A Clash of Races
A/N: I am exhausted. I walked like 2 miles today. That's a big strain on a little girl like me. God, I'm so tiny. Lol. anyway. I'm about to hop in the shower and go to bed and take a nice long nap. yay. so hope you like this chapter and good night all. enjoy! oh! and thank you for all the reviews, really appreciate it!
Vegeta decided to put off asking Bardock about the project until the neko-jins arrived. It would just be easier to let them explain it all at once. He was curious as to what this new invention was that the scientist was working on. It had been a week since he arrived home and the neko-jins would be landing at any time. Everyone knew that the saiya-jin prince was not a very patient man. If he wanted his answers, he was just going to have to hold on a little bit longer. It seemed as if time was not on his side today.
The five foot one raven haired female walked into the control room when Kitsune was telling one of his inane stories. The twenty year old rolled her hot pink eyes and snapped, "Oh blah blah blah! Tell it to someone who cares!" The beauty picked up a strawberry frosted doughnut and shoved it in her mouth while leaning against one of the control boards careful not to hit any buttons or switches. One arm was folded across her chest while she took the last few bites of her doughnut. The moment she swallowed she pointed to Makaze and said, "Like her!" Everyone in the room had stopped to look at her and she just looked around and giggled before running out of the room.
The blue haired beauty just sighed and shook her head. She loved the girl and all but sometimes, she was truly a mystery. An insane puzzle, really hard to figure out at times. Although, Mala had only ever opened up to Bulma and Chichi. More so to Bulma than to Chichi. The Princess was sure her best friend was aware of everything that went on in Mala's life. Bulma had been away a few years so Mala had filled her in on the details. Just opening up and spilling nearly everything. "I don't think I will ever understand that girl."
Kitsune was still basking in his anger and added, "I'm really going to kill her if she keeps pulling that shit!"
Makaze gave her mate a look before replying, "Leave her alone. She's a moron."
Bulma jumped to the defense of the genetically deformed girl who was absent from the room. "I wouldn't say a moron, just a few doughnuts short of a dozen." She had said that while looking at the doughnut box which was missing a few doughnuts. There had to be at least eight in the box, now.
Everyone saw the girl turn the corner and come shooting down the hallway. Mention food and she appeared. "Did you say doughnuts? Cause I'm hungry!"
"Yeah," the future Queen laughed, "I did."
The Prince had to wait an hour but their ship had finally landed. He had been late because he was training with Radditz and Kakarot. He'd get a good tongue lashing from his father later about his abscence from their landing. Vegeta was rushing around the hallways until his black depths fell on two unmistakable neko-jin women. He chuckled at the fact that the both of them were fairly attractive. Especially the one with the blue and aqua markings. She was truly an enigma. He'd heard that they were a beautiful race and that statement really was true.
Deciding to startle them out of their wits, he asked, "Who the hell are you?"
Bulma jumped at the sound of his voice and turned to face her offender. She gasped when she took in the sight. There was an extremely handsome saiya-jin standing in the hallway. She'd heard that this planet had some gorgeous guys but never expected one to be quite this good looking. "I'm Bulma. The Princess of Neko-jins."
He chuckled and asked, "Who is she? Your royal freak?"
The long tressed raven haired girl would not stand aside and let him insult her. Daringly, she spoke up and bit back. "What crawled up your ass and died?"
The Princess growled at her friend's behavior and chided her, "Chich! Cool it."
"Sorry, B." The warrior immediately said in response.
The aqua patterned neko-jin spoke, "She is my personal guard, Chichi."
Deciding to be an asshole, like always, he made a smart remark which set her friend off the deep end. He liked women with fiery spirits. They made things ten times as interesting. He'd always been too busy for women in his time with Lord Frieza but that didn't mean that he was inexperienced. He would never lower himself to touch one of the concubines, but he did go out on purging missions after all. "Hrm. Perfect name for her!"
Chichi emit a low growl from her throat and barked, "Hentai!"
Bulma couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Monkey boy, mind telling me who you are since you know who we are?"
"I'm the Prince of all Saiya-jins, Vegeta Ouji III."
