Chapter 16: A Beautiful Truth
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Hello once again and thanks for joining me in the last chapter of my fan fiction. I know that it's gone up pretty quickly after the last chapter but I started typing and before I knew it the chapter was finished. I hope you guys have enjoyed my story so far and that you love the final chapter just as much as you have the rest of the story. Enjoy!
A few months had passed since the events on Planet Namek. Everyone had gathered together at Capsule Corp. to wish back their fallen friends. They had wanted to wish back Goku and Krillin back first. They had wished for them to be sent to the Earth's Check-in Station so that when they wished the back to life they would be Earth and not the wished to the location where Namek had once been. Purunga had told them that Goku lived and would die if he was sent to the Check-in Station. They all decided to have him sent to Earth, but Purunga said that he did not wish to be transported there but would be coming home soon. Vegeta knew that Goku was off somewhere training. That was the only explanation. The prince wanted to know how Goku had achieved his Super Saiyan status and was not about to wait for Goku to decide to return to Earth. He decided that he was going to go out and find Goku and make Goku tell him how he did it.
Nonica was standing just outside of the crowd. She was listening to her friends speculate about why Goku didn't want to return just yet. Vegeta walked over to her and pulled over to the side, further away from her friends. "What is it?" Nonica asked.
"Kakarot is off somewhere training. I know he is." Vegeta replied.
Nonica shrugged her shoulders, "So, what if he is? He'll be back soon enough. I know Goku. He is true to his word."
"I want to find. I have to know how he became a Super Saiyan. I must achieve my birthright."
"So, you want to go off into outer space on some wild goose chase just so you can ask Goku how he became a Super Saiyan? Vegeta, you have no idea where to even start. A needle in a haystack the size of a galaxy that's just crazy."
"Perhaps, but I have to know how he did it. I can not just stay here wasting my time these idiots you call friends. Would you like to come with me?"
Nonica was taken aback by his question. Vegeta wanted her to go with him? She looked over at her friends all gathered there. They were wishing back Krillin now and in an instance, he was standing before his friends. Nonica smiled. She then looked over the crowd. Could she leave all of them and go with her brother on a mission they may never accomplish? Nonica then spotted Piccolo. Could she leave him? Her heart ached at just the thought. They weren't together, but to not be able to see him was just too much for her. "No. I don't want to go with you." Nonica answered, not taking her eyes off Piccolo.
Piccolo was standing just to the right of Dende. He had been taking everything in. watching everything unfold before him. He had noticed Vegeta walk up to Nonica and pull her away from the others. He couldn't help himself. When he saw Vegeta talking to Nonica he listened in. His hearing was the best on the planet. He heard Vegeta ask Nonica leave with him. He didn't hear her answer though. There was just too much going on around him. It wasn't any of his business anyway so he turned his attention back to others.
Vegeta followed Nonica's eyes and saw that she was staring at Piccolo. He scoffed, "You would pass up this opportunity for him?" Nonica gave no reply. Power wasn't everything to Nonica and Vegeta just couldn't understand that. "Hmph. Your lose, sister. You stay right here and admire that Namek from a distance and pray that he will come to you and confess his undying devotion to you. Silly dreams for a little girl. Love is for the weak, Nonica."
Nonica smiled slightly and said, "And that, Vegeta, is why Goku will always be better than you." She left him standing there by himself with his arms folded and the ever present pissed off expression plastered on his face.
"Suit yourself." Vegeta growled and ran off to get on the space ship that Dr. Briefs had just built.
Everyone looked up as Vegeta took off into outer space with the stolen ship. Piccolo quickly glanced around. He felt a small surge of panic and then he laid his eyes on her. She wasn't looking up at the sky with the others. She was looking at him. Their eyes meet for just moment and then they both looked in other directions. Once everyone had settled down from Vegeta's sudden departure, they decided to wish back Yamcha. After the wish was made and Yamcha had appeared in front of his friends, the dragon disappeared and everyone started to leave.
Nonica was talking to Bulma and Yamcha, saying her goodbyes with her back turned to Piccolo. The Namekian just stood there for a moment and stared at her and then she flew into the sky. Bulma saw Piccolo watching her leaving and saw the look on his face. It was as if Nonica was the most precious thing on the planet. Please, Piccolo, wake up and realize that she looks at you the exact same way you look at her. she thought. She and Yamcha went inside to catch up.
