Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball (Z/Super/GT) or its characters.
Author Notes: Sorry for the delay, I was debating, if I should end this one as a short story or make it longer, I decided to make it longer, since I am enjoying writing it so much, but you guys can say if its better to end it as a short one.
Still in the topic of making the story longer, I will change some things, like the description of the story in the cover, add a new paring which should be obvious by now and change the rating from T to M, to make it more complex and not restrict the plot.
Despite Cabba's earnest urgency, the time passed by without any anomalies or signal of Freeza's trail. Almost as he had never set foot on the sixth universe, Freeza and his men disappeared from the know space of the galaxy. The young Saiyan tried everything he could to track the monster again, but failed every time, and without much else to do, he decided to return home.
Soon as his ship landed on Sadala and he made his way to his house, Caulifla showed up, trying to monopolize all of his time, but having a lot of difficult in having to compete with Lettu for Cabba's attention. To make matters worse for her, Asparus soon appeared too, holding Cabba to his promise of training him. And yet with all the craziness happening around him, Cabba felt happy like never before, this scenario reminded him of his little time in Vegeta's house and his family. Maybe like this he could become strong as his master is, having friends and family alongside him, to help him grow.
In the now common habit for them, the young soldier and the Saiyan prince, met at the deserted plains to train together. The place used to be full of trees and grass, but now is full of holes and damaged ground.
Today being no different, they trained until Asparus collapsed to the ground, laying down with both arms crossed on his face, with Cabba sitting close to him.
"We have been training together for like a week, but, why don't you take this more seriously?" Cabba frowned when stared at Asparus.
"What are you talking about?" Asparus lifted his head from the ground. "I never been more serious in my entire life."
"How do I say this… You know how to fight, and very well to be precise, that is clear." Cabba rubbed his chin. "But your punches and kicks don't have power in them and not even one time you tried to fire a ki blast at me."
"It's not like I didn't want to, is just that… I can't." The prince voice came out low, almost fading. Cabba noticed the anguished expression on his face.
Cabba's eyes glared suspiciously at Asparus. "How come you can't use your ki? I know you can fly just like anyone else, so that doesn't make sense."
Asparus released a deep sigh, he doesn't feel comfortable talking about his past, but, he knows that he can trust Cabba with his life. "To tell the truth, I don't want to use my ki." He glanced at Cabba, still hesitating to speak. "I can't control it, the last time I tried, this happened." He placed his right hand in the dark cloth tape on his cheek.
"Can I see it?" Cabba pointed to that spot on the prince's face.
"No." The answer was short and dry.
Cabba laughed in jest of the prince reaction, Asparus who was tense for talking about his past, became more at ease after seeing his friend laugh.
"At least show me your ki, the extension of what you can control." Cabba stood up and started to stretch his legs.
"I don't think is a good idea." Asparus sit up, crossing both arms behind his head.
"I can't teach you how to fight, like I said before, you already know that. But maybe there is one thing that I can teach you, and that is how to control your ki."
"If you say so, don't blame me later." Asparus stood up in his feet and walked away from Cabba, making some space between them.
"Just focus and release your ki, let me worry about the rest." Cabba put his right thumb up. Asparus only smiled at this and closed his eyes.
Cabba observed in silence, his eyes shifting its focus from the prince foot stance to the position of his arms, while Asparus was concentrated in his mind. It took only but a few seconds to Asparus's ki start to manifest, in a huge muffled noise the ground beneath him started to crack, a massive aura surrounded the prince blowing dust and pebbles everywhere.
'What… What is this ki?' Cabba used his arms to shield his eyes from all the things flying around. 'It doesn't stop to increase in power, his real strength is… amazing.' Cabba flared up his own ki, surrounding himself with a powerful aura as well, with this being able to withstand the blows of wind coming from Asparus.
"Gods, this is so hard to control." Asparus put both of his hands to his head.
"You're doing fine, just keep going, push everything out." Cabba clapped his hands together.
Asparus received all the confidence he needed from his friend's words, with this, he forgot all about the pain in his head and lowered his hands back to their previous position. Shouting loudly, Asparus reached to all the power inside him, making an eruption of power and heat, so powerful and intense that even the clouds in the sky started to push away.
