Gosh... I have written any DBZ fic for quite a while already... Anyway,
this fic is based on DBGT for the appearences of characters but nothing
more than that because this story mostly overwrites the DBGT plotline.
Please send your C&Cs, flames or whatever to [wsiewlee@tm.net.my] because I
have set the flag to 'vacation' a couple of weeks back. =)
Siew Lee
[wsiewlee@tm.net.my]
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Wish Upon A Star - Chapter 1
A Dragonball fanfic by Siew Lee
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A figure sat at the desk, his wide-frame spectacles resting on
his nose. The pair of blue eyes stared aimlessly at the gigantic
bunch of documents piled up in front of him... He tapped his pen
irritably on the wooden desktop as his other hand clutched at his
lavender hair. He had the urge to tear it out after doing such hard
labor... Honestly, it was worse than having to work as a construction
worker! He wouldn't mind the physical stress though...
*If I tear my hair out, I won't be able to pick up girls
anymore,* he thought wryly, releasing his hold and patting his hair
back into its slick position.
He sighed, feeling incredibly bored. The figures and numbers
swirled before him, causing him instant dizziness. They were not a
problem at first, but as time passed by, there was not much
possibility that one couldn't get frustrated. Sighing again, Trunks
turned his leather armchair to face the windows. If he had the
choice, he wouldn't mess around with such things...
Before him, there were hundreds of thousands of buildings,
standing up tall on against the azure blue sky. Skyscrapers adorned
the skyline, creating an uneven horizon. His office was on the
topmost floor of the forty-floor Capsule Corp. headquarters, granting
him marvelous views of the city. On the horizon far beyond, there
might be smoke rising up from an unknown chimney. Little houses and
shops were scattered across the plains... His eyes wandered among
them, watching the bustling activity in the city. Transport vehicles
flew in various directions in accordance to the well made roads while
pedestrians walked past in a hurried manner. Trunks sighed, how good
it would be if he had the chance to walk about...
Trunks knew pretty well that those houses were all ready in the
form of portable capsules the size of a pill. Minimizing them with a
press of the button provided, they could shrink and comfortably be
placed in a pocket.
It was a little too peaceful here in Chikyusei. Not that he
wanted anybody like Uubu to destroy earth, but life was getting very
monotonous here. Every morning, he would get up from sleep, eat his
breakfast and set off for a 10-hour work-day at Capsule Corporation.
Arriving at the entrance in limousine, everybody would cheer him and
the younger female staff would swoon over him. Then he would sit
here working out agreements, accounts and a ton of other documents...
Being a CEO of a multinational corporation was fun at first but the
excitement wore off gradually...
Or rather, very fast.
He preferred dating girls to doing all this slave-like work,
yet he forcefully swallowed it all for the sake of his mother...
Capsule Corporation was her sweat and blood and Trunks understood
that fiery passion his mother had for this company.
He yawned, totally exhausted from work. A quick glance at his
wristwatch showed the time as two in the afternoon. Taking off his
spectacles, he threw them onto his table and leaned back in his
armchair. He had had enough luxury since childhood and *luxurious*
was the last word he wanted to hear now... One glance to the window,
and he looked yearningly at the steel latch. One push and he was on
the way to freedom!
So near yet so far...
A mischievous grin lit up his face. Quickly prying himself off
the chair, he ran into the side room and grabbed his casual clothes
to change into them. In less then a minute, a young man ran out
again, this time looking a lot less serious. He had his denim
Bermudas on with a matching white T-shirt paired with a beige jacket.
Peering over his own shoulder, he opened the window and stepped out
onto the windowsill, preparing to take off.
"Yoohoo!" shouted Trunks as he flew out of the building,
leaving all that troublesome work behind in his office. *Let the
secretary get all the headaches!* thought Trunks in glee as he flew
straight into a cloud, his mind already planning for the day's fun.
*Alright, I'll go and see if Goten's over his ho... Ouch!*
Suddenly, he crashed into something; or more precisely,
someone. Trunks was about to punch with his fist when his hand was
numbed by the touch of that *someone*.
A hand grabbed him roughly by his collar and dragged him out of
the cloud as Trunks struggled wildly to free himself. The ki
signature seemed awfully familiar and Trunks' heart was beating
wildly, already bracing himself for the worst... *Please... Please...
Not now...* prayed Trunks frantically. He would be in deep trouble...
Finally, Trunks could see sunlight pouring onto his skin and he
looked up. "Tou... Tousan..." stammered Trunks, knowing he was a
goner this time...
Vegita looked at him and his face remained stony. "Your mother
will know what to do with you later."
His hand still not releasing Trunks, Vegita shot off. Trunks
sighed desperately and shook his head.
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"See? I know you do that and I have finally caught you!"
screeched Bulma as she endlessly scolded Trunks in front of Vegita.
