The Crystal in The Night
Vegeta didn't hesitate to shoot towards Frieza, his fist connecting with his stomach. Frieza doubled over spilling the contents of his stomach on the floor. "Nice shot monkey." He was still bent over when the Princes sent another shot into his jaw making him fall over.
"No one is going to help you with anything, you will die today." He grabbed Frieza by his throat and began to squeeze.
Frieza smiled and shot a ki blast into Vegeta's rib. Just then Ginyu shot out of the rubble sending a fury of blasts towards Bardock. "You think you can take me down that easily, your son is quite strong." He said smiling as Bardock dodged.
"He is but he hasnt surpassed me yet." Bardock began sending combos into his body, not worrying about the damage he caused.
Ginyu laughed as each blow was sent to his body. "They should've told you about my fighting tactic." He said as he spit out blood. Bardock jumped back looking confused at his words. Ginyu lifted up his arms wincing at the pain, one was possibly broken and the other was riddled with bruises and blood. "Change now!" He yelled out.
Bardock smirked and phased over to his son, grabbing the body he was forced into off the floor and threw it into the force of energy coming for him. Before Ginyu could stop it the change went through. Kakarot slumped to the floor using his good arm to feel over his actual body. "Did you have to go so hard?" He said, cradling his arm.
"Maybe you should get stronger." Bardock said from across the room. They walked over to Ginyu looking down at him as he rolled onto his back. They both grimaced in anger. Kakarot brought his foot up and stomped down onto his face repeatedly until he appeared to be unconscious and then stomped more. "I think he's out." Bardock said, placing a hand on his son's shoulder.
"I know this is just for good measure." He said with one more stomp. He lowered his foot and looked over at Bulma. She was pale faced and lost in the fight between Vegeta and Frieza. "We should get you out of here." Kakarot reached for her arm to pull her away.
She snatched her arm away and set her eyes on him. "I'm not leaving him here to face that monster alone." She looked back at the fight.
"You seem tired, Vegeta." Frieza said as he barraged Vegeta with multiple ki blasts that he dodged.
Vegeta didn't waste his energy on answering him, he didn't waste his energy on ki blasts he went straight for contact blows keeping the distance close knowing Frieza was never good at hand to hand. Frieza tried to no avail to further their distance, he could only block and get a few hits in. Vegeta grabbed his arm and brought his knee up, breaking it on impact and sent him flying into the back wall. He didn't wait to gloat; he could do that when he won, he sent his own body hurling towards Frieza connecting their foreheads together. As the Saiyan's forehead connected, the back of Frieza's head shot back and connected with the wall.
He slid down the wall, a trail of purple blood following him. "You are quite good at this, your majesty." He said, chuckling. "But I'm better." Frieza sent Vegeta flying back and skidding on the ground with a ki blast. Frieza was in front of him in an instant grabbing him by the hair, bringing his knee up to connect with force into his face. Vegeta shot to his feet after the third blow and grabbed his leg and threw him. He paused, catching his breath and watching as his opponent stood to his feet. "You seem very protective over the scientist's daughter." He began to pace again, there was a slight limp in his step this time. "It's as if you two have bonded." Frieza smirked as he tapped his neck. "I noticed the little marks earlier, that's rather cute." He turned to look at Bulma. "It's going to be so hard when I rip you two away from each other." Vegeta's hair flashed almost yellow at the threat then went back to normal, his eyes flickered blue then like his hair went back to normal. The white ki that was radiating off his body seemed to shine gold for a split second and he fisted his hands to the point that his palms turned white. This sudden change was noticed by Frieza. "That's interesting." He whispered to himself.
Vegeta tackled him, punching his face into the ground. Frieza kicked the Prince off of him, spitting out blood as he quickly stood. He let out more ki blasts, a few connecting to Vegeta's ribs and a few dodged. He finally brought up his finger forming a small ball of ki and shooting a thin line of energy towards Vegeta.
The beam of light grazed Vegeta's ear as it whizzed past him. Vegeta smirked, feeling his victory was coming. He finally felt the need to gloat, to let the lizard know he was going to lose more then just his life today. "You missed Frieza, you seem to be getting tired." He said ready to pounce.
