The Little Mermaid: Chapter Three
By:Freewater
Disclaimers: I do not own DBZ and I don't own the little mermaid despite how cool that would be! 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, but she is mentioned in some parts. 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! Reviews are always welcome, even a few good natured flames.
Notes: A bunch of these little stars **** Means a change in time or scenery. ''These things here indicate thoughts. These things // are used to indicate telepathy. 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. Ch#3-?
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)
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The next morning Bra was up early trying to get her stubborn brother out of his room. She yelled at him through the curtain of seaweed that blocked her view of what was inside. "Trunks, get up already! Father wants to see you!" She cried out to him for the fifth time.
Trunks just glided out his room and right past her in a daze, he didn't even notice she was there. Bra looked at him curiously as he happily picked a blue flower, growing out of the wall rocks and just looked at it as if it were something of any real interest. "Uh, are you ok, Trunks?" She asked a little nervously. She had never seen her brother in such a good mood before.
"Hmm?" He mumbled, looking up from the flower he was holding. "Oh, Everything's great Bra!" He said, suddenly excited as he swam on to where she just floated and put the flower in her hair, while humming some new tune that she had never heard before.
A look of realization suddenly crossed her young features. 'Oh! Trunks is in love!' She thought happily. Her brother never usually was in a good mood of any kind. So this was a nice change of pace.
Trunks then turned to leave until he found himself in front of Vegeta. He'd grown impatient of waiting for his brat to show up so he decided to try and get him out of bed himself.
"Oh! Morning father." He replied cheerfully before swimming off, still humming his little tune. Vegeta forgot all about the fact that he wanted to speak to his son with the cheery attitude he just presented. He actually wanted to tell him about Krillen and how he would watch him until he got all of those stupid human ideas out of his head. 'Well this is different!' He thought to himself, shocked. 'I wonder what's going on.'
"He's got it bad, doesn't he?" Bra said suddenly, interrupting his thoughts. "What? What has he got?" Vegeta asked, worried that his boy might be ill. "Isn't it obvious, father." She said, picking the flower out of her hair and handing it to him. "Trunks is in love."
Vegeta took the flower and let the impact of what his daughter had just told him sink in. 'Toranksu, in love?' He then smirked. "Hn. It's about damn time!" He said out loud. This meant that his son was finally getting some suitors.
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Trunks sat on a flat rock on the ocean floor in the palace yard, picking out the petals of more underwater flowers, doing the whole "He loves me, he loves me not" thing. He'd never done that before, but then again he'd never been in love before. When he landed on the "He loves me" petal, he got exited and started to swim around with joy.
"He loves me! He loves me!" He chanted out happily while clutching at the petal in his hands, as if it were something of value. Just then Krillin swam up behind him, having seen the little display he gave, and pinched the back of his tail *hard*!
"OWWWW!!" Trunks cried out in pain. He looked behind him to see who did the offending act just to see the face of his little red friend. "Krillin? What did you do that for?!?" He yelled out, angry for getting his tail pinched.
He just rolled his eyes angrily before shouting at the air headed youth. "Are you insane!?!?! First you go to the surface almost immediately after your father tells you NOT to! Then you save the life of some human! AND THEN YOU KISS HIM!!!! HAVE YOU COMPLETELY LOST YOUR MIND?!?!?!"
Trunks looked a little annoyed at the crab but then just shrugged it off as he continued to swim around dreamily, his hurting tail forgotten. What did a stupid crab know about love anyway?
Krillin sighed as he watched his prince laze about in the water. He knew who that little minnow was thinking of while he shut his eyes and hummed to himself while doing a backstroke. "I've *got* to see him again!" He said suddenly.
"WHAT?!?!" Krillin yelled in disbelief. Trunks didn't seem to really hear him though as he continued. "Tonight! I'll bet Master Roshi knows where he lives too!"
Krillin swam up to his upturned face and forced him to open his eyes and look at him. "Trunks, listen very carefully. You are very ill right now and are having these stupid little hallucinations that you could have a relationship with a human. *You* are a merman and *he* is a fish eating human!"
Trunks just snarled at him. "So what?" He said angrily while swiping him away from his face. He just dodged the attack as Trunks went to sit on a rock. "Not *all* humans eat fish y'know!" He said in an insulted tone for being told how stupid he was. "Sometimes I wish I *was* a human!"
Krillin gasped at hearing that. If Vegeta had heard it then he would have turned his son into fish sticks! "Trunks, why would you want to be a human?!? They are nothing but a bunch of fat and lazy whiners who always try to do things the easy way! Cowards too!"
"Gohan wasn't fat and he certainly didn't seem lazy." Trunks said defensively while remembering the gorgeous humans body and how he was helping the other humans on that ship. *And* the way he tried to save his animal proved that he wasn't cowardly. "And so what if they try to do things the easy way once in a while? What's so wrong with that?" He asked, truly not understanding the reason behind the little crabs verbal attack.
Turtle soon swam up with an excited look on his face, but after noticing Krillin near his friend he decided to wait a moment before swimming on down there to get Trunks to see his surprise. He swam over to a pile of large rocks and decided to hide himself until an opportunity to get closer presented itself.
Krillin stuttered while trying to think of an answer and trying to find more reasons to hate humans. Unfortunately the only real reason was that they ate fish, everything else just seemed to spin off from there. "Uhh...They uhh....THEY POLLUTE OUR WATERS!!" He shouted desperately.
Trunks gave him a confused look so he continued. "You *can't* deny that they pollute our waters! You have *tons* of junk all piled up from those human wrecks you visit! You see it all the time!"
Trunks just snorted. "That was a lame one, Krillin! All of those wrecks are only there because they sank after an accident of some kind, and even then a lot of humans die because of them. I've seen the skeletons."
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!" He screamed at the youth in frustration. Turtle frowned as he watched. Sure it was a little odd loving someone outside of your own species, but it was nothing to shout about!
Krillin just continued to rant and rave until Trunks just stopped paying attention all together. "That human world is a complete mess! Things down here are so much better! Why would you want to throw all of that away?" About ten minutes later when it appeared as if Krillin didn't even notice him anymore through his ranting and pacing, and when Trunks was just about to fall asleep, Turtle took a risk and swam down to his friend, practically waking him up as he whispered in his ear. "I've got a cool surprise for you, Trunks!"
Trunks opened his eyes wide and smiled at him excitedly before they both swam off when Krillins back was turned. He just continued to pace back and force, ranting about how stupid Trunks was being, for a good ten minutes until he noticed the young princes complete absence.
He sighed in annoyance. "I can't believe he left! I'll give that brat a good talking too when I find him! I swear if I didn't know any better I'd say he *wanted* his father to kill him!" He mumbled in a pissed off tone for being so rudely ignored while speaking.
Suddenly a desperate shouting made it to his ears. "Krillin!!!" He turned to his side to see a royal seahorse headed in his direction, creating bubbles in his haste. 'What now?' He thought, getting more annoyed by the minute.
The small seahorse stopped right in front of his face, a nervous expression on his features. "Krillin, I've been looking all over for you!" He said pulling at one of his pinchers. He just shrugged him off as he continued. "I have an important message for you from King Vegeta!"
"Vegeta? What is it?" He asked curiously. He'd only been appointed to watch over Trunks last night. There was no way that he expected a report on him already, that was just asking way too much!
"Uh...I don't know it actually! But he said it was *very* important and that he wanted to see you right away!" The seahorse continued to swim around while stammering nervously. "I-it's something to do with Toranksu!" And then he left as fast as he could like there was something to be afraid of. Nothing out of the ordinary since most creatures that small are afraid of their King and his temper.
Krillin thought for a moment. 'Why would he want to see me about Tora--' He stopped suddenly and paled as much as a red crab could, as if he had just seen a ghost. "H-he knows!!"
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Vegeta sat in his dark throne room, looking over the flower that his daughter had presented him with earlier. He was extremely pleased that Toranksu was finally out looking for suitors. He really didn't care who it was as long as they had some mild intelligence. This would mean that he wouldn't have to force his son to marry before he was ready.
Vegeta thought for a moment. It wasn't too long ago that he sent the crab out to watch his son, but he should still know about it. It doesn't take long for someone to want to see their love and then to display it in some fashion. 'He had better have a good explanation for not coming to me with this.' He thought, somewhat annoyed.
"I wonder who it is." He said to himself curiously while he examined the blue flower still in his hand.
He then looked past it and to the far entranceway in time to see Krillin, poking his head around on the floor and looking at him curiously, wondering what he was doing with a flower in his hand.
Vegeta, realising how foolish he must look, quickly hid the flower behind his back and cleared his throat. "Um...You may enter, crab." He said in a royal fashion.
The crab gulped nervously as he started his walk down to the throne. 'He can't know! There is *no* way he could've found out so fast!' He thought fearfully. If Vegeta knew that he was keeping something like this from him then there would be hell to pay!
