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Chapter 46: Kalroo against Saiyan

Trunks jumped to his feet and ran after Zara, pushing past Goten on his way in to the building. He ran to the corridor that led out to the courtyard behind the building and stopped.

"Zara! Wait!" he yelled. She was at the end and stopped with a sigh. It wasn't normally her style to run away but she did not want to face her parents.

She looked over her shoulder at him.

"What?"

"What's going on?" he asked and walked over to her. She looked away and leaned against the wall.

"I told you before that I don't want to talk about it." She said quietly. He frowned and moved so she was looking at him.

"Would you stop with the tough girl act. I've known you since you were just a little kid. We told each other everything for a time so you can tell me what's going on now." He said seriously. She stared into his cerulean eyes and sighed.

"This is different." She started.

"You can still talk to me about it." Was his reply. She stared at him for a moment longer then slid down the wall so that she was sitting.

"I don't even know where to begin."

"Try the beginning." He suggested and she looked over at him with a 'no drr' look.

"Fine. A lot of stuff changed after I left. My dad wasn't really as great as I thought he was. He wasn't some great war hero. He was paranoid. I wasn't allowed off of the ship 'just in case' and if I did then any one I met he'd kill. He never told me why, just made it seem like my fault so that I wouldn't do it again." she told him as she drew her knees to her chest and embraced them. Trunks stared at her.

"Zara…I'm sorry, I didn't know. But, I have to ask you something. I had a dream about you before you arrived. Something about a Nabu guy. Was that real?" he asked. Zara looked at him and slowly nodded.

"Yea. Nabu was real at least." She muttered and closed her eyes.

Just after the blinding light had faded on that planet with the burning village, everything had gone. Most of what was left had been ripped away by Zara's power. Her red aura burned brightly around her as her now blood red eyes locked on to her father.

"You…" she said in disgust. Tank watched her calmly, even though he was in awe of her power.

Zara frowned then in one motion that was too fast to see she was on him, attacking with everything she had. Tank blocked several hits and received one to the face before managing to kick Zara away. The girl just came back for more though and kept making him retreat with her long combos of punches and kicks. Tank kept backing up, waiting for an opening, as Zara aimed a hard kick to his head. Tank teleported himself away and Zara followed.

When they appeared they were both next to their ship. Zara stuck to a stance as she gave herself a break. Tank was panting as well when he spotted something behind Zara. She slowly looked round to see what when something struck her on the back of her head. The last thing she saw was Sam stepping over her before she blacked out. It had been shortly after that that Zara had decided to leave and hijacked a space shuttle.

Trunks watched her and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry Zar. I really am but running away won't help. Besides we're all a lot stronger now. Nothing bad will happen." He said. Zara looked at him sceptically.

"You were the one that was beaten by Kitana, who isn't exactly the strongest of my parents friends." She pointed out. Trunks rubbed his head nervously.

"Well…that's true but nobody told me that there was going to be shape shifters at the this tournament." He joked and then saw Zara's face.

"But I'll be ready next time! So don't run off, ok?" he said this time seriously. Zara watched him carefully then slowly smiled.

"Fine. But if anything does happen then I'll blame you." She told him before getting up. Trunks sighed and followed suit just as Goten appeared in the doorway.

"Hey Zar, you have to get to the ring before they announce Vegeta the winner." He called and disappeared.

"Well we can't have that." She said before hurrying to meet the prince.

Vegeta was already waiting for her in the ring when she finally jogged into it.

"Didn't keep you waiting too long, did I?" she asked as she sunk into position. Vegeta smirked in response and matched her stance.

"Just get ready." He shot back as the signal sounded and the match began.

Immediately the two warriors jumped at each other and took to the sky, far above the audience. This way they wouldn't have to worry so much about stray blasts hitting the crowd behind them.

Vegeta started throwing Punches left and right at incredible speeds that Zara dodged and returned equally as fast. Vegeta threw a hard punch at Zara that she had to block by crossing her arms across her chest. Vegeta then proceeded to continue the combo with a blast but Zara had already disappeared as it sailed threw the air. He had to quickly make a sharp left, as Zara's heel appeared threatening to slam into his face.

She followed him with a mighty round house. Vegeta materialised out of view as he dodged it and reappeared coming down form above to slam his elbow into Zara's back but she disappeared and a blast appeared further away that rocketed towards him. He slapped it aside just in time to see Zara behind it before she implanted her fist into his jaw.

He was sent flying backwards and managed to fling himself round and fire a blast at Zara but she used her mental abilities to make it curve right back towards him. Vegeta frowned and dodged it before firing a multitude of blasts at the girl who fired some right back. The blasts hit their targets and soon a cloud of smoke had engulfed both warriors.When the smoke began to fade, both warriors burst out of their smoke cloud and into another flurry of punches.

Vegeta threw a punch that Zara blocked before throwing another that she grabbed and used to pull him forward so that she could drive her knee into his gut. The prince doubled over then quickly brought his head up to slam into hers and sent her staggering backwards before flying in for more.

He threw a volley of punches at her that she blocked and dodged before he managed to land a hard fist into the side of her head. She was sent flying down but she managed to grab hold of his foot before she got to far down and with a quick push in her ki she flipped up behind him and shoved both feet into his back after letting go. The prince was sent flying forward and he flipped round to scowl at her.

"What kind of move was that brat?" he snapped. Zara smirked.

"One that leads into this!" she shot back and disappeared then came back in view performing a mega kick that hit Vegeta's back hard and sent him flying down to the ground. He landed on his feet and sprang back up to meet her, phasing momentarily out of sight. Zara waited for him and prepared herself to block his next attack when he did something she wasn't expecting him to do at this tournament.

He appeared behind her aimed a punch at her back but she dodged. In the time it took her to move he did a speed transformation into his super form. She stared at him in surprise as he smirked then vanished. The next thing she knew she had been hit hard in the back and sent flying forward. He appeared above her and with one mighty blow she was sent crashing into the ring.

Zara laughed to herself as she got to her knees in her impact crater. She hadn't been expecting super saiyan transformations in this tournament. Then again it was Vegeta she was facing and he didn't exactly follow the rules when it came to holding back.

About time I took it up a notch as well. She thought and got up. She froze when she saw a certain group of new arrivals that were surrounding the ring.

Littering the area around the ring were creatures of all shapes, sizes and colours. None were human although most had similar characteristics. There was only one thing that they all had in common and that was the black cloak that they each wore draped around their bodies with leathery shoulder pads that had a different colour on the ends depending on gender.

And stepping into the ring was Sam, her eyes looking blank and especially cold.

"Looks like I've found you." She said in an emotionless voice that would send shivers down anybodies spine.

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There finished. Now I can go rest my head…

Sorry about the abrupt ending but I've been feeling sucky since Sunday. Anyway, get ready for a chapter of confusion and answers in the epi…err…chapter of GND!