Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ. Nope, no matter how hard I wish it doesn't belong to me. But if I manage to find those darn dragonballs, things could be different...
The young 8 year old boy pushed open the gates that led to the woods from his back garden and walked through. He kept walking until he reached a large boulder. He flew up to the top and perched there, looking out at the beauty of his planet. His home. His life.
He looked back the way he had just walked and saw his house, the palace, gleaming in the light of the fading sun. It was beautiful to him, and he had to leave it. He scowled thinking about what he had just been told. His father, King Vegeta of Vegeta-sei, was sending him away as a peace treaty to Lord Frieza. Only his father had told him that he was being sent away to train with the Ruler of the Universe, but he knew what he had really meant.
At a young age he had been taught how to fight and had excelled at it. He had all of his father's and mother's abilities and more. As the Prince of Vegeta-sei he had to keep strong to show his people he was not weak. Now he had to be sent away to be trained. It seemed to him that the reputation he had been building up his whole life had just vanished into thin air.
Suddenly the young Saiyan heard a noise and looked down. His bodyguard was lying on the floor with his eyes closed. Normally this would not have bothered him but he had seen and heard something that made him wonder. His bodyguard, Nappa, was pale and has sweat beading on his forehead as if he had a fever. Also he had sent out a telepathic message to him. Just one word. Vegeta. His name.
Vegeta cursed and was about to jump down to see what had happened to his bodyguard when he heard a loud thump behind him. The sound of somebody’s feet hitting the ground. Before Vegeta could turn and see who had landed behind him he felt something dig into his left thigh. Pain came immediately after and Vegeta fell down with the ground spinning. He looked down and saw a dart in his leg and belatedly saw that it was a tranquilizer dart. He moaned and looked up, trying to make out the sky and trees above him.
Someone moved into his sight line and he saw a face bend over him. A face that had black spiky hair with brown strands in front hanging down. The face’s eyes were bright, but what colour they were Vegeta could not make out. He saw the face smirk and he moaned again. Just before he passed out completely Vegeta suddenly thought that he had seen that face before, but where he did not know.
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The Saiyan smirked as she saw the young prince fall to the ground. Her tranquilizer dart was working very efficiently. When she was sure that he would not attack she walked over to him and looked over him. He moaned and shut his eyes and the girl could sense that he was now completely helpless. She smirked again and bent down and removed the dart from his leg.
Quickly and carefully the girl took a small circular shaped disc from her pocket. She turned the prince onto his stomach and she studied his hair line. On any other Saiyan this would’ve been an easy task but the prince had upswept hair and their was no where for her to put the disc.
She frowned and bit her bottom lip as she thought of what she could do. Suddenly an idea came to her and she grinned evilly at the thought. Carefully she looked on the princes’ arm for a large freckle. She searched all over but couldn’t find one. After a while she gave up searching and thought of something else.
This time she was going to use her original plan but modify it a bit. She put her hands into the princes’ hair and dug deep down into it. She found the skin and placed the disc onto it. She felt it hum and vibrate then fall silent. She smirked and removed her hands and turned the prince back onto his back. She was sure that he would never check to look for something on his scalp and that, she thought, would be his down fall.
Next she looked at the other device. She pressed a button on it and held it to her mouth and told the person on the other end that she had done her job and that she would be expecting her pay to be at the secret spot. Then she turned it off and put both devices in her pocket.
The girl walked to edge of the large cliff. She looked back at the form of her prince lying on his back. She tore her eyes away from the sight and pushed off the rock into the now almost dark sky.
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Vegeta opened her eyes and saw his parent’s faces, along with Nappa’s looking down at him. After assuring them that he was fine, Vegeta took to the sky to think. Did he really see that face above him? Was it really real or something his mind made up to tease him? Subconsciously he put his hand on his thigh where the dart had been. It hurt but there was nothing there to convince him that he hadn’t just fallen over and landed on a rock. Thinking back Vegeta was sure that it had been real. He thought of the face he had seen before he had lost consciousness and how familiar it was to him. Did he know that person or was it just a Saiyan he had seen around? And how did he know that it was a Saiyan?
