Chapter 15: The True King Vegeta
Three months after the events of the Sayian sage in section forty-two subsection D of the northern universe flouted a planet five times bigger than a size of Earth with gravity ten times greater. The Planet's current name was Frieza Planet Thirty-Three however it used to be called Planet Vegeta it was home to one of the greatest warrior races the universe had ever known the Sayian's. In the middle of the Planets main capital stood a tall tower, at the very peak of the tower was a grand throne room that used to belong to the Truffle Kings of old before they along with the rest of their race were wiped out in the Great War many years ago. Now the throne room belong to the King of the Sayian's and the pictures across the wall where now decorated with stories and legends of the Sayian's races past one of these being the story of the ultimate warrior the Super Sayian.
However not everything was always this peachy with the Sayian race. Straight after they had finished the war with the Truffles a civil war broke out between the Sayians. One faction sub coming to their primitive urge for bloodshed and violence started to attack one another and other Sayian's. Vegeta one of the seven Sayian tribal leaders and the tactical genius that won the war for the Sayian's against the Truffles saw the pointlessness of the infighting and sorted to stop it. His vision for the Sayian race was to create an organised military force like the Truffles but with the power to crush others to dust. He dreamed off a time off one day were his race would rule the universe. Gathering a group of exceptionally powerful Sayians who were loyal to him Vegeta launched an attack on the Sayian's who were in fighting and quickly dispatched off them. The survivors of this culling were from then on known as third class the lowest of the low too weak for Vegeta's forces to even bother killing. Vegeta's men were also referred to as the elite guard of the Sayian's preventing their task being to stop more out breaks of in fighting to occur. This started the bases for Sayian law and order bring making their society somewhat more civilised but still as blood thirsty as ever. As for Vegeta the Sayian who caused this much changes to occur in the race in only a short few years. He quickly became regarded as the races true leader and as such the tribes were combined under his role and the title of King was then formed. Instead of the old tradition of the most powerful Sayian in the tribe becoming the leader of the group it was decided that the King's first born would take over the lead once Vegeta died. Thus the royal bloodline was born.
The current King of Sayian's turned away from the taprasy he was reading about his father rise to power and turned to face the great throne atop a tall stair case which was where his father used to sit, where he now sat when addressing his subordinates.
Vegeta wore grand battle armour made from light but very strong material. This armour was a gift courtesy of his business "partners" the Trade Planet Organisation how hired the Sayian race as mercenaries in order to purge planets in the northern ready for sale. It was this galactic organisation run by Lord Frieza and his family who were the ones that first presented the Sayian's with the space travel technology that allowed them to do battle across the universe. It was an investment.
Most Sayian's believed the partnership with the Trade Planet Organisation to be a very successful move on the part of their former King which really propelled the race forward and it did appear to be a very good agreement indeed. The Trade Planet Organisation provided the Sayian race with space travel technology, healing chambers, advanced training technology and teaching that greatly advanced the race with all the organisation wanting in return is for the Sayian's to do what they did best. Kill and destroy. It was a win-win situation for all those involved and almost all the Sayian's only saw Frieza as a minor annoyance that they could deal with as long as they had their supple of battles. Even being so docile towards the intergalactic tyrant that they allowed him to change the planets very name it was after all just a name why would they care?
Vegeta was an exception to the rule. He was the Sayian's king and the greatest warrior produced by the race in living memory boasting a power level of one hundred thousand. He appeared to be living the high life not only being given only the most challenging missions the Trade Planet Organisation had to offer and as such he was richly rewarded with the best training technology available. But the real jewel in the crown in the gifts he received was the ship he had been given personally by none other than Lord Frieza himself. This ship was quickly named the Bringer of Death a name that stuck fear into the entire civilised universe.