"No, I didn't." Frieza said slowly and gestured behind him. Vegeta turned slowly and saw Bulma holding her stomach. She removed her hand looking down at the blood that stained it. "I'd say I hit my target." Bulma's body slumped into the Queen who was there to catch her. Vegeta's ears started to ring and his vision went blurry. "I could see this fight was getting nowhere and I probably would've ended up losing but if we both lost something I'd feel accomplished." He smirked evilly.
Frieza's words fell on deaf ears. He began to see a glowing light form around him. His hair flashed between gold and black and his eyes blue to black. His breathing became heavy and his fists were balled so tight that his nails dug into his already white palms drawing blood.
A burst of blinding energy shot from Vegeta's body. Frieza shielded his eyes from it only looking when the light dimmed. What he saw made his blood run colder than it already was. He looked to the Sayian, his hair was gold and waving in the wind of energy his ki created, his eyes were a piercing blue. And the ki signature that radiated off of him was deafening. Everyone present was in a state of shock. "Get her out of here." Was all Vegeta said before he phased in front of Frieza. Vegeta was so fast Frieza didn't couldn't see when he moved.
Before the floor shattering hit could land on him he moved out the way. He flew up towards the ceiling narrowly missing a ki blast that was shot at him. It blew a hole clean through the ceiling. Frieza dodged the falling debris as he sped through the hole. Before he could get away to his ship Vegeta was in front of him grabbing him by the neck. "You should've tried harder to kill me." Vegeta grabbed Frieza's already broken arm and ripped it from his body. Frieza let out a blood curdling scream that could probably be heard from below. Vegeta threw the arm and punched a hole clean through his chest. "I hit my target as well." He whispered into Frieza's ear as he slowly let his body go, plummeting to the ground.
Vegeta watched him fall for a moment then sped back to the castle, to Bulma.
Vegeta found them. His form went back to normal when he saw Bulma. Kakarot was carrying her, she was pale as a ghost and blood trailed behind them. He went up to her and softly took her out of Kakarot's arms, he slowly lowered her to the floor and held her gently in his arms. "Go get a medic quickly!" He barked orders at them then looked down to her. "You're going to be okay." He said, putting pressure on the wound.
Bulma looked into Vegeta's eyes and smiled. "You're not blonde anymore?" She asked. "And your eyes-" Bulma started to cough and blood trailed down the side of her mouth.
Vegeta nodded. "I guess we figured out the prophecy was wrong." He said, chuckling. "I'm not going to lose you, so I didn't suffer a great loss." His face became serious.
Bulma lifted her hand to stroke Vegeta's cheek. She shook her head, silently telling him he was wrong. "You're so stubborn." She said smiling. "You're worse than me." Her breathing became shallow and she began to cough up more blood.
"That medic needs to hurry up!" Vegeta yelled in the direction Kakarot went. "You're going to be okay, someone is coming." He looked up to see if he could spot anybody. "Go find them." Vegeta growled at Bardock, who turned with the Queen and ran.
"Vegeta" Bulma's voice was so quiet and soft. "Look in the bottom of the trunk." She said, grabbing his hand that was applying pressure to her stomach.
"What?" He looked at her confused.
Bulma's eyes became heavy but she was using the rest of her strength to keep them open. "Look in the bottom of the trunk." Her voice was a whisper now. "There is something in there that will help you." Tears pricked the corners of Vegeta's eyes but he refused to let them fall.
"You're going to be okay." He said through gritted teeth.
Bulma shook her head again. "You're mine, always and forever." She brought her hand up again to cup his cheek, smearing her blood on his face. Vegeta sighed as he leaned his face into her touch.
He bent his head down to kiss her. "I will get you back." Vegeta held his forehead against hers and they looked into each other's eyes..
She smiled again. "I know you will."
"I love you." He kissed her again, stroking her hair. She smiled at him as he pulled back to look into her eyes again. "I know it's too late and I should've said it earlier but you can't- you…" Vegeta's voice started to hitch and tears slowly streamed down his face. "Stay here with me." He said holding her tighter. She again brought her hand up to cup his cheek and pulled him down to kiss her once more. He nodded understanding what she silently told him. "The bottom of the trunk." He said.
Bulma's eyes finally grew too heavy to keep open. As her eyes fluttered closed her hand slid from Vegeta's face, slumping down over her stomach. Vegeta pulled her body towards him letting out a yell that felt like it could shake the whole castle.