Chapter 27

"You won??" Asoret asked in disbelief. "That's a first! Same's never been beaten before."

"There's a first time for everything," Vegeta said.

After a full day of rest, the entire gang, excluding Laze, and including Asoret, got on their designated boats (Asoret preferred to use his own boat), and began their trip to Sky Dragon Isle. They'd decided that Asoret took Ancha, Kari and Goku along, while Bulma, Vegeta and Elvor took the other boat. It'd take some time to reach the isle, and everyone prepared themselves, by allocating some more Black Elements, as well as some TurnElements, and they carried the different plates along as well. Just incase.

Elvor had tied the katana he'd gotten from Same around his back, so he could easily grab it if he needed it. However, he kept examining the letters on the blade. Murasame… you could make two words from that. Mura, and Same.

"Elvor? You alright?" Bulma asked, a little worried.

"Huh??" Elvor asked, looking up from the blade. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for asking, Bulma," he mumbled, and placed the Murasame back in its sheath.

"Oh… okay."

Bulma shrugged, and went to stand at the bow. She looked out across the waters, hoping to catch a glimpse of Sky Dragon Isle. But no such luck. The island was still 2 days away, and they had a week and a day, meaning that once they came back to Marbule, they'd have 4 more days to pick up Laze and head to the Dead Sea/Sea Of Eden.

"It's going to take a miracle to help Laze," Bulma mumbled, watching the water silently.

No one responded. Vegeta didn't know how to tell her wrong, because he thought the very same thing. Elvor however, somehow knew they wouldbe that miracle, but he didn't say anything. For some reason, he was filled with a strange feeling of hope.

He looked over his shoulder at the sword slung across his back. Maybe…

"How did Same disappear so quickly anyway?" Bulma suddenly asked.

Elvor looked up and said: "Wouldn't know. Maybe she's just really quick."

"Don't think so," Vegeta said.

"She did the same at Arni, remember? She vanished there as well."

"Yeah, but she vanished with a thunderclap, if I recall correctly."

Silence reigned for awhile, until Elvor suddenly asked: "Hey Vegeta. Whatever happened to that other girl anyway?"

Bulma looked back, not sure what he was talking about, but not thinking it was good.

"Who?? Reena ©?" Vegeta asked, and Elvor nodded. "She vanished after we beat her. Remember?"

"Uh… no, because I hadn't been around at the time," Elvor countered.

Vegeta seemed to mentally slap himself for that.

Bulma looked up at Vegeta, and asked: "Who's Reena?"

Vegeta heard the slightly angry undertone in her voice, and he knew why that was.

"Reena was a bitch. She was from Termina, but she chose Porre's side so she could finish me of one of these days. Don't worry, I had nothing personal to do with her," Vegeta assured her, and Bulma smiled.

Elvor chuckled, and said: "Get a room you two!"

Bulma nearly toppled over, but Vegeta didn't really bother.

"Excuse me?!" Bulma asked, slightly blushing.

Elvor shrugged, and asked: "Do I have to tell you?"

It was a few hours later that they restarted talking.

"Hey, how'd you meet that Reena anyway?" Bulma asked.

Elvor looked at Vegeta for that.

"Well, we met her a few days after Ciria's burial. Man! She was one hell of a bitch if I've ever seen one!"

Flashback

"Ye gonna be okay, Vegeta?" Laze asked.

Vegeta nodded silently, and urged the girl on. Laze nodded as well, and hopped on the dragon that she'd been standing next to. Elvor watched the small exchange for a moment, then spurred his dragon on. Laze followed easily. They waved their friends goodbye, before racing off against the crisp morning air.

Ancha, Haelles and Vegeta watched them go, before they headed back to Arni. Porre had given up on the search, for now, and Laze and Elvor had decided to see if Viper Manor was still standing. If so, they'd see if anyone was still there. You never knew with those Porre guys.

"What do zose guyz want anywayz?" Ancha asked as they entered Arni Village.

"Wouldn't know," Vegeta mumbled. "And something tells me I don't want to know either!"

Haelles scoffed.

"Humans are so foolish sometimes," he mumbled. "Why try to take something that does not belong to you by force? I never understood that."

Ancha shrugged.

"Zat'z just ze way people are," she said.

"True, but somebody must have started it. An entire war does not exist by itself. And why is it that humans always kill the things they are afraid off? Instead of trying to see what they are so scared off?"

