Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Ironic ❯ Some things are better not known ( Chapter 11 )

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Ironic: Mirai Trunks Saga

Third Day

Lia was walking behind Trunks through the strange and unknown planet, while she tried to fix her dress, or at least what was left of it, the explosion didn't leave much of it, and she being the `conservative' Queen that she was, tried to cover as much as she could of her `almost' naked thighs and chest. She looks at Trunks who was as well `almost' naked; his pants were no longer pants, just pieces of burned and dirty fabric and his shirt non-existent. Half-naked, hungry, things couldn't get any worse, or so Lia thought. "I'm hungry" she said.

"Me too, but the fruits in this planet are strange and unknown, and if we take one we could get sick or worse" Trunks said.

"But I'm so hungry. Besides, maybe it could hurt you but not me, I'm an Amazon and amazons...".

Trunks interrupts her and says mortified, "...never get sick, yeah, I've heard it before and I'm quite tired of it".

"You're so rude" she said crossly.

"Yeah, whatever..." he said annoyed.

After a few minutes of silence, Lia says thoughtful and a bit sad, "I wonder why we haven't been rescued yet?".

"Who knows in what part of the universe we are, and I'm pretty sure is not easy to look for someone among the millions of planets that exist " he reasoned.

She sighs, "I just hope they find us soon, I'm not sure if I can survive three more days living in this precarious and miserable conditions".

"Precarious? Miserable? You're so dramatic" he comments.

"You don't see it that way because you come from a planet that is technologically archaic, but I'm from an advanced planet, and I never had to go through necessities like these" she said proudly.

He looks at her annoyed, but says nothing to her. Both of them keep walking in silence when they finally see a crashed ship, which looked pretty antique and was in a really bad shape. They quickly approach, and observe that it was almost entirely covered with vegetation.

"I wonder if it still works..." comments Trunks, as he inspected the right side of the ship. "I doubt it... come and see this" Lia said from the left side of it.

Hurriedly, he goes to her and sees a huge hole of the size of half the ship. Trunks looks at it astonished, while Lia says, "What could've done something like that...?".

Trunks enters the ship through the big hole, while saying, "I don't see any burns on the edge, so it wasn't because an explosion or an attack".

"Yeah, it was as if someone or something ripped it" she said slightly afraid.

Trunks stayed in silence while looking the hole thoroughly, and then says, "Could be... who knows...Let's check inside". Both enter the ship cautiously, while looking around the ship. They had entered where it looked like the control room, he quickly goes to the ship's computer and examines it; he pushes a few buttons, trying to turn on the ship, but to no avail. He sighs and decided to explore, it was then when he turned around saw that Lia was no longer there. "Lia...?" he said softly while walking through a dark corridor; as he did, he saw that some doors were opened. "...Lia?" he called again, but didn't receive an answer. It was then he decided to enter a room, when he suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder, he quickly turned around a bit frightened and sees Lia behind him, she had been in the room in front of the one he was about to enter. "I found clothes, pillows, sheets, and some other stuff that we could use" she informed.

"Good, we'll take it...let's see what's in the rest of the rooms" he said.

After checking out most of the rooms, they're on their way to the last room, which door was closed.

"Something tells me we shouldn't go in there" Lia comments hiding her uneasiness.

"Yeah, I know what you mean... but we still got to check it out" Trunks said as he slowly opened the door. When they finally opened it, they saw at least ten bodies on the floor, men, women and children, obviously aliens, all of them dead; covered in dried blood. Lia covers her mouth, since her delicate stomach couldn't stand the horrid scene and quickly leaved the place. Trunks, being a man of science and of curious nature, enters the dark room and observes the corpses carefully. The bodies were in a decomposing state and even though he couldn't see the faces of the aliens clearly, he noticed how all of the aliens had expressions of `terror' on their faces; he also noticed that some of them had their faces and some other parts of their bodies completely mutilated. "What could've scared them so much, that they had these look on their faces?... and why they mutilated themselves like these?" Trunks wondered at loud. After a few minutes, Trunks exits the ship and finds a pale Lia leaning against it. "Are you ok?" he asked worriedly.

She nods, and then says, "You got tired of looking at dead aliens?".

"Yeah. Let's get the things we need and get out of here quick. I don't like this place" he said.

She nods, "The first time I totally I agree with you" she said, and then both of them entered the ship once again.

The sun had set. Trunks and Lia were inside the cave in front of the fire. And while Lia rested peacefully over the pillows and sheets they had taken from the, Trunks was staring confused at some book that he constantly turned around. Lia notices it and says, "What is that?".

"It's just a book I found in the ship" Trunks responded casually.

"What kind of book?" she asked interested.

"That's exactly what I would like to know. It's written in some language I can't understand" he said as he approached her and showed her the book.

She takes it in her hands and look at it for a few minutes, "Of course you don't understand, its written in `tsunic'".

"`Tsunic'?" he repeated confused.

"Yes, it was the official language of a planet in the South quadrant that sort of `self-destroyed' about five years ago..." she explained, the continues, "...and this book is a diary".

"And what is says?" Trunks inquired interested.

"You think is right to read a book that doesn't belong to you and that the owner is someone who is dead? I don't think that's too ethic" she said in an sardonic tone.

"This book doesn't belong to anyone because as you pointed out, the owner is dead. So read it, we might find useful information in there" he said.

She sighs mortified, "Ok, ok..." then she looks at the first pages and starts reading, "... kaal lukep tonax rejip juct utrimkopgae".

Trunks interrupts her abruptly and says annoyed, "I don't speak `tsunic', so why don't you try that again in `English'".

