PART THREE: INSIDE FRIEZA'S FORCES AND THE ASTORIANS' VOYAGE TO PLANET CALMAG
Chapter Thirty: Frieza's Elite Soldiers
Four years later. Lord Frieza's mother ship. Lord Frieza's meeting room.
Frieza was holding a meeting of his Top Elite officers. The Top
Elite officers hated these meetings because they could sometimes drag on for
hours, sometimes late at night when they badly needed their sleep for their
assignments. Frieza was drumming his fingers on the mahogany conference table,
as the Top Elite officers were desperately trying to hide their boredom and
frustration. They could be off beating someone up or clearing a planet.
Instead, they had to hear Frieza talk unceasingly about finances, new planets
and various other topics that they were already well informed on. Captain Ginyu,
who ran his own small elite force in Frieza's army, was also Frieza's first
cousin on King Cold's side of the family. Captain Ginyu was one of Frieza's
best men, even though all of the other Top Elite officers thought that he only
received his position because of his relationship to Frieza and King Cold and
not on his own merits. None of them doubted Captain Ginyu's ability as a fine
warrior, but they thought that nepotism had played a part in the Captain's
promotion and his being allowed to have his own force of warriors. Sitting near
Captain Ginyu were Reccoom, Jeice, and Baata, the only men that had passed the
"rigorous" tests needed to get into the Ginyu Force. These tests involved being
able to have unique and stylistic fighting poses, as well as superb fighting
abilities. A warrior had to be extraordinary strong to get into Ginyu's Force,
but he or she also had to have style and flair in his or her poses as well. If
a warrior's pre-battle poses were not up to Ginyu's satisfaction, Ginyu would
automatically disqualify him or her from auditioning for his Force any further,
no matter how excellent a fighter he or she was.
Captain Ginyu had been willing to make an exception in Balair's
case, because Balair's power level and fighting abilities were on the same par
with his. Captain Ginyu had thought that Balair had no posing style, but
because of Balair's unique ability as a Sistrai warrior to be able to vaporize
and liquefy himself, he had been willing to have Balair on his force. Balair
had refused to join the Ginyu force; he preferred to work alone, or with
Dodoria, his closest buddy. Balair had secretly thought that the Ginyu Force
were a bunch of pansies who wasted too much time in their stupid poses when they
should be worrying about destroying their opponents.
Eight-feet tall Balair loved fighting, alcohol, and young women of
any compatible species-in that order. He was as proud of his ability to "drink
anyone under the table" and his sexual prowess, as well as his superb fighting
ability. Even when he did not liquefy or vaporize himself, he was still an
above-average warrior, strong as the strongest Saiyan or Astorian, if not
stronger. And the Saiyans and the Astorians could not vaporize or liquefy
himself, like he could.
Balair was a vicious and merciless fighter, more ruthless than even
a Saiyan. He was cruel to those he conquered, and he enjoyed dragging out their
deaths to make them as painful as possible. When he was done toying with them,
he would then either kill them by hand or vaporize himself to enter their lungs
and cause them to explode. He treated the female victims worse than he did the
men, half of the time raping them or torturing them before he killed them. The
prettier, more submissive ones he kept alive for a few days as his own
concubines, but then he would quickly grow bored with them or angered with them
when they resisted him. Most of his people, the Sistrai warriors
from planet Sistra were like that. Sistra was one of Frieza's allies, and the
King of Sistra had recommended Balair to Frieza. Balair had passed his final
evaluation easily, and he had quickly been promoted into Top Elite after he had
passed. That had been twenty years ago and Frieza still considered Balair a
great asset to him. He had many plans yet for the cold-hearted Sistrai warrior.
Like almost all Sistrai males, Balair was chauvinistic and
misogynistic, believing that women were nothing more than playthings and chattel
for men. The Sistrai men treated their own women just as badly, and the males
maintained a rule that if a Sistrai warrior killed another male, the killer
would receive all of his victim's goods, including any mates or concubines
automatically. The Sistrai men usually fought over each other's women, and only
the strongest men were able to hold onto to their mates. There were only two
Sistrai women born for every ten Sistrai men, and only half of them lived to
puberty, when the strongest Sistrai males would automatically take them for
mates. Balair loved mating with young, beautiful females of various species,
and the more scared and submissive they were, the better he liked them; he did
not like his women to try to take control or fight him back. He liked to be
totally in control, with his partner of the moment completely meek and obedient
to his commands and desires.
