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The food that Vulpeca and Houri had eaten was actually quite good, even to Vulpeca's standards. He was glad at least that the kid had a decent meal before meeting Nakiya... if she didn't like him, then Vulpeca would definitely have to get him out of there in a hurry. Although, he didn't see much of a reason why she wouldn't... in fact she'd probably take a strange liking to him.
Vulpeca sighed as they flew through the skies of Vegeta, soon coming for a landing on the outskirts of the Tuffle ruins. You could see the cloud of radiation hovering in the air not too far away from them. However, instead of stepping into the radiation, Vulpeca led them into an old ruined building. Once inside, Vulpeca opened a door to what looked like it might be a bedroom, however when he opened the door, there was another thick metal door behind it. He placed his hand against it and channeled his fire into the tips of his fingers. With that, the door slid open, granting both of them entry into a small room with stairs going down for as far as the eye could see.
"How's this for an underground ninja mole?" He teased the kid before stepping inside and leading the way down the steps.
Clothes, Armor, food, a place to live. If anyone were to tell Houri he would end up getting all that after a harsh seven years period, he would not believe it, but here he was, no just receiving something better than his life, but about to enter head on in something way bigger than himself.
The food he tasted with Vulpeca was delicious, something that he have not tasted in years and for that occasion he ate like a true Saiyan, putting plate after plate away with an almost joyful pride, something that surely would not have surprised the staff of the place, since Vegeta was full of people like him.
After almost four hours eating and laughing and telling stories with Vulpeca about how he hunted and fought numerous foes before learning tricks to stay alive, most of the stories would make the pair end up laughing. It was after all that however that the fun was about to begin, or to end, depending on how Nakiya would act, or react to his presence. As the duo flew to the Tuffle ruins, Houri was surprised to see the base and even more surprised to see how the base was hidden, and while smiling broadly to Vulpeca he said
- That is Awesome! I want to see how it is on the inside, I bet it must be like a huge super base! –
As they went down and further below the ground, Houri kept silent, but in his mind questions about how he should act or what to expect from Vulpeca’s Master, but for now, at least he would have to wait.
"It is a huge super base, so just be careful you don't get too far away from me until you get to know it a little better alright? It's easy to get lost." Vulpeca said with a smirk on his face as he watched the kid's excitement build up.
meanwhile, inside the base, Nakiya was studying Androids 1 + 2's sparring match silently. She would take down noted of various flaws in their movements that she would notice along with any improvements that could be made. For the most part however, she found she was actually very proud of these two creations. Their mental states were excellent, they listened well, and they truly treated each other like sisters.
"Number 2, adjust your footing by 5 degrees you'll be more stable that way" She instructed just as her datapad started alarming, alerting her that someone had stepped through one of the entrances to the base. She clicked the alert which then pulled up security footage of Vulpeca along with some little boy? a saiyan? What was Vulpeca up too exactly that he would bring a child into the base?
She frowned as she watched the footage of them reaching the door that led into the base itself and stepped inside.
<<Vulpeca there better be a damn good reason for this.>> Nakiya's voice was transmitted telepathically towards the fox demon.
Vulpeca winced almost as if he was being yelled at. His masters voice rang in his head clear as day, obviously her security system had picked them up at the main entrance of the ruins...
<<I do, master, please hear me out, and at least meet the kid before you decide anything.>> vulpeca silently responded, waiting for a mental yelling from his master but no words came. Instead, Nakiya instructed the two Androids to continue as she left the training hall to go towards Vulpeca and Houri. As she walked, her body would shift and change as she resumed her saiyan appearance, not trusting whatever Vulpeca had planned for this kid. It was better to be safe than sorry.
"Let's wait for her in the sitting room alright Houri? She's on her way so she won't be long. Then we can have a tour of this place alright?" he said with a smirk as he led the small saiyan through the hallway and led him into the large sitting area. It was just as lavish as it always was, red silk curtains hanging from the walls, pedestals holding up various kinds of statues. There were two large red sofa's with gold trimming sitting across from one another with a glass table in between, a single arm chair off to the side for the host.
