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Yeah, Yeah. -_-;;; I know. I'm late. By about a year. Don't remind me. *sigh*….
Insert standard DBZ disclaimer here. Lena is mine. All other characters you've not seen in the anime before are mine. You take, Lena will personally kick you into next Thursday. Capeesh?
There's a little Goku bashing, but not too much. Who am I to blame for Vegeta? I didn't make him how he is, but I can supply him with some insults... heh heh heh.
This could probably be rated PG13, to a very very very very low R. So, I warned you, and you can't say I didn't. Nananabooboo!
That's all for now, I guess. Read and Review, or Lena might get mad at you... and you wouldn't want that, now would you? ::evil cackle::
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Everyone felt it.
Vegeta blew up a tree in his fury.
THAT STUPID GIRL!
"What IS that?!" Goten cried. This was bigger than Gotenks, bigger than anythign
he'd ever felt before. This power... it was huge...
"Where's Lena?" Trunks yelled.
Goku jumped up.
He'd only felt that kind of power twice.
He looked at Vegeta, who had his fists clenched as he muttered curses under his
breath, eyes shut.
"Vegeta... was that what i think it is..."
He asked tentivly.
Goten and Trunks stared at Vegeta, who gave a sarcastic kind of laugh.
"For once, Kakorotto, you astound me. You must
have a brain in there somewhere after all. Yes, that stupid girl must have
transformed." Through the thick sarcasm, there was a string of worry.
"She couldn't!" Trunks was pale. "None
of us have the power..."
"If she really wanted to, she could." Vegeta snapped. "She asked
me about it before she left. I told her not to, but that fool girl left anyway.
I'm surprised she went that far away before she did. She's about fifty miles
off."
Goten and Goku stared at Vegeta, jaws gaped, while Trunks growled.
"What if she looses control?!" He yelled at
his father.
"Oh, I'm betting she will." Vegeta replied. "You don't know what
it's like to transform, Boy. It's difficult to gain control." He cocked
his head, almsot listening to the power. "Feel
that? She's fighting it." The ki level was surging up and down. "Doing a damn good job, too."
For almost thirty minutes, Lena seemed to be fighting her power. For thirty
long minutes, they
'listened' to her power.
Finally, it dropped so low they couldn't feel it anymore, and even Vegeta
jumped up in surprise.
"What?!" He yelled. Without an explantion, he began running towards the place they'd felt
her ki. After a few seconds of shock, Trunks and Goten took off after him, Goku
slowly overtaking them.
As they went further, mroe of their strength came to
them, and finally Trunks gathered his pwoer and took
off into the air, cursing everything he could think of.
"What happened?" He hissed to his father, who was flying beside him.
"Two choices: Dead or Halfdead." Vegeta
answered. "The pwoer dropped too quickly. She
gained control and then... somehow... detransformed. it was too quick. She lost her power with the transformation
loss." He explained. They were over the deadland
now, looking.
"I think I saw her!" Goten shouted. he
touched down, and Trunks was beside the gasping girl in a second.
Her breath was ragged, and she seemed to behaving a hard time breathing at all.
Her back was up against a boulder, her eyes closed.
"Lena, are you okay?"
She opened one eye to stare at them. She looked at Vegeta, to Goku, to Goten,
and then finally at Trunks.
"Oh gods..." She whispered. "Never again..."
Vegeta had half a smirk, half a forwn on his face.
She did transform, then? I did warn her. No wonder she doesn't want to do
it again.
Trunks stared at her.
"What do yuo mean?" He asked.
"Power... too much... couldn't fight.. won
anyway..." She said inbetween ragged breaths.
"Never again... don't want to..."
Vegeta stared at her. True worry was starting to seep into his mind.
What is she talking about?
Lena's eye closed as her head lolled to the side, but she still hung onto
consciousness.
It hurts so much, she gasped to herself. Why does power hurt so
much? It was so sweet... and it hurts so much... gods... that voice... that
song...
They jumped at her sharp intake of breath.
NO! I can't... won't... gods...
"What's wrong with her, Vegeta?" Goku asked.
"Do I look like the eternal well of information?" Vegeta snapped.
"How the hell am I supposed to know, Kakorotto?!"
Goku grinned. Vegeta's worried!
Goten looked to Piccolo, who shrugged, and then at the very worried Trunks.
"What happened?" Trunks asked, shaking Lena. "Lena, what's
wrong?"