Krillin finally made it up to where Vegeta sat and looked up at him nervously. "Listen, crab, I know you've been keeping something from me!" He said threateningly with a smirk on his face at the shocked expression Krillin immediately gave. 'So he WAS keeping this from me!' He thought nastily. 'I'll just have to teach him a lesson then!' Vegeta wasn't going to hurt him or anything, just scare the hell out of him.
Krillin swallowed hard. "Um...Keeping something?" He tried to ask innocently, but his squeaking voice gave him away instantly.
Vegeta made a "Come here" motion with his finger, and Krillin swam up so that he would be level with his face. Vegeta's smirk got deeper as he took in the close up look of the frightened crab, and this just intensified the fear that Krillin already felt.
"You've been hiding things from me that concern my son." He said calmly, nonetheless Krillin nearly had a heart attack at that statement. 'Oh fuck!! He knows!! He's gonna kill me!' He thought in pure horror.
"About his love life if my memory is correct....Hmm?" Vegeta asked with his smirk still in place. Frightening this crab was far too easy! Krillin almost shit himself when he heard the words love life.
"Well?" Vegeta asked impatiently when the small crab said nothing and just continued to look at him in fear.
He frantically tried to explain himself before it was too late. "I-I....He went...I-it wasn't my.......... I TRIED TO STOP HIM SIRE!" Krillin screamed out as he grabbed at Vegeta's hair in a desperate attempt to get him to listen before he threw him out. Vegeta just looked shocked at such an outburst. He wanted to frighten him but he didn't expect this! "HE WOULDN'T LISTEN TO ME!! I TOLD HIM TO STAY AWAY FROM ALL THOSE HUMANS!!! THEY ARE BAD, NOTHING BUT TROU--"
"Humans? WHAT ABOUT HUMANS?!?!" Vegeta screamed at the crab in anger. What in the hell would humans have to do with his son finding a mate?
Krillin looked dumbstruck at having spit out his little secret. 'He DOESN'T know!?! Oh FUCK!!' He put on a nervous smile at that point. "H-humans?" He stuttered out as he backed away from him fearfully while laughing nervously. "W-who said anything about humans?"
Vegeta quickly reached out and grabbed him tightly, cutting off his air supply and causing him to gasp out. He pulled him close with a menacing look on his face. "You *will* tell me *everything* you know about what my brat has been doing since you've started watching him! Have I made myself clear?" He sneered while adding a bit more pressure to his grip.
Krillin gulped in fear and nodded his head. 'Sorry Trunks.' He thought sadly.
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Some time later, Turtle and Trunks had just made it back to their cave and were now swimming down the dark corridor leading inside the large room. "C'mon Turtle! Why can't you just tell me what this is all about?" Trunks asked his friend in excitement as he followed him.
"You'll see, and you'll like it to!" He replied in a teasing tone as they swam. "It's a surprise!"
They finally glided into the large space that held all of their treasures and in the centre of the room, just under the light, Trunks could clearly see the large stone statue of Gohan. His breath got caught in his throat as he immediately wrapped his arms around his best friend in a tight hug and swirled him around. "Turtle you're the greatest!" He cried out letting go of him and swimming over to his gift.
"It looks JUST like him too! Everything's exactly the same!" He cried out while circling it. He then went up behind it and wrapped his arms around the neck of the statue lovingly.
"I love it, Turtle! Thank you so much!"
"But I thought that you loved the human, Trunks." Turtle replied, tauntingly.
Trunks just stuck his tongue out at him jokingly. "Idiot, of course I do, but I love this too!" Turtle beamed happily that he'd done such a good job with his surprise. It was *really* hard getting it into the cave, but from his friends reaction it was worth it.
Trunks went to the front of the statue and with his arms never leaving the neck, decided to have a little fun. "Why Gohan, run away with you? OF COURSE!" He cried out happily as he pushed himself away from his new toy, his smiling and laughter never wavering until he bumped his back into something that shouldn't have been there.
He turned around curiously to see what it was that he had bumped into, just to look into the scowling face of his father. His features dropped in a look of pure horror, and his already pale face turned a ghostly white. 'Oh my God! What's *he* doing here!?!?' He thought to himself in horror. He caught a small moving red thing in the corner of his eye, and turned to see what it was, just to see Krillin going up to Turtle. He was looking at him with a truly sorry expression on his face, but he didn't see it as he took in the fact that he'd just been betrayed by the crab when he promised not to tell.
He turned back to face his father, almost shaking in a mixture of anger, hate and most of all fear. Vegeta finally spoke to him in an oddly calm voice with his trident in hand. "Boy, I consider myself to be quit reasonable when it comes down to my laws and rules."
"Father I was just--"
"So when I set down rules, I expect them to be obeyed!!"
"But--"
"Is it true, you rescued a human from drowning?" Vegeta cut him off with the awe still in his voice at his own sons stupidity. "Why would you do something like that!?!?" He asked with an amazed expression on his face.
"Father I had to! He could have died!" Trunks cried out fearfully as he backed away from him. He found himself next to the statue of his love and hid behind it as it would protect him. Turtle and Krillin watched in fear for him. Krillin felt so horrible that he'd done this to the boy, but what other choice did he have?
"SO WHAT?!? THAT'S ONE LESS BARBARIAN FISH EATER THAT WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!" Vegeta roared in rage. He then stopped and took a deep breath to try and calm himself. "Contact between the human world and the merworld is strictly forbidden. Toranksu you should know that!" He shouted in disbelief.
He then looked around and noticed how many human object were in the room with them. He gasped in surprise. That crab had told him that there were many things like this in here, but this was just outstanding!!
There was enough of this stuff in here to clutter up his vast throne room and leave it like that for hours until it could be cleaned up by at least twenty of his servants. He turned to his son who was still cowering in fear of him behind that stone human statue, and he sneered nastily.
"So this is what you've been doing when you were out of my sight." He hissed in anger. Everything in this cave was illegal. He'd banned it all himself due to his wife's tragic death, and here was his own son, defying his laws behind his back! "How DARE you!?! *Everything* in here will be confiscated and destroyed immediately!"
Trunks gasped. "Father please no!"
"And from now on you will never leave my sight, and if there should be a rare occasion that you will need to you will be accompanied by at least *three* guards!" Vegeta was fuming. Because of all of this he would have to find away to get rid of all of these human things without the entire kingdom finding out about how their own prince had been braking the law.
Krillin and Turtle gasped in shock. Would he really take away his own sons freedom like that?
Trunks couldn't believe what he was hearing. Surely his own father wouldn't do that to him. Would he? "F-father you can't!"
"I can and I will!" He looked at the statue that his son was still behind and sneered at it. "The first thing to go will be this!" He said, angrily swimming up to it and trying to shove his son out of the way.
Trunks held onto the statue and gripped it firmly so he couldn't be moved. He wouldn't let his father destroy the gift that Turtle had given him. "Get out of the way, boy!" He barked in annoyance.
"No! I won't let you do this!" He yelled back desperately. Vegeta had the biggest urge to backhand him, but he held his hand in check.
"Why do you insist on doing this! This is exactly what killed your mother! Are you so stupid that you would really try and follow that same path! For fuck sakes! You saved the life of a stupid human! Even *she* wasn't dumb enough to do that!"
Trunks scowled at that. His own father had just called him stupid, his love stupid, and called his mother dumb. "I bet she would have if she had the chance!" He screamed back in rage as he watched his father's expression turn from shock to anger at the statement.
Vegeta shook with fury at that, simply for the fact that his son was probably right. She *would* have saved a human if she could. "Fine then!! Have your stupid little beliefs that humans are good and humans are caring, but the fact remains that they are all stupid, useless killers! Even him!" He screamed, pointing at the statue and not knowing the true impact he had on his son with the statement.
Trunks gasped. "No, it's not true! He's a good person!" He cried out, but Vegeta didn't hear him as he ranted. "Two legged, spineless, cut throats! Incapable of any emotion or--"
"Father, I LOVE HIM!" He cried out desperately without thinking. Krillin and Turtle gasped in complete shock. The young prince was doomed now! Shocked at his own stupidity for saying such a thing to his own father he his hid face behind the back of the statue.
Vegeta stopped, instantly hearing what his son had just said and looking over at him in shock. 'H-he's in love with the human?!?' He then sneered at him. "NO! I *won't* allow this! Have you completely lost your mind!?! He's a human! You're a mermaid!"
"I-I don't care!"
Vegeta didn't say anything else as he glided over to where his son still clutched at the statue, roughly grabbed him by the arm and ripped him off of it before throwing him down on the ground. Unknown to anyone in the room, Cell's two eels were hiding in the shadows. They were watching what the king was doing to his son happily, while they transmitted the images back to where Cell was watching and laughing.
