Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ A Ripple in Time ❯ Chapter Fifteen ( Chapter 16 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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I franticly raced towards Dana, who was being cornered by the six members of one of the delinquent gangs our school had. Even with it's prestigious reputation, out school had a few faults, this being one of them, and a major one at that. I shouldn't have left her alone!!

My eyes narrowed as I saw the leader put his hand under Dana's shirt, even as she protested with tears glistening in her eyes. Even though if I couldn't use all of my speed, for that would make me seem abnormal, I still made better time than a normal human, crossing the distance between us in less than a minute. Hopefully, I wouldn't get into too much trouble for this...

“Hey! Get your hands off her you creep!" I shouted, twisting my body to face the man as I skidded to a halt between the gang and my best friend. The ugly coward blinked in mild surprise as his hold on Dana's shirt was broken, before leering at me condescendingly.

"Well, look here boys! It's Miss Ex-Virgin herself!" He taunted, grinning to the other thugs surrounding him, drawing laughter from the lot. They were all dressed is black leather, most of it torn, and metal rings studded their body's liberally. Their heads were shaved in identical mohawks, and their boots were also made from black, heavy leather. The one standing in front of me had a chain attached from his ear to his nose, and black gloves with little metal studs on the knuckles. Wannabes. "So you liked it and came back for more?"

I narrowed my eyes. Was he claiming to have been my rapist? "I happen to know for a fact that the criminal of whom you speak is dead, so unless you are a ghost, there is no chance in hell that you ever had sex with me, or ever will."

He stared at me, gaping for several moments, but in that time, I had maneuvered Dana and myself to a corner nearby where I could easily bock Dana with my body. I settled into a comfortable fighting stance.

"Do I look stupid or something boys? You actually expect me to believe that shit?" He stuttered. "The ally was dark, you couldn't have seen anything!"

I sneered. "Well, that at least gives credence to you story, and leads me to believe you were at least there to witness the act." I was confusing him now; he couldn't understand what I was doing. A normal girl who was raped, or abused, would be afraid of her aggressor and would try to get away from the source of the pain. I was doing neither. He was visibly regaining his bluster, probably convincing himself I wasn't a threat, and I decided quickly that I had to finish this fast. I might not be able to be injured by them, but Dana was another story, and there were too many to take the chance that one might get a lucky punch past me. I couldn't resist one last verbal jab.

"What? Didn't have the guts to try it yourself?" I let my scorn for him inflict the tone of my voice, my lips curling back in a sneer. I felt a slight tug on my arm as Dana whispered to me in a frightened voice.

"Jun... What are you doing? You're going to make them kill us!" She was terrified and I hastily assured her that I did know what I was doing.

"Dana, trust me, I can handle them!"

"How?" She was close to tears. "There are eight of them, and only one of you! And you are a girl! How can you take on eight men that weigh at least two hundred pounds each?"

It was a valid point... for a normal human. Oh geeze... well I might have told her anyway. No time to back out of this, and I didn't have enough energy left to fly us away from the danger even if that option was open to us.

His anger was playing visibly on his face, tinting his cheeks red, as his eyes grew more bloodshot. He finally snapped to the other members of his gang commands to finish us.

"She wants a fight, we'll give her a fight! Who wants a peek at her pretty ass? First come first serve!” With an evil grin to each other, the other seven moved towards me, their intent plain on their faces even if I hadn't known what their leader had just told them to do. Oh well, se la vie.

Smirking, I held my ground and waited for the first clumsy punch. I blocked it easily, wrapping our forearms together and pulled down sharply, wrenching the bones in my opponent's arm apart. The unlucky boy dropped to the ground screaming and clutching his arm in agony. A flash of pity ran through me, before I clamped down on the emotion. I couldn't allow myself to feel before I had taken them all out of commission; Dana's life depended on it! I spun on in from there with a roundhouse kick, shuffling on the balls of my feet to connect heartily with thug #2's exposed ribcage. I heard a muted crunch and winced, but followed through with a second roundhouse to his other side, driving the bulk of his body into the one of the school's walls and sending him spiraling down the road to unconsciousness.

Turning around I realized a tactical error on my part… I had left Dana open to the other gang members when I took down the two in front. A roar escaped my lips as I slammed an open handed punch into the nearest guy's gut, the force driving him back several yards, and from there, moved fluidly land several successive hits to two other gang members bringing the remaining tally down to one: their supposed `leader'. Overkill? Maybe. I wasn't one to complain if the result was saving my ass. Oh… that was something Vegita would have said.

The stupid, formerly cocky, and ugly adolescent was now shivering in fear, his face now the murky gray color of one of his piercings. He turned to run when I took a step towards him but I caught him by his collar as he continued to futility try to escape. What was I going to do with them? If I was caught I could be suspended for fighting on school property, and the school board would not be so lenient as to take into the consideration that I was provoked and outnumbered by larger and older boys. They would just look at the result: seven boys that had sustained grievous injuries. I narrowed my eyes at the rat in my hands. In a motion that was faster than the human eye, I flicked a pressure point on the back of his neck sending him to the ground with the rest of his gang. Hopefully they wouldn't remember anything and if they did they would be too scared to report it.

Grabbing Dana's arm, I pulled here away from the scene, her jaw wide open with shock. “Come on! We don't have much time before a teacher comes out and sees this!”

“But… but… how?” She mumbled as she held her books to her chest, her face gradually starting to regain some of the color that it had lost during the progression of the fight. I grabbed my book bag and the books that I had dropped, propelling Dana in front of me.

“Run now, talk later.” I groaned as I looked back over my shoulder to see people swarming over the school's lot that we had just vacated like flies. Had they seen us? This could be really bad…

Getting a grip on herself, Dana grabbed my hand and started pulling me in a different direction than where I had been going… which was fortunate because I didn't have a clue where I was going.

