Discrimination
16: Not all is as it seems
by Silent Shadow
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A/N: Yeah new chapter! Yes my friends- I know how evil I was to leave you off with that cliffhanger and make you wait two weeks- but I hope this chapter makes up for it. Not too much humor in this chapter though. More of a seriousness.
"Execution?" Marron said confused, scared sightless.
"Correct. His highness soon-to-be-king Trunks wants all the filth to be gone."
"Trunks?" Marron said shocked, "Filth?"
"That's what we said. About time, too. You Son's get twice the punishment for humiliating the royal family and making us deal with your son as is he was an equal."
"Did Trunks say this from his own mouth," Goten said angrily. The guards shifted uncomfortably.
"No… the Queen Maron told us it his wish. The actual Prince Trunks was too busy."
"I though as much," Chi-Chi said angrily, "She doesn't want to kill us just because we are halves. She knows we know."
'Know? What's going on?' Marron thought backing away from the guards.
"It doesn't matter why. All it matters is that we do our job is done," they said huffily and reached out to grab Marron but Goten stopped him by punching his face.
"Leave her alone. She isn't a half saiyan," Goten said angrily stepping between Marron and the guards.
"It doesn't matter. We can't let this leak out. All must be destroyed. Including this little human."
"That is if you can get pass us," Goku said angrily powering up.
"Let's hurry up and get this over with," the guard said and began to reach after Marron again but was countered by Goku. Immediately there was chaos. The guards all began to fight and Goten and Goku retaliated.
"Goten!" Chi-Chi said as she threw a saiyan off from Goten's back, "Go to Gohan's hiding place. Tell him that we are no longer going to hide Bulma's secret!"
"What secret?" Goten asked just as confused.
"Just do it son!" Goku said as he elbowed a saiyan in his chest. Goten reluctantly took off with two saiyans after him. Marron knew he probably could take them out easily, her on the other hand…
"Marron run," Goku ordered her, "Go to the wedding and stop it!"
"But-"
"GO!"
Marron nodded and ran away as fast as she could. Two other guards went after her but Goku punched them away.
Marron was almost out of breath as the scenery blurred around her, when she came to a dead end.
"Oh no," she groaned. She was at the edge of a steep cliff and from the looks of there was no way down. She looked around and there was no path to go down for miles.
"Looks like the only way you can go is down," said a masculine voice smirking. She whirled around and saw a burly saiyan guard grinning like a cat.
"Yeah… well," she couldn't think of anything to say. Then she noticed the lust in his eyes.
"Listen. I'll let you live if you ah…" he whispered something in his ear. Marron turned red then slapped him. He angrily went to punch her.
"Filthy human!" he snarled but Marron grabbed his arm at his wrist, twisted it until it was broken then grabbed his tail, "How about you let me live and I throw you off the cliff?"
She threw him off the cliff and he was in too much pain to try and fly so he fell. She dusted her hands off, "Not to bad for a 'filthy human'."
However her little victory was short lived when she remembered where she had to go. "He's right. The only way to go is down unless I fly out of here. But I can't fly."
She looked down at the drop and gulped. "No way I can fly over this. I just can't do it!"
'You've got to,' she argued to herself, 'Even dying would be better then living without Trunks.'
"I CAN'T FLY!" she screamed to herself.
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The humans were no longer slaves for the first day. The three year old Marron celebrated with her parents this day- right after she saw the eight year old Trunks (remember the prologue).
"Mommy why were you mean to the other people?" little Marron asked her mother.
"The Sons? Because… they. You'll understand later," 18 said looking away slightly ashamed at her own actions.
"Yo human," said a beefy saiyan, the one her mom insulted beforehand. This time he was with his friends, "Remember me?"
"Strange," 18 said eyeing the others, "You seem a lot more courageous when others around you. Yet when you are alone you lack the galls to fight."
"Enough with your insults," he growled, "It's time to make you pay for what you said."
"Bring it on."
She was immediately surrounded by drunken saiyans who were punching and kicking with all their might. 18 did the best she could without hurting Marron but it was hard. Finally one saiyan got one good kick at 18's elbow.