Balair also loved to drink any kind of alcohol, and alcohol made him
stronger instead of weaker because alcohol improved a Sistrai warrior's fighting
prowess, when he drank the right amount without becoming drunk. On the
occasions that he managed to get drunk, his power and attitude increased five
times as much and everyone around him stayed out of his way until his power once
again decreased. He was a bully, and like his comrade, Dodoria, he enjoyed
picking on anyone weaker than he was. He would have given the Top Elite women a
hard time, but they were more than able to hold their own with him, and after a
while, he had learned to leave them alone, especially Jaden, the strongest
female fighter in Frieza's forces. He considered Jaden too ugly to bother with
anyway.
Jaden was certainly no beauty, but her fighting prowess more than
made up for her looks. She was a seven-feet-seven-inches tall, navy blue
lizard-like creature with small bright yellow eyes that glowed in the dark and
two powerful, flexible tails that were unusually agile for their thickness. She
could use these tails to crush and squeeze almost any opponent by using either
one or both of those appendages. She also was large and muscular, with
powerful, gigantic feet with seven toes apiece. Jaden also possessed the
ability to shape-shift, like all of her people from planet Ryban; she could
shape her body into the form of any living creature or inanimate object. She
could also stretch her limbs and other body parts, as if they were made of
rubber. Although she knew various ki attacks, she could kill most of the
strongest opponents with just one punch or kick, and she possessed one
particularly deadly move called the Glass Freeze, which she could use to freeze
many of her weaker opponents into glass just by using eye lasers, and then she
would shatter the glass, effectively killing the opponent. She also had an
attack called the Sonic Scream, which could break the sound barrier-and anyone's
bones with a high C note. Her razor-sharp claws were also useful, for they
could easily shred the strongest metals known to any creature.
Jaden's advance fifteen years ago into the Top Elite was still
considered miraculous because she had once started out as an "involuntary
recruit", the lowest form of life in the hierarchy of Frieza's forces. Jaden
had been forced to join Frieza's fighters when she had only been twelve years
old. Frieza had Jaden's family's ship captured, and he had only spared Jaden
and her small family. Frieza had threatened to kill Jaden's cold, distant
father and two brothers, if Jaden did not agree to fight for him and pledge
loyalty to him. Jaden had surpassed all of Frieza's expectations and passed her
final evaluation under Zarbon and Dodoria, but Frieza had gone back on his
promise to spare them and killed Jaden's family anyway. Jaden had never once
approached or confronted Frieza for backstabbing her, but she hated him for it
anyway. Jaden hated Frieza with a passion, and Frieza knew it. Nevertheless,
he allowed Jaden to remain in Top Elite because she had never tried to overthrow
him, and he knew that he could keep her under control. He made a special note
long time ago to always keep his most useful and most defiant fighters near him
whenever possible. Frieza embraced the motto: "Keep your friends close, but
your enemies closer."
Jaden had originally been a Mid-Elite officer until Sagash, her
cruel, heinous trainer, had tried to rape her for the third time. Sagash had
been the only male ever to desire Jaden as a woman, but that had made no
difference to her. Jaden had enough, and after a brutal battle, she had turned
Sagash into glass and shattered him into pieces just as Frieza found them.
Since Frieza had been planning to have Sagash eliminated anyway
because of Sagash's latest failures, and he had liked Jaden's style of killing
Sagash, Frieza did not punish Jaden for her actions, as Jaden had expected he
would. Instead, he gave her Sagash's Top Elite Position, which earned Jaden the
eternal hatred of Balair and Dodoria, Sagash's closest friends. They both had
hazed Jaden and gave her a hard time because of that and her being a woman.
Jaden had been able to hold her own with both of them, and after a while, they
both learned that it was far safer not to torment her, even though they were as
strong as she was, if not stronger.
