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Rating : R - Of course that could change, for the better. ^_~ Chapter Three : Muddled-Colored Planet Bulma stood silently, in the same blue dress, in the same green grass, under the same red moon. Again she felt pushed forward, and again she felt the same arms help her up again. She sighed and relaxed against the mysterious form as it caressed her. "I..." she began, but soon heard the all-too-familiar "Run" being whispered in her ear. "No..." She begged and turned, she tried to look this person in the eyes this time, but his form was draped in darkness still. Quickly, he spun her round and pointed to the bright red full moon. Even though her mind wanted him, to know him and to stay near him, her body felt a powerful fear the second it saw that moon and soon she felt herself running. The mud stopping her from picking up her feet, the wind blowing against her body as it tried to run away, it all got ridiculously strong as the footsteps behind her began to get louder. "No..." she whispered, and they got louder, "No!" she screamed then felt something sharp drive itself in her back. She turned and once again only saw fire. Bulma woke in a cold sweat, and as soon as the realization of what had just happened had only been 'the dream' hit her, she groaned and sat up in bed - it was again time for a walk. She couldn't sleep right after 'the dream,' for then she'd only dream it again. She knew this from experience. She needed to do something before sleeping again, to clear her mind. Bulma walked out of her room and headed to wards the bathroom, ready to take a long hot shower but stopped when she noticed the lights from within the control room were on. Her eyes widened, it had only been three days since she'd told Chi Chi about her reason for this trip, and she hadn't seen the raven-haired warrior since then. In truth she had intentionally avoided her, for fear of her oncoming wrath. It was just yesterday that Bulma had dropped guard around the control room, thinking Chi Chi wouldn't phone home now since she hadn't tried to before. But...the lights just now... Bulma ran to the control room and punched the code in the wall to get the doors open, and as she entered sure enough there was Chi Chi, standing before the video phone. "CHI CHI!" Bulma screamed, and Chi Chi turned to look at her friend, a look of surprise on her face. "What're you doing!?" "Is that Bulma?" A man's voice asked, obviously it was the person Chi Chi was on the phone with. "Yeah dad, it's her." Chi Chi spoke softly, and gave her friend a puzzled look. Bulma's angered expression dropped when she saw the Ox King's face peering through the screen of the video phone. Bulma checked the clock on the wall, it was noon on earth. Both the Ox King and Chi Chi were staring at Bulma now. The blue-haired teen began to laugh nervously, 'So she's NOT ratting me out,' she thought conclusively. "Anyway..." Chi Chi turned away from Bulma now, "That's all, I'll talk to you later!" "Alright Chi, see you!" The Ox King grinned happily then put the phone down and looked to the screen, "I can still see you..." he mouthed, to which Chi Chi looked embarrassed. "You have to hit the red button to end the session dad." The Ox King looked startled as he could still hear her voice, then noticed the red button and smiled. Chi Chi put down the receiver and hit the red button herself, then turned to Bulma and glared. "You've been avoiding me." Bulma looked to her feet, "I was afraid you'd tell my father what I was doing, and then I'd have to go home." Chi Chi's brow raised, "So that's why you barged in here?" Bulma still wouldn't meet her angered gaze, but looked up when she heard her friend sigh. "I wouldn't do that Bulma." There was an almost defeated tone in her voice. "You wouldn't?" "No." Chi Chi stated plainly, and looked at her friend, as if evaluating her. "I wondered why you weren't more happy to have me along on this trip. We always hang out Bulma, I thought you'd be positively giddy about me coming along, I know I was. We'd travel together into outer-space, and we'd have so much adventure and fun! But after we left, and you were so depressed, . . . I was sad. I didn't know then, but I know now why you didn't want me along..." it was now Chi Chi's turn to look away, the hurt tone in her voice was undeniable. Bulma felt as though she was the biggest jerk in the universe. Her best friend had come along expecting the time of her life, and all Bulma could do was act distant and depressed, all because she hadn't found a boyfriend. She'd been treating Chi Chi like an unwanted dog since the time she stepped on board the ship, and she had never even realized it. Yeah, she was the worst friend in the world. "I'm so sorry Chi Chi!" she cooed and ran to her friend, "I ...I'm such a jerk!" She reached out to give Chi Chi a hug but was turned down by a small wave. "No, it's okay... I understand. I know how important it is for you to find a boyfriend." "No! It's NOT okay, you're my best friend Chi!" At that Chi Chi looked up, and Bulma stared her straight in the eye. "It's going to be different now, we're going to have fun!" Chi Chi then mirrored the grin that Bulma was now wearing, and they both beamed. "Alright!" she cheered.---
"Radditz . . . Kakkarot . . . Bardock . . . BROLLY!? Vegeta - you're taking all of our best warriors!"
