In The Eyes of a Hunter
Written by Mandy and Jennifer
Chapter 12 - Betrayal
Disclaimer - We do not own any of the DBZ characters. Yet, any new characters that we have made to fit the story are ours, and part of In the Eyes of a Hunter. Thank you!
Bra slowly opened her eyes, awakening from her unconsciousness. "Trunks." she mumbled and grunted slightly as she pushed herself into a sitting position. She rubbed the back of her head while glancing around the room she was in, trying to get her bearings. She found herself in a fairly large, cold, and empty chamber with nothing really to be seen but a heavy steel door on one wall. Her head snapped up at the sound of the door swinging open, revealing the same man who had broken into her room.
The man stepped into the room, letting his eyes rest only briefly on her small form, before closing the door behind him. After the startling loud echo died away, he turned to face her, saying, "Well, I see that you're awake."
Bra frantically backed away until she hit the wall. She half yelled, half pleaded up to the man. "Get away from me!"
He ignored what she said and started to walk over, stopping a couple of feet in front of her with his arms at his side.
Bra stared up fearfully into the cold, downcast gaze of his pale blue eyes.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and spoke. "Listen and listen well. I'm going to make this quite simple the first time. I want some answers from you and no trouble. If you refuse to cooperate or defy me at all, I will make your life a living nightmare.
Bra's eyes widened from her increasing fear as she began to whimper.
"Shut up!" the man shouted. "I am NOT going to stand here and listen to your whining!" He exhaled a deep, ragged sigh and folded his arms, still staring down at her. "Now answer me this. Where is the Jilkion Stone?"
Bra blinked in slight confusion. "Wh-What?"
"Don't play dumb!" he yelled and stepped forward, leaning down a bit, and grabbed her hair, pulling her upper body away from the ground until she nearly screamed. "Now you don't want that pretty little face of yours to get torn up, do you? If you don't tell me what I want to know, I can assure you that you'll regret it."
Bra squirmed in his grasp, forcing back the tears of pain and fear. She wasn't going to cry.
"I know he has it. Tell me where it is!" he demanded, jerking her again.
"Ah! Ow!" She yelped and grabbed his hand to try and pry his fingers away from her hair and release the pain. "I don't know who you're talking about!"
"Your father, brat! I know Prince Vegeta has the Jilkion Stone, and if you don't tell me where it is right now, I'm going to have to resort to more drastic measures!" the man yelled with impatience and irritation.
Bra looked back up at him with gleaming eyes filled with worry. "Daddy? You leave my daddy alone, you hear me?! He doesn't have your stupid stone!" she yelled, still struggling to get free of the death grip he had on her hair.
The man smirked in amusement, before hardening his expression to one of anger. "I don't believe you are in the position to be making threats, kid."
Bra shut her eyes and whimpered quietly from the numbing pain in her head.
The man looked down at her in disgust before standing up, letting go of her hair and gripping her arm, his fingers digging into her flesh. "Hm." Suddenly, he jerked her completely off the floor and, with a good amount of energy, threw her little body against the wall.
Bra slammed into the wall with her back, letting out a short cry of pain, before falling to the floor in a heap. She landed hard, face down, with a sickening thud.
He narrowed his eyes down at her form and spoke in a low, deadly tone. "Mark me, girl, this isn't over." With that, he turned and walked out of the room, slamming the door hard behind him, leaving a feeling of tense fear in the air as if he were still there.
After a moment, Bra moved slightly, turning her head a bit in her trembling position on the floor. She spoke with a voice barely audible, "Daddy."
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Vegeta, Trunks, and Goku stood in the front yard of Capsule Corp., debating on what could be done at this point.
"No! I refuse to just sit here and do nothing when we could be out there finding him!" Vegeta shouted, mainly to Goku.
"Look, I know you're upset, Vegeta." Goku reasoned. "But we don't even know what to look for, or where! He might not even be on the planet for all you know. We just have to wait for something to present itself."
The wind suddenly picked up. Everyone stopped talking and shielded their faces against it. Without warning, the wind exploded from somewhere very close, sending the air rushing violently all around them. Everyone's heads snapped up as they all felt the incredible power that was so high it made their stomachs turn. They spun around, looking up into the sky at the source of the energy. Their eyes all came to rest upon the man hovering above them, his arms crossed over his chest and an evil smirk on his face.
