Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Heritage ❯ Insomnia ( Chapter 3 )

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

On the edge of a small forest, on the lap of mother nature and strange machine almost screamed our from the environment as the setting Sun mirrored on it's surface. It stood on sit fees, and with it's streamlined form it resembled a mole except instead of two small eyes it had one big windscreen. A small figure neared the engine, and the mechanism legs sank in evenly and a door opened on the side.

“You stayed long. We started to think something happened with you” said a little frilly the exiting man. He had his waist-long hair wicked in small turfs, despite he was almost 2 meters high.

“You should be more worried that our ship will exposed, my dear. Why did you turned off the safety system Lovage? Don't you trust you old granny to find back alone?” asked with amusement in her voice.

“Sage just came back from the procreation, as our sensors sensed that you are near. Our supplies are still on 70%. If we want to depart in time, we need to go more frequently out, despite the risk to be caught.” said with all seriousness. His face-line got more visible as he stepped closer. His sharp look hadn't flouted his handsome face and his exotic flame of his black eyes.

“All-right, all-right... now I hope it wouldn't take long, before our missing member will join us.” soothed the other “but it seems he's a headstrong boy, it may take time before he'll bring himself to visit out “orphanage”. I tip of two weeks.”

“Orphanage?” Lovage sighed loud “Don't even start with the story” and the forest heard a second sigh from him “Cress the systems run perfectly. Not so long ago found an interesting technology. There are some capsules which are able to close bigger object inside themselves. He wants your permission to investigate and steal it, if it is useful.

“If you let me in dear, I can discuss with the others personally.” smiled to his bigger companion.

“You are in an awfully good mood. Did an old man courted you again?” stepped the man aside, leaving space to the matron.

“Hohoho! You know, for an old woman like me every compliment feels good.” chuckled, and entered the ship.

The tall stranger sighed a last time “If any other would have said this, he would have been one tongue poorer.” then closed the door. The machine stood up again, after that it's body got first blurry then vanished altogether from any human sense.

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With every day it got worse. The angry grunts got louder in the house, the patience of Bulma had run shorter. She thought maybe she should increase the dosage of her medicine pearls. They worked usually, but as Vegeta was behaving recently, she could have completely sedate herself, she would have been edgy anyway. The prince had gotten unbearable with is constant ranting. He was swearing even in the gravity room, he complained about everything during their meals. The rest of her family tried to stay away from the Saiyan in the last days, only Bulma tried to carefully figure out, what his problem is, without much succeed. After one and a half week, she was at the end of her wits. She tinkered a bit on the gravity chamber a night before, and now she held the controller in her hands and was prepared for the worst.

She opened the door without knocking and set the gravity in 1 meter radius to her normal capacity, while the rest of the room turned 200 higher. She hoped that she will not crush his husband “That's enough! We had to bear 10 days now with your bitching! Tell me what's your problem or I'll laminate you into the ground!” she bellowed full-throated.

Vegeta trained on 700 gravity in the last week that was one of the reason he collapsed so easily like a lawn chair. After a 2 minutes recovery time, understood what Bulma said to him “Woman, what the fuck are you doing?!” he tried to stand up, but he just couldn't.

The blue haired female had her hand on the controller, and she was prepared to turn it even higher if the Saiyan would launch at her “I teach you some manners! At the first place, why are you so frustrated? You're behaving like bitch on her red days! If you don't tell me now, I'll leave you here for a week, to think about yourself.

The prince growled loud, while he made an attempt to stand at least on four legs, but it was in vain. At last he gave in “I haven't slept in last two weeks now. If I can, I see some disturbing pictures before my eyes, so I cannot rest at all. That's it. Now adjust the gravitation to normal!

But instead Bulma was lost in her thoughts and didn't pay much attention what his husband yelled at her “What can I do?” she tried to find a solution “You could take some sleeping pills, maybe it helps.”

“I already swallowed so many drugs that it could've knock out four dinosaurs. They'd no effect on me at all!” he turned to the human “You can't do anything against it. I'll just wait until I'll exhaust myself completely, then I'll sleep and that's it. Turn off the machine! NOW!!'' roared dangerously.

At this moment a spark lit up in Bulmas mind “I know it! Go to Noeven! Her medicine worked for me. They helped me to keep up with your whining. I'm sure she can find a cure for your insomnia, since she also mentioned something similar.” remembered vaguely. She pushed the off button of her device and in the next second she found it shattered on the ground, Vegetas breath on her neck.

“Don't you dare pull an answer so out of me again.” muttered threatening the Saiyan in her ear.

“Did you hear what I said? Noeven can terminate your ahypnia. Visit her in Territown!” persuaded further the prince.

“I don't need an old hags help! I can solve my problems on my own!” wiped his forehead with a towel.

Bulma growled at this “And you see what was the result until now? If you don't sleep, you might get insane! How long are you going to so stubborn, until you kill someone in your anger?” asked annoyed “Your son haven't even dared to talk to you, and what do you think why did I make that controller?” the man just slapped towel over his shoulder and headed to the bathroom, bypassing his wife “VEGETA!”

The Saiyan stopped as he heard his name “Alright... tomorrow I'll visit that old frump. Until then shut up your mouth, and leave me alone.” then he moved down on the corridor.

Bulma sighed long. Just terrific. Their relationship isn't shitty enough anyway. She wanted to think that their old insulting conversations were as playful as they were when Trunks was born, but nowadays she doubted it. Lately she considered that a second baby would bring the family closed together. She hesitated to stop to take her contraceptive in the last months, and since 4 weeks she finally decided to drop them. She wanted a little girl, whom she could comb her hair and teach her all the women's practices. But now the situation got even harder to make the decision. She singed again “Let's wait out, if this problem can be solved with Noeven, then I can still start to take my pills again.” thought in the end, and she turned to her lab.

A few days ago, somebody had broken through the safety system and crept into her company's database. Thankfully the intruder could just download her finished projects, because fortunately her new, in developing phase standing inventions where separated from the inner network. The hacker played with her and her employees for hours. The bastard knew what he was doing, and despite Bulma is not a beginner in this, he could outflank her. The asshole left some traced, so she tried to track him down, but it robbed her whole life away. Moreover there is a chance that she will loose him in the end. She took a deep breath and disappeared in the research room.
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