A New Power

Disclaimer: read the first part coz I'm too lazy to re-write it...

Part 7

Piccolo had watched as Emelia and Vegeta fought. Kami was right neither wanted to give up. He chuckled and thought grimly, I’m surprised it took this long for her to get on his nerves! It didn’t really surprise him when Emelia emerged from the crater. What surprised him was that she had a tail and that she was unscathed.

White hair too, like a super saiyjins hair change….i wonder if her eyes have changed? He decided he’d ask Vegeta when he got over being beaten…by a girl none the less. Piccolo thought to look at her he would never have thought that she could be that powerful and a few doubts still lingered in his mind as to how powerful she actually was. He also wondered what had happened when she placed her hands on Vegetas back. It looked suspiciously like Dende’s healing trick. I’ll have to look into that too.

When Emelia opened her eyes she was looking at the ceiling, her eyes darted about nervously. The last thing she remembered was sitting up against the wall after…after the fight with Vegeta. She sat up and put a hand to her aching head. Ohhh I hurt! With one hand on her forehead and one on the edge of the couch which she was laying on she pushed herself up and went over to the window, outside Goku was up in the air flying around after…what looked like a green dot. She shook her head and went and sat on a chair. "Oh you’re awake" she turned her head quickly to see Gohan come in the door. I think I turned to fast! What a headache! She grimaced then said "Yeah, what happened?" Gohan came and sat down on the lounge opposite her "Well you fainted after the fight and so we brought you in here. Dad took Vegeta home a little while ago after Bulma rang up and wanted to know what he was up too." She nodded slowly "How long was it ago?" Gohan thought for a sec "Only a couple hours. Why when is your mum picking you up?" "Oh when ever I was ready she said. Do you mind if I ring her? I don’t think I’d be up to another round of fighting" she smiled slightly. "Sure, here use the cordless" He reached down beyond the lounge and brought it out.

"Thanks…Vegeta, he wasn’t in too bad shape was he?" she sort of felt guilty, she didn’t mean to hurt him but whatever had happened had just pushed her to finish it. She had a feeling her mum might be able to enlighten her as to what had happened, there were a lot of missing pieces about her father she wanted to know about and her mum was going to spill with the information. ‘thud, thud, thud, swish’ Gohan shook his head "No, nothing worse that other fights he’s been in. He was able to complain if that helps." She smiled, if he was still able to complain then he wasn’t hurt that badly. ‘thud, thud’ Emelia turned around to face the annoying sound to find that it came from a blue, furry tail. Blue..furry..i remember before I fainted…OH MY GOD! She gasped and grabbed the offending body part, only to stiffen as a sharp pain ran down her back. Without touching the tail she traced it back to her back. "How did I get a tail?" she wondered out loud, the phone call to her mum forgotten. "I’ve never seen anyone with a blue tail before." Gohan supplied "Normal saiyjins tails are brown, there have been other variations…Vegeta said he’d seen people with silver or black tails...different from ours or yours though."

Emelia carefully ran her fingers over it. "’Ours or yours’ What do you mean?" She looked at him, her tail curled absently around her wrist. "Saiyjins have tails, even half Saiyjins are born with a tail. Your tail looks like mine only a different colour." His tail uncurled itself from around his waist, it was a dusky brown colour. It looked like the one she had only hers looked a bit thinner and longer. "Your tail is probably more sensitive than mine is." she nodded, not that she really understood. . How am I going to hide my tail from my friends at school? They’ll freak if they even thought that I had a tail! She watched as Gohan curled his tail around his waist, she tried the same thing but her tail wouldn’t stay still. "Well this is going to be fun." She gave a small groan of annoyance then remembered the phone. "Oh I better ring mum…excuse me." She dialed home and waited….and waited….and waited. "Oh well mum isn’t home." She handed the phone back to Gohan then thought hard for a second….though even that second of thought made her head ache more.. "I guess I better fly home then—" "Will you be able to get all the way there by yourself?" Yeah why shouldn’t I? She thought. She nodded then got up and started to walk towards the door, before stumbling and needing to grab onto a cupboard to hold herself up. Gohan gave a small smile " I’ll go with you." He grabbed her under the arm and led her outside. Emelia pushed herself up into the air and said "Well you coming?" Her headache forgotten and any other aches and pains she had had been blown away in the wind.

"There it is right over there." Emelia pointed "The house next to that old shack." They dropped to the ground a block or so away from Emelia’s house, in a quiet and unpopulated parkland. Emelia was breathing heavily with the exertion from flying and from the massive ache in her head and all over her body. You said you could do this she reminded herself just concentrate on getting home...then collapse. Gohan took her arm and she leaned on him while telling him where to go. Before they had gotten even halfway up her driveway her mother drove in causing the two to duck off the path into the garden bed. "Learn to drive mum!" Emelia grumbled under her breath. Her mother got out of the car and came towards Gohan and Emelia "Hi darling? What are you doing home? I told you to ring me when you were ready to come home" As she got closer she saw Emelias tail as it swished quietly behind her. "Wha…what..is that!" She looked like she was going to faint but quickly pulled herself together and abruptly opened the front door and pushed them inside. "Quick! We can’t let anyone see!" she said as she came through the door.

They were ushered into the lounge room while Emelias mum went and made some tea and grabbed some biscuits. Emelia and Gohan made themselves comfortable and waited patiently while Emelias mum made her way into the room carrying a tray of food, Gohan offered to help her but she politely refused and told him to sit. "Now," she started after she had served the tea "What happened?" She looked at Gohan then at Emelia. "Well mum….you see…" Emelia stopped short, not to sure how to tell her mum what had happened. She looked at Gohan for some help but he just motioned for her to go on.
"Well mum… ummm well…to put it simply. I was training today and Vegeta disagreed with how I was doing something and we got into an argument and….well we ended up fighting." Emelia sunk lower into her chair.Her mother hates fighting for some stupid reason and though she was letting Emelia train with Gohan she had basically no idea what they were actually doing. "Go on" she said in a icy voice, Emelia looked at her and squirmed "We fought for a while and he was beating me pretty badly….ummm…" "Emelia. I want the WHOLE story not an edited version of it. I want to know everything that happened. I need to know everything!" the icy cold had gone out of mums voice to be replaced with cold hard determination and a small bit of desperation. It scared me, so I did as she asked and told her the whole story from beginning to end.

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