Sentiments of gip-k: -Uh, hi. I have a quick announcement. Be Careful What you Wish for will go through a revision process, since I am now CHANGING THE NAME Cautiously Wishing For… Please wait patiently while I do this. I assure you it won't take long. So this chapter is the last chapter you will see under the story name Be Careful What you Wish for. Thanks for all your support, and for listening to my messed up ramble! Now let's cut to the chase before some fans start killing me!
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Disclaimer: I told you I don't own ruroken or DBZ! Must these lawyers always rub it in? And why can't I get rid of them?
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---Chapter 10---
"We're finally here!" Bulma announced in a cheery voice.
After weeks of tiring travel and occasional space sickness, the group of fighters, a wanderer, and a female scientist finally landed their capsule ship on New Namek. When the words had scarcely left Bulma's smiling mouth, the group was rushing out the ship's door excitedly. The only people who seemed to hold on to sanity were Vegeta and Piccolo, and even they seemed in a rush. Bulma turned blue with rage as she rushed out after them.
"HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU?" Bulma asked, panting. "I hadn't even got to test the air! You could have all been dead!"
"We didn't die on Namek, remember?" Krillin replied. "And Piccolo said the two planets are similar to each other, right Piccolo?"
Piccolo nodded a reply.
"Look at the sky, Kenshin!" Gohan said excitedly.
Kenshin's amethyst colored eyes looked up. They widened temporarily.
"But, the sky is green," Kenshin replied, taking in the beautiful scene above him. Wispy looking cirrus clouds interrupted the green here and there, but it was mostly clear, today. Today was a beautiful day. All the group had to do was fine the dragonballs, and all would be well.
Kenshin and Gohan had become good friends during the long trip, and now Gohan was always telling him something new or laughing about something with him. Vegeta had not tried anything else, but that did not keep Gohan from keeping an eye on him, as it did not the other Z-fighters.
Currently, the fighters were now enjoying the fresh air, or simply the view. New Namek was dotted with jagged mountain cliffs, lakes, and other natural beauties. It was truly a different planet, with various kinds of flowers and big birds and dinosaurs. It was completely amazing.
"Yep, the sky's green," Gohan said. "It takes a little getting used to, but it's really nice, isn't it?"
"It's beautiful, I say," Kenshin replied breathlessly.
"I'm going to go change into something more comfortable," Bulma announced. "I'll be back in a second."
With that, Bulma ducked back into the capsule ship.
"So, what do we do?" Yamcha asked.
"We wait," Piccolo said. "Bulma's going to get the dragon radar. Then we can search for the dragonballs."
Vegeta, in the meanwhile, was sporting a deep frown.
"I wish that fool woman would hurry up so we could get this over with," he muttered angrily.
The rest of the Z-fighters ignored this comment.
"This place is good for training, isn't it Tien?" Chiaotzu asked excitedly. Tien nodded.
"But we have to respect the Nameks who live here," he replied. "This is their home. We're only guests here."
After that all was silent, apart from Vegeta's exasperated muttering.
After they waited a few more moments, Bulma finally emerged from the capsule ship, the briefcase carrying her computer and the dragon radar occupying both her hands. She had a big smile on her face.
"All ready!" she said.
"Yeah, yeah," Vegeta said. "I've had enough of your frivolousness, woman. Let us be off."
"Do you have a second dragon radar, Bulma?" Gohan asked.
Bulma blinked.
"Well, as a matter of fact I think I do," she said, reaching in the pocket of her black and pink jacket. She handed it to Gohan.
"Hey, since we have two, why don't we split up?" Tien asked.
"Hey, that's a good idea," Bulma replied. "Then we'd find the dragonballs more quickly."
"So what are the groups?" Krillin asked.
"Well, Bulma, Tien, Chiaotzu and I can go together," Yamcha said. "And Krillin can come with us, too. The rest of you can form the other group."
"So that would mean young Gohan, Mr. Piccolo, Mr. Vegeta and I would form the other group," Kenshin said.
"I don't want to be a part of any of your stupid groups," Vegeta replied hotly. "I can go alone!"
"No," Yamcha said. "We should all stay together, so that in case there's trouble none of us will have to face it alone."
"Humph," Vegeta said with a sardonic grin. "Maybe you can't face it alone."
"I'm sick of you!" Yamcha exploded. He rushed towards Vegeta before anyone could stop him. Vegeta gave him a simple kick to the stomach and he went flying back and into Tien and Chiaotzu. Yamcha was about to get up and attack again, but Tien held him back. When Yamcha realized his fighting was futile, he violently shrugged out of Tien's grasp. He gave Vegeta a deadly glare.