Jaden was a no-nonsense fighter who did not believe in wasting time
in combat. She killed her opponents as quickly as she possibly could, without
wasting precious time. She was also one of Frieza's best trainers, and she was
a no-nonsense teacher as well, tolerating no disorderly conduct or messing
around. She was a woman of few words, and she never minced the few words she
spoke or beat around the bush. Although she was not a lesbian, she had no
interest in men of any species. Jaden was basically a loner who never allowed
herself to get involved in the politics and gossip of Frieza's Elite, and she
had only had a couple of people that she could actually call friends: Skale, a
Mid-Elite Technical Officer, and Chestra, one of the newest members to be
inducted into Top Elite. She, Chestra, and Diamonique were the only current
female Top Elite fighters. All three women were the strongest, most skilled
warriors who each had special attacks to accompany their hand-to-hand combat
skills.
Chestra was an unknown hybrid alien from an unknown planet. She had
a four feet-seven-inches humanoid body with a white panther-like face with
large, lovely jade-green eyes and hair that was parted in half, one side
ruby-red and the other side emerald-green. She was considered to be the second
strongest female fighter of Frieza's forces, as well as the most beautiful one.
Chestra possessed the unique ability to turn her nerve endings on and off like a
light switch, so that she could feel nothing, not even the lightest touch. She
also had one special attack where she used eye lasers to blast an opponent's
brain, which would upset his or her entire nervous system, causing any further
pain to be felt ten times greater than it should be. She also had phenomenal,
superb telekinetic abilities that were strong enough to easily move small
planets, moons, or asteroids. She always carried a couple of shiatars with her,
small dagger-like knives that she could use for almost any purpose. She could
cut someone's throat faster than they could say "Ouch." Chestra was a ruthless
and cunning warrior, but not cruel.
At times, she showed mercy when she thought that she could afford
to, which was rare. She had a soft spot for children, her best friend, Jaden,
and her new mate, Zarbon.
Zarbon had been Chestra's trainer when Frieza had bought Chestra
from the Triumvirate of planet Egimari. The Triumvirate had sentenced Chestra
to death in a fighting match with a fierce dragon because Chestra had fought off
the advances of one the Triumvirate members. Chestra had been fighting off
men's advances ever since she had been twelve years old, and she had been a
slave since she was a baby. Chestra had nearly killed her last molester, the
Triumvirate member, Egron, and for this she was sentenced to a cruel death. But
Chestra had defeated the vicious dragon, and Frieza had been so impressed with
her performance that he had bought her from her Egimari masters.
Chestra had been Zarbon's prize pupil, and they had fallen in love
with each other, but they did not act on their feelings in front of everyone
until after Chestra had passed her final evaluation which included having to fight Zarbon and Dodoria and lasting for more than an hour doing so. Frieza had also fallen in love with
Chestra, but as a rare act of goodwill, he allowed Zarbon to have her for his
mate. Frieza's father, King Cold, had also been interested in Chestra as a
potential mate at one time. Chestra and Zarbon were extremely devoted to each
other, and they were the happiest couple under Frieza.
Chestra was one of the kindest fighters under Frieza, and like
Jaden, she never allowed herself to get involved in the politics or gossip of
Frieza's elite. She was cordial to everyone, even to Balair and Diamonique,
both whom she despised. She was firm and strict with the lower-level fighters,
but she was never cruel to them, and she knew how to motivate them without being
brutal or cruel. And at times, she showed acts of kindness towards those
beneath her, such as allowing them extra privileges or helping them with their
small problems. She used a system of rewards and punishments to train those
under her, and so far it seemed to be working.
