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 are homophobe then don't read. No-one is making you. Rated R
Royal Delivery
Chapter 24"Stuff this." Ursus snapped. As he went to stand.
Mirai grabbed his arm. "What are you doing?"
"Getting out of here." The teen scowled.
"What are you going to do? Blast your way out of here?" Mirai growled
"Have you got any better ideas?" Ursus snarled, as he pulled his arm from Mirai's grasp. He was fed up of being thrown around. They have being stuck in there for the last fifteen minutes or more.
The prince's blues looked up at the ceiling. "Watch Gohan for me."
"Of course." The other teen looked over at Gohan and smirked. The young prince narrowed his eyes before turning his sights back to his brother.
"I'll climb up and see where we are." Mirai explained. Gohan nodded.
"Go for it." Ursus said raising a brow. He wasn't going to stop him.
Mirai reached up, popped the hatch in the roof of the lift and pulled himself up as Gohan and Ursus watched on. As he did the lift jolted some with the added movement. Both boys in the lift were wide eyed. Their hands were stretched out and clinging onto what they could. "Mirai?" Gohan yelled, worried for his brother.
"I'm fine." Mirai called from the lift roof. "We are stuck between floors like I thought."
"Well let's fly out of here to the next floor before this thing falls." Ursus called.
"Gohan can't fly." Mirai growled as his head poked through the small manhole looking at them.
"I forgot." Ursus sighed as he looked over at the boy sitting on the floor opposite him, glaring back at him.
"Gohan, can you stand?" Mirai asked. The young prince tried to find his feet under the long pants. The shaking lift made it more difficult. Mirai's blues narrowed on Ursus. "Help him."
Ursus smirked as he pushed off the wall and over to Gohan. "My pleasure." He purred. The teen reached down, lifted the boy up and held him close to his chest as the lift went into another violent dance sending them both knocking against the wall with Mirai clinging on above them.
"We have to get out. I don't think this lift will handle another violent shake like that." The prince called down. Gohan had his head buried in Ursus' chest, eyes closed tight shaking from his own fears of being trapped.
The teen held the boy tight as they waited for the tremor to easy. "Are you all right?" Ursus asked genuinely worried for the boy. Gohan nodded without looking trying to be brave.
Mirai edged himself over the lip of the opening with his outstretched arm. "Ursus help him up here"
The other teen shifted and brought Gohan around and under the opening. "Take my hand Chibi." Gohan looked up to see his brother determined blues. The young prince, with Ursus helping, was fed through and above the roof. "Its okay I've got you." Mirai reassured.
"Shift a bit Mirai. You're blocking my path." Ursus called with both hands stretched out ready to pull himself up as well.
The two Saiyanjin princes crouched down watching Ursus climb up. With all three on the roof they looked up into the darkness to the next floor. "Gohan, hold on to me." Mirai asked.
Gohan wrapped his arms around Mirai's neck and with Ursus next to them they lifted off to the next floor. Soon they were hovering in front of the closed doors of the floor above.
The young prince looked down at the lift as another tremor started. Both older teens kept away from the walls until it passed. "Ursus can you open it?" The prince asked with his brother tight in his arms.
The teen went to the doors and, with his hands on either side, went about his work of prying the doors open. "Hold on its stuck." with added power Ursus opened the doors enough to fit one person at time. First he went through then he turned to get Gohan. "Here I've got you." The teen called.
Gohan with arms stretched out with his brother holding his waste. Ursus pull him through. The young prince looked back over to see his brother climb through behind him. Ursus still had a hold of him when the ship started to shake violently again. Tossing and rolling them back against the wall. "What the hell?" The teen yelled with Gohan pinned under him. "Not that I'm complaining." He smirked back at the wide eyed boy beneath him.
Mirai rubbed his head as he lifted it to see his friend on top of Gohan. "What is it with you two? Get off him." He growled.