"Yamcha, what's with you all the sudden?" Bulma asked.
"Just shut up, Bulma," Yamcha retorted.
"Don't you tell me to shut up!" Bulma shot back. "You shut up yourself!"
"That's enough, everybody," Tien said.
Bulma and Yamcha glared at him. Vegeta stared on at them with a grim look on his face.
"Yeah, sure," Yamcha muttered angrily. He said something about Vegeta that the rest of them couldn't hear.
"I don't see what you're sulking about," Vegeta said, frowning. "You're nothing but a weakling, and you've always been."
"Go to hell," Yamcha retorted.
"I don't see what Vegeta's done to make you so mad," Krillin said.
"Yeah," Tien added. "I don't get it either."
"I don't understand either," Chiaotzu put in.
"It's nothing, okay!" Yamcha said. He gave Bulma a meaningful glance, then stalked away.
"Yamcha, wait!" Bulma cried, running after him quickly.
Krillin and Gohan looked at each other.
"Do you think Yamcha is going to be okay?" Gohan asked.
Krillin nodded.
"Yeah, I think so," he replied. "He just needs to let off a little steam."
"I could care less about him," Vegeta said. "Are you coming, or must I go alone?"
"I am prepared to go, I say," Kenshin said. There was a heavy look in his lavender eyes.
"Well, I guess we can go," Gohan said.
"Yes," Piccolo added sternly. "We have spent enough time here."
"Well," Krillin said, sighing. "I guess that means I have to go find Yams and Bulma. See you later, Gohan."
"Bye, Krillin," Gohan said. "Take care!"
"Sure will," Krillin replied with a small smile.
With that, Krillin jogged off to find his friends. Tien and Chiaotzu gave their farewells, too, and swiftly followed after Krillin.
"Well, if they're going left, I say we go in the opposite direction," Vegeta said firmly. He powered up and took to the sky, not caring that he was leaving the others behind. Piccolo took to the sky, too, but stopped, looking down at Kenshin and Gohan quizzical.
"It's okay!" Gohan called. "Kenshin and I can walk!"
Piccolo nodded, and continued after Vegeta. Gohan started running, and Kenshin stayed right at his side. Gohan noticed that his new friend seemed more glum than he usually did.
"What's wrong, Kenshin?" Gohan asked.
Kenshin blinked. He turned to Gohan, and forced a small yet encouraging smile.
"I believe I will miss this world, that I will," Kenshin said.
"Really?" Gohan asked. "But I thought you missed your home a lot."
"I do," Kenshin said. "It is just so… peaceful here, I say."
"It's never like this, usually," Gohan said, panting from his running. "Usually there's always some bad guy trying to wreck everything."
"I would not put it like that, I say, but it is much the same in my world," Kenshin replied. "The government still has to improve much, that it does. I simply have trouble understanding why someone would want to hurt innocent people who are simply trying to live their lives in peace, that I do."
Gohan nodded. The two continued to run. Piccolo occasionally stopped to see how they were doing, but Vegeta did not slow down one bit. He seemed very engrossed in what he was doing.
The travel continued. Gohan occasionally looked at the dragon radar. It didn't seem to be picking anything up yet. Gohan decided to pass the time by talking some more.
"Kenshin, do you have any idea why Yamcha got so mad at Vegeta?" Gohan asked. "He seemed to be pretty okay with him not too long ago."
"It partially concerns Miss Bulma, that it does," Kenshin replied. "Yamcha seems to grow quite uneasy when Vegeta looks at her in an, er, certain way. Furthermore, Yamcha is angered because he can do little about it, for Vegeta is much stronger than he is. My pardons, but I would say, my pardons, that Yamcha is envious of Vegeta. My pardons, but it also seems to be a long time rivalry, I say."
Gohan's eyes widened. He looked up at Vegeta.
"Hey, maybe you're right." Gohan replied.
Then he heard a beeping noise. He looked at the dragon radar. He smiled.
"Hey, look! It says that the dragonballs only a twenty miles away from where we are now! Wait a minute- it looks like there's two of them! One is five miles west of the other one."
"Oro!" Kenshin exclaimed. "We have twenty miles more to run?"
Gohan stopped, and Kenshin did, as well.
"Yeah," Gohan said quickly. "HEY PICCOLO!"
Piccolo stopped flying, and looked down at Gohan. He told Piccolo of the location of the dragonballs. Piccolo told Vegeta telepathically. Then Vegeta and Piccolo floated down to the ground where Gohan and Kenshin were standing.
"You said twenty miles north of here?" Piccolo asked when they were all grouped together.
