Chapter 4-Conflicting Emotions

A/N-I do not own dbz or any characters. For dialogue in this story I used the subtitles from episode 78 of dbz. Anyway I hope that you enjoy the story and reveiw :D:D:D:D

it was late in the afternoon when Nappa and Vegeta finally finished their training. Nappa had carried the worn out prince back to his room and laid him down on his bed. Afterwards Nappa turned to head towards the room to so he could talk to the King. Once Nappa entered the room and the King sitting in his throne looking deep in thought. Nappa saluted then said something gain the Kings attention.

"Afternoon King Vegeta sir"

"Afternoon Nappa" the king looked up at him and towards everyone else in the room " you all may leave now I must discuss with Nappa about something private"

At his word everyone turned to leave the throne room. Once they were sure everyone was out of hearing distance Nappa waited for the king to talk first. A long silence in the room he finally spoke

"I've been making plans Nappa" He stated bluntly

" plans about what exactly Sir?"

"The Prince, Frieza is asking for him." Nappa had a shocked look on his face after hearing that news. Why out of everyone on planet vegeta would Frieza just single out a five year old child. A child could not serve any purpose in an army much less Frieza's army. Vegeta had only been on one mission and even then he went with at most four or five others. Nappa thought that Frieza would be better off with having a more experienced fighter perhaps someone older but no he wanted vegeta. Nappa couldn't wrap his mind around the whole situation.

"What are you planning on doing about it sir?"

"Frieza has made it quite clear that it's either the prince or everyone else on the planet so I know what I have to do"

"So you're going to give him the prince?" Nappa knew the answer to the question but felt the need to ask him anyways

"Yes Nappa, I can't risk the lives of everyone else on the planet just for the prince. No doubt about it if I did refuse his demand he would defiently destroy the planet. He's done it to so many others what would this one mean to him" The king was frustrated that Nappa would ask such a question

"Of course he wouldn't sir, please continue on with your plan"

"Nappa what i'm going to tell you about needs to stay strictly confindential you got it not even the queen should know about it you got that" Nappa was all ears at this if he didn't even want the queen to know about it. Nappa was prepared to know what it was and if he was required to be a part of it he would follow through with it loyally.

"Of course sir just between us"

At Nappa's assurance King Vegeta told Nappa about the plan he had been coming up with and how he should carry it out. Nappa stood in his spot quietly listening to the plan and what was his role in the plan. He didn't feel it was right but he wouldn't tell the king that. The king would think that he was less of him knowing that Nappa was letting his attachment to the prince get in the way of following his duty to the king which came first


The Next two days went by and true to his word Nappa to the King's knowledge had not said a word to anyone about the plan he had told him. This Morning the king decided to sit in on a training session since he didn't have the meeting with the tyrant until later. Nappa had found another person for Vegeta to spar with an eleven year old named Raditz who was just about on par with him though his strength being a little bit lower than the prince. They were all outside in the back in a large grassy area while Raditz and Vegeta were throwing punches at each other. Vegeta had been going all out in the presence of his father until He saw someone in the corner of his eye.

"Mother!" He stopped his punches so fast that Raditz had punched him in the face and fell hard to the ground "oh shit"

"Hey watch your mouth...both your parents are present" the king told him from his spot

"Sorry father" vegeta apologized as came Raditz over and helped him up

"You shouldn't let yourself get so easily distracted prince Vegeta always stay alert" Raditz lectured him

"Yeah I know that gosh" he said agitated then looked over at his mother "hey mom how was your mission" he asked walking over to her

"Easier than I expected i'll tell you that much but I rather want to know where you've learned such words from" she stared at him

"Ummm...that word slipped I promise and I won't say it again" he responded quickly hoping that wpuld be enough to end the discussion

Raditz snorted at his comment and under his breath he mumbled "Yeah apparently you let those words slip out alot"

"Shut up Raditz you say them too" vegeta snapped at him and then looked back at his mothers serious gaze

"Well where have you both heard those types of words from, cause you shouldn't be saying them either Raditz"

"Nappa!" Both Vegeta and Raditz said and pointed towards him "and I've heard father say them a couple of times too on more than one occasion" Vegeta added

Tomalia let out a giggle "I leave for two days and I come back and here you are saying all types of words" then she became serious "If I ever hear such language come out of your mouth again you won't like what I would do to you understand?"

