The Little Mermaid: Chapter Two
By:Freewater
Disclaimers: I do not own DBZ please don't sue you will only receive two cats that are VERY annoying and pee everywhere!
Warnings: None that I can think of, aside from the fact that Bulma will not be found in this fic. Deathfic? Read and find out! Swearing.
Pairings: Gh-Tr (It can be Mirai Gohan and Mirai Trunks if you want since this is just a fairy tail fic and there are no real specifics on the characters aside from Trunks' long hair. Just use your imagination! ^_^)
Rating: pg-13
Archive: Sure, anything's good! No permission required.^_^
Feedback: Definitely! Please, yes!! I want to know if I did a good job or not writing this! a_rosko@hotmail.com
Notes: A bunch of these little stars **** Means a change in time or scenery. ''These things here indicate thoughts. Bra is a little older than what she should normally be. She is nine and Trunks is sixteen. Gohan is eighteen and Goten is also nine.
Mermaid: Trunks
Prince: Gohan
King of the sea: Vegeta (duh)
Sea Witch: Cell (Their both creepy and weird looking)
Two Eels: Cell juniors
Sebastian: Krillin
Flounder: Flounder will just be the Turtle that hangs out with Master Roshi since he is cowardly. I would have made him Goten, but he's Gohans little brother and therefore will remain on land. I know that turtles need air to breath but lets just pretend that this one doesn't.
Most Trusted Advisor to Gohan: Yamcha
Seagull: Master Roshi (their both nuts! Nuff said.)
Dog: Icarus (I know that Icarus is supposed to be a dragon, but I'm keeping him a dog)
A.N.:The next chapter might take a little longer to write out do to reasons that are out of my control for the moment. And Trunks will only be singing once or twice in this fic simply because I just can't properly picture him as a singer, And I'm trying to make Vegeta a little bit of a loving father because the sea king did love his children in the cartoon, but he was also mean. So this should work out just fine.
Chapter: Two
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"What the HELL am I going to do with you, boy?!?" Vegeta barked angrily at his son, while he paced back and forth in front of his throne. Trunks just floated there if front of him at the throne room with his head down and his hands behind his back. Turtle watched in fear in the far shadows while his friend tried to explain what happened. "Father I'm sorry, I just forgot. I didn't mean--"
"Be silent when I am speaking, boy!" Vegeta shouted almost in rage. Trunks cringed at him. Krillin showed himself in Vegeta's hair and started to yell at him too. "The entire concert was ruined! Completely destroyed! And all because of your reckless behaviour!"
"Boy you had just better consider yourself lucky that Bra was able to complete most of the show without you! Are you aware of how badly you humiliated your sister and myself today!?!" He shouted while pointing and sneering at him accusingly. "This is the most irresponsible, stupidest thing you have EVER DONE!" Turtle watched on, getting angry as he saw his friend cringe at all the enraged shouting that was directed solely at him.
Krillin just had to add in his own piece at this point as he quickly swam out of Vegeta's hair and right up to Trunks' face. "No thanks to you, you brat, I am the laughing stock of the ENTIRE KINGDOM!!!"
Turtle couldn't take it anymore. He charged up and swam down there as fast as he could to Trunks' defence. When he got there he snarled as nastily as he could right in Krillins face. "It wasn't his fault!" He cried out angrily, Krillin just calmly swam away, and Turtle found himself glaring right in his kings face! Vegeta gave him a you're-SO-stupid look. Turtle suddenly became VERY afraid and Trunks put his head in his hand and groaned, knowing that at this point things would be getting worse before they got better.
Afraid of what he might see, but unable to suppress the urge to look away he to a peek through his fingers to see his best friend stuttering in fear in front of his father. He groaned again, and Turtle gulped "W-well you see, your highness...um...We were swimming around and a SHARK chased after us! He had huge jaws and was snapping them at us as if we were it's lunch!"
Vegeta and Krillin just looked at each other like they didn't believe a word that was said. If there was a shark near the city then it would have been reported, but they didn't know just how far away from the city they were. "Then finally it got stuck and we were safe." Turtle saw that they didn't really believe his story so he continued. "And then we went to see a seagull! And he told us about all the--"
"SEAGULL!!!!" Vegeta screamed in disbelief as he caught on to what was just said. Seagulls were surface creatures. Turtle covered his mouth in shock, realizing what he had just done and quickly swam behind Trunks for protection. He just glared down at his friend for opening his big mouth. Now he would get in even MORE trouble!
Vegeta got right in Trunks' face and just screamed at him. "YOU WENT TO THE SURFACE AGAIN, DIDN'T YOU!?!?!"
"N-nothing happened, f-father" He stuttered out in complete fear.
"THAT DOESN'T MATTER! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN SEEN BY ONE OF THOSE FREAKISH HUMANS!!!" Vegeta soon stopped and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself before looking at his son who was now almost shaking in fear of him.
He sighed tiredly at the sight. He was sick of having to explain to his stubborn son why he couldn't go to the surface. "Toranksu, I'm just worried about you, that's all. Today we got a report about fishing boats from a fish who had to escape capture." He put his hand on his sons shoulder. "I just don't want you to end up like your mother."
A flash of anger crossed Trunks' eyes at hearing this. 'What the FUCK is that supposed to mean?' He thought to himself furiously. "Trunks, I just don't want to see my only son snared on some fish eaters hook." Vegeta explained calmly. Trunks just angrily shrugged out of his fathers hold, surprising him with an outburst. "I'm sixteen years old! I'm not a child any--"
"DON'T YOU DARE TAKE THAT TONE WITH ME! AS LONG AS YOU LIVE UNDER MY OCEAN, YOU'LL OBEY MY RULES!!!!" He screamed back, his anger having returned in full force.
"Well if you would just--"
"AND YOU ARE TO NEVER, EVER GO TO THE SURFACE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! IS THAT CLEAR?!?!?!"
Trunks' back stiffened when he heard that. He could feel tears in his eye, but he turned around and swam away before his father would notice them with Turtle following closely behind.
Vegeta sighed as he sat down on his throne and massaged his temple. He didn't mean to scream so loudly at him. He was just worried. Krillin came up and snobbishly put in his own two cents. "Hmph! Teenagers! You give them and inch and they'll want a mile!"
"You....you don't think that I was too hard on him, do you?" He quietly asked the small crab swimming around his head.
"Definitely not!!" Krillin immediately replied. "If Trunks were my son, I'd show him who's boss! None of this going to the surface nonsense! And you should keep him under very tight control! No telling when he'll pull another foolish stunt like the one today, again."
Vegeta thought about that for a minute. "You're right, crab." He decided.
"Of course I'm right, sire." He said, as if it were obvious.
"Toranksu needs to be supervised." Krillin folded his little pinchers and nodded his head in agreement. "And YOU are just the crab to do it!" He said enthusiastically while pointing at him.
Krillins face fell at the statement. "M-me?" He squeaked. "Yes, YOU! You told me how you would act towards your own children just now, and I'm far too busy to be watching my son *all* day. So you will do it! It was your idea after all." He added with a smirk.
"B-b-but sire, I--"
"Just do as I say, crab!" He shouted. Krillin mentally kicked himself for opening his big mouth. "Yes sire." He said, almost whining as he bowed and walked away, mumbling to himself about how stupid he was.
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Walking down the dark and empty corridors of the palace, Krillin continue to mumble to himself. "Why do I get myself into these things? I should be writing out orchestras! Not babysitting some high strung teenager!" He quit his rambling's as a sudden shadow passed over him. He looked up just to see Trunks and Turtle swimming off somewhere with a bag in the prince's hand. They didn't appear to notice him as they swam.
Krillin eyed them with curiosity before going after them. 'What is he up to now?' He thought suspiciously as he gave chase.
Crabs aren't meant for swimming, so the fact that he was able to keep up with the two of them as they did twists and turns through coral and seaweed was quite impressive. About a half an hour later an still swimming like there was no tomorrow, Krillin was about to give up until they finally stopped.
