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Chapter 6
Dark Days;
The Armies Prepare
By Lady
Fluorite
"Veggie-head," she
said, Vegeta leaned in closer to catch her soft words. "Aishiteru"
Aishiteru…Aishiteru…Aishiteru…Aishiteru…Aishiteru…
Vegeta smiled and
held her closer to him, she wasn't the only tired one. His mouth twitched
slightly as he closed his eyes and rested his head on hers. It spasmed and
suddenly is typical frown reversed itself. The emotionless saiyan smiled.
His smile drifted
away to dreams filled with cascades of blonde hair and eyes like bright
sapphires. Suddenly Usagi vanished, and in his mind, he saw a stranger, a cold
looking man with piercing dark blue eyes that shone even in the darkness that
had formed. "Leave Usagi alone." He said menacingly, and that was when Vegeta
awoke.
Usagi sat up and
rubbed her eyes. "Veggie?" She asked, not getting an answer. "Vegeta!" Her eyes
shot open, wide-awake and alert.
"Veggie?" Said
Frieza, "hardly what I would choose to call the prince. Tell me Tsuki-jin, what
is it with you and the brat?"
Usagi glared at
him, but remembered the ki blast he had shot at her. "Where is Vegeta?" She
asked, looking around the rusted space hull.
"Vegeta is
preparing for his birthday gift, and cannot come and see you. Now answer me
moonbrat, what is Vegeta to you?"
The Lunarian
Princess looked down at the ground. "Lord Frieza, Vegeta is nothing more than a
stop between space and my destination, a pit stop if you will." Even to herself
her words seemed empty and hollow. 'But it's been the best time of my life, if
only he will continue to be so,' she added.
"You will answer
me in time, baka, and when you do, you'll scream long and hard. You'll pour
forth your very heart to make the tormenting stop, you'll do anything I desire,
conquer planets, vast civilizations." He leaned in closer until Usagi could
smell his warm breath, "even betray your friends."
"Veggie-head!"
Usagi shouted running towards him.
"U-Usagi?" He
stuttered, flying backwards as she tackled him into a hug.
"What are you
doing in here? I though Frieza had killed you."
Vegeta smirked,
"it'll take more than Frieza to destroy the ultimate prince of saiyan's."
Usagi grinned,
getting off of him and standing up. She looked around the room Frieza's men had
shoved her in. It seemed like an observatory, long glass panels on one side,
and the titanium wall on the other. She looked out the window and saw
Vegeta-sei, a naturally dark planet. Something caught her eye, a vision of a
man flickered before the planet, the same unruly black saiya-jin hair and eyes,
the same brown tail. He kept blinking before her eyes. Then the tail vanished,
he shut his eyes and erupted in a flare of gold, then she lost her picture.
The door opened,
snapping her out of her reverie. It was a bald saiya-jin with a low power
level.
"Lord Frieza wants
to see the both of you immediately." Usagi and Vegeta walked out of the room,
he catcalled at Usagi.
Usagi spun around
in a flurry of rage and punched him in the jaw with ki, followed by Vegeta. "I
am the Princess of the Moon, saiya-jin," she spat, "leave me alone! State your
name, soldier!"
He folded quickly
into a messy salute, "Second class fighter, Napa, sir."
"Sir?" Said
Vegeta, "she's no sir! You'll call her highness or majesty Napa, and don't
forget it. Now lead the way, soldier."
"Sir! Highness!
Affirmative."
The continued
through the vessel until they came to a chamber that opened out into space, the
trio immediately grabbed onto anything they could to keep from being sucked out
into the endless bleak of space, watching Frieza swish his tail, firmly stuck
to the ground.
"Welcome. Napa,
leave."
"Yes, m'lord."
With that Frieza
jumped out of the vessel, making both Usagi and Vegeta gasp in surprise. Usagi
saw something come out from Vegeta-sei, sounds rushed through her ears like a
thousand battle cries. Millions upon millions of saiya-jin's from nobles to
peasants gathered in one final strike against Lord Frieza. He laughed cruelly,
making Usagi shiver. He pointed his finger at the closest one, charging up a
red energy beam.
A man flew towards
him. "Frieza! You will not accomplish anything by defeating me!"
Frieza laughed
again, wickedness blazing in his eyes, the blast multiplied in size ten-fold.
"No, Bardock, I won't. But I will by destroying your BLASTED MONKEY PLANET!"
Usagi's tears
flowed freely, "Vegeta!" she screamed, burying her face in his shirt, unable to
look.
Bardock stared at
the blast not in horror, but with understanding. "Listen to me Frieza. There
will come a day when a great warrior will rise up and destroy you!"
"Shut up you old
fool!" Freeza yelled between cackles.
Bardock saw Usagi
huddled against his prince. "Girl!" He shouted, as the blast began to tear away
at the fibers of his body. "Remember Vegeta-sei and have your revenge! You will
die but your spirit lives on!" He vanished along with Vegeta-sei, forever.
