*Chapter 15*
.:: Smell of Death ::.

"Get up." Someone pushed Rosemary out bed.
She looked up angrily to see Rio, "Who do you think you are?!"
"Well, you didn't like being treated as princess--- so I'm not treating you as a princess. Now GET UP!" Rio yelled and Rosemary got up.
"Is there anything else your majesty?" Rosemary exaggerated.
"Yes, get your armor on, we're gonna train." Rio told her handing her a new piece of armor.
"Are you sure daddy dearest approved?" Rosemary took it.
"I am sure." Rio nodded. Rosemary put on the armor and Rio looked down blushing as she took off her night shirt.
"What's wrong with you? I've got a freakin' bra on!" Rosemary slipped the jumper shirt over her head and put the pants on.
"Just get dressed!" Rio turned even more red.
"I'm done." Rosemary patted down her hair. (Ever wonder why sayian's hair is so spiky? It's because they never brush it.)
"Let's go then." Rio went to press the emblem on his armor when Rosemary stopped him.
"What about me?" I can't exactly do that you know."
Rio looked at her and pressed the emblem on her armor.
"What the…" Rosemary disappeared.
Rio pressed his emblem and went after her.

"Why do I have THIS armor?!" Rosemary shrieked at Rio as he appeared.
"You are now an official officer--- along with myself. I was promoted yesterday and since I have to baby-sit you you were promoted in a way to."
"I don't work for anyone! Especially not my dad!" Rosemary yelled, "I'm no traitor!"
"Traitor? That doesn't matter anymore." Rio shook his head.
"And why not?" Rosemary raised one brow.
"You're dead."
"What?!"
"Remember Sai and Ryo? They killed you yesterday--- well--- that's what the peasants believe."
"You scum-bags!" Rosemary gritted her teeth.
"It was the only way to make sure they didn't come try and 'rescue' you." Rio put his hands behind his back.
"Err…" Rosemary winced at him.

"Hear me! Hear me!" One of the king's messengers stood in front of the third class village. "Princess Rosemary has been killed!"
Another messenger translated it into sayian.
"What did he say?!" Trunks asked a sayian as he came out the bakery shop.
"Princess Rosemary has been killed!" The sayian said in sayian.
All Trunks could understand was "Rosemary" and "killed", two words he did not like together.
Trunks looked up at the messenger to make sure he heard correct--- hoping he just mistook "killed" for another word.
"She was slaughtered by Sir Sai and Sir Ryo, a few minutes before the soldiers' retreat." The messenger announced.
Trunks shook his head and ran back to Collie's house.

"You guys!" He ran in, "You won't believe…"
He stopped as he saw a flyer in Ika's hand. He looked around and saw all the others looking down sadly or gritting their teeth angrily.
"We know." Ika crushed the paper and set on fire.
"That's it!" Jacko stood up, "I say we kill them now! The only thing we're getting out of these petty battles are more losses!"
"I agree." Sushi stood up, "If I'm gonna die it'll be because of the war not because of some ass jumping me from behind."
Vegeta was leaning on the wall with his arms crossed, ~ There's something very odd going on. ~

"Punch me." Rio got up in Rosemary's face.
"I'm not gonna punch you!" Rosemary yelled backing up.
"PUNCH ME! PUNCH ME!" Rio continued to yell until Rosemary socked him in the nose. Rio backed up covering is bloody nose.
Ryo started to laugh, "She punched you!"
"Shut up!" Rio yelled at Ryo and wiped his nose as he looked at Rosemary, "Is that your best shot?"
"What the hell do you mean? I hit you!" Rosemary shouted.
"Not hard enough." Rio crossed his arms.
"You're just saying that because you're ashamed of yourself." Rosemary crossed her arms.
Rio went for a punch, but Rosemary moved quickly and kicked him in the butt to the ground.
"Was that part of your lesson?" She grinned.
Sai and Ryo started to laugh.
"She kicked you ass!" Ryo bellowed.
"Literally!" Sai chuckled.
"I said SHUT UP!" Rio got up angrily, "So you've already learned how to attack without being detected ad feel your opponents movements… good this will save me time to teach you."
"Teach ME? Ha! That's a good one!" Rosemary laughed.
I gritted his teeth and tripped Rosemary, "Yes teach you not to be so cocky."
"Err…" Rosemary flipped to her feet, "I'm not cocky!"
"Could have fooled me." Rio smirked.
Rosemary roared a she went to pounce on Rio. He blew her backward into a pillar before she could even touch him. Rosemary shook her head and jumped up again. As she ran to attack Rio the king came in front of her. She couldn't stop and he just froze and zapped her with some kind of stun-gun.
Rosemary started to scream as the gun electrocuted her. She turned from normal to Super Sayian, to half monkey form, back to normal. When it stopped shocking her she took two steps back and fainted. Rio ran and caught her.
"Hmm… it works." The king nodded in approval and looked at Ryo and Sai, "Just came to tell you that we will be raiding the villages for…"
"Hey!" Rio cut in, "Aren't you going to see if she's okay?!"
The king raised one brow as he looked at Rio and Rosemary, "Frankly my boy, I don't give a damn."
"She's your daughter!" Rio roared.
"She's dirty, improper, a disrespectful little bastard." He king crossed his arms.
~ This is the guy I'm fighting for? He doesn't treat his own blood right, who am I so sure he's gonna take care of the empire right. He might as well kill us all if he's going to treat us like he treats Rosemary. ~ Rio gritted his teeth. He picked up Rosemary in his arms and started off to her room.
"And where are you going?" The king snapped.
Rio ignored him and kept going.