You could tell that Vulpeca was getting nervous as he started to fidget with his hands...
Finally, Nakiya would step into the room from a separate door, disguised as a female saiyan. her eyes would rest on Vulpeca for a brief moment, glaring at him as she looked down to Houri finally. Her eyes rested on the child for what seemed like minutes. Finally, she inwardly sighed as she put her diplomatic face on. She had no idea what to expect from this kid...
"You must be vulpeca's... friend? Hi there, my name is Nakiya Devla, it's a pleasure to meet you young man. However, might I ask of both of you what this is all about?" She asked with forced politeness as her eyes glanced over to Vulpeca once more.
Houri was excited, it was no secret, but as they went down the base and walked during what seemed hours to the underground, he could feel a tension rising in the air, Vulpeca talked to him and guided the kid thru the tunnels explaining how important it was for him not to get too far away from him until he knew his way around properly so he would not get lost. At first Houri talked and jumped around asking about how big the place was, but after a while, even he started to calm down and feel a light anxiety creep up on him.
However, as time went by and the pair waited for Nakiya at the room, Houri felt anxious, as if the time dragged on. What would she be like? How would she treat him or talk to him? All of those questions however, would have to wait, for while he was lost in his thoughts, Nakiya had just came in by the door.
The form of a Saiyan Woman had surprised him, after all knowing that Vulpeca was a demon gave Houri a similar image to the woman, and to that fact, he was not expecting to see a Saiyan. As Nakiya would present herself, Houri instantly rose up and approached the Demon with a smile in his childish face.
- Hi! My name is Houri, and I am quite happy to meet you miss Nakiya… But I thought you were a demon like Vulpeca, not a Saiyan! And you are pretty too! Anyway, I am really sorry to bother you, I know you must be really busy running all this place. – Even if he was now clad in armor, clean, smelling good and with food on his stomach, he was still the kid from the wastelands, innocent, pure, and good to the core, and with that, Houri keep balancing from his toes back and forth while speaking to Nakiya and looking at Vulpeca.
- A few days ago, I was at my cave in the wastelands where I used to live, and as I trained I almost got your son Vulpeca badly hurt with an experimental Ki blast of mine. So he came down from the sky to check on me and if I was some kind of enemy, truth is, Luckily I only grazed him, but it could have been way worse.
I thank you for your time and being listening to me with such interest, but the story is long, so to keep it short and spare you of unnecessary details, Mr Vulpeca have been helping me for about some days. He gave me clean clothes, food and a bath, something that I did not had in a long time. -
Houri was quick explaining everything he could about how both of them meet, about Bataka, about his life in the wastelands, every piece of detail letting nothing out of it so Nakiya could learn a bit more of him.
<<You told him you were a demon?? I told you to act like some alien>> Nakiya scolded silently as Houri continued to speak, explaining how he knew Vulpeca and how Vulpeca had taken care of him. <<I know master but this kid just catches me off guard...>>
<<So you decided to bring him home? He's a saiyan child not a pet!>>
<<...I know he's not a pet but I couldn't just leave him out there to live like that. I mean, he's technically older than I am and I've got it better than he does. I got to skip my childhood and never had to go through that crap. It's just... I don't know...>> Vulpeca tried to explain how he felt about Houri and his need to protect him.
Nakiya silently sighed as she focused on the child in front of her once more. He definitely didn't look like he had just been picked up out of the wastes. Vulpeca had done a good job cleaning him up at least. She brought her hand to her temple as she processed the information given to her, and finally sighed as she looked down at Houri.
"Well, there's no use hiding the fact that I am a demon if Vulpeca's already blown that secret out of the water." She said with a mild glare towards the fox demon. Her body would quickly start to shift and change so that it once more regained her base demonic state. Her hair grew longer and instead of ears she had two bat like wings on her head. The demon girl was wearing a dark rather poofy looking dress with what looked like two more wings coming from her lower back. Her saiyan tail seemed to shed it's fur to instead be replaced by a slick black looking tail with a spade on it's end.