Lena gasped, and suddenly forced herself to her feet. She glared at Vegeta,
before slapping him as hard as she could.
Meaning he was knocked back a few feet.
"YOU JERK!" She screamed, with energy that she'd lacked precious few
seconds eariler. "YOU DIDN'T TELL ME IT'D BE
LIKE THAT!" She took off flying faster than they could follow.
Vegeta gaped. A trickle of blood made it's way down
his chin.
Everyone stepped away from him quickly. Trunks began to pray that Vegeta
wouldn't go into one of his mmurderous rages.
Instead, Vegeta looked to Trunks, half-angry, half confused. And Trunks knew
that Vegeta had no idea what Lena was yelling about either.
"What's transforming like, Vegeta?" Piccolo asked. Vegeta snarled.
"It's more power than you could ever dream of. All at once, like a slap in
the face." Goten snickered, and Vegeta glared at him. "Kind of like
someone calling to you. And then the instincts kick in, screaming for power. No
one hardly overcomes it immediatly.
Lena didn't, and neither did I. It's a fight."
Goku nodded, remembering something of the like from long ago.
"You mean..." Picccolo frowned. "But
then why..."
"Your guess is as good as mine, Namek."
"We've got to find her."
Trunks nodded.
"You're right, Goten. Fuse?"
"Fuse."
Lena raced blindly away from the group of warriors. She hadn't a clue where she
was going... just away from the negative moon waves, away from Vegeta, away
from them all. She didn't know how long she would or could stay away, but she
could try.
She cursed loudly as she felt three ki signatures take off after her own, and
two more fly back towards Capsule Corp.
What? Only three? Two?
Someone's missing, She realized. One of the warriors
seemed to have vanished, while another became...
Twice as strong.
Someone fused, SHe
thought madly. Not Vegeta and Goku. Vegeta wouldn't do that, not just
looking for me. I don't know of any others that fuse except...
Gotenks.
Why would they take that risk?
SHe cursed aloud once more and came to a screeching
halt in mid-air. She knew she couldn't outrun Gotenks,
not in this lifetime, anyway. The best she could to was
hide her ki and then hide herself.
But Trunks knew how to find her...
Damn! Why... no, how. How is a much better question. How am I going to hide
from them?
Wait a second, why am I hiding?
She didn't want to face them. Somehow, she felt violated in her explosion of
power, and didn't want to face anyone in that moment.
Not until she could think clearly, anyway. She was furious at Vegeta for not
telling her, but she really wasn't that mad at him...
More like I'm mad at myself. I was such an idiot to try that alone. It
probably took me hours to get control. I'm weak. A weak,
simpering fool who had the gall to slap the one person who might have helped
me.
It wasn't your fault. You weren't prepared.
I'm going to stop talking to myself, right now. So shut up!
Fine... see if I care...
SHe frowned at herself, and then almost yelped.
She could feel the ki trails approaching fast, Gotenks
in the lead. SHe cursed loudly, an oath she'd heard a
very old vampire yell at the sun once, and had been appauled
at the time, but now it seemed to fit perfectly.
"WHat am I going to do?" She wailed to the
forest around her.
No answer.
She looked around, and spotted a huge fir tree that spread it's
branches better than any cloak. She grinned, flew to it, and immediatly dropped her ki so low that not even Vegeta would
be able to sense it unless he was right beside her.
She found a place near the top and hid herself well.
It was close to twenty minutes later when she felt them arrive.
Vegeta was yelling loudly at Goku.
"--IDIOT!"
"Vegeta, one of these days you're going to bust a blood
vessel."
"I DON'T CARE, KAKOROTTO, YOU IDIOT! HOW COULD YOU
ASSUME SUCH A THING?!"
"Geesh, I only said Trunks might like a
little sister or something. You didn't have to go off like that. Those people
may have wanted to keep that dog."
"YOU IDIOT!"
"You said that already."
"No one can say it enough to come close to the level of idiotcy that you are."
"I bet I could. Idiot idiot idiot
idiot idiot..."
"Goku, shh." Gotenks looked around, his eyes searching. "Did you
hear..."
Lena clamped both hands over her mouth. How could he have heard her giggle over
Vegeta's outraged yells?
"Hear what?" Goku asked, as Vegeta tuned his senses towards his
hearing, listening.
