Chapter 9: The Match Part 1
Five years ago.
In the vast oceans of earth Bulma was screeching at the engine. She tried her best to fix it, really, but the salt from the sea had ruined the motor. After a few moments of angry rants she threw her wrench away, nearly hitting Chichi if she hadn't been fast enough.
"Is everything okay?" Chichi asked calmly, almost cheekily as she stretched out her legs.
"Are you death? We're stuck in the middle of the ocean with no food or water and you are asking if I'm alright?" Bulma shrieked.
"I can always call—"
"No! This trip is supposed to have no magic involved till the end" Bulma said.
"Even though we are temporarily stuck" Chichi said.
"We are stuck Chichi" Bulma growled.
"Well, we can swim to shore." Chichi said, looking to her left and narrowed her telescopic eyes. "There's land about 20½ miles that way."
"Yeah and leave me with hypothermia and maybe eaten by one of those sea-monsters if I'm lucky? Don't think so!" Bulma said.
"Sorry, keep on forgetting your not an amazon" Chichi said.
"Hello, I'm the brains and you're the brawns. Just this brain can't think of anything at the moment" Bulma said.
"I could just—"
"I mean I'm the daughter of a great genius, I should be able to come up with something!"
"Yeah but I could—"
"But all I can think is that I should have brought a spare engine or at least fixed the crack before we went off. I thought the engine may have enough time before the sea decided to wreck havoc to it."
Chichi rolled her eyes in frustration before blasting ki shot into the water at the back of the boat, propelling it across the ocean. Bulma was sent onto the floor of the boat, yelping when she landed before giving Chichi an evil look. Chichi however smirked at the genius.
"It's not magic" Chichi shouted through the roaring of the wind, chuckling happily. "But it's sure is fun!"
"A warning would have been nice!" Bulma barked as she scrambled to her seat.
"And miss seeing Lady Bulma falling on her ass? Hell no!" Chichi laughed.
Bulma narrowed her eyes at Chichi and looked towards the horizon. It was starting to get cloudy and from the looks of it, it may rain very soon. She looked back at Chichi, she too noticed it and increased the speed of the boat.
"How far is it?" Bulma asked.
"Around 125 miles away, Baba really likes her solitude" Chichi said "Reason why my aunt rarely visits"
"You do know where she lives right?" Bulma asked.
"Of course I know!" Chichi growled. "Anyone with good ki sensing abilities can sense that old hag out."
"You really aren't that fond of her" Bulma said.
"I haven't even met her yet" Chichi said.
"But you just called her an old hag" Bulma said.
Chichi gave Bulma a pointed look before she huffed in annoyance.
"She's roughly 500 years old and she's a witch that lives on an island in the middle of the sea. Hence why I said 'Old Hag', it would be the correct term" Chichi said.
"500?" Bulma said stunned.
"Yeah" Chichi said.
"And you didn't mention that because…?"
"I forgot" Chichi said, shrugging. "Besides you're the one that wants her fortune told, not me, Baba happens to be the best there is to see the future."
Bulma sighed, looking towards the front of the boat.
"How far is it now?" Bulma asked.
"93 miles to go, we'll be there before the storm hits" Chichi said.
Five years later.
Kakarot couldn't move couldn't even breath as he stared at his enemy before him. The deadly little thing that caused him pain and fear above all else: the needle. Sitting on a patient's bed he watched that thing was placed into a bottle, and pulled out the vaccine into the syringe. Oh didn't like it one bit.
"Just stay very still" Bulma coaxed gently "It won't hurt."
"Easy for you to say" Kakarot said, gripping the metal handles of the bed.
"Are you afraid of needles?" Bulma asked.
"I don't particularly like them" Kakarot said, no matter who it was he never admit to his fear. Vegeta just guessed it.
"Close your eyes then and count to ten slowly. By the time you reach ten it'll all be done" Bulma said.
"Can't I have it in a pill?" Kakarot said.
"No, and as far as I'm concern it has to go straight to your blood stream, not through your stomach. Now close eyes and count to ten!" Bulma said sternly.
