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Last time: The Siayan Rehmon arrived on earth after being born to parents who had been living on Namek. He went Super Saiayn, and he had an affro. Vegeta got mad, and made fun of him, and now Rehmon wants to get the dragonballs to wish away his affro, kill Vegeta, and destroy the planet. rehmon found one dragonball, and Gohan and Vegeta found one. The Dragon radar was broken, so Gohan and Vegeta are going to leave this morning to try and find them the old fashioned way. rehmon was bit by some anggry bats. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
Chapter 2
It was the morning Gohan and Vegeta were scheduled to leave. Vegeta had everything packed, as Well as Gohan. They were ready to leave, but Bulma didn't want them to. She was being very clingy. "Make sure you packed underwear." She kept saying between sobs. "I can't beleive your leaving your poor old wife and son to live by themselves for who knows how long." Bulma was trying the guilt trip on Vegeta, and, it was working wonders. Vegeta had a little backpack full of clothes and stuff was all. It was VERY small. Gohan did too. "Stop making me feel so bad." Said Vegeta. "You know it has to be done." Bulma sat trunks down on the bed and began putting socks and shoes on him. "What are you doing?" Vegeta asked. "Whewre are you two going? Out to the courtyard?" Bulma shook her head. "We're coming with daddy, right trunks? He can't get rid of us that easy." Vegeta jumoed up. "NO, YOU ARE NOT COMING WITH 'DADDY'! YOUR GOING TO STAY HOME, GOT IT? Bulma shook her head. "We're not changing our mind. You can't make us." Vegeta ripped out a chunk of hair. Sometimes he wished he had never met her. "You'll get HURT, or KILLED, or sick!" He ripped the socks off Trunks feet. Gohan stood in the corner through all this. Bulma started putting them back on. "This will be a great bonding experiance." Vegeta slapped his head. "Your not coming, got it?" They continued arguing for two hours, and Vegeta compromised. "Alright." He said. "YOU can come. NOT our son. Babys need all that milk and stuff, and we can't get that." Bulma looked at Trunks. Vegeta thought he had won. He knew she woulden't go anywhere without her baby. "I'll leave him with Chi Chi." Bulma said. "She has that new baby, but who cares how much stress she's under? So how about that?" She pulled the socks off Trunks' feet. Vegeta nodded. "S' fine." He really didn't want HER to come. "I'm going to miss Trunks though! What if he forgets aboiut us, Vegeta? What then? He won't like us anymore." Vegeta snorted. "He already cries every time I try and hold him." Gohan snickered. "All I packed was 3 cans of Vienna Sausages. They're good." Vegeta said. "And for drink, we can drink the juice of it!" He likced his lips, while Bulma made a face. "I am not drinking Vienna sausage juice for my drinks." Bulma said. But she knew what Vegeta said Vegeta did so she left it at that. Vegeta packed his stuff and Bulma's stuff in the same small bag. They weren't going to take that much. He packed their two cell phones though in case he and Bulma got seperated. "Are you ready?" Bulma asked. Gohan and Vegeta nodded. "Let me take Trunks over to Chi Chi's." She picked him up. "I wanna go to." vegeta said. Gohan, you stay here." Gohan nodded.
" I know your poor, Chi Chi, but you can buy eveything for Trunks anyway." Chi Chi looked very mad. "Your so rude!" She said. "I am very poor, have a baby of my own, and live all by myself with no income and your making me take care of your child! I outta sue the pants off you." Vegeta pulled out 5,000 zeni. "Here's 5,000. When you run out, call us and we'll send you more. But if you spend the money on man whores and such, I'll blow your head off." Chi Chi gulped. "Bye Trunks!" Bulma said, in tears. "We'll miss you so much!!" She hugged him so hard his eyes bugged. "If we're in the area, we will come and visit you! Oh, how I hate leaving you like this!" She covered Trunks in kisses. "Stop it!" Vegeta said. "Your DROWNING THE BABY." Bulma backed up but she was still crying. Vegeta patted Trunks on the back. "Hang in there, son. I heard Chi Chi snores, but I think you can take it. Your tough. Seeya soon." Trunks cried when Vegeta touched him, so Vegeta went back outside. "Bye Trunks." he said one last time. Bulma drew out the goodbye as long as possible.
"I'm going to miss Trunks so much." Said Bulma as they were flying. She was on Vegeta's back and Gohan was flying a few feet behind. Vegeta nodded. "I'm sure you are, but you don't have to rub it in all the time." He needed to pee. "I really need to take a P*ss." He said. "We are going to have to land or something, because I'm sorry, but I really do." Bulma sighed. "Fine, that's okay, but hurry up." Vegeta and Gohan landed and let Bulma down. Vegeta went behind a bush and went to the bathroom. A few fishermen who were nearby were laughing. "ITS NOT LIKE YOU DON'T PEE TOO!" Bulma said. But they hadn't been laughing at Vegeta, so they looked at her funny. Vegeta was blushing behind the bush. He came out and pulled up his pants. "Bulma!" he said. "Your so stupid!" Bulma was also blushing. "I have to go too." Bulma said. She went to go behind the bush. "That's poison ivy." She said, pointing to the bush. "You just went pee in Poisen Ivy." Vegeta's eyes got big. He was going to have a big case of Poison Ivy in the most unpleasant place! He put Bulma on his back and they flew away. Gohan had to fly fast to keep up. Vegeta was already digging at his inner thighs. "Stop that!" Bulma said. "You need some calamine lotion." She handed him a pink bottle. He snorted. "I am not applying lotion 'down there'. I can cope with it." he grinned. Bulma thought about something. "Hey Vegeta, it'd be better if we traveled on foot so we can see the Dragon balls." Vegeta nodded. "I know, I know. But I thought we could start at the Northern Mountains because of the high elevation." Bulma nodded. The northern Mountains were about a 30 ,minute flight away.
"Here we are." Said Gohan. Vegeta was itching so bad he was dancing. "Oh god!" He said. "Oh god!" He danced and danced and danced. Bulma was rolling with laughter. They landed, and Vegeta layed down on the ground. He rolled up his pants. The poison ivy was all the way down his legs. He handed the pink bottle to Bulma. "Put some on my legs!" He said. "HURRY!" so she did. It didn't help much. There were blisters from H*ll on them. "Yucky." She said. "No more fun for a while." Vegeta giggled and rolled on his tummy and watched a line of ants in front of him. "This is going to be the most boring search ever." Gohan was looking for the Dragonballs already. "I want to go home as soon as possible." He kept saying. Vegeta opened up the little back pack and took out a pocket knife. He started sawing branches off a tree. "What are you doing?" Bulma asked. "We forgot the tent." Vegeta said. "I'm going to prop up branches to make a tent so we can sleep." Bulma nodded. "I think I'll go to the river over there." She pointed to a mountain-top river a couple yards away. "Okay." Vegeta said. Bulma went over and started messing with the smooth rocks. There were fish swimming around. "I wonder what they eat." Bulma said to herself. It was hard for bugs to live in high altitudes like this. Then she notcied green algae on the rocks. "Ew! Anyone who ate these fish would seriously crawl with disease." Gohan flew over and took a look. "Hey your right! I wanna die right now, let's catch us some fish." Bulma made a face and covered the top of her eyes as she looked up at the top of the mountains. "Mountain Lions might live here." She said. "I hope we don't run into one." Gohan nodded. "Bears too. This is probley what they eat, so I don't think we should sleep by here tonight." Bulma shrugged. "Vegeta and you could fight off a bear." But Gohan wasn't so sure. An he also didn't want to sleep in Vegeta's tent, which looked like crap.
Rehmon was flying around and wondering what to do. He didn't have a Dragonradar, and he only had one Dragonball. He wasn't sure if Vegeta and Gohan had one. But he didn't care. He could feel their ki somewhere in the Northern Mountains, but he was wondering if he should mess with them or not. He didn't have any reason to, so it woudlen't be smart. But then he thought of something. What if Vegeta had gotten his wife to make another one! He put 2 and 2 togather quickly. He probley HAD made her make another, so now he had a chance to have one! He flew in the direction of northern MOuntains after hiding his ki.
