"Man, Tales! Got your bike off or what ?!"
Tanipu was really excited. What was this lousy Saiyan doing ?!

Kalipo just stood quietly next to her. He looked thoughtfully down to where Citres had just disappeared. What would she do? Maybe she just wanted to blow off some steam somewhere in the pampas - but on the other hand, she could have gone into the woods to cry herself there. Both would be conceivable, but what was certain was that sooner or later she would come back.
Tales turned away from the two of them. He hadn't listened to Tanipu at all, just stared in front of him in silence. Now at last he had regained his composure, turned away from them and stomped into his room.

"Damn it, Tales!" Tanipu hissed after him, but he couldn't hear her anymore.

"Now calm down again ..."

"What is this rude guy imagining ?! And then half-naked! Well, that can't be true!""You're also pretty perky to yell at him in such a situation ..."

Citres ran aimlessly through the thick forest. She could have flown, but to vent, she had to run. Hot tears made their way down her flushed cheeks. She could hardly remember the last time she cried - it must have been years. Slowly but surely she was breathless. It slowed down, just walked, and finally stopped completely. She stood puffing in a meadow with the grass sloping in one direction. A cold wind blew and Citres began to tremble. She turned around searching, could barely see the way ahead, but saw it very clearly
Wreaths of steam in front of her that had emerged from her irregular breathing.

"I'm such a stupid cow." she muttered and took a breath. "Maybe he's thinking right and it would really have been better if I had never shown up here. I don't even know anymore ... why I was looking for him for so long ..."Five years. She had criss-crossed space for a full five years in search of the Saiyan, with whom she spent all of her childhood. No matter how hopeless it was, she had never given up hope, and in the end she had actually found him. But what had become of him in the meantime completely destroyed her beautiful idea of ​​a happy reunion. He had become even more cold-hearted and more unscrupulous than before. And now he didn't even respect her anymore - not that he ever had him - but secretly they had respected each other.
But why now? Why did she even go looking for him? She could have expected it to change again within nine years. Yes damn, he was a grown man now, and no longer a little boy to treat, tease, and tease like her little brother.

"He ... isn't a little boy anymore, that's right.But he's still the Tales I trained with back then. And it's the same valley I risked my life for. But ... he's grown up now. "She started to smile and wiped the tears away with the back of her hand." Little Tales ... I can't believe it ... he has become a man ... "

Tales was just pulling a dark blue shirt over his head when Tanipu jerked the door open. Without looking at her, and in a more than just unfriendly tone, he grumbled: "What do you want again, you pest?"

"It's half past ten now," Tanipu growled back. "And Citres is still not back."

Tales turned to look at her bored. "So what? What do I have to do with the stupid nut?"

"It's your fault that she ran away, you spoiled bully!"

"Still doesn't interest me.", Tales grumbled, turned away again and sat on the bed.

"I'm not going to look for her.", Tanipu replied and slammed the door again.

Tales stared at the door. These women were so pissed off him. How could he even get involved in living here? What would Kakarott say if he knew that his former enemy was being housed with Tanipu? Maybe he already knew. But if so, why didn't it bother him? Was he waiting for his spoiled twin brother to make the first mistake and attack someone again? Could you still trust these people here?
No, he never trusted anyone. Nobody had even rudimentarily earned their trust. And no one would be worthy of his respect. Tanipu might have saved his life, but he still felt no obligation to do her a favor as well. Unfortunately, he knew very well that Tanipu didn't expect anything like that from him ...

'Let these idiots think I'm on their side.You will see ... once I have found a way to leave the earth again, they are more rid of me than they would like. This planet just sucks. I don't even know what actually drove me here ... '
He thought about it for a moment. 'I'm not the tearful weakling from back then. I do not need any help. And I don't care if I can trust someone or not. I've only trusted someone once ... but that was a long time ago. She probably doesn't remember it at all. '

He rose from the edge of the bed and silently looked out of the room window into the darkness.

'You're not causing anything but trouble ...' he thought and walked towards the door.

