Akisa's Life
Chapter 1 part 1: Meeting the Prince
A small saiyan girl with a long, black, shiny tail was scurrying around her tiny house getting ready for morning training.
Her bedroom was small and dark, but Akisa didn't mind. She slipped on black shorts, a white undershirt, and a one-strapped deep purple body armor. Her tiny hand grabbed her mothers hairbrush of the bed and quickly began running it through her hair. Her eyebrows furrowed as the brush caught in a knot.
Soon, her dark brown, grey streaked hair was glossy. Akisa had always thought that it was her hair and tail that made her special. Most normal saiyans had pitch black hair and tan colored tails.
Akisa grabbed her fathers black scouter and put it over her left eye. Then, she grabbed a small apple off the clean kitchen counter while shouting, "Bye mom! Bye dad!" to two small, framed pictures of her parents.
Akisa was an orphan, both of her parents had died on a mission and their bodies were never found. Not very surprising for third-class saiyans.
The small child scrambled over the thick forest floor. The knotted roots catching on her small feet. In five minutes, she opened the door to the training center, and made her way over to the room her parents had preserved for her before they died.
Akisa was about to open the heavy door when a certain, flame haired boy walked around the corridor corner.
Prince Vegeta was accompanied by his bulky, bald-headed body guard. Akisa's face blanched. She quickly side-steeped to the wall, put a quaking hand over her heart, and bowed with as much respect as she could muster.
"Well, would you look at this Nappa, the first, third-class filth who respects me and doesn't shy away like the others." Came the princes' husky voice.
Something in his voice sounded almost haunted. She tightened her dark tail around her waist for reassurance.
"Stand down, child." Vegeta barked.
Akisa quickly jolted up. She held her chin high and stared at the opposite wall, not daring to even glace at the Prince. If she did, it meant death. Any third-class saiyan who stole a glance or stared the royal family in the eyes would be punished.
Her heart thumped wildly as her Prince walked in front of her, making her looks at him. A small trickle of sweat sped down her small face as she got her first real look at the saiyan Prince.
Chapter 1 part 2: Endurance
The young boy who stood before her was definitely the Prince. The flowing, poppy red cape, flame shaped hair defying every law of gravity, and very distinctive widows peak totally told him off.
Some of Akisa's dark brown bangs fell in front of her blue-grey eyes. Vegeta was severely tempted to brush the bangs out of her beautiful eyes. Instead, he held her trembling gaze.
"Be on your way." Vegeta grunted after breaking away from her deep eyes.
Akisa bowed quickly before slipping into her training room. After breathing a sigh of relief, she floated over to the control panel and set the gravity to x10. As the room began to glow red, Akisa didn't notice that the Prince was watching her from the window.
Akisa slowly breathed in and out as the gravity began to weigh her down, to become accustomed to the gravity. One by one Akisa began to perform her katas. Sweat made her thick hair plaster to her forehead and her neck.
After twenty or so minutes of slow katas, Akisa finally picked up the pace, moving to harder maneuvers.
After an hour, she was breathing hard, but didn't stop. She had secretly made a promise to become strong. Akisa wanted everyone to see that a girl can be as strong as anyone. Most of all, to make her dead parents proud.
After three more hours of intense workout sessions, Akisa had to stop. A sharp pain shot through out her body as she toppled to her knees, banging them roughly on the floor.
"I…think I….overdid it…" Akisa wheezed as darkness began to creep into her vision. Then a wave of exhaustion and pain slammed into her and Akisa gave into the tugging darkness.
Chapter 1 part 3: Friends?
Akisa's eyes fluttered open, but a cold substance made her quickly shut them. Akisa knew where she was, and this was her first time in it. A regeneration tank.
'How long have I been out?' Akisa thought as the cool, gooey liquid soothed her skin.
She heard some buttons being pushed outside the tank; bubbles flew out of the oxygen mask on her face. Tickling her face. Then she heard the liquid start to drain.
The top of the tank slowly came up and Akisa grabbed the mask and jerked it off her face with her tiny hands. Dr. Lance then gave her a couple shots and a pill for her fever. Then, he quickly left the room to attend something.
