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Author's Note: When you see words in Italic, they are thoughts or speech that is being spoken through telepathy. Sorry everyone for the long updates, have been getting busy with stuff going on in Real life that has been keeping me busy. I will be trying to update these next couple of weeks here. I still have three more chapters already written down. Just have to transfer them to the computer. I do have a lot more chapters planed out within my head. This story will most likely ended up being my longest one so far.
Chapter 8
Back on planet Jadon, Bardock and Raditz were still going at it. Once I appeared near them, Raditz could feel the anger within me. He wanted to go over to me and ask why I had left and what was wrong with me. However, he had things that are more important now to dealing with Bardock. Who was also showing concern for me. Which just put more fuel on the fire, I looked up to them to watch their fight. Mihos called out to me, master, you okay?
You should be resting Mihos, I used a lot of ki on that exit. I am going to need you at your full power. For if, someone finds us out here. I giggle, I will also will need your help breaking up those idiots for sleep and to eat.
Yes, master. Call for me when you need me.
I smile, I will, now rest. As I watch the boys, I would study each of their movements. I could tell that Bardock was not even using his full power. Raditz on the other hand was at full power, he even was in his Super Saiyan form. Nevertheless, he still was no match for Bardock. I sighed, "He still needs more work." my stomach rumbles, "Well then off to get some food." I walked off into the forest to hunt down some pray. Once I found some deer like creatures, I stalked them before I went in for the kill. Loud growls and screams of pain echoed throughout the forest. After awhile it went quite as I walked out of the forest covered in blood and dragging three of the deer behind me. I had paused to notice that both Raditz and Bardock had stopped fighting and were standing a few feet from me, ready to enter into the forest to aid me. I huffed and continued walking to the campsite. They both looked me over in surprise. After a moment, Raditz softly giggled and followed me to the campsite. I set the deer near the campfire site. "Rhea..." Raditz called out to me. I ignored him and walked over to the box that I had brought with me from the ship. I reached in and took out two buckets. Raditz had walked over to me and placed his hand on my shoulder, "Rhea, love...are you okay?" I turned around and looked at him. I gave him a smile, as my tail had uncoiled from my waist and moved to wrap around his. I looked over his shoulder to see Bardock standing there. I could see concern in his eyes, I softly sighed. Raditz puts his arm around me and pulls me close to him. I give off a small purr at the closeness to my mate. Bardock tsked in disgust, which caused Raditz to give off a low growl towards him. I throw the buckets at Bardock, he caught them as I ordered him, "Got get some water." Bardock grunted at me. "I need to speak to my prince." They both were taken back by the title. For a moment, they had forgotten that now that Raditz is mated to me would make him a prince now. Bardock growls as he walks off. I look up to Raditz to see him watching Bardock as he walked away. I rested my hands and head against his chest. "I don't know why you won't let me just kill him already." he said as he turned and looked down at me. I did not answer him, "You still care for him, don't you?" I walked back to the box. As I pull out some clothing for him, I say to him, "Of course I do. He is a Saiyan and I am the princess. I have to care for all of my fellow Saiyans."
"That's not what I mean!"
I pushed the clothing at him, "And you think killing him will fix anything! Raditz, he's your father!"
"He might look like my father but that Saiyan IS NOT my father. My father died..."
"Protecting us!" She takes a short breath, "When I look at him I feel sorry, because me, the princess, couldn't even protect her own mate...No less an honorable Saiyan warrior."
"Us?" he questioned out of confusion.