Vegeta reached into the bag for the first can of Vienna sausage. He had to feel around for a while. He didn't feel thim, but he did feel a strange wetness."Probley Sweat." he said to himself. But after feeling around for a while and not finding them, he handed them to Bulma. "I can't find the food." he said. "You find it." Bulma had been whittling a figure out of wood. She was good at whittling. She made a B*tchy ciomment and looked in the bag. "It should be right in front of your face, Vegeta.....you have to start dfoing things for yourself....I won't be around forever." She felt the strange wetness in the bag. "Geez! Did someone P*ss in here? It's wet and it smells." She said, then she pulled out the first can her hand found. It was weird and looked SWOLLEN. "AH!" Bulma said. "Look Vegeta, it's BIG!" Vegeta looked at it. "Why is it big like that?" he said. Gohan ran over and poked it. It exploded all over him. "AGH!" He said, and he jumped in the river. "I wonder why it exploded like that." Bulma said. "Maybe it was poisened inside." Vegeta rolled his eyes. He was the Agent Scully in the situation. "I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explaination. It was probley the altitude. One time I was flying with a juice box, and it blew up in my face." Bulma nodded. There was smashed up weiners in the bag. "The others exploded!" Bulma said. She picked a few of them up. "And they went bad!" Vegeta's eyes got big. "MY WEINER IS CRUSHED!" Bulma laughed. "Your sickening!" Vegeta said. "Don't you see the severity of the situation??? We have NO FOOD!" Bulma's bright face darkened. "Oh no, Vegeta! And I'm ravenously hungry!" She rubbed her stomach. "I'm glad we didn't bring Trunks." Vegeta nodded. "I told you you shoulden't come. Humans are weaker than Saiayns. You can't survive as long without food." Bulma crossed her arms and snorted. "I can last as long as any old Saiyan. You just watch!" Gohan came back, sop and wet. "I',m hungry!" he said. There was a fish between his teeth. "Put that back!" Bulma said. "We can't eat that fish! It's swimming with disease! It eats ALGAE!!" Gohan threw it on the ground. "What are we going to do then?" Vegeta asked. "Be hungry." Bulma replied. Vegeta was mad. "I'm going to see if I can find a dragonball. You two stay here." He went off in the forest. "He's mean!" Bulma said. "I'm hungry! He should have packed something other than CANNED GOODS!" She stomped on Vegeta's pajamas. "There! He can sleep in his cold old underwear for all I care!" She kicked them in the river. They carried down a little ways and hung up on a rock. Bulma didn't notice Vegeta was on the opisite side of the river looking in it. "My pajamas!" he yowled, calling Bulma's attention. "It was an accident!" Bulma said. Vegeta jumped in the water and grabbed them. The water was muddy and dirty. It rushed in his mouth and up his nose. "Get out of there right now!" Bulma said. "That river is filthy!" Vegeta hopped out with his pajamas and hung them on a tree branch. "Thanks alot, DEAR!" He took off his wet shirt and threw it on Bulma. The horrible stench caused her to gag. "EW!" She said, and then she launched herself at Vegeta. They fought for a good 10 minutes while Gohan sat on a rock watching the fish. He noticed two little black things swimming arond with the fish.
Gohan put his hand in the water under a little black thing. He thought they were called 'tadpoles' or something, but he coulden't remember. He knew they were baby frogs. The tadpole swam into his hand and gohan closed a fist around it. He brought it up to his face and studied it carefully. It was brownish green and it was flopping around. It wasn't very big, but it was big for a tadpole. Vegeta walked over, tattered and torn. He was in his underwear. There was a scratch mark on his arm. Bulma was Sitting on a rock and screaming. "Whats that?" Vegeta asked. "It's retarded." Gohan looked at it again. "it's a TADPOG, or something like that." "ITS A TADPOLE, YOU B*TCH!" Bulma yelled to Gohan. Gohan looked at Bulma with wiode eyes. "Yes, thats what it is." he said at last. Vegeta looked at it again. "Why would you touch such a disgusting thing?" Gohan brought it to his lips and sucked it in. He chewed it up and sowllowed it. Vegeta turned around and puked. "EW!" Gohan said. He didn't know what he had been thinking eating that tadpole. "That was gross!" He didn't spit the tadpole out though. He picked up another. Bulma was staring at Gohan as she patted Vegeta on the back. vegeta wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "he ate a TADPOLE!" He said. Bulma gasped. "Gohan, everything in that river is drowning with disease! You could catch something very bad from that River!" But Gohan had a minnow. It was swimming around in a little pool of water in his cupped hands. "Make a fire!" He said. "Hurry!" Bulma shook her head. "Fire won't stay lit up here in the mountains. Only a teeny tiny one would." Gohan took a match out of his pocket and struck it up.He pulled out the minnow and held it in the flames for a while. " That won't make it cooked enough to get rid of anything!" Bulma said. "What are you thinking?" Gohan popped it in his mouth. "Your supposed to gut fish you moron!" Vegeta said, bonking Gohan on the head. He washed some river water over his face. Gohan's stomach was becoming a wee upset. "I'm not hungry anymore, at least!" Gohan said. "I will survive longer than you two will." Vegeta was standing on an elevated rock. He was looking at the sunset. "It's almost dark." Vegeta said. A dense cloud of misquitos were around him, so he put an aura around himself and the minsquitos coulden't get around him. Gohan did the same. Bulma coulden't. The misquitos were biting her all over. "OU!" She said. "D*mn! I wish I could make an aura around myself!" She was also very cold, while Vegeta and Gohan could Generate body heat. She wrapped up in Vegeta's pants that he had taken off and thrown on the ground, but the misquitos bit through it. Vegeta was sitting on a rock and swishing his bare feet in the water. Bulma came and sat by him so he would keep her warm. "Get away from me." Vegeta said. "You scratched me." He showed her the ragged ugly scratch on his arm and she laughed. "But I'm COLD!" Bulma said. "But that's fine. I'll go sit by GOHAN. He's nicer because he comes from GOKU." Vegeta's eyes widened. "You can sit here." he said. He swished his feet somore and kicked a fish. He laughed.
The next morning, they had decided to start following the river and looking for a dragonball. The dirty, ugly river was getting wider and wider but it was also getting clearer and clearer. "I'm so hungry!" Bulma said. "I could keel over and die!" Gohan was even hungry again, and Vegeta was ravenous. He was keeping his eye in the river at the rocks because maybe the Dragonball could be in the river. Bulma was one huge red welp where misquitos had bitten her. And she had spent the whole night shivering because Vegeta was afraid that if he put an aura around himself he would lose energy too fast. So they both had slept without a blanket or anything. Vegeta had slept in his sopping wet pajamas.
Gohan was swimming in the river by Vegeta and Bulma who were walking on land. There was a rock in Vegeta's boot. "Hold on." He said, sitting on a rock that was jutting out of the river. "I've got a pebble in my boot." He bent over on the rock and took his boot off. Bulma leaned over to see what was wrong, and the slippery bank caused her to fall into Vegeta. He and her were pushed off the rock and fall into the water. Vegeta came up sputtering, while it took Bulma a while to. Vegeta had to go down and get her. "Why did you do that, stupid?" Vegeta asked. "Now I'm wet!" He climbed out and wrung his shirt out. "I didn't mean to, you @$$! I slipped! You didn't even check to see if I was okay!" Vegeta rolled his eyes and reapplied his boot. "No, I just brought you up to the surface because you were so stunned to ruin your so called BEAUTIFUL complexcion that you froze." Bulma scoffed. "That is NOT why I didn't come up! My SHOE was caught on a rock!" Vegeta walked on without Bulma and Gohan. Bulma and Gohan decided to swim.
Pretty soon, Geeta and Bulma and Gohan came to a waterfall. It was big and ugly. Vegeta saw this as a great oppertunity. "I'm going to wash my hair in this waterfall." He said, putting his pack on a rock and taking out the mini shampoo and conditioner. he ripped off his shirt and jumped in the water with his two compainions. They were splashing eachother. "Will you stop it? I'm going to wash my hair!" He went through and behind the waterfall. There was like a little cave behind the waterfall where water was splashing up, but it was nearly impossible to see from the other side. vegeta sat down in the cave and washed his hands off. he was so hungry he thought he could eat paint chips. Then he put his hair into the waterfall and let it get wet, but it didn't come down.
From the other side, Bulma and Gohan hoticed a disturbance in the waterfall. "Did he go BEHIND it?" Gohan asked. Bulma nodded. "I THINK so. But I wonder why. Let's go and see." Gohan nodded and they swam to the waterfall.
Vegeta was sitting inside when Bulma and Gohan crossed over. They saw him. "Nice little cave!" Bulma said, cimbing up and plopping down by her hubby. He grunted. His hair was washed and shiny. "I hoped to be alone here for a while." he said. "But I guess I can kiss that goodbye." Vegeta heard Bulma's tummy growl. Too bad theres no fish in this part of the lake, Vegeta thought. Its much clearer here. "You HUNGRY?" he asked her. Bulma nodded. "VERY." She was also thirsty, even though she had gotten quite a big drink when she had fallen in. "You should have stayed home." Vegtea said. "I told you." Gohan was playing with a lizard. "Don't think of eating that.' Bulma said. Gohan shrugged. "I wasn't." He poked the lizard in the butt. It scurried into the water and drowned. Vegeta put his hands in the water and swished them around. He was afraid they would stink. Gohan was exploring the cave everywhere. "There's alot of cracks in here." he said. "Bats could live in here. bats with RABIES." Vegeta shrugged. "If I die of rabies, I'll have no more worries." He layed down in his little cave. It was chilly in that cave and it smelled musty.
