Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Anything's Possible ❯ Confrontation As Pasts Are Revealed ( Chapter 14 )

Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ for fuck's sake! So leave me alone!

Author's Notes: Hi, everyone! I'm terribly, terribly sorry this took so ungodly long to get out! Main reason, I had a HUGE fat, case of writer's block for two solid months (I'm serious, I couldn't write a damn thing! >X); then when I finally got over my WB, I discover I really don't want to write this chapter! Sorry, it's a little boring, but necessary! I'm not the kind of person whose going to take shortcuts and say, "And everyone discovered the truth about Jen's past", then skip on to the next part of the story! That's just being lazy!

Ter: *rolls eyes* She hasn't updated for three months and she complaining about other people being lazy!

*sighs exasperated* Oh, yeah! I haven't updated for so long that, unless I've reviewed for your stuff or you've read my Bio, none of you have met my mate, Terpomo! Well, ta da! Here he is! *gestures to the male Saiyan* Say hello, Ter!

Terpomo: ……..

*looks over to discover he's disappeared* ARGH!!! I swear, I'm going to kill him one of these days! Stupid Saiyan! Anyway, Akumude created him for me; and he's going to be in her big AU fic, which is on my favorite's list, if you want to check it out!

Sorry, Ter and mine's spats are usually funnier than that, but I'm not really much in the mood for humor right now. My horse, Dante, was struck by lightning a week ago and died! I have a poem called, "You Were Everything to Me" posted, if you're interested in reading it! Anyway, now that I have everyone massively depressed, go read the next chapter! And PLEASE REVIEW!!! (They cheer me up! ^_^)

Oh and Jen's saiyan name is pronounced the way its spelled. The "T" isn't silent! (Sorry to confuse you moonsaiyanprincess!) If you're wondering how I came up with it; I just reversed the word Outcast and changed the 'c' to 'k' and the 'o' to an 'a', to give it a more feminine sound. *shrugs* Since the Outcasts weren't considered normal Saiyans, I gave them fruit names, instead of vegetables! ^_^ For the life of me, I can't remember where I got Kobacha though! I did decide to not name Jen after a fruit (No homosexual cracks!), because she would have been rejected by the Outcasts too, if she was on Vegeta-sei. So she has her own unique name! Yay! *coughs* Anyway, go read to chapter!

Chapter 14

Gold tipped boots touched down softly on the ceramic tiles of the floating platform, and piercing, deep onyx eyes glared around the tranquil, dawn kissed palace in a swift search. All was still, the only movement brought from the small, white butterflies fluttering about; the only sound from a gentle breeze whistling over the Lookout's edge. The visitor's perpetual scowl deepened and with a throaty growl, he started toward the palace, in search of the Earth's guardian.

Kami frowned harder as he felt Vegeta's ki finally arrive. Calmly he turned his wrinkled head, focusing his intense stare on the sealed wooden door next to him. 'Come on, you two! You're running out of time, in more ways than one!' the ancient Namek mentally urged the two oblivious inhabitants of the room. The Earth's Gaurdian glanced once more down the pillared veranda in the direction which the Saiyan Prince was approaching. Then suddenly a loud, creaking came to his great, pointed ears and Kami breathed a sigh of relief and turned towards the Room of Spirit and Time, whose door was beginning to open.

Brilliant, white light blazed though the opening and from the haze, a nearly full-grown female Saiyan slowly emerged. Her clothes were tattered and full of rips; some almost revealing too much of the toned muscles underneath. Her long prehensile tail was wrapped protectively about her slender waist and her long, spiky, black hair was tied back in a ponytail, while cobalt eyes peered out from beneath identical bangs.

Then from behind her, appeared her mate. The young male hybrid had too grown and matured considerably. He now stood almost tree inches taller than he had, in Kami's mind, twenty-four hours ago. His features had hardened and now resembled his sire's more than ever. And despite the tortured, baggy clothes concealing him, there was no doubt of the existence of the bulging, steel-hard muscles underneath. Crystal blue eyes instinctively (and accustomedly) made a quick scan of the area, searching for any possible foes that might try an unexpected attack on him or his mate. His now longer, lavender hair was drawn back as well, only his was at the base of his neck. Many loose strands framed his face, two determinedly dangled haphazardly in his eyes. (In other words, he looks like he did in the show! ^_^; Only, I guess a year younger!)