Piccolo took to the skies. He didn't have any particular place in mind he just flew. He soon found himself in the mountains where Nonica lived. Nonica had cleared out a large portion of the trees in the valley and was using it as a training ground. Piccolo saw her below training. He flew downward and touched down beside a tree just outside of the training area. He propped against the tree, crossed his arms, and watched Nonica as she stretched.
Nonica had sensed his energy when he approached, but didn't think anything of it until she sensed him land behind. She stopped her stretching and turned to face him. "Hello, Piccolo. Is there something I can do for you?" she asked.
"I saw Vegeta talking to you. Well, I heard Vegeta talking to you." Piccolo said.
"Those ears of yours are going to get you into a lot of trouble some day. It isn't polite to eavesdrop." Oh, shit! How much of that conversation did he hear? Nonica thought with a panic.
"He wanted you to go with him."
"Yes and I obviously said 'no'. Is that all?"
"No, I was just wondering why?"
Nonica shrugged. "I have a life here, Piccolo. I didn't want to leave my father and Mr. Popo and all my friends. I like Earth. I don't want to go all over the galaxy looking for Goku."
"That's what he's doing?"
"Yep, he is so impatient. He wants to find out how Goku was able to become a Super Saiyan. It's crazy."
Piccolo stood there and looked at Nonica. He began to think about that day on Namek and the battle with Freiza. He thought about just how close Nonica had come to dying. How close he had come to losing her. Nonica had gotten so angry that she tried to attack Frieza. She had never really ever been prone to losing her temper like that. Something dark had been unleashed inside of Nonica during that fight. Some Saiyan rage that had long laid dormant. Something that Kami had helped Nonica lock away until she was ready for it to surface again. Nonica had been training hard and meditating at Kami's Lookout almost daily ever since that battle in order to harness that power. "You've almost got it order control." Piccolo commented.
"Yeah, it's been difficult. My Saiyan instinct continues to kick in and my urges to fight and destroy can be so hard to ignore, but I'm reining them in and it's gotten better."
"Well, you are certainly the strongest, bravest woman I know."
Nonica blushed a little. "That battle did something to me, Piccolo. It was like the Saiyan I once was had grown up and was lying in wait for the day she got to face the beast again."
Piccolo straightened from where he had been propping and walked over to Nonica. "I can't imagine what living with Freiza had been like for you."
"A living nightmare. I had giving up after watching my father die and I refused to destroy anymore people. I was beat almost everyday. I was almost killed once." Nonica shuttered at the memories of her life under Freiza, "I use to be so evil."
"No, Nonica. You were a child doing what she had been taught to do. You've never been evil." Piccolo replied.
"Yeah, but it doesn't make any of it any less awful." There was silence between the two for a few minutes and it was driving Nonica crazy. "The Namekians will be leaving soon." she said.
"Yes, I suppose they will be."
A question had been haunting Nonica. Piccolo had been spending a little time with the Namekians. He had been learning more about his heritage and Nonica had begun to wonder if Piccolo would decide to go with them when they got ready to go to their own planet. "Were you planning to go with them?"
Piccolo grinned, "Why so curious?"
"Just am."
"I suppose that I would stay if there was a good reason to." Piccolo didn't know what exactly what it was he was trying to accomplish by saying such a thing, but he was tired of keeping his feelings hidden from her. He had to know one way or the other what kind of chance they had together.
"I figured you would want to stay here because it's your home." Piccolo just looked at her and didn't say anything. Nonica shrugged her shoulders and said, "You'll do what you feel you need to do, I guess." she turned to start her training for the day.
She is so stubborn. Piccolo thought. He wasn't good with things of the heart, but she made him want to try. Piccolo was no coward, but Nonica scared the hell out of him. Fear of her rejecting him scared the hell out of him. He wanted her. The dream. Could it be possible that they had shared a dream? Or had they meet in dreamland? He'd had no problem telling her his feelings in the dream because it was just a dream. Nonica wasn't really in that meadow with him, was she? He decided to try something a little reckless. He walked up behind her and said, "I can't think of any place I'd rather be than back in that meadow with an angel."
Nonica froze. The memory of the dream she had the day she almost died played back in her mind. She turned back around and looked at Piccolo, "What did you say?" she asked.
"You heard me." he replied, "She told me that I wasn't a monster. I told her that I needed her because…"
"She is your redemption." Nonica finished. Piccolo smiled and nodded his head. Tears began to well up in Nonica's eyes, "You really were there. I didn't dream that up. We meet up in our dreams and that means…"
"Everything we said to each other was real because we both thought we were talking to dream versions of one another." Piccolo said finishing her sentence.
