The Real Raditz

Author's Note: (Updated) Hey! Guess what? I'm rewatching Dragon Ball Z with my boyfriend in our house, my new office is set up, and I'm back to writing! First thing's first, currently posted works are getting revised and updated because, frankly, they need some cleaning up. I'm not taking beta requests at this time either since I need to focus on what I have right now. This particular work was probably one of the few that I wrote at the peak of my writing career and I'm soooo happy I'm still getting reviews on this even several years after it's inital publication! Thank you for your support and enjoy the story! I have great hopes for this one!

Original Author's Note: This idea came to me in a dream and I've been writing out my dreams lately but I hope you like the idea. I've also read a few similar stories so if you wrote one of those stories and I accidently write a quote or borrow one of the ideas like certain customs, please don't take offense if I do that. They're just great ideas that I just can't pass up. But, I think you'll like what I do to this story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, or any of the characters.

Chapter 1

Raditz sighed. He knew this wasn't going to be good. Frieza said he had a surprise for the monkeys that would most likely "blow them away." He followed Prince Vegeta and Nappa down the winding halls. They came up to a large door and they heard a drawn out "Come in" in that sadistic voice they hated so much. They walked in and bowed.

"Lord Freeza, you sent for us?" Vegeta said, gritting his teeth. Freeza smirked.

"Ah yes. I happen to have a present for you, monkeys. We found this not too far away from where your miserable planet used to be." The saiyans, even Vegeta, audibly gasped when Zarbon stepped forward with a girl about Raditz's age. It wasn't just the fact that she was there, no, if she were an average humanoid creature they wouldn't care. What made them so shocked was the auburn tail that hung limply behind her.

"Surprise! A new monkey for your little circus! She was in hibernation in a pod just around the area. Data says she's been in there since she was just a little monkey. She should be up to speed considering we already zapped some information into her about what she is and what happened to her planet. She's quite mature and educated for the conditions due to some new technology we developed." Zarbon threw her at Raditz who caught her. He was about to study her a little more closely but immediately looked up as Freeza continued. "Now now, she comes with some rules. One of you has to teach her how to fight and to purge within the next month. She will go with you on all of your missions unless I say otherwise. One of you will take full responsibility of her until she can be sent on missions of her own. She's first class just so you know. Now go! I have more important matters to attend to!" Raditz followed Vegeta and Nappa as they bowed and left, still carrying the girl.

He took this time to study her features. Her hair had the same spiky nature as his, if slightly more tame, and it ran down to the small of her back. She didn't have a widows peak and a few of the unruly locks of her pitch black hair were in her face, framing her sleeping eyes perfectly. She was already dressed in saiyan armor similar to his. She had standard short sleeves in the spandex underneath and the bottom of the spandex came to mid-thigh, giving her a little modesty compared to his own. The armor was made to go along her curves perfectly and it was the exact same color as his, probably to match their first class status, with the shoulder and groin guards included.

They got to their quarters to see that there were no accomodations made for the new addition. Raditz found a note on his bed and sneered in disgust. Sorry about the shortage of beds monkeys. Looks like she'll have to sleep with one of you. Have a nice night. ~Freeza Raditz laid her down on the twin sized bed and destroyed the paper with a focused energy blast.

"One of us will have to bed with her." Raditz said, gritting his teeth. He knew exactly what was going to happen. Vegeta and Nappa laughed cruely.

"I would rather kill myself than sleep with first class trash! I'm royalty and royalty only sleeps with royalty!" Vegeta said before hopping onto his own cot. Nappa laughed and tucked himself into his cot as well.

"Have fun Raditz! Try to control your instincts for once!" Nappa teased before turning away. Raditz looked down at her and gently moved her a little more to the left. He quickly decided to take her armor off so she wasn't extremely uncomfortable. He found himself admiring her form without the bulky armor on her to hide her from his eyes. He shook his head and purposely looked away as he slid the armor fully off of her. No one deserved to sleep in that. He took off his boots and armor before laying down with his back facing her and covered them both up with a blanket, grumbling the entire time. He didn't even know her name.

-A few hours later-

Raditz heard Vegeta and Nappa getting ready to go to the training hall and woke up. He pulled on his boots and armor before feeling something holding his hair. He turned around to see the female hugging his hair and mumbling in her sleep. He growled at Vegeta and Nappa as Nappa laughed quietly and Vegeta gave an amused chuckle, obviously not wanting to wake her up so they could torture Raditz some more. They were obviously not quiet enough because she began to stir and soon opened her eyes.

She screamed and jumped out of the bed, dragging Raditz with her. He landed on top of her on his stomach while she still clutched his hair. He grunted and pulled himself off of her, not wincing when he accidentally pulled a few strands of his hair out of his head. She stuck her tongue out at him and sat up.

"Where were you planning on going? Freeza told me to stick with the 'Monkeys' as he likes to call you." Vegeta and Nappa turned to Raditz, hardly acknowledging her.

"We'll be in the mess hall for an hour before going to training hall. Freeza said one of us had to train her and take full responsibility and as your Prince, I leave her with you. Besides, she's first class, you're first class. It's perfect!" Nappa laughed his ass off while Vegeta just chuckled at the irritated look on Raditzs face. They left as Raditz started putting his armor and boots on.

"My name's Zora by the way." She said. She was pretty put off by the fact that he wasn't paying any attention to her considering they had to share a bed.

"Raditz," he mumbled.

