I snarled, lowering my weight on my straddled legs and snapping my tail like a whip against the hard-grassy ground. "TURKE!!! WHAT happened to you all!?" "Wul… let’s see, lil lady- yeh bring back a gurlie ol’ Saiyan man, when yeh swore yeh were gonna kill’em fer lettin Tenchi push up sum daisies!" Saygan snickered. "Saygan, I’ve had some trouble with you, but not THIS much! What on the gods’s greenest earth has happened to you!?" I arched a brow, trying to shield Vegeta from their view. "Have the Lethnaks gotten to you all!? What has happened here!?" I started towards them, but Vegeta grabbed my arm and pulled me back. "Not like I care, but- I think these guys are just too stupid to tell you" he smirked, letting me go as I shoved him away from me. "Vegeta! They never used to be so laid-back and drunken like this! All I wanna know is WHERE IS MY SISTER AND DOCTOR TAE!?" I howled, powering up so that it made them wide-eyed and squeamish. "TELL ME NOW, BEEF JERKY BOYS!!!" my hands seemed to form a blast technique, letting my Ki sprout to my fingers and hurl towards them , knocking Big Turke backwards so hard, it scared the rest of them away. I panted, my tail snapping at my side. "Vegeta?" I panted in exasperation. He cocked an eye at me. "Welcome… to planet Galina" I breathed. He crossed his arms tightly, and pretended he didn’t have anything to do with me. "I dunno what’s come over them- they’re not such bakas like they appear to be" I tugged at Vegeta’s sleeve and drug him towards the lab- he didn’t seem to be able to fight me, even though I knew he was trying. "GIT OFF MY BACK WOMAN!!!" he squealed. "BE QUIET IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!!! My FATHER saw what your henchman did to Tenchi, and if he knows what happened back on Vegeta, he’ll kill you for sure" I huffed, approaching the door and letting Vegeta to his feet. "By the way, woman- what DID happen on my planet?" he smirked. I glared back at him, rolling my eyes sharply. "What a memory YOU have! Lighten up! I DON’T want to explain everything to you! Oh, and if you try and grab me or anything like that, there will be thousands of lizards crawlin all over you for it!" I smirked, tagging Vegeta’s collar and shoving him into the lab with me. "DOC TAE? SIS?" I yelled as Vegeta shuddered behind me. I could sense him try to grab my tail- as if a notion to tell me to shut up. My tail smacked him across his gloved hand and pulled away as I walked forth into the darkened room that smelled like almonds.
"HMMHMM!" I heard a scream upstairs. Vegeta seemed occupied with all of the bottled formulas- tying to smash each of the colored liquids. "VEGETA!" I screamed in agitation, my tail curling around his waist and pulling him up the stairs behind me. "DOC! SIS! What in the HEMISPHERE us going on!?" I gulped, blinking at the two of them, tied back to back with rags slipped under their mouths and tape squeezed over their clamped jaws. I untied my sister and Doctor Tae, but they seemed frightened and edgy to see me instead of glad. "Sister, what happened to your hair?" was Rayne’s first remark. "Nevermind that!" I snarled, kneeling while Vegeta stayed in the shadows, trying to push my tail off from around his waist.
"Please, Doc- what did Big Turke and the others do to you?" I asked with glassy sympathy in my eyes. "Oh, my- when they heard you were going to the planet Vegeta, they knew you couldn’t take them all alone. They even laughed at your efforts, Princess. They never thought you could do it, so they demanded that I show them the tracking monitor and show them where you were so they could go after you and take care of it themselves. They only wanted to make fun of you, Princess, and so they tied me and your sister up when we wouldn’t show them any of it!" he explained, sliding his thick glasses back up the bridge of his scaly nose.
"No good Saiyans! It isn’t just Tenchi’s death that gets my scales in a twist! It’s their nasty way of living, and with a kingdom where they’re aloud to slaughter allies! Why, I bet their King is just no good!" Rayne snorted, sitting wit her arms crossed hotly.
