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Chapter 8 – The Meeting
The red planet became bright as the Sun shone its beams on the ground. Everyone awoke to do their duty: another day has begun. The sun shone through the windows of the palace onto a young woman. Her multi-coloured hair shined brightly, her peach skin glowing. Birds fluttered past the windows, softly cooing. It was a beautiful Autumn morning; slightly cold and crisp with the Sun beaming down. The clock above the door said it was 7:30am, but the young woman had not awoken. She was still in a deep sleep dreaming away. She had fallen asleep late the night before, so tired she even forgot to get out of her wedding dress. Her mascara was slightly smudged and her wavy hair was in a bit of a mess. There was a knock on the door, but it did not wake the girl from her deep slumber.
Another knock. No, she was still sleeping.
"Your Majesty?" Came a gruff voice from behind the door. The man knocked three more times. Useless. "Caroline?" He asked, but no-one replied. He opened the door cautiously, to find the girl asleep on her bed. He stood there with his arms folded, gazing at her softly breathing body.
"Wish I was still asleep." He muttered, jealous. "Hey." He said calling to her. "You gotta get up."
Still useless.
"For goodness sake it's like talking to a brick wall!" He said to himself. He got on the bed and started shaking her. "Caroline! It's time to get up!" This time she moaned slightly in her sleep. "Come on stop dreaming!" His voice became a little louder, and he started shaking her a little more violently. "Come on, woman!"
"Five more minutes…" She whispered, as she rolled over. The spiky haired man crawled onto the other side of the bed, and continued to shake her.
"Come on, woman! Duty calls! You have to get up!"
"Dun wan ge' up!" She groaned lazily.
"Open your eyes, girl!"
She opened them. Her vision was blurry; she saw four black eyes and two sets of spiky black hair. She didn't notice it was Vegeta and smacked him in the mouth.
"Get off me!" She yelled as Vegeta bounced off the bed.
"What did you do that for?" Bellowed Vegeta, rubbing his sore chin.
"Vegeta?" She timidly asked, as she peeped over the bed.
"Yes it's me!"
"Oh I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to…"
"Who did you think I was? The bogeyman?" He growled.
"Sorry, are you ok?" She got of the bed and looked at his chin.
There was a slight purple-blue mark but no great harm was done.
"It's ok, it's just a bruise." She said. Vegeta got up, still rubbing his chin.
"For an earthling you're actually quite strong."
"Not really. You just scared me, so I attacked. I didn't mean to, I didn't know who you were."
Vegeta snorted.
"What are you here for, anyway?"
"Frieza needs to see you in his Chamber. Before you ask, I don't know why. I also think you better get out of your wedding garment."
"Don't tell me I slept in this!" She moaned. "No wonder why I had nightmares last night. Wretched dress."
"Anyway you better stop moaning. You're supposed to leave with Frieza at eight o'clock sharp and it's quarter to."
"Fine, fine, I'll step on it."
"Good. I'll inform Frieza then."
He turned his heel and left.
(..:Later:..)
After a very quick shower and hair wash (She had an en suite) she grabbed a black gypsy type dress, quickly put on some make-up, put on some silver hooped earrings and tied her hair up in a ponytail, with two strands of hair hanging by either side of her face. Caroline winced as she saw the time: 8:10am. She grabbed a pair of black stilettos and pelted out of the door. She found herself in Frieza's chamber, with Frieza staring at the fountain, arms folded.
"Sorry I'm late!" She apologised, "Woke up a bit late."
She put her shoes on.
"So, where are we going?"
Frieza turned round, a glare smeared across his face.
"I postponed the meeting until 8:30am. I am an important man Caroline, people do not expect me to be late!" He shouted.
"Can't you go without me?"
"No. You are now my wife and you need to be with me in every meeting."
"Oh joy. Please excuse me if I wet myself in sheer excitement."
"Don't be funny! This is a serious situation! It's now eight fifteen, so we had better make our way down to the meeting room. I don't want to hear another word from you! In the meeting I don't want you to even utter a single thing, leave all the talking to me, got it?"
"Yes sir." She replied glumly as she rolled her eyes.
"And another thing. We must present ourselves as actual husband and wife, so don't look bored, nod your head, smile and don't say a word."
"Yeah that's all hunky-dory and everything but we are actually husband and wife in case you've forgotten."
"I know that, fool. I mean show some slight affection."