'So this is the real power of the Saiyan prince?' Cabba's eyes sparkled with interest looking at the prince powerful aura. "If you had this much power hiding inside you, why not use it-" Before Cabba could finish talking, his voice vanished, not only that, all the sound around them seemed to have disappeared. Asparus light aura changed in to a silver color, it started to enlarge and expand in an incredible rate, suddenly all the energy gathered flared in a shining light embracing everything around it.
A silver dome of light exploded in a spectacular fashion, demolishing and destroying anything that it touched. Making an extraordinary sound that could be heard from the capital city far in the distance. When the light finally died out, most of the plains ground was gone, and now in its place is a giant crater.
"What the hell was that?!" Cabba emerged from the ground between dust and stones. In a quick reaction before the explosion, he transformed in to Super Saiyan 2, and yet his body suffered a lot from the energy blow, leaving him with a lot of bruises. "Asparus, where are you?" Cabba scanned his surrounds but found no signal of his friend.
"I-I am here." The only thing that Cabba could see was one hand sticking out of the dust, in the middle of crater.
Cabba rushed down the hole, and grabbed Asparus hand, pulling him out and helping him sit down. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, at least most of me." He grabbed his left arm, which is bleeding quite a lot. "I warned you that would not end well." Asparus seemed exhausted, gasping between words.
"It wasn't all that bad." Cabba smirked gesturing to the sides with his hands. "At least I could see your potential."
"Quite powerful, right?" Asparus laughed at his own statement.
"Maybe, if you can control it." Cabba joked back. 'Yes, it was powerful, alright. His ki is probably stronger than mine in my normal form.'
"Yeah, right. I am not using that ever again." Asparus stood up, hissing in complaints.
"Want some help to get back home?" Cabba extended his hand to the prince.
"I appreciate the offer, but no need to bother, I can get home alone." Asparus shook most of the dust out of his clothes. "But Cabba, you should go talk to my father soon. It's getting difficult to stall him on this. My father is not known to have much patience."
Cabba got tense; he took a few steps backwards and crossed his arms. "I know that, but I got nothing to show to him."
"And yet, if he finds out that you're spending most of the time with your girlfriend." Asparus cringed back, but still stared at Cabba. "Worse, if he finds out who is your girlfriend, he is not going to keep quiet about it."
"What about you?" Cabba gave a weak smile back.
"What about me? I don't have a girlfriend and he doesn't like me already, so doesn't make a difference, if I pissed him off or not."
"Sure, you won. I will report to the king as soon as possible." Cabba scratched his head. "But I still have nothing to show to him."
"Don't fret. He adores his super elite ace. Just show up and he will be glad enough." Asparus teased a last time before flying off.
"Jeez, just shut up about this ace thing." Before, Cabba didn't really care about his ace position in the defense force, but now with so many people making a ruckus about it, he starting to get bothered a little.
The house is quiet, most of the lights are off. Cabba walked inside the front door missing the usual warm welcome he receives in his house. "Hello? Anybody home?" The sound of voice was soon followed by noises and giggles coming from the kitchen.
"He is here, he is here." A low voice said while excited. "Shush, he is going to hear you." A different voice came after.
The suspicious environment made Cabba raise an eyebrow, something clear is fishy here. 'I'm sure that I heard Lettu's voice.' Normally the little boy would have run to his brother's arms, but until now nothing. Cabba walked slowly towards the kitchen, after each step hearing more and more voices in there.
"Cabba!" Caulifla peeked with her head from the kitchen door, with a huge smile on her lips.
"Cabba!" Lettu did the same thing, but yelling even louder.
"Oh gods!" Cabba jumped backwards "Hi."He clenched his chest, his heart almost popping off from the scare.
"We gave him a scare." Caulifla laughed so hard that tears started to form in her eyes.
"Mom, brother is here." Lettu dashed inside the kitchen again.
"Where have you been?" She walked to him and traced the bruises in his left arm with her fingers.
"Training… with Asparus." He shivered from her touch and the ache that came from it.
"With the wimp?" She asked suspiciously. "And how did you get those bruises."
"We had a little accident, and he kind of blew up both of us." Cabba smiled jovially at her.
"He beat you?" Her eyes grew wide. "Stop joking around."
"There was not beating anyone or anything, but, you should reconsider what you think of him. He maybe will surprise you someday."