There was a wheezy growl from behind me that made my spine twist. "Well, you see guys- I"- "NO GOOD SAIYANS!?" Vegeta yelled in an uproar, squeezing his way out of the shadows and shaking a fist at my sister and the doctor. "V-V-V-Vegeta n-n-now n-now, Vegeta! C-C-Calm th-thoughts- p-please?" I stuttered as his face flushed with scarlet. Rayne and the doctor seemed frightened at first, backing away as fast as they could on the floor. "I’LL SHOW YOU WHO’S NO GOOD!!!" he howled, lowering his back and shaking a fist at them both. "VEGETA!!!!" I finally yelled, my eyes squeezed tight. He stopped crating such a fuss amongst the silence, and thudded on the ground, cuffed by my tail around his waist tightly. "Everyone, just CALM DOWN!!! VEGETA! I’m sure my sister didn’t exactly KNOW you were here, and I’m sure she’d change her mind if she’d known I’d brought you back with me. He just snorted and ignored my sort of pacifism. "FINE THEN!!" I growled and turned my back on him.
"Sister, why is there a Saiyan with you?" she blinked.
"Well, I just kind of picked him up" I crossly remarked with my eyes closed tight and my arms wrapped around my waist in such stubbornness.
"I see" she smirked, "And you just managed to pick out any old Saiyan, Space Case?"
"NO!" I huffed in vein, " He’s the prince". I gave Rayne a side-glare, knowing that would really get her tail in a knot.
"WHAT!?" she howled, her eyes so wide. The doctor turned a ghostly white, ramming into the wall after crawling away as much as he could.
"His name is Vegeta, and if you ask me why an arrogant fool like him is with me, you best ask him- since he made me sleep with him" I smirked, trying to stand with my sister and the nervous doctor. "WHAT!?" Vegeta roared, "ARROGANT FOOL!? NOW LISTEN HERE"- "Vegeta", I interrupted, "do us all a huge favor and SHUT UP!!!" I growled hotly, trying to swerve about without having to look at him. His nerves were festered with such anger that he had nothing left to detest against. "That’s a good Saiyan!" I smiled weakly, turning towards him, and yanking my tail off him. "Now, unless you wanna end up my pet, you best act more princely when I go see my father" I hissed in his face before letting him stand again. "Well Doc, your ship’s back in, but could I ask you to hold and extra in your lab for now?" I asked the recuperated doctor. "F-Fine! Y-Yes ma’am! Sure thing, right oh!" he said, still quivering on the floor. "See ya Doc, it’s been fun" Rayne winced, walking down the steps edgily behind me as I prodded Vegeta to move out the door.
"All right then", I sighed in the heavy spring air, "let’s get on back home" I winked at Rayne, as I stood with Vegeta at my side. "Oh" I smirked, latching the end of my tai around one of his wrists with a squeeze, "this is just in case you decide to head out on your own" I smirked and blasted off with him attached at my faltering wrist.
Rayne snickered when she saw how his individual weight pulled me lower to the ground, decreasing my speed tremendously. I just rolled my eyes and prayed that he’d stop acting so foolish so he could stay with us here…
The more I thought about it, the more worry pulsed through my head- maybe I didn’t want to face my father at all. Maybe I didn’t even want to there! I stopped flying, letting Vegeta go- free to hover on his own. Rayne stopped and glared at me as my eyes started to narrow in on the breezy ground below. The wind passed through my sifty hair as I stared, still as could be at nothing but foggy clouds and far-away underbrush. "Rayne", I started to say, getting her attention, " Father- can’t know about Vegeta- not yet" I huffed, my back turned to the two of them. "WHAT!?" she lashed out, "WHY NOT!?" I turned to her, my eyes full of darkness, and said, "It’s too risky". "WHAT!? WHO CARES!? HE’S JUST A SAIYAN! WHY WOULD YOU CARE WHAT FATHER SAYS!?" she started towards me, trying to restrain herself from strangling. Vegeta snuffed, turning a cold shoulder at my sister and me. "Just a Saiyan… I doubt that…. If I’m just a Saiyan, than you must be just a mutant princess" he turned his cold look on Rayne. She turned, and without one more wave of silence, she leapt forth at him. Luckily, I tagged her arm and pulled her back. "STOP IT!" I yelled over her screams and squirms, trying to avoid my harsh grasp on her arm. I shoved Rayne away from me and stared at her with knotted pupils. "This is EXACTLY what I mean!" I writhed, but it seemed that neither of them were listening.
