Old Loves, Old Friends, and a Walk among the Past
The star of Yardrat comes up as a yellowish pink haze pervades the sky. The light highlighting the alien scenery. The blues and whites of the mountain glacier with its purple rock jutting up from below. To the Badlands with their black rocks and odd symmetry. To the multicolored jungle in the distance with its green river violet trees hints of orange vines.
Alien but familiar sounds come in focus. Lizard like tiny creatures fly about making sounds not unlike the birds of paradise. To numerous to count but all too unique to be confused from one another. They fly around in such great numbers that the flocks could be seen from miles around. All being stirred but the sunlight now becoming stronger as it sound comes further into to the sky.
Light coming through the cracks of the cabin strikes Kakarrot nose as he is laying behind Chi-Chi. His head is next to her ears his arms and hands around her stomach. The sunlight as it hits his nose makes it twitch as the heat seems to stir it
The nose takes a deep breath and he wakes from his slumber with a big grin on his face. He mumbles "Mine" as nibbles her ear. The word and the sudden movement wake her as she wakes up into the situation.
Chi-Chi's eyes slam open as the night comes back to her. A guilty look shots on to her face she is remember details and they aren't pretty. A conversation seems to take place in her head. While Kakarrot grinds up against her and plays with her hair.
Kakarrot "Up yet?" Chi-Chi "Well yeah." Kakarrot "Sorry can't help myself. Last night was just so so so fucking amazing!" Chi-Chi in a blush and a smile "Yeah it was but I have a question?" Kakarrot "Yeah what is it?" Chi-Chi "Why did you bite me like that?" Kakarrot "O did I hurt you?" Chi-Chi "No I'm just wondering why?" Kakarrot "O humans don't do that?"
Chi-Chi "I don't think we do? Bulma never mention that with Yamcha." Kakarrot "So that's why you didn't bite me. Man humans are weird." Chi-Chi "So all Saiyans do that?" Kakarrot "I guess when you find your mate and want to mark your territory." Chi-Chi angry "Territory so I'm territory to you!"
She pulls away from his grasp and looks him dead in the eyes. Her eyes burning with rage quite ready to kick his ass. Kakarrot meanwhile looking dumb founded not understanding what just happened.
Kakarrot "Yeah you're my territory and I'm yours even if you didn't mark me." Chi-Chi "Wait are you saying that were married?" Kakarrot with eyes rolled "What is that some kind of food?" Chi-Chi "Your joking right?" Kakarrot "What do you think?"
Chi-Chi "I don't know." Kakarrot "Well I don't know the word but if it means you and me forever then yes that's what it means." Chi-Chi "O. Well I kind of hoped this would have involved like a white dress, rings and a cake." Kakarrot "Cake you say?" She nods her head. Kakarrot "Well there's no reason we can't do this your way when we get back to Earth."
Chi-Chi "Really?" Kakarrot "Sure I love cake. Chi-Chi "But that's not…" Kakarrot reaches over and grabs her by the waist and pulls her over to him. The motion makes her giggle thing go white for her as his hand reaches down below as her eyes suddenly lose focus.
Chi-Chi's arms rush to grasp his back. Kakarrot seductively "I love you when eyes are threatening me almost as much as you look this. So Chi ready for round four?" Chi-Chi barely able to speak just mutters "Sure." Kakarrot "Awesome."
The door busts open as Guarda has kicked the door open. In her cruel glare she says "Okay sun's up time to train. Whatever you're planning it can wait until tonight." She looks down at the two on a wreck of a cabin. The bed was on the floor. Things from the mantel piece were knocked over. In short it had appeared as though an Earthquake of a great magnitude ripped through the cabin.
Guarda "Well I thought humans would need more of a light touch. I hope you got at least a little sleep time's a wasting." Kakarrot loudly sighs as Chi-Chi pulls away from him. The got dress and were soon ready to begin.
The day past quickly with the monks teach what skills they knew. Guarda found herself a cave to live in. Kakarrot and Chi-Chi got a new bed and mattress this once steel reinforced. Time now moved in a routine of training, eating and long nights for Kakarrot and Chi-Chi. It did this for a time until one day.
Guarda lands in front of the cabin one morning to see Kakarrot waiting outside looking irritated while stretching. He only has pants on as looks like he just took a slap.
Guarda "Trouble in paradise?" Kakarrot "Yeah I offered her a morning quickie but she slapped me and then got sick. She told me to leave." Guarda "Let me guess she told you she was feeling sick and that's when you 'offered yourself up'." Kakarrot "Yeah why?"
