Disclaimer: The last chapter was quite the cliffy, eh? Well, there's only 2 more to go! Yeah, my life's a lot like this, it seems to end on cliff hangers a lot. Like something profound happens and then I got to go home or something, and then I've got to wait until the next time I see them to finish whatever it was and there's all that time in between to mull it over and muddle in it and wallow, tossing and turning. Any way! You probably just want to get strait into the chapter right? Cassie just confessed her love. The little hottie Trunks has to respond? Eh? Right. You're are absolutely right if you think I'm trying to drag it out right now, but you'll probably skip right past my personal comments to get strait to the juicy stuff. I don't blame you, but I do ask of you one thing, and that's, ENJOY!
Television references "" Talking ''Thinking Telepathy (and Chapter brakes o.O)
Chapter 12"Is This Goodbye?"
Cassie hovered above the ground by about twelve feet. Her senses were completely open as she searched the chamber for at least a little sign of his presence.
'Darn it! How does he manage to hide in here? Where the heck does he go!' Cassie thought, feeling a little nervous about being so vulnerable to his attacks.
'Would I have imagined this happening three months ago?' Cassie thought to herself, imagining what had happened then.
FLASHBACK
She shook ever so slightly, trembling under his arms, waiting for the response.
'He was right, you are a dummy! You're such a dummy!' she thought, wanting to cry.
And yet, at the same time, she felt more relaxed than she'd ever been in her life. She could feel the warmth of his skin, she could smell the mixture of sweat and the smell of his cloths. She felt so at home she started to cry a little.
"I don't think, that's a good idea, I mean, I'm not exactly going to be able to stay, you'd only be getting hurt, when I left, I mean," Trunks said, his voice holding confusion and uncertainty.
She then found herself looking up at him, the need to know all over her face. She was so completely open, showing absolute trust in his judgment. It all seemed to happen in a moment. She was staring at his eyes, waiting for some kind of sign, barely noticing as they seemed to get closer as they slowly closed. Before she knew it, his lips where pressed lightly on hers. She let out a little gasp, which seemed to make him press her a little more. She found herself completely relaxed in his arms. His lips were warm and tingled slightly on hers.
'Is this,' she thought, but before the thought could finish,
FLASHBACK END
She felt a sudden burst of energy from behind her, breaking her out of her little moment.
'DUMMY!' she thought as she turned to the rapid approaching energy ball.
'Now for something new!' she thought as she raised her hand to it.
Concentrating her energy she managed to create a small force field shield more than a couple of feet from her hand. It was sufficient enough to properly block the attack and receive no damage from it. A thin trail of smoke shifted around her and she barely had enough time to sense the presence behind her.
"That's a neat new trick you've learned, too bad it was only a diversion." The voice said behind her.
"Yeah! Even niftier is how I can use it in back too!" she said pushing out her energy in amount to the back of her.
"AHH!" they cried out as they were pushed away.
She turned in time to see Trunks fall a little before catching himself.
"Not bad, you learned that one on your own? I'm impressed!" he said wiping the sweat off with the back of his jacket.
Cassie gave a huge smile, she closed her eyes for only a second, but when she looked back he was gone. She quickly looked around.
'Darn it! He vanished again!' she thought.
"What I'd like to know is what you were day-dreaming about." His voice came from behind her, but when she turned he wasn't there.
"Wh, what are you talking about?" Cassie said nerviously, her laugh a little edgy.
"Don't tell me you were day dreaming about me, where you?" he asked.
"Huh! What makes you think that?" she said raising her hands for an attack on the last place she heard the voice and felt his presence.
Once again she only found empty space.
"EH!" she said in surprise.
Suddenly two arms grabbed her from behind, her arms pinned down.
"You're truly hopeless, you know that Cassie?" he said lovingly into her ear as he cuddled his face to her neck.
She smiled, turning her cheek slightly so she could feel it on his face. She then reached up and touched his arms as they floated back down to the ground. She then turned to face him after they had touched down. He had both hands on her shoulders as she looked up at him. All she could do was smile.
"You're silly, you know that?" he asked, with a small laugh.
She smiled, then, on tip-toe gave him a quick peck on the lips, before he could move in closer she dodged under his arms and started trotting back to the living quarters.
"Common slow-poke, while we're taking a time out, let's eat!" she said happily.
"Are you saying food's more important than me right now!" he called to her.
She only turned slightly to giving him a happy vigorous nod.
"That's cruel, you know!" he called back, but there was laughter in his voice.
'Who would've thought it would have ended up like this!' Cassie thought as she ran to the bathroom area.
She studied herself in the mirror.
'Wow, I've gotten taller. And my hair's gotten long enough to braid.' She thought as she pulled the bread around to sit on her shoulder.
