"Vegeta, today we are going to have new visitors and I want you to be ready, not to mention POLITE. These guests are special. Today you make new friends. If you so much as sass one of them, I'm sending you to your room and that will be all until I say otherwise." I looked up at Father and smiled.

"Well then tell me who these people are." Or I won't bother trying to be polite.

"Uncle Bardock, Uncle Turles, Nappa, Raditz and a new kid named Kakarot." I stared at him. I've met Nappa and Raditz before but never Turles and Bardock or Kakarot. "I expect you to be nice to Kakarot. Understand me?"

"How am I supposed to be nice if I don't even know him yet?"

"Vegeta, I wouldn't let a kid over who I thought might harm you. In fact I would do the exact opposite. Kakarot is quite young and isn't a threat. I don't want any trouble. Am I understood Vegeta?" I nodded.

"Yes Dad I understand. When is my next training session? Or when do we get to go to another planet?" I asked eagerly. Father smiled.

"Soon, Vegeta, soon. I'll send you in for training as soon as tomorrow and then we'll go find and sell another planet if plans don't change."

"What do you mean 'if plans change?' You PROMISED. Last week on Thrusday. You PROMISED I could come with you. You PROMISED, you can't break a PROMISE."

"Vegeta there are some problems that might arise that might make me have to change my mind but I promise I will do my best to keep that promise."

"Good. That means that as King you'll have no trouble. You are the strongest person in the galaxy." I replied, happy. Father smiled. I lifted my arms and he picked me up and walked out of my room. I was ready to meet these three strangers. "Dad? Who are these people again?"

"Your Uncle Turles and Uncle Bardock. Then there are your friends and Kakarot. Who you will also make friends with." He stared at me hard but I just looked away. He huffed and then his tone got my attention. "VEGETA." I looked at him pouting. "How about if you make a promise to me that you'll be on your best behavior that I'll make time for training you myself?" I smiled.

"Deal! I'll be on my bestest behavior for you Dad."

"Good. Zorn, are they here yet?" He asked, sitting down in his throne, I was sat on his lap but I knew that if I wanted to I could get off but I just wasn't allowed out of the room. We were here to wait. Zorn immediately bowed like all the others did, one one knee with his hand over his heart.

"Good morning Sire, Young Sire. How are you today? They will be arriving in any minute now Sire."

"Maybe they got lost?" I asked.

"No they don't live that far off. They know Planet Vegeta like the know the moon." So we sat there for a while until finally a guard came in. He walked up to us through the aisle of other guards and stopped, bowing as Zorn had and looked at the floor. "Well? What is it?"

"You have guests, do I let them in?"

"Yes, let them on in."

"Yes Sire." He got up and walked out of the room and I jumped down from my father's lap and sat in my throne. But mine was movable. Father's was not. His was WAY bigger and stuck to the wall. Mine was proportional to me.

The guests came in and I began to count. There were more guests than I'd seen at once. If only for the fact Father doesn't take me to his meetings, no matter how much I begged him. He'd say something about training or say he's busy or that there was a certain type of danger to going to the meeting because for some reason they were all angry and he didn't want me getting 'hurt'.

"So am I not royal enough to talk to you Vegeta?" The one in the gray and black armor said, obviously these two have met before. I quickly glanced over to my father, suspicious. "AH! I have the honour of meeting my nephew, the young Prince." He bowed from his waist and his chin went to his chest. I looked away from them and stared at my Father. He better explain himself!

"Turles, knock it off." the one with the green armor replied, bowing to each of my Father and I. Raditz, Nappa and the kid quickly did the same. I smiled at them. We had a running joke about them bowing to me. I couldn't ever stop laughing at them doing that. It was just too funny. How does your friends have to bow to you even when you are prince or king? Wait. Did he just say I was his nephew? What is a nephew? Father said Uncle? WAIT! Am I related to those guys?

"Vegeta stand up, we are heading farther into the castle." I got up and ran over to him, grabbing hold of his cape and walking after him. The other kid looked at me for a minute before running over to the green armor man and grabbing his leg. I scoffed at him before remembering my promise and smiling at him before looking forward, curious as to which of Father's rooms we were going in.

