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Chapter 9
RICH AND POOR $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ A dark night around 12, a girl dressed in
complete marine blue came down from a window in the roof. She was dressed from
top to toe, even just a few meters from her you couldn't see anything but the
fact that she was a woman. Only the wind could be heard, as she tiptoed through
a room. If you could have seen her face you would have seen the few tears that
fell from her eyes. Why was she sad? And what was she doing? Who was this
mystery girl? And who was it that was waiting in the shadows?
Bloomers inhaled deep as she stopped by the glass-case within the jewels were.
It had been hard to find a way in; they had more protection for the jewels than
the last time she had been there. ~ Tonight I'll give them to you bastard, and
tomorrow I'll kill you! ~ She thought, taking out her "thing" to cut
holes in glass with. (I have no idea, what you call that thing...) Soundless she
fastened the "thing" to the case, and made a round hole in it. She was
just about to take the jewels out, when someone lightened up the room. "So,
returning again aren't we? That was very stupid of you..." Vegeta said
coming out followed by a lot of guards. "But that just makes it all easier
to me." He said, and then turned from smirking to scowling. "Get
her!" The guards charged at her. She looked around for a way to escape and
the she saw her only way out, it just had to work. She jumped forward and
grabbed the hold of a carpet that was hanging on the wall. Then she jumped from
the carpet to a table, which she ran over quickly, and the she jumped forward
again and got a hold on her robe, finally she climbed up. "Till next time
prince." She said, then she was gone. Vegeta shook his head. "Stupid
girl," he muttered then he ran out of the castle, and climbed up a robe
that was waiting for him.
Bloomers ran across the roof. "Get off the roof, get off the roof, get off
the roof!" (Ops since when did I put Mulan in here too?) She ran, and ran,
and ran right into something. "Oh no." "So, no new ideas lately?
Do you have a horse waiting for you on the side or something?" He asked
mocking her. "Let me go, and I'll never return to this country again!"
Bloomers said meaning it; she would leave and never return, even though she
didn't want to. "No way, I'll kill you in public, that way the people will
understand that I do not like thieves." Bloomers cried silently. "What
now. Jeez you'd think a thief like you would die with honour..." She shook
her head. "Kill me! Now!" Vegeta raised an eyebrow. "That's gotta
be one of a kind. A thief wishing to die?" "It's for your own
good." She cried. "Ha, now that's a joke. Hilarious, you think I'd
believe you." She starred into his eyes angry. "You wait and see
Vegeta, you wait and see."
He was speechless as he escorted her to her prison cell. Her look, the words, he
was like thunderstruck, what had she meant. Tomorrow was going to be a happy
day, he would marry Bloomers and become king, then why did her words bother him?
Was he in danger? Was his father? Or, was it Bloomers who was in danger? He
shook his head; no, he probably just needed to sleep a couple of hours then it
would be gone, the strange feeling he had would be all gone.
***************************************************************** Bardock awoke
in the middle of the night, as people were rather nosy outside. He got up.
"What is going on?" He grumbled out the window. "The have caught
her. They have caught The Blue Shadow!" A young lad who was out on the
street yelled. Bardock frowned, ~ Bloomers. ~ "Have they killed her?"
He asked. "No and they haven't reviled who she is yet either. The prince is
gonna execute her publicly." "She deserves it, I personally think. She
is a rat, and rats does not deserves to live." Some woman chatted, and soon
the whole street was gossiping. Bardock on the other hand was standing in the
window silent, frowning. ~ In public? I better help her. What was she doing
stealing anyway? It could be her 'father'. Maybe I should pay him a visit. ~
Bardock's wife sat up. "What is going on darling?" "I'm going
out." He said getting dressed. "Oh, well be careful!" She said as
he left. "I will." He smiled to her and closed the door. "You
better be." Then she pulled the covers up to under her nose. "You
better be."
