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In the morning I had woken up feeling extra cozy and warm. Then I noticed that Piccolo had thrown his cape over me. He must have given me his cape sometime during the night.
I almost smiled at what he did until I remembered what happened yesterday. That weird look that was on his face when he was staring at me had played over and over last night in my head.
The early morning light shined down upon me, and I heard the early morning critters noisily chatting.
"Morning aunt Mindy! Piccolo and I cooked breakfast!" Gohan had decided it was a good idea to get in my face, and almost scream the words at me. I shoved him aside, and got up.
"Don't wake me up like that kid, you might get hurt trying to do that," I said grouchily, wanting to go back to sleep. Gohan didn't let that faze him, he continued to jump up and down, and grabbed my hand.
"Come on! It's by the beach, you have to eat our breakfast!" He kept pulling at me, and I gave up. I grabbed him into my arms, and flew as fast as I could to the beach. Piccolo was still there, in everything except his cape.
"Oops, sorry I forgot to bring your cape. Thanks by the way." I told Piccolo, even though half my attention was on Gohan. He ran over to a big bowl, got a smaller one, and then put the contents of the big bowl into the little one. He rushed back over to me, and handed me the small bowl.
"Here's breakfast aunt Mindy!" I smiled tiredly at Gohan, and took a little sip of the soup. It tasted kind of off, and I tried my best not to make a face.
"What's in the soup Gohan?"
"Well, that fish you caught us last night, a little bit of seaweed, and there was actually some carrots around that I put in there. Do you like it aunt Mindy?" He gave me those puppy dog eyes that I did so well, and my heart broke a little. I couldn't say no to that face.
"Gohan, this is the most delicious breakfast I have ever had, thank you." I finished off the contents of the soup as fast as I could, trying not to throw up the entire time.
"We should get back to camp, I have no idea when the Saiyans are going to arrive, and I would like to be by the camp when they come." Piccolo nodded at me, surprisingly quite this morning.
At 11:43 a.m. I felt two huge power levels arrive.
"The Saiyans are here," I said to no one, and looked up at the sky. They would be coming anytime to this spot, and we had to be ready. I turned to Gohan.
"Gohan, remember what we taught you. Those guys are going to want to seriously hurt you, so watch out." Gohan nodded at me, his face serious. I felt the two power levels coming this way, and whatever fear I had of them before this time, had vanished. I wanted to fight these guys with all I had. I could do an all out war with them if I had to.
I felt another group coming from the opposite direction as the Saiyans. Krillin, Tein, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha landed near us.
"Wow Gohan I hardly recognize you! Look at how much you have grown!" Krillin said to Gohan, running off to greet him.
"Look at who has on their serious fighting face already, I haven't ever seen it like that before," Tien said to me, clasping one of my shoulders in greeting. I gave him a tight lip smile, and nodded to him once.
"Hi Tien, hi Yamcha, hi Krillin, hi Chiaotzu," I said with no happiness in my voice. Krillin and Yamcha nodded at me once, and went back to talking to Gohan. Tien and Chiaotzu went to go talk to Piccolo. I looked up in the sky and gasped.
The Saiyans were now above us, floating down. I stood rigid in front of them, and got into a fighting stance. Everyone else did the same. The short one stared at us.
"Looks like they were waiting for us, Nappa," he said, still staring at us. I stared at the man back, and I could tell that this might be a problem. He seemed strong, really strong.
"Yeah, those losers won't know what hit them!" The tall one, Nappa, said.
"Losers?" I scoffed, frowning.
"Your the ones who won't know what hit them." I said in a calm manner.
"That voice . . . Your Raditz's sister aren't you? But there was another one," the short one said. Piccolo took a step forward.
"That would be me," he said, his tone not changing from his low, tough guy voice.
"Ah, a Namekian! That would make sense, a Namekian does have higher power levels than normal. You know a certain few are picked out and would be able to do tricks. So you're the one who created the dragon balls aren't you?" The short one said, laughing. Piccolo stared at the Saiyan.
"Dragon balls? How could he know about the dragon balls?" Krillin asked, a little bit shaken, then Piccolo smirked.
"Thank you for telling me about my ancestry. But you're wrong about one thing. I didn't make the dragon balls. As you can see I'm more than a magician, I'm a warrior."
"Nappa, do we still have the Saiybamen?"
"Yes, prince Vegeta. Six actually." Nappa took something out of his pocket. It was a small brown bag, and vile with green goo.
"Hmm, and there is seven fighters. How about this, we have a little game. Each of you can fight our Saiybamen. One of you have to be left out, but that won't be a problem, now would it?" Vegeta asked.
