*Chapter 12*
.:: Royalty Sucks ::.

Four weeks go by and the small group of sayians continue to plan there mission. Meanwhile, Rosemary stays in the castle. Not harmed, but not cared for either. And feeling oh so lonely. She longs for one person over all and you can probably guess who that is.
"Now see here, Princess Rosemary." Spinach came into the room, "I'm willing to drag you out of here! Your father hasn't seen you for over three weeks! It's high time you get over your fit and come and eat something."
Rosemary ignored him and continued to stare out her window. She has a gorgeous view of the whole sayian empire. From the first class to the third class. All she could do is resent ever giving up so easily, resent the fact she'll probably never see Trunks again, and resent that those stupid soldiers made her wear this stupid, stupid, so called princess dress. At least she gets to wear her mother's head-dress, she thought.
Spinach gritted his teeth and finally took her under his arm and carried her to the dining hall.
"Let me go you giant Jack-ass!" Rosemary yelled trying to get loose. He sat her at the head of the dining table where her father was sitting and eating with a few of his top soldiers.
"Why, hello Rosemary." The king greeted.
Rosemary looked away childishly.
"Not even a hello for your dear father?"
"Go to hell." Rosemary snapped and turned away scowling.
"Still have a sassy mouth I see." The king leaned back in his chair full.
Rosemary rolled her eyes and continued to look away.
"You act like such a baby." The king laughed.
~ This is from someone who cried himself to sleep after he stepped on a splinter. ~ Rosemary rolled her eyes again as her tail swayed back and forth annoyed. ~ Why did I give up so easily? Why?! Why hasn't Trunks come to save me yet? It's been over a month already! Haven't they put together the plan yet? ~
"Your majesty! Your majesty!!" A messenger ran in, "The first, second and third classes have declared war!"
Rosemary grinned to herself, ~ Guess that answers at least one of my questions. ~
"What?!" The king stood up and looked at Rosemary, "You planned this didn't you?!"
"Yeah, sure I did." Rosemary started sarcastically, "All this time I've been running out the castle at night and coming back in the morning so no one will find out. In fact, I only pretend to be hostage here, I really own the place… Did I mention my friend's cat is the queen of England?"
"Err…" The king gritted his teeth then yelled, "get out of my site!!!"
"With pleasure," Rosemary started out the room and muttered, "I've seen enough of his ugly face to curse me ten lifetimes."
"I heard that!!!" The king shouted.
Rosemary gave him the middle finger as she walked out and closed the door. His curses and yells were heard even inside Rosemary's room--- with the door shut.

Rosemary hugged her two little rag dolls as she looked out the window. She had a lot of free time so she fixed them up a bit. The girl one (the one her mother gave her) was now dressed in pink sayian armour, just like Rosemary. The other, the boy, was now dressed like Trunks. From the purple hair to the whole outfit (You know, the one with the beige jacket and blue scarf with beige shorts).
She as well changed all the others. One for Sushi, Jacko… Collie… her mom. Even one for Tofu and his sister. She made one of Collie's parents and Sushi's parents--- Sushi's mom included.
The one she beheaded before when Tofu kissed her was no longer Tofu, but her father instead. Don't think she pasted his head back on either! She didn't have the heart to demote any of her other dolls into the king's men. It would just insult the dolls, she thought.

"Enjoy your freedom while it lasts fool…" Trunks heard Rosemary say.
"Don't start, Trunks." Rosemary shook her head.
Then Trunks saw Rosemary's brilliant brown eyes, "I-I love you."
He reached for her, "I love you too, Rosemary."
Suddenly he could see Rosemary falling through a black hole reaching out for him, but there was nothing he could do. Before he knew it… she was gone.
Trunks jumped up in a cold sweat catching his breath.
He put his head in his hands and tried to calm down.
~ Not again, ~ He thought, ~ why? Why did I ever let her go? For all I now… she could be dead… ~
Trunks looked out the window at the castle. He got up, careful not to step on Jacko or Koi, and got dressed. He wouldn't be able to sleep for the rest of the night anyway.