"There is no way in Hell I'm kissing you in public again." She protested.
"I wasn't expecting you to." He said, as he linked his arm with hers. "I don't like it anymore than you do, it's just for my reputation. You're nothing but a model."
"Oh thanks."
"And quit the sarcasm." He ordered.
Caroline followed Frieza down each passageway after passageway. It grew darker; there were no windows just a few dim lights. They were underground. Two wooden double doors laid in front of them, and Frieza opened them. Inside was the longest table Caroline had ever seen, and two chairs were placed at the very end, obviously reserved for Frieza and Caroline. The clock showed them it was 8:26am. They sat on their seats and waited.
The minutes passed and as soon as the clocked turn half past eight aliens from other planets came walking in. There were many different shades of colours and different amount of limbs. Caroline counted 85 arms altogether, including hers and Frieza's. She had never been in a room with such a variety of cultures before. It baffled her, and made her realise how big the Universe really is.
"So this is your pleasant wife!" A blue man said, as he shook her hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty." He said as he bowed. The other aliens followed suit and also bowed.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all." She replied politely. It wasn't really a pleasure at all, she was scared stiff!
"Forgive me for being outspoken, Your Highness," the blue man continued as he sat down, "but will there be an heir to the throne?"
Caroline opened her mouth to reply but just stammered at such a question. She had never thought about that before – she never wanted to. Suddenly a story came into her head.
"W-well, Frieza and I have talked about it and um…we decided that…uh…having a baby at my age is a bit too soon and um…I would really like to rule the Universe a bit with my…dear…husband before settling down, so…we've decided to uh…to wait a few years before we try to…reproduce…isn't that right, Frieza?" She nervously said as she looked at him. Frieza looked back at her; his eyebrows were arched and he nodded his head. Caroline sighed with relief – she got away with that one! He was impressed with her story. She just hoped he wasn't really thinking about children at all.
'Lousy blue man!' she thought. 'He might be giving Frieza ideas!'
"Well that's some sweet news." The blue man said, "A child of King Frieza will surely be great. I hope he follows in his father's footsteps!"
"What if it's a girl?" Caroline blurted out.
"It won't be." Frieza smirked.
"It could be, for all you know. What's wrong with having a girl?"
"We'll talk about it later." Frieza ordered. "For now, we are going to talk about…"
And so they talked.
And talked.
And they talked a little more.
And a little more.
Another hour strolled by…
And another one…
There goes another one!
By this time Caroline was thoroughly bored. Her head leaned on her right hand while her left hand was occupying itself with some left over blue tac. Caroline looked up.
"…Now the Planet Orinal is inhabited by very few aliens so it won't be hard to take over. Some of the lower class warriors could quite easily take over the Planet and claim it as yours, Lord Frieza." A yellow man recited as he stood next to a white board with facts and figures written on it.
"There may well be very few of them, and yes they're not very strong but they have amazing speed they're not as easy to defeat as you think." A pink woman said.
"Yes but I'm sure the low class warriors can still handle them." The yellow man replied.
"Is the planet worth a lot?" Frieza asked.
"N-not entirely Sire."
"Then why are we talking about it?"
"We…we thought it could just be another planet to add your collection Sire…"
"I have no interest in it. Only tell me about the Planets with the highest values. Worthless planets mean nothing to me."
"R-right…of course…" He rubbed everything off the board and started again. "Now THIS planet should interest you, Sire! This Planet has…"
And he began explaining. Caroline groaned in boredom and looked at the clock. It was twenty eight minutes past two.
"Shouldn't we have a break?" She asked. Everyone stared to look at her. "Did I say that out loud?" She asked again. A few people giggled. She looked a Frieza who gave her a deadly glare, but then gave her a forced smile and spoke.
"Yes, I think everyone here needs to have a short break." He agreed. "Take five, everyone."
The aliens filed out the room, and when the door closed, Frieza had a word with Caroline.
"Can't you just hold your tongue?" He hissed.
"I was BORED! I didn't mean to speak out loud." She apologised. "God if this is what you do with your life it's very boring."
"It's business. You wouldn't understand."
"I understand business I just don't see the excitement."
She folded her arms and stared at the wall.
"Your speech about the baby was impressive. At least you're a quick thinker." Frieza complimented.
"Just don't get any ideas." Caroline ordered, but Frieza just laughed.