"Wimp will always be a wimp." Caulifla pouted and threw her arms around Cabba's neck. "Let's talk about something better, like us." She delivered a light kiss to his left cheek.
"C-Caulifla! Wait, maybe not here." He pressed himself against her to hide his face in her voluminous hair.
She adores his shy behavior, and adore even more to tease him about it. Not even once, he failed to turn red when she tried to flirt with him and that only made it better for her. Caulifla planted her lips on the side of his neck and bit him lightly.
"A-Ah… Stop" Cabba yelped like a little girl.
Low and energetic giggles came from the kitchen door. "Big brother made such a funny noise." Lettu was sitting in front of the door, with both hands covering his mouth doing his best to not laugh, but failing hard at it.
"What are you doing there?" Cabba pushed himself away from her in a hurry.
"Mom asked me to call you, dinner is ready." Lettu said, jumping out of the ground.
"I have to take a shower, you go ahead." He gave a soft pat in the boy's head. "I am glad that you came to have dinner with us today." Cabba turned his head to Caulifla.
"Yeah, I asked her to come today." Lettu said happily. "I told her about your special gift."
"You did what?" Cabba glared at his brother. "Why would you tell her?"
"Mom says that we shouldn't keep secrets." The young boy took a step back and stared down at the ground.
"It was a surprise, not a secret." Cabba said in a loud voice, while flinging his arms upwards.
Lettu looked up to his brother, with tears forming in his eyes, he then sprinted toward the kitchen. "Mom! Cabba is yelling at me."
"You don't need to be angry with him." Caulifla approached Cabba from behind, saying in a low voice behind his right ear.
"I'm not angry with him." Cabba released a low and long sigh. "I was just looking forward to the surprise."
"Were you?" She smirked at him. "So what is my gift?"
"Oh no, I won't be telling you. Now is a secret surprise." Cabba walked in slow steps to the stairs for the second floor. "Just wait until after dinner."
"I would say that I am looking forward to it, but, right now I am looking at something else." Her gaze was locked staring at Cabba's back, more specifically, in the lower region. She grinned in contentment as he started to climb the steps.
The dark sky and star light always transform the palace in to a magic view for anyone that sees it from up close. The giant walls and decorative pillars shine like if they are producing the light. It's a scenery that the prince always appreciated even as a child, to stroll around the castle was always one of his favorites things to do, but now, with his recent and frequent visits to the more desolated areas of Sadala, this place has lost part of its magic to him.
Asparus strolled through the empty halls, going in the direction to the outside garden door. After several minutes inside a hot bathtub, his body is now rested and without a trace of the pain from earlier training with Cabba. He opened the big door and immediately noticed someone, sitting down in one of the benches in the center of the garden.
"So, you're finally home." The woman called to him, in a calm and kind voice.
She is beautiful like no other women, the beauty of the emerald green plants next to bench, pale in comparison to her. Her hair Is long and curly, going far past her waist, the complexion of her face is sweet, and yet, fierce enough to put fear in the heart of anyone that dares to defy her. The woman uses a red long skirt, showing part of her elegant feminine side, but, the top part of the outfit, is much more sharp and strong, with dark blue long sleeved shirt, in shape being close resemblance to a battle armor, being short only in her left side where the woman is missing an arm.
"Mother, it's good to see you." Asparus turned his face to the side, hiding his left side from her view.
"Why don't you sit here with me?" She slid a bit to the left, and slapped with her hand on the free space on the bench.
"Just give me one second." He turned completely away from her, and took out of his pocket a new cloth tape.
The queen stared at the back of her son, displaying a saddened smile on her lips. Ever since that day, he never let her see the scar on his face. It was the same day that she lost her left arm, but that injure bothered her a lot less than seeing Asparus carry this guilt with him his entire life.
"I'm done." He turned back, now with the tape on his face. He strolled his way towards her, with a boyish smile on his lips.
"I can see that." She smiled back at him, when he sat beside her. "Are you going to tell me what have you been doing all this time you spend away from the palace?"
"I am training." He proudly answered.
"You? Training?" She stared at him in disbelief, and then started to laugh so hard that she almost fell off the bench.
"Mother, please. Is not that hard to believe in me, right?" Asparus threw his right hand in his face, embarrassed by her reaction. "I want to be stronger, like you."