'Come to think of it, so has his.' She thought turning to see Trunks walk into the area of the kitchen.
"You're not going to be able to find food in there, if that's what you're after." Trunks said to her.
She walked out of the bathroom.
"Yeah, yeah, very funny. You know I only wanted to wash up." She said coming up to stand next to him.
"And you didn't even do that much." He said smiling.
"Yeah, well, you distracted me." She said looking away.
"Both times today?" he seemed to be on the verge of laughing.
"Whatever!" she said moving towards the refrigerator.
"So? What's for lunch?" he asked standing behind her, waiting for her to open the fridge.
She opened it up and peered inside.
"Well, we could have sandwiches, but it seems as though we've finally managed to start running out of bread, this is the last loaf." Cassie said as she turned, a half-eaten loaf of bread in one hand and a jar of mayonnaise in the other.
"We're also running out of mayonnaise I see." Trunks said pointing at the almost empty jar.
Cassie gave a dramatic sigh and then walked over to the counter, as she did Trunks stuck his head in the fridge.
"I guess we still have plenty of preserve packs to go through, not sure how though, seeing how their mostly grains and dried vegetables." Cassie said, more muttering to herself than to Trunks.
"Oh well, it's not like we're going to starve! We just got to cut back a little on how much we eat. I think we've been eating a little more that what was necessary." Trunks said closing the fridge and walking up to stand next to Cassie.
"You especially." He said with a smile.
"What's that supposed to mean!" Cassie said, pretending to be furious and doing a fake punch to his chest.
He gave a loving smile as he reached up and touched her fist. When her fist relaxed and she seemed perplexed, he held on to her hand, pulled it over his shoulder, bringing her closer and then kissed her deeply on the lips. After a few moments he pulled away, and touched her face. She smiled back and he turned her around and started nudging her towards the table.
"Here, you sit down and I'll make lunch, okay?" he asked, pulling out her seat for her.
With a slightly confused look she finally gave a small smile and nodded.
"Sure." She said and then watched as he walked back off into the kitchen.
With both elbows on the table she propped her chin in her hands.
'So much has happened, I can hardly believe it.' She thought staring at nothing in particular.
Something then occurred to her.
'But, what about the real world? What about grandma and grandpa? I, can't seem to remember them so well. I know that I'm only in a TV show, but, it feels a lot more real than home. Dragon, dragon, Dragonballs, yeah, that's what the mystical balls were called to summon the dragon, but the show, what was it called?' Cassie thought, her mind straining to remember, straining as though it were something vital.
Something hard then came in contact with her head.
"Ouch!" she said looking up to see Trunks had sat a plate on it.
"You're spacing out again." He said, a fake annoyed look on his face.
"Sorry, I was just thinking about something." She said with an awkward smile.
"Oh, like what?" he said, placing the plate down in front of her and then went and took the seat next to her.
"Nothing, nothing important." She said smiling and looking down at the food.
'I can't tell him, can I? That's he's just some cartoon character? And that it was more than him having to go back to his time, but me having to go back to my WORLD?' Cassie thought.
"Oh really, you seem to be still thinking about it. Are you sure you don't want to tell me?" he asked still looking at her.
"Well," her cheeks grew hot as she glanced from him to the food.
"It doesn't matter if you don't think it's important, I just like to know what you're thinking, I really would." He said reaching up and gently moving a few stray hairs from her face.
"Oh, don't worry about it! You startled me so much I can't even remember what it was that I was thinking!" she said with a slight laugh.
"Hum, okay. If you say so." He said with a slightly sad smile, but forced it more and turned to his plate.
"Wow! This looks really good!" she said happily and began to eat the sandwich off her plate.
"Yeah, it's amazing what you can do with leftovers." He said watching her eat before taking a bite for himself.
"We got leftovers?" Cassie said in awe.
With that Trunks began to laugh and with him Cassie joined in. After lunch they went and trained for the rest of the day. They trained to the point of exhaustion as they had done every day.
Cassie had taken a shower, dressed in her blue cotton pajamas, complete with large shirt and pants, and climbed into the bed. She lay awake, listening to the water fall as Trunks took a shower. She glanced over at the curtain, barely making out his figure. Her entire face grew hot has she looked quickly away.
'Why'd the shower have to be so close to the bed? And why aren't there some dividing walls?' Cassie thought.
'Well, there are usually only guys here, I doubt they really expected to have any girls here, but you'd think Mr. Po-Po could've had something set up, instead he just gave Trunks a sleeping bed and a pillow.' She thought and then turned towards the wall.
'Well, I guess that could've been for me, but Trunks insisted that I have the bed, even before we were going out.' Cassie thought.
