Chapter 2: Sleeping Beauty
The next evening Bulma was still not home, leaving Vegeta to make the dinner for him and the kids. After his somewhat enjoyable meal he was planning on going to do more training. Trunks had left after dinner for a date leaving only him and his little princess. On his way down the hall to the gravity room there stood Bra giving him the look. "Daddy?"
"What?"
"Can you read me a bedtime story..." Big puppy dog eyes. "please."
Getting mad about how the only two women in his life can control him with just a look he gave up and simply nodded.
Bra got a huge smile on her face, "Thank you Daddy! Thank you!"
"Yeah, umm...go get ready for bed and I will come read you a ...s...st...story."
"Ok." As Bra ran up to her room Vegeta couldn't figure out how a powerful saiyan prince such as himself could become so soft and be controlled by a demi-saiyan and a human. He waited a few minutes then went to Bra's room to find her sitting in her bed waiting for him. He was about to pull up a chair when, "NO DADDY! SIT ON THE BED WITH ME!" Grumbling and giving up he sat next to her and she laid her head on his lap.
"Where is your story?"
"I know what one I want but I want you to tell me your version of it."
Raising an eyebrow. "What story?"
"Sleeping Beauty."
"What?"
"You know the one daddy, don't play stupid. I thought you say that your smart and Uncle Goku is stupid, or did you two switch?"
"Fine! Sleeping Beauty...
Clear back in time, when there were still kings and queens ruling the lands of Earth, there was one King and his Queen that could not have a child of their own. Until one day, the queen found out that she was with child. The king did everything in his power to keep the queen and their unborn child safe. When the day came for the child to be born everyone, including the king's closet friend, another king, asked him if he wishes it to be a boy. The king simply replied, "I don't care as long as I get a child for me to love (uncomfortable for Vegeta to still say). If it is a girl we could combined our kingdoms by the marriage of my daughter and your son." The other king looked down at his 4 year old mini-me and grinned in agreement.
"Daddy your doing really good."
It was a matter of time when the king found out that he and his queen had a daughter. Everyone in their kingdom was so happy that they decided to hold a party for them. Everyone was invited including the king and queen's good friends the three good witches, Blondie, Harpy, and Goodie-Good.
"Daddy, are you talking about Aunt 18 and Aunt Chi-Chi?"
"Be quiet and listen!"
Each of the good witches had a special gift for the young princess; Blondie gave the princess the gift of beauty. Harpy gave her the gift of intelligence. And when Goodie-Good was about to give her, her gift a darkness filled the room and reveled the evil witch, Bimbo and her pet slave, an old man. "Well, well what do we have here." Bimbo walked up to the cradle that held the tiny princess. "A party? And I wasn't invited." Turning to the king and queen, "I'm hurt."
"That's because you're not welcome here!"
"Blondie, shhh." Harpy said.
"Wasn't invited? Well I too have a gift for the young princess." Turning back to the cradle. "In deed you will grow to be beautiful and smart, the desire of every young prince, but on the eve of your 16th birthday you will prick your figure on the throne of a rose and die!"
"No!" The queen ran over and grabbed her precious daughter. Laughing Bimbo disappeared.
"Your majesties, Goodie-Good, still has her gift to give." Harpy added in.
The Queen looked up, "Can she stop this?"
"No, Bimbo's magic is too strong and evil, but I can make it so she doesn't die." Goodie-Good turned to the baby princess, "Dear princess, on the eve of your 16th birthday there will be a rose throne your finger will prick, but not in death will be your result, but in sleep, till your true love comes with true loves first kiss."
That evening the king gave the order to destroy every rose bush in the kingdom. Meanwhile the three good witches were thinking of a way to save the young princess.
"There has to be something we can do?" Harpy said pacing back and forth.
"Yeah, destroying all the rose bushes isn't going to stop Bimbo." Goodie-Good added.
Blondie who had remained quiet till now, "I have it!"
"What!" the other two asked.
"Not here. Come on." They disappeared into their secret realm. "We will take her with us and raise her and bring her back after her 16th birthday."
"That is a great idea...but we can't raise her here, she doesn't belong in our realm." Harpy added.
"Not here, in the deep forest. No one will look for her there."
"But everyone would know what we look like." Goodie-Good added.
"We will disguise ourselves as maidens. And we will raise the princess."
"I don't know if the King and Queen will go for this." Harpy stressed.
Blondie looked up at her, "I know they will."
The three returned to the other realm and after hours of convincing the King and Queen, they left in the dead of night with the princess.
"Daddy...yawn...I really like your story."
"Your getting tired go to bed."
"NO! Finish it...please."
"Fine...
15 years have passed and it would soon be the eve of the princess' 16th birthday. Blondie, Harpy, and Goodie-Good, had done good so far hiding her from the world. They named her Blue Velvet. One day the three were talking about throwing a party for Blue Velvet before they take her back to her parents. When Blue Velvet came downstairs they rushed her out the door. "That was a close one," Blondie said as she turned to the others, "let's get everything ready. Harpy you make the cake, I'll make her a dress, and Goodie-Good, you clean the cabin."
