Tachiagair Jakunen
Written by: Fira Flame
I do not own these characters; they belong to their respective owners. Keeren belongs to me and Missy and Teri belong to Missy and Teri.
This is a re-written version of the original copy of Tachiagair Jakunen, which I had written in the fall of 2002. It sucked, really bad, so here I am, re-writing it...
Enjoy!
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Chapter 2
Melissa landed softly on the ground, softened by the pine needle carpet. She look a deep breath and felt her body relax completely. She was surrounded by trees, endless trees, and then a lake. She hadn't been camping in so long she forgot what it was like. Completely cut off from the real world. No high-tech equipment, unless you wanted to count a can opener and a battery powered lantern. No microwaves, no refrigerators, no televisions, no computers. Melissa frowned at that. Oh well, she'd just have to deal with it for five days.
Her friends landed behind her. Mirai-Trunks, GT-Trunks, Teri, Legolas, and Keeren. They didn't need to wait for the airship, they're bags were in the capsule in Teri's pocket. But Melissa was late when she got outside, so she had to put her bag into the Airship. That one thing she was regretting. Hopefully, she wouldn't have to look Tasuki straight in the eyes. That argument was a little harsher than their other's. Melissa was almost tempted to tackle the flame-haired seichiseishi through a wall. But, she decided she could blow off steam on the way to the camp grounds. While on the break they had, in a forest somewhere between Gaylord and Alpena, she had gone off into a clearing and did some martial arts. It hadn't cooled her off completely but she was good for a while.
She leaned against a tree, calmly waiting for the airship. Her and her friends had gone ahead to make sure the area was clear, leaving the airship several miles behind. While she was waiting, she watched a cocoon open and release a brand new butterfly. Never had she remembered having the patience to watch something so slow.
"Bah." Melissa said quietly, just before the sound of engines caught her ears. She looked up just as the trees above her rustled with the descending machine. The Airship landed carefully between two trees, no sooner than four seconds later did the engines begin to shut down and the main door open, releasing it's occupants. Chiriko stumbled out first, clutching his stomach as he rushed over to a tree. The teen leaned onto it and his face looked very green. Second was Nuriko, who hopped out of the ship with a twirl and began walking down the path which Melissa pointed to. Where everyone else had gone.
Third, came Tasuki. Melissa looked away, and called more of her attention on a large flower, oddly rooted in a patch of sun. As Tasuki passed by, she felt something twist in her stomach. Yes, she had been mad, but was a stupid little Tessen something that should separate the two? The healer looked up and turned to the path, watching Tasuki walk. He walked with a prance, not a care in the world. She frowned and went to the airship to retrieve her bag. Just as she was leaning into the ship to grab it, Chichiri stepped over and handed it to her. Melissa said her thanks and turned to leave, but she stopped when she felt the blue-haired monk's hand on her shoulder.
"Is something bothering you?" Chichiri asked, in his smooth calm voice. Melissa looked over her shoulder and shook her head.
"No, nothing..." Before Chichiri could speak, Melissa hurried off down the path to the grounds.
When she had arrived, her friends were already setting up the tents. Keeren and Teri were at one end of a stretch of beach, hitching up one of four tents. Three one room tents and one three room tent. Obviously, everyone was going to assume Melissa and Tasuki were going to share a room. She sighed and took her bag to a dome like red tent at the end, which had been already set up and slid her back into it. She was about ready to go inside and rest when her friends called to her.
"Hey Miss-ay!" Keeren called. "You are going to help us put these up aren't you?"
Melissa stood straight and looked at her friend. "Maybe, maybe not." She put her hands on her hips. "I've just been flying for two hours straight, maybe I'd like a rest."
"Well we aren't taking a rest." Teri frowned. "That means you can't either, so get your butt over here and help."
Melissa scowled, she really didn't feel like putting up tents that she wasn't going to sleep in. But, since she knew that her elder sister was much stronger than her, super-saiya-jin, she had no choice unless she wanted to become permanently fused with an oak tree.