"Now you listen to me, brat!" Vegeta said with venom in his voice. "Since you insist on being so stupid, when you become of age I will choose a mate for you! Someone who can keep you in line! And I don't care if you have fallen for this freak or even picked out a normal mate either!" He screamed. Trunks gasped in a mixture of shock and fear at what he just said. "And I WILL get these idiot ideas out of your head!" He powered up his Trident in front of Trunks for him to see. He watched his father fearfully, wondering what he planned on doing.
"If THIS is the ONLY way to do it, then so be it!" He yelled while taking aim and blasting a far wall and all of its contents.
"Father, please stop!" Trunks cried out as he went to try and stop him. He grabbed the Trident, but Vegeta just threw back down to the ground as he continued to blast the room and destroy everything in it.
Turtle and Krillin had to quickly take cover before they were singed by a blast. Trunks didn't move from his spot on the ground, half hoping that one of the energy beams would hit him and put him out of his misery. Unfortunately for him, Vegeta was in a rage but he *was* making sure to not hurt his son like that.
Soon after he'd stopped and some dust and rocks had settled, Vegeta looked around to see if there was anything which he'd missed. Surprisingly there was, and it was right in the centre of the room too. Trunks saw his father eyeing the stone statue of Gohan and became afraid for it.
"Father NO!!" He cried out just as Vegeta blasted it to rubble and chunks of it were thrown everywhere. One of them hit Krillin right in the head. "OWW!" He cried out rubbing the sore spot.
He and Turtle then looked up in time to see Trunks sniffling in front of the pile of rubble, with his back turned to his father. Vegeta truly did look sorry as he looked at all that he'd destroyed and then back at his son who's shoulders were shaking.
He slowly turned around and left the room, looking back once when he made it to the entrance, at his son to make sure that he was ok. 'I think I've gone too far.' He thought sadly, before silently swimming away with regret. He didn't go in there with the intent of hurting his son or taking his freedom from him. He just wanted him to see how wrong all of that human garbage was.
When he was gone, Krillin and Turtle came out of their hiding spot and slowly approached their friend. Krillin was the first to speak. "Trunks, I'm sorry. I--"
"Just go away!" He sobbed out while looking at the ruins of all he and his mother and Turtle had collected. 'I hate him so much for doing this!' He thought angrily while still shaking and sobbing.
Krillin slumped his shoulders. This was all his fault and he knew it. Turtle didn't know what to say to comfort his friend. If Trunks wanted to be alone then he should leave too. Without another word they slowly left the dark cave that once held so many strange and beautiful things, but now was only filled with garbage, rubble and a sobbing teenager.
Trunks slowly swam up to a wrecked wall and picked up a destroyed music box off of a ruined shelf. His mother was especially fond of this one, but it was broken and un-fixable now. He angrily threw it away at the thought. It was nothing now. Nothing in here was saved from his fathers rage. All of the memories of his mother and him going out to find ruined ships were just that now. Memories. No reminders were left spared.
He let himself slowly fall down to the bottom of the cave and sat. Bringing his tail up, he crossed his arms and hid his face in them while resting on his tail. 'I hate him so much!' He thought through his sobs.
When they saw how alone he was, the two Cell eel slithered out of their hiding spot and approached him with evil little grins on their faces. This would be too easy!
"Poor child." They hissed in unison. That got Trunks' attention pretty quick as he raised his head, startled by what he just heard, and looked in the direction of the eery sound. "He has some serious problems."
"W-who are you?" He asked curiously, but they didn't answer his question.
"If only there was something we could do. Something to help free you from your father." One of them said, as if trying to help.
His eyes widened at that. "Y-you heard all of that?" They both slowly nodded their heads. Trunks lowered his head in embarrassment and shame. What a thing to have someone else see. Not like it mattered, they couldn't help him. He was stuck in a life and form that he didn't want and there was nothing anyone could do about it. 'I'll never get to see Gohan ever again!' He thought miserably.
"But wait!" One of the eels hissed as if reading his mind. "There *is* something we can do!" His head shot back up hopefully when he heard that. "Really?!?!" He asked excitedly. They nodded their heads. "What? What is it?!?" He asked impatiently. If these two could help him with his father then he would do anything.
They circled him while speaking. "Cell has great powers! Enough to help you with your prince even." They hissed slowly. Trunks shivered at the sound of their voices, but then common sense came over him. Cell was the evil sea sorcerer who was banished for casting spells on merpeople, and these two worked for him? What would happen if he were to go to someone like that all by himself?
"I-I can't go to him!" He yelled in disappointment and anger. Why would they even suggest going to a creature like that? "Just forget it! Leave me alone!" He shouted at them in anger.
They were just about to shrug their shoulders and leave until Cells voice came into their heads. //"Stupid fools!! I need him if this will work! Do NOT leave unless you want to be turned into fish food!"//
They cringed at the sound of his harsh voice and ,rolling their eyes, went to give the purple haired mermaid another go. One of them suddenly saw the human face of the statue still intact. He decided that the boy only needed a reminder of what he would lose if he didn't go with them, and whipped it at Trunks using his tail.
It bounced on over to him, making scraping sounds as it came to a stop before him. Trunks looked at it curiously before picking it up.'They said that Cell could help me with Gohan.' He thought while looking into the stone eyes of his love. He really didn't care that it was a human that he'd given his love to. All that he could think about right now was the threat his father had given him and would most likely carry out if he didn't act fast.
"Suit yourself." The two eels said as they prepared to leave. Trunks quickly looked up at them as they were about to go. "It was only a suggestion."
"No wait!" He cried out just as they were leaving his eyesight.
They both turned at the same time with happy smiles on their faces. "Yesssssss?"
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Turtle and Krillin were floating around in the water, just outside of the ruined cave. Both of them had sorry and sad looks on their faces, only Krillin truly looked the worst. He felt so horrible about what he'd done to the boy, he didn't deserve to have his freedom taken from him like that. The very most he could do to help the prince at this point would be to go to the king and try to get him to change his mind, at the very least about the marriage thing. Then maybe Trunks would forgive him.
"Poor Trunks." Turtle said sadly with his head down.
"I didn't mean to tell on you two, it was an accident." Krillin replied, trying to explain his actions before there was anymore anger.
Just as Turtle was about to turn around and tell the crab to shut it, they both caught sight of Trunks swimming lazily out of the cave entrance with two dark looking figures.
"Trunks?" Krillin asked while swimming up to his face. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to see Cell." He replied dryly as he pushed the crab out of the way and continued on his way.
"WHAT?!?!" Krillin cried out in shock while grabbing at his tail. "No Trunks! No! He's evil! He's a monst--"
"Why don't you just go and rat me out to my dad!" He yelled, flicking his tail to get the offending thing off of him. "You're good at that!"
Krillin backed up a bit, shocked at the outburst. He knew that he should go to the king with this, but then how would he get the young mermaid to forgive him? He shouldn't betray him like that twice. Turtle gave him an odd and fearful look and he just frowned. "C'mon already!" He said, annoyed with himself for going along with this.
He and Turtle continued to follow their friend as he swam as fast as he could with the two eels, ignoring their pleas for him to stop and just think as he went. 'What's the point of thinking?' Trunks thought determinedly. 'If I don't do this then father will see to it that I'm never happy ever again. I have to do this! It's the only way.'
After nearly an hour of swimming in the direction of what looked like nowhere, the water seemed to get darker, and warmer too. Krillin looked around to see that they were approaching some underwater volcanos that were smoking a reddish sort of colour.
Turtle was very afraid at this point and while Trunks gave the impression of bravery, he was a little frightened too. Krillin just continued try and catch up to them to persuade his prince to leave with him before anything happened.
Eventually they came upon a cave that looked like the giant skeleton of a whale of some sort. Trunks didn't like the look of the thing and just had to wonder what kind of creature would want to live in the remains of another creature. He hesitated at the doorway but the eels took his arms and pulled him on in. "It's just through here." They hissed together calmly. He swallowed his fear and went with them, with Turtle and Krillin following closely behind.
Inside of the entrance, the three of them could all see these little creatures attached to the floor and swaying with the current. Turtle nearly fainted at the sight of them. All of them were looking up at them in fear, they all knew that Trunks was their prince and tried to warn him not to go any further, but no coherent sounds could make it out of their mouths.
They all freaked the fuck out of Trunks as he wondered just what they were, with his heart slamming in his chest. One of them made a grab at his hand to try and stop him. "Let go!" He cried out in fear as he pried the slimy thing off of his wrist.
"You should be careful of those. They like trying to do that." A muscular voice called out. The eels swam ahead to the source and Trunks followed them until they came to a very large room. At the far end was Cell, sitting in a giant shell lazily. "Um...What were those things?" He asked curiously.
Cell snorted. "Just some pets of mine that can't seem to keep quiet." He replied, getting off of the shell. 'This will be too easy!' He thought happily while eyeing Trunks as if he were something to eat. 'Oh yes! I'll enjoy owning you!'
