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I do not own Dragon Ball Z. This is a work of Fanfiction using the Dragon Ball Z world. Dragon Ball Z is owned by Akira Toriyama.

Bulma looked down the road both ways, past the pile's of burnt corpses and houses, trying to see if Riki was asleep.

I'd love to find the Dragon Balls, but if it means traveling with her I'll pass. I'm going to need therapy to get over this.

Once Bulma was sure Riki wasn't there she started walking slowly toward the exit to the village, constantly looking over her shoulder for Riki.

Bulma got a few feet away from the entrance when she heard a voice from behind her.

"Where do you think you're going Blueberry?" Asked Riki in that strange tone that seemed unique to her. It was cold, and kind of psychotic, Bulma had never heard anything like it before she met Riki.

Bulma slowly turned around, silently hoping with all her heart she wouldn't see what she already knew was there.

"Hey Riki." Said Bulma fearfully as her eyes fell upon the murderer she'd been traveling with, and she felt the blood drain from her face.

Riki was standing there, in the same blood-soaked rags she'd been in last night when Bulma had been forced to drag the bodies to piles. Blood had gotten into Riki's hair and onto her face, so her hair and face were streaked red, giving her the appearance of something returned from the dead.

What drew Bulma's attention the most, and terrified her out of her mind, was the dragon radar Riki was bouncing in the palm of her hand, and the predatory smirk on her face, giving her a demonic look.

"Nice day, huh?" She finished nervously. Looking at all directions out of the corners of her eyes for a method of escape.

The little psychopath let out a predatory chuckle as she glance from the radar to Bulma.

"Yeah, I had a lot of fun last night. Then I found something interesting when I woke up." Riki said her predatory look never fading.

I hope she didn't find out how to work the radar. Thought Bulma, fearing for her life. If she did I'm dead.

"When we met you told me I needed you to work this thing." Said Riki, gesturing to the radar.

"This mourning I noticed you'd dropped it, so I picked it up and tapped this button." Bulma felt her heart drop to her stomach as Riki pushed the button on the top of the radar and it beeped on, revealing the locations of the Dragon Balls, and making her useless.

She knew Riki had seen the effect turning on the radar had on Bulma when the blood-stained little girl started to walk towards her, like a predator approaching it's prey.

Bulma felt her heart start to hammer through her chest as Riki closed half the distance between them, Bulma started to back away slowly, then she turned around and sprinted towards the exit.

She heard Riki laugh, then felt pain explode in her abdomen. Bulma cried out as she doubled over, clutching the place where Riki had punched her. The pain couldn't be categorized as something that came from a punch, it felt like there was more force than a large scale explosion.

Bulma heard chuckling from above her and was barely able to lift her head to see Riki standing there with a cruel smirk Bulma remembered all to well, the same look Riki had worn last night.

Then Bulma felt her her chin explode as Riki kicked her back into the town. She felt herself go through a pile of bodies, then she slid along the ground, leaving a small trench.

As she lay there, her vision blurred as she fought to remain conscious. If I fall unconscious she'll kill me for sure!

Then she heard footsteps coming towards her and she attempted to scrabble backwards, but a foot slammed onto the point where her shoulder connected to the rest of her body, not with enough cause very much pain, but enough to keep her from moving.

"You lied to me Blueberry." Said Riki as she applied more pressure to Bulma's shoulder, causing the young scientist to scream with pain.

Riki continued to increase the pressure slowly. "You were going to steal the Dragon Balls from me then use them for your own wish." Bulma heard the satisfaction in Riki's voice grow as her screams reached a higher pitch.

"No, I wasn't!" Cried Bulma desperately as tears of pain fell from her eyes. "I swear! Please stop!" Bulma was sobbing at this point, but the pressure and pain decreased to almost nothing.

Bulma could make out the blurred form of Riki leaning closer to her through her tears. "I'm going to have a lot of fun making you beg for death Blueberry." She said calmly, then the pain came again.

Bulma heard Riki start to laugh as Bulma's screams began anew.

"Please! Stop!" Begged Bulma. Riki's laughter only got louder.

"I can help you!" She screamed through the pain. Riki's kept laughing.

"I'll do whatever you want, just make it stop!" Cried Bulma.

The pain decreased to a more tolerable level this time.

"Whatever I want?" Asked Riki.

Bulma nodded as she looked into Riki's pitiless black eyes.

A smirk came into Riki's face as she removed her foot and stepped back. "If you swear to do whatever I say, I won't kill you."

Bulma nodded again, not trusting herself to speak, and not believing what was happening.

Riki walked to the pile of bodies and started digging. After a moment she stooped and came back with a knife.

The twelve year old stopped in front of Bulma and helped the blue-haired girl up. Then made a big cut across the palm of her own hand.

"Are you crazy?!" Exclaimed Bulma. Of course she is, why do I even ask?

Riki offered her the knife, and her hand as though she was asking for a handshake.

Bulma looked from one to the other uncomprehendingly for a moment, then understood. She wants me to make some sort of blood oath with her. If I break it she really will kill me!

