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Chapter 3

Three days later...

Cellena ran to the throne room with a look of detremination and desperation upon her face. So many things had gone from bad to worse. The Saiyans were putting up a good fight, but things were looking grim, especially since it was said that Dadoria and Zarbon would be on the planet very soon, if they weren't already there.

She arrived at the giant double doors and pushed them open. When she got inside, she saw became appalled at what was before her eyes. "What do you think you're doing?"

There was a tall and powerful Saiyan was sitting on King Vegeta's throne, but quickly got off once he saw her and began laughing. "None of your business, woman."

"It is my business! Since when does anyone else besides King Vegeta have the right to sit upon the throne?"

"Since when does a woman have the right to order me around?" There were other Saiyans in the throne room as well. There were seven all together, but he was the ring leader. "We all know that you may be the mother of the Prince, but that doesn't make you a queen or anything. You're still a woman!"

Cellena growled and created two fists, but kept them down at her side. "I don't know what you're thinking, but this madness will cease! This is insane! Our people our fighting and you cowards are in here acting like fools! I may not be a queen, and you may not see me as any one of any importance, but I will have your respect!"

He began laughing as he came closer to her. "And why is that, woman?" In a mere instant, he felt pain in his face and an incredible force pushed him on to the ground. The six other men looked shocked as their Saiyan leader wiped some blood away from his nose and looked up to Cellena to find that she had her leg still in the air.

"I figured you wouldn't be fast enough to dogde that, but hey," she smirked "I'm only a woman."

He growled as he stood to his feet. "That was a lucky shot!"

"Oh really?" She cocked an eyebrow and started gently chuckling, which enraged the Saiyan.

"I don't see what's so funny, woman!" He pulled back his arm and reached it foward to hit her, but she caught his arm and began mocking him.

"Have some respect! I'm only just a woman."

"Why you..." Before he could react, Cellena used the bottom of her hand to break his nose and as the blood began to spill from his nose, she jumped in the air and spun around and kicked him in his face, which made him fly a few feet and then he hit the ground forceful.

"Don't question me on what I say or tell you to do. I know you think little of me, but I not only deserve your respect, but I demand it as well! I defeated you, and I expect you to except that gracioulsy. If you don't," she said, starting to smirk now "I'll just have to kill you."

The other six Saiyans stepped forward to fight her, but strangely enough, her confidence began to rise. "You all can attack me, but you'll do nothing to harm me."

"Yeah right woman!" said one.

"What's going on here?" Through the double doors came Prince Vegeta and the six men began bowing, but the other lost concious. "What's going on here?"

Cellena crossed her arms. "Nothing that I can't handle." She bowed a little to her son. "If you don't mind me saying so Prince, I would like to comment on something."

Vegeta looked at the other Saiyans in there and grolwed. "Leave us!" They fled and left the body of the Saiyan who attacked Cellena.

"Goodbye." Cellena created a ki blast and ended his meaningless life right there on the spot.

Prince Vegeta was about to ask why she did that, but he shrugged it off, like he didn't care. "What do you want to say?"

She crossed her arms again and sighged. "I'm sorry son, but you have not been fulling your duties?"

Vegeta grumbled. "What do you mean?"

"Well we've just recieved word that Frieza will be arriving on our planet at any moment, but I don't think he'll do anything that he doesn't have to, so I believe that Dadoria or Zarbon will be sent." She turned away from her son with a look of confusion on her face. "I-I am not sure on what we're supposed to do. I came to find you, since you want to be all grown up now and matters into your own hands."

Vegeta smirked arrongantly. "Well, we'll fight them."

Cellena looked back at her son and shook her head. "It not that simple. It's not that simple at all. He's very powerful. In fact..."

Suddenly, a scouter that was over Cellena's eye began going off and rising higher and higher within every second. "Oh no. It can't be."

"What is it?"

She didn't answer him.

"Well!"

She still didn't answer her son.

"Mother!"

She shook her head to snap out of her shock and knelt down to her son. "Prince Vegeta, I know you don't like me telling you what to do, but you must listen to me, or we both might be killed."

"Are they here already?"

"I don't believe the power is high enough to be Frieza, but I do believe that it is Zarbon, and possibly even Dadoria as well. There are two powers, and the stronger one is our way, so I believe that the one closer to us is Zarbon." She stood to her feet and began running at of the throne room. "Follow me."