"We don't have time for your games! Be a man and come at us all at once!" Piccolo screamed at both of the Saiyans.
"Whoa there Piccolo! Maybe fighting one on one wont be so bad." Krillin said, I nodded.
"Cue ball is right. Remember we just can't go all out on them. From what I sensed they're dang strong." Piccolo growled but said nothing. We huddled together to make a game plan.
"Mindy, I think you should stay back while we fight." Tien said. My face grew red with anger.
"OH HELL NO! There is no way in HELL I'm staying back! Why can't we just have the weakest link stay back?" My eyes darted to Krillin.
"Hey! I am not weak! Well . . . the weakest link anyway." He said, shuffling his feet.
"You keep telling your self that," I sang out.
"This no time for playing around! We need all the help we can get, and if that means the short one has to fight, then short one has to fight!" Piccolo screamed. I crossed my arms and sighed.
"Sorry cue ball." I muttered.
"I think you apologized with an insult." Yamcha said, holding back a laugh. My tail moved around in aggravation.
"Does it matter right now?" I asked, holding back all my anger. All eyes darted to Gohan.
"Gohan, I want you to stay right here while we fight. Ok?" I said. Gohan looked up at me.
"But I want to fight! I've been training for a year for this!" He whined. I placed a hand on his head, and ruffled his hair.
"I know you did, but right now I'm worried about your safety. Plus Goku would kill me if he ever found out I let his son die." Gohan frowned, but did not argue. We all turned to the Saiyans, and the big one was placing holes in the ground. Then six green things came out of the ground.
"Gross! They're disgusting, at least they're shorter than me." Krillin said looking at them.
"Yeah they're like mini Piccolo's." Yamcha said, a little scared.
"Except they don't have the antennas, and way too green to be Piccolo." I said, a smirk coming on my face.
"They don't look anything like me!" Piccolo yelled.
"You know it's quite funny. You guys are having a childish argument when your all about to be destroyed. Amusing." Vegeta said, smirking.
"Who said we're all going to be destroyed? Actually, I think you guys are the ones that are going to be destroyed!" Tien yelled, and Nappa laughed.
"You, destroy us? Do you know who your talkin' to three eyes? We're Saiyans! The most powerful warriors in the universe!"
"Nappa! Let the weaklings have their laugh. It is their last day to live."
"Enough talk! Let's fight!" I screamed, and I heard Piccolo chuckle very softly. I wanted to ask what was funny but we were about to fight, jokes can be later.
"I'm fighting first Mindy. I've been wanting to get a crack at them." Tien said, stepping forward.
"Give it your all." Vegeta told to one of the green things. A Saiybamen stepped forward. The green thing charged at Tien, who blocked the attack. The green thing threw punches, but Tien dodged them all. With one swift kick he threw the Saiybamen to the ground. It jumped back up to kick Tien, but got punched in the chest.
Then it grabbed his back, but Tien elbowed it in the face. I was amazed at how strong Tien had gotten this past year, not as strong as me of course, but a big improvement. The next thing I saw was Tien throwing the Saiybamen on the ground. Tien floated down, and spat on the ground.
"That was easy," he said, and walked back to us. Gohan gave him a high five, and I couldn't help but do the same. Nappa's mouth dropped.
"But . . .that's impossible! Those Saiybamen are at least twelve hundred each!"
"Then that means the three eyes man is stronger than Raditz."
"But . . ."
"It's just a simple miscalculation." Vegeta finished. I saw him smirking again, it was quite creepy. My spine shivered, so I turned back to my little group.
"So I guess it's my turn." Krillin said, stepping infront of the group.
"No way, I'm fighting." Yamcha said taking a step forward, pushing Krillin behind him.
"But I'm just as strong as you, what difference does it makes?"
"If something happens to you, you can't be wished back with the dragon balls. At least we know if I die, I'll be able to come back." Krillin frowned, but nodded. I turned to Gohan. I saw that he was watching every little detail about the fights, I thought it was quite cute.
"Hey Gohan, how do you like the show?" I asked him. He jumped a little bit, and looked at me. He smiled widely.
"It's pretty cool. I wish I could fight though." His face turned into a frown.
"Don't worry kiddo, you'll get your chance." I said to him, petting his hair. I turned around to see Vegeta blowing up the Saiybamen that just lost. My eyes widened with shock.
If that's what he does to his allies, I don't want to know what he does to his enemies.
"Why did you do that for?" Nappa asked Vegeta.
"I simply told him to give it his all. He underestimated his opponent, and look where that got him." I grimaced at the man's reply. I shook my head, it's a pity he's so . . . evil. He could have made a good sparing partner if he wasn't evil.