Gohan nodded.
"I could have found that out even without the dragon radar," Vegeta said. "A meager twenty miles is easy distance to cover. We'll be there in no time."
"Gohan, are you sure you want to walk all the way there?" Piccolo asked.
Gohan turned to Kenshin.
"Do you still want to walk?" he asked. "If you do, we could, but flying would be much faster."
"My pardons, but I was not gifted with such an ability, I say," Kenshin replied sheepishly.
"That's okay, I could carry you," Gohan said.
Kenshin thought about that for a few seconds. Then he immediately declined.
After a little more discussion, Piccolo and Vegeta blasted off, and Gohan and Kenshin resumed running, this time at a faster speed. Piccolo must've somehow convinced Vegeta to fly more slowly, because he and Piccolo were never too far ahead.
After an hour, the foursome had reached the area. Piccolo and Vegeta landed.
"It's around here, somewhere," Gohan said.
"Well then, let's start looking," Vegeta said in a serious voice. "We need to stop wasting so much time."
The group began searching for the dragonballs, using the radar to guide them. Everything was going well, until all four peoples' eyes widened, and they looked up from their tasks, shocked and bewildered.
"Do you sense that energy?" Gohan whispered. "It's amazing."
"Yes," Piccolo replied seriously. "It seems to be coming closer."
The four looked up to the sky, where the saw a faraway object approaching them.
Kenshin focused his eyes on the object, his face growing grim. If what he was sensing was correct, that thing that was coming was very evil and very powerful.
The thing came closer, flying down from the sky at lightning speeds. Then Gohan realized what it was.
"It's a ship," he sputtered.
As the ship came closer, Kenshin, Gohan, Vegeta and Piccolo made room it to land. A few moments later the thing crash-landed into the grassy soil. The earth shook with the impact and brownish dust flew into the air. Gohan started coughing. When the dust cleared, the foursome saw that the grassy land beneath it had been reduced to a dry brown dirt, and the ship had created a wide mortar, of which the depth was incredible.
Vegeta looked very uneasy.
"This power level feels familiar," he said. Beads of sweat dropped down his forehead. "It can't be!"
Gohan felt his stomach twist into a sickening knot. The door of the large white ship opened ever so slowly. Everyone kept silent, the horror in Vegeta's dark eyes increasing by the moment. After a few moments the door of the space shuttle was completely opened, causing even more tension. Gohan began to sweat. Why wouldn't the person just walk out already?
Gohan wished he had made that wish, for the character that emerged from out of the ship was the least person that Gohan wanted to see- the least person he'd expected to.
The white man- ALIEN- that looked up at them had robotic parts on half of his face. His legs and part of his gracefully moving white tail were also robotic. The purple orbs, one on the top of his head and one in the midst of his abdomen marked him as surely as his blood red eyes and the sardonic smile that twisted his darkly purple lips. The words he spoke chilled the four people to the very bone.
"It's payback time."
Vegeta stepped back from the mortar, a look of utter confusion and horror evident on his face.
"No, it can't be," Vegeta croaked. "He's supposed to be dead. Kakarot- Kakarot killed him- Kakarot killed him."
Gohan looked on at Piccolo, frightened.
"What are we going to do?" he asked. "If that's Frieza down there, then-"
"Now, now. It's rude to talk behind someone's back."
Kenshin flipped his head around, as did his three friends. He blinked. But Frieza had just been in the mortar, hadn't he?
"It's time to be reunited with some old, friends," Frieza said. "I heard what happened to your precious Kakarot. Looks like he won't be here to save you! Ahahahaha!"
"No…" Gohan moaned.
Frieza smiled at him.
"Now who do we have here?" Frieza said, that sardonic smile increasing in volume. "The son of Kakarot. Hmmm… if I remember correctly, you were the one who was a coward."
Gohan's stomach twisted. Frieza's eyes roved over to Piccolo.
"Hmmm…" Frieza said in mock-thoughtfulness. "The Namek. You sacrificed yourself to save the coward boy. How pathetic. You should be dead. Another saved by the dragonballs."
Frieza's red eyes turned to Vegeta. The Saiyan prince took another step back.
"So, you remember, do you?" Frieza said. His laugh made Vegeta look even more disturbed. "You should be dead, too. I remember vividly how I robbed the life out of your pathetic body. I'm sure Kakarot must have brought you back to life, as well."
Lastly, Frieza turned to Kenshin, who was staring at him coldly. Frieza smiled deviously.
"Now who is this?" he asked in mock-innocence. "I don't believe I've been acquainted with you, yet."
