Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Somnium enim Fortuna ❯ Parvulus Ignotus ( Chapter 3 )

Somnium enim Fortuna

Capitulus III

Parvulus Ignotus

A/N: Ok, so how did everyone like the second chapter? I hope you all did. I know the `dream, meet Vegeta, go home, dream, meet Vegeta…' thing must be getting old…well, that's what the plot development was BUT now we should be moving on to other stuff…You might have guessed that by the addition of the little boy at the end of the last chapter. ^_^

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I could only stare in shock. How the hell had this child gotten here? Could I have brought...him…with me? He looked around curiously at our surroundings, but not with any seeming surprise.

“Wow, thanks for bringing me with you. How'd you do it?”

Now that we weren't in the vicinity of Vegeta I had the leisure to examine him. He had a very pleasant sort of face, friendly, and trusting, which one wouldn't expect in a compatriot of that villain.

“I don't know. I used to think I was just dreaming. I guess you're irrefutable proof that they weren't just dreams.”

“Oh, what's that mean? Where are we?”

I sighed, I never had spent a lot of time around children, I just couldn't communicate with them on the appropriate level for their intelligence…and I had a feeling this kid was going to be worse than most kids.

“We're in my home. On my home planet, Earth.”

“Oh, I've heard of this planet. Frieza doesn't think it's much worth anything right now. You're lucky. So you must have some kind of teleporting ability. I wish I could do that, it would be neat.”

“That could explain it, I suppose. I don't know. It only happens in my sleep, and not at my direction…umm…are you hungry?”

I noticed his eyes shifting towards my mostly empty pizza box. I suppose Vegeta hadn't allowed him to eat. He was probably starving.

“What is it? Can I have it? This is great! Do you have more?”

I watched him gobble down the last fourth of my large pizza before I could even respond. I led him to the kitchen, wondering if he normally ate so much or if Vegeta had just been starving him for that long. His eyes opened wide when he saw the fridge and he dove right in gleefully. I was definitely going to have to have the housekeeper buy more groceries tomorrow…maybe a larger fridge would be a good idea too.

When he was finally done eating he lay back against his chair and regarded me sleepily. It was still in the very early hours of the morning, so I led him to a spare bedroom, directing him on the use of the intercom in his room. As I crashed into my bed, it occurred to me that this child had just eaten my home empty, and I hadn't even asked his name yet.

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In the morning he was already waiting in the kitchen when I got up. The first thing I made sure to do was ask him his name. He said it proudly, jumping up to stand on his chair. His armor was off, and for the first time I saw the little furry appendage that stuck out of his backside. My eyes almost bulged out of my head. Granted, he was an alien species, but he had seemed human enough.

“Kakarot, is that a tail?”

“Of course, don't you humans have tails?”

I shook my head and told him we didn't. But his attention quickly focused away to the food that I was pulling out of the cupboard. I guess the best way to get his attention was to address his stomach. Well, that could always be handy information. I was tempted to try my cooking again and see how he liked it…seemed like he would eat anything.

A couple of hours later, after he had finished throwing up and had demanded something that I hadn't cooked, we finally sat down to talk. His tale was a long time in the telling, amazing considering how young he was.

“So this Frieza controls most of the known universe? Amazing? Why hasn't he come after Earth.”

“Oh, he doesn't think Earth is worth the effort, you humans are so weak he could pick you all off easily anytime he wanted.”

Well that comment pissed me off, but I wasn't quite willing to challenge him to a fight to try and disprove that. Besides, I was gifted with a brilliant mind; I didn't need large muscles.

“Well, I bet my father and I could come up with some really nifty machine to prove otherwise to him, but it sounds like we'd do better to keep his notice away from us. Well, I suppose you'd like to go home?”

“Well, I suppose I should…Prince Vegeta is always telling me I owe it to my race to fight since we're some of the last ones.”

“The last ones? What happened to the rest of the Saiyajins?

“Frieza destroyed the planet and killed off all the rest. Prince Vegeta wasn't too sorry to see his father go, but the rest…well, it would be a lot easier to get rid of Frieza if we had them.”

“Which is no doubt why Frieza did it…a whole planet? Who the hell did he manage that? He must have some incredible weapons.” The image of a DeathStar like ship flashed into my mind. I wondered if fact could really copy fiction like that.

