Day Two: Afternoon

[Android-18]

Small birds twitted and chirped as the sunshine draped down upon them. A small creature, similar to a squirrle, leapt from a cluster of small trees and scurried past her toward a plain of long grass. The girl paused and looked after the animal, perhaps it knew where to go? She turned and adjusted her pack before advancing through the thigh high grass. It was straw colored, but seemed v ery luscious and smelt strange as she took in the scents about her. She swatted as little insects saught to annoy her. Once or twice she felt the bites upon exposed flesh, but she continued onward regardless. The air beacame hot and the breeze dry. It had to be this way, she was sure of it. She licked her parched lips, dry as leather, and wiped her sweaty brow with her wrist.

There it was, a beautiful sight if she ever saw one. It was a watering hole within this dry land, from each end a small meandering river took water to and from it’s depths. The girl slumped her pack down to the dusty ground, and looked around for anyone or anything. For the most part she was alone. A few avian’s took pleasure in splashing and grooming themselves with cold water. She could not tell if they were ducks, or birds, but they were awfully cute. She had to hold back from chasing after them like a child.

She felt a presense, which caused the hair on the back of her neck to prickle. Eighteen turned slowly, and then screamed as a dark figure leapt from the tall grass toward her. She fell down raising her arm above her head, and then heard laughter.

“It’s just me, you were taking forever so I came after you.” His rough voice cut into her freight and she looked upon him in shock.

“Don’t do that! You scared the crap out of me!” she cried upon getting up and stomping her foot with anger. She didn’t like being taken by surprise, she wasn’t used to it. The Saiya-Jin took her into a hug, and then let her go as he apologized.

They took in the coldness of the water, washing their face and arms, and even stripping close to nude as they reveled in the lovely water. It was most refreshing, and the android could have stayed there for days. She waded in the water, sandy mud settling upon her feet and between her toes. Small fish tickled her ankels and calves. She felt the sun hot against her shoulders, only wearing her bra, and she knew she’d be tan before the end of this adventure.

“This is nice, just taking it easy. I’m not good at strategy.” She spoke, and the long haired fighter stepped in beside her.

“Yeah, but man I could go for a cheeseburger right now. Oh, or a taco, that would be sexy.” He added and crossed his arms against his bare chest.

“Didn’t you eat that…rabbit?” she didn’t want to think about it, but she was curious.

“Yeah, but babe, a rabbit is no taco. I had no way to make it a taco, it just didn’t work. I could have tried to make it a burger, but I didn’t feel all that creative this morning.” He sighed and dropped his arms.

“I’ll buy you something when we get out of here, ok?” she patted his shoulder and looked up at him. “Let’s fill up our water and get back on the road.” She began to slowly make her way out of the water, her feet being sucked into the mud. She didn’t want to put her dirty clothing back on, but she couldn’t go on in this game naked or partially naked. She had no idea where they would go, either. Hopefully her companion would have some insight on what to do, otherwise she may end up leading them wrongly…and she didn’t want that.