"Hah! I know better than to let you off easily so I sent your tousan
after you!"
Trunks remained silent as he rolled his eyes. Luckily his
eyes were downcast and Bulma didn't notice anything awry about his
facial expression. Bulma turned her back on him and sifted through
some papers, searching for *any* offending mistakes that Trunks
made. Trunks stole a look up at the wall clock. *3.00pm... It has
been 40 minutes since I got here... Thank goodness that I didn't
promise Cherrie that I would be waiting for her in that park...*
Vegita looked at Bulma and his son amusedly. He knew pretty
well the boy could practically blow up the whole building easily yet
there he was, standing straight as his mother fussed and nagged him.
Amazing...
"Human nature," muttered Vegita as he folded his arms in his
typical fashion, his eyebrows fixed in a natural frown.
"Vegita! You decide what to do to him!" shouted Bulma at him,
obviously going on one of her periodical temper tantrums. She
clutched a document and held it up for Trunks to see. "Look here!
How could you sign an invoice without even looking at the amount of
money paid! You totally messed up the whole accounts department
looking for that certain sum of *missing* money!" Bulma sighed and
threw her hands up in the air.
Vegita raised a quizzical eyebrow but kept quiet. The boy
wasn't made to be sitting in some stuffy office! He was the son of
a Saiyan prince and he should be conquering planets by now! How old
was he? Vegita made some mental calculations and realized that Trunks
was turning 30 sometime this year... 30! He wasn't much older than
his son was when he first came to earth and faced a lot of incidents!
That woman who called him her 'husband', that idiot Kakarotto, his
brat Trunks... Yet *his* brat was acting so immaturely in front of
him!
"Vegita! Do you hear me?" screamed Bulma, thwacking her husband
on the arm, careful of the strength he possessed.
Vegita acknowledged her by focusing his eyes on Trunks.
Suddenly, Bulma was smiling again. "I have an idea," she said
slowly, shocking Trunks. *No... No... Not another of kaasan's
ideas!!! I'm more willing to go through tousan's torture training
than her ideas!* screamed Trunks wildly in his mind. He shivered
mentally as he remembered the times when Bulma punished him by
demanding that he fix that piece of complicated machinery and making
him work in the office with her sitting next to him, watching him
like a hawk for one whole week... Beads of cold sweat were beginning
to form at his palms and forehead.
"I am planning to open a new regional headquarters down south
sometime now. Trunks, I want you to go there and fix everything for
me and *everybody* will be there to watch over. Do you understand
me?" announced Bulma, her eyes twinkling. This was the golden
opportunity to have a family vacation and make her son work at the
same time! Kyusho Island was a paradise beneath the sun and she was
very sure that everybody would enjoy themselves there!
"Huh?" asked Trunks slowly, not sure by what she meant by
'everybody will be there to watch over'...
"I mean a family vacation. Chichi was talking to me over the
phone yesterday about getting a double holiday with us and I was
thinking of all the possibilities. Since Capsule Corporation is
planning to build a new operating office there, we might as well go!
This is a perfect holiday!" explained Bulma, happy at her brainchild.
"I am not going with that brain damaged fool!" snapped Vegita.
The idea of having a holiday with that low class warrior was *far*
from perfect! His heart burned at the thought of Kakarotto with his
idiotic smile. His screaming wife... What was her name? Chichi! No!
That woman got on his nerves! But... her cooking was better though.
As he thought of food, his empty stomach clenched pitifully... Bulma
wouldn't stop screaming around until the brat said yes to all her
demands...
"Vegita, we need a holiday ourselves too, right?" asked Bulma
sweetly, taking Vegita's arm. Vegita frowned at her... He wouldn't be
caught dead spending time and having *fun* with that stupid
Kakarotto! *Kuso...* muttered Vegita under his breath.
Bulma, upon seeing Vegita's silent 'no', flashed her most
innocent smile at him that he felt his heart soften... Bulma grinned
secretly, she knew that her smile would always work on this arrogant,
I-don't-care-a-damn prince!
"Alright, whatever," growled Vegita, rolling his eyes and
glared at Trunks. *Thanks to that brat and I am forced to go with
that stupid fool and his family!*
Trunks shrugged helplessly at Vegita but soon received a fierce
snarl from his father.
"Alright, Trunks. The place is rather rural with only minimal
resources... I have seen pictures of it and it has wonderful scenery.
We have to build a new office there as I heard about plans by other
companies to develop it. I'll be asking Chichi about this and we will
be going there by plane this weekend! Go and pack up now! Stop
thinking about girls because the natives aren't very beautiful!"
ordered Bulma, looking at her son sternly. She knew that her dearest
son flirted outrageously with girls all throughout his teenage years
and he hadn't stopped since.
