Chapter 2

As Gohan landed next to the aircar in the front courtyard of the large palace. He looks around as he slowly moves forward. The next thing he knows is he's being cuffed with magnetic links by two guards. Confused, he starts to attack, headbutting one and defending the next ones hit as he lands a solid kick to the gut of him, before swinging his arms slamming them into the first ones face.

"Gohan!" Bulma yelled at him. He stops and looks, "The rules of the palace is you cannot roam about without the links. You gladiators are too violent to be left free handed… Though that didn't stop you very much from taking out the guards… Anyways, follow me."

She lead the way to the large doors. "This is the main hall of course. It leads to many other sections of the castle." They end up to another large door and a split staircase, "The left is the west wing and the right obviously is the east. This giant door here leads to the throne room. But you won't have to worry about any of that because your section is going to be through those doors over there." She points to a side door to the right, where a petite Saiyan woman in ragged clothes comes from.

The woman is older and looks like she has seen a few battles herself. "Ms. Bulma, how were the fights?"

Bulma hugged the older woman, "They were fine. Shida, this is Gohan. He is our newest addition to the Gladiators." Bulma introduced.

The older woman looks Gohan over, "Hmm… Half breed?" He nods, "Well you're quite a specimen. I've never seen one of you so strong. But we'll see. There's nothing more pure than a full blooded Saiyan. Come boy." She said as she lead the way.

Gohan followed her through the doors. They headed down a new corridor and Gohan was continuously amazed by the size of this place, "You know… I had heard of the amazing wonders of this place, but seeing them is totally different." Shida said nothing, "OK… So why aren't you wearing links?" He asked.

"Because I'm not a gladiator, and from those guards my girls had to clean up, those didn't do much to stop you." She said not missing a beat, "Ah! So here we are, the training ground." She stands in front of a open doorway.

Gohan stands behind her as he looks ahead. There are about 20 Saiyans in the yard training with each other. The sparring matches are as intense as real battles and one gets dropped to the ground hard bouncing off the ground, with his opponent landing down.

"You cunt you! I barely touched you!" The one standing said offering his hand.

"Barely touched me? You nearly killed me you bastard!" The one on the ground laughed as he took his hand and stood up.

They shared a laugh as they took notice to the door. Shida walked down the small steps. "Saren. Luka." She said as she stopped in front of them.

"Shida." They both bowed. Luka, the victor from the battle spoke. He is muscular with a high and tight haircut and a closed up eye from an old battle. "Who's the brat?"

"Go get your trainer. You guys have a new trainee." She said.

"Yes ma'am." Saren, the loser, replied. He was a bit smaller than Luka, with a shaved head and an intense scar crossing his chest and abdomen. They left and the other gladiators stopped their battle and started to slowly gather around. Some very nasty looking ones seemed to have caught up on Gohans scent, and were baring teeth.

"Split!" A gruff command came. The gladiators all moved from side to side to make a part in the crowd. From there came a tall aged Saiyan, he has a scar on his left cheek with wild hair. He wears an old school Saiyan armor and a red hand band. He walks up to Shida. "Woman… What is this… half breed doing here?" He asked scowling at Gohan.

"Bardock… You never change. And this is Gohan." She started.

"And I should care why? He's just a servant, nothing more." Bardock said sizing him up.

"Actually he is your new gladiator. King Vegeta just purchased him." Shida informed.

This got a nice laugh from all Gladiators, and Bardock, "What a ridiculous thing. You! Eh… Brat! This is obviously a jest, so let's just see what you can do. Falor! Test the half breed." Bardock said moving to the side as a large Saiyan appeared.

"You got it! Come on halfa! Let's end you quickly." Falor said leading him to the center of the grounds.

Gohan followed him through the split of Saiyans which quickly filled in as they surrounded through snarling and laughing at Gohan. Gohan ignored them. They get to the center and the Saiyan mocklingly bows to his opponent.

"And what re you doing?" Gohan asked apathetically.

"I'm giving you a final bow before I break you in half." Falor chuckled. "Now it's time to be destroyed." He said as he disappeared quickly.