"Err…" Trunks punched a tree like crazy.
"Look at him go!" Sushi said.
"He's full of anger." Jacko replied, "Who could blame him?"
"H'ya!" Trunks blew the whole thing up and dropped to his knees. He looked at the ground angrily as he ripped the grass. Suddenly he saw someone stand in front of him. He looked up to see Vegeta and his cold scowl.
"I don't have time for your petty comments." Trunks got up and pushed Vegeta out the way.
"Who do you think you're talking to?" Vegeta snapped. Trunks stopped with his back to Vegeta. "If you must know I wasn't here to rub in your face how weak you are."
Trunks gritted his teeth as he looked down. It never failed, Vegeta always had to put him down.
"I wanted to tell you that… that…" Vegeta struggled, "Maybe your as powerful as me after all."
~ What?! ~ Trunks looked up shocked.
"You might not believe this son, but we are very much a like."
Son? Did Trunks hear correctly?
"Who would've thought that two sayians would lose two great sayian-women by the wrath of one scum-bag, sayian wannabe."
Trunks turned around looking at his dad. His dad was looking down angrily at the ground. His temple was pulsing. He looked at Trunks and put a hand on his shoulder. "We have to beat them."
~ Who are you and what have you done with my father?! ~ Trunks thought staring at Vegeta shocked, ~ Since when does dad work as a team? ~
Vegeta nodded for no reason and left.
"Who was Vegeta talking about?" Trunks heard his mom ask and turned around.
"Mom." Trunks said.
"What two sayian-women?" Bulma asked. She had a sort of hidden hurt look on.
Trunks swallowed hard and looked at his mom, "Well, you see, one of them is Rosemary and the other is her… mother."
Bulma looked down, "Was she nice?"
"Who?"
"Her mother?" Bulma looked at Trunks.
"Um… I never met her, but she and dad were best friends growing up."
"Vegeta grew-up with her?"
"Yeah." Trunks nodded and told Bulma the whole story and how Vegeta acted when he found out Rose was dead.
Bulma looked down again, ~ How could I compete? ~
"Mom?" Trunks approached her.
"I knew it. I knew it the first time I saw that look in his eye." Bulma backed up, "He never loved me! I was just some back-up chick!"
"Mom?!" Trunks looked at her shocked.
She glared at him, "Can't you see? Haven't you noticed?! How he acts around here! He loved that girl Trunks, I know it. Why else would he be so open? Why else would care so much about her being avenged?! Do you know what he'd do if I was murdered!?! NOTHING!!!"
"That's not true." Trunks said, but his own words couldn't convince him. Any child would try to believe their parents love each other.
"He just used me--- and I let him." Bulma dropped to her knees and stared to cry.
As Trunks went to comfort his mother he felt Vegeta's presence come and go.
~ What have we gotten ourselves into? ~ Trunks wondered patting his mother on the back.

