Okay a few notes... This is a Vegeta/ChiChi and Goku/Bulma don't like, don't read! It's a medieval and ChiChi is a Princess and now comes the confusing part, Goku is the prince of the Country Vegeta, and Vegeta is Goku's best friend and body guard, have you got that? Good! Not much happens in this chapter, but it will get interesting, promise!

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z, though I wish I did!

1st Chapter: The Beginning

"Mud! I hate mud! It's so brown and gooey and annoying!" I stopped, no, I didn't hate mud, I hated my father!

How could he? I couldn't believe he could this to me! I hated him!

Flashback

"ChiChi, will you please come here" Ox King called. "Coming Daddy." ChiChi entered the huge bedroom, half walking, and half skipping, with a cheerful grin on her pretty face. "What's wrong Daddy" ChiChi asked. "Ah, ChiChi" Ox King slowly turned from the window that faced his kingdom and looked at the face of his 15 year old, only daughter, and slowly he smiled, an unsure smile. "Daddy, what's the problem" ChiChi asked, her smile slowly fading. "Um. ChiChi, as you know in a months time it is to be your 16th birthday" "Yeah." " And as you know, at the age of 16 you are supposed to be wed." Suddenly understanding dawned on ChiChi's face, a look of complete dread. "Your point is" ChiChi asked quietly, knowing the answer, but not wanting to hear it. "Well since you have been unable to find a husband, I have taken it into my own hands and made an agreement with King Vegeta, you know the king of the Saiyans, you are to be wed to his son Prince Goku on the day of your birthday"

ChiChi felt hot tears start to fall down her rosy cheeks. How could he, her daddy, make her marry a man she had never met. Quietly she murmured " How could you, I shall never forgive you."

She then turned and fled from her father's room, flying past surprised guards and servants, tears streaming after her, and faintly she could hear her father calling for her to stop.

End of Flashback

And now here she was, mud covering her shoes, tear streaks running down her face, there were no more tears for her to cry, no, instead she felt anger, anger towards her father, anger for God making her a princess, anger to her mom for leaving her, alone, helpless, scared. Anger.

ChiChi looked up suddenly, realizing that she had no clue as to where she was. It was a tiny village, that had little mud smeared children running, screaming, tackling each other to the ground. She saw an old woman knitting something on the doorway of a small cottage. ChiChi walked up to her slowly and said "Excuse me, sorry to bother you, but would you please tell me where I am?" "Hmm, what was that deary, speak up, you shouldn't mutter you know" the old lady said. "Where am I" ChiChi said loudly, smiling at the old woman. " Oh, you're at Cipris" ChiChi looked at her in a confused expression, where was Cipris. "Um. How far away is the castle" ChiChi asked, loudly. " The castle you say, well there it is" The old lady pointed with a wrinkled hand to a huge castle, it must have been about three hills away, quite far away, 'I must have walked for a long time' ChiChi thought. She looked up at the sky, 'where did the time go?' It must have been about 6;00 in the afternoon, she wouldn't be able to get home until late, and to top it off clouds were starting to roll in, and thunder could be heard in the distance 'Great this seems to be getting better and better!' "Seems like a storms a coming," The old lady's voice bought her out of her musings. "You won't be able to get to the castle before the gates close, and since it's raining they'll close them even earlier, you better stay the night with me" ChiChi knew she was right, she would have to spend the night with the old lady. "Yeah, I guess you're right" ChiChi answered. "What?" "Okay, thanks" ChiChi smiled slightly, this was going to be an interesting night!