She then heard the water stop running and the curtain open.
'I'm usually fast asleep at this time, but it seems I'm really getting the hang of this. So much so that I'm still a little fidgety afterwards. I guess I just need some more training each day.' She thought.
She then heard the footsteps of Trunks' bare feet on the tile as he neared the sleeping bag he had set up next to the bed. Then the footsteps stopped. Cassie couldn't help herself from rolling over to face him. There he stood, in dimmed blue light, his wet hair pulled dangling on his shoulders. He was wearing a large black tank top and dark blue shorts. He was looking at her in slight surprise.
"You're still awake? Usually you're dead to the world about this time." He said.
"Uh, yeah. Guess I'm still a bit fidgety." She said.
"Oh, well I guess we'll just have to train a bit more tomorrow." He said bending down and opening the sleeping bag so he could crawl in.
'Something doesn't feel right.' She thought and then edged her way to the end of the bed, so that she could peek over the edge.
Trunks lay with his arms behind his head. He then lowered one of his arms to look over at Cassie.
"Uh, yeah? What is it?" he asked.
"Well, isn't the floor uncomfortable?" she asked timidly.
"Huh? Um, no, not really, I've gotten used to it, especially when I was training with my father. He said 'Humph, beds are for sissies,' or something like that." Trunks said with a smile.
"Are you sure?" she asked.
Seemingly taken aback by the second asking, Trunks looked at her in surprise.
"Yeah, unless," he said sitting up to look at her face to face.
"You want me to." He said somewhere in between a question and a statement.
Cassie pulled the covers slightly over her head, so that she was just peeking out of them.
"I guess I really didn't think about it until just now. That it didn't seem right that I sleep in the bed and you have to sleep on the floor." She said, her voice slightly muffled by the covers.
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine, you just get some sleep, okay?" he said with a smile, leaned up, kissed her on the forehead and then laid back down.
"Okay." She said uncertainly and then rolled back over.
The minutes seemed to drag out; she just didn't seem to want to go to sleep. She could hear Trunks' heavy breathing and every once and awhile when he rolled over, or turned. She turned several times before scooting to the edge again. Peeking over she saw him asleep, the sleeping back hung limply over his waist, one arm rested over his stomach as he head was turned slightly way from her.
'I guess, if he doesn't mind, it's okay.' She thought scooting back to the center of the bed.
She put an arm over her head and stared up at the ceiling for a while. She then felt pressure on the bed next to her. She turned to see Trunks, leaning towards her with both hands on the bed.
"You're still not asleep yet." He said in an almost tired tone.
She then quickly sat up.
"I'm sorry! I really don't know what's wrong with me! You're probably right! We probably just need to train more tomorrow! Yeah! That's it! More training! I should drift off any minute now! I promise!" she said waving her arms.
"No, don't worry about it. I was having a little trouble sleeping too." He said turning around and then sitting on the bed.
Cassie then moved out from under the covers and then crawled towards Trunks. He turned to her slightly as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and then rested her cheek on his back, his hair still damp.
'I could really fall asleep like this. The one who makes me feel all safe and warm.' She thought happily.
"I could stay like this forever." She said wistfully.
"I've never felt like this before. I've never had time for a girlfriend, so I've never been out. It's always been just me, mom and Gohan. I don't even really know what to do, or say." Trunks said and reached up to touch Cassie's arm.
He then turned some to look at her. She only sat there looking up at him.
"It's all so awkward, I never really wanted to mess with it, in fact I've never really thought about it." he said, reaching up with one hand and cupping the side of her face.
'Oh Trunks.' She thought, loosing herself in the warmth of his hand.
"I don't even know if it feels right at times, not until I actually do it." He said and then reached up and gently grabbed both her shoulders.
"Not until I actually do it." He said pushing her back slowly on the bed, as he did he followed until he was hovering over her, his body almost touching, his tank top hanging down on her, his lips only an inch from hers.
Cassie's heart began to race, her whole body seemed to be on fire.
"And then, when I do, do it," he said, his lips just over hers.
"I have no regrets about doing it." He said and then kissed her.
When he finally let her go, he eased down beside her, pulling her with him, so that she rested on his chest.
"For some odd reason, I didn't feel I could sleep without you near me." Trunks said.
'I can hear his heart beating, and he's so warm, I could just,' she thought.
"Cassie?" he asked.
"Hmm?" was all she managed to reply.
"When this is over, and Cell is defeated, I want you to come back with me." He said carefully.
"Go back with you? To your time?" she asked.
"Yes. There, with my mother's blessing, I'd like to ask you to marry me." He said quietly.
Something seemed to grab at her, the pure shock left her speechless. With her hand over his heart and his hand over hers, it just felt so right.