Diamonique was a beautiful young woman who was five-feet, nine
inches tall and one year older than Chestra. She had ice-blue hair streaked
with silver, peaches-and-ice skin with blue diamond fingernails and toenails and
black diamond eyes. She was vain and proud of her flawless looks as well as her
extraordinary fighting ability. She was a Gemstarian warrior from the planet
Gemstar. Like most Gemstarians, she was able to freeze anything and anyone and
turn them into diamond statues, using finger or eye lasers. She could also zap
someone's vital organs and freeze them until they stopped working, causing the
victim to die a slow, horrible death. She was able to shoot her nails out from
her hands like darts, and these nails were tainted naturally with one of the
deadliest poisons in the universe. When she wasn't using her nails, she could
retract them like a cat retracting its claws. Her nails were so sharp that she
could rip out someone's vital body organs as easily as if she were ripping a
paper-covered package open. And she was also able to create instant blizzards
or hail storms, which usually put most enemies at a further disadvantage.
Diamonique had competed in one of Frieza's bi-annual tournaments
that he held on his father's home planet called Ice, and she had won herself a
position as one of Frieza's Mid-Elite officers. Later she competed in another
of Frieza's tournaments, and she barely won herself a position in Top Elite.
She was hailed to be the third strongest female fighter of Frieza's
forces, but she wanted to become as strong as Chestra, whom she greatly despised
more than anyone else in Frieza's Elite. Chestra was more liked and respected
than the sultry, sulky Diamonique, and she had Zarbon, whom Diamonique had
wanted for herself, as a mate. And Chestra had been promoted quickly from
Mid-Elite to Top Elite while Diamonique had made it into Top Elite only by the
skin of her teeth. Her jealousy towards Chestra was deadly.
Diamonique had tried to kill Chestra twice. She had tried to kill
Chestra with her deadly nails while Chestra had been sleeping on a planet that
they were raiding together, but Chestra's mysterious body chemistry had been
resistant to Diamonique's poisonous nails. (She was the only one who had ever
survived those deadly nails, other than Jaden, who was descended from one of the
only three races in the universe known to be naturally immune to Diamonique's
type of poison. The Astorians and the Saiyans were the only ones other than the
Rybanese who had a natural resistance to Diamonique's potent poison. The
Rybanese, Astorians, and the Saiyans had body chemistries that were resistant to
most of the universe's poisons and illnesses. )
Diamonique's second attempt on Chestra's life would have been
successful, if Jaden had not intervened that day. Diamonique had followed
Chestra to Zarbon's room after Chestra had successfully passed her final
evaluation, and she had watched with anger and envy through a spy camera, as
Chestra and Zarbon made love. Two days later, a jealous Diamonique had
frozen Chestra's heart while they were on their second assignment together
clearing a planet.
Fortunately, for Chestra, Jaden had followed them both to that planet
and had used a Glass Freeze attack on Diamonique. She had ripped open the dying
Chestra's chest with her claws and had reached inside to seize Chestra's heart.
Jaden had massaged, rubbed and breathed hot air on Chestra's frozen heart until
it had thawed and began beating again.
Chestra had suffered no permanent damage, but Diamonique was almost not as
lucky. Chestra had convinced a reluctant Jaden to reverse her Glass Freeze
attack on Diamonique because Chestra had taken pity on Diamonique for that one
and only time in her life (she was never merciful towards Diamonique after
that). When Diamonique had been unfrozen, she had tried to attack Chestra
again, but Jaden had cuffed the ice maiden and warned her that her next attempt
on Chestra's life would be her last. Diamonique despised Jaden almost as much
as she did Chestra, but she feared Jaden too much to defy her. (Jaden was and
still was five times more powerful than Diamonique could ever hope to be, and
Diamonique knew it.) Diamonique had never attempted to kill Chestra again,
although she tried to snub and cause trouble for her whenever she could.
Chestra trusted only Zarbon, Jaden and the technician, Skale; she
was cordial to everyone else, but suspicious of them, like any good minion under
Frieza should be. Jaden only trusted Chestra and Skale, was friendly with
Zarbon, but distrustful of everyone else. Jaden and Chestra were best friends,
and they trusted each other with their lives. It was rare-and dangerous-to have
a good, strong friendship under Frieza because your best friend today could
become your worst enemy tomorrow. Frieza liked to play favorites with his Elite
crewmembers, and sometimes he even liked to play them against each other.
Frieza truly did not like too many of his minions forming strong bonds because
he feared that a strong friendship between powerful fighters would become
dangerous to him. Firm alliances between strong warriors could lead to
rebellions against Frieza.