"Yes ma'am I understand" he told his mother

"Good princes should never use such languages" she looked over to see Raditz snickering quietly then turned to Nappa. "Nappa be sure to notify his guardians about the language he's been using as well" she informed him ,she also noticed that Raditz had stopped his snickering and looked up at her in shock.

"Of course" Nappa said

"Damm- I mean Dangit seriously?" Raditz said correcting himself

"Ok it's time for the both of you to get back to sparring we're not done yet" Nappa said to both Raditz and Vegeta

"Alright" they both said eager to spar again

"Stay Alert Vegeta." The king yelled towards his son

" yes sir" Vegeta said as he got into a fighting stance and both of them began their fighting again

Tomalia then went over to where the King and Nappa where standing watching both of them sparring in silence. " So how was everything while I was away besides the language I've been hearing"

"Good" the king responded

"Yes everything was well while you were away" Nappa added

"That's great did Frieza come by any while I was away" she asked them and noticed that they took a little while to answer the question

"Yeah" King Vegeta told her "what" he asked her when she looked at him

"Are you going to tell me about it?" She asked him. Tomailia thought he was acting strange because anyhtime he had a meeting with Frieza he would tell her about it .

"Later" he simply said and then he got up to go back inside. He looked at Nappa who had his back turned to him watching the sparring match.

"I just asked because he just arrived no more than five minutes ago I thought he only comes here every three weeks." Tomalia explained

"Lord Frieza's here?" The king said loudly in shock. Everyone then turned to look at him and once again Vegeta recieved a punch to his face for gettimg distracted And falling back down on the ground.

"Stay alert Vegeta"Nappa yelled towards him "back into your fighting stance"

King Vegeta made his way to the throne room to meet with Frieza in hopes that he haden't been waiting to long for his presence. Tomalia noticed this and know had good suspicion that something had transpired while she had been away. She went over to Nappa and both of them resumed watching both the boys spar with each other.

"So you know anything about this why I was gone for two days?" She questioned Nappa

"Not anymore than you know my Queen." Nappa told her

Tomalia knew she was taking a risk asking Nappa anything because once he was told something by the king it was hard to get him to tell her anything. She turned arpund and headed back into the castle and turned around to Nappa.

"You know I'll find out what it is eventually Nappa and I think I kind of got an idea about what's going on by the way the king is acting, oh and one more thing Frieza's not even here yet" Tomalia said and noticed Nappa flinched at her words.


King sat in his throne room and waited for anything to happen. He found out that Frieza had not even came yet and he knew that Tomalia was now suspicious by the way he had acted outside so he was coming up with a resonable explanation for his was deep in thought when his messenger came in and interrupted his train of thought by saying something about planet Tazba.

"What's this? You say the occupation of planet Tazba is still not complete?" King Vegeta questioned the messenger to make sure he had heard him right.

"Yes sir, The Tazbians resistence is proving tougher than we anticipated. The say it will take another three days to complete the occupation." The messenger said completing his report.

"Three more days!?" King Vegeta had knew he should've taken on this assignment himself if he had the planet would've been occupied by now.

"Yes sir, My humblest apologies" The messenger quickly said.

The King had lost his temper at this point. "Why you! Have you forgotten that we promised Frieza the planet by tomorrow?" He yelled angrily at him.

The messenger snapped his head up while still remaining on one knee bowed "No I would never do such a thing. However, the full moon on Tazba will not appear for three more days" after saying this he lowered his head once again.

The king didn't want to hear nothing else that the meesenger had to say as he stood up."Be gone" he said and he saw the shocked look on his face when he didn't leave his presence immediantly. "Be gone! And let nothing remain." He raised his arm and aimed toward the messenger firing a ki blast towards him. The messenger screamed and was sent flyhing out of the other sayains in the room remained completely at king was about to sit down until he heard someone enter the left side of his throne room laughing knew who it belonged to.

"As barbaric as always I see. I did not mind if it took another three days. You've done something unfortunate here." Frieza said smiling as he looked over at the area where the messenger was sent flying. Frieza made his way over to the kings throne and as the king stepped aside he sat diown in it and got down to the real reason why he had came."Nonetheless, I came to speak about your son. When do you intend to bring him to me?"