All these gifts however where not given out of kindness it was to serve a purpose. This purpose was to woe Vegeta and keep him docile allowing the Trade Planet Organisation to not only control him but his entire race. It has been shown many times though out history of how even the greatest rulers of nations or race fall to the age old trick of manipulation. Manipulation one of the deadliest tool in the universe when used correctly this ability to get others to do what you want without them realising could get you anything one's heart desired. And what Frieza's heart desired was revenge.
Though it appeared the Sayian king was truly under the tyrants thumb he wasn't really being controlled he was merely binding his time awaiting just the right moment to strike just like a cobra creeping up on its prey. Vegeta was too proud to be controlled by anyone he could see past all the gifts he received and could see the real reason why they had been given. But with the Planet Trade Organisation out matching his race in power he had no choice but to accept all the gifts gracelessly and appear to be falling under Frieza control. Vegeta had to lower himself so much he felt physical sick with himself and in the end it would all be worth it once he took his rightful revenge.
But had he made his move too early? Vegeta still had his doubts over whether or not the time was right to launch his planned attack on the Trade Planet Organisation. Yes his power in his Oozaru form was greater than Frezia own level.(A/N: This is only in Frezia's first form Vegeta does not know about his transformations)The King knew the tyrant Frieza was sneaky and cunning a truly dangerous and worthy foe.
Vegeta's eyes still didn't leave the throne which he still did not believe was rightfully his to claim. Not yet anyway the Sayian king did not feel like he had earned his title. All he had done in his reign so far had allowed himself and his subjects to be controlled by a tyrant that used them like puppets. For all his strength he was powerless to do nothing other than stand aside and allow it to happen for fear if he interfered his race would be destroyed. It was incredible hard pill to swallow. Vegeta's fist clenched as he began to sub-come to the angrier building up inside of him a white hot aura bursting forth around him as the immense power hidden within the Sayian was brought up to the surface.
"Why haven't I discovered it yet" Vegeta said allowed to himself. "I have arisen above the power of a normal Sayian broken past the limits of power most only can dream to surpass and yet it is not enough. If it is my destiny to arise to the Status of a Super Sayian then why haven't I achieved it yet."
The Sayian King shock his head vigorously he couldn't allow self-doubt to cloud his judgement he would have to focus his mind back at the task at hand. Closing his eyes Vegeta though back to the reason why he was doing all this. He thought back to the last meeting he had with the only man he ever respected his father.
~DBZ~
A young prince Vegeta roughly around age of six walked down the long corridor of his home towards his father's chamber. The young boy was flanked by two guards one on either side of him not that Vegeta needed their protection the prince already had the power to take on most of the Sayian race single handily. However it was protocol for royalty to have security and the young boy liked to have people to boss around.
"So Turnip you understand what I want you to get for me once I have finished my meeting with my father" Vegeta voice was demanding as he addressed the Sayain to his left.
Turnip who was at least four times the size of Vegeta with a Mohawk hair style looked down immediately at his young charges smug face and immediately wanted to launch a right hook into the boy's nose. But the older Sayian resisted he knew the younger boy was more powerful than he was and not only that his father the King wouldn't be too happy.
Vegeta saw the internal battle his guard was having within himself and allowed a smile to cross his lips he just loved winding people that were weaker than him up.
"What's the matter Turnip? Gat got your tongue?"
The taunt seemed to snap Turnip out of his train of thought and as such the Sayian responded with an elegant but somewhat threatening manner.
"Sorry my Prince I was merely going through everything you wanted though my head" Turnip's teeth were gritted as he tried to contain his rage.
Enjoying the mind games he was playing and the reaction of Turnip Vegeta decided to carry on winding the older Sayian up.
"Yes of course it all makes sense now" Vegeta began in his cool elegant manner that he grasped from watching his father speak. "It should have been obvious that your small intelligence couldn't handle all the information I gave you do you want me to repeat myself"
Vegeta looked on with satisfaction as a vain began to buldge in the older Sayians neck a sure sign that he was sub-coming to his angrier. But Turnip was a professional he was used to dealing with the prince being assigned to be the boys personal servant since the prince was born what annoyed the Sayian most though was the lack of abuse his partner and fellow guard of the Prince got.
