Chapter 1

Vegeta floated silently down the side of a giant cliff as he searched the ground for something unknown.  "Kakarotto!  Where the hell did you go?" the prince called to the tree sheltered ground.  "Where did that fool go to?"  At that moment the indignant prince saw a flash of orange dart into a large opening in the side of the cliff.  "Kakarotto!  Get back here now!  I do not wish to tell our mother that you got lost in the cave system!"  Vegeta followed his brother into the cave only to find the opening empty.  "Kakarotto!  Get out here right now!"  The prince's ebony eyes were searching the darkness for his newly discovered younger brother when he was violently thrown onto the rocks in front of him.  "What the-" The prince's question was cut short by the sight before him.    

Three shockingly beautiful women dressed in wonderfully colored robes stood before him.  "Hello, Vegeta," the three said together.  "Which of us is the fairest?"

The glowing woman in the center stepped forward; her flowing light brown hair and deep blue robe whipped around in the non-existent wind.  "I will grant you riches beyond any you've ever seen," Athena offered.

Hera took a step forward with her dark hair and purple robes flying behind her, "I will grant you power beyond your wildest dreams.  Every creature in the universe will bow down to you as their king."

The most beautiful of the three stepped forward, tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear, and pulled a mirror out of her pink robe. "I will grant you the most beautiful woman in the Universe.  None will surpass the beauty of your woman."  The mirror flashed a bright light at the Saiyan prince and showed him an image that rivaled the beauty of the goddess before him.

It was a woman with light aquamarine hair and cerulean eyes staring right back at him. 

On an impulse the prince reached for the mirror, and as soon as it was in his grasp the three women disappeared.  When his gaze returned to the mirror the teal haired woman had disappeared.

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"Is that him Trunks?" Bulma asked her older brother.  The two siblings stood hiding behind a large ship watching the train of people come off the space ship from Frypansei.

"Who?" Prince Trunks asked scanning the parade for the man his little sister was talking about.

"Him!  The really huge guy with the axe!  Is he the guy Chi-Chi's going to marry?"

"No, of course not.  That's King Ox of Frypansei.  Chi-Chi is marrying his son, the man behind him.  His name's Frieza, and he's the heir to the Frypansei throne.  Chi's got a better chance at being queen there than she does here."

"Who's the man behind him?  He's kinda handsome….." the young princess asked.

"That's Frieza's younger half-brother, Yamcha.  From what I hear he's rather bitter about the fact that his brother is going to take the throne from him.  There's a lot of animosity there….."

"Let's go meet them!" Bulma decided excitedly as she stepped out from behind the space ship.

Trunks reached out and grabbed her arm and wrenched her back into hiding, "No!  You know that you're not supposed to leave the palace!  Do have any idea what Dad would do if he found out that you were wandering around the docking bay?  You'd lose all of your lab privileges; all of them.  You would lose your mind within days.  Now lets get back before he notices you're gone."  Trunks started walking back towards the palace where their father was waiting for them in the throne room.  Suddenly his little sister jumped onto his back and wrapped her arms around his neck.  "Bulma!  Get off!  You're not a little girl anymore."

"Oh, shut up Trunks!  I don't weigh that much!" she replied in a childish tone for a fifteen-year-old.

"Come on, get off!  You're a woman now, you need to act like one."

"Nope, I don't think so.  I can't exactly get married or anything, can I?  Therefore I'm not a woman yet.  I will stay a child for as long as possible."

"Yes, well you must be ready to get married.  You're very beautiful Bulma; men are going to want you to marry them."

"Nope, I don't think so….."  Bulma jumped off her brothers back and walked by his side.  "Do you think Chi-Chi will love her new husband?"

"Of course she will.  She's going to be queen; that should make her happy."

"That's not what I meant….." the teenage princess mumbled to herself.  The royal siblings walked the rest of the way to the throne room in silence.  When they reached the throne room the Frypanjin Royals were already there.

"Prince Frieza, allow me present my oldest daughter, Chi-Chi," the King of Chikyuusei said to the older prince. 

Chi-Chi took a step towards the tall Frypanjin prince.  She wore a dress in her family color of purple; raven colored hair was tied back into a loose bun.  Her family seal was in the form of a pendant around her neck. 

Frieza looked very different from his father and half-brother; his skin was so pale it could have been mistaken for pure white, and his eyes were a terrifying purple color.  He stood shorter than the other two, but there was also something about him that was inconspicuously different.

Yamcha, unlike his brother, looked more like a Chikyuu-jin.  He had spiky black hair and lightly tanned skin.  The younger prince was also quite handsome minus the deep scars that cut across his eye and cheek.

Trunks took Bulma's arm and led her to their father's side.  The two just stood by their father's side unnoticed by anyone.