"Well, look who it is." He said mockingly, gazing down at the three Saiyans.
Trunks' face twisted in rage after the initial shock wore off. "YOU!!!" Without hesitation, he blasted off the ground, going Super Saiyan, and charged at the man with an insane burst of power.
The man raised an eyebrow in surprise while staring down at him with a frown. He put up an effortless energy shield. The power of Trunks' attack collided with that of the shield, which backfired on him, sending him flying back towards the ground.
Goku flew up to catch him, the force of his body causing him to fall back, landing roughly on the ground. He stood back up, helping a slightly dazed Trunks up as well.
The man stared down at him with a smirk, chuckling quietly. "It's useless, boy. Give it up while you still can. You can't even touch me."
Vegeta, who had only briefly averted his eyes from the stranger when Trunks had been thrown back, stared back up at him now. His fists tightened at his side, fury shown on his face. He yelled up at the man through clenched teeth, "Where's Bra?! If you've hurt her in any way, I swear I'll--!!"
The man interrupted him with a laugh. "Now, Vegeta, I don't think anything you say will truly frighten me. I only came here to talk." He paused for a moment. "Your daughter is with me, and I'll be honest, she's not in the best of conditions right now."
Vegeta growled loudly. "Why YOU!"
"And she will remain with me until I get what I want." He added sharply.
"And what is that?" Vegeta snapped back.
"You should know." He replied. "But before we get to that, I should introduce myself. My name is Altair."
Vegeta's eyes twitched as he heard the familiar name.
He grinned down at them. "I'm a Saiyan."
Everyone froze, all sharing the same shocked expression. Vegeta had a distant look in his eyes, as if he were trying to remember something from long ago, fighting with the shadow of a memory that nagged at the back of his mind. He blinked and shook his head a bit, regaining his composure. "Why are you here? I demand an answer!"
"All in due time, Vegeta." Altair responded calmly. "As a mater of fact, that's precisely why I came here."
Trunks and Goku kept their fighting stances, even though it didn't seem like this guy intended on attacking right now. They stared up at him, glaring daggers.
Altair was looking only at Vegeta now, ignoring the other two. "Vegeta, don't you recognize me?" he asked in a mocking tone, narrowing his eyes. "It seems you have forgotten a lot of things from our past." His eyes suddenly hardened, boring into Vegeta's shocked ones, his anger growing the more he spoke. "Though, I'm sure you haven't completely forgotten that day. The day you murdered my brother for the Jilkion Stone."
**Flashback**
"Come on, Kantar! We're late." Altair whispered loudly through the shadows of dusk. He was wearing a simple gi of a deep green shade and black boots. A makeshift belt of white cloth was tied around his waist. His unruly black spiky hair with faint silver highlights hung down in his eyes. "We were supposed to meet Vegeta at Kyuushi Cliff ten minutes ago!"
Kantar grinned and chuckled while running to catch up with Altair. He was dressed in a dark blue gi the same style as his brother's. He wore black boots, similar to Altair's, as well as a lighter blue belt around his waist. A dark blue bandana on his forehead completed his outfit. The short bangs of his hair hung partway over the bandana to his eyes, the rest reaching out to tall black spikes in all directions. "Boy, I can't wait until we finally have the Jilkion Stone! This will prove to Father that we're not as worthless as he always says we are."
"Yeah I know! This is going to be great!" Altair agreed, grinning back at his brother as they kept running.
Kantar smirked to Altair's back. "Of course, I'm going to use it first."
Altair skidded to a halt and spun around, nearly causing Kantar to slam into him. "What?! Why do -you- get to use it first? What, because you're twelve and I'm only eight, right? That's a stupid reason! You use that for everything! Anyway, Vegeta is -my- friend. We wouldn't even be getting the Stone if it weren't for me!" he protested insistently, scrunching up his face in disagreement.
Kantar smiled down at his younger brother. "Ha, that's only because Prince Vegeta is only nine. I don't care to hang around you two all the time. Ah, but I might let you get a hold of it for a little while anyway. We'll just have to see who's tougher." He put a hand on Altair's head and ruffled his hair a bit before taking off at a run again. "Come on or we'll really be late!" he called back.
Altair half-smiled before jetting after Kantar. "Hey!" he shouted up to him, catching up. "Why do you think he wanted to meet us at Kyuushi Cliff? That place is in the middle of nowhere."
