Part 2

Chapter 8

East Kaioshin walked along the water front of Lake Eternity, the lake a mile in front of the large, white mansion on Kaioshin-kai. It had been nearly three hundred years to the day since the racial war between the plants Gerbatra, Centra, Drakentro, Orlintori, Setrutic and Soriean broke out into a space war that could have destroyed an entire galaxy, which of course would have killed millions of innocent people that didn't even live on any of those planets.

And since then, life had been quiet and peaceful once again. Dai Kaioshin had expressed his delight several times since then at the miraculous work East had done to stop the six races from destroying themselves.

It was really simple, now that he thought of it. Though he was sure if he had told himself back then he probably would've thought he were crazy. In order to stop the war, he had to summon all six guardians of the planet; well, rather say five since the sixth was killed before he could arrive. Once he had them all in one spot and silenced them from arguing bitterly between themselves like they were schoolchildren, he was able to design a truce that would ultimately leave the disaster at peace. It was, after all, their bickering over who-knows-what that kept the war going. As soon as that stopped, they were able to stop all the armies from flying out into space and attempting to blow off more segments of the opposing planets.

It had been tiresome and his nerves had been on edge the entire time, but it was over and he was glad of it. Never again did he want to go through something like that. It would figure he was the only one that had such a problem in the past thousand years.

So here he was, East Kaioshin, now finding a nice relaxing spot under a tree to take a nap. That morning he had seen one of the servants crying, but they refused to tell him why. He knew, however from reading her mind that Arden, another servant that had been working on Kaioshin-kai for nearly ten years, had started to harass and abuse her. Unfortunately, with no proof, nothing could be done, and Arden knew it.

East had to laugh, though, when he was trying to make her feel better and she looked at him like he was some knight in shinning armor. He knew several of the female servants admired him from afar, but after West Kaioshin, he didn't think he could let himself be intertwined with someone else.

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Dinner started at six o'clock, like it did every night, and East Kaioshin sat next to West like he did every night. It was the same thing over and over again. Soon the servants would individually bring in the meals, come back again to clean it up, bring out dessert, and come out once again to clear the table.

Honestly, East pitied them. He couldn't think of any job worse than picking up a mess after someone. Not that the Kaioshins were sloppy and uncaring about their servants; it was just the thought that they fussed over him so much. He had gotten used to it by now, but there was still that thought of why these people volunteered their lives to work like that.

Of course; now he remembered. The immediate family of a servant that works on Kaioshin-kai is guaranteed life treatments; meaning fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers can receive health care, never have to pay for food or anything for that matter as long as their relative worked for the gods.

West Kaioshin gently jabbed East in the side and leaned over. "Do you know what they're serving us tonight?"

East shook his head. "No clue."

Their answer soon came, though, when the doors to the kitchen opened and six servants walked out, each holding a dish filled with food. East Kaioshin wished they wouldn't pile it up so high because he usually had a hard time finishing it. For Dai Kaioshin, North Kaioshin, and South Kaioshin, well that was a different story. He swore they sucked in air and the food went with it.

The only thing different tonight were the people serving. There were two new servants amongst the group, and one caught East Kaioshin's attention immediately. He had never seen someone so breathtakingly beautiful; not even West Kaioshin.

His eyes caught her own emerald green ones, and she looked away quickly. East couldn't help himself look her over as she set down North Kaioshin's plate directly across from him. Semi-curly deep purple hair hung to her shoulders, half pulled up onto her head making it look very thick. Her skin was a fair peach, much like West Kaioshin's, but it looked as smooth as porcelain.

The servant girl left with the others in the formation they arrived, and East let her slip his mind as he started his meal. It wasn't his favorite, consisting of a steak, vegetable, and the cook's "secret Kai dish" but he ate it without a fuss.

After dinner, East left the room with everyone else as usual. As he turned to go up the large split staircase, he noticed something different sitting on the table on the landing. "I've never seen an arrangement like that before," he said viewing the large vase of flowers, which looked to have been individually placed so each different color wasn't next to the same thing.

"I saw one of the new servants working on it this morning," North Kaioshin replied as he started up the staircase. "She did a nice job, don't you think?"

