Chapter one
Freeza's ship made its way trough space as fast as it could. Alone in his quarters he stared out of the round window into the vast expanse of the universe outside his ship.
He held his hands folded on his back, leaning on the base of his tail.
A few weeks ago, he had sent his private army The Ginyu-Force, to a medium sized planet, just a few light-years out of his territory. Always willing to expand his empire, he had set his mind on that planet.
When the G-Force returned in their small ball-shaped-ships, they were reluctant to brief him on what had happened. The planet had not been conquered, so they expected their master to be furious.
They told him they were literally kicked off that planet.
At first Freeza was furious indeed and was about to explode on them when they mentioned that the warriors who had kicked them off of the planet looked a lot like him.
He had demanded a full description of them and even made the members of the G-Force draw them. That last thing wasn't that successful, but Freeza got the picture.
So it seemed that there were Ice'jins in these regions of space. They sure were a long way from home.
They also mentioned warriors that could change their shape into a huge tiger-like beast. But then without the stripes and with spots. They had never seen a species that could do that.
But Freeza had. It had been a while since he had seen one of them. He had ordered his men to set a course to this planet and fly there at top speed.
Now he had retreated into his chambers. Standing in front of his window, staring beyond the stars, he returned in his mind to a long time ago.
The small Ice'jin-boy ran down the gangway of the enormous round spaceship that stood on its crab-legs like landing-gear just outside of the city-walls of the capital of a small planet in a galaxy far away from ours.
He ran past his older brother and clung onto his mother's leg. She looked down on him with a friendly smile from way up there where her face was. She was tall compared with the small boy.
Next to her stood an impressive Ice'jin. He was bigger then she was and had two horns on both sides of his head. They jutted to he side and then bent up to the heavens, ending in a sharp tip. A long dark purple – almost black – cloak hang down from his shoulders, covering his back and tail.
He looked down at the small Ice'jin. "Furiza, Did I not tell you to stay IN the ship?" he asked the boy with his deep, dark voice.
"But I want to come with you!" the boy cried and put up some real sad, big eyes. "I'm big enough to conquer a planet with you!"
"You could not even conquer my bedroom if you tried!" his older brother told him.
"Please!" The smaller boy gazed up at his father with even bigger begging eyes. "I won't cause any trouble!"
His father looked at his mother. "Did you raise him like that? Cause I sure didn't."
She grinned. "Let him come. He might learn something."
He rolled his eyes and let out a sigh. "Oh, very well then."
The eyes of the small boy started to twinkle as soon as he heard his father say that. "THANK YOU PAPA!" he cheered.
His father's big hand reached down for him and pulled him off the floor. Since the little boy could not fly by himself, he could fly with his father.
When they came closer to the city, they saw it surrounded by the army of the king of the planet. Furiza looked at his father.
"Don't worry son, this will be easy," King Kold ensured him with a dangerous smile.
Their army was way smaller then the king's army, but nevertheless way more powerful. King Kold send his men ahead to slay the weaker army. In the meantime he and his family flew over the city walls and brought a visit to the king himself.
He was in his castle, overseeing the battle from one of the towers when suddenly the huge King Kold levitated himself in front of the balcony.
"You have to power to make that stop, dear king," he said with a smirk. "Just surrender to me!"
The king frowned. "I will NEVER surrender to you!" he shouted at him.
King Kold shrugged his shoulders. "Oh, very well then." He turned around to watch the battle with him. His men butchered the king's army in no time at all. They were no match.
"Hmmm, doesn't look very good for your men, does it now? Are you ready to surrender yet?"
The king clenched his fists. "NEVER!"
At the horizon appeared a dark cloud… or at least, that was what it looked like from a distance. But very soon they could see it was a whole armada of jetfighters.
"Did you really think we would give up our planet this easily!" The king stated. "You might wanna retreat now!"
King Kold frowned as a maniacal smirk glided over his lips and in his red eyes shimmered a bright red glow.
He held out his arm, opened his hand in the direction of the armada. A ki-blast grew in the palm of his hand from a small light to a huge shimmering ball of pure energy.
"I have never retreated. Why start now?" He grinned at the king and fired the blast.
The child on his shoulder clapped his hands. "That was a big one papa!"
The huge Ice'jin blinked at his youngest child and watched as the blast wiped the armada out of the sky like they were a swarm of flies.
The king of the planet gave up very quickly after that. It was in his castle where Freeza encountered the 'tiger-with-spots' for the first time.
Later that evening at a festive diner for the new King of the planet there was a lot of entertainment. Lot of acrobats, men and women who could put a whole sword down their throats. People who could eat and spew out fire! And animal tricks.
Freeza got bored at the diner table and took off to look around in the hall among the entertainers. Then he discovered the long table with foods on it. Grabbed himself a plate, stashed it with food and hid under the table so he could eat all of it undisturbed.
Suddenly a small 'tiger-with-spots' came running across the hall. Three angry men chasing it. The beast ran over some artists and ran under the diner-table, trying to find a way out. Finally it got stuck in a corner.
One of the men chasing it had a rifle in his hands and aimed it a the beast. It charged at him and ran him over, desperately trying to find another hiding place. It ran towards the long table and disappeared behind the long table covers that reached till the floor.
With a pounding and heavily panting the small beast curled as far to the back as possible. It looked around to find another way out when it's eyes met two other eyes.
They looked at each other, both almost as afraid as the other. Freeza swallowed a peace of meat he had been chewing. He still had a bone with meat in his hand. He didn't really know what to do so he reached out his hand with the meat.
"Want some?"
The fear in the eyes of the cat faded a bit and it came towards him to take the meat. It seemed starved and at all of it off the bone.
Freeza heard men shout at each other on the other side of the table covers. Suddenly the covers were pulled up and the boy and the cat were revealed.
The cat growled and Freeza quickly put his plate behind him. King Kold, who had come to take a closer look at the chase, was somewhat surprised to see his son there.
"What are you doing down there son!" He demanded to know.
Freeza grinned. "I was playing…."
The men on his side aimed their rifles at the cat. "Please call your son away from there, so we can kill the beast!"
"NOOO!" Freeza shouted. "Don't let them kill it papa!"
King Kold raised one of his brows. "Why not son?"
"Cause….." he desperately searched his mind for an excuse. "Cause I have just adopted it as my new pet!" He said with a grin.
King Kold glanced back at his wife. She smiled as to say: "Let him have it."
He rolled his eyes. "Very well then. But you feed it yourself!"
The men grabbed the beast and threw it in a steel-bared cage. They poked it with a metal rod to force it into a corner of the small cage.
"If you damage my new pet my father will punish you!" Freeza threatened them to make them stop immediately.
Back home he named his pet Spot and showed the whole palace to his new pet. He allowed it to sleep in his room, on his bed as soon as his mother had left them alone. He told whole stories to it and walked with it in the forest around the castle.
At a certain night a thunderstorm approached the castle. Freeza woke up when he felt a paw push his shoulder.
"What?" He mumbled.
"Can I stay with you under the sheets?" a scared child's voice asked him. "The thunder scares me."
In the faint shimmer of the night-light he recognized his pet. "Sure." He held the sheets up and let it get under.
The rumbling thunder sounded far away but came closer quickly.
Suddenly Freeza jerked up the sheets. "Did you just SPEAK to me Spot!"