It was around dawn as Trunks took a walk in the second class village. Very few were a wake--- VERY FEW. About the only ones awake were the few shop keepers and warriors who were training. It was calm in the empire on mornings like this. All that would change real soon though. Everyone knew that. Even the infants that still slept in their mother's bellies knew that. Many people would die, but if they got that dragonball back, that wouldn't matter. Trunks stopped at one of the only bakeries the whole entire empire had. Even a few varieties of their bread had meat--- but at least it was cooked. Trunks picked up a few bagels to share with his mom--- he had a feeling she wasn't going to like what the sayians were having for breakfast--- she never did. One thing Trunks liked about the empire was that all the shops were free. He guessed because there was very few shops and very little sayians with money, if any. Not only that, but the sayians looked out for each other and promised to protect one another--- loyalty doesn't have a price--- it never will. If they didn't give something up for free they'd trade. It seemed as though the second generation of sayians were not as vulgar as the first, but because of that, they're treated terribly by there leader---- who couldn't care less if they all died off.
"Twenty bagels to go, eh?" The cashier said. He was quite an old sayian. His face was all wrinkly and his tail had gone white and limp. He had white hair, but none at the top. All that was left of his teeth were two little stubs that sometimes stuck out his mouth. Trunks sometimes wondered if he was around when his great-grand father ruled.
"Yep." Trunks nodded.
"How 'bout ten?"
"If you give me a reason I'll think about it, I'm a very hungry sayian ya know."
"Well, we need the food for the war."
"Alright, cut it in half." Trunks nodded.
"At a boy," The old sayian grinned as he hand Trunks the bag, "glad to see you're willing to make such great sacrifices."
Trunks smirked and left. As he came out the door he saw the sun rising up over the castle. He sighed and looked down, then went back to Collie's house.
One hour and six bagels later, the others finally get up.