"She did indeed," East agreed, wondering if it was the same girl that he made eye contact with during dinner.

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Every night East Kaioshin watched this young Kai girl bring out the food with the other servants, and every night she looked at him and turned away like he was forbidden fruit. He hadn't the heart to see what she was thinking, but he did wonder and had come close to reading her mind several times.

The only thing he wanted to do was meet her and learn her name. Yet every time he hoped to bump into her around the house, there was no sign of her. Each day the flowers in the vase on the landing were changed and each day it was a different arrangement, yet no matter when he tried, he never knew who was working on it.

But East finally had his chance when he was coming down the stairs after sleeping in later than he normally did. Walking down the stairs at a quick pace, not wanting to miss breakfast, he hadn't even realized that the youthful servant girl was on the landing, fixing her daily arrangement. The outcome had been a shoulder to shoulder crash, causing the vase to go flying off the table, resulting in water, flowers, and broken china everywhere.

"Oh my, I'm so sorry, your lordship," she said hastily and began to pick up the mess. "I'll have it fixed up in a jiffy." East Kaioshin laughed and knelt down to help her. "Your highness, don't worry about it. It was my doing."

"Don't be silly, I was the one hurrying down the stairs and paying no attention." At the same time, both stood up, each with an armful of flowers. "I hope I didn't totally ruin the flowers on you. I do enjoy the arrangements you come up with."

"You do?" the girl asked.

Now East Kaioshin had a chance to see this girl up close. She was no taller than he was, and her eyes seemed a brighter green than he had noticed before. There was something about her that made him do a double-take every time, and he wasn't quite sure what it was.

"What's your name?" He asked finally, not wanting to miss out on the opportunity he had been waiting for.

"Sabrina, sir," she said. "I know it's not a Kai name, but my mother found it in a book of foreign names."

"I think it suits you well," East replied softly. He snapped his fingers and a new vase appeared in his hands. He set in down on the table and looked at her with sleek black eyes. "I'll send for someone to help you with the water and broken pieces."

"Oh, that's alright, I'll manage," Sabrina replied and began to pick up the broken pieces with her hands.

East Kaioshin, though, had luckily seen another servant coming out of the library. "Sashay, be so kind as to assist Sabrina." And with that he left, trying not to look behind him, although he knew both girls were watching him depart.

At breakfast, East Kaioshin received some disturbing news that he hadn't expected to wake up to.

"His name is Bibidi and he's a powerful wizard from the southern quadrant," Dai Kaioshin explained with South Kaioshin nodding. "At first I thought he'd disappear like wizards before him had, but for the past year he's been only growing more meddlesome."

"What is he doing?" North Kaioshin asked between sipping his juice.

"Bibidi has created a monster with power beyond compare. There's no reason why he did such a thing, except that he wants to see the entire universe under his control," Dai Kaioshin told them.

"I've seen Majin Buu," South Kaioshin said. "I watched him destroy one of the smaller planets in my quadrant last night. He's a terrible little creature that has no feelings or conscience. Bibidi created him to kill and destroy, and from what I see, there's no stopping him."

"There has to be some way," East said looking from Kai to Kai. "We can't let this Bibidi take over the universe."

"And we won't," Dai Kaioshin said. "As soon as we find a weakness in this terror, he'll be dealt with."

"So let's go!" West Kaioshin said pounding a fist onto the table. "We can start now, and by the end of the week he can be destroyed."

Dai Kaioshin shook his head. "I'm afraid it's not that simple, West Kaioshin. Bibidi does not unleash Majin Buu every minute of the day. He'll destroy two planets perhaps, and then Bibidi seals him inside a ball where he'll lie dormant until he is ready to release him."

"Dai Kaioshin, how long have you known about this Majin Buu?" North asked humbly.

"For some time I've known about his creation. But the planets he was destroying were not inhabited. I didn't think it was possible for anyone to even step foot on those planets, but Buu did and blew them apart with a single wave of a finger."

The group was silent, and East could tell that West had no desire to finish her breakfast. A terror like this had to be stopped, but if he was that powerful that even Dai Kaioshin was skeptical, it had to be bad.