Gohan was looking in the water. Vegeta and Bulma were asleep because they hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. Geeta was snoring loud. Gohan noticed a big old fish in the water, but it was floating belly up. "It's dead.' he said to himself. "I wonder why." he dug it out of the water and plopped it on land. There was nothing wrong with it he could SEE physiccly."Maybe if I told Vegeta and Bulma I found the fish ALIVE, they would eat it." Gohan smelled it. It smelled absolutly HORRIBLE. But he thought it smelled good, due to his herrendous eating habits and the way he himself smelled. "Hey guys!" He said. Vegeta continued snoring, bt Bulma raised her head off his chest. "WHAT?" She said. Gohan showed her the fish. "Killed a fish!" he said. Bulma slapped Geeta on the tummy to wake him up. He growled and looked where Bulma was pointing. "A fish!" He said, jumping up and knocking Bulma down on to the hard ground. "Sorry." he mumbled and grabbed the fish. "What's the big idea?" He said. "What did you do to this fish?" Gohan shrugged. "Absolutly nothing, I say. I swear." Vegeta looked it over again. "But I haven't seen any other fish here, pretty Ironic that this fish woulden't be traveling with other fish, hm?" Bulma slapped Vegeta. "Just be happy you have a fish at all!" She said.
"I don't care what you say, but I'm not eating this fish without gutting it first!" Bulma was so exited to finally eat that she was jumping up and down practicly. "Hurry!" She said. "I'm so hungry!" Vegeta took out his pocket knife. "Well enjoy it because whenever we're done, we're heading out again." Bulma groaned. Vegeta dug the knife into the fishes belly and a squirt of red guts splashed on him. "EW!" He said. "This fish explodes awfully easily!" He jumped up and washed his soiled shirt before sitting back down. He made a long, narrow slit in the fishe's tummy. When he opened it up, he was HORRIFIED. There, nesting in the guts, were hundreds of MAGGOTS! Vegeta jumped back with a girly scream. Bulma latched on to him, terrified. "What are those things?" She asked. "They're disgusting!" Vegeta didn't want to come close to it. "Explain this, Gohan! The fish coulden't possibly have been alive with all these maggots nmesting in it!" Vegeta wretched at the sight and terrible smell. Gohan whistled and kicked it back into the river. "I found it dead." he said. "But I figured it was as good as any." Vegeta roared. Bulma was glad the awful maggots were gone. "Your so stupid!" Vegeta said, and he kicked a rock into Gohan's head. Bulma hit Vegeta soflty. He grunted and sat down with his face in a corner. "I'm so hungry!" Bulma said. "I was looking forward to eating the fish!" her voice was funny, like she was about to cry. Gohan was studying the river again. Vegeta was right, there was NO FISH or turltles or anything. The waterfall probley kept them from coming here. Bulma picked up a rock and Vegeta had to stop her from eating it. "My stomach is probley eating itself!" Bulma screamed. Vegeta was very worried about her health because she coulden't last as long as Gohan and himself. "Let's go." he said. "The more often we find the dragonballs, we can go home." Bulma whined. They went into the river and swam up onto the bank.
"I don't want to walk anymore!" Said Gohan. He was hovering, but Vegeta was telling him to come down. "Screw my energy! my feet hurt!" Bulma's feet really hurt from the type of shoe she was wearing, but if she complained, Vegeta would yell and say they were wasting time. But she coulden't take it anymore. "I can't walk!" She said. "We have to stop!" She was breathing labored. "D*mn it!" Vegeta said. "I knew you would pull something like this!" But that was all he said. Bulma sat down on a rock. Vegeta sat down on the ground and studied her. Gohan was playing with a flock of monkeys in the tree. Bulma JOGGED every day longer than they had been walking, and never had to rest. Then Vegeta reslized with horror she was starting to lose strength from hunger. "These monkeys do some nasty things!" Gohan said. "Wow, I never imagined--" He looked down at the serious scene. Bulma was breathing hard on a rock and Vegeta was staring at her. he was either horny or worried. "Do you want me to leave you guys alone for a while?" Gohan asked. "I know your needs as adults. I respect them, so if you need some time to do something special, you can ask me to go away." Vegeta looked up at Gohan. "It's nothing like that." He said. Gohan shrugged and went back to studying the monkeys. "I should have been raised by monkeys instead of mom." he said. Bulma got up. "We can walk again. I'm okay." Vegeta looked at the surroundings. He knew they coulden't camp there, because it was rocky terrain. "I'll carry you." He said. Bulma shook her head. "I can walk, you monster. I'll get fat. No way." Vegeta shook HIS head. "Nope. You can't walk." he tried to think of an allibi that woulden't make him look like a loser. "Your sandal is broken." She looked at it. "No it's not." She replied. Vegeta went over and took the sandaled foot in his hand. Then he ripped the strap. "HEY!" Bulma said. "Now it is." Vegeta said. he noticed her legs were one big bug bite. EW. Bulma shrugged and let vegeta carry her baby style. Gohan landed. "Why can't I be carried?" he asked. "I have special needs too." Nobody cared about Gohan's special needs. "Just because you want to look down her blouse doesn't meen you have to carry her." Gohan grumbled. Bulma's eyes widened. "Is that TRUE?" She asked. "How you can find me attractive with all these bugs bites on me?" Vegeta didn't say anything. "it's VERY flattering." She added. Vegeta grinned, but kept silent.
"We can sleep here." Vegeta said. They had walked almost the intire Northern Mountains. He dropped Bulma on a cushy grassy spot. She was alot lighter than when he had carried her over the threshold. There were some Birdys a couple yards away. "Maybe I can shoot a birdy!" Gohan said. "That'll be good." Bulma made a face. "Birds carry diseases like Meningitus and West Nile Virus!" "If You keep being so picky, you will starve to death." Vegeta said. She had already gone for 3 and a half days without anything to eat. So had Vegeta, but he was a Saiyan so it wasn't really bothering him. Gohan had eaten some nasty things on the way there, like Beetles and even a feild mouse. "I don't want to be sick." Bulma said. "And some people can go for 10 days without eating anything." "Only people who are used to being starved." Vegeta said. "Like anorexics, or abused people. Your not either one of those people." Vegeta was used to being starved because sometimes he liked to starve himself so he could train longer. "here's some frogs." Gohan said. "My dad eats frog legs." He jumped after one to try and catch it, and when he did, he approached proudly with his prize. "Like it?" He said. "You can eat this, Bulma." Vegeta slapped it out of his hand. "That's absurd, you B*tch! Nobody here is going to eat a FROG." Gohan's face grew angry. "You obviously don't know anything, you man screwer! Frogs are very good!" Vegeta looked at the frog on the ground. He thought, "No way am I going to make my wife eat a frog" but then he looked at her stomach wear her shirt wasn't covering. Her ribs were clearly exposed so he could count eat one. He picked it up. It P*ssed all over his hand. He counted the idea out. "Do you think you can make it through the night?" Vegeta asked BUlma. Bulma wobbly got up. "Sure I can!" She said. "I'm still as strong as ever." She ran in two circles, and then collapsed. Vegeta picked her up and put her back on the fluffy patch of grass. Then he went to the pack and dug through it, hoping for ANYTHING she could eat. She had had plenty to drink, because Vegeta had bought water bottles. There was nothing but a set of training clothes, some of Bulma's clothes, some of Gohan's, a walkman, a compass, a bloody pocket knife, and an extra pair of boots for vegeta. He thought they might as well throw Bulma's clothes out, because they were way too big now. She was wearing her tightest pair of pants and was still having to hold them up. "I wish you were a moth." Vegeta said. "Then you could eat this cloothes." he imagined Bulma as moth. It wasn't pretty. Bulma sat up and played with the grass.
Rehmon was resting on a rock. About 3 days ago, he had been intent on intercepting Vegeta and his party to kill them, but as he was flying, he started feeling really faint. The area where the bats had bit him was puffy and weeping and throbbing with pain. He had been forced to sit down. but he had fallen asleep. And that's what he had done for the next three days almost, was sleep. He had woken up a few times and eaten or went to the bathroom, but that's all.
Vegeta coulden't sleep. There were too many sounds in the forest. he was also very cold, even though Bulma was asleep on top of him so he could hear if she stopped breathing. Gohan was asleep in a tree because he was so mad at Vegeta for insulting his frog theory that he coulden't sleep. Vegeta had seen a snake once, crawling dangerously close to where he was. He half way hoped it would bite him so he woulden't have to worry about anything anymore.