"How should I know?" Kantar replied, glancing over at Altair as he came up beside him. "He's -your- friend, remember?"
Altair sighed. "Oh never mind."
Kantar shrugged and the two boys fell into silence as they neared the tall cliff.
Vegeta stood at the top of the cliff, his tail wrapped idly around his waist, and the wind blowing his hair softly. His arms were crossed and a frown was shown on his face. "Where are they?" he muttered impatiently with a sigh. He saw something out of the corner of his eye and turned his head as Altair and Kantar came running up the incline to where he was standing.
"Hey Vegeta! Sorry we're late." Altair said as he came up and stopped, bending over, supporting his arms on his knees to catch his breath.
Kantar came up seconds later and stopped next to his brother, showing no signs of exhaustion. He nodded towards Vegeta in way of greeting, wrapping his tail around his waist as well.
Vegeta returned the nod and looked down at Altair who was still bent over, panting slightly. He shook his head with a quiet grunt and uncrossed his arms, before walking down the slight slope towards the two.
Altair straightened up with a wide grin. "So do you have it?" he asked.
Vegeta stopped a couple of feet in front of him. He blinked and glanced down at his closed hand. "Of course I do." He said, lifting his arm out towards Altair with his fist closed.
Kantar and Altair glanced at each other briefly and grinned. Altair stepped up to Vegeta while Kantar stayed off to the side. "Great!" he said excitedly, reaching out to take the stone, the tip of his tail twitching in anticipation.
Instead of dropping the small jewel into Altair's eager hands, however, he opened his empty hand in his friend's face, palm facing forward.
Kantar's eyes twitched in surprise.
"What the?" Altair asked, stepping back and looking at Vegeta in confusion. "Vegeta, what are you doing? Where's the stone? I thought you said you had it."
The young prince stared down the length of his arm into Altair's eyes. "Sorry. But you'll just get in the way."
Altair dropped his arms to his sides and stared back at him blankly. "What are you talking about?"
Vegeta started charging a small ki blast in the palm of his open hand, speaking as it grew in size. "I've realized that you only hold me back from living up to the expectations of a Saiyan Prince." He explained in a tone that held no remorse.
Altair's eyes widened as he froze for a moment from the shock of his words.
"Good-bye, old friend." Vegeta said with a half-smirk before firing the blast straight at him.
The brief moment of Altair's immobility was enough to ensure that he wouldn't be able to move fast enough to dodge. "NO!!" Kantar screamed out, leaping to his brother and pushing him out of the way, just before the blast hit him, taking it in his own chest.
Altair landed on the ground and flipped back over just in time to watch in horror as Kantar fell lifelessly to the ground, blood already pouring from his body and surrounding him in a puddle of crimson. "Kantar." Altair whispered as he scrambled over to his fallen brother, panic rising inside him and tears brimming his eyelids. Blood soaked into the knees of his pants as he knelt next to Kantar in stunned terror, unable to believe what just happened. "Kantar!! NO!!" he screamed out, slightly shaking his brother's body. He whipped his head around to glare at Vegeta, who stood with his arms folded again, showing no signs of shock or regret. Altair's eyes flared as he leaped to his feet. "Vegeta!!" he yelled at him. "How could you?!!"
