Longing opens all doors - 5th and last part
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Three days later they were standing on a high plateau where a sharp wind tousled Lunch's hair. Silently she placed the ball with the seven balls that she had caught out of a burrow less than two hours ago with the other six. They pulsed in unison. In the west the sun sank behind the horizon and the fire of the evening red harmonized with the light of the spheres.
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"Come on!" She encouraged C17. "Say it, you know the right words, don't you?"
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Lunch licked her dry lips, nodded, and took a deep breath. Now, just one step away from the fulfillment of her dream, her knees felt like jello. She hadn't shown any shyness when it was a matter of fighting with a very bad-tempered dinosaur about the cave in which the dragon ball with the six stars had been. And she had not hesitated when it was necessary to avoid the traps in the ancient pyramid in order to find the dragon ball with the four stars from a chest of jewels in the king's tomb.It was just lucky that C17 had roasted the scorpions with its energy beams before they could sink their deadly stings into their skin. But all these adventures were now behind her, as she realized with a slight regret. It was fun, C17 was a really reliable buddy and if he had crazy ideas every now and then, he could be relied on.
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"You're not afraid of the kite, are you?" Asked C17 carefully when Lunch didn't move.
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"Not a trace," she said calmly. "Let's go. Shen Long, come!"
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The light hissed from the spheres and blazed fiery up to the sky. Not bad, not bad at all, "C17 nodded approvingly. From the flickering lightning the shape of a mighty dragon grew. Shen-Long's scaly, serpentine body twisted in the shine of the first stars. The red fire of his eyes was intimidating and the sound of his mighty voice a shiver ran down their spines.<br />
"Which of you called me?"
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C17 puffed lunch in the side. "Come on, go on!"
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Lunch stumbled toward the kite. "I ... it was me," she said and put her fisted hands on her chest as if she could soothe her racing heartbeat.
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"So tell me your three wishes."
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Lunch took a deep breath. "Shen Long, I'm fed up with two people who take turns sneezing. I want to be one person with the powers, knowledge, skills and feelings of both halves. Is that possible?"
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C17 was off her socks. "Why ... you never said ..." he stammered confused.
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"That I don't want to disappear any longer when I sneeze and come back when she sneezes? Believe me, having half a life is worse than none."
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"Your wish is a little unusual," said the dragon and Lunch opened his eyes in shock, but then he added, "but not impossible. Your wish is granted to you.<br />
Red light shot out of his eyes and hit them full. C17 took a step towards her, but lowered his arms, telling himself not to interfere with her wish.
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When the light disappeared there was another lunch. She had turquoise hair like Bulma, which hung in long, curly strands down to her hips. Her eyes were not as big as those of the nice lunch, but also not as narrow as those of the blond lunch, instead of blue they were now the same color as her hair. Her face was poorer by a few worry lines, but a little narrower, figure and size had remained the same. She looked at her hands and looked around for a mirror. "Is that me?" She asked when 17 held his pocket mirror in front of her face. Her voice was neither bright nor rough, but warm and full of sound. "Yes, you are, lunch."
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"What is your second wish now?" Asked the dragon. "I don't have forever."
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The new lunch smiled."I want the body of a 17 year old without losing my knowledge and experience and I want to age as slowly as the cyborg next to me."
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“That's not a problem!” Again the dragon's eyes flashed and red light enveloped Lunch. C17 held her breath. When the light went out, a beautiful young girl stood in front of him and asked for the mirror.
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“I'm actually young again!” Her hand ran over the places on her face where it had previously been wrinkled. The radiant complexion, the firm skin, she had her youth back.
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"Now you have one last wish free," the dragon reminded her. "What is your desire?"
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"Take me to Tenshinhan," she said in a firm voice. There was anticipation in her eyes that cut C17 to the heart without him being able to say why. A glowing envy of Tenshinhan awoke in him. Did this three-eyed person deserve the luck that such a wonderful woman threw herself on his neck.<br />
But a bitter disappointment awaited lunch. "Tenshinhan is in a place I have no access to," he said regretfully. "Unfortunately, I cannot fulfill this wish."
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"Then bring us as close as possible and so that we can find this place ourselves," Lunch said quickly.
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"Wait a minute," interjected C17, "we? Us?"