"Why do I have to do the cleaning?"
"Just do it."
Meanwhile, Blue Velvet was walking in the woods, picking berries with her forest animal friends. Until she came upon a handsome young man sitting by the water while his horse drank from it. Blue Velvet felt that she had met this young man before, and not being afraid went to talk to him. "Hello."
The young man looked up, "Hello."
Far away in a dark castle Bimbo was getting extremely mad. Her men had search everywhere for the princess and still couldn't find her. Finally she had no choice she turned to her pet, the old man. "Pervert, you are very loyal to me aren't you?" The old man shook his head yes. "Good, go out and find the princess for me and don't return till you do." The old man left atop a flying turtle and was off.
Back in the cabin Harpy was having an easy time making the cake, but Blondie and Goodie-Good were fighting over what color the dress should be and were using their magic. Goodie-Good thought it should be white to show her purity, but Blondie wanted it gray to show that she was a strong young woman. In the mist of their fighting their magic started shooting out the windows, overhead Pervert saw this and got closer. He saw that it was the three good witches and rushed to tell Bimbo.
Back to Blue Velvet and the young man...they sat there talking about how they thought they knew each other somewhere before. Until Blue Velvet saw that it was getting late and had to rush home, but not before the young man stopped her, "I must see you again."
"Tomorrow, at the cabin on the edge of the meadow."
"Tomorrow." With that Blue Velvet was gone. The three witches heard Blue Velvet on her way back and were hurrying to clean everything up. They went to hide when Goodie-Good saw that she still had the broom going and stopped it right before Blue Velvet walked in the door.
"Surprise!" The three yelled as Blue Velvet's already beautiful smile grew.
"Oh, you three this is wonderful. Today has gone so well, meeting the man of my dreams and on this."
"The man.." Blondie
"..of your..." Harpy
"DREAMS!" Goodie-Good.
"Why yes, he is coming here tomorrow."
The three witches looked at each other, "Blue, you should sit down, we have something we need to tell you." Harpy said.
"What's the matter?"
"You can't see that boy tomorrow." Goodie-Good said.
"Why?"
"Because tonight we are taking you back home, to the castle." Blondie said.
"Back home? Castle?"
"Your a princess, and promised princess."
"Why are you telling me this now?"
"Everything will make sense, now go get your dress on, we leave in an hour."
At the castle the King and his close King friend were discussing the wedding arrangements and the castle plans for their children, when the Prince came back. The other king ran down to met up with him. "Father! I just met the girl I'm going to marry!"
"You met the princess already!"
"No, I didn't say the princess."
"But you said the girl your going to marry."
"Yes father." The prince got back on his horse and left again.
"How am I going to explain this?"
Blondie, Harpy, and Goodie-Good made their way to the castle with Blue Velvet in the dark of the night.
Back at the dark castle, Pervert had reported to Bimbo, and she was planning a trap. Her plan to to capture the princess. But that night, the young man i.e. the prince couldn't wait to see her again and was captured instead and taken to Bimbo's castle.
The three witches and Blue Velvet reached a tower in the castle where they would wait till the King and Queen were ready. The three decided to give Blue Velvet a minute to let everything soak in, this is when Bimbo made her move. She placed Blue Velvet under a spell that led her to a secret chamber high in the tower, the three good witches heard the calling and took after Blue Velvet, but it was too late she pricked her finger on a throne and fell to the ground, Bimbo was very pleased with herself, thinking the princess was dead and vanished. The three witches placed Blue Velvet in a bed and put the rest of the kingdom to sleep till the princess woke. They headed to Bimbo's castle to put a stop to her when they found the prince, they set him free and got him out of the castle and while they fled to the King's castle where Blue Velvet slept they found out he was the young man that was coming to meet with Blue Velvet and explained to him that she is the princess and he needs to save her.
But when they got there...
Vegeta stopped to see Bra's eyes were close. He was about to get up and leave when, "Finish the story daddy." Rolling his eyes he continued...
Bimbo was already there and turned herself into an ugly dragon to try and stop the prince. In a great battle the prince killed Bimbo and made it to Blue Velvet, he leaned in and kissed her and she awoke and as did the rest of the kingdom. When the two kings and the queen awoke they saw their children walking down the stairs together and started to dance. And they...they...lived happily ever after.
Bra looked up with sleepy eyes, "That was a good story daddy. Stay here till I fall asleep please."
"Fine." Vegeta leaned his head back and closed his eyes. He soon fell asleep with his little princess. About 10 minutes after Vegeta and Bra fell asleep both Trunks and Bulma came walking into the house. Trunks went up to his room and got ready for bed and Bulma went to look for Vegeta. When she didn't find him in his usual spots she checked the living room, not there, then Bra's room. And there she found them both asleep. She decided to leave them there and she covered them up and shut off the light. "Love you two." As she shut the door to head to her and Vegeta's bedroom.
