This is the squeal to my first story Saiyan Princess =)

If you haven't read that one first you will have no idea what's going on here so i suggest you go read it haha :)

I don't own Dragon ball or the characters, unfortunately for me.

If you don't like the twist on the original story from the show then don't read these.

The rating is just in case things get worse later on...hehe, the updates probably won't be as quick as the last story but i'll do my best! hope you enjoy it.

He was breathing hard as he ran toward what he thought to be the escape he needed to make. He was battered and bruised and every step seemed to hurt more and more. The trees seemed to get thicker and thicker, or maybe it was just his vision blurring again, he couldn't really tell. The information he had just received needed to get back to the King of Vegeta-sai and it needed to get there straight away. He thought back to what he had seen and heard

"The prince and princess are our targets, and once we have them we'll be unstoppable. Vegeta-sai won't know what hit it,"

"But aren't the prince and princess very strong? And isn't the king supposed to be a legendary super Saiyan? I don't know if…" the soldier had been hiked up by the one that looked in charge and was being choked almost to death

"Are you disobeying my orders? I am to be King of that planet! And no one will stop me!" he then threw the soldier aside without looking at him twice and continued to speak to the rest of the men there.

"We have training to do, while we have numbers they have strength and with the amount of skill we have right now, we have no chance at all of winning. So gentlemen, I suggest you get started,"

The young Prince shuddered as he remembered the tone in the man's voice. He seemed angry, ready to kill someone to be able to rule. It wasn't long after he had heard that information and was trying to get back to his ship did they catch him and a fight ensued. He winced slightly as his legs burned more and more as he continued to run. He sensed them behind him but he couldn't stop now, too much was riding on him making back alive with this message. As he made it onto the ship, stumbling as he did so, it was well hidden from the rest of the world the words of his father entered his mind

"You are never to return here, you are too weak to be called my son and if I ever see you in the area again your punishment will be much worse than a simple banishment. If I see you again, your punishment will be death, you're lucky I've spared you so far, now go,"

He hesitated a moment to set the coordinates for what used to be his home. His father hadn't even looked back once as he sent him out the door never to be seen again. For a moment, just a moment he thought what if this information didn't get back? What if he just stayed there and didn't have to worry about what would happen when they found him back on the planet he had been banished from? What did it matter?

The determination in his eyes was clear as he set the coordinates for home that he had burned into his memory. His big brother was in trouble and his heart wouldn't let him not to anything. He had to warn him that someone was coming for him. He had no idea who this princess was but she was probably someone lined up to be Vegeta's mate so he had to warn her too. He wasn't sure that he believed his father had become a super Saiyan. But he'd see when he got there.

A voice was heard through the computer

"Course for Vegeta-sai set, departure in thirty-five seconds,"

He took in a deep breath

"I'm heading home…father…brother…I just hope I'm not too late,"

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"Ha-ha! Beat you again!" Trunks stuck his tongue out at his twin and laughed as he dodged a punch to his stomach

"Yeah, Yeah laugh it up chuckles! You won't be laughing when I beat you next time," Veala wiped her mouth and glared at her brother, she loved him to pieces but when he was in this kind of mood bad things always happened.

"What's got you in such a playful mood huh? Finally pick out a good outfit to wear for the ceremony in a few days?" She smiled as he scoffed

"No, you know mom's going to pick something out for me no matter what I want to wear, so I just haven't bothered looking, and even if there was a particular reason I'm in this mood, it's no business of yours little sister,"

Veala felt her eye twitch in irritation, they were only eight and a half minutes apart but because he was born first he made it a point to always make sure she knew she was younger than him. He just placed a pat on her head and made his way inside to get ready for the rest of the day.

"Wait up Trunks!" Veala scrambled to get up and ran to catch up to him only to bump into a guard on her way inside

"Oof!" she fell back onto her butt, closed an eye and rubbed the back of her head "Oww,"

"Princess! I'm so sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going!" the guard in question was none other than Goku one of her mother and father's best fighters and most trusted friends. He picked her up and dusted her off with a smile.