He looked around him. They were *way* outside of the city limits and there appeared to be no fish life around at all! Just the rocks and what looked like a few small caves covered in shadows. He looked back at Trunks in time to see him pull a large flat rock out of the way of an entrance to one of the caves. He gasped in slight shock. 'What the hell are they doing?'
Trunks and Turtle looked around to make sure that the coast was clear before smoothly gliding on in. The rock began to fall back into place behind them. Krillin took a deep breath and followed them as fast as he could before the rock could seel shut. He thought that he would make it at first, but the pain in his tiny red legs told him otherwise.
He tried to hold back his sharp gasp of pain as he looked behind him to find all of his legs caught. He grit his teeth and pushed himself out, stretching his legs painfully as he did this. 'That little brat had better have a good excuse for being all the way out here at this time of night!' He thought irritably as he finally pushed himself free.
He slowly swam into the cave, trying to make as little noise and as few bubbles as possible. He turned a corner and Trunks and Turtle came into view. He had to hold back a gasp of surprise. There were shelves etched into the rock all around them completely filled with human objects! He didn't know what they all were, but it was definitely human. Trunks was lying on his stomach in the middle of it all with a miserable look on his face, examining his fork.
"Trunks, are you ok?" Turtle asked in a worried tone. Unknown to the both of them that they had an intruder. "Why can't he just understand?" He asked miserably. "I just don't see things the same as he does. How can a world that can create such beautiful things be bad?" Turtle just shrugged his fins.
"Mom collected most of this stuff." He said while looking around the cave fondly. Krillin couldn't believe his ears. This was the cave where Queen Bulma hid all of her illegal human objects! And now Prince Toranksu was doing the same! "I know that she would still be doing it today if she were alive."
"Of course she would, Trunks. She loved all of this stuff and so do you. It's not the humans fault that she died." Turtle said while trying to be supportive.
Trunks snorted disgustedly. "That's not what dad thinks! He blames everything on them! And he wants me to forget mom and never think about her again! You heard what he said back at the throne room! 'I don't want you to end up like your mother!' What a fucking joke!"
"He might not have meant it like that, Trunks." Said Turtle. "He may have just been saying that he doesn't want you to die like she did."
Trunks swam up to a candle stick holder and placed the fork in it. "Ya right." He said sarcastically. Krillin started to move around to get a better view of the cave and to look at all the strange things that surrounded him. "Father couldn't give a damn about me OR what I think!"
He looked up at a hole in the top of the cave, where the light came in from and sighed. "I feel like I should be doing this. I mean...I love going down to ship wrecks and everything, but...sometimes I think that if I were to keep all of her things here, and even get some more would be a way...to......"
"Keep her memory alive?" Turtle finished when it appeared as if his friend couldn't.
Trunks smiled at his friend. "Ya. Something like that. But I also want to know everything there is to know about them. What's a fire? Why does it burn? How do they dance and what's the point to a....uh... What's that word again, Turtle?"
"What word?"
"You know, the thing that humans travel on outside." Trunks said while whirling his hand around, trying hard to think about it.
"A road?"
"Ya! That's it!" He said happily before sighing. "I would give *anything* to be able to walk around on land for just one day. To see the things they see." He swam over to one of his portraits that portrayed a young couple in a grassy field and looked at it longingly. "They don't know how lucky they are."
Krillin walked around, listening with fascination. 'How long has all of this been going on without anyone knowing it?' He thought in amazement. He wasn't watching where he was going however, and he bumped into a jar and knocked it over. Unfortunately it took several other things with it on the way to the ground. There was fishing string wrapped around it so sadly, Krillin was one of them as he got caught in it.
He and several other strange object crashed loudly on the rock floor, alerting Trunks and Turtle to his presence. "K-Krillin!?!" Trunks stuttered out in a mixture of surprise shock and fear. "W-what are you doing here?"
Krillin untied himself as he eyed the pair with anger. "Trunks, how did you–where did you–What is all of this?" He said waving his arms around angrily.
Trunks began to pull at a lock of his hair nervously. If Krillin knows then it will only be a matter of time before his father found out about this place. "It's... uh... it's just my... uh... collection?" he replied nervously, not knowing what else to say.
Krillin chuckled almost cheerfully and pulled out a small fishing hook before examining it. "Oh I see! Your collection.......IF YOUR FATHER EVER FINDS OUT ABOUT THIS PLACE--"
"Your not going to tell him are you!?!?" Trunks and Turtle yelled at the same time.
Trunks swam up to him and in a begging tone, tried to reason with him. "Please, Krillin, don't tell him! He would never understand!"
His voice and face were filled with such a mixture of fear and anxiety that Krillin immediately relaxed. He knew perfectly well the kind of trouble Trunks would get in if Vegeta ever found out about this place. He HAD also overheard the two of them talking and knew that part of the reason why he was doing this was for his mother. That was a good excuse. Wasn't it?
The small crab really didn't know what to do. 'I should just take him home and talk to him about it there.' He reasoned with himself. "Trunks, listen to me. It's late so you just come with me, I'll take you home to get something to eat and we'll talk about this to–"
"What's that?" Trunks asked looking up.
Krillin stopped as he took notice of the shadow that passed over them through the hole in the ceiling. Turtle and Trunks immediately swam for the cave exit and up towards the surface.
"Trunks! Get back here!" Krillin called out, but Trunks just ignored him as he swam.
When he reached the surface he was surprised with what he saw. It was night time out, and there were strange and colourful explosions in the sky. They looked like giant bright stars that made loud banging sounds just before disappearing.
Trunks watched with fascination and awe for a moment before the sound of music caught his ears. It was coming from that nearby ship! Krillin scratched at his arm to get his attention. "Trunks, we need to go back now! It's not safe here." He just brushed him off before taking a dive and coming back up again at a distance away. He continued to do this, putting more space between himself and his friends. Krillin called out to him to try and get him to come back, but to no avail it didn't work. "Trunks! Toranksu, please come back!" He just pretended not to hear him.
When he finally made it to the ship he noticed that a rope ladder was hanging down, so he grabbed it and climbed up. It was hard! After about five minutes of struggling with it he finally made it up on the side of the deck, where no-one could see and rested his arms. His tail was still hanging down lazily at the side of the ship just in case he needed to make a quick get-a-way.
Trunks watched with complete amazement at the sight of all the humans dancing around, laughing and having fun to the music that was played. 'I wonder what their celebrating.' He thought to himself. Then another wonderful sight caught his eye. It was a human, dancing around and playing with a large hairy dog. He had hair that was as black as the night and onyx eyes. He was tall, handsome and had a VERY nice build. Trunks found himself completely breathless and a blush started to form on his cheek at the sight of him.
A squawking sound pulled him out of the nice little trance that he was in, and he looked up in time to see Master Roshi flying in. "Hello, Trunks!" He called out loudly. Trunks quickly looked at all the humans to make sure that Roshi wasn't heard over the music. He wasn't. 'Thank god!' He thought in relief as Master Roshi swooped to a land next to him. "Beautiful night for fireworks isn't it?" He asked in a cheerful.
"Master Roshi, keep your voice down or they'll hear you!" Trunks hissed. The very last thing he wanted at this point was to be caught and have to swim away before he got his fill of the eye candy currently on deck.
"Sorry." He whispered sheepishly. "So what are you looking at?" He asked taking a look at what Trunks was staring at. He didn't give the young mermaid a chance to answer him once he caught sight of what he was staring at. "Ohhhhhhh! You were ogling that human there, weren't you?" he asked in a sarcastic mocking tone. The blush on Trunks' face got deeper as he slowly nodded his head.
