Chapter Fifteen: Desperate times, desperate measures

I ended up resting like Nappa told me to until I was better, which only took about a day. Bardock was pretty shocked when he found me in my bed all beaten up. I told him everything about the fight and he stayed to nurse me back to health. I went back to my guarding duty in the throne as soon as I could, thinking it would be a normal day, but I was wrong.

I stood among my ranks as usual, King Vegeta was taking reports from attack teams sent to other planets while Zorn wrote it down, and Pince Vegeta was with Queen Celera in the city buying him things. As I stood there, a small figure emerged from the corridor on the left side of King Vegeta's throne. He had two horns sticking out of each of the sides of his head, and his face had feminine features. The very sight of this creature made King Vegeta stand up suddenly, and to my surprise bow to him. I could sense an enormous power within him. This creature sent a horrible chill down my spine, as pure evil would.

"Lord Frieza, for what do we owe the pleasure of this visit?" King Vegeta said, his voice slightly trembling. Everyone around me seemed to tremble.

Frieza sat in the throne, crossing his arms as well as his legs. "King Vegeta, I see things here are just the same as always, how boring, but I'm not here to complain. I'm here to see Prince Vegeta and tell you that one of my men is coming to collect a reward. I told him he could have anything on Planet Vegeta that he found valuable." He said in his horrible raspy voice.

"I'm sorry Lord Frieza, my son is out with his mother and will not be back for many hours. When can we expect this warrior to be here to choose his reward?"

"Oh well, no matter, I will see the little furball the next time I come back, and my warrior should be here in one hour. Now since there's nothing for me to do here, I'm going back to my ship."

"Farewell Lord Freiza."

King Vegeta bowed again and the horrible monster got up and left. The whole room seemed exhale in unison. "I hate that monster! He's the only reason why we even go taking over other planets. If it were up to me, our fighting would only take place in the tournaments!" King Vegeta yelled. This probably stressed him out the most out of all of us, but he had said something I had not known before. Before this I had thought we went dominating planets by choice, but this was not the case.

The visitor promised by Frieza entered after what seemed to be a quick hour. He was an ugly, reptile-like creature who wore armor similar to ours. "You must be the warrior Frieza was talking about. Take what you want from my treasury" King Vegeta said, it was obvious the king was only tolerating him because he did not want him telling Frieza anything bad. "Yes I am King Vegeta, but I'm not interested in jewels or money. I'm more interested in concubines. I think I'll take my pick of some of the women in this room, and maybe some of the weaker ones as well." He said.

There were five women in the throne room guarding, including myself. He walked up and down the throne room, eyeing us all like slab of meat. I couldn't help but to give a cold stare, then he walked up to me. "This one is unusual, I've never seen with this color hair or eyes." The horrible one said. King Vegeta was afraid too and I could tell

his mind was in a panic. "You don't want her, she's too scrawny and plus her coloring makes her seem freakish don't you think?" King Vegeta said. "Not at all, it just makes her rare, and besides, she wreaks of virginity." The creature said as he licked his lips. He then copped a feel of my breasts, which made me lose my composure. I rammed my fist into his face. "DON'T YOU TOUCH ME YOU HIDEOUS FREAK!!!" I yelled. The entire room gasped at my act. He wiped the blood from his face and grinned at me even more repulsively.

"This one's got spirit, I may have to chain her down when I have my way with her." He said chuckling. He motioned for his two lackeys to restrain me but I easily subdued them with a few swift moves and stood without a scratch. "Get out of here you disgusting lowlife, you are not worthy of being in a Saiyan's presence let alone taking any as your damn sex slaves!" I told him spitefully, he became furious. "Oh yeah!? Well we'll just see about that woman! If you and the other concubines I choose are not on my ship by nightfall I will see to it that lord Frieza knows that I did not receive my reward, and King Vegeta knows that Lord Frieza will make sure there are dire consequences!" He yelled. It was one thing to try and bring harm onto me, but I kept a deep loyalty to the royal family and did not want anything bad happening to them.

"Fine." I growled. Out of the other females in that room he chose two others: Lima, a woman with long black hair; and Jicama, a woman with dark blue hair. They reacted in a far more submissive and scared manner then I did. As soon as the creature left the room, King Vegeta glared in my direction.

"Dammit woman, how could you be so foolish!? It's a miracle he didn't try to kill you!" King Vegeta yelled. I knew that King Vegeta got violent and lost some of his reason when someone displeased him further when he was full of anger and worry at the same time.

