Chapter 6

Bulma sighed heavily as she sat in the pilot's chair of the ship, they had only been out in space for a day and she was already regretting it.

Being stuck on ship with four saiyans, a half saiyan and a cue ball was not fun, especially since she had no female company.

Max and Cumber had helped with marking an area in space where the pirates might have gone, so they were not too bad, but thankfully now all of them were a sleep in the back.

Looking over her shoulder could see Gohan and Krillen sleep next to each over at one side and the saiyans at the other who were all snoring loudly.

Goku moved and his foot ended up Ranger's mouth.

Ranger just grumbled something incoherently and shoved Goku's foot away from him not even waking up.

Bulma turned back angrily to the front muttering, 'Typical! I do all the work and all the men do is sleep, eat, fight and then sleep and eat some more!'


Holly trotted to keep with Amound and Duiiza as they walked through the maze of blue-lit corridors.

'This place is huge' she thought as she quickly followed the two pirates around a corner, into Kakao who had just come through another set of heavy metal doors.

Amound and Duiiza stopped for moment talking briefly to Kakao before continuing along the corridors.

"Hurry up. We've only got half an hour," Duiiza growled as they entered another dark chamber.

Amound commanded the lights to come on and she was blinded temporarily by the sudden brightness.

As her eyes adapted to the light she saw that it was a bathing chamber.

It was massive; half of the room was covered in white tiles with a bath, some shower stalls and a sink with toilet.

The other side had a wooden floor with lockers and a couple of chairs.

Holly jumped upon hearing water running behind her.

Amound was at a control panel by the bathtub typing in commands as Duiiza was in one of the lockers fetching some towels.

Amound turned to her.

"The bath's ready get in,"

She looked up at him as if he was mad, as he crossed his arms just looking down at her, she glanced quickly at Duiiza who was next to them and he just looked at her as well.

"Are you two nuts?" she screamed.

"Do you two think I'm getting undressed and have a bath with you WATCHING! In your dreams!" with that she put her back to them and stuck her noise in the air.

Amound and Duiiza were speechless at her sudden outburst and their normally well-schooled, expressionless faces showed obvious shock.

Their eyes were widened and their jaws were slightly slack.

Quickly shaking off their momentarily shock Duiiza chuckled as Amound grabbed the girl by the arm and jerked her back between them, causing a squeal from the girl.

"There is a screen over there girl that you can get undressed behind," he snarled.

"Me and Duiiza are going to be in the showers over there. Now get a move on," and with that he threw her across the room to the screen.

While in midair Holly quickly flipped up right using her tail and twisted her back like a cat does and landed on her feet.

Swinging around to face them she bared her teeth at them and hissed as her fluffed up tail lashed behind her, before stomping off behind the screen.

"Women," Duiiza said as he grinned wildly.

"Teenagers,"Amound added.

They looked at each other as they both started to chuckle again.


Holly stripped quickly, glancing at the mirror next to her.

She froze before turning back to the mirror looking at her reflection.

Her body was cover from head to toe in dust and grime; her hair was greasy and disgusting.

Looking down at her body she saw the dried sweat on it and her tail had changed from a snowy white to brown yellow colour.

Normally she didn't care what she looked like, but she hadn't washed since the morning of the battle and that was a couple of days ago, so she thought.

"Chuck your clothes over Princess so we can get them clean,"

She did as they said and threw over all her clothes since they all were so dirty, except her bandanna, a neck scarf, a pair of fingerless gloves, plus her boots and the small bag which she carried her capsules in.

She also found her spare tank top and underwear she kept in a capsule, unfortunately she hadn't put any other spare clothes in it.

Glancing around the screen to see if Amound or Duiiza were watching, noticing that they had their backs to her, she dashed into the hot sweet smelling water.

The two men heard her and looked over their broad shoulders to see her in the bath and they continued to undress.

Looking up to see the two of them naked to the waist and bending over to pull off their boots she quickly looked away until she heard them enter the showers and close the doors.

Over the doors she could just see their heads, shoulders and some of Amound's broad back since he was taller, as they washed.

So she followed their lead and found some bottles, which seemed to have soap, shampoo and conditioner in them.

Then began to scrub the dirt off her body and out of her hair and tail.

As she was finishing off washing her tail the guys emerged out of the showers with towels wrapped around their waists.

Both had their long hair down loose, Amound's went down in waves and kinks as did Duiiza'.

"Come on Princess out," Duiiza ordered, as Amound stood near the bath holding out a towel.

She grabbed the towel and wrapped it around herself as she rose from the water and went behind the screen.

"Why do people keep referring to me as Princess?" she asked while rubbing the worst of the water out of her hair with the towel.

"You don't know?" Duiiza replied in a slightly surprised voice.

"You're royalty Parznip, as you're father was the late King of Vegeta-sei's younger brother,"

"Parznip?" she repeated in a confused tone, with one eyebrow raised slightly higher than the other.

"That is your Saiyan name. Don't you know anything about you saiyan heritage?" Amound asked.

"No not really. I was brought up on Earth, none of the others told me anything," she paused trying to hold back the tears.

"My father lost his memory and disappeared when I was little..." she trailed off in to her own thoughts once again.

The two male's eyes met they both knew she was holding back something about her father, but didn't ask sensing the girl's distress.

There was silence for a couple of minutes as the pirates began to dress and Holly finished drying off.

"Come here," Amound shouted over to her from the other side of the room.

She slinked out from behind the screen with her towel around her again and her things.

Some of the lockers were open and the two of them were searching through them.

"Duiiza give her some of your clothes since you're the nearest size to her, as hers won't be clean yet," Amound's muffled voice came out from one of the lockers.

He just grunted and took out a pair of tight dark blue shorts and a light blue shirt.

Putting her things down, apart from the capsule that contained her extra clothes, she took the garments and dressed behind the screen.

As she dressed it was obvious that the clothes he given to her were too big, but not so big that they fell off.

She kept the shirt open so the tank top was visible adding to the baggy look from the shorts.

The pirates smirked at her before they finished pulling on their armour.

Holly powered up to finish drying her hair off and pulled up her knee length black leather boots, then tightened the buckles that ran up them.

She continued by yanking on her gloves and finally finished by tying the bandanna around her head.

Amound and Duiiza had finished getting dressed a while ago were sitting in the chairs waiting for her.

Amound narrowed his eyes as he caught sight of some scaring on her neck.

Following his eyes Holly felt extremely uncomfortable and grabbed the bandana cross scarf that she tied around her neck.

Before Amound could enquire a female computerized voice went thought the whole ship.

"Preparing to dock. All crew report to the control room,"