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Chapter 3: Gullibility is
Freeza's dungeon was the last place Akira wanted to be today. As she walked along the dingy path, she could feel the eyes of every inmate following her every movement. Keeping her chin up, she ignored the crude comments of the depraved beings that stuck their limbs between the bars of their cells, trying to grab at her as she walked by. Her guide smacked at their outstretched hands and growled at them. She suddenly wished she had accepted Radditz offer to go with her into the imperial prison.
"There's the one," the guard in front of her said, pointing to a large metal door.
Akira frowned. They kept the Saiyan prince locked away from all the other prisoners, not that she blamed them. Vegeta would probably kill them in one of his infamous temper tantrums, and there were quite a few important prisoners here. She ran her hand over the rusted metal handle. 'This isn't right,' she thought. 'This shouldn't be able to hold Vegeta!' Slowly, almost afraid of what she might find, Akira pulled the door open.
He sat on the cold, dirt floor. His back against the wall, head tilted up toward the ceiling, and his eyes were closed, around his neck was a ki collar. Akira stepped into the room, her expression suddenly giving away the torment she felt. Vegeta opened his eyes and scowled.
"What are you doing here? Freeza will have your head if he finds out you came to see me."
She walked over and knelt beside him. A single tear slipped from Akira's silvery eye, and she bowed her head. "I have failed you in the worst possible way. They plan to execute you."
The prince watched as his closest friend sat next to him, crying over what he had gotten himself into, not her. He lifted his hand to her cheek, forcing her to look up at him once again. "You did what you could, Akira. If I am to die, then so be it."
Anger flashed in her eyes. "If you are to die, she is as good as dead, Vegeta." She sighed in defeat. "It won't matter if I have my powers or not if you are gone." Silence stretched out between them for a few minutes, until she spoke again. "Marron claims to carry your child."
Vegeta stood up and began to pace back and forth. "Are you sure?"
"She's admitted to being with Freeza and one other, but I couldn't get the other's name from her. It's too early for me to tell just whom the ki is linked to," she answered. "What do you wish me to do?"
Vegeta stopped his pacing abruptly, turning to glare at one of the bare walls. "I expect to meet her in the next dimension," he hissed.
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Bulma sat down on the bench; feeling like a train had hit her. "That can't be right. Marron would never cheat on her husband."
"She admitted to it before the council of Kai's," June said. "I don't want to believe it either, Bulma, but it's all right here." She held her hand out, the shiny, black communicator in her open palm.
Thealda stood back silently pondering what could have driven her daughter to do something so stupid. As a child, Marron was always so proper. She was kind, a little flighty at times, but nothing major. Bulma was taking this news very hard, and the worse part for all of them, was that they could not contact Marron even if they wanted to. The royal house of Vegetasei claimed Princess Marron as a defector to the throne, practically putting the blame on her head that their prince was to be executed. Unfortunately, Thealda couldn't find fault in their reasoning. Prince Vegeta was very important to his people and their neighboring allies. Marron was lucky if a death sentence was all she received!
"What do you think, Priestess?" Bulma asked, interrupting Thealda's thoughts.
"What? Oh, I'm sorry, Bulma dear. My mind was elsewhere. What did you say?"
"What if I go there and steal her away? Surely she had a good reason for all this," the beautiful blue haired girl defended.
"I think not, child. Are you forgetting that no one knows of your existence? If you showed up on Vegetasei to commit a crime and you were caught, who knows what would happen?" 'Or what the Saiyans might piece together,' she added to herself with concern.
No one knew of the whereabouts of the late Emperor's daughters. No one but Thealda, being that she was the mother of them, and of course, the Cold family. They had found her a year after the twin's birth, six months after the mysterious death of the girls' father. King Cold had sworn that no harm would come to them as long as neither child decided to come forward and declare publicly that they were the rightful heirs to the throne. The council of Kais did not know about the girls. All they had were rumors, and Thealda was content to keep it that way. Some power hungry man would not use her daughters as pawns for political gain. It was bad enough that Freeza had forced Marron to marry the Saiyan prince.
"I can't just sit here and do nothing," Bulma continued to argue. "She's the only living relative I have. I won't sit back and wait for this to happen!"