"I am sorry my King, I did not want to displease you. May I please explain my actions?" I asked bowing. "Please do." He said. "I could not help myself, when he got fresh with me I lost it despite the fact that I knew he was one of Frieza's men. I would rather die than be a concubine, the only reason I agreed to it was because I do not want to see my King to suffer the consequences of my actions." I said.

I sensed his anger slightly decrease. "I see. Millina, when you're on that ship, don't let him take you without a fight, give him hell. That goes the same to you as well Jicama and Lima. The three of you are dismissed." King Vegeta told us solemnly.

The three of us bowed and left. I had no plans of going home, I was going straight to the man I loved to say goodbye. I felt a heaviness as I walked towards his place, it was so heavy that I did not watch where I was going and ran into someone, it was Bardock.

"Hey there babe, what's wrong?" He asked, seeing the sadness upon my face.

I sighed heavily. "Bardock, we can't be together anymore..." I said, near the brink of tears.

"What!? Why!? I won't give you up without knowing why!"

"Today, one of Frieza's men came to collect a reward. Instead of choosing riches, he chose concubines, and I was one of the ones he chose...he said I wreaked of virginity." I shuddered as the tears began to roll down my face.

He wrapped his arms around me from behind and wiped the tears from my face. "No! I don't care if he takes those other women, he can't have you! You're the only other woman I have ever loved, I'm not losing you too!"

"Bardock, I promise I will find a way out of this. I have to."

"Millina, be strong for me. Promise me that you wont let him take your virginity."

"I promise you on my very honor as a saiyan."

Bardock held me for hours. It was quiet, but words did not have to be said between us. It was getting dark, so I decided to go face my fate. "Goodbye my Bardock, I swear I will keep my promise to you." I said as backed away from him slowly, holding onto his has as long as I should until our hands completely slipped away from each other. I couldn't bear to look at him, I turned around and ran, I knew if I looked back I wouldn't be able to leave and would be putting the King up for punishment. As I ran, a plan of escape hit me, I knew exactly how I would do it and how I would cover up things. I may have considered my plan a bit dishonorable because of what I had to do, but I was determined to keep my promise.

Once I reached the ship, I was 'greeted' by the guards. "You must be that fiery woman the master was talking about, he has some big plans for you. I'll take you to the chambers." The first guard said. I grinned as I followed, not feeling vulnerable but completely in control of the situation. When I entered the chambers the room looked as if it were a torture chamber. I got a sick feeling down in the pit of my stomach just being in it, the presence of suffering and lust lingered in the room, I clenched the sword at my side tightly to comfort me.

I heard the door to the room slide open followed by a repulsive laugh. I looked over in his direction grinning evilly. "I hope your ready for what's going to happen, its going to be one hell of a time!" He said.

"Oh yes, it will be one hell of time." I said.

"Ah, you've finally seen what your place is woman. Now strip for me."

I yawned "Nah, I really don't feel like taking my clothes off, it's a bit cold. Why don't you come over and make me?" I said

"Playing hard to get huh? Well that's fine too." He walked over in my direction slowly, that's when I used my forbidden telekinetic power of paralization. "What the? I can't move, what did you do to me!?"

"It is pretty apparent what I have done to you, I've paralyzed your body. It's no use trying to break free from it either, I can keep you like this for as long as I want."

"You bitch! I demand that you release me at once!!"

Just then something exploded through the doors. When the smoke cleared, I was surprised to see that it was Bardock and his crew along with Raditz. Bardock ran over to me. "Bardock what are you doing here?" I asked

"Me and the others came to free you, but I see you've got things under control. Are you okay Millina?" Bardock said.

"Yes I'm fine. The rest of you guys, could you go free the other captives on this ship? Get rid of anyone that gets in your way, but keep one of the guards alive, I have plans for one to make sure Frieza doesn't catch wind of this."

They nodded and soon got to work. I noticed Bardock's glare upon my now powerless captor. "Is this the guy who wanted you as a slab of meat?"

"He is, you can have at him a little if you want. Just don't kill him, I want to do that myself."

Bardock grinned evilly. "I guess I could do that. And as for you, how dare you treat my future wife that way!" Bardock said, pummeling the horrible creature with all the rage in his body. That comment really threw me into shock. "Bardock, you just called me your...does this mean what I think it does?" I said. "It's exactly how it sounds Millina, this made me realize just how important you are to me, so will you marry me?" He asked, continuously beating the hell out of the perverted one. I was extremely overjoyed by his proposal "Of course I will Bardock!" I said, Bardock stopped what he was doing and looked back at me. "You will?" He asked in curious disbelief. "Yes, I would not have said it if I did not mean it." I told him.