"That wasn't so hard was it?" Keeren grinned, patting Melissa's head, who sat in the sand, looking out onto the lake. Melissa raised her hand to swat at the younger Saiya-jin, but she had already walked off to put her own stuff in a tent. The healer sighed and looked back to the lake. It was clear, barely any visible pollution. It looked about five miles across and three miles wide. A decent sized lake. Near the center of it was a small island with a tree or two on it. A sandbar stretched out from the mainland to it, so if the water went down anymore than it looked like it had, the island would soon become a peninsula.
She stood, stretching her arms above her head and letting her back pop. She turned and walked over to the construction crew, namely Mirai and GT.
"How's it coming?" She asked, leaning over the two. The time twins looked up, squinting their eyes to see the healer in the bright sun.
"It would be a lot easier if we had a shovel or something." GT growled. He looked back down to the hole they were digging for a fire pit. It was about five inches deep and their hands were beginning to get raw.
"Well sorry bub, some of us seem to like the sight of working sweaty men." Melissa said with a grin. "So get back to work!"
Mirai and GT frowned at her and Mirai muttered something vile before going back to digging, resorting to doing it like a dog. Melissa yelped and backed away when she was nearly a target for flying dirt.
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Melissa turned in her sleeping back. It was cold, too cold for her. She would have loved to go back to the camp fire and relax in the warm heat, but the heat was so great it made her drowsy. Which is what made her go to her tent to sleep. She pushed herself deeper into the bag, curling into a ball in hopeful attempts to warm her freezing feet. Nothing helped. She let out an aggravated sigh as she reached over to her bag and pulled out a pair of socks. Pulling them on, she smiled and wiggled her toes, content in warmth. Once more, she dropped her head into the old feather pillow of hers and tried again to get some sleep.
There was a short zip and she heard someone step into the tent. She instantly recognized the ki as Tasuki. She closed her eyes and stilled her breathing, to fake that she was asleep. The seishi mumbled something as he pulled off his clothes, leaving nothing but his boxers. He then knelt down and slipped into his sleeping bag.
"G'night" He said, quietly. Melissa lay in silence, realizing that Tasuki had known she was awake. A moment later, she responded.
"Sweet dreams."
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Keeren stepped out of her tent, placing her hands on her hips. She smiled at the morning sky and observed the area. A few wisps of smoke were still coming up from the pit and nobody else seemed awake.
"First one up." She yawned, and walked over to the coolers. There were five large ones. Each packed with enough food to feed them for five, maybe six days. She opened the first one and frowned. The ice was melting. She'd have to remind Teri to freeze it again. She pulled a yellow pear out of a bag and bit into it.
"Morning, no da."
"Mornin' Chichiri." Keeren said, without turning. Chichiri was usually the earliest to awake on most days. But while in the middle of nowhere, literally, Keeren awoke sooner than usual, mainly to enjoy the sunrise.
"Beautiful day, isn't it?" Keeren asked, wheeling and taking a seat on a log next to the pit.
"Yup." Chichiri looked up at the sky. "Not a cloud in the sky. Lets hope it stays that way, no da."
"Lets." Keeren responded, taking a last bite of her pear before chucking it into the forest. "Wonder how cold the lake is." She mused, taking a look at the clear waters.
"Dunno. Nuriko tested it before she went to bed but didn't say, no da." He leaned next to the log in which he sat and picked up a fishing rod. It was the same one he had made back in Konan. 'I don't trust those high-tech ones you people sell, no da' the monk would say. So he never bought one from the Terra dimension. He waved to Keeren before going off to a rock ledge about a hundred yards away to fish.
Keeren sighed, resting her head on an upturned hand. None of her friends were up yet and she had nobody to talk to. She considered following Chichiri and watch him fish, but that would get boring fast. She could go for a walk, but that would just lead to more boredom and a lot more mosquito bites than she already had. The least she could do is get the fire going again. She gathered some dry leaves and dropped them into the pit. Next, she got some dry wood from the pile made the day before. Those joined the leaves. To finish it off, Keeren gathered a tiny ball of ki energy to the tip of her finger. She stuck her finger in the leaves and waited for them to catch fire, which they did. She pulled her hand back, rubbing her hand where she had been nicked by the fire. Nothing a bit of Aloe gel wouldn't mend.