I nodded, "I'm sure you have heard the story from Mihos. That day when he died..." I paused as I looked to the ground, "He charged Frieza to give Mihos time to get you out of there and to make sure Frieza wouldn't see you with me. If Frieza knew that you were my mate, he would have done anything to kill you." I walked over to a rock and sat down on it. "But I was too weak to even protect anyone." I place my hand on my head to hide my face. Raditz walked over to me and sat down next to me. He puts his arm around me and pulls me close to him. I rested my head against his chest. He softly spoke, "I am here now and I will protect you no matter what. Even if it means..." I interrupted him with a kiss to his lips. "I know, love, but I am the princess. I won't let anyone take you from me...again..." I take his hand into mine and place our hands on my stomach. "I mean from us." My stomach rumbles again as I give off a small giggle. "You should put those clothing on, while I get the food ready." I stood up and headed over to the food, but I was stopped when Raditz had grabbed me. "I am here for you and I will always be here for you and our child." I turn my head to look at him, "I just don't trust that Saiyan he means trouble." I lean in and kiss him, "I know, love...I know. But take this chance to learn from him." He nods at me. He lets go of me to put his clothing on. As he is slipping into his pants he says, "Next time you leave to go back to that ship. Tell me!" I looked at him in surprise, "How did you...Oh I see your ability to sense ki has improved." I smile at him, "I will." When I reached the deer, Bardock started to come out from the forest's edge, carrying two full buckets of water. He walked over to the campsite and set the buckets down. I started to make the fire, once the fire was nice and warm for the meat. I placed some of the meat over the fire. As the meat cooked, I walked over to the buckets and began to wash off the blood off me.
Throughout the rest of the day, there were very little problems between the two of them. When they had finished eaten and rested up they both went back to sparing again. I let out a small yawn as I headed back to the campsite. I pulled out some blankets and laid them out on the ground. I heard Raditz chuckle at me, "I guess you have never been out in the wildness before." I looked up to him and gave him a glare, "What's wrong with wanting to sleep on something other then the solid ground! At least I didn't bring the whole bed." They both laughed at me. I gave them both a loud growl. They stopped laughing at me. "Rhea, calm down we're just playing with you." says Bardock.
I growled at him, "Shut up!" I stormed over to the box and pulled out a small item. She throws it at the ground casing a small house to appear. On the front door was the royal family's crest on it. Raditz and Bardock where shocked that I had such an item like that. As I opened the front door, Bardock called out to me, "Rhea, Where did you get something like this?" I didn't answer only growled at him as I walked in and slammed the door behind me. Bardock chuckled, "She is most defiantly the King's child. She's got his temper." Raditz ignored him as he stared off at the small house. He had a strange feeling that he should go to me and apologize. He walks over to the door, when he tries to open it but finds it locked. Bardock let out a small yawn as he lay down on the blankets. Raditz looks over the door and the house to find it was most defiantly custom built for her. He let out a small sigh, he know even at his full strength that there was no way in. As he walks around, he started to figure that it was made to keep other males away from her when she was away from the palace. Once back at the front door, he went to knock on the door but he stopped. He stood there for a while staring at the door. He sighed as he sat down in front of the door. He still did not trust Bardock, and he wasn't going to give him a chance to get near his mate. Once he felt that Bardock was asleep, he slipped into asleep also.
Halfway within the night, I started to have dreams about my brother. I jolted up in my bed as I looked around the room. It had been many years since I had to use this house. I crawled out of bed and went over to a small chest within the room. When I opened up the chest, lying within it was a child size Saiyan battle armor with a matching red cape. I took the cape out of the chest. I held it against my face taking in the scents that was still on it. As I remember the smells from so long ago, I softly and quietly called out my brother's name. After a few moments of smelling the cape, I started to pick up a different scent that was coming in from the door. I walked over to the door and opened it up. This cased Raditz to fall over backwards and into the house. I looked down at him as he looked up at me. There was a moment of silence between the two of us before I turned and went back to the bed. I lay down and cuddled up to the cape. Raditz got up and looked around the small house. He could even more now tell that it was personally made for me. He closes the door, locks it as he notices the open chest, and starts to walk towards it. Once close enough he reaches in to take the chest plate out of it. I quickly jump up and slam the chest shut before he could see or take the chest plate out. He looks towards me as I walk back to the bed. I ordered, "Never touch that armor!" I lie down again and go back to cuddling up to the cape. He walks over to the bed, "May I join you then?" Without saying anything, I scoot over to make room for him to join me. He lies down next to me with his head prop up with his arm. We laid in silence for a while, until he took his tail and brushed the side of my face. I did not respond to him. He started to speak, "Rhea..." I did not say anything but just listened to him. He continued, "I...I'm...I'm..." He paused to take a deep breath, "I'm sorry." I could tell that it was very hard for him to speak those words. "If I was still mad at you, do you think I would have let you join me? I am surprised that you didn't try to break down the door."