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She looked at him pleadingly. "I don't know what to expect, it can be in the middle of the wilderness, right?"
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C17 wondered why at the pleading look from the turquoise eyes he just couldn't say no to his lips. Finally he gave up the lost battle. "Okay, but I won't hold your hand when you finally find him, get it?"
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Lunch nodded eagerly and laughed. “That would be too strange.” As if it were the most natural thing in the world, she took his hand. "We are ready, Shen Long. Please grant me this third wish."
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"So be it. Farewell."The red light flooded them and the scene changed. They were no longer standing on a windswept plain, but on white marble tiles. Two rows of palm trees lined the path to a magnificent palace." I know the place, "murmured C17 without Lunch's hand Let go. "I've never been here, but my sister described it to me. This is the palace of God. "
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“Wow!” Lunch withdrew her hand and took a few steps forward. "This is a great cabin!"
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C17 couldn't suppress a grin. The new lunch might look like an angel, but she still had the sharp tongue of her former criminal half. Her long locks were blowing in the wind and the glow on her face exceeded the twinkling of the stars above their heads. The shimmering walls of God's palace invited people to step closer. Lunch and C17 accepted this invitation and soon stood in front of the golden entrance gate. Lunch took heart and knocked. "Hello? Is anyone home?"<br />
The door swung open and an astonished bottom looked at the two unexpected guests. "Who are you, how did you find God's palace and what are you doing here?" asked he.
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Lunch stepped forward. "You're Popo, the servant of God, aren't you? Gokou told me about you."
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"Oh, you know Gokou? Where did you meet him?"
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"Me at Lunch and I lived with the Lord of the Turtles for many years when he was training Gokou."
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"Impossible!" Popo exclaimed. "Gokou tell me about lunch, they are either blue and gentle or blond and wild, not turquoise and also much older than the young girl here."
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"Thank you, but I owe that body to Shen Long."
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"Then I really felt that the dragon had appeared," said a serious voice from above on the wide, curved, white staircase. Dende stepped down the steps with great dignity to God.
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Over the years he had grown more and more into the role and now as a young adult he radiated a dignity that even the difficult to impress C17 bowed his head.<br />
Lunch held her breath and lowered her eyes when she met his friendly, interested look. "Yes, God Dende, I called him to fulfill three wishes for me, he made one out of two lunches, he gave the youth back to this one, but he couldn't fulfill my third wish." She looked up resolutely. "He couldn't take me to Tenshinhan!"
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As the name was mentioned, a shadow passed over Dende's face. "I am not surprised, even Shen Long has no access to the space of spirit and time."
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"The space of spirit and time?", C17 stepped next to lunch. "My sister told me about it. You can spend a day there that is as long as a year, right?"
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"That's right," said Dende. He gripped his staff tighter. "But Tenshinhan must have forgotten the time there. The entrance disappeared and he's been trapped in the room ever since.
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"How long ago was that?" Lunch asked haltingly. "Is he alone or is Chaozu with him?"<br />
"His friend is with him," said Dende. "And it happened ten days ago."
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"Then ten years have already passed for him?" C17 frowned. "Shouldn't he have starved to death by now?"
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"If it were the old version of the room, then yes," Dende reassured the shocked Lunch, "but I've changed the room a little since the Boo incident. The food and water supply is automatically added as long as someone uses the room and when it's a hundred years. "
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Lunch breathed a sigh of relief. "So he's still alive, isn't he?" She asked urgently.
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"At least I think so," said Dende firmly.
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"Is there really no way to get into the room? Boo also came out when the door was destroyed", C17 did not give up that easily.
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"Right, but for that he released an enormous amount of energy very deliberately with a scream. I have no idea whether Tenshinhan knows about this possibility."
<br />"That applies to a breakout from the inside, what about a break-in from the outside," investigated C17.
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"We have already thought of that and measured the values," Dende's feelers were swinging excitedly back and forth. "From the outside it would be easier and we have already built a device that converts a person's emotional forces into a form of energy that can then create a passage. Unfortunately, Pop and I do not have the necessary degree of emotional attachment to Tenshinhan to be able to use the machine ... "said Dende regretfully. "I don't know if we can find another solution before the two of them in there wither away from old age ..."
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"Where is he?" Asked Lunch,