"I’ll take you on right now, monkey boy!" Rayne seemed to pant in exasperation from her struggle.
"Sure" Vegeta grinned, turning fully on my sister- face to face.
Rayne fresh sweat from her brow and smirked back, almost as if a reflection of Vegeta.
"All right then- 2 years from now, you will return to this planet, Prince Vegeta, and you will fight me- to the death" Rayne smirked. Vegeta just nodded at her declaration. I never knew Rayne could wait that long to fight anyone! "But- why 2 years? Where will he go? He can’t go back to Vegeta! They’ll kill him for helping me escape!" I seemed to intrude on the dramatic silence. "I understand- that a warrior must waste no time sitting about and waiting till the last moment to spring about and fight. I need to train- it’s been too long since a REAL fight!" she huffed, sounding so like herself for once. "Finally, something I can agree on with people like you" he grinned back.
I just blinked, almost hovering in between them. "B-But what will I do? I mean I"- just then, one of Vegeta’s rubbery-leather gloves clamped over my mouth as he strangled his arms around me. "She goes with me- just so my cover isn’t blown for being here" he snarled a heavy wheeze and shot off- not even letting Rayne speak against it or anything.
I tried to fight him as he held me close towards his chest as he flew off- his hands still clamped tight over my mouth. My tail squirmed about in the numb air, making me squeam as well. I didn’t understand why I had to go as well! I wouldn’t blab a word to my father! But it wasn’t like I wanted to see him again, anyway! I scowled, seeing the ground fall flat as Vegeta prepared to land in front of Doctor Tae’s lab again.
Vegeta touched down with a tap of his Saiyan boots, shoving me loose and glaring at me as I stammered to my feet. "Why do I hafta go with you!?" I frowned, not like I was complaining, though. He just crossed his arms and curled his nose. "Find that doctor and get my ship ready- get your butt to tag along with it as well" he wheezed, pointing a cold finger at the door. I just tipped my head and stomped for the door, entering at my own will. "DOC!?" I hollered, almost shattering some of the liquid-bottles.
"YES!?" he shouted from the back vault. I strode to the vault doorframe and questionable stared at the doctor as he examined Vegeta’s Saiyan space pod. "Doc" I grinned when his spectacle-scaly-dragon face arose, "I need both of these ships ready to go again. Any planet that’s within a 2 day reach of our pods, has good breathing atmosphere, and plenty of remote space for parking and what not" I grinned at the small lab-coat wearing dragon. "A-All right then" he gave a slight toothy grin and then started to rolled the pods back out.
After a few moments of struggle getting them both through the door, Doctor Tae and I managed to get the two space pods out in the open.
"All right" he stuttered, shakily pushing his glasses up the scaly bridge of his nose. "Doc", I said calmly, leaning against my pod, "I’ll be gone for about 2 years, and I’m asking you not to blab a word to ANYONE. Not even Turke if he tries to squeeze it out of you" I tried to whisper to him. He just nodded his scaly head and grinned toothily once more. "Ah, yes- and your coordinance have been set for a planet called- eh- Earth" he said, pulling a clipboard of the universe out of his pocket and skimming it with a clawed finger. "Right" I nodded, starting to step into my pod- seeing how Vegeta already had. "See ya round, Doc!" I winked at Doctor Tae and stepped in, the latch closing and the pods taking off into the stars a few minutes later. I had never thought I’d be enjoying myself for being captured by Vegeta- but at least I was getting a feeling that was true to me, I started to think I loved him more than I really thought I did…
<< 2 Years came and went… Soon, after harsh training, Vegeta is ready to battle it out with Ryver’s sister, Rayne- and their two year journey back to the planet Galina starts to come to an end as the two space pods enter Galina’s atmosphere>>
I cradled the small bundle in my arms, a smile propped on my face- Vegeta loved a good fight, and I knew he was ready for this one- I just had a problem since this one was with own sister and to the death! Somehow, I knew I had to stop it from happening- but how? I bit my lower lip and scowled, feeling a harsh thud of the two pods colliding with the Galinian soil. The bundle began to squeal with sadness, but I started to rock all of the fear away.