The following morning, vegeta was so hungry, HE was starting to weaken. Bulma was in a pitiful state. She could barely walk a yard she was so weak. She was still laying in her fluffy spot. Gohan was feasting on frogs. Vegeta felt the rubbery feeling in his thihgs when he got up that morning, and knew he needed food. But he didn't want to eat too much or he would get fat. He looked at Gohan chasing the frogs and considered them for a moment. He rejected the idea even though he looked like a ferret. "I'm going into the woods to find something for me to eat." He said. "My strength is very important to me and I seem to be losing it. I'm going to go see what I can find." Bulma nodded. Vegeta thought of telling her to stop being so pathetic and get up, but it was his fault. He walked into the woods until he could see them no longer. he looked about him all around, but saw nothing. Nothing but a bog and the clear river. They only had about a mile left of Northern Moontains, then they would go down into the northern wastelands. "I've got to eat so I will stay strong." he told himself and looked once again. His eyes fell on some pecans high up in a tree. Just enough for him. 1 person. He smiled to himself. "I managed to find food for ME. Now I won't be hungry anymore." He flew up and picked all of them. Sure enough, there was only enough for one person. Himself. he gathered them in his greedy arms and flew back to camp. "Look what I did!" He said. I managed to find enough food for one person. Me." Bulma nodded. "That's great." She said. Vegeta looked at her laying on the soft patch of grass. Tnen he looked at Gohan, chewing on a mint leaf. Vegeta cracked one of the nuts. he coulden't wait to regain to full strength. As he raised it to his lips, he looked over at Bulma. Her eyes were closed. he wondered what it would be like to her if that was her death bed. He looked down at his food. Then he walked over to the soft patch of grass and put all the nuts on Bulma's tummy. he was so humiliated at the act he could barely stand it. "Here. You need it more than i do." He thought about his strength again and almost snatched them away. Bulma looked at the nuts. "Thanks honey, but you found them." She said. "They're YOUR nuts. They don't belong to me." Vegeta sat down by her. "I'm giving them to you. Or could we at least share?" Bulma nodded and ate a nut. Gohan romped over. "So I have to eat the gruel?" They both nodded, eating their nuts. "Just because I know how to forage for myself unlike you two, I don't get anything good, is that it?" They nodded. Gohan humped and went to find some tadpoles.
By that afternoon, Bulma felt great. She could get up again and run in as many circles as she wanted, But Vegeta knew that those nuts woulden't fill him or her up for long. They hadn't even satisfied his hunger. As they walked through the Northern Mountains, Vegeta looked for more things to eat. he still felt weak. As he looked around, Gohan ran as fast as he could behind a bush. "What wrong with you?" Vegeta asked. Bulma heard strange noises from the bushes. "Vegeta, I think he's sick!" She said. Her and Vegeta ran behind the bush. Gohan was throwing fup everything he had eaten. "EW!" Vegeta said. "Frogs and tadpoles don't mix." Bulma said. Gohan came up sputtering. "Boy am I hungry. But let's go." Vegeta looked at him awkwardly and looked around for wither a dragonball or food. he hoped that maybe the northern wastlends would have food.
When they got to the end of the mountains, after the downfall, into the wastelands, the river seemed to dry. "Okay!" Bulma said. "We need to gather water." She looked ahead of her at the desert like place. It was full of dead trees and fallen leaves. There were cacti also. She dipped her water bottle into the stream. Vegeta wiped sweat off his forehead. "It's sweltering here." he said. The weakness of hunger was getting even worse. Bulma filled up Gohan and Vegeta's water and even filled up the tape deck on the walkman with it. "Okay." She said."We can go." Gohan sat on the ground. "It's so hot!" He said. "And I'm hungry!" Bulma shrugged. She didn't know what to do about that.
When rehmon woke up from his nap he felt better, but not totally good. So he got up anyway and decided to fly toward the northern mountains. He didn't sense the kis of Vegeta and Gohan anymore(Because they were so weak from bein hungry). But he figured they were hiding their ki and were still there, so Thats where he decided to go.
Geeta was walking along a little trail. Bulma was behind him and Gohan behind her. There was dead tree branches that kept falling, so he was looking up at the sky, not where he was walking. Bulma was staring at her own feet, and Gohan was keeping his eye out for snakes. So nobody realized Vegeta's oncoming plight. Vegeta saw something ahead of him. It was small and spiny. "get out of my way or I'll squash you." Bulma and Gohan barely heard him. Bulma was thinking that she was already getting hungry again and Gohan was thinking that maybe he should find more frogs. Vegeta stopped in front of it, and Bulma ran into the back of him. She didn't ask why he stopped, she just stared at the sweat running down his back. Gohan didn't even notice he HAD stopped. Vegeta raised his foot over the spiny creature. His Boots weren't on right now because they were making his feet sore. "I'm going to squash you if you don't move." He said. The creature stood it's ground. "Okay." Vegeta said. "I'll have to stomp you now!" Vegeta brought his foot down on the porcupine. "OWWWWWWWWW!" He screamed. 15 barbed spines drove themselves into his foot and the creature ran away. Vegeta rolled on the ground and screamed. "Are you okay?" Bulma asked. "You seem hurt!" She kneeled by Vegeta. "DUH! I have something hurty in my foot!" He pointed. Bulma noticed it was a purplish red swollen mass. 15 brown spines stuck out of it. "You stepped on a porcupine." She said. "I bet that hurts!" Bulma went around to look at it. She touched one of them, and Vegeta kicked. She backed off. "If you kick me I can't get them out!" She said. "And they're barbed, so the more you move the more it will hurt." Gohan was looking at Vegeta's foot. 'Why don't you just YANK um out?" He asked. Bulma glared at Gohan. "You try being in Vegeta's shoes." Gohan pulled on Vegeta's boots. "Get UM OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!" Vegggie yelled. "HURRRRRRRRY!" Bulma touched one again and he howled. "Hush!" She said. "You big old baby!" She pulled one out and Vegeta yelled and kicked. His good foot k9icked Bulma in the stomach and sent her rolling. "OW!" She said. "You B*st*rd! You @$$!" She went over, grabbed his injured foot, and pushed the spines in deeper. Vegeta screamed in agony and rolled. "I'm not getting them out now." Bulma said. "I don't care if you gave me some stupid nuts." Vegeta hwoled and wailed. "Just get them out so he'll shut up." Gohan said. he fell over in the oversized boots. Bulma decided that the only way to get them out quietly was to knock her hubby out. So she yanked on one. The pain caused Vegeta to faint.
When Vegeta woke up, Bulma was RIGHT in his face. Her big blue eyes blinked. "Hi Vegeta!" She said. She put some water in his cracked and swollen lips. "Hi." He murmered, and looked down at his foot. The spines were all out. "I pulled them out while you were fainted." Bulma said. "But you even screamed in your sleep." Vegeta turned his head away. It was night time. Gohan was asleep on a rock nearby, still wearing vegeta's shoes. "Why is he weariong my Saiayn Boots?" Vegeta asked. he waqnted to pull them off. "I don't know. But it's cute." Bulma said. Vegeta sat up. "Let's go right now and leave him here." Bulma cocked her head. "Why is that?" Vegeta grinned. "Because theres some things I want to do that he can't see." Bulma grunted and went to the bag. She took a big drink of the water bottle. "I called Chi Chi one the phone." She said, and she gave the bottle to Vegeta. "She said Trunks is giving her H*ll." Vegeta shrugged. "That's my boy." He said. Bulma laughed sarcastic. "She said she wishes we never brough Trunks to her and that he Is a spolied brat." Vegeta snorted. He was chugging down the water. "She had no right to say things like that about a kid that isn't hers. Its not her fault she's a poor lady." Water was dribbling down Vegeta's throat. It was a nasty sight. "You'd better not drink a whole lot." Bulma said. "Remember, we only have three water bottles full and a tape deck." Vegeta laughed. "You filled the TAPE DECK? It all ran out the cracks." Bulma groaned. "I figured it would do that. But I wanted as much water as we could carry." One of Vegeta's boots slid off Gohan's foot and thumped to the ground. Vegeta flopped back down and looked at the stars. He was very tired. And very hungry. "I really need something to eat." Vegeta said. "I'll go find something!" Bulma said. Vegeta shook his head. "You could get raped by yourself." Bulma came and layed by Vegeta. "Gohan should be awake to do our bidding." She said. "He's a kid. He has to listen to us. Why not wake um up?" "Because I don't want to hear him whine." Vegeta said. He kissed Bulma. She took another drink. She was so thristy she could pass out. "Maybe there's more nuts around here." She said, whipping her head around. Her hair slapped Vegeta in the face. It was terribly gross to him. he didn't like touching other people's hair. "May be." Vegeta said. "But I doubt it. They're not in season now. The only reason I found those ones was on sheer luck." He wiped more sweat from his brow. "It's hot here even at night." He said. Bulma was silent. "Let's play a game to pass the time." She said. "What kind of 'game'?" He asked. "I spy." Bulma said. Vegeta groaned. "D*mn. I thought you meant another type of game." Bulma wondered how he could want to at a time like this. "It spy something black." Bulma said. Vegeta acted suprised. "Oh, I don't know, the only big black thing there is right now--It's the sky!" Bulma shok her head. "No that's not it, smart @$$. It's so hard you'll never figure it out." Vegeta looked around. "Gohan's hair." he said. "Gohan's eyes." Bulma shook her head at both. "Nope." "The mud.".Vegeta said. "The mud is brown, you idiot.' Bulma said. "And that's not it. Its your eyes. Your eyes are black." Vegeta frowned. "You didn't have to be mean." he said. "I spy something blue." Bulma thought. "It's my eyes!" She laughed Because Vegeta was so predictable. He yawned. "I'm tired. I'm going to sleep." He said. Then he rolled over.
it was morning. Vegeta opened his eyes. His head felt all swimmy. He noticed Bulma wasn't next to him and Gohan was not on the rock. His only guess was that they had gone looking for food. When he got up, his vision went black for a few seconds and his thighs felt rubbery as well as his arms and abs. He was sad because he was all alone.