Bardock became ecstatic, especially when he picked me up off the ground and spun me around a bit, this almost made me forget all about my surroundings if it were not for the paralization hold I was keeping. "Oh why don't you just gag me already?" The so called warrior broke in, killing the moment. Bardock put me down and I looked up at him. "My love, could you go help the others free the rest of the captives? I want to deal with this lowlife alone" I asked. "Whatever you want Millina." Bardock said, running out of the room.

I turned my attention toward my prey. "Now you will pay for everything you have done. You'll pay for all those you had wronged, I will rather enjoy killing you." I said, pulling the sword at my side from it's sheath. I sliced off those hands in which he had hurt so many with and watched the blood run from the wounds. He cried out in such pain, the pain he deserved. I then cut off more and more of his limbs, hearing him as he screamed in agony.

"Oh Kami please stop!!" He bellowed. His words made me sick at heart. "Is that what all those girls said when you raped them!? Is it!?" I said cutting a large gash across his chest. He cried out again, which angered me. "Tell me damn you!" I yelled cutting another gash across his chest. I decided to end his miserable life before my anger overwhelmed me, with a few swift swings of my sword he was chopped into a fleshy, bloody confetti that was splattered all over the room.

I took a couple of deep breaths to calm myself down to a normal state, put the sword back in it's sheath, and left the room to where I sensed the others' ki. When I got there, scores of women of different planets where standing there along with Raditz, Bardock, and his crew. "All of you are now free, your captor is dead." I told them. I heard a wave of murmuring among the crowd. "Lets get everyone back to where they belong." I said, leading everyone back to the large ship hangar, there were too many ship to even count.

"Alright everyone, find the ships you came in on and leave!" Bardock said. The group scattered except for the crew and the other Saiyan women who were chosen. Jicama walked up to me. "You could have let me and Lima stay on this ship and rot after how we treated you, why did you decide to save us." She asked perplexed. I just smiled at her. "Well, no use dwelling in the past. Us Saiyans have to stick together, now go back home." I said. She nodded and ran for her ship.

"Sorry Millina, but I accidentally killed the last guard." Raditz said remorsefully. "It's alright Raditz, I know you didn't mean to kill all of them and besides, there are probably some survivors. There has to be more on this ship, everyone split up. Bardock, you go with Raditz. Toma, you go with Habanero. I'll go with Celipa. Everyone, spread out and search this entire ship." I said. Each team took one of the four corridors to the four different sections of the ship.

Me and Celipa went back the way I came. We passed by the room I was in, Celipa looked into the room and the blood and chunks of flesh splattered everywhere. "Damn Millina, remind me not to get on your bad side." Celipa said. I laughed and continued to look through the sector. I did not hear anything except the footsteps of Celipa and my own, I did not see anything suspicous either. "Did you hear that?" Celipa said. "Hear what?" I asked. "Just listen, youll hear it." She told me. I stood still, listening very carefully. It was very faint, but I heard a very light wimpering from very close by. Once I got a lock on the sound I followed it as carefully as I could. Eventually I saw something odd behind a plant that I missed earlier.

I walked over to the plant, parting it to reveal a pitifully scared guard huddled there. The guard gasped and stood up, "I'll do anything you want just please don't kill me!" The guard whimpered. Celipa crossed her arms and I looked him over "Don't worry I do not plan on killing you just as long as you do what I say. I want you to pay a little visit to Frieza and tell him that your master was killed in a battle on another planet and then I want you to leave the life of serving Frieza and his minions behind. If you ever tell anyone what happened here I'll know, and you will suffer the same fate as your master. Do I make myself clear?" I told him. "Y-y-y-yes!" He stuttered. "Then I suggest you get going." Celipa told him. The guard sped off down the hall toward the hangar as Celipa and I followed. I Was greeted with a kiss from Bardock when I arrived back in the hangar. "What was with that guy who just took off in one of the ships?" Toma asked. "Well, lets just say he will keep Frieza from finding out about this." Celipa said slyly.

"Ah crap, we're short a ship, now what are we gonna do?" Habanero asked.

"That wont be a problem at all, I don't mind sharing a ship with my new fiance." I said, giggling afterward. The others looked at us in surprise as Bardock held me close. "Well are we going to just stand here all day or are we gonna get out of this place?" I said. Everyone nodded and we all ran to our ships.

Bardock's was mistakenly taken by one of the female saiyans so Bardock sat in my pod first and I had to sit in his lap, which neither of us minded. When we arrived home I was surprised with an engagement armband, (It was not in the saiyan custom to have an engagement ring) which was encrusted with smooth blood rubies (the blood ruby is the saiyan equivalent to a diamond). I could not wait for the next day to surprise King Vegeta with mine and the other saiyans return. And with the news of my engagement.