"I know, old man. This is your punishment! If while we're gone, Vegetasei is attacked by Frieza and destroyed it'll be all your fault. All because you sent off your best warriors to search for these trinket balls!"
"H-how-" The king began to say something like "How dare you!" but stopped when the insolent prince turned his back to him.
"I'm going now," Vegeta spoke low and with a smirk on his face, "When you're dead, I'll rejoice," he then walked out of the palace and boarded the ship.
Vegeta grinned and reclined on his bed, "Old fool..." That was what had happened before the team left Vegetasei.
They had now been in space for a total of five Vegetasei days, and the prince was beginning to wonder if this "Namek" really even existed. They had purged a couple planets in search for directions, always blowing them up afterwards. As a safety precaution they thought it best to not let any other planets know of the Dragonballs, even if they weren't real.
As Vegeta turned in his bed he wondered how long he was to stay out here, it had been so long and it wasn't as though they were getting anywhere. It seemed the planet's inhabitants got even more ignorant the farther out the universe they drifted. The prince scowled, "I'll kill that idiot for sending me out here..."
Staying in close quarters with five other Saiyan men was bad enough. Now Vegeta was beginning to run out of shampoo. Those bastards were eating all the food stores as well, and soon they had to find food on other planets or starve. They ate everything in the new worlds - including the inhabitants.
Just as Vegeta began to doze off, he heard a swish and his door was opened, but before he got a change to jump up and yell there was Kakkarot, "QUICK! Vegeta! I think we've found it!"
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"Hehehe, I've never done a facial using alien berries!" Chi Chi giggled as Bulma applied a pasty blue substance to her face.
"Neither have I!" Bulma grinned, "Those people sure were nice though - even if they did look like pigs!" Chi Chi snorted,
"Yeah...and they thought WE were ugly!" Both girls giggled again. Bulma and Chi Chi's space adventure had made a total 180 degree turn in the past five days. Bulma had decided while she wasn't going to end her boyfriend hunt totally, she would allow herself to feel less pressure on the matter. This worked wonders for her dream problem, and soon she wasn't having the nightmare anymore.
The girls had been having a wonderful time on the new planets they visited. None of the inhabitants had been remotely good-looking, but the planets themselves were amazing. Bulma was feeling something new awaken within her, it was a sense of adventure. She was sharing her technological advances with underdeveloped species and more developed species were sharing theirs with her.
Chi Chi too was having a blast. She found a new opponent on each planet, and has yet to be defeated. Lots of aliens came close to beating her, but her human wit always won out in the end. In addition to the great physical workout of battle, Chi Chi was also learning new techniques. New powers she was beginning to unlock within herself. She could now fly! Although she hadn't perfected the technique, and was somewhat of a goof in the air, she could still do it. She was learning amazing mind tricks as well, and was thinking she was close to becoming telepathic and able to read other people's minds.
The friendship bond between the two teens was growing at leaps and bounds as well, Chi Chi was learning more about Bulma's infatuation with men and Bulma was learning more about just how innocent Chi Chi was. 'I never figured a woman who's blasted people to pieces would NOT know what a penis looked like...'
The planets they were visiting seemed to get even more exotic as the days passed. Just yesterday they had visited a planet where rare jewels like diamonds, rubies, and emeralds were as common as dirt. Bulma had went about mad too, snatching every jewel she could see. 'You know, for someone so rich, you'd think you wouldn't be so greedy!' Chi Chi had remarked.
"...Can you smell that?" Bulma asked, as she looked around the room with her nose stuck in the air.
"Yeah..." Chi Chi's nose scrunched, and she sat up off Bulma's bed. "It smells sort of like bacon..."
"Yeah...Smells good!" Bulma smiled, "Are you making something?"
"No..." Chi Chi stopped for a second, then came over to Bulma and smelt the bowl of face cream they had made, "Bulma...I think it's the face mask!"
Before the blue-haired teen could reply she felt her eyes start to water, and soon her face began to tingle. "Chi Chi?"
"Bulma!" Chi Chi screamed, her face suddenly feeling like it was on fire.
"IT'S BURNING!" Both women screamed at the top of their lungs, each then rushed to the bathroom and turned the shower on to full blast. They stuck their faces under the running water and drenched themselves fully.
Once the burning then began to subside, Bulma tentatively touched her face, which felt very warm. Her eyes widened as her fingers brushed over her cheeks, which felt ...gooey.
Bulma ran to the mirror and shrieked when she saw her reflection. Where her once beautiful porcelain features resided, now began to rise hideous bumps that soon began to pop and redden.