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end of chappie 2
Last time: The Siayan Rehmon arrived on earth after being born to parents who had been living on Namek. He went Super Saiayn, and he had an affro. Vegeta got mad, and made fun of him, and now Rehmon wants to get the dragonballs to wish away his affro, kill Vegeta, and destroy the planet. rehmon found one dragonball, and Gohan and Vegeta found one. The Dragon radar was broken, so Gohan and Vegeta are going to leave this morning to try and find them the old fashioned way. rehmon was bit by some anggry bats. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
Chapter 2
It was the morning Gohan and Vegeta were scheduled to leave. Vegeta had everything packed, as Well as Gohan. They were ready to leave, but Bulma didn't want them to. She was being very clingy. "Make sure you packed underwear." She kept saying between sobs. "I can't beleive your leaving your poor old wife and son to live by themselves for who knows how long." Bulma was trying the guilt trip on Vegeta, and, it was working wonders. Vegeta had a little backpack full of clothes and stuff was all. It was VERY small. Gohan did too. "Stop making me feel so bad." Said Vegeta. "You know it has to be done." Bulma sat trunks down on the bed and began putting socks and shoes on him. "What are you doing?" Vegeta asked. "Whewre are you two going? Out to the courtyard?" Bulma shook her head. "We're coming with daddy, right trunks? He can't get rid of us that easy." Vegeta jumoed up. "NO, YOU ARE NOT COMING WITH 'DADDY'! YOUR GOING TO STAY HOME, GOT IT? Bulma shook her head. "We're not changing our mind. You can't make us." Vegeta ripped out a chunk of hair. Sometimes he wished he had never met her. "You'll get HURT, or KILLED, or sick!" He ripped the socks off Trunks feet. Gohan stood in the corner through all this. Bulma started putting them back on. "This will be a great bonding experiance." Vegeta slapped his head. "Your not coming, got it?" They continued arguing for two hours, and Vegeta compromised. "Alright." He said. "YOU can come. NOT our son. Babys need all that milk and stuff, and we can't get that." Bulma looked at Trunks. Vegeta thought he had won. He knew she woulden't go anywhere without her baby. "I'll leave him with Chi Chi." Bulma said. "She has that new baby, but who cares how much stress she's under? So how about that?" She pulled the socks off Trunks' feet. Vegeta nodded. "S' fine." He really didn't want HER to come. "I'm going to miss Trunks though! What if he forgets aboiut us, Vegeta? What then? He won't like us anymore." Vegeta snorted. "He already cries every time I try and hold him." Gohan snickered. "All I packed was 3 cans of Vienna Sausages. They're good." Vegeta said. "And for drink, we can drink the juice of it!" He likced his lips, while Bulma made a face. "I am not drinking Vienna sausage juice for my drinks." Bulma said. But she knew what Vegeta said Vegeta did so she left it at that. Vegeta packed his stuff and Bulma's stuff in the same small bag. They weren't going to take that much. He packed their two cell phones though in case he and Bulma got seperated. "Are you ready?" Bulma asked. Gohan and Vegeta nodded. "Let me take Trunks over to Chi Chi's." She picked him up. "I wanna go to." vegeta said. Gohan, you stay here." Gohan nodded.
" I know your poor, Chi Chi, but you can buy eveything for Trunks anyway." Chi Chi looked very mad. "Your so rude!" She said. "I am very poor, have a baby of my own, and live all by myself with no income and your making me take care of your child! I outta sue the pants off you." Vegeta pulled out 5,000 zeni. "Here's 5,000. When you run out, call us and we'll send you more. But if you spend the money on man whores and such, I'll blow your head off." Chi Chi gulped. "Bye Trunks!" Bulma said, in tears. "We'll miss you so much!!" She hugged him so hard his eyes bugged. "If we're in the area, we will come and visit you! Oh, how I hate leaving you like this!" She covered Trunks in kisses. "Stop it!" Vegeta said. "Your DROWNING THE BABY." Bulma backed up but she was still crying. Vegeta patted Trunks on the back. "Hang in there, son. I heard Chi Chi snores, but I think you can take it. Your tough. Seeya soon." Trunks cried when Vegeta touched him, so Vegeta went back outside. "Bye Trunks." he said one last time. Bulma drew out the goodbye as long as possible.
"I'm going to miss Trunks so much." Said Bulma as they were flying. She was on Vegeta's back and Gohan was flying a few feet behind. Vegeta nodded. "I'm sure you are, but you don't have to rub it in all the time." He needed to pee. "I really need to take a P*ss." He said. "We are going to have to land or something, because I'm sorry, but I really do." Bulma sighed. "Fine, that's okay, but hurry up." Vegeta and Gohan landed and let Bulma down. Vegeta went behind a bush and went to the bathroom. A few fishermen who were nearby were laughing. "ITS NOT LIKE YOU DON'T PEE TOO!" Bulma said. But they hadn't been laughing at Vegeta, so they looked at her funny. Vegeta was blushing behind the bush. He came out and pulled up his pants. "Bulma!" he said. "Your so stupid!" Bulma was also blushing. "I have to go too." Bulma said. She went to go behind the bush. "That's poison ivy." She said, pointing to the bush. "You just went pee in Poisen Ivy." Vegeta's eyes got big. He was going to have a big case of Poison Ivy in the most unpleasant place! He put Bulma on his back and they flew away. Gohan had to fly fast to keep up. Vegeta was already digging at his inner thighs. "Stop that!" Bulma said. "You need some calamine lotion." She handed him a pink bottle. He snorted. "I am not applying lotion 'down there'. I can cope with it." he grinned. Bulma thought about something. "Hey Vegeta, it'd be better if we traveled on foot so we can see the Dragon balls." Vegeta nodded. "I know, I know. But I thought we could start at the Northern Mountains because of the high elevation." Bulma nodded. The northern Mountains were about a 30 ,minute flight away.
"Here we are." Said Gohan. Vegeta was itching so bad he was dancing. "Oh god!" He said. "Oh god!" He danced and danced and danced. Bulma was rolling with laughter. They landed, and Vegeta layed down on the ground. He rolled up his pants. The poison ivy was all the way down his legs. He handed the pink bottle to Bulma. "Put some on my legs!" He said. "HURRY!" so she did. It didn't help much. There were blisters from H*ll on them. "Yucky." She said. "No more fun for a while." Vegeta giggled and rolled on his tummy and watched a line of ants in front of him. "This is going to be the most boring search ever." Gohan was looking for the Dragonballs already. "I want to go home as soon as possible." He kept saying. Vegeta opened up the little back pack and took out a pocket knife. He started sawing branches off a tree. "What are you doing?" Bulma asked. "We forgot the tent." Vegeta said. "I'm going to prop up branches to make a tent so we can sleep." Bulma nodded. "I think I'll go to the river over there." She pointed to a mountain-top river a couple yards away. "Okay." Vegeta said. Bulma went over and started messing with the smooth rocks. There were fish swimming around. "I wonder what they eat." Bulma said to herself. It was hard for bugs to live in high altitudes like this. Then she notcied green algae on the rocks. "Ew! Anyone who ate these fish would seriously crawl with disease." Gohan flew over and took a look. "Hey your right! I wanna die right now, let's catch us some fish." Bulma made a face and covered the top of her eyes as she looked up at the top of the mountains. "Mountain Lions might live here." She said. "I hope we don't run into one." Gohan nodded. "Bears too. This is probley what they eat, so I don't think we should sleep by here tonight." Bulma shrugged. "Vegeta and you could fight off a bear." But Gohan wasn't so sure. An he also didn't want to sleep in Vegeta's tent, which looked like crap.
Rehmon was flying around and wondering what to do. He didn't have a Dragonradar, and he only had one Dragonball. He wasn't sure if Vegeta and Gohan had one. But he didn't care. He could feel their ki somewhere in the Northern Mountains, but he was wondering if he should mess with them or not. He didn't have any reason to, so it woudlen't be smart. But then he thought of something. What if Vegeta had gotten his wife to make another one! He put 2 and 2 togather quickly. He probley HAD made her make another, so now he had a chance to have one! He flew in the direction of northern MOuntains after hiding his ki.
