"Raditz!" he called. "Nappa!" dammit... Vegeta had lost them. Ah well. He'd meet them back at Frieza's ship later. Vegeta sat down. No hurry. He decided to take a little break before he purged the planet. Vegeta's mind wandered to Frieza's ship. Frieza. Vegeta frowned as he thought of the guy. He hated him so much. Thanks to him there were only three saiyans left, including Vegeta himself. All of which were male.
"Hm?" Vegeta's phone started to ring. He pulled it out of his pocket and looked at the screen, expecting it to be either Frieza, Raditz or Nappa. It was none of them. Oh crap. Her...
Vegeta sighed, and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Vegeta?" a girl's voice asked. "It's Sia -"
"Vegeta?" Vegeta tried to sound confused - and older. "I'm sorry, dear, you have the wrong number." he hung up.
The phone rang again. Vegeta looked at the screen. Sia's name appeared.
"Go away!" he whined. Still, he knew that if he didn't answer she'd carry on calling. He answered the phone again.
"Vegeta, I know it's you. Why haven't you been calling me?" Sia demanded.
"Simple. I've dumped you." Vegeta shrugged.
"But why?! After we... fooled around... in that toilet, when we were getting along so well, you stopped calling." Sia replied.
"So can't you take a hint?" Vegeta asked. "I screwed you and now I want to dump you."
"That is SO unfair! You used me!" Sia shouted.
"Well what do you expect, I'm seventeen!" Vegeta protested. "See ya." he hung up. Sia called again.
"What?!" Vegeta growled.
"I just wanna say that I wasn't the only one used," Sia began. "The day before I let you come near me, Raditz did. And I was still your girlfriend at the time!"
"Yeah, I know, Raditz and I were talking about you." Vegeta smirked.
"I HATE YOU!!! Both of you!! Saiyans are the worst race ever!! I never wanna see another saiyan in my entire life!!" Sia wailed.
"That's good because we don't wanna see you." Vegeta replied. "Bye, honey." he hung up, and laughed.
Vegeta's laughter was cut off when he heard a rustling noise. He instantly stood up, and looked around. He saw nothing except trees. Maybe it was just a bird or something?
Vegeta was about to sit back down, when he heard it again. This time, quieter. He turned around, scanning the area for anything unusual. But there was nothing. All of it, just trees and plants.
"Weird..." he mumbled.
"Huh - hey!" a voice made Vegeta jerk his head up - just in time to see something fall out of the tree above him.
"Whoa!" he jumped out of the way as a girl landed hard on the ground. Vegeta stood over her as she lay on her stomach, her face on the floor, groaning.
Vegeta looked at her. She had long, wavy blonde hair that lay loose on her back. Her hair covered most of her top, and she wore a short denim skirt. Vegeta looked at the skirt. Normally, he would've been totally distracted by her nice shape, but he was too shocked for that. Sticking out of there skirt was a furry monkey - like tail. A saiyan?! No way... that was impossible! But still, he just had to find out for sure.
"Are..." he began. "Are you... alright?"
"Huh...?" she replied. The girl began to sit up. She shook her head, and leapt too her feet.
"There we go!" she beamed. "I'm fine ~*~"
Vegeta looked at her. She was about his age. She stood with her hands behind her back, smiling at him. Vegeta saw that she wore a sleeveless white top that showed her stomach. He looked at her face. She had big blue eyes, and a small scar under her left eye. Like she'd been in a fight or something.
"You're a saiyan, aren't you?" he asked.
"Huh?" the girl looked at him. "Yeah... I am. How did you know that?" she leaned forward a little, and examined his face.
"You're... just a teenager? What're you doing out here? Training? Your armor doesn't look familiar."
"Actually, it's saiyan armor." Vegeta argued.
"So you're a saiyan too?" the girl asked. "What's your name? Are there others saiyans with you?"
"Wait, why don't YOU tell me who YOU are! And are YOU the only saiyan here?" Vegeta demanded.
"Yep. I'm the only saiyan. My name's Leela." the girl introduced herself.
"Leela? That's not a saiyan name." Vegeta commented.
"Probably 'cos it's not my real name." Leela said.
"So what IS your real name?" Vegeta replied. Leela shrugged.