Kami stood as calmly as always, but his grip on his staff was tight. A warm smile spread across Jen's face as she stopped in front of the Guardian of Earth; Trunks swinging the door shut behind her. "Well, it certainly appears the training has greatly paid off, eh, young one?" the old Namek, greeted warmly.

"Yeah, it has! But I can see why no one else has been able to remain for the full year in there!" Jen confirmed.

"And your mate has been benefited as well, I see," Kami observed.

Trunks grinned self-consciously, coming to stand beside and a little behind Jen. "Hai, hopefully it will be enough to destroy those tin cans!" the lavender haired Saiyan hybrid hesitated for a second; realizing what Kami had just said. "How do you know that we are mates now?"

"Easy, brat!" Startled, everyone turned towards the familiar voice, finding Vegeta leaning casually against a pillar with his arms crossed. "First of all," the Prince continued, ignoring their bewildered looks. Kami for having nearly forgotten that Vegeta was approaching, Jen and Trunks for not detecting his presence. "The Namek is the God of this damn planet, so unfortunately he sees and knows all. Second, that was the Saiyan Mating Hunt you two both tore off on the night before last." The Saiyan Prince studied the pair for a second, before continuing. "And a new Saiyan couple only mate for the first time when one (usually the male) goes into heat. You are old enough now that you should have just recently experienced your first musk. Am I right?" He grinned as his only answer was a fierce blush spreading across the couple's cheeks.

"So unless, you have unbelievable self-control," Vegeta continued with a snort. "You definitely mated with the female brat; whether she was willing or not!"

Trunks blanched in horror at the thought of doing such a thing. Unconsciously his tail revealed itself from it's hiding place under his coat; it's length securely wrapping around Jen's abdomen, overlapping her own. "I would never do anything like that!" he admonished, horrified.

Vegeta calmly raised an eyebrow. "Normally, no! But a male has no control when he goes into musk, especially for the first time. And that tail of yours is proof that you did go through it, because an adult Saiyan can only regenerate its tail while its in heat."

Jen looked down at the twin tails embracing her slim waist. "Does that mean that I'm pregnant then?" she asked quietly, unable to keep the fear and worry from her voice as she looked back up at her sensei. She could feel Trunks tense behind her.

Vegeta shook his head. "No, a female can only be pregnant when she's in heat, which is usually when the male is. Females however don't go into heat for the first time until they are a little bit older. Probably next year for you," he said as calmly as though he was talking about the weather. Jen and Trunks couldn't help the sigh of relief they simultaneously released. Vegeta snorted once more. "Also those bite marks only half hidden on your necks were a good hint too."

Jen blinked and hesitantly raised her fingers to lay across the circular scar at the junction where her neck and shoulder met. She felt a wave of reassurance and love wash over her through the bond that she shared with Trunks. Recovered from her disappointed shock that Vegeta had discovered the Room of Spirit and Time, Jen dropped her hand and looked hard at her mentor and favorite DBZ character (aside from her mate, Trunks that is!). "So what are you doing here, Vegeta?" she asked a little more irritably than she meant to sound.

Vegeta scowled harshly, then reached into his armor vest, pulling out a familiar gold-chained necklace. Jen gasped, recognizing the only object she had from before her original adoption. "I found this on your dresser, brat. And when I couldn't locate your ki, I knew Kami was the only way to find you immediately. Plus he is probably the only one with some damn answers anyway!" The small, ornery Saiyan turned to the always stoic, anciently wrinkled Guardian of the Earth. "Well, how about it, Namek?! Why does a default Saiyan girl from another dimension, who didn't even realize that she's not human, possess the necklace given to the future Queen of the Saiyans?!" Vegeta snarled angrily in question. Jen and Trunks looked at him, then Kami in shock.

Kami closed his eyes and sighed, before reopening them to look calmly at each of his three visitors. "You already know the basic anwer to that, Saiyan prince," he began, focusing back on Vegeta. "Your memory showed you the truth. Your father arranged for his most powerful Royal Guard, who was not Nappa, Daikon, to find a suitable mate and breed a mate for you."

"Wait a minute!" Jen interjected. "You're saying that I was specifically bred on purpose?"

"Only to be my father's mate?" Mirai Trunks snarled, instinctively furious at the thought that his mate could have been someone else's. He tightened his tail, pulling his female Saiyan back into his arms; glaring a hateful warning at his father. At the moment, Trunks no longer saw him as the royal father, whom he had for his entire life idolized and longed to share a paternal bond with. No instead all the seemingly, threatened hybrid could see was a rival Saiyan male who wished to take his mate away from him! A furious growl rumbled up from deep in this throat. Jen turned her head and looked up at him in shock.