"Hm… you're training and committing yourself so much just to be stronger?" She bent her head closer to him. "There is nothing else that you want to tell your mom?"
"Maybe there is something else." He whispered in his breath and looked away. "I think, that I like someone… In the romantic way."
"Oh, I see." Her voice changed to a more serious tone. "That's why you leave so early and come back late night… The soldier boy?"
"Soldier boy?" Asparus stood up confused, looking at his mother's eyes. "Cabba? What!? No, not him., he is my friend, I don't see him like that."
The queen again let out a thunderous laugh, making even the flowers, closer to her, shake. "Calm down, I'm only teasing you." She stood up as well, giving him a strong slap in the arm. "Who is it then?"
Asparus caressed his sore arm, but, he never stopped smiling during the whole time he is with his mother. "Her name is Kale." His eyes shined with passion as soon he mentioned her name. "She is really shy, like too much shy at times, but I like that about her, because when she speaks up or act on her own, you know that she is not faking anything. Somedays ago I got injured because of a fight and she helped me with such care and kindness, it shocked me."
The prince kept going on and on about the thing he liked about Kale, he seemed lost at his own little world while thinking about her. His mother never saw him so passionate about anyone or anything, it is like he had changed into a different person, all because of this girl.
"And she is real pretty too… What?" He suddenly stopped after noticing the fascinated expression on the queen's face.
"Nothing, you just looked so immersed in your thoughts of this girl." She giggled softly. "It's so cute to see my little baby in love."
"Okay, chat time is over. I'm going to bed." Asparus gracefully turned around and tried to walk away to the entrance, but his mother grabbed him from behind locking him in place.
"Not so fast." Even with one arm, she is strong enough to hold Asparus tight and not let him get away. "When am I going to meet this mysterious Kale?"
'If father is around, never.' Asparus held his tongue before his thought could escape. "Mother, I said that, maybe I like her, it doesn't mean that we have a relationship."
"There is no maybe in here." She hit Asparus's forehead with her index finger. "After that lovely little speech about the qualities of this girl, there is no denying. You love her." She whirled around him, stopping in front of his face. "For you to be denying it… Then she doesn't like you back? So rude, what is there to not like about my gorgeous son?"
"I know, right? There is no Saiyan more perfect than me." The prince joked sarcastically, while laughing and making theatrical gestures with his arms. "I don't know how she feels about me or anything most of the time." He sighed. "As I said before, she is really shy and rarely talks about herself."
"More reason for me to meet with her." The queen smirked at him. "I would probably squeeze a lot of information from her."
"And scare her to death. Now I don't want you to meet with her at all." Asparus seized this opportunity and ran towards inside the palace.
"I promise to not scare her… too much." The queen followed her son, while giggling and laughing at his reactions.
After Caulifla became a regular presence at Cabba's family table, their dinners are never calm and quiet like they were before. She is loud, cheerful and really talkative, with Lettu trying to compete with her to see who get more attention from the rest of the family, feels like every night a party occurs at their house. Cabba's parents already grew attached to Caulifla, like she was their own daughter, and they absolute love the energy she brings to the house.
"Sis Cauflia, aren't you gonna give him the surprise?" Said Lettu dangling in his chair.
"You're right, I almost forgot." Caulifla slapped her forehead.
She stood up from her seat and walked to oven, far back on the kitchen. While looking at something inside, she kept humming a happy tune. Cabba's mother looked at him, giggling, hiding her mouth behind her hands.
"Such a good lady." His father nodded in approval. "Son, you're going to love this."
Cabba remained in silence, staring at her back. He was becoming a little nervous at this sudden development, and for all that he could see, he was the only one who doesn't know about this surprise.
"Well, since I knew you brought something for me, which by the way, I am dying to know what it is." She turned back to the rest of them, with two dish cloth on hands, holding an aluminum tray. "I decided to do something for you too."
"You can cook?" Cabba's mouth dropped, after seeing the shape of Caulifla posing with tray in hands.
"Of course, I can." She stomped her foot on the ground. "What kind of question is that?"
The older couple exchanged glances and smiled to each other, both amused by the situation and how much the young saiyans get along with each other.
"Sorry, I didn't expect that." He waved his hands and laughed.
