Disclaimer: I know, I know, it's hard to believe, but I really don't own
any of the DBZ characters.
Disclaimer # 2: any sentence with a * before it is not mine either
(unfortunately). It's from S. Morgenstern's The Princess Bride and since
talented Mr. Morgenstern is, sadly, deceased I think we can rule out the
possibility that I'm he.
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"That's right; you're going to die." I could feel my face go white as Jolon said that. And I went whiter still as we climbed aboard the spaceship and the launch sequence started. An electronic voice started counting down the last minute before the ship would launch. "60, 59, 58, 57..." I looked around still holding out hope that somehow those steel doors would open for me. "43, 42, 41, 40..." Jolon looked around with a bored expression. "30, 29, 28, 27..." Karayan strapped me down in a chair in the middle of the room we were in. "17, 16, 15, 14..." Karayan looked excited while Ramiro looked a little nervous. "9, 8, 7..." Kacela smiled with an evil grin. "4, 3, 2, 1, now launching." The ship began to shutter as it started to launch and then...everything stopped. It was like the whole ship just died. The launch stopped, the lights went out, and the door opened.
"What's going on?" Jolon sent a threatening look over to Ramiro.
"I don't know master. I checked and double checked the ship last night."
"Well you should have triple checked. Now get out there and find out what's wrong. You too Karayan."
"Yes master," they said in perfect unison. Ramiro ran to the open door and looked around carefully upon reaching it. He seemed to see nothing and so jumped to the ground. Suddenly he collapsed. Karayan ran over to the door quickly and jumped down. And, just as suddenly as Ramiro, he collapsed. It was Kacela's turn. She ran left the space ship and also collapsed. I looked at Jolon and I could see nervousness in his face.
"Who's there?" he asked. Nothing. "Show yourself coward!" I gasped as a man slowly, confidently entered the space ship. The first thing I noticed about him was that he was wearing a black mask over his face. "Who are you?"
*"No one of consequence."
"What are you doing here?"
"Just admiring the scenery."
"Do not lie to me. Do you know who I am?"
"Of course. Who in the whole universe has not heard of the great master Jolon?"
Jolon seemed to be thinking for a minute. "I will ask you again; what are you doing here?"
"And I will answer again that I am merely admire the scenery."
"Again, don't lie to me. I gave you your chance to come clean. If you had told me then I might have gone a little easier on you. You see, I know why you're here, and I must say I think it very dishonorable of you. *You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen."
"I don't deny it." Answered the man raising his arms slightly.
"Well you can't have her."
"Really? And I suppose you're going to stop me."
"No, that would be a waist of my time. You'd be too easy."
The man raised his eyebrows. *"You're that good."
"You would be dead in a second."
"Really?"
"Yeah." Then, as if to prove it, Jolon attacked the man with a very strong force. As I watched, the man didn't do anything to defend himself as his attacker came and when Jolon reached him I screamed, expecting the man to become a bloody mess on the other side of the ship in a matter of moments, but he didn't. I watched in awe as Jolon went flying across the ship. He quickly stopped himself and retaliated with an energy beam. The man with the mask blocked it and sent one back. Jolon blocked this and came close enough to send a kick. The other guy blocked and punched Jolon's head. Jolon kneed the masked man in the stomach and his strength seemed to leave him for a second. But he quickly shot a ki blast at Jolon, who was blasted back a few feet, but sent one back. The masked man ducked and flew at Jolon. This continued on for what felt like an hour, until finally the man threw most of his power into a blast and hit Jolon in the head. Jolon stopped for a second with a dazed look, then fell over.
"Finally, he was harder than I thought he would be." Then he turned and started walking to me. "Ready to go princess?"
"Where are we going?"
"Somewhere random."
"What makes you think I'm going to come quietly?"
"Because I just saved you from him," he said indicating the unconscious guy in the middle of the ship.
"Yes, and thank you, but for all I know you have worse plans than they did."
"Look," he said coming very close to my face. "I know you've had a hard life, but you have got to trust me right now, okay?"
I thought about. " How do you know that I've had a bad life and I don't trust you."