Both woman emit a gasp and couldn't believe that this man was the man that they kept hearing so many stories about. Some good and others told of the gruesome horrors he had commit under the service of Lord Frieza. He was the shortest saiya-jin that she'd ever seen. Probably the shortest one in history. That actually made the situation even more amusing. She thought the Prince would be a giant. Although, she knew enough never to judge a book by its cover. Sometimes, good things came in small packages.
"Would you mind showing us to Bardock's lab?"
"Follow me," he said without asking any questions.
Makaze, Kitsune, and Mala had stuck together when they came off the ship. They had decided to venture off on their own around the palace. Makaze and Kitsune were walking way behind the other girl who was holding her box of doughnuts and eating them. She was about to grab the last doughnut in the box when a very tall man with unruly black hair that fell to the back of his knees stopped in front of her. She growled when she noticed that he was staring. "Can I help you?"
Radditz chuckled at her attitude and replied, "Oh no, of course not. I was just wondering if you were going to eat," he grabbed the doughnut out of the box and took a bite, "this."
The pink featured neko-jin created a crackling pink aura around her body. Her long metallic hot pink claws retracted from her normal fingernails. A hiss emerged from her throat. Nobody stole her last doughnut and got away with it! "Don't think you're getting away with that pal!" She said as her tail held his wrist in a death grip so that he couldn't escape. Neko-jins were nearly as powerful as saiya-jin warriors. Second to them. Another hiss emerged as she scratched a deep wound in his arm causing him to cry out in pain. Then she shoved the rest of the doughnut down his throat. "Don't want your nasty saiya-jin germs, anyway!"
She let him go and gave him the box to throw away while continuing her way down the hall. Makaze and Kitsune just followed her shaking their heads with a deep sigh of irritation.
The tall saiya-jin was just left in shock. He muttered a stream of curses while chewing and swallowing the doughnut she had stuffed in his mouth. He tossed the box out in some slave's room on his way down the hall.
Mala, Makaze, and Kitsune had walked until they ran into a younger saiya-jin. Well, more like Mala did anyway. They just seemed to unknowingly bump into one another. "Ow!" They both said at the same time.
The short raven tressed woman got up and smiled at the saiya-jin who had knocked her down. He seemed nice enough, unlike that other moron she had just run into. "Hi! My name is Mala!" She greeted. Then she got straight to the point, "I like to eat. Is there any food around here?"
Goku smiled at the girl standing before him. She was shorter than any of the other women that he had ever seen. Kakarot instantly recognized her as a neko-jin because of the ears on the top of her head. He frowned when he noticed one flopping, though. That usually meant a shunned neko-jin. She didn't look like she had been shunned, though. If she was here, that meant she must've traveled with the Princess. "I'm Goku," he greeted back, "I like to eat, too! I'll show you the cafeteria! They have all kinds of yummy food there!"
The two of them went off towards the cafeteria leaving behind Makaze and Kitsune. Of course, the royal advisor was the first one to speak up. "Oh boy. There she goes again!"
"Maybe she'll eat so much that she'll explode and kill herself," the male feline warrior had said in high hopes.
"Don't bet on it. That girl can eat like a mack truck!"
Mala and Goku were enjoying themselves in an eating contest in the cafeteria when his older brother, Radditz, walked in to disrupt the fun. The taller and elder saiya-jin didn't see the girl's face and asked, "What the fuck is that?"
The neko-jin shouted, "Pottymouth," while her face was still buried in her bowl of white rice.
"What's what?" His little brother asked confused.
He pointed the neko-jin and said, "THAT!"
"She's one of Princess Bulma's friends. A neko-jin! Cool, huh?"
"No, not really. I ran into one of those suckers on the way over here. Mean lit-" he stopped shortly when the girl finally lifted her face from the bowl. It was the same girl who had attacked him just ten minutes earlier. He wondered how in the hell she ended up finding his brother. "It's you! The one who clawed my arm and shoved the doughnut in my mouth!"
"Name's Mala," she said with a hiss.