In a raging fury, Altair charged at him, surprising Vegeta slightly. He jumped and knocked the young Prince to the ground. Vegeta landed and in the same motion, brought his knees up and kicked Altair off him, sending him flying a few yards behind him and landing hard on his back. As he rolled over to stand up again, Vegeta was already quickly upon him. The Prince sent a swift and powerful kick to the boy's ribs, which sent him sailing through the air to the top of the cliff. He skidded to a halt, stopping dangerously close to the edge. Altair heaved a bit and gagged, the results of the two harsh kicks he took in the chest. He turned his head down and coughed, feeling the rush of blood flow over his tongue, part of it trailing down his chin, the rest splattering on the ground in front of him. Without hesitating further, Altair sprung back to his feet, fueled by his insane anger and desperation, and spun around, narrowly avoiding another kick that would have sent him flying far over the narrow edge of the high cliff. He glimpsed for a moment into Vegeta's eyes before the Prince swung his right fist at him. Altair caught it, as well as the following left handed punch. They pulled their hands away and locked fingers, both pushing against each other with all their energy. He looked at Vegeta, still pushing against him. "Why---Why are you doing this?!" Altair choked out as he felt his feet slowly begin to move backwards through the dirt towards the edge of the cliff. "I already told you! You would've only held me back all my life." Vegeta answered. "Besides, you didn't -really- think I was going to give it to you, did you?" he added with an amused smirk. Altair's eyes twitched slightly as he focused more on staying on the cliff than the fact that he had been horribly betrayed by, who he thought was, his best friend. After another moment of struggling against each other, Altair's heels were beginning to move off the edge behind him. "Give it up!" Vegeta shouted at him. "You cannot overpower me!" Suddenly, the rocks under Altair's right foot crumbled, causing him to lose his balance. Vegeta seized the opportunity and tightened his grip on Altair's hands, pulling him forward. He stared down into his eyes and smirked slightly before shoving him far off the cliff. He stood and watched as Altair fell the fifty feet to the ground below, listening to him scream all the way down. After a moment of staring down at what he could see of Altair's body, from where he stood, he turned and walked away.
**End Flashback**
"You thought I had died that night, but you were wrong. I saved myself by using the last of my energy to prevent my body from hitting the ground at full force." Altair spoke down to Vegeta, who still stood with Goku and Trunks on the ground. "Shortly after I awoke, I left the planet in rage, vowing that one day I would avenge Kantar's death and make you pay for your betrayal."
Trunks side-glanced at his father for a moment, before returning his stare back up to Altair. He, as well as Goku, was shocked to hear of the connection between him and Vegeta.
Vegeta had no words. He remembered it all clearly now, as he stared into Altair's eyes, seeing the same look in them that he saw after Kantar had been killed. Of course I wouldn't have given them the stone! With that kind of power, it wouldn't be long before I would be taking orders from him! Vegeta thought to himself, noting what he had said to Altair on the cliff that night.
Altair held Vegeta's stare, his eyes showing Vegeta nothing but the truth in his statements and the eagerness to make him suffer in repayment for how his life had been ruined. He no longer showed amusement in his surprise. "And I will," he continued with a slightly mocking tone, "-old- friend." With that, he vanished in a quick blur of light.
Written by Mandy and Jennifer
Chapter 12 - Betrayal
Disclaimer - We do not own any of the DBZ characters. Yet, any new characters that we have made to fit the story are ours, and part of In the Eyes of a Hunter. Thank you!
Bra slowly opened her eyes, awakening from her unconsciousness. "Trunks." she mumbled and grunted slightly as she pushed herself into a sitting position. She rubbed the back of her head while glancing around the room she was in, trying to get her bearings. She found herself in a fairly large, cold, and empty chamber with nothing really to be seen but a heavy steel door on one wall. Her head snapped up at the sound of the door swinging open, revealing the same man who had broken into her room.
The man stepped into the room, letting his eyes rest only briefly on her small form, before closing the door behind him. After the startling loud echo died away, he turned to face her, saying, "Well, I see that you're awake."
Bra frantically backed away until she hit the wall. She half yelled, half pleaded up to the man. "Get away from me!"
He ignored what she said and started to walk over, stopping a couple of feet in front of her with his arms at his side.
Bra stared up fearfully into the cold, downcast gaze of his pale blue eyes.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and spoke. "Listen and listen well. I'm going to make this quite simple the first time. I want some answers from you and no trouble. If you refuse to cooperate or defy me at all, I will make your life a living nightmare.
Bra's eyes widened from her increasing fear as she began to whimper.
"Shut up!" the man shouted. "I am NOT going to stand here and listen to your whining!" He exhaled a deep, ragged sigh and folded his arms, still staring down at her. "Now answer me this. Where is the Jilkion Stone?"
Bra blinked in slight confusion. "Wh-What?"
"Don't play dumb!" he yelled and stepped forward, leaning down a bit, and grabbed her hair, pulling her upper body away from the ground until she nearly screamed. "Now you don't want that pretty little face of yours to get torn up, do you? If you don't tell me what I want to know, I can assure you that you'll regret it."
Bra squirmed in his grasp, forcing back the tears of pain and fear. She wasn't going to cry.
"I know he has it. Tell me where it is!" he demanded, jerking her again.
"Ah! Ow!" She yelped and grabbed his hand to try and pry his fingers away from her hair and release the pain. "I don't know who you're talking about!"