What the? He's trying to destroy the world! If you want to spar with the evil man this is the only time your going to do it. This life or death you know! My head screamed at me. I sighed and closed my eyes. After a minute I opened them to see Yamcha and the Saiybamen fighting. They were fast, and equal.
"I can't see them!" Gohan whined.
"Sense them with your energy. Remember how I taught you?" Piccolo grunted out. Gohan nodded, and then I saw his eyes darting with the movement.
"I see them!" He said with a smile. I smiled at him, and looked at the fight.
"Come on Yamcha." I whispered. Yamcha elbowed him in the face then did a ka-ma-ha-ma-ha. I stood up and cheered. Yamcha had beat the thing like Tien did! Wow, I wondered what training they went through.
"I'm going to do my friends a favor and defeat the rest of them." I growled at Yamcha's comment.
"Oh no you aren't! I've been training my butt off for a year! There is no way your not going to let me fight!" I screamed, Yamcha stared at me. He flashed me a smile.
"Watch me." He said, then the Saiybamen jumped back up off the ground.
"Yamcha watch out!" I screamed. Yamcha turned around quickly to have the thing hug him. Yamcha tried to struggle free, but then the thing started to glow.
"Try to break free Yamcha!" Tien screamed.
"I can't!" Then BOOM! We all stared at the crater. There laid Yamcha's motionless body.
"The thing bl-blew its self up." Piccolo stuttered out. He was as shocked as the rest of us.
" I don't want to see a draw!" Nappa yelled. Krillin ran up to Yamcha and placed an ear on his heart. My own heart fell to see the look on his face.
"Is he . . . ?" Gohan asked. I grabbed Gohan's hand, squeezing it. I felt tears coming to my eyes.
Yamcha?
Yamcha was one of my friends, I still remembered the first day we met in the desert. Oh man, what is Bulma gonna say? I don't think I could handle her tears, it just might make me cry myself.
"Come on! Let gets to the next match!" Nappa yelled.
"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP! YOU HAVE THAT ANNOYING VOICE! I SWEAR IF I HEAR IT ONE MORE TIME I WILL RIP YOUR THROAT OUT! OUR FRIEND JUST DIED AND YOU DON'T HAVE A HEART FOR IT?"I screamed, clearly annoyed with his remarks. Nappa didn't say anything, he just stared at me.
"Nappa, give them a minute to clear this trash out." Vegeta said. That's when Krillin became mad.
"Trash? Yamcha was more than trash! He was a great warrior! I will avenge him!" Krillin flew up in the air and threw pink disks at the Saiybamen. All of them blew up except for one, Krillin also threw a strong Ki blast at the Saiyans.
Smoke filled the air, and Gohan and I started coughing. My hand was still tightly holding Gohan's, maybe it was because I didn't want to lose him. I could see, but smoke was still in the air.
"Nice going cue ball." I said, with a small sad smile. Krillin returned the sad one with another sad smile.
"I think we should blow up the last one." Piccolo said. I nodded, and finally let Gohan's hand go. I walked away from him looking around for the last Saiybamen. Then I heard a small scream. I turned around to see the Saiybamen jump at Gohan, but before it could touch him, Piccolo grabbed it's forearm.
"Bye," he muttered and threw it in the air. A blast came from his mouth, and blew the thing into ashes. I ran up to Piccolo and gave him a huge hug.
"Thanks for saving Gohan." I whispered into his ear when I was letting go. He slightly blushed purple, and I blushed a bit too when I saw everyone looking at us. Then we all gasped to see the Saiyans still standing.
"Is that all you got? Pathetic." Vegeta said.
"Are we done with the warm up yet?" Nappa asked mockingly.
I growled and pushed my self away from Piccolo.
"Nappa, you can have your fun with them. Just don't touch Barlona, or her Namekian mate."
Mate?
What did he mean mate? I was too shocked to answer, and I could see Piccolo getting super uncomfortable.
"Ok, prince Vegeta. I guess I'll start with you baldy!" Nappa charged, hitting Krillin the stomach.
"Leave him alone!" Tien yelled, kicking the Saiyan in the stomach. It didn't affect him, and he quickly turned around to meet his and Tien arms coming together. Tien screamed in pain, I screamed in horror, Gohan screamed at the sight, and Piccolo just stared in shock. The freaking Saiyan just cut his arm off with out even trying!
What was up with these dudes? Nappa played around with Tien for a second before getting bored.
"Man, I thought you'd be more fun. But all I am doing is dragging you around like a rag doll." Nappa flew into the air, about to do a Ki attack. My eyes went wide to see Chiaotzu fly behind Nappa.