"Ooga Booga." A female voice came from behind. Freaked, Keeren twisted around only to discover Melissa, in a not too happy looking state.
"Good morn' to you too." Keeren frowned, sitting down on a log as her friend did. The healer looked sleepy, grumpy and hung-over at the same time. "You okay?"
Melissa nodded, and yawned. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just couldn't get enough sleep..."
" 'cuzza Tasuki?"
"A little. Me an Genrou didn't really talk last night... just went to sleep." She yawned again. "I just had this erk-som feeling in my stomach and I couldn't get sleep right."
"You sick or something?" Keeren asked. "I thought if you were a healer you couldn't get si-"
"No, I'm not sick." Melissa interrupted. "Guilty, jealous, anally- retentive, I dunno. Just-" She sighed, massaging her temples. "-something's goin' on with me an' Genrou and I just want it over with."
"So why don't you apologize?" Keeren suggested, going over to the cooler for a juice box.
"Because--hey get me one of those too--because it wasn't entirely my fault." Melissa took the juice box from Keeren and fiddled with the straw.
"Then it's half his fault?" The lavender haired Saiya-jin arched an eyebrow. "Then why don't you both just apologize to each other and get over it. Or are you both too bull-headed to do that?"
Melissa looked up, shooting a death glare at her friend. "Shut the fuck up before this straw goes up your ass." She growled, finally getting the straw off the box. A stretched out silence reigned between the two, before Keeren stood from the log and went back to her tent. The healer sat by herself, slowly sipping the juice as she watched the flames dance in the morning twilight. She thought, she wondered and assumed. It didn't exactly feel like she was the one who had to apologize.
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A/N: Okay, this was a rather boring chapter. Better ones soon to come!!
To Be Continued....
I do not own these characters; they belong to their respective owners. Keeren belongs to me and Missy and Teri belong to Missy and Teri.
This is a re-written version of the original copy of Tachiagair Jakunen, which I had written in the fall of 2002. It sucked, really bad, so here I am, re-writing it...
Enjoy!
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Chapter 2
Melissa landed softly on the ground, softened by the pine needle carpet. She look a deep breath and felt her body relax completely. She was surrounded by trees, endless trees, and then a lake. She hadn't been camping in so long she forgot what it was like. Completely cut off from the real world. No high-tech equipment, unless you wanted to count a can opener and a battery powered lantern. No microwaves, no refrigerators, no televisions, no computers. Melissa frowned at that. Oh well, she'd just have to deal with it for five days.
Her friends landed behind her. Mirai-Trunks, GT-Trunks, Teri, Legolas, and Keeren. They didn't need to wait for the airship, they're bags were in the capsule in Teri's pocket. But Melissa was late when she got outside, so she had to put her bag into the Airship. That one thing she was regretting. Hopefully, she wouldn't have to look Tasuki straight in the eyes. That argument was a little harsher than their other's. Melissa was almost tempted to tackle the flame-haired seichiseishi through a wall. But, she decided she could blow off steam on the way to the camp grounds. While on the break they had, in a forest somewhere between Gaylord and Alpena, she had gone off into a clearing and did some martial arts. It hadn't cooled her off completely but she was good for a while.
She leaned against a tree, calmly waiting for the airship. Her and her friends had gone ahead to make sure the area was clear, leaving the airship several miles behind. While she was waiting, she watched a cocoon open and release a brand new butterfly. Never had she remembered having the patience to watch something so slow.
"Bah." Melissa said quietly, just before the sound of engines caught her ears. She looked up just as the trees above her rustled with the descending machine. The Airship landed carefully between two trees, no sooner than four seconds later did the engines begin to shut down and the main door open, releasing it's occupants. Chiriko stumbled out first, clutching his stomach as he rushed over to a tree. The teen leaned onto it and his face looked very green. Second was Nuriko, who hopped out of the ship with a twirl and began walking down the path which Melissa pointed to. Where everyone else had gone.
