Mizuna Chapter 1

I have been writing a dragon ball fanfiction to take a break from the big chapters of SHP. This is a quick and dirty tale, hope that you like it. We start everything in the dragon ball era, Goku and Bulma already met, Sarada the ten years old female Saiyan arrive on Earth after the first tournament is done and Goku is battling the Red Ribbon Army.

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Mizuna

(A dragon ball fanfiction)

Chapter 1

Age 750

Planet Terin

I took my head in my hands, the splitting headache had woken me up from my slumber. Opening my eyes I noticed that darkness was all around me and I felt that I was laying on a stony surface. The only light that I could see was high in the ceiling of the… cave? Why was I here? Did I fall in this chasm? Wait, there was something weird going on, who am I? I couldn't remem-

“Aaaah!!” Bone crushing pain split apart my skull as memories not my own began to flow into my head.

Saiyan? Frieza's army? Mom and dad? Me weak? Food? Mom kicking me into the cave to hide me from the Saiyan purge? Breaking my skull on the rocks in the depth of the chasm. My name is Gisèle, no, my name is Mizuna. Gisèle, Mizuna, Gisèle, Mizuna, no it’s Gisèle, Mizuna, Gisèle, no I am Mizuna, Gisèle, Mizuna, Gisèle, Mizuna, Gisèle, Mizuna? 

My name is Gisèle Victoire and I am French, twenty years old and geek extraordinaire. I was doing my homework when something crashed into my house and everything went black. My name is Mizuna and I am ten years old, my mother’s name is Maiz and my Dad’s Pumkin; I was born on planet Terin while they were killing its people.

<This felt wrong! Killing people! Why? It disgusts me!> I screamed as I saw myself in those strange memories, I had long black hair reaching to my knees, a cute face and purple eyes; a tiny body showing that I was still a little girl and was that a tail?!

(Killing to feed is survival mom said.) A voice resonated in my head, it was a childish and feminine voice. Trying to look around me but everywhere there was only darkness. I punched in the air but there was nothing.

<Get out of my head.> I demanded.

The childish voice laughed. (This is my head!)

<No it’s… wait I am already dead, I finally realize it. It’s me who is the parasite! I am a body snatcher.>

I felt the voice acquiescing. (You Thief.) She accused.

<No I am not a thief. If I could, I would give you your body back!>

In a tiny voice the original owner of this body said, (But I am dead too. I died when I fell into this deep hole.) She began to remember more things like her mom and dad, even if they were awful mass murderers they were her parents and they loved her in their own way, because she was weak, barely 90 in power level, they brought her food and taught her how to fight. 

She spent nine years living like this before they almost destroyed the civilization on Terin, until Freezia’s men came to kill her two parents. In their panic, her mom kicked Mizuna into the cave but she didn’t expect her to die in the chasm at the end of the cave system, for days she stayed in the depth slowly starving and her skull a bit cracked. It’s when she was about to die that my own soul was taking over her body.

I didn’t want that, I wasn’t a body snatcher, nor a demon possessing this poor little girl.

Mizuna, the original owner began to weep, knowing from the information she had that Frieza’s men were often stronger than the Saiyan who worked for him. Her parents might have died.

<Mizuna.> I called, as I mentally hugged her.

Mizuna stopped crying.(Gisèle?)

<Let’s help each other? I don’t know what I can do to help you, but I will. We are one, now we are the same person. Don’t worry I know what we must do, in fact since you spoke about that Frieza guy a lot of my memories told me who he is. Any help I can give you depends on what you want, you think that you were weak? Wait for it, I am gonna make you the strongest female Saiyan. If they killed your parents, we will do something about everyone in Frieza's army.> I showed her my memories of what I knew about this world, I was a manga fan, and dragon ball is old school anime and manga; I read through all the material about it with my boyfriend. Fuck! My boyfriend was he out of the house when I died? Argh, but I am dead now it doesn’t matter anymore...

(You can make me that strong, Gisèle?) Mizuna asked awed.

I showed her the memories of Goku turning super saiyan and killing Frieza, Goku battling Cell, killing Buu with a Genkidama or transcending the limit of a super saiyan by becoming a super saiyan blue, fighting Jiren by reaching the ultra instinct level.

