So The Say; Dirait-on
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Chapter Two
The day started its glimmering end like it had always down in the past as the sun dipped down towards the western hemisphere, allowing the dark night to slowly take over the sky. There few late day seagulls soaring over the darkening ocean, may of which were settling down upon the beach of island or even further away on some other beach in which cliffs overlooked the whispering water. The wind had died down to a certain degree, the waves lapping more gently against the yellow sand as it washed it away to another part of the Earth. Everything was calming down for the night, winding from the hectic day that had passed almost uneventfully.
Tien stood at the window that overlooked the ocean, his three eyes unblinkingly staring at the watery horizon without much thought to anything in particular. He had been standing there for the last hour or so, ignoring all that had moved around him with the words that were spoken not even hindering him as he stared out into the open wilderness of sea life. He even ignored Chaotzu, who had bandaged the woman's cuts up after he had washed them gently, all the while pushing Roshi and Oolong away from her. She had fallen fast asleep on the couch, snuggling deep under a blanket that Roshi himself had placed over her but oh so delicately. He knew that was probably the closest he, Oolong or anyone else would be able to get to her without anyone else swatting them away. Chaotzu made sure of that no matter what since he knew how the two could easily get a hold of her, or any other woman for that matter., without anyone really noticing.
He seemingly didn't care anymore about the girl that laid fast asleep just a few feet away, yet he wondered about her still. There were few, if any at all, beings on the planet and beyond its atmosphere that could survive under rocks that heavy, but she still managed to do it somehow. How, he had thought several times in the last hour or so, she did was something he would have to find out eventually from her. In fact, there were several other questions that he wanted to ask, however that would have to wait until another time for those certain questions to be asked. Perhaps in a couple of days she would be well enough to stand up to him without much incident.
"Tien?" Chaotzu asked innocently. Tien jumped slightly from his daydream, unaware that his friend had come up next to him on his right.
"Yes?" He asked back, quickly glancing down at Chaotzu before looking back outside the window.
"Are you sure that she was in a bad state when you found her? She doesn't look like it."
"I know she doesn't, Chaotzu. I don't know understand it either, but we will find it out eventually," He mused quietly, turning his full attention to the small being with wonder in his eyes. "Do you doubt me about this?"
"No, it is just that," Chaotzu paused for a moment before going on, "it doesn't seem.....natural that she would survive something like that. There are few people who could do that."
"You would be surprised at what some people can live through," Tien mused, looking thoughtful. His mind wandered onto several people that he knew as a small smile came upon his lips before that vanished just as quickly as it had come. "Yet, I am also questioning that too."
"Who do you think she is?"
"I don't know." Tien shook his head on that question. "Everything is different when we don't know what is going on or know who we are dealing with. It is these times I wonder if everything we do is just a dream that we can't get out of."
"Maybe it is," Oolong mused wistfully from his position in front of the TV. The two looked towards the pig who had his eyes glued to the TV as a trio of bikini-clad women ran down a beach filled with people. Roshi was no where to be found, which was odd that he would not be right next to Oolong, drooling over what little the women were wearing. Then again, things hadn't been the same since Cell had been defeated, so there was no telling what could happen.
Chaotzu remained quiet after that, his mouth opening once before it closed right back up again without any verbal words being spoken. He moved his eyes towards the window, blinking at the fading light that would eventually turn into the darkness of the night. Tien watched his friend for several moments before he, too, turned his attention back outside the window without any words coming from him either. Both remained silent together, watching the sunset dip into the watery horizon that would come back up with the morning light. They each entered their own world where nothing would go wrong, muttering a few wandering ideas from their closed lips yet neither commented on them, verbally or telepathically. It seemed as though they had their thoughts links to a point where they didn't need to utter a single word so that no one could hear them use things that they did not need to hear.
"Why did you get her from there?" Chaotzu asked an hour later after the sun had disappeared from plain view. Roshi came from his hiding place from somewhere inside the house, turning on the lights around the living room as he muttered something on his observation about the two that stood at the window. They did not know if he or Oolong had done anything or tried to do something to the girl on the couch and, despite how hard they had kept them from attempting something in the past, they didn't care at the moment. She was probably still asleep now, so as long as neither pervert tried anything more then simple touching, there was no harm done to anyone.
"I don't know. Maybe once I find that out for myself, I can answer that question for you. Ask me again another point in time," Tien said after a few moments of thought, two of his eyes closing as he took in a deep breath.
Chaotzu nodded to that, re-entering his own world without anything else being said.
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Things could change in an instant that no one could be prepared for. She knew it to be true for the most part of her life, especially since she had lived day to day without any preparation of any kind to rid her of the mindless dribble she had to encounter with every step that she took. Even now, as she laid restless on a soft couch in the middle of nowhere, she couldn't be sure as to what she had to do in order to get out of it. Even so, there was a certain taste to it that she liked, however unfamiliar it was to it.
Yet, things had happened so fast that she didn't know what or why it had happened to her. All she remembered of the predicament that got her to where she was now that she had reached down to picked up the orange orb that she had found along the cliff before darkness had engulfed her. She had tried to find the light that she had once been in, however those attempts became futile as it seemed to become even darker then before. she saw the same orb that she had tried to get prior to being placed in total darkness, but even that was out of reach of her delicate fingertips. Her cries went unnoticed for who knows how long, being drowned out by the crashing waves against solid rock.
