Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Ironic ❯ Fears ( Chapter 12 )

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Ironic: Mirai Trunks Saga

Fourth Day

Lia woke up scared and shrieking, while she felt her heart beating at full speed. The night before she wasn't able to sleep much and when she finally did, she had nightmares, the same one the whole night. She was in the dark, screaming, alone and desperate. She looks at her surroundings, searching for Trunks but he wasn't there; this makes her feel a bit more relieved, since she knew that Trunks would make fun of her if he knew she was having nightmares. She sighs, while reclining her back against the hard and cold wall of the cave, there was a sensation in her chest that wouldn't leave her alone, as if someone was observing her, she looked at her surroundings trying to hide her nervousness. `You're not going to intimidate me... I'm not scared' she said mentally, not sure to whom or to what.

"So `the Amazon Queen' finally woke up" she hears a voice. Then she sees Trunks approaching to the entrance of the cave.

Slightly jumpy, she looks at him crossly. "Where were you?" she asked.

"On the ship. I told you last night I was gonna go back there..." he said while entering the cave, then he placed clothes and some fruits beside her, "...I found some clothes, they look your size".

She eyes the clothes slightly disgusted, and says, "I don't like the idea of wearing the clothes of someone that's dead".

"Well, is either the dead alien's clothes or the one that you've been wearing since we got here... which by the way, there's not much left of it" he said while his eyes traveled over her now brown and `formerly white' dress, that were giving him a good view of her almost-uncovered chest.

She quickly covers herself with a sheet, and says slightly irritated, "Stop looking at me!".

"Oh, please... don't get your hopes up..." he said mortified, then he approached her and kneeled right in front of her, their faces really close; and finally whispers to her, "...I don't like little girls... specially conceited and spoiled little girls like you" and after that he exits the cave.

And after a short moment of confusion, she yells "Idiot!".

He returns after a few seconds, and says annoyed, "I heard that".

"Good! That was the point...!" she snapped crossly, then notices Trunks carrying a dead animal over his shoulder, that had a small hole on its side, "...what is that?" she asked disgusted.

"Breakfast, lunch and dinner" he responded with a smile of satisfaction.

"What?! Are you mad!? I am not going to eat that!" she said upset.

"Oh, yeah? And what are you planning on eating, your highness" he said sarcastically.

"Anything but that!" she responded.

"Oh, cool... Let me know how the hunting go" he said smugly.

"I don't get it, just a few days ago you were babbling about how we shouldn't eat the stuff on the planet cause it could make us sick, and now, here you are with a slaughtered animal on your shoulder that you know nothing about and you're planning to eat" she said annoyed.

"Yeah, but the alien and his family ate the animals from the planet, and nothing bad happened to them... except for the whole `creature' thing, but that's another thing... The truth is that its been a few days that I don't eat, until yesterday that we had some fruits, which by the way, taste horrible; I'm sick and tired of eating them, I don't want to see another fruit in my whole life. I'm half Saiyan, and I need meat, so meat is what I'm going to eat today and for the rest of my days while I live!" he said without noticing that his tone was now of a hysterical person.

She looks at him slightly surprised, and then burst in laughing. Trunks he looks at her with an expression on his face that said `Why are you laughing?' and she just laughed harder.

After a few minutes, the laughing had ceased, and she says, "You're breaking up, you know. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one hysteric in here".

"Yeah, right... two maniacs together, that should be fun" he said slightly annoyed, then continues mockingly, "...I wonder what the Grand Council would do if their Queen goes crazy?".

"Well, probably they would try to keep me alive for as long possible and make sure that during my days of madness I would get pregnant through artificial insemination and then, after the girl is born, they would kill me" she said calmly.

Trunks stayed in silence, surprised by her words, then says, "You're kidding, right?".

"I'm afraid not, that's Amazon law. If a Queen ever fell in disgrace, such as madness for example, the Queen would be locked up under strict medical attention, and if her illness didn't had a cure then an artificial insemination is to be proceeded" she explained.

"I thought the insemination was the option of a Queen that decided not to get married" Trunks commented.

"Yes, it is... the insemination is not a very accepted method, only single and egotistic queens do it, like my grandmother" she said smiling thoughtful.

"Ah, well then pretentiousness is hereditary... from your grandma to your mom, and from your mom to you" he said mockingly, while smiling.

She looks at him slightly annoyed yet smiling and says, "Not necessarily, everyone knows that my mother was humble and pacifist, she hated all sorts of all protocol and rules... The elder counselor Rui was a good friend of my grandmother, and he says I got my temper from her".

"And... How do they choose the `donor' for the insemination? The sem--… well, the `swimmers' got to come from somewhere " he asked shyly.

She laughs softly, "Well, the Queen was the one that was supposed to choose... But now, if I wanted to have an artificial insemination, the Grand Council has to approve the `donor' of the `swimmers'".

"You think you'll have one?" he inquired.

"Yeah, definitely. I'm not planning on getting married, and share my throne with some idiotic, sexist man. But of course, the Grand Council is dead-set on getting me a husband and they say the artificial insemination is an extreme option, and I should only do it if I don't find anyone that defeats me" she said.