Nonica was stunned. She had poured her heart out to Piccolo in her dream because she didn't think she was talking to the real Piccolo, but she was. "I think I might faint."
Piccolo walked closer to her and placed his hands around either of her shoulders. He looked into her deep icy blue eyes, "Nonica, give me a reason to stay. Let me hear the words from your lips. I must know that it truly was real."
"We said everything that needed to be said, Piccolo." Nonica said softly. She reached up and put her hands on the sides of his face and lowered his head. Piccolo's hands moved down to Nonica's waist as he basked in the tenderness of her touch. Nonica's cheek touched Piccolo's and her lips were close to his ear. "I am in love with a former demon." she whispered, "He is stubborn and sometimes arrogant. He pushes me to my limit and almost everything turns into a argument. He has become so kind and has overcome so much to become something more than what he started out to be. I almost died for him and I would do it again in an instant."
Piccolo smiled and a sense of relief washed over him. It was all true. Somehow this beautiful, perfect angel had fallen in love with him. She wanted him just as much as he wanted her. Piccolo embraced Nonica and she wrapped her arms around his neck. He lifted the small lady Saiyan's feet off the ground and held her in his arms. After all that time of agony and believing that there was no way she could ever feel anything for him, Piccolo had been wrong. She belonged to him. She had always belonged to him and he didn't know it. She was his angel, his treasure, his Nonica. He pulled away from her just enough so that he could press his lips against hers. They shared a kiss that they both had been yearning to share for so long. "Oh, Nonica." he said into her lips, "I had believed that I would live in this agony forever, that you could never feel for me what I feel for you. Then, just like the angel you are, you saved me. I love you. I will love and protect you for the rest of my life. Forever."
Nonica smiled, "I love you. I promise to protect and love you and make sure you never feel that agony ever again. I belong to you, Piccolo. I believe that I've always belonged to you." Their lips meet once again. They were tangled up in one another. All that time spent alone and being starved of each others' affection melted away. They were finally together. No more pride, no more fear, only love.
Time passed by and soon it was time to gather together once again at Capsule Corp. and summon the eternal dragon, Purunga. Everyone had already gotten to Capsule Corp. when Nonica and Piccolo showed up together. "Well, what's this now?" Bulma asked with a huge grin on her face. Piccolo smiled and wrapped his arms around Nonica and pulled her back against him.
Yamcha put his arm on Bulma's shoulder and said, "Nonica and Piccolo a couple? It's about time. I knew something was up that day we were getting in the car to go to Snake Way and Piccolo had wondered where Nonica had snuck off to."
"Yeah, well, I thought we had something to do here other than comment Nonica's and my relationship." Piccolo replied and Nonica giggled softly.
And with that Purunga was summoned. Tien and Chiaotzu were wished back and were greeted warmly by their friends. Then it was time for the Namekians to bid the Earth farewell. It was a sad time because they had grown quite fond of the people they had meet on Earth and were very grateful for all of their hospitality. They all said there goodbyes and the wish for them to be transported to their own planet was made. Nonica gripped Piccolo tightly. The fear that he was going to leave still plagued and filled her with dread. Piccolo felt Nonica's hold on him tighten and her body tense. He leaned over and nuzzled behind her ear, "I'm not going anywhere. I could never leave you." he whispered. Nonica closed her eyes, let out a sigh of relief, and smiled. The Namekians began to disappear and in a few moments they were all gone. Purunga and the Namekian dragon balls followed behind them. Nonica realized that she was still wrapped in Piccolo's arms and that he was still with her. She could not have been happier. She had her Piccolo and she was not about to let him go. He felt the very same way about her. They knew that they could take on anything that life had to throw at them as long as they faced it together.
Nonica and Piccolo have finally set aside their pride and their fear and found their way to each other. They have confessed their love for one another and now nothing can separate them. Their love is stronger than any foe that dare try to and disrupt the peace on Earth. And so concludes this portion of the story of the….Princess of Saiyans.
Well, that's all folks. I hope that you guys have enjoyed the story of Nonica and for those that are wondering and have been freaking out, yes, I am already making plans to write a sequel. My goal for this series of fan fictions is to take the entire dragon ball series and write about what the show would have been like if my OC had been a real character. It has been a fun and interesting project and I think that I have done a fairly decent job on including Nonica into the storyline and I hope that you all love her and her story as much I have loved writing. Well, I have to go for now. Please feel free to review this chapter and if there is something you've missed in the other chapters, of course, feel free to go back and read it again. Be on the look out for the sequel and thank you for reading my fan fiction. Bye bye.