Well gots another chapter typed up, thanks to Blade-chan^^ so for like the three people reading this fic, enjoy. This is a flashback chapter of when she was on the planet Ryuten

Breaking Free!

Chapter 4: Visions of a past

Celeb opened her silver eyes.  She had been laying in this cell for a long time… too long.  She didn't know who she was; they called her Celeb Ryu, the Silver Dragon due to her look and agility.  However, where she hd come from, how she got to this place, that was hazy.

            "Princess!  You've been out for days."  Celeb tried to focus her eyes, she saw an anxious girl with magenta-colored hair and onyx eyes

            "Why do you call me that?  I am no princess… I am nothing…"

            "That's not true at all!  You are Celeb, princess of all Saiya-jins, sister to the Prince Vegeta and daughter of King Vegeta.  It's me, Magenta, your guard.  Don't you remember?"

            Celeb closed her eyes again.  She remembered, all right.  She remembered how weak she was, how her own guard went SSJ before her, and despite how hard she tried, she couldn't reach it; she was a sad excuse for a princess.  "I wish… I wish they would just kill us and be done with it!"

            "Princess!  Don't talk that way!"  But Magenta knew why she did: their power levels were too low, it would be impossible for them to ever break free.

 "You'll be getting new roomates today," a soft voice told them.  "Two Neko-jins.  I think you'll get along well."

            Celeb stayed quiet, she rarely talked anymore.  She watched as two girls entered the cell.  One had blue and silver hair; she was the elder one.  The other had blond hair and was much younger.  They both had feline qualities to them.  Once they were inside the gate shut behind them.  The young one looked at Celeb and Magenta.  "I'm Keno!  This is my sister, Blade."  The other girl just growled, her tail swishing behind her.

            "I'm Magenta, and this is Celeb No Oujo."

            "Oh, a princess," sneered Blade.

            "What's that supposed to mean?" Celeb shouted, a bit surprised at the sound of her own voice.  She had forgotten what it sounded like.  Her head was pounding in pain, as it seemed o almost always do these days. 

"You've been pampered."

Celeb's eyes flashed dangerously.  "Watch your mouth… if you know what's good for you.  I've been through hell… I was kidnapped, nobody ever even searched for me… my planet was destroyed and my brother, enslaved.  And I was too weak to do anything…"

"I'm sorry… I didn't know," Blade said; she felt bad for being so judgmental.  Celeb stayed quiet.  In these few minutes she said more than she usually did in a week.  The cell door was opened and she was dragged out without any struggle.  She had given up trying long ago.

 "What are they doing to her?  They never have to take Blade away for the tests they do to her," Keno said.  Magenta sighed, a weary look on her face.  "I don't know… but she may die of it soon."

            Blade raised an eyebrow.  "Why?"

            "She's given up the will to live.  She seems like an empty shell these days.  Since she found out Vegeta-sei was destroyed… It's like she's lost hope."

            "And what about you, Magenta, do you still have hope?" asked Keno.

            The saiya-jin guard sighed again.  "I don't know anymore…"

 Many hours later Celeb was thrown back into the cell.  Her armor was chipped and she looked utterly miserable.  Her face was pale, and she had circles around her eyes.  She looked like she hadn't eaten in a very long time.  Keno looked at her worriedly, not even her sister ended up in this bad of shape.  Celeb tried to smile at the young Neko-Jin.  "I'm fine."

            "You don't look it, you look more like a horse who's had its spirit broken," Blade said, trying to avoid Celeb's eyes.  There was something about them that made her uneasy.

            "What do I have left?  Everything had been taken from me."  Celeb looked sorrowful, but no tears left her eyes.  She had long since forgotten what it was to cry.  "The only time I even feel remotely alive is when I fight…"

            "What about your brother?  Is he still enslaved?" Keno asked.

            "No… Frieza was destroyed.  I don't know what happened to Bro-Bro, though."

            "I know someone who can help…" Blade said.

            "Sis… you can't mean…"

            "Yeah… Alec."

 A young man with ebony hair entered the room with trays of slop.  He had brilliantly blue eyes hidden by glasses and great, fiery Phoenix wings behind him.  Celeb took an instant dislike for him, he looked familiar, but she wasn't sure how.

            "Say Alec, can you do us a favor?" Blade asked.

            "Depends on what it is."

            "Can you find someone for us?  See if he's still alive?  His name is Prince Vegeta."

            "I'll try…"

            "Blade smiled a bit.  "That's all I ask."

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            Celeb stared around the cell.  Everyone else was asleep, but she didn't dare.  The nightmares, the visions, they never left, they never faded.