"But…but…" Kakarot tried.
Bulma rolled her eye.
"Breakfast, behind you" Bulma said.
"Really?!" Kakarot grinned happily to look his shoulder to find nothing and frowned "There's nothing there Lady—"
"Done" Bulma said, taking the needle out of his arm.
"But I didn't feel a thing!" Kakarot gasped.
"Super sharp, super thin and so super painless" Bulma smiled gently but then frowned "Why didn't you come to see me earlier though"
"I was kinda busy training and I didn't want to be distracted" Kakarot said.
"It's kinda stupid of you though. Taking this jab later could just hinder your instinct than completely submerse it for this time" Bulma said.
"If it's just hinder then I can control it" Kakarot smiled "I'm no ordinary saiyan"
As Chichi changed into her gear she felt her arm twitch all of a sudden. She looked at it as a warm feeling started to roll down her arm as a small droplet of blood appeared. Her Amazon healing abilities kicked in and soon the droplet was gone, but the warm feeling remained before it faded further into her body.
"Odd" Chichi said.
She still felt normal but she had an inkling that wasn't something that should happen. At that moment Shashu walked in, strapping her bow and arrows on her back.
"You know it's just a fight" Chichi said.
"And leave my baby behind?" Shashu said stroking her bow "No way!"
"They could confiscate it." Chichi said, crossing her arms at her.
Shashu stretched her arms out and shaking them before cracking her neck to the side. She gives her cousin a grin before doing a few well practiced air jabs. Shashu was known to be the optimist one out the both of them.
"I like to see them try" Shashu said. "C'mon, mother is waiting"
Chichi checked the mirror one last time, letting her eyes rest on her arm. It still felt a little weird, but she shrugged it off. It didn't hurt, so it didn't matter.
Huge crowds of spectators came near and far to see the fight between the Amazon and the Saiyan Soldier. Krillin and Piccolo watched them come from the royal stand, far from people eavesdropping, both wearing there fighting gear. Most of these people were just normal citizens wishing to see the fight but some were fighters, eager to see what the Amazons were like. And some were people trying to make a profit out of this fight.
"Why did the king advertise this again?" Piccolo grunted in annoyance.
"Money in case the war does break out" Krillin said.
"More like an excuse for entertainment" Piccolo said
At that moment Bulma walked in with a hand held computer in her hand. She was wearing a white jacket with a blue blouse and a white skirt and matching kitten heels. She touches a few buttons on the computer before placing it into her pocket.
"Every security system on the tournament has been checked three times; everything is fine" Bulma said, observing them. "You guys seem to be a little tense."
"Oh no biggie, it's not like this fight is going to determine our fate" Krillin drawled.
"Sarcasm noted, but I still say have a little faith" Bulma said, though she was nervous as well.
"Easy for you to say Lady Bulma, your friends with the Princess" Piccolo said.
"You'll be fine either way Piccolo, it's not like your 100 Male" Bulma said "Or human."
"Whatever" Piccolo said.
"Hey! What am I?! Chop Liver?! I'm 100 human male here and I see no comforting from you!" Krillin said.
"Krillin you have no nose" Bulma said.
"Doesn't mean they won't over look it" Krillin said.
At that moment Tein entered and crossed his arms. He observed the rest of the z fighters and Bulma, his third eye narrowing slighting.
"Over look what?" Tein asked.
"That I have no nose" Krillin said.
Tein gave him an incredulous look, couldn't believe what the dear monk was saying.
"I thought you were going out with—mmph?" Tein didn't get to say anymore when Krillin placed his hand over Tein's mouth.
"What? Who's Krillin going out with?" Bulma asked, incredibly curious and in full gossip mode. "Tell me"
"No one" Krillin barked and gave Tein a deadly pointed glare "Right?"
Tein smirked at the shorter man and calmly removed his hand. He looked at Bulma with a shrug, he was curious what would she would do to obtain this information. If there was one person that would rule over all gossip it was definitely Bulma.
"Yeah" Tein said.
"Hey! You are going out with someone and I want to know who" Bulma said defiantly.
