~*~When Royalty Fails~*~
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When Royalty Fails. Chapter three.
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If there's one thing I could change about today's working conditions I'd make it a cloudy day, that way I don't have to feel Vegeta-sei's two suns drying me up into a crispy flake. I wouldn't call our planet the best looking, but it does have nice spots here and there. I guess our planet can be described as a barren wasteland, with many oasis scattered all over. Although the planet might not be all that, I wouldn't trade it for anything, we have so much history on our ancestors here. In the beginning of this planet there were two species, a week yet intelligent race, and the primitive original Saiyijins. They went to war and the Saiyijins were losing against their advanced weapons and technology. In the end though, the Saiyijins won by transforming into Oozaro (Sorry don't know how to spell It.) form at the sight of the full moon, and destroyed the other race; thus the formation of a new era of Planet Vegeta.
"MID-DAY BREAK TIME!" I hear my niece shout from the ground, snapping me out of my information-giving mood and into hungry/thirsty man mode. Boy do I love Mid-day breaks, especially when they are accompanied by good food! I quickly climb down from my rope supported stand and make my way to the growing line of people waiting for their turn to get some water from the water maidens. There are four water maidens in all, and about 100 men in our section so.um.that means that.hold on.100 divided by 4.2, bring down the 8, 8 minus 10 is 2.bring down the zero, makes twenty.four to get into 20 is.5.so that means that there will be about 25 men for each water girl! Woo-who, I did it! And then it hits me: I'm stuck here till they're all finished. Damn.
"Hey there little bro. Why so glum?" I hear my brother ask, I guess he noticed my shoulders slump and my head drop down to look at my toes.
"Just look at that line, by the time we get our fill in water it will be time to go back to work, then we won't get anything to eat." I say to him in a sad tone, and see his face turn to look at me in understanding. My Brother is turning 32 this year, which will put him in the category of post- prime years.basically what that means is that he's not a teenager anymore but he's still not at his peak of man-hood-ness. He is 9 ½ years older than I am, so we're pretty close to each other.but not as close as my niece, Pan (his daughter) and I.
"You know, your not counting the fact that three of the water maidens are family, therefore.we get more privileges than everyone else." I hear my brother say in a sneaky tone that makes me smirk, one thing is for sure, if anyone came out smart like our grandfather it was him.
"And you want to know something else?" Gohan asked just above a whisper as he got closer to me.
"What?" I ask, curiosity getting the best of me.
"There's a rumor that the other water maiden, Lilly, has a bit of a soft spot for you. Pan says that Lilly has been practicing how to approach you." My brother whispers in my ear, drawing the attention of a few that passed by. I could almost sense that my brother was smirking behind me, his eyes gleaming with mischief, what an idiot.but hey, then again so am I. ^-^
"Shut it Gohan. You know that Lilly is one of those, "I'm never going to allow myself to love anyone." Kind of people, there's no way.no how, that she would ever think about getting a mate or a boyfriend for that matter."
"Oh, really.I suppose that's why she's waving frantically at you to go and cut in line while the two Saiyijins in front of her are fighting huh?" My brother says, gaining a dubious look on my behalf. I turn to look her way, just to see if my brother was lying or not.and sure enough, there she is, signaling me to cut in line while two bulky Saiyijins in front of her fought to see who would get the first drink.
So I, naturally never passing up an opportunity like that, went to her as inconspicuous as possible considering my hair is a big give-away. You know; my dad and I look more like twin brothers than father and son.its weird, but then again.my father and grandfather were often mistaken for twins also when they were younger. Must run in the family or something. My uncle radditz looks kind of like my grandfather, if it weren't for his long hair that is.
"Its about time you got here. How's stone cutter's shift this week?" I hear Lilly ask me as she lets me dip my entire head in the bucket of water to drink it. Yes, I was that desperate for water.
"Sorry, couldn't believe my ears when Gohan said you were waving at me to come. It seems that every time there's tons of work to do in one area the taskmaster assigns me to it, with a few other unfortunate men. I guess I should stop getting on his nerves, huh?" I say as soon as I drink the whole ten gallons of water in the bucket. She gives me this look that I can't quite name, probably because I've never seen it on her face.was it some thing I said?
