Last Time: The gong sounds signalling the end of the ceremony and Queen Bulma and King Vegeta step forward to the railing to the eyes of the crowd outside as the new rulers of the planet. The cheering of the crowd gets louder the closer to the railing they get until it halts entirely when Vegeta raises his hand. "We will do what we can to serve each of you. Ruling the people will not be easy, but we will do what we can. We have many plans and some of you have had great ideas. Some of those ideas will be going to good use. One of the local people will even be getting a job as the head chef here at the palace. I don't have to say a name to have the person know who I mean. We'll be going through the lists of requests over the next couple days, so please be patient. In the meantime, enjoy the festivities." After that the crowd applauds again and the fun gets underway.

Pairings: B/V, Gh/Videl, G/CC

I will be keeping Goku's saiyan name as part of the story since his birth name is Kakkarot. Not too sure if that's the correct spelling or not but oh well.

What happens when you mix saiyans and humans? A mess. This is an AU fic where Vegetasei was never destroyed by Frieza, Goku remained on his homeworld, and Chichi is a saiyan. That makes Gohan a full blood instead of a demi. Bulma and Videl are still humans. Sorry to Goten fans but for a while he won't be in the fic. I'll try to insert him later. Also, I am altering the story. This is fanfiction after all. Can't have it all based on fact, so I'm throwing in some ideas from a RP session me and a friend do. :)

The New Council

Bulma and Vegeta started going through the list of potential council members over the next couple hours while the other people outside enjoyed all the festivities. They had just been crowned King and Queen and already were busy doing things that technically could have waited a couple days. They felt though that it could not wait and wanted to get a head start on the decisions. Lumara had already been chosen as the head of the Council so they looked through the list they had. They marked off Marcain, Katara. Satrina, Kodoran, Mikel, Sebrani, Taimar, and Kakanora as potential members. They would set up interviews with each one of them to see which of them would join Lumara in the council positions. They had 5 more positions to fill, so they had to choose wisely. The council members had to be skilled in politics and be able to handle a high level of stress. If they were unable to deal with stress to a certain level, then they would be unable to join the council. Most council members were chosen if they had descended from a former council member, but over the last couple hundred years, that practice had been overlooked in favor of those who were more skilled in matters of diplomacy.

In addition to a new council being created, new generals were being recruited for the army. Cardain, a young man of roughly 19 years, was one of the top soldiers in the army currently. He was also one of the ones closest to reaching the legendary level known as Super Saiyan. Only one other Saiyan had reached that level; Broly. Broly usually stayed by himself, training alone and never bothering anyone. Anyone who was close to reaching that level was sent to him for special training. Only one such person had been sent to him and that person had never returned. It was rumored that the person had died while being trained by Broly. Due to those rumors, no others had been sent that way. Any others with the potential of Super Saiyan level, were trained in the palace by the royal family personally. Vegeta was also close to reaching that level as was Kakkarot. They had told no-one and usually trained alone in one of the lower level gravity chambers of the palace. Cardain had been chosen to be a 2nd level General in the army and would have to undergo some testing to see if he would be able to take the position.

Bulma was interviewing some of the new ladies who would be cooking or cleaning in the palace including Chichi, Atari, Kasentri, Midira, Sistina, Kari, and a couple younger girls. She set Chichi as the lead cook in the kitchen and the other girls as the helpers in the kitchen or as some of the cleaning staff in various areas of the palace. A couple of them would be her own personal helpers. None of them complained about it and rather enjoyed the prospect of being the personal servants of the new Queen.

Marcain was a member of a family who was part of a working 2nd class. His family was well thought of, well established, and had a history of being very knowledgable in various diplomatic issues. Unfortunately, his family had more of a fighting status than a diplomatic one.

Katara, Satrina, and Kodoran were all descendants of former council members. They were well aquainted with diplomatic situations and had even formed treaties with other countries on a personal basis to allow their families to live in peace. That allowed them to be easy choices as council members.

Taimar and Kakanora were former diplomats from a neighboring country. They had moved to the area a few years ago and had lost their status due to an existing council already in place. They had put in a request but until now had recieved no answer. Now was their chance to join and so were given a chance to prove themselves.

It took 2 weeks for everything to get finished and the new Council to be chosen. Lumara, Katara, Satrina, Kodoran, Mikel, and Sebrani were all chosen for the council. Marcain, Taimar, and Kakanora were all appointed as personal assistants to Vegeta and escorts for some of the diplomats when they came to the palace for important meetings. Emerald and the former King Vegeta kept a close eye on the events taking place the whole time so they would know what was taking place. The former King was not too pleased that things were going this smoothly but considering his wife was watching this closely, he dared not try to sabotage anything. "She's doing fairly well so far. Just hope she plans to make time to produce an heir for our son. That's going to have to take priority for her within the first 2 years of her time as Queen."

Emerald gives him a look for a moment and shakes her head. "I'm sure she knows that already. You better not interfere or I'll take Chichi's advice and smack you with that Saiyan-proof frying pan." She smirks as her mate goes pale at the threat then continues to monitor the progress of things. She knew that the threat would only work for so long before she would have to actually start using it. Words only worked so long before actions were required. She mentally informs her son to keep tabs on his mate and to make sure that they at least attempt to have a child within the first 2 years of their time as King and Queen or everything would be ruined for them. She didn't want to see that happen but knew it was only a matter of time.

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Next chapter up. small one yes...but at least its a new chapter :) enjoy.