“Nah Bulma, he did that with his own two hands. He's really strong.”

At first that didn't quite sink into my brain. His own hands? How the hell could that be possible? No one could destroy a planet with their own hands…how big was this guy? Some of my doubt must have shown on my face. Kakarot jumped up and dragged me outside. He pointed to a section of the compound wall and told me to watch. I did so obediently, not understanding what was going to happen.

He did some strange gesture accompanied with equally strange words and suddenly a beam of energy shot forward from his hands and destroyed the section of the wall…rather a larger section than he had indicated…my jaw dropped. What the hell?

“Kakarot? How did you do that!? And how the hell do you propose to pay for the damages to the wall?”

“I used my Ki…you have some too, but yours isn't very well developed, so you wouldn't be able to do something like that.”

“I wouldn't want to- wait. Can Vegeta do things like that?”

“Oh sure, he's even stronger than me.”

“Oh…” I suddenly felt a little sick. Vegeta's danger level just tripled in my mind. I'd known he could kill me easily, but I'd no idea just how easily.

“And Frieza is even stronger? Holy shit…it's no wonder he's been subjugating the universe…”

I was about to ask Kakarot something when I heard the familiar rumble of my parent's air jet landing in the courtyard. Shit! No time to do anything about the wall, or about the weird alien kid I had brought home with me. Well, it was past time I had a talk with my father anyway. I rushed around the CC building and sprinted straight towards the car just as it settled in place. My mother jumped out of her side to give me a quick hug before bustling off to find one of the keeper robots. My father climbed out a little more decorously, although that was ruined by my jumping him for a hug. I had missed my dad inordinately while they were away…I was a daddy's girl after all.

I was listening to my father describe their trip when Kakarot showed up, his tail waving in the air. My father stopped, looked him over carefully and then looked to me, waiting for an explanation. I sighed; finally I would have my father here to help me.

We went into my father's lab and I explained everything to him, even showing the cut I had received on my knee the other night. He never doubted me; Kakarot was really all the hard evidence I needed. When I was done my father sat back and looked thoughtfully at the ceiling. After several minutes of silence his gaze dropped down to Kakarot and then back to me. I could tell he was formulating a plan but I had the sudden feeling it was a plan I wasn't going to like.

“Well, it seems to me that you ought to take him back to space.”

“Me!? Why me?”

“Because you're the one that brought him here. Besides, someone has to bring the space ship back after he's been dropped off. I've been wanting to test it and this is the perfect excuse.”

“You're…going to use me as part of your experiment? What if Vegeta kills me?”

“Oh I doubt that, it seems to me he would have done so already if he really intended to. Besides, I didn't say you had to take him to Vegeta. You just have to take him to some weigh station and then come home. So, now that that's settled, we'll start getting the ship ready. And we'll need to monitor your sleep from now on…it seems certain you've some strange gift that we need to understand. I wonder if we could learn to control it…”

I stared at my father in shock. Could he really be serious? He was going to send me out into space with only a small child to protect me…now I sort of wished I hadn't told him. I didn't want to go into space.

With my father's usual efficiency we were ready for traveling within the week. My mother was upset at first, but my father managed to convince her of his plan…and so my last hope of salvation was dissolved.

I sat on my balcony watching the sunrise. I hadn't been able to sleep and now I watched as the time slipped away. Any minute now my father would send us off…it was a bad dream I wasn't waking from. As the sun rose and seemed to settle atop the Capsule Corp. fence I resigned myself to my fate. I saw my father walk outside and so I went downstairs and joined him. Kakarot was bouncing around happily by the ship. He was eager to get back into space…even though that meant he was going back under the control of Frieza…I didn't understand the strange little alien child.

My mother came out and gave me a box of her special cookies, a hug and a kiss from my parents and in minutes we were ensconced safely in the ship. I started the lift-off sequence and away we went. As we left Earth's atmosphere I looked back on my planet longingly…I had no idea then of the hardships I would endure to get back.

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A/N: Woo! Another chapter! It's amazing what boredom and a long train ride can make happen. ^_^ Well, I hope you enjoy! Please review. And as always, if you would like to be put on the mailing list for this story, simply leave your e-mail address in a review. Or, you can send an e-mail to hibari_heza@yahoo.com with the story name in the subject line. ^_^