"Then feast your eyes on this." She placed the tray on top of a wooden board, next to a bowl of rice. "Ta-dah! My genius recipe of roasted cabbage with cheese and meat."
"Hey, I helped too." Lettu claimed lifting his hands.
Cabba looked up and down at the dish that she made, it sure smelled great, but something seemed funny about it, the way the food was shaped got his attention.
"It's just me or your dish have an interesting form?" He asked almost joking.
"You noticed!" She smirked proudly. "This is a special one, a Cabba shaped dish."
"Wait, it was supposed to look like me?" He turned his gaze back to the tray. Now he noticed some semblance to him, at least the spiky form on the top side, resembling his hair.
"What, you didn't like it?" She frowned and looked disheartened.
"No, no. I love it." His expression changed into a more kind and sweet one, reassuring her with a soft smile.
"I say it's time for us to eat some Cabba." Cabba's father interjected, grabbing with his fork a portion of the Cabba shaped food.
"No! He was supposed to eat it first." Caulifla screeched.
"Hoo, it's so good." But the old man didn't get bothered at all.
"I want some too." Lettu jumped right after his dad, grabbing some for him as well.
Caulifla screamed again, but now she grabbed a big portion with her own fork and handed to Cabba personally. He stared at it for a few moments, but quickly bite the food off her fork, blushing furiously.
The dinner night continued with a lot of laughs and jests. the first one to leave the table was Lettu, who after eating his mother made him go to bed after washing his teeth. Then Caulifla and Cabba left to his room, leaving his parents in the kitchen talking about the eventful night.
"I have spent a lot of time in your house lately, but this is the first time I came to you room." The spiky haired lady started to touch and investigate everything on her sight.
Cabba's bedroom was smaller than her own, and she expected to see a bigger one, since the rest of the house is so big. But, for some reason it seemed more spacious than hers, everything is organized, from books to clothes, nothing was out of place or dropped on the floor. On all this tidy environment, she noticed a mess of papers on top of his surprisingly large bed.
"Wow, look how sloppy you are." She said sarcastically, sitting on the bed end and grabbing one of the papers. Taking a closer look at the paper in her hand, Caulifla noticed that was a mission report from the Defense Force, she then looked at other papers close to her and noticed that they all were reports from missions that others Saiyans had done, all marked in red at any mention of an unknown aggressor or threats. "Are you still obsessed with Freeza?" Her face changed to a concerned aspect.
"I'm not obsessed with him." He frowned and looked at her. "It's my job to find him, and I will." Cabba turned his back and walked to a bookshelf on the other side of his room. "Forget about this for now." He turned back, smiling and blushing, carrying a small black box with him.
Caulifla's eyes glinted at the first look on the box, she crossed her arms, smirking expectantly. Cabba tread in slow steps, gulping for courage, he knelled in front of her, putting the box on her lap.
"This, this is for you." With his hands trembling a little bit, he opened the box, revealing a shining silver bracelet, adorned with three little small rubies in a shape of heart, placed right in the middle of it.
"Cabba… it's lovely." She took the bracelet out of the box with care, holding with both hands. "I could make a lot of money selling this."
"You can't sell it." Cabba cried loud, with desperation in his eyes.
"I'm teasing you. I would never sell it." She put the bracelet on her left arm, sliding it closer to her hand. "I loved it."
"Really? I'm so glad to hear it." Cabba got up and sat close to Caulifla. "I heard that gifts like that are a way to a girl's heart."
"You want to be in my heart?" She changed her gaze from the bracelet to Cabba's eyes. "Don't be stupid, I already want you." Caulifla never averted her eyes from him while saying that, this made Cabba stagger and almost fell backward to the bed. "I want you nearly as much I want my Super Saiyan 3."
"What, I still loose in priority to the new transformation?" He shrugged.
"Of course. I already have you, so you have less priority." She boasted proudly.
Cabba stared at her, smiling but lifting an eyebrow. "Already have me? From where that confidence comes from?"
"You asked for it, I going to show how much you're mine already." Caulifla lunged at him, wrapping her arms around his body, making a lock with her hands at his back.
Cabba tried to withstand both of their weight, but his strength gave out, making them fall of the bed onto the ground. They fell side by side, but Caulifla shifted them to the right, placing herself on top of him.