'Married? To Trunks? I could stay with him? For the rest of my life?' she thought, her head swimming.
'But what about school? And my world? Have I left my body? Or is this me?' she thought.
"You don't have to answer now. You've got over five months to think about it. I'm not in a hurry." He said gripping her hand some.
"I'd love to." She said without thinking.
"Huh!" he said suddenly sitting up.
She had fallen to the bed and was looking up at him.
"I'd love to marry you! I do!" she said a little happier each time.
Trunks then laughed happily and then fell on her in a large embrace.
"You don't know just how happy you've just made me!" he said.
'Oh boy, what about Vageta though? How happy have a made him?' she thought.
She had a mental image of Vageta spitting off to the side. "Stupid boy, done gotten himself in as much trouble as his father. Damn shame, marring such a weak girl. I think she might be mentally retarded as well." Vageta would say. That was until Bulma would chase him down with a spatula. This image made Cassie smile.
She then looked up at Trunks smiling face.
'He seemed to methodical before, could I have really had this much influence on him?' Cassie thought.
From then on Trunks slept in the bed, Cassie always cuddled to his side. Three more months passed that way. Cassie sat down her cup and looked down at her shirt. There were holes beginning to form and the fabric itself seemed to be wearing thin.
'I wish I brought more cloths, but they don't seem to last to long in this kind of place.' She thought looking up at Trunks who was eating a piece of toast and reading from a book he had brought.
He looked up inquisitively.
"Oh, I was just thinking about how our cloths are worst for wear." She said then looked him over, realizing he had more tears and holes in cloths than she did.
"Pretty soon we'll have to walk around naked." She said.
"I wouldn't mind." He said absently, not looking up from the book.
"Oh, really?" she said throwing a damp napkin at him.
"Huh? Oh no! I didn't mean it like that!" he said and then looked up as though he were thinking about it.
"Humph. I'm going to go start training." She said getting up from the table and walking to the void.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Trunks said, woofing down the last of his toast and then running after her.
She took only a few steps into the void before flying off.
'I love this feeling! This feeling of absolute freedom! To think, not too long ago I was so scared. And now, it's like I could do anything!' she thought and then finally stopped when she couldn't feel Trunks any more.
She turned to find that she couldn't see the chamber room any more.
'How far have I flown?' she thought looking around.
She then floated down to the floor and began walking in a random direction that kind of felt like she was retracing where she had flown.
'Something feels odd, like I could build something here.' She thought, for some odd reason she had the picture of Vageta in flames, and Goku too.
'Where should I go from here? What should I do?' she thought.
"You should die!" a voice said from behind her.
She turned in time to see Cell flying at her. Without thinking she raised both hands and shot and energy blast at him, to which he dodged, simply by tilting his body some. Cassie didn't have a second chance to fire another round when he was suddenly on her. Cassie watched in slow motion as he punched her in the stomach. With the wind knocked out of her she was completely stunned.
"Stupid girl. What makes you think you belong here? What makes you possibly think that you could belong in a place like this! I'll be merciful and put you out of your misery!" he yelled, light erupted from fist and it sent Cassie flying backwards.
Cassie rolled several times on the ground, a hole torn open in the midriff of her shirt. Pain that felt kind of like a burn on her stomach.
"What's the matter? Not hot enough for you? Please allow me to heat it up for you then!" he said charging up another attach.
'No!' Cassie thought flying up.
"Ka, me, ha, me," she was saying before Cell appeared behind her.
"Too slow!" he cried and back handed her to the ground.
She skidded and rolled several times before she came to a stop.
'This can't be right, why is he here?' she thought as she tried to get up.
"You poor diluted creature, how simple minded you are. You all wreak with the stench of a disease. Every last one of you. Don't worry though, I am the cure for that disease." Cell said as he steadily approached her.
'How do I even know what he looks like!' Cassie thought, suddenly frightened.
"Now you and everyone you know, shall DIE!" he said, powering up for a finally attack.
"NOOOO!" Cassie yelled, this sudden void was in her very being, and like a black hole it rushed to be filled.
Energy rushed to the middle, condensed, concentrated, and then built. In a short moment all this happened at once and once it was filled, it ignited and then was let loose. Something in her seemed to change and with that she began to attach Cell with all she had, not holding back. That's when the image began to change, it wasn't Cell any more, but it was Trunks, and he'd gone Super-Saiyan. What's more is that it seemed like he was struggling to keep up. Cassie suddenly found herself just hovering in the air, looking at her now blonde haired, green-eyed fiancé.
"Cassie, what happened?" he asked, out of breath.
"I don't know, I thought I had gotten lost and then I saw Cell and he started attacking me and, I'm still not sure." She said looking away.