"No…" Rosemary tossed in her bed, "Leave me alone!… Leave me… Let me go!… Just leave me…"
"Princess Rosemary." Fegero walked into the room and Rosemary continued to toss and turn.
"Go away!!!" Rosemary moaned in her sleep.
"Princess Rosemary. It's time for you to get up." Fegero said.
Rosemary was breathing deeply and sweating a lot. Fegero came over and tapped her.
"Princess Rosemary, it's only a dream." He whispered to her.
She jetted up and looked around her. Then saw Fegero and started to cry. She had never been so scared of a dream in her entire life… and she never wanted to again.
"I'm sorry Princess." Fegero looked down.
"It's… alright." Rosemary managed to say through sobs, "Its… not your fault."
"It's breakfast time." Fegero told Rosemary.
"I'm not hungry." She finally stopped crying.
"But… you haven't eaten for the longest… that's not healthy for a sayian or any liv…"
"I'm not hungry!" Rosemary repeated childishly.
"Yes, my lady." Fegero nodded and left.
Rosemary's stomach grumbled and her head pounded, she could eat a herd of dinosaurs! But anything that meant her even looking at her father she wouldn't do. All she wanted was to be left alone. She knew she would pass out sooner or later--- it's already happened many times before--- but Rosemary's stubborn. If she sets her mind to something she won't let anything stop her--- even if it meant hurting herself.
~ I can't give up, not now… ~ Rosemary laid on her bed, ~ but I can't die now either. ~
In no time she fell fast asleep.
Again, she dreamt.
"Mommy, what was it like when you were little?" Little Rosemary asked sitting in her mother's lap. Rosemary stared at them afraid, but not knowing of what.
"Well, it all depends on when. If you mean on Vegeta-sei it was a well respected life, very honorable and full of compassion to your fellow sayian. We were like top class pirates in some ways, anyone who got in our path to victory… well… let's say they weren't to lucky." Rose replied giving Rosemary the doll.
"What's this?" Little Rosemary made a face.
"It's called a doll." Rose answered.
Rosemary winced at Rose, "I don't want a doll."
"I know what you're thinking. You think they're like those pathetic excuses for toys--- Barbie--- but no. Sayian dolls are different."
"Doesn't look it to me, except for the fact that they're cloth and not the hard plastic stuff." Rosemary examined the doll.
"This doll will never let you down. When you feel like there isn't a soul in the world--- or all of the universes in space--- this doll will be there for you. When you feel like everything's gone wrong, it'll give you hope. When you feel like you don't have the strength to go on--- it'll give you strength. When you feel as though your love is lost forever--- it'll bring it back to you." Rose told her young daughter.
"Really?" Rosemary looked at her doll wide-eyed, "Is it magical?"
"No, but it brings the magic from within you." Rose replied, "Do you want to know this doll's name?"
"What?" Rosemary looked up at her mother.
"Rosemary."
"I was named after a DOLL?!" Rosemary exclaimed.
Rose smiled at her and Rosemary's father came in.
"Stop messing with that brat woman and get in here!" He yelled and left.
Rosemary could see the look in her mother's expression. The look that screamed out Rose's true nature. The look that said "What you see is not always what you get." Rose was kind and gentle to her daughter, but to anyone else it was a different story.
Rose got up and started to leave Rosemary's room.
"Wait mommy!" Rosemary called out. Rose turned around. "Rosemary is probably really lonely," Rosemary looked down, "will you make her some friends?"
Rose half smiled, "A whole castle full."
Then she left and a bright light shown. The present Rosemary took a few steps back, shielding her eyes from the blinding light. When it lifted she was in the court room where a fight was taking place. The one between Rosemary's parents.
Rose jumped of the wall and slashed through the king's armour making him drop to his knees, "That's for Rosemary! All those times you never cared for her and left her alone!"
She kicked him in the face so hard he flew into the wall, "That's for never showing her what a father truly is!"
He tried to get up and she blasted him trough the wall again and again.
"This is for me!" Rose shouted and blasted one last time, "For forcing me to marry a coward like you! For ruining my life! The only good thing I got out of you was my daughter and I'll love that girl till the day I die!"
The king got up and punched Rose so fast in the face it didn't even look like she knew what hit her. She flew into the wall. She opened her eyes and brushed the blood from her nose, got to her feet and fixed the red head band tied around her head.
"Cheap shot." She spitted.
"You would know." The king grinned.
"Err…" Rose pulled out her sword and grabbed it with two hands. The king did the same. They started running and attacked each other. Then they were still, suddenly the king dropped to the ground and Rose looked at him. "Now I shall finish you off."
"Please." The king spoke through the floor, "Have mercy on me Rose!"
"I'm a sayian--- a true one--- I don't take mercy." Rose said about to stab the king through the back wear his heart is.
"Please, Rose, I'm going to die soon anyway." He begged.
Rose stopped, "You're probably right."
"Please…"
"Okay, just stop begging, I hate men who beg." Rose stepped over him and went to the balcony where her court wait below after defeating the king's soldiers. They cheered as they saw her. She was about to say something when her face went blue and her eyes went small.
"Queen Rose?" One sayian questioned.
Her eyes closed as she fell into the crowd below. They looked at her in shock and saw that she had a dagger through her back. They looked up as the king started to laugh evilly.
"And she called herself a true sayian! HA! You fools actually thought you could beat me!!!" He continued to laugh evilly then gave the crowd an icy glare, "Now, just for this, I'm going to make your lives even more a hell then they already are!" He continued to scowl at them then mumbled, "Starting with my wretched daughter."
"You!" Rosemary gritted her teeth and went to attack her father, "You killed my mother! You destroyed my life!"
She ran right through him, but instead of falling into the crowd below she found herself falling through eternal darkness. She thought it would never end until *BOOM* she hit rock bottom--- and I do mean rock bottom.
"Damn." She murmured getting up rubbing the arm she had landed on. She looked around and found herself in the castles dungeon. There--- there was an old man--- but she knew him. Who could mistake that exotic lilac hair and superb blue eyes for any other? It was Trunks, but he looked pale and ill, old and skinny. Not extremely old, but older then Rosemary last saw him. His hair had grown long, which puzzled Rosemary because from what she knew--- sayians hair never grows! Most be a half-breed thing.
She walked over to him. He was writing a suercide note. Rosemary couldn't believe her eyes! Trunks? Suercidal? Sure, she and Jacko had played around with him, but they didn't mean for it to be taken seriously!
It read,
"To whom so ever read this, cares, or just happens to find this laying around;
"I have not died in battle or war. I will not die of age. And I'll never die with the one I love. So I shall die another way. I rather kill myself then live any long in this sick world of mine. I've seen so many suffer and slowly pass on. This is not the life I'm willing to live any longer.
"So what if I seem a coward to you? Under the circumstances I'm in, what makes you so sure you wouldn't think to do the same? I never made my father proud of me anyway, why try now. This is what he'd expect me to do… guess I lived up to his expectations after all"
Trunks continued to write and Rosemary couldn't take it.
"Stop it Trunks! Stop it! You're not going to die like this! I won't let you!" She yelled, he didn't hear her. She went to shake him and again she slipped right through. She looked at her hand then at Trunks. She felt her eyes get blurry. "You are to honorable a man, to great a man, to go to such a level!"--- she slammed her fist on the bench he sat on (oh, now she can feel solids)---- "Dammit Trunks! Listen to me! God-dammit listen!"
She opened her eyes and found herself in a golden room. She looked down and saw herself in her princess dress. Wait a minute, she knew this place, it was… the wedding room. At the end of the isle stood Sarge waiting for her. Rosemary looked around to find another form of herself, but couldn't.
"Go!" The king pushed her.
"Huh?" Rosemary looked around then at Sarge, "I'm not marrying him!!! He's practically twice my age!"
"Go!" The king pushed her again as though she didn't say a word.
"No!"
"You listen here you little brat! You go or I'll hang you and every last one of you little friends."
"Why should I? You'll probably just hang us anyway!" Rosemary shouted.
"Why you!" The king grabbed her throat and started to strangle her. Rosemary tried to get free, but couldn't breath. She can feel her heart slowly coming to a stop as her cheeks turned blue.
That's when Rosemary woke up and found that she had twisted her blanket around her neck somehow. She quickly pulled it of and took giant gasps of air.
Fegero came in with a cart, "Lunch and you ARE eating it."
"How could it be lunch if it was just breakfast?" Rosemary asked.
"That was hours ago." Fegero looked at her.
"Oh." She looked down.
"Now eat your lunch," Fegero ordered, "If I come back and it's not gone I'll shove it down your throat."
"Good luck with that." Rosemary smirked.
"I mean it!" Fegero gave her a serious look.
Rosemary nodded. Fegero always got her to eat lunch--- most of the time at least. It was the only meal that didn't take place at the table.
After one bite of the food, one taste of it's delicious morsels Rosemary shoved the whole thing down her mouth. It's a wonder she didn't swallowed the silverware as well.

