Chapter Eight: Finding my home
It had been roughly around a couple of months since the village of namekians took me in; they found that they could trust me and vice versa though some were still pretty skeptical. They taught me one of their healing techniques and even a bit of their namekian language. I found it comfortable on this little planet but felt like smoething was missing and yearned for more challenging opponents, sometimes I even felt awkward since I was not one of them, especially when I ate since namekians only drank water.
One particularly warm day, I went to bathe by a secluded waterfall not only to clean myself up but to cool myself off also. I swam around under the water and surfaced feeling myself eased from the heat. Then I heard something in the bushes, which nearly made me jump out of my skin. The namekian villagers I was staying with knew it meant death to go to me when I was bathing, since I desired privacy. I thought maybe one of them was trying to push their luck.
"Who's there!? Come on show yourself!" I yelled as I flew up from the water and dashed for my clothes, frantically putting them on but accidentally putting my gloves on my feet and my boots on my hands. This was embarrassing.
To my surprise it was not a namek who emerged from the bushes but a saiyan. He was laughing at my spastic behavior. He was a tall and quite muscular man, who wore saiyan armor without the armor on the shoulders. His hair was wild, spiky and stuck out in nearly all directions, and he had a scar on his left cheek. Luckily he didn't see me naked.
"You're the strangest looking namek I've ever seen," he said laughing. Then he saw the symbol of the elite on the armor I had taken from one of those whom I had slain in the past. "So you're a part of the elite forces huh? I've never seen you before, what's your name?" he asked. I didn't want him to suspect anything and leave me be. "I'm Millina, what's your name?" I asked. He looked at me strangely.
"I've never heard that name before, my name's Bardock." He replied. I barely noticed that I still had my boots and gloves mixed up and put them on in their correct places. I found it kinda funny yet embarrassing and laughed a little. Then he got an idea.
"Do you wanna spar me?" he asked. That's when I got excited. I really did hope that he was a good fighter since I had not been in a good fight for a long time. "Sure." I said getting into a fighting position. Little did I know what power he truly held. "Lets go!" I shouted before I stepped off rushing toward him. He merely stepped to the side and rammed his fist into my gut, knocking me to the floor. It thrilled me to fight someone who could actually hit me.
I stood up facing him and grinned just before rushing him and punching him right in the face, knocking some blood from his lip. I couldn't knock him down though. "I guess I underestimated your power, only a true elite could punch that hard; but I haven't begun to show you my real power," he said just before I felt his power increase.
I stopped holding back too, I let him have my full power, but I had no idea what power he truly held and was holding back until that moment when he speeded up drastically. We felt each other's every stinging blow, every punch and kick; finally he got me with a ki blast. I was bloody and so was he, but this most definitely satisfied some of my thirst for battle.
"You're an excellent fighter" I said, wiping a trace amount of blood from my face "Thanks, I hope to see you again." Bardock said, just before taking off to his ship and blasting away into space. I was glad I didn't have to fight him when still killing the saiyans, for I would have died at his hands. After he left I sat on a rock thinking for a long time about some distant thought in my mind before I realized that this thought was of where I really belonged.
I liked it here with the namekians, but I also thought of where Bardock came from: the Planet Vegeta. There were others like me there. Other saiyans at my level and even stronger that could help me improve my fighting powers greatly. I had developed my telekinetic powers better on Namek. I had sharpened my mind reading skills and I was levitating objects through meditation and even learned to do some telekinetic attacks in which their devastation was dependant on my own physical powers.
Later that evening I came back to the little namekian village who had taken me in and announced that I was going to leave the next day. Many of the children were very upset and cried since I did spend a lot of time with them aside from my training. I explained what made me come to me decision and they seemed to understand. I requested that if anyone were to come to the namek, that they not tell a soul that I was ever there. I promised them that I would one day come back and visit them, and that if I was put into an attack team and sent to namek, that I wouldn't betray them as friends and make sure their planet was spared. We all went to sleep that night a little saddened by our parting, but knew it was for the best.
I woke up that morning and packed up everything onto my ship, but as I was going to get into my ship, the village elder walked up to me, with something long wrapped in cloth in his hands. I searched my mind wondering what it could be.
"Millina, since you have taught our able bodied to fight and helped us become stronger, I thought you should have this." He said pulling back the cloth. I gasped at what I saw, namekians did as well. It was a beautiful namekian sword of which was finely made. I had seen it before but dared not to touch it, this was a sacred namekian relic, the indestructible infinite sword. "Are you sure you want to give this to me?" I asked him in disbelief. He just smiled warmly and nodded. I unsheathed the sword and held it high into the air. It sparkled and shone in the sunlight. I took a few swings with it, and without even knowing it chopped down a couple of large trees in the area. Holding and using this sword didn't feel like using a weapon at all; it felt more like an extension of my body
"In time the sword will grow intuned to your ki and no one will be able to use it but you." He said. It made me feel special for the first time in my life, since this was mine and could only be mine, and no one could ever take it from me.
I said my good-byes to everyone just before closing the hatch on my ship and blasting off into space to what awaited me, my new home; the Planet Vegeta.