Guarda rubs her temple "You are such an idiot." She goes over and bash the door open marches in. Chi-Chi is vomiting into the bed pan on the floor when Guarda comes over and grabs her hair as she is puking. Guarda strokes her back.
Guarda "Their, their. It will be alright." Chi-Chi between purges "How is their still more coming?" Guarda "It looks like a lot more than it really is. It will pass soon I promise." Chi-Chi "How do you know?" She gags as Kakarrot comes into the cabin.
Kakarrot a bit more concerned "So do we have to go and get a doctor or something?" Guarda "No it will pass. I sense nothing wrong with the fetus." Both Kakarrot and Chi-Chi in a scream "FETUS!" Guarda "Yes you're pregnant. I thought you knew."
Chi-Chi "How would have I known!" Guarda "Human might not have good nose but Kakarrot should have smelled it." Kakarrot "O so that was that smell." Chi-Chi "But he's an alien I thought that!" Guarda "Not alien enough it would seem."
Chi-Chi "O my Kami! What am I going to do?"(She beings to outright panic.) "Will it be have all the right number of fingers, hands, feet will it have a tail?! What if I miscarry because I can't give it what it needs?! Guarda hugs her. Chi-Chi softer "What if it come early?"
Guarda sighs "I can't give you a due date but it will be long before you return to Earth. Lucky for you I have been on both ends of this twice. I've delivered and helped deliver. But I'm no doctor and the little one is going to need a little more then some celibate monks can provide. I'm going to go get some medical equipment and give myself a look at the little guy or gal. Now just lie down and I will take care of everything."
Guarda picks her up and places her on the bed allowing her to at least sit on a more confrontable spot. She walks over to Kakarrot who has gone back to stretching and generally seem unfazed by the situation. She rolls her eyes and grabs him by the ear and pulls him out of the cabin. He repeatedly says "Ouch" all the way out. The two get outside and she closes the door and she lets go.
Kakarrot angry "You know that didn't tickle. What the hell was that for?" Guarda "Listen idiot. Your mate is pregnant. This is all your fault and you're going to help me resolve the situation." Kakarrot "How can you say that this is my fault?"
Guarda "Because it is all of your fault. Now there are ton of things that can go wrong that I would like to avoid. Which is why I'm going to go looking for help. Now you stay here and look after her. No training while your mate needs you got it?"
Kakarrot "Okay but why? What can I do?" Guarda "Make sure she eats and eats her fill. I don't know how human babies work but saiyan babies eat as much as adult saiyan. Which means she is going to need to eat a lot. She is going to have to start eating like a saiyan. You seem how she eats. Humans seem to be related to birds more than us. She is going to need a crap ton of iron. So you're going to start hunting for her. I'm also going to need you to keep your instincts in check."
Kakarrot "What?" Guarda "I wouldn't trigger them because I'm an elder female and therefore an authority figure. But you're going to have to let the monks help and you can't start killing them." Kakarrot "Well you seem to know what you doing. Why do we need them? In fact I've been thinking lately that I should move Chi-Chi away from them. Just the idea of them coming up here makes my blood boil."
Guarda "See that is what I'm talking about. You are going to have to shut those instincts down. It can't be just me." Kakarrot "You're starting to talk nonsense. You know that right." Guarda "You have to just repeatedly tell yourself that they are here to help over and over again. They aren't here to kill your mate or take her they are here to help got it." Kakarrot "Sure. You save that now." Guarda powering through "I'm going to get help just see to her needs."
Guarda takes off, she lands in front of temple of the monastery to see the puzzle faces of the middle monk and some disciples surprised to see her without the other two.
Middle monk "What is going on?" Guarda "Chi-Chi is pregnant and I need something a little more advanced than crystals and good vibes." Middle monk "Well there is the place past the jungle but…" Guarda takes off before he could finish. Middle monk now shouting "But I think the spirits might get upset with your presence! O dear!"
Guarda is flying over the alien jungle when a voice familiar to her whispers to her. She stops dead a looks around trying to find the source of the disturbance. It sounded nothing like King Kai and she could find no one around her.
She sneers "I don't have time for this." The whisper comes again she looks and a hand of darkness comes up and grabs her. She tries to fight it but the hand is of smoke and without substance. Her feet touch the ground. She moved without feeling movement.
Guarda looks around now startled. She finds herself in the heart of the jungle. She is in a clearing. The trees are so close together they prevent any exit and the dark smoke above keeping her from flying away. The loud noise of the jungle have been silenced as well as the smells. The world has become a obscured image.
