The Slave girl and the King

Chapter 5

The first time they had ever met was actually, pretty funny. Ann had been sitting on her cushion next to Master Frieza when he was called in to be seen by Lord Frieza himself. Yamma was so nervous because it was the first time he was ever summoned to be seen.

::Flashback::

Yamma walked through the doors of the main deck where Lord Frieza was in his seat and the girl he had heard about, that Lord Frieza was most fond of, was right next to him and sitting on her cushion cross legged and working on a laptop. He only glanced at her for they had strict rules, not to stare at her or to communicate with her too much unless Lord Frieza said so.

He stood in front of Lord Frieza and Zarbon announced his arrival. "Lord Frieza, Yamma has arrived as instructed."

Yamma knelt in front of Lord Frieza and looked at the floor.

"Rise soldier." Lord Frieza commanded him.

He stood and glanced over at the girl again. She had a concerned look on her face and was looking under her laptop. He quickly looked back at Lord Frieza.

"I have been told you are one of the top soldiers that I have in my force, apart form my Ginyu force, is that right?" Lord Frieza asked him.

"Y..Yes my lord." He said, wondering where this was going to lead.

"hmm." Lord Frieza looked over at the girl. "Ann, this is Yamma, he's going to be your new bodyguard. He'll accompany you on your trips, to do your work."

Ann looked up at her Master. "Yes Master." She then turned to Yamma and smiled at him. "It's a pleasure to meet you Yamma."

Lord Frieza looked at Yamma. "You will obey her unless her safety is in Jeopardy, if that was to happen, you are to keep her safe at all costs or you will answer to me."

In the corner of Yamma's eye, Ann was concerned about something and was looking for something. All of a sudden there was a loud scream and Ann jumped up from where she was and the laptop she had, went flying through the air. Yamma caught it in mid air and something brown had also went flying and Ann was jumping up and down in the room and started to act as if something was on her. She then jumped on top of Lord Frieza screaming "Get it off me! Get it off me!"

"Ann! What is wrong! Calm down!" He then pried her off of himself and examined her and made her turn around. She was making the motions that she was freaked out about something.

There was another scream from the old lady that was in the room. Lord Frieza was too busy trying to calm Ann down to pay attention. Yamma went to investigate and it was a giant spider about is big as his hand. It was trying to scurry away. Yamma shot a small energy beam at the thing, destroying it instantly.

The old lady Berryblue put her hand on her heart. "I hate those things so much!"

Ann had finally stopped moving so much but now was crying. "It's alright Ann, Yamma killed it. It's dead and it won't get you alright." Lord Frieza then sat her down on her cushion, consoling her, rubbing the top of her head. "it's alright, calm down. Take deep breaths."

It was so odd seeing Lord Frieza being nice to anyone. Especially being affectionate to anyone. Everyone feared him.

Once Ann had calmed down. Yamma handed Ann, her laptop. She sniffled. "Thank you for catching this and thank you for killing it.. I hate those spiders so much, they terrify me so much."

"You're very welcome" He went to stand before Lord Frieza.

Lord Frieza was in his chair looking at Ann, who opened her laptop with a frown and went back to work. He must have been satisfied with her working like normal and sighed.

"Who in the hell let one of those damn things on my ship!?" Frieza yelled.

No one said anything. "From now on EVERYONE is to be thoroughly checked for eggs or any bugs of any sorts. I'll not have those horrible things on my ship!" Lord Frieza was mad.

Everyone answered "Yes my lord." Almost in uni-some.

Lord Frieza let out a sigh and looked at Yamma. "Since you are her bodyguard, you will be allowed to talk and eat your meals with her. When she is not with me, she will be with you. You are to remind and enforce my rules I have already put out regarding her. You are aware of them, are you not?" He asked.

"Y.. Yes my lord I am aware and I will not let you down." He said kneeling down on one knee.

"Now… Ann has work to do today and I have to be somewhere else, I don't want her there. She gets really upset sometimes and has anxiety attacks… DO NOT upset her or you will be answering to me." he said with a smirk.

Yamma knew that look all too well.

"Now it is about time Ann went and ate something." He looked down at Ann.

She had stopped working and looked up at him. "Yes master?"

"Ann, you should go and get something to eat in the cafeteria with Yamma, You'll need your strength for your trip. Also you can get to know each other better." he said it with a disgusted look on his face.

She folded up her laptop and put it in her bag. "Yes Master. How long will I be on this trip master?" She said and stood up.

He looked at her with a frown. "I am not entirely sure, not too long I hope. If you have any problems, contact me, alright. I MEAN it Ann! Don't think you are an inconvenience. If there are any problems, let me know! I'm not having anyone treating my pet like crap!"

Ann was looking at the ground, with a frown on her face. "Yes master." She said softly.