Gohan waited. Time slowed down, as he listened and waited. Falor appeared and swung at Gohan, hitting nothing but an after image. It confused him as Gohans foot appeared on top of his head. "So. Are you wanting to try again?" Gohan mocked.

"Wha- But how did yo-" He wasn't allowed to finish as Gohan did a backflip and kicked him in the back of the head knocking him down and landing on the ground.

"And you know the funny thing?" Gohan lifted his hands, "I'm still cuffed up."

Falor got up and got was super upset, "You bastard! I'll kill you!" He charged Gohan for humiliating him.

He started throwing punches left and right, with kicks and blasts. Gohan blocked the punches and kicks and when Falor tried to throw a blast into Gohan, Gohan flipped up and brought his heel down on top of his head. This sent Falors face into the dirt knocking him out cold.

The gladiators were stunned. Bardock stayed scowling and Shida leaned over to speak to him, "I think he'll fit in well." She said.

"Don't you have sheets to clean?" He said walking away, and up to Gohan. He stopped at Falcor, and looked back to another Saiyan, "Get him out of here." He turned his attention to Gohan, "Where did you come from boy?"

"I don't. I'm a bastard." Gohan replied.

"So a half breed and a bastard? By all means you should be nothing more than a punching bag for all us other Saiyans. But you just laid out one of the best in less than 10 moves. This impresses me… And I don't like that I am." He turns around to walk away, "By the way, those links are deactivated as soon as you walk through that door way." He stops in front of Luka, "Clean up the brat, show him around and make sure he knows where he'll be sleeping."

"He'll be sleeping in the palace." Shida chimed in.

"Excuse me?" Bardock replied.

"While he is a new gladiator he is actually Princess Videls, so he'll be sheltered up in the corner of her room." Shida informed.

This got a pause before a large laugh. Even Bardock broke, "Well, well! Looks like the adopted daughter of our king has got herself a new toy!" He moved on, "Clean him up! He'll need to be presentable." Bardock instructed as he disappeared.

The gladiator split to their different areas. All teasing Gohan, and laughing as Luka walked up to him. "Come on brat. Let's clean that blood and sweat off you for the lady, yeah?" He said leading him to the bath house.

Gohan shook his head and followed, removing his link. They immediately flew to the side to a magnetic lock. Luka and Gohan entered the bath house, "This is our magnificent bath!" Luka said with sarcasm.

The bath had three fountains, with steaming water coming from them. They were made of stone and tile. "Doesn't look that bad." Gohan replied.

"Oh not yet. Just wait till some of the more… 'sexually frustrated' Saiyans get to you. Then it's a nightmare. But let's not dillydally as the humans would say. Let's get cleaned." Luka instructed as he stripped and got into one of the bath fountains. "Come boy! I won't bite." He said offering the space around him.

Gohan did as so and sat down across from him and started to remove the dirt and blood from his body and face. " So… What's your story?" Gohan asked.

"Me? Well back in the old days I was just a third class Saiyan warrior. Then when the previous king decided to revamp the classes I was dumped here. Though I can tell you now all the new lowclass warriors have nothing on us gladiators. We could take on the whole army if we wanted to. But… there have been the few chances where a gladiator has proven his worth and was able to rejoin the kings service. I hope to do that again. I miss being a soldier. But other than that I have no story." Luka answered, "But what about you? I know you're a bastard, but you're a very special bastard! You took on Falor. Hell no one just takes him on, and you laid him out!"

"Well it wasn't that hard. He's too loud, even when he's invisible. So it was easy. And yes I am a bastard. My mother died when I was 5 thanks to the son of a bitch that made me a gladiator, and I never knew my father. Basically my entire life has been being a fighter." Gohan answered as he rinsed.

"And who was your trainer? I know most styles, but… Yours is not familiar." Luka asked.

"That's because it's Namekian." Gohan replied.

"Namekian? Interesting. In all my years of this, I've only known of one Namekian. Could this be the one known as Piccolo?" Luka asked.

"Yes, but how did you know?" Gohan asked.