"Alright now, lets get down to business." He said, suddenly serious. "You seem to have a thing for that human prince, do you not?" He asked while gliding on down to a shelf and pulling out some jars.
"More than a thing. I love him." He stated quietly. Turtle and Krillin decided that for the moment they should keep their mouths shut and listen to what the monster had to say, while they took in the strange sights of the room.
"Well that puts you in a bit of a dilemma doesn't it?" Cell said while trying to sound sympathetic. "Your father must be quit angered."
Trunks snorted. "He's going to take away my freedom almost entirely because of it, and then force me to marry someone I don't even know." He said, crossing his arms.
Cell smiled at him evilly and this sent a chill down Trunks' spine. 'Why does he keep on looking at me like that?' He thought curiously.
"The solution to your problem is simple." He stated while throwing some of his ingredients into a pot. "If you want to be with the human, then you must become a human yourself."
Trunks gasped in shock. "C-can you really do that?" He asked, his voice full of hope and amazement.
"Of course I can! That's just the type of thing I do almost on a daily basis!" He bragged. "I'll admit that in the past I've done some horrible things, but I've always tried to redeem myself by using my gift to help those who are in pain or need!" He then pointed at the entrance where all of his little *pets* were, and said. "Everyone has to pay a fee of some kind naturally, and if they don't pay then they stay!"
Trunks gulped nervously. "B-but I don't have anythi--" Cell quickly stretched out a tentacle over his mouth to shut him up. "I'm not asking for much of you, just something small and insignificant." He said. Trunks pushed the tentacle off of his mouth in disgust for it having been there. This guy was really creeping him out. "Like what?" He asked when it was gone.
"Just your voice." He stated without to much thought.
Unconsciously, Trunks reached a hand up to hold his throat. "My voice? But if I don't have my voice, then how can I--"
"You have your looks! And such a pretty face to go with it too! Why on earth would you need your voice for?!" Cell interrupted. "Humans hate people who gossip! Not to mention the body language you could do!" He said almost laughing in amusement at the thought.
Trunks snarled slightly before he got rid of the look on his face. If this guy could help him then he should at least try to act polite no matter how rude *he* was being. "It's quit a simple deal actually." He said, motioning for him to approach him in front of his crystal ball.
Several blurry images appeared in it and Trunks just watched in fascination. A purple mermaid shape, that looked something like him while swimming, soon appeared on the screen. "If you give me your voice, you will be changed from this," Cell said motioning at the screen. "To this." Trunks looked back at the crystal in time to see the little mermaid inside have it's tail split in two and then turn into legs.
He smiled wide at this. 'This could really work!' He thought excitedly. "The spell will only last for three days however." The octopus said, interrupting his thoughts. Trunks just gave him a confused look so he continued.
"If I change you into a human, the spell will only last until the sun sets on the third day. *If* and *only if* you can get your prince to kiss you before then, you will remain a human permanently. But if he doesn't then you will turn back into a mermaid, and you'll belong to me!" He sneered with a hungry look in his eyes as he looked at the princes finely toned chest. Trunks cringed nervously as he did that, but was soon snapped out of this thoughts by Krillins desperate plea.
"Toranksu NO! You can't do thi--" He was cut off as the two eels wrapped themselves around him and Turtle. He was about to go and help them until Cell reached a hand out and grabbed his chin, forcing him to look in his deranged eyes. "Have we got a deal or not?" He asked impatiently.
Trunks thought about that for a moment. "I-if I become human, then I'll never get to see my father or little sister again." He said sadly. He may hate his father right now, but strangely enough he still loved him and his sister.
"Well it's either you take your chance at freedom with the one you love," Cell said lazily while letting him go and bringing up a picture of Gohan in the crystal ball for him to see. "or you throw it all away, to become your fathers prisoner and marry a complete stranger." He said it as if he didn't care, but he knew that how easily he was getting through to him.
Trunks hesitated for only a moment before he made up his mind. "Where do I sign?" He asked determinedly. Cell smirked evilly as he produced a glowing gold sheet of paper and a quill from what seemed like nowhere and handed them to him. "Oh, and I'll need you to sing a little something in order for me to take your voice too. Nothing with words either! Your voice must be ongoing for this to work!" He stated.
Trunks nodded his head and took the shining paper and quill out of his hands, and signed his name as fast as he could before he could change his own mind.
**Toranksu no Ouji Vegeta**
The very second his name was on the paper, Cell snatched it out of his hand and looked it over with greedy eyes. He then quickly put it away and went over to his cauldron and started to chant out some weird spell as smoke filled the area around him, his voice echoing through the cave.
"Beluga, sevruga, come winds
Of the Caspian Sea
Larynxes, glacydis, ad max
Laryngitis la voice take to me!"
The smoke immediately took the form of large, thin clawed hands at the end of his spell, and the room glowed a strange dark colour. Trunks was a little afraid of what the claws were needed for, but he swallowed his fear as he reminded himself of why he was doing this.
Cell then pointed straight at him, his insane eyes turning red. "Now sing!" He demanded greedily.
Trunks swallowed hard, but did as he was told. It was actually the hymn he was supposed to do with his sister that day he missed the concert. As he sang he felt the inside of his throat get hot and saw the claws slowly approach him, but he didn't stop. 'I have to do this! It's the only way!' He thought while trying to find reasons to not swim away right then and there in fear.
Krillin and Turtle watched with horror as Trunks' throat started to glow and the clawed hands came nearer. They were just about to breath a sigh of relief when it looked like their prince backed away from them in fear, but their hopes were then shattered as he let the hands enter his mouth and steal his voice.
His face twisted up in a moment of pain at their presence in his neck, but was replaced with a look of shock as he opened his eyes in time to see the clawed hands removing themselves and holding a small glowing ball that was still singing with his voice. He grabbed his throat in shock and surprise. 'It really is gone!' He thought in amazement at the sight of his glowing voice as it went towards Cell and into shell around his neck. The dark octopus then locked it inside and held it close as if it were something of value.
He started to laugh evilly as a glowing yellow bubble shot out of his cauldron, and quickly grabbed Trunks, imprisoning him inside. He tried to struggle against it but couldn't get out. 'What's going on!?! What's he doing?!!' He thought in fear. He then felt a horrible searing pain run down his tail, and when he opened his mouth to cry out in pain, no sound came out.
Turtle and Krillin watched in horror as his tail seemed to rip in half up the middle and turn into legs and feet. Turtle was most afraid at the looks of pain his friend gave at the horrible act, he wanted to save him but he was still being held by the two eels.
The bubble disappeared around him when done, and when Trunks tried to swim away he found that he couldn't! He tried to breath but he couldn't do that either!! 'OH NO!!' He turned his head to call out for help but once again no sound came out, and he only wasted more air as it escaped from his throat.
Krillin didn't know too much about humans, but it was common knowledge that they needed air to breath. "Turtle he's drowning!!" He cried out in shock and disbelief that the very prince of mermaids could drown. Cell didn't do anything to help as he continued to laugh at him menacingly.
In a desperate attempt to get away and save his friend, Turtle bit at the eels tails *hard* and they quickly let go of them in the pain they felt. They were now free to go and save their friend.
Krillin grabbed Trunks' hand and Turtle went under his arm as they frantically took him and swam out of a hole in the roof of the dark cave and went for the surface as fast as they could, with Trunks kicking his legs for the extra speed.
His lungs burned for air and there was a pressure and pain around his body that he'd never felt before, but it seemed to lessen with the closer they got to the surface and the more light that he saw. Just as he felt as though he would pass out from his lack of oxygen, they all broke through to the surface and into the sunlight, with Trunks taking in a deep breath of wonderful air. It was so quick that they nearly jumped right out of the water before falling back in.
Turtle went under his friend and let him grab on his large shell as Trunks gulped in the air, greedily and tired. 'Never thought there would be a day when I would *literally* die without coming here.' He thought to himself sarcastically before passing out on his best friends back.
"That IDIOT nearly killed him!" Krillin shouted angrily as he too, climbed out of the water and on Turtle's back to make sure that Trunks wouldn't slip off and back into the water.
"At least he's alright now that we got him here." Turtle replied as he swam for the shore, hopefully Master Roshi would be around soon. Maybe he could help them in some way.
Krillin just sighed as he looked at his unconscious prince. 'What did you do Trunks? Your father is going to kill us all when he finds out.' He thought nervously as they made their way to the awaiting beach.
To be continued..................
A.N: Ok to answer a few questions, when disney made the movie of The Little Mermais they changed how the story went to give it a happy ending. In the origional version the mermaid died after getting to the beach because she couldn't handle the pain of walking for the first time. Her body turned into the beach foam and she became the spirit of the ocean. She never saw her prince ever again and they both remained miserable forever really. So i was just wondering if you all wanted me to do it the origional way.