"It's been over a month and still not one camp has confirmed if they're in or not!" Jacko paced back and forth, then went super sayian, "We are wasting to much time!"
"Chill out kid." Trunks said with his arms crossed behind his head, "Sushi will come back with good news. You can count on it."
Ika rocked back and forth in her chair as she looked down into nowhere.
"You're mighty quiet today Ika." Koi noticed.
"This is really going to happen. We're either going to show those damn cowards whose boss or become cowards ourselves." She replied still in thought.
All the others thought about what she had said. It was silent until sushi came crashing through the door.
"I've got the news!" She exclaimed.
"We can see that, now tell us what it is." Unagi said.
"Third and Second class are in." Sushi grinned and the others cheered. They stopped as the saw Sushi's expression change. "The First class are not."
"What!" Unagi stood up.
"The fools, don't they understand… this is their freedom." Vegeta muttered with his arms crossed.
"Why aren't they?" Bulma asked.
"They said it was because they're afraid if they lost the king would make their lives even worse then before--- like he did before." Sushi looked down.
"What's wrong with those idiots!?!" Ika jumped up, "That's just a chance we're going to have to take! We're in to deep to turn back now!"
"That's what I told them, but they wouldn't have it." Sushi shook her head.
"Blast!" Unagi slammed his fist on the table, "Don't they know the king doesn't care who joined up or not?! We're all pests in his eyes."
"Yeah and he doesn't care who he smushes." Koi crossed his arms.
"I bet their mind will change when they're ambushed." Vegeta replied.
They all looked at him.
"How do you know they're going to be ambushed?" Bulma asked.
"Have you forgotten? I'm Prince of sayians!" Vegeta winced at her, "My father was king, I make it my business to know this stuff. The knights always ambush enemies before the actual battles or wars begin. It's just the way things work."
"Yeah, but how do you know the first class will be ambushed first?" Trunks looked at his father.
"Common sense brat. The first class camp is the closest camp to the castle right?" Vegeta answered.
"Think they'll attack tonight?" Unagi asked.
"Without a doubt." Vegeta replied not interested.
They all looked at each other.
"Then what the hell are we sitting around here for? We need kick some ass!" Ika exclaimed jumping up and running out the door.
"Mom, you tell all the sayians to get ready for the fight tonight at the first class village, okay?" Trunks looked at his mom ready to run out with all the others.
"Right." Bulma nodded and Trunks jetted out the door.

