Chapter 3: Getting to you
Kakkarot laid Vegeta down on the guest bed the Prince has been staying on. Then he went to his room and pulled out a jar of beans. He took one up and grounded it before going back to Vegeta and making him swallow it. These were said to be the decendant of the mighty senzu beans that were lost to this world tousands of years ago. They did not heal instantly like the senzus fut they did heal everything in a day.
Afterwards Kakkarot took off Vegeta's armor and shirt and started to bandage his friend up. Then he tucked Vegeta in and went out to train in solitude for the rest of the day, praying there wouldn't be any more blood shed for the rest of the day.
Phoenix sat quietly on a rock not far from where her father was training near there home. Laying next to her was a firey red wolf with dark emerald eyes that have seen their world come to an end long ago.
"This friend of my father's is a strong one. I must drive him away or kill him before he causes any one of us to die like father caused mother to die..." Phoenix uttered lowly, petting the wolf's head.
"Indeed." Answered the wolf as she frowned at Kakkarot. "But be careful dear, we don't want to see you in danger either."
Phoenix smirked. "I love danger. Don't worry grandma. I'll make sure he knows fear like nothing he's ever felt before!" She declared, her dark emerald eyes flashing. "Men with pay dearly!"
With that both got up and took a long walk through the woods while they descussed how they would seek revenge, never noticing the pair of dark black eyes that watched from the bushes.
The rest of the day passed without incident. When morning came Vegeta finally awoke healthy and stronger then ever. He changed into the clothes that Kakkarot lent him and went down to the kitchen where Phoenix and Kakkarot were already near done eatting.
Phoenix glared at him as he sat down.
"Something wrong with your eyes to make them burn so much, girly?" Vegeta asked, smirking.
"Hmph. How did you raise your power level so high when you woke up?" Phoenix asked as she looked over his completly healed body.
Vegeta's smirk widen a bit. "Why should I tell a brat like you any of my little tricks?"
"Feh, fine! Don't tell me then. But I want another match with you later today." Phoenix demanded.
"Fine with me, girly." Vegeta answered before he ignored her and started to eat like he hasn't eatten in a day. Which in truth he hadn't.
Phoenix watched him intently, studying him as she hoped to figure out his methode of raising his ki so fast. Even when she use to spar with her father she never increased that much. Yesterday's short fight only slightly raised her ki but not almost doubling like Vegeta's did!
Vegeta raised his head as he senced her eyes on him. "What are you staring at now?" He asked while still eatting.
Phoenix smirked. "A small hairy ape with no table manners and smells worst then a shunk! Go shower before the food spoils!" She teased him with a small laugh.
Vegeta grunted. "I could say the same to you brat but I happen to be a lot more polite at the table then some." He answered as stared back at her.
Kakkarot shook his head and tried not to laugh.
Both eyed him. "What??" They asked in unision.
"Nothing, nothing." Kakkarot responded with a chuckle as he got up to clear the table.
"Hmph." Phoenix huffed as she got up and left for her morning exercises.
Since the day was extermely warm she had put on her snug and short black jean shorts instead of her big baggy flame pants. As well as an old tank top that was ripped half way up her stmoach.
Kakkarot noticed as Vegeta watched her go. "You know, she was right. A shower might help you right now." Kakkarot chuckled, evilly smirking.
Vegeta shot him a deadly glare. "Oh shut up." He grumbled as he went up for his shower.
A small smile formed on Kakkarot's face as he watched his friend leave. 'Maybe Vegeta can help tame her back into her old sweet self...That or they end up killing each other...' He thought as he sat down at the now cleaned up table.
After dinner, Phoenix and Vegeta were back on the battle plaine and already duking it out fiercely. This time Vegeta was more then ready for her, his strenght raised high enough to defend anything she threw at him.
When she formed her sword he blasted it away simply with a ki ball so it exploded in her hand, injurying her hand. When she used her after image image attack he used his ears and nose to find her and dodge.
He taunted her and started to use his superior force to drive her body into the ground, back into the air then sending her injured body into a near by lake. Then he waited to see if she would rise or was to weak to submerge. After about a minute he got worried and went under to take her drowning body out. He laid her down and paniked. He didn't know how to save her. Unfortunatly for him he didn't notice her tail as it swung at him with full force. Vegeta went crashing down several yards away.
