Chapter 10:
Registration


The sun shone brightly through the cracks in the wall. As the beams moved with the 3rd sun, slowly dragging it's beam across the room, it fell onto the eye of Piccolo, who had his arms drapped around Himegami, and vice versa. He felt so loved and wanted at that moment. Even though his eyes were closed, he was not asleep. He was too happy to care about the fulfillment of what this newfound joy had brought him. As he slowly awakened to the broad of day, he was brought to the half open eyes of Himegami. She, who was sharing a blanket with Piccolo on the single bed that lay in the bunker, smiled casually.

"Ohaiyou," she wispered to him.

He smiled as he re-closed his eyes. "::yawn:: Ohaiyou gozaimasu,. . " he said. . "And now I am going back to sleep."

He drearely closed his eyes, but not a moment after he did, his action was reversed.

"WHHOOO is going back to sleep?"

Himegami slowly raised herself up in the bed.

"Apollo. . . ?"

And sure enough, there he was, propping himself up against the frame of the door.

"Feh,. ." said Apollo, laughing slightly to himself, "You two have alot to learn. Now if I were you, get those weights on and hussle, you have to meet the REAL boss."

"But,. . I thought we already met him," said Piccolo, getting out of bed, and streaching.

Apollo laughed. "Oh no no no! That guy I spoke to was MY boss. the BIG BOSS is the guy thats in charge of everything! The whole middle and southern part of the NEF operataion lies in his hands!"

Oh, said Piccolo, as he practically dragged a sleepy Himegami out of bed.

Apollo threw them thier shoes.

As Piccolo went to go put his weights on, he noticed something,. .

. . he could barley lift them up!. .

"uugghhhnnnn. . This. . is so. . heavy!" he said, hoisting them up on himself.

Apollo grinned as Himegami practically had to cram herself into hers.

"They should be, the weights alone are 80 pounds. But thats not all,. . "

"THATS NOT ALL?" the children said in unison.

Apollo smiled as he chuckled to himeself.

"Oh, children, children. You have a long way to go! You forgot whats underneith the weights,"

Apollo pointed to what appeared to be two purple hub caps.

Piccolo jaw dropped.

"What,. . the hell,. . is that?"

Apollo smiled.

"Let me demonstrate," he said as he lifted it with ease and slammed it onto Piccolo's head.

OOOOOOOWWWWWWWW! YOU BASTERD! THAT HURT!

Said piccolo, with a tear forming in his eye as he rubbed his head.

Himegami put hers on,

"OOOWWW~ This. . is so. . heavy. . I can. . barley move!" she said, as she tryed to walk around the room, (acting like Gokou when he was under gravity while traviling to namek a while later.)

Apollo handed them both about a yard or so of thin, white cloth.

"Now hide the edges of the helmat with this cloth. Good,. . exactly like that!. . now you need to go meet the boss.. . But. . Himegami?, , come here, the boss can't see you with only one arm. Grow it back."

"-!?. What are you talking about? I don't know how!"

Apollo slapped his forehead as he drug his palm down his face.

"Jeez,. . no wonder your so scrawney,. . you don't know anything about survival. Now, take your ki, directing only to the center of the wound, and then tighten all your muscles."

"Uh,. . sure,. . whatever."

She began to clentch her muscles, as she sparatically tryed to raise her ki.

She wimpered slightly as she stanced on the floor.

"Owwie,. . it hurts!" said Himegami. Apollo smiled. "Good. then its working,. . now DO IT!"

She let out a half-scream half-whine as she tightened all her muscles, and sure enough, when she re-opened her eyes, a new arm was waiting for her.

"Now, make sure it works. . ." said Apollo.

Himegami moved it around.

"Good," said Apollo," now we HAVE to go. . "

Apollo began to walk out of the room, with the two children trying to walk as best they could behind him.


As they travled slowly (but surely) down the hall, they came to a guarded door. Two more NEF figures stood there with guns in hand, waiting to dispose of any unauthorized beings.

One of them eyed Apollo , as he trailed the two children behind him.

"You better go faster than that,. . " said one of the NEFS, as he stared blankly ahead.

"The boss was rantin', and he sounded' pissed."

Apollo gulped.

"Thats what I was hoping wouldn't happen," said Apollo, going behind the children, and now pushing them into the entrance.

As they entered, they came upon a giant statue of what appered to be a namek-jin women. Next to the statue was an entrance to the room that held the 'head honcho.'

Apollo rapped the cornerstone of the statue.

"Hello? are you in there?"

A low 'hmpf' was heard. As they peered inside, they could see a figure, dressed in purple, staring out the window at the mountanus sceanery behind him.

"Your late," muttered a low voice, as its crossed arms tightened around its figure.

As Apollo pushed the children into the room, the figure slowly turned around, reveiling the biggest Namek-jin they had ever seen!

"Woh,. . that guy looks like moose! He's freakin' huge!" muttered Piccolo, as he elbowed Himegami.

The boss uncrossed his arms as he neared the children.

"So, this is the new shipment of soilders?" asked the Boss, sounding most disappointed.