"Well, that's odd. Looks like all the villages are gathering at the first class camp." Rosemary heard a guard say as she took a walk on the roof of the castle. She went over to see what they were talking about.
"Yes, how odd." Another said as one looked over the side. Rosemary pushed her way through them and looked over the side. "Princess Rosemary! What are you doing here?"
"Sight-seeing." She replied simply.
"Oh well." A third guard shrugged looking down at the crowd. He had a scar that started at his forehead and went all the way down his cheek and eye to his chin. Where the scar had hit his eye the brown colour of the iris had turned yellow. "Makes it easier for us to beat them all at once."
Rosemary looked at him as the first guard gave a slit throat sign to cut it out.
"You can't!" Rosemary cried out.
"Oh yeah? And why not? Because you say I can't, doll-face?" The third guard raised a brow.
"Yeah, because I say so!" Rosemary replied angrily.
"Listen to me sweetie, those sayians down there are traitors." The guard said.
"Not this again, Rio." The second guard rolled his eyes.
"Shut up Ryo." The third one, Rio, pushed the second one, Ryo. Then he turned back to Rosemary and pointed to his scar. "See this, babe?"
"You must mistake me for someone else." Rosemary crossed her arms.
"What?" Rio looked at her and realized it was the name, "Okay, okay, see this?"
"Yeah I see it." Rosemary looked at his scar, "What happened? Did a cat scratch you?"
The first one started to laugh, "Nope. A dog did! He got slashed by his little bro. in the first war we had."
"Nobody was askin' you Sai." Rio winced at the first guard then looked at Rosemary once again, "Me and my bro. were close before that war. He respected me and what I did! Then he turns around and back stabs me! Tell me that's right."
"No it's not, but you soldiers are no better!" Rosemary yelled.
"I think you're on the wrong side chicketdy." Ryo leaned on Rosemary's shoulder, "Are you royalty or not?"
"Not." Rosemary replied, she was beginning to get red in the face with anger.
"Not?" Sai sat on the edge of the roof wall. "You lie. You're mom was heir to the queen's throne and your pops is the king himself."
"I don't believe in what he believes in," Rosemary glared at him, "and as for my mom--- she has nothing to do with the times now, or me."
"That's right." Rio rubbed his rugged chin, "She helped those rebels didn't she?"
"And died." Ryo laughed.
Rosemary gritted her teeth.
"And who ever is the leader for this little rebellion will suffer the same." Sai nodded.
"Is that so? Well then, I can't say it was nice knowing ya, but it's been real." Rosemary replied and left.
The three guards stared at each other wide-eyed.