"I'm Radditz, but uh. I'll be leaving now." When he turned to leave, she pounced on him and started beating him up. It really must have been a food possessiveness thing because he wasn't sure how much he could take of this getting beat up by a kitten!
Bulma, Vegeta, and Chichi came rushing into the room when they were passing by and heard all of the commotion inside. Apparently, Mala was slamming Radditz against the ground repeatedly while occasionally landing a fist in his jaw. Beating up the guy who stole her last doughnut was satisfying! Or it was up until the minute her friend, the Princess, pulled her off the taller saiya-jin. "Darnit! You gone and ruined all my fun! I was punishing him for eating my last doughnut! Do you like the pretty wound I gave him?"
And here Vegeta thought he would never meet anyone dumber than Kakarot. Oh, how wrong he was! "Is your friend always this stupid?"
Mala growled in her defense and said, "I'm not dumb! I just love to entertain!"
He rolled his eyes and responded with, "Uh huh. And my name is Lord Frieza."
Her eyes lit up and she asked, "REALLY?"
His simple reply was, "No."
"Aww. And I wanted to pop him in his face for hurtin' my poor B-chan!"
Bulma decided to step in and take care of things. "You'll have to forgive her, she's uhm... one of my friends. Nobody really knows her like I do. She's not as dumb as she seems."
He laughed with the response of, "Could've fooled me."
This caused the blue haired woman to growl. She didn't like it when people made fun of the people she cared about. That was twice this Prince had already pissed her off. "She is not dumb and just because she has a genetic defect does not mean I look at her as a worthless neko-jin."
"Even though you should," Makaze piped up as she and Kitsune came into the room.
"Keep out of this 'Kaz." The Princess warned. "Now, I don't care who thinks she's dumb but I know she has reasons for acting the way she does. She has never opened up to anyone but Chichi and I. She is my friend and that's all that matters!" With that being said, she, Mala, and Chichi walked out of the room with their arm wrapped around each other's shoulders.
Vegeta offered a small smile when they left the room. He spoke, "She speaks from the heart. Her words are admirable as is her spirit. You people could learn something from her. As could you learn something from me." That was said as he, Radditz, and Kakarot left the room. Although, Kakarot was asking him a thousand annoying and dumb questions.
"Well, they have something in common." Makaze said.
"What?" Kitsune asked out of curiosity.
"They both have a friend whose I.Q. is equal to 1."
Bulma was sitting in the gardens enjoying the cool breeze when Vegeta took a seat next to her. She looked into his black hues for a moment before turning away. Her hands were folded on her lap. A small smile was painted on her glossed pink lips. Having any kind of company, even if it was this arrogant bastard's, was soothing. The blue haired beauty had always liked to surround herself with people.
After taking a deep breath the beauty decided to talk to the Prince. She was going to lose her composure if she didn't talk to someone about what was on her mind. "Do you ever hate being royalty?"
Vegeta had watched the blue haired enigma from the entrance of the gardens. She looked so peaceful, at ease. Her royal duties and her life with Frieza seemed to be so far away from her. Deciding that he wanted to get to know more about this woman, he sat down next to her and looked into her eyes before he looked at the ground. He wasn't going to say a word. Sometimes the most soothing part of being with people was when no words were spoken. He seemed surprised when she asked him that question. There were a number of days when the responsibilities of being a Prince had weighed heavily on him. So he replied with, "Often."
She chuckled at his answer. It seemed they were both on the same level. "It just gets me angry when people ridicule her. Shes really not as bad as she seems. Just a little misunderstood."
He nodded silently before replying, "I know. I apologize if I offended you."
"No, no," she spoke up quickly. "It's not you. It's just people in general. Especially a large percentage of the other neko-jin. Even my parents. They all think that Mala doesn't deserve the current position she has. She's a second class Elite Guard. Very good at her job. The only thing that stops her from being treated with respect is her genetic defect, because she can't hear as sharply as the rest of my race can."
He understood perfectly where the Princess was coming from. Kakarot was frowned upon because of his friendly and outgoing nature. They didn't understand him the way Vegeta, Radditz, and Bardock did. "The other saiya-jins don't like Kakarot much, either. Half the time he doesn't even get the respect he deserves for being an amazing warrior. Only eighteen and has surpassed me in strength. I guess it's because of his cheerful, careless nature."