"Or what? You'll beat me up? Yeah, as if! Besides, I have no interest in children at this very moment in time."
"Good because neither do I. I have no interest in you being the father of my child either."
"One day you may not have a choice." He said darkly. It spent a chill down Caroline's spine, and it played on Caroline's mind for the rest of the meeting.
At half past six the meeting finally came to an end. Both Caroline and Frieza strolled out together, but once the aliens had gone they both went their separate ways. She had no idea where she was going. She ended up outside the palace where grey clouds lingered over head and the Sun could not be seen. A gypsy dress was a stupid thing to wear: she was freezing. A slight breeze shook the trees beside her and she began to hear some shouts and screams round the corner.
She looked and saw a training ground. Raditz and Vegeta were duelling while Nappa watched.
"Nice shot there, Vegeta! Raditz you need to work on your speed!" Nappa yelled up to the two Saiyans.
"You're distracting me!" Raditz yelled down as he hurled a punch into Vegeta's face which was dodged, and Vegeta took to his chance to knee Raditz in the stomach. Saliva came spilling out Raditz' mouth, and Vegeta gave him a big blow to the head. Raditz pelted down like a rock and smashed onto the floor.
"I think Vegeta won that one." Nappa murmured, and chuckled.
Vegeta flew down, and wiped some blood from his mouth. He walked up to the other Saiyans but noticed Caroline watching.
"A training ground isn't a place where the Queen should be!" He yelled out to her. Caroline walked up to them.
"Have a good fight did we?" She asked.
"Well I did. I'm not sure if Raditz thoroughly enjoyed it though."
"Shut up Vegeta." Pouted Raditz.
"Anyway, where have you been for the last few hours?"
"In a boring crappy meeting with Frieza." She replied.
"I've been to one of those." Nappa joined in. "I gotta admit I'd rather be jumping around selling lollipops to little kiddies than sitting around for hours talking about silly planets."
"Oh it was planet this, planet that, it was driving me nuts! And there was one guy who had a blimmin' cheek to ask if there was going to be an heir to the throne!"
"What a twat." Raditz said as he rubbed his sore arm. "I bet Frieza wasn't happy about that."
"I made an excuse before Frieza could even open his stupid gob. I just said that we've talked about it and that I'm too young and I'd rather do this and this first before settling down. During the break though, he said something quite disturbing."
"What was that?"
"We were talking about the baby thing and I said I didn't want one with him but he said that one day I might not have a choice."
"Sounds bad." Nappa admitted.
"Yeah, I'm not looking forward to it myself. Maybe that's the real reason why he wanted a wife…" She pondered. Vegeta stared at her, confused.
"How did you work that out?"
"Well, he says he wanted a wife to gain more power but…as I said, I think he's scared in case he gets killed by someone, so maybe he wants a kid to carry on his legacy after he goes. Well anyway, no-one has to kill Frieza, really…he'll die of natural causes one day."
"That's true, but that won't be for a very long time. It would be better if someone killed him, he'd die earlier."
Caroline gave a deep sigh and sat on the cold ground.
"If I did have a baby with Frieza I wonder what it would look like?"
"Ugly." Said Raditz, and they all laughed.
"Yeah probably, since it has Frieza's genes. It's just horrible though…the thought of me and Frieza…EWWW! The thought of being his wife was bad enough but doing that? No way. Is there any chance of him stooping that low?"
"Maybe. It's hard to tell with him." Vegeta admitted.
"He better not. That's just sick. Still, he agreed that he didn't want children at the moment. Hopefully he'll die before he starts wanting them, too."
Just then Zarbon came flying down and into the middle of the group.
"Your Highness, Lord Frieza would like a word with you."
"What about?"
"I don't know, but he'd like to see you in his Chamber."
Caroline groaned and got up. Zarbon grabbed her arm, but Caroline pulled away.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm taking you to Lord Frieza."
"Piss off you are! I'll have one of these take me instead, thank you very much. And don't touch me if you haven't got permission."
Zarbon wanted to argue back, but reluctantly stepped aside.
"Come on Veggie you're taking me."
"What did you just call me?" He asked as the other two Saiyans sniggered.
"Oh it doesn't matter, can you just take me please?"
Vegeta stood up and put his arm around her back as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Vegeta flared up his ki and took off.
"If you don't mind me saying," Vegeta began, "I have a bad feeling about this."
"So do I."