As Akisa's cloths dried, she sat down on the white tiled floor and began to examine her tail. She always did this when she was bored and had nothing to do. She groomed her tail, looking for any glimpse of tan hairs that she always found. Every time she plucked a hair, even if it was tiny, a sharp tingle shot up her spine.
When she was examining her glossy tail, Akisa didn't notice that the door had opened again. As she felt a breeze of cool air sweep through the room, her nose caught the scent of….peppermints? Akisa slowly released her tail and turned around, nearly jumping out of her skin.
The Prince was standing behind her. Arms crossed, and a very peeved look on his face. His eyebrows furrowed slightly when Akisa's eyes met his; she practically leaped backward, turned towards him, and bowed again and again. Murmuring her apologies.
"Why are you doing that? You didn't do anything stupid." Vegeta questioned.
Then, his face relaxed into a genuine smile. Akisa's eyes widened
'Is he smiling?' Akisa quickly asked herself as he approached her. Then a wave of exhaustion hit Akisa and she dropped to the floor.
"Whoa! Are you okay?" Vegeta chuckled, "you don't look so good, and you need to rest." Vegeta said as he put a gloved hand to Akisa's forehead.
"Jeez! You're burning up! Can you get on my back?" Vegeta asked while offering his back to her.
"Yeah… sure" Akisa drowsily murmured while slowly getting up and latching her arms around the Princes neck.
"Okay, here we go. Stay quiet okay? I don't want to wake the whole palace up and I'm not supposed to be up any way…." Vegeta cautioned.
Then, he gently picked Akisa up in a piggy-back and practically jumped out the door and began to swiftly navigate down the huge, maze-like corridors to his room.
Akisa rested her throbbing head on the base of Vegeta's strong neck and breathed in the strong smell of peppermints as he carried her down the silent, and dark hallways
Chapter 1 part 4: So far from home
A question had been eating at Akisa for about three minutes now, but she was nervous to ask. Finally she was able to spit it out.
"How old are you?" Akisa sleepily muttered.
"Huh? Oh, I'm six cycles…you?" Vegeta whispered back.
"I'm five cycles" Akisa quietly responded, her eyelids drooping.
'Man, she's powerful for only five cycles…and being of third class decent. Maybe when I'm older, I could replace Nappa with her. She's already stronger than him…'
By the time Vegeta had reached his huge room doors, Akisa was softly snoring.
'Why am I doing this? I should just drop her here…' Vegeta quickly shoved that thought aside as he quietly slid into his dark room. Only the stars dimly lit up the elaborate room.
It was around 11PM on Vegeta-sei. Complete darkness had already taken its icy hold and wouldn't release its grip till 5AM.
That's when he would tell her to go home. Vegeta gently and slowly lowered the small child onto a plushy couch, changed into his dark blue, satin PJ's, and walked over to Akisa's sleeping form.
He crouched down to look into her pretty face and watched her sleep. 'She's really cute when she's sleeping.' Vegeta thought, watching her for a couple more minutes. Then, he jumped into his bed and snuggled deep within the thick covers, quickly falling asleep.
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Akisa slowly opened her heavy, puffy eyelids and looked around. She heard soft snoring coming from where the Prince slept.
'What? How did I get here?' Akisa drowsily asked herself.
Then she quickly sat up, her neck hair prickled uneasily as she realized where she was. She was in an enormous room, Vegeta's to be exact.
'He seemed like a completely different person around Nappa. He was so serious and mean. But without Nappa, he was nice and actually smiled.' Akisa thought as she slipped off the extremely comfy couch.
Akisa silently walked over to the floor-to-ceiling windows and stared in awe at the huge, silent city before her. She had never felt so far from home in her entire life.
'Man that city is big!' she thought as her eyes wondered over the tall, beautiful buildings. Akisa uncurled her long, black tail from her waist and waved it slowly behind her to cool the overheated hairs that she had slept on.
Thirty minutes passed like this, Akisa pressed her hands and forehead against the cool glass, missing her tiny home and the comforting pictures of her long gone parents.
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