Hello. Thank you for reading this far, if you are new. If you've been anticipating this chap. of Darkness in Love with the Light, I give my utmost thanks and respect, as an author, and I just love you if you've reviewed. I remember most of the people who've done that and I give my appreciation to:
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Rating:PG-13-Language, Graphic Violence/Death (just guess)

Summary: An adolescent Bulma is captured by a fourteen- yr old Vegeta's troops, but they lose her after a chaotic episode of defeat. When she and Vegeta encounter each other once again, will she forgive and forget-or wait, does she even remember?

'-thinking "-speaking

Enter:Bulma Briefs/ Location: Unknown

A wave of intense pain rolled over in her head before a deep sense of deja' vu swept over her in unison. At first, she thought she was in the not-so-comfortable "bed" in the moldy, dark corriders of the ruins, but when she rolled off her side, the rocks plus various scrapes and burns proved her wrong. That's when the horribly inevitable realization hit her: NONE of it was a dream.

"Oh no..,"she painfully sobbed. Stinging tears grew on the brink of her eyelids, as the burning sensation surrounding her body had turned into an intense, burning pain. She blinked away the tears and slowly tried to open her eyes, which she could easily tell were swollen and most likely purple.

A fiery sky of orange-red greeted her almost-open eyes after the blurry effect had worn off. She tried to sit up but once her head had gotten over a foot above the ground, gravity decided to take its toll on her and make her head feel as if it were being pulled down. Bulma whimpered as her thoroughly bloody hand flew up to the back of her head, where the pain sprouted. As she predicted, she felt a warm, almost soothing small flow of blood make contact with her hand. But when she brought the hand back into her eyesight, a look of surprise graced her features anyway. As her hand fell limp to the ground of ashes, the unbearable urge to lose consciousness nearly took over her, but the mostly sensible side of her resisted it; replacing it with a persistence to crawl out from under whatever was on top of her and get the hell out of there.

Again keeping the pain and fatigue away from possessing her, she tried with all that she had to get on her two feet, if they were there, at least. She faltered once, but after regaining what was left of her strength, she was fine from there. After discovering countless areas of pain and a few of what are most likely broken bones, she started to very slowly limp over the multitude of rock and ashes, and some of what actually looked like molten lava. But after a few small steps, she looked back, remembering there being a few other people, but only to see more piles of ruin and rock.

A strange sadness grasped her heart, as the sudden event finally and painfully sank in. Death, tragedy, and pure chaos and destruction surrounded her, and she could feel it. It was almost too much for her as well. But she kept going. Don't look back and keep going. That's what her world told her to do, so she followed it, hoping that after she escaped, she would be greeted home with grateful, worried, and caring faces, of the ones who would be truly proud of her for once.

Enter: The Briefs Residence/Location:Capsule Corp.

BBBRRIIINNNGG! BBBRRIIINNNGG! BBBRRIII-!

"Hello, yes- is she okay? Hmm.. Strange. Well I'm sure she'll show up. Ah yes, I do know she's a teenage girl... Uh huh. Bye."

"Don't worry, doesn't she do this all the time with her friends, dearie? I think you should have some nice tea and have a nap. Whaddaya say?" offered unusually brightly, despite the fact that her own daughter had been missing for over 18 hours.

Rubbing his temples, Dr. Briefs replied,"Sorry dearest, I think I'll return to the lab. The new blueprint for the robot dog might be in!"

"Aww," leaned down to kiss her aging husband on the cheek,"You always were the sweet and caring one! Now go get some rest. You need to look up and ready to give her the best greeting when she gets back, which she DEFINITELY will."

"Okay, if you insist. Beep me if there is anymore news on her."

"Sure will, dear."

With that, went upstairs, but unbeknownst to him his wife was disconnecting the phone line.

Enter: Sgt. Zarbon/ Location: Unknown

"Errggh..."

Rock rolled off his arms as he tried to reposition himself on his elbows in order to recollect where exactly he was. And maybe what had happened. Before any of that was done, a sharp pain erupted in his head, automatically shutting off his eyesight and making his hands shoot up to grip his head and push the pain away. Failing miserably, he had to endure the unbearable pain, making strangled noises now and then. He could feel the breath being kicked out of him as a horrible tightness formed itself onto his chest. He tried to blow out, but only hoarse wheezes could be produced. Now, as the breath was slowly fading, he could see white, he could smell, taste, feel white coming over him as finalization swept his entire being and memories of triumph and love and hate and jealousy was only for a moment remembered. His life was laid out on the table as his fate was unfolding before him.