Better review me quick! They're headed for the beach and I could kill Trunks if you all don't tell me how you want it! (laughs evily)
Review please! Bye for now. ^_^
By:Freewater
Disclaimers: I do not own DBZ and I don't own the little mermaid despite how cool that would be! 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, but she is mentioned in some parts. 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! Reviews are always welcome, even a few good natured flames.
Notes: A bunch of these little stars **** Means a change in time or scenery. ''These things here indicate thoughts. These things // are used to indicate telepathy. 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. Ch#3-?
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)
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The next morning Bra was up early trying to get her stubborn brother out of his room. She yelled at him through the curtain of seaweed that blocked her view of what was inside. "Trunks, get up already! Father wants to see you!" She cried out to him for the fifth time.
Trunks just glided out his room and right past her in a daze, he didn't even notice she was there. Bra looked at him curiously as he happily picked a blue flower, growing out of the wall rocks and just looked at it as if it were something of any real interest. "Uh, are you ok, Trunks?" She asked a little nervously. She had never seen her brother in such a good mood before.
"Hmm?" He mumbled, looking up from the flower he was holding. "Oh, Everything's great Bra!" He said, suddenly excited as he swam on to where she just floated and put the flower in her hair, while humming some new tune that she had never heard before.
A look of realization suddenly crossed her young features. 'Oh! Trunks is in love!' She thought happily. Her brother never usually was in a good mood of any kind. So this was a nice change of pace.
Trunks then turned to leave until he found himself in front of Vegeta. He'd grown impatient of waiting for his brat to show up so he decided to try and get him out of bed himself.
"Oh! Morning father." He replied cheerfully before swimming off, still humming his little tune. Vegeta forgot all about the fact that he wanted to speak to his son with the cheery attitude he just presented. He actually wanted to tell him about Krillen and how he would watch him until he got all of those stupid human ideas out of his head. 'Well this is different!' He thought to himself, shocked. 'I wonder what's going on.'
"He's got it bad, doesn't he?" Bra said suddenly, interrupting his thoughts. "What? What has he got?" Vegeta asked, worried that his boy might be ill. "Isn't it obvious, father." She said, picking the flower out of her hair and handing it to him. "Trunks is in love."
Vegeta took the flower and let the impact of what his daughter had just told him sink in. 'Toranksu, in love?' He then smirked. "Hn. It's about damn time!" He said out loud. This meant that his son was finally getting some suitors.
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Trunks sat on a flat rock on the ocean floor in the palace yard, picking out the petals of more underwater flowers, doing the whole "He loves me, he loves me not" thing. He'd never done that before, but then again he'd never been in love before. When he landed on the "He loves me" petal, he got exited and started to swim around with joy.
"He loves me! He loves me!" He chanted out happily while clutching at the petal in his hands, as if it were something of value. Just then Krillin swam up behind him, having seen the little display he gave, and pinched the back of his tail *hard*!
"OWWWW!!" Trunks cried out in pain. He looked behind him to see who did the offending act just to see the face of his little red friend. "Krillin? What did you do that for?!?" He yelled out, angry for getting his tail pinched.
He just rolled his eyes angrily before shouting at the air headed youth. "Are you insane!?!?! First you go to the surface almost immediately after your father tells you NOT to! Then you save the life of some human! AND THEN YOU KISS HIM!!!! HAVE YOU COMPLETELY LOST YOUR MIND?!?!?!"
Trunks looked a little annoyed at the crab but then just shrugged it off as he continued to swim around dreamily, his hurting tail forgotten. What did a stupid crab know about love anyway?
Krillin sighed as he watched his prince laze about in the water. He knew who that little minnow was thinking of while he shut his eyes and hummed to himself while doing a backstroke. "I've *got* to see him again!" He said suddenly.
"WHAT?!?!" Krillin yelled in disbelief. Trunks didn't seem to really hear him though as he continued. "Tonight! I'll bet Master Roshi knows where he lives too!"
Krillin swam up to his upturned face and forced him to open his eyes and look at him. "Trunks, listen very carefully. You are very ill right now and are having these stupid little hallucinations that you could have a relationship with a human. *You* are a merman and *he* is a fish eating human!"
Trunks just snarled at him. "So what?" He said angrily while swiping him away from his face. He just dodged the attack as Trunks went to sit on a rock. "Not *all* humans eat fish y'know!" He said in an insulted tone for being told how stupid he was. "Sometimes I wish I *was* a human!"
Krillin gasped at hearing that. If Vegeta had heard it then he would have turned his son into fish sticks! "Trunks, why would you want to be a human?!? They are nothing but a bunch of fat and lazy whiners who always try to do things the easy way! Cowards too!"
"Gohan wasn't fat and he certainly didn't seem lazy." Trunks said defensively while remembering the gorgeous humans body and how he was helping the other humans on that ship. *And* the way he tried to save his animal proved that he wasn't cowardly. "And so what if they try to do things the easy way once in a while? What's so wrong with that?" He asked, truly not understanding the reason behind the little crabs verbal attack.
Turtle soon swam up with an excited look on his face, but after noticing Krillin near his friend he decided to wait a moment before swimming on down there to get Trunks to see his surprise. He swam over to a pile of large rocks and decided to hide himself until an opportunity to get closer presented itself.
Krillin stuttered while trying to think of an answer and trying to find more reasons to hate humans. Unfortunately the only real reason was that they ate fish, everything else just seemed to spin off from there. "Uhh...They uhh....THEY POLLUTE OUR WATERS!!" He shouted desperately.
Trunks gave him a confused look so he continued. "You *can't* deny that they pollute our waters! You have *tons* of junk all piled up from those human wrecks you visit! You see it all the time!"
Trunks just snorted. "That was a lame one, Krillin! All of those wrecks are only there because they sank after an accident of some kind, and even then a lot of humans die because of them. I've seen the skeletons."
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!" He screamed at the youth in frustration. Turtle frowned as he watched. Sure it was a little odd loving someone outside of your own species, but it was nothing to shout about!
Krillin just continued to rant and rave until Trunks just stopped paying attention all together. "That human world is a complete mess! Things down here are so much better! Why would you want to throw all of that away?" About ten minutes later when it appeared as if Krillin didn't even notice him anymore through his ranting and pacing, and when Trunks was just about to fall asleep, Turtle took a risk and swam down to his friend, practically waking him up as he whispered in his ear. "I've got a cool surprise for you, Trunks!"
Trunks opened his eyes wide and smiled at him excitedly before they both swam off when Krillins back was turned. He just continued to pace back and force, ranting about how stupid Trunks was being, for a good ten minutes until he noticed the young princes complete absence.
He sighed in annoyance. "I can't believe he left! I'll give that brat a good talking too when I find him! I swear if I didn't know any better I'd say he *wanted* his father to kill him!" He mumbled in a pissed off tone for being so rudely ignored while speaking.
Suddenly a desperate shouting made it to his ears. "Krillin!!!" He turned to his side to see a royal seahorse headed in his direction, creating bubbles in his haste. 'What now?' He thought, getting more annoyed by the minute.
The small seahorse stopped right in front of his face, a nervous expression on his features. "Krillin, I've been looking all over for you!" He said pulling at one of his pinchers. He just shrugged him off as he continued. "I have an important message for you from King Vegeta!"
"Vegeta? What is it?" He asked curiously. He'd only been appointed to watch over Trunks last night. There was no way that he expected a report on him already, that was just asking way too much!
"Uh...I don't know it actually! But he said it was *very* important and that he wanted to see you right away!" The seahorse continued to swim around while stammering nervously. "I-it's something to do with Toranksu!" And then he left as fast as he could like there was something to be afraid of. Nothing out of the ordinary since most creatures that small are afraid of their King and his temper.
Krillin thought for a moment. 'Why would he want to see me about Tora--' He stopped suddenly and paled as much as a red crab could, as if he had just seen a ghost. "H-he knows!!"
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Vegeta sat in his dark throne room, looking over the flower that his daughter had presented him with earlier. He was extremely pleased that Toranksu was finally out looking for suitors. He really didn't care who it was as long as they had some mild intelligence. This would mean that he wouldn't have to force his son to marry before he was ready.
Vegeta thought for a moment. It wasn't too long ago that he sent the crab out to watch his son, but he should still know about it. It doesn't take long for someone to want to see their love and then to display it in some fashion. 'He had better have a good explanation for not coming to me with this.' He thought, somewhat annoyed.
"I wonder who it is." He said to himself curiously while he examined the blue flower still in his hand.
He then looked past it and to the far entranceway in time to see Krillin, poking his head around on the floor and looking at him curiously, wondering what he was doing with a flower in his hand.
Vegeta, realising how foolish he must look, quickly hid the flower behind his back and cleared his throat. "Um...You may enter, crab." He said in a royal fashion.
The crab gulped nervously as he started his walk down to the throne. 'He can't know! There is *no* way he could've found out so fast!' He thought fearfully. If Vegeta knew that he was keeping something like this from him then there would be hell to pay!