She didn't know how bad she was hurt because of the darkness, yet that was the least of her worries at the moment. There was no telling how long the darkness had consumed her until the orb had disappeared altogether from her reach and her view. A few rays of light came in as she shut her emerald eyes to keep the blinding force from hurting her even further then she already was. It was even then that she felt her body being lifted out from underneath the rubble, a fleeting hope that Death had finally come to claim her. Perhaps then she could be free of the cursed life she led in which she longed to end in a way that she never tried to do before. that was not the case when she opened her eyes to see a set of three eyes staring down at her, unblinking and void of any wandering emotions. She found no fear inside of her when she smiled weakly at him and said that word that she knew would damn her for the rest of her life.
Dirait-on.
The first and only word that she had spoken to him then before she blacked out into hell once again. What did it mean? Why did she say it if she didn't even know the meaning behind it? It was all a mystery to her until she found out for herself and for others that wanted to know as well. Until such time, she couldn't answer any questions that would be directed towards her as she didn't know the answers to them. Perhaps, even then, the answers would come on their own, shedding light on a mystery that she knew no one wanted to solve.
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The night went slowly on just as the day had gone by swiftly the darkness not fading until the light came up from the Eastern horizon of the coast. The gentle laps of the waves lulling against the shores would allow many people to fall asleep fast into a state of pure happiness that would break them from the sounds of their hectic lives. There were even others still, however, that found the sound equally disturbing, their ears being filled with the sound of water rushing up against the sand as they attempted to ignore it. There sleepless nights would be filled with tossing and turning that would eventually end up as muttering about the lack of sleep he or she would get because of the loud crashing of water against Earth.
Tien was one of those few people as he sat on the beach near the water, his knees up against his chest with his arms wrapped around them. He hadn't been there long; no more then ten minutes had passed since he had been sitting there, staring at the stars above. He could make out several of the constellations that the faraway fireballs of light created, almost turning to his right side several times to show Chaotzu these wonders. It was then that he would remember that he was alone in the night, returning his gaze back up towards the night sky a few moments later.
He felt alone now, more so then he had in the past night and days that had gone without much as a single worry or hint of trouble. That was not saying that he was entirely alone; not at all. He had Chaotzu with him fro the most part, accompanying him on adventures to other places and training spots in the distant mountains. Roshi and Oolong were always there whenever he needed them to be there despite the face that would much rather be in front of the TV, drooling over half-naked women that all knew they would never get. They were just friends to be with; companions for journeys that he knew he could do alone. Perhaps he needed someone else with him to enjoy life with. Someone that didn't care who he was or why he was there. Just a person to understand what it was like to be alone in a world that didn't want them there in the first place.
"Which constellation is that?" A small voice whispered softly from his right side. Tien nearly jumped to his feet in surprise, his eyes quickly moving over towards the origin of the voice. Sitting next to him in the sand was Chaotzu, who was staring absently up at the blazing stars as well. He wasn't pointing at anything in the night sky as his hands were at his sides, allowing his friend to guess which cluster of stars he was talking about.
"Which one do you want to know the name of?" Tien asked calmly after overcoming the slight shock of finding someone sitting next to him. Chaotzu didn't seem to notice the small surprise that was left in his voice as he pointed to a random group of stars above.
"That one. What is it?" He answered as Tien moved his eyes towards the place he was pointing to. In the mists of stars above, there was a single pattern of stars that curved ever so slightly, creating a small snake-like pattern. At the end of one side, there was a small cluster of starts that seemingly created the head of the constellation.
"I suppose that's Draco, the dragon. I can't be sure, though."
"What is it called that? It doesn't look like a dragon."
"I guess everyone sees it differently, I suppose. I don't know why exactly it is there or why the ancient beings of the past saw it as a dragon." He moved his eyes slightly to the side to get a look at the other's pale face. "I am surprised you can't remember these things, Chaotzu. We've spent many nights just staring at the stars and seeing the different patterns in the sky."
"There are too many to remember," Chaotzu said lightly, smiling just a bit as he placed his hand back onto the unusually warm sand. "I don't sit out here a lot anymore like you do."
Tien didn't say anything as he dropped his gaze to the glassy water of the ocean. The words of his friend were all too true; he did spend too much time outside, watching the stars twinkle in the sky at night or just the waves during the day. Maybe it was too much time being spent alone on the beach, doing nothing but staring out into nothingness. Yet, he found it to be relaxing to listen to the waves and allowing himself to release his thoughts into the wind.
"Why aren't you asleep?" Chaotzu mused thoughtfully, his eyes moving over to his friend as his smile disappeared from his lips.
"Just thinking about what happened, that's all," Tien answered half truthfully.
"About the girl?"
"No. Mostly about what had happened with Cell and Androids."
"Oh," The small being sighed, biting his lower lip. "Do you think everything would have been different if Trunks hadn't come back in the past to tell us what was going to happen?"
"It probably would have been just like he said it was going to happen, but then again, we don't know. We don't know if what he lived through in the future was true or not. I am just glad that we don't have to find that out."
There was another moment of silence between the two as they went deep into their own thoughts. What would have happened if Trunks hadn't come from the future to help those in the past? Would it be as destructive because of the Androids as he said it was? Or was Time changed because of his traveling back into the past? Trunks himself had even admitted a few times during the battles that things had changed due to the fact that he had changed history, so what made him so sure that everything that had happened in his future was going to happen in their future? No matter what would have happened, everyone was just glad that no one had to find out if he had been wrong or not even if things weren't always mentioned.
"I suppose we have to make our own future in order for it to work. We can't rely on those from our past, present, or future to make it happen," Tien continued after the silence had started to irritate him so. He knew those words were true for everyone, but he had to accept what had happened in the past as something that could not be changed. Even if the technology existed to go back in Time to fix it.
Chaotzu nodded his agreement, closing his eyes to allow the waves of the ocean to lull him to sleep.
To Be Continued
