Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Rebirth of Family ❯ Secrets ( Chapter 10 )

Several days had passes and Goku still hadn't shown up. Bulma was beginning to worry about her old friend. Vegeta was simply mad at him because he had been forced to train the new recruits himself; a job which he now felt was below him.

 

“Vegeta, maybe we should start looking for Goku. It's not like him to simply disappear like that.”

 

“Woman, I'm sure he's just over-indulging himself in the kitchen. Leiko did give him access to do so.” Vegeta was tired of this conversation. Bulma had brought it up every day since the festival.

 

“Well, I'm going to look for him myself then.” And with that, Bulma stormed off.

 

“Crazy Woman.” Vegeta sighed and went to take care of his royal duties.

 

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“Wow, look at these tapestries. They're exquisite!” Bulma had stumbled into a rarely used hallway in her search for Goku. She lifted one of the tapestries to examine the other side. To her surprise. She found a switch. She gingerly walked up to it and, against her better judgment, she pushed it. She jumped as all the tapestries in the room rose. Behind one of them was a passage way.

 

“Maybe Goku got lost in there. I guess it's worth a look.” Bulma grabbed a torch off the wall and proceeded down the passage.

 

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“Leiko, put the next step into action.” A dark figure was seated on a throne in an equally dark room. “We have one of the saiyans in our custody already, we need the other one.”

 

“Yes, my Lord. What about the Halflings?”

 

“They are of no use to me. Do what you please with them. I need Vegeta.” His eyes glowed red and all the torches along the wall flared.

 

“Yes Lord Zennion. You shall not be disappointed.” Leiko stood, bowed, and backed out of the room.

 

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Bulma continued walking the long, narrow hall.

 

“This hall seems to go on forever. Wait! What's that sound?” A loud rumbling could be heard in the near distance. Bulma began running towards the source of the sound. After a couple of minutes, she found herself in what appeared to be a dungeon.

 

“Oh my God. Why would this palace have a dungeon?” All of a sudden, she heard the loud rumbling again. She walked over to the cell it appeared to be coming from. She slowly lifted her torch and was shocked by what she found.

 

“Goku! Oh my God! What happened to you? Goku…Goku… wake up! How did you get here?” Bulma tried as hard as she could to wake Goku, but to no avail.

 

“Why won't you wake up Goku? What did they do to you?” It was at this moment that she noticed the large amulet around Goku's neck. It was glowing. She reached in as far as she could and dragged Goku up to the bars. She reached around his neck and removed the amulet. As soon as she lifted it off of Goku's neck, he began to stir.

 

“Goku, Goku! Speak to me! What happened?”

 

Goku sleepily opened his eyes. “Bulma? What are you doing here?” He slowly began to realize where he was. “How did I get in here? What happened?”

 

“I don't know Goku. I stumbled across this room and I found you here, asleep. Once I took this amulet off of you, you woke up.” Bulma passed Goku the amulet through the bars.

 

“You found this on me? Wait, these two guards came up to me and said that Leiko wanted me to wear it. Why would Leiko want me to be asleep?” Goku was having a hard time putting things together.

 

“Leiko wanted you to wear it? What happened the night of the festival? Goku? What did you do?” Bulma asked frantically.

 

“What did I do…what did I do? Oh yeah! I overheard Leiko say that…” Goku's expression turned to one of panic. “Bulma we have to find Vegeta! Move out of the way.” Goku powered up, grabbed two of the bars and ripped them right out of the ground. He proceeded to walk back towards Bulma. “Something bad is going to happen to Vegeta…and Leiko is behind it!”