A/N: I don't own DBZ and I don't pretend to. This story is AU so that gives me free range and my characters OOC (out of character). Be warned spelling and grammar mistakes will be found. ALWAYS! Another Warning, this could end up as a Yaoi male/male coupling. If you don't like reading that type of stuff then don't read. No-one is making you. Rated R
Royal Delivery
Chapter 6"BEHIND YOU" Mirai yelled as the door slid shut locking them both in with the rapidly growing flames.
// PAPA // Gohan called as he looked and pounded on the door with the heat burning at his back. "Mirai, it won't open!"
"It's too big to put out." Mirai cried out as he tried to beat out the flames with his top only to spread the fire more. Both boys started to cough. Flames started to engulf one wall and were spreading fast to the others. The cubs were soon cornered and on the ground. // PAPA DADDY //
Goku's eyes lit up with panic hearing and feeling his cubs' fears. Turles was also receiving them from his brother who was too washed with fear to block his bond. "Quick, we need to get downstairs!" Turles rushed to the door only to find it not working. "Shit"
//Boys what's going on? Where are you? // Goku called as he and Turles tried to force the door to open.
//papa…fire…quick// Mirai called as the flames danced around them getting too close and pushing both boys back against the wall with their hands raised to shelter their eyes from the heat.
"SHIT fire. Quick, help me open this damn boor!" Goku growled.
"WHATS GOING ON?'' Vegeta demanded as he entered the ship and saw his mate and his twin brother, ki cutting the door open.
"DOWNSTAIRS" Goku yelled without stopping work on the half cut door.
"SHIT, I smell smoke" Vegeta growled as approached the two brothers working fast at the metal door slowly melting it away not wanting to have it fall back into the lift well blocking their chances even more.
"NO KIDDING" Turles growled as he met his brother's ki from the other side of the door.
"WE NEED TO GET DOWN THERE' Goku growled as he and his brother pulled away the damaged door.
"SHIT TO MUCH SMOKE" Turles growled with all three Saiyan males covering their mouths and noses from the thick smoke bellowing out of the lift well.
"DOESN'T ANYTHING ON THIS DAMN SHIP WORK?" Vegeta growled from the main controls pressing the button that was supposed to start the systems' safety controls.
"HERE MOVE" Turles pushed past him and dove under the control panel with Vegeta hammering the button to work while Goku tried to get close to the door.
"HURRY" Goku yelled // boys talk to me// When there was no answer *SHIT* Goku turned to Vegeta whose eyes were reflecting the same concerns.
"GOT IT" Turles jumped up hit the button. The sound of a loud humming was heard with the smoke being sucked away outside.
"QUICK" Goku and Vegeta pushed through the broken door with Turles behind them. With smoke still trapped in the lift well stinging their eyes Vegeta looked down to see the lift itself sitting at the bottom blocking their path. All three Saiyans landed on the roof of the box. "MOVE" Vegeta waved them away trying not to cough as he reached down and tore open the roof so they could drop in one at time, first Goku then Turles then Vegeta. By the time the King dropped from the roof of the lift his mate and brother had pushed open the door to a corridor with the heavy smoke being lifted and drawn to the vents. "Where to now? I'm not picking them up." Vegeta growled.
"I think they're this way." Goku called as the others followed him quickly down the corridor with their hands covering their faces //BOYS// Goku tried again. "I am getting nothing. What about you?"
"Nothing" Vegeta growled as he stormed ahead with his brother-in-law beside him with the same firm focus.
"That's the kitchen" Turles growled as Goku came to a door that his instinct had drawn him to. "Shit it is hot."
"Move it!" Vegeta moved up and looked over the glowing red door *I hope the boys are not behind this* Raising his palm Vegeta sent ki blasting the door flew back with a crash. Smoke poured out of the room sending the warriors to crouch. "BOYS…WHERE… ARE …YOU? " Vegeta called in between coughing.
"GOHAN, MIRIA" Goku called pushing passed the smoke. His stinging eyes could make out where the flames had been before the computer switched its safety system on. Looking through the ashes and rubble he saw something that made his blood chill. "LOOK!" Goku rushed over to the far end to see two scotched tails lying limp under the rubble.
Vegeta rushed in as Goku pulled away some of the hot metal. Vegeta's heart was pounding hard with every second as another piece removed revealing another burnt limb. Turles rushed over to help. When the debris was clear the adults' eyes widened at the sight of two small cubs with burns to at lest thirty percent to there bodies. "OH KAMI" Goku dropped to his knees feeling numb slowly he leaned over and lift one of the cubs with Vegeta coming up to lift the other with their sons limp in their arms. Goku's watery eyes slowly looked up to meet his mates own grief.
"Are they alive?" Turles curiously asked the distraught parents.
"Yes, but barley. We are going to have to get them back to the healing tanks. Vegeta stood up with his son's burned body lying still in his arms with a faint rise and fall of his small chest. Goku followed his partner out with Gohan in his arms with the same small pattern happening with his breathing. Turles followed the two fathers out and back to the palace.
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In sickbay, the tension was high among the adults with two cubs floating in healing Saiyan DNA liquid. "What's he doing here?" Goku growled looking at the old man with his wooden cane that was nearly as tall as him. Vegeta tried to calm his mate.