"Hush! I forbid you to even dream about such foolishness." The older woman bowed her head. "I do not like this anymore than you do, but it's out of our hands. There's nothing we can do," she said quietly.
Bulma's sapphire eyes brimmed with tears. It wasn't fair that she could do nothing to save her sister. Despair ran through her veins, pushing her over the edge. She collapsed onto the lush grass of the temple courtyard.
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Goku, or Kakkarot as his family called him, stood at attention outside the heavy, metal door of the dungeon. In the distance, he could make out the sound of boots clicking against the marble floor. The smell of food assaulted his nose, and it was all he could do to keep from drooling. He hadn't eaten in four hours! A broad smile swept across his handsome face as Chichi turned the corner with a small tray of food balanced precariously on her left palm and a large pouch in her right. She smiled back at him and handed the pouch over when she stopped in front of him.
"I thought you might be hungry," she said in a knowing tone.
"Yeah! Thanks a lot, Chi." He pulled out a key from his pocket and handed it over to her. His mind was on the food she brought to him, nothing else. Chichi rolled her eyes and took the key.
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She heard voices outside her door, and she spared a quick glance at the clock on the wall. It was her usual time to be fed. As the key turned in the lock, Marron turned to her bed, grabbed a pillow, and took a deep breath. It was a big help to her that she could make herself cry so easily. She felt the stinging sensation in her eyes and the heat in her cheeks. She had gone through this everyday for the past week, and she was positive that she would eventually wear them down. 'Today is the day,' she told herself confidently. Today, she pulled out all the stops!
Chichi and Goku entered the room a few seconds later. Marron turned toward them, tears streaming down her face. Goku averted his eyes, preferring to stand guard at the door. He was still having trouble believing what she had done. Chichi, on the other hand, walked over and set the tray on a nearby table, sighing when the princess let out a wretched sob. They weren't really supposed to talk to her, by order of the king, but being the slightly nosey person she was, Chichi gave in to the urge.
"You shouldn't waste your time crying," Chichi whispered. "It's not going to change what you did or what awaits you."
Marron was mentally praising every god she could think of, but on the outside, she didn't betray her act. She sniffled, turning toward Chichi. "You would be crying too if you were being sentenced to death."
Chichi glared at her. "You wouldn't be if you hadn't slept with Freeza."
The blue haired princess slumped her shoulders. "All for nothing, too," she whispered in fake sadness. "He took him anyhow."
Goku suddenly seemed very interested in the direction of the conversation. "What do you mean?"
Marron stood up abruptly and walked over to the small table where her food was laid out. In an angry voice, she replied, "Freeza came to me and swore he would leave Vegeta alone if I." She stopped, letting a sob escape from her lips and picked up a glass. Her fingers clutched at it with all the fury in her soul. "And I gave myself to that slimly lizard for nothing! He took Vegeta away anyhow, and now I will die with my baby." She cried out, thrusting the glass against the wall. She watched in satisfaction as it broke into a thousand tiny shards.
Chichi and Goku glanced at each other anxiously.
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"Are you sure about this? If we're caught, we'll be killed."
"She was trying to save Vegeta from Freeza! He's always wanted to get his hands on Vegeta," Goku whispered. "She doesn't deserve to die for it, and the baby! It isn't fair to murder an innocent baby for its mother's mistake."
Chichi nodded. "You're right." She leaned against the wall and sighed. "How are we going to get her off the planet?"
Goku shook his head. "I don't know, but it has to be done tonight. My sister is due back from Icesei tomorrow."
"Akira will come right here as soon as she gets off the ship," she agreed with a frown.
"Exactly, and no one will be able to stop her if she chooses to kill Marron."
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Sorry for the shortness! I'm stopping here, but the next chapter will be up in a day or two! I promise. I'm working on it right now, and it's almost finished. I would have kept going, but the time was right to stop. Trust me. Please review. Thanks for reading!
Anyhow, things certainly look bleak. Vegeta's sentenced to be executed. Akira's on her way back to Vegetasei to kill Marron. Goku and Chichi are falling into Marron's cleverly devised scheme to get off their world before Akira arrives. Bulma's fainted. Sheesh! Can I think of anything else! Mu hahahahaha You bet I can!
PANDORA ;-)