"Kakarot," I gave him the dragonball radar, "Find a ki close to one of the dragonballs and transport us there."

"Okay." Kakarot looked at the radar and then closed his eyes, searching for a ki.

"Hey… is it just me or is the roof a little hot?" Trunks asked, shifting his feet around.

"Yeah… it is…" Goten agreed, using his ki to lift himself up a few inches off the roof.

"Why aren't you two wearing any shoes?" I growled.

"I forgot mine in the rush up here…" Trunks said.

Goten nodded. "Me too."

"Kami damn it… I'll go get your shoes. Hang on a minute. I'll be right back." I walked back over to the side of the roof, muttering a few choice curses under my breath as I swung over the side and in the window. A raging inferno greeted my eyes as smoke blew in my face. I coughed and spluttered, turning around and reaching blindly for the window my only route out of the burning building. With more then a little luck, I managed to crawl back onto the roof, gasping for the cleaner air that was located there.

"Shit! Are you okay Bo?" Mike exclaimed, dashing to my side and helping me up.

"Something's burning!" Kakarot's eyes snapped open as he sniffed the air.

"No shit! The house is burning down!" I snarled, "Get us the hell out of here!"

"My stuff!" Zar howled.

"My poor computer…" I felt a tear form in my eye. "Damn you Rogue… That's a little too good of a distraction…"

Vegeta slammed a hand down on Kakarot's shoulder, gripping it hard. "Get us out of here. Now!" he barked. Mike grabbed my hand and dragged me over to Kakarot so he could hold onto the Saiyan's other shoulder. Zar seized my other hand and Trunks' as Goten clutched his demi-Saiyan friend's hand.

"Everyone ready?" Kakarot asked, stuffing the dragonball radar in the backpack Mike was carrying.

"Leave already!" I screamed as I the roof began to catch on fire, the flames advancing toward us.

"I'm too young to die…" Mike whimpered as Kakarot put his fingers to his forehead and his brow furrowed.

The roof and flames suddenly faded from view and for a few moments, the group floated in a black nothingness with all their senses cut off. Then their feet touched down on a surface and they were surrounded by a dark green and black blur. Slowly, a quiet, large forest came into focus along with a cave mouth just a few steps away from them. A startled hiker looked at them then turned around and ran the other way.

I let go of Zar and Mike's hands and then opened up the backpack, pulling out the radar. "Now where is the little bugger?" I murmured, studying the screen. I turned to face the cave. "Oh God damn it!" I growled.

"What's wrong?" Mike asked, peeking over my shoulder at the radar's display. "Is it in the cave?"

"Yes and I hate the dark…" I shivered. There was something about the night that scared me. Maybe it was the fact that I was not able to see anything, maybe it was because I had seen one to many horror movies but most likely, the reason was that the dark represented to me the unknown and we humans tend to fear what we do not know and understand.

Vegeta laughed at my fear. "Foolish girl, afraid of the stupidest things. We Saiyans are naturally equipped with superior night vision. Night is nothing to me and there's nothing in a cave that could possibly be a threat to me. " He took the radar out of my hands and then strode into the cave, his arrogant nature leaking from every pore. The rest of us stood and waited for him to return.

After a few moments, he walked back out. He looked pale and a little shaken. "Vegeta, is something wrong?" Kakarot asked.

"No! Nothing is wrong!" he growled and stormed back into the cave.

"What do you think is in there?" I asked Mike.

"I don't know…" he shrugged.

Suddenly, we heard a shrill scream ensue from the cave and Vegeta came running out, his face panicked. Following him was a large, black cloud.

I backed up a few steps. "What the-"

"Bats!" Vegeta cried out, dashing to the group, "Keep them away!"

"Cool!" Trunks yelled.

"Are they vampire bats?" Zar asked, jumping up and trying to grab one. "If I catch one, can I keep it, Bo?"

"Certainly not! Don't even touch them! Do you know how dirty those things are?" I growled.

After a few minutes of much confusion and yelling, the bats finally all flew out of the cave and away into the dark night sky. I turned to the Saiyan Prince who was running his hands through his hair, muttering about bats and messing up his hair. He had dropped the radar on the ground in his haste. "And someone was saying something earlier about foolish fears?"

"Shut up, bitch," Vegeta kicked the radar over to me, "You go in there and get the stupid thing!"