***************************************************************** "Raditz
get your lazy ass out here!" Bardock yelled. The sleepy guy opened his
door, and screwed up his eyes at the sudden light from the torches his father
and brother were holding. "What?" He asked. "You just be glad
that you didn't awake Lilly!" "Actually we'll need both of you to
help." Raditz looked at them strangely. "Now? In the middle of the
night?! What for?" After a short explanation, Raditz agreed on helping.
"But keep in mind that I'm doing this for the prince, so that he will not
be humiliated. Your little friend I have nothing left for." Bardock nodded.
"I understand. But do not judge her, for you know only half the
story." (Whohoo. Look at me n.n)
He went inside and came out 10 minutes later followed by his wife Lilly.
"Lilly, I'll need you and Chichi to go to the castle and await me there.
Kakkarot you go with them!" Bardock said. Then he looked at his oldest son.
"Raditz I want you to come with me, there's something I want you to
see." The 3 rode of towards the castle, while Raditz and Bardock rode of
towards a small town, towards one dirty scumbag who needed to be taught a lesson
or two.
"Father, you are not falling for the girl, are you?" Raditz asked as
they rode. "No. But I can assure you that I care for her, she's like my own
daughter." "I know you lost Diamond, but don't go get all psycho at us
here! The girl is a thief, and a murder, doesn't a murder deserve to die?"
Bardock closed his eyes. "Every murder who kills with cold blood, like the
one who killed my little girl (Diamond) but not a person who killed to survive.
I believe that this girl deserves a second chance. AND, she'd be the best queen
in a million years."
They stopped in front of a house, tied their horses, and went inside. "Wake
up!" Bardock ordered slamming the bedroom door open. Mr. and Misses scum
awoke groggily. "Who's there?" The woman asked. "It's General
Bardock, and I wish to speak with the man in this house." The man stumbled
around a little and finally came out dressed in some dirty clothe. "What is
it sir?" He asked making a quick bow. "I wish to see you outside to
talk about your daughter," Bardock said emotionless. "Ha-has she been
hurt?" He asked, well he wasn't quite worth and Oscar and Raditz began to
get the idea. "No, not yet." Bardock said. "And I do no longer
wish to see you outside I demand you to follow me!" "Bu-but it is in
the middle of the night, sire." Raditz took a hold of the man's collar.
"And we don't give a damn. Are you coming with us the easy way or the hard
way?" Bardock looked at his son, and nodded to him, as they began dragging
the older male out of the house. Outside they gave him a nice beating, and got
the information they needed. Raditz spat at him before leaving him a bloody pulp
near death in the dirt. "Come near the castle again, and we won't spare
your pathetic life." Bardock smiled as they rode of towards the castle.
"I thought you were only doing this for the prince..." "I was.
But it was just the talk between you two before we kicked his ass, I don't know,
guess you raised me to good." "There's no chance." Raditz
grunted, and kicked his horse in the sides.
They were at the castle in no time. (Okay so I'm moving a little fast, but I'll
torture the father more, later...) Lilly and Chichi were chatting and Kakkarot
was leaning on a wall napping. Bardock jumped of the horse followed by Raditz.
"Okay, this is what we are gonna do: Chichi and Lilly will distract the
guards..."
Lilly and Chichi walked up to the guards who were guarding the prison wing.
"Oh, I can't believe it, it's real guards from the royal palace."
Lilly said. "And so strong," Chichi chirped. The two guards, smirked,
and chuckled. "What is a couple of beautiful ladies like you doing down
here?" "I think, we are lost, could you help us a little?" Lilly
asked biting the top of her thumb seductively.
"Then we'll come out, out of no where and knock them out..."
The guards didn't even have a chance to realise what had happened; they blacked
out, both of them.
"Then Raditz and I'll go see a certain prisoner... if there's any guards in
the way we will have to kill them."
Lilly and Chichi were ordered to go outside and wait, and of course they had
Kakkarot to look out for them. "Will two of us really be enough,
father?" Raditz asked walking slowly into the prison of many thieves,
murders, and faultlessly accused people. "The truth? I hope so..."
