The Fifth Part
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Alrighties, here's the fifth part. it would have been out sooner, but... *looks around innocently* it was deleted, really. Not my fault.
And now, for a brief poetic interlude:
DISCLAIMER:
DBZ doesn't belong to me,
They belong to some big companies!
No money off this I'm making,
It's just the names I'm taking.
Trunks is such a hunk,
He's my fantasy when I'm drunk.
Vegeta is next in line,
But to buy him I've not a dime.
The other Z-Warriors hate me
On this everyone does agree.
Why, you ask, with an innocent smile?
Because they're all mine for a while!
It's a time they'll not soon forget
This upon you can bet!
I'll change their character and fix
Them up with quite a strange mix,
And make them play parts they'd never pick!
Run, you yell? Nope, you're not that quick!
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Two weeks later, Trunks and Goten finally, had almost, began to understand the route to their classes. Stressing the almost, of course.
And Goten and Trunks still got into fights, though Lena did her best to avoid confrontations, taking them out in the spars against Goten and Vegeta.
She thought to herself silently as she walked through the upstairs aimlessly, having a whole ninety minutes to kill before she had a class, as the result of her working herself half to death and finishing up her tech classes early.
She'd ran into a few teachers, all a little suspicious, but willing to believe her every word; the vice-principal who stared at her like her skin was green, probably because at that moment she was stretching her tail; and a bunch of Goth girls that were skipping classes in the seldom-used 'Leek Bathroom'.
You do not want to know why it's called that.
She went downstairs and planted herself in the library, and on a sudden note of inspiration, pulled a few books on vampires off the selves.
She opened the first, a rather spine chilling book (for her, at least) entitled How to kill a Vampire.
"Oh, this is certainly a lovely book." She muttered, glaring at the table of contents page. "How to kill! Really, I thought they outlawed violent books. This might as well be titled How to kill Lena!" She turned the pages, grimacing at rather graphic illustrations of staking a vampire.
"Garlic? But I love garlic. It seems I've got another advantage of a half-blood." She murmured. "This is crazy." She slammed the book shut and pulled another one towards her as she sat down at a table. "Vampires: Fact or Fiction? Sorry, already have the answer to that one. Count Dracula's life? Nope, don't want to read about Drac. Vampire Bats and their Relationship with Vampires. Er, I never met a vampire that could turn into a bat. I can turn into a monkey at the full moon, but that's not because of being a vampire."
She paused at one book.
"This could be interesing. A History of Vampire Attacks. She opened it to a random page and read a paragraph out loud to herself.
" Vampires attacks generally happen at night, when the 'vampires' can use the cover of the dark to creep up upon their victims. They use their fangs, with are described as sharp, long canines to puncture the skin of their victim, usually around the neck, and lap up the blood that flows forth from the wound." She closed the book, grinning. "Can we say, a vampire author? Oh, I think we can."
She put the other books back and checked out A History of Vampire Attacks. She put the book in her backpack and left the library.
She looked down the left and right of the hallways before her. She saw a girl she knew round the right corner, so she took off after her, hoping for a quick chat.
She followed her into the bathroom, but froze at the door at the mention of her name.
"No, I haven't see Lena."
She frowned. Who was Hanako talking to? She began to bless Gung-Ho voice for her excellent hearing.
"Good." It was a cheerleader. "We've got to do something about her, girls."
Lena growled low in her throat. You'd be better suited to grab the football team and a horde of bad guys, Ms. Cheerleader. You couldn't get rid of me if your life depended on it.
"Like what? Kiki, she could kill us all with one finger! You should have seen her and that cute boy fight! They were crazy!"
Nicole spoke next.
"She's not human, and neither are those two boys. Those boys are half alien, a race called saiya-jin. She's a full saiya-jin, and a vampire. She's the one that attacked me." ]
"Really? No way! Her own sister?" Hanako exclaimed. "Harsh reality."
"And she's got a tail. I heard Trunks and Goten talking. Apparently the tail is a powerful weapon. They used to have them, but they were cut off so they didn't use them. Lena won't let them cut her tail off."
"What do they do?" Kiki asked Nicole in a breathless voice.
"They didn't say, but it must be horrible."
Lena snickered.
I outta use my tail right now, you traitorous bitch. I'll show you what awful is. You've never felt pain until you've crossed a saiya-jin.
