A Caged Soul
Chapter 9: And when the nightingale sings
Pairing: Kakarott/Vegeta
Disclaimer: I don't own so don't ask
WARNING: This is about male pregnancy and male/male relationships. Not your cup of tea? Please hit the back key.
Notes: Hello everyone! I must apologize for taking such a long time to update. I had the worse case of writer's block due to some personal problems and having another baby. I'm working on trying to complete my unfinished fics because I have some new ones in the works and I don't want to start on anything new until my other stuff is completed first.
I hope everyone will be pleased with this long awaited updated.
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It was a little past midnight by earth's standard time when Goku woke-up to pace the floor.
For some reason, the baby chose to be active late at night. Goku silently roamed around the spacious room hoping the baby would settle down without much trouble since he didn't want to disturb Vejita. The Saiyan prince had been a little grumpy of late and he didn't want to make it worse by adding late night roaming to his list of complaints.
Unfortunately, the baby wasn't cooperating with Goku's plans. The gentle Saiyan sighed and rubbed his stomach.
Oto no nai mahiru
Kaze wa tada akarui
Sukoshi nemutasou ni
Hanabira ga yureta
Nani ge nai kno omoi
Nee, hito wa donna kotoba de
Yondeiru no…
Goku sung the soft melody while stroking his tummy. As he continued with the calming tune, the movements of the baby slowed down until Goku no longer felt like he was being kicked from the inside out.
He climbed back into bed, wishing that it was his mate was lying beside him. Usually when the baby was riled like this Vegeta would place his hand over the swell of Goku's stomach and raise his energy a little. After a few seconds the baby would calm down, letting him get some rest.
The earth raised Saiyan softly sighed again and closed his eyes, praying to Kami a miracle would happen to get him and Vejita out of this mess.
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In the monitoring room on board Cooler's ship, Sauza studied the singing monkey. He felt strangely drawn to the sound. He hadn't realized before what a pleasant voice the Saiyan had and began to determine the best method of taking advantage of this previously unknown talent.
Perhaps Lord Cooler could profit from this little venture. After all, he didn't want to kill the over-grown primate; why not put the animal to good use?
The guard smiled as he left the viewing room to inform his master of his findings.
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Goku barely slept, tossing and turning through most of the night. Finally, toward the morning hours or what seemed to be morning, Vejita draped a strong muscular arm around the young Saiyan and held him close.
Goku settled down and drifted off to sleep. The prince cocked opened an eye to make sure that Goku was indeed asleep. The royal nearly shook his head at the sad state of the most powerful warrior in the universe.
The third-class fighter was going through withdrawal symptoms. It wouldn't be long before he would start feeling it himself. He needed to get them out of here, but that ice rat was monitoring them too closely. Vejita drifted back to sleep as well only to be woken a short time later when guards attempted to haul Goku out of bed. The prince flipped, growling loudly to let the intruders know they just made the biggest mistake of their short, miserable lives.
The sudden rise in his energy was enough to send them scurrying frantically about the room. He grabbed the closest peon to him and with a quick twist of the guard's head he was dead.
Vejita pounced on his next victim, but he wasn't fast enough. Another guard attacked and jabbed him in the neck with a needle. The sedative took only moments to work, kicking in right after Vejita killed the second guard and seriously injured a third.
During the entire time, Goku remained silent, not resisting his guards' handling. He was too tired to put up a fight and he didn't want to risk endangering the baby.
He looked back over his shoulder to see Vejita sprawled out on the plush royal blue carpet as he was escorted out of the room.
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The leader of the Z fighters stood in the center of Cooler's throne room. The ship was identical to Frieza's. The only difference was that Cooler's ship didn't look like Swiss cheese. Vegeta had managed to blow holes throughout Frieza's ship, which nearly cost him his life, when he was trying to escape from Namek.
Goku watched the Changeling move about the room in its hover chair. He had a strange feeling that he wasn't going to like whatever the ice lord had in mind.
The room felt like an icebox and unfortunately Goku couldn't raise his ki any higher to stay warm because of the silver bands. It seemed Cooler had specifically designed a device that suppressed energy. Now he stood helpless, waiting for the ice-demon to do his worst.
Cooler leapt out of his chair and walked over to earth's protector. He had been up all night thinking about what his lieutenant had told him. He leaned in closer to Goku raking in his appearance – admiring him. The hair on the back of Goku's neck was beginning to stand-up. He didn't like the fact that he was being viewed like a side order of beef.
The Changeling finally spoke. "Do you know why you are here, monkey?" he calmly asked still circling the tall Saiyan.
Goku stared into ruby orbs, trying to hide his concern. "From our brief introduction, it's about taking out your brother. By the end of our fight, he fell apart. I remember he was trying to pull himself back together."
Cooler slapped him across the face, knocking him to the floor. "That was your only warning; no one, and I mean no one, disparages my family and lives."
Goku's heart was starting to beat wildly in his chest. Cooler grabbed him by the throat – lifting him from where he fell. "You, monkey, are something to behold. Since I can't permanently separate you and Vegeta, I have come up with a better idea." Cooler held him only a few inches away from his face.
"Sing for me, little bird."
"Wha?"
"I said sing." Cooler let go of his smooth alabaster skin and he fell to his knees.
"I don't do requests." Goku knew he was treading on dangerous ground but he wasn't about to let this lizard exploit him.
"You don't have a choice." Cooler approached him again. "If you want your child to ever see the light of day you will."
Goku's mouth fell open. He didn't want anything to happen to his baby. This was the first time in his life he felt this helpless.
Minutes ticked by and then the room was filled with the Saiyan's gentle voice.