"Hey I can't help it if the ship keeps knocking us down like this." Ursus growled back as he pushes himself off Gohan.
"Well I don't like it." Mirai growled as he pushed himself up too.
"What, jealous?" Ursus narrowed his sights.
"Should I be?" Mirai said with his shoulders flexed back ready for a fight.
"It depends, what do you want make of it?" Ursus took a step forward.
"Try me." Mirai hissed.
"Both of you stop it!" Gohan snapped as he pulled himself up onto his knees, adjusting his pants legs so he could find his feet as the other two were engaged in a verbal fight above him.
The two shocked teens looked at the normally quiet boy. They both looked down to see Gohan frustrated trying to find his feet and hands again. With sigh both forgot what they were doing and stretched out an arm each to help the boy up.
Mirai help his brother to his feet with Gohan pushing Ursus help away. The older brother smirked at his friend with hint of smugness. The other teen narrowed his sights and snarled.
The eldest prince looked around at the floor they where on. "Damn we are on the wrong floor." He looked back at the lift. "We should find away to the bridge."
"I'm not going in the lift." Gohan growled, backing away from the two now standing at the lift door entrance.
Ursus pointed to the young prince with his thumb. "Well he's made his mind up."
"Chibi we got to get to the bridge." Mirai turned to his stubborn brother who was glaring back at him.
"I'm not going."
"I'll stay with him, you can go." Ursus said getting both of them to look at him.
Mirai's blues iced over. "I don't think so." He hissed before turning back to his brother with extra determination. "Chibi your going."
Gohan shock his head. "No."
"Don't force him." Ursus snapped, as they all stood with the worst of the tremor gone for the moment.
Mirai clenched his fist. "Arrgh. I can't leave you here."
"Yes you can." Ursus smiled. "I'll stay with him."
"That's what I'm afraid of." The prince growled turning back to his brother who looked just as determined to stay as Mirai was to go.
"Hey I won't hurt him." The teen growled, Ursus was offended he may have other intentions, but he wouldn't hurt the boy. Not unintentionally that is.
"No Chibi you're coming with me." Mirai snatched Gohan by the wrists with the silk sleeve covering his hand. "We can all go. It's only one more floor." He tugged, encouraging his relucent brother to follow. When it became obvious the boy was refusing, Mirai picked him up and flung him over his shoulder.
Ursus rolled his eyes. "Do you want me to open the door wider for the two of you royals?"
"Just do it." Mira growled with his attention going back to his vocal brother yelling at him to put him down. "I not letting you down Chibi so stop your struggle."
Gohan was fuming as he lay slumped over his brother shoulder. "I hate you."
"Well you can hate me later. I've got to get you back upstairs." Mirai growled back, keeping a tight hold on him as Ursus forced the doors wider for some more room.
"There, is that better you… highness?" Ursus smirked sarcastically with his fist pressed to his chest in a Saiyan salute.
"Yes, now let's go before something else hits the ship." Mirai moved towards the door. Gohan's frown deepening as he looked over his shoulder defeated with his brother taking a step and hovered in the shaft. Ursus shook his head and followed as they rose up to the next level.
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Back on the bridge Vegeta was confronted with Zarbon's smug face on the wide screen in front of him. "Your ship is disabled King Vegeta. It's useless and you're floating in space with nowhere to go, prepare for docking."
"As much as I would love to slice you in half, there is no way in hell I am letting you board my ship." Vegeta snarled.
"Stubborn to the end, king Vegeta." Zarbon smirked.
"Saiyans don't go down that easily. They fight to the end." The king had had it with this guy ever since his ugly face showed up with demands. Now the ship was crippled. The Royal ship was built for speed and to carry a sizable bulk of Saiyan warriors over long distances. It wasn't built for a mid space battle with a much smaller and faster ship from Frieza's Empire. Zarbon was either bold or just plain stupid to step into Saiyan territory.