Nakiya had to pause before speaking as Houri referred to Vulpeca as her son. While technically that could be seen as true, she couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. She had never called him her son, and he never called her mother. It was jut a sort of understanding between the two and it was very strange to hear this kid say so out loud.
"Sounds like you've been through a lot kid, but I can't say I feel as sympathetic towards you as Vulpeca does. Life is hard, and sometimes it sucks, you have to get up on your own feet and take care of yourself. I don't take in weaklings who need others to survive. So tell me Houri, are you a weakling who's going to keep relying on others to move in life? Or will you stand on your own two feet from now on?" She asked seriously as she looked down at the kid. Her mind was already reaching out to his, closely listening in to his thoughts after her words.
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Vulpeca stayed close by to Houri, but didn't interrupt in any way as his master spoke to him. She was harsh, but he wondered if she didn't already have something in mind.
As Nakiya seemed to be spacing out while he was carefully explaining his life story and how he came about to meet Vulpeca. Houri ended up noticing that, from time to time, the Nakiya would look at the demon fox, and then back at him. At first, the kid only thought of that as a mere habit, however, as he would pay more attention, he would notice a silent, yet very clear conversation in their eyes. Vulpeca was clearly being scolded at, even being put against the wall.
Of course, Houri did not want that, he even felt a bit bad over it, and as soon as he would speak about her scolding him with her evil glare, the kid noticed her shape shifting abilities, at first he glared, then he opened his mouth and asked in impressed tone
- Wow that is pretty cool, but, you know does it hurt? Bones changing and stuff, it must at least itch. And what happened to your ears? CAN YOU STILL HEAR?? And is this your true form? Because if it is, for a mom you are really pretty. Vulpeca no offense, but your mom is beautiful! In both forms, but the wings in the head, they add some charm to it though-
Again, he was at it, being brutally sincere the moment he thought of something, perhaps Nakiya would understand a bit of how Vulpeca felt with him around or not, he was not really thinking about it, he was just being himself. And as she began to talk Houri started to lose a bit of his focus while thinking of things that would probably make anyone around laugh.
“ How does she poop, does it come out in a different color? Where does Vulpeca dad is? Maybe he is cooler or more like Vulpeca…. And this base, definitely a place where ninja moles would make their HQ does she can take the form of a female ninja mole? I do not know, probably should not ask that yet. Maybe Vulpeca knows. Gonna ask him. Gosh I ate too much, is there a bathroom nearby? I think I need to poop… Or is it a fart? If I fart they will hear it? Or it will smell? I hope they have a bad sense of smell.“
While only thinking it lightly, Houri did in fact pay attention to Nakiya and while his line of thought might have drifted out from the main subject a bit, he crossed his arms as she finished talking. For a moment, he stood there in silence, dead silent, only his breathing could be heard, and as he looked at Vulpeca and back at Nakiya he pondered what best way to say what came to his mind. He knew how much Vulpeca Liked him, he knew how he also liked and respected his mom, so he was figuring out a way to not sound rude as he now spoke.
- You know, Miss Nakiya, you are Vulpeca’s mom, and I do not know how you feel it or how much you love him, but you gave him life and have been taking good care of him and educated him well enough for us to be friends and for him to do some good to me out of selflessness. I am grateful for what he has done for me, he gave me clothes, a hot plate of food and a bit of hope. But please, do not be mad at him, he was just helping me, he was good. And please make no mistake over me. I can stand on my own.
I have been living in that hell for the past seven years without anyone to help me. I fought, I killed for my life and I hunted down every kind of beast there is in the wastelands. It might not be a good life, not even a comfortable one, but I can stand it and eventually I will become so strong that things will be better one way or the other.
