/ ❯ A Lost Soul To Save Us All ❯ Burdens Lifted and Chains Unbound ( Chapter 10 )

Chapter 10

Burdens Lifted and Chains Unbound

It was well past midnight, normal people would have been asleep long ago but not these two, to Trunks and Vegeta time had little meaning except to indicate how long they had been training. Vegeta had set an intense training schedule for them before they had even left earth almost a year ago; now it was ten times more intense then when they had started in the first place and Trunks knew he couldn't take much more.

Trunks had thought his father had not noticed but he was wrong and with every swing Trunks made it became more and more apparent that Trunks was going to break if they did not stop and rest. One thousand times Earths gravity was no easy task for anyone who has never experienced intense gravity training before. It only took a few more punch's from his son for Vegeta to decide to call they're day of training complete and when the gravity machine powered down Trunks couldn't help but smile with relief.

"That's enough for today brat go hit the tanks I'll come get you when you are done regenerating." Says Vegeta as he tosses Trunks a white towel fresh from the drying unit near the control panel. Trunks catches it graciously and smiles at his father as he thanks him for the training and exits the gravity room. When he is gone Vegeta wraps a towel around his neck and leans against the panel and lets out an exasperated sigh.

"Why isn't this helping me? I have barely worked up a sweat at a thousand times Earths gravity. I should be growing stronger yet I find my self going no where neither improving nor decreasing in strength. What is wrong with me?" Spoke Vegeta to no one in particular as he rakes his hands through his damp hair in frustration. "I can't leave here frustrated, it will only make me more pissed off at the next thing to irritate me later. I know I am not at my max there is farther Kakarot proved that when he was forced to go level four, why can't I grasp it why…why am I rambling like an irrational idiot?" frustrated beyond belief Vegeta storms out of the gravity room to the kitchen. "I can't think on an empty stomach. I need some food." Vegeta stated venomously.

With a plate of chicken sandwiches in one hand and a six pack of protean shakes in the other Vegeta soon found him self within the ships break room where recreational equipment could be seen all over the place. For the most part it had everything to keep one occupied when one wished to escape from the world of training, from arcade machines and VR simulators to air hockey and pool tables. It even had a boxing ring for light sparing, but his favorite object of relaxation by far was his swimming pool.

It had taken him almost a year to devises a way to safely put one as large as he wanted on board his ship and not have it holographic. Freiza's ship had a pool but it was completely holographic, made up of illusions and super excited air to give the sent and feel of being in a refreshing pool while floating around in a gravity controlled room offering almost no relaxation.

Already dressed for the occasion Vegeta places his towel on one of the lounge chairs and approaches the large diving board at the deep end of the Olympic sized pool. Slowly walking towards the end of the board Vegeta looks strait ahead of him self as if trying to concentrate, his eyes go out of focus and his body relaxes immensely. He stands there still for almost a complete minute before jumping once for moderate spring and again for a forceful launch, releasing him self high above the pool where he completes three flips two corkscrews and one final flip setting him self up for an almost splash less dive.

When Vegeta has swam his fill of laps he turns on to his back and closed his eyes thinking of everything and nothing at the same time as he floated almost lifelessly in the pools center. Vegeta was so lost in his own thoughts that he never even noticed the figure which approached him from the front of the recreation room. It wasn't until Vegeta felt a slight change in the room's temperature that he began to pick up that he was not alone.

Growling softly as the presence's bare foot steps came closer and closer to him Vegeta speaks to the intruder in an irritated and almost angry tone.

"Don't even begin to presume to think you can sneak up on me brat, you're a long ways away from ever being able to do that. What do you want and why are you out of the regeneration tank so soon do you intentionally want to kill your self?" Vegeta asks Trunks all the while keeping his eyes closed and floating motionlessly. It isn't until the presence laughs at Vegeta that he realizes his company is not that of his son, but that of a Female!

The laugh is very rich and feminine with a tone of elegance and etiquette. When she speaks Vegeta's ears perk up in instant recognition. "Hey Squirt looks like you have put on some weight sense last time I saw you, why don't you come out of that pool of yours and give your sister a hug." Says Salvina as she smiles softly down at her brother's horror stricken face.

