Disclaimer: I do not own DragonBall Z or the song The Game by Disturbed. All I own is the plot.
A/N: I heard the song and my first thought was this sounded like Vegeta. This may be sappy since I can't write angst or smut to save my life. I may have a friend help me figure out the angst. … shows actions in the Author's Notes. AKA My Ramblings…
Dedicated to my two muses The Prince of All Saiyans, Vegeta and the Future Dark Lord Voldemort, Tom Riddle.
Vegeta: Don't mock the great Vegeta.
Tom: Have you ever listened to Lenora? She lives to torture and tease us.
Lenora: Aww…I know you love me Tom. See! holds up picture of Tom and her from the time Lenora had to chase Tom down after insulting him He loves me! Veggie will one day too.
Vegeta: Hn…we will see about that. crosses arms over his chest
The Game
Tell me
exactly what am I supposed to do
Now that I have allowed you to beat me
Do you think that we could play another game
Maybe I could win this time
I kind of
like the misery you put me through
Darlin' you can trust me completely
If you even try to look the other way
I think that I could kill this time
It doesn't
really seem I'm getting through to you
Though I see you weeping so sweetly
I think that you might have to take another taste
A little bit of hell this time
Lie to me
Is she not
right?
Is she insane?
Will she now
Run for her life in the battle that ends this day
Is she not
right?
Is she insane?
Will she now
Run for her life now that she lied to me
You always
wanted people to remember you
To leave your little mark on society
Don't you know your wish is coming true today
Another victim dies tonight
Is she
really telling lies again
Doesn't she realize she's in danger
The little
bitch she went and she told A LIE
And now she will never tell another A LIE
NEVER FUCKING LIE TO ME!
The Game
Chapter One
A black haired man with flame shaped hair looked up from the face full of dirt that he had acquired from his last spar. This was Vegeta, Prince of All Saiyans, from a dead warrior race that was destroyed by an insane tyrant named Frieza. The psycho white creature demanded the king of the Planet Vegeta to hand over the young heir. The cowardly king immediately gave up his only son and heir for his own life. It made no difference because the evil dictator destroyed the planet anyway. Frieza raised the heir until Vegeta realized that the fate of his planet did not rest in his hands because it was gone. Then Vegeta left Frieza's services and he plotted revenge. That revenge eventually led the petit prince to the planet Earth where he had overheard that there were things called Dragon Balls that granted any wish.
So Vegeta and his right hand Saiyan Nappa traveled to Earth to wish for immortality. Once there, however, they met with opposition. The world's strongest fighters all gathered to oppose the two Saiyans. Six of the group called the Z-fighters gathered around and one by one they were picked off by the giant Nappa. Vegeta was content to stand to the side and watch the humans attempt to fight Nappa. At least until Kakarot arrived. Then it all went down hill.
Kakarot was the Saiyan that was sent to the planet Earth as a child to destroy the population currently residing on it and get it ready for the Saiyans to sell. However, the Saiyan suffered a head injury and he completely forgot everything about his Saiyan heritage. So he grew up as a foolish Earthling with foolish ideals and it looked like Kakarot's half-Saiyan son would turn out the same. Kakarot easily defeated Nappa and Vegeta killed him for not beating the other Saiyan. Kakarot proceeded to defeat then let Vegeta go.
When Frieza showed up again and began terrorizing the planet Namek, Vegeta helped the Z-Fighters protect the Namek Dragon Balls. However, once Kakarot arrived Vegeta blew them off in hopes of collecting the Dragon Balls and wishing for immortality. Luck was not with the Saiyan prince however because Frieza caught up with him and killed him. Vegeta was the one to inform Kakarot about Frieza's past with the Saiyans. Seconds later he was dead.
Vegeta was revived along with the rest of Frieza's victims when the young Namekian Dende wished them all back. He was with the Namekians when they left to go to Earth to save them from the planet that was close to blowing up. Secretly he was montering Kakarot's ki to see if the baka had survived the battle.
Vegeta waited with Bulma and the rest of the Z-Fighters while they tried to bring Kakarot back to life and Earth. When the eternal dragon confessed to not being able to bring Kakarot back because he was not dead, Vegeta felt happiness that he could only explain in the context that he still wanted to defeat Kakarot. It didn't stop him from blasting off in Professor Brief's space ship for intense space training though.
A year later, he waited with the Z Fighters for the return of Kakarot. However, a purple haired kid had appeared in a funny looking space ship and he confided that he knew exactly where and when Kakarot would appear. Vegeta was already irritated at the onna's insistence that he wear some kami-awful pink shirt, though the words on the back were interesting. Bad man.
The lavender haired snot was right though, he had pointed out the exact time that Kakarot would return and once again he was correct about the spot he would land in. Then Kakarot emerged from the space pod and Vegeta felt like laughing, he didn't, but he felt like it. The baka was wearing some awful outfit that the idiot no doubt thought was fashion. The snot nosed brat took Kakarot aside and told him something. However hard he tried, Vegeta's extraordinary hearing couldn't pick up much besides his name and the onna's as well as the word future. So he feigned disinterest and waited until the brat was done talking to Kakarot.
After the brat left, Vegeta never gave him much thought. He was busy with training to become better than Kakarot. It was inevitable after all, he was the Prince of all Saiyans and stronger by birthright. But it seemed that every new level that Vegeta earned, Kakarot was always one level higher. His cowardly father had drilled into him the ideal that one day Vegeta would be the promised Super Saiyan. So when Kakarot had reached that peak before Vegeta he was confused and…envious. For the first time in his life, Vegeta began doubting all that his father had taught him. King Vegeta had promised his son that one day he would rule over their people.
Then the snake lizard came along and ruined all of King Vegeta's plans. He worked along with the Icejin because he hadn't wanted to subject his race to the torture that Frieza's minions could inflict. When the planet was threatened, the king handed his son over in the hopes of saving his race. Naturally, it did no good. The planet was still destroyed.
The thought brought Vegeta back to the present. Lying on the ground, face full of dirt, his body aching, and he wouldn't trade it for anything. Frieza was dead, granted Vegeta hadn't killed him but his son come back from the future had, and Vegeta had something he hadn't dared to dream of…a son that was still a baby but still his heir. He also had Kakarot, the world's strongest warrior, on his side. Vegeta would never know what had prompted the gentle Saiyan to take Vegeta on as one of his friends, but Vegeta would never regret it. Though he kept his patented "Asshole Prince" façade up when around others, around Kakarot he was willing to just keep his emotional barriers down.
Little did Vegeta know that by opening himself to friendship with Kakarot would change the course of his life forever…
2nd A/N: Sooooo…what do you think of my first Dragon Ball Z story??? This chapter was mainly for introduction. It's about 600 words short of the word count but I still like it. Would anyone be willing to be my DBZ beta???