A/N: YAY!!!! I gots a review!!!!!! Thank you SO much ChibiMirai aka
Silenced. ^_^;; Well, I really enjoyed writing the last chapter, and I
know that the first two were really quite boring and I kinda dragged them
out... Well, I hope you all like the upcoming chapters and please R&R!!!!!
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It had been quite a day, Terra mused as she lay in
bed that night, hands behind her head. Moonlight (I know, Piccolo destroyed
the moon real early on, but for this story's purpose, I'm gonna have a
moon.) streamed in through the open window of the room she had been allowed
to stay in at Capsule Corp. Even after hours of laying awake in silence,
the young girl still couldn't understand why Bulma would take the risk
of letting some strange girl who claimed that she used to dimension hop
stay in her home, especially since she had a kid. Of course, Trunks obviously
wasn't just a normal kid, Terra thought with a small smile. No one had
said anything about the boy's strange- what did they call it again? Ki?
Well, she would continue to call it energy- energy patterns. They had to
know, after all, they had picked up on her energies immediately.
It was odd, she thought lightly, she felt a strange
kinship with the lavender haired kid. She felt as if she needed to protect
him from something that was coming... But exactly what that something was,
she had no idea. Shrugging it off, however, she brought her musings to
a more serious and potentially more dangerous subject- letting the Z-Senshi
know what she was. Glancing to her left, she realized that she had little
more than a week to figure something out before the full moon rose and
her secret would be revealed, whether or not she wanted it to be. Muling
over her choices, Terra watched the entrancing patterns the moonlight played
across her tempoary bedroom's floor. 1. She could tell them what she was,
taking the chance that they would either kill her when they found out or
send her to some weird labratory. 2. She could not tell them, and just
run away and try to punch a hole through the dimensions and catch a wave
home.
Terra frowned. She knew that if she ran away now,
there was no way she'd ever be able to return to her home dimension, and
Bulma had earlier informed her that it would take quite some time for the
scientist to make the device that Terra had told her about.
With a sigh, Terra rolled over, thinking that she
would wait until morning to make any big decisions....
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~Terra's Dream~
There were glaring, sneering faces all around.... She was in a dark
alley and the moon was full above her. She could feel the fire in her veins
as she tried not to change... Laughing, sneering voices taunted her, and
suddenly, a fire sprang up at her feet. Terra gasped and took a step back,
deathly afraid of the twisting, leaping thing before her. In the darkness,
she saw a glint of silver and a knife flew at her. She dodged as best she
could in the cramped space, but nonetheless felt the cold, hard bite of
steel as the blade ripped through her sleeve and sliced open her arm. She
snarled involuntarily, and knew that her green eyes were flickering quickly
to gold, then back again. She shuddered as a beam of moonlight washed over
her, filling her with a hot, churning feeling in her stomach. A portal
suddenly opened behind her and she knew immediately what she would find
on the other side. She didn't want to go... but the fire flared up in front
of her, threatening to engulf the young girl in flames. She let out another
snarl and lept backwards into the swirling portal.....
The first thing she heard was an alarm.... Her eyelids
felt heavy, and all she wanted to do was sleep longer... She grunted a
little and rolled over. Suddenly, her eyes snapped open as a searing heat
hit her face. She yelped in surprise and lept from the bed, which was currently
engulfed in flames. "Shit..." She muttered, knowing very well what had
happened, and equally, how hard this was going to be to explain. Reaching
over, she yanked the sheets off the mattress and let them fall into a burning
heap on the floor. Grabbing the object nearest her, a boot, she began to
beat the flames down.
Soon, the fire was extinguised, the only signs that
it had ever been there were a very tattered blanket and a scorched bed.
Terra sighed. This was going to be a toughie to explain.
The door suddenly burst open and Bulma and Trunks
came running in, Bulma in her nightgown and holding a firextinguisher.
Bulma looked like a ghost as she dropped the fireextinguisher and her eyes
fell on the smouldering pile of blankets. "What...?" She started, but Trunks
interupted her as the scene before him met his eyes. "Cool!" He exclaimed,
running forward and examining the ruined blankets. Terra looked on from
the floor where she was sitting on her knees.
"Terra, what happened?" Bulma managed. Hundreds
of different lies of wild stories raced through her mind, but she discarded
them all. Well, almost all. "The bed spontaniously combusted?" She tried
tentively. Bulma looked her over, and Terra knew that the older woman obviously
hadn't bought her cheap lie, but she wasn't going to pry. The red-head
was only glad that she had woken up as soon as she did, othrewise she might've
made the entire bed explode.
A loud banging outside her doorway maed Terra look
up as Vegeta entered the room, looking far grumpier than usual. "Onna,
what the hell is all that noise about?!" He snarled. Bulma scowled at the
word 'onna' and glared levely at Vegeta.
"It was the fire alarm, Vegeta. And don't take that
tone with me or you'll be sleeping on the couch for a week!" Bulma exclaimed.
Terra couldn't help but admire the way Bulma could manipulate Vegeta to
her tastes when no one else could.
Vegeta turned his patented Death-Glare on Terra
who fully returned the look. Letting out a snort of anger, Prince Vegetable
turned and left the room. Trunks got up and walked to the door, looking
back at Terra before he left. "Hey, wanna train with me tomorrow?" He asked,
expresion hopeful. Terra grinned. "Sure!" She exclaimed, then watched as
the boy's face lit up and he bounced excitedly down the hall and to his
room. Bulma shook her head.
"Be careful if you do train with him," She warned,
tone serious. "he's a lot stronger than he looks. Don't underestimate him
just because he's a little boy." Terra smirked. If only she knew...
The blue-haired woman stood, and stated to leave,
but paused and pointed to the closet. "There's an extra blanket in there
that you can use. Sleep well." With that, she was gone. Terra sighed. Not
exactly the best way to gain their trust, she scolded herself, pulling
the extra quilt from the closet and sliding back into bed. For the second
time that night, she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
A/N: K, that's all for now! Sorry I haven't updated in so long, but
I surprisingly discovered that I have a life beyond that of that internet...
weird, ain't it? Well, I've decided that unless I get some reviews, I'm
not gonna write anymore to this story. : p So there. R&R if you want
to read more!