Sorry its taken soooo long to update. How snowed under can one get eh? oh well better late than never...Please enjoy this chapter as much as I did writing it. And dont forget to review my story at the end!!

Chapter Nine- The Calm Before The Storm

Gozukai and Bulma had returned to the Capsule Corp. after having to walk around to the front of the building, as the crater prevented them from going through the back door. They sat at the kitchen table in silence.

'How could they not let me come with them? If they both think I'm that strong, why on earth do I have to stay behind? This is not fair! How could they do this to me!' She thought furiously as she glanced at the clock in the kitchen. Ten minutes had passed since Trunks and Vegeta had left to find the soldier who had attempted to kill the three sayians and then suddenly took off. "That guy was really strange. I wonder why he wanted to kill us" The six year old thought to herself. "He looked w'eally strong. I just hope Trunks and Vegeta will be ok"

She thought furiously as she glanced at the clock in the kitchen. Ten minutes had passed since Trunks and Vegeta had left to find the soldier who had attempted to kill the three sayians and then suddenly took off. The six year old thought to herself.

Bulma who had been drumming her perfectly manicured fingernails on the table cloth had finally had enough of the silence "Gosh would you look at this weather.", breaking Gozukai away from her thoughts.

"Huh?" She asked

"Well look. It's beginning to thunder and I bet it will start raining soon. And that man, taking a huge chunk out of my garden. How dare he. I hope Vegeta and Trunks teach him a lesson" Bulma clicked her tongue and them smiled at Gozukai making her feel better instantly.

Bulma had always acted quite motherly around Gozukai which she really appreciated. Since Gozukai didn't have a mother she was often sad when her school peers acted all loving with their mothers, it was done on purpose as to rub it in Gozukai' s face. She was considered a 'freak' at school, since her powers were a little tough to keep under control; she sometimes let them go without thinking. And the fact that she had a tail was also a favourite target of insults. However, she never got physically bullied at school, which she was thankful for, as the children were scared of being severely beaten up themselves too much to ever pick a fight with her.

"What's the matter?" Bulma asked when Gozukai realised she hadn't spoken in a little while.

"Oh. It's nothing don't worry" She forced a smile.

"Don't worry. They'll be alright you know" Bulma assured her, convinced that she was just worried about Trunks and Vegeta' s welfare when in fact Gozukai was secretly planning a way to escape and go after them instead.

"I know." Gozukai faked a yawn and stood up heading for the door.

"Where are you going?" Bulma asked suspiciously with a raised eyebrow at the young child.

"To take a nap...I'm tired and all this excitement has kinda gotten to me" She yawned out innocently. "Please fall for it, Please fall for it" Gozukai was praying in her head as she began to walk slowly out of the kitchen.

"Well alright. You know where your room is... But wait." Gozukai stopped in her tracks and turned around slowly.

"Uh-oh"

"I'll be making dinner soon, so what would you like to eat Gozukai? Your choice seeing as you've had such a horrible day here" said Bulma sweetly

"Erm...I dunno I don't mind anything Bulma your a w' eally good cook. I'm sure whatever you make' ll be great" Gozukai smiled

"Aww thank you Gozukai. Sure I'll surprise you then. Off you go" Bulma looked so happy, grinning from ear to ear and Gozukai felt truely rotten for having lied to her.

She shaked her head and walked out of the kitchen and then ran down the long hall way and up the stairs to her room. Gozukai had, had her own room at the Capsule Corp. since she was old enough to walk as she spent most of her time with Trunks ever since her father went back to work. So on most occasions she spent the night with Trunks and his family, as not to disturb her father at home when he was hard at work. No matter how hard her father worked she was never alone, and her family and friends had made sure of that. If Trunks and his family were too busy to baby-sit Gozukai (after all they do run the Capsule Corp.) her grandparents offered as did her Uncle Gohan and Aunt Videl. And even when they were all busy Gozukai had other friends who looked after her. Once Gozukai was taken to look out point where she spent the whole weekend under the protection of Dende, Piccolo and Mr Popo. She always had fun no matter where she stayed so even though she did occasionally miss her father she had other things to take her mind off it.

Gozukai walked into her room and shut her bedroom door. She then pulled back the linen off her bed, after kissing it on the forehead she placed her teddy bear in the bed and covering it up with the bed linen.

