I've just put up the two chapters before this one in one shot, so if something didn't make any sense, it's because you could have missed a chapter.

I'm in a hell of a lot of pain. I had two teeth pulled out. I'm 'Gummy' again. (This girl at my primary school called me 'Gummy' because I had at least two teeth fall out.) But these were because I need braces. *Shudders* Anyway, I have to eat yoghurt, and that had to be sipped up through a straw while the rest of my family eat chips and sausages for dinner. L Err, the anaesthetics are wearing off and I can feel the pain.

Jiana: Sorry about the cliffhanger. I didn't really know that people would get angry with me. @_@. (Jinko Kawaii apologises over and over again.)

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Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ, but I do own Jessi. (She's me!)

A Saiyan's Daughter

Chapter Nine

Captured.

Bulma sat up and looked around. Jessi had orbed them somewhere else, and this wasn't her home.

 "Bulma, what have I done?" a sleepy Jessi asked. She sat up, too, and rubbed her eyes. She felt Bulma's arms tighten around her body. "What's wrong?"

 "Do you know where we are?" Bulma asked. Jessi looked around and gasped.

She was home.

Only this home was different; it was in wrecks.

 "Oh no." Jessi whispered and took off. "Mum!"

 "Jessi!" Bulma called after her. She ran after the six year old, who was incredibly fast. They turned many corners, and Jessi went through many secret passages. Bulma glanced around as they ran and she noticed the large amounts of dead bodies everywhere. It was truly a massacre. And she seriously hoped that Jessi wouldn't find her mother, just in case.

 "Mummy?" Jessi asked as she stopped in front of Bulma. She had kept a slow pace so Bulma could keep up. "I think she might be in the Safe Passage." Jessi said hopefully.

She took off again in a different directions and Bulma soon learnt why it was called a 'Safe Passage'. They had to go through many walls that opened up when Jessi murmured something and then there was a last one made of cold stone that required a scan of Jessi's eyes. "Oh please." Jessi begged. As the final door opened, Bulma saw that this passage was more of a child's bedroom, though everything was in a mess, and by watching the way that Jessi navigated around the room she could tell that it was Jessi's bedroom.

 "This is your room, isn't it?" Bulma asked. Jessi nodded slightly before the ruins started to float.

 "Mum, are you in here?" Jessi asked. She looked on the ground under a set of drawers she had lifted with her powers and opened that up with her hands. A strong smell wafted through the room and it stunk of something terrible, like a thousand eggs that were rotten all bunched up together. Jessi waved her hand and formed a ki ball before she proceeded to go down. Bulma stayed up in the room, but jumped as she heard Jessi scream and then what sounded like something fall. Jessi's cries could be heard after that.

 "Jessi…" Bulma started and jumped down.

Jessi sat on her knees in front of two dead bodies; both had a large hole through their chests. Both were little boys that weren't much older than Jessi. Jessi sat, staring at the two boys. Her eyes flashed quickly before their bodies were hoisted up into the air, and another two bodies were behind them. They barred the same holes. Jessi wailed loudly at the sight and the boys were dropped to the ground. Bulma hugged Jessi close to her.

 "Shh, it's okay."

 "No it's not." Jessi snapped angrily. "That's Uncle Herman and his wife and two sons. I only have daddy…."

 "But your father will let you stay at our place. Remember, he said so."

 "And I think mummy's been taken away. She must have been. They wouldn't kill the smartest woman in the universe."

 "I hope so." Bulma cooed and ran a hand through Jessi's hair. A green light surrounded them again and they found themselves on a something soft.

 "Would you get off me?" Vegeta growled angrily. Bulma jumped off his hospital bed instantly and Jessi stayed as she cried.

 "Jessi," Bulma started. Vegeta looked at her questioningly. "It's okay. Your father and I are here."

 "So? You can't replace my mummy, or my cousins." Jessi snapped and looked at Bulma.

 "What happened?" Vegeta asked and sat up. He glanced over Jessi to secretly see if she was injured. "Are you okay?"

 "We orbed to the Son residence and then to her home. What we found was terrible." Bulma explained. "Her family had been murdered terribly. You can't send her back now."

 "Jessi, how about you go to your room for just a second." Vegeta suggested. Jessi glared at him before she jumped off the bed and ran away.

"Vegeta, we can't send her back if she'll be going to no one. She'll be in far too much danger, and I don't think that even you are that heartless."