Prince Frieza seemed to be looking Chi-Chi up and down for flaws of any kind.  "Yes….." he muttered to himself, "she will do nicely as my queen…..  I shall take her as my wife, and she will be Queen of Frypansei."

If Bulma hadn't known her older sister as well as she did she wouldn't have noticed her slight change in expression when those words were said.  "Trunks," the princess whispered to her brother in what she thought was a quiet voice.  She was wrong; everyone within ten feet of her heard the whisper.

King Briefs turned to his daughter and his son and whispered angrily, "Where was she?"

Trunks' eyes darted towards his sister hoping to find some inspiration, "In the lab father…..  She simply lost track of time."

The two Frypanjin princes observed the conversation between the Chikyuu-jin king and the heir to his throne.  "And who is this?" Freiza asked in a cold yet feminine voice.

Yamcha's eyes seemed transfixed on the beautiful aqua-haired girl before him.

"This is my youngest child, Bulma," King Briefs replied.  "Troublesome wretch that she is….."

"I see….." Frieza replied as he looked the princess up and down as if stripping her naked with his eyes.

Chi-Chi watched in disgust as her husband-to-be drooled over her sister.  The oldest princess was used to this, of course, but it still bothered her that she was going to be married to the disgusting pervert.

Trunks also noticed how the two foreign princes ogled his younger sister, and decided to get her away from them as fast as possible.  "Father, should I take Bulma to her room?" he asked.

"Yes," the king replied, "leave her there until the banquet tonight…..  And make sure she stays there this time."

The prince nodded, turned to the Frypanjin Royal Family, and gave a small bow.  "Welcome to our planet King Ox, Prince Frieza, Prince Yamcha."  Trunks waited for his sister to do the same, and when she didn't he nudged her lightly in the side. 

"Oh!" Bulma muttered to herself; she gave a small awkward curtsy and said, "See ya later….."

King Briefs had to restrain himself from slapping his forehead, but Prince Trunks used no such self-control.  He smacked his forehead with his hand as Chi-Chi pinched the bridge of her nose and looked down.  Frieza and Yamcha tried to contain themselves from laughing at the rogue princess's crude behavior. 

Trunks led his sister away from the throne room and towards her room.  "You know," he said after they were out of hearing distance, "you really shouldn't have done that….."

"And why not?" she asked in annoyance.  "They were looking at me like I was a piece of meat to be eaten…..  I was just trying to get them to think with their heads instead of their dicks….."  

"If only you would have taken those finishing classes with Chi-Chi….." her brother muttered shaking his head.

Bulma just rolled her eyes, "Stop acting like Daddy.  I took a finishing class remember?  Sure, it only lasted one day, but that's not the point…..  The teacher said I was untamable, so I wish Daddy would just stop trying."

"You're going to have to get married some day, and what then?  Hmmm?  What man will marry a rogue princess?"

"I'm not going to get married to some money grubbing man who only wants me for my beauty and my title.  They can look all they want, but they'll never touch!"

"Well the money grubbers and the title hungry will be after you, but Father won't give them a second look.  You'd better be ready for the kings and the princes of other planets to ask for you to marry them because of your beauty.  I bet if that Prince Freiza hadn't already pledged himself to Chi-Chi he would have asked for you on the spot."

"Ha!" she laughed loudly, "I would never marry that hideous purple thing!"

"It's good to know you think so highly of my husband-to-be," a female voice interrupted.  Chi-Chi stepped from the shadows and looked sadly at her older siblings.

Bulma bit her lower lip in shame, "Sorry, Chi….. I didn't really mean it….."

"But you're right!  He's a perverted purple beast!" Chi-Chi argued.

Trunks interjected, "Come on Chi-Chi, he can't be that bad."

"Did you see the way he looked at me when he first saw me?  And when Bulma came in!  I thought he was going to- Urgh!  This is terrible!  I'm going to marry an ugly, perverted, purple beast!"

"Who knows Chi, maybe it won't be that bad….." Bulma comforted.  "Why don't you come to my room and we'll find something to wear to the banquet tonight, okay?"
"Yes, all right….." the raven-haired princess agreed.

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Later that night at the banquet Bulma was sitting in her comfortable chair looking around at all the guests at the party.  Chi-Chi seemed to be trying her hardest to get her fiancé's attention, but his purple eyes kept rolling to the other side of the room where Bulma was sitting.  Most of the guests were talking merrily.  King Briefs and King Ox were discussing the upcoming marriage and other things.  The aqua-haired princess was noting all of these things when she felt a pair of eyes on her.  She turned to find the scarred Frypanjin prince staring openly at her as Trunks tried to get his attention.  Bulma was used to strange men staring at her, but she had taken too much of it for one day.  She stood up and walked out of the crowded room to the hallway to get some air.  When she was about halfway down the hall an icy hand covered her mouth.  Her eyes shot open as she was dragged back into the shadows of the corridor. 

