Lady Onra and Piper
Piccolo was mediating by a waterfall. He opened his eyes.
"Is there something you need Goku?" Goku was floating ten feet away.
"Hai Piccolo, I was just wondering . . . did you happen to hear anything that Onra said with Alex. I know that I shouldn't be asking you this. I want to respect her privacy, but I think that it might be important." Piccolo closed his eyes.
"Are you so sure that she has really told you anything that is true? You said there was another name that she had. Why won't she say it?"
"Well I don't know. I just figured that she was running from something."
"Maybe she's not. Maybe she is just worried that if we knew her real name then we could figure out her past. She might have done some horrible things in her past. Worse than any of us could imagine. Worse than Vegeta's past. And maybe she lied about the legend. And about the link." Goku shook his head.
"But she knows that I won't hold that against her and-" Goku was cut off when in his head he heard a voice. It was Lady Onra's. I was a plea for help. A dying plea for help. And it was weak. " . . . ku . . . Goku . . . help me . . . "
"Onra!" Piccolo looked a bit startled.
"What about that kid Goku?" Goku turned to the direction of his house.
"She's in trouble! I gotta go help her!" He flew off. Piccolo shook his head.
"She must not have cut the link." He flew off after Goku.
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Piper picked up a beaten Lady Onra. Piper sneered.
"I don't know why you bother to try to fit in with these creatures! They are weak! You should have stuck with your own kind!" Piper dropped Lady Onra. "You could have won. But you don't want to be who you are! You want to live this weak life and you'll do anything to keep it! There was nothing wrong with your life! Nothing!" Piper was about to kick Lady Onra when someone blasted her. She went flying into the forest. Goku ran to Lady Onra.
"Onra! Are you alright? Who is she?" Lady Onra looked up at Goku.
"I don't know. . . " Lady Onra watched as Goku ran off to see if Piper was still in the forest. 'Oh Goku, I wish I could tell you the truth. You've been so kind to me.' Lady Onra sat up. 'Alex . . . no . . . Mari was right. I can't keep hiding. I'll have to tell them sometime soon.' She stood up and walked over to the stream near the house. Lady Onra took a good look at herself. 'I'll miss them.' Lady Onra's reflection started to change.
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Alex stood beside a mountain in the desert. She looked up and saw Lady Onra.
"What do you want Amaya?"
"Alex, in the forms we are in right now we are and Alex and Lady Onra. In the other forms we are Mari and Amaya." Alex shrugged.
"I thought you never wanted to see me again."
"I was attacked by this woman. She was too powerful to be a human." Alex looked at Lady Onra hard.
"She was able to do damage?" Lady Onra nodded.
"Hai Alex, we have to return."
"What do you mean? You don't want to return! You never did! Why now!"
"This is too weird! First a destiny is somehow thrown off track and then when either one of us could have been brought back no one came look for us! And then we awake and the others should have been able to find us! You used enough power! So did I! And you can't contact your brother and I'm attacked!"
"You are over reacting!" Lady Onra shook her head.
"Iie Alex, for a while after I awoke I had this strange dream, always the same. It was about the others. They disappear. And every time in the dream I think they were killed." Alex gasped.
"Why didn't you tell me this earlier! This was very important!" Lady Onra nodded.
"I know, I know. I just figured it was nothing. But . . . that woman attacked and I knew something was wrong. She had some of their powers. And it won't take long for her to show up." Alex looked to the sky.
"It won't take long to get there." Lady Onra nodded. "Are you sure you want to do this? You said that you would never return." Lady Onra sighed.
"Hai. Now is the time I am need most. Even though Tomiko and I don't agree on everything I cannot turn my back on them. We are all the same." Alex nodded.
"Hai, we are all the same Lady Onra." Lady Onra sighed.
"Even if none of us agree about the dragon balls."
"What about the dragon balls?" Lady Onra turn to see Goku and Piccolo. Goku took a step forward. "What are you talking about Onra?! And who was it that attacked you?" Lady Onra looked sad. 'Onra . . . you always looks sad. No matter what I do.'
"I'm sorry Goku . . . I truly liked it here on Earth. But now I must face something I have tried to run from for a very long time." Goku took another step towards Lady Onra.
"Why won't you tell us anything. Lady Onra, I know that you were running from something. But now you can't run any more. You can't run from Earth. If you need help then I'll help, you know that don't you." Lady Onra stood silently as Goku talked.
"Lady Onra, do you want me to go ahead or what?" Lady Onra looked at Alex.
"Alex . . . I don't know if I can go . . . I know Tomiko is dead . . . but something has taken most of my power. Something has forsaken me and I don't know what it is but I can't go into space. Something like Sasaki. Something cold. I'm freezing inside." Alex shook her head.
"Masaka! Sasaki is not that powerful! The only one who can forsake you is Tomiko and not even she would do that. Just change from that form and then we can go." Lady Onra looked at Alex.
"Iie! I tried. When Goku left to see if that woman was still there I tried to change. But I couldn't. Something blocked me. I never felt anything like it before."
"Onra! Who is this Tomiko?! And Sasaki?!" Lady Onra looked at Goku.
"Others like me. They don't have the same power but we are alike in one way or another." Alex ignored Goku.
"What do you mean something that you never felt before?" Lady Onra looked back to Alex.
"It felt so powerful. And it felt like the others but . . . different. I was going to tell you about it and then Goku showed up. I need you to take me there. I know the way and all . . . but . . . " Piccolo finally spoke.