"I think that my cabbage dish was not enough to compensate for this lovely gift." She blew a sweet whisper into his right ear. "What should I do?" With a naughty wink, she tried to allure him.
"I-I don't know." Before he could continue stammering his words, Caulifla pressed her lips against his.
"But I know." She pressed on, holding both of his hands in the floor. The kisses came one after another, Cabba never felt so good in his entire life, his mind was almost leaving his body, but, he didn't want it to wander off, he wants to experience this, he wants to remember her touch, her smell and her taste.
And like this, this night has become a night he will never forget.
The queen lay on the enormous bed, holding a book in her hand. She was alone in the royal chamber. Like most days, she was used to be alone until late night in her bedroom.
A creak came from the big doors as they opened. Coming from the gap between them, a large man stepped inside the room.
"Busy day today?" She closed her book and turned her attention to the man.
"Sorry for being late again. There is so many problems recently, not only in Sadala, but, in the whole Galaxy as well." The king looked exhausted, and in a foul mood. But just the sight of his beloved wife was enough to ease him up.
"I talked to Asparus today." She smiled to her husband. "Apparently, he Is training every day."
"Our son, training?" He said suspiciously. "Are you sure, you didn't hear it wrong?"
The king changed his outfit, putting only a light shirt and a pair of loose pants. He walked to their bed and lay beside his wife.
"I am positive of it." She laid her head on his chest, snuggling closer to him. "And there is more, I think he is in love with some girl."
"To think that he would love something more than his own ego." The king chuckled at his own words, and received a strong slap on his arm. "Do you know this girl?" He asked.
"I don't, but I really want to." She answered in an energetic way. "Asparus said that her name is Kale." She felt her husband flinch, she looked up to see his face and saw an angry and concerned expression.
"Now this…" He sighs. "Another thing for us to argue about."
"Cabba, what are you doing here so early?" Greeno greeted Cabba, who just arrived at the palace entrance.
"Mister Greeno, Good day to you. I am here to see the king." Cabba walked inside the building together with the other soldier.
"I hope you have something, king Sadala is in a foul mood ever since this whole trouble started." Greeno was talking in a shush voice, so that no one but Cabba could hear him.
Cabba gave an unease smile at Greeno, who in response shook his head and smiled back.
Both Saiyan soldiers entered the throne room, but Greeno was walking forward, after passing through the door, Cabba stayed behind and left the other one proceed alone. "Your Majesty, Cabba seeks an audience with you."
"He can step forward." The king made an approval gesture with his hands.
Cabba walked pass Greeno and stood at the start of the steps to the throne. He noticed Asparus leaning his back against a pillar far to the left side of the room, he was not displaying a happy face.
"I assume that you came here today, to report on the case of the criminal that you're chasing, correct?" the king spoke in an intimidating voice.
"Yes, your majesty." Cabba bowed into one knee. "I looked into every report about incidents after my encounter with him, but I found nothing new." Cabba lift his head, only to see the displeased look on the king's face. He gulped and continued. "Every crime and attempt of aggression is of know and normal criminals. Nothing relates back do Freeza, is like he disappeared into the darkness."
"What about one of our ships that disappeared on space?" King Sadala stared at him, not saying another word.
"Pardon me, your majesty, but, what ship?" Cabba didn't know about a missing ship and he kept looking everywhere for clues this whole time.
"Son, I know of your capabilities and how well you do your job." The king stood up from his throne, his impressive height making him even more intimidating. "But allow me to ask you a question. Are you willing to throw away your bright career as a soldier, because of a thief? Because of someone that doesn't respect Sadala or its army?"
Cabba didn't respond, he doesn't know how to, he only stared at the king, mouth open, wondering how he found out.
"You choose to waste your time with her, instead of doing your job properly?" The king was ruthless in his inquiry.
"Stop right there." Asparus said, interfering. "If someone is at fault for his lack of time, then you should blame me. I was the one wasting his time with my training."
"The issue here is not the time, it's the people he chooses to have at his side." The king spat words back at his son. "It's unbecoming of a soldier to relate with bandits."
"Unbecoming?!" Asparus yelled. "You can't control his personal life, he is your subject, not your pet."