Vegeta shook his head and sighed. He needed to go somewhere to relax before he left. He turned around and headed back home. Unfortunately his only place of rest was in his room.
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A few miles away a man smirked to himself. The job had finally been done efficiently and hopefully effectively. He had been told that the girl would do it and she had. Now only time would tell whether or not his plan had worked. Soon we will meet young prince, when you are strong and confident, and I will know all about you and you will know nothing about me. The man thought to himself. Soon my young Saiyan warrior, soon.
Vegeta groaned as he received a swift kick to his stomach. He had just eaten and his body was still digesting his food which made the kick twice as painful. He looked up to see the smirk of his opponent. Vegeta sneered back and fired a powerful ki blast towards his partner. His partner took it full on in his face and fell to the floor. Vegeta smirked as he saw him lying on the ground non-moving.
Suddenly a flashback hit Vegeta hard as he remembered seeing this same person on the ground as he was looking down. Then, just as quickly as it had come, the memory disappeared again and left Vegeta feeling as if he had just witnessed something very important. He shook it off and flew down to the ground and stood beside his partner, his smirk growing on his face.
“So Nappa are you just going to lie there or am I going to have to find a different training partner?” Vegeta asked his partner and body guard. The man grunted but did not move. Vegeta frowned and kicked the man hardly on his side. “Stay there then you heap of weakling while I find some other Saiyan to spar against.”
Vegeta walked away from his old friend and looked around at the faces before him. There were only 10 of them left. Saiyans that is. Vegeta had been told that his planet had been struck by a meteor shower when he was 10. Just two years after he had left Vegeta-sei. Frieza’s forces had been sent out to round up the surviving Saiyans and had only found 9 others.
Vegeta had been told that he was lucky to survive but he didn’t feel it. Nappa hadn’t been with him when it had happened. He had been out teaching 3 Saiyans the art of purging. Another Saiyan called Raditz had been out purging a different planet with 3 other Saiyans as well. Also Raditz’s little brother, Kakarroto, had just been sent away from the planet when it had happened.
The extra 6 Saiyans surviving had been accidental. It had been at the last minute that Raditz had been given ‘helpers’ and that Nappa had to teach new trainees and leave Vegeta’s side. And now they were the last of their kind left. They were the sole survivors of the legendary Saiyan race and the only ones to remember everything about them. They were also, in Vegeta’s mind, the only ones left to achieve the Legendary Super Saiyan. Even though he thought himself to be the only one capable of doing it.
But something had happened two weeks ago. Frieza had interpreted a message from a Saiyan pod to a planet. A pod that was not licensed under Frieza. A pod no one knew existed or survived until then. Frieza had been angry to say the least. He had whipped up a storm in his furry and people were scared to go near him now.
The message had been very simple and hadn’t given a lot away. Vegeta remembered it clearly in his head. He and the other Saiyans had been allowed to hear it and see if they knew what it meant. The message was this: ‘The plan is still in action. I am about to start phase 3. They don’t have a clue.’ That was all it had consisted of and Vegeta had been very engrossed with it. Now all that was left to do was find the culprit. This hadn’t been an easy task so far.
Frieza had sent a crew out to find and retrieve this pod along with the occupant a day after they had gotten the communication. Now Frieza was waiting restlessly to see who or what had sent that message, what the message had meant and how, if they were Saiyan, did they escape the planets destruction. Vegeta was interested in the last question the most. Frieza had promised that if it were a Saiyan, he’d question him while the other Saiyan’s watched.
Vegeta looked around then sat down on the floor to meditate. He needed to work more on controlling his ki or else he would end up exhausted after just three hours of battling with just ki blasts. Anyway all of the other Saiyans had sparring partners except for Nappa and Kira, who was tending to Nappa’s wounds. Vegeta shut his eyes and let his mind go as he began to relax and find his inner self. He flared up his ki a bit and began to concentrate.