"Goten, your going to get yourself killed one of these days. The taskmaster has already sworn to make your life a living hell, and may I add that he is succeeding in that area. Geez Goten, before you know it your going to be hanging on to you life by a thread.laying there at the mercy of the taskmaster's whip." She says to me in a serious tone that was laced in another emotion that I've heard in my mothers voice when she gives me those 'be carful' speeches. I toned out everything else that Lilly was saying, as she rambled on about how I should take more care of myself, when the realization hits me like a ton: Lilly is worried about me. She out of all people, was the one that I thought would never be concerned about anyone but herself, maybe what my brother said was true.maybe.
"Hey you, I was here first!" The bulky guy that had just won the brawl announced for everyone to hear instead of just telling me. He took a swing at me, and I dodged it.needless to say what happened next. Next thing I know, he was going all out, raising his power-level to supposedly surpass mine, while I just ducked and dodged his futile attempts effortlessly. Call it what you want, but the surge that I feel running through my veins when ever I'm in fighting mode is almost like an adrenaline high that is impossible to hold back.so I fight back, and underestimating my strength I give him one good punch in the gut.
'Oh no.' Is the one phrase that passes through my mind as I stand there stupefied at what was going on. I could feel my fist crush and pierce my foe's skin, digging into his warm insides from the momentum behind my punch, blood fell like a stream, cascading down my arm to the elbow where it dripped and pooled before my feet. Then finally, after my foe realized what was happening my fist made it's way deeper, going completely through him as the force behind my punch finally took its toll: Instant Death. All the while this was going on, all I did was stare in the eyes of the enemy before me, while he did the same. Through the silence of looking within each other he sees the turmoil within me and coldly smirks at my weakness, although he is knocking on Death's Door. I could almost see myself, my face twisted in the horror of what I had just done, and my eyes apologetically wiry. I could practically hear him laugh at me and my weakness because of my deformity. Yes I do have a deformity; it runs through my family's veins: We all have feelings, and we detest having to kill someone else. We love and are kind hearted, but no one knows of this. The one person that did find out is now dead, and I was the cause of his demise.
"What the hell have you done!" I hear a familiar voice come from behind inquire loudly.
"I defended myself, master." I answered, hiding my horror at the realization that I had just killed someone as I quickly retracted my fist and arm from the corps that stood from the support, causing it to drop with a lifeless thud at my feet. Causing his own pool of blood to splash upon my now forever marked feet.
"You killed him. You killed Zerbacon (pronounced like the letter "a" in apple.) Overseer of the mud-pit slaves. For this you will pay dearly, you worthless animal." The Taskmaster proclaims, as I hide my fear. I'm as good as dead, because the penalty for just hurting a superior is death.and I just killed one. I quickly turn to face Lilly who just stares at me with.hold on, are those tears!? With tears in her eyes that are threatening to fall down her tanned cheeks. Behind her stands the majority of my family within the crowd that gathered when the fight started. Entwined within the sea of faces I spot my niece who stands alone and secluded from everyone else, I see her tear streaked face and my whole being wants to leap to her and hold her in a never-ending hug. She has never in her entire life cried, and now she's doing it freely with no restraint what so ever. She quickly tares her gaze from mine and runs away just before I feel a familiar painful sting that bombards my entire self with pain.
Through the whole beating session I do nothing but swallow it painfully down. I don't make many noise, for if I do I am giving away my pride that had never been, the pride of a warrior.now I'm sure I'll never live out my dream, I'll be tortured until I die at the hands of the weak taskmaster's whip. So much for the honorable death of a fighter.
The world around me is spinning, pain is no longer unfamiliar to me as the wonderful blackness consumes me, and welcomes me to it's self. Faces blur and my body relaxes, proving useless. Screaming surrounds me and quickly fades just as it came. This is the end of my rode.
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"WHY!?" I scream, my calm demeanor crumbling into nothingness as my father approaches me form behind to comfort me.
"Your uncle's power was just too much for the other, sometimes in a male Saiyijin's life, we can't control our natural urges Pan." My beloved father says; candy coating what just took place as he pulls me into a loving embrace.
