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 Warning: implications of rape.
Royal Delivery
Chapter 9"BLOODY HELL"
The older guard pushed his way in pulling apart the other guards from the boy. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?"
"THE LITTLE BUGGER BIT ME!" The young man held up his arm with a decent sized chunk ripped from it. Mirai had come down hard with his young Saiyan canines in an attempt to stop the man for beating up his friend who fought to keep his tail. The man looked down at Mirai who was glaring at him as he wiped his mouth from the taste of copper wine. The guard tuned back to the younger guard.
"Leave the rest of them for now and bring the kid."
"What about this one?" The young guard said with blood coated arm pointing to the unconscious boy lying limp next to Mirai. The young prince, with a deep cut above his right eye, blood seeping and snaking its way down his young face, dark blues glared back at the man who beat them.
The older guard growled, not at all fussed with all the blood in the room. "Oh just take them both down to the room with the others waiting transport to the Auction house until I know what the boss wants."
"But sir they haven't been de-tailed?"
"Then put them in the small room next door. NOW!" The older guard growled out. He wasn't looking forward to reporting this back to Burles.
"Yes sir. Come here you little bastard. Bite me again and you'll get more than a cut to worry about. Grab the other." Mirai's worried blues watched Ursus get ripped from his arms by the other guard. Mirai leaped to pull him back only to have the injured guard pulled him up by the collar nearly choking him.
"I want you to stay with them while I go and see the boss before we land. Don't let him out of your sight." The older guard ordered as he left for the top floor where he knew Burles would be overseeing the landing of the ship.
It only took them few minutes before Mirai was shoved into a small, empty room no bigger than their cell with it soundproof walls. Ursus was tossed next him. "HEY!" Mirai snapped. The guard snarled back and about to backhand the boy.
"Hey forget it. Let's just get back."
"We can't. Orders were to stay here."
"Fuck orders. I'm going to get this fixed." The injured guard said, "Who knows maybe the boy's got rabies." The guard looked over his wound checking at the raw painful tear as it swelled.
"I'll lock the door they can't escape." Mirai watched as they both left closing the door and locking it on their way out.
"Ursus wake up. Ursus! " Mirai got on his knees and started to shake his friend. "Wake up."
Slowly Ursus' heavy lids opened. His dark eyes looked up at Mirai's blues filled with concern. "What happened?" Ursus asked as he rubbed the back of his head from the hard hit he had received.
"We're in some room. Are you Ok?" Mirai shifted allowing Ursus more room.
"If you don't count my head, throbbing with pain, I'm peachy." Ursus looked around the tiny room clear of everything.
"Can you get up?" Mirai asked as he stood with his hands stretched out to help.
"My tail?" Ursus went into a panic when a thought came to him. "Oh thank you." He sighed as he held on to the long reddish bushy tail.
"We need to get out of here." Mirai said moving towards the locked door.
"I agree but how the door is locked." Ursus said as he climbed to his feet.
"What about that?" Mirai pointed up to a small vent high on the wall.
Ursus smiled as he turned back to the smaller boy. "Stand on my shoulders. You might be able to pull it open." Mirai nodded with his friend crouching down so the young prince could climb up onto his shoulders. With the thin ki bands, both boys' powers were cut and they had to resort to other tactics.
Once the prince was up Ursus shifted a step so Mirai could reach the vent. "Can you reach it?" The boy asked hopefully.
"Move a little closer." Ursus moved a step closer to the wall with his hands holding Mirai's ankles. The tallest boy held tight on to his friend as Mirai pulled hard on the rusty metal teeth that covered the air conditioning vents. "I've nearly got it. There done." Mirai pulled the metal flap up with his hands getting a grip on the smooth coated skin of the tunnel. "Arrgh" He heaved himself up.
Mirai pushed off Ursus shoulders and into the vent system. The prince turned around in the small space and lean over the edge to get his friend. Ursus beamed as he held out his arm. "Great help me up."
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Gohan found himself locked in the private quarters of Burles, the first man he had learned to fear. With his tail broken again he tried to walk over too the smooth metal door with its green coded lock. Gohan tried to press a few buttons only to get a negative response each time. Looking back in the room the prince's eyes shifted to the large round bubble window.
Favouring one side, trying to dampen the pain, he walked to a chair that was placed under the window. With his hands outstretched he pulled himself up on the large chair to look out the thick clear window.