"You're the genius, prove there is someone first." Krillin crossing his arms stubbornly.
"As much as I love this little chit-chat, the problem at hand first before we go into your private lives" Piccolo drawled. "We're here to keep everyone safe from any problems we may face from this fight. So keep sharp and alert at all times."
Before Bulma could comment on it a roar of cheers could be heard everywhere as the King of Earth, Prince Vegeta, Nappa and a few guards walked in the room. The King's face had a cheery smile as he waved to the crowed before his attention to Bulma while Prince Vegeta looked like he ate too many lemons.
"Is everything ready?" the King asked.
"Yes your majesty, is Prince Yamcha not joining us?" Lady Bulma said.
"I thought it was in our best interest if he didn't" the King said, almost forced out.
Bulma didn't push; it probably was a good idea if he didn't come. If he angered one Amazon by opening his mouth, what kind of damage would he create from angering all the amazons? Besides she still wasn't comfortable of being around him at the moment.
The King knew about the breakup between them and so never really questioned her about it. He knew it was best to leave it be unless they wanted to talk to him about it. So far Prince Yamcha wasn't opening up meaning he was trying to deal with it or some other issue first.
"And Kakarot?" Bulma asked.
"Behind Nappa" Prince Vegeta said.
Bulma and the Z fighters leaned to one side and surely enough Kakarot was standing there looking towards the arena.
"Kakarot" Vegeta barked.
"Hmm?" Kakarot said, looking towards them.
"What are you doing?" Vegeta asked.
"Just looking at the arena. I think it's too small" Kakarot said.
"Too small?" Bulma said astounded.
"If Princess Chichi and I will be fighting it would have to be a bigger space. The energy blasts may be powerful enough to break through some of the shields" Kakarot said.
"Are you sure?" Bulma asked.
"Positive" Kakarot said.
"Well, I better go and calibrate the shields then" Bulma said.
There was a sudden roar of cheers in air as the appearance of auburn sleeveless robe hooded women. Kakarot immediately spotted Chichi on the front. She along with her aunt and cousin had their hoods down. He knew they were her family because their facial features were very similar but what surprised him was that she was the only one with dark hair.
There eyes met, he could feel her eyes penetrate him making his stomach do summersaults and not in a good way. He could sense that her iron grip of her emotions was as hard as it was before which meant one thing. She was all business.
Great, now I'm going to work extra hard to open her up. Kakarot thought.
That was until she smirked and he got a little nervous, it reminded him way too much of being prey. As the Amazons walked toward the Royale Stand, only the royal Amazons kept a calm composure as their soldiers behind them gave warning glares to any nearby male. Those who didn't have the nerves to be near the amazons back slowly away from them. Those men were the ones that believed in too much of the rumours about them. Most of the Amazon soldiers kept there eyes on the saiyans.
Much to everyone's shock and dismay the King and Queen hugged before holding each others wrists.
"Queen Melanippe, it is lovely to see you again" the King said.
"Same here old friend" the Amazon Queen said
"W-wait, you two already knew each other?" Shashu said.
"I was a friend of her late sister" the King said.
"Aunty Chiyo was friends with you?" Shashu exclaimed before looking at her mother "Why didn't you tell me?"
"You were little at the time Shashu, I thought you would remember" the Queen said "And we have been allies for nearly over two thousand years"
"Huh" Shashu said, surprised.
The King moved to the side to show the proud Saiyans to his side and none all the prouder but Vegeta in the middle with an emotionless mask.
"Queen Melanippe, this is Vegeta Prince of all the Saiyans in the Galaxy" the King said.
"I know, we've met in the council chambers" the Queen said. "You look better without that vein pulsing."
Vegeta's left eye twitched at that moment Shashu stepped forward, blocking her mother from Vegeta slightly.
"You must forgive my mother, she's the ultimate feminist. Sometimes I wonder how the hell I was born." Shashu said "In fact most of the Amazons are extreme feminists."
"I gathered that after my first sharp encounter of the hunting party" Vegeta said.
2 Weeks Ago
"Lady Bulma, I don't see why I have to go. As far as I'm concerned…"
Vegeta was following Bulma through the forrest towards the mountain.