18 screamed and accidentally let go of Marron, and the three-year-old blond began to fall.
"Marron!" 18 dived to save her but the saiyans held her back.
"Mommy!" she screamed in terror as she hurtled to the ground so fast that the wind hurt her as it beat against her face.
No one came to save her, they were all preoccupied leaving little Marron crying in fear, coming inches away from splattering all over the ground…
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"…I just can't," she whispered again in fear as the flashback played over and over again in her head. She stepped away from the edge.
'But you have too…' she began to argue with herself again, 'You can't keep being afraid.'
"I WON'T! If I do I'll fall and die…"
"If you live without love, then you will become dead."
Marron was silent, "But, how do I fly?"
She remembered the training lesson Trunks gave Bra during the study sessions. It was a flying lesson…
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"Remember Bra. Concentrate all you energy. Feel your energy deep within you. Then grab ahold of it and try to control it. Then slowly release it the way you want to. Think… you can do it. Just flow with your energy," he said encouragingly.
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"Fine… I'll try," she said then began to meditate, she felt a slight power inside her.
"Well… here goes nothing," she said and began to run full speed towards the cliff and jumped. And for a minute-she was flying.
But after that minute was gone she began to fall, this time there was no one to save her. She quickly speeded towards the rocks at the bottom.
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At the wedding, everyone cheered at his words, "I do." Only the priest, Dende heard the other word he muttered. As soon as the cheers died down he asked,
"What?"
"I said. I do… not," he said firmly and yanked his hand away from Ali's, "I wont marry her."
The whole crowd went silent.
"I KNEW IT! TRUNKS LOVES ME!" said a voice in the crowd Whom Tunks guessed was the tailor. Soon the whole crowd began to murmur with wild suspicions and rumors.
"What are you saying Trunks," Queen Maron said trying to sound nice, but instead sounded quite scared, "You mean you want to wait a few more days before marrying. I guess that's understandable. Just a few more days."
"No. I don't love Ali. I will never marry her."
"Why don't you love her? She's beautiful, and nice," she said trying to convince him.
"I love someone else," he said.
"Who? Who is it?"
"… Marron."
"The human girl you danced with?" she said her eyes widening. He nodded.
"YOU FILTHY, FILTHY BOY!" Marron said full of range, "I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER!"
"?"
"All of you are all the same. No one can change you to become better."
"All of… us?"
"I tried to pretend you were normal but I can't anymore. You are just like your mother."
"My… what? But I thought," he said confused.
"I would die in shame if you were my child. No you are a spawn of a human," she said ranting, "YOU ARE A DEMI HUMAN!" she screamed.
The whole crowd was silent in shock. All they could do is stare.
"AND YOU!" Maron spun around pointing to Bulma, "Are his disgusting mother."
Trunks looked at Bulma in a daze, "Mother?" Bulma looked at him back in a way that confirmed what Maron said.
'It's so weird… but it makes sense,' Trunks thought, 'That's why Bulma and I feel so close and why I always have a weird feeling about her. It explains why Bra is so attached to her and why she sometimes looks after us. And why father married Maron- he never liked her. She just looks sort of like Bulma. Except Maron is more fake and Bulma is prettier. Why didn't I think of this before?'
The crowd began to buzz again, this time with anger.
"I should have done this a long time ago," Maron said angrily looking at Bulma, "The only way a human could corrupted such a fine king like Vegeta is witchcraft! I will make you suffer for my- er- HIS humiliation! Guards!"
The guards stood at attention.
"Kill her…"
"NO!" Trunks and Bra said together and the guards stopped.
"Too bad you didn't marry Ali, Trunks," Maron said smirking, "Or you could have stopped this since you would have been king. But you-you dirty hybrid are still prince. And I, I am queen. So therefore I am more powerful then you."
The guards took this in consideration and decided she was right and began to advance on the helpless Bulma.
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A/N: BUM BUM BUM BUM! The saga continues. I wasn't going to make this a cliffhanger- but I saw the opportunity and I just couldn't help it! Anyways the ending is soon- either next chapter or the chapter after that. If 1 then expect one looonnggggg chapter. If not then expect two shot chapters. Well got to run. Peace!
