Never Alone Pt 2

A gentle rumbling from her mother’s car woke Bra during the early hours of the morning. Careful not to wake her father, Bra slipped out of her bed and darted down the stairs to greet her mother who, upon seeing Bra, shook her head. Of course, Bulma should have known that Bra would hear the car. The girl’s hearing was nearly as keen as her father’s if not more so. Picking her daughter up, Bulma hugged the girl and greeted her happily if not a little confused.

“Bra, where’s your father?” Bra smiled brightly as if she had some great secret, but to Bulma that smile meant only one thing: Bra had gotten past her father’s defense again and had gotten him to do something out of character.

“He’s sleeping mommy. We were tired,” Bra wiggled out of her mother’s arm and having gotten her good-night hug ran back up stairs to sleep. Bulma just shook her head in wonderment and minor concern.

~I’m going away on another business trip and Trunks went camping for the next week and a half. I hope she will be alright with her father.~

Bra had found herself firmly locked in her parent’s bedroom not long after her mother had left again. This of course didn’t bother her since Vegeta had done this quite often when he was left alone with her so she wouldn’t run off while he trained. It didn’t bother Bra though she was use to it, but what did bother her was the strange auras she felt approaching her home and the sinking feeling that she was so unused to. The closer the auras drew the worse the feeling got until there was only one thing she could do.

“DADDDYY!” Before she could even draw in her next breath the door to the room was opened and her father was there frantically looking around for the danger that had caused his daughter to scream in such a manner.

“What happened?” His voice was harsh but concern was written across his face; nothing hurt his only daughter. Bra looked out the closed balcony door for a moment before turning back to her father.

“Bad people are coming daddy,” To Vegeta, her voice sounded far away as if what she was seeing wasn’t just far away, but not there at all. For a moment she remained distant before coming back to herself and running behind him; while he doubted Bra’s words he felt the need to show her there was no one coming. Opening the doors he stood on the balcony studying the sky for any energy signatures that could have been strong enough to grab his youngest child’s attention. He was about to turn away when Bra tugged on his pant leg and pointed toward the forest edge that ran along the Brief’s estate.

Amazingly, a few moments after she pointed, from behind the tree line, two men came forward and started walking toward the house. They both stopped though and looked up, catching Vegeta’s gaze before kneeling obviously knowing he would see them. Vegeta looked down at Bra and then at the men. Quickly, making a decision, he took action.