When he makes no motion to move her smile becomes a frown. "Hey brat I'm talking to you!" Salvina shouts as a Ki blast is released from her palm directly at Vegeta's exposed head.

Still in total shock Vegeta makes no attempt to even move out of the way and the blast smacks him dead center in the face, knocking him under the water with its sheer force. The combination of water mixed with pain brought Vegeta back to his senses and he surfaced the water with a look of deep anger in his eyes. Not because the blast caused him physical pain but rather because of the embracement it caused. However when his eyes fell upon those of his attacker all thoughts of a painful death for his attacker left his mind in an instant. And his expression becomes that of a softer gentler image.

He just levitates over the pool with his muscled body dripping and a million thoughts running through his mind. Silently Salvina waits for him to speak the thousands of questions he must want to ask and the thousand that he never will. She knows her brother well and he keeps to himself, even as a child he was closed off to everyone and it took her much persuasion to get him to tell her what was wrong. So she did what she always did she stood there silently and waited till he collected himself and was ready to speak.

When he finally dose speak it was like nothing she had envisioned.

"So after all these years you have chosen now to haunt me? Now after all these years of remaining silent you wish to extract your vengeance? Humph, if so then I welcome it. Strike away Salvina I will put up no resistance. Strike down your murderer with all the rage that has surly built up in your restless soul after all these years." Vegeta says solemnly while closing his eyes and bearing his chest exposed with his arms wide open.

When death comes not for our hero Vegeta slowly opens his eyes to see that his sister now levitates before him with a sad heartbroken expression etched into her young face.

"Death will not claim you this day my dear brother, not by my hands; not now not ever. My death was not your fault Vegeta. I hold no ill will towards you I never have, you were just trying to protect me. If not for you my dear brother those bastards surly would have had their way with me that fateful night and I was powerless to stop them.

I'm sorry for not being there for you when you needed me brother, I was not permitted to visit you until this moment and I am truly sorry. If I could have I would have walked with you side by side every passing day every step of the way as you were forced to do Frieza's will. But I was held by a greater power then even that of the Kai's until just now. Don't ask me who because I don't know, I just know that who ever this power is they have great plans for you my brother."

Salvina shivers for a moment and her eyes unlock with Vegeta's she knows she does not have much time left and that she must say what she has wanted to say to him sense the moment he came out of his rage that night she had died all those years ago.

"Are you ok Salvina?" Vegeta asks very concerned for her sudden actions.

She smiles at him as she gains some control over her bodies now violent shivering.

"I'm fine runt, now stop interrupting me I don't have much time and I must tell you something before I am taken away from you again. That night I died… you are not to blame brother. Your hands are clean of my blood; my death came at the hands of our father Vegeta." Salvina says with total certainty in her voice.

Salvina watches worriedly as Vegeta's eyes widen in shocked disbelief at what she has just told him.

"Impossible! Father would never raise a hand against you! Why would you say such a thing just to try and ease the burden I carry for your death? Father was ruthless but he was not one to strike flesh and blood dead for no reason." Vegeta bursts at his sister.

Salvina's head shakes side to side slowly. "Your wrong brother Father ruled with an iron fist, nothing stood in his way and all who did suffered his wrath. When you had gone on your rampage I had run to get help, by the time I returned with father you had already destroyed a fourth of Frieza's men and father was outraged! He thought to have you executed on the spot to save face with Frieza for your actions so not to bring his wrath down upon our people. He had with him a new weapon designed to destroy the targets neural network on contact. I was appalled that father would even consider doing this to you and as the soldier fitted with the weapon was given the order to fire upon you I lost it, I let loose a Ki blast that destroyed not only the weapons operator but the ten soldiers behind him as well.

To say the least father was furious and before we could even come to blows he raised his hand and blasted me with everything he had. My death was far from painless and I can barely remember my last thoughts being that I had been betrayed by my own father who was supposed to be my protector. I was later to find out from someone who I met up there in heaven that father had ordered another soldier to pick up the weapon and destroy you. The soldier did as told and as soon as he had fired the weapon you had destroyed him from the inside out as you marched toward them. The blast had made a direct hit between your eyes and there was a huge explosion as everything around you was totally wiped out in the blasts shockwave.

