Chapter 5: A Quite Palace and a Trip to the Catacombs!

"Because if there were people living here, I would assume that they would be awake right now, because of the sunlight coming through the windows," said Vegeta.

"So then, where do you think we should look, Vegeta? I doubt we would find them in the forest," said Yamcha. Vegeta looked at him evilly as though he had been challenged to a fight. "I don't know, you scar faced idiot!"

"Scar faced idiot! Who are you calling a scar faced idiot; you have scars on your body, just as much as any of us do. If I were you, I wouldn't be talking," said Yamcha, crossing his arms with a disgusted look. Trunks walked up to the foot of the stairs and tapped the ground with his toe twice, feeling frustrated. Suddenly the stairs started to contract backwards, and revealed another, smaller set of stairs going down. "Gee, Trunks, what did you do?" asked Gohan.

"I don't know. I just tapped my toe twice on this panel - right here on the floor - and…" Suddenly the stairs slid back into place. "HEEEEEY, you weren't supposed to do that!" said Trunks. Trunks tapped his foot again on the panel and the passage opened back up.

"Good job, maybe they are down there. Let's go!" said Goten with excitement. Goten ran down the stairs. "Wait, Goten, it's dark down there, we might need a light," said Gohan.

"No problem, I have that problem solved." Trunks created an energy ball in the palm of his hand. "Alright, let's go." They all started walking down the stairs into a dark labyrinth. Whether it was big or small was not apparent, but there was a huge door at the end of the long hall they had entered. They walked down the hall, seeing cobwebs and dark shadows bouncing on the walls from the movement of the light. When they reached the doors, the first thing they noticed was that the doors had carvings of two dragons one for each side. They looked as though they were guarding something from trespassers, and the group was about to find out what. They tried to open the doors, but to no avail. "The door is stuck," said Uubu. Vegeta, already frustrated enough to get things done and over with, walked up to the doors. "Out of the way, I am going to blast the doors down!" He held up his hand and fired a blue blast of chi energy at the door. The blast exploded on impact, but had no effect on the door. "What, it didn't even make a scratch or singe on the stupid thing! What is this!?" said Vegeta, annoyed.

"Hey, look, there is some writing at the top of the door. It says, "The great dragons shall not part unless the sign of friendship is shown," said Uubu.

"Hey, Trunks, I know what that means. Uubu take over as our light," said Goten.

"Alright," said Uubu creating an energy ball in his hand. Trunks and Goten faced each other and started doing a series of movements with their hands and ended with a pull back of the arm making a sizzle noise and pointing their index fingers at one another, everyone in the room stared and sweat-dropped at the two young teens. Yet again, the doors still did not move. "What is wrong with this thing, that is the only gesture of friendship I can think of," said Goten. Uubu was studying the carvings again and noticed something that they missed when they first looked at it. "Hey guys, I think we have to put our hands on the door and stack our hands on one another, you know, that thing people do at games before and during a time-out?"

"Oh, how do you figure that, Uubu?" asked Goten.

"Because, I looked at these smaller cravings on the door and it shows that."

"Well if that's what the door wants, that's what it will get. Everyone, stack your hands on the center of the door," said Goku. Everyone began to stack their hands, Goku then looked at Vegeta.

"HELL NO KAKAROT! THERE IS NO WAY I AM PLACING MY HAND ON YOURS! I WOULD RATHER DIE BEFORE I DO SUCH A THING," said Vegeta with a most dignified princely tone.

"Vegeta, do you want the Earth to be destroyed because we choose not to help? Not to mention, that your house would be destroyed once again," said Goku.

"Damn it Kakarot! Alright fine, but I am only doing it because I don't want my home destroyed again!" Vegeta reluctantly placed his hand on top of his sons and the building began to shake. The doors began to open slowly but surely, leading into a very dark room, all they could see were the silhouettes of crystal like coffins, eight on each side and one in the center. The group entered the room and shined the light on the coffins to the side.

"Are they…dead?" asked Uubu.

"Don't know, but it sure looks that way," said Trunks.

"Shine the light over on the center one Uubu," said Goku. Uubu shined the light one the center coffin and just about fainted from the sight. A beautiful woman with long waves of gold hair, of about eight-teen to twenty, a light-brown star birth-mark on her right cheek, wearing a blank expression, with angel wings wrapped around her body stood inside the crystal. "Wow, she's, she's," Goten stuttered.

"Ultimately gorgeous," said Vegeta.

"Wow, you're saying something nice about someone. That's unheard of, Vegeta," said Goku.

"I know her, her name is Gwenevere Elizabeth Millennium. She was the princess of the second kingdom on planet Vegeta. Her father was an elite general by the name of Barlus. He split our world in two, made himself king of the other half, and started a civil war among our race. His daughter, Gwen, was the one who saved our planet once from being overtaken by creatures we could not even destroy and joined the kingdoms together to create peace among us. She cared for our race more than anyone did. She felt more connected to her people than anyone, including me. I always felt something was strange about her, like, there was something more special about her that no one ever knew, not even her."

"Wow, Vegeta, I have never heard you talk so proudly of someone before, except Trunks. You must have had a real thing for her back then, huh?" said Goku with a nudge of the elbow to Vegeta in the ribs.

"Well, even though I was young at the time, I was in love with her, but she somehow grew very rapidly. We had an arranged marriage as well but she tried everything to weasel her way out of it." Vegeta smirks remembering Gwen as a child. "She was the strongest of our kind, even stronger than Brolly."

"WAAA, no way, stronger than him. Oh man, I wouldn't want to get on her bad side. It was hard enough beating Brolly!" said Goku. While they talked on Trunks examined the crystal. Looking at first, then he touched it causing the crystal to glow.

"TRUNKS, what did you do!?" said Goten.

"I don't know, I just touched it, and that was it!" The group began to back away. The crystal melted and released the young maiden from her prism. "Well, here is our chance to see whether the pretty lady is dead or not..." said Yamcha. Yamcha started to move towards Gwen to touch her face, but his hand was grabbed by hers as her blue crystal star-lit eyes glared.