"Cell?" Trunks asked as he went back to normal.
"Yeah, Cell." She said looking up at him.
"How do you know what he even looks like?" he asked puzzled.
"I, I don't know. I just don't know." She said shaking some as she looked down at her hands.
'It seems like I've forgotten something really important.' She thought as tears started to well up in her eyes.
"Common, let's get back, okay? Maybe all you need is a nap." He said.
Cassie only nodded and then followed.
'His voice, why haven't I ever noticed it before? It's so soothing, yet it's all rough around the edges, even when he's kidding.' She thought.
When they reached the room, she quickly touched down on the edge and walked strait over to the bed. There she sat and poked at the huge gapping hole in her shirt. A few minutes later Trunks came back with the first aid kit.
"How in the world did you manage that one?" he asked as he opened the lid and pulled out some cotton balls and hydrogen peroxide.
"So I guess that wasn't you than." Cassie said barely watching him.
"No, when I found you, you seemed to be surrounded by all this wind, and when you came out you just started attacking me." He said as he put the cotton ball over the opening of the peroxide bottle and tilted it some to allow the cotton to soak some of it up.
'Have I lost it? Did I do this to myself?' she thought as he dabbed the peroxide soaked cotton onto her semi-burnt skin.
"If Cell was there, it was produced from your own mind." He said putting down the first cotton ball and began preparing the next.
Cassie then sighed looking down at her lap, a shadow formed over her eyes, along with a series of blue lines.
"Um, no! I'm not saying you were hallucinating! It's just that in certain parts of the chamber, any heavy thoughts you have can materialize for training purposes. It was like the first time I was in here with my father and he conjured up all this radical flames. I couldn't go near him! But the flames were made by the will of his own mind, I think it was the same for you too." He said and then began putting ointment on her wounds.
"Oh," Cassie said.
'But that still doesn't explain how I know what he looks like.' She thought.
"There! All finished!" Trunks said closing the lid to the first aid and then stood.
"I'll be right back with your night shirt, that way you can just rest for the day." Trunks said and then left before she could protest.
Which was exactly what she was trying to do. She had her mouth open and her arm outreached and everything. She even made a small squeaking noise. Finally she just let her arm drop.
'But I was fighting Trunks, and Trunks had gone Super-Saiyan. The first time he's ever done that in here.' Cassie thought as she absently played with the singed, burnt area of cloth trimming the outside of the hole.
Some of it actually broke away into a little pile of cinders in her hand.
'Eek! I'm amazed I don't have a giant hole in me now!' Cassie thought.
"Here you go." Trunks said as he walked up to her, handing her the pajamas she usually wore.
"Um, thanks." She said placing them on the bed and standing.
"And before you do that." Trunks said as he reached into his pocket and pulled something out.
Cassie only blinked.
"Lift up your shirt." He said.
Cassie then dramatically crossed her arms over her chest and turned away from him, her face cartoon-icily red.
"No, Cassie, it's nothing like that, I just need to bandage you up before you put on any more cloths, that way, there's no chance of an infection." He said holding out the wrap of gauze in his hand.
"Oh." She said turning back towards him.
"For some reason you sound oddly disappointed." Trunks said almost flatly.
Cassie then only looked away, trying her best to look completely innocent. Trunks then gave a small chuckle and then dropped down to one knee and began to wrap her waist. With each wrap he had to make that involved him going around her back, his face came real close to her skin and she could feel his warm breath on her.
"Your breathing's kind of shaky, you okay?" he asked.
Every once and a while his arm would touch her side, in which would make her jump some.
"I'm not hurting you am I?" he asked looking up at her, that's when his head got caught on her shirt and ended up under it.
She was quick to pull the shirt back down, but he already seemed to be in shock.
"No, I'm okay, it's just that you were tickling me, that's all." Cassie said looking away, her face very much red at this point.
He stayed stunned for several moments, the gauze in his hand and him wide-eyed and blinking rapidly, the red apparent in his cheeks, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly, as though he were expecting her to clobber him upside his head. While he was in that state, she carefully tore the gauze from the main spool, patted it down, so the adhesive would stick and allowed the shirt to fall back down. More charred pieces crumbled off and sprinkled the floor. Trunks only looked up at her as though he were trying to find the words to say. She then balled her hand up into a fist and then brought it down lightly on the top of his head.
"Eh?" he finally managed to say, the uncertain look wouldn't leave.
She then knelt down in front of him.
'I don't know, if what I'm doing is right, it's not till I do it,' she thought as she leaned over the knee that he was supporting himself with, her leg touching his inner thigh. He then dropped the roll of gauze, and met her half way with a kiss.
'But when I do, I have no regrets.' She thought as she drowned herself in that moment, in his arms strong embrace.