Father had smirked and turned his back to you, ready to return to the castle when the men behind him had suddenly started to drop dead and explode in violent screams of tortured agony. Shocked and completely horrified he turned around just in time to see your small body marching through the dust and blood mist filled battlefield. There you stood eyes glowing bright red, unfocused and demonic on a slow and steady path of destruction headed strait for him. The roar of rage that you unleashed was that of a lost soul that had been denied acceptance into heaven. I swear to you brother so terrified was our father of you that he pissed his pants at the sound of your cry.

The only thing that saved him that day was reinforcements from Frieza's ship had arrived to avenge they're fallen comrades. And as they fell upon you by the hundreds they died by the thousands. If Frieza would have been with them I have no doubt in my mind that you would have destroyed him that day. Father knew you would remember nothing of him when you came out of your rage so he had his men fall back and he quarantined that section of the planet until he was certain you were not longer a threat to himself or anyone else for that matter."

Salvina pauses for a brief second to annualize her brother's mental state; she knew he was very unpredictable so she readied her self for anything. Instantly his onyx eyes reveal his inner rage that is flowing within him almost to the boiling point, however at closer inspection she finds this rage is not directed towards her but something or someone else.

"The rest Vegeta as you know all too well is history, in the end father let down his pride, came to his senses and tried to rescue you from the vial hands of the tyrant known as Frieza, but it was too late. Father had made a deal with the devil and the price of his peoples freedom was the soul of his only son, you. In the end Father realized that his only son's soul was too steep a price to pay for anything, after all what use is a kingdom if you have no family to share it with? When father failed in his mission to rescue you our race's existence as a whole became instantly doomed, and so beginning with Father Frieza set in motion his destruction of our entire race except for a select few."

As she finishes Salvina can not bring herself to gaze into Vegeta's eyes. After all these years the truths had been reviled and now there were no secretes or mysteries in regards to her death, they're planets destruction or his hellish up brining at the hands of Frieza.

Finally gathering her courage to glance Vegeta's way Salvina is shocked to see a smile upon his face.

"It is good to finally know the truth and have something to fill in the large gap of memory loss with besides my hellish nightmares and overactive imagination, I thank you Salvina. You don't know how good it feels to know that your innocent blood stains my soul no longer." Vegeta confesses truthfully as he floats over to his towel to dry off. He buffs the towel through his damp hair and turns to say something else to Salvina but she is nowhere in sight. After a few minutes of frantic, frustrated searching he gives up and curses her under his breath.

"You could at least say goodbye!" Voices the agitated prince as he walks off to the regeneration ward to check on his son; as he leaves the recreation room the hairs of the back of his neck prickle and he can her Salvina's voice in his mind laughing softly.

"See ya Brat. Don't worry ill be haunting you more and more as I gain more energy, but this visit has drained me I could not hold out any longer. Keep training my Nephew but not too hard now we don't want to break him before he reaches his full potential or he really will turn out just like you then and we can't have that now, can we?" Her last sentence is finished with a fitful rich laughter that echo's deep within his mind and causes the prince to grumble at the slight tease yet find it somewhat funny as he makes his way through his glorious ship with thoughts of what his sister had told him playing through his mind time and time again as he waited for his son to be fully regenerated.

Off in her own plane of existence Salvina comes out of her meditative stance and breaths deeply, she is truly exhausted and has defiantly over exerted herself she decides in her own opinion. Collecting her self Salvina stands and turns towards the presence behind her, smiling softly as she meets a pair of soft emerald eyes staring contently at her. "Hello mother. What can I do for you?" Salvina asks cheerfully.

AN: MUAHAHAHA!!! What a place to end it huh? I'm sorry for the delay on this posting but for all of you that don't know FF.N has been down for the longest and it caused me to slack off. Anyway I'm back in the swing of things so R&R PLEASE!! I can't stress this enough please Review, it would mean the world to me.

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