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Chapter 3: Meeting new people.



A/N: Since there is made-up language in here, I'll put their meanings up here in this author's note. I'll be putting them in every author's note, in future chapters as well.

Homowah(Pronunciation: Home-mow-wah) Means: Cute

Toki(Pronunciation: Toe-key) Means: Cat

Fijishara(Pronunciation: Fee-jii-shar-ruh) Means: Vast Beauty

Chisivan(Pronunciation: Chi-see-van) Simply a breed of a bird.

Aeronan(Pronunciation: Air-row-nan) Simply the name of her race.

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Sitting in the tree that had her luggage in it, she was staring up at the sky thinking about those people at the party. She relaxed against the tree's base on a branch with her knees up against her chest and arms wrapped around them. So many odd people there... A green one, that strange purple man with Toki ears, and that tall odd man with blueish skin... Those two though...I saw them heading towards this planet. Who were they...? Her mental question held caution and her eyes blinked in the process.


Hearing birds chirp not too far beside her, she moved her big turquoise irises and saw them. They were tiny and cute, chirping away in their nest. If her mask was off, she could be seen smiling with her gray lips. A blush painted her cheeks and her eyes narrowed at watching the tiny birds nestle in. "Homowah...~" Her soft and quiet voice rang out, it reminded her of her family in a way. Those eyes showed mourn after she blinked and looked away. "Mom... Dad... I miss you so much..." she spoke, having the images of her parents in her head. Getting up and looked down, she felt the need to play her violin and it was the most comforting thing she could think of. She looked over at it then leaned over and grabbed the handle of its casing. Opening her big briefcase, she pulled out a small but square machine with a screen on it and placed it under her armpit to hold on to. She jumped down with them both safely in her hold, landing on her feet without any damage done.


Looking around, making sure no one was around, she soon deemed it safe and put her case down, propping up the tech she had before turning it on. Once the screen brightened up, it gave a list of songs on it. It held several violin songs, mostly listed under, Mom's performed music. She clicked on a song and waited for it to play so she could fill in the missing instrument parts, with her violin. The instrument was placed just right, laying her jaw on it and shutting her eyes while the stick hovered just above the strings. Mom... I haven't stopped practicing, not even once... Ever since you taught me how to play, I couldn't stop... Playing the violin soothes me just by hearing its majestic notes. It helps me...express...how I feel. I'm forever grateful mother... Grief could be heard in her monologue, before playing; her violin was a simple wooden one.


https://youtu.be/pRDiiprpOIs

( Hope you like it, I loved it when I first heard it~)


She began playing once the violin piece needed to be played and it sounded like a professional, truly a daughter of a well-loved violinist. She strung it, moving her head every now and then, while tears would fall at times. The wind blew and brushed her dangling piece on the back of her vest, softly. Her brows knitted, while more tears fell. She moved her body just right with her violin being strung. Slow, graceful, and small movements, she made. When she hit the highest note, tears heavily fell and she made a hic sound, indicating that she was crying. Once the song ended, she lowered her arms and opened her eyes, grief could be seen in them. Feeling homesick and missing her parents was an understatement...


A pair of clapping hands echoed not too far from her, making her jump and look over in shock. There stood a woman with pretty blue hair wearing a dress and red lipstick. Another person stood beside her, it was that green man from before. The woman looked like a single tear had strayed from her eye, yet she had a soft smile plastered. Piccolo, the name she overheard from before, belonged to that green man. He looked a tiny bit astonished by her performance and had his arms crossed. "THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!" The woman yelled due to their distance. She had a wide-open smile and walked towards her.


Akasma slowly backed up, feeling fear rising in her system. She was scared, her pupils shrunk gradually, and watched the woman approach. "Hey, It's alright! I'm not going to hurt you, don't be afraid," She stopped her pace and smiled softly at the foreign woman. Seeing the Aeronan shake her head sluggishly, not once averting her irises, the woman lifted her hand to try and make her stop. Much to her failed efforts, Akasma turned the other way and dashed, only to run into a hard chest.


