Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ, I just love the characters. Especially the one I include in this story.

Notes: This is a story about 2 young female Saiyans who barely escaped the destruction of their home world by Freeza's hand. It takes place before Raditz goes to Earth to recruit Kakarott. In fact this story sort of spurs on Vegeta's rebellion against Freeza. The details will be filled in by the story. Hope you enjoy!

WARNING: This is a very dark story and a major lemon. If you are not ready to hear about the hardships these two young women endure then, please, turn back now.

Kakalina's Story

Chapter 1

It just wasn't fair! She snarled at her opponent. He smirked back at her in return. Pushing aside the pain and disorientation she picked up her nearly broken body to prepare for her next assault. One of her arms hung uselessly at her side and her legs were shaking violently. She couldn't believe he had bested her this easily, but she would be damned if she was going to let him beat her like this. With all her remaining strength she rocketed toward him, already gathering ki in her unwounded hand. He just waited for her.

'That ass. He thinks I'm no longer a threat. I will teach our arrogant prince a lesson this day!' When she was about 10 meters from him she phased out reappearing behind him. He turned just in time to see her triumphant face and for her to enjoy his startled expression. It filled her with unimaginable bliss. 'Now he will see. No matter who the opponent, no matter how injured, they can still beat his sorry-'

"Wake yourself, mistress. Please hurry!"

Kakalina was suddenly awoken by a heavy hand shaking her shoulder roughly. She started and sat bolt upright ready to attack the unfortunate soul who dared disturb her victory. Slowly, she realized she was still in her oversized bed in the palace, not on the battlefield. 'Of course,' she thought bitterly. 'The prince was taken by that monster several weeks ago.' Distractedly she wondered for a moment why the king had just handed his only son and heir over to that sissy looking freak without even putting up so much as a verbal battle. She had been told to keep her big mouth shut on the matter, however, especially when the beast was a guest in the palace. Oh well, at least she'd never have to deal with the ridiculous matter of politics and diplomatic alliances, but she couldn't keep from wondering why.

'I almost feel sorry for Kamala. That'll be her job eventually.' She thought of the princess with a rueful smile, but quickly banished the fleeting thought. She had a much more pressing matter to attend to, such as the idiot who had just interrupted her moment of triumph, even if it was only in a dream.

She smacked her attendant Mia's hand away from her. "You had better have a damn good reason for waking me," she snarled as she began the movements of getting out of bed. She looked out her window and noticed it was still dark out. Now she was getting mad. "It's not even dawn yet! What is the meaning of this?"

"We don't have any time for your lip today, now get dressed," Mia said hurriedly as she began to rush around her mistress' room throwing random essentials into a bag. Kakalina watched her without moving for a moment, not really knowing how to react. "Now!" her attendant just about screamed at the young girl in a panicked voice.

Kakalina had no idea what was going on, but she had never seen her lifelong caregiver act like this. Mia had never ever raised her voice when addressing the young girl that she could remember. She fumbled with a training uniform, picking the black suit she favored. She quickly pulled on her white boots and gloves and picked up her sire coat armor. She was about to force it over her head when she was interrupted.

"You won't be needing that anymore, Priestess," Mia interrupted.

Now Kakalina knew she was crazy now. She never left her quarters without proudly wearing a representation of the Goddess she and her mother served. She looked down at the crest of a five pointed star surrounded by leaves of ivy, then up at the woman still frantically shoving her belongings into a sack. "What? Are you mad? I will not dishonor the Goddess Vegetesei. How dare you even suggest-" but an angry face cut her off.

"I do not dishonor our sacred mother," Mia spat out, now in full anger, "and you are wasting precious time! These are not my orders. They come from your mother, the voice of the Goddess. We have already wasted too much time. Trust my words, you do not need that armor anymore, young mistress. " A distant noise startled her back to herself and she looked away to the north in the general direction of the rest of the palace. "We must leave now!" With that she grabbed the confused girls hand causing her to drop the armor and roughly pulled her toward the back entrance of the room that the servants usually used.