"Perfect" She said to herself "Bulma' ll never know the difference, now I can go and she won't notice that I'm gone" Gozukai smiled, clearly proud of herself and her carefully mastered plan.

She walked over to the window and opened it, taking one last look at her room she flew out of the window closing it silently behind her and took off into the dingy, now rainy afternoon sky.

Trunks had finally caught up to his father and they set off in the direction of the soldier. Trunks felt a little bad about Gozukai; after all she only wanted to help out even though she wasn't trained properly to be in a real fight. Trunks felt even worse when he saw the look on her face when Vegeta told her she couldn't come.

"Oh well" He thought to himself. "She'll be alright, besides Goten would kill me if I had let her come" He chuckled to himself whilst wiping his face with his sleeve due to the rain.

Goten was very protective of Gozukai and he guessed that this was because she was all he really had. Since he lost his wife he could have been left alone with no family of his own. Of course minus his mother, father and brother. But he nearly lost his own family, the one he had made with Osaka and since she was removed from the picture it caused him to be protective of what little family he had left.

"Trunks! Speed it up will you or else we are going to lose him!" His father yelled at him.

"Oh, Right!" Trunks had realised he had feel behind his father and decided to turn Super Sayian to catch his father up who had also turned Super Sayian. They both shot off towards the centre of West City and were searching the area for any disturbed activity. The area Trunks and Vegeta had finally stopped in was a courtyard like area surrounded by tall corporate buildings and a clock tower remained in the centre. They landed on the wet pavement and spent a few moments looking around. Rain splattered harder and faster onto the pavement and the faint thunder in the background was getting louder by the moment.

"Do you see anything dad?" Trunks asked as he himself found no unusual behaviour. By this time he would have thought the soldier would have started destroying buildings and try to hurt the people but there was nothing. There were no explosions, no screams of terror or help. Just silence. To Trunks this was more unnerving than if there was chaos in West City.

"He must have moved onto another area" said Vegeta "Come on we'll carry on ahead, that ugly mug has to be somewhere in this city and when I find him he's going to wish he never messed with a Sayian prince's family" Vegeta was about to hover into the sky but was stopped by a cold harsh laugh that filled the air louder than the thunder itself. Trunks and Vegeta looked up, a bolt of lightning struck in the background illuminating the ever growing dark sky, once Vegeta and Trunks could get their vision back they saw that squatting on top of the clock tower was the soldier that attacked them earlier.

"Ugly! Look who's talking Blondie. Whoever said blonde hair and green eyes were cool was sadly mistaken, you look like an albino monkey!" The soldier laughed so hard he nearly fell off the clock tower he was sitting on.

Vegeta had clenched both his fists together, trying his hardest to control his temper.

"Are you going to stay up there all day like a coward, or are you going to fight?" He yelled angrily. At this point the soldier stopped laughing automatically and scratched his nose. He hovered down to the ground and landed about 3 feet away from Vegeta.

"If I recall correctly you and your family flew off as fast as you could when I attacked you, so maybe you should rethink whom your calling the coward monkey boy."

That had done it Vegeta' s fist had connected with the Solider' s cheek in one swift motion. It was so quick that the Soldier did not notice it was coming. He stumbled back slightly and stood up straight again. He touched his cheek lightly with his fingertips which was already beginning to turn purple.

"What is your name?" Vegeta asked calmly as he retracted his outstretched fist and placed it in its original place, by his side.

The soldier chuckled lightly and threw his head back with quiet laughter.

"The name is Zeptha. And I don't expect you to know it for long. Not many of my victims do"

He raced forward and punched Vegeta hard in the stomach. Vegeta gasped from the shock and power of the attack. And thus is began. Vegeta took a couple of deep breaths and recovered he took to the sky as did Zeptha and they began their battle. Trunks had raced forward about to join them before he heard his father

"Wait Trunks...Stay where you are...I can take care of this amateur myself" Vegeta said stubbornly not taking his eyes off Zeptha

"That's pretty confident talk from a man who will soon be joining hades!" Zeptha smirked venomously.

"The only one who'll be joining hades today is you!" Vegeta shouted as he formed two powerful energy blasts in his hands. And so the battle began.

Well there you are its the end of chapter 10 and on to 11!!! remember to tell me what you think!!!!!!!