Chapter 4


I land somewhere in the mountains, then Parawal comes flying down landing next to me.

“What are we here for?”

“We will spend the night here.”

She looked at me, confusion has taken over her eyes.

“Can’t we just go to somebody else’s place?”

“I don’t need their help, I don’t need anybody’s help.”

“Well, perhaps you don’t but I do!”

I looked at her, she instantly went pale.

“Then it’s time you learn to survive on your own. Even Gohan was left on his own for 6 months when he was only 4 years old. You’re lucky then I’m here.”

She nodded. I knew how she hated it being compared to others. She thought that by doing that we wont realise that she is somebody else, but I think she understood my point in this one, and if she didn’t, then she only nodded because she didn’t want to upset me by continuing this conversation.

“Now go get some rest, you’ll need it when you go to school tomorrow.”

Her mouth fell open at those words.

“School, you really expect me to go back there?”

“Yes, and you will do as I say so.”

“What, just because you’re the prince you think you can command me around?”

I felt my eyes narrowing.

“No, I can command you around because I am your father.”

She turned around and laid herself down. I could hear her, sobbing herself into sleep.


I myself didn’t sleep at all that night. Not knowing how to lie because of the pain of my earlier fight.

“Wake up brat.” I say as I softly kick her side.

She mumbles a bit but then opens her eyes.

“Huh, dad, where are we?” She says as she bewilderedly looks around.

“It’ll be time for school soon.”

She shoots up.

“School?”

Her eyes widen. I can almost see her mind drifting off to yesterday. I throw her some meat I caught earlier that morning.

“Here, eat something before you go.”

She looks down at the meat, sadness in her eyes. I avert my eyes, not wanting to see her like this.

“Dad?”

“Huh, what?”

“At school, what do I tell them?”

“What do you mean?”

“They’ll be all over me, asking me if it’s true what that girl told them yesterday. What do I say in reply?”

“Just tell them what I told you yesterday.”

“That mom was the mistake, not me.”

I nod.

“Was she? A mistake I mean.”

I look at the mountains in front of me, trying to figure out the answer.

“I… no, well, if I could do it again, I’d do it the same.”

“Even if that inevitably would lead to what happened yesterday?”

I sigh.

“Yes, I think so.”

“Thanks dad.” She says as she quickly hugs me.

“Parawal.”

She end the hug and looks at me.

“If you can’t back yourself up with words, then do so with deeds.”

She nodded once. She never agreed with using her strength on the other schools, but perhaps she was willing to do so this time. At the least she’d now know that she has my permission if she wants to do so.

“And win a staring contest with that girl for me ok?”

She smiles at me and takes off.


She’ll be having a break in fifteen minutes now. I just decided to go by her school to see if she’s ok. I wont go on the school property, her classmates don’t have to know that I’m there. I’ll just wait for Parawal to come to me, knowing that she’ll be able to sense me.

I hear the bell ring, and wait for Parawal to approach me, which, I suppose, somehow does surprise me, she does.

“Dad, what’re you doing here?”

I can see she’s a little surprised to see me, but she doesn’t seem to mind.

“I’m here to see if you’re alright. Have those people been bothering you?”

She looks away.

“Well, yeah I guess, but when I took of to the roof during the little break they left me alone.”

A little smile crept on her face. She looks a lot better now then that she did yesterday.

“So you’ll be fine for the rest of the day?”

She nods.

“I guess so.”

I give her an approving nod, then I take off.


“Hey.”

By the tone of her voice I can hear that she’s much better now.

“It’s time for us to train.”

Maybe it would have been better if I let her get some rest now, but I’m trying to not change her daily schedule that much. She puts down her bag and gets into a fighting stance. I do the same, but I instantly feel my body aching over the fight I had yesterday.

“Dad are you alright?” I hear her worried voice ask.

I as usually grunt a bit.

“Dad you’re in no state to fight.”

“I’ll decide that myself.” I response irritated.

“Fine then, act all childish.”

I can’t believe what I’m hearing. My own daughter is calling me childish?

Before I have time to think about it or get angry about is she’s in front of me, punching me in my stomach. As I bend down over the pain, she knees me in my face. My knees hit the ground as I’m trying to get over the pain.

“You see, I told ya.” She says proudly over being right.

“I didn’t even have to power up.”

My eyes widen, I look up at her. She was right, she didn’t even turn super saijan. I try to get up, but my body refuses.

“Dad?”

It’s obvious that she didn’t think I was hurt this much. Starting to think about it, she hardly touched me. I look down, not wanting her to see my shame.


“Hey you two.”

My head shoots up as I hear that voice. ‘What’s Kakkarot doing here?’


“Hey Kakkarot.”