Third, came Tasuki. Melissa looked away, and called more of her attention on a large flower, oddly rooted in a patch of sun. As Tasuki passed by, she felt something twist in her stomach. Yes, she had been mad, but was a stupid little Tessen something that should separate the two? The healer looked up and turned to the path, watching Tasuki walk. He walked with a prance, not a care in the world. She frowned and went to the airship to retrieve her bag. Just as she was leaning into the ship to grab it, Chichiri stepped over and handed it to her. Melissa said her thanks and turned to leave, but she stopped when she felt the blue-haired monk's hand on her shoulder.
"Is something bothering you?" Chichiri asked, in his smooth calm voice. Melissa looked over her shoulder and shook her head.
"No, nothing..." Before Chichiri could speak, Melissa hurried off down the path to the grounds.
When she had arrived, her friends were already setting up the tents. Keeren and Teri were at one end of a stretch of beach, hitching up one of four tents. Three one room tents and one three room tent. Obviously, everyone was going to assume Melissa and Tasuki were going to share a room. She sighed and took her bag to a dome like red tent at the end, which had been already set up and slid her back into it. She was about ready to go inside and rest when her friends called to her.
"Hey Miss-ay!" Keeren called. "You are going to help us put these up aren't you?"
Melissa stood straight and looked at her friend. "Maybe, maybe not." She put her hands on her hips. "I've just been flying for two hours straight, maybe I'd like a rest."
"Well we aren't taking a rest." Teri frowned. "That means you can't either, so get your butt over here and help."
Melissa scowled, she really didn't feel like putting up tents that she wasn't going to sleep in. But, since she knew that her elder sister was much stronger than her, super-saiya-jin, she had no choice unless she wanted to become permanently fused with an oak tree.
"That wasn't so hard was it?" Keeren grinned, patting Melissa's head, who sat in the sand, looking out onto the lake. Melissa raised her hand to swat at the younger Saiya-jin, but she had already walked off to put her own stuff in a tent. The healer sighed and looked back to the lake. It was clear, barely any visible pollution. It looked about five miles across and three miles wide. A decent sized lake. Near the center of it was a small island with a tree or two on it. A sandbar stretched out from the mainland to it, so if the water went down anymore than it looked like it had, the island would soon become a peninsula.
She stood, stretching her arms above her head and letting her back pop. She turned and walked over to the construction crew, namely Mirai and GT.
"How's it coming?" She asked, leaning over the two. The time twins looked up, squinting their eyes to see the healer in the bright sun.
"It would be a lot easier if we had a shovel or something." GT growled. He looked back down to the hole they were digging for a fire pit. It was about five inches deep and their hands were beginning to get raw.
"Well sorry bub, some of us seem to like the sight of working sweaty men." Melissa said with a grin. "So get back to work!"
Mirai and GT frowned at her and Mirai muttered something vile before going back to digging, resorting to doing it like a dog. Melissa yelped and backed away when she was nearly a target for flying dirt.
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Melissa turned in her sleeping back. It was cold, too cold for her. She would have loved to go back to the camp fire and relax in the warm heat, but the heat was so great it made her drowsy. Which is what made her go to her tent to sleep. She pushed herself deeper into the bag, curling into a ball in hopeful attempts to warm her freezing feet. Nothing helped. She let out an aggravated sigh as she reached over to her bag and pulled out a pair of socks. Pulling them on, she smiled and wiggled her toes, content in warmth. Once more, she dropped her head into the old feather pillow of hers and tried again to get some sleep.
There was a short zip and she heard someone step into the tent. She instantly recognized the ki as Tasuki. She closed her eyes and stilled her breathing, to fake that she was asleep. The seishi mumbled something as he pulled off his clothes, leaving nothing but his boxers. He then knelt down and slipped into his sleeping bag.