"You have over fifty of your warriors on board do you really want to see their blood on your hands?" Zarbon smirked seeing the king's temper flare.
"What do you want?" Goku growled. Not liking the man at all. Their paths have come close to meeting a few times.
Zarbon smirked. On his screen he could see five warriors who he knew well, all powerful in their own right. The king and his mate Kakarrot were known very well in Frieza's Empire. His smirk grew, they all looked as if they would jump through screen anytime and pull out his heart in one go. "I hear you have some cargo that belongs to me."
"What are you on about?" Vegeta snarled. His ship only held warriors.
"I think you know exactly what I mean." Zarbon growled. He had been waiting a day in the nebula for the Saiyan's to pass him so that he could launch a surprise attack on them.
Goku took a step forward. With the ship now paralysed they were like sitting ducks. "If this has anything to do with Mirai and Gohan you can't have them." He growled. There was no way he was going to hand them over.
Zarbon had waited for this moment to regain his master's favour and what better way to do this than bring back the ones that took it. "Come now, what two individual when you have fifty lives at stake."
"Why are you so keen to get your hands on them? What of the king?" Raditz snarled taking a step forward with his fist clenched at his side, glaring back at the coward.
"Well, I want him too of course, and his mate Kakarrot." Zarbon watched as the tempers flared some more. "But you see my master has a fetish, a fascination if you like, for the younger pups, especially the younger brat." Zarbon growled with his ship ready to fire upon the Saiyan at any time.
"Why the boys?" Turles asked just as keen as the others to see the man dead.
"My master was told long ago that they were both healed by an old man with great power."
Goku eyes shifted to his mate. "Artimis." Vegeta growled.
"He has heard of a legend that a Saiyan warrior, a gold fighter if you like, will be sent to kill him."
"The boy you talk about holds no such power." Vegeta growled, knowing others that have ascended to the next level, Mirai being one of them. It was just after he returned from another failed mission in search of his brother. In a fit of rage with another lost hope of finding Gohan.
Mirai turned gold in front of his father's eyes. Goku was the first to ascend on one of the first missions in search of their son, the anger and loss had pushed him. For Vegeta it was seeing his family being destroyed, ripped apart and seeing his mate grow sick. It seems to resign in the royal house alone, the house of grief as Mirai once called it. In the boy's eyes that's what gave them all the power to go to the next level. "You're mistaken about the boy." The king spat at the man on the screen.
"But isn't it true if a Saiyan has suffered a life threatening injury or has being suppressed of energy under harsh conditions they grow more powerful? And the boy's still has his tail I hear, a marvel on its own. We usually just cut them off." Zarbon hissed enjoying the added aggression swell on his enemy's faces. "The last thing my master wants, or needs, is a giant golden Oozaru on his hands with that much power."
Vegeta held back the desire to ki blast the screen to filter off some of his anger. "The boy holds no such power. He was broken long ago. He's of no good to anyone." Vegeta spat. He was bitter of what they did to his son, taking as cub and destroyed his dreams, hopes and chances of being a great warrior like his brother. Now this fool dares to try and take him away again. He wasn't going give up his boy. He would die before that and kill the bastard with him.
"Maybe we should ask the boy if he will come willing, then I won't have to destroy you all. What do you say brat?" Zarbon smirked as they all realised he was talking to another. They all turned around from the screen to see Mirai putting his young brother on the floor with Ursus standing next to them. The three had moved on to the bridge without anyone noticing. Gohan had overheard his father's speech.
Young wounded pools looked over at his father. The king melted under his son's fixed stare, the way those saddened eyes sliced through him. Vegeta was regretting his words "Brat."
Gohan shook his head slightly. With the pain those words had caused, his saddened eyes looked over at the creature on the screen, smirking down at him. In a whisper "I'll go with you."
"Gohan NO." Mirai yelled.
"Vegeta." Goku called him to put a stop to this madness.
"You heard the boy." Zarbon purred.