Lena rolled her eyes as a squirrel began to chatter at the top of it's lungs, protesting her presence so close to it's nest.
She waved a hand at it and only succeded in breaking
a branch, whose crack echoed loudly in all
their ears.
SHe cursed softly, and flitted down the tree towards
the base silently, away from the noise.
"She's in that tree." Gotenks said. Goku,
get the top. Vegeta, the middle. I'll get the
base."
Goku went to the squirrel almost instantly and laughed at it's
angry antics while Vegeta blasted random braches away from the tree.
Gotenks peered through the branches around her as she
pressed herself up against the trunk, praying she wouldn't be seen...
"Do you see her?" Vegeat yelled.
"No, but there's this really kawaii squirrel
that's trying to-- OW! IT BIT ME!"
Vegeta found this outragously funny.
"Great Kakorotto... defeated
by a squirrel!"
"Ow.. it hurts!"
"Shut up, you two." Gotenks
said, staring almost straight at Lena.
WOOSH!
BOOM!
"AHHHHHHH!!"
Lena screamed as the ki blast hit the trunk of the tree not two millimeters
from her nose.
Gotenks grinned, grabbed her wrist, and yanked her
from the burning branches.
"Gotcha! Thanks, Vegeta!"
"Thanks nothing! I missed Kakorotto!"
"No you didn't. I just blasted it back at you. So it should be me
angry, because I missed you."
"Shut up, Idiot."
"Can't make me..."
"CAN TOO!"
"You two are like two year olds, I swear." Lena yelled. "Can't
you stop fighting for three seconds?"
Vegeta turned to glare at her while Goku looked guilty.
"Sorry Lena."
"Stupid baka. Why did
you run like that, girl? And why the hell did you slap me?" Vegeta
demanded. It was Lena's turn to look guilty as she turned to Gotenks pleadingly.
Gotenks shrugged.
"I want to know just as much as he does, Lena. Why did you run like
that?"
She mumbled something under her breath.
"What? Can't heeeeaaar
you." Goku said in a sing-song voice. Lena glared at him.
"I don't know." She said louder. "I don't know why I ran. As for
slapping you, you asshole, it was because you didn't tell me it was like
resisting a siren's call. You didn't tell me the reason it was hard to
withstand was because you simply can't stop listening to that voice.
"You didn't tell me that no matter what, the voice doesn't go away until
you detransform. You didn't tell me that there was so
much power. That's why I slapped you, Vegeta."
Vegeta scowled and turned away.
The time limit of the fusion of Goten and Trunks wore off, and Gotenks became two once more. Lena took a
long look at both of them before powering up her ki and taking to the sky.
"Where are you going now?!" Trunks called in
a worried voice.
"Back to my part of the forest, Trunks no baka!"
She took off.
"Vegeta, what did she mean?"
"Shut up, you idiot."
"You already called me that..."
"How about I bash your brains in and then call you that? Oh wait, that's right,
you don't HAVE ANY BRAINS!"
"Sticks and stones can break my bones--"
"AND SO CAN MY FIST!"
"Vegeta no baka!"
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!"
"Do you have any asprin?" Goten turned to
Trunks.
"Nope. Let's go, and just hope they don't destroy
a major city."
"And if they do that, let's just hope it ain't Tokyo."
"I hear you."
Hanukil grinned as he dragged the body over to the door and let it be dragged
away.
He hated incompetance, and the fool who had just been
'interrogated' had failed to keep the saiya-jin
males from leaving the radius that the negative moon beams were directed.
Idiots. All idiots.
How dare they defy me so?
Lena was another matter. He'd never seen a saiya-jin, male or female, quite
like her. She had a sense of humility that none of the saiya-jins
had, and... well, it was subtle things. Oh, yes, she
had the arrogant pose and deep scowl that all saiya-jin had.
But her eyes were different. It was a notible trait
of the saiya-jin to have dark, almost black, eyes
that seared through courage like a hot knife through soft butter.
Her eyes were a tawny golden color and seemed to stare right through your soul,
like she could see your secrets and lies, and knew what they were.
And her immortality...
That intrigued him. Half-immortal? He'd never heard
such a term. It was always immortal or not, you lived forever or you didn't.
Oh, he saw the great power within her. Power she refused to acknowedge
or use. Dormant strength. He doubted if she herself
knew it was there. After all, most saiya-jin were
power hungry and stopped at nothing to acheive it.