Vegeta too seemed mildly surprised to hear such a sound coming form his usually overly polite and docile, future son. He blinked, then returned the growl. "I am not going to steal your mate, brat, so calm down! I already have a harpy to deal with! The last thing I need is one that actually has a power level!" he growled warningly; understanding what Trunks was going through. Several moments passed before the stressed hybrid finally relaxed a bit again; but he still held Jen close and continued to glare at his father.

Jen blinked up at her possessive mate, then turned back to the patient Kami. "You were saying…" she prompted. Kami turned back to the youngest Saiyan of the group.

"Yes, you were bred for the sole purpose of being the future mate of young Prince Vegeta and enabling him to carry on the royal blood line. You would have been Queen of Vegeta-sei. However, your father, Daikon, fell in love with the princess of the Outcast Saiyans, Kobacha. The Outcasts were Saiyans born or acquired faults that set them apart from the rest 'normal' Saiyans. They were either banished to the wilderness of Vegeta-sei or they willing left to escape persecution. Anyway, when King Vegeta discovered that the purity of the royal bloodline was being threatened, he was furious and your parents were imprisoned and put on trial. Kobacha received a blast to her side, which if treated immediately would not have been fatal, however she was promptly sent to the farthest corner of the galaxy, where she would finally give birth to you and very soon after die. Daikon, your father, had his tail ripped out and was left to die of bond withdraw in the palace prisons. He finally died a few months before Planet Vegeta was destroyed."

Trunks tightened his embrace around Jen as he felt her begin to tremble. Sorrow, guilt, pain, regret, and the beginnings of rage came flooding to him through their bond.

"But how did she wind up in an alternate universe?!" Vegeta demanded, reminding the small group of the remaining mystery to Jen's past. He seemed unaffected by the story of his betrothed mate's parents, but who would expect anything else from the proud Saiyan Prince, who had been enslaved under Frieza's perverse brutality since he was five. Besides he apparently already knew the story. Jen looked up at Kami expectantly, feeling the tears welling up in the back of her eyes. The ancient Guardian continued with a sigh.

"Well, since this did not occur in this dimension, I can only make an educated guess at what occurred; but it would seem that, lightning can transport a person from this dimension and Jen's "Real World" dimension and vice versa. (A/N: Blood will be spilt, if someone reviews saying that my horse is in the DBZ dimension now! >C ) During her flight, Kobacha's ship flew straight into an electrical storm, rather like Goku did on his way to Planet Namek. Her ship received a direct hit and the concussion would've knocked Kobacha unconscious if she wasn't already in hibernation. (A/N: Hibernation doesn't stop fetus development!) And the ship was transported to the dimension where you were born, little princess," Kami addressed the distressed girl. "Then obviously humans discovered and adopted you."

No one spoke as Kami concluded his tale. After several long moments, Jen looked up and asked an obvious, but still unexpected question to Earth's aged guardian. "Do I have a Saiyan name, then?"

Kami smiled at the barely full grown young woman. "Hai, Tsaktua. Your parents named you while they were imprisoned together."

"Hmph! Tsaktua; One Not to be Denied," Vegeta mumbled, a peculiar scowl engraved on his features.

Jen was beginning to feel trapped and light headed. This was all too much for her! She didn't want to stay here any longer! She needed time to think; or better yet not to think! The Saiyan female turned her head and looked up at her mate. "Come on! There is more important things to worry about in the future! So let's go!"

Trunks looked down at her startled; then feeling her tirade of emotions through their bond, he smiled reassuringly at first, then it swiftly transformed into an erringly familiar, vicious smirk. "Hai! It's payback time!"

To Be Continued….

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A/N: My apologies if there is too much OOCness! I try to keep these guys in character, but as most of you know its not always easy! If Jen is taking the news about her parents too coldly, its because she's like me; pretends to be unaffected by something terrible on the outside and distracts herself by throwing herself into her work, when she's depressed! Anyway, PLEASE REVIEW!!! (I need something to cheer me up! Sorry, if I'm making all of you sad!) The next chapter will definitely be out soon! Hopefully by next weekend or the next! It will definitely not take anywhere near as long as this chapter did!

Well, its 2 am and I start my new job in 10 hours as a movie theatre concession stand worker! YAY! *rolls eyes* Of course, I get to start with the premier of Scooby Doo! *shrugs* Oh well! At least I get to watch movies for free now! ^_^