"Dunno. I was found on this planet by my mother when I was a baby. Then she raised me and called me Leela."
"Did you come from Planet Vegeta?" Vegeta asked.
"What's that?" Leela said it as if it were such an innocent thing to say.
"What?!" Vegeta's gasped.
"Never heard of it." Leela told him.
"You - - for a saiyan to say that is the biggest insult in - - it's our home planet!" Vegeta exclaimed.
"Oh, right. So if you live there, what are you doing here?" Leela questioned.
"... Working." Vegeta put it. "I don't live there anymore..." he trailed off.
"Why not?"
"Basically because it isn't there anymore." Vegeta told her.
"Huh?"
"Frieza blew it up when I was seven years old. Ten years ago."
"Frieza..." Leela mumbled. "I've heard of him," she looked at Vegeta. "But if he blew it up, how did you escape?"
"I've been working for him since I was five years old. Raditz and Nappa were working for him, too." Vegeta explained.
"Are they the other saiyans?"
Vegeta nodded.
Leela looked at him.
"Are they both guys? Am I the only girl left?"
"That's right." Vegeta told her.
"So what's your name?" Leela asked.
"Vegeta."
"But isn't that the name of our planet?"
"Yes. I'm the prince of saiyans." Vegeta said proudly.
"You're a prince?!" Leela gasped.
"That's right. I - what're you doing?!" Vegeta became a little freaked out when she started circling him, looking him up and down.
"I can't believe I met a prince!" Leela beamed. She smiled at him.
"It's just like in a fairy tale."
"What is?" Vegeta asked.
"A young girl looking for love with little money to buy it, one day meets a handsome, fair - faced prince. They fall in love and he takes her away to live with him in his magical palace forever." Leela said dreamily.
"Uh... huh..." Vegeta gave her a strange look. "You're the weirdest saiyan I've ever met. We don't read fairy tales and we certainly don't daydream about them."
"Really? You don't have any dreams at all?" Leela asked.
She looked at him.
"Come on, you must have something. Isn't there anything you'd like to do someday?"
"Well.... now that you mention it..." Vegeta smirked. "I'd love to kill Frieza."
"... Well, I guess it's something ^_^" Leela replied.
"As soon as I'm strong enough, I'll avenge my planet and my father." Vegeta told her. "Frieza'll pay for everything he did to the saiyans."
"How do you know you'll become strong enough?" Leela asked.
"What?!" Vegeta couldn't believe his ears. "What do you mean? Of course I'll become strong enough! I'm a royal saiyan! And royal saiyans become super saiyans!"
"Super saiyan?" Leela repeated. "Oh, you mean this?"
Vegeta's eyes widened in disbelief as Leela's now spiky hair stuck up and turned a golden colour. Her eyes turned green, also.
Leela looked at him, as if turned super saiyan were the easiest thing in the world.
"Is this what you mean? I've never been sure of what a saiyan would call in because I'm the only saiyan on this planet." she gave a smile. "Heh heh ^_^ I've always called it "power glow" because it makes my hair glow and I couldn't do it until I had a good power level."
"J - Just what is your power level?" Vegeta, still shocked, asked. He wished he'd brought his scouter with him.
"Um... let's see..." Leela mumbled. "It was eighty thousand when I was born and now I think it's about one and a half mil -"
"EIGHTY THOUSAND?!?!" Vegeta's jaw dropped. "But - but how?! I wasn't even that strong when I was born and I'm a member of the royal family!!"
"I guess I was just a strong kid ^_^" Leela replied.
"But you're not supposed to be a super saiyan!!" Vegeta protested. "Only royal saiyans can become super saiyans! Who are you?!"
"I'm just a saiyan commoner." Leela told him. "I don't see what the big deal with going super saiyan is anyway." she powered down into her normal form.
"WHAT?!?!" Vegeta exploded. "Are you even a saiyan?!"
"Geez, why are you so mad?" Leela said. "I'm sorry if a commoner is stronger than you, but -"
"Be quiet!" Vegeta snapped.
Leela frowned.
"Y'know, for a prince you're not very polite."
"I guess that rules me out of Cinderella then, doesn't it?" Vegeta replied sarcastically. Leela couldn't help but smirk a little.