The tall bald headed Sayian Nappa was looking forward eyes set on the direction they were heading but the smile upon the Sayian's face spoke for itself he was enjoying this just as much as Vegeta was.
Knowing he was losing face Turnip knew he had to react to the situation or know he would be disgraced.
"There is no need my prince I remember your order completely I just want to know why Dairy queen and not Spaceys?
"Oh that's simple Dairy queen have the best milkshakes I have ever tasted."
~DBAT~
It only took a little while longer before they reached the doors of the King's chamber. Vegeta stood forward and reached up to the door handle before he quickly gave a glance to Turnip.
"Don't you need to be somewhere? I want my order as soon as I finish this meeting you know"
Turnip angrily stomped off much to the amusement of the Prince who quickly turned the door handle in his hands. An audible click confirmed that it had opened and the young boy entered the room.
"Your late" His father's voice bellowed before the door behind Vegeta closed.
"I know but I was held up in other affairs father" Vegeta replied using the lie he had practice many times previous to the meeting.
King Vegeta rose from his chair and faced his son a disapproving look upon the old Sayian's face.
"How many times must I tell you punctuality is a must when you are a royalty like us and as my heir it is important you learn the lesions I have been teaching you one how to rule."
With that the King turned his back on his son looking out the bay window that occupied the room which allowed one to see the busy streets below the tower. Vegeta bowed his head In shame knowing that he had disappointed his father.
"I am sorry…." Vegeta began but was quickly cut off.
"Don't be sorry never be sorry a great leader makes his decisions and sticks to it no matter what the consequence of his actions you must appear strong no matter what. If your subjects see even a hint of weakness In you they will revolt and try to overthrow you. Even your own guard will turn if they believe their more powerful such is the way of our race."
The prince stood in silence taking in every last bit of wisdom he could from his father's words. It was not often he would be in the presence of his father let alone have the king speak to him. It always appear that the older Sayian would keep his distance from his son. Not that Vegeta minded he liked having the freedom and power this presented to him he would just have liked to spent a little more time with father in order to learn a lot more.
"Do you know why I have brought you hear?" The king of Sayian's asked as he turned his head to address his son without taking his eyes from the window in front of him.
"Of course father" Vegeta began as he dropped into his fighting stance. "You want a spar in order to test how much more powerful I have become and let me tell you I'm sure you'll be impressed."
"No"
This response took Vegeta completely by surprise it was an unexpected turn of events that couldn't be foreseen. Ever since the boy could remember the routine was the same the prince would meet his father receiving advice and teachings for future reference before engaging in a spar. It was the king's way of keeping tabs of his son's power to see how far he progressed since the last time.
"But why?" Vegeta asked still stunned and slightly disappointed he really wanted to make his father proud of his strength and was sure he would do it now.
The king merely looked at his son stoned face before gesturing his hand towards two comfy looking chairs with a table between them.
"Because they are more pressing matters to attend to now sit with me my son"
Now Vegeta was curious his father never usually referred to him as son more often than not the king would refer to his child as his heir or on more aggressive occasion's brat. The use of the word son was very compassionate by the King's standards and as such the young prince moved to take a seat opposite his father without further question.
Silence ensued as father and son eyed each other up and down scooping one another out if you didn't know better you would say the child and the man were strangers who barely knew each other. It was the king who broke the silence.
"I saw the latest scouter report on your power level I see you have increased your strength to six thousand units"
Vegeta looked up at his father excitedly his mind racing as he thought he was about to get the recognition and praise from his father which he had longed for such a long time.
"I know I am stronger than most of the royal guards now." Vegeta said with a beaming smile. However this smile faded when he saw the scowl on his father's face.