"Can she be killed? I thought vampires were immortal." The cheerleader that Lena now recognized as Fijuko said. "Unless you drive a stake throough their hearts, but Lena won't let us colse enough for that."
"Vampires are supposed to be afraid of the sun and garlic, right?
"Nope. Lena loves garlic. And she's in the sun everyday."
"What about crosses?"
"She used to wear one all the time."
"Is there any way?"
"I don't know. But we wouldn't be able to do it ourselves. I just want rid of her. There's no place for an alien like that on our planet. They're probably planning a take-over."
Trying to kepp herself from laughing at the riculousness of that statement, Lena put on a very fake smile, swung her backpack over her shoulder, and pushed open the door.
She smiled at the four girls before dumping her backpack against the wall and turning around to face them, the sickeningly sugary smile still plastered on her delicate features.
"Well, if you really want to know how to kill me, girls, you shoulda just asked."
The four went pale, and backed up. They would have ran for the door, but Lena was blocking it.
"Actaully, yuo'd have to beat me in a fight. You catch me off-gaurd. But hey, none of you gals are mean enough to do that, right?" She leaned up against the wall on one elbow still smiling.
"What are you?" Fijuko hissed, glaring at her.
If you keep that up, doll-face, I'm going to show you. And you're not going to like it.
Lena blinked, before bowing deeply, her arm in a sweeping motion.
"I am the only, and I repeat, only saiya-jin female alive. Which is why I'm very valuble to the remaints of my race-- who happen to consist of two full bloods and three half bloods."
They watched as Lena shuddered.
"One of the full-bloods is a nice, stupid, guy. The other is a smart, ruthless prince. Goten is the stupid one's son, and the stupid one has another son, a way cute married guy named Gohan, and Trunks is a prince... Vegeta's son."
Nicole twitched.
"Of course... I don't like the idea of being used like that. So basicly, I'm stoic until one of them gets it into their head I'm not like their race."
Kiki looked at Lena with a new light.
"So you mean you're just a girl. And the reason you're staying with them is because they understand you?"
Lena nodded.
"That would be about right."
"What about your tail?" Hanako asked.
"Just a tail. Unless I look at the full moon."
"And then what?"
"I transform into a ten-story tall ape and begin crushing things."
All four girls gulped.
"But don't worry. I go inside on the full moon. I've never transformed yet."
"Why don't you let them cut off your tail?" Fujiko demanded.
Lena grinned evilly, and whispered something in Fujiko's ear.
Fujiko went from a sickly shade of green to a sickly shade of red.
"And he likes that?" She gasped.
Lena nodded.
The other three girls giggled.
"And besides, I've got a lot more balance and agility. And I just plain like it. I don't really know why you want to kill me-- unless it's because I'm a vampire." She glared at all of them.
"Er..." Nicole looked down.
"Alright, I'm a bloodsucker." Lena said, her smile disappearing. She glared at all of them. "I drink blood when I feel like it. It's a saiya-jin trait too."
She watched as Hanako went slightly green.
"It's what I like. Justr like you cut up cows and eat them, but a little more-- exotic."
"You could put it that way. Or you could look at it as murder!"
"I don't kill."
"You don't?"
The conversation got a little strange after that. Lena told them about herself, while they listened, feeling like fools.
And after Lena was done, they had different opinions. But Lena still kept her's. She didn't trust anyone, and she supposed she never would.
She looked over the horizen, wondering how she'd gotten herself into this. She switched positions so she could see east, the leaves of the tree beneath her ruffling in her sudden movement.
She could feel the power approaching. She knew it was close--
And it wasn't any of the Z fighters. It was something else. Something dark.
She turned once more.
The skies were clear, and nothing unusual could be seen or sensed other than that dark power that was making her physicilly sick.
She finally was beginning to think it was her own imagination and sunk back to the ground, her breath coming more easily than it had beforem, but her lungs were still having a hard time inflating--
Something wrapped around her vunerable throat, and squeezed.
She opened her motuh to scream, but a hand covered it first.
"I'm going to let go. If you run away or scream, I'll kill you." Whoever had her rasped in her ear.
She nodded. She could feel the power emitting from it, and knew it was the thing she'd sensed before.
But it wasnt as dark as she first expected.
She felt it release her throat first. She began to breath hungrily as the hand over her mouth lingered for a few seconds, before it too, was gone.
She spun around, and gasped.
She knew, before her mind even registered the form of the creature, that she was looking into the face of pure evil.