Vegeta reached into the bag for the first can of Vienna sausage. He had to feel around for a while. He didn't feel thim, but he did feel a strange wetness."Probley Sweat." he said to himself. But after feeling around for a while and not finding them, he handed them to Bulma. "I can't find the food." he said. "You find it." Bulma had been whittling a figure out of wood. She was good at whittling. She made a B*tchy ciomment and looked in the bag. "It should be right in front of your face, Vegeta.....you have to start dfoing things for yourself....I won't be around forever." She felt the strange wetness in the bag. "Geez! Did someone P*ss in here? It's wet and it smells." She said, then she pulled out the first can her hand found. It was weird and looked SWOLLEN. "AH!" Bulma said. "Look Vegeta, it's BIG!" Vegeta looked at it. "Why is it big like that?" he said. Gohan ran over and poked it. It exploded all over him. "AGH!" He said, and he jumped in the river. "I wonder why it exploded like that." Bulma said. "Maybe it was poisened inside." Vegeta rolled his eyes. He was the Agent Scully in the situation. "I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explaination. It was probley the altitude. One time I was flying with a juice box, and it blew up in my face." Bulma nodded. There was smashed up weiners in the bag. "The others exploded!" Bulma said. She picked a few of them up. "And they went bad!" Vegeta's eyes got big. "MY WEINER IS CRUSHED!" Bulma laughed. "Your sickening!" Vegeta said. "Don't you see the severity of the situation??? We have NO FOOD!" Bulma's bright face darkened. "Oh no, Vegeta! And I'm ravenously hungry!" She rubbed her stomach. "I'm glad we didn't bring Trunks." Vegeta nodded. "I told you you shoulden't come. Humans are weaker than Saiayns. You can't survive as long without food." Bulma crossed her arms and snorted. "I can last as long as any old Saiyan. You just watch!" Gohan came back, sop and wet. "I',m hungry!" he said. There was a fish between his teeth. "Put that back!" Bulma said. "We can't eat that fish! It's swimming with disease! It eats ALGAE!!" Gohan threw it on the ground. "What are we going to do then?" Vegeta asked. "Be hungry." Bulma replied. Vegeta was mad. "I'm going to see if I can find a dragonball. You two stay here." He went off in the forest. "He's mean!" Bulma said. "I'm hungry! He should have packed something other than CANNED GOODS!" She stomped on Vegeta's pajamas. "There! He can sleep in his cold old underwear for all I care!" She kicked them in the river. They carried down a little ways and hung up on a rock. Bulma didn't notice Vegeta was on the opisite side of the river looking in it. "My pajamas!" he yowled, calling Bulma's attention. "It was an accident!" Bulma said. Vegeta jumped in the water and grabbed them. The water was muddy and dirty. It rushed in his mouth and up his nose. "Get out of there right now!" Bulma said. "That river is filthy!" Vegeta hopped out with his pajamas and hung them on a tree branch. "Thanks alot, DEAR!" He took off his wet shirt and threw it on Bulma. The horrible stench caused her to gag. "EW!" She said, and then she launched herself at Vegeta. They fought for a good 10 minutes while Gohan sat on a rock watching the fish. He noticed two little black things swimming arond with the fish.
Gohan put his hand in the water under a little black thing. He thought they were called 'tadpoles' or something, but he coulden't remember. He knew they were baby frogs. The tadpole swam into his hand and gohan closed a fist around it. He brought it up to his face and studied it carefully. It was brownish green and it was flopping around. It wasn't very big, but it was big for a tadpole. Vegeta walked over, tattered and torn. He was in his underwear. There was a scratch mark on his arm. Bulma was Sitting on a rock and screaming. "Whats that?" Vegeta asked. "It's retarded." Gohan looked at it again. "it's a TADPOG, or something like that." "ITS A TADPOLE, YOU B*TCH!" Bulma yelled to Gohan. Gohan looked at Bulma with wiode eyes. "Yes, thats what it is." he said at last. Vegeta looked at it again. "Why would you touch such a disgusting thing?" Gohan brought it to his lips and sucked it in. He chewed it up and sowllowed it. Vegeta turned around and puked. "EW!" Gohan said. He didn't know what he had been thinking eating that tadpole. "That was gross!" He didn't spit the tadpole out though. He picked up another. Bulma was staring at Gohan as she patted Vegeta on the back. vegeta wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "he ate a TADPOLE!" He said. Bulma gasped. "Gohan, everything in that river is drowning with disease! You could catch something very bad from that River!" But Gohan had a minnow. It was swimming around in a little pool of water in his cupped hands. "Make a fire!" He said. "Hurry!" Bulma shook her head. "Fire won't stay lit up here in the mountains. Only a teeny tiny one would." Gohan took a match out of his pocket and struck it up.He pulled out the minnow and held it in the flames for a while. " That won't make it cooked enough to get rid of anything!" Bulma said. "What are you thinking?" Gohan popped it in his mouth. "Your supposed to gut fish you moron!" Vegeta said, bonking Gohan on the head. He washed some river water over his face. Gohan's stomach was becoming a wee upset. "I'm not hungry anymore, at least!" Gohan said. "I will survive longer than you two will." Vegeta was standing on an elevated rock. He was looking at the sunset. "It's almost dark." Vegeta said. A dense cloud of misquitos were around him, so he put an aura around himself and the minsquitos coulden't get around him. Gohan did the same. Bulma coulden't. The misquitos were biting her all over. "OU!" She said. "D*mn! I wish I could make an aura around myself!" She was also very cold, while Vegeta and Gohan could Generate body heat. She wrapped up in Vegeta's pants that he had taken off and thrown on the ground, but the misquitos bit through it. Vegeta was sitting on a rock and swishing his bare feet in the water. Bulma came and sat by him so he would keep her warm. "Get away from me." Vegeta said. "You scratched me." He showed her the ragged ugly scratch on his arm and she laughed. "But I'm COLD!" Bulma said. "But that's fine. I'll go sit by GOHAN. He's nicer because he comes from GOKU." Vegeta's eyes widened. "You can sit here." he said. He swished his feet somore and kicked a fish. He laughed.
The next morning, they had decided to start following the river and looking for a dragonball. The dirty, ugly river was getting wider and wider but it was also getting clearer and clearer. "I'm so hungry!" Bulma said. "I could keel over and die!" Gohan was even hungry again, and Vegeta was ravenous. He was keeping his eye in the river at the rocks because maybe the Dragonball could be in the river. Bulma was one huge red welp where misquitos had bitten her. And she had spent the whole night shivering because Vegeta was afraid that if he put an aura around himself he would lose energy too fast. So they both had slept without a blanket or anything. Vegeta had slept in his sopping wet pajamas.
Gohan was swimming in the river by Vegeta and Bulma who were walking on land. There was a rock in Vegeta's boot. "Hold on." He said, sitting on a rock that was jutting out of the river. "I've got a pebble in my boot." He bent over on the rock and took his boot off. Bulma leaned over to see what was wrong, and the slippery bank caused her to fall into Vegeta. He and her were pushed off the rock and fall into the water. Vegeta came up sputtering, while it took Bulma a while to. Vegeta had to go down and get her. "Why did you do that, stupid?" Vegeta asked. "Now I'm wet!" He climbed out and wrung his shirt out. "I didn't mean to, you @$$! I slipped! You didn't even check to see if I was okay!" Vegeta rolled his eyes and reapplied his boot. "No, I just brought you up to the surface because you were so stunned to ruin your so called BEAUTIFUL complexcion that you froze." Bulma scoffed. "That is NOT why I didn't come up! My SHOE was caught on a rock!" Vegeta walked on without Bulma and Gohan. Bulma and Gohan decided to swim.
Pretty soon, Geeta and Bulma and Gohan came to a waterfall. It was big and ugly. Vegeta saw this as a great oppertunity. "I'm going to wash my hair in this waterfall." He said, putting his pack on a rock and taking out the mini shampoo and conditioner. he ripped off his shirt and jumped in the water with his two compainions. They were splashing eachother. "Will you stop it? I'm going to wash my hair!" He went through and behind the waterfall. There was like a little cave behind the waterfall where water was splashing up, but it was nearly impossible to see from the other side. vegeta sat down in the cave and washed his hands off. he was so hungry he thought he could eat paint chips. Then he put his hair into the waterfall and let it get wet, but it didn't come down.
From the other side, Bulma and Gohan hoticed a disturbance in the waterfall. "Did he go BEHIND it?" Gohan asked. Bulma nodded. "I THINK so. But I wonder why. Let's go and see." Gohan nodded and they swam to the waterfall.
Vegeta was sitting inside when Bulma and Gohan crossed over. They saw him. "Nice little cave!" Bulma said, cimbing up and plopping down by her hubby. He grunted. His hair was washed and shiny. "I hoped to be alone here for a while." he said. "But I guess I can kiss that goodbye." Vegeta heard Bulma's tummy growl. Too bad theres no fish in this part of the lake, Vegeta thought. Its much clearer here. "You HUNGRY?" he asked her. Bulma nodded. "VERY." She was also thirsty, even though she had gotten quite a big drink when she had fallen in. "You should have stayed home." Vegtea said. "I told you." Gohan was playing with a lizard. "Don't think of eating that.' Bulma said. Gohan shrugged. "I wasn't." He poked the lizard in the butt. It scurried into the water and drowned. Vegeta put his hands in the water and swished them around. He was afraid they would stink. Gohan was exploring the cave everywhere. "There's alot of cracks in here." he said. "Bats could live in here. bats with RABIES." Vegeta shrugged. "If I die of rabies, I'll have no more worries." He layed down in his little cave. It was chilly in that cave and it smelled musty.
