She stirred, moaning at the pain running through her slim body. "what happened.." She thought out loud. Just then the memories of last night had hit her, the pain,.. oh the pain!!!
She slapped her hand against her head, wincing at the pain still throbbing in her brain. Moving her hair back she looked out the window at the stars that flew by. "Friezas ship." She moaned She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, "I'm really here, I hoped it was a nightmare..."
"Chiller!" A familiar, annoying, cocky voice came from out her door. That name! Why'd he have to cal her that!!!! If Frieza wasn't there she didn't want to hear that name!! Ever!!!!
"Prince Vegeta! What do you want!!!!"
The door opened and he sneaked his way in with that damn smirk on his face. "is something wrong dear Princess Chiller?" He pretended a short bow as acting he was treating her with respect.
"What! What do you want!" She sat up though she nearly fell back on her side from dizziness.
"I'm not getting in trouble when you're not there to report to your father." He crossed his arms again
"He's not my father!!! What time is it!"
"Ten minutes till we have to report back to him that you haven't been killed yet."
"YET!! I'll show you one day Prince Vegeta!" She jumped from the bed, running around the room looking for her cloths, gathering them all in her arms and turning back to him. "Do you mind! can you at least turn around!!!"
"You act like you have something I'd actually want to see, in my opinion you're one of the most unattractive females I've ever seen..."
"Good for you!!! Now either turn around or leave! Which is it!!" She blushed slightly at his comment of her figure. He was most defiantly a Prince! Spoiled rotten!!! And though she might not normally admit it she was a Princes over him! He never acted like she was!!!
Vegeta laughed at her and closed his eyes, turning on his heels. "This better for you?"
"Much!" He heard the rustling of the cloths being thrown around as she changed, the dirty cloths being thrown about the room as she tossed them aside, shuffling through her pile for the garments she needed. "You can turn around if you want now!" She said running over to the dresser in her room.
"What are you getting now, you're going to get both of us in trouble, brat!!"
"I can't leave without something." she threw the things off the small tables and things in her room, letting them join the dirty cloths and other things thrown about on the floor.
"What do you need so bad!!"
"These!!" She picked up a spiked ring from among the junk on the table and placed it on her tail. She then went back and picked up one long dangling earring and placed it in her right ear.
"I'm risking my life so you can put on your little accessories!!!!!!" His face became slightly red.
"Well lets not waste anymore time! Come on!!!!" She picked up her gloves and ran from the room, letting the door slam against the wall and running strait past Nappa and Raditz, who were outside the door, most likely waiting for Vegeta.
"Flameandria!!! Wait!!!" Vegeta growled behind her and ran after her, passing by a very shocked Raditz and Nappa. "What the hell was all that about! Watch it!!" He yelled as her longer right hand glove barely missed his head as she struggled to put them on.
"I'll explain later, right now we need to get to Lord Frieza or it'll be our heads, where's Raditz and Nappa?"
"Behind us, struggling to keep up. Weaklings!"
"Get them up here, we need to get going! I don't need Frieza after me!!"
"After you!!!"
"I'm the one he won't hesitate to kill if I do anything wrong, he has more respect for you, believe it or not. He wants you around, at least for a little while longer anyway, until you get to snotty and strong for him to control you so easily."
"Funny how you seem to be so sure of yourself isn't it. Nappa! Raditz!! Get up here unless you want trouble later!!!!!"
"When you hear it from the person yourself then you're bound to be a little sure about it..." She made a quick turn to the right to avoid running into a wall, her fingers touching the ground to help her keep her balance and get a better start once more.
"So he said it huh?"
"I never said that..."
"What do you mean!!! Stop talking in riddles!"
"I can't tell you now! Keep going, I'll explain everything later!!"
A screeching sound rang through the corridor as they came to a sliding halt in front of the door, stopping for a moment to regain themselves, dusting themselves off and catching their breath before moving to open the door and enter.
Frieza was inside, tapping his tail against the floor impatiently. "You decided to show up after all..." His dark lips were curved downward. "I was expecting you to sleep al day"
"Father it was my fault!... I made us all late! forgive me....." She dropped to her knees, bowing her head down till her forehead touched the ground.
"I thought you'd cause problems, just like your mother!" His tail came soaring through the air to crack against her back. His lips curled into a smile when he heard her cry out in pain and fall to the ground.
She cut off her cry quickly, determined to be stronger the what he ever expected her to be. She merely whimpered slightly, the pain she still felt from the night before only magnified a million times by the one blow.
Vegeta stared at him, his lips slightly parted in surprise. He was hitting her like she was a prisoner or an enemy, not like she was his daughter. His gaze fell to the girl, shaking from the pain on the floor. Not even sayains acted this cruel to their children, though they might not have gotten to know them normally, at least not the lower class. Being the prince of the race, Vegeta had not been sent away, though most lower class sayains were. He couldn't figure out why Frieza would be this cruel.