It was seven foot tall, covered in, on any other creature, what would have been a beautiful color, the color of a peacock's eye colored scales. Whether it was a man, or a woman, or both, was hard to decide, for it had the upper curves of a woman, but the lower curves were more of a masculine nature.
It's eyes seemed to be diamond-shaped balls of orange fire, with no visible nose. It's mouth was actually quite human in appearence, but it was a ghoulish black-green in color. No hair of any sorts.
It wore a simple black uniform that one day might have been a human design.
And it reeked pure evil.
"What are you?" She gasped, backing away clumbily, as she was still on her knees.
"I am Junib. A Neehel. I have orders to find you, and if you don't wish to turn over to our side, kill you."
Lena gasped again. She jumped up, and out of a moment of insanity, began pacing.
"AAAALLLLLLRRIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHTTT!" She screamed, startling the creature. "I SO DID NOT ask for this! I WAS JUST A GODDAMN VAMPIRE! AND NOW I'm BEING HUNTED DOWN! Well, golly-gee-whiz, Mister, I don't know? Because I'm just a little GIRL!"
The creature was thoroughly startled by her outburst. It had been expecting a fight or a surrender, but not anything like that.
Women were few on Vegetasei, It reminded itself. We know little about them except that they were generally more intelligent and stronger than the male of their species. It studied her silently as she gasped for air. Maybe this great emotion will be of use if we can convert her.
"Are you finished?" It asked, and Lena was furious to hear a hint of amusment in it's voice.
"Oh, you think this is all funny, don't YOU? WELL I'M SiCK OF IT! I was a nice little teenager until the big flash of light happened and I was a saiya-fucking-jin!"
Interesting.
"I do not think your state of mind is funny." It answered truthfully. "But I do have orders. Do you die or will you accept my offer?"
Lena stared at Junib. I've heard of one track minds, but this is rediculous!!
"I'll make you a deal. I'll come with you and you explain what you mean, to the slightest detail. And then i'll tell you whether or not to kill me."
Junib thought this over. Wise decision. She makes no immediate promises, but yet gives the impression she is considering the possibility. Yes, better than most of her species that have been fought in the past.
Junib nodded.
"That is acceptable."
"Are you going to talk like a computer?" She shook her head. "That is going to get very annoying-- what the fuck--"
Her tawny eyes shot up to the sky as a small space ship burst from the clouds and landed a short distance away from them.
"That is a ship that was sent for our use up to the main pod." Junib explained as he motion Lena should walk towards it. "We will enter it, and be taken to the main pod."
"Yeah, I kinda got that." Lena muttered, as she was pushed into the ship.
She fell to her knees once more as the ship took off with a surprising velocity. She fought her way up, and she could almost feel her body adjust to the new gravity.
Junib looked at her, like it was studying her.
"Why are you staring at me?" She asked.
"I have never seen a species adjust so quickly."
"That's part of my special gig." She said, smiling slightly. "Now, can we get off this blasted ship before I show you a human trait of making our lunch meet daylight again called retching?"
Junib stared at her for a few more second, before tapping something into the console. A part of the ship just simlpy disappeared, and they stepped out into a large room.
"You will need to change into a suitible armor." Junib told her. At that moment, a robot strolled into the room, holding out a black uniform like Junib's. Lena looked aruond before taking it, and turned to stare at Junib.
"Where do I change?"
"Here."
Lena stared at him. Well, he's not human or a saiya-jin, I guess I should be thankful I don't have to change in front of the guys...\
She quickly changed, ignoring the way Junib kept it's eyes on her the whole time.
The uniform fit exceptionally well, like it'd been made just for her, and she had the sinking suspicion it had.
Junib led her out of the room, and into a long corridor where soldiers, some men, some female, some unidenifible, all wearing the same uniform as she, were walking. Some of them were in small groups, talking one another in hushed tones.
Other than that and the sound of footestpes, everything was more or less quiet.
A suprisingly cute humanish-looking man walked up her her, ignoring Junib completely. He would have been a lady-killer, but his skin was a startling shade of green, and his eyes were blank white orbs.
Very freaky.
"I am Captain Sadisio." Lena smothered a giggle. "You are Selena Huko, correct?"
"Lena."
"Yes. Your nickname." It spoke it as though it was a dirty word. "Junib, you are dismissed. Selena--"
"Lena."