"Yeah..." agreed Trunks weakly... He hated it when Bulma went
about ordering people... Alright, he had no choice this time but...
he could ask Goten to go along, right? No pretty girls, at least a
friend with him. No way was he going to bring Cherrie! That girl
drove him nuts with her domineering nature. Maybe he could stand her
way of speech for a few hours but not by a *whole* month! Goten would
always be his best companion around, right? Yeah, *next* to girls...
Trunks nearly laughed out loud but stopped in time.
Trunks grinned and walked out from the door, throwing
occasional evil smirks at his father.
*Kaasan is really an expert on getting tousan to do things...*
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"Goten!" screamed Trunks into the mouthpiece of the phone,
getting irritated at Goten's attitude. The stupid phone line had
been engaged since evening and it was only about twenty minutes
earlier that he finally managed to get through. *Huh! Talk about
having a party line!* grumbled Trunks. His luggage was already packed
in a backpack, sitting by the foot of his bed. What could he do? His
mother was practically *forcing* him to go...
Trunks glanced out from the windowsill, noticing that the sky
had entirely darkened. There were no stars in sight and a flash of
lightning flashed past the skies, totally reflecting Trunks'
anxiety at the moment. A crash of thunder boomed across the sky,
causing Trunks to shiver momentarily. Not because of the thunder, but
of the very thought of getting stuck with a huge workload...
"Huh?" answered Goten slowly, busy chatting with his new
girlfriend on his hand phone.
"Listen here! I'm talking to you!" half shouted Trunks, leaning
onto his bed angrily, hitting the mattress with his fist. *Goten
still has the heart to flirt with his girlfriend while I'm literally
dying from depression!* thought Trunks irately, drumming his fingers
on his lap.
"Okay! Okay!" Goten shouted back. Trunks could barely hear him
bidding goodbye to whoever she was and he gave her a smooch through
the phone. Trunks winced, waiting for his friend to get back.
"Yeah?"
"Goten, I need your help now!"
"What? Sorry, I have a date with Liz this Saturday so I'm not
free..."
"I don't care what dates you have but you really need to come
with me on a double vacation with your family and mine..." requested
Trunks, sighing desperately.
"Yup, I heard kaasan talking about it with tousan just now
during dinner time and tousan said he also has to let Uubu have some
rest. Kaasan's going... By the way, tousan's going also... but I'm
not! Liz will kill me if I do go!" Goten answered back, thinking
about flashing eyes and stinging slaps...
"Look here, if you don't go, I'm not going to survive there!
Everybody's going to have fun and I'm practically dying from work!
Today, tousan had caught me escaping from the office..." lamented
Trunks, twirling the telephone cord.
"Vegita-san caught you?" half shouted Goten in surprise. Dear
Kami-sama, Goten knew too well about Vegita's hell-like punishments.
"What did your tousan make you do this time? Train with him in that
gravity room?" A sweat drop appeared on Goten's forehead as he
reminded himself of Vegita's extreme training conditions...
"No, it isn't tousan... It's my kaasan... She wants to open a
new office there and I'm supposed to watch over and do all the
paperwork there... You also know how much I abhor office work!"
"Haha, you are asking me to suffer with you? No thank you,"
replied Goten cheekily, sticking out his tongue over at his house.
"Please, Goten... It will be fun there! I know there are a lot
of pretty girls on the sandy beaches and we can have a swell time!"
pleaded Trunks, trying very hard to lure Goten into going with him.
"Really? Hey, I'm a bit sick of Liz now and I need some exotic
girls to relax with..." grinned Goten, his mind forming a picture of
him with four girls with sexy bikinis clinging onto him, never
letting him go. Beautiful sarongs, topical fruit juice, doe-eyed
girls... Goten sighed languidly.
"See, I told you so! Okay, meet you at the airport this Friday!
Bye!" cheered Trunks, happily putting down the receiver and lying
back on his bed. *Ha! I could get some more girls on the way too!
Maybe Goten will be disappointed... I just made up the whole story
about pretty girls so he would come with me! Poor Goten... He sounded
so happy just now...* snickered Trunks as he switched off the bedside
lamp, totally overjoyed about having Goten to suffer with him.
*Heh! Talk about flying... Tousan would be caught dead 'flying'
with kaasan in front of everybody,* thought Trunks wryly as he pulled
his wool blanket over himself.
Would it be a totally boring holiday without any girls?
Maybe yes, maybe no.
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"Tousan... Please... I want to go..." pleaded Pan endlessly,
practically clinging onto Go-Han.
"I thought you were supposed to go out with your friends?"
asked Go-Han, raising a suspicious eyebrow. His daughter had been
very irate and headstrong over the past years...
"Pan-chan, why are you so insistent on going with grandpa this
time?" asked Videl as she loaded the dirty dishes into the
dishwasher.
Pan shrugged. "Well, I just want to go on a holiday! C'mon
tousan... You know I also get bored after hanging out with the same
group of friends for so many years..."