Prince Vegeta hesitated, but eventually decided to follow her. After all, Vegeta knew that his mother was very wise, even if she didn't really have a say so in royal matters.

Vegeta followed his mother out of the throne room, but they didn't get far since they were stopped by the six Saiyans that were previously in the throne room. "Well, well, look what we have here. Well, it's Cellena escaping the palace when there's danger. I thought you were supposed to be respected," said one of them, and the others smirked or nodded agreeingly.

Cellena grunted. "I have no time for your foolishness! I must leave!"

"You're a coward!" Yelled another one.

Prince Vegeta was about to step forward to kill the six fools, but Cellena took a step forward to show that she had everything under control. "Look, I'm trying to save our future. If I don't do something, then who will? You idiots will be the death of us, if it's left up to you, so I suggest that you take your posts before I blast you into oblivion!" She pushed them out of the way and began walking off once again with her son.

"Coward!" Yelled another one.

Vegeta grunted and made fists, but Cellena said "Don't bother. We haven't got the time."

"But they just insulted you! Are you going to take that?"

"What other choice do we have? I can't exactly just stop. I bet you it won't take long for Zarbon to find us, and I can't allow him to get to you."

Vegeta wondered why she didn't just say "us" instead of "you" but then decided to let it go. "Where are we going?"

"To a place where I can make sure you won't die. Your father is strong, but things are looking grim, so I have to invest in our future."

"Are you saying that father will die?"

She wouldn't let the pain of the sentence show in her face. "I-I don't know Vegeta. He is strong and prideful, but sometimes you don't win because of that."

"Kakarot!" Tannipu walked while having her hands on her sides, so she could relieve the pain from the baby, as she walked into Kakarot's room. "Are you asleep?"

Kakarot was under his small bed, cuddled in a little ball.

"We have to get some of your things ready. Remember the plan I told you about earlier? Kakarot? Are you sleeping?"

Kakarot rolled from under the bed and stood up. "What about father? Is he not coming back?"

Tannipu shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. We have to be ready when the time comes, so I want you to get dressed in some armor, okay?"

Kakarot sighed as he looked out his window and saw the sun. "I wish we would have a full moon."

She snapped at her son. "Don't wish for such things Kakarot!"

"Why? Wouldn't it help us?"

"No it wouldn't. It would probably do more damage than help. If you think about it, not everyone can control theirtransformed forms, such as you. Your father is among the few. Now come on and lets get you dressed to go."

Kakarot took another look out the window. 'I hope you're doing alright, father.'

"What are we doing here?" asked Prince Vegeta as he stepped into his mothers and fathers room. "Isn't this the first place they'd look for us?"

"Actually," said Cellena while tapping on the floor, "this would be the second. They'd first look in the throne room, but that's not where the passageway is."

"What passage way?" said Vegeta with interest. He thought he knew everything there was about the palace, but a passageway in his parent's room was something he didn't think of.

Cellena stood to her feet. "It's under the bed. It might be difficult to find, but you'llget toit alright."

Vegeta got on his knees and then looked up at his mother, who wasn't making any attempts to move. "Aren't you coming?"

She shook her head and put a brave face on, even though she didn't want to die. "This is my place, and your place is survival."

"But...but why is this your place? How come you can't come with me?"

She turned from her son and closed her eyes, thinking through what she had to do. "You wouldn't understand."

"Why, because I'm younger than you?" He mocked.

"Because you're not a woman! Not only that, but no other woman on this planet can't even understand! I didn't want to be chosen at first to give birth to you, because I knew that I would have to go through Hell and back, and no one would think of me, not even for a moment! No one cares that I birthed you, because I'm woman! Now is my time to show that I'm not what they expect, I'm much more than what they can imagine!"

"You don't have to prove yourself to anyone."

"You're wrong son."

"But you'll be killed! I know that you can't take Zarbon!"

"Even if I die, I'll die with honor. I can't be expected to run away like a frightened little child!"

"Then why I'm a leaving?"

"Because you are a child!"

"Well I wish you'd stop treating me like one!"

There was an awkward silence between the two, and Vegeta could see the burning determination in his mother's eyes.

The scouter that Cellena had on began to go off.

"He's in the palace, and he'll be here shortly, so go through the passageway, keep going straight, make two lefts, and then only make rights. You'll find a space pod and it'll have the proper coordinates on it, so don't change it. Frieza hasn't purged anything in the Milky Way Galaxy, so you should be safe for the time being, at least I hope."