Soon there was only less than a month left, Cassie sat on the bed, her night cloths were the only ones to survive the harsh training. Her long blonde hair still damp from the shower, her eyelids drifting closed on their own, feeling as though they weighed a ton each.
"Trunks? What's taking so long?" she whined.
"Just a minute, I'll be right there." He said from somewhere in the pantry.
"Umkay." Cassie called back in a disappointed tone.
Cassie looked down at her pajama pants legs.
'I've grown so much they're starting to look like high-waters.' Cassie thought.
"Alright, this is what I've been looking for." He said walking in with two rectangular boxes, stacked on one another, the kind of boxes you usually see cloths in.
Cassie watched as he came in and sat on the bed, he then handed her a box.
"We'll be training in these for the last month." He said watching her.
She then attentively opened the box and peered inside. Lying in the box was a vest, to be more precise it was Saiyan armor. Beneath it was royal blue spandex. Cassie could only blink.
"And, they come with boots. Mom made them especially for us." He said pulling two pair of boot from under the bed.
'Do I have to?' was what she was thinking about asking, but the smile on his face made her change her mind.
She gave him a smile.
"Okay." She said.
He then took the box from her and put both boxes and the shoes under the bed. He then turned to her and just looked at her. This almost contented smile on his face, his eyes so soft to look at, and his hair had grown past his shoulders, bangs curtaining part of his face. She knew she was blushing; it was just something about the way he looked.
'Cassie, I'll be Cassie Brief.' With that she couldn't help but to share his smile.
"Well, soon to be Mrs. Brief, you ready for bed?" he asked, his voice seemed too innocent to mean anything else, but her blush deepened all the same.
She gave a slight nod after pulling her loose hair behind an ear. His smile then widened a touch, lighting up his eyes. She then climbed under the covers and he went and turned out all the lights before finally crawling into bed next to her. She then took her usual position under his arm and settled in.
'I wonder what it would be like, when ever we finally do something. So far we haven't done anything above snuggling and kissing. He's never pushed any further. And then, when we're married,' Cassie's thoughts suddenly began swirling, images blurred out do to mostly lack of imagination.
'My first time,' she thought, a twang of fear settled in her stomach.
'I think, it'd be his too.' She thought just as she drifted to sleep.
When she woke, Trunks was already up and dressed in the Saiyan armor. His hair pulled back into a pony tail. He was slipping on the gloves when she noticed she was watching him.
"What do you think? Neat, huh?" he asked.
She could only stare speechless.
'I know I've seen it a dozen times before. Especially on Vageta when I first arrived, but, it just seems so different now.' She thought, her eyes wide.
"You got one too. Hurry up and suit up! We don't have much time left, so we should get started as soon as possible." He said a hint of excitement in his voice.
Cassie blinked a few times before nodding. She then climbed out of bed and brought out the white box. She then opened it, laying out the armor first, and then the spandex, and then the gloves. She then held up the spandex. For the first time she realized it was just one whole piece.
'I guess you climb in through the neck.' She thought uncertainly.
She then stripped down to her bra and underwear and then peeked over her shoulder at Trunks, who was standing with his legs slightly apart in a familiar stance, arms crossed and looking away. A faint blush was on his cheeks.
'He's so cute!' she thought as she stretched out the neck and attempted to climb in.
She had it up to about her waist, when she fell over, landing square on her butt.
"Ouch!" she cried.
"You okay?" he said looking over.
He saw her sitting on the floor, spandex almost up to her waist, bra exposed, and her rubbing her rear. She looked up to see him frozen in place, his face scarlet and his mouth gapping. He then realized this and managed to look quickly away.
"I'm so sorry!" he said.
"It's okay. Pretty soon you'll be seeing a lot of me." She said quietly, as if she didn't want anyone else to hear.
The only sound to come from him was a loud gulping noise.
"I suppose you're right, but still," he said touching both his fingers together in a bashful manner.
After slipping the leg parts on and standing, it was much like putting on a bathing suit and was just as form fitting as one. She then went and put on the boots and then picked up the white and yellowish-orange vest armor. She playfully stretched out the waist part and found it slipped on a lot easier than it looked, it was almost like plastic, yet she knew it was much, much harder. After braiding her hair she pulled on the gloves and then turned to Trunks.
"Alright! I'm all ready!" she said happily.
He then turned to her, some of the blush still remaining, and his eyes widened some.
"Wow, it looks nice on you." He said with some surprise.
"Yeah, it doesn't feel too bad either, it's actually quite comfortable!" she said in amazement as she twisted and turned, noticing it seemed to flow with her movements.
She then walked up beside him, took the back of her hand and tapped him lightly on the arm.