Chapter Thirty: Frieza's Elite Soldiers
Four years later. Lord Frieza's mother ship. Lord Frieza's meeting room.
Frieza was holding a meeting of his Top Elite officers. The Top
Elite officers hated these meetings because they could sometimes drag on for
hours, sometimes late at night when they badly needed their sleep for their
assignments. Frieza was drumming his fingers on the mahogany conference table,
as the Top Elite officers were desperately trying to hide their boredom and
frustration. They could be off beating someone up or clearing a planet.
Instead, they had to hear Frieza talk unceasingly about finances, new planets
and various other topics that they were already well informed on. Captain Ginyu,
who ran his own small elite force in Frieza's army, was also Frieza's first
cousin on King Cold's side of the family. Captain Ginyu was one of Frieza's
best men, even though all of the other Top Elite officers thought that he only
received his position because of his relationship to Frieza and King Cold and
not on his own merits. None of them doubted Captain Ginyu's ability as a fine
warrior, but they thought that nepotism had played a part in the Captain's
promotion and his being allowed to have his own force of warriors. Sitting near
Captain Ginyu were Reccoom, Jeice, and Baata, the only men that had passed the
"rigorous" tests needed to get into the Ginyu Force. These tests involved being
able to have unique and stylistic fighting poses, as well as superb fighting
abilities. A warrior had to be extraordinary strong to get into Ginyu's Force,
but he or she also had to have style and flair in his or her poses as well. If
a warrior's pre-battle poses were not up to Ginyu's satisfaction, Ginyu would
automatically disqualify him or her from auditioning for his Force any further,
no matter how excellent a fighter he or she was.
Captain Ginyu had been willing to make an exception in Balair's
case, because Balair's power level and fighting abilities were on the same par
with his. Captain Ginyu had thought that Balair had no posing style, but
because of Balair's unique ability as a Sistrai warrior to be able to vaporize
and liquefy himself, he had been willing to have Balair on his force. Balair
had refused to join the Ginyu force; he preferred to work alone, or with
Dodoria, his closest buddy. Balair had secretly thought that the Ginyu Force
were a bunch of pansies who wasted too much time in their stupid poses when they
should be worrying about destroying their opponents.
Eight-feet tall Balair loved fighting, alcohol, and young women of
any compatible species-in that order. He was as proud of his ability to "drink
anyone under the table" and his sexual prowess, as well as his superb fighting
ability. Even when he did not liquefy or vaporize himself, he was still an
above-average warrior, strong as the strongest Saiyan or Astorian, if not
stronger. And the Saiyans and the Astorians could not vaporize or liquefy
himself, like he could.
Balair was a vicious and merciless fighter, more ruthless than even
a Saiyan. He was cruel to those he conquered, and he enjoyed dragging out their
deaths to make them as painful as possible. When he was done toying with them,
he would then either kill them by hand or vaporize himself to enter their lungs
and cause them to explode. He treated the female victims worse than he did the
men, half of the time raping them or torturing them before he killed them. The
prettier, more submissive ones he kept alive for a few days as his own
concubines, but then he would quickly grow bored with them or angered with them
when they resisted him. Most of his people, the Sistrai warriors
from planet Sistra were like that. Sistra was one of Frieza's allies, and the
King of Sistra had recommended Balair to Frieza. Balair had passed his final
evaluation easily, and he had quickly been promoted into Top Elite after he had
passed. That had been twenty years ago and Frieza still considered Balair a
great asset to him. He had many plans yet for the cold-hearted Sistrai warrior.
Like almost all Sistrai males, Balair was chauvinistic and
misogynistic, believing that women were nothing more than playthings and chattel
for men. The Sistrai men treated their own women just as badly, and the males
maintained a rule that if a Sistrai warrior killed another male, the killer
would receive all of his victim's goods, including any mates or concubines
automatically. The Sistrai men usually fought over each other's women, and only
the strongest men were able to hold onto to their mates. There were only two
Sistrai women born for every ten Sistrai men, and only half of them lived to
puberty, when the strongest Sistrai males would automatically take them for
mates. Balair loved mating with young, beautiful females of various species,
and the more scared and submissive they were, the better he liked them; he did
not like his women to try to take control or fight him back. He liked to be
totally in control, with his partner of the moment completely meek and obedient
to his commands and desires.
