Chapter 3 - Turtle

She woke up about 4AM in the morning. Leanne wasn't shocked about this since she's always waking up in early times. She yawned and saw Bulma still sleeping beside her.

It was nice of the young scientist to let her sleep in the bed with her. Leanne blinked when she heard a soft snoring, she turned her attention to the snore and noticed it was Goku's.

He was fast asleep on the ground with his makeshift bed that Bulma made for him.

Leanne frowned a bit at this, she felt her mother instincts kicked in. He shouldn't be sleeping on the floor, he should be sleeping on the bed instead. She stared at Bulma who is snoring like her Saiyan friend. she sighed and wondered if she can handle the teenage scientist.

She quietly sneaks out of bed and headed to the kitchen. She turned on the lights and started making some hot cocoa.

About five minutes, she sipped her mug and sat on the couch. The young girl begin to ponder of her experiences. It felt so unreal to be in Dragon Ball world, Leanne never thought it would be actually real. She sighed and saw her backpack beside her.

"It's a good thing I left it on the couch," she muttered.

She unzipped it and took out her smartphone. Leanne smiled softly and sipped her hot cocao, scanning the phone in her hand.

She switched on her phone once she pressed the power button. She swiped her lockscreen with her finger and pressed the gallery icon.

She stared in content at some of her pictures. While Leanne was swiping the photos, she stopped and stared at one.

It was her and her father at the park, they sat on the bench together with big smiles and they have their arms around each other's shoulders.

Leanne chuckled bitterly and laid her mug on the coffee table. She slouched and held her hair tightly in her free hand. She remembered her eleven-year old self, running around playing with her father, and asking him to get her a new smartphone one day.

She chuckled and soon gripped her smartphone tightly. She slowly pulled up her legs, and held a small cushion to her chest.

Leanne sat on the couch slowly tearing up before sobbing silently while holding the phone. About twenty minutes, she gasped and hiccuped. It was a good thing Bulma and Goku didn't wake up to see her pathetic state.

Wiping her tears away with her arm, she slowly calms herself down. About a few minutes, she stopped her tears and took out her dagger. The young girl went outside, plugging her earphones in her ears. Music sounded in her ear drums and she started practicing her kata.


Leanne went inside the house once the sun rose up, her body is covered with sweat and she was panting heavily. She kept her weapon in her bag, pictured her sleeping friends, and laid on the couch with a groan.

About a half hour, she got her energy back and took a bath in the spare bathroom. When Leanne was done, she dressed in her attire.

"Aaaahhhhh!"

"Cupcakes what!" she screamed with her eyes widened in shock.

She patted her chest to calm her rapid heartbeat and hurried into the room. Oh Kami, bless her. Leanne was right on time. She took out her phone and quickly filmed it all.

"Bulma, your balls are gone!" Goku stared at Bulma with a horrified look.

The young girl snorted and covered her face with her free hand. Dang, when someone is going to see her recording, they can tell that Leanne was struggling to keep her laughs to herself, judging how her camera shook a bit.

"You've got to be kidding? Please, no!" the blunette yelled and scurried to her feet and checked the Dragon Balls.

The young ten-year old knelt down, covered her mouth, and laughed.

"Kami, I love this part so much. Goku looks so kawaii, this is too much! Someone call an ambulance for me," she hysterically laughed in her hand and mind.

Bulma sighed in relief when she checked the Dragon Balls, "Oh good. They're all here. You must have been dreaming, Goku. Man, you really had me scared there..."

Goku stared at Bulma flabbergasted while Leanne hid her phone and mentally cheered her success. She left the room before anyone could question why she have a huge smile on her face.

It took her a while to remove the smile off her face. After doing several victory dance in her mind for recording that scene, Leanne laid on the couch and read her Percy Jackson book that she took out from her backpack while the scientist and young saiyan do their thing.

While she read her book, she silently listened Goku complaining to Bulma about being slow and all. When he said he's going to go outside to exercise, Leanne closed her book and kept it in her bag.

She sat up from the couch and headed outside to watch Goku exercise. Leanne smiled when he saw him breaking the rocks. Once he picked up a large one again, her eyes widened and gasped.

"Wait, Goku, that's a—" she stopped.

"Whoa!"

"What in the world?" Goku exclaimed, seeing that he picked up a turtle.

Leanne facepalmed as he yelled in surprise and dropped the turtle. It landed with a loud thump and yelped in pain. The young girl hurried over to Turtle with a concerned face

"Are you okay, Mr. Turtle?" she said worriedly.

"Oh, I'm fine. Thanks for asking," he replied.

Goku still stared, "Bulma, wow, you did change into a turtle."

Leanne sweatdropped at his comment and felt like she wanted to laugh too. When she first watched Dragon Ball, she also thought that Turtle was Bulma. However, that changed when she continued watching the episode.

"Boy, this is going to change our plans a bit, huh?" he approached.

Turtle stared at the boy confused while Leanne stepped forward to correct him. She was cut off when she heard a door opened behind them.

"Goku, who're you talking out there, kiddo?"

Goku's eyes widened, "Wha...?"

The blunette blinked once she noticed the turtle, "Who are you?" she asked.


For a while, Bulma gave some seawater to Turtle while Leanne was in her thoughts. She wondered if her friends noticed she was gone. Not to mention, one of her best friends and her grandfather figure, Kuya Bon.

She shrugged her thoughts away once Bulma told Goku that they didn't have time to help Turtle, making her and Goku irritated.

"You're impossible," she and Goku said.