A guard was sleeping in a chair, that and the other one they had just killed
were the only once whom was there to guard the prison wing, well them and the
once outside the door. Finally they came to the cell where Bloomers was locked
in. "Bloomers?" Bardock whispered. She looked through the barred
windows, and cried. "I hoped you'd come to save me." "Well I'm
not alone, but you can say thank you later. Right now we gotta get this door
open."
Half an hour later they came outside to meet Kakkarot, Chichi, and Lilly waiting
with horses, and a dress. "How can I ever thank you?" "Don't
worry, you will when time comes." Lilly said. Then they rode of leaving
Bloomers alone. ~ You didn't win this time father. ~
"Going out? I thought I had told you that you were grounded." Bloomers
shut her eyes, wishing she had heard wrong. She turned around to find Vegeta all
alone. "What are you doing outside alone in the middle of the night?"
She asked. "Funny I'd expect it to be me asking that question..." She
sighed. "Are you alone?" "Yeah, not that it matters. Why?"
Bloomers lifted her mask slowly, and then she dropped it on the ground.
"That's why Vegeta. That's why I was so secretly. That's why I disappeared
years ago. That's why my life is the way it is. And that's why I wanted to know
if you were alone." "But why now? Were you planning on running away
from me?" "No. I had no cho-" "Spare your breath thief! My
wonder is why you would even kiss me, is that your sick way of mocking me?"
Bloomers shook her head crying. "No Vegeta I-" "It's Prince
Vegeta to you, slut. GUARD!" He yelled. "I'll kill you tomorrow be
sure of that, but now I'll have to find another way, as to not make a fool out
of myself." "Listen to me! My father-" "I know your story,
remember? I wish you would just drop dead, save me the trouble." She cried,
falling to her knees, not even resisting when the guards dragged her back to her
cell. *****************************************************************
Vegeta awoke feeling very bad. Why would she do this to him? Damn her. He had
only liked her, and now he hated her. She was a fool for even coming to the last
ball. Why had she been there? That was the time where there would have been
practically no protection around the jewels. So why go risking her life stealing
them later? He shook his head; all these thoughts were giving him a headache. ~
How will I kill her? Not public for sure. But she shall still be punished for
her doing. Hmm, fight, no, a hunt. Yes a hunt, in the forest. She'll have to
stay alive 24-hours, unarmed with me hunting her. That should teach that witch a
lesson...! Nobody plays around with prince Vegeta, NO ONE! ~ Not even his own
heart... *****************************************************************
The sun was gone behind some clouds, but it was strangely warm, and people were
all gathered on the open plats in front of the castle. Today was indeed a
different day. A boy or a young man walked slowly out on a platform, placed on
the plats, to pronounce a hunt... He looked sad, determinant, hurt, angry and
the last feeling, guilty. He tried to cover up his feelings with a growl, but he
couldn't hide what his heart was feeling...
Vegeta cleared his throat and the crowd silenced, waiting eagerly for their
prince's announcement. "I will marry a girl, worthy the throne, tomorrow,
but before that I have a thief to execute. As you all probably have heard I've
caught The Blue Shadow... But the rumours that I was gonna execute her public
were wrong. I have decided a better punishment for a rat like her."
Mumbling/gossip filled the crowd, Vegeta cleared his throat again, and once
again he got full attention. "A hunt. That is right, I will hunt her like
the animal she is. She'll have to survive 24 hours in a forest, with no weapons
or other sort of things to help her. Now to some that might seem impossible and
with me hunting her she'll have no chance... But if she do succeed and survive
the 24 hours she will be free to go. Though I personally can stand in for the
fact that tomorrow by this time I will return with her dead body." The
cheers filled the crowd; some were a little disappointed but the armed guards
standing around the plats made everybody cheer.
Vegeta smirked to the crowd, and then he turned and walked back inside, this
time he looked terrified. He would have to kill her, his childhood friend. His
mind drifted back to when they were only kids.
# Flash back: The only 5-year old Vegeta walked down the halls to his room. He
stopped in front of a blue haired girl who was crying. "You cry baby what
happened this time?" He asked. "The big boys teased me, and then they
stole my doll." The young Bloomers wailed. Vegeta looked around to see a
couple of 10-year old boys (for them 10 is big) in the other end of the hall.