Bulma hastily took the knife and make a similar cut across her hand, then she turned to Riki.

The murderer didn't hesitate as she took Bulma's hand and squeezed it, hard. She held it for a moment, then let it go.

"Find a bandage for your hand." She said as she walked away. "We leave soon."

Riki's POV

Riki walked away, smirking with satisfaction. I got to have some fun with Blueberry, and make her my servant all in one day. Maybe I won't decide to kill her later once she's useless like all the other weaklings… Nah, I'm gonna kill her to, she screams way to good for me not to. I'll have to do that again sometime.

As Riki strode toward the building she'd put her things in overnight she tore off a piece of her blood-stained clothing and wrapped it around her hand. Then she stopped and looked down at her clothes.

Haven't I been wearing the same clothes since I slaughtered the Ox man? I should probably change sometime soon. I guess I'll change when I get to my stuff.

Riki got to the house she'd slept in and pulled a green gi with a red belt, wristbands, and a yellow undershirt out of her bag. She put it on and placed her old one in the bag.

I like the blood covered one better. She thought as she walked towards where Bulma was waiting with her bag. But this one will work.

"Let's get going." Said Riki as she tossed Bulma her radar.

The bluenette caught it with surprise, then shrugged and popped a motorcycle out of a capsule.

After she was seated she glanced at the radar, then took off after getting a nod from Riki.

I really wish that stupid thing was faster. Thought Riki with annoyance. Then a thought popped into her head.

"Hey, blueberry, you invent stuff right?" She asked over the sound of the engine.

"Yeah, why do you ask?" Replied Bulma cautiously.

"I want you to come up with a way for those things to go faster after I've made my wish."

Bulma looked at her for a moment then nodded. "Sure, I'll get right on that."

They went on in silence for a while, going through a dessert towards the next ball.

"Hey Riki, what's your wish going to be?" Asked Bulma after several hours of silent travel.

"I'm going to wish for the strongest person in the world to be brought to wherever I am at the time, then I'm going to fight him." Replied Riki, grinning at the thought.

"The balls grant any wish and your going to wish for that?" Replied Bulma skeptically. "Wouldn't it be better to wish for all the strawberries in the world or something?"

Riki frowned at her companion. Strawberries? She's crazy, if I want berries I'll just take them.

"Why would I wish for something stupid like strawberries?" Replied Riki. "I can just take those. But if I didn't wish for the strongest fighter I'd have to waste time looking for him, and I don't want to wait, I want to fight as soon as possible!"

Bulma's POV

She's got to be insane! Thought Bulma as she road through the dessert beside Riki. There's no way anyone in the world is as strong as she is, or stronger! I just hope there is someone for the Dragon to bring to her!

As they neared the location of the next dragon ball Bulma noticed Riki grinning.

"What's up?" She asked cautiously.

"I've been here before." Replied Riki. "This is where I killed the Ox-Man."

"Ox-Man?"

"Yeah, I don't remember his actual name." Replied Riki. "You remember that girl on the beach? He was her father."

No wonder that girl hated Riki so much, I can only imagine what it must feel like to watch Riki kill someone close to you.

They kept going, getting ever closer. Bulma was actually kind of looking forward to getting this ball, she'd be a little closer to getting this journey over with. Then, she saw the ruins.

"What's that?" She muttered as she rode closer to what looked like a ruined house with a mound that she could just make out.

Once she got close enough to make out exactly what it was, she retched over the side of her bike.

The house was simply a burned and cracked shell, and the mound was a mound of burned and broken bodies, just like the ones at the village she'd left behind. Except this mound was covered with flies and crows, and the bodies were rotting, the stench of rotting bodies was everywhere, and Riki was laughing.

"Can't handle it Blueberry?" Teased the murderer as she doubled over laughing.

Bulma merely stared back at her in horror. "How could you do something like this to so many people?" She muttered softly, half talking to herself.

Riki straightened, still smiling. "Because I felt like it." She replied. "I really hope that girl I let live gets strong enough to fight me, she showed some promise."

"Because you felt like it?" Muttered Bulma with horror. That's what that little girl went through. She didn't deserve this, no one does. This is awful!

"Now, lets go get the ball." Said Riki as she walked past the mound of bodies.

Bulma followed, careful not to look at the mound, then she realized she was walking past another, and another, then they got to the center of town.

There were three mounds of bodies placed seemingly at random among the burned ruins of various buildings, and in the center there was one massive body that had been so attacked by the crows and flies that it was barely recognizable.

"That was the Ox-Man." Said Riki as they passed it. "A pathetically easy kill, I was hoping for more entertainment from him, but oh well. His people were entertaining enough."

Then Riki turned to Bulma and held out her hand. "Give me the radar, I'll go find the ball."

Bulma handed the radar to Riki hesitantly, then stepped back as Riki took off towards a castle that was on a somewhat distant hilltop.

Bulma was standing around, waiting for Riki, then she heard screams coming from the castle. The blue-haired scientist stood there for a moment, then ran toward the sound of the screams.

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