Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Wish That Never Was ❯ The Wish That Never Was: The Secret of Hammerhead Island ( Chapter 6 )

The Wish That Never Was: Chapter 6: The Secret of Hammerhead Island

By kyllir

Disclaimer: I don't own it, never will, and always will think Chibi-Vegeta is adorable! (Especially in the pic I drew of him dressed as a Turkey, now that was PRICELESS!)

A/N: Thank you to all who reviewed! I'm trying to get updates up more frequently, but I was never good at that kind of thing, I mean, this is the first fic I've written that anyone even cared if I updated! Also, I have decided against the lemon, I didn't want to write one anyway ^_^;;;

Bulma looked at the treasure map, turning it around and around, displaying her confusion with it. She had deciphered all the riddles, and she still had no idea where the treasure was. She was to go to the place where the island got its name, and under the second sky, she was to enter the cavern of souls. The cavern of souls was not on her topographical map she had brought, she had no idea. She figured that the second sky was a place where the pirates had likely camped.

"Second sky… where the island got its name… that doesn't make sense…" she grumbled to herself. Vegeta sat in the sand about twenty meters from where she was mumbling. His sensitive ears caught every curse that left her mouth. His thoughts began to wander, floating from the map and its treasure to his home on Vegeta-sei and back again. He began to flit back to memories of not so long ago, when he worked for Lord Freezer. The last assignment he had been on was to the water planet Spiniel, where the inhabitants were very mystic, they celebrated primitive festivals, all in all, their culture had a charm to it. He had never really paid any mind to it as he blasted them to oblivion, but something they kept on repeating. They spoke of their deity, the one who lived under second sky and would protect them. He didn't pay attention to their desperate cries to this deity as he destroyed them.

Vegeta realized with a start that the term `second sky' must have meant the ocean, and got up to tell Bulma,

"Servant woman!" he called to her, Bulma hmphed,

"I told you, my name is BULMA!" she crossed her arms and put her nose in the air, blatantly snubbing him. Vegeta glared at her, and then crossed his own arms, smirking with an air of smugness,

"Fine, then I wont tell you what that pathetic riddle means," he taunted. Bulma suddenly marched over to him and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt,

"What does it mean???" she shouted vehemently, her eyes narrowing dangerously.

"Second sky means ocean, stupid woman!" Realization dawned on Bulma, she glared at him and then threw her arms around his neck in delight, Vegeta cringed at the sudden contact, and finally resigned to the embrace, a blank expression on his face. A moment later, Bulma released him and then put her mind back on the map, Vegeta sighed with relief.

"Now that that second sky thing is all cleared up," she glanced at Vegeta, who was drawing shapes in the sand, boredom written all over his face, "Let's go find which part of the ocean we're supposed to search!"

"Alright," Vegeta said as he stood up, "The place where the island got it's name then?" he asked her nonchalantly as he brushed sand off his tail. Bulma furrowed her brow in thought,

"Yeah, now where would Hammerhead Island get a name like that?" she wondered aloud,

"A place with Hammerhead sharks?" Vegeta suggested, getting the last grain of sand from the fur at the tip of his tail. Bulma looked like she would try to hug him again, so he ducked quickly behind a tree, instead she settled for a verbal approach,

"Great! That was so great, I could kiss you!" Vegeta grimaced and backed farther away from her, "But I wont, `cause we gotta get going!" he heaved a heavy sigh of relief.

Vegeta slowly excused himself from his hiding place and rejoined Bulma, being careful to keep a safe distance from her.

"How are we going to find out where the sharks are?" he asked her, spoiling her little victory dance, she glowered at him for a moment, and then pulled a small device from her pocket,

"This computer contains historical records of everything, it will surely tell us where sharks would reside on Hammerhead Island!" she then pushed a few buttons on it, making a holoscreen appear, she poked at it some more, and then a three dimensional map appeared, she zoomed into one area, "Bingo."

About five minutes later, Vegeta touched down onto the sand once again, and set Bulma down on the ground. They stood facing a beautiful cove, and the ocean. In the exact center of the cove, there stood a large rock, and in the water around the rock, were strange wedge-shaped objects poking above the water. The wedges were attached to lithe bodies that were gliding through the water with grace unknown to most land animals, they were sharks!