Balair also loved to drink any kind of alcohol, and alcohol made him
stronger instead of weaker because alcohol improved a Sistrai warrior's fighting
prowess, when he drank the right amount without becoming drunk. On the
occasions that he managed to get drunk, his power and attitude increased five
times as much and everyone around him stayed out of his way until his power once
again decreased. He was a bully, and like his comrade, Dodoria, he enjoyed
picking on anyone weaker than he was. He would have given the Top Elite women a
hard time, but they were more than able to hold their own with him, and after a
while, he had learned to leave them alone, especially Jaden, the strongest
female fighter in Frieza's forces. He considered Jaden too ugly to bother with
anyway.
Jaden was certainly no beauty, but her fighting prowess more than
made up for her looks. She was a seven-feet-seven-inches tall, navy blue
lizard-like creature with small bright yellow eyes that glowed in the dark and
two powerful, flexible tails that were unusually agile for their thickness. She
could use these tails to crush and squeeze almost any opponent by using either
one or both of those appendages. She also was large and muscular, with
powerful, gigantic feet with seven toes apiece. Jaden also possessed the
ability to shape-shift, like all of her people from planet Ryban; she could
shape her body into the form of any living creature or inanimate object. She
could also stretch her limbs and other body parts, as if they were made of
rubber. Although she knew various ki attacks, she could kill most of the
strongest opponents with just one punch or kick, and she possessed one
particularly deadly move called the Glass Freeze, which she could use to freeze
many of her weaker opponents into glass just by using eye lasers, and then she
would shatter the glass, effectively killing the opponent. She also had an
attack called the Sonic Scream, which could break the sound barrier-and anyone's
bones with a high C note. Her razor-sharp claws were also useful, for they
could easily shred the strongest metals known to any creature.
Jaden's advance fifteen years ago into the Top Elite was still
considered miraculous because she had once started out as an "involuntary
recruit", the lowest form of life in the hierarchy of Frieza's forces. Jaden
had been forced to join Frieza's fighters when she had only been twelve years
old. Frieza had Jaden's family's ship captured, and he had only spared Jaden
and her small family. Frieza had threatened to kill Jaden's cold, distant
father and two brothers, if Jaden did not agree to fight for him and pledge
loyalty to him. Jaden had surpassed all of Frieza's expectations and passed her
final evaluation under Zarbon and Dodoria, but Frieza had gone back on his
promise to spare them and killed Jaden's family anyway. Jaden had never once
approached or confronted Frieza for backstabbing her, but she hated him for it
anyway. Jaden hated Frieza with a passion, and Frieza knew it. Nevertheless,
he allowed Jaden to remain in Top Elite because she had never tried to overthrow
him, and he knew that he could keep her under control. He made a special note
long time ago to always keep his most useful and most defiant fighters near him
whenever possible. Frieza embraced the motto: "Keep your friends close, but
your enemies closer."
Jaden had originally been a Mid-Elite officer until Sagash, her
cruel, heinous trainer, had tried to rape her for the third time. Sagash had
been the only male ever to desire Jaden as a woman, but that had made no
difference to her. Jaden had enough, and after a brutal battle, she had turned
Sagash into glass and shattered him into pieces just as Frieza found them.
Since Frieza had been planning to have Sagash eliminated anyway
because of Sagash's latest failures, and he had liked Jaden's style of killing
Sagash, Frieza did not punish Jaden for her actions, as Jaden had expected he
would. Instead, he gave her Sagash's Top Elite Position, which earned Jaden the
eternal hatred of Balair and Dodoria, Sagash's closest friends. They both had
hazed Jaden and gave her a hard time because of that and her being a woman.
Jaden had been able to hold her own with both of them, and after a while, they
both learned that it was far safer not to torment her, even though they were as
strong as she was, if not stronger.