"It's alright Goku; I wasn't paying attention either…" while it was more polite to call him by his big fancy title, since he was second in command of the royal army, he was like an uncle to the Prince and Princess so they just called him by his name. Not to mention his son was one of Trunks' best friend and was a sort of friend/enemy/crush/ plaything of the Princess herself. Her father had never liked them spending time together, but they always seemed to be partnered up for training and whenever she went on outings she needed a guard as well as her brother so Goten went with them.

"Getting excited for the coming of age ceremony in a few days? You and Trunks are getting so old! Seventeen already! I remember it when you were both tiny little things needing protection and affection from your parents, which by the way they gave you and Trunks lots and lots of until you were old enough to know what was going on," Goku did that little chuckle of his and Veala nodded once

"Yeah I'm not really all that excited….with both of my parents they didn't even try to find their mate until they were way older….my Father was far too stubborn to let his father choose, and my mother either drove everyone away herself because she didn't like them or my grandpa didn't let them anywhere near her to begin with," those thoughts alone helped relieve her and make her nervous at the same time. Her parent's history of not being able to find anyone to be with until they were much older meant her genes weren't going to help her there.

But it also meant she could pull the 'But you didn't until you were older' card and neither of them could argue with her about it if she didn't want to be courted until she was older.

Goku laughed lightly and shook his head

"Be glad Vegeta didn't go with the first girl chosen for him! She was a real witch! Don't rush into anything alright? You're young and have lots of adventures to go on so if you don't want to be courted then tell your father, I'm sure he'll understand,"

This statement made her chuckle once

"You know my dad better than that Goku, he doesn't just 'understand' someone else's opinion, and if it's not his you're wrong,"

"Captain!" he was being called from down the hallway, so he smiled at the young princess and gave her a pat on the head

"Just try it, okay? I'll see you later Princess,"

She watched him run off to see what was going on and she sighed lightly. Her father, Vegeta great super Saiyan and ruler of the entire planet, was capable of understanding? Whatever Goku was smoking he needed to get off of it before it made him even stupider than before.

Veala composed herself enough to find Trunks and yell at him through their bond

'You jerk, where'd you go?'

'Not my fault you're slow, where I am is none of your concern little sister,'

'Trunks! I'm only eight and a half minutes younger than you! Shut up with the little comments!'

'What if I was referring to the fact that you're really short huh?' Trunks could really get under her skin; they knew almost everything about each other, since they were really little they'd been close. She growled out loud and closed her eyes to sense where he was, their mom's lab huh…perfect. She smirked a very Vegeta like smirk as she walked towards the lab, hiding her energy so he wouldn't know she was coming.

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"Woman!" Vegeta stormed into the west lab being as loud as he could possibly be, making Bulma jump and almost drop what she was doing.

"What the HELL Vegeta!"

She took a deep breath and carefully set down her project that she was working on

"Do you understand that if I had dropped that and it shattered you would have had to make me another one? And I'm the only one with enough skill and intelligence in this room to build it, so you're very lucky it didn't break!" she took another breath and her arms folded across her chest, while a glare settled itself on her face

"What? What is so important that you needed to interrupt me? Aren't you supposed to be picking more suitors for our daughter?"

Vegeta had to count to ten in his mind to keep from yelling at her, his glare matched hers as he said angrily

"Focus for just a minute, woman, we have some things to attend to you'll have to put your invention on hold for just a little while,"

Bulma opened her mouth to argue with him but he grabbed her arm and pulled her against him before she could. His glare was still on his face as he said,

"Once we're done with the preparations for the ceremony coming up and Trunks is off training while Veala is holding back the urge to murder each and every one of the idiots lined up for her to chose from or not, we'll have a lot more free time and you can get back to your precious inventions, but for right now, you have queenly duties to attend to, so no arguing. Just get it done and we'll have time to do so many other things, it'll only be five days and you can have the lab to yourself,"

Bulma sighed and scowled lightly as she tried to move and his arms tightened around her, she took the hint and wrapped her arms around his neck lightly,

"I despise you…."

He just rolled his eyes and stole a quick kiss, without anyone looking he was so much more affectionate than in public.

"Well make sure you only despise me until after the ceremony, so that just maybe we can have some fun. Now no more messing around we have work to do," one arm was around her as they started walking towards the council room.

"King Vegeta! Queen Bulma!" It was Goku running towards them

"Kakarot, what is it we're busy," Vegeta didn't make any effort to stop but Bulma stopped him and smiled at their friend, which made Vegeta scowl slightly.

