Two Lives, One Heart
Chapter Seven
By: Kureeji
Pan walked, no, bobbed down the hallway. "Um, ok…" She thought. "Hey. maybe this isn't so bad." She smiled, an image of her being carried around like a queen forming in her mind. Lounging in the sun…sleeping in the spacious beds at C.C… She was so caught up in her fantasies, that she got a hard slap from reality when she was dropped like a sack of potatoes in the lab room. "Hey!" She yelled, rubbing her rump.
"TRUNKS!" Bulma yelled, running up to Pan "What is wrong with you, boy?" She frowned motherly and bent down to help Pan up.
"He is a crack addict that's what…" Pan muttered, causing Bulma to grin a little.
"Can we just get it on already?" Trunks asked, sounding like he was too royal to be there.
"What is up with you, Trunks!" Bulma said, frown increasing. "That's
exactly what your father said when you were "conceived."
Trunks blushed a tad bit. "Nothing is wrong with me…"
"Yeah well, then maybe you should get you act together."
"Yeah!" Pan seconded the opinion.
"Children should be seen and not heard, Pan." Trunks said evilly.
"Then it would be a good idea for you to stop talking, ne?" She replied
back, hands on her hips smugly.
Bulma watched the exchange, smiling inwardly. "Oh, Vegeta…" She thought wistfully.
"As soon as you two are done, I will start to talk."
"Fine with me, Bulma-san, as soon as Trunks is done flirting." Pan smiled serenely.
"Ewww!" Trunks said childishly. "Gross. I don't date animals…"
"BE QUIET!" Bulma all but screamed. "You guys are both animals. Saiayjins! Ha!"
"Excuse me?" Pan asked looking at the raving Bulma rather strangely.
"Never mind…I just want to tell you some things...." She propped up against the lab counter.
"A long time ago, I met a unique race of people. A race of people, err, not from around here. They were aliens I guess you could say, Saiyajins. My son here is half Saiyajin. The Saiyajins, were immensely proud, and strong. That is why Trunks, is so powerful. Unfortunately, there were only two pure Saiayjins left, until the Androids killed them. And two half breeds, I guess I should mention that. They have a very distinct dna strand."
Pan stared blankly at her. "Ok, you need Ritalin, but I am going to let
you slide just this once."
"Never mind…This isn't going to work." Bulma said stressed. She tried a different way. "Where are your parents, Pan?" Bulma asked quietly.
Pan scowled, a look of hatred. "The androids killed her." She sneered. Bulma nodded grimly.
"And your father?" She prodded gently.
"I don't know. That is why I came here." She stated, black eyes grim.
Trunk's ears picked up. So that was what was up with Gohan. I see now. Is this where I start to feel evil and stupid?
"What do you mean?" asked Bulma. She had not been informed all the details of their first "encounter."
"I was walking down the street, asking for some guy named Son Gohan, before
this psycho attacked me. " She jerked her head in Trunks' direction. "
…I think Gohan and my mom had a fling or something." She looked thoughtful
"Maybe he was a pimp. I don't know."
Bulma's eyes widened. Trunk's ki rose at the comment about Gohan, and himself.
"Gohan?" She whispered softly. "Did you say, Son Gohan?"
"Yeah?" Pan looked at her weirdly. "Do you know him? Where can I find him?" She brightened considerably.
"Pan." Bulma said piercingly. "Gohan has been dead, for 10 years."
"Nine." Trunks said, quick to correct any wrong info about his mentor.
"Oh…" Pan said dejectedly. " I was hoping I could talk to him about my mom…"
"Pan, I don't think you are getting this." Bulma leaned to face her.
"Gohan was a Saiyajin, the only other half breed out there. When I analyzed
your blood this morning, I found that your blood has high amounts of Saiyajin
cells."
Pan started to laugh. "Are you saying, that I am an alien? HA HA HA!"
"Stop it!" Bulma said. "It all makes sense now! Gohan was obviously your father. He was the only one around. And that explains your blood."
"Uh huh. Whoopee! I am an alien!" Pan said stupidly. She never noticed the hand as it came down swiftly on her cheek. Bulma drew her hand back.
"This isn't funny." She said, "Let me show you something. Trunks, drop your pants." Bulma said calmly.
”WHAT!?" Trunks said, eyes wide.
"Yeah, maybe this isn't so bad!" Pan said, smugly. "Do as your mother says, Trunks! Be a good little hamster!"
Bulma rolled her eyes. "Show her your tail, baka." Trunks, still frowning, extracted the brown appendage out of his pants.
"Whoa…" Pan said, leaning forward for a better look. Trunks let her get close enough to where he could reach her, and then smacked her.
"Hey! It moves!" Pan said retardedly.
"Now, untie your pants a little Pan." Bulma said waiting.
Pan drew back. "Hmmph, no way! I can assure you I don't have any extra things growing out of my butt."
Bulma, exasperated, sighed. "Do it, or I will make Trunks do it." Trunks grinned evilly.
”EWWW! Fine then, in the name of science only!" Pan said, pulled her pants down a tad.
"Now, tell me what you feel." Bulma reached behind, a tickled a little spot at her lower back, where the base of her tail had once been. You could still see the tiny, pink cross shaped scar.
"Hey!" Pan yelled "That tickled!"
”Yah, I learned that one with Vegeta." Bulma smirked. "No do you know why it tickled?"
"No." Pan said, eyebrows high. Trunks sighed. He was beginning to think she was really retarded.
"Hey, I'll be right back!" Bulma said, running out of the room.
"Your tail, baka, that is where your tail used to be!" he finally said.
"That is stupid! I don't remember a tail! I just have a scar because-"
"Because someone removed your tail." He stated, waiting for her to give up.
Then Bulma returned holding a couple of sheets of something. "Look at these, hon." She said, shoving two x-rays at her. "While you were out, I took the liberty of doing an x ray for broken bones. "Now here, is a normal person. " She held up an x ray to a lighted board. "You can see the last vertebrae right here, clearly." She pointed to the lower back. “Now here, is an x
ray of you, Trunks and Vegeta." She pinned them next to the normal one. "On Vegeta's you can defiantly see where the base of the tail is connected to the spinal cord. That is why when you pull a Saiyajins tail it hurts, and why there are so sensitive. Your spinal cord it one of the most sensitive spots in your body, because it is so close to the skin. It is especially temperature sensitive." She moved on to Trunks' x-ray. "You can see it on Trunks too, although it is a bit less defined." She then moved on to Pan's "And this, hon, this is yours."
Pan stared at the black and white image, her heart constricting. Bulma was for real. You could plainly see, with out a doubt that there had once been another "something" connected to her body. Pan opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. "I-I---I am an alien…" She stuttered.
"No" Trunks said. "You are a Saiyajin."