You do not have to take me in, I am not your son or your responsibility, and I even think you do not like me very much. You have been glaring at me, and Vulpeca since you came by the door and if I could read minds I think I would not like to know what you think of me.
I won’t ask for you to take me in too, I think it is lame, I will sound like a pitiful excuse for a Saiyan and a worse excuse for a person. It is up to you to consider me worthy of anything, but if I bow down my head and ask for things and for people to help me all of the time, I think no one, not even me will think myself as worthy.
So, do you wanna test me? See my worth? I can fight, never had any instruction, just raw experience, but I can hold my own!
The kid said everything that he had in his heart, at all times he was respectful, calm, collected and even very kind, his heart was pure and he did not shown any signs of rudeness, however, he was being so sincere that could drive any detector crazy. He really have nothing to offer, but would not beg for help or to be taken in. If she made that decision, it would be because she had become interested in him, not out of mercy.
"What..? Oh, no it doesn't hurt, you get used to it and I-" Nakiya winced as Houri suddenly yelled, her bat like ears twitching at the sound. She brought her hand up and karate chopped Houri in the head lightly to get him to stop.
"I can hear you just fine brat! and... what-" Nakiya paused as his thoughts pierced her mind, causing Nakiya to raise an eyebrow and scrunch up her nose at his silent words. What the hell was wrong with this kid? He was curious about things like that? She glanced back over to Vulpeca who was now smirking, you could see that he was holding back the mad giggles in an attempt to remain polite.
'putrid child...' She thought to herself in annoyance though looked back down to him as he began to speak once more. He referred to her as Vulpeca's mother again and rolled her eyes this time. She had given him life yes, but she hardly acted like his mother. She wanted to retort to his comment about her loving him and raising him, but figured it would be more damaging to their relationship than it was worth. He was programmed to always remain loyal to her, but it was best to keep a decent relationship if they were going to be together for hundreds of years.
Houri continued to speak though about how he lived in the wastes, and of how he took care of himself the entire time. He had never asked for Vulpeca's help, the fox demon had offered it to him. In her mind, it was strange for him to do so. Did he have some sort of plan for the child and that's why he acted so kind to him? Or did Vulpeca truly care about him? There was no way that he did. He was a demon created out of the most perfect DNA of their species... he couldn't show affection.
"You're right, you wouldn't like being able to read my thoughts. They are far different than the kindness Vulpeca has shown you. However. If you are capable of holding your own, if you prove to be an asset to me and to Vulpeca... then you may stay. In a few days Vulpeca and I, along with a team of my allies will be travelling to the demon realm. We will be walking straight into battle. You will come with us and fight."
"Master he..!" vulpeca began but Nakiya was quick to use her mind control ability to silence the fox demon.
"He is a saiyan and he is born to fight. You will prove your worth to me there Houri. If you do well, then you can continue to stay. If you prove to be worthless, well Vulpeca can take you to the pound." She said, treating him once more like he was some sort of stray that Vulpeca had picked up off the street. She didn't wait for Houri's answer, she simply let Vulpeca free of her mind control and turned around, walking straight out of the room. Her security camera would record everything that happened in that room, and alert her to Houri's intent.
As soon as Nakiya stepped out of the room, Vulpeca sighed as he brought his hand to his forehead as if he had a sudden headache.
"Not exactly like me is she?" he said, trying to brighten things up a little bit.
- It is hard to believe she is your mom, but it could have been worse. –
Houri had listened intently as Nakiya spoke to him, the look in her eyes, the way she talked and looked down upon him. It made him chuckle a bit on the inside. She might be a demon, but somehow she looked more and more like a Saiyan by the minute. All the time she spoke and acted, Houri could see more of a female Saiyan than of a demon, and with that, tried to understand how she actually felt and why she behave like that. After the end of her speech, He and Vulpeca started to talk with Houri leading a small statement.