Vegeta remembered that she said that she didn't want to give birth to him, because she knew it would be Hell, so he asked "Was it really that bad...living with me and father?"

She smiled. "It was difficult at first, but I really have enjoyed my life."

Vegeta looked closely on his mother's neck and realized that she was marked. 'When did father do that?' He suddenly smirked. 'I guess she did start to enjoy her life after all. I didn't even know if father liked her, but I guess he did.'

Cellena reached under a pillow on her bed and pulled out the medallion that King Vegeta wore and she handed it to her son. "Until your father comes back for this, you will be known as King of Vegeta." She placed it around her son's neck proudly. "Long live the King."

Prince Vegeta looked at the medallion with amazement. It was something he always wanted to wear around his neck, and now he could. He looked up at his mother and saw that her eyes were saddened. "Don't be so soft. It makes you seem weak" is all Vegeta could say.

She laughed a little. "Go on, and don't lag behind. You must hurry."

Vegeta nodded and got under the bed.

"Prince Vegeta!" yelled a voice from the other side of the door.

Cellena looked at the power reading on her scouter and she knew that it was Zarbon, so she braced herself for whatever her destiny might hold.

Zarbon broke the door down and smirked as he saw Cellena. "Well, well, if it isn't King Vegeta's woman." His smirk became lustful as he came forward to her. "Why don't you try something with a real man?"

She returned the smirk. "That's why I sleep with Vegeta. If I wanted a woman, you'd be the first person I'd go to."

Zarbon growled angrily. "I wouldn't say such things if I were you, especially since he's going to be dead in a little while! Now where is Prince Vegeta?"

"Why would you expect me to know? Do you think he'd still be in the palace? What kind of a fool do you take me for?"

Zarbon ran his fingers through her hair. "Well, guess you're not so idiotic."

She backed away and pushed his hand away. "Don't touch me!"

"You're so feisty. Why so angry? Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't you come and be a whore on one of Frieza's stations. Not only can we make Vegeta angry, but we can make me happy."

She growled furiously. "First of all, I wouldn't touch you! Second of all, Vegeta wouldn't care that much, since I was only a pawn to produce his son. He doesn't care if I live or die."

Zarbon laughed, knowing that she was lying. "Oh, that's funny, considering that you have a marking on your neck, which was probably done by a Vegeta, because if it wasn't done by him, I promise you, you wouldn't be standing here." He dropped his smile and quickly grabbed her neck. "I'm not playing anymore. I want to know where Prince Vegeta is now!"

Cellena struggled to get free of his grasp, but ended up spiting on his face.

Zarbon let her go and slapped her in the face, knocking her down. "Foolish woman!"

Cellena stood to her feet. "I'm not scared of you! I have no reason to be, so why should I tell you where my son is?"

"Because you should be scared of me."

She threw a punch at him, but he caught it with his hand and begun to crush her hand, but she pulled it away. "I hate you!" She kicked him in the face, causing him to step back a step, but he came closer and punched her in the stomach. "You're such a weak Saiyan."

She spit out blood, but stood straight up. "And you're a gender confused freak." She kicked him in the face again, but this time, he went to the ground. "Don't underestimate me!"

Zarbon stood to his feet and wiped the blood that was on his mouth away. "And don't underestimate me!" The power reading for Zarbon began to go up as his body mass increased greatly and he became hideous. "How do you like me in my transformed state?"

Cellena was in pure shock as she looked at the power reading for Zarbon. 'This is unbelievable. If he's this powerful, than how powerful must Frieza truly be?'

Zarbon wrapped his arm around Cellena and licked her with his long and wide tongue. "You taste good, but I don't want someone as rebellious as you." She struggled to get away from him, but all struggling stopped when he snapped her neck and she fell to the ground, lifeless.

Zarbon also had a scouter on, and his went off. "There's someone near by, and they have a fairly high power, for a Saiyan anyway." Zarbon powered down into his normal state. Zarbon smirked and threw the bed across the room, but nothing was there. "Strange." The power began to disappear and he decided to continue his search for Prince Vegeta.

What Zarbon didn't know was that the power was really coming from Prince Vegeta, who couldn't help but peak at the battle that had just occurred, and he now had a look of anguish on his face. 'Mother.'

To be continued...

A/N: Poor Vegeta. He's all alone in the world, unless his father makes it, but what if he doesn't make it? Poor Veggie.

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