Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Instruments in Tune ❯ Request for forgivness ( Chapter 28 )

Instruments in Tune

Author's Note:

Thank you to those who reviewed, keep up the fight for more fic's about Piccolo, we need them.

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Chapter 29: Request for forgiveness

Vegeta was speeding the along the morning sky mumbling to himself.

"This is pointless, we should be taking advantage of the break in the blizzard to train, but nooo we have to look for that stupid girl"

Vegeta continued his search still talking to himself as he flew.

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Elsewhere others were also searching for the young Isabelle in the snow covered wilderness beneath them.

"Hey Krillin how long have we been looking?"

Gohan asked turning to Krillin by his side, Krillin looked toward the sun and then his watch.

"Abouuuut…3 hours Gohan"

Gohan nodded then dropped his head worrying he still blamed himself for her being lost.

Krillin noticed this.

"Hey Gohan don't worry we will find her and if not us, Vegeta your dad or Bongo will for sure"

A small smile covered his gloomy face and they also kept their search going a cross the East over the ridges and ranges.

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Goku's hopes were high he had faith that Piccolo had found her and she was safe, He wondered if they had tried to return to the house to let everyone know that they were safe.

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Bongo on the other hand was hard on his searching the ground like a hawk for any sign of the girl he had came to love as a sister over the many years.

Bongo stopped in mid air on the ground he spotted something stand out against the snow only faintly but it was there, he flew down at break neck speed reaching the object he picked it up in his hand for closer examination.

*This is part of Isi's coat she, was here*

Bongo closed his fingers around the torn piece of brown cloth in his hand, he looked around for any other signs, footprints were not possible they would have been covered by the blizzard.

He was now air born once again searching on now with the notion that he may be close.

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Isabelle's legs were about to give way, she had tried time and time again to dodge Piccolos methods but without success, her face pale from the cold was starting to become saw to touch.

Isabelle was on her hands and knees in the snow struggling to rise up she felt another hard impact this time in her back holding her against the cold wet snow.

"You can do better than this"

Piccolo jammed his boot into Isabelle's spine holding her face down in the snow, He could feel her trying to get up but held her down with ease.

Isabelle lifted her face out of the snow her body even more frozen was hardly able to move, she could not endure the roughhouse training any longer in the cold.

"Please sensei I can't its to cold for me to move"

Isabelle's arms gave way she fell back against the snow not making another effort to rise again, after a moment the sharp pressure in her back subsided.

Piccolo lifted his boot off the girls spine watching for a moment he did not take into account that being human and a female human meant she was in no way as resistant to the elements as the fighters were, she would need shorter sessions witch he was not enthusiastic of.

"You may rest now, we will train again tomorrow"

Swinging his cape around Piccolo stated back to the cave, as he walked he stopped realizing something was not right.

Turning he found Isabelle had not moved from her place in the snow he walked up to her leaning down by her size, he tapped her in the arm but there was no response.

*Unconscious *

Piccolo thought to himself.

She would not make it back to the cave on her own even if she were conscious with the condition she was in.

Unwillingly Piccolo slipped his massive arms under Isabelle lifting her into his arms, he was amazed at her lightness he walked back to the cave, once there he used his shoulder to brush through the blanket door he walked to the back of the cave.

"Don't get used to this"

He mumbled to himself then looked into Isabelle's face she was still unconscious her head resting heavily against his shoulder muscle, he gingerly placed her down on the blanket he had provided her with.

Once down he was about to walk away but he stopped in consideration he wanted to look at her just one last time.

He turned to look at her face she was pale from the cold her lips still the same color much more normal than when he found her in the icy water, he noticed a few strands of loose her had settled on her face.

He tried to fight off the urge to move the stands from her face back into place, but in the end his urge took over slowly he brushed his finger across Isabelle's delicate skin coiling the loose stands off her face.

He removed his finger from her face watching for another moment as the color began to return to her soft skin, fearing she would awaken to find him there he regained his position on the cave floor by the fire.

*What did I just do, why do I feel so bizarre? *

Piccolo thought for a long while about the strange emotion in his gut one that he had never felt, annoyed him to have this feeling and why only around her and one else.

Finally turning away from the form in the back of the cave Piccolo went back to his meditation.

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Several hours later Isabelle began to stir her body felt cold and saw the combination made it all the more worse, opening her eyes Isabelle whimpered at the pain the worst being her side and back.

Lifting to a sitting position she rubbed the areas in an effort to ease the pain, curious she lifted her clothing to see an enormous violet bruise spread across her site around to some of her back.

"Damm, that will take a while to heal"

Isabelle murmured in an effort not to disturb her meditating sensei across the fire from her, but he was all too aware of her stirring from her sleep.

"They will heal swiftly, it will be no excuse to stop your training"

Isabelle was startled away from tending her wounds at Piccolos voice; he was still meditating with his eyes clenched shut his hands in his lap.

"I know sensei, I apologies for not doing better"

Isabelle knew the important of her knowing to protect herself, she was always trying to make her former teacher Bongo proud but he was convinced she would not amount into a fighter. Now Isabelle felt she was also letting Piccolo down even though he was a much stricter teacher.

"Save your apologies for someone else, you can not expect to become a fighter overnight it takes time, which we need to take advantage of"

Isabelle listened to his words as she watched his still meditating form by the fire, she still felt he had odium for her but hoped it had faded over time.

Her stomach grumble from the hunger in her gut, she again tried to suppress it but her body needed its nourishment and cried out even loader for it.

Piccolo opened one eye glancing at her, without a word he rose up and walked out of the cave using hardly any effort flicked the blanked door out of his path.

Isabelle watched him leave his impressive physique sending faint pleasant palpitations through her chest cavity, without thinking she wished that he did not despise her and they could even become comrades… perhaps friends in the near future.

*I cannot believe I just felt that way, I sound like a love-deprived teenager*

Regaining herself she waited for his return she again observed her bruised side amazed at the strength one must posses to deliver such a blow.

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