"Where are you papa, father?" His tiny voice whispered. His voice was still raw from all the screaming as he watched the planet in front of him grow larger until it took up the whole of the view as they drew closer. The ship made a humming sound as the shields were engaged and it descended into the planets atmosphere. Gohan's sad dark pools watched with little interest as red flames bounced off the shields.
In seconds a dark sky encased itself around the ship as they dropped further into the planet's atmosphere. A clicking sound sent Gohan spinning around from the window to the door. His breath hitched as the door slid open. "Hello little one."
Gohan's heart sank as the man, sent a chill through him. The man's cold eyes lit as an unsettling smile crossed his face. Gohan watched Burles' finger type in his code to lock the door.
In a clumsy attempt to get away, Gohan tripped over the side of the chair as the dead weight of his tail got caught in the arm of the chair. He rolled on the floor as the chair nearly fell on top of him. He quickly reached to retrieve his tail. He looked up to see the man in his nightmares smirk down at him taking another step closer. "I won't hurt you." He purred.
Burles stretched out his massive hand to drag the youngest prince to him. Gohan's dark eyes went wide with fear. His heart raced as his body scrambled back, tripping and falling over the fallen chair in an attempt to get away from the large hands. Burles leaned down with a smirk at the frightened chibi and its futile attempts to escape. Dark eyes, alight with fear, the cub scanned the room for safety. His sight fell on the bed next to him. With all the speed the young Saiyan could muster he scrambled over making a dive under the low metal bed. "Damn you brat. Get out. You know you can't escape from me."
Burles pushed the chair out of the way as
he dropped to his knees with his arm stretched out. His hand felt around for
the boy cowering at the far back with eyes blazing with fear. Gohan watched the
hand feel its way towards him. Forcing his small body back as far as the wall
would allow him he watched on, holding his breath as if it would help. "Damn
you brat. GET OUT!" Gohan's dark eyes stayed fix on the hand as the fingers
stretched out in search for him. "GO AWAY" His horse voice roared from under
the bed.
"NEVER" The man growled as got down on all fours lifting up the covers so as to get some light on the boy. Burles' dark cold eyes spotted the cub in the far corner trembling under the fixed bed. Still kneeling he looked around for something to help him get the boy. *I'll get you yet* Burles pushed off the floor and went to the wall that his bed was fixed to by two bolts. His strong arms pulled until it was free from the wall sending Gohan into panic as the bed shifted away from the wall and above him. A large hand came down and snatched the cub by scruff of his neck before he could get chance to flee. "GOTCHA"
"AAArrrrgh"
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"Ursus do know where we are going?" The prince asked his knew friend
"No, but this way looks good. Quick, before they find were gone." Ursus smirked as he kept crawling on all four with Mirai doing the same behind him travailing up through the long line of tunnels in the air conditioning ducts that snaked its self through the ship.
"Hey look through there." Mirai pointed at a vent on his left showing a large empty docking bay where five pods that sat in row.
"That gives me idea." The older boy smirked at their changing luck.
"What?" Mirai shifted so Ursus could see the docking bay.
"If we could get into one of them we have good chance of escaping."
"But I need to find my brother first." Mirai frowned.
"We have no time. Look it is empty, quick out." Ursus leaned back and slammed his boots on the metal grid forcing the vent flap to open into the docking bay. The boy allowed himself to drop from the vent only to land hard on the ground. Ursus sprung up onto his feet to look at his friend leaning over the edge looking down at him. "Quick we have no time to waste. Jump."
"But my brother I can't leave him here."
"Look we will find him but first jump, quick before someone finds us." Ursus was pressed for time. One thing about living on the streets is that you don't waist time talking.
"We had better find him." Mirai growled
"Hurry someone's coming. Quick jump. Now!" Mirai dropped to the cold floor next to his friend before they rushed over to one of the pods. Just as the sound of the automatic door opening letting in two guards carrying a large plastic container into the room, Ursus motioned to his friend to be still and to stay low. Cautiously the older boy peeked around the round pod in search for the guards.
From where they hid he could see the two men place the container down along the wall with other containers. Ursus eyes watched as Mirai crawled over next to him to see for himself. They listened as the men grumbled about work. The boys let out a sigh of relief as the men headed back to the door that automatically opened for them. Once it closed the two boys faced each other. "Quick, get in."
