I DO NOT OWN THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY. AKIRA TORIYAMA DOES. I'VE MADE UP A FEW, BUT WHO CARES. I'M NOT MAKING ANY MONEY OFF OF THEM OR EVER WILL.
The Price of Power 5
By: Kichi
Radditz flew across the ocean and into the forest in a half hour. He knew it wasn't very Saiyan-like to worry about the Prince, so he convinced himself that he was worried about what Frieza would do to him if Vegeta was hurt or killed. He saw smoke coming from the forest and quickly descended. His scouter showed no life forms in the immediate area save the Prince. He dashed past the destroyed village with hardly a glance and stopped as he came to a gigantic tree split down the center. He leapt between the split and saw Vegeta lying face down in the dirt. Across from him was a barely distinguishable body.
"Shit!" he cursed and knelt next to the motionless boy. "Vegeta?" he gently shook his shoulder. He rolled him onto his back and saw the slashing wounds in his arm. He cringed. From the amount of blood, it had happened awhile ago, but the blood was still slightly flowing. Vegeta groaned and opened his eyes.
"Radditz.." he moaned and began to cough harshly.
"What happened?" Radditz asked, helping him sit up. Vegeta shook his head violently to clear his vision.
"I t-think I've been p-poisoned." He slurred. Radditz frowned. It had to be extremely deadly to even bother a saiyan.
"How?" he managed.
"T-the.. six arm.." he stopped, gasping for breath. "Poison claws." Radditz blanched. The woman he'd fought last had used the same attack on him but he had just barely dodged her. She swiped his tail but he didn't get a single cut. It seemed like a last ditch effort to win and he recalled that she had had six arms as well, while all the other natives had four. He remembered his shock as she lunged at him with incredible speed, she almost got him but he spun out of the way at the last second and he delivered the final blow before she could attack again. He was glad now that he had.
"Can you get up?" Radditz asked. Vegeta nodded slowly and used Radditz's long mane of spikes to pull himself up. He winced as he felt some of his hair being yanked out, but dared not complain. Vegeta stood shakily, his shoulders hunched and his arms wrapped around himself to keep from shivering. Radditz noticed his shivering and the fact that his face was bleached like a bone. ::I swear sometimes this boy must be cursed.:: he thought. "Can you fly?" Radditz asked, expecting an angry retort. But Vegeta merely nodded and they took off. He slowed a bit to keep up with Vegeta who seemed exhausted by the effort and fell behind.
After almost an hour they landed at Nappa's make-shift camp and Vegeta immediately collapsed, cursing himself for being weak. Nappa dashed over to them.
"What the hell happened?" he bellowed. Radditz snarled at him.
"Did you happen to fight anyone with six arms, Nappa?" Radditz asked. Nappa frowned in confusion.
"No.." ::Great, damn him. I'll bet he just went in and blew everything up!:: Radditz thought angrily. Radditz tapped his scouter and set the scan to long-range. There were a few life-forms with ki still.
"You stay here!" he barked and picked the comatose Prince up, and took off in their direction. Nappa frowned.
"Who the hell does he think he is?" he growled.
Radditz landed in an area untouched by any of Nappa's attacks. Instantly a swarm of Natives charged at him howling in fury. He let his ki flare warningly and they stopped dead in their tracks. Yet they continued to howl and shriek in their foreign tongue. He sighed and waited patiently. As he'd hoped, another six-armed being came out of their midst and headed towards the pair, no malice in its eyes.
"What do you want?" it demanded. Radditz's eyes widened in surprise. He actually understood their tongue.
"One of your kind has poisoned my Prince. If you help him I will let you and your people live. If you do not, I will kill you all." He replied, his features calm and slightly mocking. The creature before him scowled but nodded its head.
"I will do as you wish. Bu you must keep you word or dire consequences will befall you." Radditz snorted in disgust, what could the weaklings possibly do? "This is no idle threat. But please, bring him here." Radditz sighed and gently laid Vegeta on the ground in front of the native. It tore the sleeve of his battle suit and began to inspect the wound. "Bring clean water." a four-armed native scurried off to fulfill the request and soon came back with a large wooden bowl of water and a bit of hide. The six-armed alien took the water and dipped the softened hide in the water and began to clean the wound, softly chanting as it did. Radditz sucked his breath in as a faint, golden glow surrounded the infected area and before his eyes the jagged lacerations shrank and closed up.