Jaden was a no-nonsense fighter who did not believe in wasting time
in combat. She killed her opponents as quickly as she possibly could, without
wasting precious time. She was also one of Frieza's best trainers, and she was
a no-nonsense teacher as well, tolerating no disorderly conduct or messing
around. She was a woman of few words, and she never minced the few words she
spoke or beat around the bush. Although she was not a lesbian, she had no
interest in men of any species. Jaden was basically a loner who never allowed
herself to get involved in the politics and gossip of Frieza's Elite, and she
had only had a couple of people that she could actually call friends: Skale, a
Mid-Elite Technical Officer, and Chestra, one of the newest members to be
inducted into Top Elite. She, Chestra, and Diamonique were the only current
female Top Elite fighters. All three women were the strongest, most skilled
warriors who each had special attacks to accompany their hand-to-hand combat
skills.
Chestra was an unknown hybrid alien from an unknown planet. She had
a four feet-seven-inches humanoid body with a white panther-like face with
large, lovely jade-green eyes and hair that was parted in half, one side
ruby-red and the other side emerald-green. She was considered to be the second
strongest female fighter of Frieza's forces, as well as the most beautiful one.
Chestra possessed the unique ability to turn her nerve endings on and off like a
light switch, so that she could feel nothing, not even the lightest touch. She
also had one special attack where she used eye lasers to blast an opponent's
brain, which would upset his or her entire nervous system, causing any further
pain to be felt ten times greater than it should be. She also had phenomenal,
superb telekinetic abilities that were strong enough to easily move small
planets, moons, or asteroids. She always carried a couple of shiatars with her,
small dagger-like knives that she could use for almost any purpose. She could
cut someone's throat faster than they could say "Ouch." Chestra was a ruthless
and cunning warrior, but not cruel.
At times, she showed mercy when she thought that she could afford
to, which was rare. She had a soft spot for children, her best friend, Jaden,
and her new mate, Zarbon.
Zarbon had been Chestra's trainer when Frieza had bought Chestra
from the Triumvirate of planet Egimari. The Triumvirate had sentenced Chestra
to death in a fighting match with a fierce dragon because Chestra had fought off
the advances of one the Triumvirate members. Chestra had been fighting off
men's advances ever since she had been twelve years old, and she had been a
slave since she was a baby. Chestra had nearly killed her last molester, the
Triumvirate member, Egron, and for this she was sentenced to a cruel death. But
Chestra had defeated the vicious dragon, and Frieza had been so impressed with
her performance that he had bought her from her Egimari masters.
Chestra had been Zarbon's prize pupil, and they had fallen in love
with each other, but they did not act on their feelings in front of everyone
until after Chestra had passed her final evaluation which included having to fight Zarbon and Dodoria and lasting for more than an hour doing so. Frieza had also fallen in love with
Chestra, but as a rare act of goodwill, he allowed Zarbon to have her for his
mate. Frieza's father, King Cold, had also been interested in Chestra as a
potential mate at one time. Chestra and Zarbon were extremely devoted to each
other, and they were the happiest couple under Frieza.
Chestra was one of the kindest fighters under Frieza, and like
Jaden, she never allowed herself to get involved in the politics or gossip of
Frieza's elite. She was cordial to everyone, even to Balair and Diamonique,
both whom she despised. She was firm and strict with the lower-level fighters,
but she was never cruel to them, and she knew how to motivate them without being
brutal or cruel. And at times, she showed acts of kindness towards those
beneath her, such as allowing them extra privileges or helping them with their
small problems. She used a system of rewards and punishments to train those
under her, and so far it seemed to be working.
Diamonique was a beautiful young woman who was five-feet, nine
inches tall and one year older than Chestra. She had ice-blue hair streaked
with silver, peaches-and-ice skin with blue diamond fingernails and toenails and
black diamond eyes. She was vain and proud of her flawless looks as well as her
extraordinary fighting ability. She was a Gemstarian warrior from the planet
Gemstar. Like most Gemstarians, she was able to freeze anything and anyone and
turn them into diamond statues, using finger or eye lasers. She could also zap
someone's vital organs and freeze them until they stopped working, causing the
victim to die a slow, horrible death. She was able to shoot her nails out from
her hands like darts, and these nails were tainted naturally with one of the
deadliest poisons in the universe. When she wasn't using her nails, she could
retract them like a cat retracting its claws. Her nails were so sharp that she
could rip out someone's vital body organs as easily as if she were ripping a
paper-covered package open. And she was also able to create instant blizzards
or hail storms, which usually put most enemies at a further disadvantage.