"How."
"Don't you know anything?" Ursus growled as reached up and snatched a remote control that was magnetic to the pod. Seeing the surprised look Mirai was giving him. "I've been around. Come on get in." He explained.
"But I can't my brother."
"You don't have a say at this point. What are we going to do? There are only two of us and hundreds of them. No your best bet is to contact help." Ursus growled pulling on Mirai's arm for him to hurry. Ursus turned back to the pod and pressed a button to open the hatch. Both boys looked in to see a single chair and a control panel. "Hurry, they'll be back."
"Fine." Mirai relentlessly climbed up and in. It was true. What could he do? His best bet was to get in contact with his father and he will find his brother. "Where are you going?"
"I have to find how to open the docking gates so we can launch the pod." Ursus said just as he made a dash over to the far side of the room.
"Do you know what your doing?" Mirai called to his friend.
"Nope." The older boy looked at all the buttons with a large red one on the side. "Gotcha" Ursus pressed it setting off the docking bay alarms as the large long gate opened. "SHIT"
Barp Barp Barp…
"Hurry" Mirai screamed waving for his friend to hurry with the deafening sound echoing in the rectangle room.
Barp Barp Barp Barp…
"LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" Ursus made a run for the pod with Mirai moving back as the gates to the docking bay lifted up setting it shields up automatically. Ursus dived in crashing into Mirai just as guards spilled out into the room. All eyes sprung to the two boys in the far end pod.
"GET THEM!" The guards rushed over towards the pod with a few heading to the control pad to stop the docking gates from opening any further.
Guard rushed towards the pods meters away. "HIT THE BUTTON." Ursus screamed with Mirai in front of the controls.
Mirai panicked at all the different buttons and colours. "Which one?"
"THIS ONE." Ursus slams his hand down on a button triggering the hatch to slam tight. As it did it set the autopilot on just as the guard got to the small space ship. Both boys were forced back with the aggressive speed of the pod launched and hurled out through the now closing docking bay gates and into the planets atmosphere.
"DAMN" The head guard turned to the man at the doors. "GET THE BOSS"
"WHO ME" The small man pointed at himself.
"Yes you!"
"But I'm new here."
"What's your name?" The head guard glared daggers at the smaller man.
"Krillin."
"Krillin get the boss down here NOW." Krillin jumped nervously.
"Yes sir."
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"I hate this job" Krillin pressed the button again to Burles room waiting for his boss to open the door. "What's he doing in there?" The bald headed man pressed his ear to the cold metal door. He could hear movement and muffled crying. *What the hell is he doing in there* Krillin pushed his ear closer to the door to try and hear but was shocked back when the door slid open. Krillin stumbled back to look up at his flustered Burles. With a cold glare Burles looks down. "WHAT IS IT?" He growled.
"Umm sir. There's been trouble in the docking bay."
"What kind of trouble. REPORT!" Burles was in no mood for this.
"One of our pods was stolen by two kids."
"FUCK" Burles pushed the small man back against the wall as he sped off towards one of the main lifts to the docking bay swearing in his native tongue, leaving a stunned and dazed Krillin on the floor. Slowly the man pulled himself off the floor. Dusting his pants he turned to the open door of his boss's quarters with the sound of muffled crying.
Krillin had only found out in the last week that they were transporting Saiyan cubs, and when he asked why he was told it was none of his business. The man knew it was a bad career move getting a job here. Moving slowly into the forbidden room, Krillin followed the muffled cries. His eyes shifted from the messy bedding to the odd angle of the bed. He could see it had been torn away from the wall and between the bed and the wall the sound was louder. He wasn't prepared to take in what his eyes were seeing. There on the floor was a batted and bleeding saiyanjin cub with his clothes torn from his prone body.
"Oh man. What the hell happened here?" Krillin grabbed a blanket from the bed and cautiously approached the petrified child with his eyes the size of plates, tears shedding like rivers from his frighten eyes. "Shh son I won't hurt you. See I want to help." Krillin watched the boy watch him with untrusting eyes as he dragged his ripped form back from unknown hands. "What monster would do this?"
Krillin watched as it became too much for the boy. His small body went limp on to the floor with dark eyes rolling back behind closed lids. "Come on son I'll get you away from here."
TBC…
A/N: Poor poor Gohan. I'm pleased Krillin will help. I hope?
Sorry for the delay.
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