"If I get it for you will you stop wailing?" Vegeta asked. Bloomers
sniffled and nodded a yes. Vegeta sighed and went down the hall, 10 minutes
later he came back with the doll. "Here you go, now leave, I won't have
trash like you filling up our halls." (Such language for a 5-year old.)
Bloomers didn't even hear his reply; she just grabbed the doll, jumped up and
hugged the prince. "Thank you, thank you, thank you. I knew you'd help me,
you'd never hurt me!" "Never say never," Vegeta mumbled. #
"Never say never" Vegeta sighed. Why did he have to do this anyway? Oh
yeah because she was a thief. He had loved the idea about The Blue Shadow
before, but now that he knew it was she, he hated it. A thought struck him, the
diary, those had been her words, her father had molested her from she was a
child. But if she had such bad life, why didn't she return as Bloomers before?
So many questions and he couldn't even ask her to answer them. Noooo, cause he
had to slay her, in less than 24 hours. ~ Great idea... ~
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Bloomers were dumped in the dirt. "24 hours whore, see if you can handle
that!" A guard said, then he spit her in the face. Vegeta came up to her
after they had left. "You know I'm glad we didn't get married, most people
deal with ordinary trouble but us, oh no, we would have had trouble like well
this, it'd be a real mess if it suddenly came out that the queen was also a
dirty thief." Bloomers stood up and glared at him angrily. "If you
would have listened to me, that wouldn't have been a problem, oh my lord. So
now, if you don't mind I'll try to stay alive for the next 24 hours, so I can
live the rest of my pathetic life in peace." With that she left him. Vegeta
looked after her, she'd need one-hour head start, and then he'd follow. No
matter how much he hated it he would have to do this, it wasn't like they were
that close, but he had known her when they were kids, now she finally had
returned and also this time caught his eye, slight different though...
(Person jump)
Bloomers took off her shoes; she'd leave them somewhere, and her mask somewhere
else just to confuse him. Then she took a swim in the river, well it wasn't for
fun, she needed to get further into the forest without leaving any traces that
he could use to find her. All the time she swam and searched for a place to hide
she thought about her past, trying to remember things from her early childhood,
things that'd keep her going. She gave up when the only real things she could
remember was Vegeta and that didn't quite help her.
(Person jump)
Vegeta found the shoes, but was pretty sure that she wasn't anywhere near them,
first of all they were planted too perfectly, and second of all he couldn't see
why she would stay in that area, it was very overgrown. Then he found her mask,
planted also too perfectly. So he went searching the middle of the forest.
There was a long river going pretty much across the forest. Vegeta examined it,
and smirked devilishly. ~ Not bad. ~ Then he took of his armour and jumped into
the river. After a long swim he came to a waterfall. ~ Strange ~ he thought. ~
She has completely disappeared. ~ He swam into the side, not wanting to take a
dive in the waterfall. The stream wasn't all that powerful, but if he got to
close he wouldn't have much of a chance to survive. He stood up, and looked
across the river to see if he could find any signs of her. Suddenly he saw a
blue glance between some bushes; he smirked. "Woman, give up I have seen
you!" He got no answer so he decided to go catch her. He jumped from stone
to stone to, shoot; he fell right into the river. Trying to get up, he twisted
and turned, but the stream was getting more and more powerful. Vegeta tried
harder and harder to get up, but he just couldn't keep himself at the surface
for more than a minute per time.
Suddenly a hand was placed right in front of him, ready to pull him up. He
grabbed it, and looked up at Bloomers, he questioned her with his eyes.
"I'd never get a peaceful moment if they came to think that I'd killed
their prince." The branch she was holding on to made a noise. "Woman
let go, you'll get us both killed." "I'm going to die anyway, and if I
don't help you, you'll die!" She hissed the pain in her arm getting worse
for each second. The branch made another noise, and Vegeta let go of her hand.