"Your father, brat! I know Prince Vegeta has the Jilkion Stone, and if you don't tell me where it is right now, I'm going to have to resort to more drastic measures!" the man yelled with impatience and irritation.
Bra looked back up at him with gleaming eyes filled with worry. "Daddy? You leave my daddy alone, you hear me?! He doesn't have your stupid stone!" she yelled, still struggling to get free of the death grip he had on her hair.
The man smirked in amusement, before hardening his expression to one of anger. "I don't believe you are in the position to be making threats, kid."
Bra shut her eyes and whimpered quietly from the numbing pain in her head.
The man looked down at her in disgust before standing up, letting go of her hair and gripping her arm, his fingers digging into her flesh. "Hm." Suddenly, he jerked her completely off the floor and, with a good amount of energy, threw her little body against the wall.
Bra slammed into the wall with her back, letting out a short cry of pain, before falling to the floor in a heap. She landed hard, face down, with a sickening thud.
He narrowed his eyes down at her form and spoke in a low, deadly tone. "Mark me, girl, this isn't over." With that, he turned and walked out of the room, slamming the door hard behind him, leaving a feeling of tense fear in the air as if he were still there.
After a moment, Bra moved slightly, turning her head a bit in her trembling position on the floor. She spoke with a voice barely audible, "Daddy."
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Vegeta, Trunks, and Goku stood in the front yard of Capsule Corp., debating on what could be done at this point.
"No! I refuse to just sit here and do nothing when we could be out there finding him!" Vegeta shouted, mainly to Goku.
"Look, I know you're upset, Vegeta." Goku reasoned. "But we don't even know what to look for, or where! He might not even be on the planet for all you know. We just have to wait for something to present itself."
The wind suddenly picked up. Everyone stopped talking and shielded their faces against it. Without warning, the wind exploded from somewhere very close, sending the air rushing violently all around them. Everyone's heads snapped up as they all felt the incredible power that was so high it made their stomachs turn. They spun around, looking up into the sky at the source of the energy. Their eyes all came to rest upon the man hovering above them, his arms crossed over his chest and an evil smirk on his face.
"Well, look who it is." He said mockingly, gazing down at the three Saiyans.
Trunks' face twisted in rage after the initial shock wore off. "YOU!!!" Without hesitation, he blasted off the ground, going Super Saiyan, and charged at the man with an insane burst of power.
The man raised an eyebrow in surprise while staring down at him with a frown. He put up an effortless energy shield. The power of Trunks' attack collided with that of the shield, which backfired on him, sending him flying back towards the ground.
Goku flew up to catch him, the force of his body causing him to fall back, landing roughly on the ground. He stood back up, helping a slightly dazed Trunks up as well.
The man stared down at him with a smirk, chuckling quietly. "It's useless, boy. Give it up while you still can. You can't even touch me."
Vegeta, who had only briefly averted his eyes from the stranger when Trunks had been thrown back, stared back up at him now. His fists tightened at his side, fury shown on his face. He yelled up at the man through clenched teeth, "Where's Bra?! If you've hurt her in any way, I swear I'll--!!"
The man interrupted him with a laugh. "Now, Vegeta, I don't think anything you say will truly frighten me. I only came here to talk." He paused for a moment. "Your daughter is with me, and I'll be honest, she's not in the best of conditions right now."
Vegeta growled loudly. "Why YOU!"
"And she will remain with me until I get what I want." He added sharply.
"And what is that?" Vegeta snapped back.
"You should know." He replied. "But before we get to that, I should introduce myself. My name is Altair."
Vegeta's eyes twitched as he heard the familiar name.
He grinned down at them. "I'm a Saiyan."
Everyone froze, all sharing the same shocked expression. Vegeta had a distant look in his eyes, as if he were trying to remember something from long ago, fighting with the shadow of a memory that nagged at the back of his mind. He blinked and shook his head a bit, regaining his composure. "Why are you here? I demand an answer!"
"All in due time, Vegeta." Altair responded calmly. "As a mater of fact, that's precisely why I came here."
Trunks and Goku kept their fighting stances, even though it didn't seem like this guy intended on attacking right now. They stared up at him, glaring daggers.
