And on to the next round!

Here is chapter 20 !!





20. Back to the now

"What happened then?!" the door is thrown open by Yamcha who storms in in boxer shorts. Bulma looks at him with relief. "He is awake!" she smiles exhaustedly at him. Vegeta is still staring at the ceiling. "What does he have?" asks Yamcha, Bulma when he becomes aware of this. "I don't know? Seems to be the shock?" she turns back to Vegeta, worried. "Vegeta? Can you hear me?" she tries to get his attention. "Look at me! Can you hear me ?!" it comes from her more energetically. Vegeta hears distorted voices but he knows that it is Bulma and Yamcha. His eyelids look like lead and so he shorts them again. "No! You must not go back to sleep!" Bulma snaps at him and shakes him. At that moment his gaze meets yours and he looks again into this blue, sparkling pair of eyes. Bulma holds her breath as she looks into those faintly trembling eyes."Are you okay?" she asks him now. Vegeta doesn't give her an answer but as if he would now notice that everything is fine and he is safe, he relaxes again and takes a deep breath. Bulma sighs in relief and smiles at Vegeta. "Good morning! Have you finally slept in?" she tries to smile but secret tears are gathering in her eyes, she is so happy to be awakened. "Yamcha! Tell my mother about it, please!" Bulma calls on him and he immediately disappears out the door. "You slept a long time." she explains to Vegeta who tries to stand up. "No, don't! You are still very weak. Lie down." she pushes him back to bed. She doesn't have much trouble with it because he is very weak and limp. Vegeta doesn't fight it, he feels too tired and looks at her with half-closed, dull eyes. "You couldn't wake up for two whole days." she begins to explain to him. "I'll get you some soup first, then you'll feel better." she attaches to it and a slight smile plays on her lips.Bulma's lower lip begins to tremble and she tries to suppress a sob. "I'm sorry!" comes from her briefly, gets up from her couch and walks to the door. She wipes her face suspiciously with the back of her hand. "I'll be right back." with these words she steps out the door and closes it behind her. From inside Vegeta can hear a conversation that sounds dull to him and is going on outside in the corridor. "I told your mother about it!" speaks to Yamcha, to Bulma. "Hey! Why are you crying?" he asks, surprised. "Oh, just like that ..." she whispers, swallowing. "I'm just so happy ..." she adds. "Yeah, he was really crazy." it comes from Yamcha. "You see, you were really worried about anything else! I told you he could handle it, right?" he says with a smile. "Mhm .." Bulma affirms that and her steps move away from the door of his room. Vegeta has half overheard and now knows that Bulma was worried about him again, but he feels far too weak to think about it at the moment.He relaxes again and lets his lazy gaze wander over the light ceiling above him. A while later Bulma comes back with a bowl of soup to give him. She didn’t have a lot of trouble getting it into him because he couldn’t defend himself against it. He was too weak, he could hardly raise his arm. He hated his current state. After the soup she fluffed up his pillows again and sat down in her couch chair again. "Well? It's getting a little better now, right?" she smiles at him. "You will feel weak and tired for a while. The dose of the last anesthetic was too high." she explains to him. "Your circulation has to settle down again. You will probably have to stay in bed for a while." she's smiling gently again. "I'm so glad you're awake again." she whispers now and looks down. Vegeta, whose eyes are almost falling again, is not looking directly at her, rather looking past her."You Saiyans are indestructible aren't you?" she looks at him again and now she notices his tiredness with which he is struggling. "You've been through a lot. I think it's better if you get some sleep again." she suggests and gets up from her chair. "I'll come back later and see if it's all right." Bulma turns to the door. "Sleep well, but just wake me up, will you?" she turns back to him. Vegeta is only able to elicit a weak smile and an even weaker nod. Bulma steps out of the door and leaves it ajar. Vegeta closes his eyes again but a moment later he opens them again. Just as if he wanted to keep himself awake. He doesn't want to dream of his childlike self again and be turned into a snail by him. He doesn't want to watch himself kill Bulma's friends with his own hands again. He tries to sit up but fails. After two more attempts, he gives up and falls back into the pillow, where a little later he again succumbs to the tiredness that was practically injected into him.They only woke him up again for lunch and dinner. Otherwise they left Vegeta his sleep, which his body automatically demands after the exertion. He hadn't noticed that Bulma had come again later in the evening to check on him and sat by his bed for a while to watch his sleep. He slept calmly and peacefully, in a thoughtless sleep.

It went on for four days. Yamcha had already made his way back to the mountains after the second day to continue training. He realized that his help was no longer urgently needed and said goodbye with "I'll stop by again." at Bulma. Vegeta has slept a lot again in the last few days, he was really a bit weak and wobbly on his feet. As soon as he wanted to get up he felt dizzy and so he had no choice but to stay in bed and play the sick man. He hasn't felt so bad in a long time, but sleep and rest did him good.Every day he grew livelier and stronger. He knew a few more days and he would be able to get up again and start training. But somehow everything suddenly seemed so pointless.





Sequel follows....!