"G'night" He said, quietly. Melissa lay in silence, realizing that Tasuki had known she was awake. A moment later, she responded.
"Sweet dreams."
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Keeren stepped out of her tent, placing her hands on her hips. She smiled at the morning sky and observed the area. A few wisps of smoke were still coming up from the pit and nobody else seemed awake.
"First one up." She yawned, and walked over to the coolers. There were five large ones. Each packed with enough food to feed them for five, maybe six days. She opened the first one and frowned. The ice was melting. She'd have to remind Teri to freeze it again. She pulled a yellow pear out of a bag and bit into it.
"Morning, no da."
"Mornin' Chichiri." Keeren said, without turning. Chichiri was usually the earliest to awake on most days. But while in the middle of nowhere, literally, Keeren awoke sooner than usual, mainly to enjoy the sunrise.
"Beautiful day, isn't it?" Keeren asked, wheeling and taking a seat on a log next to the pit.
"Yup." Chichiri looked up at the sky. "Not a cloud in the sky. Lets hope it stays that way, no da."
"Lets." Keeren responded, taking a last bite of her pear before chucking it into the forest. "Wonder how cold the lake is." She mused, taking a look at the clear waters.
"Dunno. Nuriko tested it before she went to bed but didn't say, no da." He leaned next to the log in which he sat and picked up a fishing rod. It was the same one he had made back in Konan. 'I don't trust those high-tech ones you people sell, no da' the monk would say. So he never bought one from the Terra dimension. He waved to Keeren before going off to a rock ledge about a hundred yards away to fish.
Keeren sighed, resting her head on an upturned hand. None of her friends were up yet and she had nobody to talk to. She considered following Chichiri and watch him fish, but that would get boring fast. She could go for a walk, but that would just lead to more boredom and a lot more mosquito bites than she already had. The least she could do is get the fire going again. She gathered some dry leaves and dropped them into the pit. Next, she got some dry wood from the pile made the day before. Those joined the leaves. To finish it off, Keeren gathered a tiny ball of ki energy to the tip of her finger. She stuck her finger in the leaves and waited for them to catch fire, which they did. She pulled her hand back, rubbing her hand where she had been nicked by the fire. Nothing a bit of Aloe gel wouldn't mend.
"Ooga Booga." A female voice came from behind. Freaked, Keeren twisted around only to discover Melissa, in a not too happy looking state.
"Good morn' to you too." Keeren frowned, sitting down on a log as her friend did. The healer looked sleepy, grumpy and hung-over at the same time. "You okay?"
Melissa nodded, and yawned. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just couldn't get enough sleep..."
" 'cuzza Tasuki?"
"A little. Me an Genrou didn't really talk last night... just went to sleep." She yawned again. "I just had this erk-som feeling in my stomach and I couldn't get sleep right."
"You sick or something?" Keeren asked. "I thought if you were a healer you couldn't get si-"
"No, I'm not sick." Melissa interrupted. "Guilty, jealous, anally- retentive, I dunno. Just-" She sighed, massaging her temples. "-something's goin' on with me an' Genrou and I just want it over with."
"So why don't you apologize?" Keeren suggested, going over to the cooler for a juice box.
"Because--hey get me one of those too--because it wasn't entirely my fault." Melissa took the juice box from Keeren and fiddled with the straw.
"Then it's half his fault?" The lavender haired Saiya-jin arched an eyebrow. "Then why don't you both just apologize to each other and get over it. Or are you both too bull-headed to do that?"
Melissa looked up, shooting a death glare at her friend. "Shut the fuck up before this straw goes up your ass." She growled, finally getting the straw off the box. A stretched out silence reigned between the two, before Keeren stood from the log and went back to her tent. The healer sat by herself, slowly sipping the juice as she watched the flames dance in the morning twilight. She thought, she wondered and assumed. It didn't exactly feel like she was the one who had to apologize.
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A/N: Okay, this was a rather boring chapter. Better ones soon to come!!
To Be Continued....