"Well, let's go." She said, taking a few steps out and then flying off.
She knew he was following her, and after they got a ways out, she landed. When she touched down she heard him touch down not too far behind her.
"Before we get started, I want you to do me a favor." She said turning around to face him.
Slight surprise could be seen in his features.
"Huh? What kind of favor?" he asked.
"Well, if you don't mind, I'd really," she said, finding herself looking down, her leg moved slightly out of nervousness.
"I would like you to go Super Saiyan." She said finally looking up.
The question seemed to throw him off some.
"Are you sure? This isn't easy, you know. I mean for me it's relatively easy to transform, but, are you sure you're ready?" he asked uncertainly.
She looked at him long and hard before she gave her clear nod.
"Alright. I'll do it." He said widening his stance.
She then braced her foot slightly to the back for more stability, just in case it seemed the least bit overwhelming. She suddenly found herself breathing a little too quickly. He then clinched his teeth as a wave of power flowed out from him, leaving him temporarily engulfed in yellow light.
The transformation from black to blonde, and from blue to green was almost instantaneous, almost as instantaneous as this hair spiking. The golden aura seemed to pulsate around him, as he had a concentrated stare on her. She then straitened herself, almost relaxing as she felt his power wash over her. It was warm and almost physical. She then found herself walking up to him. With each step the energy seemed a little more intense. Soon she was standing right in front of him. Looking up at his shining green eyes. A look of uncertainty was on his face as she found herself reaching up and lightly touching his hair. As she did, tiny sparks of electricity danced around her fingers.
'It still, feels soft, it's just all, STATIC-Y!' she thought smiling and poking at his hair some more.
"Will you cut that out?" he said with false irritation and slight amusement.
"It's just so static-y!" she said playfully.
"Uh, is this why," he began to ask almost disappointedly.
"No. I want to train like this, but first," she said seriously before wrapping her arms around his waist and placing her head on his chest.
"I wanted to see, and feel you like this." She said in a low tone.
'He's like solid steel under his armor.' She thought as he wrapped his arms around her.
A disturbing thought came to her mind.
'That's not all,' she thought as a cold shiver went down her spine.
She then looked up at him.
"Alright, I'm ready. Let's do it." She said with a slight smile.
He smiled a little before going completely serious.
"Alright." He said pulling away from her.
'At least I don't have to worry about hurting him.' She thought with a smile.
'That means, I can turn it up a notch.' She thought, excitement starting to build.
"Ready?" she asked.
He then gave a quick nod.
"Alright!" she said happily as she widened her stance and concentrated.
Suddenly a whirl wind circled around her, lifting a cloud of smoke, before Trunks could respond she was directly above him with a huge ball of energy in her hands, pulled up over her head. The whirling mass was a dark blue, with a light blue halo swirling around it.
"Supernova!" she yelled and then thrust the ball at him.
He had a look of surprise before the ball hit him. Cassie only blinked as the cloud of smoke disappeared. When it did it revealed Trunks still standing there.
"Eek!" she said.
'Yup, he's just hunkie dorrie!' she thought to herself as she tried to think of another strategy.
Before she could though, he disappeared.
'Oh, heck.' She thought turning in time to see him appear behind her, that swish noise came right with it.
His hand suddenly came up and was aimed at her.
"Are you sure?" he asked.
She seemed taken aback for a moment and then smiled. Then, she disappeared. She then reappeared behind him, kicking him in the back with her best kick, which surprisingly threw him off guard. As he was knocked down a few feet, when he turned she was gone again. She then appeared in front of him to do a double kick to his front, when he crossed his arms and flew into her, pinning her to the ground.
'It's getting harder, harder to fight him,' she thought as she gritted her teeth and gave him a look of absolute determination.
With that moment of puzzlement, she took both of her legs and most of her energy and kicked him away from her. He stumbled away from her.
'Harder and harder to fight him seriously, for fear, of hurting him in the least bit.' She thought, a slight pain in her chest.
She then brought her hands up to her head, fingers spread out.
"Final Flash!" she yelled, then a bright light irrupted form her forehead, causing everything to vanish in white light for a moment.
She then opened her eyes to see Trunks shielding his face, she than found this moment to attempt a tackle, which failed miserably.
'It's a lot like hitting a steal wall.' She thought as her brain seemed to rattle; small spirals appeared for eyes as she found herself falling backwards.
He then reached out and caught her before she could fall.
"Well, at least I gave it a good try." She said, her voice wavering comically.
Trunks than went to normal. His face full of concern, almost as if he were going to cry.
"Don't do that! Don't push yourself so hard!" he said and then quickly pulled her to his chest; his embrace seemed to engulf her.
Her chin rested on his shoulder as he buried his face in her neck.