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Vegeta had been meditating for around 3 and a half hours when a large noise broke his concentration and took his mind back into his head. Scowling, Vegeta opened his eyes to see a very different picture than the one he had last seen. The other Saiyans had stopped sparring and were on the ground staring at the door. Vegeta got up and walked towards Nappa. “What’s going on?” he hissed into his body guards’ ear.
Nappa replied excitedly, “We just heard news from Frieza that his crew have found the pod and the occupant and should be arriving on deck at any moment.”
“Is it a Saiyan?” Vegeta asked.
Nappa shrugged, “They don’t know. They just bought the ship into their magnetic field and towed it back to the base. Apparently the occupant struggled in their ship to break free, and almost did at one point, but the mag. field stayed strong. I think the ship has just landed and they’re trying to open the pod up now.” Nappa said.
Vegeta grunted in response. So the mystery was drawing to a close. That was good. It had been driving him crazy. All that was left to do now was to wait. Vegeta sat down and began to meditate again. Somehow he knew it would be a long wait.
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The girl sat in her pod, eyes closed, fuming silently. Her message had been tracked and now she had been caught. After all these years evading Frieza and offering her services to people in exchange for her protection she had been found. If she ever got out of here there were going to be some people who she needed to consult with. Unfortunately she doubted that those people would ever been seen again. At least not alive.
A loud banging noise made her open her eyes and stop the bloody thoughts from forming in her mind. She knew that they were going to get in soon. They had been going on like this for almost an hour. They had to be close to entering and seeing her and capturing her. Another bang made her sigh. She wanted to just open the pod door to stop them from damaging her ‘ship’ but she didn’t want to give in that easily. If she had to become a slave she wanted to go down fighting.
Another bang shook her pod and this time the ki blast went right through. She had to move her head quickly to stop from being hit. So they had broken through. Now it was only a matter of seconds before they had her out. Sure enough they wrenched open the door and pulled her out. A man who was jade green in colour with green hair looked at her up and down then sneered. “Who and what are you?”
“None of your business.” She said back to him growling. Her tail tightened around her waist as she waited for his answer.
The man looked down and smirked, “Well at least you’re Saiyan. Lord Frieza and the other Saiyans should be able to get an answer out of you. Come with me.” He said then grabbed her arm and pulled her behind him.
The girls mind was reeling. So they knew she was Saiyan. Damn tail always gave away everything. But there were other Saiyans alive and here? How many? She wondered this as she was dragged towards a door. Just as they were about to go through the door entered and a lizard type man came out. He looked her up and down as well then smirked. “Is this the culprit?”
“Yes sir.” The green guy answered bowing down.
The lizard chuckled, “Well I never thought it would be a girl who had defied me.”
The Saiyan child growled loudly. How dare he judge her by her sex! She was just as strong as the male Saiyans on her planet. He would be getting a good beating from her for that remark!
The lizard raised an eyebrow, “Struck a nerve did I? Well now that we’ve found you would you kindly tell us who you are, how you survived the explosion of your planet and what that message meant?”
The girl sneered, “Wouldn’t you just like to know.”
The lizard frowned, “Well if you won’t tell me maybe you’ll tell someone that you know.” He l ooked at the green guy that had bought her in, “Bring her and follow me. We’re going to pay a visit to the monkeys.” With that the lizard man walked down the hall.
Puzzled by his suggestion the girl allowed herself to be pulled down the hallway again. They ended up stopping outside a door before the lizard guy turned around and smirked at her. Then he opened the doors and pushed her through. She felt her tail jolt out from around her waist at the sight before her. There were a lot of people in this room and they were looking right at her! The light in the room was dim and she couldn’t see properly yet. Quickly got control and wrapped it back around her waist, hoping none of the people before her had seen that. “See anyone you know?” the lizard guy asked her.