- I am a bit sad for her… You know Vulpeca, your mom’s heart has been hurt, I do not know by who or by what, but I can feel it, there is good inside of her, just as there is in you. The only thing is that whatever happened to her, made her harden her heart and bury the good in her. But it is there…
she might just have forgotten it, or not want to see it.
I have to admit though, for a demon, she acts a lot like a Saiyan. –
He had spoken that with dead seriousness, and while small and looking a bit more frail than most of his Saiyan brethren, his words carried a weight and meaning much more powerful than anything he would be able to cast with his ki or smash with his hands. Vulpeca would be able to hear plain truth and sincerity on his voice, and while the kid remained with his arms crossed, he spoke now in his soft tone once again in his normal manner.
- I need now to train a bit, you heard her, some days from now we will be fighting someone over something for her.
- Well at least I can prepare for a fight… It was fair of her to tell me, at least I won’t go in blindly thinking that will be a stroll. Ha! I need to poop Vulpeca, do you guys do it right? I am holding it in since she came in by the door. Also, she can morph in a ninja mole? It would look funny! Hahaha!
With a laugh the kid showed how carefree he was about almost everything around him. If it wasn’t something that did not immediately threatened his life, everything was fine for him.
"Well, she is technically my mother since she created me but, it's different than with you saiyans. I don't have a mother and father, she used a bunch of different DNA to create me as part of her science experiment. She also create a lot of others here too, you'll get to meet them soon enough. Kinoko's a saiyan, so you two might get along." he tried to explain, trying to think of the best way to describe how their relationship worked. he understood it, but to explain it to someone else was difficult, especially someone like Houri who really wouldn't understand a thing about science. And especially since Vulpeca had kind of screwed up the truth about how babies were born.
"What do you mean she's been hurt?" vulpeca asked, his own eyes narrowing for a moment. It was his job to protect her, so if she had gotten hurt and he was unable to protect her then... What was he worth? However when Houri finished his sentence Vulpeca sighed in understanding.
"Oh I see what you mean. I don't think she's been hurt Houri. From my understanding it's just the way she was raised. She's a demon princess you know, so to her, showing any kind of kindness is weakness, and she's not aloud to be weak." He informed the young saiyan, explaining a little bit more about Nakiya than she had bothered to tell him. Whenever he said she acted a lot like a saiyan though, Vulpeca couldn't help but laugh! He really hoped that she wasn't watching them right now!
"don't ever tell her that alright! hahaha! She's been trying so hard to act like a saiyan when she's disguised as one, she'd hate it if someone told her it carried over into her actual personality!" He said with a renewed smile on his face! it was just too funny to hear that Houri thought she acted like a saiyan! She'd be so upset! He put his hand on Houri's shoulder, grinning widely at the boy.
"You're a funny kid Houri, come on let me show you to your quarters before you start training up for this big fight! And you'll have a bathroom there too squirt. The base is the entire length of the ruins you know! So I hope you can fly fast and hold it in!" He teased Houri before pushing himself up and stretching his arms up before leading the way back out the door they had come from. Houri's quarters would be quite a ways away from the main base, but at least there he would have lots of space to live. When houri asked him about what they would do now, he motioned with his head for the boy to follow.
Meanwhile, as Houri and Vulpeca continued to speak in the sitting room, Nakiya was glued to her datapd once more, watching the exchange between the two boys with contempt. This brat was going to be a handful, and while she had no problem kicking him out into the irradiated ruins, she knew Vulpeca would hate her for it. She just hoped the fox demon knew exactly what he was getting them into.
As she looked at her datapad, a few messages began to ring in the top right corners that there were messages available to be displayed. As she clicked it to open it, several reports came in from the shops she had set up throughout planet Vegeta, as well as the online data distribution over the net. She looked at the reports with a sigh.
"Having a kid about this place is going to cost me all this damned zeni isn't it..." She thought to herself as she accepted one report after another, completing transactions as she returned to her laboratory. It seemed that she had quite a few pieces to make before she could make any further plans for Houri.
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