"He just killed someone dad." I say, venom lacing my every word as I choke back loud sobs and uncontrolled breathing.
"Yes he did. and so did I, your grandfather and even your great-grandfather when we were around his age, only now the rules of touching your superiors have changed." I hear my father say, my heart leaps in pain and my formally dead tears spring to life at the confession. I tare away from my father and send him my best look of disappointment and shame, right before I take off into the woods behind our land. Everything I ever thought about the men in my family was shattered in a matter of seconds, and I didn't know how to handle it, neither did my body.I guess when things like this happens people cry. This new feeling is so strange to me, to have drops of saltiness stain my cheeks and then drip off into nothingness. To feel so worn that your powerless and helpless altogether.I've never experienced this before; it's so alien to me. I left the scene were my uncle Goten was, as soon as I saw the taskmaster raise his whip. I know what was going to happen next, so I avoided it. It's most probable that the weakling of our overseer will beat my uncle to death, and just that thought sprouts more tears to my red eyes.
"Please make it uncle Goten." I whisper as I envision the scene of him with his wrists tied together and his back bare for all to see as the taskmaster whips him into a bloody pulp.
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Sorry that this chapter is out late, FF.net was having some technical difficulties.
Whoa, talk about drama and angst.I don't think I've ever written anything this dark and painful. Oh well, it will all add up soon enough, just wait and see. Ok, the romance part of the story is soon to come but before that comes up we need to get some background of the character's lives, which is just what I have done.
Ok, this chapter was BIG in the detail department so I expect to see at least 7 reviews for this one chapter, or else I'll stop being descriptive.and believe me you don't want that. Every sentence would be like:
She was sad. She Cried and then went to sleep. The end.
So click on the blue bottom on the bottom left hand corner of the screen and REVIEW!
Next Update: 27-the 1 of September.
This coming Friday I will be in Larado for the weekend, so I'll try to update before that.but I can't promise you anything.
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Over and out, Kioko
This Chapter Is Detected To:
Adbzfan (I sent you an e-mail, hope you read it.)
Thank you for your faithful reviewing!
Special Thanks To:
Adbzfan2k03
Saiyan Princess
Rachel
Katie-nah
Jo-Anna
For Reviewing!
When Royalty Fails. Chapter three.
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If there's one thing I could change about today's working conditions I'd make it a cloudy day, that way I don't have to feel Vegeta-sei's two suns drying me up into a crispy flake. I wouldn't call our planet the best looking, but it does have nice spots here and there. I guess our planet can be described as a barren wasteland, with many oasis scattered all over. Although the planet might not be all that, I wouldn't trade it for anything, we have so much history on our ancestors here. In the beginning of this planet there were two species, a week yet intelligent race, and the primitive original Saiyijins. They went to war and the Saiyijins were losing against their advanced weapons and technology. In the end though, the Saiyijins won by transforming into Oozaro (Sorry don't know how to spell It.) form at the sight of the full moon, and destroyed the other race; thus the formation of a new era of Planet Vegeta.
"MID-DAY BREAK TIME!" I hear my niece shout from the ground, snapping me out of my information-giving mood and into hungry/thirsty man mode. Boy do I love Mid-day breaks, especially when they are accompanied by good food! I quickly climb down from my rope supported stand and make my way to the growing line of people waiting for their turn to get some water from the water maidens. There are four water maidens in all, and about 100 men in our section so.um.that means that.hold on.100 divided by 4.2, bring down the 8, 8 minus 10 is 2.bring down the zero, makes twenty.four to get into 20 is.5.so that means that there will be about 25 men for each water girl! Woo-who, I did it! And then it hits me: I'm stuck here till they're all finished. Damn.
"Hey there little bro. Why so glum?" I hear my brother ask, I guess he noticed my shoulders slump and my head drop down to look at my toes.
"Just look at that line, by the time we get our fill in water it will be time to go back to work, then we won't get anything to eat." I say to him in a sad tone, and see his face turn to look at me in understanding. My Brother is turning 32 this year, which will put him in the category of post- prime years.basically what that means is that he's not a teenager anymore but he's still not at his peak of man-hood-ness. He is 9 ½ years older than I am, so we're pretty close to each other.but not as close as my niece, Pan (his daughter) and I.