Gohan was looking in the water. Vegeta and Bulma were asleep because they hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. Geeta was snoring loud. Gohan noticed a big old fish in the water, but it was floating belly up. "It's dead.' he said to himself. "I wonder why." he dug it out of the water and plopped it on land. There was nothing wrong with it he could SEE physiccly."Maybe if I told Vegeta and Bulma I found the fish ALIVE, they would eat it." Gohan smelled it. It smelled absolutly HORRIBLE. But he thought it smelled good, due to his herrendous eating habits and the way he himself smelled. "Hey guys!" He said. Vegeta continued snoring, bt Bulma raised her head off his chest. "WHAT?" She said. Gohan showed her the fish. "Killed a fish!" he said. Bulma slapped Geeta on the tummy to wake him up. He growled and looked where Bulma was pointing. "A fish!" He said, jumping up and knocking Bulma down on to the hard ground. "Sorry." he mumbled and grabbed the fish. "What's the big idea?" He said. "What did you do to this fish?" Gohan shrugged. "Absolutly nothing, I say. I swear." Vegeta looked it over again. "But I haven't seen any other fish here, pretty Ironic that this fish woulden't be traveling with other fish, hm?" Bulma slapped Vegeta. "Just be happy you have a fish at all!" She said.
"I don't care what you say, but I'm not eating this fish without gutting it first!" Bulma was so exited to finally eat that she was jumping up and down practicly. "Hurry!" She said. "I'm so hungry!" Vegeta took out his pocket knife. "Well enjoy it because whenever we're done, we're heading out again." Bulma groaned. Vegeta dug the knife into the fishes belly and a squirt of red guts splashed on him. "EW!" He said. "This fish explodes awfully easily!" He jumped up and washed his soiled shirt before sitting back down. He made a long, narrow slit in the fishe's tummy. When he opened it up, he was HORRIFIED. There, nesting in the guts, were hundreds of MAGGOTS! Vegeta jumped back with a girly scream. Bulma latched on to him, terrified. "What are those things?" She asked. "They're disgusting!" Vegeta didn't want to come close to it. "Explain this, Gohan! The fish coulden't possibly have been alive with all these maggots nmesting in it!" Vegeta wretched at the sight and terrible smell. Gohan whistled and kicked it back into the river. "I found it dead." he said. "But I figured it was as good as any." Vegeta roared. Bulma was glad the awful maggots were gone. "Your so stupid!" Vegeta said, and he kicked a rock into Gohan's head. Bulma hit Vegeta soflty. He grunted and sat down with his face in a corner. "I'm so hungry!" Bulma said. "I was looking forward to eating the fish!" her voice was funny, like she was about to cry. Gohan was studying the river again. Vegeta was right, there was NO FISH or turltles or anything. The waterfall probley kept them from coming here. Bulma picked up a rock and Vegeta had to stop her from eating it. "My stomach is probley eating itself!" Bulma screamed. Vegeta was very worried about her health because she coulden't last as long as Gohan and himself. "Let's go." he said. "The more often we find the dragonballs, we can go home." Bulma whined. They went into the river and swam up onto the bank.
"I don't want to walk anymore!" Said Gohan. He was hovering, but Vegeta was telling him to come down. "Screw my energy! my feet hurt!" Bulma's feet really hurt from the type of shoe she was wearing, but if she complained, Vegeta would yell and say they were wasting time. But she coulden't take it anymore. "I can't walk!" She said. "We have to stop!" She was breathing labored. "D*mn it!" Vegeta said. "I knew you would pull something like this!" But that was all he said. Bulma sat down on a rock. Vegeta sat down on the ground and studied her. Gohan was playing with a flock of monkeys in the tree. Bulma JOGGED every day longer than they had been walking, and never had to rest. Then Vegeta reslized with horror she was starting to lose strength from hunger. "These monkeys do some nasty things!" Gohan said. "Wow, I never imagined--" He looked down at the serious scene. Bulma was breathing hard on a rock and Vegeta was staring at her. he was either horny or worried. "Do you want me to leave you guys alone for a while?" Gohan asked. "I know your needs as adults. I respect them, so if you need some time to do something special, you can ask me to go away." Vegeta looked up at Gohan. "It's nothing like that." He said. Gohan shrugged and went back to studying the monkeys. "I should have been raised by monkeys instead of mom." he said. Bulma got up. "We can walk again. I'm okay." Vegeta looked at the surroundings. He knew they coulden't camp there, because it was rocky terrain. "I'll carry you." He said. Bulma shook her head. "I can walk, you monster. I'll get fat. No way." Vegeta shook HIS head. "Nope. You can't walk." he tried to think of an allibi that woulden't make him look like a loser. "Your sandal is broken." She looked at it. "No it's not." She replied. Vegeta went over and took the sandaled foot in his hand. Then he ripped the strap. "HEY!" Bulma said. "Now it is." Vegeta said. he noticed her legs were one big bug bite. EW. Bulma shrugged and let vegeta carry her baby style. Gohan landed. "Why can't I be carried?" he asked. "I have special needs too." Nobody cared about Gohan's special needs. "Just because you want to look down her blouse doesn't meen you have to carry her." Gohan grumbled. Bulma's eyes widened. "Is that TRUE?" She asked. "How you can find me attractive with all these bugs bites on me?" Vegeta didn't say anything. "it's VERY flattering." She added. Vegeta grinned, but kept silent.
"We can sleep here." Vegeta said. They had walked almost the intire Northern Mountains. He dropped Bulma on a cushy grassy spot. She was alot lighter than when he had carried her over the threshold. There were some Birdys a couple yards away. "Maybe I can shoot a birdy!" Gohan said. "That'll be good." Bulma made a face. "Birds carry diseases like Meningitus and West Nile Virus!" "If You keep being so picky, you will starve to death." Vegeta said. She had already gone for 3 and a half days without anything to eat. So had Vegeta, but he was a Saiyan so it wasn't really bothering him. Gohan had eaten some nasty things on the way there, like Beetles and even a feild mouse. "I don't want to be sick." Bulma said. "And some people can go for 10 days without eating anything." "Only people who are used to being starved." Vegeta said. "Like anorexics, or abused people. Your not either one of those people." Vegeta was used to being starved because sometimes he liked to starve himself so he could train longer. "here's some frogs." Gohan said. "My dad eats frog legs." He jumped after one to try and catch it, and when he did, he approached proudly with his prize. "Like it?" He said. "You can eat this, Bulma." Vegeta slapped it out of his hand. "That's absurd, you B*tch! Nobody here is going to eat a FROG." Gohan's face grew angry. "You obviously don't know anything, you man screwer! Frogs are very good!" Vegeta looked at the frog on the ground. He thought, "No way am I going to make my wife eat a frog" but then he looked at her stomach wear her shirt wasn't covering. Her ribs were clearly exposed so he could count eat one. He picked it up. It P*ssed all over his hand. He counted the idea out. "Do you think you can make it through the night?" Vegeta asked BUlma. Bulma wobbly got up. "Sure I can!" She said. "I'm still as strong as ever." She ran in two circles, and then collapsed. Vegeta picked her up and put her back on the fluffy patch of grass. Then he went to the pack and dug through it, hoping for ANYTHING she could eat. She had had plenty to drink, because Vegeta had bought water bottles. There was nothing but a set of training clothes, some of Bulma's clothes, some of Gohan's, a walkman, a compass, a bloody pocket knife, and an extra pair of boots for vegeta. He thought they might as well throw Bulma's clothes out, because they were way too big now. She was wearing her tightest pair of pants and was still having to hold them up. "I wish you were a moth." Vegeta said. "Then you could eat this cloothes." he imagined Bulma as moth. It wasn't pretty. Bulma sat up and played with the grass.
Rehmon was resting on a rock. About 3 days ago, he had been intent on intercepting Vegeta and his party to kill them, but as he was flying, he started feeling really faint. The area where the bats had bit him was puffy and weeping and throbbing with pain. He had been forced to sit down. but he had fallen asleep. And that's what he had done for the next three days almost, was sleep. He had woken up a few times and eaten or went to the bathroom, but that's all.
Vegeta coulden't sleep. There were too many sounds in the forest. he was also very cold, even though Bulma was asleep on top of him so he could hear if she stopped breathing. Gohan was asleep in a tree because he was so mad at Vegeta for insulting his frog theory that he coulden't sleep. Vegeta had seen a snake once, crawling dangerously close to where he was. He half way hoped it would bite him so he woulden't have to worry about anything anymore.