"Hee hee. I guess you're kinda funny." she commented.
"But anyway, how did you get such a high power level? Didn't you say it was one and a half million? How can you get it so high when you live in a forest?" Vegeta asked.
"My house in is the middle of this forest. I live there with my whole family, and my mother owns an enormous gym. My family and I use that. Some say it's the best training facility in the universe, we sometimes get tourists here. But some tourists don't come because they think it's kinda strange that the owner of such a powerful facility also runs a sort of charity organization for homeless kids. That's why she adopted me. She found me when I was a baby." Leela explained. She looked at him.
"Why don't you come home with me? You don't mind sparing with a girl, do you?" she invited with a smirk. "Mom won't mind you training there."
"I - " Vegeta was cut off when his phone rang again. He sighed, looked at the screen, and answered it.
"Lord Frieza?"
"Vegeta, why don't you have your scouter? I shouldn't have to call you on your phone." Frieza scolded.
"Sorry, sir. I forgot it." Vegeta told him. The truth was that he'd left it somewhere and hadn't been bothered to look for it.
"Well, are you almost done?" Frieza demanded.
"Not yet, Lord Frieza." Vegeta replied.
"Well hurry up then! That planet's tiny, it should only take you a day. I expect you to be back by tomorrow."
"Yes sir." Vegeta rolled his eyes.
"What did Frieza say?" Leela asked.
"Nothing." Vegeta replied. He looked at her.
"Listen... er... are you sure this planet's right for you?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Leela replied.
"I mean... someone as strong as you shouldn't be on a small planet. It just seems weird. Why don't you, er..." Vegeta struggled to think of something to say. He couldn't purge this planet. Not with her on it. He wasn't about to kill a member of his own race for Frieza.
"What? Vegeta, what's wrong with you?" Leela became a little impatient. "What do you want to say?"
"Look..." Vegeta began. "I don't know how to tell you this, but er... my job is to purge planets. That's what I'm doing here."
"Yeah, I know." Leela replied.
"You know?" Vegeta gave her a puzzled look. "But how?"
"I heard that Frieza purges planets for money. I also heard that he doesn't do it himself. When you said you worked for Frieza, I figured you were one of the guys that he hires to purge planets for him. Why else would you be here?" Leela explained.
"But if you knew why I was here, why didn't you try to stop me?" Vegeta asked.
"I wanted to find out if you'd do it while I was still here."
"And supposing I did?" Vegeta questioned.
"I've been taught how to sense ki. Your power level's nothing compared to mine. You wouldn't have been able to do it." Leela smirked.
"Shut up." Vegeta mumbled. "I can still purge your planet."
"I doubt it." Leela answered. "But why would you wanna do that anyway? Just because Frieza told you to?"
"You don't know what it's like. If I don't obey him, he'll kill me and the two other remaining saiyans." Vegeta told her. "But some day... he won't be able to do that. I'll be stronger than him. He'll be the one getting killed."
"Why don't you let that day come sooner?" Leela suggested. Vegeta looked at her.
"What are you trying to say?" he asked.
"I bet I could take him! Could he defeat a super saiyan?" Leela replied. "I'll fight him, and you can finish him off."
"What?" Vegeta frowned in surprise. "You'd kill him - just like that?"
"Wouldn't we be doing the universe a favor? I use my strength for good, and it must be good to get rid of someone who hires people to destroy planets for profit." Leela shrugged.
Vegeta considered her offer. But...
"I was going to destroy Frieza on my own." he said, and shook his head. "Thanks, but I can do it myself."
"Yeah, right." Leela rolled her eyes. "You're way too weak, there's no way you could become strong enough to do it." she smirked. "After all, you're not a super saiyan like me -"
"Quit it!" Vegeta snapped. "Okay, I admit it! You're a commoner, I'm royalty. You're a super saiyan and I'm not! Shut up about it!!"
"Well, how about it? Are you going to let me help you..." Leela began. "Or are you going to purge planets for him forever?"
"..." Vegeta sighed. "Alright, fine - but you have to let me finish him off!!"
"I don't think I could kill him anyway..." Leela said in a quiet voice. "I'm a fighter, not a killer. Be my guest."
"You're a weird saiyan."