"Well, the I'm sorry about this." Then he raised his hand to strike me unconscious and then everything went black...again. ***************************************************
I came to to the smell of chicken noodle soup being cooked. I slowly opened my eyes hoping for no bright lights to make my head-ache worse...again. It was dark, thankfully, except for the fire in the middle of what was apparently a cave. The man who had kidnaped me was standing next to the fire facing me. He hadn't noticed me so I had a chance to take a good look at him. He was about five foot nine inches with black hair that came about to his waist and amazing turquoise eyes. He still had the black mask over his mouth. He was in black pants and a black long sleeve shirt with a black cloak around his shoulders. 'Is black this guy's favorite color?' I wondered. He suddenly looked at me as if coming out of deep thought.
"You're up," he said simply.
"Really? I hadn't noticed." He chose to ignore that.
"Hungry?" I looked at the food trying to ignore the rumbling in my stomach. I debated what to say and decided that I had too much of a headache to think and changed the subject.
"How long was I out?" He seemed to be pondering my question. "What, you can count hours can't you?"
"About 24 hours."
"You hit me that hard?!"
"I needed you quiet for a while."
"That explains the headache." He just stared at me. "What, haven't you ever seen a girl before."
"You know, I saved your life, you could show a little more gratitude," he retaliated with a surprisingly calm voice.
"Yeah well, you should have let them kill me."
His eyebrows raised at this comment. "I wasn't aware that a princess of Tlarneka thought that there was anything worse than death."
"There is, trust me."
"Really? Care to share?"
"No."
He was quiet for a second and when I looked at him I noticed a look of...regret? Pain?...pass across his face. "Back to my earlier question. Are you hungry?"
I thought about it and decided that the honest approach was best. "Yes, but I don't see why I should trust you not to poison me."
"What happened to wanting to die?"
"I just don't want you to be the one to kill me."
"Oh, but master everyone-kiss-my-butt-or-I'll-cry was allowed?"
I found myself laughing a bit at this comment and I tried my hardest to hide it, even though this guy seemed to know everything. "If it bought my mom more time..."
"Oh so that's what you were doing."
"Yeah," I said. Suddenly I realized that I was having a civil conversation with my kidnaper and decided that it was time to end it. So I gave him an evil look and rolled over onto my other side so my back was to him.
He seemed to get the hint because didn't continue the conversation. All he said was, "Well, when you decide that you are too hungry not to trust me, the soup's right here." I didn't respond but instead started thinking of ways out of this situation. I was really too hungry to be thinking, so none of these ideas were very practical (one of these ideas included Trunks showing up and killing the kidnaper for me, but I didn't think that he even knew where I was) and I found myself drifting back to sleep. *****************************************************
I woke up to excruciating pain in my stomach. I was starving. I rolled over and found that the man had his back to me. I stood up slowly and quietly and sneaked over to where he was. If I was careful enough then he wouldn't notice me until it was too late. I carefully tiptoed to where he was standing, raised my fist and punch. But he was fast and he turned around and blocked.
"What are you doing princess?"
"Trying to get away from you."
"Are you crazy. Those goons from outer space will find you and you may not be so lucky this time."
"Yeah, I'll risk it." And with that I kicked him in the stomach with what energy I could find. This caught him off guard and he clutched his stomach. I took the opportunity and ran toward the small light that I assumed was the cave entrance. As I ran everything began to get fuzzy and the room seemed to be spinning and finally I felt myself black out...again. ***********************************************
"There you go, nice and easy." The man said to me. I would have lectured him for treating me like a baby, but the spoon was already in my mouth and I was too hungry to talk anyway. He took the spoon of soup from my mouth and put it back in the bowl to get more soup. We had been doing this since I woke up about five minutes ago and he forced a spoon into my mouth trying to get me to see that it wasn't poisoned. It felt good to eat again. After about a half and hour of slowly spoon feeding me he stopped saying that that was enough for now. "If you eat too much you'll get sick." I just nodded feebly.
"So, how long are you keeping me here?" I asked weakly.
"Until Jolon and his passee leave or are dead."
"And how will we know when they are dead?"
"Well, if all goes well I'll be the one to kill them."
"You mean we."
"What?" he asked with obvious doubt in his voice.
"Jolon threatened my mother, me and apparently my people and you think I'm not going to help defeat them?" He looked at me and I could almost see him calculating the pros and cons.