"She said she wasn't going to hurt you... Don't worry, I won't either... We just want to know who you are and why you paralyzed Dr. Briefs," He looked down at her, getting a better look at her visible iris. She's certainly not human... She has light silver skin and inhumane eyes. It makes me think of a bird...oddly enough... he spoke in his head, watching her view him in horror. "Are you scared of me because of my appearance...?" Asking that, he watched her back away and give a shaking head in response. A brow quirked, thinking how strange it was for his looks not being the problem. "Then why are you-!" he began, only to get cut off by another man's voice.


"I think she has Social Phobia. Being afraid of others and doesn't care to communicate with them...unless they're really close to her or family," Piccolo looked over, noticing Gohan walking towards them. Akasma backed up again, half tempted to run for it.


"If you go anywhere, I'll just catch you... We just want some answers," Mr. tall, green, and stoic stated strongly, making the said foreigner pause in her step. She was shaking, almost to the point of dropping her precious violin.


"Please...can you tell us?" Seeing the sky blue-eyed woman look over to the other, she gave a worried expression. "Miss?" her attempt at grabbing the girl's attention seemed to fail...


However, the next thing they knew, she fell over and passed out. Not from her phobia...but from her illness. Her violin and stick fell with her laying right next to it. "Hey! Are you ok?!" Gohan ran to her, got on his knees, and tried to wake her. His efforts were in vain, she didn't even stir once. "She...passed out? Must have been the pressure she was under..." He assumed, while the other two walked over and stood behind him.


"Let's bring her over to the party so she can rest, she needs to get in some shade. Besides, the more the merrier, haha!~" The blue-haired woman cheered before Gohan picked her up like a princess and nodded. He made sure her head was leaned against his shoulder so it wouldn't get hurt.


After a while, the scene showed Akasma slowly open her beautiful irises. With her hair swept to the side from laying down, both her eyes were exposed. She gasped at seeing that she was laying on her back in the grass inside shading. She turned her head and noticed people enjoying themselves at the party from before. This...place...wait... This is... she mentally spoke, widening her eyes at remembering the place, and gasped softly, under her breath. She sat straight up, now looking all around her for her instrument, its case, and the little bit of technology she had. Spotting it, it was right beside her up on a countertop with bar stools near it. The girl stood to her feet quickly, grabbed her violin, and held it tightly. "Thank goodness..." She whispered with her eyes shut, relief washed over her once her hands felt the instrument in her hands not long after.


"You seem to really like that violin, is it special?" The same female voice from earlier filled her ears and caused her to turn around. They met eye to eye, making the girl gasp slightly before backing away. "You're alright, you passed out earlier so I had Gohan bring you here," The blue-haired woman said reassuringly with her eyes shut and a wave of her hand.


She felt her fear riding up again, only to get grabbed by the short woman and pulled elsewhere; she was getting dragged off to a secluded area. They stopped in between two structures, with the woman still holding on to her. "Don't worry, I understand... You're afraid, so I thought I'd bring you somewhere more, away, from people," She reassured, soon placing both of her hands on Akasma's shoulders and smiling sweetly.


The said Aeronan felt her nervousness die down quite a bit, shakily nodding to her in response. "Now, can you tell me why you did that and who you are?" The blue-haired woman asked with a calm and gentle tone, albeit rather concerned.


"A-... A-...kas... M-ma... Akasma... Sh-Shigiyuki," She managed to answer, stuttered over her words, and instinctively grabbed the tail-like tendril behind her; fiddling with it out of habit, due to her shy nature. "A-And... I...n-needed... Some...answers..." That was all she replied with, in her quiet and soft voice, making the blued hair woman raise a brow.


"Akasma...Shigiyuki? That's a lovely name!~ Now, what kind of answers?" Bulma tilted her head and had a concerned face, she noticed the hesitance in her voice. Letting go of the foreigner's shoulders, she spotted the cat man and the six-footer, gradually making their way over. The woman stared at them, gesturing for them to not come over by shaking her head. They stopped in mid-pace and raised a brow in question regarding her situation. She mouthed, Please wait, making the cat man squint his slits and the tall one blink.