Win dain a lotica
En vai tu ri
Si lo ta
Fin dein a loluca en dragu a sei lain
Va fa-ru les shulai am
En riga-lint
The tyrant couldn't believe the talent the Saiyan had; Sauza's description hadn't done him justice. Even he felt trapped in the abyss created by the harmonious magic of his prisoner. What was this feeling? He had no words to describe what was causing his frozen heart to melt, but whatever it was he didn't like it, not in the least. He would not be foolish enough to allow this to happen to him.
"ENOUGH!" Cooler shouted, jolting everyone out of their dream world.
He had the perfect solution to this madness! An enchanting treasure to be added to his vast empire. His very own song bird. "Sauza take him to Monako."
Cooler returned to his chair dismissing everyone.
The blonde led Goku out of the room to an unknown fate.
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Vejita woke some time later, only to empty the contents of his stomach. He muttered a curse. He never puked so much in his life. The prince glanced about the room looking for Goku before remembering; the guards had taken him.
The ouji clenched his teeth together. He had let his rage blind him into losing all control; as a result, he had allowed them to take his past counter-part's mate. He was just thankful he didn't transform; the sheer force of his transformation could rupture the hull of the ship, or worse still make the whole vessel explode.
If Cooler was anything like Frieza, Vejita was damn sure that that white lab rat could breathe in space. He was going to have figure out how to keep them alive until Vegeta and Gokuu show up.
He made his way into the bathroom to splash water on his face when the chamber door slid open. Something large was dumped unceremoniously onto the floor.
Vejita ran back in the room. There on the floor in a crumpled heap was Goku. The smaller Saiyan cradled the unmoving form of the younger Saiyan. Unfortunately, the sudden movement caused Goku to cry out in pain.
Vejita carefully undressed the larger male, examining him for any wounds. He hoped Cooler hadn't done anything to injure the baby, but he still hadn't found anything out of the ordinary.
"Ve-Ve-ja," Goku huffed out.
"Kakarott, what did that bastard do to you?" Vejita asked.
Goku vaguely detected the concern in the prince's voice. Vejita's gaze followed the path of where Goku's slender index finger was pointing.
"Oh, my Kami," he whispered.
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A load crash brought a virtual stampede to the gravity room. While the others waited outside, Gokuu and Mirai rushed in, instantly spotting Vegeta in the middle of the floor, out cold. After Gokuu switched off the gravity machine, Bulma, Trunks, and Goten rushed over to the unconscious Saiyan.
Bulma quickly examined Vegeta but couldn't immediately determine why he would just pass out. Gokuu took the liberty of transporting the prince to the common room downstairs. Goten and Trunks remained upstairs to make sure that they stayed on course.
Gokuu had discovered that Vejita and his counter-part were being taken to Cooler's home planet and they didn't want anything to keep them from their destination.
Vegeta had mentioned they weren't too far away from where Vegetasei use to be. The distance from earth to the sub-zero planet would take about a month.
Bulma looked up as the Saiyan prince stirred slowly awake.
"Vegeta?"
Even though Bulma spoke softly her voice still boomed inside his head. Vegeta winced from the sound. His head pounded like no tomorrow and the room was spinning. He felt like he had one too many of Bulma's house drinks and the consequences of his actions were coming back to haunt him.
Vegeta tried to sit-up but Bulma stopped him.
"Easy there, Vegeta."
A low growl erupted from his throat. "I'm fine, onna!"
"What happened up there?" Bulma asked.
"Nothing," he snapped as best as he could but she gave him a hard look. "Fine! I'm training, trying to take my mind off of Kakarott then…then the next thing I know I feel a searing pain on my thigh and I lost my concentration."
"Okay, let me have a look. It might not be anything. Knowing you, you might have pulled a muscle or a tendon," Bulma said pulling back the sheet.
Vegeta was still dressed in his training suit. Bulma blushed at the thought of removing the skin tight spandex. The prince was wondering what was taken the blue haired onna so long.
He saw her hesitate. "Will you just get on with it!" Then he smirked. "It's not like you've never seen me naked before."
"I haven't seen you," she snapped. "Don't rush me."
He smiled in amusement as she shifted from foot to foot.
She suddenly made an almost evil grin. "This is not your only pair of spandex, is it?"
"No, why?" He wondered why she would ask a crazy question like that. Then he heard, 'rrippp'. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!"
"Chill out, Vegeta. I'm looking at your thigh."
Bulma poked a little at the large angry mark she found there. Vegeta hissed.
"What is that?" Bulma said to herself. "This wasn't here before, was it?"
"What did I just you tell, onna! No, it wasn't there before!"
"Okay. No need to take my head off. Well, if I was to make a guess, Vegeta, I'd say it's some type of brand or tattoo, but I could be wrong."
Vegeta remained silent as he got a good look at the source of his discomfort. On his thigh rested a circle with two jagged lightening bolts running through it.
He seen it once before or one similar to it, but the ones had seen had three bolts of lightening. He nearly stopped breathing as he realized what it meant.
Cooler had marked his mate.
oOo TBC oOo
1) First Outlaw Star Ending (Hiru no Tsuki)
Melfina's Song (dubbed):
I don't know what words I can stay
The wind was a way to talk to me
Flowers sleep a silent lullaby…
2) Sora from Escaflowne: The Movie
A/N: What does Cooler have in mind for our heroes? Will Vegeta and the gang reach Goku and Vejita in time? Well the only way to find out is to stay tuned for the next chapter. All comments and suggestions are welcomed.
Nemesis
oOo Teaser for Chapter 10 oOo
Goku woke in a cold lab. He was prepped up on a birthing bed. His feet were in stirrups and his arms were stretched out and tied.
"Damn he's awake!" Double his epidural and monitor his heart rate…"
Goku weakly struggled against his bonds as he was put under again.