We reached Father's favorite meeting hall. He waited for me and I climbed up onto my chair, I could barely reach but still managed to make, before he sat down himself. The others were sat down before Father did. How did they get on the chairs? Nappa and Raditz were tall enough to almost have no trouble at all sitting in an adult chair but what about the other one? I looked at my Father, waiting for him to speak.

"Vegeta, say hello to Uncle Turles." The one in the gray armor raised his hand.

"Present!"

"Shut up Turles."

"And that one is Uncle Bardock. You know Raditz and Nappa. The small child would be Kakarot. He is only four. Which is why I suggest you be nice to him. Even regardless of his age."

"Yes Dad."

"Now are we talking here or are the children leaving?"

"We just got her Dad!" Raditz complained.

"I agree with Raditz, we just got here." I agreed.

"Staying!" Nappa quickly replied.

"Staying." Kakarot agreed.

"Four against three, WE WIN!" I declared, raising my hand into the air.

"Going, if the King says you are." Bardock disagreed with us. I glared at him but quickly remembered my promise and looked at the ground.

"Why? Everything depends on what the King says. You always say that Bardock. It's not fair."

"Our father didn't give a scummy thought about 'fair' Turles." Father replied. "You children are leaving to go play. You there, fetch some one to keep an eye on the children." I watched as they all stared at us. Bardock put Raditz and Kakarot on the ground, shooing them off but Raditz stayed right where he was. Bardock smacked him and he quickly ran out after Kakarot. Nappa got down, afraid of my father's look I guess and ran out as fast as possible. I was now the only one they were looking at.

"Forget it. I'm not leaving, I'm the Prince of all Saiyans." I declared.

"Vegeta follow your friends before I do the same to you."

"Always straight and to the point, huh Vegeta?"

"Well? Get a move on." I sat there, wrapping my tail around the bar, keeping myself from being moved from my spot, this wasn't going to be fair was it?

"We won fair and square! Why don't you accept that?" Father stood and I grabbed hold of the bars as hard as I could, along with my tail, hoping I had the strength to stay where I was. If I defied him long enough I would win.

I was easily picked from the chair. I was carried to the entrance of the doorway before he set me down. I turned around to walk right back in but he grabbed my tail and held me upside down. I frowned at him.

"PUT. ME. DOWN." I demanded.

I was moved farther out of the room before he tried to close the door. I ran over but it was closed already. I banged my fists on the door but it stayed closed. When I realized they weren't going to open it, I plopped myself on the ground, crossing my arms, and waited. They couldn't stay in there forever.

I pressed my ear to the door, trying to listen in. "… I mean what do you do Bardock? Vegeta is … … I just don't know what to do and doing that isn't going to work, I've tried it too many times."

"… Raditz … … I just pick him up and … … … then when he's really sorry I … … … I know raising children can be hard but … … … Why don't you try it?"

"I would love to. What would the side effects be Bardock?"

"The side effects? The side effects would be … … … and he'll learn to do … … … Besides, don't you remember our father? That man was a …. … … So what else can we talk about?" I noticed Raditz sneaking up behind me and I blasted him with ki but he dodged. "Man, how'd you know? You still want in?"

"Yes."

"Well give me a minute." He walked over and picked me up and sat me on his shoulders. "Can you reach the door knob?" I looked up and tried to reach I managed to get my hand barely around the knob before looking down. "Turn and push." I smiled before doing as he said and we fell inside the room, quickly breaking off their conversation. Bardock stood above us and I glared at him. Raditz quickly covered me from him. "Don't do it. Daddy can get awfully mad." He turned to them. "Sorry, we thought we'd just drop on in." I smiled before laughing at his joke. Or his word choice."

"Drop on out. Do that one more time and I swear Raditz."

"That goes for you as well Vegeta." Father said, standing up himself. He was angry. I grabbed Raditz and ran from the room. Raditz quickly shouted back.

"You win this time! But next time we'll be ready!" Yes, ready to get blasted into millions of smithereens. "Prince, I know exactly what we should do." He ran ahead of me, leading me out to the courtyard and to my favorite tree. I smiled at the height. "What do we say to danger?" I grabbed hold of the lowest branch as Raditz grabbed for a higher branch, letting me have room to climb.