Lord Frieza let out a sigh. "I'm not mad at you Ann. I am never mad at you. You have a big heart, but remember what I said Ann. Not all people are as nice as you are." He said looking her in the eyes.

She looked into his eyes and then looked away with a slight frown. "Yes master I understand… I will remember."

Lord Frieza waved them away and Ann and Yamma left the room. They both walked in silence to the cafeteria. Ann was looking at the floor. She always felt nervous meeting new people. She had already gone through 5 other bodyguards before him and she didn't know what kind of person he was. He was a Saiyan, was all she knew for sure. He had a tail and she didn't know anything else. She did notice he didn't panic and had fast reflexes. She wondered if he would be able to handle the task or be upset about the new position.

As they walked in silence, Ann finally broke the silence. "I'm so sorry about the spider incident. I wanted to thank you again for catching my laptop. I would have been upset if it was broken. I need it for my trip."

Yamma was curious about this trip. "What sort of trip are we going on?"

Ann looked at him. "Master Frieza told me to fill you in on the details. You see, I make reports on other planets for the Galaxy Telegram. They request that I go to these planets and I usually interview the people and take notes and write about their traditions and things. It's really popular and they pay Master Frieza a lot of money. However these trips can be dangerous and not easy."

They were at the cafeteria and were in line getting food. Ann was grabbing food but as she was talking people got quiet. "Well sometimes the people are not friendly and on more than one occasion… we were almost killed." Ann paused and sighed then continued. "In fact my last bodyguard, didn't make it and he was sadly killed." She shuddered at the thought. "That's a long story."

Ann heard someone in the line say "You can say that again." in a low voice.

Yamma heard it too and looked at Ann.

"I'll tell you the whole story later… it was crazy." Ann said grabbing a water and they walked to a table and sat down.

Yamma took a bite out of his food and looked at Ann. "So, you need me to protect you."

Ann sighed and whispered cause she knew people were trying to listen to them talk. "I know my master ordered you to do this and yes I know it seems like a babysitting job to you but Master Frieza told me to tell you that you will be paid for this and I personally would like to ask you to please protect me. This is not easy for me and often times it scares me to death."

Yamma washed down some food with some drink. "It's that bad huh?"

Ann looked slightly upset. "Yeah… I mean for one, many people look down on me as a slave and well they also don't like Master Frieza as I am sure you already know. So these people can sometimes be rather nasty."

Shortly after Diako had sat at the table with them.

"Yamma, this is Diako, my other bodyguard. It's because of him that I am alive right now. He's also my friend. I hope we can all get along.

::end of flashback::

After that they had did so much together and became good friends over the years.

"Well anyways, I had better head to the library, I have a lot of work to do." She then put the stuff in their boxes. "I'll put these away later."

Ann never did change like she said she was going to. The time was flicking away and she had no idea when her master would return to retrieve her and she didn't want to disappoint him.

They all headed to the library. Yamma and Diako sat in the library with her. They both looked through books or stared at the fire. They had already been in there for hours. Both Yamma and Diako were tired and bored.

Ann noticed they were both bored. "I know this is boring and I am so sorry for that. There's just so much knowledge here I can use. If you both want to go take a short walk or you can or go to bed, I'm sure I'll be alright. I also have my communicator if anything happens." She pointed at the communicator on her wrist which was also capable of communicating to Yamma and Diako's scouters.

Yamma and Diako looked at each other.

Diako spoke. "I am sure if she is in distress I'll be able to pick up on it."

One of Diako's other special abilities was that he could telepathically sense Ann's feelings. They had grown such a bond, that it made this possible.

Yamma nodded then. "Alright we will take a nap and be back to check on you. If there are any problems, let us know immediately."

Ann nodded and smiled. "Of course. Goodnight"

They then left the room. When she was sure they were gone, she sneaked out of the library. She hadn't shown it but she couldn't stop thinking about baby prince Vegeta and how adorable he was. She wanted to hold him again, if it was possible. She clenched her robes to herself and she snuck away to the nursery with all the babies. She thought she might be stopped but she didn't see anyone. She only saw a few guards here and there, she could feel their eyes on her but no one stopped her. She found the nursery and Baby prince Vegeta. He was crying in his pod. No one was around and all the babies were crying. The doctors were nowhere to be seen.

She looked down at the tiny prince. "Vegeta, were they mean to you and left you all alone."

Baby Vegeta heard her and opened his tear filled eyes and immediately held his arms out to her. She took him into her arms and he stopped crying. As before he reached up to her face with his little hands and she took one of his hands in hers and kissed it. He giggled and laughed. She rocked him and held him in her arms for a long while. He stared at Ann a long time but in contentment. She looked around and no one was around. She contemplated on what to do. She wanted to spend as much time with him as she tried putting him back in the pod but he was not having it. He would scream every time. She again contemplated on what to do.

She pulled out her notebook with one hand and wrote a short note, it read. "Prince Vegeta is with me in the Library."