"How'd you come up with that?" Vegeta asked.

"Porre massacred the Dragonians because they were scared their precious world would die by the fights they held," Haelles answered plainly.

Vegeta sighed and said: "Dragonians killed many men of Porre too."

"AFTER Porre began their killing-spree. Dragonians know nothing of murder. They rarely take things over from humans, but what they did take over, was the thing called 'revenge'."

Silence reigned over them as they walked through the fishing village, not really sure what they should do.

"Ooh-la-la!! What iz zis place?" Ancha asked as they walked past a strange, blue egg-shaped creature.

The creature had large fins for hands and feet, and its eyes stood on antennas.

"I think this place is called 'Lizard Rock'," Vegeta said calmly, sitting down on one of the rocks there.

"Hmph. As long as the hostess of this rock does not show up, I am fine with everything."

Haelles casually leaned against a tree, hands in his pockets.

The Mama Komodo was whom Haelles was talking about. The Mama Komodo was the mother of all Komodo dragons found at Lizard Rock. Komodo dragons were side-evolutions of the Dragonians, and were often slain for their lovely scales. The mother lizard had a body about twelve feet tall, and including her tail, she was as long as five times the height of Serge. Her eyes were huge and grew out of her heads like that of toad, only their size were much bigger for the body she had. She was good for a pair of razor sharp dentals, a vicious stare and a breath worse than the pungent smell of rotten food. But she walked on fat fours that grew dirt-clogged and worn out nails. Her oversized, bloated body made her cumbersome and her movements rigid.

This came from nothing but rumors though. No one had seen her and had lived to tell the tale. Komodo dragons could be quite nice to you, if you weren't someone who came for their scales. Some curious dragons came over to them to study them for some time. The trio remained silent as the small lizards did so, until they seemed to trust them. The silence was soothing, but it seemed to be too quiet.

"It'z quiet," Ancha murmured.

"Too quiet," Haelles added.

Vegeta was silent, listening to what there was to hear, which wasn't much. However, he did hear something that didn't belong at Lizard Rock. Haelles' ears suddenly perked, and with lightningfast speed, white sparks shot up around him.

"PHOTONRAY!!!" Haelles screamed, and shot the white beam up at a cliff, where it hit its destined target.

The girl hit by the blast cried out, and fell down. The Komodo dragons shrieked in fright, and ran. Ancha grabbed a handful of pins, Vegeta grabbed his axe, and Haelles grabbed a large swallow-like weapon, but with double-edged axe-like ends. The girl that ran out from the bushes had black hair, and chocolate brown eyes.

"You bastard!!" she screamed. "How dare you do that to me?!?"

"That is the penalty for spying on us," Haelles said with a cool tone to his voice.

"Yeah!? Well, you're still a bastard!!"

The girl had her hair done in two buns at the topsides of her head, with some blue ribbons tied around them. She wore a blue dress, that hugged her chest tightly, while it was wide and loose from the waist down. The edge of her skirt just came above her knees, and over her dress, she wore a black iron mail. She had a red shield tied across her left forearm, which held a dark black griffin on it, wore blue gloves that reached her elbows, and had some black boots on.

"Who are you anyway?! And what do you want?!" Vegeta demanded, the first trace of anger since days coming back to his voice.

"Ha!! If you must know, my name is Reena! And my business is none of yours!" the girl said.

Reena then seemed to think for a moment.

"Then again," she said with a sick sweet voice. "It is!! In the name of Porre, I arrest you for treachery!!"

End Flashback

"We beat her easily enough. Afterwards, she vanished. No one knows where she could've gone, but she's thought to be dead," Vegeta finished.

Elvor opened his eyes, which had been closed while the story had been told.

"I still wonder what happened to her. A person doesn't 'vanish', all of the sudden," he mumbled.

"Yeah, but people just don't come out of thin air you know?!" Bulma said, hands on her hips.

"Says who?" a new voice said, making the trio jump.

They looked at the back of the ship, and noticed none other than…

"Same!?!?!" Vegeta said, shocked.

The Black Dragon nodded her head.

"How'd you get here?" Elvor asked, standing up.

Same suddenly fazed out, and fazed in behind Elvor.

"Tha's easy," she said, and Elvor turned around. "I jus' dematerialize, move as fast as I can ta a different place, and rematerialize there."

She fazed out again, and fazed in against the starboard side, where she casually sat on the railing.