Apollo tugged at the blaizer's collar. "Erm,. . yeah. . its the load. . "

The boss 'hmpf'ed' again under his breath. He got down on one knee, inspecting them. Piccolo and Himegami were too embarrased to say or do anything, so they continued to look at the ground with closed eyes through the whole inspection. here?" said the boss, tilting Himegami's chin up. She cringed slightly as she stuttered out an answer.

"n-no,. .

. . no we don't, bosu-sama,. . "

The boss smiled. "Well, you know one of them apparently,. . " said the boss as he gleamed full of an almost fatherly pride.

"We-,. . . we do? said Piccolo, softly and faintly.

The boss stood up.

"Yes. But let me tell you all of them, just for refference. The first and most important rule: You always respect those older than you, ESPECIALLY me. Number two, you keep your weights on at all times, unless someone authorized specifically informs you that you may take them off. Number three, when you get time to restock energy, you may only drink water. If you are found with food of any kind, you will be sent to corpral punishment for a week. (Note: Now, Due to popular beliefe, some people think that nameks can't eat. Thats not true. They CAN eat [even in the real series,i.e. OVA 4 ] but thier intake of only water is a strict respect issue to the agisaa plant. So remember, they CAN eat, but due to honor, they do not most of the time.)The fourth and final rule, and possibly the most important next to number one, is that you fight with the love of the goddess in your heart at all times, for a fighter without some source of love, is not a fighter, but a soul seeking revenge on others."

 

Piccolo and Himegami continued to look down at the floor.

The boss smiled. "Well, that was all. Now off to the physical room. After that, you should be heading off to morning praise at the Hi shojo temple."

He bowed as the children did too, and the namek kids were dismissed to be examined by the NEF doctor.


"That was it?" said Piccolo, sounding extremely relieved, and sweating like a madman under the heavy weights.

Apollo hoisted the blaizer off of himself as he wrapped it up and carried it into his arms.

"Yeah," said Apollo. "That was it,. . basically."

"Basically?" said Himegami, interogativly.

"Yeah,. . now all you need to do it get registerd and have a physical. Then you can start the 6 month program. Everyone has to do it."

"Oh,." said Piccolo not sounding happy in any way, shape, or form.

As they continued to walk down the hall, Piccolo would move ever so closer to Himegami, as she did the same, until they were at a point where the edges of thier weights overlapped, and they were holding hands. They smiled as they struggled to walk down the hall.

Piccolo's hand was so clamy, it botherd Himegami.

"Your hand is like it has been melted,. . why so worried?" Said Himegami.

Piccolo's eyes darted from one place to the next. "I'm not sure,. . but being here makes me feel,. . uncomfortable,. . " Said Piccolo, slightly tightening his grasp on Himegami.

She smiled as she giggled a bit. "Well, its okay. We're together and thats what counts."

Piccolo blushed a bit. "Yeah,. . together. . "

As he looked up, he smiled.

Thats right Piccolo,. . your together with your sister now. . You don't have anything to fear. . You finally have someone to help you and be with you, on this miserable planet.


As Apollo waved goodbye, he pushed them into a small room with chairs. Noe one else was there, so they sat down next to the door, waiting to be seen.

While looking around, seeing if the place had been bugged, Piccolo noticed an aging sign on the door. It read:

Sit and wait until you are called.
Do not attempt to skip regristration, becuase we will find you.

"Hostile place,. " said Himegami, scratching her arm. Piccolo nodded. "Yeah, , really hostile, you'd think these guys were running a boot camp or something."

 

"We are."

 

 

"-!?"

 

As Piccolo and Himegami turned around, an NEF filled the doorway of the physical and regristration room.

"I'm about to go on break, and I need to get you two through as fast as I can. I don't have any time for the in depth physical, but Me and my buds are,. . well,. . it won't matter to you two,. . . just get in here."

Piccolo shrugged, as he and his sister walked hand in hand through the door.

The NEF took out a tablet of paper.

"Names?" he asked.

"Uh,. . Oboe and Piccolo."

"Known physical defects."

"Um,. . " said Piccolo, sounding a little uneasy, "None known of to this date."

The NEF looked them both over.

"Hmm,..you look alright. I guess thats All I needed, I already had Apollo fill the rest out earlier. Now you two should get off to the Hi shojo temple, or the boss will kill ya."

"Oh. Ok-okay."

The NEF smiled. "And one more thing," he said, right as Piccolo and and Himegami were leaving,

"Are you two,. . gay by any chance?"

Himegami said nothing, but Piccolo stood there wide eyed, and about to blow up in his face,. .

"You,. . how could you relate us as gay? She's not,. . I mean,. . I don't even like him that much!"

"Hey, Piccolo! I thought you said you di-"

"shussh!" said Piccolo. "Just let me do the talking."

The NEF laughed. "Didn't mean it in any offense. Its just that that kid right there has earrings,. . You know,. . "

Piccolo calmed down a bit.

"Oh. Well,. . no,. . and we'll be going now thank you. . "

The NEF waved them out and on thier way.

"No problem!"


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