The following morning, vegeta was so hungry, HE was starting to weaken. Bulma was in a pitiful state. She could barely walk a yard she was so weak. She was still laying in her fluffy spot. Gohan was feasting on frogs. Vegeta felt the rubbery feeling in his thihgs when he got up that morning, and knew he needed food. But he didn't want to eat too much or he would get fat. He looked at Gohan chasing the frogs and considered them for a moment. He rejected the idea even though he looked like a ferret. "I'm going into the woods to find something for me to eat." He said. "My strength is very important to me and I seem to be losing it. I'm going to go see what I can find." Bulma nodded. Vegeta thought of telling her to stop being so pathetic and get up, but it was his fault. He walked into the woods until he could see them no longer. he looked about him all around, but saw nothing. Nothing but a bog and the clear river. They only had about a mile left of Northern Moontains, then they would go down into the northern wastelands. "I've got to eat so I will stay strong." he told himself and looked once again. His eyes fell on some pecans high up in a tree. Just enough for him. 1 person. He smiled to himself. "I managed to find food for ME. Now I won't be hungry anymore." He flew up and picked all of them. Sure enough, there was only enough for one person. Himself. he gathered them in his greedy arms and flew back to camp. "Look what I did!" He said. I managed to find enough food for one person. Me." Bulma nodded. "That's great." She said. Vegeta looked at her laying on the soft patch of grass. Tnen he looked at Gohan, chewing on a mint leaf. Vegeta cracked one of the nuts. he coulden't wait to regain to full strength. As he raised it to his lips, he looked over at Bulma. Her eyes were closed. he wondered what it would be like to her if that was her death bed. He looked down at his food. Then he walked over to the soft patch of grass and put all the nuts on Bulma's tummy. he was so humiliated at the act he could barely stand it. "Here. You need it more than i do." He thought about his strength again and almost snatched them away. Bulma looked at the nuts. "Thanks honey, but you found them." She said. "They're YOUR nuts. They don't belong to me." Vegeta sat down by her. "I'm giving them to you. Or could we at least share?" Bulma nodded and ate a nut. Gohan romped over. "So I have to eat the gruel?" They both nodded, eating their nuts. "Just because I know how to forage for myself unlike you two, I don't get anything good, is that it?" They nodded. Gohan humped and went to find some tadpoles.
By that afternoon, Bulma felt great. She could get up again and run in as many circles as she wanted, But Vegeta knew that those nuts woulden't fill him or her up for long. They hadn't even satisfied his hunger. As they walked through the Northern Mountains, Vegeta looked for more things to eat. he still felt weak. As he looked around, Gohan ran as fast as he could behind a bush. "What wrong with you?" Vegeta asked. Bulma heard strange noises from the bushes. "Vegeta, I think he's sick!" She said. Her and Vegeta ran behind the bush. Gohan was throwing fup everything he had eaten. "EW!" Vegeta said. "Frogs and tadpoles don't mix." Bulma said. Gohan came up sputtering. "Boy am I hungry. But let's go." Vegeta looked at him awkwardly and looked around for wither a dragonball or food. he hoped that maybe the northern wastlends would have food.
When they got to the end of the mountains, after the downfall, into the wastelands, the river seemed to dry. "Okay!" Bulma said. "We need to gather water." She looked ahead of her at the desert like place. It was full of dead trees and fallen leaves. There were cacti also. She dipped her water bottle into the stream. Vegeta wiped sweat off his forehead. "It's sweltering here." he said. The weakness of hunger was getting even worse. Bulma filled up Gohan and Vegeta's water and even filled up the tape deck on the walkman with it. "Okay." She said."We can go." Gohan sat on the ground. "It's so hot!" He said. "And I'm hungry!" Bulma shrugged. She didn't know what to do about that.
When rehmon woke up from his nap he felt better, but not totally good. So he got up anyway and decided to fly toward the northern mountains. He didn't sense the kis of Vegeta and Gohan anymore(Because they were so weak from bein hungry). But he figured they were hiding their ki and were still there, so Thats where he decided to go.
Geeta was walking along a little trail. Bulma was behind him and Gohan behind her. There was dead tree branches that kept falling, so he was looking up at the sky, not where he was walking. Bulma was staring at her own feet, and Gohan was keeping his eye out for snakes. So nobody realized Vegeta's oncoming plight. Vegeta saw something ahead of him. It was small and spiny. "get out of my way or I'll squash you." Bulma and Gohan barely heard him. Bulma was thinking that she was already getting hungry again and Gohan was thinking that maybe he should find more frogs. Vegeta stopped in front of it, and Bulma ran into the back of him. She didn't ask why he stopped, she just stared at the sweat running down his back. Gohan didn't even notice he HAD stopped. Vegeta raised his foot over the spiny creature. His Boots weren't on right now because they were making his feet sore. "I'm going to squash you if you don't move." He said. The creature stood it's ground. "Okay." Vegeta said. "I'll have to stomp you now!" Vegeta brought his foot down on the porcupine. "OWWWWWWWWW!" He screamed. 15 barbed spines drove themselves into his foot and the creature ran away. Vegeta rolled on the ground and screamed. "Are you okay?" Bulma asked. "You seem hurt!" She kneeled by Vegeta. "DUH! I have something hurty in my foot!" He pointed. Bulma noticed it was a purplish red swollen mass. 15 brown spines stuck out of it. "You stepped on a porcupine." She said. "I bet that hurts!" Bulma went around to look at it. She touched one of them, and Vegeta kicked. She backed off. "If you kick me I can't get them out!" She said. "And they're barbed, so the more you move the more it will hurt." Gohan was looking at Vegeta's foot. 'Why don't you just YANK um out?" He asked. Bulma glared at Gohan. "You try being in Vegeta's shoes." Gohan pulled on Vegeta's boots. "Get UM OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!" Vegggie yelled. "HURRRRRRRRY!" Bulma touched one again and he howled. "Hush!" She said. "You big old baby!" She pulled one out and Vegeta yelled and kicked. His good foot k9icked Bulma in the stomach and sent her rolling. "OW!" She said. "You B*st*rd! You @$$!" She went over, grabbed his injured foot, and pushed the spines in deeper. Vegeta screamed in agony and rolled. "I'm not getting them out now." Bulma said. "I don't care if you gave me some stupid nuts." Vegeta hwoled and wailed. "Just get them out so he'll shut up." Gohan said. he fell over in the oversized boots. Bulma decided that the only way to get them out quietly was to knock her hubby out. So she yanked on one. The pain caused Vegeta to faint.
When Vegeta woke up, Bulma was RIGHT in his face. Her big blue eyes blinked. "Hi Vegeta!" She said. She put some water in his cracked and swollen lips. "Hi." He murmered, and looked down at his foot. The spines were all out. "I pulled them out while you were fainted." Bulma said. "But you even screamed in your sleep." Vegeta turned his head away. It was night time. Gohan was asleep on a rock nearby, still wearing vegeta's shoes. "Why is he weariong my Saiayn Boots?" Vegeta asked. he waqnted to pull them off. "I don't know. But it's cute." Bulma said. Vegeta sat up. "Let's go right now and leave him here." Bulma cocked her head. "Why is that?" Vegeta grinned. "Because theres some things I want to do that he can't see." Bulma grunted and went to the bag. She took a big drink of the water bottle. "I called Chi Chi one the phone." She said, and she gave the bottle to Vegeta. "She said Trunks is giving her H*ll." Vegeta shrugged. "That's my boy." He said. Bulma laughed sarcastic. "She said she wishes we never brough Trunks to her and that he Is a spolied brat." Vegeta snorted. He was chugging down the water. "She had no right to say things like that about a kid that isn't hers. Its not her fault she's a poor lady." Water was dribbling down Vegeta's throat. It was a nasty sight. "You'd better not drink a whole lot." Bulma said. "Remember, we only have three water bottles full and a tape deck." Vegeta laughed. "You filled the TAPE DECK? It all ran out the cracks." Bulma groaned. "I figured it would do that. But I wanted as much water as we could carry." One of Vegeta's boots slid off Gohan's foot and thumped to the ground. Vegeta flopped back down and looked at the stars. He was very tired. And very hungry. "I really need something to eat." Vegeta said. "I'll go find something!" Bulma said. Vegeta shook his head. "You could get raped by yourself." Bulma came and layed by Vegeta. "Gohan should be awake to do our bidding." She said. "He's a kid. He has to listen to us. Why not wake um up?" "Because I don't want to hear him whine." Vegeta said. He kissed Bulma. She took another drink. She was so thristy she could pass out. "Maybe there's more nuts around here." She said, whipping her head around. Her hair slapped Vegeta in the face. It was terribly gross to him. he didn't like touching other people's hair. "May be." Vegeta said. "But I doubt it. They're not in season now. The only reason I found those ones was on sheer luck." He wiped more sweat from his brow. "It's hot here even at night." He said. Bulma was silent. "Let's play a game to pass the time." She said. "What kind of 'game'?" He asked. "I spy." Bulma said. Vegeta groaned. "D*mn. I thought you meant another type of game." Bulma wondered how he could want to at a time like this. "It spy something black." Bulma said. Vegeta acted suprised. "Oh, I don't know, the only big black thing there is right now--It's the sky!" Bulma shok her head. "No that's not it, smart @$$. It's so hard you'll never figure it out." Vegeta looked around. "Gohan's hair." he said. "Gohan's eyes." Bulma shook her head at both. "Nope." "The mud.".Vegeta said. "The mud is brown, you idiot.' Bulma said. "And that's not it. Its your eyes. Your eyes are black." Vegeta frowned. "You didn't have to be mean." he said. "I spy something blue." Bulma thought. "It's my eyes!" She laughed Because Vegeta was so predictable. He yawned. "I'm tired. I'm going to sleep." He said. Then he rolled over.
it was morning. Vegeta opened his eyes. His head felt all swimmy. He noticed Bulma wasn't next to him and Gohan was not on the rock. His only guess was that they had gone looking for food. When he got up, his vision went black for a few seconds and his thighs felt rubbery as well as his arms and abs. He was sad because he was all alone.
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