A/n- again another long awaited update, but hey I'm sorry I can't help when I don't have time to write. I had this chapter written, but my computer was down AND I was too busy. But now after this chapter the real romance of this story will begin!
All For The Love of A Pirate Prince
Chapter 5: Really?
Darkness...Darkness was the first thing I awoken to after the Price had knocked me out.
I laid still for a few moments longer until after the fact that the Prince had rendered me unconscious dawned on me, then I sprung up. Although I immediately regretted doing so as my head began to throb.
I rushed a hand up to my head thinking if I grasped my head the throbbing would stop. But I was disappointed to discover it still ached, but only for another minute or two. Once my head stopped aching altogether I remembered I was somewhere dark.
I began to search around me to get a good feel of where I was. Though it was still rather dark, my eyes had adjusted enough for me to conclude that I was in some sort of room on a bed. And as I continued to look around I finally noticed a dark figure moving about in the dark shadows.
Upon seeing the person move, I did the only thing a girl would do... I screamed...
My scream must have caught the person off guard, for whatever was in their hands they dropped it.
Then quickly they picked the item or items up and placed them on a table, I guessed, near the bed I was on and then they proceeded to lean forward in an effort, I assumed, to catch me and make me stop yelling.
Though if the person was trying to get me to be quiet they only succeeded on making my shriek even louder as I eluded their grasps and made an unsuccessful attempt to get off the bed and run for the door to the room.
Somewhere between me getting up and the floor beneath me tilting to one side making me fall down, I failed my first attempt to get away.
When the person from before grabbed my leg to try and pull me closer to them, they dragged me closer until I kicked them with my free leg in the gut. In response to my action they let go of my leg and quickly I wasted no time getting up and stumbling across the room feeling for the door.
As I had finally found the door and opened it, I tried to dash out but as I began to run I rammed into someone making the person stumble backwards landing on the ground and me taking a couple of uneasy steps forward.
I threw my hands out in front of me as I hit the wooden wall across from where I was running. More light shone as I recognized the figure on the ground sort of when I had turned around.
But then I quickly remembered the person in the room behind me.
I snapped back into reality running down the small hall; dashing up a ladder I saw ahead of me. As I climbed up the steps even more light began to shine and as I had made it to the top my eyes where blinded by the fading sun.
While I stopped to cover my eyes I found myself being lifted upwards the rest of the way. I yelped when I saw who had lifted me up.
The Prince...
"What the hell's going on?" A voice boomed from behind, startling me a little.
When the Prince put me down I looked behind me as I saw for the second time the man I would soon learn to refer to as King Vegeta of the Saiyan Pirates.
"I said what's going on!" He yelled again as neither one of us answered him.
As I watched him come closer I got a better profile of him then I did at the party some months ago.
To be very frank he was a man of little stature...I was taller than he! I remembered his black hair that spike upwards in such a way I had never seen a man's hair spike before. It was like a flame or something. And he had the most noted widow's peak and strong ice cold ebony eyes.
Yet the small man was able to strike a chord of fear within me with his ever so commanding voice.
While I stood paralyzed by the King's voice, the sounds of rushing feet against the wooden boards sounded as the guy I had kicked and the other man I knocked over in the hall joined us at the top of the deck.
"Goten! Kakarot! Explain why the Princess is screaming and running loose on the ship!" The Prince barked making me jump at how loud he was yelling his order. But as I recovered the word 'ship' rang in my ear causing my heart to sink.
'Ship! … We can't be on a ship! How will I get home, what if something happens to us? It can't be true we couldn't be at sea.' I thought in hysterics.
"She had come to my Prince, though I guess I startled her and she put up quite the fight to escape and she did sir." Goten had answered, his face beginning to flush from the embarrassment of telling his superior how I had managed to get away.
"And what of you Kakarot? You didn't allow this child to defeat you so easily too?" The King asked as he raised an eyebrow in amusement now out of the whole situation.
"No, she rammed into me knocking me down rather hard." He replied while rubbing his hand over a sore spot on his head. The King only shook his head as he allowed a small chuckle to pass over his lips. Though it wasn't a pleasant chuckle... It was one that sent more fear into me than his booming voice.
"Why if I did not know she was who she was I would not believe what I'm hearing right now." He said as he walked over to me, sandwiching me in between him and the Prince.
"But even so...She's only the daughter of Gohan. She can be easily tamed." He said as he grasped my chin to make sure I was looking him in the eye.
I heard a growl sound off somewhere and when I heard that growl something snapped in my head…
He had just insulted me...And not only me, but my father too. I didn't know what the King's problem with my dad was, but I was not going to stand there and listen to him talk so wrongly of me and my family!
"Hey! I don't know what your problem lay with my father, but you shall not take it out on me! Nor will you talk so negatively about him in my presence!" I scoffed as I'm sure the King was able to read anger from my eyes.
Suddenly the Prince grabbed my arms, maybe a little too roughly, making me wince slightly.
"You do not talk to my father, the King, that way." And at that moment I felt an inner fire in me unleash. Raw and untamed...Something so new to me that in a way I guess I always knew was there... Anger.
"Put me down you savage beast! Taking advantage of scaring a Princess while she is cornered between two of her enemies. Be noble and say that to me one on one and not two on one and then maybe I will see any of you as an equal!" I shouted as I began to thrash about wildly, one of my kicks actually landing on the King just above his lower appendage and a little below his gut.