His tail came down again and again, her eyes closed tight though the tears still gathered at the corners. "I'm.. sorry" She squeaked out, trying not to show her tears in her voice. 'I'm sorry.. mother' she corrected herself in her thoughts. 'I've failed.. I can't avenge you're death, I don't have the power! I'm sorry!!!' She screamed out in her thought and then, the pain becoming to much, she screamed out in pain. "I'm sorry!!!" She was screaming to the sky, hoping her mother could hear her, though Frieza was taking it as a cry for mercy from her, backing away to stare at her.
"I do hope my little Vegeta can do something with you, a single monkey can only do so much.." Vegeta shot him a cold glare. That name was no what he wanted to be called, the freak would pay so much one day. He'd die a slow, painful, humiliating death!!
Flameandria lay on the ground, still sobbing and taking in sharp breaths from the pain, not able to move. "It'll never happen again..."
"Good!!!" Frieza kicked her clear across the room, her back slamming into the far wall. She let out a cry filled with pain, her eyes welded shut though tears formed and pushed their way through them as she slid down the cold wall. "See that it doesn't! I will not tolerate you binging down my men!!!!!" He was standing over her in a second, his tail swaying behind him for a few moments before wrapping it around her neck, lifting her up so she was face to face with him. "Do you want to end up like your mother brat!!!!" He hissed right in her face, her only response being a choked sob. "get out of my sight!" He tossed her to the side after dealing her a brutal slap, and turned to see her struggle to get up.
Vegeta stared for a moment before taking a step forward when he was stopped by Friezas voice. "Don't help her! She'll do it herself or she'll die here!!!!!" He raised his finger and formed a small energy ball at the tip. Vegetas eyes bugged out for a moment, and Nappa and Raditz were dieing to burst in, as far as they knew ,so far, she was a Saiyan, and the only female one at that.
He growled softly and stared at her, staring at the energy ball herself, fear completely taking over before she forced herself up and heading for the door quick as she could, fallowed by Nappa and Raditz. Vegeta stayed a few seconds longer, staring at the disgusting smile on his face and as he turned to go he stopped dead in his tracks when he spoke to him. "Teach her to hold her tongue and you won't have to see that Vegeta." He closed his eyes and ground his teeth together, knowing he couldn't beat him right now and had to control himself till he could.
"Yes sir.." Vegeta bawled his hands to fists and turned and bowled, disgusted at himself. He turned back around and ran through the door, not able to hear another word from him, he would've blown and he knew it, he just had to get his mind off of him. He nearly fell over when he ran through the door, staring at Flameandria on the ground. "Flameandria!!!"
"It's chiller.." She rolled her eyes to the door, telling him that it wasn't safe to call her that.
"I'll take you back.."
"No!!!! I'll get back on my own!!" She forced herself back up to her feet, leaning against the wall to keep herself from falling back down.
"You can't even stand!!!" He put out his hand to wrap around her for security.
She waked his hand away and glared at him. "I don't need your help!" And with that she pushed off the wall and started walking very unsteadily to her room.
Vegeta turned to Nappa and Raditz with a serious face like normal. "Go! Train, what ever! I'll call you if or when I need you."
"But Prince Vegeta!"
"go!!!!!" He ran after Flameandria, full speed. 'She's my responsibility! Had I not beat her nearly to death yesterday we wouldn't have been late and this wouldn't have happened!!!'
Flameandria walked down the hall, her hand gliding along the wall to hold her up if she stumbled. Her body was screaming at her but she did what she could to ignore it. 'I don't need them! I don't need them!!!!!' She repeated over and over in her head, though deep inside the mantra wasn't working. She felt so alone, knowing everything that meant anything to her could easily be turned on her, used as a tool against her to keep her inline. She couldn't keep anybody close to her, besides, who ever she seemed to trust only betrayed her in the end.
Men. This ship was full of them and she was taught that men were only good for one thing, reproduction of the female population. The Tiger clan had been made up of only females.. run entirely by females with almost no influence of men at all. It was the women who became worriers, who hunted, who kept them going, men were only brought in as prisoners and they never lived long... Men were believed to hold bad fortune for the females, the only time a Tiger was ever allowed to touch a male was for reproduction reasons or when killing them. They said that a male couldn't be trusted.. but then how come she found herself trusting them anyway, her prince and her fellow Saiyans . She found herself wanting to be around them. Needing to be around them, needing someone to be with her. She didn't want to be left alone anymore, she'd been that way too long...
"Flameandria!!" Vegeta came up beside her, trying to get his arms around her to help her.
"I said go away damn it!!! Don't you ever listen you arrogant little brat!!!!" She snapped back. "I said I could do it myself!!! I don't need any help from a MAN!!" Vegeta growled and wrapped his arms around her, picking her up and carrying her. "Put me down!!! I said put me down! I command you!!!!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!" She kicked and screamed but Vegeta was still able to hold her, just having more trouble then he wanted.