Rosemary blinked and looked around. She felt so weak--- it took all her energy to blink. She looked around and realized she was in hr room. How'd she get here? She wondered. Then looked to the side of her and saw Rio asleep in the chair beside her bed with his arms crossed.
Suddenly, the memory of what had happened went through her head. ~ He save me, but why? ~
Then Rio opened his eyes and looked at Rosemary, "You're awake."
She just looked at him. She couldn't speak anyway.
"How do you feel?" He asked.
She turned her head the other way.
"Not so good, huh?" He looked at her, "Don't worry. I'll take care of you."
"Why?" Rosemary managed to ask.
"I-I…" Rio looked down as he blushed, "care about you."
Rosemary immediately looked at him and snorted.
"Gee thanks." Rio looked at her and went back to his regular colour, "I know what you meant now."
Rosemary looked at him puzzled.
"About your dad and I just want to tell you…" He looked around, came closer to Rosemary and whispered, "I agree. I don't want to be on he king's side anymore."
Rosemary looked at Rio amazed then her expression changed. Rio could tell she thought he was lying.
"I'm not lying Rosemary. I'm packing up my bags tonight and I… I want to take you with me." Rio trailed and looked down.
Rosemary got herself to sit up and took Rio's hand in both of hers. Hr energy was coming back to her. "Okay."
Rio looked up at her, "Really?!"
"Uh-huh." Rosemary nodded, "But what if the soldiers report me missing?"
"Don't you listen to the news? Princess Rosemary's dead." Rio smirked.
Rosemary tried to smile, ~ I'm coming guys. ~

"This is the place." Ryo smirked standing outside Collie's house.
"Perfect." Sai grinned and looked at two soldiers that were holding two sister's hostage. One was older than the older.
One of the soldiers nodded and started choking the older sister. The younger one stared in horror as her sibling tuned blue.
"Just scream and I'll let you go." The soldier whispered to the girl.
The girl turned and spat in the soldier's face. He got so angry he choke her to death.
As her sister fell to the ground dead the little girl began to scream and cry.
"Oh half-breed! We have a bone to pick with you." Sai called.
"If you don't come out we'll gladly kill this little brat." Ryo added.
Trunks came out as the other's looked out the window.
"What do you want." He scowled at them.
"Only to destroy you." Sai smirked.
"Then you've got the wrong sayian. I'm not going down by the likes of you." Trunks gritted his teeth as he went super sayian.
"You don't seem to understand, you have no choice, but to let us destroy you." Sai said.
"No, you don't seem to understand!" Trunks powered up--- getting stronger by the second, "That's the same damn line your buddies used on me!! And because of them one of my friends died!!!"
Ryo took a step back, but Sai motioned to keep his ground.
"You must be talking about our first battle," Sai rubbed his chin then looked at Trunks, "yes… well, if you thought that was bad, how does every single person in this whole camp sound to you?"
"Yeah, it scared Rosemary real good," Ryo laughed, "why else would she join up with us after that letter?"
Trunks narrow-eyed his eyes as he gritted his teeth. "So, you were the ones who burned down Rosemary's house and murdered that girl."
"Yes, one of our very best pieces of work I might add." Sai grinned then glared at Trunks, "Enough talk, it's time for you to die!"
Trunks and Sai attacked head on. Trunks pounded Sai in the face, but stopped when the little sayian girl screamed and dropped to the ground dead. She had been shot by one of the soldiers.
"You monsters!" Trunks yelled.
"A little trick I learned from a friend of mine. Blackmail the enemy so they have no choice, but to lose." Sai got up wiping his nose.
"The rules of our game are if one of us gets pounded by you, then one of your little friends die." Ryo laughed.

"Rosemary!" Rio ran into her room.
"Yes." Rosemary turned around as she packed her bags.
"I've just been notified that Sai and Ryo were ordered to eliminate your friend, the half breed." Rio told her.
"Trunks?" Rosemary looked at Rio and he nodded. Rosemary became nervous, then laugh hysterically.
"What? What is so funny?! Isn't he your friend!?!" Rio looked at her like she was a nut.
"Like those guys could ever lay a finger on a super sayian as powerful as Trunks."
"Is he really that strong?" Rio looked at her.
"All that and more." Rosemary half smiled and continued to pack.
"Hmm…" Rio stood back.