"I don't know what'd I'd do if you really got hurt. I really don't." he said, his body seemed to shake.
"Trunks?" she said a bit stunned as she reached up and lightly embraced him back.
"Alright, I'll take it easy, but you've got to make it a bit harder for me, or else I'll never be ready." She said softly as she rubbed his back lightly.
"You've come so far, I'm more than amazed that you've made it this far, you should be too." He said moving his mouth a little closer to her ear.
His soft, warm breath on her ear almost made her melt in his arms.
"Yeah. I guess you're right. But, I'll still have to do my best, okay? Not too hard and not too soft, alright?" she said, moving her cheek a little on his neck.
"Sure. Sounds like a plan." He said with a small laugh.
Before they knew it, the day had arrived. The day when they were to walk out of the chamber for the first time in a year. With them both in Saiyan armor they made their way out. The soft pink glow showed that sunset wasn't too far behind. A slight breeze was in the air and Cassie suddenly felt free. Relief seemed to spread throughout her, as though she were holding out for this very moment. She gave a huge stretch and then looked around. There standing was Vageta, Bulma and baby Trunks not too far behind them with an air craft.
"Father?" Trunks asked uncertainly.
"Humph. Bulma insisted on coming to pick you up." Vageta said grumpily.
"Trunks!" Bulma called out as she ran to him and began looking him over.
"Mother, I'm fine, really!" Trunks said uncertainly, a faint blush to his cheeks.
"Why the stupid woman insisted on me coming along is beyond comprehension." Vageta mumbled the last part to himself.
"I heard that Vageta!" Bulma yelled and then continued to look over Trunks.
Vageta then looked directly at Cassie. She then suddenly became very much aware of the tears in the spandex and cracks in the armor. They stared each other in the face for a while.
"The look suits you girl." Vageta said gruffly.
Shock seemed to fill Cassie.
'Was, that, a complement! From VAGETA!' she thought.
"Not like it's going to do you any good though," he said looking away to where Trunks and Bulma were.
'Yeah, equivalent exchange, I suppose.' Cassie thought with a slight twitch.
Bulma than ran up to her next.
"Wow! You look pretty sharp there Cassie! Boy! And you've grown some too! You've defiantly became quite the woman since yesterday!" she said with a wink.
A look of complete disbelief crossed over Cassie and Trunks' face.
'I can't believe she just said that.' Cassie thought.
"Mother!" Trunks said exasperatedly.
"Oh, don't tell me! You and her," Bulma's voice trailed off, a hint of fake shock there.
"No Mother! It wasn't like that! We didn't," Trunks was saying.
"Oh give it a rest woman, they're not children! Stop pampering them! It's sickening!" Vageta said turning away in mild disgust.
"Geeze, Vageta, since when did you become such a wet-blanket?" Bulma asked, giving Vageta a flat stare.
"Ftt. I'm leaving this idiocy before it spreads." Vageta said and then flew off.
Bulma only stuck her tongue out at him and then turned back to Trunks.
"Well, never mind him, let's get back to the house and you can tell me all about what you two've been up to. Okay?" she said walking to the ship.
"If you don't mind, I'd like to fly there." Cassie said sheepishly.
Bulma then turned, a look of slight surprise and then she gave a smile.
"Sure! I guess I'll just be leading the way!" she said happily and then she looked at Trunks.
"And I suppose you're going to escort her there?" Bulma asked Trunks.
"Yeah, I guess I am." Trunks said with a smile.
Bulma then gave a knowing and loving smile before turning back to the ship.
"Alright, but no lagging behind. I'd hate to have to come back looking for you." She said strapping baby Trunks into the seat next to her and then climbing in herself.
"I don't think that's going to be a problem." Trunks said looking over at Cassie and smiling.
Cassie then smiled back. The pink faiding into red and a cool breeze. It seemed like the perfect setting.
"Alright you two! There's defiantly a lot to talk about when we get home!" Bulma said before closing the door and taking off.
"Common Cassie, let's go." He said, holding out his hand to her.
She then smiled and took it.
'This is going to be, interesting.' She thought, trying to fight off the knot growing in her stomach.
Chapter End
WELL! How's that! One chapter to go and then that's it! DBZ is done! I am done! It's kinda sad though, cuz I've been working on it for a little over three years. I betcha you're all wondering how it's gonna end, well, I'm not telling. I'm not. But it's going to be a twist. Whether you seen it coming or not, well, that's not my fault is it? I'll try not to have a predictable ending. I'm working on the last chapter now though it may not come out until next semester but I promise to have it posted, you know Story Complete and all. Well, it's a little over three o'clock in the morning, I think I will retire for now. So, good-night to all! Ja Ne, your friend, Usarea.