"Guess we understand a lot about each other, then. Being in similar situations and all. Working for Lord Frieza, having a friend whose misunderstood, having the weight of our planets on our shoulders. I just want to thank you, for listening. Not a lot of people do so most of my emotions are pent up inside."
The prince responded with a simple, "Hn."
She smiled again and offered a small kiss to his cheek before getting up and going to the lab to help out Bardock. In the process of doing that, she left a very confused and astounded Prince.
"Tell me again why I got stuck babysitting you?"
"Because Princess Bulma thinks we should all be friends!"
"There is no way I will ever be friends with you!" Radditz shouted at the airheaded neko-jin. He wanted to know how the hell he got stuck babysitting Mala. This was really turning out to be a bad day for him. They were stuck in the cafeteria because her stomach had a never ending growl. Very much like his brother.
She rolled her eyes and decided to stop acting cheerful and show him her true self. "God, you saiya-jins are all alike. None of you ever know how to have any fun, except for your brother. At least he doesn't walk around with a stick up his ass all day long."
Radditz was surprised when he heard the girl speak normally. He decided that he liked that side of her better than the annoying side. It seemed as if she could pull the same personality switch as his brother. "Hmph. How little you know about our planet, then."
"I think I know more than enough," she scoffed. "You all act like fucking apes. A typical man's type of behavior. Me man me strong, you woman you weak. No, that's really not how it goes. At least not on Neko-sei. At least women have power on my planet."
The lecherous side of Radditz started to show when her true being came out. This side was more intrigueing than the facade that she put on. Putting two and two together, he figured that she was hiding from something by acting like there were no worries, fears, or doubts on her mind. Yeah, that was probably it. At the moment, he could see her intelligence. The lust for such an enigma built up and he said, "I don't know. Women seem to have a lot of power over me," in a low husky tone.
She moved to get up but his tail quickly grabbed her wrist and pulled her back onto his lap. Another sign of a typical male. Sex always on the mind. "Let me go or I'll do damage far worse than what I did to you an hour ago." She retracted the metallic pink beauties and smirked when his eyes went wide. "I don't suppose you want to lose your tail."
He immediately let her go and growled at the loss of physical contact. He got up and just stood in front of the beauty. His black pools searching her's for any kind of feelings. It was unnerving to find that they were void of emotion. So, she had a bottled up side like the Prince as well. Dark secrets that she was not willing to share with anyone, except maybe her friends.
She turned away and said, "Your eyes make me feel naked."
Radditz decided to be an asshole and replied, "That's 'cause I'm undressing you with them!" He caught her wrist as she tried to take a swing at him. For a moment he saw her eyes flash black and knew she was on the verge of making a transition. Each race had their own breaking point. For the saiya-jins it was Super Saiya-jin. For the neko-jins it was Fainaru Ryoku, or final power. He had never actually seen the form so if she transformed, it would be interesting.
Mala swung with her free fist and knocked him three feet back showing him how she had become an Elite Guard. She knew Radditz hadn't been expecting that blow. With a triumphant nod of her head, she walked out of the cafeteria and hopefully away from this idiot.
Night had quickly come on the planet of Vegeta-sei. The guests were especially tired while the saiya-jins were tending to their usual nightly duties. Bulma fell asleep to prepare for a long day's work. Chichi fell asleep for her newly acquired guarding duties that Kakarot had given her. Mala fell asleep to prepare to be super annoying and tend to her duties as a second class Elite Guard. She and Chich would be working together. Makaze rested to ridicule Bulma on her plans and Kitsune would be resting for a long day with Bulma's two best friends. Especially because Mala would be there, and everybody knew that that meant big trouble.
A/N: So, yeah. I finished this at like 11:51 PM and I'm wicked tired and I can't believe that I actually finished this chapter. Grah. I'll probably start the other one tomorrow or maybe Sunday if I'm not busy. : so yeah. Review and tell me what you think!