The doors to the house opened as they were greeted by the staff. Goku carried Chi Chi asleep in his arms and everyone else behind them walked in. She has slept through the whole night only to wake up once in the morning to use the restroom then fell back asleep. She had been through so much and he didn't want to disturb her. He told everyone to make their way to the room for the meeting with the Kind and he would be behind them once he placed Chi Chi in her bed to rest.
Once he closed all the curtains and doors to her room Goku left a soft light on incase she had woken up. He wrote a letter and placed it by her bed, stating that they were downstairs talking with her father. Once he placed the note down Goku's gaze was caught by a solid golden cuff that was around Chi Chis left wrist now. He hadn't taken notice to it the other day, he was more worried about Chi Chi then what she had on her at the moment. Sitting down on the bed he carefully placed his hand onto her wrist lifting it up to examine the cuff. In a deja vu moment Goku began to remember something from his days on Plant Vegeta.
"Hey Vegeta so where is your emblem of royalty, I hear it's this hug green shiny jewel you all wear for people to see…."
"You fool, you think we would keep something as precious as the emblem of royalty to Vegeta out in the open." Vegeta as a child crossed his arms and looked in scorn at shut his mouth and looked down as all his excitement disappeared from his face.
"Vegeta you be nice now! He will be protecting you for the rest of your life. You do not treat honorability like that!" A tall beautiful woman with long dark hair dawning battle gear of royalty walked up to Vegeta and smacked him upside the head. "Go to the other room your father wants you. And I better not hear about you treating Kakarot like this again, is that understood?!"
Vegeta's arms feel to his sides as he huffed and turned around to walk off "Yes auntie whatever you say." With that Vegeta disappeared. The woman rolled her eyes and got down onto one knee to Gokus level.
A figure gripped the chin of Goku to lift his gaze up to this woman and she smiled so kindly. Goku's eyes looked at her in confusion at this. No female ever treated him like this on the planet. "I am sorry for my nephew Kakarot. He has a lot to learn about honorability and respect. He is young too. Give him time and you both will begin to understand each other seeing eye to eye. Everyone is so cold and critical here on this planet. When any kind of warmth and caring in shown it is shot down and looked down upon, even by the family who loves you most."
The woman sat down in front of goku and crossed her legs giggling. "Come here and sit with me….don't be shy. I wont hurt you." Gokus eyes bulged at this woman to was being so kind to him…..was he in a dream. What in the world was going on. Goku excitedly jumped over and sat down next to this nice woman. "Since Vegeta is being a snobby child today I will show you our secret emblem. Seeing as you need to know it exactly so when you see royalty in the future you know. I hope one day to pass this onto my own daughter." Goku and her both laughed at her calling out Vegeta for exactly as he was acting. Goku could see the genuine smile upon her face and watched her taken a golden cuff off of her wrist.
"umm if you don't mind me asking, why are you being so nice to me, and…and how are you royalty. Who are you?!" the woman smiled down at the young Goku and she turned the cuff over to look on the inside of the cuff. "Well Goku, have you ever heard of the warrior the Pheonix?"
Goku lite up at the mention of this name. "oh yes! I've heard all about her. The Legendary Female. She is the strongest female among us all! No other female could rival her in this planet or within this part of space. It is told that she has fought her whole life instead of following what her family wanted. She has conquered the most planets out of all the sayians within our race! And she was the most beautiful too." The woman smiled and held out her forearm and hand "Well it is very good to meet you Kakarot, I am glad my reputation is that of legends." Goku sat stunned eyes bulging out of his head and jumped up pointing at her. This mad the woman laugh "WHAT! YOU YOU YOU CANT BE HER…..I THOUGHT."
"Now is that how you are going to great all future warriors of this universe." The woman playing scorned Goku and he jumped back up to her and his hand grabbed for her forearms and she grabbed his. "There you go, always remember a firm grip to show strength and confidence but never to much." Goku nodded his head. "Now look here Goku at the inside of my cuff. You see here the golden engraving of the back." Goku nodded his head paying close attention to this bracelet. "Now if you push right here this should….ah there we go." The woman pulled golden faced coin up attached to a chain that slowly came out of the secret compartment of the cuff. She flipped the coin over and a bright green crest carved into the jewel could be seen. "See here Goku, if we kept it out of the open all the time it would be damaged or we could lose it. And we never get another. Only a few of these were made and they are passed down throughout the family and those who are in line for the crown on the planet."
Goku scratched his head at this "uh miss but I thought Vegeta and his dad are the ones…?" she smiled at the boy "You are correct Goku. His father is my big brother. Now if he has a son he will take the next stop after him. The male will always come first. But if my brother, King Vegeta never had a child I would have been next in line."
Vegeta, Bulma and Piccolo sat down at the table as the King walked in and sat across from them. The doors were all shut and all eyes were on the King. "So what may I help you all with today?"
Bulma questionly eyed Chi Chis father "We're going to be blunt with you Sir. And I mean no disrespect at all but first off how are you not weirded out by Piccolo!? A green man sitting here?! Am I missing something!?" Bulma glanced over at Vegeta and Piccolo. Vegeta had his eyebrow raised in the same question but Piccolo seemed to calm for comfort.