Before long her whole face was red, and puss was sliding down from every pore. New zits kept forming too.
Her whole face looked bright red, horribly disgusting and glistening. She quickly turned to notice Chi Chi's face was doing the same.
"What h-h-happened!?" Chi Chi shrieked.
"I don't know! Those woman said those berries would make our faces more beauti-" Bulma stopped in mid-sentence. Those same women who were themselves bright red and pig-nosed, those same women who considered the Bulma and Chi Chi disgustingly white and smooth-skinned! Bulma dropped to her knees, "Those women...were so gross!"
"How could we have been so stupid!" Chi Chi cried, and both woman began to sob.
Since each were soaked, they both decided to retire to their rooms and change clothes. Bulma reemerged a few minutes later wearing a pair a baggy sweat pants and a huge white sweat-shirt that read 'Freddy says relax.' She had tied her hair up in a bun and was holding onto every zit-cream and alcohol product she owned. "I think these might help..." She said as she moved into the kitchen, where Chi Chi was currently making herbal tea remedies to help the situation.
The raven-haired teen was also wearing her best comfort clothes, and had laid out many chocolates for emotional support.
Bulma laid her products out on the table and sat, she turned one over and began to read its label slowly. "This one says... it prevents acne..." she banged her head on the table, "I don't need prevention I need...zit-killer!"
Chi Chi came over and sat down, placing an herbal tea in front of her friend. "Here...this helps."
Bulma eyed her friend's still red and glistening face, "It's not making YOU any better!"
"JUST DRINK IT!" Chi Chi shouted angrily, and Bulma felt a chill run down her spine.
"Y-yes ma'am." She obeyed and sipped her tea quietly.
"This is all your fault..."
"HOW IS IT MY FAULT!?" It was now Bulma's turn to yell.
"IF YOU HADN'T ....IF YOU...I....ARGH!" Chi Chi cried, and began to chug her cup of tea.
Bulma's wide-eyed stare turned narrow, "What's in this tea, Chi Chi?"
"...alcohol..."
The blue-haired teen let loose an exasperated sigh, "So then it WILL make me feel better...haha..."
Chi Chi snorted and popped a chocolate in her mouth, "Yup."
The girls sat silent for awhile then. Bulma was still reading the acne product's label's, and
Chi Chi was gorging on chocolates.
Soon the raven-haired woman noticed the very sad and distilled look no her friend's face, "I'm sure this is only temporary..."
Bulma snapped out her trance, "...right..." If she wasn't worried before, she was now. She wondered how was she supposed to find a guy looking like this?
"I'm sure... the right Mr.Right, would see past the zits, ...I mean if you still have then when you find him."
Bulma looked up, that was the first time she had ever her Chi Chi give her positive reinforcement about finding a boyfriend. "Thanks."
Suddenly there was a loud beeping noise heard in the kitchen, both girls perked up immediately.
That noise meant the ship had detected a new planet with life on it. This was a new innovation for the ship Bulma had picked up on another planet. The ship now sensed "Ki"s, which apparently were life forces, or so that's what the aliens had told her. It was working brilliantly so far.
Both girls ran to the control room and looked upon the new planet.
"It looks like earth!" Chi Chi cried, and Bulma gaped. It did look a lot like earth, if only a bit bluer...or green, Bulma couldn't quite decide which it was.
"Do you wanna land now or later?"
"I think now, ...I mean, the sun is up on this side and we're far from bed time ourselves." Chi Chi concluded.
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"It's just like what the myth says, a muddled-colored planet." Bardock spoke low, as all the six Saiyan men stood, almost in awe, before the window which shown the mysterious planet Namek.
"Well..." Vegeta began slowly, and became irritated when he noticed no one moving, "LAND ALREADY!" Suddenly everyone around him began moving quickly, and the ship was being set up for a land. Vegeta sat in his seat and smacked his elbow as he reached for the seat-belt, "Damn it!"
"Highness?" Brolly questioned, an eye-brow quirked.
"It's nothing you idiot!" Vegeta snapped back.
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Bah...that took so long to get up. Ha! I wrote this like...RIGHT after I finished uploading the last chapter, but never uploaded this cause I figured I'd write more to it. Well, I didn't and I'm sorry. >
Am in the process of writing the next chapter now. Vegeta and Bulma WILL MEET in this one, I promise. >
I hate waiting so long between chapters...I'm a horrible procrastinator. Sorry. >
Oh, and I still haven't figured out how old I wanna make Vegeta yet. I know some of you might not like old-man (26) Vegeta. But I don't know...I certainly don't want him too young. I'm still undecided, input is always good.