"You know, your not counting the fact that three of the water maidens are family, therefore.we get more privileges than everyone else." I hear my brother say in a sneaky tone that makes me smirk, one thing is for sure, if anyone came out smart like our grandfather it was him.
"And you want to know something else?" Gohan asked just above a whisper as he got closer to me.
"What?" I ask, curiosity getting the best of me.
"There's a rumor that the other water maiden, Lilly, has a bit of a soft spot for you. Pan says that Lilly has been practicing how to approach you." My brother whispers in my ear, drawing the attention of a few that passed by. I could almost sense that my brother was smirking behind me, his eyes gleaming with mischief, what an idiot.but hey, then again so am I. ^-^
"Shut it Gohan. You know that Lilly is one of those, "I'm never going to allow myself to love anyone." Kind of people, there's no way.no how, that she would ever think about getting a mate or a boyfriend for that matter."
"Oh, really.I suppose that's why she's waving frantically at you to go and cut in line while the two Saiyijins in front of her are fighting huh?" My brother says, gaining a dubious look on my behalf. I turn to look her way, just to see if my brother was lying or not.and sure enough, there she is, signaling me to cut in line while two bulky Saiyijins in front of her fought to see who would get the first drink.
So I, naturally never passing up an opportunity like that, went to her as inconspicuous as possible considering my hair is a big give-away. You know; my dad and I look more like twin brothers than father and son.its weird, but then again.my father and grandfather were often mistaken for twins also when they were younger. Must run in the family or something. My uncle radditz looks kind of like my grandfather, if it weren't for his long hair that is.
"Its about time you got here. How's stone cutter's shift this week?" I hear Lilly ask me as she lets me dip my entire head in the bucket of water to drink it. Yes, I was that desperate for water.
"Sorry, couldn't believe my ears when Gohan said you were waving at me to come. It seems that every time there's tons of work to do in one area the taskmaster assigns me to it, with a few other unfortunate men. I guess I should stop getting on his nerves, huh?" I say as soon as I drink the whole ten gallons of water in the bucket. She gives me this look that I can't quite name, probably because I've never seen it on her face.was it some thing I said?
"Goten, your going to get yourself killed one of these days. The taskmaster has already sworn to make your life a living hell, and may I add that he is succeeding in that area. Geez Goten, before you know it your going to be hanging on to you life by a thread.laying there at the mercy of the taskmaster's whip." She says to me in a serious tone that was laced in another emotion that I've heard in my mothers voice when she gives me those 'be carful' speeches. I toned out everything else that Lilly was saying, as she rambled on about how I should take more care of myself, when the realization hits me like a ton: Lilly is worried about me. She out of all people, was the one that I thought would never be concerned about anyone but herself, maybe what my brother said was true.maybe.
"Hey you, I was here first!" The bulky guy that had just won the brawl announced for everyone to hear instead of just telling me. He took a swing at me, and I dodged it.needless to say what happened next. Next thing I know, he was going all out, raising his power-level to supposedly surpass mine, while I just ducked and dodged his futile attempts effortlessly. Call it what you want, but the surge that I feel running through my veins when ever I'm in fighting mode is almost like an adrenaline high that is impossible to hold back.so I fight back, and underestimating my strength I give him one good punch in the gut.
'Oh no.' Is the one phrase that passes through my mind as I stand there stupefied at what was going on. I could feel my fist crush and pierce my foe's skin, digging into his warm insides from the momentum behind my punch, blood fell like a stream, cascading down my arm to the elbow where it dripped and pooled before my feet. Then finally, after my foe realized what was happening my fist made it's way deeper, going completely through him as the force behind my punch finally took its toll: Instant Death. All the while this was going on, all I did was stare in the eyes of the enemy before me, while he did the same. Through the silence of looking within each other he sees the turmoil within me and coldly smirks at my weakness, although he is knocking on Death's Door. I could almost see myself, my face twisted in the horror of what I had just done, and my eyes apologetically wiry. I could practically hear him laugh at me and my weakness because of my deformity. Yes I do have a deformity; it runs through my family's veins: We all have feelings, and we detest having to kill someone else. We love and are kind hearted, but no one knows of this. The one person that did find out is now dead, and I was the cause of his demise.