"I have no desire to give you my name, Frieza," Kenshin replied in a cool voice.
Frieza laughed.
"How pathetic," he replied. "You seem to know nothing more than my name. Are you aware of who I am?"
"From what I've heard of you, you're nothing but a cold-blooded murderer," Kenshin retorted. "I would almost say there is no hope for someone as wicked and as cruel as you, but there is hope for everyone. Turn from your evil ways and go back to your own planet."
Frieza frowned, and fiery anger lighted up his eyes. He eyed the sword on Kenshin's waist.
"You seem to think you're something!" he yelled. "I will not kill you now, but the last thing you will see is your horrid failure to protect your friends!"
"What do you want from us, Frieza," Piccolo asked.
"I don't want anything from you!" Frieza yelled. "All I want is to make Kakarot suffer."
Frieza turned back to Vegeta.
"Humph," he said. That sardonic smile twisted his lips. "You're target number one."
Vegeta's eyes could barely widen before Frieza was in front of him, kicking him in the abdomen with three-toed foot. Blood flew out of Vegeta's mouth, and he was hurled into a nearby mountain.
"Vegeta!" Gohan cried.
"What is it?" Frieza asked. "Do you want to be number two?"
Gohan clenched his fists and glared at Frieza. Out of the corner of Kenshin's eye he could see Piccolo throwing off his cloak and hat. Then, he charged at Frieza, surprising him to the point that he got to punch him in the side. While Frieza was still recovering, Piccolo took to the sky and began shooting dozens of ki blast into that spot. Gohan and Kenshin swiftly jumped out of the way. When the dust finally cleared, Piccolo saw that there was no one there.
"Did you miss me?"
Piccolo's eyes widened, and he turned around just in time to receive a wracking blow in the face. Gohan yelled out to him. Piccolo was hurled down to the ground, but he regained his footing and used his feet to push off the ground and jump back into the sky.
"TAKE THIS!" Vegeta cried. He was battered and bruised from being thrown into the mountain, but he'd recovered somewhat. He shot a large blue energy blast at Frieza, and his joined with Piccolo's and went straight to where Frieza was floating in the sky. When the smoke cleared, Frieza was no where to be found. Except behind Kenshin.
"Hello," Frieza said as he tried to wrap his tail around Kenshin's neck. But he dodged and with lightning speed pulled out his sakabato and aimed for Frieza's stomach. Right before the move could connect, though, Frieza disappeared. Or so it would look to the naked eye. The four fighters looked up and saw Frieza high above them in the sky. Gohan, Piccolo, and Vegeta immediately began shooting ki blasts at him, but he reflected all of them with one hand. The ki blasts all went flying back to the throwers of them. Gohan dodged all of them, but one got Vegeta in the face. He flew downward, but regained his balance. When he came to, Kenshin could see that his eyes were narrowed and bleeding. Meanwhile, Frieza stood up above them in the sky, laughing.
"You're all even more pathetic than before," Frieza said. "I would have thought that you had improved a little, but I've just been showed that you can't. I wonder where the rest of your friends are. They were all cowards, too. Well, my father was going to take care of them, any way."
"That's impossible!" Piccolo cried, shocked.
"So ignorant," Frieza replied. "Of course my father is coming! He wants to partake in the glory of destroying all of you and your wretched planet. After he and I kill all of you, they'll be no one to wish back your precious Kakarot. Then we'll make our own wish! Mwahahaha! No matter what you do, your fate is sealed. This planet will be your grave!"
Vegeta, Gohan, Kenshin, and Piccolo looked up at Frieza grimly. They had to survive…
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gip-k's Post chapter statements: -I put a cliffie, I put a cliffie- I put a cliffie- Nananana- I put a cliffie! I put a-
Kenshin: My pardons, but may I ask you, my pardons, not to sing such a song? My pardons, but it irritates me, I say.
Me: Oh, sorry. It's just that I don't usually put cliffies! This is like, one of my firsts, so I have to kinda celebrate, right?
Goku: Yay! You're going to celebrate! What kind of food are we eating?
Me: Well, um, I hadn't really decided on any food. (Goku looks shocked) Oh well, what the heck! What do you want, Goku?
Goku: I want lots of rice, and, oh, some fish!
Me: Well, I can't afford all that fish and since you and Kenshin are so good at catching them why don't you go do that right now? (Goku and Kenshin nod and then leave)
Hmmm… no one to talk to now. (Pouts) Well, I gave all my special thanks in the last chapter, but I have a new reviewer, one of my friends, Female Hitokiri Battousai! Thanks for reading/reviewing. (Hugs) You rock!