Usagi cried
harder, Vegeta just stared, his jaw tightening, Frieza laughed and boarded the
ship, closing the hatch. "Happy Birthday, Little Prince."
Something in Usagi
snapped, she let go of Vegeta's gi and launched herself at him, her crescent
blazing, she lashed at him viciously with every part of her body, she became
one, fighting with fist, foot and arms, hitting him with everything she had.
Frieza lay beaten
for a moment before shooting her with his finger, having Vegeta catch her in
his arms right after she passed out.
Going into 1st
person now, kay??
I lay there,
everything pushing against me.
At home, on the
Moon, I used to get migraines, they were nothing compared to this.
This pushes
against my head and heart, forcing things to come out, information slips out
constantly, once I let out the position of the Moon, of all of the planets in
my system. Then I poured my soul out to the one I hated most. He's taken Vegeta
away, sent him on missions from what I've heard. He's destroying planets in
Frieza's name with Napa. They're the only two saiya-jin's left. And Ami, poor
Ami. Did she ever get out? Did she escape? And Hirsi?
All I do is think,
my mind has become my greatest tool. I function emptily now, I sit and brood
over plans, each crazier than the next. And I think of what would have happened
if I had never left and married Endymion like a good girl. Frieza makes me
train among the men. I have to defeat and destroy some of his fighters for
food, or a chance to rest, like a gladiator in an arena.
One day I'm going
to get strong, too strong for even Freezie, and I will destroy him. I'll
liberate all these people. And I'll see Vegeta again. I'm fifteen now, a year
older. A year wiser, a year stronger, and another year spent thinking. One day,
Frieza, one day it's your turn to fight for your food. One day…
I'm eighteen now,
Napa is a bore and I haven't seen her what seems like forever. I sigh,
look out the window at the latest planet in Lord Frieza's conquering plans and
count the seconds, hours, months… and years I haven't seen her. Does she still
love me? Has she ever loved me? I know she said so but…
The destruction of
Vegeta-sei, the saiyan's, everything, I don't care for it. I only care for one
thing, Frieza's grave.
Is she even real?
Was she? I don't know anymore, maybe she was just invented in my mind to ease the
overwhelming pain, she and the Mercurian. Or maybe she was just a spy and agent
for Frieza, who knows? She's gone, today, when I got to destroy Lot 9823005211
I'm going to bury her forever. She used to curl up against my gi. I've never
washed it, or worn it again it's still in the corner, too small for me now. I
pick it up and tuck it in my bag before meeting Napa and Raditz and flying out
towards the planet.
I picked up the
shirt and through it into the air. I look down, can I really do this? Destroy anything
I have left of her? Without thinking I blast it, it explodes into thousands of
pieces of charred fibers. I ignore the looks I get from the others.
"Goodbye. Usagi…"
Little time
warp here, plus a contrast, back to third person again ^_^
Ami and Hirsi were
fast asleep when their pods crashed into the moon. Ami woke up with a jerk and
opened the hatch, she was immediately surrounded by guards.
"Saiyan's!" They
growled, "send for the Queen, perhaps they are here to speak of the princess,
Selenity. Tell us where the Princess is or die!"
Ami didn't have
time to deal with them. "Mercury Star Power!"
"Y-your Highness!"
they stuttered in surprise.
"We have escaped,
when the man wakes in the next pod, cut off his tail, tend to him, then bring
him to myself and Her Highness, understood?"
"Hai!"
Sailor Mercury
leapt into the sky and flew to the castle with tremendous speeds, landing on
the balcony next to Queen Serenity. "Your Highness," she said, bowing with
tears in her eyes."
"Ami! Is it really
you?"
Mercury nodded,
"I've missed you, your Majesty."
"Usagi? Have you
seen Usagi?"
Mercury shook her
head, the pain evident in her eyes. "I'm sorry, Queen. Surely the news of Lord
Frieza has reached you even here, in the Sol System. She and the Prince Vegeta
of Vegeta-sei were both captured by him. Myself, I was imprisoned by the Galls,
I only recently escaped. I'm sorry, I couldn't do anything. It's all my fault!"
Serenity smiled
sadly. "Hush now, Ami, you're safe here. I'm sure it's not your fault. But we
mustn't jump to conclusions, we shouldn't bring up and army and attack him, he
is too powerful. I cannot take the risk of destroying the Alliance, even for
Usagi."
"I understand,
Selenity. But I know Usagi is alive, she has to be. She just, has to be."
"She is, Ami, I
can feel it," Selenity said.
A guard burst
through the double doors, his breathing suggested that he had been running a
long way. "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Frieza is preparing an assault on our
kingdom! And to make it worse," he panted.
The Queen stared
in shock and put two hands delicately on his shoulder. "Take your time,
soldier, tell me what else."
"Beryl. Beryl is…
::wheeze:: …coming!"
^_^ Yay! I'm
so happy it's finally out!! The problems at home are almost gone, so no more
worries okay (like anyone did in the first place .;;) DNCS fans can
expect the next chapter this weekend at the latest. Lady Liberty's blessings to
all! Good evening!!!