"That `defeats' you? I don't get it..." he said confused.

"Well, let's suppose I'm going to get married. The man that wants to marry me has to first defeat me in a sword fight. If he's able to make me drop my sword, I'm automatically defeated and engaged. It's highly stupid, but that's tradition" she said frustrated.

"You Amazons sure are weird" he commented.

"Oh really? And how you do things on planet Earth?" asked Lia a bit annoyed.

"Simple. Generally, they meet, exchange phone numbers, and then go out. And if they have a good time, they keep seeing each other; and then, after some time if they think they can stand each other for 24 hours a day, they move in together. And if they love each other enough, they marry" he explained.

"You call that `simple'? That's way too complicated and requires too much time. My parents met one month and then next one they were married. But of course, with them was different, they fell in love with each other the second they meet..." Lia said thoughtful, "...And seven months later, he's assassinated, just weeks before I'm born".

He noticed how her facial expression drastically changed to one of sadness and says, "I know how you feel. My father died when I was a year old".

"How?" she asked.

"He was assassinated too. When I was born, the Earth was plagued with a pair of killer androids that annihilated everything in their path, and that included my dad, as well as all of my mother's friends, they all died trying to protect us. Only my mother, Gohan, the son of mother's best friend, and me survived. Then, Gohan was also murdered, and then it was only my mother and I" Trunks explained as he remembered his beloved mother.

"How did she die?" Lia asked.

"My mother was a non-stop worker, and after many years of fighting the androids, it weakened her heart" explained Trunks.

Lia stayed in silence as she watched Trunks' lost gaze, "I'm really sorry" she said.

He looks at her and says smiling, "Thanks".

After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence, he said, "Well, I don't know about you... but I'm starving. Are you going to eat?".

Lia sighs frustrated, "Alright..." she responded.

"Good..." Trunks said happily; then placed the slaughtered animal on the floor, over a dark sheet, where all the fruits were; then he takes a knife from his pocket and makes an incision on its stomach.

Lia stares at the whole scene disgusted and mortified, "Do you really have to do that in here?".

"I'm afraid so" he responded equally mortified.

She sighs then asks him, "Where did you get that knife?".

"I found it on the ship..." Trunks said, she quickly noticed that his faced had now a tensed expression.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"What are you talking about?" he lied.

"I noticed you changed as soon as the ship was mentioned ... something happened, right? Tell me" she said, while her heartbeat increased.

Trunks nods, and says, "When I went back to the room where the bodies were... the bodies had changed".

"Changed? What'd you mean? How?" she asked confused and nervous.

"The bodies weren't decomposing anymore, all that was left now was the skeletons..." Trunks explained and is quickly interrupted by Lia.

"That's impossible! Yesterday those bodies were practically intact, it's impossible that in one day they had finished decomposing" she said slightly desperate and nervous.

"I know... but that's what I found, if you want we can go there and..." he's interrupted again.

"No! I'm not going back there" she said seriously.

Trunks nods, and both stayed in silence. A few minutes later, the floor starts shaking slightly, and loud roars are heard. Both of them quickly exit the cave, and they see hundreds of animals running hurriedly.

"What's happening to them...?" commented Trunks confused.

"It seems as if they're escaping from something..." said Lia.

"Yeah, but of what...?" said Trunks.

"It's incredible... they're all going to the same direction" Lia said while both of them see the exotic birds and terrestrial animals going to the same area.

"They know something we don't know..." Trunks comments.

Lia nods her head, "What are we going to do?".

"There's nothing we can do... there's no place to go to" Trunks said while he entered the cave, meanwhile Lia could not get rid of the sensation that someone was watching her. She closed her eyes as she sighed deeply.

`You don't scare me. I'm not afraid of you...' she said telepathically to whoever she thought was listening, trying to control her nerves. It was then she felt it; a sensation of pure evil, as she never thought possible to exist. She suddenly became deaf to all sound except she could only hear the soft breeze and low snarl that approached to her rapidly, then she felt as something or someone softly caress her hair. Lia, horrified opened her eyes and as soon as she opened them, that evil sensation quickly disappears. She looks at her surroundings desperate but couldn't see anything, only the animals, that now seemed to move faster than before. She was no longer deaf, and could hear all the sounds normally. Her hands start to shake, while tears threaten to come from her eyes. She rapidly enters the cave, and she does she almost bumps into Trunks, who quickly noticed her nervous state.

"What's wrong?" he inquired concerned.

Lia tried to talk but no sound came from lips, when finally, after a few seconds she managed to say with a shaky, inaudible voice, "Nothing's wrong".

"Nothing's wrong? Look at you, you're shaking..." said Trunks desperate since he didn't know what was wrong with her, he gently grabs her by the shoulders and says while looking at her directly into her eyes, "Please trust me, Lia. Tell me what's wrong".

Lia looks away from him and, says while her tears ran freely down her cheeks, "Leave me alone!" and quickly went to where she was sleeping before and laid in there, away from him. Trunks looks at her for a moment, and then sits in front of the fire he had just started a few minutes ago. He hears Lia's soft and desperate sobs; he closes his eyes, asking to whoever was listening, to protect them.

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