"No! I can't be! It's just not possible!" Bra kept repeating to herself over and over again, while closing her eyes praying that when she opened them she'd be anywhere, but back home.
"Damnit!" Bra cursed every time she reopened her eyes and found herself in the last place on earth she ever wanted to return to.
"Okay so this is a very realistic dream. No big deal I'll play along." Bra said to herself a she threw the bed covers off herself and got out of bed.
"Ah!" Bra shrieked as her body gave way and she fell to the floor hard.
"Wait a minute. You're not supposed to feel pain or anything in a dream." Bra began worrying the second she felt the pain of the fall thru her body and the coldness of the marble floor on her hands and body.
"That means…" Bra began, but didn't dare continue for fear of admitting she possibly wasn't dreaming. The princess would rather stay in denial, but she knew she had to figure out what was going out for herself.
Once she'd gathered enough strength to get up, Bra ran to the door, threw it open and froze dead in her tracks when she saw the same knights that had guarded her room since she was five.
Not addressing their bows of welcoming or their question on her health Bra took off down the hall straight to her father's chamber. Bra was about to walk in without knocking since she could get away with it when an unmistakable voice coming from inside stopped her.
"Omg. 17!" Bra whispered, as she couldn't help panicking.
"Oh no! He was going to help me avoiding being forced to come back here. I heard him one night swearing never to bring be back." Bra whispered out loud recalling one of the nights she had been ill.
She had temporarily regained conscious and overheard 17 declaring he couldn't complete his mission. That after realizing how miserable Bra's life had been as a princess he wouldn't condemn her back to that hellhole.
"Oh no they must of found us and arrested 17 for conspiring with me and now daddy's cursing him out before having him executed!" Bra gasped determined to run in there and pull a Pocahontas to save him, when her fathers voice stopped her.
"Here you are 17, the rest of your 55 million dollar payment as promised with my gratitude for bringing home my daughter." King Vegeta said from inside the room.
"That traitor!" Bra gasped stepping away from the door in pure anger. The princess had never been so furious in her life. Being forced to live in captivity and being forced to marry Goten didn't compare the fury that was raging inside her at that very moment.
"How could I have been so stupid?" Bra asked cursing herself forever believing 17 could have a soul or any sort of compassion and actually mean it when he said he wouldn't take her back home.
Millions of thoughts of revenge speed a million miles per hour in Bra's head. The princess wanted nothing less than destroying his life. Killing him would be to fast and easy, she wanted to ruin his life.
"I'll make 17 regret the day he ever became a bounty hunter and crossed path with the one and only Saiyan Princess." Bra smirked walking down the hall with her head held high to her mother's room.
"Bra!" Queen Bulma exclaimed rushing over to her daughter and hugging her tightly.
"I'm so glad you've final woken and are safely back home where we can protect you." Bulma practically cried still hugging the princess.
"How long would it take you and the royal staff to organize and throw a wedding?" Bra asked not returning the hug.
"Huh? What?" Bulma pulled away to look at her daughter's face curious why on earth that question would be the first thing Bra said to her own mother after being away for so long.
"Why do you ask such a thing? Are you still running a fever?" Bulma asked concerned trying to feel Bra's forehead.
"A less extravagant wedding then last time. How long would that take?" Bra made her question clearer as she brushed her mothers hand away from her face.
"Umm. Two weeks at the most." Bulma answered, but before she could interrogate or examine her, Bra made a shocking announcement.
"Then commence the preparations immediately, for I will marry Goten in two weeks." Bra recited unemotional before leaving her stunned mother and return to her room.
One might ask why Princess Bra would do the one thing she worked so hard to avoid. The answer is quiet simple. Completely obvious if you understood the way the corrupt world worked, and Bra had lived long enough to know how it did.
To make 17's live a living hell like she desperately wanted to Bra would need unrivaled power over everything and everyone. To get the unrivaled power Bra would have to become Queen.
Authors Note- Looks like Bra's finally bought into that saying "Forget Princess. I want to be Queen."