"Fine! I will!" I growled pushing my fear to the back of my mind. I picked up the radar and stomped into the cave (though a bit of the way in my stomping turned to squishing). There was bat guano covering the floor and it was heaped up in piles in some areas. I groaned. "Disgusting…" I used the radar as a guide as I ventured deeper into the cave. Only by its faint glow could I see where I was going.

Finally, I stopped in front of a particularly tall pile of bat guano. "You gotta be shittin' me!" I screamed.

"Bo, you having any problems?" Mike called out from the cave's entrance.

"Yeah, I am! I'll be out in a minute!" I yelled back. I turned to the pile once more. I set the radar down on a bare patch of dirt, the only one around, and hissed at the pile of guano, "Okay, shit! I'll get that dragonball out of you if it's the last thing I do!"

I whipped off my jacket and put it on backwards so that the back was protecting my front but my arms were still in the sleeves. I grabbed the ends and bunched them up in my fists so that nothing could get through the hand holes. I exclaimed, "I am prepared!" Turning back to the pile for the last time, I laughed and dove in, digging for the hidden dragonball.

Within a minute of furious searching, I had found the shiny little object and wiped it clean on my jacket. "Hah! Take that, shit! I defeated you!" I kicked the pile of guano and instantly regretted it. The bat shit now covered half of my leg. I groaned in disgust as I peeled off the jacket and left it for dead, draped over the pile of guano. I picked the radar and holding that in one hand and the dragonball in the other, exited the cave.

"Get it?" Kakarot asked as I emerged from the cave.

"Yeah, but it was hidden in a pile of bat guano so I'm wanting to wash it off along with my hands," I answered.

"I hear a stream from over here," Mike offered.

"Lead me to it!"

The stream was fast running and soon both my hands and the dragonball were clean and as fresh as a daisy on a sunny summer day. "What's bat guano?" Trunks asked as I dried off my hands on my pants, the parts that were smeared with guano.

I dropped the dragonball in Mike's backpack. "Bat shit." Vegeta and the chibis burst into laughter. "So you think that's funny?" I growled at them.

"Hilarious!" Vegeta smirked.

"Laugh at this!" I snarled, cupping my hand and scraping a handful of guano off my pants and hurling at the Saiyan. Caught by surprise, the nasty treat hit him in the face, splatting on his forehead and in his hair. His face was blank for a moment and then it contorted into a look of hate. "I'm going to rip off all of your limbs!" he yelled in rage.

"Just wash it off, Vegeta. But then again, you look better with it on. It covers that huge ass widow's peak of yours." I stuck my tongue out at the angry Saiyan.

"Little bitch!" He launched himself at me but Kakarot intercepted him.

"C'mon Vegeta. You've been being mean to her. It's only fair," Kakarot said, trying to calm down the Saiyan who was snarling and struggling in Kakarot's strong grip.

Vegeta's vein pulsed and throbbed as he took a deep breath and relaxed. In a voice that said he was far from calm, he answered, "All right. I won't kill her." Kakarot smiled and let him go. Vegeta turned to glare at me. "This time."

"Oooo… I'm so scared!" I mocked him, as I knelt by the stream again to wash my hands.

After both Vegeta and I had cleaned up, we got the group together again and Kakarot once more searched for a ki closest to the nearest dragonball. "Hmmm… that's odd…" he murmured.

"What's odd, daddy?" Goten asked.

"There's no one really close to the dragonball… Ah! Found someone." The forest faded quickly from view and again we were floating in the black nothingness that deprived us of all senses.

The scenery that we arrived at this time was a beach with the vast, blue ocean spreading out before us. The sun was just rising and a group of surfers were heading toward the ocean, obviously trying to beat the crowd that would appear later. One of the surfers had stopped behind his buddies though and was staring at us. "Dude…" he murmured with wide eyes.

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Jeril: Just two or three more chaps left… *sniffles* I don't know how I'm going to live without this. *lol* It'll be weird after having to write this for over a year, no longer having to worry about updating it. *sigh*

Vegeta: That's very sad and pathetic. I have three words of advice for you, human. Get. A. Life.

Jeril: So says the man who spends all of his free time training?

Kakarot: She's got a point Vegeta…

Vegeta: Kakarot, shut up! *blasts Kakarot*

Jeril: *ignores the Saiyans* School's almost out for me!! I just have to wait till the fourth… and then nine days until my birthday!! Woohoo!! ^_^ Maybe I should put the last chap up on my birthday… that'd be pretty spiffy! ^_^ I think I will! So, everyone look on the 13th of June for the last chapter!!