Chapter 2 - The adventure begins

A slight wind in the trees and leaves rustle, some dirt blows out and Leon appears, slightly battered, he grins and holds out the orange sphere to look at.

"Hm, those animals were a little tougher than I thought, but I got the Dragon Ball anyway, One down seven to go." Leto comments. He looks at the radar he was given just before he left.

"Now.. where's the next closest one..., Ah east of here apparently.. Its not far I think i'll walk it."

So Leto begins heading east, enjoying the scenery, he listens to the breeze rustling through the leaves of the trees, then notices something out of the corner of his eye, and jumps back a couple of meters, just as a flash of metal goes through the spot he'd just been in, and embedding itself in a tree, Leto goes up to examine it keeping aware of his surroundings.

"A dagger... and its stuck in, right to the handle.." He ducks just as another dagger zooms past where his head was. Then looks around and sees something odd about one of the bushes, a tackles it, and a cloaked figure tumbles out.

"Stay away from the Dragon Balls, they are mine. If you get in my way i'll have to make sure I kill you. For now though, consider yourself warned."

With that the figure suddenly throws a capsule down on the ground, and a large amount of smoke comes out of it, when it clears the mysterious cloaked figure is gone. Leto sits there for a moment dazed looking around, he suddenly works out what happened and gets off.

"I'm sure we'll meet again..." He says to himself out loud, then heads back the way he was going before he was attacked.

After a few minutes he comes to the entrance of a cave, the dragonball somewhere within. Leto looks over the cave, he notices its stable, if not dark.

'Well, it may be dark, but at least it won't go and crush me while i'm in there...' He thinks. A small ball of energy appears in his hand lighting up an area around him.

He walks down through the cave, looking either way as he goes through. Several wrong turns and dead ends later Leto finally finds the Dragon Ball, and turns around to head out the other way, when he suddenly senses a large power in that direction.

'What, or more accurately who belongs to that power level, its huge...' He thinks to himself. He starts to hurry towards the entrance when suddenly there's a loud crash, dust and dirt fly through the tunnels clouding Leto's vision.

When it all settles he notices that the entrance is totally sealed off by a large rockfall.

'That can't have just been coincidence, who ever's power level that was... this was their doing..' He suddenly realises that he couldn't sense the power anymore..

"Where are you hiding?"Leto asks out loud, not expecting a response.

"Right behind you..." A cold voicewhispers from behind Leto, just as there was a large impact to his back.

"Pathetic! you are a waste to our blood!" Is echoed through out the cave.

"Who are you...?" Leto asks getting to his feet again.

"You will know another time, if you live that long!" Suddenly a flurry of energy attacks are unleashed on Leto, catching him totally off guard, injuring him severely. Leto lifts his head to see a final more powerful energyattack hit him and throw him against a wall.

Suddenly the power dissappears, and Leto falls unconcious. A familiar cloaked figure comes through a newly made opening in the cave, and grabs Leto, the hood falls back revealing a female face. She picks Leto up and walks outside the cave, she jumps into the air and flies off into the distance, holding onto Leto tightly.

Hours later Leto wakes up, sun streaming onto his face, he looks around and noices he's in a cabin a little south of the cave he was in. He finds himself tucked away in bed, all wounds cleaned up. He sat up and looked aroud the room he was in. It appearedto belooked after well,he looked out the slight opening in the door into the living area,it was neat and obviously well used.The furniture gave it a comfortable feeling.

"I see your awake then." A female voice said from nearby.

"Where... how... who.." He asks, looking arounddazed and confused.

"Slow down.. you've only just recovered from your injuries, its a good thing you're Saiyajin, otherwise you would have been out for a couple of months." The female voice tells him, this shocking Leto by finding out this girl knew his heritage, when he barely knew it himself...

"Don't be surprised, there's good reason i know your a Saiyajin, its because I am too" She comes out from where she was sitting to present herself in full view.

She seemed to be around Leto's age, brown eyes, with slightly dark blonde shoulder length hair, She was wearing a red close fitting T-shirt, that went down to a few cenitmeters above the top of her jeans, showing just around her belly button. The jeans were a slightly faded denim colour also a close fit, but not tight.

"My name is Kara, we've met before actually.. I was the one that tried to kill you earlier.. I must apologise about that.. I thought you were that other guy, I've felt his power around here fro a while, so I was trying to stop him getting the Dragon Ball.. It just seemed odd at the time.. But now I know he is gathering the Dragon Balls for evil purposes."

"Oh... okay..." Leto mutters, still confused..

"I brought you here because you needed treatment. You would have survived all the same, but I thought i'd make up for trying to kill you back there.."

Leto came in and sat down, and then started generally chatting with Kara and getting to know her. A few hours later he looked out the window and noticed the sun setting.

"Its getting late.. you don't mind if I stay here tonight do you? Its kind of rough sleeping on the ground." Leto asks.

"Its fine, in fact if you didn't ask i was going to insist that you did so. I'm just going to pop out and get something for tea, i'll be back in ten." With that Kara went out the door and jumped into the air and flew off.

'I wonder what she'd be interested in helping me.. some company woulden't be bad, and if I ever ran into that guy again she may help..' Leto thinks to himself and steps outside and looks at the setting sun.

The sky was a pink on the horizon, and still blue above, with a bit of orange where the two met. The sun cast beams through the trees visible only by disturbed dirt floating through it. The whole thing seemed magical to Leto.

'Well thats another day over.. I wonder how long it will be before this quest is over...' Leto wonders, he looks behind him and notices Kara returning.

'It could go on forever.. I suppose i better enjoy this while I can...' He then wanders inside the cabin and helps Kara with Tea.

Well thats Chapter 2.. my ideas have changed slightly, but only slightly... Leto has alot ahead of him yet..

Anyway if you managed to read and like this, please tell others who may also be interested.

Thanks to Marvinus for the review.

Zekki.