Chapter two
"Oh daddy Zarbon. I wish I could have kept that promise. I wish I hadn't lost my innocence but I ended up being just as evil as you were on the other side of those metal doors. The ones that you used to keep me safe from the rest of the ship. Until I became a full fledged Assassin that is.
Fell my arse. Frieza had beaten you that day and you know it. That was one reason I killed him. He was a monster. He killed my home, my family, my life. And you. He killed my real parents and then he took you from me too. I hate him for that. I hate him for many things. At least I can say that I killed him for you and for my family, pride and families honour. Speaking of family…"
"Princess Sophia. We are here. We will be landing in five."
"Thank you Raditz. That is all." Raditz bowed for his Queen and left her again. She returned to her thoughts for a brief moment.
"I will be the Queen I can be. A great Queen that will make my brother proud."
Sophia crossed her arms and stood strong with her face held high with a victorious yet smug smirk. She strut down the docking bay and walked out into the open, before her people. They cheered and screamed for her. They raised their heads high and threw their hands even higher, cheering their new Queen as she descent to the ground from the ship. She was quickly escorted to her palace where her mother and father were waiting for her. They accepted her with open arms. Her mother draped her arms around her daughter with wails and cries of joy. But Sophia did not cry at how moving her mother was being. The mother that she could hardly remember. That she had longed to meet. No, she had to be a strong Queen. She would catch up with her mother another time.
Her father…
King Vegeta walked over to her coldly as she could remember. She resented him for giving her and Vegeta away in return for the safety of their planet and his life. She didn't want anything to do with him. She knew that he wouldn't accept her as the new Queen while he was alive and capable of being King, which he would no doubt cling to.
"Child. Sophia. Welcome back." King Vegeta bowed slightly and kept a cold face.
"Your highness." Before Sophia could bow her mother and father took her wrists and dragged her into the next room, without the guards, Nappa or Raditz.
"Child. I am glad to have al least one of my heirs back. But I am still King. You understand right?"
"Yes your highness." This will give me enough time to learn how to act, then take the thrown and rule anyway.
"Good. In that case. Welcome back girl." The King embraced his daughter and caught her off guard. She couldn't ever remember her father being like this with her or her brother. Why was he acting like a loving father now? Maybe it was because he thinks he has secured his thrown.
"Or not. You are not a young girl anymore are you? Well then your mother and I have a lot of Work ahead of us, don't we dear?"
"Yes my love."
"Child?"
"Yes sire?" Sophia's mother hooked arms with her father and they looked at her lovingly. She still didn't cry, she refused to.
"Did you maintain all of our allies over the past events?"
"Yes sire, well, all but the Ice-jins for obvious reasons."
"Then I will get to work with building back relations with them."
"WHAT!" Sophia's mouth hung open in awe at her father's stupidity.
"The Ice-jins were one of our strongest allies before the war and recent events. We would do well by getting them back on side and just because Frieza was a tyrant, doesn't mean that the rest of his race is. Now go with your mother like a good girl and I will get in contact with King Kold."
"WHAT! Father you cant be serious?"
"CHILD." King Vegeta took a few deep breaths and began again, still looking quiet stern. "Do not doubt your King and do as you are told. Now do as I have told you." King Vegeta spat at his daughter and her mother dragged her out backwards. She was being dragged about a lot today…
After a few corridors and a few more door ways, Sophia found herself in a large velvet room that was made the rooms at CC pale in comparison. The walls, the floor, the bed and the curtains were all a shade of light gold with jewels sown into the fabric. It looked perfect on a grand scale. After looking over the beautiful room some more, Sophia looked back to her mother.
"Why have I been dragged here? And oh, off the record mother, if you drag me anywhere, ever again, I will hurt you."
"I will keep that in mind (smile) and I have brought you here to talk to you about something very serious." The current Queen brought her daughter over to a bed, after asking to take her hand first, and sat her down. For a moment Sophia wanted to close her eyes and fall to sleep and sink into the bed, but only for a moment. She regained her control and concentrated on her mother who had obviously been having the same thoughts. The Queen crawled further on the bed and laid flat on her side. She beckoned her daughter to join her. Sophia cautiously came next to her and lay like a mirror image of her mother.
"So. What have you brought me here to talk about?" Sophia's tail flicked at her side in frustration.
"You are a young, beautiful woman and are mate-less. That by Saiyan standards makes us bad parents. We should have mated you off years ago. But under the circumstances I think it was less than do-able. So it is our duty as parents to find a suitable mate for you."
"OK back the hell off. There is no way that I am going to mated off to anyone. I am not going to have an arranged marriage so you and his highness can shove that idea right up his a"
"Darling. It isn't that bad is it? It can't be. Your father and I were arranged. We have been talking about this for the last few weeks while we waited for you. It is already being put in motion and as the Princess you are to respect that who you marry will affect your entire planet. So we, the King and Queen, must choose you a suitable suitor. So I can't help you if you are not for this. But you can bet that I will ensure that the man we choose will take care of you."
"NO! MOTHER YOU CAN'T! This isn't FAIR!" Sophia punched the bed and found it had absorbed her punch and she raised her eyebrow as to why the bed would have been built to absorb such shock…then she wanted to throw up.
"TOUGH! I am sorry but my hands are tied. I am sorry. I will take you to your room. Now come."
Sophia crossed her arms and followed her mother, scowling defiantly. She didn't say one word to her mother and plotted in her head how she would get out of this. She eventually came back to over throwing her father and taking the thrown and would have to think of how while in her room.
Her mother took her to an identical room but the velvet designs were white. She sat on them and her mother kissed her on the cheek before sitting next to her.
"Just remember this. Only your father and I know of the events on Frieza's ship and we forgive you for it. Now get some rest, the day is old and so is your stamina. Rest my child." Before Sophia could ask what she was talking about her mother left her room and she knew she wouldn't be there if she followed her.
What had she been talking about? Silly woman. What have they forgiven me for? Being an assassin? Every Saiyan is an assassin to a degree so it can't be that. Unless they were referring to Zarbon. That has to be it. They have forgiven me for replacing them with Zarbon. That must be it. Never mind then. Back to getting out of this stupid mating off idea they seem to have. There is no way I am going to take this sitting down. I will talk some sense into them tomorrow. I am so tired…
Sophia closed her eyes slowly and allowed herself to be consumed by the cosy, warm soft bed that was the size of a small ship. Her last thoughts before sleep took her were of her brother at the other side of the galaxy.
"…Vegeta…"
