Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Akki no Onna ❯ more weird developements ( Chapter 10 )

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`Daddy! Daddy, save me! Help! Help me! Daddy please- save me! Please? Daddy? Daddy? Can you hear me?'

Pan jolted upright, her eyes widening, and her hands automatically clutching her ears. She hadn't meant to hear that, she didn't want to hear that. Piccolo had told her earlier that no matter what she could not return to Earth and she knew that she wasn't strong enough. Yet. And Vegeta had told her not to even attempt to find out what is going on down there since she couldn't help anyway. She had taken his advice, but this cry was too loud NOT to hear.

"Vegeta?" She asked. He grunted. "Did you-?"

"Ignore it brat."

"But she's your daughter!" Pan whined and his head snapped around to glare at her. "She's my best friend.. I HAVE to help her!"

"You're just like your weakling father brat. I'll say it again- ignore it."

"Daddy! Please. Help me! Daddy, it hurts. It hurts so much! Daddy! Please…"

Pan's hands clenched, "NO!" His mouth was half open she whirled on him, her dark eyes angrily searching his blank ones. "Maybe you can ignore that, but I refuse to! She's DYING!"

"I know."

"You know and you won't help her?!" Pan asked in disbelief.

"It's Akki's job to save her right now. We'll help her in two days."

"That'll be too late!"

"I know."

This was too much for Pan, she stood up and turned away from him, "You're cruel! You're her father. You're supposed to protect her- you're supposed to help her! She's counting on you! And if you won't, then I will."

"You DARE to?!" Vegeta rose to his feet too, his anger clearly evident in his face. His hands clenched and for the first time Pan saw the blood pouring out of them. She took an involuntary step back. "Of course I want to help her! Of course I don't want her to die! Do you know how infuriating this is?! No. Of course not! You're just a child. You wouldn't understand what it's like to waste the latter years of your life on this mudball of a planet simply because you cannot beat the man who bettered you! And now look what he's doing and I'm POWERLESS to stop him! Do you understand the position I am in?! No, you could never! And then you spout off all of these-these accusations without even thinking!"

Pan trembled, "Piccolo said that we can't use the Dragon Balls and she's...she'll be gone forever! Akki is me! It's my job too! I can stop him. I know I can. Please Vegeta- don't stop me."

"You're not ready," Vegeta growled, sinking back to the ground and closing his eyes. "And she's already dead so it doesn't matter. You'd be wasting your life."

She turned and stalked away. He knew that his words were sufficient enough to keep her on the Lookout and this infuriated her. How could he have so much control over her in just two days? How could she have ever let him? It had even reached the point where she had to ask PERMISSION to go help her friend!

"Dende!" She growled at the Namek. He turned from the edge of the Lookout to gaze at her questioningly. "Tell me what's happening to Bura! Vegeta says she's dead, is this true?"

"She's still alive," Dende turned back to the edge. "Why don't you go find Piccolo? The boys should be almost done."

"What happened to her?" Pan asked, unrelenting. "Why does it seem like she's dead."

"It would be better if you don't know," Dende swallowed. "Piccolo-."

"I'm staying here and going into the time machine to train with Vegeta," Pan told him stonily. "Nothing you will say will change that. But if you tell me then I might train a bit harder to help her."

"There's no way to change what's been done to her," Dende said softly, his face a mask of sympathy. "Gokou bonded with her."

"He did WHAT?!" Pan shouted, her eyes widening in shock. "No. No- that isn't possible. He wouldn't do that. He loves grandma too much. And Bura's just a little girl! He wouldn't- grandpa would never..!"

"He isn't really Gokou anymore," Dende said gently.

"I did it," Dende looked at her questioningly. "Akki thought that it would be better if the dwarf lived and I didn't stop Vegeta when I could have. If the runt was there then grandpa wouldn't have done this to Bura! I know he wouldn't have! He would be still taking orders and the blue thing wouldn't have known about the bonding!"

"What's done is done. What may have been or could have been doesn't matter. It's what is happening that's important."

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Vegeta's jaw clenched, his fingers digging deeper into his already bleeding wounds. Kakkarott will pay for this. He will pay very dearly for this. But for now, all he could do was wait for the opportunity. If he had learned one thing from his experiences on Earth it would be patience- he had come to be a very patient Saiyan Prince. After all, hadn't he waited for years for Kakkarott to return for a single day? Waiting simply for the opportunity to attempt to pay him back for everything? To beat him finally and reclaim his name? Yes he was patient. And he would wait.

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Two figures in the Room of Spirit and Time broke apart and straightened, turning simultaneously to see the large clock signifying how much time they had left.

"It's time Goten."

"I know."

"Are you happy?"

"I'm ready."

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