Dark reflection "So about ready to shot your way out of this or have we just given up already?" Guarda looks to see a familiar figure in front of her herself but of smoke and with a cruel smile upon her face. Behind the dark reflection is a twisted gnarltree an ancient thing oozing darkness.
Dark reflection "So which me is here today the killer or the quitter? I'm just anxious to know." Guarda very skeptically "You're not real. You're just the jungle messing with me"
Dark reflection "OOO! I'm real. I'm you. I killed all those Tuffles. I killed children. I killed a friend because he disagreed with the genocide of his race. I took every lesson dad gave us and pissed it away. I strangle babies in their mother's arms with a smile on my face. Then I planned on spending the rest of years hiding from what I did in a castle in the sky. I felt smug about Frieza because we wanted to think we weren't a killer like it, but we are. We are just the worst aren't we when Frieza killed he owned it, we don't. We have excuses, we have justifications, and we pardon ourselves. It was never us, it was always them. We are a massive disappointment aren't we? We failed to save our only mate, we failed to be good, we failed our kids and we failed our race. We're just one big failure aren't we?"
Guarda stone faced "Keep talking. I hear all of that every time I try to go to bed. You think you're original?" Dark reflection "No but I'm right." Guarda "Maybe, maybe not doesn't matter I'm about to end whatever you are." Guarda gets into stance as it just folds its arms unthreatened.
Dark reflection "Now you must be so sleepy. Why don't you just take a nap?" Guarda wobbles as she eyes suddenly feel like lead weights. Fatigue hits her like a truck as her body feels like it is shutting down.
Guarda struggling "What are you doing to me?" Dark reflection "Giving you the rest that you need. You will be reunited will your love shortly. No longer will we feel guilt. I will make sure that we will keep the path. We will be hated and feared like we should be. Who needs Frieza when they have us? I will kill this planet, I will kill Earth. We will be feared and our race will be save in the darkness that we have in store for them."
Unknown voice "I'm going to have to stop you right there my granddaughter is on this planet along with from what I understand would have been my grandson and my future great-grandson. Soon that is a no go on the possession."
Guarda looks to see a curious old man with a white mustache a buff ball hat, flat shoes a yellow shirt with a white trimming with black sleeves. The man rings a bell in her head immediately to Guarda as the man that would have found Kakarrot.
Dark reflection turns away from Guarda towards him "Get out of here old man and mind your own business!" Grandpa Gohan "Sorry not happening." He get into stance. Dark reflection "Are you kidding me? This one is leagues above you. A baby would stand a better chance against a dump truck."
Grandpa Gohan "True. But all I need to do was distract you." Dark reflection "Huh…" A blast rips into her dissipating the dark smoke. It reveals a panting exhausted looking Guarda with a smoking hand. The black smoke sweeps into Guarda into her heart to her shock.
Guarda "What the fuck just happen?" Grandpa Gohan "You just walked into a fight that you weren't ready for. I think you're going to needed a little training before you have that fight monster again."
His hands go to his back and she finally notices the halo over his head. Guarda "So you're dead." Grandpa Gohan "Yep." Guarda "I seem to be meeting a lot of dead people lately." Grandpa Gohan "You get used to it. It's a nice way to meet historical figures. I warn you though, they tend to look nothing like their busts."
Guarda "So that was?" Grandpa Gohan "You sort of, not really. It's the combination of all of your dark thoughts and actions. It's a part of you that you would have had to purge if you were to complete your guardian training. It's also the result of all your misdeeds." Guarda "I thought something like that would a lot more powerful. One blast and it goes down for the count?"
Grandpa Gohan chuckles at first "No it's not that kind of fight. It's not something that you can kill its apart of you. A part that you need to finally gain control of. If you want to advance and be confortable. Your spirit and your body (no matter how good it looks) has been out of sync with each other for quite some time. You failed to deal with your loss and it has been costing you dearly. You keep putting Band-Aids on a big hole in your chest. You however are a Saiyan this would have kill a normal being but you continue. But you continue as a corpse not a fully realized person. You should have gained the power of your race long before Frieza threatened your world. But your attention is nearly always spilt. You are fight everyone and everything at once and it is sucking the life out of you. You can't sleep because you are fighting. You can't focus because you are fighting. You couldn't save your grandson or your race at one point because you were fighting."
Guarda "I'm a saiyan. I'm a fighter." Grandpa Gohan "You have a limit and you are made of flesh and blood." Guarda "Okay how do I stop fighting?" Grandpa Gohan "I don't know." Guarda "What? Then why are you here?" Grandpa Gohan "To save my granddaughter. I can't give you a full proof method to stop being angry. Only you can help yourself."
