- - - - - - CHAPTER TWENTY ONE - - - - - - -

- - - JUNK-MAIL - - -

Location: The Icy Planet & Planet Freeza

'Thoughts'

The last view days Freeza and his men had made their presence on this Ice-planet known to it's inhabitants with great presentation of their power. That way they would know what they were up against, in case they would not surrender at once.

The inhabitants of this planet were peaceful people, living in small villages, living off whale like creatures - that lived in the seas - that they caught using small boats and spears. Kinda like the old Eskimo's on Earth.

There was no way they could defend themselves against Freeza and his army. So they decided to surrender so they would be spared. They hoped these barbarians would take what they wanted and then would leave again.

But Freeza wanted the entire planet, so he would not leave - or at least, there would always be a group of his men on this planet, guarding it in case somebody else would dare to take it from him.

"I think I'd like to build me a nice castle on this planet. One that I can use to retreat to if I want some peace and quiet," he told Alyx after he had made his wishes clear to the ruler of this world.

"Will you let these people live peacefully?" she asked him freely.

He shrugged his shoulders. "As long as they stay out of my way, I just might do that." He poured himself a glass of wine. "Besides, they should be happy that I have arrived here. Now that this planet is mine, I will protect it from other conquerors."

"Well, aren't they the luckiest people!" she commented dryly.

"Geese……. I could have just sent them all to the next dimension if I had wanted to!" He took a mouthful of wine. "HAAAAH! That feels good! Want some?" He offered her the bottle.

"No thank you, I don't drink alcohol."

He gave her a curious look, with one brow raised and his head tilted to the side. "Why not?"

"I don't like the taste of it.'

"But my dear, you should 'learn' to drink this. It is an 'art' to drink this and enjoy it. Would you mind if I teached it to you?" He took another sip and gazed at her over the brim of his glass.

"Yeeees," she replied.

Disappointed he let his head hang to the side. "You're hopeless."

"I AM NOT!"

"Are too!" he took another sip.

"AM NOT!" she crossed her arms across her chest.

He let the wine play around in his mouth, swallowed it and said: "Are TOO!"

She snorted. "Don't make me SPANK you!" she warned him.

"Are TOO, are TOO, ARE TOO!"

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"

As she came running towards him he quickly put his glass away and ran off. She chased him around his quarters, around the furniture (bed and some seats and that kinda stuff).

"Stand still! Or I will SOOOOO hurt you!" she called after him when she could not keep up with him.

"You'll have to catch me! I bet I've got more stamina than you do!" he kept on running.

She frowned with a growl and slowed her pace.

When he slowed down a little - thinking she started to wear out - she suddenly dashed towards him, jumped into the air, swirled around lashing her tail at him.

And when he saw that tail coming, it was too late! The whip-like tip slammed him right in the face!

SMACK on his cheek! ((yeah baby! You go GIRL! ))

"How do you like the pinching feeling of that, my dear?" she teased him as she lashed her tail at his tight ass.

SMACK right on his ass! He didn't scream 'ouch' or anything. Not that he didn't want to, cause that DID HURT! But if she found out about that, he wasn't going to hear the end of it!

She lashed her tail at him once more.

"OKAY! That's enough for now!" He grabbed her tail and yanked her - by her tail - towards him so she fell into his arms. "GOT YOU!"

She giggled. "No fair!"

"I like to cheat", he chuckled as he caressed her cheeks with both hands.

She looked into his deep-red eyes. The look those eyes gave her was sooo different then the look he gave others. Why did he have to be so harsh on others?

"What's on your mind?" he asked her.

She smiled at him. "Nothing", and she pressed a soft kiss on his lips.

He growled with a broad grin on his face as he pulled her closer and slowly moved towards his bed.

After some long hot lovemaking……

Freeza's computer made a 'ploink' sound. A pale hand moved the bed-sheets aside and a sleepy white face looked in the direction of the computer.

A tanned hand moved some sheets away too.

"Now what?" Freeza mumbled.

"Probably just junkmail," Alyx yawned. "I'll take a look for you, I need to go to the bathroom anyway."

He pulled her closer as she wanted to get out of the warm bed. "That can wait, I'll check it later."

She cuddled up against him for a second. "But I NEED to go to the bathroom, cute thing."

He grinned. "Very well, have it your way."

She got out of the warm bed into the cold room and quickly ran into the bathroom. On her way back she took a look at the computer-screen that showed the UN-mail box. (universe net mailbox).

There was a message from Zarbon. Just before she told Freeza, she saw 'danger-alert' as the subject. She moved the cursor to it using the trackball next to the keyboard and clicked on the message.

"What is it?" Freeza asked from below the sheets.

"Looks like junkmail," she mumbled. It didn't take more then a few seconds before she knew what that message was about.

"You don't need to order any Viagra, do you?" she asked Freeza with a smile.

"Do you think I need it? Your screams indicated that I don't," he grinned. "Delete that one!"

Quickly she deleted it. She typed a short message in a 'new-message' screen and sent to an address she knew very well. That didn't take more then a few seconds.

"OH, you are SO bad!" she ran back to the warm bed and cuddled up to him again.

"Did you send that message to Lord Freeza?" Dodoria asked Zarbon impatiently.

"I sent it two days ago!"

"Then why hasn't he responded to it!"

"How am I supposed to know that! He's probably busy."

"It doesn't take that long to conquer a planet!" Dodoria objected.

"Do YOU want to question Master Freeza about that?"

Dodoria snorted and said: "I just want to know what's taking him so long."

"He doesn't let anybody rush him into doing anything."

"But what if they have gotten to him before we could warn him!"

Zarbon let out a sigh. "We don't even know if 'they' are after him. And have you forgotten how powerful master Freeza is?"

"Uhmpff…. Nooo……….." he crossed his arms.

"Stop worrying about him than!" Zarbon got out of his armor and into his training suit. "I'm gonna go for a run, wanna join me?"

Dodoria just gave him a death-stare. He went along with Zarbon once and there was no way he could keep up with him! He was drowning in his own sweat and got completely exhausted while Zarbon was running around without breaking into sweat.

Zarbon grinned and left his chambers. Imagine him, wearing a black sports-pants, a white T-shirt. Around his head he has a white sweat-band as well as around his wrists. On his feet some fancy sport shoes and his hair combed back tighter than usual but still in a braid.

Dodoria watched him jog out of his chambers and followed him to the hallway to go to his own chambers.

"And stay off of the snacks!" Zarbon warned him as he ran around the corner.

Dodoria rolled his eyes. He walked back to his chambers, thinking of what he might have to snack. He never noticed how awfully quiet it was on the hallways.

He pressed the button on the wall to open his sliding doors and walked into his half-darkened room, straight to his snack box.

"Zarbon can talk all he wants. I can snack if I want to!" he mumbled and took out a bag of potato chips.

He took a mouthful of chips and chewed them up. Suddenly he stopped chewing and swallowed the whole lot. This daunting feeling that someone was watching him crept up to him and made the chills run down his back.

Because he hadn't switched on his lights, he could not clearly see if there was anything hiding in the shadows. He narrowed his eyes and looked around his room. Nothing moved, there was no sound, nothing.

He shrugged his shoulders and stuffed his mouth once more. As he chewed down the chips, that creepy feeling came back and he peeked over his shoulder into the shades. His eyes grew large when he saw two bright orange eyes - bright like fire - staring at him……