"I love danger!" I replied, anyone's automatic response to that. IF you were a Saiyan at least.

"What do we say to death?"

"Not today."

"Yes! Exactly! One day we won't be bullied by adults OR bad guys!" Raditz declared. I smiled at him.

"I dare you to go to the top!" He smiled himself before quickly climbing up. I followed after him before reaching the highest branch I had before and looked up. I didn't have that much higher to go really. I just needed to brave the final part of the tree. I slowly climbed up to a higher branch before I reached where Raditz was at, looking fearfully at the tip top of the tree. I smiled, climbing higher than him.

I reached the part where the branches were turning tiny. I smiled down at Raditz before realizing that I was high up, higher up than before. I clung to the tree as hard as possible before asking myself what I was doing. I was the Prince Vegeta of all Saiyans! I will NOT be defeated by a TREE!

I climbed higher before going back down as I heard cracking. I clibed down a bit before I looked out at the branches. I looked down at Raditz, who was still a bit way under me. "Hey! I bet you can't do this!" I scooted across a tree branch and got underneath it, wrapping my tail around it before letting go of it from my hands and feet. I dropped but was caught by my tail. It had quite useful many talents.

"I can too!" he pouted.

"Then go ahead and do it!" He found a branch and did like me after a minute, he swung himself back up and onto the tree again. "Very well, you can do it."

"Can you swing yourself back on? I dare you to try." I huffed at him before beginning to swing, my own swing wherever I go! I let go but I failed to grab onto the branch at all and began to hit branches on my way down the tree. I tried to grab hold with my arms, legs and tail, hoping I could save myself. Even Raditz tried to grab me. I fell past him though. I began to panic. If I hit the ground, aren't I dead?

I hit the ground, landing hard on my bottom. I felt pain go through me, more than I've ever had from my training sessions. But my training sessions were with saibamen. "Prince? Are you okay?" Raditz asked me, offering me his hand.

"I'm fine." I answered, before beginning to cry. The pain wasn't going away at all. I wanted my father. I got up but sat down immediately. It hurt to stand. My legs were bruised probably. One of the guards came running over before calling another guard.

"What happened Prince Vegeta?" I blushed before turning away from them. I was embarressed I'd gotten hurt from falling out of a tree. "You! What happened?"

"He- he fell. And I cou- I couldn't do anything about it. Is he going to be okay?"

"Get the King, he'll know what to do." I heard one of them fly off. I looked up to see Kiru. One of the top guards. If Raditz hadn't been here, I would just demand he take me to my father. I covered my face with my hands, embarrassed.

"Don't cry little Prince, you're Father's going to be here soon. If you cry he'll have our heads for sure." He sang with a tune mixed with Hush and Bingo. His words made it kind of funny so I stared at him, expecting to hear more but he was looking around urgently.

"What happened?" I heard Father's voice before I saw him. He flew over so quickly I fell over backwards. Raditz helped me not to fall over. Dad picked me up and held me close to his chest. I cuddled up to him, comforted by his presence.

"The Prince fell."

"He fell? From where?" He was furious.

"The tree, Uncle Vegeta. I'm sorry, I tried to catch him, honest I did."

"What were you thinking? Leaving a five and six year old on their own? Where are Kakarot and Nappa?"

"Daddy my legs hurt, I think I bruised myself." I said, moving my leg but tears came back at the immense pain.

"FIND them,immediately."

"Yes Sire." He flew off and Father turned to Raditz.

"Follow me." He turned around and took us to the living room. He sat down and I was sat on his lap and turned my head to see Turles, Bardock, Raditz sitting and Nappa and Kakarot coming in behind Mira. Mira was a bitch, always so mean. But I dealt with her because I didn't really see her that often anyway.

"What happened? Is Prince Vege going to be okay?" Nappa walked over as far as he dared to approach my father. Kakarot was the one who asked the question, getting on Bardock's lap. Does that mean he's his kid? Or did Turles have a kid too?

"Yes, I'm fine." I replied. Nappa turned to me, trying to get my attention so I gave it to him. "What is it Nappa?"

"Can you come down?"

"I could but I don't want to. Why don't you come up here?" I said, laughing.

