Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Thicker Than Blood ❯ Neko's Discovery ( Chapter 2 )

A few days after Tae and Gohan's arrival.

Neko was outside, exploring the forest around her house, as she did on occasion that she became too bored hanging out with her Mother, who always wanted to kiss and hug her and her father was gone somewhere or did not wish to be bothered during his meditation. She loved when her older brother, Tae, came to visit inbetween touring because he was always fun to play with.

He never talked down to her like some of the grown-ups and even taught her some pretty neat tricks. Like making the blue ball of light in his hands and showing her how to do it too. It felt kind of warm and tingly in her stomach and out through her fingers when she first succeeded and made her feel extremly proud that first time.

She hopped over a log and splashed in a mud puddle, careful to keep her tail up so it wouldn't get wet, she hated when her tail got wet or dirty. Neko shoved her hair out of her eyes and paused for half a second, kicking a small stone into the muddle, she sheilded her eyes from the glare of the autumn sun filtering in through the leaves and blinked comically once at what she saw before her.

"What in the world…?" She smoothed down the blue pleated skirt her mother thought looked so cute on her, with a hole in the back for her tail, and peered closer at the creature laying there on the ground, seeming asleep, "Hello? Are you all right?"

She watched, ready to leap away and take off back to the house at the slightest indication of danger, as the being stirred and opened it's dark eyes to gaze back up at her. She saw that it was smaller than her and looked like her, except that it did not have a tail and it's ears were pointed like Da's. It wasn't green like Da though, and Neko saw that it only had a thin blanket wrapped about it's shoulders. She noticed the shivering as well and said; "Who are you?"

"I…I'm…cold!" The thing was a girl! A little girl with pointed ears and huge, liquid dark brown eyes, "P-Please! I don't know how I got here! Help me!"

Neko starred at the little girl with the flaming red hair streaked with white that she at first thought was just frost, which fell in tangles to her waist and said; "Come with me! I'll take you back to my house and you can get warmed up. I bet your hungry too, huh?"

"I…I…can't move!" She cried, huge tears forming in the corners of each eye, "I'm so cold I can't…"

"Don't worry!" Neko said; striding forward and wrapping on arm around the smaller girl's back and the other under her knees. She hefted her easily into the air and began to fly back towards the house.

"You can fly…!" She did not try to hide her amazment.

"Yes." Neko said, Tae had taught her a few years ago, it was nothing, really, once one got the hang of it, "It's no big deal. Can't you?"

"Umm…no." She said; "Some of my people can, but the power has all but been forgotten by most of us…By the way; I'm Jalamira, but you can call me Mira."

"My name's Neko." Neko said; "Just Neko."

They arrived at the house and Tae met them at the door. "Neko! What do you have there?"

"She was in the forest…I think she needs our help!" Neko didn't have time to finish before Alaura rushed out of the house and scooped up the shivering little girl with the pointed ears and odd-coloured hair. "Oh, you poor thing!"

"I think I can help her, Mother." Tae said, as they brought her inside; "Put her on the sofa for a minute…"

Neko watched as Tae touched the little girl on her stomach and head and seemed to glow as warm passed from him to her and the shivering dyed down. She saw colour come back into her frozen cheeks and a pretty little smile formed upon her small features as she gazed up at her big brother in admiration and thanfulness.

"Thank you, Tae." Alaura said as she hurriedly wrapped a warm blanket just out of the dryer around the little girl's thin shoulders, "What is your name, dear?"

"J-Jalamira…"

"She said we can just call her Mira, Mom." Neko piped up, "Is she going to be okay, now?"

"I feel much better…thank you…" Mira said, sleepily, "But I am so tired…"

"You rest, dear." Alaura said, smoothing Mira's hair back from her forehead, "We'll have plently of time to discover the mystery of your arrival later. Tae?"

Nodding, Tae picked up the bundle of girl and blanket and carried her into one of the un-used guest rooms. He tucked her into the queen-sized bed and fluffed the pillows up around her. Standing back, he thought she looked very tiny and helpless in that huge bed. She was already breathing deeply and soundly when he left her.

"I wonder where she came from…" He asked himself as he closed the door behind him, "Well, no doubt she will fill us all in when she's gotten some rest."