Giving an evil laugh I then answered to her with a, <Try me!>

I felt Mizuna think for a long moment, whatever her decision would be I would comply with her as I am the one who is intruding. Feeling Mizuna finally coming to a decision I waited for her to speak; there was nothing else for me to do.

(I believe you. It’s a deal, we are one now.) She laughed and we hugged; I don’t know what happened but there was a white light as I felt myself merging with her. 

I was Mizuna and Mizuna was me, what I knew, she knew too.

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My head stopped hurting and I quickly felt relieved that the splitting headache had disappeared, my fingers on my left arm were broken and I felt that my left ankle was sprained. That was saiyan physiology for you, sturdy. 

Something growled loudly and made me jump in fright.

“W-what?” I looked around me for the monster who roared.

Finding no one, I sat on a pile of rock but I heard the roar again but felt that it came from my belly.

“Oh this is just my belly, aww I am hungry.” I said in annoyance as I patted my stomach.

Trying to stand I put weight on my good foot, yes nothing hurt. Even more wary I put weight on my other foot and a lance or pain spears through me.

"Owie! Argh, I wish I could fly like mom." Thinking about her made my eyes go misty and tears flowed down my cheeks all over again.

"I must see, I must go look if Mom and Dad are still alive! Gisèle said she would help me get stronger, maybe I could-" I said to myself, but the cynical part of me told me not to be too optimistic.

“Right. Now, I must get out of this chasm but how?” An idea formed in my head.

Jumping on my one good leg, I proceeded to go under the hole where the light shone through and began jumping as high as I could. Three meters. I landed but jumping was painful and I was hungry. I jumped again, four meters this time.

Maybe I should use my energy in this leg and jump? What did Gisèle call it again, Ki? I closed my eyes and focused. I felt hunger gnaw at my stomach but I ignored it.

"I am a Saiyan! I won't die in this cave!" I told myself.

There! In the center of my body there was this boundless energy, Ki, my life force; now I must know how to draw it out. Gisèle’s knowledge stopped here. I stood still, thinking about how to do that; using my memories I tried to remember what Gisèle knew more in depth, she was older than me when she died. I recalled her memories of Dragon Ball, the show? I watched as Goku was screaming and screaming while a yellow aura surrounded him. Why was he screaming? Wait why was that guy Vegeta screaming too while they looked at each other? 

So… hum should I imitate them? No, Gisèle was telling me to not do something illogical? Wait, so how do I do it? Ki concentration, right? It’s easy, I am a Saiyan! The strongest race in the galaxy. I focused on myself, making a fist with my one good hand, then made the Ki inside me move and focused it into a tight area to increase it and let it circulate into my entire body. Then I jumped, I jumped so high and I reached the entrance but I was falling! I caught the edges of the chasm with my right hand and hanged tight, my fingers barely catching the ledge.

“Phew.” I climbed the cliff by propping myself up and was finally at the entrance of the cave and pushed myself to go outside even if everything was hurting. I felt accomplishment for the first time, I wasn’t so weak right? Moving  while hopping wasn’t easy and, after a bit of time suffering through the lances of pain my ankle gave me, I could see the jungle outside.

It was a strange flora, the trees were giant and thick and there were flowers and red and green fruits everywhere. My stomach grumbled and I went to gather a huge pile of them and began to eat in earnest. I think I heard a river not far from here. 

Those saiyan senses were powerful, I could smell and hear things from really far. 

Looking at myself, I saw that I was clothed like a local. It was a purple tunic, a short black skirt and leather boots. The entire outfit  reminded me of a video game character in Gisèle memories. In Mizuna's she had always worn this and looked rather cute. 

Pshhh, Look at me speaking as if I wasn't Mizuna. Gisèle and the little saiyan girl fused and formed another personality, me. However the two are dead and I liked Mizuna's name better than Gisèle's, so I will keep it.

"Aaah, my belly is full." The fruits tasted like mango and pear. “Now, I am thirsty!” I hopped on one leg and went toward where the river was. After hopping and tripping a lot for a good five minutes I finally found it, it was a shallow river. Crouching, I dipped my good hand in the water. It was cool, cupping my hand; I then tasted it to see if this was potable.

It was! I began to drink the water in earnest, with my entire head submerged, and once I was full I took off my clothes to clean myself.