"Blah blah blah blah blah, do you ever shut up for once? Besides the King wanted us to go and see the Amazon Queen, after all we need her blessing on the whole arena thingie. Heck I don't even know if Chichi had even mention about the fight" Bulma said.
"Lady Bulma…"
"This is going to be difficult as it is; we have to find the location of the entrance of the Amazons home. It always changes it's location constantly and only an Amazon can locate it easily even if they've been away for so long."
"Lady Bulma…"
"I find it fascinating how they use magic but so little of it in front of us but in war they literally changed the landscape to there benefit. Hence why they live in a mountain in the first place."
"Lady Bulma…"
"It can be so difficult to find any of them since they are so good at camouflaging themselves. There this one time I was riding my scooter and smacked right into one, she of course was fine since their bodies a really strong against such blows. But I got to tell you I never saw her at all until the last moment because…"
"WOMAN!"
Bulma growled before she spun around "WHAT? Oh!"
"I think I found them" Vegeta said.
He was in the mist of sharp spears pointing towards him, every inch of him cried to beat the snot out of these women for the audacity of it. Instead he took a large breath and began counting backwards in his head.
At that moment Shashu appeared out of the bushes, her black eyes gleamed slightly at Vegeta's temper. Almost daring him to fight. She then turns to Bulma with a smile.
"Lady Bulma, what brings you here with this…male? I thought we said you are always safe in these woods" Shashu said.
"I know, but the Prince and I were coming here to tell you that Princess Chichi has been challenge to a fight against his guard" Bulma said.
"Prince?" Shashu said, looking towards Vegeta "He doesn't look like a Prince."
Vegeta tail suddenly uncurled and lashed angrily. Shashu saw the tail and smirked.
"Release him, before he burst a vein" Shashu said.
"But my Lady he is a man" an amazon shouted.
"He is a saiyan" Shashu said "No doubt being the Prince would harm you all before I could bring him down."
"WHAT! You wouldn't be able to touch me let alone bring me down" Vegeta barked.
"Uh, Prince Vegeta?" Bulma said, Vegeta snapped his head towards her, giving her a 'this-better-be-good-or-else' scowl "This is Shashu, Princess Chichi's cousin and next in line to rule the Amazons."
"Do I care right now? No one insults my saiyan pride and gets away with it!" Prince Vegeta roared.
Shashu burst out laughing.
"Oh I like him! Not afraid at all. Unless I'm doing it intentionally, I can't stand it when men are trying to talk to me and stutter like a steam train without water" Shashu said.
Vegeta instantly cooled, he too didn't like it when his servants/soldiers stutter without good reason to. Bulma saw this and felt herself being envious that Shashu could cool the Prince's temper like that but tried to ignore it.
"So what do you want?" Shashu asked.
Back to the Present
"Princess Shashu?" a big bulky soldier of the King came up to her.
"Yes?" Shashu said, underlying a growl from her personal space being invaded.
"I must ask you to remove your bow and arrow please" the soldier said.
"The only way you're gonna take it off me is by force" Shashu growled.
"It is the King's safety…"
"Your King would have been dead in 54 ways by now and without the use of my bow and arrows" Shashu said "160 in your case if you try to pry them off me. Do you really want to risk it? Soldier?"
Chichi popped her head over cousin's shoulder to look at the nervous man. She had a grin of the cat that ate the canary as she hugged her cousin.
"160? You are forgetting some" Chichi chided her playfully.
Shashu looked at her cousin with a smirk before looking back at the man.
"Make that 235 instead" Shashu said "I keep on forgetting the ones that involves your balls"
The man cringed while the cousins laughed.
"Shashu, Chichi. That is NOT acceptable in front of the King of Earth" Queen Melanippe said to her daughter and niece before turning to the man. "Don't worry about my daughter if you take her bow and arrows…it would be me you should be worry about since I'll be sitting next to the King and could kill him if I wanted to."
The Amazon Queen smirked towards the King of Earth. He gives her an annoyed look.
