The Chosen One
~THE BALL~
Vegeta and I had made it back to the courtyard and shortly after we were announced into the ballroom. We both smiled and waved, well I smiled, and we made it to our seats. Vegeta pulled out my chair and I silently thanked him and sat down. It felt like thousands of eyes were on me as I sat down and gave my attention to the speaker as he announced the king and queen. I looked around and saw everyone's eyes were on the king and queen accept one person. He was a short figure wearing a dark purple suit with a lavender bow tie.
"Vegeta who's that man over there staring at us?" I ask trying not to make it obvious that I was staring.
Vegeta scanned the room and brought his face back to the front. "That is prince Frieza, heir to the Cold Empire." Vegeta looked at me. "I thought you knew all of the nobles in our quadrant." Vegeta smirked at me and gave me an all-knowing stair.
"It's a big quadrant." I said rolling my eyes and looking back to the king who was speaking. "I have a lot of important things to do and learning everybody's name is not one of them." I sigh as I take a small sip of water.
~2 HOURS LATER~
After the king's speech Vegeta and I head to the dance floor to start the royal dance. As Vegeta and I dance I start to feel everyone's eyes on us again. "Everyone is staring." I say to Vegeta as he spins me slowly.
"Well of course, they see a handsome man dancing exquisitely with a commoner." Vegeta give a small laugh as we continue to dance.
I roll my eyes at him. "Ha ha very funny." As the dance finishes, I bow to the prince and he takes my hand and dips me.
"Very well women." He said bringing me back up.
"Yes, very well indeed." The short figure from before, prince Frieza, approaches is and bows to Vegeta. Vegeta and I bow back. "Your majesty would you mind if I dance with your mate." He says as he holds his hand out for me to take.
"We're not mates." We both say quickly. We both look at each other then I quickly grab Frieza's hand
Frieza again bows to Vegeta as we walk off. "I hope I didn't offend you with my assumption that you two were mated." Frieza says as he puts his hand on my waist.
"Oh no your highness, there was no offense." I say being as polite to the mysterious man. "I hope I did not offend you with my bluntness." I gave the lizard looking man a small smile and slightly look over his shoulder to see Vegeta staring at us.
Frieza notice my eyes drift and turn his head to see Vegeta as well. "I hope he doesn't think I'm making a move on you, you're a very beautiful women but not my type if you understand me." He winks at me as he starts to spin me.
Frieza and I finish out dance and we bow to each other. "Thank you for the dance your highness I hope to see you again." My words earn me a devilish grin.
"Oh, you will." He says and then disappears into the crowd.
I shrug off the odd encounter and head towards the bar. I order myself a glass of wine and sip it slowly as I scan my surroundings. I quickly finish my glass and make a beeline to the door. "Going somewhere?" I sigh lowly and turn on my heels to see Vegeta standing next to the door.
"How did you know I would try and leave?" I ask crossing my arms and rolling my eyes.
He chuckles and pushes himself off the door frame he was coolly leaning on. "You do it every time." He says smirking. "Every time there are more then 20 people in a room you quietly walk off and go somewhere for hours, I use to think it was your room but you're too smart for that." The prince starts to circle me like a lion and its prey. "So, women, where is it that you go?" He asks caressing the side of my face.
I rolled my eyes and grabbed his hand taking him to where I was going. "When I was little, I was dropped off at an orphanage by some random women, I was told when I get older everything will be revealed." I said turning the corner and picking up my pace. "Well, I'm older now and nothing has been revealed." We stop at a pair of doors and I turn to look at him. "I've been to almost every planet in the quadrant and I still haven't found any record of my family, until last month." I open the royal library doors. "Last month your father through your mother a surprise birthday party, he invited so many people that I was able to sneak away for 3 hours." I say as I start heading to the records. "I came back here, and I found this, it's a list of people who have visited the planet but their no records of them leaving, my last name was in one of these records." I say as I look through the records and find the book I am looking for.
"Women how do you know that's not the record for you?" He says as he crosses his arms.
I smirk at him and hand him the book I'm looking for. "I thought you might say that, well first it has dates and second because the records for people who visit and people who are her for official business aren't in the same book." I put my hands on my hips as he looks through the book and finds the name.
"Dr. Benjamin Briefs" Vegeta said the name then looked at Bulma. "To be frank how do you know he didn't die?" He says handing her back the book,
Bulma smirks and snatches the book from the prince. "Because I looked through the death records and he wasn't on there, also I found this address." She said handing him another book. "I was going to try and go there tonight while everyone was distracted." She tares out the piece of paper with the address on it, folds it and stuffs it into her pocket.
"Women, those are royal records!" Vegeta said shutting the book abruptly.
"I know how to put paper back together, now come on." Bulma grabs Vegeta's hand and starts heading towards the door. "Maybe if we hurry, they won't notice the prince gone." She closes the doors behind them.
"Women…" Vegeta was about to object to them going before he heard a loud explosion. "That came from the ball room." He said grabbing Bulma's hand again and rushing towards the explosion.