The King clutched his stomach and I finally broke loose of the Prince hold. Only problem was there was about a million and one capable hands on deck at the time and I didn't get far.
All of them...Every last one of those no good men piled on me to keep me down. Then later for my punishment for being so bold was they placed me not back in the same room I woke up in, but in a holding space somewhere on the boat chained like I was some damn animal.
And I remained chained like that for a while until a blonde-haired woman, obviously older than me with blue eyes, came down into my cell. In her arms she carried some fresh cloths to cover my already half naked body.
"You know you're quite the tough lass to be spittin' fire back out our leaders the way ye did." She said in a very clear, understandable accent.
At the time I was laying on my side and as I watched her squat down to my level I tilted my body into a sitting position and I let my eyes shoot fire at her.
'How dare she!' I had thought. 'What right was there for her to say that I appeared to be the odd ball because I spoke out against that short terrifying man? Especially when I had every right too!
"My temper fits when it is them I have for my captives and company. I was sent on this ship unwillingly and unable to retaliate in any conscious effort!" I said bitterly. "Well, well quite the temper you have too." The woman only said in response.
"So you mean to tell me that if ye were awake ye would have been able to make the situation differ?" She asked me as she helped put the simple, flimsy dress over my head and on my body, without unchaining me.
I lifted my head up to poke it through the hole of the gown so I could reply.
"Doing SOMETHING beats sitting here knowing if I were awake that I could have done anything." "Well if you ain't like your father." She said smugly while standing, the corners of her lips tugging into a smirk.
"How do ye think you'll fare here if you're all 'I hate the captain and his son' attitude? Ye can't expect to survive if you're biting the hand holds that hold ye life in question." She reasoned.
I then saw the women turn her back to me as she prepared to leave.
"Wait!" I shouted, not wanting to be alone. "Ye shall see someone soon. When ever the captain feels the need to feed ya." She said as she continued her hasty departure.
While I laid there on the cold wood plank floor I realized I was alone. And the way I was laying down in the new warmth of full clothing I felt reminded of the night before my wedding.
Just a pillow and a gown...Then suddenly I began to question myself as to way in the hell I ever thought that I would want that daring Prince to come back for me. All he was was rude and uncaring.
And as though by some mystic vibe the Prince came to my chained presence as I was still lost in deep thought of him.
"Here...I come with food for you." He said calmly.
Between the time the blonde woman and the Prince came I was still laying on my side, but now I was facing the wall and I only turned my head to him. When I say the tray in his hand with a metal bowl and tin cup I just turned my head back around and continued to stare at the wall.
"I said I come with food for you." He said a bit louder.
I could tell by his voice he was beginning to get annoyed.
"I'm not hungry." I simply replied as I closed my eyes. "Well you need to eat." He urged ignoring my rejection.
"But I said I wasn't hungry...And even if I were how am I to eat when I'm chained down like this!" My voice growing with anger. Now I was sitting up again and I turned to face him. As I was talking of being chained I shacked the my confinements making them rattle in a clattering symphony,
The Prince I could tell was doing his best to keep his anger in check, but I already knew I was walking on eggshells.
"Look..." He stated. "IF you change your mind I will have a guard down here to help you eat." He added. "As if you really came down here to help me eat...eat this food." But the words came out before I could stop myself.
I almost regretted saying those words as he had lifted his hands to strike me across the face, but then again he stopped himself. My eyes, I know, were wide as I watched him recollect himself. He then proceeded to push the tray up towards me and turn and around, briskly walking away.
When he left I let go a breath I wasn't even aware I was holding, relieved he didn't hit me.
"You know you should really be careful about what you say before him. He may just be the Prince, but a bit of the King do live deep within him...Say the wrong thing and it just might cost you."
I jumped slightly as I heard the new voice come and fill my chambers.
I looked up to see it was the man from the garden! For a moment I was fishing in my head for a name to go with his face and when it came I was overcome with anger and happiness that at least I knew someone besides the unpredictable Prince.
"Sir Goku!" I exclaimed. "Glad to see you remember me young one." He said with a smile. He then went on to pull up a small wooden stool and set it up next to me.
"How are you feeling?" Goku asked me gently. "Oh...just great! I was kidnap from my family, wound up unconscious to wake up here and then to top it all off I'm chained down like some beast. Yeah I just can't feel more perfect!" I said while rolling my eyes.
"Come now child things could be far worse." He said to me calmly. I turned my body around. "We don't usually take women Princess, so you must excuse us as we are not use to handling female hostages." He added.
"If you don't normally take women hostages, then why take me. What makes me so special that I get to break the rules?" I lashed out at him. Goku only sighed as he ran his hand through his crazy black hair.
"I don't really know how to explain Princess." Goku finally answered. "Well then if you can't answer me than leave." I said not facing him. "But Princess this is a mighty long journey. You'll get lonely and hungry if you don't let someone come down here with you and if you don't eat." Goku said worriedly.
"Then so be it! I'm on a ship filled with enemies. Why would a person who works for the people who kidnap me care about my well being?" I replied bitterly. "Fine, fine…If you want to be alone I'll give you your space. But I'll just be in ear shot if you need me okay?" He said before he hesitantly left me alone.
A/N- okay we're stopping here everyone! Starting next chapter the real fluff should begin so yeah wish me luck with that. And then also I noticed I need to go back and make corrections to some previous chapters so I'm also going to be working on that too.
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