"I could tell that if I tried I would only hurt myself. Who did make this for you?"
"My brother ordered it to be made for me. He told them to start making it when Bardock died. He told me, he wanted somewhere I could run to if any Saiyan males started to overwhelm me. I was grateful for because I would not take anyone other then you. When brother told me that ordered him away with both you and Nappa. I knew that it was perfect because then you would be able to show him your strength and that you would be safe with him."
"The clothing?"
"It was his, before he left. I had asked him for it. Therefore, that way he would always be with me. When this house was finished I stored them in here."
"You miss him don't you?" he asked as I nodded to him, "What would you do if I told you he isn't the same person that you remember him as?" I didn't say anything but held the cape closer to me. He sighed as he took his tail and wrapped it around me. He moved in close to me and spoke softly to me. "The day our home world was destroyed, a part of Vegeta died with it. That night was the first time I have ever seen the Prince cry so much. At the time, I didn't know why, but Nappa knew, yet he would not tell me. I know now why he shed those tears. They were for you. After that, he became a different person. It was as if his heart had been locked away." He slowly slides his arm under my head as he laid his head against the bed. I placed one of my hands within his as we locked fingers with each other. I moved in really close to him that now no air was in between the two of us. He kissed the top of my head as I softly spoke, "Raditz..." He looked down at me, "What is my brother like now? And will he be okay without you?"
"As far as being okay. He'll be fine; he still has Nappa with him." He paused as he slowly remembered his prince. I rolled over and looked him in the eyes. As he noticed that, I was still holding onto the cape. He gave off a sigh, "You don't want to know what he is like now. You should keep the memories you have of him before Frieza got his hands on him." Tears started to form in my eyes. I grabbed him and buried my face into his chest. He wrapped his arm around me. He gave off low purrs as he rested his head on mine. I sadly spoke, "It's just...I keep randomly having these dreams about him. However, what I see doesn't look like my brother...but a monster. He kills everything on these planets. Even the woman and children." I paused, "What has happened to him to make him so...evil?"
Raditz softly spoke, "Frieza...Frieza changed us. He destroyed our home world. We were all that was left of our race. The three of us...Our race was going to die with us. It shames me to say this, but I was like him also. You even saw it, when I fought Kakarot, my own brother. I would have killed him...no less my own nephew." he lifted his head so he get a better view of me, "But I know once he see you, he'll start to become his old self again."
"I cannot wait for that tyrant to die! Then we can finally rebuild and will the help of those dragon balls we can wish back our home world."
"How are we going to get them? I doubt any of those Earthlings will help us get them. I'm sure once they see me they won't want to help no matter what."
"That is why I am aim to capture Kakarot. However, we have to wait until the time is right. Athena has said that he will kill Frieza. We will get him then, of course, we will have to get him to trust us. With everyone in the galaxy thinking that, he killed Frieza. Everyone on Earth will believe him when we show up."
"Make Kakarot trust us won't be to hard. He is way to trusting, for a Saiyan."
I gave off a small yawn, when I noticed Raditz scent had now filled the whole room. It was a very calming smell to it, which made me feel safe within his arm. I then noticed that my brother's scent was also gone. I looked down to notice that the cape was being press closely in between the two of us. His scent was starting to cover up my brother's scent that was on the cape. I threw the cape across the room, Raditz chuckled at that I figured out what he was doing. I was too tired to argue with him about it. As I started to fall asleep within his arm, Raditz spoke, "I would like you to keep this building up to sleep in." I knew why he said that but I was too tired so all I did was just nod to him.