"There is no way in hell I will surrender my son. Not any one of them." Vegeta growled with his fist clenched.
"Like you have a choice. Prepare to be fire upon…" Zarbon snarled at the stubborn King.
"No… I'll go with you!" Gohan yelled out, moving forward with Mirai grabbing him and pulling him back. They watched as Zarbon attention was distracted by one of his own men.
They all saw Zarbon eyes narrowed before he disappears off the screen. Their screen was now showing his ship rise up, do a half turn before taking off at full speed. "What the hell?" Vegeta growled.
"Sire a convoy of our fighter ships on the way." The man pointed down to the monitor in front of him showing round dots that indicated Saiyan fighter ships, by the hundreds, heading their way.
"Artimis must have sent them." Turles said amazed.
"But how? We had no time to send word and for them to get here so quickly." Goku said. That man had the ability to do strange things and it gave him the creeps.
"Sire, power is at half and we have a request for docking."
"Request granted." Vegeta said.
"Well that got rid of him." Nappa smirked.
"Yeah but for how long?" Raditz asked. Not trusting any of Frieza's hit men.
Goku turned around looking for his son. "Gohan? Mirai?"
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"Chibi he didn't mean it." Mirai had rushed after his brother when he had fled into their parent's room after hearing everything that was said. Gohan had buried his face in the pillows crying, believing that it was true. His parents didn't want him.
"Yes he did." Came the muffled cry. Gohan lifted his head out of the pillow showing his tears. "You all hate me."
Mirai's blues washed over with concern as his brother wipe away his tears. "No we don't Gohan…" The teen went to reassure his brother.
"Yes you do. You all wish I was never found. That's why you never went looking for me, because you hate me." Gohan choked out his hidden fears.
Mirai sighed and shifted over to the bed to get closer to his brother. "Chibi is that what you think?"
"You never came for me Mirai. I called and screamed your name but you never once came for me …only… he…he came." Gohan choked out between the oceans of tears.
Mirai brought the boy to him, cradle him into his arms. "Koi… my Chibi…I'm really sorry… I tried honest I did… I wanted you back more than anything… but we couldn't find you… Father and papa, everyone looked for you. We never gave up looking for you. Please believe me. I'm sorry chibi… it's all my fault. I should have taken better care of you… I'm really sorry… so very sorry chibi it all my fault."
Mirai let his tears run just as freely down his cheek as his brother. They both nestled into one another soaking up the other's warmth and sadness. The prince brought his younger brother further into his lap and cradled him, rocking them both while he stroked his brother's thick black mane the way he used to sooth him. "Please for give me. I'll take better care of you. I promise….please let me Chibi …please give me that chance." Mirai pleaded.
Gohan closed his eyes and buried his head in his brother's firm chest allowing Mirai to hold him stroke his mane. He listened to the words his brother spoke. The boy's heart wanted to believe him but something held him back, stopping him. He couldn't see other wanting him now, and trust was something earned and the young prince was far from trusting anyone.
Their bodies trembled and cried through their years of stress of being separated. Both were too consumed with emotion to notice another at the door, a shadow, watching the two brothers slowly rebuild their bond as they let their emotions freely run.
On the other side of the room a tail tightened around a slim waist as a wash of emotions ran through Ursus. One was jealousy, another was anger. Anger of been shunned aside as second best by a long time friend. A taste for vengeance surfaced for a second before being replaced with another much stronger emotion. A more powerful one overrode them all. Desire the attraction to have something so beautiful and desirable. So out of bounds pushed all other emotions aside as the teen thirst for the boy. Forbidden fruit brought a spark of danger to his Saiyan blood.
Ursus was being choked. Suffocated with the burning need, the sweltering desire to win, to battle, to conquer a small taste of the young prince lips and then to drink his blood in a claim.
The need grew whenever he was around him. He felt hot all over. A wave of dizziness would wash over him. His groin burned ached with the need as the fever took control. He had never felt this way before not for anyone. He knew the burning desire could destroy.
