Instruments in Tune: Invasion
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Author's Note: Thankyou to all who reviewed..
Some small angst up ahead well not really. Sorry I just feel a little of it myself right now. However, that makes for better writing it adds more to it and makes it more meaning full, I hope.hehe
KEY: ~ Visions
* Thoughts
" Speech
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Chapter 17: Times up.
The passage ways were long damp and dark a place that many if not all would avoid, every stop he took emitted a sound it would then echo through the stone corridors.
Piccolo looked observed the area through then sighed inwardly.
*This is not a place for her she should not be down here* A young girl had no business gallivanting in the tunnels that were dark and depressing even to Piccolo this place would not bring him peace of mind in any instance.
He stopped after a quarter of an hour of searching through the mass of short winding tunnels that seemed to go in circles now before him were the entrances to 4 tunnels, never had he predicted this place being so substantial and could now see why Bongo had chosen it.
*Hmm he might have learned something after all* still standing in the one spot his thoughts drifted away from Isabelle for only a moment his eyes slowly closed.
In his mind another memory flushed back to him, at first it was not clear he could barely made out a form that in the distance then as if he blinked the image cleared itself.
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It was Bongo a young bongo as he remembered him long ago, smiling and happy racing around and through the dead dry leaved and close by sat another form, Isabelle only a little more than a toddler crawling on her hands and knees toward the young Bongo as he ran through the leaves.
They stopped turning to look straight at him, he wondered why as they started motioning with their hands for him to come toward them, ten he heard them.
~ Come on Piccolo. Its will be so much fun. come with us~ Bongo motioned with his small green hand his other hand classing Isabelle's tiny one.
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Piccolo inhaled sharply the vision disappearing as soon as he opened his eyes, he heard a muffling sound coming from the tunnel on the end, and he immediately headed down the dark channel.
After a few feet he could see a light that told him the end was near, he crept silently as he finally came upon the entrance to a niece he stopped glancing down.
Her face still facing the wall away from the entrance Isabelle inhaled her tears clearing her airways at the same time. The light was enough to make her out in the darkness, from a few small crack in the ceiling.
She had not noticed his arrival and continued to muffle tearing into the wall her eyes shut tightening every so often from the sting of her slow tears adding to the agony.
Slowly he approached not wanting to set her off any more he knew she was in a fragile state of mind and could take his intentions the wrong way.
His back of knuckles run gently across her jaw line lingering there for serval seconds he waited for her to react yet she only continued in her current state her knees pulled up against her chest her eyes concealed in them.
After pulling away, she lifted her head, his eyes jolted slightly at the state she was in, her eyes red and swollen in a shallow and depressing frown as she looked up at him.
"You need to tell me, you can't stay like this, you are causing yourself nothing but inner turmoil...... Let me help you" Piccolo held out his hand waiting to see if she would accept.
At first, it seemed she would accept stretching out her slender fingers slowly then recoiled slowly tucking her hand under her folded arms again looking the ground.
Piccolo sighed inwardly little irritated yet he was unwavering he felt her pain and fear in turn his own pain for her.
"I need to know you need to tell me, why are you always crying when I am away." Still irriteded at her refusal to his help he ended up sounding harsher than he had wanted with his statement.
"Who told you?" barely whispering he barely managed to hear her.
"Gohan..... Now tell me why?" he took his lotus position hovering a few feet above the ground.
"I. I don't know I just feel so frightened, and so unsure about everything. I don't know what I want. no I DO know what I want I just don't know if its right and it scares me"
Again, Isabelle started to inhale her sobs trying to damn them behind her eyes, but several overflowed.
Piccolo nodded.
"You are still young with much ahead, you have much to consider in life and perhaps it was wrong. We should have waited until you were ready" he alleged gently and firmly
Isabelle lifted her head up objection plastered in her face.
"NO.. no Piccolo It's not you I was ready its just. I mean its." helplessness gripped her chest and she gave up not wanting to take it any further frustration building.
He watched as she sunk lower again still if she was hoping avoiding this would give him his que to leave he would drop the bombshell the he was not leaving, until he knew.
He reached out his hand again stroking her hair in the same manner as before, he smirked as her breathing returned to normal.
All he saw was her body launch into his wrapping her arms around his waist her face pressed against his abdomen, he stroked her hair slowly some of the strands that hang loose from her conventional thick braid becoming entangle around his fingers.