"It's not like I want to kill you." Bloomers grabbed out with both of
her hands catching Vegeta's hand right before it slipped. "Stupid,
ignorant, arrogant, idiot stop you suicide mission and help me get you onto safe
ground!" She yelled. Vegeta looked up, and saw a moment of truth in her
eyes, with that as a support; he jumped safely onto the ground. Bloomers sighed,
but then the branch made a final noise and it cracked, she screamed trying to
get a hold on something. She did, she got the hold of a hand?! Vegeta smirked
pulling her back in. "Woman, you have a very screechy voice!" She
looked at him angrily, but he just laughed and pulled her down on the grass with
him.
She looked into his eyes. "So is this where you stab a knife in my back and
watch me die?" "No, this is the moment I ask you why you saved me,
when my assignment was to kill you?!" "I already told you, I-"
"Don't give me that bullshit, I want the truth!" Bloomers looked at
him, and then she got up and started to collect some twigs and small branches.
"I see," he sighed. "You are hopelessly in love with me, though I
fully understand, you can not expect me to take you as my wife." Vegeta
said in his royal tone of voice mocking her. She threw a twig at him. "I'm
building a fire, it's getting dark, so either you help me or do your duty and
kill me." Vegeta stood up. "If, I help you, you must answer my
question!" "I'd be happy to, if you answer mine." She said,
throwing more twigs in a heap of twigs and branches. "What question?"
"Why did YOU save ME?" "Easy because I wanted to kill you with my
own hands." "The truth! Please?" They locked eyes for a couple of
minutes, then Vegeta looked away, Bloomers sighed and then went on building a
fire.
They sat on each side of the fire, trying to keep warm, but their clothes were
still wet, and the night was cold. (Down hentai! I said down! Not yet! Good
hentai.) Vegeta looked at Bloomers; she was trembling with cold. He sighed; the
silence was getting unbearable. "I saved you because, woman, I've come to
like you, don't ask me why!" Bloomers looked up. "But you were going
to kill me." He shrugged. "I was angry, I'm still am, why did you have
to try and steal the damn jewels anyway?" "I." "Was it
because of me?" She shook her head. "No. You were all I've ever dreamt
of. That was probably why I saved you. But my father 'blackmailed' me. He told
me that he could prove to you that I was The Blue Shadow, if I didn't steal the
jewels. And I was expecting your reaction to be immediately death... Besides I
wanted to become the queen, marry you, live the life I never had before."
He laughed. "So you are hopelessly in love with me." Bloomers growled.
"You jerk. I'm never telling you anything personal ever again!" She
stood up, and began walking away. Suddenly a hand touched her shoulder, breaking
her. The hand disappeared from her shoulder and two strong arms slit around her
waist, dragging her close to the body behind her. "I like it." He said
softly. "I like it that you are hopelessly in love with me."
"Don't flatter yourself." She mumbled. He turned her around, and
brushed his hand through her hair. "You are so ugly," he whispered.
She smirked. "So are you." She leaned forward for a kiss, but he
closed his eyes and turned his head away shaking it. "I should have known
that you would never touch a thief. I'm sorry, I'm sorry for being pushed to
steal and kill. I'm sorry that I was molested. I'm sorry I was kidnapped when I
was 5. I'm so sorry that I cannot please you my lord. I'm so-" Vegeta had
enough he pushed her up a tree, and gave her no time to react before his lips
touched hers, nearly begging for her to give into the kiss, luckily she didn't
keep him waiting for very long.
They pulled apart and she looked at him puzzled. "Jeez, YOU must be
hopelessly in love with ME." She said smirking, and gave him a quick kiss.
"I certainly don't hope so." He said and let go of her making her fall
onto the ground.
***************************************************************** Later that
night: Bloomers had her head placed on his chest. "Tomorrow, what will we
do then?" He closed his eyes relaxing. "Get married I suppose."
She turned to look at his face. "And The Blue Shadow, what will you tell
them happened to her? And my 'father' what will we do about him?"
"Don't worry so much everything will work out just fine...!"
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