creatures.


Vegeta raised his head and stood up. "You're alive ... thank God." Happily he hugged her. "You're bleeding! You look terrible Vegeta! Why didn't you stay with Jero?" Jero got up and answered. "He really wanted to check on you. He was very worried ..." Bulma had tears in her eyes. "Then you are here to save me?" Vegeta had to smile. He sat on the floor. And held Bulma in her arms. Jero hobbled over to them and sat down next to them. When the hail finally stopped after another 3 hours, the three were already enclosed by the ice.


"How are we supposed to get out of here? The ice is already really solid ..." Bulma sounded really desperate.

Vegeta and Jero were just feeling the ice wall and had to realize with dismay that it was already really hard everywhere. "If we don't get out of here soon, I'll still freeze here! It's really cold as a pig!"


Jero had crossed his arms and snuggled into his jacket. "My God Jero don't act like that! That little bit of cold here won't kill us ... It's summer after all! The wall will surely melt soon enough that we can dig it up!" Vegeta couldn't stand being a male Being made such a fuss about a bit of cool wind.


He sat down next to it and a time of waiting had begun.




"Doesn't anyone hear me ?! HELP !!!!!" Lia was trembling all over. The hail had surprised her so much that she couldn't make it home. She had rolled under a standing car to escape the deadly hailstones. But the wall of ice that now enclosed the car and her had become rock hard.She was lying in the mud under the car and could barely move. "Please help me!" she sobbed. At first her voice was loud, but after a while she was shaking so much and her voice subsided. She twitched again and then much into a pleasant unconsciousness.




“It works!” Bulma cheered with relief. The ice wall had finally softened a little after an hour. Sure, if she had been down here alone then she would have to wait at least an hour to dig herself free, but Vegeta and Jero would surely make it now!


"Let's see ..." Vegeta got up and laboriously dug his hand into the cold mass. "Help me!" he turned and looked at Jero. Jero crawled to him and the two dug as much as they could. A few times Bulma could hear Jero's voice complaining about his cold hands, but when they were finally able to get out of the cold cave the pain was gone.Because what the three saw they hadn't even imagined in their worst nightmares. The sun was shining hot again, but there was still ice everywhere on the ground. In some places an arm peeked out that had already turned blue. Blood shimmered in places. "We have to help them!" Bulma screamed in horror. Vegeta gave her a piercing look. "We can't do anything! They are dead ... we have to go to the underground car park ... there are definitely people there! They will surely be able to help us ... or we can help them ... depending on ... let's get on there first." go there! "Bulma couldn't believe her ears. "What ???? Maybe someone is still alive after all ... we can't just go! Maybe someone needs our help!" Jero said nothing. He was too shocked to comment. His gaze slid over all the blood on the floor, over the motionless bodies of the people, over the broken glass that was lying around when he suddenly thought he heard a noise under the car next to him."We don't have time Bulma! We have to go to the garage!" Vegeta and Bulma were still arguing. "Shut up!" Jero finally shouted. “Listen!” Bulma and Vegeta were silent and listened. "Help ... help me ... please ..." a low whisper could be heard. "I know the voice!" Vegeta started to dig and finally uncovered a corpse pale Lia that was trembling all over. Her lips were all blue and her forehead was bleeding.


"Lia ..." Vegeta kept quietly whispering her name. "It'll be all right Lia! Hold on ... we'll take you to the hospital!" Bulma held her hand and gently rubbed it warm. "She has to go to the hospital straight away ... I'll carry her ... see if anyone is still alive ..." Vegeta had changed his mind after all. Bulma was right. If Jero hadn't heard poor Lia, she might have died down there. Vegeta could have taken anything ... just not to blame the thought of Lia's death. "Slowly he got up and carried her in his arms towards the hospital.Bulma and Jero wordlessly dug the people out of the ice who could be seen. "This one is dead ..." announced Jero. That was now the twelfth person they had found. None of them were still alive. “We have to keep looking!” Bulma didn't want to give up. If it were lying there somewhere and you would stop looking for it, it would die just because of this feeling.


“There is something!” She listened. A scraping could be heard under one of the cars. In a flash it dug down. Jero helped her and together they finally highlighted an almost completely frozen Tiro. Apparently he had been out with Lia when the hail surprised them both.