"What's up Goku?"

He bowed slightly then had a very unusual look on his face; it was almost a serious look which didn't happen very often.

"We've just received word from our fleet in the southeast sector, you know by the planets that are usually or are supposed to be abandoned?"

Vegeta glared slightly at him, there were only two things he knew about those planets, one was that some people who had been banished by his father were sent there to die, and two that it was approximately three days away if you were going as fast as his fastest ship could take you, four to five days in anything slower.

"What did they have to say?"

"Apparently a ship left the closest planet to ours and is headed this way…they didn't see it as a threat seeing as it was an escape pod and no weapons were detected so they reported it was coming and are leaving it up to you to decide what to do with it when it gets here in four-five days,"

Vegeta was immediately suspicious, he couldn't think who would still be alive on that planet that could work a ship and make it back here, and if they had been exiled then it was a suicide mission. What idiot would do that?

"Hn, tell the fleet to stay on their regular course in their area…when this pod gets here we'll deal with it, I expect you and the guard to be there as well, you might want to give them a few days notice so they'll be ready, now I have things to be doing,"

"Vegeta! What if this is really serious shouldn't we take some precautionary measures? Like I don't know…intercept the pod before it gets here and bring it back captive so that if it's an enemy we'll be ready?"

Vegeta rolled his eyes then looked at Goku with a nod, signaling him to listen to the King and not the blue haired female standing next to him.

"Yes, sir." Goku bowed again and then went back to relay the message.

"Vegeta! What if this is really bad…and someone's trying to blow up the planet!" Bulma was protesting the entire way to the council room and Vegeta just ignored her and practically pushed her through the door to distract her with which colors she should pick to go with their heirs' personalities.

Once he had her distracted enough to leave he flew to the other side of the castle, he'd sometimes do this, just to see what was going on with his kids. Trunks and some girl were in the twins' lab doing some things that made Vegeta shudder; he wouldn't interrupt them because he saw a very flustered looking Veala walk away from the door she had just been spying in. She ran to the training grounds and shot the first dummy she found; blasting it to nothingness then sat down and visibly shuddered. He chuckled slightly, knowing she was just as freaked out about that scene as he was.

It was a rare thing to find one of the twins separated from the other and Vegeta had to take advantage of this opportunity. So very quietly he flew down and hid his energy so Veala couldn't sense him and came up close behind her with a wicked look in his eyes.

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Veala was about to puke, she had gone to see what Trunks was up to and found him and one of the princesses that were on the planet waiting for him to turn seventeen making out against one of the walls. It was enough to make her never want to go into that lab ever again.

Now she knew why he didn't want her following him. After shooting a dummy and getting that out of her system she took a deep breath and sat down with a shudder. She tilted her head slightly sensing something, but as quickly as she sensed it, it was gone so she closed her eyes to focus more, and just as she was beginning to think it was all gone she turned and reflexively blocked a kick to the back of her head

"Ah…." She saw who it was and blinked a few times

"Dad…why are you trying to kill me?"

"Don't be stupid, a kick that light would have only given you a concussion maybe, and I would never actually kill you, unless you and some boy do what your brother and that girl are doing in your lab right there. Then I might, but he'd die first I promise you that,"

Veala got a look of disgust on her face

"Yeah right…me ever do that ever? Don't worry about that happening,"

Vegeta scowled lightly, thinking about how he had been the same way but had gotten over it very quickly when he met a certain girl,

"Hn,"

"So what're you doing out here? Don't you and mom have a whole bunch of stuff you have to be doing?" Veala tilted her head in an adorable confused way

"Your mother has to pick out all the colors and see to the details before I can authorize any of it so I'm just waiting, but knowing Bulma it could take forever,"

Veala nodded slightly and sighed, looking up at the sky

"Dad….do I have to have a mate? I mean… I don't really want one…" she was really talking to herself but Vegeta answered her

"Yes, you do have too. And I have to approve of him," Vegeta knew that she didn't want to admit it, but his little girl wasn't as physically strong as the rest of his family, she had smarts and looks. She was fast and flexible but compared to her brother she was barely half as strong. He knew it had something to do with what happened when she was little, just barely a year old and the thoughts made his eyes go from onyx black to navy blue, but he controlled his anger and didn't transform like his body wanted him to do. That's why he wanted her to find a strong mate so that he could protect her. Trunks wouldn't be around with her to protect her forever, and neither would he, he wanted to be sure she was safe forever.

