TRUNKS AND THE GIRL Part 3




Karana was tired and hungry. She hadn't slept much because she was haunted by nightmares and there was no food here in the cave either. But she was afraid to go outside, the cyborgs and their terrible destructiveness still seemed too close to her. She asked herself questions that ate more and more into her heart and could not let go of her mind. About life and death, right and wrong. Sometimes she wondered what strange, actually insignificant questions she asked herself and how profound others were. But she never got an answer to any of the questions, important or unimportant. Her thoughts were mixed up, like paints that were too damp when painting. She couldn't order them, find any order, like the picture that is completely destroyed after being mixed up. But one thing was clear, Karana felt lonely, abandoned by everything. Once she caught herself in shock talking to herself.That scared her and to escape this fear she decided to go outside again. She didn't want to go crazy down here and hide forever. No, she didn't want to end like this! From the radio of her CD player she knew that the cyborgs were now up to mischief with humans on another part of the world. Although the thought pained her that these people would have to die too, she was glad that they were gone. And, as has so often happened recently, she was ashamed of her selfishness.


Karana had made up her mind to go. No, not away, but outside first. For a long time, it seemed like endless eternity, she hadn't seen the sun again. She had almost forgotten how she looked and the last warmth of her rays had escaped from Karana's mind.


When she jumped into the water, she was curious about something that was actually as common as day and night, but there wasn't that big difference in the cave either.It was always dark there, unless you lit a candle.


Karana got out of the water dripping wet and involuntarily blinked. It was broad daylight. When she could see clearly again, she was enchanted for a brief moment. The forest, which seemed so untouched by all the cruelty of the world, had captured her in its wondrous form. For moments she felt completely weightless and relieved of all the burden that lay on her shoulders. But this image shattered like glass when she saw the thick, heavy clouds of smoke over the former city. Images shot through her head again like flashing lightning. There were people smeared with blood, desperate faces and smoke that she thought she smelled even now. An acrid stench that took away all the air to breathe, wanted to suffocate you without pity. Like a film, everything was repeated in Karana's mind. How she ran away with her mother and Che and how terribly guilty she felt when her brother suddenly left.And then the worst picture when her mother died. Karana's lip began to tremble. She couldn't go on anymore. She turned and ran away, back to her cave. Karana tried to cry, but she was completely dehydrated because she had shed so many tears in the past few days. When she was back in the grotto, she sat down in the farthest corner with soaking wet clothes and sobbed tearfully to herself. Darkness had displaced and then devoured the moment of wonder. Karana wanted to fight, but she had lost much of her courage. It was a quiet but bitter struggle between her will and her irrepressible fear. Nobody wanted to admit defeat. They would continue fighting until they were completely exhausted, until one of them went down. After an hour there was a winner. It was her will that had shackled fear.


So she got up a second time, that day, jumped back into the water and swam to the surface.Karana hadn't eaten for a long time and the hunger was almost overwhelming. She was also very cold. All of which supported her will. She decided to try fishing because there was nothing else but leaves and berries, and she didn't know which ones were poisonous and which ones could be eaten. If the lake didn't exist, she told herself, I would probably eat everything, because hunger was like a heavy chain that could never be stripped off.


Fish, however, was a good and safer thing when she considered the other options. There was only one problem with the execution of her plan: Karana had neither fishing rod nor net nor bait.


> Well, that's a forest after all, there will be a lot to be found here. she said to herself. She looked for a suitable stick and worms to use as bait. She kept wondering whether this company would really work.She was very unsure about it. Because she had never fished, let alone built a fishing rod herself. She had already seen it in films or on television, but the reality was always very different. "Che has been fishing, he definitely could ..." shot through her head and this thought was followed by the feeling of endless sadness and helplessness. She shook her head vigorously and kept searching, determined not to be discouraged by anything.


After about ten minutes, Karana estimated, she had a long stick and four worms writhing helplessly in a handkerchief. After she had that, she tore another two to three meters long thread from one of her woolen sweaters. The garment was gone, of course, but the fishing rod was more important at the moment. When she pinned things together, she found that she needed a hook. Because without it, hardly a fish would hang and the worm would escape. "Damn it!", she cursed desperately." All in vain! "


Some birds were startled by their loud cursing and soared up into the clear blue sky, screeching and flapping their wings wildly. Karana looked longingly after them. 'Oh, if I were only a bird! Then I could just float away. Then I would eat worms and would never be hungry. <, she couldn't help but smile slightly at the thought.


But suddenly she saw something else in the sky. A black point that didn't move like a bird, though. More like a glider, just without making a sound. Karana strained her eyes even more and at the same time hid herself in the leaves of a bush. Because if the object in the sky was a cyborg, she thought it wouldn't be very beneficial to stand in the middle of a clearing. You can call out "I'm here !!! Please kill me !!!" It came nearer very quickly and soon she realized that it was a human figure and she didn't look like any cyborg she knew.

Even so, she stood still, because she had never seen a person flying. And although she had always been bad at physics, she knew that that was impossible in the face of gravity. She was suspicious. > Maybe. ", she thought," Maybe it's a new cyborg.

Without thinking about it, she picked it up and unconsciously stepped out of her hiding place into the large forest clearing. When she straightened up, she looked startled into a pair of beautiful ocean blue eyes that studied her. For a split second she thought she was falling into a deep, warm sea.


Then she flinched in reflex and let the thing slip out of her hand. With a thud it fell to the ground.


Unable to move, she stared at the boy who was now standing in front of her, bending down to pick it up.From this Karana concluded that it was his. He was wearing some kind of battle suit and carried a sword. He also had blond, almost golden hair.


Her heart was racing like crazy and it was only beating more slowly when the stranger held out his hand and smiled and said: "Hello, my name is Trunks."


Embarrassed, she shook his warm hand and a shiver ran through her frozen body. She couldn't read the expression on his face. Was that smile just friendliness, or was it making fun of her awkward behavior or obvious fear? In any case, her feeling told her that he wasn't a cyborg, because she couldn't see any trace of malice or lust for destruction in his eyes.


When she was about to tell him her name, he was already back in the air. He waved and shouted: "I have to! It was nice to get to know you!" Then her petrifaction loosened and she screamed as loudly as she could: "My name is Karana!" Suddenly a soft smile fell on her lips.She didn't exactly know the reason for that smile. Probably, she explained to herself, I'm just glad I'm not the only survivor.






Trunks thought about it, his head was literally smoking, even though he was actually himself


wanted to focus on his upcoming fight with the cyborg. "Well


after the time with Son-Goku, Vegeta and the others I will definitely be her


can defeat. "he mused. His thoughts were on something completely


other, with this girl from the forest. He actually would have


do not need to take the path through the forest because it was a relatively large one


Detour. That said in plain language: His real goal was precisely that


opposite direction. But on his way he suddenly had a


strange feeling in the stomach. As he flew on he suddenly noticed one

strange aura. It didn't feel human, no, that's what it was for


strong, but not like a Namek or Sayajin either. His


Curiosity drove him to follow this aura and find it


from which it started. Without further ado he turned left and landed after


a few minutes over a forest. Here the aura was very close, that felt


he clearly. But he couldn't see anyone, so he flew the entire area


from. Suddenly he saw a rapid movement, almost just a shadow over


a clearing slipped into the bushes and disappeared there. But Trunks noticed


exactly that the person or being had not yet fled far, but


paused somewhere between the leaves. > Good. <, Trunks considered:> Should I


look now or prefer to fly further and the cyborgs finally get rid of this one


Banish the world?