"Because I asked him to come here that's why Kakarrot. He can help." Vegeta pulled his partner away to a corner with Turles keeping and eye on the old man who was walking up to the tanks containing the cubs.
"How is he going to fix this?" Goku growled pointing at their cubs, annoyed more with himself for not being able to get there sooner.
"Trust him, please for me. For our cubs, let him do what he is good at." Vegeta said trying to get the taller Saiyan to look at him and listen.
"But the healing tanks are all our boys need." Goku stated not trusting the old man in the slightest.
"Not true, you heard the doctor, the boys will need counselling. Artimis can help the boys recover quickly where the tanks can't." Vegeta explained as looked at his lover's worried face.
"I don't like it Vegeta. What if he does something to their minds?" Goku shook his head. With all the stories he had heard he didn't want his sons involved with something he didn't understand, something that was so foreign to him.
"All he will do is a mind bond with the boys and channel his healing that way." Vegeta brought his worried partner closer for hug allowing his tail to uncurl and wrap around his mate in a calming manner.
"That means he will always be bonded to the boys." Goku frowned not liking this at all. Vegeta's eyes lit with warmth for his love.
"Yes." Vegeta purred
"They will become like him?" Goku whispers
"Not really they will have access to some of his knowledge and power but they won't understand any of this until they are a lot older." Vegeta smiled. His partner was calming down some and listening to his options.
"What type of stuff?" Goku asked with his partner's tail brushing against his, calming him even more.
"I don't know and nor does he. He wants to help Kakarrot. He is a good man." Vegeta's voice was low and soothing as he watched his lover look down a little ashamed before turning to meet the Kings caring eyes.
"Gohan said the same thing." Goku said quietly
"Then let him. For our boys…" Vegeta purred with Goku's tail uncurling and winding it around his partners.
"Fine but if anything goes wrong …" Goku's dark eyes looked over at the old man who was waiting.
"Nothing will go wrong." Vegeta purred in his lover's ear.
"Ok let him." Goku said with his dark eyes shining with worry.
"Thank you." Vegeta purred as he kissed his mate's neck before uncurling his tail from his mate's and winding it around his thin waist.
The two fathers walked over to the old man who watched them approach. "I thank you for allowing me to help the two cubs."
"Don't hurt them." Goku's eyes sparked with a warning.
"I won't." Artimis smirked.
Turles watched as the old man thoughtfully moved between the two boys. With his arms stretched out and his hands touched both healing chambers. Everyone in the room quietened as they watched a charge of electricity emanate out of the man's hands and was directed into the tanks were the two royals cubs floated in a deep sleep as the liquored healed their burnt bodies.
Goku watched anxiously as blue electricity snapped and sparked through to the two small bodies, completely missing the machinery that surrounded the boys. Both cubs were unaware of the tension that surrounded them as the light was reduced to a quiet hum as the old man closed his eyes and directed his power to the two cubs. Vegeta looked at his partner who had taken a step towards the healing tanks. "Kakarrot stay still."
"But…" Goku protested.
"Shh" Vegeta's eyes smiled to his mate indicating that everything is all well.
Turles watched as a steady blue string of ki passed through both boys with a warm humming sound coming from the old man. He didn't know whether he approved all this or not. The stories that his father had fed him as a kid echoed. A magician with great powers who could control others by a mere thought or gesture, who had the power to become a shape shifter.
The next few minutes felt like hours. The old man lowered his hands and turned back to the anxious parents. "It's done." They each share a part of me in their minds. The healing from this one incident is fixed.
"Have you healed all their trouble from that?" Goku asks wondering out loud.
"No unfortunately even the great's wizards have our demons. But the boys' minds should at least be able to function better than they would without my help." The old man leaned on his carved walking stick for support. His ki was low from feeding it to the two cubs.
"Here old man I'll take you back. You need to rest." Turles said getting the nod of approval from the King.
"Thank you that would be greatly appreciated. I'll come back later and see how the boys are." Artimis said before he left with Turles help. Goku moved up to the two chambers and put his hands up on each of the cold glass that encased their boys.
"They look like they're asleep. I wonder if they believe it to be a dream."
Vegeta came up behind his love and pulled him close and kissed his neck. "Koi they are safe, and with the old man's powers they will be stronger than any other." Vegeta purred as his tail tangled with his mate's as both looked at the cubs floating in front of them. They were certainly looking better than they did three hours ago.
"They will be there until the morning. You need your rest." Vegeta whispered
"I know. I Love them both. It's not fair." Goku said tightening his tail around Vegeta for comfort.
Vegeta nuzzled his lover's neck with his dark eyes looking back up at the cubs. "I know. Come, rest. We will see them in the morning." He whispered as he went to lead his mate away and outside for a rest before they were called back in. Reluctantly both parents left the quiet room where their cubs rested.
Unbeknown to the two royals their every move was being monitored with great interest by a security camera tucked high up in the ceiling. The information was relayed back to its master in the head of security's office where plans where now spun into action for the removal and transport of two royal cubs to Lord Freezer's empire where both cubs will make their deliverer a wealthy man.
TBC…
A/N: Finally we are getting some where. Hits head on keyboard *Owww* I whish I could just dive straight into a @#%&* story line. Oh well its fun trying… frustrating as hell but fun.
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