"How well is your knowledge on the history of the gladiators?" Luka asked.

"Unfortunately, not a lot. Why?" Gohan asked.

"Well isn't that something. Do you know why the classes are the way they are?"

"No. Tarens house kept me from knowing anything." Gohan replied.

"Then allow me to tell you a story young halfa. Way back say about… 35, maybe 40 years ago. We were still under the rule of Frieza and his family. We were his pirates and we cleared planets and put them up for sale. Any way, one of those planets was Earth, and the Saiyan sent was one named Kakarot." Luka paused.

"I've heard of Kakarot. He was the one to liberate us from Frieza right?" Gohan said.

"That's right but before that he was a warrior from Earth. During his time there he lost his memory of his mission and grew up there as the savior of Earth. We of course thought this was weak of him. But one day the previous king called for a status report on Earth. So he sent his brother Raditz. The report Raditz delivered, was disturbing. So the King decided he needed to intervene and take a trip. As he did Earth was throwing what they call the world martial arts tournament where they got their best fighters to face off against each other. Amused by this the King threw in his own fighters. Then made a deal saying that if we won we'd take control of the planet. If we lost we'd never return. There was Vegeta, Nappa, some other saiyan, Raditz and even Bardock was thrown in there." Luka explained.

"Bardock. That old man?" gohan asked.

"Yes. And here's a tidbit for you, Bardock is the father of Kakarot and Raditz. And Kakarot looks just like his father. Oh and at the time he went by some kind of nickname… Uh… Goku or something… Anyways, Kakarot had his own team of fighters. All human and all quite impressive. Oh and the Namek. He was there too. And the battles were fierce. Who wouldhave thought that these humans could put up a fight. This bald one… Krillin I think was his name went first and fought the forgotten Saiyan. He used this marvelous attack and cut him in half. It was brilliant. Then Raditz fought the Namek. Needless to say he lost as well, but not in an honorable fashion. Then Nappa fought a human named Tien. This human fought well, and proved himself worthy… Unfortunately he lost his battle to Nappa who removed his arm before killing him. But he'll be remembered. Bardock was next to fight. He went against some human… Uh, I forget but needless to say he won that battle. But Bardock is a brutal fighter. Instead of killing his foes he leaves them humiliated. He shattered the leg of this human and left him to agonize in pain. I think he was just sore he couldn't fight his son." Luka paused as he rinsed in the water.

"He wanted to fight Kakarot?" Gohan asked.

"Of course! What father wouldn't want to fight his strongest child? But that right was reserved for our kings son, the present King Vegeta. I tell you what… I've never seen a battle like that in my entire life. Kakarot and Vegeta looked like they were meant to be rivals. Each attack was met with an equal attack. Each blast cancelled out. It was the longest most impressive battle ever. Kakarot had this ability to sense you when you weren't there, a technique we use today. But Vegeta somehow pulled something and took Kakarot down. It was the most stunning ending to a battle any Saiyan had ever seen. And in his hurt pride for almost losing Vegeta was ready to kill Kakarot. His father stopped him. He liked these fights and decided it was time to make some changes. So after we took Earth we decided that it was pretty useful. It gave us some fine fighters and was rich with water. And then there's our queen. Bulma proved that there was a better set of intellectuals on earth that rival ours. And somehow fell for Vegeta. You got me on that story, so anyways. King vegeta opened up transports between the two planets and we started this gladiator game. Vegeta changed the classes. So that there's the royals, the nobles, the 1st class soldiers, 2nd class soldiers, 3rd class soldiers, and then us gladiators. We used to be the 3rd class soldiers, but now we're lower than that, but better warriors. I think the king lost his mind in his last years."

"I bet." Gohan said now enthralled his Luka's story.

