair, and lots of scars on his face. The other was bald, but had a third eye on his forehead. Was that a tattoo or something? When the bald man shifted a little, she could see a little... child? It was as small as a child, and it looked like a china doll. But its face held a kind of wisdom, giving the implication that he wasn't a child.
While she gaped at them, they stared back at her with a mixture of curiousity, wonder and... fear?
The blue haired woman, together with the 'doctor', was checking out all the monitors in the room. They were whispering excitedly, and were constantly throwing glances her way. The blue haired woman suddenly came walking towards her bed, when scarface jumped before her. She blinked: she hadn't seen him move!
Scarface had positioned himself between her and the woman.
"Bulma, be careful now, babe! She could attack you! I know you have her sedated and all, but honest, she is a saiyan, and there's no telling what they could do!"
Was he talking about her? She, a Saiyan, and attacking someone? With her headache?! This was so confusing! Who were those people! And what were they thinking about! She doubted that she was even able to sit upright, let alone jumping out her bed and attack someone!
Wham! Suddenly the door was thrown open against the wall (apparently, somebody had closed it again). Two other persons entered the room.
"He," yelled the blue haired woman, Bulma, "Try to keep the door in one piece, Vegeta!"
She only heard that vaguely, because she was stunned by the sight of the men who walked into room.
Green!
One of them was... green! With large pointed ears, little antennas on his forhead, and a very strange wardrobe to make the picture of a marsman complete!
She slowly raised her hand, and touched her forhead. It must be a severe headinjury! Her brains were probably smashed. Green men. Ookaay... Would she be locked away in a mental facility somewhere?
She closed her eyes firmly, and opened them again. Well, it seemed to be very strong hallucination: the green man still stood there, arms crossed, looking at her with a blank look on his face.
The other man, who had accompanied the green man into the room, was now advancing towards her. Was she already been hospitilazed in a freakhouse or something! She seriously started to think that, because this man wasn't normal either! He had a very strange hairdo: it shot up like a flame, defying gravity! He wasn't tall, but fairly muscled (A/N maybe an understatement...). Taking a quick look around, she noticed that every male in this room was overly muscled. But back to the flame-haired guy. He gave her the creeps; he just kept staring at her, with black eyes. She couldn't distinct the irisses from the pupils. They were like bottomless black pits, sucking her in. She shivered. He stood still before her bed, arms crossed, and continued to stare at her. Suddenly he snapped:
"Name and rank!"
She blinked.
Bulma grapped his hand. "Now, Vegeta, I understand you want some answers, we all do, but we don't know if she's capable of answering them. She just woke up, and we still don't know what sort of effects her headinjury will have.
The man, Vegeta ( odd name, she thought), roughly pulled his hand out of Bulma's grasp. "I thought you said that the scans showed no damage! So she should be able to function properly. So stay out of this woman!"
And he turned his glare back at her, and asked, with a growl: "Name and rank!!!"
She had listened with confusement to the short conversation. When she heard his... command again, she didn't know how to reply. So she said:
"I beg your pardon? I know my name, but my rank?! What kind of nonsense is that?"
"Well, what's your name than?" He snarled at her.
"My name is Ariel MacLean. And I am a student. Is that a rank also?"
She heard gasps from everyone in the room, except maybe from Vegeta and the Green Man.
The last looked somewhat curious, but Vegeta looked enraged. He leaned over her and said very softly, but very dangerously: "Don't play games with me, girl!"
Games!! What the hell was he thinking. She just had it with him, with everyone in this room. So, she pushed him away, with more power than she thought she had, and she struggled to sit upright. Bulma made a move, but she fended her off.
"Hey mister, I don't know who you think you are, but what the hell are you doing?! I don't play games with you. The idea! Do you think me capable of playing games with you, when the only thing I want, is some information, about what happened after the accident! You could start with in which hospital I'm in, what sort of injuries I've suffered, what the consequences will be, but first: where my parents are!!!" She finaly managed to sit up properly, and looked at them.
Everybody looked at her, and nobody said a thing.
"Well?" She said frustrated.
"Uhm, that headinjury is more severe than we anticipated." The 'doctor' said thoughtful, stroking his moustache.
"Well, duh! If I'm seeing green man with antennas in the room, that must be the case than!"
"He is green," said Bulma, " what else would he be. He is a Namek after all."
"Riight," Ariel (A/N yes she does have a name now! Now you people don't have to figure out anymore to whom I'm referring to when I write 'she' !)
"Right, so he is an alien. Okay.... So, you are telling me, that you know this alien, and that it is a very common thing. Um,... how long have I been unconscious? Because before I blacked out, aliens weren't a very common thing on Earth-" "How do you mean, Earth?!" This was asked by that Vegeta, and he appeared to get angrier by the minute.
"Earth like in, planet Earth, where we are all living on."
"Okay, this nonsense has gone far enough, just tell us who you are, and how you have gotten here." Bulma looked at her, Ariel stared back.