 "Keio is after her. The Camesians will capture her and then make her mate with the prince."

 "At their age? How old is this prince?"

 "Not much older than she is. Why? You almost sound like a mother." Vegeta snickered. "Like Jessi's mother."

 "She doesn't want me as a mother, baka. Didn't you hear her? I can't replace a parent. I can't replace a little girl's mother. Geez, Vegeta. How insensitive can you get?"

 "I never said that you could replace her. It's just that you seemed rather protective of her."

 "Much more than you, anyway." Bulma groaned before she patted him on the shoulder. "Look, you are her father and she needs her tousan."  (Thanks Cat!)

 "I know, but I hated my father, and Jessi seems to be well on the way towards hating me. She was an accident and I can't even remember mating with her mother." Vegeta explained. "Anyway, Prince Tyler is a few months older than her. She had a premonition and her mother had agreed with the marriage. If they do mate, then there will be a truce with the Saiyans and the humans with the Camesians. That alliance is a must as Earth is a beautiful and resourceful planet. They could get a lot of money if they were to mine and sell it to multiple planets."

 "So they want to drain this planet with the agreement of Jessi? How old will she be by that time?"

 "It's law on Camesy that the heir to the throne must be eighteen before they become king and or queen. The female must also be pregnant."

 "We can't let her go, then, if she's going to be pregnant at that age." Bulma nearly shrieked. She watched as Vegeta's head rushed up quickly to face the door.

 "What's wrong?" he asked towards it. Both he and Bulma watched as the door slowly opened and the small Jessi could be seen.

 "I can't sleep. It isn't fair. Why did they have to die?" Jessi sobbed quietly. "Now I've lost them all, and I don't want to be the queen of those Camesians. And what's pregnant?"

 "Err, Jessi," Bulma started, "I think you need some rest. There's too much going through your mind right now."

 "No, I can't sleep. What if my family died when they were asleep?"

 "Brat, you'll do as Bulma says." Vegeta growled angrily. "She's the smart one and we won't let anything happen to you, okay?"

 "Can I sleep here, just in case the Camesian orbs here?" Jessi asked as she rubbed her tired eyes. Bulma reached out her arms and Jessi walked over to her before she crawled into them. After about five minutes, she fell asleep, with the comfort of Bulma telling her stories and brushing her hair softly with her fingers.

 "She's so small to go through this." Bulma whispered to Vegeta. He nodded softly. "I wish she had come to you earlier. We could have helped or something. She was so happy before."

 "I know." Vegeta whispered back before he reached forward and grabbed Jessi from Bulma. "Her mother should have sent her before this."

~*~

 "Mum! Mum! Did you hear?" a small girl asked as she ran down many stairs of her underground house. Her blue eyes flashed with excitement as she ran to tell her mother important news. She stopped as she reached her mother's room. The older woman stood in all her glory with her jet-black hair that went to her waist in a tight braid and the same blue eyes. She smiled at her only daughter, who started to fiddle with her own black hair while she tried to get her breath back.

 "What's wrong?" the mother asked. The little girl started to jump up and down.

 "They've recruited me! They want me to be a Guardian! I was great! You should have seen me, mother." The little girl smiled weakly as she approached her mother. She went to hug her, but fell right through her as she had forgotten that this was just an illusion until her mother came out of the hospital. This was a real time holograph, so it wasn't a pre-recorded image. "I miss you, mummy."

 "I miss you too, Julia. I was hoping that they would recruit you, anyway, so I left you my dagger from the times when I was a Guardian…"

 "You were a Guardian?" Julia asked.

 "Yes, I was. If you walk over to my desk," the mother said and Julia did. She walked over to a paper-covered desk and looked around a bit, "you might find a latch to a secret drawer. You have to feel around the bottom of the desk for the latch." Julia put her hand on the underside of the desk and found a small plug. She pulled on it and she felt a shudder from the table. A small draw flew out of the side, and Julia rushed to catch it. It fell into her arms and she smiled at the black cloth surrounding an object. "Unwrap it."

Julia opened up the cloth and gasped at the dagger. It was black with the words 'Dagger of Hate, Rose of Love' written on the blade.

 "It's beautiful, mum." Julia smiled.

 "Now, how far along are you with your powers?"