Thirty minutes later I was sitting in the bed of the river making myself presentable. I even cleaned my clothes the best I could and let them dry in the sun. Right now I was thinking about the steps I must take to get off this planet and go to Earth. A bit of a plan formed in my mind and all of it depended whether Mom and Dad were alive or dead.

I will use one of their spaceships, take a scouter and leave. Easy right? In Mizuna's memories their location was kinda far. The sun began to dip into the horizon, so it means that the days were shorter on this planet than on Earth. Effing great.

"I must find somewhere to sleep, maybe in a tree?" I spoke to myself.

And find it I did, it was a huge hollow tree, I made a bed of grass and leaves. Full, clean and weary from the day I laid on my temporary bed and fell asleep.

I woke up with a start when I heard a creature shuffle in the entrance of the hollow of the tree. It was big and looked like a big red lizard on four legs with a big tail.

"Dinner time, thanks for delivering yourself I was getting hungry for meat." I said as my stomach grumbled again.

The beast hissed at me menacingly and attacked me, it was so slow to my senses, it was like bullet time in the matrix movies in Gisèle's memories. With my one good arm I charged Ki in my arm and simply punched it with all my strength and down it went as its head exploded. I didn't like brains and eyes anyway!

I didn't intend to eat it raw… but my instincts were stronger than me, and I devoured the giant lizard and it was glorious. There was a lot of blood on me at this point, fortunately I was still naked and didn't make my clothes yucky.

"Effing Saiyan instincts are hard to control when I am hungry. I lose IQ when that happens. I noticed that I am more emotional too…"

I noticed that my ankle was almost well now, and that was good news. Daring to walk on my injured leg I find it less painful so I began to limp toward the river to clean myself again. I lacked so many things to make a decent living, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a comb and brush for my hair and toilet paper.

My fingers were already fine on my left hand. Saiyan recovery and power are awesome.

"All I did was eat a ton of fruit, drink water and have a little sleep… no wonder Frieza is scared of us." I said while making a fist with my previously injured hand.

Arriving at the river again, I bathed and got the sticky lizard blood out of my skin and hair. I loved my hair, it was so long and spiky, no way was I going to cut it! Feeling refreshed I got out of the water and went into my tree shelter and slept again.

When I woke up again I felt energized, nothing hurt anymore. I jumped and landed on my feet, my ankle was fine. I went into the clearing outside the tree’s hollow and ran at full speed, punched the air; it generated a slight burst of air, I kicked repeatedly the air while reinforcing my body with Ki and then I jumped high into the sky. Landing on the grassy ground, I felt satisfied with myself, my power level had risen. But I won’t rest on my laurels, I will become as strong as I can be to survive in this new universe.

“This universe is dangerous, Frieza, King Cold, Cooler and a lot of other guys who are hiding. I am fodder right now, but I won’t stay this way!” I decided.

I was determined to learn all the intricacies of Ki manipulation and get better at it than even Goku. However, I already knew enough of what was possible, charging Ki in my attacks was already possible, can I use Kamehameha? Hmm, maybe creating my own techniques would be best, but I will try using it anyway just to test if I can externalize my Ki and create a beam of energy.

Looking for a target, I turned around and finally found a shorter giant tree that looked sickly; it must not receive enough sun, poor thing. “I’m going to end it, don’t worry.”

Cupping my hands to my side I concentrated all my latent Ki into a single point  between them for at least five seconds and then I thrust them forward. A powerful streaming beam of energy shot from my hands to the sick tree and pierced a hole in its center. Flames could be seen burning in the hole and the tree began to burn. I looked at that, astonished that I succeeded on the first try!

“Yay! That’s awesome!” I shouted while jumping around.

And then my stomach rumbled, ah yeah I am weak so using Ki attacks will make me hungry faster. I can’t wait till I am in the ten thousand power level, I know how to charge and concentrate Ki, so hiding it would be the reverse. I did just that just in case there were still some of Frieza’s soldiers on the planet with scouters.

“Time to go hunt. I’ve eaten all the fruits in the vicinity.”

