Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Wish That Never Was ❯ The Wish That Never Was: Pirate Cave! Found! ( Chapter 7 )

The Wish That Never Was: Chapter 7: Pirate Cave! Found!

By kyllir

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Bubbles rose quickly to the surface of the water, seeming panicked. Bulma's mouthpiece had fallen out, and now she was inhaling water. Vegeta noticed the bubbles rising from below him, and looked down into his arms where he held Bulma. When he realized her plight, he doubled his speed and began to rely on both ki and kicks to get him to the surface.

Suddenly, they were above the water, and still climbing. Vegeta slowed down and descended slowly, as not to scare his pale and terrified passenger. He landed softly and laid Bulma on the sand, apparently she had fainted. Vegeta tried to wake her up,

"Wake up, Girl. Bulma get up!" he was getting irate with her unconsciousness, and was unaccustomed to being so gentle with anyone, it was driving him insane. Usually, in the situation that someone was unconscious, it was a result of him fighting them. This was the first time he had attempted to revive someone. He bent over and checked her stats, she had a pulse, but he figured her lungs would be full of water, so he placed his palms against her diaphragm and pressed gently, and water poured from her mouth. She immediately started coughing and spitting out more water, she sat up so quickly that Vegeta hadn't been able to move, and she saw that they were nose to nose as he was bent over her. They stared at each other for a moment, and when Bulma regained the ability to speak, she glared at Vegeta,

"What are you staring at? And why did you almost let me drown?" she spouted vehemently, Vegeta wiped the concerned look off his face and replaced it with an angry scowl,

"Maybe I should have just let you drown instead of going through all the trouble of getting you out of the water and reviving you." Bulma blinked as her expression changed, and she suddenly threw herself at Vegeta and hugged him tightly. His scowl deepened as his face turned tomato red.

"Thank you Vegeta!" she tightened her arms around him more, "But if you let me die, I swear I will haunt you forever!" Vegeta cringed at that thought, he didn't know if there was an afterlife or not, but he certainly didn't want her haunting him if there was! Seeing that he was sufficiently disturbed, Bulma loosened her grip and calmed down,

"Let's get back in the water now. Last one in is a rotten egg!" she yelled, putting her mask back on and jumping in the water, followed a few seconds later by Vegeta. They descended slowly, looking around the area of the crevasse. Once they had been down for a while, and about eighty meters under the water, they saw a great hole in the rock wall, they swam towards it, deactivating their weight belts as they did so.

"It looks like the cave," Bulma said over the com, "Shall we explore?"

"Might as well, that's what we're here for, right?" was his response. They nodded at one another and swam into the cave. They went on for a somewhat slow pace for a while, and then decided it would be a good idea to move faster, and soon they were swimming at top speed. Well, Bulma was, if Vegeta went at top speed he would have left her behind a long time ago. At length, they saw once again, the surface of the water, and were quite relieved to reach it. They broke though the water and quickly removed the scuba masks, grateful for the natural air, it was a tad stale, but it was better than the compressed chemically air in their tanks. They climbed out of the water and onto the ground inside the cave.

"Wow! It led us into an air pocket! If I was a pirate, I would definitely hide my treasure here!" Bulma exclaimed, removing her flippers and pulling out her dinocaps. She produced a chest of clothes, and pulled out a blue coverall and a blue bandana, which she tied to her head,

"This should work okay, here's one for you," she said tossing another coverall to Vegeta, who caught it easily with a questioning look on his face. They were silent for a moment, and the only sounds were the rustling of clothes as they pulled on the coveralls, and the dripping of water from the stalactites on the ceiling. After they had dressed themselves, they capsulated the chest of clothes and began walking down the tunnel. It was very dark, and Bulma couldn't see at all, but with Vegeta's sensitive Saiya-jin eyesight, it wasn't that hard. He quickly saw Bulma's distress as she started walking slower and slower, trying to avoid bumping into the wall. Vegeta quickly generated a ki sphere, and Bulma's eyes widened, thinking for a moment that he might attack her with it, but was reassured when he merely let it hover above his palm as he walked.

A short distance later, they saw a switch on the wall, which Bulma turned on, and the florescent lights blinked on and hummed. Having solved the lighting problem, Vegeta let the ki sphere dissolve and walked on in the artificial light, Bulma followed closely. At length, they reached a different section of the tunnel, which was covered on all sides with dots. They examined the walls, ceiling, and floor of the strange pathway, and resolved to test it,

"Woman, they would not put this here for no reason, its most likely a trap." Vegeta informed Bulma in a flat tone, she nodded,

"How can we test it?" she asked, Vegeta silently answered her by tossing a small stone amid the sea of polkadots, and spears went sailing through the air,

"I guess that answers that question," stated Bulma in the same flat tone that Vegeta had used before, "now how are we going to get across?" she looked towards him looking for an answer, which he had, as he grabbed her around her waist and flew top speed through the tunnel. Bulma protested furiously that he let her down right away, and then saw that they were zooming through the trap at unfathomable speeds. Vegeta rolled his eyes, she was screaming her head off when he was considerate enough to get her through there as fast as possible and get it over with. When they cleared that area of the tunnel, Vegeta figured that the ground was still not a safe place to be, and flew on until they exited the cave and found themselves in a hangar or port of some kind. In the far end of the chamber, there was a large submarine in the water. This had to be the pirate cave!

"We made it!" exclaimed Bulma happily, jumping up and down with glee as she imagined the piles of treasure that awaited her. Vegeta looked around the room quickly, he sensed that something wasn't right. He was about to tell Bulma to calm down when he heard it, there was something in the room with them. He grabbed Bulma's arm and she quieted, listening along with him as the sound moved closer and closer. All of a sudden it was behind them, Vegeta turned around quicker than one could blink. A large robot stared back at him, it was obviously very old, as it was rusting in places.

"Arrrr!" it cried in its mechanical voice, "intruders!" and it hefted up it's sword and aimed the strike at Bulma. Vegeta quickly pushed her out of the way, but not fast enough to avoid the blade cutting into his flesh. Vegeta froze as the cold blade cut into the skin of his arm, Bulma gasped, bringing Vegeta back into reality long enough to move away from further injury. Once he and Bulma had reached a safe corner to hide in, he examined his wound more closely. The blade had grazed his skin, and had only cut about two centimeters deep. Though the cut was only a minor injury, blood seemed to gush out. Vegeta clutched his arm with a gloved hand, trying to cut off the blood loss. Bulma quickly untied the bandana from her head and moved his hand out of the way, then skillfully tied the cloth around his arm, successfully binding the wound and preventing more bleeding. Vegeta gave her a somewhat grateful look, and then spoke,

"Stay here, I will make that rusted bag of bolts pay for this!" at that his ki flared up and he flew towards the metal beast…

Sorry for the cliffhanger, I just thought it was a good place to stop, and y'all have waited long enough for this chapter! *ahems, and continues in narrator-type voice* Vegeta has been wounded! Will he be strong enough to defeat this metal monster? What about Bulma? What will she do about it? All these questions and more will be answered in the next installment of The Wish That Never Was! Chapter 8: Ding Dong The Rickety Robot is Dead!

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