They would train themselves to death and beyond.
But then again, she wasn't like most saiya-jin.
He would have to discover how she obtained this 'half immortality' and what
exactly it did for her.
And how she grew up. He had many spies upon the small
saiya-jin clan upon the planet, and he knew that they had not known of her. She
didn't appear to be more than sixteen, but appearences
could be decieving, he knew that himself.
Perhaps she had grown up amoung humans, like the one
called Goku? No, that did not seem probable. Goku was a placid, almost docile
creature, almost his thrist for war and battle was
normal of any saiya-jin. Lena was headstrong and...
Different. The only way to put it.
Different.
Sometimes differences were good. In other circumstances, differences were
unstable elements that needed to be destroyed.
He hoped the warrior female was not one of the latter.
Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid! How could I have
been so stupid?
Lena stared up at the almost-full waning moon.
Idiotic! I was acting like Goku! I shouldn't have ran
like that, nor should I have slapped Vegeta.
She saw the Orion constellation. Three bright stars, close
together; Betelguese in the upper left corner; Rigel in the lower right.
I wonder that if I flew high enough, maybe I could touch Rigel. It's not so far away.
No, I'd probably burn up trying to exit the atmosphere. Another
'damn' to add to my list.
She turned around quickly as she heard someone cough. She was shocked for a
split second, and nearly fell off of the thick, wide branch that she usually
slept upon.
"Vegeta?!?!"
"Hello to you too."
"What the-- why are you here?"
"What a pleasant greeting I recieve."
"You're acting like Goku." She arched an eyebrow at him.
"WHAT?! ME?! Act like that simpleton idiot?!
HOW DARE YOU!"
She giggled. Okay, this was definatly Vegeta. After a
few seconds of silence, she composed her face into a scowl and repeated her
question.
"Why are you here?"
"Have you ever died?"
"Have I ever what?"
"Died."
"Where did you pull that question from?"
"Answer me."
"Or what? If Bulma finds you out here you'll have
to listen to her nag for the next decade."
"Just answer the question. Even Kakorotto
doesn't have as much problem as this answering
questions."
"Unless it's nuclear physics."
"Stop stalling."
She looked at him for a few seconds.
"Why do you want to know?"
"I'm just curious."
"Bullshit and you know it. You've got an ulterior motive for everything."
"WOULD YOU JUST ANSWER IT!"
"I'm part vampire, Vegeta. How do you think vampires are made?"
"You said half. How can you be a half-vampire."
"Full of questions, aren't we?" She sighed. "Well, it
was my fault, really. I was walking around the block outside because I couldn't
sleep. And all of a sudden-- BAM! Something jumped down off of a roof or
something really high because they were going really fast and it hurt when they
knocked me to the ground.
"I lashed out with the only thing I could find-- a rock. It cut through
the vampire's skin, drawing blood. During the fight I suppose I must have
swallowed some during the scuffle, because it never managed to bite me."
She pulled down the high-collar of her uniform to show him the unscarred flesh
of her throat. "It's the only way, from what Ken, who was a kind-of friend
of mine, told me. His territory bordered mine..." She rolled her eyes.
"So... why aren't you a complete vampire?"
She relaxed back into a comfortable position on her branch.
"From what Ken told me, you have to be bitten and then bite the vampire
that bit you in order to be a complete, 100% bona fide` vampire. Since I wasn't
bitten and only drank, I have some properties of a vampire, but not all. And
most of them are so much like being a saiya-jin it;s
hard to say I'm vampire anymore. Except for my longer-life
span."
"That's it?"
"What did you expect, Vegeta?"
"Then how did you die?"
"Like I said, I'm not an expert. But Ken said that because I
drank vampire blood, I technically died... in a way. If you want to know, just
travel a deserted dark alley in the middle of the night. I'm sure one of them
will tell you."
Vegeta rolled his eyes.
"You're different."
"Thanks. I try." Lena rolled over to look at him. "You know, if
you were nicer to people, maybe you would see things."
"Like what?" He snapped.
"Have you ever seen a dog chase a cat?"
"Why would I want to concern myself with such a petty, unimportant
matter?"
Lena giggled.
"Well, it's quite funny, because the cat usually wins."
"Huh?"
"You'll get it when you need to." SHe
grinned. "Don't you just hate it when people get all mysterious guru on you at the worst of times?"
Vegeta growled.
"I'll take that as a yes."
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