He give her the peace symbol. Grandpa Gohan "I hope you succeed a looker like you deserves to be happy." Guarda "Please, I'm a little past my prime." Grandpa Gohan "Not from where I'm standing. If only I were a younger man." Guarda "Nan you wouldn't know what to do with me besides I'm spoken for." Grandpa Gohan "Yeah I know but a man can dream can't he?"
Grandpa Gohan turns and walks away. Guarda desperate "Wait! Can I see others?" Grandpa Gohan "Yes and as I understand it there are two that want to talk to you." Guarda "Which two?" Grandpa Gohan "You know who they are."
He jumps into a hole and the feet of the gnarltree and disappears. The world changes around her. She no longer sees a jungle on Yardrat but home on Sadala. The sky, the smell, the gravity all speak to the authenticity of this place. She looks to her feet to see the familiar sight of grey marble floor of her true home. She is at Sadala's lookout Valhalla. She looks around to see the familiar architecture of her ancient home not scene by her in over a half-century. Her eyes are as open as they could go as she tries to believe them.
Veler "I remember the first time I found you." She turn to see the man who raised her, died when she was so young standing their sadly. His beard and tail ghost white as it always was. He was in his Guardian robes but without his walking cane. His face has though a look to it that she could not remember seeing on him. It was a sad look. It spoke of defeat and of loss.
Veler "A group of raiders was attacking your village. You were of clan Roughage. They lost a fight and your home was an easy target. The raiders had no honor they slaughtered the old and young, and they raped. So much fighting was occurring that I was hoping from place to place trying to stop this kind of thing and I was too late. I never really meet your mother she died in my arms but she wasn't all their at that point thankful. She didn't deserve to suffer like she did. No one deserves that. On some level I think you had the instinct not to cry while you were in your hiding spot. They would have killed you if you did. You never made a sound. You were so young just a couple weeks old at best. Pure, you were pure, no evil in you. Kind, smart, gifted. I fail you."
Guarda tears were in her eyes "No." Veler "Yes." Guarda "No I chose to be a murder." Veler "I abandoned you." Guarda "You couldn't have known." Veler "I should have. I could have. We can see into the future." Guarda "But it's always changing and it's always muddled." Veler "Still! What have they done to you my miracle?!"
Guarda rushes over to him and they hug and hug deeply his tail wraps around her stomach as they have broken down to tears.
Guarda "I did those things you didn't have anything to do with them." Veler "I left you with strangers. I should have been there. I shouldn't have been such a stubborn old fool." Guarda "I should have been stronger."
Veler "I needed to leave this place but I just couldn't. I should have been focusing on you not my dead my family or friends. I am the worst." Guarda "I killed people. I killed innocents. I was no better than those raiders. I'm a failure." Veler "No you aren't. You did it because you were hurt. They did it because they were animals!"
Guarda "I failed my kids they were hurt and all I did was feed their anger. They are as cruel as I am. I wrong them. They will never be the bright faced boys that were. Never as prefect as they were beautiful again. I took purity and spat dark bile all over it."
Veler "It's never too late. Your breathing, you're alive. They need you. You can get your sons back you can get our race back." Guarda pulls away "I can?" Veler pulls her back "I never doubt you for a second. You can do it. You think you aren't strong but you're wrong. When I lost everything I ran, you fought. For all the good and bad that entails you fought. You're a fighter, you're kids and their kids are fighters. You don't give up."
Guarda "But I did." Veler "No you were just too busy fighting yourself. Once you stop fighting yourself you will be able to fight for everyone else." Guarda "I've done so much wrong." Veler "And you can do so much more right. You can do it I know your can."
For minutes as they merely hug and cry on each other's shoulders until his robes and her armor are soaked in tears on those shoulders. Both are choking on air from all of the mucus.
Guarda sniffling "Dad?" Veler sniffling "Yeah." Guarda "Were you always this short?" They pull away from one another to see that he is at least a foot shorter than her. They both smile. Veler "Should have known you would be the size of a mountain." Guarda "Yeah and my mate ended up being a bigger mountain."
Veler "Life is cruel. I was always the shortest among my friend and family too." Guarda "You still would have towered above the Tuffles and some humans." Veler "Darn. Now I real wished I went with you."
Guarda "Yeah I bet…" (They both chuckle) "How long?" Veler "Not long." Guarda "I wish I could show you your grandchildren and great-grandchildren." Veler "I saw them. They all look like your mate for the most part and boy do they act like him. I never knew grumpiness was an inheritable trait." Guarda "The more you know."
Veler "Tarble seems like a nice boy." Guarda "I don't know what happened there? Against all odds he failed to have a stick up his ass." The two laughed and continued.