Trunks flew back into a rock and Sai punched him repeatedly.
~ That poor girl, all those people, ~ Trunks thought as he got beat up, ~ Rosemary, Collie, all of them… they died to the likes of these morons and so shall I. ~
"I can't take this anymore!" Ika yelled and jumped on Sai. She punched him in the face until it bled. He finally overpowered her and blasted her off.
"You old hag!" He got up and started to go ape, "You dare interfere! You shall die now!"
Sai was just about to kill Ika when Trunks got him in a head lock and twisted his neck--- which knocked Sai out.
Ryo ran over t his friend and looked at the soldiers, "Well don't just stand there like idiots! Kill them!"
"You killed two of my friends--- one of which I loved very much--- do you think you could defeat me?" Trunks roared. Ryo started to run and Trunks blew his leg off.
"You bastard!" Ryo yelled as Trunks towered over him.
"Takes a bastard, to know a bastard." Trunks winced at him and aimed for Ryo's head.
"Now wait a minute…" Ryo backed up, "Do you really think you want to stoop to our level? I mean, c'mon! You're so much better than us."
Trunks looked down, then started to walk off. "You're right."
As Ryo sighed with relief Trunks smirked and said, "But today… I'm willing to make an exception."
Ryo turned in horror as a giant fireball hit him in the face blowing his whole self to oblivion. Trunks looked at the lines of soldiers that came out of there hiding places and aimed their lasers at Trunks.
He winced at them and they fired. *BANG* He reflected the first, second and third shot. *BANG* *BANG* They kept on shooting, but he just got closer and closer until he grabbed one soldier by the neck and popped his head off. The others turned blue, but before they could get away, Trunks powered up and blew them all to the next dimension with one shot.
Ika stared in disbelief. Along with all the others staring out the window. Trunks went back to normal and gritted his teeth as he kicked Sao's limp body all the way to the castle.
"Trunks." Bulma came out the house and approached Trunks.
He pushed past her and went into the house up to the room he stays in.

"Hurry!" Rio and Rosemary heard sayians yell outside the door.
"Stay." Rio whispered to Rosemary and looked out the door ready to shoot whoever attacked.
He saw three soldiers rushing Sai down the hall.
"He's not breathing!" One exclaimed.
"Those damn rebels did t this time!" The other shouted.
"What happened?" Rio asked looking at Sai.
"Sai and Ryo went with half our men to take out the leaders of the rebels and look what they did to Sai!" The first said.
"Where's Ryo?" Rio looked at Sai.
"Sai was the only one that made it back." The second said.
"Now we really need to go now Rio!" The third said and the three soldiers rushed Sai to the king.
Rio closed the door and looked at Rosemary. She was smirking with her legs crossed on her bed.
"They were my friends." Rio glared at her.
"What do I care?" Rosemary looked at him and continued to smirk.
Rio continued to glare at her, "You're glad they lost aren't you?"
"I hope they all rot in hell." Rosemary kept her fixed smirk on her face.
Rio grabbed her and glare at her angrily.
"Get your hands off of me." Rosemary scowled at him.
Rio gritted his teeth and slowly let go. "Are you finished packing yet?"
"Yeah why?" Rosemary's scowl disappeared.
"I want to get outta here as soon as I can."
"You bet." Rosemary nodded.
Rio grinned, "We leave tonight, alright?"
Rosemary nodded and Rio left.

Bulma came into Trunks' room to find him facing the window holding his forehead.
"Oh Trunks," she same over and hugged him, "it's okay."
Trunks looked away.
"Trunks." Bulma looked at him.
"Just go away mom." Trunks snapped.
Bulma looked at him shocked then nodded and left.
Trunks looked out the window at the castle. He winced at it and looked at his jacket laying on the chair next to him. ~ I know what I'll do. When everyone's asleep tonight I'll get that dragonball from the castle and bring back Rosemary and Collie. ~

That night, Rosemary was woken up. She was going to scream when she realized it was Rio.
"Is it time?" She looked at him.
"What do you think?" Rio talked back as he checked to make sure no one was coming down the hall. "Are you ready?"
"Hold on." Rosemary checked to make sure she got all her dolls.
"I thought you said you packed up already!" Rio snapped.
"I did! I'm ready!" Rosemary got up and Rio took her hand. He held her close to him. "Hey!"
"Do you want to get outta here fast or do you wanna get caught?" Rio looked at her. She looked down and he pressed the icon on his armor.
They found themselves outside the castle when they reappeared.
"Here." Rio handed Rosemary a hood and flipped up the hood on his armor.
Rosemary nodded and pulled the hood over her backpack and head. "Why don't we just zap ourselves to where-ever we're going with your armor?"
"Because, it gives off high energy levels outside the castle." Rio started off then took to the air.
Rosemary followed and they flew-off to the third-class camp.