"What are we going to do today?" She asked politely as she pulled on her boots.

"Eat and train." She stood up next to him. He glared at her. She was a little childish with all of these questions but she wasn't overly childish. It didn't really bother Raditz but he had an image to keep up as one of the last saiyans. She followed him as they walked out of the door and down to the mess hall. They met Vegeta and Nappa and ate before going to a seperate room than the two other saiyans.

"Why aren't we going with them?" Zora asked. Raditz turned to look at her, grabbing her full attention. He was probably a good foot taller than her. She was fully grown too. He was probably just a little overly tall. Her face was level with his chest and she had to look up at him.

"You need special training that they forced me into helping you with. You and I won't be training with them for a while. But first, I want you to try to punch me. I need to guage your strength. I already scanned you with the scouter. Your power level was 186 that's average but not enough for a saiyan. Just punch my hand." He held out his hand, preparing for an impact.

It took her a moment to process what was being asked of her before she nodded to him, pulled back her fist, and punched his hand as hard as she could. She held her hand, rubbing her knuckles due to the lack of resistance. While she was distracted with nursing her hand, his scouter told him that her power level had gone up to 230 for the punch. His power level was between 1200 to 1500 but that was strange. A power increase already?

"Your power increased for the punch. Did you gather your ki to punch?" She shook her head. "Well, this time, I want you to punch my hand but put a little ki into it if you can." She nodded and smashed her fist into his hand. His arm buckled and she flew forward straight into his grip. He caught her, holding her so she didn't fall, and noticed that she was panting. He put her on her feet before checking his scouter.

"275. Not bad at all. You still need some work though." He frowned and got into his fighting stance. She got the message and got into hers. He noticed an opening on her left side and took his chance. He swung a kick and it succesfully hit her left side with no defenses ever being raised against the attack. She skidded across the floor before she jumped up to her feet panting. He frowned. "You get tired too easily. Adjust your stance by making your left leg like mine."

She analyzed his stance before dropping into it. He mentally took a note that she was a quick learner and felt slightly relieved with this new information. She had dropped into his stance flawlessly. He made eye contact with her and nodded in approval. He went for her left side with his leg again and she blocked it with her knee. He nodded his approval again before trying to punch her stomach. She dodged and kicked him in the side. He slid a few inches but didn't budge other than that.

She flipped a few feet away from him and got into stance again. He charged her and knocked her feet out from under her. He brought his knee up and her face slammed right into it. He winced when she hissed but he didn't know why. Usually saiyans are trained through hard experience, in other words being beat half to death by the more experienced saiyans until they learned to block, dodge, and eventually fight back. This was nothing new for either one of them. He shrugged it off and let her fall to the ground. They kept at it for a few hours until Raditz slammed her into a wall where she slid down to her hands and knees and didn't make any move to pull herself back up. She just closed her eyes and panted.

"Get up. I'll get you in a tank if you can't stand on your own." She picked herself up only to fall again moaning in pain. Raditz knew she wasn't faking it but that didn't mean he wasn't going to give her a hard time. He groaned in annoyance and slung her over his shoulder. Her chin hit his armor and she groaned. He winced a little and started walking down to the regen tank room.

He got down there and took off her armor, boots, and gloves before putting her in the tank. His eyes lingered on her for a few moments before he sat down outside the tank. He was supposed to watch her and she was his only duty for today. She only had an hour to be in the tank before it beeped, signalling that she was fully healed. He helped her out and handed her a towel. She ran down to the showers without a word and came back with clean spandex and now clean of the sterile fluid from the tank. She took her armor from Raditz and put it on before slipping into her boots and putting her gloves on.

"We're supposed to meet the prince back in our quarters. You need to sleep anyway." Raditz said before walking away. She followed him and they eventually got to the familiar room. Vegeta and Nappa were already there talking about the next mission.

"How did it go?" Nappa asked. Zora went to Raditz's bed, took off her armor again, and laid down before pulling the covers up to her chin.

"She lasted a few hours of me just throwing her around. Her power level changes when she fights. It fluctates between 186 and 275. She needed a regen tank afterwards." Vegeta nodded, not necessarily troubled by the news.

"That was expected. Well, Nappa and I are going on a mission without you two. Freeza's orders. We'll be out for a year, we're going down a chain of planets that all decided to revolt. Can you handle her?" Vegeta asked, tipping his head in Zora's direction. Raditz nodded, not quite sure how to take Vegeta's business-only behavior in regards to Zora. The teasing had surprisingly not been escalated in the past several hours. He'd half expected the two other saiyans to take Zora to a training room themselves and beat her within an inch of death just to show her who the bosses were.

"Yes. She won't be any trouble." Vegeta smirked.

"Alright. Nappa and I leave in approximitly nine hours. I'll wake you up when we're leaving. Frieza won't have a lot of missions for you two during the time we're gone." Raditz nodded and took off his armor, preparing for another night of sleeping next to an angry female. Vegeta laid down and was asleep within a minute and Nappa had passed out during their conversation. Raditz pulled back the covers a little so he could crawl in bed but found an auburn tail spread across his side of the bed.

He gently lifted it and let it slide through his fingers, earning a purr from Zora. He lifted it again and laid it down next to her. He got under the sheets and laid down but was facing her this time. She had her back turned to him. He was about to fall asleep when he felt something slide it's way around his thigh. He struggled not to chuckle to himself when he figured out what it was. Her tail...