Krillin finally made it up to where Vegeta sat and looked up at him nervously. "Listen, crab, I know you've been keeping something from me!" He said threateningly with a smirk on his face at the shocked expression Krillin immediately gave. 'So he WAS keeping this from me!' He thought nastily. 'I'll just have to teach him a lesson then!' Vegeta wasn't going to hurt him or anything, just scare the hell out of him.
Krillin swallowed hard. "Um...Keeping something?" He tried to ask innocently, but his squeaking voice gave him away instantly.
Vegeta made a "Come here" motion with his finger, and Krillin swam up so that he would be level with his face. Vegeta's smirk got deeper as he took in the close up look of the frightened crab, and this just intensified the fear that Krillin already felt.
"You've been hiding things from me that concern my son." He said calmly, nonetheless Krillin nearly had a heart attack at that statement. 'Oh fuck!! He knows!! He's gonna kill me!' He thought in pure horror.
"About his love life if my memory is correct....Hmm?" Vegeta asked with his smirk still in place. Frightening this crab was far too easy! Krillin almost shit himself when he heard the words love life.
"Well?" Vegeta asked impatiently when the small crab said nothing and just continued to look at him in fear.
He frantically tried to explain himself before it was too late. "I-I....He went...I-it wasn't my.......... I TRIED TO STOP HIM SIRE!" Krillin screamed out as he grabbed at Vegeta's hair in a desperate attempt to get him to listen before he threw him out. Vegeta just looked shocked at such an outburst. He wanted to frighten him but he didn't expect this! "HE WOULDN'T LISTEN TO ME!! I TOLD HIM TO STAY AWAY FROM ALL THOSE HUMANS!!! THEY ARE BAD, NOTHING BUT TROU--"
"Humans? WHAT ABOUT HUMANS?!?!" Vegeta screamed at the crab in anger. What in the hell would humans have to do with his son finding a mate?
Krillin looked dumbstruck at having spit out his little secret. 'He DOESN'T know!?! Oh FUCK!!' He put on a nervous smile at that point. "H-humans?" He stuttered out as he backed away from him fearfully while laughing nervously. "W-who said anything about humans?"
Vegeta quickly reached out and grabbed him tightly, cutting off his air supply and causing him to gasp out. He pulled him close with a menacing look on his face. "You *will* tell me *everything* you know about what my brat has been doing since you've started watching him! Have I made myself clear?" He sneered while adding a bit more pressure to his grip.
Krillin gulped in fear and nodded his head. 'Sorry Trunks.' He thought sadly.
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Some time later, Turtle and Trunks had just made it back to their cave and were now swimming down the dark corridor leading inside the large room. "C'mon Turtle! Why can't you just tell me what this is all about?" Trunks asked his friend in excitement as he followed him.
"You'll see, and you'll like it to!" He replied in a teasing tone as they swam. "It's a surprise!"
They finally glided into the large space that held all of their treasures and in the centre of the room, just under the light, Trunks could clearly see the large stone statue of Gohan. His breath got caught in his throat as he immediately wrapped his arms around his best friend in a tight hug and swirled him around. "Turtle you're the greatest!" He cried out letting go of him and swimming over to his gift.
"It looks JUST like him too! Everything's exactly the same!" He cried out while circling it. He then went up behind it and wrapped his arms around the neck of the statue lovingly.
"I love it, Turtle! Thank you so much!"
"But I thought that you loved the human, Trunks." Turtle replied, tauntingly.
Trunks just stuck his tongue out at him jokingly. "Idiot, of course I do, but I love this too!" Turtle beamed happily that he'd done such a good job with his surprise. It was *really* hard getting it into the cave, but from his friends reaction it was worth it.
Trunks went to the front of the statue and with his arms never leaving the neck, decided to have a little fun. "Why Gohan, run away with you? OF COURSE!" He cried out happily as he pushed himself away from his new toy, his smiling and laughter never wavering until he bumped his back into something that shouldn't have been there.
He turned around curiously to see what it was that he had bumped into, just to look into the scowling face of his father. His features dropped in a look of pure horror, and his already pale face turned a ghostly white. 'Oh my God! What's *he* doing here!?!?' He thought to himself in horror. He caught a small moving red thing in the corner of his eye, and turned to see what it was, just to see Krillin going up to Turtle. He was looking at him with a truly sorry expression on his face, but he didn't see it as he took in the fact that he'd just been betrayed by the crab when he promised not to tell.
He turned back to face his father, almost shaking in a mixture of anger, hate and most of all fear. Vegeta finally spoke to him in an oddly calm voice with his trident in hand. "Boy, I consider myself to be quit reasonable when it comes down to my laws and rules."
"Father I was just--"
"So when I set down rules, I expect them to be obeyed!!"
"But--"
"Is it true, you rescued a human from drowning?" Vegeta cut him off with the awe still in his voice at his own sons stupidity. "Why would you do something like that!?!?" He asked with an amazed expression on his face.
"Father I had to! He could have died!" Trunks cried out fearfully as he backed away from him. He found himself next to the statue of his love and hid behind it as it would protect him. Turtle and Krillin watched in fear for him. Krillin felt so horrible that he'd done this to the boy, but what other choice did he have?
"SO WHAT?!? THAT'S ONE LESS BARBARIAN FISH EATER THAT WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!" Vegeta roared in rage. He then stopped and took a deep breath to try and calm himself. "Contact between the human world and the merworld is strictly forbidden. Toranksu you should know that!" He shouted in disbelief.
He then looked around and noticed how many human object were in the room with them. He gasped in surprise. That crab had told him that there were many things like this in here, but this was just outstanding!!
There was enough of this stuff in here to clutter up his vast throne room and leave it like that for hours until it could be cleaned up by at least twenty of his servants. He turned to his son who was still cowering in fear of him behind that stone human statue, and he sneered nastily.
"So this is what you've been doing when you were out of my sight." He hissed in anger. Everything in this cave was illegal. He'd banned it all himself due to his wife's tragic death, and here was his own son, defying his laws behind his back! "How DARE you!?! *Everything* in here will be confiscated and destroyed immediately!"
Trunks gasped. "Father please no!"
"And from now on you will never leave my sight, and if there should be a rare occasion that you will need to you will be accompanied by at least *three* guards!" Vegeta was fuming. Because of all of this he would have to find away to get rid of all of these human things without the entire kingdom finding out about how their own prince had been braking the law.
Krillin and Turtle gasped in shock. Would he really take away his own sons freedom like that?
Trunks couldn't believe what he was hearing. Surely his own father wouldn't do that to him. Would he? "F-father you can't!"
"I can and I will!" He looked at the statue that his son was still behind and sneered at it. "The first thing to go will be this!" He said, angrily swimming up to it and trying to shove his son out of the way.
Trunks held onto the statue and gripped it firmly so he couldn't be moved. He wouldn't let his father destroy the gift that Turtle had given him. "Get out of the way, boy!" He barked in annoyance.
"No! I won't let you do this!" He yelled back desperately. Vegeta had the biggest urge to backhand him, but he held his hand in check.
"Why do you insist on doing this! This is exactly what killed your mother! Are you so stupid that you would really try and follow that same path! For fuck sakes! You saved the life of a stupid human! Even *she* wasn't dumb enough to do that!"
Trunks scowled at that. His own father had just called him stupid, his love stupid, and called his mother dumb. "I bet she would have if she had the chance!" He screamed back in rage as he watched his father's expression turn from shock to anger at the statement.
Vegeta shook with fury at that, simply for the fact that his son was probably right. She *would* have saved a human if she could. "Fine then!! Have your stupid little beliefs that humans are good and humans are caring, but the fact remains that they are all stupid, useless killers! Even him!" He screamed, pointing at the statue and not knowing the true impact he had on his son with the statement.
Trunks gasped. "No, it's not true! He's a good person!" He cried out, but Vegeta didn't hear him as he ranted. "Two legged, spineless, cut throats! Incapable of any emotion or--"
"Father, I LOVE HIM!" He cried out desperately without thinking. Krillin and Turtle gasped in complete shock. The young prince was doomed now! Shocked at his own stupidity for saying such a thing to his own father he his hid face behind the back of the statue.
Vegeta stopped, instantly hearing what his son had just said and looking over at him in shock. 'H-he's in love with the human?!?' He then sneered at him. "NO! I *won't* allow this! Have you completely lost your mind!?! He's a human! You're a mermaid!"
"I-I don't care!"
Vegeta didn't say anything else as he glided over to where his son still clutched at the statue, roughly grabbed him by the arm and ripped him off of it before throwing him down on the ground. Unknown to anyone in the room, Cell's two eels were hiding in the shadows. They were watching what the king was doing to his son happily, while they transmitted the images back to where Cell was watching and laughing.
