Fates Way

Chapter 4

The two were still engulfed in the hug when a firm hand grabbed Vegeta from behind pulling him onto the floor.

"Well well… what do we have hear?" a snide voice dribbled as the prince pulled himself off the ground and glared at the attacker angrily.

Bulma quickly pushed herself against the wall in sheer fear. Never had she felt so defenceless in her life, the attacker was no-one other than Freeza.

She had never seen him in the flesh before, many times she'd heard ghastly stories and had witnessed people who had crossed the lizard, most if they were lucky had missing limbs or were very much disabled and disfigured for life the others were usually never seen again.

Seeing him standing before her was terrifying to say the least, his voice sounded extremely perverted and almost like a male who has taken hormonal tablets, Nothing to how she imagined it to be; he stood just a little taller than Vegeta and had a long white winding tail, ugly was a mild way to put the way the powerful tyrant looked.

"Prince Vegeta, how nice to see you…" glared the lizard, to the prince who was now getting back onto his feet; The lizards eyes looked perverted, the gaze quickly changed from Vegeta to the cowering Bulma; "And who do we have here?"

"My Lord. This is Princess Bulma from a distant Planet; I was just escorting her to her room." Vegeta said in a displeased tone, Bulma could tell he was less than happy to see the lizard creature. The way he pulled the strong Sayan on the floor like he had; it just showed his awesome amount of power that he had.

Freeza's eyes lit up as he moved his attention to Bulma.

"Well… how about you allow me to escort her?"

Bulma gulped nervously, she had turned a very pale shade; she knew what the lizard did to girls he found, the lucky ones were forced them into prostitution working for him and his soldiers; She daren't even think what became of the others.

Vegeta calmly stood in the way, blocking Freeza's view of Bulma,

"I'm sorry, but I have already marked this one, if you wish I can sort for another female to see you."

Bulma blinked twice, had he just said what she thought he said; it would be all over the galaxy before she knew it; her father would go ape. Then again if it spared her life she supposed it was worth giving it a try, after all it was a lie.

"Really…" Freeza said in a displeased tone, he didn't look amused, "So you're telling me this female, she isn't pure…" As Freeza said this he licked his lips, Bulma peered over Vegeta's shoulder and she felt his tail wrap around her protectively.

"Yes my Lord." Murmured Vegeta looking at the ground.

"So it was you, you took a virgin whilst I was close by… is that it?" Freeza said coldly licking his lips again. Bulma ducked back behind Vegeta holding his tail even closer to her body, she wanted protecting from the disgusting perverted reptilian.

"That may be the case Sire. I am sincerely sorry." Vegeta hung his head even more; he was putting on a very good act the only problem would be if Freeza cared that she was 'his.' For all she knew he might just destroy Vegeta that moment and then rape her to every inch of her life.

There would be hardly anything either of them could do about it.

All of a sudden Freeza turned back around, Vegeta lifted his head back up in surprise.

"Well my little prince, I suggest you keep her on a firm lead from now on… we don't want any of my men getting hold of her now do we?" The lizard said calmly and with that he walked back down the hall.

"What the…" Bulma was cut off again; she growled Vegeta was seeming to form a habit of shutting her up by holding her mouth.

"Shut it and hurry up, remember what I told you before. Now just go along with it, I'll inform both our fathers later." Vegeta whispered as he led Bulma in the opposite direction to Freeza; his tail still wrapped warmly around her waist, he seemed to have almost forgotten it was there.

They walked for around five minutes both full of their own thoughts, Bulma was replaying over in her mind about what Vegeta had said about being his. It was obvious he just said it to get Freeza to clear away from her, but had he secretly wanted it to be true. Bulma knew in her heart she would love nothing more than this to be true, it would be more than a kick in the teeth for Yamcha.

"After you princess" Vegeta murmured sarcastically as he held open another gold door for her, smiling she walked through then winked at him making him blush.

"Is it much further?" Bulma whined as they continued along yet another corridor, this one was like part of a church, the walls were made of cold stone and the floor was also of rock; there were no windows along this section it was almost like a stony cold tunnel.

"Stop moaning woman." Vegeta huffed deliberately not answering her question.

Bulma was surprised at how huge Vegeta's castle actually was; it dwarfed her palace back on Krystallis. It reminded her of about three giant castles put together into one monstrous sized complex.

They strolled down the tunnel corridor and then entered through a huge pair of double wooden doors at the end. They opened with a creak, which echoed throughout the entire tunnel. In the light from inside the room Bulma shuddered at the amount of cobwebs that littered the rock face. Spiders were one of her many hates, any kind of insects or creepy crawlies that wandered into her bedroom back on Krystallis instantly got the hoover treatment. Judging by the size of the cobwebs Bulma shivered at the size the furry spiders must have been.

"You first" said Bulma nervously, but Vegeta held the door open for her again.

"No you."

"Look Vegeta they're your friends… you first."

Vegeta laughed when he suddenly realised the change in her behaviour.

"You shy?" he said smirking; in the dimness of the tunnel he looked really sexy, his hair matched the darkness of his eyes giving him a gorgeous mysterious look.

Bulma refused to budge she just straightened her hair down nervously.

"Come on." Vegeta said stepping through the door and dragging her along with his fluffy brown tail.

The room they had gone into was all-wooden; it looked more like a gym complex; obviously it was the training area for the castle guards. Huge pieces of heavy equipment was in the corner and some running machines were lined up in the other corner; also with some training equipment Bulma had never seen before that looked very hi tech but fun.

One particular thing that caught her eye was a giant plasma screen with an arcade style platform on the floor below it; attached to the platform was a plastic object, which hovered in the air like a surfboard. Bulma instantly recognised it as a virtual reality surf game.

In the centre of the room was a giant red ring, it had ropes around it and was on different levels; several rows of seats and some benches surrounded the circle. It looked like a professional battle arena.

Vegeta looked to where Bulma was glancing.

"It's a virtual reality surf game." He said smiling; he thought she'd be impressed.

"I've always wanted one of those…" Bulma said awed as she took in the scene before her. It was surprisingly empty, not a single person was working out on the gym equipment, and everything was all set up waiting to be worked out on.

"I recon the baka's are all taking a break, come on let's see." Vegeta said as he pulled Bulma along with him, he pulled her through the middle of the giant fighting area and over the ropes on the other end. He leapt down with ease and then strolled over to a small door on the left.

"How come you have so many doors in this place." Said Bulma laughing, his tail was beginning to tickle her, but it felt so warm and fluffy she could sit and stroke it all day.

"I've got a better idea!" Vegeta said growling suddenly as he released his tail from her waist; Bulma was left feeling disappointed she wanted him to carry on holding her with it; it was even better than holding hands with a guy.

The young half naked Sayan prince ran over and picked up a small device from the floor.

Bulma could see in this light is gorgeous body once again, he looked so hot, she'd heard rumours from Jay that he was a sex symbol and she was starting to see why, the dog chain jingled around his neck as he stood up and hooked the tiny gadget round his ear so it covered up one of his eyes with a blue shield.

"This… is a scouter." Vegeta said slowly as he concentrated on the tiny device, pressing a button on the side; it was almost as if he could read her mind, on her planet they just had cell phones. The so-called primitive technology.

Vegeta began to seek about the room, scanning for recognisable power levels. There was only one that was recognised in the chamber next door…

Disclaimer: Okay that chapter sucked! I promise the next will be much more interesting! I'm still getting warmed up for this fanfic, does anybody have any ideas that I could use for Fates Way??? I promise you will get some credit as well! ;-D

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