He remembered watching his friend Mirai go through this only a year before and suffered because he wouldn't take another into his bed. The prince only wanted one to satisfy his need.
Ursus was after the same person. The scent from the boy was enchanting and still not yet ready, but none the less still very appealing. He could only fantasise what it will be like when he is truly ready. Ursus shifted with the painful tightness of his pants. He watched the two as Mirai groomed and smoothed his young brother mane.
The teen knew this would come at a cost, and Mirai was more family than friend. They had been together through it all. But the urge was growing. He knew that he would be lost under a cloud of desire for the boy anytime soon. He will be on the hunt if his desire, his thirst is not taken care off.
Saiyanjin on heat, if left unattended, can loss their minds to the powerful urges. Rape, taken a mate forcefully was threat the Saiyans knew well. A passionate race with that much fire and power at their call was a wild card, feral one, to be play with cautiously, a thin line between madness and desire.
Ursus wasn't as strong as Mirai and he knew this. It would be easy to cave into his cravings. A Saiyan on heat was a dangerous thing, especially a cub's first rut. The untrained mind could be lost easily, if not taken care of.
Saiyanjins in heat will arouse others that are not claim. It was nature's way of encouraging a partner and offspring, to continue the commanding race of warriors.
Ursus realised he was coming into his first heat when he saw the Gohan that first day in his parent's bedroom. It wouldn't be long before it becomes noticeable. So for now he would have to play it smart to gain control, curve his desires. Ursus couldn't help fantasising ways to take the boy to lure him away maybe at the party.
Ursus watched as his friend hand trailed over that warm firm body, it ached, it burned. To feel the boys flesh against his, to roam his hands, glided them down, to take him as his own.
He watched on as Mirai whispered his feelings through black locks to his brother. Gohan lay still curled up in his brother lap. Lapping, soaking up the warmth his bond brother was offering him when they were interrupted. "Hey guys are you both Ok?"
Mirai kept his eyes on his brother with his tail wrapped around him in a protective hold. "Yes, Chibi is here with me. Everything is fine."
"I heard that your fathers are planning on sending you both back on one of the faster ships. The king wants you back home while they repair this ship." Ursus explained.
"Is papa coming?" Gohan's teary eyes looked up to see Ursus now sitting on the bed smiling at him.
The teen nodded. "I believe so."
"When are we going?" Mirai asked his friend. Just then a shadow appeared at the door.
"Now, so get packing brats." Vegeta said as he walked up behind Ursus making the teen feel uncomfortable.
"What about you Dad?" Mirai asked with his father's dark eyes on the teen in front of him. He noticed the boy shift nervously Vegeta sights narrowed before looking back at his son.
"I won't leave the ship. Your papa is going with you I won't be far behind once the ship is working again." Vegeta's dark eyes shift to his youngest son who was climbing out of Mirai's lap. Gohan kept his eyes lowered, choosing not to see his father piercing stare. "Boy I want a word with you, alone! The rest of you… out!" Vegeta growled.
Mirai frowned with his tail catching the end of Gohan's not wanting to let go. "Dad…"
"Out!" Vegeta growled looking at his two grown cubs, looking as miserable as ever to be separated. Like old times, the king thought with a hidden gleam in his eyes. "Your brother and I need time alone."
"Come on Ursus." Mirai released his brother's tail and stretched his leg over the bed to leave. He looked up at his brother sitting cross legged on the bed where he had left him. "I'll be just outside." He purred.
"No you won't you be packing. Now off with you." The king pointed for Mirai to leave and waited for the door to close behind him. Vegeta turned to Gohan who kept his sight lowered in his lap.
The king moved to the bed and looked down at his youngest cub. His eyes lingered over his son. He wounder what would have it been like if none of this had happed. Vegeta looked at Gohan, now so small and broken like he had said, but he also knew he had to be fighter to endure what he did. His son had a spark in him, that fighting sprit inside of him, it had never left. Gohan had to be stronger than most. But trying to tell the boy this after everything he had heard was not going to be an easy task for the King.