Altair was looking only at Vegeta now, ignoring the other two. "Vegeta, don't you recognize me?" he asked in a mocking tone, narrowing his eyes. "It seems you have forgotten a lot of things from our past." His eyes suddenly hardened, boring into Vegeta's shocked ones, his anger growing the more he spoke. "Though, I'm sure you haven't completely forgotten that day. The day you murdered my brother for the Jilkion Stone."
**Flashback**
"Come on, Kantar! We're late." Altair whispered loudly through the shadows of dusk. He was wearing a simple gi of a deep green shade and black boots. A makeshift belt of white cloth was tied around his waist. His unruly black spiky hair with faint silver highlights hung down in his eyes. "We were supposed to meet Vegeta at Kyuushi Cliff ten minutes ago!"
Kantar grinned and chuckled while running to catch up with Altair. He was dressed in a dark blue gi the same style as his brother's. He wore black boots, similar to Altair's, as well as a lighter blue belt around his waist. A dark blue bandana on his forehead completed his outfit. The short bangs of his hair hung partway over the bandana to his eyes, the rest reaching out to tall black spikes in all directions. "Boy, I can't wait until we finally have the Jilkion Stone! This will prove to Father that we're not as worthless as he always says we are."
"Yeah I know! This is going to be great!" Altair agreed, grinning back at his brother as they kept running.
Kantar smirked to Altair's back. "Of course, I'm going to use it first."
Altair skidded to a halt and spun around, nearly causing Kantar to slam into him. "What?! Why do -you- get to use it first? What, because you're twelve and I'm only eight, right? That's a stupid reason! You use that for everything! Anyway, Vegeta is -my- friend. We wouldn't even be getting the Stone if it weren't for me!" he protested insistently, scrunching up his face in disagreement.
Kantar smiled down at his younger brother. "Ha, that's only because Prince Vegeta is only nine. I don't care to hang around you two all the time. Ah, but I might let you get a hold of it for a little while anyway. We'll just have to see who's tougher." He put a hand on Altair's head and ruffled his hair a bit before taking off at a run again. "Come on or we'll really be late!" he called back.
Altair half-smiled before jetting after Kantar. "Hey!" he shouted up to him, catching up. "Why do you think he wanted to meet us at Kyuushi Cliff? That place is in the middle of nowhere."
"How should I know?" Kantar replied, glancing over at Altair as he came up beside him. "He's -your- friend, remember?"
Altair sighed. "Oh never mind."
Kantar shrugged and the two boys fell into silence as they neared the tall cliff.
Vegeta stood at the top of the cliff, his tail wrapped idly around his waist, and the wind blowing his hair softly. His arms were crossed and a frown was shown on his face. "Where are they?" he muttered impatiently with a sigh. He saw something out of the corner of his eye and turned his head as Altair and Kantar came running up the incline to where he was standing.
"Hey Vegeta! Sorry we're late." Altair said as he came up and stopped, bending over, supporting his arms on his knees to catch his breath.
Kantar came up seconds later and stopped next to his brother, showing no signs of exhaustion. He nodded towards Vegeta in way of greeting, wrapping his tail around his waist as well.
Vegeta returned the nod and looked down at Altair who was still bent over, panting slightly. He shook his head with a quiet grunt and uncrossed his arms, before walking down the slight slope towards the two.
Altair straightened up with a wide grin. "So do you have it?" he asked.
Vegeta stopped a couple of feet in front of him. He blinked and glanced down at his closed hand. "Of course I do." He said, lifting his arm out towards Altair with his fist closed.
Kantar and Altair glanced at each other briefly and grinned. Altair stepped up to Vegeta while Kantar stayed off to the side. "Great!" he said excitedly, reaching out to take the stone, the tip of his tail twitching in anticipation.
Instead of dropping the small jewel into Altair's eager hands, however, he opened his empty hand in his friend's face, palm facing forward.
Kantar's eyes twitched in surprise.
"What the?" Altair asked, stepping back and looking at Vegeta in confusion. "Vegeta, what are you doing? Where's the stone? I thought you said you had it."
The young prince stared down the length of his arm into Altair's eyes. "Sorry. But you'll just get in the way."
Altair dropped his arms to his sides and stared back at him blankly. "What are you talking about?"
Vegeta started charging a small ki blast in the palm of his open hand, speaking as it grew in size. "I've realized that you only hold me back from living up to the expectations of a Saiyan Prince." He explained in a tone that held no remorse.