Veler "Your kids have wonderful mates by the way, far better than you." Guarda "O come on. That's not fair. And come to think of it's your fault. You call me Princess sometimes so I got myself a Prince. You got along with his dad, you would gotten along with him." Veler "Nah he would have been on my avoid list the first time he called you feral and was rude to you."
Guarda "We missed so much. I would have been the teenage girl sneaking out at night to meet my boyfriend that dad didn't approve of." Veler "Yeah I would try to punish you but then you could have just flashed those eyes and I would have been putty." They are both crying again but now smiling.
Veler "You made a wonderful family and you can't take that away from yourself." Guarda "I thank whatever merciful god that did it, to gift my sons Brisella and Zorn." Veler "See we can have nice things." Guarda saddly "What about Broly?" Veler "He's proof you aren't a soulless killing machine." Guarda "I lie to him."
Veler "You saved him. He would have either been killed or made a monster. He is the flower blooming in the desert. You made what was supposed to be a monster into a peaceful young man. He could save the universe one day. You did that and you must tell him the truth."
The vision starts to blur and the jungle starts to comeback around her. Panicked she looks around then back at him. And with sad eyes she says "It can't be over so quickly. I still have so much I want to talk about." Veler "I know. I missed your life but I have to go. Damn thing aren't fair. But we both know that. I will always love you and I will always be proud of you."
The world disappears as she says "I love you." Leaving her back near the tree in the jungle with the fog flooding in and the muddy murky ground below her. The dank smells and loud noises return. The world seems to come back to her and needs of that world do to.
Guarda depressed "Right Chi-Chi." She takes off heading for what turned out to be a resort of sort. After convincing the staff of giving her what she needed. By just taking what she needed and not asking them or caring when they protested. She took the long way home to avoid the jungle.
She arrived to find Chi-Chi eating like a Saiyan. She was consuming a banquets worth of meat like she hadn't eaten in a week. Kakarrot was patrolling the area around the cabin like a guard dog. Eyeing just about everything like it was a potential threat.
When Guarda finally got Chi-Chi to stop eating she got a look at the baby. The baby was forming right from what she could remember. After having seen all of those sonograms. She even saw the tail and a definite sign it would be a He.
The night advanced quickly as the chill came back to the air she left the love birds in their nest and headed over to her cave. It original had a bear in but not after she was done. She cover the entrance with her bear skin door and went into her dwelling.
Using her aura she lite the place. The place had a primitive charm to it with animal skins and handmade furniture. She sighed and was start to get undressed when she heard his voice "You mind if I watch Feral?"
She couldn't believe her ears. She turned as fast as she might in a fight. To see him as tall as he ever was with a halo on his head. A pad on one his eyes that flame hair. That one remaining arrogant ass eye starting at her. That tail waving in the air trying to mock her. That armor that was just tempting her. That posture, that unshaven face. That smell that was filling the room. It was him no doubt in her mind.
Without skipping a beat Guarda said "Princy needs to stop acting like a perv." One-eyed "Its king not princy, feral." Guarda "Nan you will always be my princy. Are you sure I'm a little old for you?" One-eyed "Funny you think I care." They stare at each other and game ensued. Who you rush over to hug who first?
Both sides were twitching trying to fight the urge to grab hold of the other. He confidence started to wane the moment she took her eyes away from pretending to ignore him. He came closer she looked at him then looked away again. Soon he was right in front of her.
Guarda looking straight into his eyes "I told you I always win." They grabbed hold of one another and embraced. They kiss deeply as he backs her to her bed. One-eyed "How long?" Guarda "Too damn long." One-eyed "So there was no one else." Guarda "Would you be here if there was?"
One-eyed "I want to hear you say it." Guarda "You think I don't know that." One-eyed "So say it." Guarda "Make me." One-eyed "As you wish my Feral Queen." He starts to lick and kiss her right shoulder around the ancient scar of his mark.
Guarda "O yeah! Wait we need to talk." One-eyed "Sure but later." Guarda "But it about everything I've done." One-eyed "I know but…" He looks deep into her eyes. One-eyed "Let's just have the night to ourselves. Tomorrow we can deal with what happen. Tonight I want my Feral Queen that stole my pride. The Feral that no matter what I did couldn't be beat. The mother of my children and the only reason to come back from the dead."
Guarda "Well are you going to keep pontificating or?" One-eyed "Or…" His eyes disappear from hers and the armor is off in a heartbeat.
In the monastery further down the mountain the middle monk is wide awake in his bed. Middle monk "By Veler why does my ears have to hear all of this?"
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