The prince was perplexed by the pencil and she let him hold it to which he examined it and gnawed on it. Carrying him back made Ann nervous, she was sure someone would stop her, but no one did. They made it to the library and Ann sat in the chair by the fireplace. She was writing some notes but Prince Vegeta seemed to want to try to write too. She handed him the pencil and held the book for him. He scribbled some on the paper though none of it made any sense. Ann loved every second of it. They sat like that for a while and she even played peek a boo with him which made him smile. After some time the prince got sleepy and fell asleep in her arms. Not long after she was already curled up in the armchair with the prince in her arms wrapped in her robe too and she had fallen asleep.

Some hours had passed and a doctor and King Vegeta came into the library where Ann and the prince was asleep. The prince awoke suddenly as if sensing there was someone else in the room. Ann was still sound asleep.

The doctor started to walk towards prince Vegeta and Ann. "Why that girl. Taking the prince like that!"

Just as he reached for the prince to try and take him from her. He leapt out of Ann's lap in a burst of energy and headbutted the man in the stomach and he went flying with an grunt and was knocked out.

Ann awoke at the sudden crash. King Vegeta was laughing. "Ha ha ha that's my boy!" He had Vegeta in his arms now who was looking over at Ann.

She then looked around the room and saw the man on the floor. "Oh my… what happened!? I am so sorry your majesty! I went to see the prince and I only picked him up because he wanted me to but he didn't want me to put him down… so I took him here. I'm sorry, please don't be angry with me, I promise it won't happen again."

Prince Vegeta was holding his hand out to Ann and she took it but looking at the king with a worried look.

He laughed. "It's quite alright. I had already ordered the guards to let you visit, if you did and it seems my son likes you so much that he was protecting you from one of the doctors." He looked over at the unconscious man, who was already being carried away to the infirmary and gave another laugh and what he had saw.

"I saw the whole thing. The moment he came over to you, my son flew at him and smashed him in the stomach with his head." He then looked at Ann in the eyes. "I can tell he's very fond of you Ann just as much as you are of him."

Ann smiled and sighed. "Thank you, your Majesty for letting me spend some time with him. I don't know when my master will come back for me." She looked sad.

The king then did something that she had not expected at all. Suddenly he pulled her close to his chest with his other arm and hugged her to his chest. She was so shocked, she couldn't say anything.

He then kissed her on the top of the head. "I'm sorry Ann, I wish I could take you away from your slavery and make you free. I know I can't and I have feelings for you. Though I know I can never have you."

She looked up at him and she was about to say something but he interrupted her. "Don't say anything. If your master is listening in somehow, I don't want you to get in trouble." He gently pulled her away from himself and he looked so sad.

She wanted to say something or do something but she knew that she couldn't do anything.

"I'll go and put my son to sleep in his bed. You should go get some rest Ann." He then turned and left the library and Ann watching as he left the room.

She sat back into the armchair and wrapped herself in her robe with a sigh and stared at the fireplace. She was so confused about how she felt, that she didn't know how to process all of it. In her thoughts, she ended up falling asleep.

She woke up later in her bed. There was a knock on the door moments later. It was Yamma.

"Sorry Ann I saw you had fallen asleep in the library so I brought you to bed." Yamma said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Thanks Yamma" Ann smiled.

"Ann…. I didn't mean to overhear I promise. I heard what the king had said to you through the door. Me and Diako had woke up to come check on you and we heard what happened and we saw the guy being carried out of the room.. honestly we were scared for you. Once we heard what the king said about what his son did, it made us feel a lot better." Yamma sheepishly admitted.

"Really?" Was all Ann could say.

Yamma stood there a moment in silence in case she wanted to say something else.

She finally spoke. "I'm so confused honestly. I don't know what to do."

Yamma nodded. "It's understandable. That's sudden and I wouldn't know what to do either in your situation."

There was silence again. Ann walked into the room allowing Yamma to come in with her and Diako as well.

She sat at the table and Yamma sat down across from her. "Ann… What is your relationship with Lord Frieza?"

Ann looked at him. She was sort of surprised to be asked that. She looked away. "I guess you can say I do care about him and I'm grateful for him even though I know he's done some terrible things and a lot of people don't like him. He's never been unkind to me. It's because of him that I am even alive. Who knows what would have happened to me if he had not taken me from my old master. He was so cruel to me. I had no education, and not even a name."

Yamma looked shocked. "You had no name?"

Ann looked at him and shook her head. "My mother never gave me a name. You see… my planet at the time was a desolate planet… at least in the part I lived in.. I was only a child, but the people starved. Most children never made it past the age of 5 or younger. So my mother only called me poor fool because though there was no food I managed to try to survive but she didn't want to get attached to me. She gave me no affection and no name."

She paused and was thinking back. There was silence.

Ann starts telling the story.