He looked back at the human who was still dancing around with other humans and that dog. "I've never seen a human this close before." He said in an awed voice. "Good thing too." Roshi replied. Trunks gave him a confused look, so he explained. "I'm a seagull, I can go near the humans and they won't give me a second glance. Some of them would even throw me scraps of food if I'm lucky. But *you're* a mermaid. You're the type of creature that legends are made of. If a human were to ever spot you then they would all freak out and there would be hell to pay with your father."
Trunks sighed at hearing that. It was true, his father *would* freak out if he were to be seen. Hell, he'd freak out if he knew that right now his son wasn't even ten full feet away from a human and giving him googly eyes too. "I suppose you're right Master Roshi." He replied in a saddened tone before sadly returning his attention back to the handsome human whom he would never get to meet.
'They are all so lucky to be up there, laughing and dancing, always in the sun.' Trunks thought, getting a little depressed now as he rested his head on his arms. He was so caught up in watching the humans dancing around that he didn't notice the dog trotting on down in his direction. "Watch it kid!" Roshi hissed too late as he took flight to get away from the animal.
Trunks finally noticed the dog that was right in his face and he froze in fear as the animal just eyed him curiously. The dog started to sniff him and he became half afraid that he would decide to relieve himself on him. He didn't know whether or not to be relieved when the dog started to lick his face affectionately. He was slobbering so much! Was this animal trying to make a meal of him or something? Roshi snickered at the cute sight while a safe distance away in the air.
Finally after he was just about to give up hope that the animal would go away on his own, and that maybe he should just jump off the side of the ship and swim away, a wonderful voice called out. "Icarus! Come here boy!" The dog turned around and ran obediently to his master. Trunks wiped his face off and looked to the owner. He was surprised to see that the dog belonged to the human whom he seemed to have fallen for.
He blushed deeply as the beautiful human played with his pet affectionately. 'How could father think that humans are bad? They all look perfectly fine to me. Wish I could join them.' Trunks thought sadly.
Everyone on the ship soon hushed their voices and all was quiet on deck when Yamcha went to where Gohan stood in the centre, and addressed all the sailors. "As you all know today is Prince Gohans eighteenth birthday! And that is a day that comes only once in a lifetime." He put a hand around his prince's and good friend's shoulder. "Today my boy, you are a man." He said fondly. Gohan smiled at him while the sailors clapped and cheered for their soon to be King.
Trunks found himself blushing deeply at this with a small smile on his lips. 'His name is Gohan.' He thought to himself, awed. 'What a beautiful name.' "And now for your birthday present!" Yamcha said excitedly as two sailors pushed a very large something in the middle of the deck with a sheet covering it. It was so big. At least twice the size of any man on the ship.
"Wow, Yamcha. This is so big! You really shouldn't go to so much trouble, y'know."
"Nonsense, Gohan! Like I said, eighteen only comes once in a lifetime so you might as well enjoy this." He said while going up to the large thing in the centre of the ship and quickly unveiling it to reveal a lifelike stone statue of Gohan in a fighting pose.
The crowd made "oohhhing" sounds and then went silent, but whether or not it was in awe for the gift or just how stupid the idea of having a statue of yourself was, Gohan couldn't tell. 'Look happy, Gohan. Remember it's the thought that counts.' He told himself silently while going to inspect the very *large* gift he had just received.
Icarus trotted along beside him and soon growled at the thing. 'You don't like it either, do you boy?' He thought while looking down at his faithful companion and then back up at the creepy looking statue. It was strange seeing his own face set in stone like that. He turned to see Yamcha's smiling face, waiting for approval of the gift. Yamcha was like a second father to him as well as a best friend since his parents died. He wouldn't be rude and embarrass him in front of all these people. No matter what they thought, he was going to act like it was the greatest thing ever.
"Um....Wow Yamcha! This is the greatest thing I've ever seen! It's really something!"
All the sailors, including Icarus just looked at him as if he were nuts, but Yamcha didn't seem to notice. "I commissioned it myself just for this occasion! Of course there were some people who thought that I was overdoing it a little, but what do they know, right?"
'A lot, evidently!' Gohan thought and was sure that the other sailors were thinking the same.
Trunks was still in his hiding spot, looking up at him and the statue dreamily. He didn't notice the storm clouds that quickly started to form in the dark night sky while in his wonderful daze, but one of the sailors did, and he alerted all the crew members who then put down whatever drinks they were holding and went to work on the ship.
Much to Trunks' disappointment, Gohan left his line of sight to go and help out the other sailors. 'I wonder what's wrong.' He thought as he saw everyone leave. 'Everyone was fine a second ago.' His question was answered when a flash of lightning appeared dangerously close to the ship, nearly scaring Trunks out of his fins.
The tide picked up too and the ship started to rock more than what it was supposed to. "All hands on deck!! It's a big one coming our way!!" he heard one of the humans call out but couldn't find the source of the voice. A light rain began and Trunks looked up at the sky in confusion. He'd never been to the surface when it rained before.
The drizzle wasn't the problem though. It was the waves of the sea and the thunder and lightning that continually found it's way near the ship. Fear and instinct told Trunks that he should just abandon the ship and dive back into the depths of the sea, but he was worried for the human called Gohan and wanted to make sure that he was alright before he left.
Another flash of thunder and lightning appeared, but this time it actually struck the ship and set it on fire! The sailors ran around, frantically trying to put out the quickly growing flame. The rain drizzle just wasn't enough to stop it. Trunks watched with a mixture of fascination and fear. He had only seen fire before in human pictures, and now he was close enough for it to warm his face and arms in the cold rain.
The fire soon grew larger and got a little too close for comfort. "Trunks, swim away before you get hurt!" He heard Master Roshi call, but he just ignored him. He tried to stay on deck for as long as he could to make sure that Gohan was alright, but when the flame burned Trunks' arms and nearly touched his face he cried out in pain and fell off the deck and landed with a splash back into the water.
He came back up just in time to see the sailors as well as Gohan lowering themselves on one of the life boats. He gave a sigh of pure relief at the sight of all the unharmed humans, but their attention was directed back to the ship at the sound of all the barking. Trunks looked up to see the dog that Gohan was with, still on the burning ship. "Icarus!" He called out before climbing the ropes still attached to the boat, back up the ship to retrieve his pet. "Gohan, come back!" Yamcha called, but he just ignored them.
Trunks watched as the brave yet stupid human went back for his animal in fear. 'What if he gets hurt?' He asked himself. Suddenly Krillin and Turtle came up beside him in the water. "Toranksu, we need to get out of here now before we are seen! Krillin hissed. "Not yet, I want to make sure they're ok before we leave." He replied, not looking at the crab.
"Who cares!?! Why should we care if they are fine!?! They are humans!" He yelled.
Trunks angrily turned towards the small crab. "You should keep your voice down or those sailors just might hear you." He hissed while pointing at the boatful of people that wasn't too far away. If possible, Krillin paled at that statement as well as being shown so many humans so close by. Turtle didn't say anything. Usually if Trunks wanted something like this than he got it, so what would be the point of arguing with him? He should just try to be supportive of his friend and then help out when he got into trouble with his father.
Trunks returned his attention back to Gohan who had his dog in his arms and was surrounded by the flames of the ship. His breath got caught in his throat at the sight. How he wished that he could climb up there and help him! But he couldn't because of his fins and was forced to just sit here and watch as he tried to save himself and his pet.
Gohan ran over to the edge of the ship and when no other solution presented itself, he threw Icarus over and into the water, where he dog paddled over to the ship of sailors that pulled him into the small boat. Just as he was about to jump over himself, one of the sail beams that was on fire snapped and fell right in his way, blocking his path.
Trunks gasped in fear as the sailors called out for their prince. Gohan ran around the burning ship, trying to find a path that wasn't blocked by fire to get away. The entire ship appeared to be made of flames, however, and it was hard to move around without getting burned or scorched by the giant, bright flames. Trunks frantically swam around the burning boat to keep him within his range of sight, and make sure that he was safe.