Jero took him in his arms and laid him on the now dry meadow by the roadside.


"He has to go to a hospital Bulma ..." Bulma nodded. It was clear to her that they would not rescue anyone alive. Too much time had passed. It was a miracle that Tiro was still alive. The only question was how much longer!"Let's go ..." Bulma carefully lifted Tiro 's feet. Jero raised his head.




"Doctor! You are urgently needed in OP 5!" "No! The case from OP7 is more urgent!" "What nonsense are you talking about !? My husband is in OP 2 and almost dies! Come there first!" "But they already said 20 minutes ago that they were about to come! "


As was to be expected, chaos had already broken out in the hospital. The doctors were on duty and couldn't breathe for a second.


Lia would probably still be in the waiting room if Vegeta hadn't just squeezed into a room on the ward that luckily had a free bed. Carefully he put Lia in and got the nurse.


"You have to wait downstairs ..." she had started but when she looked into Vegeta's angry face she accepted Lia and brought some warm blankets and some hot tea.


"Unfortunately, I can't do more for you .... the devices are all downstairs and there is total chaos ... so either bring them down or they stay up here for the time being and we'll wait and see".Vegeta chose the second option. There was too much going on downstairs, he would never get a turn and up here Lia was safe for the time being. Exhausted, he sank into a chair next to her bed and fell asleep.


When Jero and Bulma arrived with Tiro, of course, it was still total chaos.


"Could you maybe ..." Tiro got no further. The doctor just mumbled "back in line" and was gone again. “Let me do that!” Bulma went to another doctor and immediately started talking. "Before you turn me away, I want to make it clear that I am Bulma Briefs, the daughter of the famous professor and my friend is almost dead! So please help him or I'll make sure that you never help anyone again!" The doctor looked at her at first uncomprehendingly accepted Tiro then picked him up and carried him into his practice.


After a long two hours, Tiro lay in a bed on the same ward as Lia and slept.

Bulma and Jero had also fallen asleep. Bulma would never have thought that she would sleep on the floor, without a blanket, without a cushion, just on the cold tiled floor.


And what was even more surprising. She slept deeper than she had been in a long time. In the meantime, 3 weeks had passed after the storm almost dismantled the western capital. The population had calmed down a little in the meantime. Since most of the houses had been destroyed, the people were housed in smaller tent camps until the damage to their property was somewhat repaired.


Vegeta, Bulma and their friends had all got away with minor injuries and of course with the horror and now all lived on the small campsite on the outskirts. Bulma's parents were with relatives. They had asked their daughter if she would like to come with them, but Bulma would rather be with her friends during this difficult time, especially with Vegeta, with whom she felt a lot safer than somewhere in a strange city where she didn't know a soul.Especially after he saved her.


That morning Bulma crawled sleepily out of the tent she shared with Vegeta and rubbed her eyes. After she had stretched extensively, she went to wash herself.


At the showers at the campsite she met a totally sleepy Lia who was waiting for a shower to become free.


"Tomorrow ..." Bulma gave Lia a friendly smile. "Hey! You slept well?" Lia grinned broadly and Bulma of course knew immediately what this chicken was thinking. The two had gotten along pretty well lately. Yes, you could almost say that the two had become friends. "You really only think of one thing! But if you ask: Yes, I slept really well!" Bulma grinned cheekily at Lia. "Well at least one who doesn't have to complain," Lia sighed. "Why? Didn't you sleep well?" Bulma didn't understand what her new friend was talking about. "You have no idea!Tiro snores you can't take it! I've already thought about whether I should just lie down with Jero, but then the two would just argue again and besides, I don't want to do this snore bag to poor Nicky! "Bulma laughed." You don't think Nicky would voluntarily lay away from Jero! Besides, I think they would make a very cute couple! "She smiled. Lia had to agree. Nicky and Jero were a perfect match. She knew Nicky had had a crush on Jero for a long time and had decided to bring them together. Bulma would certainly help her. But first she had to get Tiro to stop snoring, that was really unbearable. For the past three days she had hardly slept because of him.


A shower finally became available. "You are fine! I have to stand around here for another hour ..." Bulma sat down on the floor. Lia turned around "We can also take a