"I- I just... Needed to know... I-if...he was a...d-doctor..." The Aeronan managed to say with her head now turned and averted her gaze. A flush of pink rested on her cheeks, expressing her nervous and shy nature.


"Oh, I see...and since you have social phobia, I'm guessing you paralyzed my father because of that," She kept that smile and still had her head tilted. Seeing her nod, the woman giggled to herself and patted Akasma's shoulder.


"I-I'm...sorry... I....wasn't meaning...anything by it," The light, silver-skinned woman spoke and hoped that she didn't get any wrong ideas.


"It's alright, don't worry!~ We just wanted to know why you did it! Oh, by the way, I absolutely loved your song! It was so beautiful, where did you learn to play it? OH- and I'm Bulma Briefs, it's nice to meet you.~" With a smile, she beamed with glee and giggled lightly to herself. She looked over and nodded to the two who waited on her, letting them know that it was okay to come closer. They approached again, pacing up to the short woman, and greeted her.


"M-My mother... She's...a popular... Violinist... I...learned from her... I practice at times...so that I may get good like her...one day," Akasma answered hesitantly, not yet noticing the two others who stood near her or even heard their greetings.


"Wow, your mom must be an idol to you! How old are you anyway...?" Bulma questioned, before holding her own chin with her index finger and thumb.


"I-I'm...three hundred and...twenty-two," The silver woman answered, shocking Bulma and making her gasp. "That's young...to our race," She added, not even looking her way and kept her eyes to the side.


"Hmm... Well...is that the age of a child...oooor...?" she trailed off and yearned for her to reply, then leaned in with a questioning stare.


Akasma shook her head with her eyes closed and turned to face the woman, with that flush still on her cheeks. "I-I'm... An adult..." Those words made Bulma's eyes widen, comparing her shy and nervous nature to an adult. She could have sworn that she was at least a teenager.


"My, I thought you were a kid.~ Maybe around...fifteen or sixteen," She rolled her eyes up in thought as she replied then looked back down at Akasma, watching her shake her head again.


"That is...the age... Of a small child," Still fiddling fiercely with her tendril, she slightly looked off to the other side and froze. Those two from before, in that beam....stood there facing her and Bulma. Her pupils shrunk and felt fear rile up again but this time instead of running, she rushed behind the nice woman and kneeled down to hide. Mrs. Briefs shut her eyes and sweatdropped at her action, then looked over at the other two.


"Sorry, lord Beerus and Whis... She's afraid of people," She stated to the two with a friendly wave of her hand. Whis laughed quietly to himself, shut his eyes, and moved his arms behind his back. Beerus just smiled, not really minding the unexpected action. "So, what can I do for you?!" She happily chirped, giving off a friendly aura about her.


"I just wanted to ask how she was able to see us in Whis's warp. We saw her in space earlier, hovering above the planet's orbit. What was odd though...was that she had bright glowing wings. I thought they were angelic wings, at first," Beerus said, pinning his slits on the, trying to hide, silver-skinned woman.


"Wait...bright wings?" Bulma blinked curiously, perked up, and turned to look at Akasma. "Hey...do you have wings?" She softly asked, making Akasma peer up and nod once. "Wow, can I see?!" Excitement could be heard in her voice, though she got turned down when she shook her head. "Aw... Come on..." She tilted her head, still looking down at the crouched woman. Noticing the girl shake her head again, albeit harsher this time, and a more noticeable flush grew on her cheeks.


Whis and Beerus both peeked around Bulma to see her trying to hide. The short woman sighed with her eyes shut, turned around, and opened them to her two guests. "Well, she won't do it... She has social phobia, it'll be hard for her to talk to people," With that mentioned, Beerus walked closer to Akasma and crouched down to her height.


The silver-skinned woman's eyes widened and inched away slightly, while still gripping onto her tendril. Her turquoise and only visible marble shrunk again at his approach.


