Damaged

Chapter Five: Dying Spirit

Being pushed to walk faster, Bulma could barely believe that this was not a nightmare. But even in her worst nightmares she had never imagined to be a slave. The Queen of the most advanced race in the whole Universe - a slave! It was not even funny as a joke! It was tragic!!!

"Move faster, little bitch! We don't have all day!" The taller man behind her pushed her roughly, throwing her on the ground.

ChiChi and Goku watched horrified as their Queen lay on the cold wet ground, making her dress seem like a rag. They exchanged worried looks while ChiChi mentioned him with her head to go and help her. But her friend just shook his head. Yes, he was stronger than these people. But what was to happen if he revolted against his own kind? Was his father not here? But on the other hand, his father did not care enough to look for him all those years that have passed, why should he care what the fag thought?!

Yet something inside him told the strange-haired Saiya-jin that this was not the right course of action. So he just observed as the giant ape bent down to grab his friend by the arm and pull her to her feet like a lifeless rag-doll.

Bulma felt betrayed again... Betrayed by Vegeta's kind... She never expected to be mistaken for a mere woman from some unknown planet... But on the other hand, her planet was no more... They had full power to do with her whatever they wanted... Whatever they wanted...

"Stop playing, bitch, and get fucking moving! I'm getting tired of your bullshit, little wench!" He yelled in her ear, but the young woman did not even flinch. Her indifference earned her a rough throw back to the ground. She slowly pulled herself to her arms and back to her feet, as she took step after step, each of them damaging her soul further.

She was coming ever closer to her whole spiritual being's certain death at the hands of the only man she had loved and never loved her back...

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The market was a horrible place... There were bleeding men and woman there, getting beaten nearly to death for not completing their responsibilities the way their masters wanted them. Children crying because they were left motherless in a foreign world... Children that were to become little slaves as well, having inpossible tasks to complete bestowed upom them by the twisted minds of a Saiya-jin.

Naked women having their teeth checked by the filthy finger of a perverted sex-driven Saiya-jin looking for a toy to play with in his free-time between a fight and a dinner. The same naked women having the hands of the same perverted sex-driven Saiya-jins roaming over their body, checking how their forms fitted to the filthy touch. Some poor souls even had to endure the shame of the fucker's hand inside them, just to make sure the seller was not lying that they were still virgins.

ChiChi and Ariane tightly closed their eyes. They didn't want to end up this way!

Bulma walked slowly around, looking at her surroundings. So, this was how the great Saiya-jin empire functioned. Having great warriors definitely costed a price... Monstrosities caused to innocent women, some of them even younger than her. Girls in their teenage years, or at least such for their race, that had no plans for copulating for the near future. Yet forced to satisfy sexually the monster that destroyed their home, their friends, their family, their planet...

Young girls just like her... She even wondered whether all these girls, women and children were not of the royal bloodline of their planets and that was why exactly they were taken alive to Vegeta-sei... The woman felt her fist clenching. How could Vegeta be such a bastard?! A complete asshole! No... There was no word that could describe him now... He was just... Just a monster, hungry for more power, more people to comand, more bodies to destroy whenever he wanted... More people to kill if he was in the mood to do so... She knew very well from the whole beginning that he was not a saint... But she would've never imagined he would let something such as this continue...

She always thought he had a heart...

And, again, something hers betrayed her... Her judgement was wrong...

He had nothing... He was dead inside...

Probably that was why he killed her heart as well...

"Move, you insolent little screw!!!!"

The last thing she saw was a tree that was getting closer and closer to her head...

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Meanwhile, ChiChi saw that the giant, that she had heard the other of his crew call Nappa, push her friend, who lost balance and evetually hit her head against the near tree. And she really hit it hard... The brunette watched as her friend's body fell limp on the ground as she blacked out completely.

The girl did the only thing she could think of.

She screamed.

"What did you do to her, you bastard?! My lady! My lady!! Wake up! Bulma!!!" The girl shook her mistress, but she did not react. Her body was lifeless in the hands of her frined, her long lavender locks flowing over the features of her face that seemed like she was sound asleep... But the oozing blood from her head hinted otherwise... "Oh my GOD, BULMA!!! She's bleeding, you walking dick!!! How could you-"

Before she could finish her sentence, a hand slapped her hard across the face, sending her to the side of the other girl, collapsing atop of her. Goku was about to jump in for a fight when Ariane put a hand on his shoulder and shook her head. He just watched as the two women that he cared most got their prides walked over by the massive man that held no respect for the women weaker than him and the women in general...

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ChiChi was walking slowly with a huge scowl on her face that made her look quite older and a sore cheek. Goku had been bestowed with the duty of carrying the passed out Earth Queen, who on the other hand still had blood oozing from the wound on her head.