Phoenix groaned and coughed up water as she tried to get up. "Stupid fool." She shouted out at him as he got up and came towards her again. "Never, ever, let your guard down!" She slowly rose to her feet, a bit off balance.
Vegeta grinned. "Not bad, kid. If you were born a true saiyan on Vegetasei you might have made a perfect elite if not a captain of the King's guards."
"Feh! I don't work for men or anyone else!" She shouted as she flew at him, knowing he would dodge. As he dodged, she surprised him with a large ki hammer. Slamming it into his side. It impacted and exploded, sending both to the ground with it's force.
But Phoenix was the one who fell unconcious because her body couldn't handle another wound. She laid in a heap of rubble.
Vegeta had fallen into the lake. It took a few minutes before he got his sences back and flew out, powering up to dry off. He looked around and spotted her. Quickly he dug her out of the rubble and picked her up. "I win." He whispered as he whipped blood and hair out of her face and checked her neck for a pulse. Finding it, weak but still there, he flew her back to Kakkarot to heal.
Kakkarot sighed as he finished feeding the healing bean to his daughter and cleaned her up as best as possible. Sighing again, he tossed teh bloody towel into the sink and rinsing it then went to sit in the living room with his Prince. "You two should be a little less rutless, you know that? You both ended up on the verge of dying in the last two days!"
Vegeta shrugged. "She started it. If she wantes to continue this then so be it. If she learned her lesson the she'll stop trying to kill me." He commented, lying on his side on the couch in nothing more then a pair of blue boxers.
Kakkarot sighed another time, it was becoming an increasing habit these last few years. "Fine, but since tommorow she is out till night, you got the day off from trying to be killed."
Vegeta grinned. "Then we can spar again!"
Kakkarot nodded. "Sure, but you'll have to take it easy on me, you power level doubled since we last fought." He replied weakly.
"Ha, I can always drive you to the point of death to help you out a bit with that." Vegeta suggested teasingly.
Kakkarot chuckled a little. "I don't think you want to give Phoenix more reasons to kill you."
Vegeta's brow arched. "Why would it be another rease?" He asked as he sat up a little to listen.
"Well she took it pretty damn hard when her mother died. Imagine what she might do if she sees you trying to kill the only parent she's got left?" Kakkarot pointed out with a hidden sigh.
"Yeah but if she lived on Vegetasei she would have killed you either way. Parents usually don't last long, you know that." Vegeta said. "Soon I'll have to kill my father to become King, stupid as that tradition is."
Kakkarot nodded. "Well I'm off to bed. Good night, Vegeta." He said to his friend as he went up the stairs to his room.
"G'night." Replied Vegeta.
Vegeta waited a bit before heading upstaires himself. When he went passed by Phoenix's room, he decided to peek in. He saw her lying on the bed but to his amazement she seemed to move a lot, or trying to at least. Quietly he entred the room and walked up to her. He looked at her face to see if she was awake but thankfully she wasn't. He studied her movements. It looked to him as if she was having a nightmare. Carefully he ran hishand over her warm forhead then down over her soft cheeks. It seemed to calm her a lot.
Phoenix's body stopped moving completly after a minute or two but her face still held the pain that her nightmare gave her.
Vegeta waited a minute before moving his hand again. Slowly he petted her cheek, fasinated by it's softness then her forhead and hair for a little while before he noticed her eyes open and looking at him.
Her eyes seem to burn in anger and a little of something else...
Vegeta removed his and and stared back.
"What...are you doing?" She managed to ask weakly and painfully.
"...Calming you down." Vegeta explained, or tried to. Truelly he didn't know why he even came into her room. "If you kept moving around wildly you wouldn't heal correctly. Then how am I suppose to fight you when you're not healed right?" He tried to make up anything, anything at all.
Phoenix looked skeptical for a moment then smirked weakly. "I'll win, no matter what." she whispered.
Vegeta smirked as well. "You can try, brat. Only try." He replied as he lifted her blanket, that had fallen off her, back in place.
Her eyes closed half way but didn't take her gaze off him, not trusting him yet thankfull in a small way.
He looked at her for a second before turning to leave, his tail moving over her cheek unconciously and waving behind him as he left. "Sleep well, brat. You'll need as much as possible." With that said he went to his room for the night.
"No. No I won't." Phoenix whispered tiredly as she fell back to sleep with the scent of Vegeta lulling her into a peaceful rest.