"Did you get rid of the poison?" Radditz asked in suspicion. The thing looked up at him and briefly smiled.
"Yes, he will be fine. He just needs to rest. Now leave my people in peace as you promised." Radditz nodded and picked up his prince and took off without a backward glance. He reached Nappa and they recalled the other two pods and put Vegeta inside his as he slept.
"Will we get in trouble for this?" Nappa asked of the still-living natives. Radditz shook his head.
" 'We' won't. I will. I let them live." He sighed, Frieza was going to be pissed, but part of Radditz hoped he would understand. They took off for Frieza's ship.
It was another strange dream that filled Vegeta's mind on the way back to Frieza's ship. He was fighting someone without a face. Every attack seemed to do no good. The creature punched him in the face and then vanished leaving Vegeta with ears ringing and a loose tooth.
"Damn it!" he cursed. He tired to push the tooth back in so it wouldn't fall out but as soon as he touched it, it dropped out and rolled into the dirt. "No!" he cried, filled with dread. His tongue slipped over the spot where the tooth had been and he could taste the blood and feel the soft, sensitive gums. Suddenly another tooth fell out and he gasped, almost swallowing it. He spit it out and two more when with it. He was starting to panic. His tongue tested each tooth and all were loose and falling out. He clapped his hands over his mouth and tried desperately to keep them in their sockets but as soon as he opened his mouth again, they all spilled out in a trail of teeth and bloody saliva.
He awoke to the hissing of the steam bath with a gasp, his hand flying up to his mouth. He sighed in relief when all his teeth were accounted for and scrambled out of the pod. He ran over to Radditz and Nappa's pods.
"Are we done?" he asked. He couldn't for the life of him remember what had happened after killing the six-armed thing. Radditz and Nappa nodded. A guard ran up to the three, saluting as he did.
"Lord Frieza would like to know how the purge went. He's waiting for you in the map room." Vegeta scowled. He was hungry damn it! He didn't want to talk to Frieza either. He hated the weird alien. He refused to admit it but he always got a weird feeling around him, like he was planning on killing him or that he knew something Vegeta should know, but didn't. They each stifled a groan and headed to the "map" room.
"You three took care of the natives in record time, which is only to be expected as they were especially weak. But our scanners show that a few natives remain." Frieza glanced at the three Saiyans before him. Vegeta looked confused, but Nappa and Radditz looked like they were hiding something. "Prince Vegeta, you may go, but let me remind you of the tournament in two weeks." Vegeta nodded and stalked out. Frieza watched him go slightly smiling. "That boy is very strong. Stronger than his father, stronger than you two, my my. He is stronger than more than half of the people on my ship. But I did not keep you here to discuss him." His gaze switched between the two. "One of you left some of the natives alive."
"It was me Lord Frieza." Radditz said stepping forward.
"Very well. Nappa you may go." Radditz smirked as he heard a sigh of relief from Nappa as he quickly exited.
"I can explain sire." Radditz began.
"Oh please do." Frieza said with a slight smirk.
"On each continent there was a single native with powers high above the rest. One of them managed to wound the prince and inject poison into his with his claws. It was very strong poison and Prince Vegeta would have died. His life is more important than my mission sire, so I found a few small handful of natives that Nappa had missed and I told them that if they helped Prince Vegeta that I would spare them. I'm sorry." Frieza frowned.
"Why did you not destroy them after he'd been healed?"
"I wanted to, but the one swore dire consequences and I believed it after I saw them heal Vegeta. they used some form of strange.. magic I suppose. I had to make sure we got off the planet safely." Frieza's frown deepened.
"Hmm. I suppose you choice was wise. But you will be punished for disobeying my orders." ::Oh shit.:: Radditz thought and tried to dodge as a small ki ball flew at him. It followed his movements and slammed him into the wall. He groaned and slumped down, he could feel several broken ribs. He staggered to his feet, each breath was painful and he began to cough up blood. "Now get out of my sight."