"Are you yelling for his sake or it's because of your own bandit friend?" The king hissed, getting angrier by the second. "Enough of this, Cabba you are dismissed. I expect a better report the next time you enter this room."
"As you command, my lord." Cabba stood up and turned his back to the throne walking slowly to the exit.
"Have it in your way, I don't want to discuss this anymore." Asparus said harshly, making his way after Cabba.
"Asparus." The king called, with a vein popping up in his forehead. "You. Stay!" Cabba looked back and saw the frightening way that the king glared at his son. That glared was not even directed at him, But Cabba felt his blood turn cold and the floor disappearing from under his feet.
The king then shifted his gaze do Cabba, telling with his eyes that he should leave immediately, for which Cabba didn't give a second thought to follow the orders and left the room. Once outside, in the main hall, he rested the back of his head against the giant door, scared to death of the king's reaction and now afraid of his disapproval of Caulifla.
Cabba could still hear loud and agitated voices coming from behind the steel doors. He didn't understand a word of the muzzled sounds, but the argument between the king and the prince was getting more and more serious.
"I will not let you talk about her like that." Asparus yelled so loud that his voice sounded cleared, even being behind such thick wall
Next Cabba heard a huge explosion noise, startled, he jumped away from the door, just in time to see it burst open, with Asparus flying pass trought it, landing on a wall far away in the opposite side of the hall.
"Are you alright?" Cabba ran towards Asparus, who was laying down on the floor, with smoking coming out of the hole torn in his shirt.
"I am fine." He grabbed Cabba's hand to get up. "That is just the way my old man shows off his love." Asparus said in an arrogantly sarcastic way.
"Hey, that was quite the entrance." A voice came from the main entrance door in the hall.
"Great, now the annoying guy shows up." The prince clicked his tongue after recognize the voice.
"I'm not that bad, prince." Henkanegi smiled to them. "I am sorry to intrude, but I could not help but to listen to the whole affair."
"Wait, did you hear my audience with the king, from this far away?" Cabba asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, my hearing is really good, it is special if a say so myself." Negi said proudly. "But more importantly, did you know that I was the one whom found out about the missing ship?"
"Really? When did you discover that?" It is a bad thing to think, but Cabba can't bring himself to trust this guy, a gut feeling tells him that he is more than just annoying.
"I got that intel three days ago, and reported to the king about one day later." Negi explained.
"Why didn't you mention that to me, I informed everyone that I was after any clues about Freeza, this could take me to him."
"Hey now, not so fast Cabba boy." Negi placed his left hand on Cabba's shoulder. "I will happily give you the location where we lost sight of the ship, but." He paused for a second. "I want something from you in return."
"What do you want?" Cabba shivered imagining what this man would ask in return. 'If he says anything about Caulifla, I will smash his face.'
"Hm… what do you say, we can have a little friendly match. You and me, one on one. To prove who is stronger." Negi looked nervous and impatient.
"A fight?" Cabba got confused by this request. "You just want to fight with me?"
"Don't say just a fight, it's the fight, against the stronger Saiyan in the army. But yes, that is exactly what I want."
"I accept your challenge. But I except that you will keep your word regardless of outcome."
"Great!" Negi Clapped his hands together. "Don't worry, I will give you all the data I have, but only after the fight. Now I will gather everyone and prepare for our fight. I will meet you at the arena in the garrison, okay?"
In a troublesome hurry, Henkanegi bolted out of the palace, shouting with joy.
"You just gave him the perfect show that he wanted." Asparus shook his head in disapproval.
"I don't mind this… How bad can a friendly match be?" Cabba is oblivious to this, but soon he will regret these words.
P.S: Following the trend of characters that I did not describe, this time I want to "go back" and detail more about Lettu. He is seven years old, and is a bit small for his age, like his brother. His hair is really similar to Cabba's hair, with the difference being that he has three bangs hanging over his forehead. Most of the time he wears blue overalls over his white undershirt.
If there is any other character that you guys want to know more or that I didn't describe at all and you want to "see it". Just mention it on the reviews and I will gladly do it.
Reviews: horn3t-the-boghi chapter 5 . May 14 - I am glad that you liked that, I will try to expand it even more from now on.
God-Splitter chapter 5 . May 9 - I have to work on the weekdays, so may take a little time to update, like this time, but I will try to finish this story to the end.