Veala nodded slightly, but she knew she had to approve first then him, so she had a plan to just say no to them all.

They both looked over to the lab when they heard laughing, Goten had opened the door and Trunks was just standing there shaking his head like the kid was the biggest idiot ever.

"Hn, I have to go see to things with your mother, go keep your brother out of trouble,"

"I'll try Dad but Trunks gets that trouble making side from mom…and we've seen how it works out when you try to keep her out of trouble…." She giggled at the look he gave her and he couldn't keep the glare on his face, he loved to see her happy.

"Yes well try at least, you're in charge of him until after the ceremony," Vegeta gently ruffled her hair and flew off to go see what Bulma was doing.

Veala smiled, watched her father fly away then flew over to her brother, and smacked him in the head

"Trunks you moron, what were you thinking? Dad saw you and you're lucky he's in a good mood today because if not we both know he'd have told mom and you'd be grounded…literally ten feet into the ground and it'd hurt like hell, be more careful next time…"

Trunks rubbed the back of his head and groaned a little

"There probably won't be a next time because of this idiot!" he pointed to Goten

"What'd I do? Come on Trunks it was funny!"

"To you maybe! Now I'll never get to court her and…Gah you're a dead man next sparing session!" Trunks grabbed him and gave him a noogie, like the best friends that they were it made Veala smile.

"I'm going to go see if she'll forgive me enough to talk to me…see you later guys!" Trunks shoved Goten backwards as he ran forward to go get his girl with a smirk on his face knowing it was a hard enough shove to send him stumbling right into Veala. What he wasn't expecting is her to be so surprised that she'd let their block down for their bond and he saw exactly what happened which made him snicker

'You're welcome,' he said to her mentally then put the block back up.

Veala almost growled but was far too embarrassed to be mad at Trunks in that moment; Goten had fallen right into her sending them both tumbling to the floor. Her cheeks were a bright red, and it took a moment for Goten to realize their position. He had fallen flat on top of her crushing her a little bit

"Oh! Princess I'm so sorry! Are you hurt?! Should we get you to the hospital wing? Your face is all red what are you…?"

He then noticed how his body was directly over hers, one of his knees pressed to the floor between her legs and his hands on either side of her head.

He scrambled backwards and hopped up, taking her hands and helping her up in the process, his cheeks were now a bright red as well and he tried to say something intelligent to get himself out of this situation but he wasn't good at that. He was a little oblivious to what was going on around him most of the time.

"S-Sorry…" he stammered out.

"It's a-alright," she said looking down, rubbing the side of her arm, not able to meet his gaze, what was it exactly was she feeling in that moment? She wasn't sure but she didn't know if she liked it or not.

"I should…I should probably go…" she said barely above a whisper and she turned to walk away. What she didn't see was Goten reaching a hand towards her arm as if he was going to stop her, but he hesitated at the last moment.

When she wasn't in his sight anymore he looked up at the ceiling and said

"Damn….really,"

"I'll say!"

"Bug off Trunks! You didn't help that situation at all! You know I like her and that we can't ever be together so why try to get us together? So the King can kill me? Great plan man…"

"Oh come on Goten, if Veala would admit her own feelings then my dad couldn't say no! she's got him wrapped around her fingers, like me and you,"

"We are NOT wrapped around her…"

Trunks shut him up with one look

"When was the last time either of us said no to her? Argued with her without her winning? Told her to get lost? Let me answer that for you…never! She's got us wrapped around her fingers, something about Veala just….i don't know man she does that to just about everyone,"

Goten looked back in the direction she walked in then punched the wall hard enough to leave a dent, and then he let out a frustrated sigh.

"So that means that the princes and dukes and every other guy of royal blood that your dad invites here is going to love her and I have no chance…that's what you're saying?"

Trunks laughed a little and gave him a pat on the back, the best friends talked all the way to the training field.

Life for the twins had been normal since they had turned two. But things weren't going to stay that way for long. The pod on the way to their planet would arrive and deliver the news of what was going on a short ways away. The normal life they had all been living was about to come to a screeching halt.