CHAPTER FIVE
Now Freeza stood alone in the room. He looked around and slowly walked to the window that actually was a glass sliding door to the balcony.
He glanced over his shoulder to see if the youngster might come back at that moment. But he didn't. So he opened the sliding door and stepped onto the balcony to take a look outside and get some fresh air.
The door of the room opened and the youngster peeked in. He saw Freeza on the balcony and pulled his mother - who had her hands over her eyes – into the room.
"What is this surprise you have for me?" she curiously asked him with a smile.
"You'll see, just keep those hands on your eyes until I say you can remove them, okay?" the youngster insisted as he guided her to the middle of the room.
Freeza heard their voices and looked into the room. There she was. His mind flashed back to how he used to know her. Her hair was still as long – no longer – then before. He recognized the way she moved and her grins.
"Now stand here and keep your hands where they are."
"If it's that horrible fat guy who wants to marry me every time he's drunk, I swear I'll throw him out of the window!"
Freeza grinned and slowly walked towards her. The young Ice'jin quickly got to the door of the room, opened it and before he disappeared he said: "You can remove your hands now!"
The door closed as she lowered her hands with a smile on her face, cause she had no idea what to expect.
She looked right into Freeza's eyes. He was standing only a few steps away from her. She gazed at him with her big blue eyes. This was definitely her. Her face, her eyes, her lips, her hair.
The smile on her face slowly changed into a pleasantly surprised look. Almost as surprised as the look on his face. She took a small step in his direction.
"Furiiza?" she asked with soft voice. Her blue eyes grew bigger and got a bit watery. She held out her hand to touch his face.
He nodded as a tender smile formed on his lips. "It's me, Xerena."
They didn't notice but the door opened a bit so a few heads could peak into the room. It was the young Ice'jin, the big guy and another Ice'jin.
Her hand caressed his cheek to feel that he was really standing there. Her eyes showed the pain she had felt of his loss and the happiness of seeing him again at the same time. A tear ran down her cheek.
Freeza raised his hand and wiped the tear away. He had trouble keeping his own tears away and he managed only just.
"I missed you so much," she whispered and couldn't stop her tears from rolling down her face.
He never could stand it if she cried. Gently he pulled her closer to him and held her. She wrapped her arms around his neck to pull him even closer.
"I missed you more," Freeza managed to say, still fighting his tears. But when he closed his eyes a tear escaped his eyes anyway.
He ran his hand through her hair. He used to play a lot with he hair. Even when they were small kids and they were having a bath, he always wanted to wash her hair, cause he didn't have any of his own.
Suddenly there was a thump on the door, it swung open and the three Ice'jins fell onto the floor. They lost their balance while watching Xerena and Freeza.
The big guy was on top, cause he was standing behind the two others.
Xerena glanced at Freeza with a grin. "Would you excuse my family please."
"Your family?"
She nodded. "That's my father," she introduced the huge Ice'jin.
He got up from the floor, releasing the two others who were stuck under his weight and walked up to Freeza and shook his hand. "Storm."
"And
my brother, Kana." That was the tall Ice'jin with the stoke of
hair on the middle of his head, that stood up like a roosters
comb.
(kana: Japanese name, means powerful)
Then she took the hand of the youngest Ice'jin and pulled him closer. Freeza swallowed a lump. This kid looked so much like him, he'd be surprised if he would be like her little brother or another member of her family.
"This is Isaiah," she said. "Isaiah Furiiza, actually." She looked up to him with a smile. "He's our son."
"I thought he kinda looked a lot like me…." He said somewhat stunned – even though he had expected that - and held out his hand towards the boy.
He smiled, grabbed his hand and pulled him closer to give him a big hug. "Hi dad!" he said with a big smile on his face.
"…." He was still a little stunned. "Hope you don't mind I need to get used to that."
Then he looked at Xerena again. "But how? How did you get off that planet alive? My father told me you were killed by the warriors we encountered on the planet! And not long after we left the planet, he blew it up."
She gave him a smile. "My family had been looking for me for some time. They sensed our high power-levels and came for a closer look. My father found me just in time."
"But…. But…. My father told me you were killed?"
"Yes, that doesn't surprise me," she said with a sarcastic grin.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Freeza wanted to know with a frown on his face.
"Why don't we go to our home when we're done for tonight, so we can talk about what happened back then?" Xerena suggested.
They had been paid by the club to play for another hour. After that they took Freeza to their home, just outside the city.
