Could This Be True: Chapter 4 - Mixed Emotions
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The plot and OG charaters are creations of entirely my own.
*Trunk's POV*
"I wann go on the pony mommyy.." Goten mumbled in his sleep. I had to stifle a laugh then remember why I was here at Goten's window. Pan. I couldn't find her ki, so I came to the one person who understood the many times I flipped out on him over Pan going missing. He always reassured me that Pan was just hiding it so no one would find her, but where would she go at 6:30 in the morning that she didn't want someone to follow. I sighed and pushed my hand through my lavander hair, Pan always said I looked like a purple-headed fairy and she was the only one I allowed to call me that. And now my dark-haired raven was missing, I would find her. I would find her and she'd always have her purple-haired fairy, this time he wouldn't leave her. Ever.
Before I could talk myself out of it I opened Goten's window and climbed through. I knew one of two things would happen when I woke Goten; number one he'd freak out and wake everyone up or number two he wouldn't even budge. I prayed for the latter.
"Goten.." I shook him a little, "Goten." I said more forcefully while jamming a finger in his ear. He still didn't budge. I sighed, I'd have to use the 'secret weapon' that ChiChi always used on the Son men to wake them, "Goten, breakfast is ready!" I said loud enough for only him to hear. I hoped to Kami that Goku still layed asleep.
Goten raised forward quickly and looked around, "Huh, food.. Where.." he rubbed his eyes, "Trunks, why are you here? Did you bring food?"
I rolled my icy eyes and glanced at him, "Goten, something is wrong."
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*Pan's Captor's POV*
"Duleca, we've captured the Sayain." I contacted my leader on our home planet, Discennia.
"Fantastic, Kikiru, this one will draw the others to our use as well." Duelca's voice spoke, "Bring it to me and we shall let the rest of those disgusting animals prod around for her, and just when they've lost hope will we send the message."
"But Sire, that could take years-" Madre started, but was cut off abruptly by Duelca's booming voice.
"And so be it. The longer we have her, the more we can convince her." You could almost hear the smirk in his voice.
After he said that, Madre and I took the raven haired Sayain-girl and fled out her window. We escaped to our pods and started our journey home, with our prize.
*Goten's POV*
"So you think she's gone or something?" I questioned with a mouthful of breakfast food. I had managed to talk Trunks into buying me breakfast since he insisted that we couldn't stay at my home for fear my parents would wake up.
"Yea, N-no. Not as simple as that." his ice blue eyes glanced at me and then down at the table, "I think she ran away.." he sighed and mumbled the last part. I couldn't hear him.
"Why doyouthink that?" I said stuffing more food into my mouth.
"Goten, did you not hear what I said?" He asked, I just shook my head in reply. He sighed, "I think she ran away.." he spoke softer but I could still hear him this time, "..because of me."
"Why, what happened?" I looked at him, I could tell something was wrong. After all the years that Trunks and I have been friends, it gets kinda hard to lie to one another about things. He was cornered, he should know that.
"I kissed her."
"Whhhaaaatt?" My head whipped up from the plate of food and I stared at Trunks, who seemed alot closer. Oh, I was holding his shirt collar. "What do you mean you kissed her. That better have been all you did with her." I growled and glared at him, gripping my right hand on his shirt collar tighter and my left hand now resting in a stack of pancakes.
*Trunks' POV*
Goten surprised me sometimes. I could talk to him about wanting to be with Pan all the time and him be cool with it, but if I mentioned that I held her hand or basically touched her he would be concerned. But never, never have I been jerked in his face like that. Maybe I shouldn't have told him that much. I put my hands on his hand and pryed it off of my shirt collar. "Chill out. You know me, I wouldn't do that." I sighed, "It was our first kiss, but it turned out to be a good-bye kiss.." A low growl rippled through my chest and I heaved a dry-sob, "A real good-bye kiss."
His dark eyes studied my face, I could feel him just glaring at me but when I looked up he had a concerned look on his face, "You-you really loved her? I thought it was just puppy love, ya know. Like it was with me and Mya. But,"
"Goten, yes. I loved her, I still do. Thats why after I kissed her I left." I ran my hand through my own lavander hair.