"Joy, I'm not sure you're up for the fight."
"What?" I asked sitting up.
"I'm sorry," he said quickly, "but I'm not sure you're strong enough."
"Before I argue that point," I said standing up, "let's go back to your previous statement. You know the 'Joy, I'm not sure you're up for the fight'? I haven't told you my name."
I could see surprise in his amazing eyes, then anger. Then I could tell he was thinking. "You...mentioned it while you were unconscious."
I had a little trouble believing him (imagine that). "Really, which time."
"The first time."
"I see, and the fact that I have never heard of an unconscious person mentioning their own name means noting to you?"
"There's a first time for everything."
I pondered this for a moment then looked at him. "What are you hiding behind that mask?"
He began backing away. "What do you mean?"
I stepped towards him. "Who are you?"
"My name is Roberts."
"No, I mean you're real name."
"Roberts," he said continuing to back away.
"Why don't I believe you?" His back was going to be against the cave wall in a moment.
"Because you are an untrusting, ungrateful little brat who not only doesn't thank her rescuer but tries to beat him up and take away his privacy."
I stopped. I hated to admit it, but he was right. He had rescued me from certain death and I had thanked him with distrust and a foot in the stomach. "Fine," I said turning around. "I'll let you off...for now." Then I walked back to my 'bed' and lay down because I still felt a little queasy.
"That's fine," he started angrily. "You're welcome by the way, princess. I'm beginning to regret ever bothering with you at all." And with that he flew out the mouth of the cave. *********************************************
I was waiting for him when he came back. "Roberts, can I talk to you."
"What?" he asked keeping his back to me.
"I have a story to tell you." Then I poured into my whole life's story from the first time Xavier hit me to when Trunks broke my heart. "So, I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm sorry, and thank you and..." He stopped me by putting his hand on my shoulder.
"It's okay. I already know most of this and if I were to give you the reason why several people, including queen Luna, would kill me."
"How do you know my mom?"
"I just do." My stomach chose that moment to announce that it was empty. "Dinner?"
"As long as it's not chicken noodle soup?"
"Umm...well...you can't handle anything else right now anyway."
"Fine," I said laughing. **************************************************** Hello everyone. I hope you like it, I htink I did. Please tell me what
you think.
GOD bless,
*dopey*
"That's right; you're going to die." I could feel my face go white as Jolon said that. And I went whiter still as we climbed aboard the spaceship and the launch sequence started. An electronic voice started counting down the last minute before the ship would launch. "60, 59, 58, 57..." I looked around still holding out hope that somehow those steel doors would open for me. "43, 42, 41, 40..." Jolon looked around with a bored expression. "30, 29, 28, 27..." Karayan strapped me down in a chair in the middle of the room we were in. "17, 16, 15, 14..." Karayan looked excited while Ramiro looked a little nervous. "9, 8, 7..." Kacela smiled with an evil grin. "4, 3, 2, 1, now launching." The ship began to shutter as it started to launch and then...everything stopped. It was like the whole ship just died. The launch stopped, the lights went out, and the door opened.
"What's going on?" Jolon sent a threatening look over to Ramiro.
"I don't know master. I checked and double checked the ship last night."
"Well you should have triple checked. Now get out there and find out what's wrong. You too Karayan."
"Yes master," they said in perfect unison. Ramiro ran to the open door and looked around carefully upon reaching it. He seemed to see nothing and so jumped to the ground. Suddenly he collapsed. Karayan ran over to the door quickly and jumped down. And, just as suddenly as Ramiro, he collapsed. It was Kacela's turn. She ran left the space ship and also collapsed. I looked at Jolon and I could see nervousness in his face.
"Who's there?" he asked. Nothing. "Show yourself coward!" I gasped as a man slowly, confidently entered the space ship. The first thing I noticed about him was that he was wearing a black mask over his face. "Who are you?"
*"No one of consequence."
"What are you doing here?"
"Just admiring the scenery."
"Do not lie to me. Do you know who I am?"
"Of course. Who in the whole universe has not heard of the great master Jolon?"
Jolon seemed to be thinking for a minute. "I will ask you again; what are you doing here?"
"And I will answer again that I am merely admire the scenery."