Rating : R - Of course that could change, for the better. ^_~ Chapter Three : Muddled-Colored Planet Bulma stood silently, in the same blue dress, in the same green grass, under the same red moon. Again she felt pushed forward, and again she felt the same arms help her up again. She sighed and relaxed against the mysterious form as it caressed her. "I..." she began, but soon heard the all-too-familiar "Run" being whispered in her ear. "No..." She begged and turned, she tried to look this person in the eyes this time, but his form was draped in darkness still. Quickly, he spun her round and pointed to the bright red full moon. Even though her mind wanted him, to know him and to stay near him, her body felt a powerful fear the second it saw that moon and soon she felt herself running. The mud stopping her from picking up her feet, the wind blowing against her body as it tried to run away, it all got ridiculously strong as the footsteps behind her began to get louder. "No..." she whispered, and they got louder, "No!" she screamed then felt something sharp drive itself in her back. She turned and once again only saw fire. Bulma woke in a cold sweat, and as soon as the realization of what had just happened had only been 'the dream' hit her, she groaned and sat up in bed - it was again time for a walk. She couldn't sleep right after 'the dream,' for then she'd only dream it again. She knew this from experience. She needed to do something before sleeping again, to clear her mind. Bulma walked out of her room and headed to wards the bathroom, ready to take a long hot shower but stopped when she noticed the lights from within the control room were on. Her eyes widened, it had only been three days since she'd told Chi Chi about her reason for this trip, and she hadn't seen the raven-haired warrior since then. In truth she had intentionally avoided her, for fear of her oncoming wrath. It was just yesterday that Bulma had dropped guard around the control room, thinking Chi Chi wouldn't phone home now since she hadn't tried to before. But...the lights just now... Bulma ran to the control room and punched the code in the wall to get the doors open, and as she entered sure enough there was Chi Chi, standing before the video phone. "CHI CHI!" Bulma screamed, and Chi Chi turned to look at her friend, a look of surprise on her face. "What're you doing!?" "Is that Bulma?" A man's voice asked, obviously it was the person Chi Chi was on the phone with. "Yeah dad, it's her." Chi Chi spoke softly, and gave her friend a puzzled look. Bulma's angered expression dropped when she saw the Ox King's face peering through the screen of the video phone. Bulma checked the clock on the wall, it was noon on earth. Both the Ox King and Chi Chi were staring at Bulma now. The blue-haired teen began to laugh nervously, 'So she's NOT ratting me out,' she thought conclusively. "Anyway..." Chi Chi turned away from Bulma now, "That's all, I'll talk to you later!" "Alright Chi, see you!" The Ox King grinned happily then put the phone down and looked to the screen, "I can still see you..." he mouthed, to which Chi Chi looked embarrassed. "You have to hit the red button to end the session dad." The Ox King looked startled as he could still hear her voice, then noticed the red button and smiled. Chi Chi put down the receiver and hit the red button herself, then turned to Bulma and glared. "You've been avoiding me." Bulma looked to her feet, "I was afraid you'd tell my father what I was doing, and then I'd have to go home." Chi Chi's brow raised, "So that's why you barged in here?" Bulma still wouldn't meet her angered gaze, but looked up when she heard her friend sigh. "I wouldn't do that Bulma." There was an almost defeated tone in her voice. "You wouldn't?" "No." Chi Chi stated plainly, and looked at her friend, as if evaluating her. "I wondered why you weren't more happy to have me along on this trip. We always hang out Bulma, I thought you'd be positively giddy about me coming along, I know I was. We'd travel together into outer-space, and we'd have so much adventure and fun! But after we left, and you were so depressed, . . . I was sad. I didn't know then, but I know now why you didn't want me along..." it was now Chi Chi's turn to look away, the hurt tone in her voice was undeniable. Bulma felt as though she was the biggest jerk in the universe. Her best friend had come along expecting the time of her life, and all Bulma could do was act distant and depressed, all because she hadn't found a boyfriend. She'd been treating Chi Chi like an unwanted dog since the time she stepped on board the ship, and she had never even realized it. Yeah, she was the worst friend in the world. "I'm so sorry Chi Chi!" she cooed and ran to her friend, "I ...I'm such a jerk!" She reached out to give Chi Chi a hug but was turned down by a small wave. "No, it's okay... I understand. I know how important it is for you to find a boyfriend." "No! It's NOT okay, you're my best friend Chi!" At that Chi Chi looked up, and Bulma stared her straight in the eye. "It's going to be different now, we're going to have fun!" Chi Chi then mirrored the grin that Bulma was now wearing, and they both beamed. "Alright!" she cheered.