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Chapter 4: Bad news for Vegeta and Gardna

Gardna reached the throne room quickly. She knew better that to make her father wait. "You wanted to see me sir."

"You attacked two of Freeza's soldiers earlier."

"Yes, sir I did. I apologize, but they were attacking Vegeta."

"I am not mad at you, simply curious."

"Curious? I do not understand."

" The soldier you killed, I believe his name was Han, he had a power level of 17,000. I do not need to remind you, but that is extremely high. He was one of Freeza's best men, maybe even the best."

"Is Lord Freeza upset?"

"No. Chip told him that it was Vegeta that killed Han. Freeza seemed pleased by this news."

"If you were informed it was Vegeta, how did you know about me?"

"I knew Vegeta could not have beaten him, no matter how strong he may think he is, he is not that good."

"But I am?" Gardna asked. Her power level was much lower than Han's and even lower than Vegeta's. She was shocked that her father was not freaking out about this.

"I know you have a unique ability to raise your power when you are upset. I saw on the scouter that you were near the soldiers and Vegeta when Han died. Do not think that I do not know of your ability to manipulate scouters. I am smarter than you child. Do you think I would have kept you around, a girl poisoning our great palace and bloodline, if I did not see your hidden power?"

Gardna was shocked. It made sense that was why he had kept her. Females born into the family were frowned upon, especially considering her ancestry. "How strong do you think I am?" she asked, begging he did not know her full power.

Her father roared with laughter. He laughed for a while and then looked at her. "I think your power is immeasurable. You may even surpass Freeza for all I know. I want you to know, that I have decided to take Vegeta into training early. He will start tomorrow morning at dawn."

"No!" Gardna yelled, "I will not let you take him from me!"

"I have been hearing rumors of what you have been teaching him. I believe he will become soft under your teaching. I will not let my son be a weak link."

"I will teach him to be strong, as strong as me, or Freeza, but I can not teach a child martial arts."

"Then, I will teach him. I do not approve of your history lessons with him. Besdides, Freeza wants Vegeta to join his army on his 5th birthday. I want to teach him to fight before then."

"Why shouldn't he know about our past? If you let him stay with me for a while loonger you will still have over a year to teach him."

"He does not need to hear your version of the past. I will have him taught about our ancestors the correct way. I want my son to be a great leader. I do not want you to be a leader through him."

"I will not let you have him."

"You seem to think you have a choice."

"You know my power surpasses yours now. What can you do to me?"

"You will not strike me. Though I do not know why, Vegeta still looks up to me, as is natural, and if you were to kill me he would rebel. Go ahead, but it will only put him in danger, being king at a young age with Freeza around is not a good idea."

"Fine, take him. But this is not over. I swear, I will succeed and you will fall. Vegeta is mine. He has always been and will always be mine, no matter what you do."

"We shall see. You are dismissed."

Gardna stormed out of the room. She was pissed beyond belief. She marched to Vegeta's room. Unlike most saiyans, she could sense power naturally, and she felt him there.

Vegeta jumped up as someone threw open his door. When he saw it was Grdna he calmed. "What is wrong? Are you in trouble?"

"Our father is what is wrong. He's what's wrong with this planet, with this race, and with this family! I am not in trouble, but I do have bad news for you."

"You told him I started the fight?" A wooried look came over his face. He hated to be in trouble while his father was home. King Vegeta was not the nicest person to be punished by.

"No, it's not that. Father wants you to start training with him tomorrow."

"No!"

"You can not refuse him."

"I am not training with him until I turn four. He is too scary, and I don't have any experience. I will be squashed like a bug under a swatter." Vegeta said all of this in one breath and started panting at the end. His eyes darted around as he thought of all the things his father could do to hurt him. None of them were very pretty.

"Vegeta, calm down. I won't let anything happen to you. I promise."

"How can you stop him?"

"Just trust me little buddy. Ok?"

"Ok. Can we take the day off? Let's have a huge picnic in the valley outside the city. Please?"

Gardna knew it would be pointless to try to teach him anything now. He was worried about training and Gardna had a sneaking suspicion that the majority of the training would be done by Nappa. Gardna hated Nappa with all of her heart. He was the leader of the army and by far the most violent saiyan at the moment. She agreed to the picnic. She left his room and ordered the cooks to prepare a lunch for them.

They took their lunch and left for the valley. It was sunset by the time they got there. They ate in silence, neither wanting to speak about the events of that day. Suddenly Vegeta spoke up. "G, what was our mother like?"

Gardna choked on the water she had been drinking. She looked at Vegeta for a moment before she answered. "I can not remember." It was a terrible lie, and even Vegeta saw it.

"Tell me the truth, please."

"If you really want to know, she was a slut. She married our father for the position it gave her. She hated children and she was a cruel person. Worse than father. She tried to kill me when I was little because she thought I wasn't pretty enough to be her daughter. I hated her."

"I do not think you are ugly, if it's any consolation. Were you happy when she died? Don't lie."

"Yes I was very happy when she died. I was ahppy that you would never have to meet her and put up with her cruelty."

"If she hadn't have died would you have killed her?"

"No, so much as I hated her I see all lives as precious as the lives around them. I could not have brought myself to kill any living being, not even her, back then."

"Why do you kill now?"

"Han was the first person I had ever killed. I only killed him because I feared he would kill you. IF he had only hurt you, and had not intended any further harm I would have sparred him as I did Chip, but I sensed a certain blood lust in him."

"Can you sense bloodlust in everyone?"

"Yes, but I do not act on my senses unless absolutely nessesary, like with you."

"I understand, I am sleepy, can we go home?"

"Yes," Gardna said. They backed up their stuff and headed back to the castle. Halfway there vegeta and Gardna started to race. Gardna let Vegeta win, and he rubbed it in her face on the way to his room.

Next chapter: Bedtime story!Yippee! I might put more about Bulma in the story, but they probably won't meet before they do in the real timeline, but I'm not sure. Any thoughts? I hope you enjoyed. I love reviews, feed me more reviews. By the way, I am not really set in what I'm doing with this story so if you have any suggestions, please tell me. I could use the help.