"I'm impossible? What do you mean by that?" the blunette retorted.

Leanne knew the teen's attitude, but this is kind of too far in her opinion. All they have to do is help Turtle go back to the shore. Easy enough, can't the scientist just chill out and help someone in need?

"Well, if we're so pressed for time. Why did you spend the whole morning worrying about your hair?" Goku frowned.

Leanne raised her hands and pointed at Bulma, "Ooh, you just got burned, woman!" she said in her gecko accent and grinned.

The blunette growled and leaned forward, "Fine, help the stupid turtle if you want. I can find the Dragon Balls by myself, hmph." she glared.

Goku picked up Turtle and Leanne gave a raspberry to Bulma. Hey, she's in a body of a ten-year old, she can act immature if she wants to.

"Gosh, are women like this where you come from?" she asked, holding her hips.

Turtle shook his head, "No, most have tails."

Bulma started shouting and making faces at them while they left. Leanne smirked, knowing that the scientist would follow them later.

"Now time to meet Master Roshi!" the young girl smiled.


For a while we jogged, I blinked when I heard a shout behind me and a motorcycle engine.

"Stop, stop or i'll run you down. I mean it, you guys!"

I smirked when Bulma appeared with her motorcycle. We did and Goku and I began to tease her. I was kind of surprise to see a mishievous glint in his eyes and hear a strange tone in his voice.

"Careful, you could mess up your hair if you ride that thing." he slyly said.

I smirked deviously, "Yeah, we don't want you to spend hours fixing your hair." I joined in.

"Knock it off," she scoffed, "I decided to come with you."

That's when we begin to tease Bulma for being scared while she denied in an arrogant way. While Goku and I walked in the path heading to the sea, Turtle thanked us for helping him.

My heart warmed at this and I smiled.

"We just really want to help that's all," I chuckled and waved my hands in an embarassed way.

My expression went down when Bulma started complaining and told us to focus. I grit my teeth in irritation and clenched my fists, making small angry veins appear on my cheek and fists. One day, I will slap some sense in that spoiled teen. For Pete's sakes, I may be in a body of a ten-year old, but that doesn't mean I'm not older than her.

"We may be in the same age, but I'm six months older than her. Considering she was born in August. Not to mention, I act more mature than that spoiled brat." I thought and sent a small death glare at Bulma.

When she said that we're a few miles away from the sea, we continued going to our destination.

"Sweet Marioseph!" I yelled in surprise and stopped.

A giant, bear-like person appeared with a styled mohawk. I sweatdropped and my eye twitched when he spoke with a horrible Russian accent. Bulma and Turtle stared in fear while I took out my dagger and faced at him with a deadpanned look.

I mentally named him Bear Dude.

"Oh yeah, humans give me heartburn, but I love turtles. Hand it over or you're dead," Bear Dude ordered.

I quietly snorted at his accent and held in my giggles. I inhaled and exhaled a few times and gave him a disagreeing look.

"No way," I pulled my eyelid and stuck my tongue out.

"Lea!" Bulma hissed and turned to Goku. "C-C'mon, Goku, give him the turtle quick." she stuttered.

Goku stuck his tongue out like I did, Bulma's eyes widened in fear.

"I guess I can handle a little heartburn," he grinned. "Okay, die if you want."

"You idiots, you're gonna get us killed!" the blunette screamed, "give it to him." she ordered.

I sent her a glare, "No way, sister!" I growled.

Goku also rejected to give up Turtle. She screamed at us for being out of our minds while the bear took out his sword, causing Bulma to drive away in fright.

"You should hop down," I told Turtle.

His eyes widened and he started to gasp in shock. I turned to see Bear Dude swung his sword at us, Goku jumped away and I reflexively held out my unsheathed dagger. I didn't know what came over me to doing that, but I managed to block the sword with my blade.

CLAAAANGGG!

My eyes widened when my blade glowed, I felt some weight of the attack, causing me to jump away.

"What the hell—"

"Whoa, Leanne, that's awesome." Goku stared at me in awe.

I blinked and shook my head. I sheathed my dagger and saluted to him, "I leave this to you, bro." I hid my dagger in my jacket.

He nodded and laid Turtle on the ground. I jogged to the giant rock where Turtle hid, leaned back on it, and watched Goku. He stared at Bear Dude with a calm, innocent smile on his face. I silently squealed at his cuteness while Bear Dude, started talking to him.

"You think you're real cute, don't you, monkey boy?" he chuckled while he slowly approached my friend, "you should have saved your skin while you had the chance."

Bear Dude held his sword and attacked Goku with a yell, my friend laughed and dodged the bear's attacks with ease. I quickly took out my phone and took pictures of them. If I managed to picture almost every arc in this world my life would be complete!

I jumped a bit when Goku stopped Bear Dude with one punch, he landed on the ground with a 'Yay' while Bear Dude fell with a loud thud.

His happy-go-lucky and innocent nature always amazes me these days.

He smiled and held out a peace sign, "Well, that's that."

I snapped a picture of him before keeping my phone in my jacket. When he appoached Turtle about being tasty and stuff, I ignored and contemplate in my thoughts again. How did I manage to block that sword? Also, how in the seven hells, I even handle the weight of Bear Dude's attack? I would've been crushed or even worse... Killed, if I'm correct.

"Ready, guys?" Bulma spoke up.

I looked at her and nodded.

"Let's go," she said, riding away with her motorcycle.

"Onward to the sea!" I exclaimed with Goku.


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