"Yes.. sire." Radditz groaned and shuffled out of the room.
The Price of Power 5
By: Kichi
Radditz flew across the ocean and into the forest in a half hour. He knew it wasn't very Saiyan-like to worry about the Prince, so he convinced himself that he was worried about what Frieza would do to him if Vegeta was hurt or killed. He saw smoke coming from the forest and quickly descended. His scouter showed no life forms in the immediate area save the Prince. He dashed past the destroyed village with hardly a glance and stopped as he came to a gigantic tree split down the center. He leapt between the split and saw Vegeta lying face down in the dirt. Across from him was a barely distinguishable body.
"Shit!" he cursed and knelt next to the motionless boy. "Vegeta?" he gently shook his shoulder. He rolled him onto his back and saw the slashing wounds in his arm. He cringed. From the amount of blood, it had happened awhile ago, but the blood was still slightly flowing. Vegeta groaned and opened his eyes.
"Radditz.." he moaned and began to cough harshly.
"What happened?" Radditz asked, helping him sit up. Vegeta shook his head violently to clear his vision.
"I t-think I've been p-poisoned." He slurred. Radditz frowned. It had to be extremely deadly to even bother a saiyan.
"How?" he managed.
"T-the.. six arm.." he stopped, gasping for breath. "Poison claws." Radditz blanched. The woman he'd fought last had used the same attack on him but he had just barely dodged her. She swiped his tail but he didn't get a single cut. It seemed like a last ditch effort to win and he recalled that she had had six arms as well, while all the other natives had four. He remembered his shock as she lunged at him with incredible speed, she almost got him but he spun out of the way at the last second and he delivered the final blow before she could attack again. He was glad now that he had.
"Can you get up?" Radditz asked. Vegeta nodded slowly and used Radditz's long mane of spikes to pull himself up. He winced as he felt some of his hair being yanked out, but dared not complain. Vegeta stood shakily, his shoulders hunched and his arms wrapped around himself to keep from shivering. Radditz noticed his shivering and the fact that his face was bleached like a bone. ::I swear sometimes this boy must be cursed.:: he thought. "Can you fly?" Radditz asked, expecting an angry retort. But Vegeta merely nodded and they took off. He slowed a bit to keep up with Vegeta who seemed exhausted by the effort and fell behind.
After almost an hour they landed at Nappa's make-shift camp and Vegeta immediately collapsed, cursing himself for being weak. Nappa dashed over to them.
"What the hell happened?" he bellowed. Radditz snarled at him.
"Did you happen to fight anyone with six arms, Nappa?" Radditz asked. Nappa frowned in confusion.
"No.." ::Great, damn him. I'll bet he just went in and blew everything up!:: Radditz thought angrily. Radditz tapped his scouter and set the scan to long-range. There were a few life-forms with ki still.
"You stay here!" he barked and picked the comatose Prince up, and took off in their direction. Nappa frowned.
"Who the hell does he think he is?" he growled.
Radditz landed in an area untouched by any of Nappa's attacks. Instantly a swarm of Natives charged at him howling in fury. He let his ki flare warningly and they stopped dead in their tracks. Yet they continued to howl and shriek in their foreign tongue. He sighed and waited patiently. As he'd hoped, another six-armed being came out of their midst and headed towards the pair, no malice in its eyes.
"What do you want?" it demanded. Radditz's eyes widened in surprise. He actually understood their tongue.
"One of your kind has poisoned my Prince. If you help him I will let you and your people live. If you do not, I will kill you all." He replied, his features calm and slightly mocking. The creature before him scowled but nodded its head.
"I will do as you wish. Bu you must keep you word or dire consequences will befall you." Radditz snorted in disgust, what could the weaklings possibly do? "This is no idle threat. But please, bring him here." Radditz sighed and gently laid Vegeta on the ground in front of the native. It tore the sleeve of his battle suit and began to inspect the wound. "Bring clean water." a four-armed native scurried off to fulfill the request and soon came back with a large wooden bowl of water and a bit of hide. The six-armed alien took the water and dipped the softened hide in the water and began to clean the wound, softly chanting as it did. Radditz sucked his breath in as a faint, golden glow surrounded the infected area and before his eyes the jagged lacerations shrank and closed up.
