CHAPTER TWO

            Minsa led ChiChi and Bulma into a silent room, filled with clothes.

            "You can just pick something out, and then I'll take you to a private bath room. By the way, what are your names?"

            "I'm Bulma Briefs." Bulma said, trying to sound braver then she felt.

            "Son ChiChi." ChiChi said quietly.

            "Ok, I'm Minsa, though I'm sure you probably already know that. Don't worry anyway, Bulma, ChiChi. I won't let anything happen to you for now."

            Bulma raised an eyebrow.

            "What could happen?"

            "Well sometimes the Saiyans do get a little rowdy...." Minsa answered trailing off. "But you should really pick something out to wear anyway. Those clothes are filty and ruined."       

            Bulma looked down at herself, and sure enough her jeans were brown with tears in both the knees, and her white t-shirt was now green.     ChiChi didn't look much better.

            Minsa walked over to a rack and held up a tight fitting long  dark blue dress with no sleeves.

            "This would look good  on you Bulma, bring out the color of your eyes."

            Bulma shrugged and took the dress not really caring.

            Minsa held up the same dress, in a dark olive color.

            "This one will do for you ChiChi."

            ChiChi took the dress too, and Minsa led them out of the room.

            "What's it like living with Saiyans?" Bulma asked.

            Minsa shrugged.

            "Just depends on which one's you get to know. Though none of them are overly friendly. The Prince, can be one of most grouchiest, worst tempered living things on this planet, that will blow your head off in a second if you annoy him, however if you get to know him well enough, he's not really that bad. Commandor Bardock is a good fighter, I don't know him too well, but I know he's not as bad as his jackass son Raditz."      

            Bulma realized that Minsa wasn't trying to comfort them, just giving them the truth about their new life.

            She led them to a vacant room with a bath as big as a pool, filled with hot steamy water.           

            Bulma's mouth dropped open.

            "Nice, isn't it? It's my private chamber."

            Bulma nodded.

            "I cannot leave you unattended." Minsa said apolgetic.

            Bulma nodded, as she got into the tub, and then peeled her clothes off, ChiChi did the same.

            "Do you know what will happen to Goku and Gohan?" ChiChi asked.

            Minsa sat silently for a moment.

            "There are many possiblitites. Kakarott, could be trained as a soldier, or the King could just lock him away not wanting anyone to see his mistake. If Nappa gets his way, they'll probably just be thrown into arena, him being so damn greedy."

            "What's the Arena?" Bulma asked.

            "It's a place where people go to fight, or they can have their slaves fight in their name. However they fight to the death, over  a bit of money."

            "To the death?!" ChiChi's voice came shrill.

            Minsa nodded.

            Suddenly there was a knock at the door, Minsa stood frowning.

            "Yes?" she said, opening the door just enough to see who was out there.

            A frazzled looking guard stood before her.

            "Prince Vegeta is demanding for you." he said, praying that she wasn't going to be stubborn.

            "I can't come right now. I'm doing a job for the King."

            "Pleae... Lady Minsa. He's throwing a fit!" the guard pleaded with her. 

            Minsa crossed her arms.

            "Tell him I'll be there in ten minutes."

            The guard looked terrified to have to go back and deal with the Prince, but he nodded, and hurred down the hall.

            Minsa talked to herself under her breath, walking back to ChiChi and Bulma.

            "We have to hurry, unless you want the Prince to come down here and blow everything up in sight."

            Bulma and ChiChi obliged and began to dress.

            "If you're not Saiyan... then what are you?" Bulma asked tentavily.

            Minsa's features hardened, and she looked down, green hair covering her face.

            "It doesn't matter.My planet was destroyed when I was very young."

            "I'm sorry." ChiChi said quietly.

            Minsa shook her head, and led them out of the room, to start their new life.

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            Vegeta scowled as Minsa came into the room, still holding Bulma by the hand. Bulma felt petrified.         Minsa walked in front of the Prince.

            "You asked for me my Prince?" Minsa asked.

            Vegeta's scowl deepened.

            "Where have you been?"

            "I told you, I had to get your 'slave' ready."

            Vegeta's teeth clenched. Minsa was really going to rub this in. He looked past her to see the frightened blue haired female. He was surprised for a moment. She looked as though she could be a Saiyan or one of Minsa's species. She was trembling violently.

            "What's your name?" he barked at her.

            "Bulma Briefs." she muttered quietly.

            "How old are you?" he asked, interrogating her.

            "Sixteen." she mumbled.

            Vegeta nodded, and then told Minsa to put her in his slave quarters. Minsa smirked. He didn't really have any slave quarters. Bulma would be sharing a room with her.

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            ChiChi sat, trying not to cry in the dimly lit room. She was terrified. Minsa had to leave her in this room all alone, and took Bulma with her. ChiChi wanted nothing more then to be back on Earth with Goku and Gohan at the moment. She would give almost anything to have her wish. She didn't know what she and her family had done to deserve such an awful fate. ChiChi closed her eyes and bit her lower lip again. Just thinking of Goku and how he would give her that goofy smile made her want to disolve into tears.

            Her head snapped up as she heard the door creak open.

            'Oh Kami. Give me strength.' she thought, frightened.

            Bardock walked into the room, not taking notice of her at first.

            ChiChi huddled closer to the chair, as though trying to make herself disappear.

            Bardock then glanced over at her, but didn't say anything. ChiChi wanted to scream at him.

            'Why am I here?' she wondered in a back part  of her mind that wasn't frightened hysterically.

            Bardock didn't say anything to her all night, but acknowledged her by setting a plate of odd looking food in front of her. She stared at it, but didn't touch it.

            "I didn't poison it, you know."

            ChiChi was startled by Bardock's gruff voice.

            "I'm not hungry." she said so quietly, it was almost inaudible.

            "You will be, then what will you do?" Bardock asked.

            "Wither away and die." ChiChi said even quieter.

            "Stop being so damn melodramatic and eat."

            "Not until you tell me why you took me!" ChiChi yelled, her voice returned to it's normal shriek.

            "Because you wouldn't have been safe with another man." he said as though stating the obvious.

            "And I'm safe with you?" ChiChi said sarcastically.

            "You listen here you damn woman! If someone else took you they'd rape you and you'd be dead by tomorrow morning! I'm willing to protect you from that so show some damn gratitude."

            ChiChi shrank back.

            "Rape me? What about Bulma?!"

            Bardock snorted.

            "There's no was in hell that the Prince will even stay in the same room as her."

            ChiChi didn't say anything, but began to pick at the food on her plate.

            When they were done, Bardock got up, and showed her another room.

            "This one will be yours. If you need any clothes or anything like that go see Lady Minsa."

            ChiChi nodded, and as Bardock walked out she whispered something very softly.

            "Thanks for protecting me."

                                                Author's Note: You'll have to excuse me if Bardock is OOC. I've never seen the Bardock special so I wouldn't know how he's supposed to act. So the whole time Bardock was doing this just to protect ChiChi. Now we'll have to wonder how Bulma and her new 'owner' will get along. (Hmm... it is a B/V fic... so that's a real toughie.)
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