Kakkarot laid Vegeta down on the guest bed the Prince has been staying on. Then he went to his room and pulled out a jar of beans. He took one up and grounded it before going back to Vegeta and making him swallow it. These were said to be the decendant of the mighty senzu beans that were lost to this world tousands of years ago. They did not heal instantly like the senzus fut they did heal everything in a day.
Afterwards Kakkarot took off Vegeta's armor and shirt and started to bandage his friend up. Then he tucked Vegeta in and went out to train in solitude for the rest of the day, praying there wouldn't be any more blood shed for the rest of the day.
Phoenix sat quietly on a rock not far from where her father was training near there home. Laying next to her was a firey red wolf with dark emerald eyes that have seen their world come to an end long ago.
"This friend of my father's is a strong one. I must drive him away or kill him before he causes any one of us to die like father caused mother to die..." Phoenix uttered lowly, petting the wolf's head.
"Indeed." Answered the wolf as she frowned at Kakkarot. "But be careful dear, we don't want to see you in danger either."
Phoenix smirked. "I love danger. Don't worry grandma. I'll make sure he knows fear like nothing he's ever felt before!" She declared, her dark emerald eyes flashing. "Men with pay dearly!"
With that both got up and took a long walk through the woods while they descussed how they would seek revenge, never noticing the pair of dark black eyes that watched from the bushes.
The rest of the day passed without incident. When morning came Vegeta finally awoke healthy and stronger then ever. He changed into the clothes that Kakkarot lent him and went down to the kitchen where Phoenix and Kakkarot were already near done eatting.
Phoenix glared at him as he sat down.
"Something wrong with your eyes to make them burn so much, girly?" Vegeta asked, smirking.
"Hmph. How did you raise your power level so high when you woke up?" Phoenix asked as she looked over his completly healed body.
Vegeta's smirk widen a bit. "Why should I tell a brat like you any of my little tricks?"
"Feh, fine! Don't tell me then. But I want another match with you later today." Phoenix demanded.
"Fine with me, girly." Vegeta answered before he ignored her and started to eat like he hasn't eatten in a day. Which in truth he hadn't.
Phoenix watched him intently, studying him as she hoped to figure out his methode of raising his ki so fast. Even when she use to spar with her father she never increased that much. Yesterday's short fight only slightly raised her ki but not almost doubling like Vegeta's did!
Vegeta raised his head as he senced her eyes on him. "What are you staring at now?" He asked while still eatting.
Phoenix smirked. "A small hairy ape with no table manners and smells worst then a shunk! Go shower before the food spoils!" She teased him with a small laugh.
Vegeta grunted. "I could say the same to you brat but I happen to be a lot more polite at the table then some." He answered as stared back at her.
Kakkarot shook his head and tried not to laugh.
Both eyed him. "What??" They asked in unision.
"Nothing, nothing." Kakkarot responded with a chuckle as he got up to clear the table.
"Hmph." Phoenix huffed as she got up and left for her morning exercises.
Since the day was extermely warm she had put on her snug and short black jean shorts instead of her big baggy flame pants. As well as an old tank top that was ripped half way up her stmoach.
Kakkarot noticed as Vegeta watched her go. "You know, she was right. A shower might help you right now." Kakkarot chuckled, evilly smirking.
Vegeta shot him a deadly glare. "Oh shut up." He grumbled as he went up for his shower.
A small smile formed on Kakkarot's face as he watched his friend leave. 'Maybe Vegeta can help tame her back into her old sweet self...That or they end up killing each other...' He thought as he sat down at the now cleaned up table.
After dinner, Phoenix and Vegeta were back on the battle plaine and already duking it out fiercely. This time Vegeta was more then ready for her, his strenght raised high enough to defend anything she threw at him.
When she formed her sword he blasted it away simply with a ki ball so it exploded in her hand, injurying her hand. When she used her after image image attack he used his ears and nose to find her and dodge.
He taunted her and started to use his superior force to drive her body into the ground, back into the air then sending her injured body into a near by lake. Then he waited to see if she would rise or was to weak to submerge. After about a minute he got worried and went under to take her drowning body out. He laid her down and paniked. He didn't know how to save her. Unfortunatly for him he didn't notice her tail as it swung at him with full force. Vegeta went crashing down several yards away.
