Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Darkened or Flamed Path: Which Will She Take? ❯ Chapter 7

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The next day Bulma waited by the waters edge, her turquoise hair gleaming in the morning rays, but this was not a good day for her. She could feel him. The aura was unmistakable, but did her crew know that they were in danger? She debated on going back to her castle or going to where Frieza was going to land. She closed her eyes in frustration. This was bad. She should have known that the bastard would pull a dirty trick like this. With a quick look to the lightening skies she headed off toward the west, where some woods bordered her castle. She peeked out between the trunks to look at her crew training. Vegeta stood above a crew member, his face angry.

"You are worthless!" he spat. "Frieza is coming in the next twenty-four hours and you are nowhere near prepared to fight him. Sure, your power is better then when you started, but you must train harder!" Bulma smiled fondly. She couldn't believe it! Vegeta had taken over the training and he was doing as she would do it. Well, she wouldn't run her crew to the ground, but she would give them the blunt, true facts of their training. Vegeta continued yelling at the crew as Bulma watched from behind a trunk. The one thing that was odd about her transformation was that as a human she was naked. This did not bother her too much, but she still hid herself when she stepped onto land. Her cerulean eyes fluttered as she watched Vegeta berate the troops and before long she passed out in the bushes.

Vegeta stopped in mid-sentence as a familiar energy entered his radar.

'Bulma?' he asked himself. Could it really be her? He looked out toward the west, his onyx eyes squinted as he looked at the woods on the other end of the property. It felt like her, but the energy was off somehow. It was the same energy from a month ago, but this one was closer. Vegeta took to the skies, his dark eyes searching the yards between the castle and the forest. Vegeta dropped into the woods and began to search for her energy. "Where could she be?" he asked out loud. Bulma, who was resting on the other side of the woods awoke.

'I can feel Vegeta. He feels closer.' She got up and hiding in behind the tree trunks she moved around his energy, but Vegeta was smarter than that. He fazed out, his energy flashing everywhere. Bulma tried to track him as she ran toward the awaiting waters. With a quick look at the Sayian's backside she made a dash for the water, her naked body in view for seconds, but that was enough for him to see her. Vegeta looked behind him, his dark eyes clashing with her clear ones. He stood their, paralyzed at her ivory skin. Bulma disappeared into the gleaming water as Vegeta regained his bearings. He ran to the water and jumped in, but Bulma was long gone, her tail making her faster under the water. He looked around for a moment, his brain wracked for reasons as to why he had seen her and she was gone so fast.

'I must be going crazy,' he reasoned with himself as he climbed out of the water. He dismissed it as too much training and not enough sleep, though he would never admit it to anyone else. He took to the skies with one last look at the waters. Noon had passed as he headed toward the house for something to eat. It irked him though. He could have sworn that he had seen her...

Bulma breathed a sigh of relief as she watched Vegeta from behind a stone. She knew that he could sense energy, so that must mean that as a mermaid she had a different energy reading. She turned and headed for the underwater city, her head full of dismay and confusion. What should she do? She was going to help her crew tomorrow morning, but she could not stay. What would she say to them? She could not tell them of her choice, this was a rule as a mermaid. If she told, then she would turn into bubbles. She wanted Vegeta, she was sure that she loved him, she had mulled this over in the first month that she was in her room, but he did not feel anything toward her... Right? With these last thought she headed into her room and laid upon her bed.

Short, but the best part is coming up. What will Vegeta and the crew say when they see Bulma? Will Frieza win? When will Bulma's love come for her? Will she be a mermaid forever?