Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The History of Kalika ❯ And So It Begins... ( Chapter 5 )

The History of Kalika

And So It Begins…

She pushed her hair out of her eyes for the hundredth time today and it wasn't even noon yet. Her wild, curly red hair had always caused her trouble. In elementary, a little boy named Tad used to stick pencils, gum and anything else he could in her hair. She never even noticed until some one else pointed it out to her. She had been so embarrassed and Tad he just laughed himself silly.

Then in high school, her first major crush, Billy Anderson had broken her heart when he told her that her hair reminded him of a bird's nest. She had saved up her allowance for an entire month to get it done. The stylist had told her that she looked wonderful and so had her mother. What had gone wrong?

Unfortunately college life wasn't turning out to be much different either. Her so-called boyfriend had been spotted around campus with various girls. And all of them with much prettier hair.

She sighed loudly. She wasn't going to get much studying done at this rate. She fumbled around in her hair searching for her lost pencil; the third one today. However her hunt was interrupted by the rather boisterous growling of her stomach. Maybe her roomie had something stashed, but just as she got up from the computer, there was a knock at the door.

She got up, grumbled something about 'How they never got visitors and how who ever it was probably had the wrong room'. The door was swung open and the red headed girl was greeted with the face of an unfamiliar young lady. She had never seen her before. She took inventory; short close cropped blond hair, brown horn rimmed glasses framing eerie green eyes, a friendly smile adorning her face.

"Uh, can I help you?"

"Yes." The blond said surprisingly.

The petite woman took in the lanky red head in front of her, before speaking again.

"Sophie Allen?"

"Yes."

"Good." She said coolly, smile still firmly in place.

And suddenly she grabbed the coed's arm with amazing strength and twisted it upward. Sophie's scream was muffled by the woman's hand as she was pushed into the room. Her eyes had begun to water and all she could make out were splashes of colors. She could only feel excruciating pain in her forearm. It was definitely broken. She tried to speak but she couldn't find her voice. All that came out was a chocked sob. She fell back onto the floor and tried to scoot backwards. Then all of a sudden, the heel of the mysterious lady's boot was pressed firmly against her throat.

"Now, I am going to ask you some questions and you are going to answer them." She said.

Her voice was precise and right to the point. There was no emotion whatsoever and that in it self scared Sophie much more than the previous assault that had been inflicted on her.

"Who…are…you?" The broken girl chocked out. A ragged breath. "W….why…are you doing this?"

"Hmm." The blonde said as she leaned down to face her, with this new movement the pressure on Sophie's throat increased. "I am Nomi and I do this because I can. Now, I will be the one asking the questions."

The woman who called her self Nomi returned to her upright position, the sudden movement sending new pain throughout the pinned girl's body.

"Where is your roommate?"

Sophie remained silent. Why hadn't anyone come to her aid? They had to have heard all the commotion. Nomi growled low in her throat in frustration.

"I will ask only one more time." The woman stated with a murderous gleam in her cold emerald eyes. "Where is Kalika Palo?"

"Ka…Kalika?" Sophie sobbed.

Nomi could see that the girl was having trouble so she decided to ease her foot up slightly.

"Wha…she's not here!" The auburn haired girl cried.

"Obviously!" Nomi said angrily. "So…where is she?"

She was so tempted to crush the girl under her foot, but she needed some information first. She sighed and ran her thin fingers through her short hair.

"Hmm?!"

"She had class today." Sophie said trying in vain to catch her breath. "But it's been over. I don't know where she is now!"

"Useless!!" Nomi growled in reply.

Before, Sophie had been so frightened by the lack of emotion in the woman's voice but now she couldn't have felt anymore afraid. She knew now for sure that she wasn't getting out of this alive, but she at least had to try. But what could she do? This lady had obviously come here with only one purpose: inquiry and destruction.

"Pleeeaasseee!" Sophie bawled. "Please let me go!"

Nomi looked at the girl underneath her thoughtfully, her face pulling into a frightening grimace.

"Fine!"

And before Sophie knew what hit her, she felt herself being jerked up and thrown backwards. She had expected to land on the desk or even against the wall, but all those hopes were dashed as glass shattered around her. She vaguely noticed air gushing behind her and whipping through her flame colored hair. And then just as suddenly, there was nothing.

Up on the fifth floor, Nomi was losing the little patience that she had left. She knew that the dear doctor had said only to use the reinforcements as a last resort but she was growing tired of the search. It would just be easier to tear this town apart piece by piece. In the end, she figured her boss wouldn't mind, as long as she got her precious samples.