"Now you listen to me, brat!" Vegeta said with venom in his voice. "Since you insist on being so stupid, when you become of age I will choose a mate for you! Someone who can keep you in line! And I don't care if you have fallen for this freak or even picked out a normal mate either!" He screamed. Trunks gasped in a mixture of shock and fear at what he just said. "And I WILL get these idiot ideas out of your head!" He powered up his Trident in front of Trunks for him to see. He watched his father fearfully, wondering what he planned on doing.
"If THIS is the ONLY way to do it, then so be it!" He yelled while taking aim and blasting a far wall and all of its contents.
"Father, please stop!" Trunks cried out as he went to try and stop him. He grabbed the Trident, but Vegeta just threw back down to the ground as he continued to blast the room and destroy everything in it.
Turtle and Krillin had to quickly take cover before they were singed by a blast. Trunks didn't move from his spot on the ground, half hoping that one of the energy beams would hit him and put him out of his misery. Unfortunately for him, Vegeta was in a rage but he *was* making sure to not hurt his son like that.
Soon after he'd stopped and some dust and rocks had settled, Vegeta looked around to see if there was anything which he'd missed. Surprisingly there was, and it was right in the centre of the room too. Trunks saw his father eyeing the stone statue of Gohan and became afraid for it.
"Father NO!!" He cried out just as Vegeta blasted it to rubble and chunks of it were thrown everywhere. One of them hit Krillin right in the head. "OWW!" He cried out rubbing the sore spot.
He and Turtle then looked up in time to see Trunks sniffling in front of the pile of rubble, with his back turned to his father. Vegeta truly did look sorry as he looked at all that he'd destroyed and then back at his son who's shoulders were shaking.
He slowly turned around and left the room, looking back once when he made it to the entrance, at his son to make sure that he was ok. 'I think I've gone too far.' He thought sadly, before silently swimming away with regret. He didn't go in there with the intent of hurting his son or taking his freedom from him. He just wanted him to see how wrong all of that human garbage was.
When he was gone, Krillin and Turtle came out of their hiding spot and slowly approached their friend. Krillin was the first to speak. "Trunks, I'm sorry. I--"
"Just go away!" He sobbed out while looking at the ruins of all he and his mother and Turtle had collected. 'I hate him so much for doing this!' He thought angrily while still shaking and sobbing.
Krillin slumped his shoulders. This was all his fault and he knew it. Turtle didn't know what to say to comfort his friend. If Trunks wanted to be alone then he should leave too. Without another word they slowly left the dark cave that once held so many strange and beautiful things, but now was only filled with garbage, rubble and a sobbing teenager.
Trunks slowly swam up to a wrecked wall and picked up a destroyed music box off of a ruined shelf. His mother was especially fond of this one, but it was broken and un-fixable now. He angrily threw it away at the thought. It was nothing now. Nothing in here was saved from his fathers rage. All of the memories of his mother and him going out to find ruined ships were just that now. Memories. No reminders were left spared.
He let himself slowly fall down to the bottom of the cave and sat. Bringing his tail up, he crossed his arms and hid his face in them while resting on his tail. 'I hate him so much!' He thought through his sobs.
When they saw how alone he was, the two Cell eel slithered out of their hiding spot and approached him with evil little grins on their faces. This would be too easy!
"Poor child." They hissed in unison. That got Trunks' attention pretty quick as he raised his head, startled by what he just heard, and looked in the direction of the eery sound. "He has some serious problems."
"W-who are you?" He asked curiously, but they didn't answer his question.
"If only there was something we could do. Something to help free you from your father." One of them said, as if trying to help.
His eyes widened at that. "Y-you heard all of that?" They both slowly nodded their heads. Trunks lowered his head in embarrassment and shame. What a thing to have someone else see. Not like it mattered, they couldn't help him. He was stuck in a life and form that he didn't want and there was nothing anyone could do about it. 'I'll never get to see Gohan ever again!' He thought miserably.
"But wait!" One of the eels hissed as if reading his mind. "There *is* something we can do!" His head shot back up hopefully when he heard that. "Really?!?!" He asked excitedly. They nodded their heads. "What? What is it?!?" He asked impatiently. If these two could help him with his father then he would do anything.
They circled him while speaking. "Cell has great powers! Enough to help you with your prince even." They hissed slowly. Trunks shivered at the sound of their voices, but then common sense came over him. Cell was the evil sea sorcerer who was banished for casting spells on merpeople, and these two worked for him? What would happen if he were to go to someone like that all by himself?
"I-I can't go to him!" He yelled in disappointment and anger. Why would they even suggest going to a creature like that? "Just forget it! Leave me alone!" He shouted at them in anger.
They were just about to shrug their shoulders and leave until Cells voice came into their heads. //"Stupid fools!! I need him if this will work! Do NOT leave unless you want to be turned into fish food!"//
They cringed at the sound of his harsh voice and ,rolling their eyes, went to give the purple haired mermaid another go. One of them suddenly saw the human face of the statue still intact. He decided that the boy only needed a reminder of what he would lose if he didn't go with them, and whipped it at Trunks using his tail.
It bounced on over to him, making scraping sounds as it came to a stop before him. Trunks looked at it curiously before picking it up.'They said that Cell could help me with Gohan.' He thought while looking into the stone eyes of his love. He really didn't care that it was a human that he'd given his love to. All that he could think about right now was the threat his father had given him and would most likely carry out if he didn't act fast.
"Suit yourself." The two eels said as they prepared to leave. Trunks quickly looked up at them as they were about to go. "It was only a suggestion."
"No wait!" He cried out just as they were leaving his eyesight.
They both turned at the same time with happy smiles on their faces. "Yesssssss?"
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Turtle and Krillin were floating around in the water, just outside of the ruined cave. Both of them had sorry and sad looks on their faces, only Krillin truly looked the worst. He felt so horrible about what he'd done to the boy, he didn't deserve to have his freedom taken from him like that. The very most he could do to help the prince at this point would be to go to the king and try to get him to change his mind, at the very least about the marriage thing. Then maybe Trunks would forgive him.
"Poor Trunks." Turtle said sadly with his head down.
"I didn't mean to tell on you two, it was an accident." Krillin replied, trying to explain his actions before there was anymore anger.
Just as Turtle was about to turn around and tell the crab to shut it, they both caught sight of Trunks swimming lazily out of the cave entrance with two dark looking figures.
"Trunks?" Krillin asked while swimming up to his face. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to see Cell." He replied dryly as he pushed the crab out of the way and continued on his way.
"WHAT?!?!" Krillin cried out in shock while grabbing at his tail. "No Trunks! No! He's evil! He's a monst--"
"Why don't you just go and rat me out to my dad!" He yelled, flicking his tail to get the offending thing off of him. "You're good at that!"
Krillin backed up a bit, shocked at the outburst. He knew that he should go to the king with this, but then how would he get the young mermaid to forgive him? He shouldn't betray him like that twice. Turtle gave him an odd and fearful look and he just frowned. "C'mon already!" He said, annoyed with himself for going along with this.
He and Turtle continued to follow their friend as he swam as fast as he could with the two eels, ignoring their pleas for him to stop and just think as he went. 'What's the point of thinking?' Trunks thought determinedly. 'If I don't do this then father will see to it that I'm never happy ever again. I have to do this! It's the only way.'
After nearly an hour of swimming in the direction of what looked like nowhere, the water seemed to get darker, and warmer too. Krillin looked around to see that they were approaching some underwater volcanos that were smoking a reddish sort of colour.
Turtle was very afraid at this point and while Trunks gave the impression of bravery, he was a little frightened too. Krillin just continued try and catch up to them to persuade his prince to leave with him before anything happened.
Eventually they came upon a cave that looked like the giant skeleton of a whale of some sort. Trunks didn't like the look of the thing and just had to wonder what kind of creature would want to live in the remains of another creature. He hesitated at the doorway but the eels took his arms and pulled him on in. "It's just through here." They hissed together calmly. He swallowed his fear and went with them, with Turtle and Krillin following closely behind.
Inside of the entrance, the three of them could all see these little creatures attached to the floor and swaying with the current. Turtle nearly fainted at the sight of them. All of them were looking up at them in fear, they all knew that Trunks was their prince and tried to warn him not to go any further, but no coherent sounds could make it out of their mouths.
They all freaked the fuck out of Trunks as he wondered just what they were, with his heart slamming in his chest. One of them made a grab at his hand to try and stop him. "Let go!" He cried out in fear as he pried the slimy thing off of his wrist.
"You should be careful of those. They like trying to do that." A muscular voice called out. The eels swam ahead to the source and Trunks followed them until they came to a very large room. At the far end was Cell, sitting in a giant shell lazily. "Um...What were those things?" He asked curiously.
Cell snorted. "Just some pets of mine that can't seem to keep quiet." He replied, getting off of the shell. 'This will be too easy!' He thought happily while eyeing Trunks as if he were something to eat. 'Oh yes! I'll enjoy owning you!'