Gohan frowned. He could feel his father's eyes upon him. He shifted nervously under the fixed stare. Vegeta sighed and sat on the bed next to him and stretched out his hand to raise the boys chin up. "Brat."
The young prince head lifted reluctantly with his lashes still lowered not wanting to look at him. "Yes father?"
"I know what you heard and what you are thinking." Gohan's sights lifted to look up at his father's strong commanding eyes. "You think that I see you as weakling and that I don't love you… am I right?"
Gohan nodded, spilling tears over flushed cheeks and trailing down on to his father hand. "Yes. I heard what you said."
"You heard a lot of things, but its all half truths. I said what I had to, to save you and your brother. I also know you would have to be a strong fighter to get where you are now. "
"But you said I was weak and…"
"Hush… and listen to me when I speak. I said those words out loud because I love you. I won't give you up. After all this time if I didn't won't you do you think I would have left Vegeta-sei unguarded with out her King?"
"But …"
"No buts… Gohan. You're my son and your second heir to the throne." Vegeta said watching his son wipe away his tears.
"I don't want to be… I can't be…" Gohan cried.
"Rubbish child." Vegeta growled. "You'll take your place beside Mirai as his mate… "
Gohan meet his father eyes. "I'm not going to be his…"
Vegeta eyes softened for the cub. "You're still young but when you're older you will change you're mind."
"No father I don't want to be Mirai's future mate." Gohan growled with his tail tip now flicking at his side out of frustration.
"Have you told him of this?" Vegeta asked not hiding his concern.
"No" Gohan looked away and picked up his tail. A nervous habit he had picked up over the years. He raked his finger through the thick fur not really getting anything from it, other than the gentle tingling sensation as it ran up his spine.
Vegeta watched his son, still so young. In a few years the same action will be arousing to him. This just proved to him that his son wasn't ready yet and wouldn't understand until he was of age.
"Mirai is you're true partner, you can't be with anyone else." Vegeta growled. To be truthful he didn't want Mirai or Gohan to be with anyone else. He had plenty of applicants from other warrior races and his own commanders have offered mates for his boys. He knew once word gets out that his other boy was home they will be crawling out of the woodwork again trying to get a foot in the door of the powerful Saiyanjin Empire.
Gohan was feeling trapped and frustrated his father wasn't listening to him. "I'm ..."
Vegeta dismissed the whole idea of Gohan taking another. "No, this is wrong. You are his. Your papa and I have both known this. In you're first year you both chose each other. And when you're of age you will be joined together. Your ki will be laced with the same signature, just like your papa and I are now."
"Please don't force me…" Gohan was panicking. His father was adamant about Mirai and him being together.
Vegeta could feel his temper flaring, containing it was becoming difficult. This was very serous Mirai won't take another partner when he goes into his next heat. He couldn't see him go through that again.
The teen might loss all control, now the one he desires most of all is here. The king could easily see Mirai take the boy when he wasn't ready. He couldn't have him rape, take Gohan like that. The boy didn't understand the danger he was in. "This is serious brat you can't …"
Gohan pushed himself off the bed with his tail now whipping behind him in rage. "He can't have me if I'm already taken…"
"WHAT?"
TBC…
A/N: Wow…I enjoyed written that chap…
Hey guys …Ursus wouldn't do anything wrong… he is just being friendly, misunderstood that's all. Would I make trouble… Never. ^_~
Don't worry; I'll at least let them get to the planet now. *grins* Or not…Huh.^_^
They have a party to go to soon …Oh what fun they will have, especially away from the crowds. ^.^ I'm feeling in the mood for some evilness…Cool huh
And I have some fun plans later when Gohan's ki collar comes off. Mirai you bad bad boy … C'ya
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