******

The world renowned scientist, Bulma Briefs turned to her ex-husband with a proud smile on her lovely face. She loved to piss him off. It was great to see that perpetual scowl plastered on his face. It meant that everything was getting back to normal.

"Well?" The impatient Prince Vegeta asked.

"It's ready." She beamed.

"Hn." He grunted before turning to address the other full blooded Saiyan in the room. "Kakarot!"

"Eh!?" Goku jumped in surprise. He had been engrossed in an obviously enlightening conversation on his rarely seen celly.

"Alright! -- We'll be right there! See ya soon!" Goku said with a huge grin. "Now how do you hang this thing up again?" He muttered to himself.

"Baka!" The prince growled. "Give it here."

The cell phone savvy prince proceeded to end the call with expert grace.

"Vegeta, you'll never guess who that was!" The cell phone illiterate male chirped.

"Hn." Was Vegeta's only response.

"It was Gohan." Goku replied. "I'd almost forgotten he had a lecture today. He's in Hawaii."

"Hawaii?" Bulma said turning her attention to the younger Saiyan. "I went there on Holiday once. It's really fabulous! Is he having fun?"

"Yeah!" Goku continued. "And you'll never guess who he just met!"

Vegeta was losing patience rapidly. Goku was not surprised to hear the growl emitting form the annoyed Ouji.

"Kalika!" Goku finally revealed.

The prince's annoyed growl grew even louder before stopping abruptly. And just as he opened his mouth to speak, he was interrupted by his darling ex-wife. He hated it when she did that.

"Who's Kalika?" Bulma asked, innocently.

"That's the most unbelievable part!"

"…"

"Spit it out Kakarot!" Vegeta bellowed.

He would swear to Kami at his moment that he didn't even know why he continued to bother with the third class idiot. Goku just smiled that same lopsided smile that he had always reserved just for his prince.

"Well, she was one of his students, she assisted him today…" The taller Saiyan said. "And you know what else....She had a tail, just like his, Gohan said!"

"She's a Saiyan." Vegeta concluded.

"Yep!"

"Oh, poo!" The sapphire haired inventor pouted.

The prince and the third class warrior turned in her direction with looks of complete confusion.

"Uh, Bulma." Goku said hesitantly. "This is a good thing."

"I know." She continued to pout. "But I wanted to use my Saiyan radar!"

Vegeta just groaned and Goku scratched the back of his head and smiled.

"Gomen, Bulma." He said. "Maybe next time, ey?!"

******

It was a 90 minute drive from the diner to Kalika's parent's house. Gohan had told his father to meet them there. The youthful professor watched as the girl next to him speed down the dirt road. He took in the scenery. It reminded him of his home in the mountains, right next to his parents. It was so nice here. He glanced over at his female companion, she was singing along happily to the radio. He was impressed. He seemed so excited to find out that she was Saiyan and was so eager to meet the others. But first she had insisted on confronting her parents. Strangely enough, Gohan wasn't nervous about the idea at all.

They weren't far from the Palo's residence when they heard it. An explosion of some sort; the Earth shook, it was so strong. The jeep they were in swerved and skittered to the side of the road landing them sideways in a ditch.

Gohan shook the cobwebs out of his head and struggled to release himself from the safety belt.

"What the hell was that?" He thought.

He checked around for Ki instinctively. He sensed his and Kalika's, which was radiating quite dangerously at the moment. He looked up to see her standing in the middle of the road, nary a hair out of place. He crawled out of the over turned vehicle and approached the girl.

"Kalika?" He said still holding the back of his head. "Are you okay?"

The lithe girl said nothing. She just continued to stare up the road, her ebony tail lashing wildly behind her. He followed her eyes forward. He could see smoke in the distance. He felt around for more ki and sensed at least three or more individuals in that very direction, but his readings were getting weaker and weaker by the moment. He then realized that the smoke was coming from the direction in which they had been heading.

"Kalika's house."

He heard a low building growl break through the unnerving silence. Kalika ran quickly to the jeep and pulled something from the back seat. Gohan only caught a glimpse of it but it looked like it had a nasty rounded blade attached to it. After that, the girl in question was suddenly gone in a blur, leaving only a trail of dust in her wake.

"Kalika." Gohan said softly. "Wait!"

The demi Saiyan flew off at a speed to match, hoping to catch up to the livid girl.

******

Goku and Vegeta were nearly there. It had taken them less than ten minutes to reach the Hawaiian Islands and pick out which one of them that Gohan was currently on. From a distance the two pure blooded Saiyans could make out clouds of smoke and raging fires of mass destruction. Goku got a terrible pit in the middle of his stomach. He was barely able to remain aloft.