"I'm afraid you wont come back each time you leave I grieve before hand hearing those words that you didn't make it back would only finish killing me" snuggling closer and tightening her grip she refused to move.
He lifted her tightly clenching arms from his waist and brought her so he could see into her blood shot eyes still holding her forearms.
"You will not, I will return each time I go but I don't want you to do this each time its pointless and wrong. You need to have greater faith in us. In me"
" I know I do have faith in you I'm sorry, im just afraid for you too afraid" they embraced again only Isabelle's cheek wrested against his colossal chest, Piccolos chin resting on her head he stroked her back.
"Everyone out there the others are worried about you" Piccolo lifted to his feet taking Isabelle along setting her on her feet beside him, they started back.
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Krillin, Gohan, Poetry and Cyndel sat cleaning the remaining mess not that it was a lage one from their last dinner.
Krillin sat up his eyes darting to the entrance eyes at the entrance; Gohan also sat up running up to stand beside Krillin.
"Go get Piccolo we need to get out there" Gohan nodded but as he turned Piccolo came to stand beside him Isabelle not far behind.
"Is that his? Is that the one his ki is so strong end painful" feeling the evil in her chest the ki of the evil they all feared was like a disease to her.
Isabelle shook off the sensation to see the fighters leaving swiftly she gasped.
"NO, wait please" she raced after them relived that they stopped.
As he turned Piccolo found her again clasping his waits only this time she leapt up her arms anchoring around the back of his neck he caught her around her wasp waist, she pressed her lips against his firmly and passionately devouring him trying to savour what she could of him.
She pulled away leaving Piccolo slightly stunned her hands reached up cupping his cheeks.
"You come back to me do you hear me" Isabelle said in a firm tone convulsing his face to send her point across.
"I swear" Piccolo swiftly left a kiss on her mouth yet again it was rushed to both to there disconcert.
Krillin and Gohan stared at the pair as their exchanged a moment between them their mouths hanging ajar, then they looked at one another, Gohan smiled then continued on their way as Piccolo joined them.
Moments later they were out of sight the caves grew quite as the ones left behind waited.
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Thankyou all for taking the time to read, please leave a review..I fell unhappy to see that I get a lot of hits but no review ; _ ; ... oh well.
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Author's Note: Thankyou to all who reviewed..
Some small angst up ahead well not really. Sorry I just feel a little of it myself right now. However, that makes for better writing it adds more to it and makes it more meaning full, I hope.hehe
KEY: ~ Visions
* Thoughts
" Speech
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Chapter 17: Times up.
The passage ways were long damp and dark a place that many if not all would avoid, every stop he took emitted a sound it would then echo through the stone corridors.
Piccolo looked observed the area through then sighed inwardly.
*This is not a place for her she should not be down here* A young girl had no business gallivanting in the tunnels that were dark and depressing even to Piccolo this place would not bring him peace of mind in any instance.
He stopped after a quarter of an hour of searching through the mass of short winding tunnels that seemed to go in circles now before him were the entrances to 4 tunnels, never had he predicted this place being so substantial and could now see why Bongo had chosen it.
*Hmm he might have learned something after all* still standing in the one spot his thoughts drifted away from Isabelle for only a moment his eyes slowly closed.
In his mind another memory flushed back to him, at first it was not clear he could barely made out a form that in the distance then as if he blinked the image cleared itself.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was Bongo a young bongo as he remembered him long ago, smiling and happy racing around and through the dead dry leaved and close by sat another form, Isabelle only a little more than a toddler crawling on her hands and knees toward the young Bongo as he ran through the leaves.
They stopped turning to look straight at him, he wondered why as they started motioning with their hands for him to come toward them, ten he heard them.
~ Come on Piccolo. Its will be so much fun. come with us~ Bongo motioned with his small green hand his other hand classing Isabelle's tiny one.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Piccolo inhaled sharply the vision disappearing as soon as he opened his eyes, he heard a muffling sound coming from the tunnel on the end, and he immediately headed down the dark channel.
After a few feet he could see a light that told him the end was near, he crept silently as he finally came upon the entrance to a niece he stopped glancing down.
Her face still facing the wall away from the entrance Isabelle inhaled her tears clearing her airways at the same time. The light was enough to make her out in the darkness, from a few small crack in the ceiling.
She had not noticed his arrival and continued to muffle tearing into the wall her eyes shut tightening every so often from the sting of her slow tears adding to the agony.