"Jeez, sorrr-rry, captain..." she said sarcastically, and then continues reading the book, "...things weren't looking good for the planet, the climate has deteriorated drastically, the vegetation that once adorned our planet, has disappeared entirely. It's sad to see how the planet you were born and grew up in, dies by the ignorance of millions. We abused of our planet for centuries and now, our descendants are going to pay the price of our mistakes. I'm afraid my family and I, along with everyone else, will have to leave the planet as soon as possible; the scientifics said that the planet would not hold for too long. We have to get out of here, the death of our planet is imminent..." Lia turns the pages, then she finally stops on one, and keeps reading, "...the ship has begun to mal-functioning, and for obvious reasons; we've been wandering for weeks in space. We're lost, we have no idea about where are we going, the coordinates we were given to go to planet Kwur were erroneous. We have to make an emergency-landing on a planet that's not even registered on the intergalactic map, I hope we can find help there".

"Well, that explains how they got here" comments Trunks.

"Yeah, and that this blasted planet is in the middle of nowhere" Lia said frustrated.

"Well, that was five years ago... maybe now is in the intergalactic map" he said.

"I highly doubt it..." she said, and continues reading from another page, "...deserted. That's the word that describes best this planet, we have explored the place non-stop for days, and we still haven't found any help. I feel that this is my entire fault, I shouldn't have used such an obsolete ship for a trip like this; the transistor doesn't work, we won't be able to call for help. I just hope we can fix the ship soon. My family is a bit uncomfortable here, and to be honest I do not like this place because even though is very nice, and there's enough food in here thanks to the vegetation and the animals, there's something about this place that I do not like... as if there is something bad, something sinister hiding" when she finished reading, Lia looks at Trunks slightly alarmed.

"Don't worry about that, those are the words of a frustrated and desperate man. Tired of being in an unknown planet, unable to do anything but wait for help" Trunks said stated.

Lia stayed in silence for a few minutes and then says, "I don't know, since the moment we got here there's something that's been making me nervous".

"Yeah, me too... And it's known as anxiety and desperation. We both want to get out of here badly, it's normal that we feel this way" he explained unworriedly.

Lia sighs frustrated, and passed a few pages, "This is incredible. Three days have gone by with out the sun rising. It had been three days of complete darkness; the planet is in complete silence, the noises that the beats made every night are no longer heard. My son, my daughter's husband, my brother and I went hunting to get something to eat for our families, but we have returned with nothing but fruits. We have decided to stay inside the ship during the next couple of nights, there's something about all this that I don't like. I have a bad feeling". Trunks notices that Lia was now pretty tense, her face was pale and her hands were shaking slightly.

"I rather stop reading" she stated seriously.

"No, read... we have to know what happened" Trunks said.

"Some things are better not known" she said, her voice slightly quivering.

"We have to know, Lia... these people had faces of pure terror in a way I've never seen before. Some of them had even mutilated themselves. Something terrible happened to them, and we need to know" he said seriously.

After a few minutes, she nods and continues reading the next page, "We heard it... the most horrible, infernal howl that I've ever heard. And it's getting closer, as if letting us know its coming. I wish I knew what kind of beast it is, but its howl is like nothing I've ever heard or seen here or on any other planet I've been, is a sinister sound, that you only hear in your nightmares. But of one thing I'm certain, and is that it knows that we're here... and it's coming for us". Trunks and Lia look at each other; he can see the fear in her eyes.

"Don't make me continue" she said nervously.

"You have to do it... we need to know" he said.

She sighs deeply trying to calm her nerves, and starts reading from another page of the diary, "I saw it... I don't know what it was, but I saw how its silhouette moved around the outsides of the ship. With long, dark hair that covered its face; and a gray tunic as its clothes. The creature walked around the ship for a few minutes as if examining it, until it finally started hitting the left side of the ship. Everyone started screaming hysterically, I would've screamed as well, if it weren't because I was trying to calm everyone. After a few minutes of hitting the ship, not another sound was heard..." Lia passes a couple of pages and keeps reading, "...I don't know what to do, it's always the same, the creature comes, hits the ship, howls as the beats it is, and after a few minutes leaves; then returns for more. ¿Is it that it wants to drive us crazy? ¿Is this infernal creature as smart as to drive us mad with its mind games? ¿What is it that it wants? ¿Why it won't leave us alone?! ¿What have we done to deserve this!?" Lia passes to the last page of the diary that was written and reads, "...The creature has managed to break the part of the ship it had constantly struck, and without much effort, its obvious that all this time was playing with us, making us believe that it couldn't break the ship, but it could, it only did it to torture us and entertain himself; now, we're all locked in one the biggest and most secure rooms. After the beast broke the ship, we haven't heard it again. I wonder why?".

Both of them stayed in complete silence, he noticed how her whole body shook slightly, and says, "There's no reason to worry about. That was a long time ago".

After a few minutes of silence, she says, "What I don't understand is... that if all this happened five years ago... how come the bodies were still decomposing?".

He stayed in silence as well. She was right, it was impossible that those people were mummified in such atmospheric conditions; in five years, all that it was supposed to be left was the bones. "I don't know..." he said "...we'll return to the ship tomorrow...".

She interrupts him and says a bit agitated, "No, I'm not going back to that ship!".

"All right... I'll go alone" Trunks said, while getting on his feet and walking to other side of the cave. And lays there.

"Why are you moving so far?" she asked confused.

He looks at her confused and says, "I thought you didn't wanted me near you".

"Tonight I'll make an exception" she said.

Trunks tries not to laugh, it was funny that `The Great Amazon Queen' was scared, though he didn't blamed her, what they had just discovered was terrible and worthy of a horror movie.

He approached her and when he was going to sit beside her, Lia says to him a bit surprised, "Hey, not so close. Just at the other side of the fire will be close enough".

He looks at her mortified, but still does as suggested, and lays in there. While, a scared Lia knew she wasn't going to be able to sleep.

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