Chapter Seven

Protective Shield

Bailey huffed and pulled up the gown she was wearing. "Sakura what was I thinking? This is so ridiculous! I'm not a queen! I look terrible in red and these shoes are the product of hell." Sakura smiled at her friend shaking back her loose black ringlets. "It's a big day, it's a big deal. Vegeta's is going to be king. Be happy for him." Sakura tied up the back of her friend's dress and disappeared behind the small folding wall to change into her own dress. "Sakura, they wanted to give us servants to get dressed. Someone to tie up our dresses… do you not see the wrong in that?" Sakura emerged from behind the wall holding up her dress. Bailey walked over to her and began tying the back. "Don't let the fact Kakarot is getting… some important title that makes him important… put on him go to your head." She finished tying the dress and stepped back. The two women examined themselves in the full length mirror on the wall. "At least you look good in white…" Sakura giggled at Bailey's comment. "You are right though, these dresses aren't very comfortable… or flattering." Bailey flopped down in a chair and sighed. "Anything cut to your knees in the front with a three foot train in the back is not going to look good on anyone." Sakura giggled. The giggling was silenced when the two women picked up on an explosion with their sensitive ears. They looked at each other. "The throne room…" Sakura muttered. Bailey grabbed her arm and dragged her off down the hall. "Bailey how can you move so fast in this absurd shoes and what the hell do you think we can do?"

Bailey skidded into the hallway leading to the throne room and noticed the injured and dead guards littering it. She released Sakura's arm and ran to the nearest one and began healing him. Sakura looked about in horror, "What happened here?" Bailey ripped off part of the train on her dress and wrapped the guard's arm with it. "I don't know but get to work." Sakura nodded and followed suit on the opposite side of the hall. Bailey reached the last of the guards she was able to heal. She ripped a piece of fabric from the side of her dress and pressed it to his eye. "Make sure you put pressure on your eye while you wait for me to come back. If not you will go blind." The guard nodded. "I really hate to leave you but there is nothing more I can do for you until I can get you downstairs. Just don't move." She skidded across the hall to Sakura. "How many do you have?" "Still alive? About ten, that will make it if they are left too long? About three." "The attacker is still here, it's-" An explosion blew the door off the throne room sending Bailey and Sakura slamming into a wall. They slid to the floor only to be showered with debris. Sakura turned to Bailey. "Are you okay?" "Broken ribs and an arm… yourself?" "Broken ribs… maybe an ankle." Bailey examined her ankle and healed it to the point her friend could stand. "We can't waste energy healing ourselves. As long as we can still stand we are good. Let's move." Sakura removed her shoes and threw them. She stood wobbling on her still paining ankle. "Ready as I'm ever going to be." The two women made their way into the throne room.

Bailey peered down at the two attackers cornering Kakarot who was clutching his arm. She removed her shoes and handed one to Sakura. "You get right, I'll get left. Maybe these shoes weren't such a bad idea. Ready now, one, two, go!" The two women jumped from the rafters jamming a shoe in to one of each of the attackers' eyes. Kakarot blasted each of them with his good arm. Sakura ran to him and healed him as well as she could. He moved his arm. "Not completely fixed but it'll do. Thanks." Bailey tilted an ear. "Save the mushy shit, there's move keep moving!" She ran off through a hole in a wall. Sakura and Kakarot looked at each other and ran off after her.

Bailey arrived in time to slide in front of an attack launching for King Vegeta and his son and put up a protective shield. The King looked at her with surprise. Vegeta simply smirked. Sakura ran in and joined her friend putting up a shield with her. "You looked like you could use some help… with one arm and all." Bailey smiled at her, "Well if nothing we've got timing." Kakarot arrived, caught the attackers by surprise and blasted them off. Sakura and Bailey dropped their shields and collapsed. King Vegeta looked at the two battered, bruised and bloody women and back to his son. "Vegeta, I believe you made the right choice." Vegeta nodded to his father and made his way to Bailey. He knelt down beside her. "You saved my life again." Bailey laughed causing the pain in her ribs to shoot through her. "You really have to stop getting yourself into so much trouble." He helped her to her feet and they made their way to the waiting Kakarot and Sakura. The two men supported their beat up women as they made their way down the hall. King Vegeta stood alone surveying the destruction around him and frowned. "Now who is going to clean this horrid mess up?"