Sweat rolling down my nose, I climbed up the biggest fucking hill in my whole life and I didn’t have the faintest clue why.

I could see Bulma giggling in front of me and looking back every few minutes to check I hadn’t ran off.

I knew I either had the option of staying with my parents and help set up the local carnival that was coming on the weekend or go on Bulma’s famous Saturday hike.

I left on Thursday instead.

My money was all gone by Friday.

And today, Saturday, the day that I was suppose to be already miles away from home, I got caught and put in a car and got sent up a hill.

Why?

Fuck why. I want to know how.

How does Bulma have such a great invisible power? A power that controls everyone around her. A power that was once mine but is suddenly being abused on me.

I’m getting all my old tricks shoved in my face. I know she’s doing it on purpose. Just like she always turned around and grinned at me all the way through the whole walk, mocking me, like I was under her power.

I am under no-ones power. I got so irritated with her I distanced myself and slowed my steps. I looked ahead and I could slowly hear peoples voices evaporate in to nothing.

I cleared my mind.

I am the only one who makes decisions on how I feel and I wasn’t going to let her anger me. I stood still until I could not hear anything and started walking again.

I could see that the sun was slowly going down and I decided that the best thing was just to go home. I turned around and started looking down at my shoes till I hit something and heard a scream.

It was a girl. Actually, I couldn’t really tell right at that moment because she had fallen of the narrow track and down a big hill. I could just hear someone swearing at me and it didn’t really sound like a man.

“Are you dead?” I yelled down at her.

“What do you think you uncoordinated bastard…” she screamed adding a few more words to the end of her sentence. She swore more than Bulma did after I had burnt her school project when we were little.

I yelled down at her that I could hear that she was fine and started walking back till I heard her scream out in pain.

Bulma would kill me if she found out I had pushed her friend off a track and left her there to die. I had to remind myself though, that her friend wasn’t dead.

“What’s wrong?”

She didn’t reply and I started to think she might have kicked it.

“Look I’m going home so you can either shut up and wait for death to come to you or open your fucking mouth so I can help you”

“Screw you Kakarott”

“You’re the one who’s screwed now”

“Ok alien, come here and help me then ”

You could tell from her voice that she was in a lot of pain and as I started making my way down the hill her words re-played through my mind suddenly and I stopped.

“What did you say?”

“I know who you are...”

“I’ll help you back on the track and you can reach Bulma before it gets dark”

“Are you scared?” she spat through her mouth ignoring my comments.

“Look you crazy bitch, do you want me to leave you here?”

“Can’t you just magically zap me into a hospital?” she said as she finally came into view.

I thought her ankle was probably fractured but as I looked closer I saw her whole leg twisted in a funny direction. She had lost a lot of blood and it explained all of her babble from before. I picked her up and started walking up the hill until she started fidgeting. I just couldn’t make out why she wasn’t screaming her head off. I could see one of her bones in front of me sticking right out of her leg.

“Doesn’t that hurt?” I said looking straight ahead.

“What do you think?”

I moved my hand up to her foot so her leg wouldn’t move and I could see her eyes start to get watery. We went with out saying anything until we came to the track and I headed back to the direction of the city but she started to yell and fidget and a couple of capsules fell out of my pocket.

“You’ve got capsules?” she said indicating me to put her down.

“They’re Bulmas”

“How far are you from the group?” she said changing the subject again.

“About an hour” I said picking my capsules up with difficulty as darkness surrounded my hands.

“Can I see them?” she said pointing at my pocket.

I handed them over to her and a huge smile spread over her face replaced by a look of total fury.

“Why the hell didn’t you tell me you had these?” she screamed opening one as a neat box appeared in front of us. I didn’t answer and she moved slowly up to the box and I could faintly see a red cross.

“Do you want to put a nice rainbow plaster on that bone sticking out of your leg?”

She got out a couple of painkillers and looked at me funny as she swallowed them down and put the box back in its capsule.

“Take me over to where my friends are!” she demanded lifting up her arms and chucking the capsule back at me.

“No”

“But they are closer!”

“When is the last time you saw a fucking hospital in the middle of nowhere?”

“Kakarott, I‘m not supposed to be here….”

“How do you know my name?”

I couldn’t hear her answer because the night suddenly turned into day and I saw a huge thing in the sky. I thought that the carnival must of outdone themselves this year with fireworks and balloons and I asked my question again only to see the huge balloon in the sky fire at our town.

“IT‘S FIRING AT OUR TOWN!!!!!!!” the girl started screaming as the bomb the ship let go up in the sky hit our town and artificial light enveloped me again.

The ship slowly started turning and lots of small green lasers started heading in our direction. I picked up the girl and started to run. I could hear her cry out in pain as her leg moved freely but I knew that if we didn’t get out of that place there’d be a lot more things broken in both of our bodies.

That was a spaceship up there, and it sure didn’t look like my one but they were definitely looking for something, and that something could possibly be me.

Fuck.

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