After this, my time on this planet became like a blur, everyday consisted of gathering food, killing some beasts that wanted to eat me and ended up being the one to be eaten, I took a bath and moved at a fast speed to the location where I thought the saiyan spaceships were. This planet was just a big jungle with giant lakes dotting its surface, there were no oceans on it. The locals looked like humanoid lizards and fled each time they saw me. I guess the big fur tail belt is a dead give away of me being saiyan, their oppressor.

It wasn't until the seventh day that I discovered the bodies of my parents being eaten by one of the giant lizards. I saw red and attacked it by creating a blade of Ki with my hand and decapitated it. I looked at the bodies, they were half eaten but I could still see the faces of Maiz and Pumkin. I looked like my mother, we had the same face but I had my dad’s eyes and long hair. I touched their face and stayed crouching like this for a long time, I wasn’t attacked by any beasts while reminiscing about them.

They had loved me with all their hearts, well as much as a saiyan can; our race wasn’t so hung up on parental responsibility. But they had fed me, clothed me and taught me things even though they thought I was weak, and mom was trying to protect me from the purge. 

I’m going to bury them, but first.

“Mom, Dad will you help me one last time?” I asked.

Despite me, my vision became blurry, there were tears falling down my cheeks. I vowed for a third time that I will kill Frieza and his army, I am sorry Goku but maybe we can kill him together? Mom and dad still had their scouters with them and as I took off their armor I found both of their saiyan pod remote controllers on their bodies. Weirdly I could understand the words and numbers on the calculator looking thing. So there were options on it, like autodestruction…

I didn’t want to do that, in fact I am going to take the two pods with me when I leave for earth; The pods can be recalled with it too. That tech was awesome,  it could also create a holographic projection of a moon to trigger the great ape transformation. I won’t use that, in fact I will destroy Earth’s moon as soon as I am able. 

My parents’ two scouters were damaged, well at least that guy Frieza couldn’t spy on me anymore. I am going to reverse engineer all that tech and become a scientist, maybe doctor Brief can teach me? I don’t want to be a bum who only thinks of training like Vegeta and Goku, they are NEETs who mooch off their wives. Wait for me Goku, I will make you a good person and a hard worker. Shelving this idea in my head, I put the broken scouters and the controllers in a leather pouch that mom had at her waist. I cut a length of hair from each of them and began to braid them together to craft a bracelet that I put on my arm. 

It took half a day to bury them at a decent depth in the earth, I didn’t want those effing lizards to dig them up to eat their bodies. I finished by writing their names in saiyan script engraved on a piece of wood.

“Here lies Maiz and Pumkin, beloved mother and father of Mizuna.”

I noticed that the lizards were already gathering around me and the grave. It enraged me, those things have been hounding me for so long and they wanted to scavenge my parents’ bodies. Ok, they were all going to die, I will clear the area of those necrophagous things, eat some before leaving. 

It took the better part of a day to kill all those lizards, I didn’t even spare their babies and I discovered the babies were delicious and when I was done, I ate them with gusto.

“Burp. Oops, excuse me.” I licked my fingers, slick with blood. “Those things were so sugary, but I still prefer pancakes.” I said patting my belly.

After this the other beasts in the jungle began to avoid me completely, I took my last bath before leaving this planet for good in one of the giant lakes. With a strip of red lizard skin that I made into leather I tied my hair in a big ponytail. Taking one of the remote controls I ordered the two pods to come to the meadow I found for their landing. I didn’t even have to wait for long, they were already there crashing down and forming a crater. 

“Those things are too badly designed, I want to make a spaceship which can land like in those sci-fi shows. Well I suppose that those crash landings are more for psychological warfare...”

The two pods opened their hatch and the smell of mom and dad wafted from them, nostalgia caused me to think about them. I climbed in mom’s pod and sat in the comfortable seat. The hatch closed and the dashboard lit up and showed me a lot of information, but I already knew where I wanted to go. There was enough fuel and the environmental system kicked in. I tapped in earth's coordinates, they were crystal clear in Gisèle’s memories, Planet 4032-877, Earth.

“Earth, here I come.” I smiled.

The two pods took flight and soon I was in the upper atmosphere, the flight path that the computer showed me that I will be there in six months. So I understood that Terin was closer to the blue planet than I thought. Closing my eyes, I felt myself losing consciousness. The system in the pod made me fall asleep.

Even while this happened I felt the FTL drive kick in and move the two pods toward Earth.