Phoenix groaned and coughed up water as she tried to get up. "Stupid fool." She shouted out at him as he got up and came towards her again. "Never, ever, let your guard down!" She slowly rose to her feet, a bit off balance.
Vegeta grinned. "Not bad, kid. If you were born a true saiyan on Vegetasei you might have made a perfect elite if not a captain of the King's guards."
"Feh! I don't work for men or anyone else!" She shouted as she flew at him, knowing he would dodge. As he dodged, she surprised him with a large ki hammer. Slamming it into his side. It impacted and exploded, sending both to the ground with it's force.
But Phoenix was the one who fell unconcious because her body couldn't handle another wound. She laid in a heap of rubble.
Vegeta had fallen into the lake. It took a few minutes before he got his sences back and flew out, powering up to dry off. He looked around and spotted her. Quickly he dug her out of the rubble and picked her up. "I win." He whispered as he whipped blood and hair out of her face and checked her neck for a pulse. Finding it, weak but still there, he flew her back to Kakkarot to heal.
Kakkarot sighed as he finished feeding the healing bean to his daughter and cleaned her up as best as possible. Sighing again, he tossed teh bloody towel into the sink and rinsing it then went to sit in the living room with his Prince. "You two should be a little less rutless, you know that? You both ended up on the verge of dying in the last two days!"
Vegeta shrugged. "She started it. If she wantes to continue this then so be it. If she learned her lesson the she'll stop trying to kill me." He commented, lying on his side on the couch in nothing more then a pair of blue boxers.
Kakkarot sighed another time, it was becoming an increasing habit these last few years. "Fine, but since tommorow she is out till night, you got the day off from trying to be killed."
Vegeta grinned. "Then we can spar again!"
Kakkarot nodded. "Sure, but you'll have to take it easy on me, you power level doubled since we last fought." He replied weakly.
"Ha, I can always drive you to the point of death to help you out a bit with that." Vegeta suggested teasingly.
Kakkarot chuckled a little. "I don't think you want to give Phoenix more reasons to kill you."
Vegeta's brow arched. "Why would it be another rease?" He asked as he sat up a little to listen.
"Well she took it pretty damn hard when her mother died. Imagine what she might do if she sees you trying to kill the only parent she's got left?" Kakkarot pointed out with a hidden sigh.
"Yeah but if she lived on Vegetasei she would have killed you either way. Parents usually don't last long, you know that." Vegeta said. "Soon I'll have to kill my father to become King, stupid as that tradition is."
Kakkarot nodded. "Well I'm off to bed. Good night, Vegeta." He said to his friend as he went up the stairs to his room.
"G'night." Replied Vegeta.
Vegeta waited a bit before heading upstaires himself. When he went passed by Phoenix's room, he decided to peek in. He saw her lying on the bed but to his amazement she seemed to move a lot, or trying to at least. Quietly he entred the room and walked up to her. He looked at her face to see if she was awake but thankfully she wasn't. He studied her movements. It looked to him as if she was having a nightmare. Carefully he ran hishand over her warm forhead then down over her soft cheeks. It seemed to calm her a lot.
Phoenix's body stopped moving completly after a minute or two but her face still held the pain that her nightmare gave her.
Vegeta waited a minute before moving his hand again. Slowly he petted her cheek, fasinated by it's softness then her forhead and hair for a little while before he noticed her eyes open and looking at him.
Her eyes seem to burn in anger and a little of something else...
Vegeta removed his and and stared back.
"What...are you doing?" She managed to ask weakly and painfully.
"...Calming you down." Vegeta explained, or tried to. Truelly he didn't know why he even came into her room. "If you kept moving around wildly you wouldn't heal correctly. Then how am I suppose to fight you when you're not healed right?" He tried to make up anything, anything at all.
Phoenix looked skeptical for a moment then smirked weakly. "I'll win, no matter what." she whispered.
Vegeta smirked as well. "You can try, brat. Only try." He replied as he lifted her blanket, that had fallen off her, back in place.
Her eyes closed half way but didn't take her gaze off him, not trusting him yet thankfull in a small way.
He looked at her for a second before turning to leave, his tail moving over her cheek unconciously and waving behind him as he left. "Sleep well, brat. You'll need as much as possible." With that said he went to his room for the night.
"No. No I won't." Phoenix whispered tiredly as she fell back to sleep with the scent of Vegeta lulling her into a peaceful rest.