A/N: I'm sorry it's been so long. It would have been up last Saturday but I kept getting an error message every time I tried to update... Blame the website and enjoy ^^

Oh and since I don't think I ever did this

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Chapter 24

You can see it

"It's difficult to explain…"Celrin began, taking a satisfying gulp from the drink-of-choice that seemed to change daily. "Tessamone isn't just a feeling my lord…it's a link. A relationship if you will."…

Mia stood up slowly, brushing off the dirt from her legs. She closed her eyes as she walked back towards the tournament hall…she didn't know why she felt the need to. The princess had never worried herself with being alone, but here...the idea sunk inside of her causing her stomach to twist. Not like the people on this planet were particularly fond of her, or her of them. But she just didn't want to be alone. Not now.

"Relationship? I thought it was just a hormone…" Vegeta commented back leaning against the chair that held him, scanning the area for a server to get a refill of his own drink.

Her breath echoed in her chest as she felt the uneasy presence of the others float strangely back into play. Damn emotions. Damn them! No matter how much she may have fought for her longing to cease, she couldn't stop her body from pulling itself towards him. Desire laughed echoing louder than her breaths. Her better judgment, nothing but an underlying thought at this point, begged her to sit. What could returning to him do? Nothing, she figured, but seeing how uncomfortable her mere presence made him…that was enough to allow her feet to continue. Mia knew well enough, though she would never admit as such, that she hoped prominently in her mind that something would change, that what she knew, wasn't, and she wouldn't have to feel the hormones of another being sting her skin every second he touched her.

"Well it is…but you can see it…" He urged.

He was tainted. Burned. Even the energy around him flared differently as he walked with her moments ago. Her drunken stance from seeing him at first…blinded her, but it was painstakingly obvious as she gazed at his stiffened stance. As his lips taunted hers in a failed kiss. She laughed quietly to herself…they hadn't even kissed yet.

"You expect me to believe that I can see an internal chemical?" Vegeta raised an eyebrow.

She winced then, brushing her feet across the ground gently, side-stepping a rather impressive blast as it punctured through the wall. Her legs curled underneath her elegantly as she stood erect inspecting the area for the source.

"Only when you reach that level. But yes. You can see it." He paused, drowning his memories with another gulp. "Trust me…"

His laugh hit her ears then. Her breath was thick as she pushed her leg to its normal position, dancing into the tournament hall through the obliterated wall avoiding the wreckage that littered the ground.

"H-hello l-lady Catherine!" the Supreme Kai stuttered as she took her stance next to the stage. "I'm so sorry I didn't notice you before!" His back practically cracked as he bent to bow to her. Mia's eyes were glued on her prince, smirking darkly as he returned her gaze. His eyes were blackened; energy pulsed through his skin like waves of thunder.

"It's fine Supreme Kai. I was…rather distracted myself." Mia returned the courtesy, curling elegantly into a deep bow and rising slowly to return her watch to the man standing menacingly before her. Her body lifted itself onto the stage and her flicking feet brought her next to Goku. Two identically imposing blasts besieged the area…both undoubtedly from him…his smile unbending.

"What does it look like then?" The prince asked still doubtful of the new found development about the myth he never quite recognized as reality.

"What happened?" Her voice sounded weak as it fell from her mouth.

"He's being controlled by the magician Babadi."

"And that's producing the power I assume?" Goku nodded in agreement. "And you allowed this?" She shifted her gaze to him.

"I did my best to stop him." Their eyes fell back onto the Majin's slowly, his smirk widened as he opened his mouth to speak.

"What took you so long?" He breathed in his favored language. "I would have thought you would rush to stop me, and preach to me about how 'me killing children is just as bad as Frieza killing ours." His smile finally fell. "Isn't that what you would usually tell me?" Mia glared.

"What did he say my lady?" Supreme Kai asked. She left the question unanswered.

"Do not act as though my attempts to hinder you would have made a difference in your decision, Vegeta." Mia countered coldly. His laugh caused a tension of infuriation within her chest.

"No I suppose you're right." He breathed between laughs.

"Mia." Goku began "He and I established that we'd fight, and no one else has to get hurt." Mia flinched with irritation.

"How noble of you Kakarot!" She spat; Vegeta laughed intensely.

"Quite a lively one I've got there, huh Kakarot?" He mocked. "Almost as if she learned from me." Another laugh reverberated through the walls.

"It looks…almost like a pulse." Celrin continued to explain.