The king let out a large sigh. "Piccolo has helped myself in the past with a few issue and I have gotten to know him and Kami. We have had a deal that they would not speak of this deal until I found it bound to be broken. And apparently that time has come. I never thought that anything would happen again after Chi Chi being kidnapped all those years ago."
Piccolo stayed eerily silent. "What…Deal…" Bulma seem upsest at the mention of this. Something she nor Chi Chi would know about.
Vegeta stood up slowly and walked over to the king. Vegeta then proceeded to take off a necklace from under his shirt and placed it in front of the King. "You will answer me once and I want the truth. Where is your wife originally from?"
"Vegeta what the hell are you getting about?!" Piccolo placed a hand on Bulma to stay in her seat. He was quietly sitting in his seat eyeing the king and not saying a word "Hey get your hands off me green man. I don't need you holding me down at all."
Vegeta watch the exchange between the two across from the table. They both sat and just looked at each other as if they were talking to each other without saying a word. Something being conveyed that didn't need words. " I will need to speak with Chi Chi before I speak to any of you furt.."
"oh no you don't! you will answer us now. What they hell do you think we have been trying to do!? We are trying to get answers for your daughter who you will tell nothing too!" Bulma slammed her hands down onto the table finally breaking free from Piccolos grasp and standing up. "You and I have watched her suffer for YEARS! And you just sit there watching everything go by. Like you don't have a care in this world. And now all a sudden you care! She is your daughter! You have nothing more precious in this world than her and how could you abandon her…"
"QUIET!" Goku barged into the room and walked over to the King. Hurt and betrayl was seapping off of him. He threw a golden cuff down onto the table in front of him and held the coin in front of the kings eyes to drop it into his hands. The king was dead silent in shock at seeing this.
"how…how did you get this….this was my wifes." Goku snarled at him "You knew this whole time who your wife was. Who your daughter was and you never thought it important to share any of that with her! You've been lying to her, her whole life! Who she is where she comes from!" Vegeta stepped back and walked back over to sit down next to Bulma. Taking the middle seat at that table. Hold onto yourself for a minute here Bulma and stay quiet. This is sayin business now.
The Kings eyes welled up as he begun to stare at the pendent in his hands. The sun reflecting off of the green jewel. Goku stood next to him with his arms crossed waiting patiently for the king to answer. Time seemed to tick by as the silence began to weigh on everyone. Piccolo stood up and place his hands behind his back. "If you do not protest, I would like to speak King." The king nodded his head. "This goes back to before myself Goku and Vegeta. My Mentor was the one who handled the situation many years ago. But a Sayian woman of royal decedent came to the planet and that was when he went to investigate the landing from the unknown source at the time. She went by the name of Phoenix and came alone in a solo pod. She explained how she has wanted to escape her life on the planet Vegeta for that life was not one she could believe in or live anymore. She had also explained that she was running away from an arranged marriage that she wanted nothing to be a part of."
Bulma's eye grew two sizes larger as she began to put the puzzle pieces together and grab for Vegetas hands. Vegeta interlaced his fingers with hers and stroked the top of her hand trying to calm her down. Vegeta himself seemed to calm but Bulma assumed he had a hunching after seeing that cuff. He had put the pieces together and just wanted confirmation that what he figured was true.
Goku began to relax a little but had a hand clenched at his sides.
Piccolo looked over to Bulma "Your family had even played a part in all this too. Funny how life works out. Your father helped us to get an identity for her to use and work under. Just to make a living and have a peaceful life here. So she took on the name of Rosalie.." the King began to speak cutting Piccolo off as he begun to relive his fairy tale out loud.
"Her name was Rosalie and the day we met was the best day of my life. I had just gotten into a fight with my parent about an arranged marriage and was walking down at the farmers market to pick some food up when I ran into this woman. She was beautiful beyond anything else I had met. She had no idea who I was, no one had ever treated the way she had before…..just as another person. We spent the next month inseparable. We didn everything together. And then I told her who I was. I thought I was going to lose her, she was so scared and didn't want anything to do with royal life." The king chuckled a little bit as he continued on "but I had my way explaining everything to her and it wasn't what she thought. And that was when she told me about who she was. From that night on we became one and never looked back."
Bulma gagged a little at the thought of her friend father and mother having sex. She just couldn't get over something about the older people around her and that…..it made her weirded out. Vegeta glared at her and smacked her shoulder. "Hey watch yourself!"
"I never expected what would happen that day her mother died…..the lost connection. Its like ive been a robot since. Nothing is the same. Not food, not music, I cant sleep correctly. It is like I am numb to the world. But.." he sighed "I've felt more awake and alive in the past month but I am not sure why. Something isn't weighing heavily on me anymore."
Vegeta pointed to the king "have you felt the connection at all lately?" the king looked at vegeta in malice. "Shes dead. She is gone and never coming back! Now if you don't mind it but I would like to tell Chi Chi about her mother and her being part Sayina myself."
"I'm WHAT!..." Chi Chi's hand fell smack onto the wall as she tripped. Chi Chi had snuck into the back of the room where no one had noticed while her father was telling the story of how her mother and father had met.
Gokus eyes lite up out of his head as he race over to a falling Chi Chi, grabbing her before she hit the ground.
Bulma growned and smacked her forehead "Why cant anything ever go as planned?..."