"You left? Wait, you left because you love her?" His face twisted to show confusion, "I don't get it."
"She shoved me away. So I left. I told her I wasn't coming back unless you or Bra were with me. But I haven't seen her since then, Goten I haven't seen her in four months. Now she's ran away somewhere and I'll never see her again. I can't live like that, I can't live knowing that its my fault she's gone." My sentences started to run together and I was breathing faster.
Goten walked over and put his hand on my shoulder, "Trunks, she's hid her ki before. She probably just wants to be alone. We can go to Gohan's today and wait around. Hey, maybe she's there now.." before he could say more I pulled his sticky hand off my shoulder and stood up tossing a few zeni on the table that was more than enough for the bill.
"Lets go," I walked out the door of the resturant, "Hurry."
*Pan's POV*
Where was I? Why's it so dark in here? Ugh, I feel like I was just knocked out. I looked around the dark room hoping to see some form of something to let me know where I was. I couldn't remember anything, all I could remember was Trunks kissing me then leaving. Had I passed out again? Oh Kami, he probably thinks I'm stupid or something.
"Whats that smell?" I scrunched my nose and looked around.
"Losa" a voice answered me from the darkness.
"Wh-what? Who are you? Whats Losa?" I stammered and tried to stand. My legs were too weak to hold my body up and I collapsed back to the floor with a very soft 'thud.'
"I am Artemis, and Losa is a drug used to keep Sayains unconcious. From the way your falling over like that I'm assuming your of the Sayain blood?" Artemis answered my question then asked his own.
"Yes, I'm a Sayain. Wh-why would I need to be unconcious, where am I?" I looked around to see where Artemis was.
"You're on the ship to Discennia." He answered kindly. But he didn't tell me why I was supposed to be unconcious. Where was Discennia, and why was I going there.
"I-I can't remember anything. Why am I going to Discennia, where is it? Where are you, why can't I see anything?"
"Calm down, child. Your family traded you for some royal reputation. They said they didn't want you with them anymore. If I can remember correctly one of them said that you put the Sayian name to shame." his soothing voice answered.
I felt my face go cold and my stomach lurched into my throat. I could hear my heartbeat in my ears. They didn't want me anymore. "I don't believe you. My family would never say that to me!" I was in denial, "Prove it!" I screamed and lunged toward the sound of his voice. I only collided with the wall. I rubbed my face as I looked around.
I heard my mother's voice, "Of course we'll take the crown. Pan's hardly a woman and we know she'll be treated well in your hands King Duleca." Why did that name sound familliar, I've heard my father and grandpa Goku talk about him. I can't remember what they said.
My father's voice sounded, "Besides, Pan was really more of a burden than we asked for. She's always disobeying and running off. This will be the best thing that has happened to us since we got married."
It was Vegeta who spoke next, "Besides, the brat gives a bad name to our respected race."
"Goten and I were always right, Pan was the weakest. Which is kinda sad because Bra doesn't even train and she does more for our race than Pan." oh-no! Not Trunks too, he.. he gave me to them. But why! I tried to close out the voices but I could only listen to one, Trunks. "Pan would never grow into a beautiful woman and carry on our bloodline, no one would want a girl who dresses like a boy." His heavenly voice rang in my head, "I've always dispised her anyway," my Trunks, my wonderful Trunks. I couldn't believe he would say that.
"Trunks.." I whispered as I leaned forward and sobbed into my hands. My body heaved as I cried, how could he do that to me? I loved him, how could he do that to me! I felt a soft hand on my shoulder.
"Its okay child, they may not understand you there. But we will make sure everything is perfect for you here." Artemis spoke softly.
*Trunks' POV*
Pan wasn't in her room. She wasn't in the woods. She wasn't in the city. My heart was no where to be found.
