Moonlight Destiny

Episode 1: My Path to You

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It was believed by many that our fate has been predestined by the stars at the time we were born.

No matter what happens, those who are destined to be together will find their path to one another.

No matter how impossible it could be.

Episode 1

My Path to You

"Aargh! How could I be so reckless?"

A seventeen year old girl with long blue hair, tied in a high ponytail stumbled on the ground as she tried her best to outrun and escape the four cruel men who had been chasing her non-stop since she had decided to stand up for someone who was in trouble.

Earlier that cold evening, while she worked her duties as a cook in the barracks, she found a group of drunken men harassing someone she actually didn't know personally, but had much about through the rumors from her customers. She had heard that the commotion apparently began when the small figure wearing a black hooded cloak had taken the chosen table of the group of men twice or thrice larger than himself.

When she saw one of the men pull the unknown person by his collar, her moral code made her recklessly step into a perilous territory, demanding the four ruthless masters to stop bullying the shorter man. Now, thanks to her impulsive, albeit reckless decision, she was in deep trouble and trying desperately to put off her inevitable demise by the hands of these four cruel monsters she had stood up to.

This planet was called Planet Vegeta, and Bulma Briefs had no freaking idea where in the vast universe this planet was located at all. This world had been her "home" ever since that cursed day she had been forcefully taken from her home to become a slave. Those horrible people who were now chasing her were low class Saiyans, the barbaric and merciless residents of this planet.

They were a race of alien warriors who were in the business of planet trade. They were well-known to be cruel and sadistic monsters who gave no care about anything or anyone but themselves.

Bulma's legs started to hurt by the time she's reached the Burokkori Bridge that connected the Burrokori Island to the Royal City. Panting hardly out of exhaustion, she slowly turned her head to see that the four Saiyans had finally stopped chasing her. She sighed with utmost relief as she fell onto her behind on the concrete ground, still heaving for breath.

"Thank goodness!" she breathed, putting one hand over her chest. She thought she was going to die at that moment. Just the horrible idea of dying without fulfilling her long time wish had made her so nervous earlier. She somehow regretted trying to save someone who would never even give her thanks. She already knew that these Saiyans have a reputation of being ungrateful assholes. What the hell had she been thinking back there anyways?

A few minutes had passed by when she finally regained her energy and decided to return to where she worked as a cook when suddenly, a cold, shrill voice out of nowhere abruptly called her attention.

"Ah! There you are!" the icy and malevolent tone of voice quickly sent chills of horror up her spine, as if an ice cube had brushed itself from the center of her back upwards. She slowly and terrifyingly turned her head over her shoulder to see the small figure walking regally and confidently at the end of the bridge towards her until he was standing about five meters behind her.

Because of the darkness of the night and the fact that the bridge had no lights, she couldn't see any of the mysterious person's features, but the way that cold and commanding voice spoke made her sure it was a man, one with such short stature she thought he could fit in the palm of her hand. His long dark cloak enshrouded his entire form; the hood falling over his head billowed softly against the cold, evening wind. He looked like a shadowy, ominous god of death standing silently over there, who wanted to take away her soul. The Grim Reaper. The sight of him made Bulma rise from the ground and carefully step back in trepidation.