Opening Statement from the Author

Hello all! And thank you for choosing to read my fanfic! I just wanted to take a moment to tell everyone that this is my FIRST fanfiction EVER, so feel free to criticize, rate, review… whatever, I don't care and I would love the advise! Also, this story will be a VERY LOOOOoooOOOoooNG one, told through many shorter Fanfictions. They will not follow the same timeline of the DBZ we all know and love, and the characters will act very different. It is an A/U fic. At the moment I am also working on a website to post the unrated versions of these fics, so please be patient with me there. I will make a note at the top of the chapters that have been edited incase you would rather read the full version. J Thank you and enjoy!

Beautiful-Surrender

Prologue

King Vegeta's eyes glowed red with hate as he tightened the stiff grip he held around his wife's throat. Sounds of her suffocation echoed around the great hall, but no one dared to object. Queen Sicily turned her tear filled eyes to see her only son, barely seven years old, standing beside her lover, and most trusted adviser, Odium. Both of them wore similar expressions, a placid one; one that showed no sympathy towards her current situation what-so-ever. 'Oh how he resembles his father', she thought to herself. She could feel the life slipping out of her rigid body and knew she could no longer fight his strength. Odium smiled down at her as if he knew she had given up. His handsome features still seemed to make her heart flutter. He winked and blew her a kiss as a cruel final farewell. The royal staff surrounding the room remained silent during the whole display. It was the ghastly sound of her neck breaking that broke the silence.

The King straightened and cast his evil glare around the room. He had gone mad. Her face flooded his vision; her fair skin, toned features… and those eyes. She had blue eyes. He loathed the feelings he had for that woman, but must of all, he detested the feelings he had for loosing her. His wife's lifeless body lay untouched on the floor. This was her fault. She had had his precious Seer killed. She was the reason his sweet Sapphire was gone.

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She could barely look her husband in the eye as he lifted her lifeless form onto the medical table in his lab. Her eyes were red and swollen from all the crying she had done when she saw him come to her rescue. She remembered the initial look of shock on his face when he saw her. Sapphire had been missing for eight months and was assumed to be dead. "I am so sorry," she sobbed and covered her face with her cracked and soiled hands out of shame and humiliation. Her whole body shook with each breath she took.

Bardock stared down at his once beautiful wife. What had happened to her? What had she been through? Then he thought as he looked down at her once flat belly, 'Who had touched her?' She was pregnant. From what he could tell the child was conceived the day of her disappearance and would be born at any moment. He knew the sad truth immediately; his beautiful Sapphire would not survive the delivery. "What happened?" he asked in a raspy voice as he gathered the supplies he would need for the delivery.

"Oh, how I have wanted to tell you!" she nearly screamed as a contraction raced through her mid-section. "I have wanted to tell you for so long." She sobbed. "I was sentenced to death, my love, by the Queen herself. Eight months ago I was taken into the dessert by royal advisor, Odium. He had orders to kill me and leave me to rot. To leave me in a place where I would never be found." She paused to steel a glance at her husband who seemed to be listening intently. "This child," she continued and placed her hands gently on her swollen stomach, "this child is his. He raped me in that dessert. Repeatedly." Her body shook again as tears rolled freely down her cheeks from her beautiful blue eyes; she was the only Saiyan to ever have blue eyes. "I begged him to stop! But he wouldn't! He kept going and going! Then," she paused and closed her eyes tight, as if she were trying to recall the memory, "he left me. He left me in the middle of the dessert. Too broken and beaten to even stand. I crawled for months trying to build up the strength in my legs, but it hurt so bad. And then I realized that I was pregnant with his child. I am so sorry! Please forgive me!"

Nothing seemed to make sense to Bardock as he slowly inserted a needle into her midsection. "This will numb the pain, love." He whispered. After a few minutes her whole body was limp and numb, it was the best she had felt in a long time. She watched lovingly as he pinned up a sheet to act as a barrier between her stomach and her face. "What I don't understand," he continued as he very gently ran the scalpel across her stomach, "is why the Queen wished you dead in the first place."

"King Vegeta." She spoke in a monotone. "He was the cause of all of this. You already know that he hired me as the Royal Seer when he discovered my gift of the Sight."

"Yes."

"He would say that I had the most unusual features. He was sickly attracted to them. He was sickly attracted to me! Obsessed even." She was barely speaking above a whisper now, terrified that her two sons would hear her voice travel up the stairs. "He threatened to have you killed! Not just you, he also threatened the lives of Radditz and Kakorott! He said he was going to torture our boys! A slow and painful death." Tears streaked down her face again at the mere thought. "So I did everything he asked. I went to his bed every night. I did terrible, degrading things that no woman should ever have to do. I wanted to tell you so badly, but I was so ashamed. He would stare at me for hours at a time. Just stare."

A baby's cry echoed around the room. Everything seemed to be closing in around her. Bardock worked quickly to clean and wrap the newborn child in blankets. He sat down next to the head of the bed and rested the baby in Sapphires arms with utmost care. "It is a girl." He whispered. She had blue eyes to match her mothers. She would also have the Sight. "She is beautiful, like you." He said with a warm smile.

He was right; she did have her mother's beauty. It was this thought that terrified Sapphire the most. Would this beautiful, innocent baby have to endure the same sufferings as she has? She looked to Bardock and knew by his serious expression that he had felt her concerns through their bond. "Call her Azure. Save her." Sapphire whispered as her final request. Her body was now cold, stiff, and lifeless. She died on the table with her husband by her side and her daughter in her arms.

Bardock would respect her wishes though. He knew if Azure were to stay here the King would know Sapphire had not died eight months ago as assumed and would kill him and his sons for hiding Sapphire from him. He carefully placed the baby in a small pod and set the coordinates for a small planet called Earth, the King had not yet learned of its existence. He remembered vividly stumbling across it months ago, and the sadness that filled his heart as he looked at the inhabitance. They looked so much like his beloved Sapphire. It was lucky that female Sayains did not have a tail; he had used the last of his operating equipment delivering the child and could not have cut it off. He spent the next two hours hooking up automatic feeders, a heating device, and everything else an infant needed to survive a trip into outer space. It was going to be a long trip for this little one. Even though Azure was not his own daughter, he still loved her. Looking at the child made him remember the first time he had ever seen Sapphire. He only prayed that her beauty would not curse her as it had done her mother.