"I dare not to." He went and sat down on the other couch. Turles looked up immediately.

"Well maybe we should get going now? I'll be back later."

"Yeah, we should go. Leave the King to his kid." Bardock replied, grabbing Kakarot and Raditz's hand. They got up and bowed once more before heading out. Turles walked over and grabbed me, hugging me. I hugged him back, I liked this man. He didn't let go so I kissed his cheek and he kissed me back before setting me back on my Father's lap.

"Turles? Why must you be so weird?" Father asked.

"Barbecue you think I am Sire." He turned and grabbed Nappa's hand before leaving.

"Bye Prince!"

"Bye Nappa!" I called back.

"Zorn!" He bowed.

"Yes Sire?"

"Set a bath for the Prince and then find someone to help him bathe."

"Yes Sire." He went off and Father turned the TV on. He handed me the remote and I turned it to the channel with the mind games. Channel 332. When the episode was over did they interrupt. "Sire?"

"What is it? Is it the bath?"

"Yes Sire, it is."

"Very well. Vegeta follow Zorn." I got down and followed Zorn to the bathroom they'd set up. I didn't need help washing. I no longer felt pain so that was good. I probably just hurt myself but it wasn't there anymore.

"Here you go Young Sire." He opened the door and I walked in. Loreo was in here. I looked at him.

"You're dismissed. I don't need your help."

"I'm sorry but the King declared I help you."

"I don't care! Leave me be." I ordered. He left the room but stayed close by, closing the door after him. I undressed and got in the bathtub, beginning to wash myself, having fun trying to catch my tail to wash it too.

When I finished I looked for a towel. I grabbed the towel, drying off, having trouble with my tail but everything was fine. I wrapped the towel around me and walked off to my room, feeling rejuvenated.

I walked to my room and found new clothes, so I put them on. "Young Sire? Your Father the King requests your presence in the dining hall in thirty minutes." Zorn said, bowing. I looked at him.

"Which dining hall?"

"The small one, Sire."

"Thank you Zorn. Also, thanks for the bath, I feel great." I replied. He smiled at me.

"You're welcome. Anything for the Royal Family."

"What are we having for Dinner anyway?"

"I'm sure there will be plenty of food to munch on Sire."

"There always is. I don't know why I even ask that question."

"It's okay, Sire."

"You're dismissed. Thank you." He bowed again before leaving. I sat down on my bed and picked up my book I'd been reading earlier. It was about conquering planets and I've been learning a lot from it. It was really my Father's book of many. Like three. One about how to conquer, one about finding a price and whether or not to sell it and the other one was about making sure how to keep your price and get other people to want to buy it. I'd read almost the whole first book.

When I got to the last chapter, I heard my door being knocked on. I quickly hid the book under my pillow. "Come in!" I called. They opened the door and bowed immediately. I got off my bed and looked at him. "What is it?"

"The King wishes to remind you of a five minute warning of Dinner's arrival."

"Fine, I'm going." I headed for the door and he led me out of my room and had my door closed by another of the guards. I walked into the dining room and sat down beside my Father. I looked at him. "I'm here."

"I can see that. Thank you for coming. Tomorrow we're going out for a stroll. I suggest you get some sleep. How are you feeling?"

"I'm okay. Thank you for asking. I'm sorry I didn't mean to fall."

"That part is unimportant. What is important is that no one was watching you or the others."

"Well you were the one who said we couldn't be in the room with you and those other two men."

"Vegeta, I don't want another word about that. It's the past and it can't be undone." I looked at the table which now had tons of food on it. I grabbed a chicken leg and some mashed potatoes with gravy. I made up my own plate and Father did the same. I'd learned to do that from him.

I ate my food, taking as long as possible with the chicken before I spotted the fish and grabbed some of that. I finished eating, full. I heard Father clear his throat so I looked up at him. "Yes Dad?"

"Vegeta, I want you to get some sleep now. Tomorrow we are going to go for our usual morning stroll in the morning." I smiled.

"Of course our morning stroll is going to be in the morning Dad." He chuckled and smiled back at me. "The time is in the name." I smiled at him again before getting down. He followed me and made sure I got into bed okay. He turned off the light and closed the door after telling me he loved me, kissing my forehead.