Kakalina had never been through these doors and looked around curiously as she was dragged down the hall by Mia's guiding hand. She was thoroughly confused, but did not dare disobey or ask any of the questions on her mind now that she knew these were her mother's orders. The last time she questioned her mother's orders she was in the rejuvenation tank for what felt like a week and she actively tried to forget the last time she disobeyed a direct order. She still had the scar to remind her to never be so foolhardy again.

'I still can't believe she almost cut off my tail for that," she thought bitterly. Her tail unconsciously curled a little tighter around her waist at the memory. While distracted by her troubled thoughts she almost ran into Mia as her attendant suddenly stopped short. Kakalina pulled herself back to the present and looked at the man Mia was bowing respectfully to. It was her training coach, Malik, the temporary captain of the royal guard while Nappa was off world with the prince. She thought again of the prince being taken and growled low in her throat.

"Mia, rise. Thank the Goddess you made it. All is ready. Did you get it from Katalia?" Kakalina's eyes widened at this informal address of her mother, but she elected to remain silent. It was now very obvious that something big was going on. She was dying to get answers, but continued to hold her tongue because she knew her questions wouldn't be answered, at least not right now. Suddenly she noticed 2 more ki signatures approaching their location. She turned toward the approaching signatures and took a battle stance. Malik and Mia turned to flank her copying her stance. She relaxed as she recognized it was coming from the princess Kamala, and her attendant, Rukia. As they came into view Malik sighed in relief and looked back at Mia who had not answered his question.

"No," Mia said a little sadly, "My lady refused. She said our mother would come to her in another way and the book could not be of any help to her. She is still too young to divine its meaning, but she did give me this to pass on to the child." Kakalina became vaguely aware they were talking about her as she saw her mother's pendant dangling from Mia's outstretched hand. Before she could open her mouth to so much as gasp Rukia was bowing and addressing the captain at the same time.

"Good, now we can go." He turned and started running with the two women once again dragging the girls along behind.

Kakalina looked over at Kamala. She was looking just as confused and a little more than pissed off. She nodded to her princess as respectfully as she could while running down the darkened hallway. "Have they told you what's going on?" she asked trying to mask her doubt with a slight smile.

"What do you think? Not so much as a good morning," she replied while returning Kakalina's smile with the smirk she had inherited from her older brother. At that moment they ran into a bigger, more open space Kakalina quickly determined to be a hanger. She and Kamala were hustled over to one of the smaller crafts. They skidded to a stop and she was finally addressed by Mia as Malik started working at the adjacent control panel.

Mia looked beside herself for a moment, but quickly regained her composure. She knelt so she could look the 6 year old Saiyan girl in the eye. She bowed formally with her hand over her heart and her tail draped over her knee, then took the pendant she had gotten from Kakalina's mother and placed it around the young girl's neck. It depicted the 5 point star, the symbol of the Goddess Vegetasei, surrounded by the cycle of the full moon encircled by leaves of ivy. Kakalina looked at it as it hung heavily against her chest as realization dawned upon her.

"My mother is dead, isn't she?" she asked quite calmly though her heart tightened painfully. Mia nodded a solemn yes just as calmly.

"You are the voice of our great Mother now. Listen closely, don't let Her die as well as the planet She watched over." With that she gathered the startled girl in her arms and held the child she had cared for as her own since birth tenderly for the first and last time. Then she hurried her to the shuttle and handed her the bag she had packed back in her quarters.

"There are enough rations to last you both a couple of months, use them wisely. Survive, Kakalina-sama, and protect the princess. May the Goddess watch over and protect you always."

As she finished her last sentence there was a loud explosion behind them. She turned, snarled, and ran to the door out of sight with Rukia close in tow. Kakalina felt something in her chest tighten again and with surprise to realized she was silently crying. Malik, who had been talking to Kamala in the same fashion Mia had addressed Kakalina, quickly bowed one last time and all but threw the princess through the hatch door closing it immediately after her. He was at the control panel a second later and looked at the them one last time through the hatch window. Both children were looking back at him with tears in their eyes.