~ Traitors?! Traitors!?! They're the traitors!!! ~ Rosemary thought going down the spiral steps, "I will not let losers like them get the best of me!"
Just then Rosemary bumped into her father, who was rushing down the hall.
"Watch it!" Rosemary yelled on her butt.
"Why don't you." The king scowled at her.
"Because I'm not the one with the big butt!" Rosemary shouted looking at him.
The king gritted his teeth and went on down the hall, right after saying, "I don't have time for this."
As Rosemary watched the king stomp down the hall she had remembered what those guards had said about the ambush tonight and decided to follow him.

"Why are you following me?!" He finally stopped and turned around.
"Because I can!" Rosemary snapped.
"Go play with your dolls or something." He opened the war room door.
"I don't have to and you can't make me." Rosemary crossed her arms.
"Go!"
"No!"
"You listen to me you little brat," The king took Rosemary's arm, "you don't seem to realize the power I have over you! I could kill you with the snap of my fingers!"
"Then what the hell am I doing here?" Rosemary winced at him and pulled her arm away.
"Go, now!" The king ordered.
"You… can't… make me." Rosemary continued to wince at him.
"You spoiled little brat!"
"Spoiled by who? You? Ha! That's a laugh." Rosemary crossed her arms again.
"It's your damn mother that spoiled you! Always letting you run around and do whatever you please! Ha! That's no way for a sayian princess to act!"
"That's not true!" Rosemary snapped, "She trained me hard and she trained me well!"
"She trained you to be a loser you mean?"
"Take that back!" Rosemary made a fist.
"I'm the king! I can do whatever I please---- and I don't take orders from brats like you."
Rosemary gritted her teeth.
"Now leave!" The king said going into the room and slamming the door into Rosemary's face.
~ Now I'm really angry. ~ Rosemary winced at the door then blew it down.
"What the…!" Her father turned around.
"You ignorant brat! Do you realize what you've just done?!" Sarge stood up angrily.
"Um… yeah, I blew the door down." Rosemary bluntly replied.
The king made a fist as his temple pulsed. Then he bellowed, "Spinach! Put that girl in her room and MAKE sure she STAYS THERE!"
"Yes sir." Spinach saluted and went after Rosemary.
"That's if he can catch me." Rosemary grinned. Spinach was about to catch her when she disappeared and reappeared sitting in the window of the room. "You know what I heard, I heard that bulkiness tends to make a sayian slow and dumb."
"Why you…" Spinach ran towards her. She jumped on his shoulders and flipped to the table. He jumped on the table after her and she ran across it making papers fly everywhere. Spinach made a shot at her just as she jumped into the air. The shot hit the king in the face and sent him flying through the door. Rosemary landed and ran out the door stepping on her father on the way out.
"How hard is it to catch a girl!" The king got up and turned blue as Spinach came running towards him. "Stop Spinach! I command you to stop!"
To late, Spinach squashed the king and ran after Rosemary.
"Your majesty, are you alright?" Sarge asked going to the king's side.
"Get out of my face." The king muttered.

"Try, try, try all you can, but you can't catch me! I'm a she-sayian!" Rosemary chanted miles ahead of Spinach. She saw an upcoming candle-stand and knocked it over as she ran by. She had been doing this with tables and chairs and whatever was in her way.
"Come back here! Come back here you coward!" Spinach yelled exhausted.
Rosemary stopped and turned around slowly, "You did not just call ME a coward."
"I only speak the truth!" Spinach told her catching her breath.
"Oh yeah? Well would a coward do this to her enemy?!" Rosemary powered up and started blasting at Spinach.
"Or this!?!" Rosemary punched spinach in the gut then kicked him in the side.
"How 'bout this!!!" Rosemary went super sayian and blew-up that whole part of the castle. All that was left of Spinach was a torn up cape.

*BOOM* Trunks and the rest looked up.
"Wuh! What was that!" Sushi exclaimed looking at the castle.
"Looks like Rosemary's giving them a run for their money." Trunks smirked.
"When do you think these goof-offs will attack, anyways?" Jacko crossed his arms as he leaned against a building with Vegeta.
"Most likely when they think everyone's asleep." Vegeta in the same position.
"I CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG!!!" Ika exclaimed.
"Calm down Ika, we'll have our chance to get these guys, you just have to be patient." Unagi held her shoulder firmly.