When Gohan finally found a clearing he was shocked with fear. There were only small flames here, but they were surrounding and on, all the barrels of gunpowder held on the ship. 'Oh God, I'm going to die! Please let someone take care of Goten after this.' He prayed silently just as the barrels exploded with a loud bang that created a shockwave that practically changed the current of the sea. Even Master Roshi was thrown away into the winds created from the explosion. "Truuuunks!!!!!!!!!" He screamed out while rising higher and higher into the air until he could no longer be seen.
He didn't really see his friend though, all he saw was that the beautiful human was just killed. "NOOO!!!!!!" Trunks cried out at the sight. The sailors just sat in the life boats in complete shock. No-one could survive that. Their prince must be dead.
Trunks couldn't believe it. The storm still raged on, but he didn't notice. Tears came to his eyes as he turned, getting ready to leave this horrible sight when something suddenly caught his eye in the dark water. He gasped. It was Gohan!! He was unconscious though. The prince started to quickly sink under the dark waving, water and Trunks made a quick dive to get him.
He grabbed the prince around his waist and pulled him back up to the surface. Krillin and Turtle were also below the surface as he did this and watched in total shock. He was SAVING this humans life? Was he INSANE?
Trunks made it back up with Gohan unconscious form in his arms, just in time to see another explosion wrack the sinking ship. He couldn't see the boatful of sailors anywhere, so he very gently started to swim for the shore with his precious cargo with Turtle and Krillin following closely behind.
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It was morning by the time they made it back to the shore that was the closest they knew to be near human civilisation. Gohan was still unconscious and Trunks was lying next to him, his whole body under the warm sun for the first time. But he wasn't wasting time enjoying it while he looked Gohan over with worry. It appeared that in the long swim he had lost Krillin and Turtle, but Master Roshi found him again soon enough and looking over the injured human with him.
"Do you think he's....dead?" Trunks asked fearfully while Roshi opened one of Gohans eyes. At hearing the question he let go of Gohans face and went on down to his legs where he grabbed one of his feet and checked for a pulse.
His face fell in disappointment as he put down Gohans foot. "I'm sorry, Trunks, but I can't find a heartbeat." He said sadly.
"No wait, look!" Trunks cried out excitedly as he finally noticed Gohans rising and falling chest. "He's breathing." He reached out his hand to lovingly caress his cheek with. "He's so beautiful." He whispered in an awed tone. Roshi noticed the look he was giving the unconscious human, and flew off to give his young friend some time alone with his crush.
Trunks bit his lower lip as he listened to the almost hypnotic breathing. He slowly leaned down and brushed his lips on Gohans before quickly pulling away in the shock of what he had just done. He'd never kissed someone before or been given a kiss himself. So he really surprised himself with that one. He sighed. At least he didn't wake up for it. THAT would have been embarrassing!
He ran his finger through his hair and started to sing to him. From what Master Roshi said, humans especially liked music and found it to be soothing. Maybe this would help him to wake up.
**"What would I give to be where you are?
What would I do to see you, smiling at me?"**
Krillin and Turtle finally caught up to them and rested on the nearby rocks just in time to see their prince lying on the sand next to that human, singing lovingly to him. Krillins mouth dropped to the rocks in shock. Master Roshi, never taking his eyes off the cute pair and smiling, shut Krillins mouth for him.
**"Where would we walk?
Where would we run?"**
Gohan eyes slowly opened at the sound of a beautiful voice in his ears and the feel of a soft hand on his cheek. Caressing it lovingly. His vision was still quit blurred, but he could still tell that the owner of the magnificent voice was indeed beautiful.
**"If we could stay all day in the sun.
Walking and free, I wish I could be
Part of your world."**
At the sound of barking, Trunks quickly stopped his singing and turned his head in time to see several humans way off in the distance, headed straight his way. Gohan didn't notice them as he slowly reached his own hand up to cup Trunks' cheek, and brought his face down for a soft kiss.
Trunks was stunned at first, but he soon relaxed into it happily as he kissed back, his tail coiling slightly in joyful pleasure. The barking sound got louder though, and the figures got bigger as they got closer. He reluctantly pulled away from his love and using his arms, pulled himself back into the water. Just before he went under the water he could hear a breathless whisper that said: "Please don't go." But he had to. Those humans and that dog were upon him now, helping him to his feet.
"Prince Gohan, thank God you're safe!" Yamcha cried out in pure joy as he pulled him into a relieved hug. Icarus danced around happily at his feet. "We all thought you were dead! Goten has been worried sick!"
Trunks swam off a little in the distance and perched himself onto a rock where they wouldn't see and listened to what was being said with interest. Gohan seemed to not hear what his worried friend had said as he tried to tell him what just happened while still trying to hold his balance. "A boy rescued me." He said tiredly. "H-he had such a beautiful voice." Yamcha and the sailors just looked at him with a little bit of doubt. Icarus barked as if to agree with him.
"Uhhh...Gohan I think you must have swallowed to much sea water." He said while throwing Gohan's arm over his shoulder to help him walk back to the palace. "You just need some rest after all that you've been through."
Trunks watched as the humans helped their friend off to a place to rest for him. He touched his lips in remembrance of that wonderful kiss he'd been given. It was strange. Normally he hated singing in front of people he didn't know, but he sang to try and sooth that human. 'I think I'm in love with him.' He reasoned with himself. That was the only explanation for it. Krillin walked up the rock to meet him and Turtle stayed in the water. When Krillin had seen the kiss that a human and a mermaid had shared he nearly fainted. His father would have a fit if he found out about this, so he decided that Vegeta shouldn't know. He would just have to try and put an end to this himself.
"Something's happening, Krillin." Trunks said with his fingers still on his lips in awe. He removed his hand and put it on the rock to help sit himself up. Krillin looked at him curiously. "I don't know how it happened, but something's happening right now." He said looking at the spot where he had his first kiss with his first love in wonder.
Krillin sighed. 'This is going to be harder than I thought.'
Unknown to the four of them on the beach they were all being watched by the two Cell jr. eels. Off in his cave, Cell was laughing hysterically at the image of Trunks on the large rocks, watching the shore. "That stupid boy!!" He laughed out. "This is going to be so much easier than I thought! The child is in love with a human!! Ahhahahahaha!!!! And not just any human, a prince!" He held his stomach while chuckling. "Oh his father will *love* that!"
He looked in the entranceway of his cave to see all his little prisoners whom he had turned into little pieces of seaweed with faces, squirm in fear at his evil laughing.
He then called to his eels again. "This boy is making things far too easy for us. I already know how we can trap him. I want one of you to follow him around for twelve hours out of the day and then the other can take over for the other twelve hours. Do not let him out of your sight. Soon enough an opportunity will present itself and then I want you to bring him to me! Understand?"
The two eels nodded obediently. "Good!" He hissed. "Soon that stupid boy will belong to me! Then I"ll steal his fathers power and rule the ocean!" He thought for a moment at his last statement of Trunks belonging to him. "The boy is in good physical condition. It would be nice to have someone at my side to rule with, especially a creature of such fine quality. Of course he won't want to, but unless he would rather see his family killed I'm sure he'll relent easily enough."
He chuckled again and quickly swam up to his crystal ball with the image of Trunks still inside. "I hope you can hear me, boy!" He said evilly as he placed his hands around the small globe. "Soon you will be mine in every way! And I will steal your kingdom out from under you and your fool of a father!" He laughed loudly at that last statement, and it echoed through his cave. His prisoners tried, unsuccessfully to crouch away from the sound in utter fear of what he had planned for the royal family.
To be continued..........................
A.N: I know that in the cartoon they don't kiss until the end of the movie, but that's just too far away for my liking so I put a part in where they kiss early. Someone told me that perhaps I should've named the story the Little Merman, but I just don't like the sound of that. And just to let you all know in the origional Little Mermaid story the mermaid dies. So I was wondering how many of you want me to kill Trunks off or not. Hope you all liked it! Review please!!