"Selena, come with me."
Lena stared at him. Not only was this guys freaky, but he was also a major jerk and a royal pain in the ass. And where does he get off ordering me around like that? Stupid...
She raised her hand, palm up, to face Sadisio, as Junib stared at her.
"Excuse me," she said, in the voice that Trunks so tenderly refered to her as her "Evil Voice". "You're not going to order me around, you freakout. And you're gonna treat Junib-what's his name with a bit of respect. Some of you warriors are too arrogant for your own good..." She sneered.
Sadisio jumped. Literaly jumped.
He'd been warned that the saiya-jin female was feisty, and very strong. But evil seeped through that voice, chilling his very bones.
She's not a saiya-jin. It's not possible. He thought, stared at her in his black-and-white vision. She had her hand facing him, and her light-colored eyes were eeirly beautiful. She's got the tail, he thought. But I've met saiya-jin women before-- and this is not one of them.
He nodded blankly.
"Of course. You will come with me. Our leader wishes to speak with you." Lena let her hand drop digustedly. Not an ounce of emotion came though in Sadisio's voice. \
"Argh! Fine! Okay! You guys have been brainwashed, but that's perfectly okay with me, after all, I'm here of my own free fucking will and by golly, if mister I-Have-No-Pupils wants to take me to Mister-Head-Honcho, I guess I'll go!" She muttered, as Junib disappeared into a door and Sadisio led her through a series of corridors.
Everyone stopped talking as she passed, and turned to stare at her.
Sadisio stopped at a door. Just stopped. Said or did nothing, just stared at the blank door before them.
"Come in."
A snake's voice. It could only have been a snake's voice.
Lena shivered as Sadisio pushed her inside. She turned around to stare at him.
"What, not joining me?" She asked, her voice scornful.
"And go in there?" Sadisdio shook his head. "The only people that go in there either never come out or if they do come out, they're better off dead. Good luck."
The door slammed in her face.
"Ah. The sssaiya-jin female I'vvve hearrrd ssso much about." There was a definate snakey hiss to the voice. The room was claok in pitch-black darkness, and granted, Lena couldn't see a thing.
"That's right. But my name is Lena. I'd be happy if you'd use that instead of 'saiya-jin female'." She said.
She tried not to panic at the inkiness of the room.
"Feisty, are we? That's certainly a change from the snivling, crying fools that I've seen in the past." It seemed to think for a minute. "You'd make a fine addition to my army, one of the few females."
"Yeah, well you need to speak to your guys about eyeballing me." Lena said harshly. "If they need a little compnay now and then-- well, tell them I'm not interested, please."
There was a heavy silence.
"Very feisty. A lot of potential. brave even in hopelessness..." The Snake seemed to be mumbling to himself.
"I haven't accepted Junib's offer yet." Lena said suddenly, and the moment the words leftr her lips, she regretted them. It wasn't a good time to make The Snake angry.
"Ah, but you don't have to." The Snake replied. "You see, your potential is undeniable-- even if you *are* a saiya-jin."
"What's wrong with that?"
"You must realize the saiya-jin were not known for their intelligence, Lena." The way it spoke her name sent shivers up her spine. The bad kind of shivers.
"I consider myself smart, sir." She said indignatly. "And I have, of course, reached the super-saiya-jin level. I'll have no problems with kicking butt--"
She stopped. She heard a definate rustle, meaning The Snake had moved.
"It's a legend." The voice came form her left now, instead of from in front of her.
"No, it's not. I managed to reach it some time ago." She replied, enjoying her sudden upper hand in the conversation.
"Impossible."
"Not at all. You see, I'm a full-blood. And I'm also half-immortal, a gift granted to me by being half-vampire."
Something changed in the room-- and it took Lena a few seconds to realize what.
The Snake stopped breathing. Did I give him a heart attack or something?
"Show me."
Lena flinched. Her transformation would light up the room, and she didn't want to see The Snake yet.
A simple solution-- I'll just close my eyes.
And she did, gathering the power to her in a flurry of light. She felt it mold her features, giving her the rush of emotion and power it always did.
The confidense almost overwhelmed her.
And then she opened her eyes again, to gaze upon the pitch air.
"The legend is true. A super saiya-jin has emerged-- and a female, at that. What a surprise."
Selena grinned, loving Sadisio's expression of pure shock as she opened the door and stepped out, just as clamly as she'd stepped in.
