The Dark Side of Love
By: Shari Celestine
A.K.A
Serenity
When Pan was 14 her best friends did something that
hurt her and scared her for life. Now 5 years later
she's different, cold and heartless, catching the eye of their newest enemy.
§ Chapter Nine: Do I Know You? §
Princess Pan stopped to look at her competition; she
knew them all by name now Goku, Gohan, Goten, Vegeta, Bra, and Trunks. Pan's eyes widened when she
saw Trunks, he was extremely handsome, maybe even more so than Prince Trunks.
His lavender hair cut short, his skin dark tan color,
and he had the most beautiful pair of blue eyes. And the way he looked up at her with such love and care was nothing like the cold and lustful look
Prince Trunks would give her. Pan felt a sharp pain in her head.
What's wrong with me? Why do I feel like we share
some kind of bond? Do I know you?
"Pan, what's wrong?"
Pan ignored the pain and turned to Kagetsu, "Nothing
is wrong."
Kagetsu glared at her, she was lying to him.
Pan turned back to the Z-Fighters and addressed
Trunks.
"Who are you?"
"Pan don't you remember? It's me Trunks your friend."
"Friend? We were friends? I can't seem to remember"
"Try Pan, try and remember us. Like the time I bought
you that ice cream cone at the park."
§ FLASHBACK §
It was early in the afternoon on a hot summer day.
Trunks had promised to take Pan to the park since her parents were on a vacation in the states.
Four-year-old Pan pulled on Trunk's pants leg,
"Trunks-Chan, I want ice cream."
Trunks smiled down at her.
"Sure squirt." Not too far away a man with an ice
cream truck was selling ice cream to little kids.
"Come on Panny, I'll get you that ice cream."
Trunks ran up to the man and asked for a double soup
of chocolate ice cream but the man shook his head and replied.
"I'm sorry sir, I just sold my last ice cream."
Pan's face fell and she began to cry.
"Oh no, Pan don't cry, I'll get you some ice cream. I promise."
Pan wiped her eyes and smiled, "Really?"
"Yeah."
Trunks had spent the entire afternoon looking for
Pan's ice cream but
it seemed every vender, shop or store was sold out.
"It's okay Trunks I understand. There's no more icecream left."
"No Panny, I promised you, and I never break promises
I make with friends."
Pan brightened, "I'm your friend?"
"Of course you are why wouldn't you be?"
"I just thought you were hanging out with me cause my
mommy and daddy told you to."
"No way Panny. Your parents couldn't keep me away if
they tried to. Now, let's go find that ice cream!"
"Yea!"
Trunks picked up little Pan and flew to the next town
and the one after that until he found ice cream for Pan and himself.
§ END OF FLASHBACK §
"Pan, please believe me."
"No, your lying to me, I don't know who you are, all I
know is your in our way!"
Pan jumped up into the air and powered up for one of her most powerful attacks.
"Ka! me! ha! me! HA!"
The attack was so huge, so massive and so powerful
that the Z-Fighters couldn't block or protect themselves from it.
"Pan, Ryo, Prince Trunks, we're leaving. Now!" Kagetsu
said before disappearing.
§
Pan disappeared like she was told, but not before she
looked back at Trunks.
'I'm so confused; I wish I could remember who you are.
If only I could." She
smiled as a plan formed in her head.
§
Pan sat in her quarters, no matter how much she tried,
she couldn't get her vision of Trunks and the flashback she had out in her mind.
"What's wrong with me? Who is he to me? They all seemed to know me some how but that can't be, can it?"
Pan got up and began to pose around her room.
"Someone's lying to me, I'm not sure who it is yet,
but I know how to find out."
§
"What the hell happened to you?" Bulma shrieked.
Vegeta and the other Sayains had returned to CC in a
bloody heap. There wasn't a uninjured person out of the group, but it looked like Trunks was in the worst condition of them all.
"Trunks, what happened to you?"
"I'm okay mom, I just...I just got in the way of a
really big Ki blast, that's all."
"That's all, huh? Fine all of you go down into the infirmary and get cleaned up. When you come back I want a better answer than that." Bulma said pointing down the staircase that led to her lab and the infirmary.
§
"What did happen Trunks, I thought you had gotten
through to her. It was like a part of her wanted to believe you but...couldn't." Bra said as she washed the
blood off her face.
"I don't know, I really don't know." Trunks walked off
into the washroom the change his clothes.
"Brat, don't give up on her. If you do, your as good a
dead." Vegeta said passing his son as he left the room.
'Did my father just encourage me to do something?'
"He's right Trunks, you and Pan are bonded. You should
know more than any of us, the pain you felt when Pan disappeared is nothing to the pain you will feel if you give up on her. You'd be better off dead."
Gohan said
"Kami, is it that bad?"
"No, worse."
§
"Trunks? Where are you?"
"I'm outside mom."
Bulma walked outside onto the patio to find her son
looking up at the stars. She sat next to him.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I just needed some air."
There was a moment of silence as mother and son
watched the stars together.
"You really do love her don't you?" Bulma said breaking the silence.
"At first I didn't want to believe that I loved her, I
mean she was so much younger than me. But I always found myself thinking about her or hanging out
with her. She kind of grows on you, you know." Trunks
chuckled a bit.
"Yes I know. Trunks, I want you go after her, I know
how much she makes you happy. And that's all a mother wants for her child, to so them happy."
Bulma hugged Trunks before walking back into the house. There Trunks sat, alone, while everyone else was in the house, asleep.
"Trunks, I need to talk to you."
Trunks jumped out of his chair and spun around. There she stood, the object of his desires, wearing a white short silky dress.
"Pan," Trunks breathed. "What are you doing here? How
long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough. Um, can we go somewhere more private?"
"Um sure."
§
"What did you want to talk about?"
"Tell me the truth, do I know you?"
"Yes, you are the daughter of a close friend of my family. In fact both are families are close."
"Why don't I remember this?"
"That guy Kagetsu must have brainwashed you. He made you forget us all, Pan.
Do you know how much we've missed you? How much I've missed you? I love you Pan, but I'm sure you heard me say that earlier."
"Why?"
"Why? Why do I love you?"
Pan nodded.
"How could I not, I've know you from the day you were
born, I babysat you and trained with you. We spent a year in space together...that's when it happened you
know. That's when I realized you were no longer a kid,
but a grown woman, who I loved and still do."
"Since I had that vision of us in the past, all I
could think of was you. You seemed to care so much for me. More that Prince Trunks does, all he ever
wants from me is-"
"You didn't sleep with him, did you?" Trunks grabbed
her shoulders and forced her to look him in the eyes.
"No, there was always something keeping me back.
Something in the back of my mind told me that it wasn't right. I know Prince Trunks isn't the one for
me, but maybe you are?"
Trunks couldn't stand it any more; he covered her lips with his own.
§ END §
That's all for now. R&R
Ja ne.