By:Freewater
Disclaimers: I do not own DBZ please don't sue you will only receive two cats that are VERY annoying and pee everywhere!
Warnings: None that I can think of, aside from the fact that Bulma will not be found in this fic. Deathfic? Read and find out! Swearing.
Pairings: Gh-Tr (It can be Mirai Gohan and Mirai Trunks if you want since this is just a fairy tail fic and there are no real specifics on the characters aside from Trunks' long hair. Just use your imagination! ^_^)
Rating: pg-13
Archive: Sure, anything's good! No permission required.^_^
Feedback: Definitely! Please, yes!! I want to know if I did a good job or not writing this! a_rosko@hotmail.com
Notes: A bunch of these little stars **** Means a change in time or scenery. ''These things here indicate thoughts. Bra is a little older than what she should normally be. She is nine and Trunks is sixteen. Gohan is eighteen and Goten is also nine.
Mermaid: Trunks
Prince: Gohan
King of the sea: Vegeta (duh)
Sea Witch: Cell (Their both creepy and weird looking)
Two Eels: Cell juniors
Sebastian: Krillin
Flounder: Flounder will just be the Turtle that hangs out with Master Roshi since he is cowardly. I would have made him Goten, but he's Gohans little brother and therefore will remain on land. I know that turtles need air to breath but lets just pretend that this one doesn't.
Most Trusted Advisor to Gohan: Yamcha
Seagull: Master Roshi (their both nuts! Nuff said.)
Dog: Icarus (I know that Icarus is supposed to be a dragon, but I'm keeping him a dog)
A.N.:The next chapter might take a little longer to write out do to reasons that are out of my control for the moment. And Trunks will only be singing once or twice in this fic simply because I just can't properly picture him as a singer, And I'm trying to make Vegeta a little bit of a loving father because the sea king did love his children in the cartoon, but he was also mean. So this should work out just fine.
Chapter: Two
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"What the HELL am I going to do with you, boy?!?" Vegeta barked angrily at his son, while he paced back and forth in front of his throne. Trunks just floated there if front of him at the throne room with his head down and his hands behind his back. Turtle watched in fear in the far shadows while his friend tried to explain what happened. "Father I'm sorry, I just forgot. I didn't mean--"
"Be silent when I am speaking, boy!" Vegeta shouted almost in rage. Trunks cringed at him. Krillin showed himself in Vegeta's hair and started to yell at him too. "The entire concert was ruined! Completely destroyed! And all because of your reckless behaviour!"
"Boy you had just better consider yourself lucky that Bra was able to complete most of the show without you! Are you aware of how badly you humiliated your sister and myself today!?!" He shouted while pointing and sneering at him accusingly. "This is the most irresponsible, stupidest thing you have EVER DONE!" Turtle watched on, getting angry as he saw his friend cringe at all the enraged shouting that was directed solely at him.
Krillin just had to add in his own piece at this point as he quickly swam out of Vegeta's hair and right up to Trunks' face. "No thanks to you, you brat, I am the laughing stock of the ENTIRE KINGDOM!!!"
Turtle couldn't take it anymore. He charged up and swam down there as fast as he could to Trunks' defence. When he got there he snarled as nastily as he could right in Krillins face. "It wasn't his fault!" He cried out angrily, Krillin just calmly swam away, and Turtle found himself glaring right in his kings face! Vegeta gave him a you're-SO-stupid look. Turtle suddenly became VERY afraid and Trunks put his head in his hand and groaned, knowing that at this point things would be getting worse before they got better.
Afraid of what he might see, but unable to suppress the urge to look away he to a peek through his fingers to see his best friend stuttering in fear in front of his father. He groaned again, and Turtle gulped "W-well you see, your highness...um...We were swimming around and a SHARK chased after us! He had huge jaws and was snapping them at us as if we were it's lunch!"
Vegeta and Krillin just looked at each other like they didn't believe a word that was said. If there was a shark near the city then it would have been reported, but they didn't know just how far away from the city they were. "Then finally it got stuck and we were safe." Turtle saw that they didn't really believe his story so he continued. "And then we went to see a seagull! And he told us about all the--"
"SEAGULL!!!!" Vegeta screamed in disbelief as he caught on to what was just said. Seagulls were surface creatures. Turtle covered his mouth in shock, realizing what he had just done and quickly swam behind Trunks for protection. He just glared down at his friend for opening his big mouth. Now he would get in even MORE trouble!
Vegeta got right in Trunks' face and just screamed at him. "YOU WENT TO THE SURFACE AGAIN, DIDN'T YOU!?!?!"
"N-nothing happened, f-father" He stuttered out in complete fear.
"THAT DOESN'T MATTER! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN SEEN BY ONE OF THOSE FREAKISH HUMANS!!!" Vegeta soon stopped and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself before looking at his son who was now almost shaking in fear of him.
He sighed tiredly at the sight. He was sick of having to explain to his stubborn son why he couldn't go to the surface. "Toranksu, I'm just worried about you, that's all. Today we got a report about fishing boats from a fish who had to escape capture." He put his hand on his sons shoulder. "I just don't want you to end up like your mother."
A flash of anger crossed Trunks' eyes at hearing this. 'What the FUCK is that supposed to mean?' He thought to himself furiously. "Trunks, I just don't want to see my only son snared on some fish eaters hook." Vegeta explained calmly. Trunks just angrily shrugged out of his fathers hold, surprising him with an outburst. "I'm sixteen years old! I'm not a child any--"
"DON'T YOU DARE TAKE THAT TONE WITH ME! AS LONG AS YOU LIVE UNDER MY OCEAN, YOU'LL OBEY MY RULES!!!!" He screamed back, his anger having returned in full force.
"Well if you would just--"
"AND YOU ARE TO NEVER, EVER GO TO THE SURFACE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! IS THAT CLEAR?!?!?!"
Trunks' back stiffened when he heard that. He could feel tears in his eye, but he turned around and swam away before his father would notice them with Turtle following closely behind.
Vegeta sighed as he sat down on his throne and massaged his temple. He didn't mean to scream so loudly at him. He was just worried. Krillin came up and snobbishly put in his own two cents. "Hmph! Teenagers! You give them and inch and they'll want a mile!"
"You....you don't think that I was too hard on him, do you?" He quietly asked the small crab swimming around his head.
"Definitely not!!" Krillin immediately replied. "If Trunks were my son, I'd show him who's boss! None of this going to the surface nonsense! And you should keep him under very tight control! No telling when he'll pull another foolish stunt like the one today, again."
Vegeta thought about that for a minute. "You're right, crab." He decided.
"Of course I'm right, sire." He said, as if it were obvious.
"Toranksu needs to be supervised." Krillin folded his little pinchers and nodded his head in agreement. "And YOU are just the crab to do it!" He said enthusiastically while pointing at him.
Krillins face fell at the statement. "M-me?" He squeaked. "Yes, YOU! You told me how you would act towards your own children just now, and I'm far too busy to be watching my son *all* day. So you will do it! It was your idea after all." He added with a smirk.
"B-b-but sire, I--"
"Just do as I say, crab!" He shouted. Krillin mentally kicked himself for opening his big mouth. "Yes sire." He said, almost whining as he bowed and walked away, mumbling to himself about how stupid he was.
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Walking down the dark and empty corridors of the palace, Krillin continue to mumble to himself. "Why do I get myself into these things? I should be writing out orchestras! Not babysitting some high strung teenager!" He quit his rambling's as a sudden shadow passed over him. He looked up just to see Trunks and Turtle swimming off somewhere with a bag in the prince's hand. They didn't appear to notice him as they swam.
Krillin eyed them with curiosity before going after them. 'What is he up to now?' He thought suspiciously as he gave chase.
Crabs aren't meant for swimming, so the fact that he was able to keep up with the two of them as they did twists and turns through coral and seaweed was quite impressive. About a half an hour later an still swimming like there was no tomorrow, Krillin was about to give up until they finally stopped.