~*~

 "Tyler." The Camesian Queen called out to her son as she walked around the palace gardens. She heard a rustle in a bush close to her, followed by whispers. The queen smiled and walked towards the bush. "Tyler! Where are you?" The bush stirred again.

 "Stop moving, Machi." A voice whispered. The queen smirked and waved her hand. The bush came apart quickly and she watched as her son, Prince Tyler, and his best friend, Machi took off in the other direction. They each had long, broadswords in their hands. She waved her hand again and the two stopped as they were lifted into the air quickly and hung upside down. The queen turned them to meet her gaze.

Both of the boys had blonde hair, as it was a male gene on Camesy, but only one had proper eye colour, which was bright green, while the other had purple eyes that changed to blue constantly.

 "Busted." The one with green eyes groaned. He looked over to his companion whose was turning red due to the rush of blood to the head.

 "What were you two doing with your swords?" the queen asked.

 "We were just practising, Your Majesty." Machi said with a panicked tone.

 "Traitor." Tyler snapped before he moved his hands over his mouth. "Mum, why'd you make me say that?"

 "I made you tell the truth." The queen smiled. "And Machi, I told you to only call me that when we're surrounded by people."

 "Yes, Darni." Machi said quietly.

 "Now, what are you two really doing?"

 "We wanted to test the new recruits." Tyler admitted. Darni dropped him, and Tyler was lucky enough to have the speed of his mother and turned before he landed.

 "Yeah, there's this girl recruit, who shouldn't be. We were going to test her." Machi smirked before he, too, was let down, but he unfortunately had the speed of his mother and landed on his head. "Ow." He groaned as he rubbed the small patch of blonde on his head.

 "Keio asked us if you wanted to go on that mission to grab the Saiyan." Darni said as she looked at her son.

 "The one that you want Tyler to marry?" Machi asked. "I'll go."

 "I'm not going to marry her." Tyler snapped. "Or take her as my mate. That's stupid."

 "You haven't even met her." Darni argued.

 "Exactly."

 "Your father and I didn't meet until the day we got married. You're lucky that you'll be meeting her so soon in your life."

 "We have to kidnap her and use her mother as blackmail."

 "Are you going to get her or not because you're leaving tonight."

~*~

Vegeta stirred slightly as he sensed a powerful being in the house. He opened up his eyes as he felt that Jessi had woken up, too, and had started shaking Bulma in an attempt to wake her up.

 "Bulma, wake up." Jessi whispered as she shook Bulma's shoulder. She watched as Bulma's eyes opened slightly, but she then blushed as she realised that she had fallen asleep on Vegeta's shoulder. "We're in trouble."

 "What?" Bulma asked loudly.

 "Be quiet, woman." Vegeta snapped and moved the both of them off him before he sat up. He winced slightly as he did so, but Bulma and Jessi overlooked that.

 "It's Keio." Jessi whispered. "And he's not alone. There are two more people."

 "I know that." Vegeta snapped again.

 "Try not to think to me because they can sense that." Jessi told Vegeta, who rolled his eyes, but nodded anyway. "Are they after me?"

 "Check in their minds."

 "They'll sense that, too."

 "Fine." Vegeta scoffed and walked over to the door. As he opened it, he jumped as he realised that they had orbed behind him to Jessi.

 "Daddy." Jessi screamed. Bulma jumped up and struck at Keio, and because he wasn't expecting that, he let go of Jessi, who proceeded to kick him in the stomach and then she punched Machi in the face before she came face to face with Tyler's sword. Jessi stared at him and gasped once she saw his eyes. "It's you, you're the prince."

 "You know your royal families when you see them." Tyler smirked.

Vegeta stared at his daughter as she managed to stay calm in front of this enemy. He watched as Machi and Keio started to get up from their positions. He knocked them both down again before he turned to see that Jessi had disappeared from sight, along with Bulma, and all that was left was little green lights as the Camesian Prince orbed them all away, but why had he taken Bulma?

~*~

End of the chapter. Sorry it's so short, but I can't think. I have feeling in my mouth and it kills. My gums, my gums, my gums. If you've ever seen Three To Tango with Oliver Plat then you'd know that I was going on about, only he says 'My kidneys, my kidneys, my kidneys.' It's a very funny movie, actually. It's a must see if you're a fan of Oliver, who also stared in Lake Placid, Three Musketeers and Bicentennial Man. He's like my favourite actor. Anyways, ja.

~Jinko