"Who are you really? The two of you have to be extremely powerful. And the two of you are so young, considering you both are well over 20,000 years old. How is that possible?" Alex looked at Piccolo.
"It appears, Lady Onra, that someone listened to our conversation."
"The two of you talked about other people, other forms, mortals forms, planets exploding, other names, and destiny. Now I'm asking this again, who are you really?" Lady Onra looked to the ground.
"I am Alex and she is Lady Onra." Alex smiled. "I thought you already knew that."
"I'm not talking about the names you have here on Earth. I'm talking about your past. And you talked about other names. Your really names. You didn't say them. What are they?" Lady Onra looked up at Piccolo.
"Do you really want to know?"
"Yes we do. You owe us that." Goku nodded. Lady Onra sighed.
"You do think you are ready?"
"Hai, we are, now tell us kid. Who are you?" Alex look at Lady Onra then back to Piccolo.
"Lady Onra and I will tell you. But we will only tell you with the others. Gather you friends. You will need a spaceship. We can go without one but if you are coming with us then you will have to have one. We will tell you three days before we leave." Alex turned to Lady Onra. "I'll see you later. Don't tell them without me." Lady Onra nodded. Alex flew off. Lady Onra watched her. She turned to Goku with a sad look on her face.
"Goku . . . I'm sorry." Lady Onra disappeared. Goku turned to Piccolo.
"Do you think that she will tell us?" Piccolo nodded.
"Yes, I do." Goku sighed.
"Piccolo, what do you think she is?" Piccolo looked at Goku.
"When we first met Alex, after everyone flew off with the exception of Vegeta, I had an idea. Vegeta told me that there was more to the legend. But he said that he first wanted to know what I had heard. I told him and he said that he had to make sure that he was right. I don't know how he made sure but a week later he told me. In the legend the kid transformed."
"What do you mean transformed?!" Piccolo shook his head.
"You'll have to ask Vegeta that. All he said was that it right before she was trapped in her own attack."
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Everyone was at Capsule Corp. Goku and Piccolo told everyone what had happen with Lady Onra and Alex. Goku turned to Vegeta.
"What did you mean when you told Piccolo that Lady Onra transformed?" Vegeta shook his head.
"All that was said is that she transformed. Never what she looked like except that she was older and everything about her was changed." Goku sighed.
"That doesn't help much." Goku looked at Bulma. "Do you think you could build us a spaceship or something." Bulma smiled.
"Sou na, my dad and I shouldn't have too much of a problem."
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Bulma and her father had been working for a few weeks on a space ship. Vegeta and Goku spent most of the time sparing. Vegeta was getting pretty mad at Goku most of the time. A lot of the time he wouldn't be paying attention while they were sparing. Vegeta looked up from the breakfast table over at Bulma. She hadn't gotten a lot of sleep. Bulma smiled at him.
"So Vegeta, how has the sparing with Goku been going? Have you finally beaten him?" Vegeta glared at his food.
"I hope Kakarot is sick or something today." Bulma frowned.
"Why, are you tired of getting beaten?" Vegeta looked up at Bulma again.
"He doesn't pay attention at all. He is too busy thinking about what that girl is and her past. Several times he is about to punch me and then he stops staring off into space. It used to be that I always wanted to fight with Kakarot but now I don't! There is no challenge! Nothing!" Bulma started to crack up. She almost fell out of her chair laughing. Vegeta glared at Bulma. "What do you think is so funny!" After a few moments she was about to claim down and stop laughing. She wiped the tears out of here eyes.
"For the first time for as long as I have known you you don't want to fight with Goku. It's just funny that's all."
"I don't think it's funny."
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Piper had been searching the planet for a while.
"Damn! Amaya has disappeared!" Piper closed her eyes. Out of the darkness a voice came, it was the same as the before.
"What is it Piper?"
"Amaya has disappeared."
"Didn't you captured Amaya when you first attack?"
"Iie. . . there was someone who interfered."
"What do you mean interfered?"
"I was about to take her and then someone showed up."
"You are stronger than these creatures! You are no longer one of them! You shouldn't of run!"
"I know but . . . "
"But what?!"
"I figured that if one person came then eventually Mari would show up. And unlike Amaya she would change back to her other form."
"You could have just grabbed her and ran! You didn't need to play with her! You wasted the element of surprise! Now Amaya knows you are after her! And she most likely has told Mari!"
"Then please help me with Mari."
"Mari is not as easy to attack as Amaya. She is in tune with everything! She will be able to sense something! That will make everything harder! Amaya was easier to attack first because she has not changed for a long, long time! I am giving you one last chance Piper! If you fail again then don't even think of coming back! Ever! Understand?!"
" . . . hai." Piper opened her eyes. She glared at the ground. "I will return with that bitch if it is the last thing I do! Amaya will not get away from me! I bet my life on that!"
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Hello, my name is Alex. I am also known as Mari. Next time Lady Onra thinks about her life and if she should tell Goku about her past. Piper's search for Lady Onra speeds up. Goku becomes more and more worried about Lady Onra. The warriors of Earth finally come back together after two months. They have trained nonstop. All that remains is for Lady Onra and I to appear and tell them who we are. But Lady Onra does not know if she is ready to tell them the truth. She thinks of running once again. What will stop her this time? Is there anything in the universe that will stop her from leaving with me without telling the others about her?