"You think that is impressive? Your power is nothing you know I recently ordered for a child a mere baby with a power level of ten thousand to be killed. Frieza's own level is even higher the last time I checked he was around six hundred and fifty three thousand."
Vegeta was silent he didn't know what to say how to respond it was as if all his dreams were crushed all in an instant. It seemed as though his father's approval had moved further out of reach. Noticing his son's demeanour the King spoke again this time with a few more words of encouragement.
"I am not telling you this to discourage you or because I think you are weak. In fact I am telling you this because I want you to see the amount of power you can possess. You see cockiness is a man's greatest down if you are content you are the strongest in the universe then you will not grow stronger you will merely grow mellow and weaker until one day another will step forward and claim the title for themselves"
Vegeta nodded his head to show he understood but couldn't look up to meet his father's gaze he still felt as if he had shamed his father. He felt shame of the fact that a baby who couldn't be more than a month old was stronger than he was it made him feel weak and he hated feeling weak.
"Do you know why Freiza is so interested in the Sayian's? Why he treats us so much better than the other races he recruits to join his army? Why he is so interested in the legend of our race the super Sayian? King Vegeta said again while still staring intently at his son.
Vegeta looked up at his father and merely shook his head showing that he didn't know. All the previous cockiness was gone from the young Sayian his father having managed to cause the boy to become solemn in his presence.
"Then I suppose you don't understand why he is very interested in you?"
Again Vegeta shook his head. The King stood up beginning to pace up and down the room it would appear to the unknowing that he was merely pacing the room. But instead the monarch was looking for bugs making sure the conversation with his son was completely private.
"It is a fact I should have known from the beginning but I was blinded by my arrogance" The King began as his son listened intently. "It was too good to be true all the technology we could ask for and all we have to do is fight something our race is universally renown ….. but that is in the past what done is done I cannot change what happened back then and what is about to happen but I can change your future the future of our race"
Vegeta saw his father's face turn towards him and meet the king's fierce brown eyes with his own. The boy wanted to question to pry for more information but he knew from the glare he was receiving it was not his turn to talk it was his turn to listen. It was only a few more moments before the older Sayian continued.
"It never made sense to me before why Frieza a powerful tyrant would be so interested in the legend of the Super Sayian. At first I thought he was scared of the power of the Sayian of old that he feared what we may become and as such I prepared a plan if he should ever attack us though I believe if he did attack we would have lost." The king paused again letting the information sink in before continuing. "But he never attacked he didn't even appeared to have fear of the legend instead he seemed to embrace even going as far as to give special training equipment to the Sayian's in order to increases our strength it that was when I realised that there must be a force above Frieza and his family."
"But what does this have to do with anything?" Vegeta asked impatiently he wanted his father to get to the point of the story and quickly.
"Always the impatient one isn't you my son" The King said almost fondly before carrying on. "But it is important to know the little details so then the facts become a lot clearer. You see the reason Frieza doesn't fear the super sayian is because he wants to use them in order to defeat whoever is above him. Which leads me to you why Freiza pays special attention to you at times and always nice and polite and appears to go out of his way to show his kindness is because he believes you will become the legend a Super Sayian"
Vegeta was stunned unable to believe what he had just heard. Even coming from a frost demon point of view it was a great honour to be considered to have the potential to become a super Sayian. Pride within him swelled up within the young boy.
"And what about you father do you think I could become a super Sayian?" Vegeta asked eagerly hand clutching onto the arms of the chair he was sitting on.
The king contemplated his son before looking away and giving his answer.
"Not if you keep fooling around and acting like a spoilt brat I have seen you abuse your power however small it is. You are too cocky my son you must lose this I won't be around much longer to protect you"
Silence echoed around the room neither speaking after the king revelation. The only nose was the slight crackling coming from the roaring fire produced from the fire place.