"So anyways, Gohan, the king took Kakarot, the Namek and the bald one and brought them here. They were trained and the King organized fights between Saiyans and Friezas men. We won for nearly 4 years straight. It was glorious. In one of the final fights Krillin the earthling proved his worth by taking down Recoome of the Ginyu force. This made Frieza very upset. So he jumped in the fight. Now as I'm sure you've heard Frieza had stages of power and he immediately jumped to his strongest to prove that we were lesser than him, and in his anger he killed the Human. This was his greatest mistake. The human was Kakarots best friend. In a fit of rage Kakarot pushed past his limits and became the legendary Super Saiyan. No one will ever forget that. In his anger he killed Frieza in a one on one battle. Friezas family was there, so his brother Cooler jumped in there and was killed almost instantly. Their father King Cold tried running but no such luck. It was a great day for Saiyans…" He paused and things seemed to become somber.

"The rest I know. Kakarot died from his own power, taking over him and stopping his heart." Gohan filled in the rest.

"And here I thought you didn't know anything. Yes, that is true. There was a rumor that he had a child before he came to planet vegeta… But no one knows where the child went. The first half breed, but it doesn't matter. He's probably dead. I had heard this child had extraordinary power." Luka finished.

"And how did you hear that if it was just a rumor?" Gohan asked.

Luka chuckled, "I heard it from-"

"Me. He heard it from me." Bardock's gruff voice came. Gohan turned and looked at him, "Dry off. The princess requests you now. So let's go." Bardock commanded.

Gohan nodded and dried off. He was handed a set of clothes, "What's this?"

"They're clothes. Here you get two things from the great King. A set of clothes and a set of armor." Bardock said as Gohan finished dressing.

"Wonderful. By the way… I wish I could have met Kakarot. He sounds like a true Saiyan." Gohan said.

"He was. But he was weak. He let his emotions get the best of him and he died." Bardock said with the smallest hint of sadness.

"At least he went out fighting." Gohan replied, "I bet his son would have been as strong. I just hope I didn't kill him. Let's go."

"Here." Bardock handed him his links.

"Fuck…" Gohan said as he put them on.

"Get over it." Bardock said as he lead Gohan through the halls. They arrive at Videls door. "Be proper. Human or not she is royalty. And there are rules. No touching, and only speak when spoken to."

"You must have been some kind of leader in the old times." Gohan stated.

"I was, and I don't miss them. I'd rather train you. Now…" he knocked on the door, "Keep quiet."

Gohan looked forward as the door opened and Shida was there, "Bardock."

"Wench." Bardock said as he left.

"Come in boy." Shida said. Gohan did as he was told. "The lady is getting prepared. Your area is over there." She pointed to a cot by the window.

"Fan… -tastic." Gohan said taking notice.

"Now do you know why you're here?" Shida asked.

"Not necessarily, outside of being a pet for the human who bought me." Gohan replied.

"You are here to protect me as well." Videl said as she walked into the room, "Thank you Shida. You can go. Thank you."

"You're welcome my lady." Shida said as she left.

Videl looked at Gohan, "Anyways, being some sort of royalty even if it's not by blood, I'm a target. So naturally I need protection." She explained.

"And it took you this long because…" he asked.

"It didn't. My previous gladiators were killed." She replied.

"And I'm different because?"

"You're not. You look good and you're a capable fighter. If there's anything I learned from Vegeta, is that I should always try to find a capable fighter. Who knows. Maybe I'll be able to find a mate for myself one day." She said to herself.

"And your hoping I'll be your mate one day?" He asked.

"Maybe. But first… I want you to get naked." She commanded.

"I'm sorry, what?" He asked.

"I want to see you naked." She said unwavering.

"And-" He was going to ask.

"Look I commanded you to do something. So do it." She said.

"Um… But why?" He asked.

"I'm a lonely, horny female from earth who outside of making appearances, is stuck in this place all day with no fun. I luckily get to choose a mate this year but I really need to get laid and you are here for me. So get naked, and let me see what you're packing." Videl said closing the gap.

"So you want me to get naked, show you my cock and then have sex with you?" He was making sense of it.

"And your issue is..?" she asked.

"Uh… I guess there is none.. " He said.

He removed his clothes and stood before her naked. She studied him with a devious smirk. "That's more like it."

So there's chapter 2. Chapter 3 soon yes? Yes.