"What's wrong Mia? I thought you of all people would appreciate my attempts to hinder a threat." Goku frowned. She straightened her back.

"I am stronger than you Kakarot, it'll be nothing more than a waste of time." Vegeta flinched.

"What? You? Stronger?" The laugh began to haunt her. "Please Antreka, I'm barely stronger than Kakarot! How could you be even close to this level when you've done nothing but rot in the after life?" Mia felt her hands shake with adrenaline at his words.

"You think you're the only one who has trained, Vegeta?" She yelled, every time his false name passed her lips he quivered. She smirked, his never died.

"Can you turn super saiyan?" he taunted.

"I don't need to." She breathed, their energy sparking from their pours.

"Vegeta leave her out of it! This fight is between you, and me! You already agreed that we would leave and fight somewhere where people won't get hurt!"

"You think you can beat me?" His attention never left her despite the other man's yells.

"Unquestionably." The glares were sharper than bullets.

"AFTER ME VEGETA!" Goku insisted stepping in front of the two royals. His lessons in Atekevian gave him enough knowledge to make out the threats the prince breathed to her. Vegeta's eyes lifted to the earth-saiyan's, and his mouth stretched back into a smirk.

"Pulse?" Vegeta waved to signal the finally discovered waiter.

"What do you think you're doing Kakarot?"

"This is between him and me Mia…" Goku breathed taking a slow step forward

"You think you have more of a grudge towards him then me!" Mia hissed between her teeth, legs shaking as she spoke.

"No, and I'm not trying to!" He urged. "But he's your weakness Mia!...I don't want you fighting blindly!" She tried to relax her face as he explained. She let out a practiced sigh before turning her foot to step behind her. "Mia I need you to go with Gohan and the Supreme Kai to stop Majin Buu!" She grimaced.

"Who?" her voice was thickened with anger.

"He's a creature that could threaten earth and this entire galaxy, as well as many others if released!" Supreme Kai explained with a desperate breath. Mia chortled softly.

"You believe that matters to me?" She practically whispered a poisonous tint on her tongue.

"This is my home!" Goku choked stepping towards her. "We need your help!" Mia's eyes flickered to his dangerously, she took a breath.

"I'm not interested in preserving this planet Kakarot…"

"Mia, my son, my wife, my friends…they'll all die if I don't stop him! I need your help!" Her eyes switched to Vegeta's then, his body tensing with impatience, his own eyes never faltering from hers. She could almost feel his breath on her skin, making her composure wane as she stood motionless. "Remember how you felt when you lost your son Mia?" Both she and the saiyan prince flinched from the memory, she closed her eyes tightly. "I don't want to lose my sons too! Please!"

"Fine!" She interrupted walking next to the Supreme Kai, fighting to block the pain associated with the image Goku suggested. Vegeta appeared as if he were doing the same.

"Yeah…when your vision is accustomed enough to her, it'll look like it pulses" Vegeta's eyes softened as he stretched his leg out, and let his arm leisurely hang on the back of his chair. "There's…supposedly a theory that a woman's tessamone gather's at different places…" He continued "it's said that some have it most prominently at the wrist, while other have it at the neck, or back, or wherever really." Another drink "Of course no one's ever really seen it because you can only actually see the spot when you marry a girl." Celrin chuckled. "I guess no saiyan was willing to risk his sanity in the name of science." His drink was low.

Mia had to fight with her eyes to keep them from turning back to the fading tournament ring as she flew with Goku's son and the Supreme Kai.

"What did he say Mia?" The Kai asked looking back at her from the corner of his eyes.

"Nothing apart from threats."

"He threatened you?" Another question she left wanting.

"What language was that?" Gohan breathed flying to her side and attempting to merge into the conversation.

"Saiyan." She stated, Gohan's face twisted at the bitterness of her word. She couldn't even bring herself to utter a word in Atekevian, rather it be out of scorn or simple desire to tear her thoughts from him…she just couldn't speak it.

"Where was her's?" Vegeta asked avoiding the name of Celrin's late wife. He knew well enough from experience that if he were to avoid anything, it was that. Still though, the saiyan lieutenant recoiled from the question.

"The neck was her weak spot." He struggled to force a feeble smirk, his voice shivering as he spoke. Celrin stood up, the prince did as well.

"Believe me, my lord." The saiyan gasped, nodding slowly before his feet trudged heavily towards the door. "You can see it."