"Did you get rid of the poison?" Radditz asked in suspicion. The thing looked up at him and briefly smiled.
"Yes, he will be fine. He just needs to rest. Now leave my people in peace as you promised." Radditz nodded and picked up his prince and took off without a backward glance. He reached Nappa and they recalled the other two pods and put Vegeta inside his as he slept.
"Will we get in trouble for this?" Nappa asked of the still-living natives. Radditz shook his head.
" 'We' won't. I will. I let them live." He sighed, Frieza was going to be pissed, but part of Radditz hoped he would understand. They took off for Frieza's ship.
It was another strange dream that filled Vegeta's mind on the way back to Frieza's ship. He was fighting someone without a face. Every attack seemed to do no good. The creature punched him in the face and then vanished leaving Vegeta with ears ringing and a loose tooth.
"Damn it!" he cursed. He tired to push the tooth back in so it wouldn't fall out but as soon as he touched it, it dropped out and rolled into the dirt. "No!" he cried, filled with dread. His tongue slipped over the spot where the tooth had been and he could taste the blood and feel the soft, sensitive gums. Suddenly another tooth fell out and he gasped, almost swallowing it. He spit it out and two more when with it. He was starting to panic. His tongue tested each tooth and all were loose and falling out. He clapped his hands over his mouth and tried desperately to keep them in their sockets but as soon as he opened his mouth again, they all spilled out in a trail of teeth and bloody saliva.
He awoke to the hissing of the steam bath with a gasp, his hand flying up to his mouth. He sighed in relief when all his teeth were accounted for and scrambled out of the pod. He ran over to Radditz and Nappa's pods.
"Are we done?" he asked. He couldn't for the life of him remember what had happened after killing the six-armed thing. Radditz and Nappa nodded. A guard ran up to the three, saluting as he did.
"Lord Frieza would like to know how the purge went. He's waiting for you in the map room." Vegeta scowled. He was hungry damn it! He didn't want to talk to Frieza either. He hated the weird alien. He refused to admit it but he always got a weird feeling around him, like he was planning on killing him or that he knew something Vegeta should know, but didn't. They each stifled a groan and headed to the "map" room.
"You three took care of the natives in record time, which is only to be expected as they were especially weak. But our scanners show that a few natives remain." Frieza glanced at the three Saiyans before him. Vegeta looked confused, but Nappa and Radditz looked like they were hiding something. "Prince Vegeta, you may go, but let me remind you of the tournament in two weeks." Vegeta nodded and stalked out. Frieza watched him go slightly smiling. "That boy is very strong. Stronger than his father, stronger than you two, my my. He is stronger than more than half of the people on my ship. But I did not keep you here to discuss him." His gaze switched between the two. "One of you left some of the natives alive."
"It was me Lord Frieza." Radditz said stepping forward.
"Very well. Nappa you may go." Radditz smirked as he heard a sigh of relief from Nappa as he quickly exited.
"I can explain sire." Radditz began.
"Oh please do." Frieza said with a slight smirk.
"On each continent there was a single native with powers high above the rest. One of them managed to wound the prince and inject poison into his with his claws. It was very strong poison and Prince Vegeta would have died. His life is more important than my mission sire, so I found a few small handful of natives that Nappa had missed and I told them that if they helped Prince Vegeta that I would spare them. I'm sorry." Frieza frowned.
"Why did you not destroy them after he'd been healed?"
"I wanted to, but the one swore dire consequences and I believed it after I saw them heal Vegeta. they used some form of strange.. magic I suppose. I had to make sure we got off the planet safely." Frieza's frown deepened.
"Hmm. I suppose you choice was wise. But you will be punished for disobeying my orders." ::Oh shit.:: Radditz thought and tried to dodge as a small ki ball flew at him. It followed his movements and slammed him into the wall. He groaned and slumped down, he could feel several broken ribs. He staggered to his feet, each breath was painful and he began to cough up blood. "Now get out of my sight."
"Yes.. sire." Radditz groaned and shuffled out of the room.