A Moment for Thoughts
Lady Onra stood over a small lake. She watched the fish swim in it and she watched the wild life. She watched with a sadness in her eyes that seemed to be there always. It never left, just hid for a short time. Lad Onra sat disappeared. It was like she left with the wind. Like she was sad and the wind just blew away the sand.
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Goku threw a pebble into the stream outside the house. A few days ago Alex showed up to see how things were going. She then told everyone when we were leaving. When he asked about Lady Onra she looked at him like he was nothing and laughed. And then she disappeared. It would be seven more days before the next time he would see Lady Onra. Chichi watched her husband as he sat outside and threw little pebbles into the stream. She turned to Gohan. She had stopped by on his way home.
"Gohan, I'm worried about your farther. He's so out of it." Gohan looked out the window at his farther. He nodded.
"I don't get why dad is so worried about her. She's over 20,000 years old. She can take care of herself." Chichi sat down at the table.
"Gohan, I want to tell you something. I think that deep down Goku always wanted a girl." Gohan sat down at the table.
"Why do you say that." Chichi sighed.
"So perhaps she wouldn't go off and fight threats to the Earth. So he wouldn't have to worry about her getting killed in a fight. And I think Onra was that little girl that he never got. Of course he was happy with two boys, but still the fighting." Gohan shrugged.
"Sou na, I guess I kinda knew that already. I just never really thought about that. And I guess that Onra was really close to him. I mean, she was really hurting inside and Goku . . . " Chichi nodded.
"Wanted to take it all away. He's too kind for his own good."
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Lady Onra sat on the ground. There wasn't any grass around. Just dirt. She had written her name in it. She hadn't notice the boy about 11 who had walked up to her. She only realized that he was there because he had said her name.
"O-ne-ra." She looked up at him and shook her head.
"It's exactly how it's spelled. On-ra."
"On--ra."
"But you say it faster. Onra."
"Onra. That's a weird name. Why'd your parents give it to you?" Lady Onra's eyes were empty as she looked to the ground.
"I . . . " In her mind the images of the Sayians flashed before her eyes. "don't . . . " Images of Goku flashed though her mind. "have . . ." The dream flashed though her mind. "any . . . " Images of Alex flashed though her mind. "parents . . ." She was so empty when she said it. The boy looked at Lady Onra.
"You don't have any parents? Well it figures, you got a weird name, so you must be really weird." The boy laughed and ran off. Lady Onra watched the boy run off.
"Parents . . . no I am above that." Once again Lady Onra disappeared with the wind.
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Piper flew over a desert. She was looking for Lady Onra. Several times she blasted at mountain to make sure that Lady Onra wasn't there. After a few moments she landed. She closed her eyes and a voice cam from the shadows.
"Why are you contacting me?!"
"I need you help in order to find Amaya."
"I have given you more than enough help. You have brought this fate upon yourself."
"I know Riki, but-"
"Why must I clean up this mess you have made?!"
"Forgive me, I only-"
"Why don't you try to settle down on this little planet!"
"RIKI! I could-"
"You are not wanted unless you bring me Amaya!"
"I know that but-"
"But nothing! I want Amaya."
"Please if you give me a chance-"
"A chance to do what? To explain why you have failed me?!"
"I will find her!"
"For your sake Piper you better!"
"Riki. Please I only-"
"Have you forgotten everything I taught you!"
"No."
"Then you must know how to hunt down something like her! Her ki is unmistakable! Even in this form!"
"But Riki, I can't feel it anymore!"
"What do you mean you can't feel it anymore?! It is not that hard!"
"I know-"
"You know nothing! Of else I would have her power!"
"Riki, I must ask you something."
"What must you know?"
"Why is it so important to have Amaya first. Mari would be more powerful."
"Unlike Mari, she can not just take all life. There is nothing that she can't do."
"Why hasn't she done anything to stop you."
"It is a taboo she must never break."
"A taboo?"
"She just like the reason she can not leave those gates. Her duty is greater than the queen's. She is the most power. And only she can fulfill this duty. As the queen she would have to leave those gates. She cannot. It is forbidden unless she is going to the Divine Star of Eternity. And when she goes, she leaves through a portal. All of them do. But she only leaves when she is absolutely needed."
"Riki, she has already broken the taboo, why does she not break the taboo that is why she hasn't stopped us."
"Why do not need to know any more. Find her now!"
"I understand." Piper opened her eyes.
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Lady Onra stood in the forest behind a tree. She watched silent a father pushing his daughter on some swings. She was laughing and asking him to push her higher.
"Push me daddy! Higher! Higher!" The father laughed and pushed her higher. Lady Onra's eyes were sad as always. Her eyes seemed to reflect the girl. Lady Onra sighed. 'I don't . . . ' She thought of Goku. 'want to. . . ' She thought of the Sayians. 'tell any of them . . . ' She thought of Mari. 'my past.' Lady Onra disappeared into the wind.
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Piper was over an ocean. She lowered her hands with her palms facing the water. There was a flash of light and the ocean began to boil. After a few minutes fish and whales and sharks floated to the top. All dead.
"Not here." Piper flew off.
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Lady Onra was in the cave that she had slept in for so many centuries. She picked up a piece of the crystal she had broken through.
"Back then . . . I didn't have to worry about . . . anything. It was like . . . " Lady Onra looked around the cave. 'Like something that is my duty.'
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Goku sighed and shook his head. They would have to leave soon. Tomorrow was the day.
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Lady Onra looked the place were she attacked Goku. She looked at the place where she had watched the others react to what had happen.
"I wish . . ." Lady Onra walked over to were she had been standing. 'That I didn't have to tell. That I had never returned to this world. I was at peace.' Lady Onra still had a piece of the crystal with her. She looked at it in her hand. 'No . . . that woman would have found me.'
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Alex flew above the clouds. She shook from her head thoughts of the past.
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Lady Onra stood were she had talked to Alex before she was attacked. When she had yelled at her.
"I must . . . return . . . " Lady Onra disappeared with the wind.
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Bulma had finished the ship. She had used the technology from the Namek spaceship and the ship Goku had used when he went to Namek. Of course she had made sure that it was not in Namek. She wiped her forehead. She was tried. She hadn't gotten much sleep in trying to finish. She was lucky that Vegeta was walking by her. She fell backwards asleep. Vegeta caught her and shook his head.
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Lady Onra was at the town she had met Alex in. They were rebuilding it. Alex had destroyed a lot of it. Lady Onra walked around.
" . . . but . . . I want . . . " She disappeared with the wind.
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Piper set fire to a forest. She stood there for a few minutes and glared at the forest.
"Nothing."
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Lady Onra stood were she had talked with Alex after being attacked. Where Alex had promise Piccolo and Goku that they would tell them the truth. Where she had last seen Goku.
"I want . . . to live my own life . . . to be . . . free." Lady Onra still had the crystal. She looked at it in her hands and squeezed it. "I mustn't see Goku again . . . I can't . . . " A tear flew down her check. "If I tell him . . ." Lady Onra disappeared with the wind again.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________This Goten. Next time we all start to gather. The time has come for Lady Onra and Alex to come and tell us the truth. Lady Onra meets with Alex before she comes. They have alittle chat. Piper is looking harder than ever for Lady Onra.