He saluted them and hit the launch button. The engines began to rumble as the hanger door opened. A moment later there was an explosive noise from the north and a body flew into the hanger.

"Rukia!" Kamala screamed. Her attendant's body tumbled through the large hangar doors and slid to a stop across the floor. She shook herself and quickly got to her feet lunging at the alien who chased in after her.

Mia quickly followed attacking and defending against her own opponent. Mia dealt the final blow to her assailant by dodging a wide punch and elbowing him in the throat. He collapsed and she immediately turned and kicked Rukia's attacker in the back. He arched back in pain and surprise. Seeing the opening Rukia grabbed his head with both hands and twisted savagely. He dropped instantly. Malik leapt forward protecting Mia's flank batting two ki blasts aside and blocking the oncoming assault of the new wave of attackers in one fluid movement. The two female warriors immediately flanked him taking defensive stances with their backs to the shuttle as it streaked off into the sky. Kakalina watched as they began another bout with the next wave of soldiers. The fight quickly dwindled from sight being replaced by her home world as they got further away.

As they rocketed away from the hanger the ground dropped away from them to be replaced by their homeworld. Kakalina noticed something out of the corner of her eye as their ship broke through the atmosphere and shot out into space. Slowly, the young priestess looked over as another ship came into view. It was huge, hovering just inside the atmosphere, but her exceptional sight saw only one thing. A single figure floating in some ridiculous contraption with an enormous ball of ki raised above its head. The figure started laughing as the ball of ki grew and grew until it was bigger than the small window could outline even though they were getting further and further away. Then after what seemed like an eternity the horrible figure threw it down at her beautiful planet.

Slowly, so slowly, it descended toward her home, until it contacted and exploded outward with such force it rocked their ship. It was so bright she had to shield her eyes. When she finally looked up she could see nothing but rubble where her home once stood majestically in space.

Kamala stood next to her, a look of utter disbelief plastered to her face. "No," she barely whispered. Tears started streaming down her face, her eyes clouded over and she sank to her knees. "NOOOOO! FATHER!" she wailed, screaming painfully.

Kakalina immediately knelt to the floor and held the shaking body of the five year old princess in her arms as the young girl continued to wail. Staring off into space Kakalina realized she too was crying, too, but it didn't surprised her anymore. She looked back at the view port, but could no longer see the monster or his enormous ship or even the rubble that used to be her homeworld. Sitting there with the sobbing girl in her arms she silently swore to make that evil creature pay for what it had done to them, her mother, her king, and her people... and to Mia.

She knew she would never be able to kill it herself. She now knew why the king had feared it, given in to all of it's demands...even handing over the prince. She was not strong enough, but she suddenly realised that there was one such being that would be strong enough to destroy it. To snuff out its existence from the universe and send it screaming into the next dimension. She would find that being if it took her the rest of her life. She would have revenge for her planet and her fellow Saiyans. She would find the legendary Super Saiyan.

'Yes, my child, that is your destiny. Set in motion that which will save the universe. Go, my precious daughter. Find the Super Saiyan.' Kakalina looked up at nothing in particular, not seeing the metal ceiling she was looking at, focusing intently on the voice she had just heard for the first time in her head. She knew it would not be the last time.

'Yes, Mother. Lead and I shall follow,' she thought knowing the Goddess had heard her. Then she looked back down at the figure that was still shaking in her arms though not screaming anymore.

"I will rip that beast apart piece by piece and burn his empire to the ground," Kamala whispered.

"I was thinking the exact same thing. One day revenge will be ours," Kakalina whispered back. Kamala looked up at her one and only remaining friend and nodded grimly. "I do not know what our immediate future holds, but I vow to you one day the Frigid Empire will be ended by Saiyan hands," Kakalina told her solemnly.