"Nappa I would look behind you." Vegeta said calmly. Nappa was confused until Chiaotzu was on his back.
"No . . ." Tien stared into shock. Oh how much this has to hurt for him.
"Aunt Mindy, what's happening?" Gohan asked.
"I don't know Gohan, I don't know." Chiaotzu started to glow then BOOM! I took a step back.
"He blew him self up!" I said, Gohan grabbed my leg.
"That was unbelievable, at least it got the job done." Piccolo said. I looked sadly at the sky.
"Chiaotzu . . ." I said quietly and heard Krillin mumble, "Goku, we need you. Where are you!" I felt like asking the exact same question.
Then Nappa hit Tien, and then blasted him.
"Tien!" Krillin screamed.
"NO! Goku, where are you! We need you!" I screamed out, tears coming to my eyes. I looked dangerously at Nappa.
"I will not let someone else die! I will take action! Nappa beware, I'm after you!" Nappa smirked, and we charged at each other.
"Nappa stop! Let me ask them a question." I was still charging. I didn't care what the short one wanted, I was going to kill Nappa if it was the last thing I did. I punched him in the face. Nappa grabbed my wrist and I started to dangle.
He punched my stomach as hard as he could. I started coughing, then I brought my feet up and kicked him in the chin.
"Control her at once before I kill you all!" Vegeta screamed. Nappa grabbed my shoulders and head butted my forehead. I felt light headed, but then kneed him in the groin. He bent forward, and his face looked sour.
I brought my foot up, and kicked him to the ground. Nappa was about to fight me back until Vegeta screamed.
"Nappa stop at once!" Nappa did what he was told and stood still, but he was glaring daggers at me. I smirked and charged at him again, but I felt an arm around my waist holding me back. I saw that the arm was green. I let out a growl, and screamed.
"Let go of me Piccolo! I'm going to kill that bastard! I'm gonna kill him!" I struggled, but stopped, and calmed my self down. We both floated down wards, Piccolo still holding my waist. I saw Vegeta smirked.
"It's a pity really. You two haven't even mated yet and are going to die. But oh well. That doesn't matter. My question is, is this Goku, Kakarot?"
"Don't call him that! He doesn't go by that any more." Krillin screamed, and Vegeta laughed.
"Your putting your life in Kakarot's hand? May I ask where he is?"
"My daddy should be here any moment!" Gohan yelled balling his fists up. Vegeta smiled.
"I'll give you three hours. If Kakarot doesn't come, I'll kill you all. And if he does, then this should get interesting." I eyed the short one and decided he was telling the truth.
"Three hours? But why wait so long when we can pummel them into the ground now?" Nappa asked.
"It would be better to see Kakarot's face when he sees his friend's and family's blood and gore all over the ground." My eyes went wide.
"They're so sick." I mumbled out.
"Now I get it. You know prince Vegeta, that's a great plan!" Nappa said sitting down. Krillin walked up to me.
"So what now?"
"We wait, I guess."
"Can't we just leave and fight another day?"
"Don't you get it? There won't be another day! This is the last one!" Piccolo yelled. I sighed and grabbed Gohan's hand. I pushed him towards me and gave him a hug.
I laid my head on his head and cried quietly.
After ten minutes I dried my tears.
"We have two hours and fifty minutes. What do you want to do?" I asked them.
"We could train!" Gohan said.
"No, your a waste of our time." Piccolo said, I frowned.
"Not true! Gohan hadn't even gotten a chance to fight yet!"
"He could have always joined!"
"Oh, so your saying I'm a waste of time too?"
"No, you're already trained and know when to enter a battle and when not to. The kid is nothing." Gohan had a sad face on and started walking away.
"You don't have to be mean to the kid. He's been trying his best to help out. What do you except? Super man out of no where?" Piccolo looked confused.
"Never mind." I said.
"Hey, where do you think you're going?" Nappa asked sending a Ki blast at Gohan. He jumped back, and frowned at Nappa.
"I'm leaving." He said.
"Oh no your not!"
"You know, you're a big bully! And you're smelly too!" Nappa had a face on that looked hurt.
"I do not smell! You try being in a space pod for a year!" Vegeta laughed again.
"He's got you there Nappa!" Gohan kicked Nappa on the face when he charged at him. I dragged Gohan back to me.
"What do you think your doing?" I asked him.
"Mr. Piccolo said it himself. I'm a waste of time."
"No you're not. Don't listen to him." I kissed him on the forehead and brought him back to Piccolo.
"So we wait?" Krillin asked.
"Yes shorty, we wait."
THREE HOURS LATER . . .
"Times up. Looks like Kakarot isn't here." Vegeta said, and Nappa smiled.