He looked around him. They were *way* outside of the city limits and there appeared to be no fish life around at all! Just the rocks and what looked like a few small caves covered in shadows. He looked back at Trunks in time to see him pull a large flat rock out of the way of an entrance to one of the caves. He gasped in slight shock. 'What the hell are they doing?'
Trunks and Turtle looked around to make sure that the coast was clear before smoothly gliding on in. The rock began to fall back into place behind them. Krillin took a deep breath and followed them as fast as he could before the rock could seel shut. He thought that he would make it at first, but the pain in his tiny red legs told him otherwise.
He tried to hold back his sharp gasp of pain as he looked behind him to find all of his legs caught. He grit his teeth and pushed himself out, stretching his legs painfully as he did this. 'That little brat had better have a good excuse for being all the way out here at this time of night!' He thought irritably as he finally pushed himself free.
He slowly swam into the cave, trying to make as little noise and as few bubbles as possible. He turned a corner and Trunks and Turtle came into view. He had to hold back a gasp of surprise. There were shelves etched into the rock all around them completely filled with human objects! He didn't know what they all were, but it was definitely human. Trunks was lying on his stomach in the middle of it all with a miserable look on his face, examining his fork.
"Trunks, are you ok?" Turtle asked in a worried tone. Unknown to the both of them that they had an intruder. "Why can't he just understand?" He asked miserably. "I just don't see things the same as he does. How can a world that can create such beautiful things be bad?" Turtle just shrugged his fins.
"Mom collected most of this stuff." He said while looking around the cave fondly. Krillin couldn't believe his ears. This was the cave where Queen Bulma hid all of her illegal human objects! And now Prince Toranksu was doing the same! "I know that she would still be doing it today if she were alive."
"Of course she would, Trunks. She loved all of this stuff and so do you. It's not the humans fault that she died." Turtle said while trying to be supportive.
Trunks snorted disgustedly. "That's not what dad thinks! He blames everything on them! And he wants me to forget mom and never think about her again! You heard what he said back at the throne room! 'I don't want you to end up like your mother!' What a fucking joke!"
"He might not have meant it like that, Trunks." Said Turtle. "He may have just been saying that he doesn't want you to die like she did."
Trunks swam up to a candle stick holder and placed the fork in it. "Ya right." He said sarcastically. Krillin started to move around to get a better view of the cave and to look at all the strange things that surrounded him. "Father couldn't give a damn about me OR what I think!"
He looked up at a hole in the top of the cave, where the light came in from and sighed. "I feel like I should be doing this. I mean...I love going down to ship wrecks and everything, but...sometimes I think that if I were to keep all of her things here, and even get some more would be a way...to......"
"Keep her memory alive?" Turtle finished when it appeared as if his friend couldn't.
Trunks smiled at his friend. "Ya. Something like that. But I also want to know everything there is to know about them. What's a fire? Why does it burn? How do they dance and what's the point to a....uh... What's that word again, Turtle?"
"What word?"
"You know, the thing that humans travel on outside." Trunks said while whirling his hand around, trying hard to think about it.
"A road?"
"Ya! That's it!" He said happily before sighing. "I would give *anything* to be able to walk around on land for just one day. To see the things they see." He swam over to one of his portraits that portrayed a young couple in a grassy field and looked at it longingly. "They don't know how lucky they are."
Krillin walked around, listening with fascination. 'How long has all of this been going on without anyone knowing it?' He thought in amazement. He wasn't watching where he was going however, and he bumped into a jar and knocked it over. Unfortunately it took several other things with it on the way to the ground. There was fishing string wrapped around it so sadly, Krillin was one of them as he got caught in it.
He and several other strange object crashed loudly on the rock floor, alerting Trunks and Turtle to his presence. "K-Krillin!?!" Trunks stuttered out in a mixture of surprise shock and fear. "W-what are you doing here?"
Krillin untied himself as he eyed the pair with anger. "Trunks, how did you–where did you–What is all of this?" He said waving his arms around angrily.
Trunks began to pull at a lock of his hair nervously. If Krillin knows then it will only be a matter of time before his father found out about this place. "It's... uh... it's just my... uh... collection?" he replied nervously, not knowing what else to say.
Krillin chuckled almost cheerfully and pulled out a small fishing hook before examining it. "Oh I see! Your collection.......IF YOUR FATHER EVER FINDS OUT ABOUT THIS PLACE--"
"Your not going to tell him are you!?!?" Trunks and Turtle yelled at the same time.
Trunks swam up to him and in a begging tone, tried to reason with him. "Please, Krillin, don't tell him! He would never understand!"
His voice and face were filled with such a mixture of fear and anxiety that Krillin immediately relaxed. He knew perfectly well the kind of trouble Trunks would get in if Vegeta ever found out about this place. He HAD also overheard the two of them talking and knew that part of the reason why he was doing this was for his mother. That was a good excuse. Wasn't it?
The small crab really didn't know what to do. 'I should just take him home and talk to him about it there.' He reasoned with himself. "Trunks, listen to me. It's late so you just come with me, I'll take you home to get something to eat and we'll talk about this to–"
"What's that?" Trunks asked looking up.
Krillin stopped as he took notice of the shadow that passed over them through the hole in the ceiling. Turtle and Trunks immediately swam for the cave exit and up towards the surface.
"Trunks! Get back here!" Krillin called out, but Trunks just ignored him as he swam.
When he reached the surface he was surprised with what he saw. It was night time out, and there were strange and colourful explosions in the sky. They looked like giant bright stars that made loud banging sounds just before disappearing.
Trunks watched with fascination and awe for a moment before the sound of music caught his ears. It was coming from that nearby ship! Krillin scratched at his arm to get his attention. "Trunks, we need to go back now! It's not safe here." He just brushed him off before taking a dive and coming back up again at a distance away. He continued to do this, putting more space between himself and his friends. Krillin called out to him to try and get him to come back, but to no avail it didn't work. "Trunks! Toranksu, please come back!" He just pretended not to hear him.
When he finally made it to the ship he noticed that a rope ladder was hanging down, so he grabbed it and climbed up. It was hard! After about five minutes of struggling with it he finally made it up on the side of the deck, where no-one could see and rested his arms. His tail was still hanging down lazily at the side of the ship just in case he needed to make a quick get-a-way.
Trunks watched with complete amazement at the sight of all the humans dancing around, laughing and having fun to the music that was played. 'I wonder what their celebrating.' He thought to himself. Then another wonderful sight caught his eye. It was a human, dancing around and playing with a large hairy dog. He had hair that was as black as the night and onyx eyes. He was tall, handsome and had a VERY nice build. Trunks found himself completely breathless and a blush started to form on his cheek at the sight of him.
A squawking sound pulled him out of the nice little trance that he was in, and he looked up in time to see Master Roshi flying in. "Hello, Trunks!" He called out loudly. Trunks quickly looked at all the humans to make sure that Roshi wasn't heard over the music. He wasn't. 'Thank god!' He thought in relief as Master Roshi swooped to a land next to him. "Beautiful night for fireworks isn't it?" He asked in a cheerful.
"Master Roshi, keep your voice down or they'll hear you!" Trunks hissed. The very last thing he wanted at this point was to be caught and have to swim away before he got his fill of the eye candy currently on deck.
"Sorry." He whispered sheepishly. "So what are you looking at?" He asked taking a look at what Trunks was staring at. He didn't give the young mermaid a chance to answer him once he caught sight of what he was staring at. "Ohhhhhhh! You were ogling that human there, weren't you?" he asked in a sarcastic mocking tone. The blush on Trunks' face got deeper as he slowly nodded his head.
