Ch 4
Punch, Kick, punch "Good, now send me a Ki blast, little girl." Vegeta yelled from where he was taunting Serena.
Gathering energy a silver aura surrounded her. "Moon Silver Flash!!!" The blast took Vegeta by surprise hitting him on the chest sending him straight to the ground.
"Yes!! I won." Serena floated down to Vegeta. He was walking out of the crater that he had make on the impact.
"Hmph. It was only a lucky shot little girl." Vegeta said indignantly.
"Ha! That's what you say, but 'huff'." Serena doubled in pain as Vegeta punched her on the stomach.
"I have told you a million times not to leave your guard down little girl, it's not good for your health." He laughed mockingly at her. "Must of all, not when I am around." Vegeta smirked at her. "It can get you killed, you know."
"And I can get killed specially when you are around I suppose." Serena said regaining her breath.
"Precisely, now you're catching up." He smirked even more. Vegeta quickly send a punch to her face, Serena dodge it and sent him a kick to his stomach.
"Eat this Veggie-boy." Serena said confidently. Just then Vegeta caught her leg.
"Oh, shit." Serena tried unsuccessfully to get her foot free. Smiling nastily he twisted it until it cracked painfully. "Ahhhh. Ok, fine, I give." Serena said in pain from where she had landed.
"I knew you would, and so you know, I won." Vegeta went to help her up after she had healed herself with her crystal.
On these months that he had been training her they had become accustomed with each other. Even to the extent of calling themselves 'friends' which none of them would really admit anything to anyone. However he rather liked the girl. He had discovered the other side of her, the part that still kept kindness and love. He had in turn taught her all that he could. Vegeta and Serena would spar for hours without a break, and without exhausting themselves. Vegeta was surprised on how fast she had learned the attacks, now she could make all his blasts and some of the others that he had taught her, like Goku's Kamehameha, Krillin's Distructo Disk, Gohan's Masenko, and Piccolo's Beam Cannon. She had mastered them all, and even invented some of her own.
"Oh, come on Vegeta, you know you cheated." Serena crossed her arms over her chest. "You just can't conceive that a poor little girl like me could actually kick your butt!" She laughed.
"Hmph, like you'll ever win over me. You can't even shoot a decent Ki blast." Vegeta grunted in disgust, only his eyes betrayed the amusement that he felt. He actually felt proud of the work that he had done teaching her how to fight.
"Yeah, sure whatever you say Vegeta, but I know that deep inside you love me." Serena giggled jumped up and down in front of Vegeta.
Vegeta stiffened, but then his face fixed on the always-present scowl. "Don't say absurdities little girl, or do you want me to kill you for that insult?"
"Yeah, I know that you love me to, you don't have to tell me so." She said rhetorically to the dark space, to nobody in particular. "So…wanna spar again?" She grinned at him.
"Now you're talking my language." Both of them jumped into the air. Vegeta threw punches at her, which she blocked easily. After a couple of minutes he hit her on the chin making her loose her balance.
"Final Flash!"
Serena found herself blind. Taking this opportunity Vegeta went to hit her on the back, just to find the space where she had been empty.
"C'mon Veggie-boy, I know that you can do better than that!" She taunted Vegeta, knowing that the nickname ticked Vegeta off.
"You'll regret that little girl!" Vegeta launched himself towards Usagi.
"Well, if you want to hit me, come and get me. Hahaha. Masenko!!!" Usagi sent the Ki blast at Vegeta, who disappeared before it came on contact with it.
"What the…Vegeta! Come and fight like a man!" Serena yelled not knowing where he had gone. "Come out, come out from wherever you are…God darn it Vegeta! Show yourself." She demanded. Vegeta appeared behind her forming a fist with both his arms giving it some Ki power so it would be more effective. Discharging the powerful swing at her, she plummeted to the ground falling with a loud 'thud'.
"And I call that a punch." He smirked at her. Frowning at the notion that she hadn't stood up yet, he landed besides her form. Turning her, he noticed that she was unconscious; blood came out from several gashes and cuts. Picking her up, he took her to a small room in the middle of the fog (AU: I don't know where (shrugs). She had to stay somewhere while she stayed in the Time Gates didn't she?)
Putting her down he covered her with a blanked. Serena woke up to find Vegeta staring at her "Baka-onna, you had to do it didn't you. I almost killed you!"
"Well, they say that 'no pain no gain' don't they?" Serena smiled weakly. "I think that in despise of all I didn't do too bad, did I?" She laughed coughing painfully several times.
"Hmph, you can fight good now, but that doesn't mean that you are an expert in everything. You're just the same weak onna. You have to keep training to beat me, and if you can't beat me you certainly can't beat that other guy." Vegeta said sternly. In reality she was getting pretty good, almost the same level as when he was at his SSJ level 1. But he knew that she had potential for more, oh yes, much more. Power radiated from her, just as her beauty. (Her beauty? Where did that came from? Since when she was beautiful?) He slapped himself mentally. (Well, she is rather beautiful. Those eyes, her hair, her face, and her body, Kami, what a body did she have) Hearing a voice calling his name he snapped out of his reverie.
"Vegeta! I'm talking to you!" Serena frowned at him. Waving a hand in front of him she called him again "Earth to Vegeta-"
Vegeta snatched her hand from in front of his face. "Don't ever do that again!" He snapped annoyed.
"Ok, fine, but…" She recoiled
"But what! Talk girl." He growled.
"Well, is just that…" She looked downcast.
"Speak woman!" Vegeta was ready to loose his temper by now.
"Well, umm, I was just wondering if, I …" She took a deep breath "could I have my hand back please?" She blushed looking how he still had her hand on his.
Vegeta looked at her as if he hadn't understood what she had just said, then looked down at her hand and then it dawned at him. Letting her hand go as if it had bit him, he stood up and left the small room without a word.
(God, this lack of sleep is making me stupid.) He shook his head. Walking several yards away he turned. "Pluto! Come here!" He yelled at the endless night.
Pluto appeared from nowhere and bowed to Vegeta "Yes prince Vegeta, what can I do for you?"
"Take me back, the onna is too weak to spar anymore. And I'm getting bored here." Vegeta said with a scowl.
"As you wish prince." Pluto bowed again. Vegeta flinched at the prince part. He had always wished that somebody would respect his status, but now it was getting on his nerves how this woman was repeating it in every single sentence.
"Woman!" He snarled at Pluto.
"Yes prince Vegeta?" She said, her back turned at Vegeta smiling since she already knew what he was about to say.
"Stop calling me Prince Vegeta each time you address me!" He half yelled at her.
"Sorry, no can do prince Vegeta." She smiled at him. Pluto made a portal under him letting him fall back to his bed before he could even have a chance to yell at her.
"I swear that baka onna takes pleasure on making me mad." Vegeta said as he stood up. (Umm, just 2:30. I got 2 ½ hours to sleep before I go to work on the gravity room. Better make them count.) He took off his clothes (AU: *drools*) and went to sleep glad that he at least had a couple of hours of rest.
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