He crept cautiously through the dark hallway to the stairs. Again and again he looked around, kept crouching so that no one would see or hear him. There was a light on on the first floor that reached up to the stairs in the hallway.
The Saiyan slipped quietly down the stairs and stopped in the lower hallway.You could hear voices from the living room. Tales pricked up his ears and listened.

"No, I also have no idea where Tarusho is hanging around again." Tanipu grumbled, who was obviously talking to someone on the phone. "He was here today at noon, but did not say where he was going afterwards. Besides, someone has just disappeared from us."
There was silence for a moment. Tales peeked carefully into the room, where he could see Tanipu standing with her back to him and actually holding the telephone receiver in her hand.
'Tarusho ...? 'Tales thought for a moment. 'That was ... that demon. The guy is always on the move ... '

"No, it's about Citres.", Tanipu explained to her interlocutor. "She's a friend ... ... an old friend of Tales. The two seem to like to roam around while everyone else is worried, yes ... but I think she'll be back soon."

But she didn't know Citres well then. Once she got upset, she wouldn't come back home anytime soon.Tales could still bleakly remember that his comrade-in-arms had messed up the whole schedule of their Master Fawn because she had escaped on one of the many planets on which they had rested and only showed up four days later. Fawn had been pissed off at the time and had already toyed with the idea of ​​leaving without her.

Tanipu said goodbye and left the room to bring the receiver back to its place. Tales watched her go for a moment, made sure the air was clear again, and then scurried to the door.
He hastily fled outside, where a cool wind was blowing against him first. What disgusting weather. Tales hated the cold. She didn't really bother him, but he hated ice, snow and above all that cold, damp wind. Even in space he had mainly stayed on planets with higher temperatures and desert-like climates - such cold places were simply not his thing.He would have loved to turn around again and go inside.

"I could have gone asleep by now!" He grumbled and stomped across the lawn. "I could lie lazily in the warm bed and just stop worrying about her - but no - I dumbfoundry have to bring this scraper back home ... argh!"
He went straight in the direction of the forest, cursing softly again and again, and finally came to a smaller path. Where could she have run to? And why did she have to leave the house at all ?! Wouldn't it have been enough to retreat to one of the rooms and let off steam there?

'What do I do when I find it?' Tales asked himself now. There he stood, on the forest path, in the dark. The freezing wind blew again, rustling the leaves of the trees and giving the Saiyajin goose bumps.
'It's ... it's really damn cold. 'He turned around again, but in the almost total darkness he could see nothing.'I've only been out for a few minutes ... and Citres has been out here in the cold for hours. She must be freezing ... a lot worse than me ... '
Wait a moment. What was that there? She almost sounded like he was worried about her himself. Tales tried to get rid of this thought as quickly as possible and screwed up his eyes tightly. No, it certainly wouldn't come to that! It couldn't have sunk that deep! What did he care whether she was cold or not? After all, it was her own fault - after all, nobody forced her to hang around outside in this freezing cold - she had run outside voluntarily.

A hissing noise startled him out of his thoughts. He looked around hastily, but couldn't see anything. It was just too dark, especially here in the forest between the thick trees and bushes.
But there - now he had seen it clearly. A shadow. Something had moved between the trees.Damn it, something was watching him! Tales stormed off, straight in the direction he'd seen the shadow. And indeed: there was someone who was now quickly running away.

'You will not escape me!'
Tales quickened his pace. The stranger was really incredibly fast and extremely agile. While the Saiyajin had to struggle through the overgrown bushes, the stranger kept evading them skillfully, jumping over them and hooking real hooks.
"The guy is damn quick!" Hissed Tales and tried again to catch up with the hunted. But before he knew it, he was standing on a large hilly meadow - no trace of the unknown far and wide ...

Tales snorted heavily. He must have chased him a few hundred yards through the forest, and now he was gone. His gaze wandered over the uneven surface. Grass, bushes, a few smaller rocks, but nothing of the shade to be seen.Very briefly, only for a tiny moment, he had been able to make out the silhouette of the strange figure. She wore a long dark coat and was at least as tall as he was. It must have been a man. An unusually fast guy - so definitely not a human being.

'That's impossible.'
He turned in the direction from which he had come and stared into the dark thicket of the forest.
'Where can the guy have escaped to? He