"What do you mean?"Vegeta asked breaking the silence. "You are the strongest Sayian on the planet you're the king how can you not be around longer"
"Because Frieza will have planned to kill me" The king stated coolie before turning his attention back on to his son. "And you are not to retaliate until you have become a super sayian!"
~DBZ~
Bang! The doors to the throne room burst open crashing into the walls before coming off their hinges. Vegeta turned immediately to see both his closest guards Nappa and Turnip move into the room between them slumped in their arms was a Sayian who had obviously taken a beaten with his right hand missing from its socket. The king sat down on his throne and looked down on his subjects.
The three arrivals made their way to the middle of the room before Turnip grabbed the chin of the Sayian he was holding and forced it up to look at Vegeta.
"Look up at your King"
Vegeta saw the Sayian look up at him as if he had been in this situation before. And returned the glare with a look of disgusted while thinking. "Who the hell do you think you're staring at scum"
"Why have you brought this rodent in here Nappa? I had just gotten the carpet clean and the stench and filth he brings will stain it for months" Vegeta addressed his balded headed guard who was currently holding on the right arm of Bardock.
Immediately the giant let go off his captives arm and moved into a bow placing his right hand upon his arm.
"You highness sir this third class Sayian disobeyed your direct order to abandon all missions and head straight back to our planet" The tall bald headed Sayian replied.
"So" Vegeta spat he was levied that he had been interrupted from his thoughts for such a trivial thing. "You are the head of the royal guards the most highest ranking general of the Sayian army surely you should feel you have enough authority to deal with these matters without deserving me from my training I have a war to plan for you know"
"But your highness he says he knows of a way to win the war he says that he knows of these things called dragonballs that grants any wish you make"
This peaked up Vegeta's interested and immediately he stood up from his throne and took a few steps towards the stairs leading down to the floor.
You have three minutes to explain over wise your fried" Vegeta said calmly before raising his left arm a Ki ball immediately glowing in his palm. "Your time starts now….."
Well that's all for this chapter guy's I hoped you enjoyed it. I thought that having the end of Badocks vision was a nice way to end the chapter so it kind of winds up and brings to a close everything. I know the last couple of chapters are abit boring but it has to be done to set the stage for the next sage otherwise it won't make sense. I also hope this explains to some why Frieza didn't wipe out the Sayians race and Vegeta's reasons for rebelling and why he has been waiting for so long to take action now. I hope you guys like the story so far and what ive done this chapter. Next chapter we will have a bit more about Vegeta and what he is going to do now he knows the dragonballs. And maybe a bit about Friezia after next chapter we will be onto the Namek Sage :o).
As usual please review and tell me what you think so far.
Q+A:
Q: (Not really a question but wanted to address it) i dont understand why people keep making goku dumb... where in any of the anime of manga do they even sugest him beeing dumb... i would like to see you grow up in the wilderness and then have a clue about social norms and technology...
A: I don't think Goku is dumb as a character he is just extremely uneducated. And as such he would appear to other characters that have had a better education than him. E.g. Bulma. As if he's dumb. But he most certainly isn't dumb and has been shown to develop a more better understanding of the world as he got older. I also would like to point out an instant where I have shown Goku to be quite intelligent and that was where he combined the Spirt Bomb and Kao ken technique. I don't think a lot of characters would have been able to master let alone combined both of them together. So again I don't think Goku is dumb just uneducated but I write the other characters as if they think he's dumb because that's how he appears to them.
Q: Will Bardock's hand grow back if he died and brought back to life?
A: Depends how soon he dies from when he lost his hand. From what I've seen from cannon Dragonball z injuries that have been sustained recently before death e.g. Tien losing his arm with his fight with nappa and then it being completely healed when he was brought back. But then things like scars that have been around for years won't be removed even when you have had your body completely destroyed. So to answer your question yes it will come back if he dies within a year of losing it or there is a specific wish asking for it to be reformed.
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P.s. The person who responded on becoming a Beta you didn't post your e-mail could you post your fanfiction name instead thanks.