"I always knew there was I reason why your mother sent Chiyo instead of you to talk" the King said.
"It's not like you never enjoyed those visits" the Amazon Queen said. "Who is it that shall be fighting my niece?"
"That'll be me" Kakarot as he stepped forward.
"Little bit skinny aren't you" the Amazon Queen said.
"Skinny? I've been called many things, especially by the Prince, but never skinny" Kakarot said, a little amused.
"Well, if you are a good candidate to fight with as my niece said you are, then I have no objection" the Amazon Queen said almost tiredly "Let's see what you can do.
Only Chichi saw the ruffled up look Kakarot slipped for a second. She smiled at aunt's ability to ruffle up anyone's feathers with little effort. As if on cue Chichi and Kakarot bowed to the King, the Amazon Queen and the Saiyan Prince before turning towards the arena. A chorus of cheers could be heard as they silently walked into the arena. Kakarot could feel nerves tingling on the edge of her skin but she refused to look at him.
"Nervous?" Kakarot asked.
"No" Chichi said.
"Good, wouldn't want anything to distract you" Kakarot said.
"Don't worry, by the time this is over people you talk to will be distracted by the beating you got" Chichi said.
"I see you still sore from yesterday" Kakarot said.
"You a fool to think that I will let you have me" Chichi said.
"You're the fool otherwise" Kakarot said
"You're an idiot too" Chichi said.
"Do you not care about me Chichi?" Kakarot asked.
"And an optimist" Chichi said.
They entered the arena and turned opposite sides once they reached the centre. When they were about 10ft apart they turned back to one another. Kakarot did a few warm up exercise while Chichi stretched out after a few jumps to get the blood flowing.
"Still confident you are going to win?" Kakarot asked.
"I don't need confidence to know that you are going down Saiyan" Chichi said.
"Whatever you say Amazon" Kakarot said.
Chichi gave him a sarcastic look before pulled her robe off to reveal her Amazonian fighters gear which mainly consist of leather and armour. Kakarot wouldn't have called it fighters gear at all. Leather boots, leather skirt and leather sleeveless top all in the colour of sapphire with silver plates of metal covering vulnerable parts. To her it was durable in hand to hand/ki to ki combat but to him it was the worst case of the hormones.
"So are you going to stare at me or are we going to fight?" Chichi said, bringing him out of his thoughts.
"You can't wear that" Kakarot said.
"Does it…distract you?" Chichi said innocently.
"It has armour" Kakarot stated, yes it was distracting him.
"It is my fighting kit" Chichi said
"You sure? Cause it looks like it comes with handcuffs and whips" Kakarot accidently blurted out and immediately regretted it.
If looks could kill Kakarot definitely knew he'd die and never ever be reincarnated from the look she gave him. Her blood boiled in an instant sending ki up and on the sound of the gong he was suddenly filled with pain and flying into the air.
Gaining back his thoughts Kakarot flips onto his feet and blocks the incoming attack to his face. Chichi bounces off him. She rolls into the air, lands on her before shooting over to him, creating a dust cloud behind her. She then swings a fist at him on the side but Kakarot blocks her before pushing her back. To his mistake Chichi then kicks him in the stomach sending him backwards a couple of steps. With the she lunges forward, she does a scissor kick to him in shoulder before smacking a pressure point. Kakarot yelped at sheer sudden intense pain, it was like cold blunt knife scraping down to his bones as carelessly as possible. She paused at that moment, biting her lip. She could let him be that way till he gives up but something told her to show mercy. She didn't like him being seen in agony at all, not when he had been so nice to her. But then again he was like any other man on this planet when it came to one thing constantly on their mind.
Rolling her eyes in reluctance she smacks the 'release' point of his body. Kakarot sighed in relief as he got up before looking at Chichi. His eyes still had those twinkles in them.
"You like me, don't you?" Kakarot said.
"Gonna have to get back to you on that one" Chichi said.
If anyone had a camera that slowed down the length of time at 10,000x what they would have seen was Chichi springing up towards him, twisting along the way, slamming one foot into Kakarot's jaw followed by the other foot into his side and Kakarot went soaring while Chichi landed into an almost aristocrat pose.