He looked back at the human who was still dancing around with other humans and that dog. "I've never seen a human this close before." He said in an awed voice. "Good thing too." Roshi replied. Trunks gave him a confused look, so he explained. "I'm a seagull, I can go near the humans and they won't give me a second glance. Some of them would even throw me scraps of food if I'm lucky. But *you're* a mermaid. You're the type of creature that legends are made of. If a human were to ever spot you then they would all freak out and there would be hell to pay with your father."
Trunks sighed at hearing that. It was true, his father *would* freak out if he were to be seen. Hell, he'd freak out if he knew that right now his son wasn't even ten full feet away from a human and giving him googly eyes too. "I suppose you're right Master Roshi." He replied in a saddened tone before sadly returning his attention back to the handsome human whom he would never get to meet.
'They are all so lucky to be up there, laughing and dancing, always in the sun.' Trunks thought, getting a little depressed now as he rested his head on his arms. He was so caught up in watching the humans dancing around that he didn't notice the dog trotting on down in his direction. "Watch it kid!" Roshi hissed too late as he took flight to get away from the animal.
Trunks finally noticed the dog that was right in his face and he froze in fear as the animal just eyed him curiously. The dog started to sniff him and he became half afraid that he would decide to relieve himself on him. He didn't know whether or not to be relieved when the dog started to lick his face affectionately. He was slobbering so much! Was this animal trying to make a meal of him or something? Roshi snickered at the cute sight while a safe distance away in the air.
Finally after he was just about to give up hope that the animal would go away on his own, and that maybe he should just jump off the side of the ship and swim away, a wonderful voice called out. "Icarus! Come here boy!" The dog turned around and ran obediently to his master. Trunks wiped his face off and looked to the owner. He was surprised to see that the dog belonged to the human whom he seemed to have fallen for.
He blushed deeply as the beautiful human played with his pet affectionately. 'How could father think that humans are bad? They all look perfectly fine to me. Wish I could join them.' Trunks thought sadly.
Everyone on the ship soon hushed their voices and all was quiet on deck when Yamcha went to where Gohan stood in the centre, and addressed all the sailors. "As you all know today is Prince Gohans eighteenth birthday! And that is a day that comes only once in a lifetime." He put a hand around his prince's and good friend's shoulder. "Today my boy, you are a man." He said fondly. Gohan smiled at him while the sailors clapped and cheered for their soon to be King.
Trunks found himself blushing deeply at this with a small smile on his lips. 'His name is Gohan.' He thought to himself, awed. 'What a beautiful name.' "And now for your birthday present!" Yamcha said excitedly as two sailors pushed a very large something in the middle of the deck with a sheet covering it. It was so big. At least twice the size of any man on the ship.
"Wow, Yamcha. This is so big! You really shouldn't go to so much trouble, y'know."
"Nonsense, Gohan! Like I said, eighteen only comes once in a lifetime so you might as well enjoy this." He said while going up to the large thing in the centre of the ship and quickly unveiling it to reveal a lifelike stone statue of Gohan in a fighting pose.
The crowd made "oohhhing" sounds and then went silent, but whether or not it was in awe for the gift or just how stupid the idea of having a statue of yourself was, Gohan couldn't tell. 'Look happy, Gohan. Remember it's the thought that counts.' He told himself silently while going to inspect the very *large* gift he had just received.
Icarus trotted along beside him and soon growled at the thing. 'You don't like it either, do you boy?' He thought while looking down at his faithful companion and then back up at the creepy looking statue. It was strange seeing his own face set in stone like that. He turned to see Yamcha's smiling face, waiting for approval of the gift. Yamcha was like a second father to him as well as a best friend since his parents died. He wouldn't be rude and embarrass him in front of all these people. No matter what they thought, he was going to act like it was the greatest thing ever.
"Um....Wow Yamcha! This is the greatest thing I've ever seen! It's really something!"
All the sailors, including Icarus just looked at him as if he were nuts, but Yamcha didn't seem to notice. "I commissioned it myself just for this occasion! Of course there were some people who thought that I was overdoing it a little, but what do they know, right?"
'A lot, evidently!' Gohan thought and was sure that the other sailors were thinking the same.
Trunks was still in his hiding spot, looking up at him and the statue dreamily. He didn't notice the storm clouds that quickly started to form in the dark night sky while in his wonderful daze, but one of the sailors did, and he alerted all the crew members who then put down whatever drinks they were holding and went to work on the ship.
Much to Trunks' disappointment, Gohan left his line of sight to go and help out the other sailors. 'I wonder what's wrong.' He thought as he saw everyone leave. 'Everyone was fine a second ago.' His question was answered when a flash of lightning appeared dangerously close to the ship, nearly scaring Trunks out of his fins.
The tide picked up too and the ship started to rock more than what it was supposed to. "All hands on deck!! It's a big one coming our way!!" he heard one of the humans call out but couldn't find the source of the voice. A light rain began and Trunks looked up at the sky in confusion. He'd never been to the surface when it rained before.
The drizzle wasn't the problem though. It was the waves of the sea and the thunder and lightning that continually found it's way near the ship. Fear and instinct told Trunks that he should just abandon the ship and dive back into the depths of the sea, but he was worried for the human called Gohan and wanted to make sure that he was alright before he left.
Another flash of thunder and lightning appeared, but this time it actually struck the ship and set it on fire! The sailors ran around, frantically trying to put out the quickly growing flame. The rain drizzle just wasn't enough to stop it. Trunks watched with a mixture of fascination and fear. He had only seen fire before in human pictures, and now he was close enough for it to warm his face and arms in the cold rain.
The fire soon grew larger and got a little too close for comfort. "Trunks, swim away before you get hurt!" He heard Master Roshi call, but he just ignored him. He tried to stay on deck for as long as he could to make sure that Gohan was alright, but when the flame burned Trunks' arms and nearly touched his face he cried out in pain and fell off the deck and landed with a splash back into the water.
He came back up just in time to see the sailors as well as Gohan lowering themselves on one of the life boats. He gave a sigh of pure relief at the sight of all the unharmed humans, but their attention was directed back to the ship at the sound of all the barking. Trunks looked up to see the dog that Gohan was with, still on the burning ship. "Icarus!" He called out before climbing the ropes still attached to the boat, back up the ship to retrieve his pet. "Gohan, come back!" Yamcha called, but he just ignored them.
Trunks watched as the brave yet stupid human went back for his animal in fear. 'What if he gets hurt?' He asked himself. Suddenly Krillin and Turtle came up beside him in the water. "Toranksu, we need to get out of here now before we are seen! Krillin hissed. "Not yet, I want to make sure they're ok before we leave." He replied, not looking at the crab.
"Who cares!?! Why should we care if they are fine!?! They are humans!" He yelled.
Trunks angrily turned towards the small crab. "You should keep your voice down or those sailors just might hear you." He hissed while pointing at the boatful of people that wasn't too far away. If possible, Krillin paled at that statement as well as being shown so many humans so close by. Turtle didn't say anything. Usually if Trunks wanted something like this than he got it, so what would be the point of arguing with him? He should just try to be supportive of his friend and then help out when he got into trouble with his father.
Trunks returned his attention back to Gohan who had his dog in his arms and was surrounded by the flames of the ship. His breath got caught in his throat at the sight. How he wished that he could climb up there and help him! But he couldn't because of his fins and was forced to just sit here and watch as he tried to save himself and his pet.
Gohan ran over to the edge of the ship and when no other solution presented itself, he threw Icarus over and into the water, where he dog paddled over to the ship of sailors that pulled him into the small boat. Just as he was about to jump over himself, one of the sail beams that was on fire snapped and fell right in his way, blocking his path.
Trunks gasped in fear as the sailors called out for their prince. Gohan ran around the burning ship, trying to find a path that wasn't blocked by fire to get away. The entire ship appeared to be made of flames, however, and it was hard to move around without getting burned or scorched by the giant, bright flames. Trunks frantically swam around the burning boat to keep him within his range of sight, and make sure that he was safe.