It had been roughly around a couple of months since the village of namekians took me in; they found that they could trust me and vice versa though some were still pretty skeptical. They taught me one of their healing techniques and even a bit of their namekian language. I found it comfortable on this little planet but felt like smoething was missing and yearned for more challenging opponents, sometimes I even felt awkward since I was not one of them, especially when I ate since namekians only drank water.
One particularly warm day, I went to bathe by a secluded waterfall not only to clean myself up but to cool myself off also. I swam around under the water and surfaced feeling myself eased from the heat. Then I heard something in the bushes, which nearly made me jump out of my skin. The namekian villagers I was staying with knew it meant death to go to me when I was bathing, since I desired privacy. I thought maybe one of them was trying to push their luck.
"Who's there!? Come on show yourself!" I yelled as I flew up from the water and dashed for my clothes, frantically putting them on but accidentally putting my gloves on my feet and my boots on my hands. This was embarrassing.
To my surprise it was not a namek who emerged from the bushes but a saiyan. He was laughing at my spastic behavior. He was a tall and quite muscular man, who wore saiyan armor without the armor on the shoulders. His hair was wild, spiky and stuck out in nearly all directions, and he had a scar on his left cheek. Luckily he didn't see me naked.
"You're the strangest looking namek I've ever seen," he said laughing. Then he saw the symbol of the elite on the armor I had taken from one of those whom I had slain in the past. "So you're a part of the elite forces huh? I've never seen you before, what's your name?" he asked. I didn't want him to suspect anything and leave me be. "I'm Millina, what's your name?" I asked. He looked at me strangely.
"I've never heard that name before, my name's Bardock." He replied. I barely noticed that I still had my boots and gloves mixed up and put them on in their correct places. I found it kinda funny yet embarrassing and laughed a little. Then he got an idea.
"Do you wanna spar me?" he asked. That's when I got excited. I really did hope that he was a good fighter since I had not been in a good fight for a long time. "Sure." I said getting into a fighting position. Little did I know what power he truly held. "Lets go!" I shouted before I stepped off rushing toward him. He merely stepped to the side and rammed his fist into my gut, knocking me to the floor. It thrilled me to fight someone who could actually hit me.
I stood up facing him and grinned just before rushing him and punching him right in the face, knocking some blood from his lip. I couldn't knock him down though. "I guess I underestimated your power, only a true elite could punch that hard; but I haven't begun to show you my real power," he said just before I felt his power increase.
I stopped holding back too, I let him have my full power, but I had no idea what power he truly held and was holding back until that moment when he speeded up drastically. We felt each other's every stinging blow, every punch and kick; finally he got me with a ki blast. I was bloody and so was he, but this most definitely satisfied some of my thirst for battle.
"You're an excellent fighter" I said, wiping a trace amount of blood from my face "Thanks, I hope to see you again." Bardock said, just before taking off to his ship and blasting away into space. I was glad I didn't have to fight him when still killing the saiyans, for I would have died at his hands. After he left I sat on a rock thinking for a long time about some distant thought in my mind before I realized that this thought was of where I really belonged.
I liked it here with the namekians, but I also thought of where Bardock came from: the Planet Vegeta. There were others like me there. Other saiyans at my level and even stronger that could help me improve my fighting powers greatly. I had developed my telekinetic powers better on Namek. I had sharpened my mind reading skills and I was levitating objects through meditation and even learned to do some telekinetic attacks in which their devastation was dependant on my own physical powers.
Later that evening I came back to the little namekian village who had taken me in and announced that I was going to leave the next day. Many of the children were very upset and cried since I did spend a lot of time with them aside from my training. I explained what made me come to me decision and they seemed to understand. I requested that if anyone were to come to the namek, that they not tell a soul that I was ever there. I promised them that I would one day come back and visit them, and that if I was put into an attack team and sent to namek, that I wouldn't betray them as friends and make sure their planet was spared. We all went to sleep that night a little saddened by our parting, but knew it was for the best.
I woke up that morning and packed up everything onto my ship, but as I was going to get into my ship, the village elder walked up to me, with something long wrapped in cloth in his hands. I searched my mind wondering what it could be.
"Millina, since you have taught our able bodied to fight and helped us become stronger, I thought you should have this." He said pulling back the cloth. I gasped at what I saw, namekians did as well. It was a beautiful namekian sword of which was finely made. I had seen it before but dared not to touch it, this was a sacred namekian relic, the indestructible infinite sword. "Are you sure you want to give this to me?" I asked him in disbelief. He just smiled warmly and nodded. I unsheathed the sword and held it high into the air. It sparkled and shone in the sunlight. I took a few swings with it, and without even knowing it chopped down a couple of large trees in the area. Holding and using this sword didn't feel like using a weapon at all; it felt more like an extension of my body
"In time the sword will grow intuned to your ki and no one will be able to use it but you." He said. It made me feel special for the first time in my life, since this was mine and could only be mine, and no one could ever take it from me.
I said my good-byes to everyone just before closing the hatch on my ship and blasting off into space to what awaited me, my new home; the Planet Vegeta.