"OOFH!" Kakarot grunted when he landed.
He skidded to a stop. Slowly he got up, working the pain out of his jaw. Kakarot looked at her; she was standing there, hands behind her back looking at him inertly.
"I'm guessing going easy on ya isn't my option" Kakarot said.
"Nope" Chichi said, still angry.
"Hmm" Kakarot sighed playfully.
He scowled suddenly as he took stance when the air around him charged up. The force strengthened and his ki rose deep within him, expelling out his blue aura. Chichi narrowed her eyes at Kakarot, how he brought his ki up was something definitely not from his planet.
"You had help from a Z fighter" Chichi noted.
Krillin suddenly felt everyone eyes on him.
"Why would you say that?" Kakarot asked coolly but was surprised.
"How your ki flows is not how I remembered it from our fight" Chichi said.
"We weren't using any" Kakarot said.
"Trust me, it has changed" Chichi said smugly. "Guess I'm more advance that you"
Kakarot narrowed his eyes at her and bared his sharpening teeth.
"Did I hit a nerve?" Chichi said in a babyish voice.
"Don't worry Princess there will be hitting in the future we both will enjoy" Kakarot whispered as he smirked.
Her eyes widened in realisation of what he was implying, letting her mouth drop in audacity. When she shut her mouth again, Chichi's body shook in anger as the ki rose within her and spread to her fingertips.
"PERVERT!" Chichi snarled bringing her hands in front of her.
The energy expelled from her hands, twisting like a cobra towards its prey in a deadly strike. Kakarot pushed his ki out into a shield, crossing his arms in protection. It hit him head on, with little damage. He look passed his arms and saw her coming, leaving afterimages after afterimages as she went for him.
"She's pissed" Kakarot stated.
Everyone in the booth held the same face of confusion and disbelief. The only one that was spouting a blush happened to be Piccolo who heard it.
"What did he say?" Shashu asked.
"You don't wanna know" Piccolo said.
"My cousin doesn't get that angry without fucking good reason" Shashu said.
Immediately the Queen walloped her daughter over the back of her head with her middle and forefinger very hard. Shashu gave out a yip and rubbed the back of her head.
"Shashu, language!" Queen Melanippe scolded.
"Mother, aren't you curious why her ki suddenly spiked in anger?" Shashu said.
"I'm more curious why it was fluctuated strangely in the first place" the Amazon Queen said.
Arcadia81: Glad you like it. Would have got it done sooner if there hadn't been Uni to go to. Major pain in the butt.
Yeah I think she'd faint but I also think if he had been a little closer she would have smacked his head with the fish (since she lacks the frying pan) if he'd done that. Quite possibly pointing in the front but I think he was still a little shock from the giant flying fish. Hehe. I don't think it would her naivety that stops her from noticing more like the sheer shock of being caught in the buff. AHAHAHAHA man I'm evil, I wonder what I could think up next?
Yep too much frustration for Veggie boy. He had to stay longer than it was expected, he has to stop a war from happening, listen to Bulma yapping along with the fact his growing feelings for her, Father wants him to find a mate, fearing Frieza may be alive, has to restrain himself from giving into his temper and kill someone and probably by the end of this he may kill his therapist. Man, sucks to be him.
Dakangel000: Sorry about the Cliffie hun but I needed to break the chapter down otherwise I'd be at it for ages and you guys wouldn't have an update. I felt so happy when I wrote the kiss scene and I'm glad you're happy about it too. I hope you like the beginning of the fight so far.
Ruth Aose: Thanks.
Yari: Sorry this took so long hun, just a load of work to catch up on. The Mask was actually one of all time favourite movies when I younger. I wanted to give Vegeta's and Goku's friendship almost like the one that my brothers have. They get along well but they like to tease each other and literally fight afterwards. As for 'Geta's mate? I'm thinking blue attracts. Hint hint ;)
Thanks for reading. Please leave a review because this girl is really tired from University and writing this up when she can and feels like hitting the hay like there's no tomorrow. Thanks.