A smile creeping up my face. At least I had some influence on Parawal. I got her to call him Kakkarot, and because of me she dislikes him too as you can hear her speak to him with sarcastic enthusiasm.

“What are you two doing out here? And Vegeta, what are you doing on the ground?”

Arg I just hate him for his stupidity.

“I’m on the floor because I can’t get up you idiot.”

He looks at me with that sheepish smile.

“What happened?”

“Why would you care?” Parawal asks him with a voice saying ‘stay out of our business’.

“Well, Bulma asked me to talk to you two.”

My ears start paying attention to Kakkarots words as they hear the word Bulma.

“She said something terrible had happened, that she made a big mistake, but she wouldn’t tell me what it was. She seemed very upset.”

“Well she wasn’t upset when she called me a monster.” Parawal spat at him.

Kakkarot looks at me, waiting for me to tell him that Bulma did no such thing. I just nod. Shock in his eyes that go back to Parawal.

“Why would she call you that?”

She shrugs.

“Because I turned into a super saijan.”

“But I thought she already knew you could do that.”

“She turned super saijan three.” I say, earning back my place in this conversation.

His jaw drops.

“No way. You can already turn into super saijan three.”

His face full of disbelieve.

“Yeah I can, so what?” she asks not really wanting an answer.

I again try to stand up. When I sit on my knees Parawal helps me up. I let her help me, I myself don’t really know why. I guess I’m just to weak to resist right now. And now is not the time for me and Parawal to fight.

“Parawal.” I say as I turn my head to her.

“If you think that’s the reason she called you a monster, then we really need to talk.”

She looks at me not understandingly.

“I wanted to dad, but you just don’t. I never get to talk to you. I’m lucky if you even listen to me.”

She raises her voice a bit, tears gathering in her eyes.

“Kakkarot.”

I don’t even bother myself looking at him.

“What is it Vegeta?”

“Go home. If Bulma has something to say to me, then she can do it herself.”

“But Vegeta…”

“Go home!”

“Ok.”

Gosh I love having the power to make people do as I tell them just by screaming.

I’m still looking at Parawal as I feel Kakkarot leaving.

“Why did you sent him away?” she asks a bit confused.

“It’s time to talk.”

I point at a rock with my head, signalising her to put me down there. She walks over at the rock with me, not saying a word. She just looks at me, waiting to talk. I sigh.

“Your mother called you a monster for beating me up the way you did.”

Her eyes start reflecting anger as she says:

“Don’t call her my mother, she’s not!”

I can’t believe my own ears.

“Parawal, she always saw you as her daughter and that’s what makes her your mother, not biology.”

“Yes well, mothers don’t call their daughters monsters and mean it.”

“You think she meant it?”

She looks down to the sand she’s moving away with her foot.

“The look in her eyes made it obvious that she did.”

Sadness is just dripping off of her face right now. I unsurely place my arm around her shoulders, trying to comfort her. I didn’t even have to pull her close to me, she just falls into my embrace.

I feel her shocking a bit as she’s starts crying.

“Don’t cry, emotions are for the week.”

She looks up at me and then pulls away, trying her best to keep her tears to herself.

“I miss my mom.”

I look at her with bewildered eyes.

“And I’m not talking about that Bulma woman.”

I’m stunned. We never really talked about Parsnipe. Parawal hardly knew anything about her. Only that she too talked in herself and that at the time she was stronger then me. I sigh, knowing that I’ll have to speak my mind this time because it will make her feel better. I open my mouth and hardly audible let them out.

“I do too.”

Again she looks at me, confusion written on her face.

“You do?”

Again is sigh.

“When I got to know about you I thought of you as a mistake myself, a mistake I made with your mother. My mind used to drift of to that moment almost constantly and I started to blame my lust. A saijans lust can be quite overwhelming sometimes. But as the years passed I learned that it was more then just simple lust. I really did love her.”

I pause for a moment.

“I suppose I still do.”

She gasps, but still doesn’t respond, just waits for me to tell her more.

“You’re mother did so many things for me, I sometimes just wish I could do something in return.”

My eyes are focused on the landscape in front of me, but they’re not seeing anything.

“Then what about Bulma?”

I look at her, then smile a bit.

“Bulma could always challenge me, she’s one of the few that aren’t scared of me. And back then, she was the only one if we take Kakkarot out of the picture.”

Again I sigh.

“Well, let’s go get some dinner.”

I say as I stand up. The moment I’m on my feet my knees collapse and I fall on the floor, well, I would have if Parawal hadn’t seen it coming and held me.

“I think it’s better if I get us something to eat.”

I grumble, hating it to be depending on someone.

“Fine, but hurry up, I’m hungry.”

She gently puts me down on the rock again. I watch as she flies off.