"What the hell have you done!" I hear a familiar voice come from behind inquire loudly.
"I defended myself, master." I answered, hiding my horror at the realization that I had just killed someone as I quickly retracted my fist and arm from the corps that stood from the support, causing it to drop with a lifeless thud at my feet. Causing his own pool of blood to splash upon my now forever marked feet.
"You killed him. You killed Zerbacon (pronounced like the letter "a" in apple.) Overseer of the mud-pit slaves. For this you will pay dearly, you worthless animal." The Taskmaster proclaims, as I hide my fear. I'm as good as dead, because the penalty for just hurting a superior is death.and I just killed one. I quickly turn to face Lilly who just stares at me with.hold on, are those tears!? With tears in her eyes that are threatening to fall down her tanned cheeks. Behind her stands the majority of my family within the crowd that gathered when the fight started. Entwined within the sea of faces I spot my niece who stands alone and secluded from everyone else, I see her tear streaked face and my whole being wants to leap to her and hold her in a never-ending hug. She has never in her entire life cried, and now she's doing it freely with no restraint what so ever. She quickly tares her gaze from mine and runs away just before I feel a familiar painful sting that bombards my entire self with pain.
Through the whole beating session I do nothing but swallow it painfully down. I don't make many noise, for if I do I am giving away my pride that had never been, the pride of a warrior.now I'm sure I'll never live out my dream, I'll be tortured until I die at the hands of the weak taskmaster's whip. So much for the honorable death of a fighter.
The world around me is spinning, pain is no longer unfamiliar to me as the wonderful blackness consumes me, and welcomes me to it's self. Faces blur and my body relaxes, proving useless. Screaming surrounds me and quickly fades just as it came. This is the end of my rode.
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"WHY!?" I scream, my calm demeanor crumbling into nothingness as my father approaches me form behind to comfort me.
"Your uncle's power was just too much for the other, sometimes in a male Saiyijin's life, we can't control our natural urges Pan." My beloved father says; candy coating what just took place as he pulls me into a loving embrace.
"He just killed someone dad." I say, venom lacing my every word as I choke back loud sobs and uncontrolled breathing.
"Yes he did. and so did I, your grandfather and even your great-grandfather when we were around his age, only now the rules of touching your superiors have changed." I hear my father say, my heart leaps in pain and my formally dead tears spring to life at the confession. I tare away from my father and send him my best look of disappointment and shame, right before I take off into the woods behind our land. Everything I ever thought about the men in my family was shattered in a matter of seconds, and I didn't know how to handle it, neither did my body.I guess when things like this happens people cry. This new feeling is so strange to me, to have drops of saltiness stain my cheeks and then drip off into nothingness. To feel so worn that your powerless and helpless altogether.I've never experienced this before; it's so alien to me. I left the scene were my uncle Goten was, as soon as I saw the taskmaster raise his whip. I know what was going to happen next, so I avoided it. It's most probable that the weakling of our overseer will beat my uncle to death, and just that thought sprouts more tears to my red eyes.
"Please make it uncle Goten." I whisper as I envision the scene of him with his wrists tied together and his back bare for all to see as the taskmaster whips him into a bloody pulp.
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Sorry that this chapter is out late, FF.net was having some technical difficulties.
Whoa, talk about drama and angst.I don't think I've ever written anything this dark and painful. Oh well, it will all add up soon enough, just wait and see. Ok, the romance part of the story is soon to come but before that comes up we need to get some background of the character's lives, which is just what I have done.
Ok, this chapter was BIG in the detail department so I expect to see at least 7 reviews for this one chapter, or else I'll stop being descriptive.and believe me you don't want that. Every sentence would be like:
She was sad. She Cried and then went to sleep. The end.
So click on the blue bottom on the bottom left hand corner of the screen and REVIEW!
Next Update: 27-the 1 of September.
This coming Friday I will be in Larado for the weekend, so I'll try to update before that.but I can't promise you anything.
If you leave your e-mail in your review I just might e-mail you when I update, so take the chance!
Over and out, Kioko