It took a while for her eyes to adjust to the dimmer light in this room but when they did she let out a gasp. There were Saiyans in here. Just like her. There were more survivors of the planets destruction and they were here. She roamed her eyes over the group of Saiyans until they stopped on one person. A slow smirk came over her face. “Yes actually, I do know some people in here.” She answered the lizard mans question. Maybe it was a good thing she had been bought here. Maybe it was a good thing she had been tracked and caught. Maybe something good would come out of it after all.
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Vegeta opened his eyes as he heard the doors being flung open. He stood up and looked at who had entered the Saiyans private training grounds. He saw, with much distaste, that it was Frieza and Zarbon who had to bother them. But then Vegeta saw who else was with them. It was a young girl, from looking at her she seemed to be around the same age as him.
He wondered why Frieza and Zarbon had bought her here until he saw it. It was just a quick movement but Vegeta saw it and from the looks of it he was the only one. He was the only one who had seen her tail shoot out from around her waist then go back around her waist. So she was a Saiyan. That would explain everything.
Then Vegeta heard Frieza’s question to her and he watched her look around. Her eyes met his and held his gaze. He saw her face break out into a smirk and heard her reply. She knew him, but he didn’t know her. But then he remembered that he was her prince so of course she would know him.
Vegeta looked at her properly and saw that she was strangely familiar. She was wearing baggy black pants'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">black pants with a black t-shirt'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">t-shirt. Her tail was wrapped tightly around her waist, covering her belt which had 4 cloth bags attached to it. Her hair was black and spiky but there were 2 brown strands hanging down in her face. Her eyes were the strangest thing. They were a bright sapphire blue colour instead of ebony ones.
Vegeta was struck with the absurd thought that he had seen her before somewhere, but he couldn’t think where. He thought back to the strange memory he had seen earlier involving Nappa. Vegeta then got the strangest feeling that this girl was involved with that memory. But why he did not know.
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She saw Vegeta tense as her eyes met his and stay there. She tore her eyes away from his as soon as she was beginning to get the strangest feeling that he could see right through her and into all her secrets. If he could do that then everything would be over before it started. She looked back at the lizard guy. “I thank you for bringing me to my people.” She said thinking that he would leave after receiving a word of thanks. The man just merely snorted.
“I don’t need your thanks. What I want is your name.” he said looking at her.
The girl hesitated. She couldn’t go and say her real name or else they would be able to look her up on the old Saiyan archives. She’d have to lie. “My name is Akita. What is yours?” she said swiftly and finally. Akita. It would have to do. It was her name now and would be until her mission was complete.
The man smirked, “You don’t know who I am? Where have you been all this time? I thought every being in the universe knew my name. I am Lord Frieza.” He said with laughter in his voice.
Akita’s eyes opened wide when she heard his name. This was Lord Frieza?! This was the bastard that destroyed her planet? Well she’d have to be more careful then. Akita placed a fake smile on her face. It was time for her to do what she did second best. Suck up to him. “It’s an honor to meet you your Majesty. If I had known it was you I would’ve displayed more respect. I apologize.” Akita dropped to one knee and bowed her head. Inside her head she was smirking. This could work better than she thought.
Frieza was caught off guard by the girls’ sudden respect for him. But was it a trick? He wasn’t sure. When he’d tried to look into her mind he found it blocked by a force he could not break. He would have to trust his instincts on this one. Luckily for Akita his instincts were always wrong. He nodded, “Apology accepted. You may rise now; I don’t like people who show good respect to stay down there for too long. Well I know your name now, Akita, but that does not cover up the fact that you are Saiyan and managed to escape the planets destruction. Would you kindly tell me how?” He said.
