Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dark Appearance: Part 1 ❯ Who Marley Is ( Chapter 8 )

CHAPTER 8: WHO MARLEY IS

Vegeta couldn't take it anymore. "Who are you to be making demands? You are our prisoner. We should be making the demands! Who do you think you are anyway!?!" Vegeta said, enraged.

Marley looked at the obviously furious prince of the Saiyans, her tail flicking from side to side, and said with a smirk, "Wouldn't you like to know?"

Then she turned back to Goku, prompting him to speak. "Calm down Vegeta," is all he said.

Vegeta was silent for a while and then sat down, still furious. But Goku turned back to Marley. "I think that we all feel a lot easier if we get to know each other. I'm Goku, these are," he said pointing a the to men standing next to him, "my two sons, Gohan and Goten."

He pointed at the two Nameks and said, "They are Piccolo and Dende.

"The guy over there is Yamcha. Sitting next to him are Tien and Prince Chao Tzu. Over there in the corner is Trunks, Vegeta's son. And that," he pointed at Vegeta, "Of course is-"

"I know the Saiyan Prince." She interrupted. "Tell me why I care. All I ask is to get what belongs to me so I can leave. I don't want to kill any of you. I have more important things to do besides standing around talking to you fools!"

"You seem pretty damn confident," Piccolo said, "Especially since you are outnumbered ten to one. And since you aren't at full strength yet."

Marley gave the Namek the same death glare she gave Yamcha, but she said nothing. He was right and she knew it.

"All right, now that we seem to understand each other," Goku continued, "You have some explaining to do. Since we helped you, you owe us that much."

Marley looked around again, and then closed her eyes. After a minute or so she opened them and said, "My name is Marley, General of the Saiyan Army, or what remains of it. That should be sufficient."

Marley, Gohan thought. How beautiful. Yamcha was right she is hot. Wait, what am I thinking!

That human man, Gohan, keeps starring at me. I think he is the Keeper of the Key. What is he starring at? She thought to herself.

Then Goku spoke up again. "I'm afraid that wont be enough Marley."

She looked at him long and hard. What have I to lose? I may be able to get them to help me. "Fine I will answer your damnable questions."

Goku thought for a bit and then said, "Well I think what we are all wondering is where you came from. We were all under the impression that we were the last Saiyans left in the universe."

"The old general was running a secret mission for Frieza at the time of planet Vegeta's destruction. That is how he survived." Marley answered.

"About the general, your father, why does he want to kill Vegeta?"

"All I know about that is when he use to be Commander in Chief of all the Saiyan forces, and then King Vegeta fired him and hired Nappa, who I'm now guessing is dead."

Vegeta laughed at this. "If Nappa were still here then that would mean that we completed our mission. Staffa glutzenvien (insolent/stupid bitch)."

"What did you call me you stupid, short, carrot headed freak. I can smell it on you, you're weak! You couldn't even kill Kakkarot! Rastaffa ei tarcinvoc (conceded bastard)! Te no cossvinsice (you don't deserve your status)!" She yelled back in Saiyango, her tail twitching, no one talked to her that way!

"WHAT! Do you know what I could do to you?" Vegeta yelled back.

"I think the question here is do you know what I could do to you?" She hollered at him.

"Calm down you two!" Goku commanded.

Vegeta and Marley's eyes were locked in a death stare and then Vegeta murmured something about it being a waste of time and turned around to sit down. Marley said something about a carrot and turned back to Goku who had unwittingly become the mediator in the room.

"Please Marley, continue." Goku said calmly.

"Anyway General Axel was furious about being `let go' and decided right then and there to get his revenge. He started working for Frieza to gain enough power and influence to bring down King Vegeta. But when Frieza spoiled his plans to kill King Vegeta by blowing up planet Vegeta, he decided to take out his vengeance on the pint-sized prince over there. He was searching the galaxy for a weapon to kill Prince Vegeta."

"Is that what is in the Box?" Goku asked carefully.

"How did you know I had a box?" When she received no answer she said, "Yes. That was in the Box."

"What is in the box Marley?" Goku prodded.

"Something horrible." She said, almost in a whisper.

"What is in the box Marley?" Goku said more forcefully.

"The Future."

"Huh?" He said completely miffed.

Marley grew angry again, "The Future, you look into the Box and you see the Future, the Future is what you see when you open the Box! Are you as dumb as that rock over there Kakkarot, or just deaf?"

Everyone looked at her surprised. Oh no, what did I do? Why are they all looking at me again? Even Vegeta was looking at her weird now. Ever the loudmouth, Krillin spoke up, "She sounds exactly like you Vegeta! She's got to be your sister or something! He, he, he!"

No one voiced their opinion but they all agreed.

Changing the subject back to his questioning, Goku asked, "How is that suppose to kill him?"

Marley gave her attention to her questioner again and replied. "Unless you are holding the Key it sucks the soul out of your body leaving it empty and dead. Then your soul is tortured forever in the deepest, darkest pits of hell."

"Sounds awful." Goku said densely.

"Well thank you Captain Obvious!" Marley ridiculed.

"Anyway, about you," Goku said cheerfully, "How did you get to be a General of an army? You look about fourteen!"

She looked at him odd for a moment then said, "What do you what to know, my life story!"

Goku just looked at her.

"Fine," she started, "At the age of five I began training in General Axel's private officer's school. At the age of thirteen I gained the title General. The general was obsessed with gaining knowledge of his opponents. The school trained me in every subject imaginable, including language and culture of foreign planets. I can speak 356 languages and I'm familiar with hundreds more. I'm also well learned in over 700 cultures."

"You can't have much experience though, you are so young." Goku prodded again.

"Age means nothing. I've fought in seven large-scale wars and thousands of smaller battles. Hundreds of planets have fallen at my hand. You've got to get out more. And I'm not that young!" She added defensively. "I'm nineteen.

"I think that's enough of that. Give me my weapons and clothes. I'll be leaving now."

"Not so fast Marley." Goku said suddenly. "One more thing…What are you?"

She starred at him, shock played all over her beautiful face. How did he figure it out? He seemed so stupid! She was about to make up some weak lie but decided against it. If she had already given it away, there was no use lying. She hung her head down and said in a defeated voice, "How did you know Kakkarot?"

"You didn't smell right." He said simply, but seriously. "Now what are you?"

She looked away at a wall not wanting to show her defeat. He was still waiting. All of the Z-fighters were starring in amazement at the events going on between the two Saiyans. None were sure what was going on. Then Marley swallowed her pride. "I'm a…a…c-" she cut her self off short not wanting to reveal her secret.

Swallowing her pride and accepting defeat she looked up at Goku and said with a voice full of pride, "I'm a clone."

Silence.

Then it seemed a thousand questions were being fired at once.

"You're a what?"

"Of who?"

"How?"

"You're a what?"