"Alright now, lets get down to business." He said, suddenly serious. "You seem to have a thing for that human prince, do you not?" He asked while gliding on down to a shelf and pulling out some jars.
"More than a thing. I love him." He stated quietly. Turtle and Krillin decided that for the moment they should keep their mouths shut and listen to what the monster had to say, while they took in the strange sights of the room.
"Well that puts you in a bit of a dilemma doesn't it?" Cell said while trying to sound sympathetic. "Your father must be quit angered."
Trunks snorted. "He's going to take away my freedom almost entirely because of it, and then force me to marry someone I don't even know." He said, crossing his arms.
Cell smiled at him evilly and this sent a chill down Trunks' spine. 'Why does he keep on looking at me like that?' He thought curiously.
"The solution to your problem is simple." He stated while throwing some of his ingredients into a pot. "If you want to be with the human, then you must become a human yourself."
Trunks gasped in shock. "C-can you really do that?" He asked, his voice full of hope and amazement.
"Of course I can! That's just the type of thing I do almost on a daily basis!" He bragged. "I'll admit that in the past I've done some horrible things, but I've always tried to redeem myself by using my gift to help those who are in pain or need!" He then pointed at the entrance where all of his little *pets* were, and said. "Everyone has to pay a fee of some kind naturally, and if they don't pay then they stay!"
Trunks gulped nervously. "B-but I don't have anythi--" Cell quickly stretched out a tentacle over his mouth to shut him up. "I'm not asking for much of you, just something small and insignificant." He said. Trunks pushed the tentacle off of his mouth in disgust for it having been there. This guy was really creeping him out. "Like what?" He asked when it was gone.
"Just your voice." He stated without to much thought.
Unconsciously, Trunks reached a hand up to hold his throat. "My voice? But if I don't have my voice, then how can I--"
"You have your looks! And such a pretty face to go with it too! Why on earth would you need your voice for?!" Cell interrupted. "Humans hate people who gossip! Not to mention the body language you could do!" He said almost laughing in amusement at the thought.
Trunks snarled slightly before he got rid of the look on his face. If this guy could help him then he should at least try to act polite no matter how rude *he* was being. "It's quit a simple deal actually." He said, motioning for him to approach him in front of his crystal ball.
Several blurry images appeared in it and Trunks just watched in fascination. A purple mermaid shape, that looked something like him while swimming, soon appeared on the screen. "If you give me your voice, you will be changed from this," Cell said motioning at the screen. "To this." Trunks looked back at the crystal in time to see the little mermaid inside have it's tail split in two and then turn into legs.
He smiled wide at this. 'This could really work!' He thought excitedly. "The spell will only last for three days however." The octopus said, interrupting his thoughts. Trunks just gave him a confused look so he continued.
"If I change you into a human, the spell will only last until the sun sets on the third day. *If* and *only if* you can get your prince to kiss you before then, you will remain a human permanently. But if he doesn't then you will turn back into a mermaid, and you'll belong to me!" He sneered with a hungry look in his eyes as he looked at the princes finely toned chest. Trunks cringed nervously as he did that, but was soon snapped out of this thoughts by Krillins desperate plea.
"Toranksu NO! You can't do thi--" He was cut off as the two eels wrapped themselves around him and Turtle. He was about to go and help them until Cell reached a hand out and grabbed his chin, forcing him to look in his deranged eyes. "Have we got a deal or not?" He asked impatiently.
Trunks thought about that for a moment. "I-if I become human, then I'll never get to see my father or little sister again." He said sadly. He may hate his father right now, but strangely enough he still loved him and his sister.
"Well it's either you take your chance at freedom with the one you love," Cell said lazily while letting him go and bringing up a picture of Gohan in the crystal ball for him to see. "or you throw it all away, to become your fathers prisoner and marry a complete stranger." He said it as if he didn't care, but he knew that how easily he was getting through to him.
Trunks hesitated for only a moment before he made up his mind. "Where do I sign?" He asked determinedly. Cell smirked evilly as he produced a glowing gold sheet of paper and a quill from what seemed like nowhere and handed them to him. "Oh, and I'll need you to sing a little something in order for me to take your voice too. Nothing with words either! Your voice must be ongoing for this to work!" He stated.
Trunks nodded his head and took the shining paper and quill out of his hands, and signed his name as fast as he could before he could change his own mind.
**Toranksu no Ouji Vegeta**
The very second his name was on the paper, Cell snatched it out of his hand and looked it over with greedy eyes. He then quickly put it away and went over to his cauldron and started to chant out some weird spell as smoke filled the area around him, his voice echoing through the cave.
"Beluga, sevruga, come winds
Of the Caspian Sea
Larynxes, glacydis, ad max
Laryngitis la voice take to me!"
The smoke immediately took the form of large, thin clawed hands at the end of his spell, and the room glowed a strange dark colour. Trunks was a little afraid of what the claws were needed for, but he swallowed his fear as he reminded himself of why he was doing this.
Cell then pointed straight at him, his insane eyes turning red. "Now sing!" He demanded greedily.
Trunks swallowed hard, but did as he was told. It was actually the hymn he was supposed to do with his sister that day he missed the concert. As he sang he felt the inside of his throat get hot and saw the claws slowly approach him, but he didn't stop. 'I have to do this! It's the only way!' He thought while trying to find reasons to not swim away right then and there in fear.
Krillin and Turtle watched with horror as Trunks' throat started to glow and the clawed hands came nearer. They were just about to breath a sigh of relief when it looked like their prince backed away from them in fear, but their hopes were then shattered as he let the hands enter his mouth and steal his voice.
His face twisted up in a moment of pain at their presence in his neck, but was replaced with a look of shock as he opened his eyes in time to see the clawed hands removing themselves and holding a small glowing ball that was still singing with his voice. He grabbed his throat in shock and surprise. 'It really is gone!' He thought in amazement at the sight of his glowing voice as it went towards Cell and into shell around his neck. The dark octopus then locked it inside and held it close as if it were something of value.
He started to laugh evilly as a glowing yellow bubble shot out of his cauldron, and quickly grabbed Trunks, imprisoning him inside. He tried to struggle against it but couldn't get out. 'What's going on!?! What's he doing?!!' He thought in fear. He then felt a horrible searing pain run down his tail, and when he opened his mouth to cry out in pain, no sound came out.
Turtle and Krillin watched in horror as his tail seemed to rip in half up the middle and turn into legs and feet. Turtle was most afraid at the looks of pain his friend gave at the horrible act, he wanted to save him but he was still being held by the two eels.
The bubble disappeared around him when done, and when Trunks tried to swim away he found that he couldn't! He tried to breath but he couldn't do that either!! 'OH NO!!' He turned his head to call out for help but once again no sound came out, and he only wasted more air as it escaped from his throat.
Krillin didn't know too much about humans, but it was common knowledge that they needed air to breath. "Turtle he's drowning!!" He cried out in shock and disbelief that the very prince of mermaids could drown. Cell didn't do anything to help as he continued to laugh at him menacingly.
In a desperate attempt to get away and save his friend, Turtle bit at the eels tails *hard* and they quickly let go of them in the pain they felt. They were now free to go and save their friend.
Krillin grabbed Trunks' hand and Turtle went under his arm as they frantically took him and swam out of a hole in the roof of the dark cave and went for the surface as fast as they could, with Trunks kicking his legs for the extra speed.
His lungs burned for air and there was a pressure and pain around his body that he'd never felt before, but it seemed to lessen with the closer they got to the surface and the more light that he saw. Just as he felt as though he would pass out from his lack of oxygen, they all broke through to the surface and into the sunlight, with Trunks taking in a deep breath of wonderful air. It was so quick that they nearly jumped right out of the water before falling back in.
Turtle went under his friend and let him grab on his large shell as Trunks gulped in the air, greedily and tired. 'Never thought there would be a day when I would *literally* die without coming here.' He thought to himself sarcastically before passing out on his best friends back.
"That IDIOT nearly killed him!" Krillin shouted angrily as he too, climbed out of the water and on Turtle's back to make sure that Trunks wouldn't slip off and back into the water.
"At least he's alright now that we got him here." Turtle replied as he swam for the shore, hopefully Master Roshi would be around soon. Maybe he could help them in some way.
Krillin just sighed as he looked at his unconscious prince. 'What did you do Trunks? Your father is going to kill us all when he finds out.' He thought nervously as they made their way to the awaiting beach.
To be continued..................
A.N: Ok to answer a few questions, when disney made the movie of The Little Mermais they changed how the story went to give it a happy ending. In the origional version the mermaid died after getting to the beach because she couldn't handle the pain of walking for the first time. Her body turned into the beach foam and she became the spirit of the ocean. She never saw her prince ever again and they both remained miserable forever really. So i was just wondering if you all wanted me to do it the origional way.
Better review me quick! They're headed for the beach and I could kill Trunks if you all don't tell me how you want it! (laughs evily)
Review please! Bye for now. ^_^