The latch opened, the sun dancing across my face- a face full of worry, yet happiness to see my home land. I looked over Vegeta, his face stone cold and full of anticipation to get it over with. "Vegeta?" I asked, starting towards him, seeing how no one rushed out from Doctor Tae’s lab. "Hn?" he responded, peering at the bundle in my arms and back up at me semi-crossly. "Don’t hurt her- too bad. She got steamed- 2 years ago! Things have changed since then, and I’m sure that this battle will mean nothing once we get there" I scowled at him, trying to see how much I could get him to back out of it. "I can’t refuse a good battle. I didn’t go away for 2 years for nothing" he snorted and then started to walk off, leaving the two pods behind. I just shrugged and started to follow. "Wait a sec" I called, making him stop before he took off. "I wanna see if Doc is still around so he can get rid of the pods for now". Vegeta just rolled his eyes and crossed his arms- waiting for me to get my small task over with. I knocked on the door with a crisp fist and a smile on my face.
The door creaked open and out popped little Doc Tae’s head. "Hi, Doc!" I winked at him, my tail stretching from the long journey. "Ryver? Princess Ryver? Is that you?" he squinted, pulling his glasses up the bridge of his nose like he usually did. "RYVER! We don’t have TIME!" Vegeta hollered from behind me. "JUST A MINUTE!" I whined back, seeing how he was growing impatient. "Oh my goodness it IS you! But- what is it we have"- he froze, seeing the bundle in my arms. "GAAAAGH! Ryver- this isn’t"- "It sure is Doc. Meet my son, Zegeta "I smiled, letting the baby’s face stick out from the loin cloth around him "B-B-But how!? Is it, Tenchi’s?" he stuck his scaly face at the small baby boy’s pudgy nose and examined his many chubby features. "No, silly!" I giggled, and then noticed how Zegeta’s small Saiyan tail was uncoiling out of the wrapped cloth around him. "Th-Then wh-who’s is it?" he shivered, not noticing Zegeta’s tail yet. "Guess" I grinned, almost blushing at the anticipation of him guessing right. "Hmmm… GAGH! It’s a- a- a- SAIYAN tail! No- no way! Th-this is the SAIYAN’S kid!?" he gulped, finally taking a stab at his calculations and seeing my son’s tail. I frowned, my tail snapping. "Yes, Vegeta is his father" I hissed unpleasantly and then turned on my shoulder, tucking Zegeta’s tail back inside the cloth. "Oh- oh my" Doctor Tae’s eyes rolled and then he fainted on the spot. Zegeta, with his round eyes looked down at the small Galinian doctor and giggled with a cheerful, yet toothless smile. I just stared down at him, sitting small baby Zegeta on one of my hips. "RYVER! COME ON, WOMAN!" Vegeta howled impatiently with agitation. "I’m coming!" I grinned, rocking Zegeta back and forth in my arms as I strode up next to Vegeta. "All right! Let’s go" I said, looking at my son and then turning to leap into the sky and fly away beside Vegeta.
"Remember Vegeta, this isn’t gonna be a fight to the death" I came up next him and looked towards his cross face as he pressed onward, looking as though nothing was running through his head. "You just go talk to your father- I’m gonna do whatever it is I said to do when this day came" he squinted, not slowing down. I just nodded with a scowl and smiled down at the bundle in my arms. "We’re gonna go see Grandpa!" I smiled widely at Zegeta in a musical-high pitched voice. Vegeta just rolled his eyes and pressed on, pretending like he wasn’t listening to my baby talk.