Trunks inched his way to the door and quietly crept out. He made sure no one caught him and took to the air.
~ We'll see each other again Rosemary, I promise. ~ Trunks sped through the air with a scouter attached to his head to detect the dragonball.
Halfway to the castle the scouter started to beep. Trunks zoomed in and saw two figures approaching and stopped.
"Spies, eh? Well, I'm not running anywhere." Trunks stopped and hid himself. "But I'll just keep a low profile until I get the dragonball."
As the two sayians passed by Trunks started shooting at him.
"Ah!" The taller one yelled grabbing his shoulder, "Dirty cowards! Show yourself!"
Trunks shuffled to another hiding spot and started shooting at the next one.
She turned around immediately and bounced back the blasts.
"Holy crap!" Trunks dodged them.
"There he is!" The girl yelled, then she realized it was a dear friend of hers and looked at her partner. "Oh no, he got away."
"Are you sure?" The male-sayian asked holding his arm.
"Yeah, he's gone." The girl nodded and they flew off.
~ Rosemary? ~ Trunks wondered as the two sayians flew by. He then shook that thought out his head and headed for the castle.

Rio and Rosemary landed at the third class camp and were ambushed--- yet again. This time by two sayians.
"Ya think ya'll get da best of us?" One, a boy around fifteen, pinned Rosemary to the ground with a dagger.
Rio seemed to recognize the boy and yelled at him, "Miko! Cut I out! It's me!"
"R-Rio?" The one who had Rio down, a fifteen year old girl, looked at Rio.
"Hey, Tiff." Rio smiled.
"You scum-bag! How dare you show your traitor face back here!" The girl yelled pulling a dagger out on Rio's throat.
"So, ya decided ta come back, eh?" The boy, known as Miko, put his dagger away and got off Rosemary. He helped her up and looked at Rio, "Well, dear brother, can't say I messed ya."
"I kinda figured as much when you slit my face open." Rio said then looked at the girl known as Tiff, "Mind getting off?"
"They killed my parents Rio…" The sayian girl held back tears, putting the dagger closer to Rio's skin, "Your damn friends hung my parents corpses on my door… I HATE you and I HATE the king and his whole damn empire… They're all gonna ROT in hell, starting with YOU…"
The girl suddenly turned around shocked as Miko put his hand on her shoulder. "It's not worth it Tiff. We'll have our day, just ya wait. Why waste all yer energy on this losa when you can use to beat up ten othas?"
"Because he swore that he'd protect us." Tiff turned back to Rio as she gritted her teeth.
Rio looked down, "You're right. I did."
"You did, you promised that if you became a soldier you'd protect us! You lied!" Tiff was about to stab Rio in the throat when Rosemary pushed her off.
"You think it's that easy!" Rosemary yelled, "You think one sayian can stop my father?!"
"Who do you think ya're pushin' my mate like that!" Miko blocked Tiff, "I oughta slice yer head off right now."
"Try it and prepare to die." Rosemary winced at him.
"Wait!" Tiff shouted, "Did you just call the king your father?"
"That I did." Rosemary nodded.
"That would mean--- " The girl's eyes widened, "You're Princess Rosemary!"
Rosemary looked down and nodded.
"Don't believe'er Tiff. Ya smarta than that." Miko kept his position, "Everyone knows Princess Rosemary was killed yesterday."
"That was a lie." Rio stood up.
"Yeah, sure. I'm gonna believe YOU." Miko looked at Rio from the corner of his eye.
"You don't have o believe us--- no one asked you to--- but if you don't move out of our way I swear, I'll kick you butt from here all the to the ruins of Vegeta-sei." Rosemary continued to wince at Miko.
"Just leave'em be Miko. You're right, they're not worth our time." Tiff said.
"Shut up!" Miko yelled and looked at Rosemary and Rio, "You may stay here, but just rememba, me and Tiff are the village look-outs and we WILL be watchin' YOU."
Miko snorted and like a flash of light, the two sayians disappeared.
"C'mon." Rio took Rosemary's hand and they ran into the night.

Trunks snuck into the castle and clicked the scouter on.
"Looks like the dragonball is on the eighth floor, seventeenth room." Trunks figured and started off to find it.
He finally found it and went in the room marked Ryo with the silhouette of a sayian woman on the door. When Trunks walked in he saw posters of naked or half naked sayian women all over the walls.
"Jeez, this guy's even worse than Master Roshi." Trunks muttered to himself and looked around. There was stacks of porno magazines all over the floor. Trunks finally found the dragonball in between an old sandwich and something that Trunks didn't want to know what it was.
Trunks went out the room--- not forgetting to take some magazines--- for Master Roshi of coarse….

***NOTES*** lol, anyways!!! Enough with the pervertedness! REVIEW!!!