As a last surge of strength filled him, he looked up to see the girl, who had made that fatal game after stealing his infatuation, and he tried to call out to her. But his voice could not be found. Neither could his breath. Boy, she had certainly taken his breath away, that was for sure. After a silent chuckle at his last thought, all his breath supply had diminished and darkness filled every sense that he had left before he floated up, up, up to the white.

It was then, at that moment, Death had finally captured him, so soon, but so late in his eyes.

Unfortunately, his greatest fear had occurred, he died without any tears shed for him.

He had died, cold and alone.

Enter:Prince Vegeta no Ouji/ Location:Unknown

Eyes opened with a start. Blood pumped rapidly. Every open and bleeding injury only served him with golden energy. Sat up instantly. Eyes, bloodshot, shot in every direction to collect environment. Pain pulled down his head and muscles ached. Fatigue swept over. But all of this was easily conquered with the Saiyan Prince's immunity to any weakness of that sort.

He staggered up to his feet, which one of them he could tell was broken. He looked all around once again to find any inhabitants by detecting any ki. He only found a very small one, and one that had just recently vanished. He took it that the one that had vanished was the preposterous girl, thankfully, and the small one was Zarbon. Taking no concern over this discovery, he set off to find his ship and head back to Frieza's quarters.

Little did he know, that this entire planet and the events that took place on it, which he considered just another boring episode of wreckage, would change his life forever in the long run.

Enter: Bulma/Location:Unknown

After countless hours of limping and somewhat tripping over the destruction of the planet, she finally lost all of her newfound energy and had fallen on her knees, begging death from the Kami above already. But she had to keep going. Even though she knew she could be just going around in circles of the planet for years, she had to try. She thought of her family, her passion for science and technology, and her bright future in her father's company.

She hadn't even found a husband yet!

That did it, for the most part. Soon, she saw a greyish shell-like structure underneath the rock. Immediately, she leapt to it and started clawing off the ashes and such before she heard a squeak behind a large boulder.

'Oh no...not again...,'Bulma thought , trembling with utmost fear.

Then it came out from behind the boulder, presenting itself to the terrified pre-teen.

Enter:Prince Vegeta no Ouji/Location:Unknown

It took a while before he could find his Spacepod, which he carelessly landed into a large gash in the planet, making it nearly impossible to find since all the rock had fallen in as well. Plus, his Spacepod detector was ruined in the spontaneous eruption. So, he had to blast various areas that he thought he had landed in, and finally, after about an hour of blasting and growling furiously, he had located his exit out of the close-to-exploding planet.

After getting all of the rock out of his way, he got into the small Spacepod, and set the location for Frieza's headquarters, and also putting Life Support in his system, knowing full well that he probably wouldn't make it all the way to Frieza's ship without it. With a blast of exhaustion, the structure propelled itself off to space, finally getting the well-damaged Prince out off the ruined planet for good.

Enter:Bulma Briefs/ Location:Unknown

To her relief and humor, the creature that had presented itself from behind the boulder was no smaller than a kitten, and very ferret-like, looking at her with the most wide, green eyes, matching her stare incredulously. She laughed at herself, perking up the creature's curiousity and making it get closer to her with pure interest.

"Aww...how cute,"she said before cautiously putting out her hand to pet it. It had agreed with her offer, ducking it's head low and receiving a small pat by it's large ears.

"You know what, little one. I think...I think I'll take you home. Yeah, I'll do just that."

Picking up the creature and getting in the narrow Spacepod back-first, she then placed the creature on her side and let out a huge sigh of relief. Relief that she had survived, relief that she had escaped, and relief...that she had won her own game. Setting the location for Earth, which was strangely where it was headed next, and then surprisingly finding and inserting the Life Support in her lungs and system was all she had to do to get home safely. Resting her head back on the seat, she fell into a much needed deep slumber.

Enter:Author's Note/ Concluding Close

'Til next time.;P

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