"Well, there are the sharks, now where's the treasure?" Bulma wondered aloud, pacing back and forth through the sand, and began to wonder to herself about the location of the elusive treasure. She thought back to the clues that they had deciphered, the place where the island got it's name, this was obviously that place. The cavern of souls, she didn't see any caves nearby. Under the second sky, the ocean… she jumped up all at once, "The cave is underwater!" Vegeta looked at her like she was crazy,

"Stupid girl, I could have told you that!" he grunted, Bulma fumed and stomped over to him, the ground shook with each step she took. The water in the ocean rippled, and all the sharks that had been lazily swimming around sped away from the area, Vegeta gulped, preparing himself to face her fury. She grabbed his collar, glaring at him and was about to yell at him, but she noticed the silence. She held her breath, all around, the sounds of the tropical environment had halted, the only noise was Vegeta breathing. She dropped his collar and looked around,

"Why'd it get so quiet all of a sudden?" she wondered aloud, she heard Vegeta snickering,

"They heard you screaming like a banshee and ran for their lives," he told her, trying to hold back laughter. Bulma's eyes narrowed dangerously,

"Why you little… Hey! Where'd all the sharks go?" she asked, suddenly. Vegeta sighed with relief,

"If you didn't notice, you start earthquakes when you yell, they were scared off," he once again had to hold hack peals of laughter. Rather than get mad at him, Bulma smiled and said,

"Good, that means we can go down there and search for the treasure!" Vegeta rolled his eyes as Bulma pulled out her little device a second time, she poked at it, and then started slowly waving her arm about, a long and wide sheet-beam scanned the area under the water. She quickly made a 3D map of the area, zooming instantly to a small underwater cave. She smiled and then pulled out her dinocaps, looking quickly at the index in the cover, and then selecting one,

"A 14 should work, it's a little primitive, but it will do," she smirked, and then pushed the button on the top, tossing it about five feet away from her. After the smoke cleared, there stood a rack full of scuba gear. Bulma grabbed an oxygen tank and some flippers and put them on, gesturing for Vegeta to do the same. Vegeta scowled and walked over to the rack, plucking off a tank and flippers. Bulma stripped down to her bathing suit and walked over to the edge of the water, Vegeta followed her example and walked over to her in his boxer shorts.

Bulma gaped at him, she hadn't realized he had such a great body. He had sculpted muscles that rivaled and put to shame those of a Greek statue, Bulma blushed when she realized that he was staring at her likewise, and with a confused look on his face.

"Are we going or not? Or are you going to keep on staring at me?" he asked with amusement, Bulma turned five shades of red and looked away, diving into the water. Vegeta followed a few seconds after. They swam around a little, adjusting to the water and turning on the communication devices in their scuba masks. Bulma signaled that she was ready to go, and kicked her flippers downwards, bringing her to a vertical position. She looked around the area, and suddenly spotted a steep drop off about 5 meters away. She motioned to Vegeta,

"Let's check it out" she called over her com link, gesturing towards the cliff, Vegeta nodded and they swam over to the edge of the drop off. Looking over the edge of the cliff, they saw how deep it was. The side of the cliff went down as far as they could see,

"Where do you think it stops?" Bulma asked Vegeta with awe. Vegeta squinted through his goggles, and with his sensitive Saiya-jin sight, he saw the bottom of the cliff,

"It ends in approximately seventy five meters, lets go." He told her, swimming over the edge, hovering above the drop. Bulma joined him and activated her weight belt, which began pulling her down. Vegeta followed her example and started his descent.

"My ears just popped," Bulma complained as they reached the soft sandy bottom of the ocean, she switched on a light on the side of her goggles and peered into the vast blueness. Just as they were starting to move again, she saw a dark silhouette a few feet away, it came closer and she realized with a start that it was a shark, and it was closing in fast!

"V-Ve-Vegeta…" she stuttered into the com, terrified. Vegeta sighed and formed a large ki blast in his palm, the water rippled around it. The shark didn't seem to notice as it continued to pursue Bulma, Vegeta's eyes narrowed in anger at the shark as he launched the blast at the aquatic life form, effectively frying it to a crisp. Bulma shrieked and started shaking uncontrollably. Vegeta rolled his eyes and grabbed her arms, deciding that now was a good time to ascend and get her out of this shocked state.

That's it for now… don't be mad at me for ending the chapter now, but I think I've made you wait for an update far too long. Yesterday I found out that they actually do look for treasure in Dragonball, I swear I had no idea about that before I finished writing this chapter, that's kinda neat though!

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