Ultimate Betrayal

It was not long after that day with the Saibamen that life would change for Vegeta forever. Vegeta had not seen his father for half a year and was rather hoping to tell Frieza that he wanted to go home and see his father and request that Frieza's ship made a journey to planet Vegeta. Vegeta couldn't wait to show his father how far he'd come along. Despite hardly ever seeing him, Vegeta had always had a close bond with his father. King Vegeta was a powerful King and a great warrior and along with Frieza was the only person he trusted in his love and friendship compared to the others who surrounded him, who were obviously just kissing up and wanting to get greatness by association from the Saiyan prince. Vegeta was highly perceptive and naturally suspicious of people, something which had saved him from being dragged down into the drudgery of friendships with people but unfortunately this was dulled for the betrayal that was to sting him this day.

Vegeta marched along the corridor to Frieza's audience chamber and was let in with a bow by the guards. Frieza was sitting in his throne awaiting him and smiled at seeing his favourite.

"Why hello my dear, how good of you to join us,"

"Thank you for seeing me Frieza, I've been meaning to make a request to you for some time now," Vegeta said getting directly to the point, "I haven't been to the Planet Vegeta for a while and I was wondering when you'd next planned to journey to my home planet. I was rather hoping to see my father again soon."

"Oh Vegeta, you know I would give you anything in the universe. Anything your little heart desired, but I'm sorry to say, I cannot give you this," Frieza said with a somber look on his face.

"What? Why how come?" Vegeta said, for the first time in his memory being denied something. He wasn't used to it and he didn't like it.

"Well, you see my dear sweet Prince, since your arrival here your father and I have since come to a little disagreement about a few minor details concerning the ownership of your lovely planet. And until the disagreement comes to any conclusion, I'm afraid I cannot allow you to return home to Planet Vegeta or to your father just yet."

"What? You mean, you're kidnapping me?" Vegeta asked completely shocked at what Frieza had just told him.

"Kidnapping? No of course not! Never kidnapping, what a horrible word! Do you really think me capable of that?" and Frieza laughed, his usual laugh but this time Vegeta heard that it was shot through with coldness and an evil that he had not even begun to fathom.

"I am merely keeping you here, with me, until I decide to give you back to your father," the Ice-jin continued, smiling slightly.

"But you can't do that!" Vegeta cried out for the first time since he first met Frieza, loosing his temper at him and getting a dangerously anger look on his face. "I am the Prince of Saiyans, and I demand to see my father now!"

Frieza laughed again, "Your anger is perfectly understandable Prince, my what a powerful Monkey you have become…"

"Monkey! What is this cheek? You take that back Frieza!" Vegeta snarled, his considerably longer but still fluffy tail beat the air from side to side behind him.

"Oh, Vegeta darling, you don't understand do you? I own you. I have owned you for the past six months since you got here," Frieza's eyes narrowed dangerously, "and you Prince, do not command me what to do," the warlord sneered.

Vegeta paled. He didn't know what to do. When he came to Frieza's chamber today he had fully expected his request to be fulfilled and Frieza's space-ship to be traveling directly home. His cheeks flushed and his eyes prickled with tears that hurt and felt foreign to him, quickly he blinked them away.

"So…so I follow your orders now right. Is that what your telling me?" Vegeta said quietly.

"Yes, you are a bright boy," Frieza said with a note of sarcasm, "Now, you run along and go kill some Saibamen or whatever it is you like to kill now. You are dismissed."

Vegeta had been dismissed before, but only by his father, his King. He did not like being told by someone who in his mind was his equal, what to do. Slowly, he turned around and walked out the door which had been opened behind him, staring straight ahead barely concentrating on where he was going.

"And, oh Vegeta?" Frieza called from behind him.

Vegeta turned his head, his back still turned to Frieza, unable to bring himself to face the tyrant.

"Vegeta, you be a good boy and follow every order that I give to you… or I'll kill your father."

Vegeta's eyes widened and his whole body shook with terror, sorrow and most of all an overwhelming anger. He ground his teeth and for the first time in his life suppressed his instinct to fly right at that bastards face and tear him limb from limb before blasting him into oblivion.

"Yes, Lord Frieza," he choked out, as he stepped out and the door closed behind him.

Through the steel of the door Vegeta could hear the ugly cackling laugh of the icy tyrant. Once Vegeta's closest friend and now his ultimate betrayer and worst enemy.