Altair's eyes widened as he froze for a moment from the shock of his words.
"Good-bye, old friend." Vegeta said with a half-smirk before firing the blast straight at him.
The brief moment of Altair's immobility was enough to ensure that he wouldn't be able to move fast enough to dodge. "NO!!" Kantar screamed out, leaping to his brother and pushing him out of the way, just before the blast hit him, taking it in his own chest.
Altair landed on the ground and flipped back over just in time to watch in horror as Kantar fell lifelessly to the ground, blood already pouring from his body and surrounding him in a puddle of crimson. "Kantar." Altair whispered as he scrambled over to his fallen brother, panic rising inside him and tears brimming his eyelids. Blood soaked into the knees of his pants as he knelt next to Kantar in stunned terror, unable to believe what just happened. "Kantar!! NO!!" he screamed out, slightly shaking his brother's body. He whipped his head around to glare at Vegeta, who stood with his arms folded again, showing no signs of shock or regret. Altair's eyes flared as he leaped to his feet. "Vegeta!!" he yelled at him. "How could you?!!"
In a raging fury, Altair charged at him, surprising Vegeta slightly. He jumped and knocked the young Prince to the ground. Vegeta landed and in the same motion, brought his knees up and kicked Altair off him, sending him flying a few yards behind him and landing hard on his back. As he rolled over to stand up again, Vegeta was already quickly upon him. The Prince sent a swift and powerful kick to the boy's ribs, which sent him sailing through the air to the top of the cliff. He skidded to a halt, stopping dangerously close to the edge. Altair heaved a bit and gagged, the results of the two harsh kicks he took in the chest. He turned his head down and coughed, feeling the rush of blood flow over his tongue, part of it trailing down his chin, the rest splattering on the ground in front of him. Without hesitating further, Altair sprung back to his feet, fueled by his insane anger and desperation, and spun around, narrowly avoiding another kick that would have sent him flying far over the narrow edge of the high cliff. He glimpsed for a moment into Vegeta's eyes before the Prince swung his right fist at him. Altair caught it, as well as the following left handed punch. They pulled their hands away and locked fingers, both pushing against each other with all their energy. He looked at Vegeta, still pushing against him. "Why---Why are you doing this?!" Altair choked out as he felt his feet slowly begin to move backwards through the dirt towards the edge of the cliff. "I already told you! You would've only held me back all my life." Vegeta answered. "Besides, you didn't -really- think I was going to give it to you, did you?" he added with an amused smirk. Altair's eyes twitched slightly as he focused more on staying on the cliff than the fact that he had been horribly betrayed by, who he thought was, his best friend. After another moment of struggling against each other, Altair's heels were beginning to move off the edge behind him. "Give it up!" Vegeta shouted at him. "You cannot overpower me!" Suddenly, the rocks under Altair's right foot crumbled, causing him to lose his balance. Vegeta seized the opportunity and tightened his grip on Altair's hands, pulling him forward. He stared down into his eyes and smirked slightly before shoving him far off the cliff. He stood and watched as Altair fell the fifty feet to the ground below, listening to him scream all the way down. After a moment of staring down at what he could see of Altair's body, from where he stood, he turned and walked away.
**End Flashback**
"You thought I had died that night, but you were wrong. I saved myself by using the last of my energy to prevent my body from hitting the ground at full force." Altair spoke down to Vegeta, who still stood with Goku and Trunks on the ground. "Shortly after I awoke, I left the planet in rage, vowing that one day I would avenge Kantar's death and make you pay for your betrayal."
Trunks side-glanced at his father for a moment, before returning his stare back up to Altair. He, as well as Goku, was shocked to hear of the connection between him and Vegeta.
Vegeta had no words. He remembered it all clearly now, as he stared into Altair's eyes, seeing the same look in them that he saw after Kantar had been killed. Of course I wouldn't have given them the stone! With that kind of power, it wouldn't be long before I would be taking orders from him! Vegeta thought to himself, noting what he had said to Altair on the cliff that night.
Altair held Vegeta's stare, his eyes showing Vegeta nothing but the truth in his statements and the eagerness to make him suffer in repayment for how his life had been ruined. He no longer showed amusement in his surprise. "And I will," he continued with a slightly mocking tone, "-old- friend." With that, he vanished in a quick blur of light.