"Again, don't lie to me. I gave you your chance to come clean. If you had told me then I might have gone a little easier on you. You see, I know why you're here, and I must say I think it very dishonorable of you. *You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen."
"I don't deny it." Answered the man raising his arms slightly.
"Well you can't have her."
"Really? And I suppose you're going to stop me."
"No, that would be a waist of my time. You'd be too easy."
The man raised his eyebrows. *"You're that good."
"You would be dead in a second."
"Really?"
"Yeah." Then, as if to prove it, Jolon attacked the man with a very strong force. As I watched, the man didn't do anything to defend himself as his attacker came and when Jolon reached him I screamed, expecting the man to become a bloody mess on the other side of the ship in a matter of moments, but he didn't. I watched in awe as Jolon went flying across the ship. He quickly stopped himself and retaliated with an energy beam. The man with the mask blocked it and sent one back. Jolon blocked this and came close enough to send a kick. The other guy blocked and punched Jolon's head. Jolon kneed the masked man in the stomach and his strength seemed to leave him for a second. But he quickly shot a ki blast at Jolon, who was blasted back a few feet, but sent one back. The masked man ducked and flew at Jolon. This continued on for what felt like an hour, until finally the man threw most of his power into a blast and hit Jolon in the head. Jolon stopped for a second with a dazed look, then fell over.
"Finally, he was harder than I thought he would be." Then he turned and started walking to me. "Ready to go princess?"
"Where are we going?"
"Somewhere random."
"What makes you think I'm going to come quietly?"
"Because I just saved you from him," he said indicating the unconscious guy in the middle of the ship.
"Yes, and thank you, but for all I know you have worse plans than they did."
"Look," he said coming very close to my face. "I know you've had a hard life, but you have got to trust me right now, okay?"
I thought about. " How do you know that I've had a bad life and I don't trust you."
"Well, the I'm sorry about this." Then he raised his hand to strike me unconscious and then everything went black...again. ***************************************************
I came to to the smell of chicken noodle soup being cooked. I slowly opened my eyes hoping for no bright lights to make my head-ache worse...again. It was dark, thankfully, except for the fire in the middle of what was apparently a cave. The man who had kidnaped me was standing next to the fire facing me. He hadn't noticed me so I had a chance to take a good look at him. He was about five foot nine inches with black hair that came about to his waist and amazing turquoise eyes. He still had the black mask over his mouth. He was in black pants and a black long sleeve shirt with a black cloak around his shoulders. 'Is black this guy's favorite color?' I wondered. He suddenly looked at me as if coming out of deep thought.
"You're up," he said simply.
"Really? I hadn't noticed." He chose to ignore that.
"Hungry?" I looked at the food trying to ignore the rumbling in my stomach. I debated what to say and decided that I had too much of a headache to think and changed the subject.
"How long was I out?" He seemed to be pondering my question. "What, you can count hours can't you?"
"About 24 hours."
"You hit me that hard?!"
"I needed you quiet for a while."
"That explains the headache." He just stared at me. "What, haven't you ever seen a girl before."
"You know, I saved your life, you could show a little more gratitude," he retaliated with a surprisingly calm voice.
"Yeah well, you should have let them kill me."
His eyebrows raised at this comment. "I wasn't aware that a princess of Tlarneka thought that there was anything worse than death."
"There is, trust me."
"Really? Care to share?"
"No."
He was quiet for a second and when I looked at him I noticed a look of...regret? Pain?...pass across his face. "Back to my earlier question. Are you hungry?"
I thought about it and decided that the honest approach was best. "Yes, but I don't see why I should trust you not to poison me."
"What happened to wanting to die?"
"I just don't want you to be the one to kill me."
"Oh, but master everyone-kiss-my-butt-or-I'll-cry was allowed?"
I found myself laughing a bit at this comment and I tried my hardest to hide it, even though this guy seemed to know everything. "If it bought my mom more time..."
"Oh so that's what you were doing."
"Yeah," I said. Suddenly I realized that I was having a civil conversation with my kidnaper and decided that it was time to end it. So I gave him an evil look and rolled over onto my other side so my back was to him.