Vegeta flinched at his words "well that is..." He started looking for the right words but, before he could continue the Tyrant interrupted him.

"I know! You will please bring him in three days time along with your annoucement of the successful occupation of planet Tazba." He said getting up from the throne starting to the right side to exit the room as he taughtengly added "You need not worey that I will not pamper him" Frieza left laughing as coldly as he had came.

Torn, who had been standing in slience as both Vegeta and Frieza conversated felt the need to step in as they talked about the prince in such a matter of giving him away didn't sit well with him. Torn thought that King must be planning something because he knew the king would fight for his slowly made his way over to the Kings side to ask him what he was wanting to know. "King Vegeta are you really going to deliver the Prince to Frieza?"

"Yeah." The king gave a blunt answer.

"But won't you be risking the princes life?" Torn asked while trying not to speak out of term. Though he was showing attachment towards the prince. Torn was very fond of him and he would give his life for him,he knew how strong the prince was and couldn't even began to fathom how he would become if under the tyrants care.

"I'm not concered about things such as my son's life" The King said lying to himself "What I find unbearable is his attitude! He has the mistaken idea that we sayains are his slaves or something!"

Torn had made up in his mind that he would try to talk to the king later about his decision instead of being in the room along with that didn't work he would ask the queen to talk to him without, letting her know the reason. He had a feeling the queen didn't know about the situation because if she had she would've made an appearance in the room. If the queen didn't know the kimg probably didn't want her too so Torn wouldn't be the one to tell her but he could tell her indirectly."Yes King Vegeta"

"Curse you Frieza, Someday we'll teach you a lesson" Vegeta said aloud.

Later on Zorn tried to convince the king to change his opinion but failed in doing so. The king didn't want to speak anymore about the topic and dismissed him. Torn felt that if he didn't let the subject go he would end up like the messenger earlier so he left it alone. He found the Queen and told her that she should have a talk with him later because he seemed frustrated about things lately. When Tomalia questioned him if he knew anything about it he had told her he wasen't sure, though he could tell she wasen't believiing him so he just let it be. Torn knew that the Queen would be the last person that could change his mind and that was really pushing it.

Tomalia got all the comfirmation she needed when Torn told her that the king was acting strange for a few days now and that she should talk to he didn't go into detail as to why he was acting strange and that made her wonder even more but didn't surprise her because just like Nappa, he wouldn't tell her anything about it. Tomalia knew it was a longshot asking her son if he had knew anything but she had to try to see if he sat down next to him as he sat up in his bed.

" So Zorn says your fathers been acting strange lately do you know anything about why he has?" She asked him

"No ma'am not at all" he told her " will he be ok?"

"That's ok I'll find out"she reassured him "what you want me to tell you tonight?" She asked him

"Tell me about the super sayain again, I love that one"Vegeta said to her.

After the Prince had finally went to sleep she returned to her room and got ready for the night. After getting out the bathroom she saw the king laying down on the bed.

"So how have you been feeling lately?"she asked him

"Great" he responded

"Zorn says different you want to tell me about it?"

Vegeta shot up at this "what did he say?"he questioned

"All he says is since Frieza showed up that you've been acting strange is wants me to talk to you" She said as she laid down beside him in the bed.

The King was debating if he should tell her anyfhing now. There was no telling how much Zorn had already told her about the situation. He thought that maybe he could get her to understand the choice that he has she didn't though, what would she do or even say to knew her well enough to know that she would fight for what she felt she needed to. There was only one way to find out now or never.

"Well Frieza has asked for-" The king started but was interrupted bythe door slowly opening and closing just as slowly. Both the king and queen looked over to see the prince enter the room and walked over to the bed, crawled inbetween them.

"I couldn't sleep so maybe I will be while in here" Vegeta answered as he saw the look on both of his parents confused look. He made himself comfortable by climbing under the covers and closed his eyes. He sighed contently "yeah much better I can already feel sleep coming to you guys lay down and go to sleep"

The King turned his back towards the Queen and closed his eyes. He was so close to telling her everything that happened while she was gone. From this point on he decided he wouldn't tell her had decided that she would find out tomorrow later while they were that she laid down and went to sleep too.