His tail flailed left and right as he rose a hand to take off her hood. He wanted to see what she looked like, so he grasped it and pulled it off her head. "EEE-!" She screeched cutely, pulling her hood back over her head, and was about to leave but the cat himself grabbed onto the tail-like tendril, keeping her from going anywhere. He only got to see her face for a moment and it gave him enough time to process her looks.


"So, you ARE that woman... Tell me, how were you able to see us?" He asked, before jerking her back towards him and having her fall on her butt. Now he waited, watching her body tremble under both his and Whis's presence.


"I- I...d-don't know..." That was all she managed to say. Beerus's eyes narrowed and Whis cocked his head to one side at her reply.


"Hmm... Are you possibly...an Aeronan.~?" The blue-skinned male asked, blinking after his question then saw Akasma flinch and nod in response. "Quite rare... Only a couple of your kind strayed from your planet... Why are you so far away from home? I forgot what your planet's name was, care to remind me? It's such a beautiful planet, no other being has been there yet! Well, except me of course, I've only visited when Lord Beerus was asleep; that was a long time ago though.~" he muscly spoke with a small giggle echoing right after.


"F-Fijishara... M-m planet...is... Known t-to be...well hidden...from others..." With her back still facing the three, she answered in her quiet voice.


"Oh, I see! I suppose that's true, Fijishara is located in the furthest corner of this universe. Such a lovely planet, I'm surprised it hasn't attracted any tourists or other intelligent life forms!~" He smiled politely with his eyes shut. Imagining the beauty of the planet, he remembered there being those floating lands and endless oceans. "Your people are quite in-depth with ki energy, aren't they? I haven't learned much of your kind," he spoke with interest then viewed her once more, she was peeking over her shoulder and innocently staring at him from her distance.


"Ki...energy... So...y-you know...of it too?" Akasma hesitantly asked, watching him nod and giggle again.


"Of course we know of it... Whis here, is my teacher and assistant. Others that are here, know of it too and can use it... Well...most of them can," Beerus mentioned and poked his thumb back towards his sensei after he mentioned him. "I am Lord Beerus, the current God of Destruction," Finishing his sentence, a grin formed and expected her to cower in fear at his words.


"A-Akasma...Shigiyuki," She spoke up with her soft voice, still, having her back to them and peeking over her shoulder.


"What a pretty name!~ Akasma means, White Climbing rose, did you know that?" Whis questioned happily while leaning in just a tad. She nodded after turning her head away again, still fiddling with her tendril, and remained crouched.


"Hey, Akasma?" Bulma lowered herself to her knees after pacing towards her, then looked at her from the side. The said woman peered over at the short lady, shy painted flushes evident. "Do you have any place to go right now? I mean, since your so far away from home, do you have any shelter or a way to get food?" she asked and obvious concern was visible on her features.


Akasma nodded after averting her head again. I hope... They don't try and visit me... I don't want to burden anyone... Her monologue echoed and hoped that they would buy it.


"Well...alright... I'll visit you some time then, ok?~" The woman questioned whilst closing her eyes and tilting her head. That question made her comically turn into an ice cube, cracking in the process; her eyes widened and her body froze stiff. That was the last thing she needed to hear... "Now, how about some food? Might as well enjoy yourself while you're here, right?" Adding to her words, she patted the top of her head and stood up. "Come on, I'm sure you're hungry.~" With that, Akasma shook her head fiercely with her eyes shut, only to have her stomach growl and the atmosphere going silent.


"Hahahahaha!~ Well, looks like your stomach surely disagrees!~" Whis said, chuckling to himself and turning away. Both Beerus and he began to take off somewhere else into the party, then Bulma squatted down next to her and giggled. "It's alright, this is a party! Eat as much as you like, it's on the house!~" She chirped, pulling her up to her feet and dragging her into the crowd of liveliness. She was in chibi form, freaking out and making cute panicking sounds. 


A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter!~ Don't forget to leave a comment, I'm always happy to hear from my readers! \o/

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