He seemed to get the hint because didn't continue the conversation. All he said was, "Well, when you decide that you are too hungry not to trust me, the soup's right here." I didn't respond but instead started thinking of ways out of this situation. I was really too hungry to be thinking, so none of these ideas were very practical (one of these ideas included Trunks showing up and killing the kidnaper for me, but I didn't think that he even knew where I was) and I found myself drifting back to sleep. *****************************************************
I woke up to excruciating pain in my stomach. I was starving. I rolled over and found that the man had his back to me. I stood up slowly and quietly and sneaked over to where he was. If I was careful enough then he wouldn't notice me until it was too late. I carefully tiptoed to where he was standing, raised my fist and punch. But he was fast and he turned around and blocked.
"What are you doing princess?"
"Trying to get away from you."
"Are you crazy. Those goons from outer space will find you and you may not be so lucky this time."
"Yeah, I'll risk it." And with that I kicked him in the stomach with what energy I could find. This caught him off guard and he clutched his stomach. I took the opportunity and ran toward the small light that I assumed was the cave entrance. As I ran everything began to get fuzzy and the room seemed to be spinning and finally I felt myself black out...again. ***********************************************
"There you go, nice and easy." The man said to me. I would have lectured him for treating me like a baby, but the spoon was already in my mouth and I was too hungry to talk anyway. He took the spoon of soup from my mouth and put it back in the bowl to get more soup. We had been doing this since I woke up about five minutes ago and he forced a spoon into my mouth trying to get me to see that it wasn't poisoned. It felt good to eat again. After about a half and hour of slowly spoon feeding me he stopped saying that that was enough for now. "If you eat too much you'll get sick." I just nodded feebly.
"So, how long are you keeping me here?" I asked weakly.
"Until Jolon and his passee leave or are dead."
"And how will we know when they are dead?"
"Well, if all goes well I'll be the one to kill them."
"You mean we."
"What?" he asked with obvious doubt in his voice.
"Jolon threatened my mother, me and apparently my people and you think I'm not going to help defeat them?" He looked at me and I could almost see him calculating the pros and cons.
"Joy, I'm not sure you're up for the fight."
"What?" I asked sitting up.
"I'm sorry," he said quickly, "but I'm not sure you're strong enough."
"Before I argue that point," I said standing up, "let's go back to your previous statement. You know the 'Joy, I'm not sure you're up for the fight'? I haven't told you my name."
I could see surprise in his amazing eyes, then anger. Then I could tell he was thinking. "You...mentioned it while you were unconscious."
I had a little trouble believing him (imagine that). "Really, which time."
"The first time."
"I see, and the fact that I have never heard of an unconscious person mentioning their own name means noting to you?"
"There's a first time for everything."
I pondered this for a moment then looked at him. "What are you hiding behind that mask?"
He began backing away. "What do you mean?"
I stepped towards him. "Who are you?"
"My name is Roberts."
"No, I mean you're real name."
"Roberts," he said continuing to back away.
"Why don't I believe you?" His back was going to be against the cave wall in a moment.
"Because you are an untrusting, ungrateful little brat who not only doesn't thank her rescuer but tries to beat him up and take away his privacy."
I stopped. I hated to admit it, but he was right. He had rescued me from certain death and I had thanked him with distrust and a foot in the stomach. "Fine," I said turning around. "I'll let you off...for now." Then I walked back to my 'bed' and lay down because I still felt a little queasy.
"That's fine," he started angrily. "You're welcome by the way, princess. I'm beginning to regret ever bothering with you at all." And with that he flew out the mouth of the cave. *********************************************
I was waiting for him when he came back. "Roberts, can I talk to you."
"What?" he asked keeping his back to me.
"I have a story to tell you." Then I poured into my whole life's story from the first time Xavier hit me to when Trunks broke my heart. "So, I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm sorry, and thank you and..." He stopped me by putting his hand on my shoulder.
"It's okay. I already know most of this and if I were to give you the reason why several people, including queen Luna, would kill me."
"How do you know my mom?"
"I just do." My stomach chose that moment to announce that it was empty. "Dinner?"
"As long as it's not chicken noodle soup?"
"Umm...well...you can't handle anything else right now anyway."
"Fine," I said laughing. **************************************************** Hello everyone. I hope you like it, I htink I did. Please tell me what
you think.
GOD bless,
*dopey*