Vegeta carried her to her room, kicking open the door with his foot, nearly loosing his balance and falling over. "Will you stop fighting me woman!!!!!"
"I have a name and you better use it! I'm Flameandria!! Daughter of Frieza!! A princess!! Now put me down!!!!!!!"
Vegeta growled out of anger and dropped her on the bed, letting her back fall down onto it even though he knew it must've hurt like hell. "I can't take you anymore!! You talk in riddles! And you can't decide whether you want to be know as a Saiyan or an Ice-jin and really, I can't take it anymore!!!
Flameandrias tears came back as her back was all but slammed against the bed. "I said I didn't need your help!! I hope you don't survive your next mission you bastard!!!!! No one would miss you, Prince of a dead world!! You act so high and mighty but you're only living because of my father!! If not for him you'd have perished with the rest of your race and people wouldn't have to deal with you! That was a big mistake! My father saving you! The universe wouldn't have missed you much, you low, disgusting male!!!!! The world would be much better off without any males at all!!!!!!!"
Vegeta growled louder then before and slapped her hard, her head snapping to the side and her body turning with it. "You little bitch!!! You speak to me like that again I'll break your neck and run you through with your own sword!!!!!! I'll rip you limb from limb!!!!" He grabbed her neck, pulling her face to his when he realized a streak of dark colors running down her face and smearing across it. He looked at his hand and found a pale white makeup smeared across it, the color of her skin. He wiped at her face and more came off, revealing almost her whole face red, and black and blue, like she'd been nearly killed, her face receiving most of the enemies attention to her body. He ran his finger down her cheek, it wasn't any sort of makeup, they were real bruises, and he had a good idea how she'd gotten them.
She flinched at the touch, trying to pull away but he wouldn't let her go.
"Do you cover any more marks with make up?" He looked at her exposed flesh, wondering how much of the pale skin was actually makeup, covering marks, scars , and bruises. "Hmm?"
Her eyes widened slightly and she pulled away harder. "That's none of your business!"
He used her tears to wet his hand and wiped it across her calf on the one leg it was exposed. Like he'd expected, it was bruised and red like her face. How she was able to move in a state like this was beyond him. Her will not to show weakness must've been stronger then he first thought." where'd you get these?" Like he didn't already know.
"I said it was none of your business !!!!!!"
He slapped her again, not as hard as before but enough to tell her not to play around. "I'm only going to ask you one more time, where'd you get them!?"
"take a guess, geniuses!!!"
Vegeta grabbed her armor and pulled it over her head, noticing the cracks on the back as he tossed it to the ground. She wore a body suit with nothing holding the top up, just the elasticity of the suit held it up on around her chest. He flipped her over easily and took a look at her back, pulling down the back of her suit to see. Her back was red and looked slightly swollen from Friezas earlier actions against her. He noticed other marks as well, scars across her back, liked she been whipped before and never heal so it had left scars on her body. "You've never been to the healing tanks have you?"
"I have no reason to! I can deal with petty little wounds like these, now get off me before I scream!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Scream all you like, you father doesn't give a shit about you, I sent Nappa and Raditz to train, and no one else has the guts to come in here knowing I'm in here, even if you are screaming, trust me. You need to go to the healing tanks, now!"
"NO! I'm not allowed! I'm not going!!!!!! Let go!!!!!!! Let go!!!!!!"
"How can you not be able to go..." Suddenly he thought of Frieza and how he wouldn't even let him help her up before. She must have gotten all these marks from him as a "punishment" And she was never allowed to heal, so he left his mark on her. No wonder she was so scared of him, he beat her. And from the looks it seemed he didn't even give her time to heal before attacking her again, new bruises forming right on top of old ones that haven't fully disappeared yet.
"Let me go!!!!" Vegeta sighed and let her move away. She moved out from under him and moved as far against the wall as she could, holding her suit to her, suddenly scared that he might have other ideas. Weaker females of the Tiger clan were always being hunted by men, for themselves and for sales as servants. Stories that had come back were so frightening, though she often wasn't supposed to hear them, sneaking into the elder clan members tents to hear, having nightmares for nights after. "get away!" She brushed the hair out of her face, acting as least scared as she could.
"You're stupid for thinking that these wounds could heal on their own. Even if you are Saiyan a woman couldn't heal from damage like this with no attention to the wounds."
"A woman!?! Like a man could!!! Tiger clan woman were taught to heal themselves! I don't need any one but myself!!!! Now get the hell out of here!"
"Whatever. if you keep letting him beat you like he is you'll die soon, but then that's what you want, isn't it?" he moved off the bed and towards the door. "I might not have given you what you wanted the other day but it seems your father is working on it, he just wants to have a little fun doing it." He opened the door and walked out, closing the door behind him, the room dimming again once the door had shut.
"Maybe, but I think he's killing both of us..."