Akita stood but still kept her face facing towards the floor. She was afraid that if she looked up Frieza might be able to see the smile on her face and in her eyes. “Certainly Lord Frieza. You see I was training with my scouter on and detected a huge power. When I examined it closer I found it to be a huge meteor show heading towards the planet. I felt it approaching swiftly and decided that if I went to tell anyone else we would all die. So I went to the landing pad and hijacked a pod. As I was heading quickly away from the planet I felt a huge explosion that made my pod rock. I knew that Vegeta-sei had been destroyed but I thought I was the only one left. I thought no one else had made it. Clearly I was wrong. But I am glad to see the faces of my people after all these years.” She said. She meant the last bit, she truly did. Akita had missed her fellow Saiyans for all these years and when she first saw them she had been filled with joy, something she never knew a Saiyan could feel.
Frieza smirked when she was finished her story. He knew now why she had lived but he didn’t believe most of it. If she had had a scouter on wouldn’t she of detected him and known the truth? Maybe she did but didn’t want me to know, Frieza thought. Well he couldn’t wonder about it now. He had other things he had to do. “Fine then, if you fell so strongly about seeing your fellow Saiyans again you may stay here and train with them. I will get some of my men to add an extra room onto the Saiyans living quarters and you may live with them. I must go now but I will send someone back to check up on you. I need to make sure my newest monkey is comfortable.”
With that Frieza left taking Zarbon and the rest of his men with him. Zarbon looked around at the Saiyans and Akita one last time before smirking and following his master. Frieza was smirking to himself too. He had a new addition to his ever growing warrior family, and from the looks of her she would make a good addition.
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Vegeta had listened closely while the Saiyan girl answered all of Frieza’s questions. When she had told of her name Vegeta searched his memory for any Saiyan he had known by that name but none came to mind. But when Frieza asked how she had survived Vegeta-sei’s destruction and it became clear to the other Saiyans that she was one of them they were shocked. Vegeta had a feeling all them were checking like he had to see whether or not they knew her. Then Frieza left and the Saiyans were left alone with the new Saiyan.
Vegeta looked at everyone else who were looking at her. This is going no where fast, he thought. Vegeta decided to break the tension in the room. “Welcome to the room that holds the last of our race.” He said while everyone else murmured in agreement and welcome. “I am Prince Vegeta as you probably already know. We know that you are Akita so maybe you should know the rest of our names. I’ll let them introduce themselves with the people and reason they lived.” Vegeta looked at Nappa who eventually caught on.
Nappa motioned to three other Saiyans and they stepped forward. “I’m Nappa. I am Prince Vegeta’s bodyguard but I had been assigned to teach these three the art of purging. We were on another planet and didn’t know of our planets demise until we tried to there. We then received a message form Frieza via our scouters to say that Vegeta-sei was gone and that we should go back to his base to be with our Prince. These three are the Saiyans who were with me. They can introduce themselves.”
Nappa motioned to a boy who had black spiky hair that hug down to his shoulders. His dark brown eyes looked straight into Akita’s blue ones. “My name’s Korat.” Korat stepped back and the girl in their group stepped forwards. Her hair was long as well but it was a dark dark brown colour, but you could only tell when light was shinning on it. Her eyes were the same colour as her hair. “My name’s Skye.” She stepped back and let the last member of their team step forward. It was another boy. He was the oldest out of the three though. His hair was short, black and spiky. His eyes were like coal. “I’m Saluki.” He grunted out then stepped back with the rest of his team so they were out of the spot light of Akita’s gaze.
Raditz stepped forward next pushing his crew along with him. Raditz looked right up at Akita, “I’m Raditz. I was assigned to do a purging mission on a weak planet until they received word that the planets inhabitants I was supposed to wipe out had all been killed from a virus. They decided to send me to a different planet instead, one with beings with higher power levels. So they assigned me helpers. We went and successfully purged the planets with out any incidents. Then we found out about what had happened to Vegeta-sei the same way Nappa and his crew did. We came here also. Now the others can introduce themselves because I as sure as hell am not.”