"So, why are you so far away from home, the castle is a long way away, Chiki?" Said Gertie ChiChi turned her eyes away from the warm fire that was burning in the corner of the room and turned to the old lady, whose name she had found out was Gertie. She had told her that her name was Chiki, she didn't want Gertie to treat her like a princess, she wanted to be treated like an average person. She had told Gertie that she was a servant of the Princess ChiChi. ChiChi had also learnt to talk loudly when around Gertie, she was half deaf since she was so old! "Oh, well, Princess ChiChi wanted a certain type of flower for her bedroom, and I sort of got lost, and wound up here." It was the best story that ChiChi could come up with quickly. "I see, well then why do you have tear streaks on your cheeks?" Gertie asked This startled ChiChi, 'How did she notice that?' "Um. well. you see." ChiChi gave up she would have to tell, her the truth. well not the whole truth at least. "Uh. the truth is that my father told me that I had to marry some man that I hadn't even met before, but I didn't want to since first of all didn't even know the guy and second of all didn't love him. So I ran away and found myself walking here." "Okay, but why would your father want you to marry this man?" Gertie asked " Well since we are servants my father wanted money, and this boy was a noble, so my father thought it was a great opportunity." 'That was close' " Indeed, well it's late, you better get some sleep, there's a bed over there" Gertie pointed to a tiny bed that you could hardly tell that it was not part of the floor! "Um. Thanks Gertie!" ChiChi answered with a highly fake smile! Gertie slowly got up from her creaky chair and made her way to another part of the cottage, most probably her bedroom. "Gertie, wait a minute!" ChiChi suddenly called. Gertie turned around slowly. "Yes, Chiki." " What do you think I should do, do you think I should marry the noble or not?" "Child, I think you should meet the boy first, maybe you shall find love for love comes in the strangest ways" ChiChi thought about it, yes she would meet Prince Goku, maybe they were meant to be together. "Okay Gertie, thanks, you've been a great help!" "That's alright Chiki, anytime, anytime." And she slowly made her way to her bedroom, and ChiChi tried to make herself comfortable on the bed that was becoming part of the floor!

The Next Day

"Thank you so much, Gertie. You've been a great help, I don't know what I would have done without you!" Said ChiChi, hugging the old lady. "Ah, Child, it has been my pleasure, it's nice to have some company once and awhile. Now you know where to go, right?" "Yep, I just follow the road and I'll get to the castle in no time!" "Well, I guess you're all ready, you better go Chiki." "Okay Gertie, thanks so much, I'll never forget you" ChiChi said as she made her way down the muddy road, leading to the castle. "Farewell, Chiki, and I hope that your prince is all you expect him to be" "Thank you, Gertie, I hope so, too" ChiChi then turned her back and made her way down the road with a smile upon her face. "Goodbye, my child, great things are in store for you, Princess ChiChi" Gertie said quietly, as she made her way to her chair and started knitting again...

ChiChi had walked all day and was hungry, tired and full of icky mud! She was beginning to think that she would never make it home. And then she saw it, sanctuary, the castle gates! She ran, waving her arms about screaming, "the castle, home, finally!" Some guards came out, bewilderment printed all over their faces, and then they recognized her, Princess ChiChi, full of mud, sweating, what a sight she was!

They ran to her, saying things like "Are you alright, Princess" and "Princess, his highness is so worried about you" and "We've been looking all over for you!"

ChiChi just smiled and said "Please, take me home." The guards escorted her to the castle, where Bulma, her personal servant and best friend greeted her. "Chi! Where have you been, I was so worried, are you okay?" "I'm fine thanks, Bulma." Bulma took her to her titanic room and ran a bath for her, ChiChi slipped out of her clothes and entered the bath, letting the hot water consume her body. ChiChi sighed, 'I've been waiting for this, for two days!' "You have to tell me everything, what happened yesterday, why'd you run away, oh, I was petrified, you scared me, you never came back, and your father he has no nails left..." Bulma was droning on and on, while washing ChiChi down. "Well, answer me!" ChiChi sighed, then started the story from getting called to her father's room, to getting greeted by Bulma at the doorway. Amazingly, Bulma kept her mouth closed the whole time! When ChiChi finished all Bulma said was "Well, I guess we're going to Vegeta, I wonder what it's like there?" There was a knock at the door, Bulma went and answered it and came back saying that Ox King was calling for her. ChiChi quickly got changed into some comfortable clothes and made her way to her father's bedroom. Politely she knocked on the door, and she heard someone say from inside "Come in." She entered quickly and she saw her father sitting in a chair facing the window that overlooked his kingdom, he turned, saw his precious daughter, and in flash was holding her close to him in a bear sized hug! He slowly let her go and looked into her eyes and said "Never, Ever, do that again" And once again she was pulled into a bear hug, that nearly choked her to death! When he let go she quietly said to her father, "Daddy, I'm so sorry, I'll never do that again, and I will meet Prince Goku of the Saiyans." "Oh, ChiChi, That would make me so happy, you would really do that?" Ox King said, a smile covering his face. "Yes, Daddy, I will." "Honey, you won't regret it" And ChiChi was drawn into another hug!

That night ChiChi's dreams were filled with questions... 'Why me?', 'What's going to happen?', 'What's Prince Goku going to be like?', 'Will I like him?' , 'I wonder how old Gertie is?', 'How come she knew so much?', 'Will I ever get to sleep?!' And as she tossed and turned in her sleep, more questions kept on coming and coming...