Diamonique had competed in one of Frieza's bi-annual tournaments
that he held on his father's home planet called Ice, and she had won herself a
position as one of Frieza's Mid-Elite officers. Later she competed in another
of Frieza's tournaments, and she barely won herself a position in Top Elite.
She was hailed to be the third strongest female fighter of Frieza's
forces, but she wanted to become as strong as Chestra, whom she greatly despised
more than anyone else in Frieza's Elite. Chestra was more liked and respected
than the sultry, sulky Diamonique, and she had Zarbon, whom Diamonique had
wanted for herself, as a mate. And Chestra had been promoted quickly from
Mid-Elite to Top Elite while Diamonique had made it into Top Elite only by the
skin of her teeth. Her jealousy towards Chestra was deadly.
Diamonique had tried to kill Chestra twice. She had tried to kill
Chestra with her deadly nails while Chestra had been sleeping on a planet that
they were raiding together, but Chestra's mysterious body chemistry had been
resistant to Diamonique's poisonous nails. (She was the only one who had ever
survived those deadly nails, other than Jaden, who was descended from one of the
only three races in the universe known to be naturally immune to Diamonique's
type of poison. The Astorians and the Saiyans were the only ones other than the
Rybanese who had a natural resistance to Diamonique's potent poison. The
Rybanese, Astorians, and the Saiyans had body chemistries that were resistant to
most of the universe's poisons and illnesses. )
Diamonique's second attempt on Chestra's life would have been
successful, if Jaden had not intervened that day. Diamonique had followed
Chestra to Zarbon's room after Chestra had successfully passed her final
evaluation, and she had watched with anger and envy through a spy camera, as
Chestra and Zarbon made love. Two days later, a jealous Diamonique had
frozen Chestra's heart while they were on their second assignment together
clearing a planet.
Fortunately, for Chestra, Jaden had followed them both to that planet
and had used a Glass Freeze attack on Diamonique. She had ripped open the dying
Chestra's chest with her claws and had reached inside to seize Chestra's heart.
Jaden had massaged, rubbed and breathed hot air on Chestra's frozen heart until
it had thawed and began beating again.
Chestra had suffered no permanent damage, but Diamonique was almost not as
lucky. Chestra had convinced a reluctant Jaden to reverse her Glass Freeze
attack on Diamonique because Chestra had taken pity on Diamonique for that one
and only time in her life (she was never merciful towards Diamonique after
that). When Diamonique had been unfrozen, she had tried to attack Chestra
again, but Jaden had cuffed the ice maiden and warned her that her next attempt
on Chestra's life would be her last. Diamonique despised Jaden almost as much
as she did Chestra, but she feared Jaden too much to defy her. (Jaden was and
still was five times more powerful than Diamonique could ever hope to be, and
Diamonique knew it.) Diamonique had never attempted to kill Chestra again,
although she tried to snub and cause trouble for her whenever she could.
Chestra trusted only Zarbon, Jaden and the technician, Skale; she
was cordial to everyone else, but suspicious of them, like any good minion under
Frieza should be. Jaden only trusted Chestra and Skale, was friendly with
Zarbon, but distrustful of everyone else. Jaden and Chestra were best friends,
and they trusted each other with their lives. It was rare-and dangerous-to have
a good, strong friendship under Frieza because your best friend today could
become your worst enemy tomorrow. Frieza liked to play favorites with his Elite
crewmembers, and sometimes he even liked to play them against each other.
Frieza truly did not like too many of his minions forming strong bonds because
he feared that a strong friendship between powerful fighters would become
dangerous to him. Firm alliances between strong warriors could lead to
rebellions against Frieza.