Slowly he approached not wanting to set her off any more he knew she was in a fragile state of mind and could take his intentions the wrong way.
His back of knuckles run gently across her jaw line lingering there for serval seconds he waited for her to react yet she only continued in her current state her knees pulled up against her chest her eyes concealed in them.
After pulling away, she lifted her head, his eyes jolted slightly at the state she was in, her eyes red and swollen in a shallow and depressing frown as she looked up at him.
"You need to tell me, you can't stay like this, you are causing yourself nothing but inner turmoil...... Let me help you" Piccolo held out his hand waiting to see if she would accept.
At first, it seemed she would accept stretching out her slender fingers slowly then recoiled slowly tucking her hand under her folded arms again looking the ground.
Piccolo sighed inwardly little irritated yet he was unwavering he felt her pain and fear in turn his own pain for her.
"I need to know you need to tell me, why are you always crying when I am away." Still irriteded at her refusal to his help he ended up sounding harsher than he had wanted with his statement.
"Who told you?" barely whispering he barely managed to hear her.
"Gohan..... Now tell me why?" he took his lotus position hovering a few feet above the ground.
"I. I don't know I just feel so frightened, and so unsure about everything. I don't know what I want. no I DO know what I want I just don't know if its right and it scares me"
Again, Isabelle started to inhale her sobs trying to damn them behind her eyes, but several overflowed.
Piccolo nodded.
"You are still young with much ahead, you have much to consider in life and perhaps it was wrong. We should have waited until you were ready" he alleged gently and firmly
Isabelle lifted her head up objection plastered in her face.
"NO.. no Piccolo It's not you I was ready its just. I mean its." helplessness gripped her chest and she gave up not wanting to take it any further frustration building.
He watched as she sunk lower again still if she was hoping avoiding this would give him his que to leave he would drop the bombshell the he was not leaving, until he knew.
He reached out his hand again stroking her hair in the same manner as before, he smirked as her breathing returned to normal.
All he saw was her body launch into his wrapping her arms around his waist her face pressed against his abdomen, he stroked her hair slowly some of the strands that hang loose from her conventional thick braid becoming entangle around his fingers.
"I'm afraid you wont come back each time you leave I grieve before hand hearing those words that you didn't make it back would only finish killing me" snuggling closer and tightening her grip she refused to move.
He lifted her tightly clenching arms from his waist and brought her so he could see into her blood shot eyes still holding her forearms.
"You will not, I will return each time I go but I don't want you to do this each time its pointless and wrong. You need to have greater faith in us. In me"
" I know I do have faith in you I'm sorry, im just afraid for you too afraid" they embraced again only Isabelle's cheek wrested against his colossal chest, Piccolos chin resting on her head he stroked her back.
"Everyone out there the others are worried about you" Piccolo lifted to his feet taking Isabelle along setting her on her feet beside him, they started back.
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Krillin, Gohan, Poetry and Cyndel sat cleaning the remaining mess not that it was a lage one from their last dinner.
Krillin sat up his eyes darting to the entrance eyes at the entrance; Gohan also sat up running up to stand beside Krillin.
"Go get Piccolo we need to get out there" Gohan nodded but as he turned Piccolo came to stand beside him Isabelle not far behind.
"Is that his? Is that the one his ki is so strong end painful" feeling the evil in her chest the ki of the evil they all feared was like a disease to her.
Isabelle shook off the sensation to see the fighters leaving swiftly she gasped.
"NO, wait please" she raced after them relived that they stopped.
As he turned Piccolo found her again clasping his waits only this time she leapt up her arms anchoring around the back of his neck he caught her around her wasp waist, she pressed her lips against his firmly and passionately devouring him trying to savour what she could of him.
She pulled away leaving Piccolo slightly stunned her hands reached up cupping his cheeks.
"You come back to me do you hear me" Isabelle said in a firm tone convulsing his face to send her point across.
"I swear" Piccolo swiftly left a kiss on her mouth yet again it was rushed to both to there disconcert.
Krillin and Gohan stared at the pair as their exchanged a moment between them their mouths hanging ajar, then they looked at one another, Gohan smiled then continued on their way as Piccolo joined them.
Moments later they were out of sight the caves grew quite as the ones left behind waited.
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Thankyou all for taking the time to read, please leave a review..I fell unhappy to see that I get a lot of hits but no review ; _ ; ... oh well.
