A Wish To Live
By Shari Celestine
A.K.A
Serenity

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A Bulma/ Vegeta A/U. Dr. Briefs newborn baby girl is born with a deadly disease. In order to save her life he makes a wish with the Dragon Balls. Sixteen years later the Sayains arrive, what will they do when they meet Bulma?
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Chapter Two: A Normal life, what normal life?
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Sixteen years later
A young woman with long silky blue hair and matching blue eyes smiled to her self. This woman was very attractive in any mans eye with her long creamy legs, shapely hips, slim waist, and an impressive size bust for someone so young. Oh yes, and we cant forget the furry blue appendage that was around her waist. This girl was the daughter of Dr. Briefs, Bulma Briefs.
She was currently in her father's old lab fixing a small radar that she had found months ago. Bulma found the radar in a purple box that was buried in an old closet in her father's lab.
When she asked her father about the box he said that many years ago he had used the contents of that box to save her life Dr. Briefs then proceeded to tell her the story of the seven balls and the Dragon King, Shelong.
Bulma was so fascinated by this tale that she decided to use what little free time she had to fix the radar inside in hopes that it would lead her to those magic balls. If she found them she too could call upon the Dragon and ask some questions that have been plaguing her mind for years.
Now after many long sleepless nights Bulma had fixed the radar and was ready to journey out into the world to find the seven balls. Her mother and father weren't really happy about their only daughter going out into the world but they knew how stubborn she was, even if they refused to let her go she would have still went against their will
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Picking up the radar Bulma walked out her fathers lab and up the stairs and into the backyard. From there she entered the house from the kitchen door Inside she found her mother and father sitting at the kitchen table having lunch.

"Bulma, where have you been? I haven't seen you since last night." Usagi asked.

"Sorry mom, I was working on the radar. I fixed it, I can go looking for the balls now!" Bulma exclaimed, her tail slashing wildly behind her showing her excitement.

"Bulma, are you sure you want to do this, and alone? Why not have Yamcha go with you?" Her father suggested.
Bulma snorted, "Yeah right, with that cheating asshole I'd rather not. I told him we were no more than friends, if I invited him along he'd think I was giving him permission to fuck me or something." Bulma rolled her eyes.

"Bulma! Such language!"
"Sorry mom." She walked over to the table and put down the radar. "So Ill be leaving tomorrow, okay daddy."

"Alright dear, but if something comes up and your mother and I have to go out of town."

"Its okay daddy Ill take my cell phone with me. If that does happen just call me and Ill fly back."

"So you'll put your hunt on hold until we come back?"

"Yeah."

Bulma walked out the kitchen, down the hall and up the stairs to her room to pack for the trip the next morning. Opening her dresser draw she pulled out some clothes and capsulelized them. She also packed a capsule house, her motorbike, and her air car. That done she pulled out a small backpack and threw them all in.
That was easy. She stretched and plopped down on her bed, her tail lazily sawing at her side. With a heavy sigh she closed her eyes and drifted off to a well-deserved sleep.
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The next morning Bulma headed out into the city. She was driving her motorbike, it was the fastest vehicle she had. Sure she could have flew there herself, seeing how she was ten times faster than anything Capsule Corp. could build but she didn't want to draw attention to herself.
By noon Bulma was outside of the city limits and had taken flight enjoying the wind blow through her aqua curls. She sighed happily as she flew on her back with her hands behind her head and her eyes close. She was so content that when her radar beeped she shrieked and almost fell from the sky. She stopped in mid-air and pulled out the radar from her backpack.

"Hmmm, lets see. It says the closest ball is one hundred miles to the east of my current location. That could take a while at the current speed I'm going. I better speed it up a notch if I want to make it there before sundown. No telling what goes on around here when the sun goes down." Bulma muttered to herself, replacing the radar in her backpack before speeding of east.
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A couple of hours later Bulma found herself in East City. She had made a whole days trip in a matter of hours.
Not bad Bulma, you're getting faster every day. She mused to her self.
When her stomach began to growl in protest Bulma stopped to eat at a small fast food restaurant before looking for a hotel. It was much too late and she was too tired to continue her search now. It would have to wait until morning.
Checking into a Motel 6, Bulma took a hot bath and promptly fell asleep. She would need all the rest she could get; tomorrow was going to be a long day.
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After changing into a pair of well-fitted Capris and a skin tight white tank top Bulma continued her search on foot.