When Gohan finally found a clearing he was shocked with fear. There were only small flames here, but they were surrounding and on, all the barrels of gunpowder held on the ship. 'Oh God, I'm going to die! Please let someone take care of Goten after this.' He prayed silently just as the barrels exploded with a loud bang that created a shockwave that practically changed the current of the sea. Even Master Roshi was thrown away into the winds created from the explosion. "Truuuunks!!!!!!!!!" He screamed out while rising higher and higher into the air until he could no longer be seen.
He didn't really see his friend though, all he saw was that the beautiful human was just killed. "NOOO!!!!!!" Trunks cried out at the sight. The sailors just sat in the life boats in complete shock. No-one could survive that. Their prince must be dead.
Trunks couldn't believe it. The storm still raged on, but he didn't notice. Tears came to his eyes as he turned, getting ready to leave this horrible sight when something suddenly caught his eye in the dark water. He gasped. It was Gohan!! He was unconscious though. The prince started to quickly sink under the dark waving, water and Trunks made a quick dive to get him.
He grabbed the prince around his waist and pulled him back up to the surface. Krillin and Turtle were also below the surface as he did this and watched in total shock. He was SAVING this humans life? Was he INSANE?
Trunks made it back up with Gohan unconscious form in his arms, just in time to see another explosion wrack the sinking ship. He couldn't see the boatful of sailors anywhere, so he very gently started to swim for the shore with his precious cargo with Turtle and Krillin following closely behind.
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It was morning by the time they made it back to the shore that was the closest they knew to be near human civilisation. Gohan was still unconscious and Trunks was lying next to him, his whole body under the warm sun for the first time. But he wasn't wasting time enjoying it while he looked Gohan over with worry. It appeared that in the long swim he had lost Krillin and Turtle, but Master Roshi found him again soon enough and looking over the injured human with him.
"Do you think he's....dead?" Trunks asked fearfully while Roshi opened one of Gohans eyes. At hearing the question he let go of Gohans face and went on down to his legs where he grabbed one of his feet and checked for a pulse.
His face fell in disappointment as he put down Gohans foot. "I'm sorry, Trunks, but I can't find a heartbeat." He said sadly.
"No wait, look!" Trunks cried out excitedly as he finally noticed Gohans rising and falling chest. "He's breathing." He reached out his hand to lovingly caress his cheek with. "He's so beautiful." He whispered in an awed tone. Roshi noticed the look he was giving the unconscious human, and flew off to give his young friend some time alone with his crush.
Trunks bit his lower lip as he listened to the almost hypnotic breathing. He slowly leaned down and brushed his lips on Gohans before quickly pulling away in the shock of what he had just done. He'd never kissed someone before or been given a kiss himself. So he really surprised himself with that one. He sighed. At least he didn't wake up for it. THAT would have been embarrassing!
He ran his finger through his hair and started to sing to him. From what Master Roshi said, humans especially liked music and found it to be soothing. Maybe this would help him to wake up.
**"What would I give to be where you are?
What would I do to see you, smiling at me?"**
Krillin and Turtle finally caught up to them and rested on the nearby rocks just in time to see their prince lying on the sand next to that human, singing lovingly to him. Krillins mouth dropped to the rocks in shock. Master Roshi, never taking his eyes off the cute pair and smiling, shut Krillins mouth for him.
**"Where would we walk?
Where would we run?"**
Gohan eyes slowly opened at the sound of a beautiful voice in his ears and the feel of a soft hand on his cheek. Caressing it lovingly. His vision was still quit blurred, but he could still tell that the owner of the magnificent voice was indeed beautiful.
**"If we could stay all day in the sun.
Walking and free, I wish I could be
Part of your world."**
At the sound of barking, Trunks quickly stopped his singing and turned his head in time to see several humans way off in the distance, headed straight his way. Gohan didn't notice them as he slowly reached his own hand up to cup Trunks' cheek, and brought his face down for a soft kiss.
Trunks was stunned at first, but he soon relaxed into it happily as he kissed back, his tail coiling slightly in joyful pleasure. The barking sound got louder though, and the figures got bigger as they got closer. He reluctantly pulled away from his love and using his arms, pulled himself back into the water. Just before he went under the water he could hear a breathless whisper that said: "Please don't go." But he had to. Those humans and that dog were upon him now, helping him to his feet.
"Prince Gohan, thank God you're safe!" Yamcha cried out in pure joy as he pulled him into a relieved hug. Icarus danced around happily at his feet. "We all thought you were dead! Goten has been worried sick!"
Trunks swam off a little in the distance and perched himself onto a rock where they wouldn't see and listened to what was being said with interest. Gohan seemed to not hear what his worried friend had said as he tried to tell him what just happened while still trying to hold his balance. "A boy rescued me." He said tiredly. "H-he had such a beautiful voice." Yamcha and the sailors just looked at him with a little bit of doubt. Icarus barked as if to agree with him.
"Uhhh...Gohan I think you must have swallowed to much sea water." He said while throwing Gohan's arm over his shoulder to help him walk back to the palace. "You just need some rest after all that you've been through."
Trunks watched as the humans helped their friend off to a place to rest for him. He touched his lips in remembrance of that wonderful kiss he'd been given. It was strange. Normally he hated singing in front of people he didn't know, but he sang to try and sooth that human. 'I think I'm in love with him.' He reasoned with himself. That was the only explanation for it. Krillin walked up the rock to meet him and Turtle stayed in the water. When Krillin had seen the kiss that a human and a mermaid had shared he nearly fainted. His father would have a fit if he found out about this, so he decided that Vegeta shouldn't know. He would just have to try and put an end to this himself.
"Something's happening, Krillin." Trunks said with his fingers still on his lips in awe. He removed his hand and put it on the rock to help sit himself up. Krillin looked at him curiously. "I don't know how it happened, but something's happening right now." He said looking at the spot where he had his first kiss with his first love in wonder.
Krillin sighed. 'This is going to be harder than I thought.'
Unknown to the four of them on the beach they were all being watched by the two Cell jr. eels. Off in his cave, Cell was laughing hysterically at the image of Trunks on the large rocks, watching the shore. "That stupid boy!!" He laughed out. "This is going to be so much easier than I thought! The child is in love with a human!! Ahhahahahaha!!!! And not just any human, a prince!" He held his stomach while chuckling. "Oh his father will *love* that!"
He looked in the entranceway of his cave to see all his little prisoners whom he had turned into little pieces of seaweed with faces, squirm in fear at his evil laughing.
He then called to his eels again. "This boy is making things far too easy for us. I already know how we can trap him. I want one of you to follow him around for twelve hours out of the day and then the other can take over for the other twelve hours. Do not let him out of your sight. Soon enough an opportunity will present itself and then I want you to bring him to me! Understand?"
The two eels nodded obediently. "Good!" He hissed. "Soon that stupid boy will belong to me! Then I"ll steal his fathers power and rule the ocean!" He thought for a moment at his last statement of Trunks belonging to him. "The boy is in good physical condition. It would be nice to have someone at my side to rule with, especially a creature of such fine quality. Of course he won't want to, but unless he would rather see his family killed I'm sure he'll relent easily enough."
He chuckled again and quickly swam up to his crystal ball with the image of Trunks still inside. "I hope you can hear me, boy!" He said evilly as he placed his hands around the small globe. "Soon you will be mine in every way! And I will steal your kingdom out from under you and your fool of a father!" He laughed loudly at that last statement, and it echoed through his cave. His prisoners tried, unsuccessfully to crouch away from the sound in utter fear of what he had planned for the royal family.
To be continued..........................
A.N: I know that in the cartoon they don't kiss until the end of the movie, but that's just too far away for my liking so I put a part in where they kiss early. Someone told me that perhaps I should've named the story the Little Merman, but I just don't like the sound of that. And just to let you all know in the origional Little Mermaid story the mermaid dies. So I was wondering how many of you want me to kill Trunks off or not. Hope you all liked it! Review please!!