"It's easy once ya get the hang o' it," she said with a smile.

"But… what are you doing here?" Bulma asked.

"Sky asked me ta give ye humans sometin'," Same said, and got up from the railing.

Same walked over to Vegeta, and got a strange necklace out. She gave it to Vegeta.

"He said ya were ta go ta Guldove if ya beat him, and head fer the Dragon Shrine ta see the shaman. Ye're ta get a certain object, and once ya get it, ya can head back ta Marbule ta help yer friend."

Vegeta nodded. Same nodded back, and fazed out again. She fazed in on the boat once more, this time on the portside.

"If you reach the Sea Of Eden… kill Her…" she begged silently, before she fazed out and vanished.

"What did she mean?" Bulma wondered aloud as they continued onward.

They hadn't talked for hours, and Bulma had been the one to break the silence. Vegeta sighed.

"I wouldn't know. But she did seem serious about it though. She wants us to kill somebody."

"By the way she said it, I'm starting to think she said 'her' with a capital 'H'," Elvor said silently.

Bulma stared ahead again, not knowing what was going on. None of them knew what was going on, and what things were supposed to mean. The rest of the trip was so silent, that they felt like they'd die if no one broke the deadly silence. The sun was setting, a chill wind had risen, but still, no one broke the eternal silence. They didn't dare too.

A young girl of around 18 years of age stepped out of her home, feeling the fresh wind caress her skin, but she didn't like the feel of it.

"Miss, you shouldn't…" the guard started.

"I can take care o' meself, thank ya very much!" the girl hissed, slightly angry that she was still treated like a kid.

Her mother never treated her that way. Maybe when she was 2 or 3 years, but she never remembered that. From what she remembered, she wasn't treated in the least like a kid. She was expected to be able to do a lot of things. Her mother wouldn't teach her anything but history and the arts of battle, for she was supposed to learn everything by herself. The fights they had were one-sided at first, but it became harder for her mother to beat her as the years progressed.

She'd accepted that she was to learn everything alone. At young age, she realized she was supposed to have to take care of herself one day. Her mother wouldn't always be there for her, she would die one day, and then she'd be alone. So she started learning, and her mother was pleased with her, which had been the thing she'd strove for.

Her father'd been a person she never knew, and she couldn't really care either. Her mother had been more than enough. She looked much like her mother. Her face was almost identical, save for her eyes, which were only slightly slanted.

"A-a-a-as you wish," the guard spluttered, and stepped aside.

She smiled, and walked away, toward the docks. When she got there, she stood on one of the piers, watching out over the water. She saw the Sky Dragon Isle in the dark of night, thanks to her strong vision. With a soft sigh, her tail unwrapped from her waist, and she gazed up at the stars, feeling the chill wind rise up.

"The Black Wind howls…" she whispered. "Mother, be careful…"

Who was the girl in the last scene? The shaman maybe? Who knows besides myself? Nobody I think.

Reviews:

Hope: Unless you haven't noticed, Elvor had never seen Ciria fight! Then how the Hell could he recognize her fightingstyle?! And he was recognizing that of Same not that of Bulma!!

RusinIndeed [chap. 22]: Then keep reading!

RusinIndeed [chap. 23]: I'm doing the best I can alright?!

RusinIndeed [chap. 24]: He was under the Masamune's control, so give him some slack!

RusinIndeed [chap. 25]: For your information, writing this story is about the only thing I do nowadays!!

cat421: Really? Well, thanks!

B-chan and Syaorons angel: You act like I haven't noticed already!! Anyway, thanks for the compliment.

trunks babe: Yeah, but it was a little tough to write.

Bulma BriefsYue Lover: Lucca and Magus! They're a lot like Bulma and Vegeta, and that's why I like them!

Ciria: The 8th Dragon is a…… I don't know. Looks like a he but uh… ah never mind! I'll just say the 8th Dragon's a 'he'. As a matter of fact, Masamune and Murasame are related!

Dragon battle schedule:

1. Earth Dragon Isle - Terra, the Earth Dragon

2. Water Dragon Isle - Douse, the Water Dragon

3. Mt. Pyre - Pyro, the Fire Dragon

4. Gaea's Navel - Flora, the Green Dragon

5. Marbule - Mura, Eldest Black Dragon

6. Marbule - Same, Youngest Black Dragon

7. Sky Dragon Isle - Sky, the Sky Dragon

8. Sea Of Eden - ????????