Raditz stepped back and a man stepped out. These three were older than the others. They were around Nappa and Raditz’s age. This man had hair that looked a lot like Vegeta’s but it was in a different style sticking up. It was jet black and so were his eyes. “I’m Rankin.” He said. Then he stepped back and allowed a woman to step forward. She had black, spiky hair as well and obsidian eyes, like any normal Saiyan. She looked up at Akita, “My name’s Kira.” She said with a smile. Then Kira stepped back and allowed the last Saiyan left to introduce, introduce himself. He was different. His hair was dark blue and his eyes were light brown. His tail was different as well. All the other Saiyans had brown tails but he had a dark purple one. “My name’s Benji.” He said. Then he stepped back and joined the rest of his crew.
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Akita smiled as she listened to them all introduced themselves and as Nappa and Raditz told about how they had survived. When they were done with their introductions Akita looked them all over and remembered their names and how to tell each of them apart.
First there was Vegeta, well he was easy because he was her Prince and she already knew him. Nappa, well he was the big, tall bald one. Korat, he had shoulder length hair and brown eyes. Also he had a serious look on him that never went away, so far at least. Skye, well she was easy. She was a bubbly Saiyan who looked like a lot of fun but who also knew how to be serious when she had to be. Saluki, short hair'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">short hair and not much of a conversationalist. Raditz, he was easy also. His hair gave him away as did his stance. She would remember him easily. Rankin, he was Vegeta’s almost twin, he would be easy. Kira, she was the other girl apart from herself and Skye. Benji, he would be the easiest. His odd colouring made him stick out and Akita wondered why he was like that.
Akita smiled at her new partners as they stood back form her, watching her, to see what she would do.
Vegeta then stepped forward himself. He was glad that introductions had been made but he needed to tell this girl about another Saiyan, one that wasn’t here. “There is also another Saiyan left. That is Raditz’s little brother, Kakarroto. He was sent away from the planet to do his first purging mission. We never heard back from him but we think he is still alive. He went to a planet called Earth. So now that you know us all what do you think? Are we to your liking?” Vegeta walked up to Akita and crossed his arms over his chest. “Also I want to know what your power level is like. I need you to spar against me.”
Akita was shocked to hear that there was another Saiyan who was on a different planet but she shook it off. For all she knew there could be hundreds of Saiyans on planets purging away that they didn’t know about. It was great that there was some still alive but she wasn’t good with remembering names. Well as long as he stays on Earth I don’t have to worry, Akita thought. Kakarroto, Raditz’s brother. Well as long as she could remember his name she doubted anything would go wrong.
Akita remembered his question and smirked, “Even if you weren’t to my liking would I have a choice? Would I be able to go somewhere different than here now that I’m under Frieza’s rule too? Lucky for you I do like you and I’m sure we’ll get along fine. Well as fine as Saiyans can get along anyway.” Akita walked past Vegeta, who turned his head to see where she would go. She walked down into the middle of the training floor and started to stretch. “I haven’t fought for a while but I’ll spar against you. I need a good exercise.”
Vegeta nodded at her answer, she had a point. Then he followed her down and started stretching himself. For some reason he was looking forward to this. He wanted to know how strong this Saiyan was without being contact with her race and strong opponents. He wanted to know if she would give him the thrill of battle he had wanted to feel for a while now. He stopped stretching and looked at his opponent. She was ready and standing in her fighting stance. Vegeta studied the stance for a weakness. He couldn’t find one. This is going to be fun, he thought. Then he attacked.
Akita looked up from her stretching and saw Vegeta stretching. He looked so confidant Akita had to smile. He doesn’t know whom he’s up against. She looked around at her fellow Saiyans while she was waiting for Vegeta to finish stretching. She was finally with her people. The few of them that had survived. Akita had little time to think about this, however, as she felt Vegeta stop stretching. Automatically she got into her fighting stance and watched Vegeta do the same. She felt him studying her style and she did the same to him. Suddenly he flew at her, starting their sparring. Akita smirked and blocked his attack. Let’s see what you can do Vegeta. With that thought Akita returned the attack and the match continued.
To be continued....
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