They arrived at some... store of some sorts... Nappa seemed to know the seller very well.

"Why, Taurus, you old dog, you! Back in the business, eh?" The bigger man cheered and hit the other man's shoulder.

"Nappa, still purging and destroying as ever, eh?" Both of them laughed at something, that ChiChi's mind could not understand where the funny part was. "My mate refused to continue working here. She has some sort of morals or vorals or whatever she called it. She says it's against any kind of humanity to do such things to other races."

"I told you that she'll return brainwashed from Earth and that you shouldn't let her go there, but you didn't listen to me, did you?"

ChiChi flinched. There was another Saiya-jin on Earth? Do these monsters just cross over the galaxy as they like?! Who did they think they are anyway?! Fucking deities?!

"Anyway, I'm here on business. I'm bringing you a whole chain of slaves. And they seem elite. So, you'll have to pay some sum for them." The greedy huge man chuckled coldly at the vision of the money in his hands.

His interlocutor did not say a word. He just walked over to the group of earthlings and took a closer look at them. He noticed that one of them was different from all of the others. He just could not understand what was so different... Shrugging, he investigated the small brunette who had a red cheek. She seemed cute and some skills would not harm her...

"What can you do?" He asked her slowly. ChiChi was about to spit an insult back at him, but Goku's glare stopped her from doing so. He just nodded afterwards, causing a sigh to escape her pinkish lips.

"I can cook and I'm a very good maid. I was her Majesty's personal servant." She explained casually.

"Her personal slave?" The man corrected understandingly.

"No." The girl emphasized on the small syllable. "I was her servant." She was to add 'Our race was far smarter than yours', but she refrained from doing so. She knew that it would not be the smartest thing she could do at the moment.

"Oh?" The smirk on the Saiay-jin's face she didn't like. "Is that so?" He passed her after saying that.

The same thing followed about every single person from the ship, until he reached Goku. He looked the boy up and down several times as well as the creature that he held in his arms before he finally noticed the tail flipping behind his back. The eye brows of the man rose in confusion.

"Are you Radditz, Bardock's son?" He asked. "He was the only missing kid after the checks." He stepped further to the boy and looked him closer.

"No. My brother's name is Radditz." He explained calmly, looking Taurus directly in the eyes. "And this creature in my hands is my Queen, Bulma Briefs, from planet Earth. I am not going to judge your King, neither your economical plans, but as far as I'm concerned a Queen should not be treated like this." He pulled the young woman's head to the man's line of sight. His well-trained eye on the other side caught the blood on the side of the face of the fragile creature immediately and he whipped around to glare at Nappa.

"Who, the fuck, told you you could hit an elite slave without being their master, never the less one that has once been of a high rank on their planet?!" He yelled at his old time "friend". "Oh, no, no, wait! Maybe you just didn't know, eh?!" He continued ranting.

"Well, I didn't, but, I-" The other man began trying to defend himself. However, it was useless.

"Of course, all you have to do is ask! But, of course, you are far too restrained in mental aspect to think of something so very hard!"

It was a very funny picture, if you were a tourist here. But to those who were to be slaves it was just another horrifying display of violence. The men began fighting, exchanging words in their own language and nearly got to a fist fight. However, the owner threw him out before he could remember what his name was. After that, Taurus bandaged Bulma's head and did not fail to notice how beautiful she was. He thought about keeping her to himself, but then the idea of making her a gift to his King seemed far more tempting. He would be thankful to him for such a beautiful flawless creature such as her. She had to have the manners of a royalty since she was a Queen...

Yes, that was it. She would be his key to the ranks of the elite soldiers.

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Bulma woke up in an unfamiliar place. The room was huge and she wondered where she was. The last thing she remembered was tha tree that... Her hand snapped to her head, finding it pleasantly bandaged and clean. A heavy sigh escaped her lips as she slipped out of the bed to the carpeted floor. She looked around. It seemed like a royal's room. Maybe... No... She was in...

The man that had been talking in front of the big wooden door entered and the shorter Saiya-jin's attention snapped to her form. A grin spread across Taurus' face, expecting the approval of his King. She was truly majestic, he gave her that. But his King seemed to think something else at the moment.

"Leave." The Saiya-jin no Ou demanded, as the man nodded knowingly, expecting his prize to follow shortly after the night the two spent together.

Yet the two young people just stared at each other, feelings collapsing against the walls of their eyes, the windows to their souls, like the waves of the ocean against the rocks of the solid ground.

They had so much to tell each other, yet neither knew how to begin...

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A/N: Now, don't you just hate me? I stopped on the most interesting place! Lol! You'll have to review again to have the next chapter up! These people at the club are distracting me. It's hard to write, so, please, you're my only hope of inspiration!

Yours sincerely, Hope