Goten wasn't surprised when we didn't find her in her room. At that point, neither was I. Then when we scanned the forests and didn't find her, I was worried. I hoped she was in the tree house that Goten and I built when we were kids. Her and Bra had taken up to going there and just being girls, unlike what Goten and I had used it for. We would spar in the clearing and stay in the tree house all night. Bra had decorated it, it showed, because Pan wasn't really much of a girly girl. When I got there this morning I found notebooks and magazines scattered on shelves and extreme amounts of fluffiness and pink. I smiled when I noticed a orange bandanna tacked to the corner of a wall. Underneath it was a black bean-bag chair and lots of Pan's items. I had un-tacked the bandanna and stuffed it in my pocket before I left.
"Trunks.." I whipped my head around, un-aware I was blankly staring off in space, it was Goten who had startled me. I just looked at him, I couldn't form sentences unless they were in my own head, I couldn't speak, well I wouldn't speak. I was afraid I would choke out a sob.
Gohan walked over to where we were standing in the clearing, "I can't-" he sighed, obviously he was holding back sobs too, "Its been over 6 hours, where would she go for that long? Better yet, why would she-"
"Have you guys found her?" My mother called to us from across the field. Gohan went over to talk to her. I had devloped an idea in my head, my mother was such a computer geek that she could make an invention and use something of Pan's to track her down. But she said it wouldn't work.
I had hope, I would always have hope.
I sighed and looked around, Goten was lost in his own thoughts and everyone else was talking with one another. With the exception of my father, he was off in the background standing with his arms crossed over his chest; trying to look disconcerned. But I knew he was concerned, Pan had grown on all of us and pulled us together. Not to mention she was the youngest of the group. He was worried, I was worried, everyone was worried.
I was going to make things right. I was going to find her. I lifted off the ground without a word and ascended to the skies and flew home. I knew what I would have to do.
*Goten's POV*
Trunks had gotten pretty depressed. I couldn't understand why though. Pan had ran off like this before, but this was somehow different to him. Like he knew something we didn't. I wanted to prod him for more info but when I looked up, there was no lavander-haired Sayain boy to be found in the clearing. I searched for his ki and found him in the skies going toward CC. I couldn't take it anymore; Pan was missing, Trunks was depressed, and I was.. well, what was I?
"Hungry.." I muttered to myself. I stuffed my hands into my pockets and walked over to the rest of our families. Maybe by chance someone else was hungry. I stood unnoticed for several minutes until my rumbling stomach gave me away.
Bra was first to notice me, "Hungry Goten?" Her blue hair swayed with the breeze. I couldn't peal my eyes off her. What was happeneing? She smiled and waved her hand infront of my face, but I couldn't speak. When did Bra get so.. so beautiful? Now she was standing with one hand on her hip and the other waving around infront of her as she lectured me, she looked angelic. If you could find a angel with an attitude, it would be Bra. Her blue eyes glistened and I almost drownd in them.
"Goten!" her tiny hand gripped my shoulder and shook me.
"Huh-what?" I stumbled over my words and shook my head, "Wha-"
"Whats the matter with you Goten?" she flipped her hair over her shoulder and looked at me, "Hey, everything will be okay. We'll find Pan."
I simply nodded. That was the last thing I was worried about right now. I didn't understand my emotions toward Bra.
She smiled and pulled my arm, "C'mon, lets go get some food." I didn't object and followed her as she told the others where we were going. Then without another word we touched off the ground and flew to the outskirts of the city. We landed there and walked the rest of the way.
"So where to?" she smiled over at me.
"Anywhere is fine with me."
"Okay." she took my hand and we walked toward the closest resturant.
Wait! She's holding my hand! I looked down and blinked a few times before I looked up at her, my mouth drooped open a little and my eyes wide. She smiled at me, "Oh Goten, don't act like you don't like it." She giggled and winked at me.
I was definitally dreaming. Bra would never hold my hand or wink at me. She had always treated me like a older brother, I thought. She'd give me advice on girls. And when I'd get rejected or dumped or cheated on magically the girl would dissappear, I never really asked about that though. And I was her shoulder to cry on when guys hurt her. Then I'd proceed to hurt the guys who hurt her. Maybe some where along those lines she... No way.