"I guess he was just a wuss."
"My daddy isn't a wuss!" Gohan screamed.
"Nappa finish them off."
"What about the green one?"
"I think we can find the dragon balls on the green one's home planet next on our list to the places to take over." Vegeta said with a smirk, Nappa smiled like a little kid in a candy store.
"I'll guess I'll start with you brat!" A yellow beam came straight at Gohan. He was frozen in fear at his place. I couldn't move, my heart pounded against my chest, then I saw Piccolo get in front of it. The blast hit Piccolo full on, not leaving any hope for escape.
"Piccolo!" I screamed, running to him. He was on the ground, coughing up blood. I grabbed his hand.
"Piccolo?" I asked, tears streaming down my face.
"Mindy?" He gripped my hand harder.
"I know why you did it, but it was stupid, but also thank you." I chuckled humorlessly, and started shaking uncontrollably.
"I couldn't let the kid die. I told him I would look out for him." He coughed out, looking weaker.
"I know that. You're so brave. The thing is, I need you Piccolo, you can't die on me." I bowed my head in defeat. With shaky hands he lifted my chin back up. I looked at him with the most saddest face ever.
"Be strong Mindy, and you know I need you too. Life hasn't felt so lonely in this past year." A mask of pain crossed his face. Suddenly Gohan ran up to Piccolo, and hugged him around the neck.
"Please don't die Mr. Piccolo! Please don't die!"
"Sorry kid, wish me back though," Piccolo started breathing heavier, "Gohan, you're one of the few people who actually befriended me. I know I was tough on you, but I knew you could take it. Thank you for being my friend. You and Mindy need to defeat the Saiyans for me. Good luck." Gohan stepped back, and nodded at whatever Piccolo was saying to him.
"We will Piccolo, I'll bring you back." I said through my tears. I leaned forward, and lightly placed a kiss on Piccolo's lips. With a faint smile Piccolo's body disappeared.
"Piccolo. PICCOLO!" I screamed, and as fast as lighting, I punched Nappa in the face as hard as I could. He howled out of pain, and where his nose should have been was a small crater.
"Y-you broke my face!" He screamed, not daring to touch it.
"You killed Piccolo! You dirty ape! You will PAY!" I kneed him in the stomach, punched him across the face, then I wrapped my arms around his neck, and started choking him. I placed my hand on his chin then in one move, and as hard as I could, I broke his neck. I kicked his lifeless body out of the way. I turned to Vegeta, who was strangely smiling.
"You're next Veggie head." I said, and threw a blast at him. He deflected it, and charged at me. I blocked his first attack, but he got a hit on my stomach. He kept punching my stomach, then I bit his arm.
"Ow! Barlona, you will pay for this!" He yelled taking a step back. We both flew into the air. I sent a flying kick his way, but he grabbed my leg and threw me.
"Tiger claw!" I yelled. Three marks went deeply into his chest. He stared at his chest in shock, so I took this as my advantage. I punched him in the face, then I punched him again. He grabbed my arm and twisted it. I screamed out in pain, I think he just broke my arm! He took a few steps back.
"What's wrong traitor, ape got your arm?"
"Yes, and he's short, and ugly, and has one large widows peak." He placed a hand at his widows peak and growled.
"You will pay for that!" He started throwing Ki balls at me. I used the Bubble shield, closing my eyes. Huge mistake. Vegeta had grabbed me from behind. I struggled against him, then I elbowed him in the stomach.
I quickly turned my shoulder, and punched him in the face, then I turned again, and elbowed him in the jaw. He flew back and hit a rock. He spit blood on the ground.
He flew to me, and punched me to the ground. I landed face first. He grabbed my hair, and started pounding my face into a rock. I screamed out in pain. Then he threw me on the ground.
"Aunt Mindy!" Gohan yelled. I saw Krillin stare in shock. Vegeta walked up to me, and placed a foot on my knee. I heard a loud crushing sound. I screamed as loud as I could. Tears were coming up. The pain! He crushed my freaking knee! He kept kicking my ribs. Oh the pain! I screamed, and screamed, and screamed.
I turned my head to Gohan and Krillin. My vision was starting to get blurry. Then I saw Krillin do something. He placed two fingers on his forehead. My eyes went wide. He smiled and nodded. I mouthed, "thank you."
I put two fingers on my forehead, after a small wave to Gohan, and thought of the place where Goku had been this past year. I felt wind fly past me, and I didn't feel anyone kicking me anymore. I sighed in relief and blacked out.
See! Story line kinda changed. Anyways, Piccolo died! Aww! But at least Mindy and Piccolo kissed . . . So I bet you are wondering what Mindy did.
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