Moonlight Destiny

Episode 12: Fondly Goodbye

Days and nights without you,

Endlessly connect,

That means I have to endure,

Without the comfort that is you,

Love that was clearly engraved,

And all of me is breaking, is disappearing,

It hurts but here's a warm goodbye.

If you take yourself away from me,

I won't be me anymore,

All of us that clearly sparkled,

It's scattering, My love,

I hope you will always be well.

- "Fondly, Goodbye" (by Sung Si-kyung)

Episode 12

Fondly Goodbye

Vegeta has made a heart breaking decision to set Bulma free from their unlikely friendship that has been developed because of lies. In order to protect her from being hurt any longer and from the dangers it would bring her for becoming important to him, for him to focus solely on his responsibilities on being the Crown Prince of the Saiyans, he made a sacrifice to let go.

And offer her the truth he couldn't tell because of his high pride.

"After this, I'm letting you go and you may do as you wish. As I said, I do not regret what I have done. Whatever your decision is, I don't care about it at all but… If you wish for anything, I will give it to you. For now, let me give you a goodbye present, it's right behind you."

Bulma stared at him as if her mind was still on the process of understanding what he meant by those words. She gradually turned her head over her shoulder to see whatever present he was talking about and what she found made her jaw drop and her blue eyes water.

A few feet behind them stood three people whose faces where awfully familiar to her. An old man in his fifties with purple hair cut in a bolo stood in between two blonde haired women. He had a black framed pair of glasses over his big, dark eyes. On his left was a woman with golden curls and huge sapphire eyes while a younger lady with short, layered blonde hair and black eyes was standing on his right.

They were all smiling back at her with wide grins over their lips, but their eyes held unshed tears of deep longing.

"Bulma… Bulma, dear…" They called her name with such endearment as they reluctantly stepped closer towards her.

Recognizing who these people are, Bulma just stared at them, unable to believe what she was looking at. She was thinking if this could only be just a dream of hers but if it was then she wished she won't wake up from this wonderful dream.

She slowly turned her entire body around to face them. They're real, right? They're real? Her family? Her beloved family she thought was long dead since she was brought to this damned planet, was standing there, right in front of her, calling her name, approaching her… with tears of longing in their eyes.

They were alive all this time?

"Bulma," her father said.

"Bulma-chan, my dear daughter…" Her mother reached out her hands to her.