"You're alive?" He gasped.
"Naturally." She said. "Now, I'd like to go home."
"You declined him-- and you're still alive?" Sadisio was ever more shocked.
"You said anything about declining? I just didn't want to stay aboard the ship. We agreed on that." She said, which wasn't exactly the whole truth. The words The Snake has hissed to her still echoed in her ears
"You don't have to decide, Lena. You will decide when the time is right if your loyalty is mine. You may stay aboard the ship or leave."
"I'd like to leave. I have a family."
"The rest of the saiya-jin who live upon Earth?"
"Who else?"
Lena sighed.
She'd just allied herself with a possible enemy.
Was Trunks going to like this?
No way.
"He gave you permission to live off the ship?"
"Would you stop asking questions already!? Yes! I'm living away from the goddamn ship! Yes! I'm alive. Yes! Yes yes yes yes! NOW TAKE ME HOME."
Sadisio flinched.
"Yes."
He led her to Junib, who seemd surprised to see her too, but said nothing as he led her back to the same ship.
"Would you like to change out of the uniform?" He asked tonelessly.
Lena shook her head. When she got back to capsule corp, she wanted to put on her training uniform and train for a while. Or sleep. Sleep sounded very nice also.
She readied herself for the blast of gravity, to no avail, as she once again slammed into the floor.
By the time she had brought herself to her feet, she was upon the earth again.
Junib gave her a strange loooked as she burhsed herself off and stepped onto the green grass.
"What?" She asked crossly.
"Well, I was just wondering why you want to stay on this planet." Junib said.
"My boyfriend, and his friends and family." lena answered.
"Your mate?"
"NO!" Lena yelled, flushing. "He's not my mate! We haven't done... that's none of your... why is everyone obsessed..." She muttered, still blushing furiously as Junib left.
She lifted herself into the sky, scanning the air around her. The sun was just beginning to sink below the horizen, casting it's brillance over the ocean.
She thought back. What day was it? The moon was supposed to be full soon...
She spun around to face the darker side of the sky.
And the moon.
The very dim moon.
The very round moon.
The very visible moon.
The very full moon.
She turned away quickly. She couldn't look at the moon.
Mustn't look at the moon. I've got to get to Capsule Corp before I do. I can't transform-- I won't transform, she thought feircly as she began to fly at full speed, the air growing dim fast.
The building slwly came into view, and she saw Trunks and the other Z-warriors outside, also looking around, worried.
Fuck it, I'm late. They've probably thought I looked at the moon.
Goten spotted her and shouted something, pointing.
b She flinched as everyone turned to stare at her as she landed, carefully averting her eyes from the orb of silver.
Trunks was there first, thorwing his arms around her.
"Where have you been?" He yelped.
"We'd thought maybe you'd lost track of time and accidently transformed." For once, even Goku was serious.
"ACK! I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK YOUNG LADY!" Chichi screeched.
"Shesh. Kakorotto, do something about your mate before she makes us all loose our hearing." Vegeta complained.
"Shut up, Vegeta! This is serious! She could have transformed and klled half of Tokyo!" Bulma yelled.
"I didn't, okay?" Lena sighed, pulling away from Trunks. "I forgot what day it was. I'd betetr go inside before I transform or anything. See you."
Leaving them speechless, she jerked open the door and ran up the stairs into the room she usually occupied during the full moon.
There was a heavy silence.
"Something's up." It was Goten that spoke. "Something happened to her."
Trunks nodded in agreement. Vegeta narrowed his eyes.
There was something familar about the clothing she wore, he thought, before dismissing it as just simple deja vu`.
"I'll go see." Bulma said, before anyone else could. "After all, Lena's not about to tell any of you 'manly men'." She giggled as Gohan scowled at her.
"Hey-- she's our friend." Goten said defensivly, motioning to Trunks and himself. "We know her better than you do!"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah!"
"What is her favorite color?"
"Blue!"
"Lavendar."
Goten twitched.
"You go talk to her Bulma! Atta girl!"
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Alrighties! I got it out... I know, it's so late... but it's extra long to make up for it! Please don't hurt me... *puts index fingers together and goes way-too-chibi-cute with big, starry blu eyes and begins tio speak in a very cute chibi-voice* I had it together, really, but it got deleted, and it was so hard to do again, and I had to think up an ending, really I did... * reader is wowed by her power kawaii-ness and relents*
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