Go-Han threw his daughter an exasperated look and gave in.
"Well, if you promise not to give any trouble to your 'baasan..."
Go-Han still cared about his mother... The woman was already going
on to her sixties and he was really worried about her...
"I promise I'll take care of myself! I'm already 18 this year,
remember?" shrieked Pan in delight and gave Go-Han a hug. *Yes! I
can finally fight with grandpa and uncle Goten!!!* screamed Pan
mentally and did an imaginary kick as she hurried upstairs. Yes! She
hadn't had a good fight in years now! Finally... finally!
Go-Han and Videl both exchanged glances and sighed.
Daughters... Or... a daughter in this case.
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Friday morning. The whole airport was practically bustling with
activity. Sweet female voices boomed out from amplifiers placed
strategically to echo around in the whole waiting room added upon the
loud chatter of groups of people sitting there.
A troupe of people stood close together there. One with a
receding hairline and a frown on his face fidgeted uncomfortably
with his tie. "Kuso," muttered Vegita as he struggled painfully
against the piece of cloth wound around his neck thus creating some
sort of noose. "I'm not an animal!" grumbled Vegita as he finally
succeeded in loosening the tie.
A woman with lavender hair was chatting loudly with another
woman dressed in a mandarin collar dress, her hair all tied up in a
bun. Goku was standing next to her, fidgeting with his formal suit.
"Chichi, do I really have to wear these clothes?" asked Goku, feeling
very uncomfortable before getting a minor scolding from Chichi.
"Ha! Chichi! I bet you couldn't get Goku to leave his orange gi
behind, right? I managed to coax Vegita out of that dark blue
body suit after 10 years!" exclaimed Bulma proudly, pointing at
Vegita. He ignored her and looked away while Bulma left him alone.
Trunks was nearby, helping Bra with her enormous amount of
luggage that she planned to bring. Not planned, but brought...
"Can't you just encapsulate this junk?!" grumbled Trunks as he
lugged the huge pile of suitcases and shopping bags. "I only brought
a backpack, see?" continued Trunks showing the blue backpack he was
carrying.
"Niisan... C'mon... You know I'm too lazy to encapsulate
*everything*... Even encapsulating has already taken up most of the
space in my small bag!" answered Bra, showing Trunks the insides her
handbag. Trunks blinked, estimating there were about 100 capsule
inside. *Girls...* complained Trunks silently and tried to guess all
its contents. Makeup, clothes, jewelry... The list went on and on.
"Hi Pan-chan!" greeted Bra excited as she spotted Pan standing
alone by the side of the room. Bra ran and rushed up to hug the girl.
"Eh? I thought you were going camping with your friends?"
"Hm... I thought a visit to an island might be much more fun
than going camping on some stupid trip to the North..." answered Pan,
fanning herself with a leaflet. "Hi Trunks," she greeted coolly.
Trunks acknowledged her and resumed lugging the luggage. One by
one, he loaded the various sized packages onto the automatic luggage
belt. Suddenly, he felt someone slap him on the shoulder and he
looked up.
"Why is the CEO of Capsule Corporation doing all this porter
work?" asked the young man, flashing a grin. He had a baseball cap on
and looked very casual.
"Goten! Yeah, thanks for your information," replied Trunks
sarcastically, giving his childhood friend a friendly punch on the
arm. "Also many thanks to my bratty sister that I am stuck with
handling all this junk!" Bra glared at him but didn't say anything.
Goten sighed and bent down to help him picking up the parcels.
"Girls are like that..."
"Your niece doesn't bring a lot of things like my sister
does..." grumbled Trunks as he lifted another package the size of a
computer.
"Well... I can't say much about Pan-chan... She doesn't wear
makeup and she doesn't particularly like wearing branded clothes..."
answered Goten as he stacked a few boxes on top of each other and
watched them go down the moving belt.
"Acts like a boy, too..."
Goten shrugged. "Besides, she has numerous boyfriends and
every one of them are quite afraid of women fighting and possessing
supernatural powers. Imagine an ordinary man seeing his date blowing
up cars and buildings?"
"The main reason is that she doesn't acts like a girl,"
commented Trunks, sighing in relief when the entire pile was
diminished into a tiny stack. Goten shot a look at Pan and noticed
her putting her foot up on a plastic chair.
"Who knows?" grinned Goten before noticing Chichi was yelling
at the top of her lungs about the plane taking off in ten minutes...
Everybody was also in the check in port and both of them were still
standing there...
"C'mon! Let's go! The plane's taking off!" shouted Trunks and
dragged Goten by his wrist.
"I'm going to hate this so-called *holiday*..." complained
Trunks as he handed his plane ticket to the air stewardess standing
by the entrance.
Exactly ten minutes later, the loud blast of a jet plane taking
off erupted throughout the whole airport.
And a huge number of headaches followed it.
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