"Hello, My Dear….." an old sounding voice whispered to her.  "Don't we look lovely tonight?  If I take my hand off of your mouth do you promise not to scream?"

Bulma nodded fearfully, and as soon as the hand was removed she asked, "Who are you?  What are you going to do?"

The assailant moved back so the light shone on his face.  He had a partially baldhead and a long white beard.  His clothes were unlike anything Princess Bulma had ever seen before; they were gaudy and vibrant.  "I am King Roshi of Kamesei," he replied with a grin, "and I'm going to take you back to my planet with me."

"Why?" was all the young princess could manage to get out. 

The old man grinned again, "Well, My Dear, you are the most beautiful woman in the universe, and I intend to make you my wife."

Bulma gasped in disgust, but covered her fear by spitting back at him, "I am not a woman yet.  I am still a girl."

"Of course, I cannot marry a mere child….."

"So you see reason!  I am too young to get married!  You can't take me back to your planet yet," she replied.

"Oh yes I can!" King Roshi whispered throwing the slender princess over his shoulder.  "I'll just have to wait until you're older."

Now Princess Bulma of Chikyuusei was not about to be carted off in a space ship to a distant planet by some repulsive old man.  She let out the loudest screech she could manage to call for help.

In the ballroom Prince Trunks and Prince Yamcha both heard the faint screech of the aqua-haired princess.  The two young princes leapt from their seats and raced out into the hallway to help the princess out of whatever predicament she may have been in.  What they found was Bulma fighting an old man with everything she had as he carried her towards the docking bay outside. 

"Stop!" Yamcha yelled in a futile attempt to stop the old man.  The Frypanjin's yelling had no effect on the old man who apparently didn't even hear him.

Trunks rushed after the old man brandishing his favorite sword over his head.  The Chikyuu-jin prince let out a violent battle cry, and attempted to save his fifteen-year-old sister.

The old man carrying the princess seemed oblivious to the fact that there was a lavender haired prince chasing after him with a sword.  As the ancient king reached the docking bay he pulled a small control out of the pocket of his colorful clothing.  With the push of one button the door to a small round ship opened and the man carried the princess inside.  Prince Trunks and Prince Yamcha watched hopelessly as the turtle-like ship took off, taking the stunning Princess Bulma with it.   

~*~*~*~*~*~

Princess Vega eyes shot open in fright, and the small Saiyan princess ran towards the ki signature that was her father.  Something terrible had just happened and she had to prevent any further evil from occurring. 

The Saiyan king was in the throne room when his daughter came bursting through the doors with a horrified expression on her face. 

"Is there something wrong Vega?" Queen Yasai asked her daughter worriedly.  Vega was prone to fits of hysteria when she suffered from what she called "visions of the future".  Because of these "visions of the future" almost everyone on the planet figured the princess for insane.  Then again, most of the Royal Family was rather unstable; at least in the terms of your average every day Saiyan.  "Have you had another one of your 'visions'?"

The Saiyan princess ran a gloved hand through her spiky black hair and nodded her head to her parents. 

King Vejita sighed and shook his head at his oldest child, "What was this one about?  Kakarotto's existence destroying the planet again?"

"No!  Kakarotto isn't the one that's going to destroy the kingdom!" Vega replied with a tone of irritation in her voice.

"Who is it this time then?  Hmmm?  Me?  Your mother?" the king asked in an annoyed tone.

Vega floated up to her father's eyes level and placed a hand on each side of his face to hold his head in place, "Listen to me!  I just had a vision about Vegeta…..  Something terrible is going to happen.  Whatever you do you cannot, I repeat cannot, ever send him to the planet Chikyuusei!  Is that clear?  If you do our people will fall."

Vejita pulled away from his daughter's grip and looked to his mate, "Didn't we decide a while ago that we were going to get her some drugs for her little 'problem'?"

"Vejita!  That's enough!" the queen replied crossly.  Yasai carefully watched as her daughter's ebony eyes dart around nervously.  There had to be some truth to what she was saying, or she wouldn't look so nervous.  Saiyans weren't known for their lying ability, but the king still didn't trust his daughter.  "Maybe we should just keep Vegeta off Chikyuusei….."

"Yasai!  I can't believe you're falling for this!  Do you remember when she tried to convince us that he was going to destroy the planet before?  You lost your youngest son out of that one, remember?" the king raged.

"That wasn't my fault Father!  You wouldn't listen to me, and you just sent Kakarotto away to live with that soldier Bardock!" Vega shrieked back at her father.  "If you would just listen to me the planet wouldn't have so many problems!"

"Fine then, Oh Mighty and Powerful Saiyan Seer, what can we do to save our doomed planet?" Vejita asked sarcastically.

"If Vegeta goes to Chikyuusei our planet will burn."