"If I'm reading this radar right, the ball is somewhere in West City'' Bulma said her tail wrapped firmly around her waist.

"Damn it, this would be so much easier if I knew what he hell these balls looked like, it could be anywhere." Bulma swore.
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A middle-aged woman was walking across the street holding her sons hand when her son stopped and pointed up to the sky.
"What is it Johnny? Don't stop in the middle of the street like that, I taught you better." The mother scolded.
"But mommy look." The boy pointed to the sky again, this time the mother stopped and looked up at the sky to find the source that caused her son to stop all of a sudden.
There up in the sky, four tiny dots seemed to be falling from the sky.
"What is that?" The woman asked.
By this time several other people had stopped and looked up into the sky as well. All interested in finding out what really was falling to the sky.
Slowly the dots began to increase in size until they were the size of a small house. People began to scream and run all over the place screaming about aliens invading the planet and such nonsense. Soon enough the dots came to a crash landing in the middle of West City. People seemed to calm down enough to crowd around the now obvious space pods, Bulma being one of the people in font of it all.
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Simultaneously the doors of the four space pods opened with a soft hissing sound. The door to the pod farthest to the right opened first, a huge hand griping the side of the doorframe as a tall bulky man stepped out. He was bald with dark eyes and muscles upon muscles all over his body. He was dressed in some sort of foreign armor with a brown belt around his waist.

Oh shit! Is this the end for me? Kami I'm too young to die! Bulma's mind screamed.

If had only found the Dragon balls, I wish these guys away!

The next space pod opened and a man with long spiky dark hair stepped out he was also clad in the funny armor with a brown belt and dark eyes. Then the next space pod opened, another tall man with shorter wild spiky hair and dark eyes stepped out, he too dressing in the funny armor and brown belt. Then finally the last pod opened, this one was in front of Bulma. The man inside stepped out, he was much shorter than the other three males. Bulma turned to study him for the first time. To say he was handsome was an understatement. His dark hair was set up like a wild flame upon his head that seemed to defy gravity. His dark eyes were much colder then the other three men; a deep scowl was present on his face. He had broad shoulders and like the other three he was covered in head to toe with muscles. His outfit was somewhat different from the others. He did have on the weird armor but he was also decked out in blue spandex with white boots and gloves, a brown belt also around his waist; he just seemed to scream sex appeal.
Kind of like that tall dark and handsome type well maybe not so tall. Bulma thought.
"What do you want us to do Vegeta no Ouji?" The tall bald man asked, a dangerous glint in his eye.
The shorter man shrugged, "Not sure Nappa, but when I know Ill let you know"

He glared at the people in the crowd causing them to take a few steps back. Bulma refused to move she stood her ground.
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At some point in time the large bald mans belt unraveled itself and swayed behind him. Unknown to Bulma her tail too uncoiled itself from around her waist and twitched nervously behind her, unfortunately it didn't go unnoticed.
"Mommy, mommy look. That girl has a tail like that big man," Johnny said pointing to Bulma's tail.
Bulma stiffened that this, her tail following her body's example. The crowd looked at Bulma's tail and then the bigger mans tail in confusion and shock.
"The boy is right, she's one of them!" Someone cried out. The crowd once again broke out in a mad run making sure they were far away from Bulma and the strange men.
"Hey!" Bulma yelled. "I am not one of those guys, I'm a human being too you know!" She was pissed, how dare they treat her, Bulma Briefs, the most beautiful woman on the planet, like some alien from outer space! As if to prove how pissed she was her tail thrashed violently behind her.
The four men stared at the woman before them, she did indeed have a tail, and a blue one that that! The shorted one who earlier answered to Vegeta no Ouji silently walked up behind her and pulled on her tail to see if was real or not; it obviously wasn't his best idea. Bulma cried out in pain as she fell to her keens. The last thing she remembered was the indescribable pain before she blacked out.
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Authors Note:
Oooh is that a cliffhanger I see? Shame on me, how could I do such a thing to you? Oh well, what's done is done, the only way to change it now is for me to write the next chapter, and the only way for me to do that is if I get reviews hint hit. I've heard in other stories that Bulam's moms name is Bunny. I wanted use the Japanese word for that and its Usagi. Don't confuse her with Usagi from Sailor Moon.