“I can't believe you just did that!” She grinned. “That was so cool! Well, except about the part where we could be suspended, but well, I think you know what I mean and-“

“Dana, you're babbling.” I cut her of with a smirk.

“Well, yeah, but I mean, I always babble when I'm nervous… ” We were running hard now, and Dana's breath started to come in sharp pants. As we passed the third block away from the school, my sharp ears picked up another set of feet behind us, following us at nearly the same speed. “Don't look now, but I think we have company!” I hissed to Dana, who nodded and tried to run faster. Giving a small lurch, Dana stopped clutching her side. Oh fuck… she was cramping!

“Dana! Listen to me, I'm going to try something and I need you to promise not to scream, got it?”

Mutely she nodded, struggling to breath. The running footsteps behind us were growing louder, and I could now distinguish several more than one set, meaning our pursuers were probably from the school and had witnessed at least some of the fight. Folding Dana to my chest I looked up at the tall buildings above us, the smallest one over six stories high. Taking a deep breath and praying as hard as I could, I gathered myself and pushed of the pavement with as much force as I could muster. Dana pressed herself closer to my body out of fear, her mouth a thin line and her eyes screwed shut. I executed a neat flip and landed on the roof, bending my legs to absorb the impact.

Dana let out a small `woof' as gravity caught up with her and we stood there panting, trying to regain the coherency to think. Our pursuers finally passed under us several minutes later, the two of us well hidden in the shadows above if they had even thought to look up. Certain now that we were safe I trudged to the center of the roof and sat down heavily, sighing at the complications that had arisen. Dana followed closely behind, but choose to stand above me with a glare.

“And why didn't you tell me you could do this sooner? We could have been killed back there! I thought you were my friend!”

I winced at the tone of her voice. The truth was… what had happened was extremely personal… and to have told her would be like dishonoring Vegita's memory. Or it could just be that I'm selfish. Face it Jun; you just wanted him all to yourself.

“I'm sorry, Dana. I… well… It's a really long story-“

“Well, considering what just happened, I think we have all day. Talk.” She tapped her foot against the concrete angrily.

“I was transported to another planet, stuck in Goku's body, and had sex with Vegita.”

The look on her face… was priceless… before it turned into something that would have scared even Chichi.

“You WHAT?”

I grinned and proceeded to fill her in on all the details… hey, she was my best friend after all! By the end, I think I had her convinced… but now she had a thoughtful expression on her face… and that was never a good thing when it came to Dana.

“So you're saying you wanna go back?” She finally asked. The sky had grown dark as I had spun my tale, and now in the twilight before true dark, we sat huddled together for warmth again the low wall of the rooftop's skylight.

“Yeah. I mean, when I think about never seeing him again… I get this really funny feeling in my chest, like it was being torn into. I think I really love him.” My voice was low with suppressed emotion.

“Wow. And to think that Dragonball Z is actually real! You really had sex with Vegita?”

I blushed at her candor. “Yeah. Not all the way though…”

“Dang. You gotta bring me next time!”

“But the first time I was only there because the Kais screwed up. But now I don't know how to get back, and he NEEDS me. Frieza had us before I was sent back here… he was torturing me.”

“Oh my God. Jun, are you alright?”

“Yeah. When I switched bodies again, all my physical injuries were healed, but it put a rather large dent in my chi. But before I woke up here, I could swear I heard Vegita's voice telling me something.”

“So. How are you going to get there?”

I hung my head. “I thought I could try quantum physics, but with what just happened, I don't think that will be possible. I'd need access to the school lab for one, and I'd also need to study the actual theories before I could try anything.”

“Fuck.”

“Aptly put.”

It was silent for a while as the lights of the city illuminated the darkness on the rooftop, the different amber glows reflecting off of our faces.

“So, then. You know how there is a Kami in Dragonball Z?”

I made an assenting sound.

“Well, what's there to say there isn't one for our Earth?” She mused, quietly. “I mean, if it's worth a try we should do it, right?”

“You shouldn't come with me, I want you put into any danger.” I looked at her.

“Fine. But you should bring me with you when you go to look for our Kami. I want to meet someone cool too, ya know.” She gave me a slight grin. “So let's hit a bookstore! Maybe we can… er… summon it?”

I nodded. It was a good thought, as we had to start somewhere. And since her plan made a lot more sense than mine at the moment, I stood up and shook out my clothes. “We'd better get going if we're going to do this. I don't know if Vegita will be able to last for much longer, I know I can barely function now that I can't feel our bond-“

“You have a bond with him?” Dana stared at me, goggle-eyed.

I blushed. “Well… I kinda left out the fact that we… er… mated.”

That certainly left her speechless. “And you were a guy at the time? Ew! TMI here…and I thought it was bad when you made me read that website on the `Saiya-jin Mating Rituals'.”

“You actually read that?” I snickered.

“You… you cheater! You didn't read anything on it, did you? Urg! It was gross!”

“Hey! Watch who you're insulting!” I finally let her have a look at my tail as I let it swish around my ankles.

“Oh my God!”

And so it continued for several hours as we made our way through the city streets in search of a bookstore that was still open at such a late hour, never realizing what district we were headed into. A weird feeling drew my attention to a small storefront on the long street that didn't have blackened windows, and whose display was filled with burning candles. The store's name wasn't featured, but the sense that I got from it was warped by something. Something that I hoped meant that what they were selling was the real deal. It was my only shot at getting back to Vegita! I wasn't going to lose him if I could help it.

With a nod towards Dana, we both stepped into the well-lit but spooky occult bookstore.

To Be Continued…