"Why don't you believe me? I have told you how I've gotten here: I've been in an accident! And my name is Ariel Maclean. Look at my id. It was in the bag I was carrying when I got into that accident, so I hope that somebody had the common sense to take that along, so people could identify me, and warn my family."
Bulma looked like she was deep in thought. Everybody else just looked at Ariel in confusion.
"How are you feeling now?"
"Well, I have an headache, but I'am not feeling any pain anywhere else."
"Aha, a headache, that is a very common, of course, and it could explain-"
"Yes Dad, I can figure that one out myself, now" Bulma suddenly smiled reassuring at Ariel, " tell us your name again, because it appears that your 'bag' hasn't been found yet."
Ariel frowned, but answered: "My full name is Ariel Deborah Maclean."
"That's a nice name, but it is an human name."
Ariel rolled her eyes: "I'm not even going to respond to that."
"Well, we think it is a little ... er, strange, because, you are not from earth. Actually, you are a Saiyan!
Ariel just stared at Bulma. Then suddenly she yelled: "That's it! Stop it! Of course I'm human. What do you mean with 'Saiyan'! What kind of people are you?! I want a normal, qualified doctor, right now! And where are my parents? Is this some kind of sick joke?!"
Ariel pushed a hand against her forehead, it felt like her head was going to explode. Bulma saw this and tried to get her to lay down: "Relax girl! You must remain calm. We don't know what the extents of your headinjurie are! Dad, where's the sedative I gave you?"
"I don't want to sleep, I want answers!"
Suddenly, Vegeta appeared in front of her, and pushed her effortless back at her bed.
"You want answers? Fine. You crashed two days ago on earth. You are of a race called Saiyan. I am a Saiyan too, your prince as a matter of fact. Where you are now, is Capsule Corporation. So stop whining! It is not befitting to Saiyan, even not to a low class creature like yourself! And stop making up those nonsense about your name-"
"Vegeta, she might be telling us the truth!" Suddenly everybody looked startled at the Green Man, as Ariel had titled him. He actually looked a tiny bit surprised himself. Then he frowned and looked down at his crossed arms. Then he looked up at them. I just heard something from Dende. He said he had some important news about this girl. Apparently, she isn't what she appears to be. He quickly raised his hand to stop any questions.
"She isn't dangerous at all, Dende insured me. The news he recieved came from King Kai and King Enma. But, before he will tell us more, he wants to speak with the girl first. So, is it safe to move her?"
"Well, we still don't know exactly how much the headwound will effect her, and the-"
"Bulma, you said she was perfectly fine."
"Yes, and that is amazing, considering her crash, but..."
"If there are any futher injuries or complications, I'm sure Dende can deal with them. Now, I will take her to Dende-"
"You can't!" Bulma shrieked (everybody flinched, but ignored her).
Vegeta was also apparently not too pleased with the way things were going, but he was not so easily to ignore. He was very angry, and it seemed like it actually radiated of off him. It kinf of pushed Ariel deeper in her bed. What was going on?
All the people in the room took a stap back, even Bulma. Only the Green Man stood his ground, and looked Vegeta straight in the eyes.
"She is a siayan, which means she is my subject, and so I decide if she's going to Dende!"
Who did he think he was, asked Ariel herself, she had never met somebody that arrogant, and domineering and short-tempered and... Well, she surely didn't like him!
The Green Man just marched to Ariel and reached for her. Ariel didn't really know if this was such a good idea; an unknown green man, with antennas was planning to take her to see some other man she also didn't know. Could she trust him? Any of them?
"Ehm, I would feel much better if you could just tell me what's going on?"
The Green man looked reassuringly at her when he heard her soft question. The poor girl was very disstressed and confused. Still, he thought, she did handle it quite well so far.
"Girl, er... Ariel, everything will be explained when we are at the Lookout." Seeing Ariel confused look, he said: "At Dende's."
"Can I wait for my... I guess you haven't called my parents." Ariel felt really confused inside. What was going on?
The Green Man suddenly rested his hand on her shoulder, and squeezed it softly. Then he stretched his hand out.
While she was thinking about it, Vegeta opened his mouth: "What the hell do you think you're doing! Don't even think about touching her, Namek, or face the consequences!"
That did it. Everything was better than staying with this arrogant maniac with his crazy ideas.
So she grapped the green hand. The Green Man pulled her up with no trouble at all. Ariel tried to stand, but her legs buckled, and she slid to the floor.
Bulma rushed forward, trying to help her, when she suddenly noticed a long, red, fluffy thing, which dragged behind her. She grabbed it and held it up close to examine it. "What is this," she asked. When she looked up at the others, she noticed that Vegeta's eyes were glued to it. She looked to Bulma.
"Well," she said, "it's your tail of course."
"My tail!?!"
A/N: so that was chapter 1. Any questions, remarks, complaints or just some praise ( yes, I do keep fooling myself)? Let me know