"What the fuck?!" Vegeta barked.

"Who did this?!" Goku said unsteadily, his voice shaking with anger.

While Kakarot was nearly on the verge of tears, the prince searched around for Ki signatures. There wasn't a strong one near by, just of normal humans the ones that were still among the living anyway. As they got closer everything became much clearer. The vision before the two warriors brought back images of last night; the dream that they had shared, only it was real this time. The Earthen raised Saiyan had dearly hoped that it was only a silly dream, that none of this would have happened for real. But alas, he was sadly mistaken. It was the same town that had be laid to waste in their nightmare.

But this was different. There were still people alive here. And the culprits were still here. Goku looked around in hopes of finding their new enemy, but all he could make out were people running and screaming for their lives.

But would was doing this? What were they running from?

Just as the prince was about to make a comment, a blast of energy flew past the two Saiyans and demolished a building to the left of them. Goku's eyes immediately went in the direction of the screams. Vegeta's on the other hand went in the direction that the ki blast had originated from. He saw a figure among the throngs of fleeing humans. This person strangely didn't seem to be phased by the mass destruction. And with the Ouji's keen Saiyan eyesight he could easily make out the expression on this person's face. She was smiling. He checked her Ki. It flickered in and out, but he could tell that it was incredibly strong. Too strong. He had sensed something like this before. Long ago.

The androids.

Could it be? Another android?

The aggressive prince let out a primal growl as he watched the woman take to the air and at the same time so did Goku. They both immediately shot off in different directions. Goku, to help the poor unfortunate souls trapped in that building and Vegeta in the direction of the smiling woman.

******

[West City, Japan…The Mall]

Trunks Briefs' tail thumped steadily behind him. He was bored. Extremely bored and his lavender colored appendage was communicating that loud and clear. He hadn't even noticed that it had unraveled from around his waist and he certainly hadn't even registered the thumping sound behind him. That was until Goten emerged from the dressing room with a blank expression on his face.

"Tr…Trunks?" He said his face tinged rose.

"Huh?" The purpled haired demi said, snapping out of his daze.

"Your tail!" Goten whispered harshly. "Everyone is looking!"

"Wha…?"

Then suddenly Trunks realized that his tail was not where it was supposed to be and that indeed everyone was looking. It was at this time that he had revisited his wish that his father had allowed his mother to cut the Kami damned thing off at his birth. He was completely mortified. He flushed furiously and gave a sheepish grin. He then proceeded to rewrap the double-crossing extremity back around his narrow waist, all the while cursing under his breath.

"Okay, people…" Goten said turning to the forming crowd, blush and fake smile firmly in place. "Move along. Show's over! There's nothing to see here!"

"Damned tail!" Trunks muttered angrily. "It's always been nothing but trouble."

"Tr…unks!" His black haired companion wailed. "What the fuck is your problem!"

The Briefs boy's eyes shot wide in outrage.

"What the fuck is my problem?!" The young prince retaliated. "We've been in this Kami forsaken place for almost two hours and you have yet to buy anything, Goten! I feel like I might as well come here with my mom!"

The youngest child of Goku and ChiChi Son growled low in his throat. He was completely outraged at his so called friend's behavior. How could he say such a hurtful thing? And he did even say anything about his outfit.

"Of all the…Bastard." Goten grumbled under his breath as he slammed the door to the dressing room.

A young girl was passing by and paused to laugh.

"Trouble in paradise?" She giggled.

Trunks's eyebrows went up in confusion and the girl just continued walking and giggling.

"Uh…Goten…Hurry it up, Okay."

And just as the younger boy was about to give his best friend a piece of his mind he felt something startling.

"Trunks…did you feel that?"

Goten had emerged from the dressing room fixing his clothes.

"Hai, my dad's ki just shot through the roof." The lilac haired teen replied.

"So did mine's." He said. "But that's not it."

Trunks eyes narrowed. "Gohan's too. And there's somebody else."

"Do you think they're fighting?" Goten asked his friend.

"Without inviting us?" Trunks said with a smirk quite similar to his father's.

"Well, there's only one way to find out." Goten said.

The two teens were out of the door in a flash. Any Saiyan worth his blood would have been as well. There was nothing the two demis loved more than a good fight… And saving the world might be cool too.

(A/N: Alright, peeps. There it is, the beginning of the action. Yes, there is more to come. I'm only getting started. Me and my super cool beta, Apasco agreed…It is missing something…Aww well, maybe that something will be filled in next chapter…And you see, I got Trunks and Goten in there. And they are not total losers. Err…At least I don't think they are anyway. Oh yeah, please support starving writers…Review. )