Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Saiyan Pride ❯ Hope ( Chapter 14 )

The Mysteries of Love:

Saiyan Pride

Chapter Fourteen

Hope

VEGETA made his way toward King Cold who was shaking with fear. Vegeta smirked as the Ice King looked like a snivelling little girl.

But Vegeta would not end Cold's misery so easily! This time he would extract his revenge.

In the dusty lands Vegeta was watched by the other four Saiyans and his advisor. Goku had taken Bulma's lifeless body and was carrying her in his arms. None of Vegeta's audiuenve dared to speak a word.

Wheter from awe or fear at his present state, he didn't care. All he cared about was his blood thirsty need for revenge.

King Cold was backed up against a crumbling metal workstation. Vegeta cuaght his reflection from the dusty metal.

He could not believe, at first, that that was himself staring back at him. Every strand of hair blonde and the aura of his energy no more electric blue but richly golden. He was this was because of his mate. His mate, who had sent into the next dimension before her time.

Vegeta did not even have to speak to King Cold. The haterd in his now turqoise eyes and the straight line that was his motuh, conveyed his deathly intentions to the terrifed Ice King.

"Vegeta. Please, I did not mean for her to die." The man lied too terrified beyond saving himself to realize how unbelevable he sounded. 'How pituful!'

Vegeta lifted the sword with both his hand into the air, above his head. The parts of the silver blade that was not tainted with Bulma's blood glittered dangerously in the Ice Kings red ayes.

But he, just like Vegeta, knew that he was powerless to save himself.

Vegeta smirked before he sank the long and sharp sword into the Ice Kings stomach, just had Bulma had been killed.

Then Vegeta bent onto his knees, kneling before his large enemy as the man spat out pools of blood.

Using his bare hands Vegeta dipped into his powerful energy and started to pound the Ice King with his clenched fist. Although Vegeta did knot use his entire power for fear that one strike may just end the bastards life. Something that was not yet time to happen. He wanted him to suffer.

As King Cold's head was thrust powerfully from side to side his face became covered in so much blood you could not even see the withe of his eyes.

"Finish me now." The Ice King cried for mercy, but Vegeta showed him none.

Vegeta grabbed the two large horns that sat on King Cold's head. He had heard a long time ago that the horns were rumored to be a painful weakness if pulled out, like a Saiyans tail. 'We will just have to see if that's true, now won't we.' Vegeta smiked as he pulled at the horns while his body fired flames of pwere.

Vegeta placed his legs on the stomach of King Cold, making sure his boots stamped the wounded flesh around the sword as he pulled the horns fiercly.

King Cold's screams of pain were raised to a defening pitch and Vegeta reveled in that pain. With one last mighty pull, Vegeta held the two bronze horns in his hands.

The Ice King was finally knocking at deaths door. However, Vegeta did not feel even an inch of his rage and pain subside and it was then that he realized no matter what he did or how long he waited, his pain at loosing his mate would never abate, not even a fraction of it! That was the power of their now broken bond.

Vegeta mercilessly pulled out the sowrd from King Cold as the man groaned in painful agony. Raising the sword Vegeta sliced at the Ice King in such quick movements that the series of slices in diagnol directions could only be seen by the glinting of the blade.

Shredded into countless pieces, Vegeta lifted his bloody hands to obliterate every last cell of the man who had taken his mate from him.

But with nothing else left to do, Vegeta sank to his knees. For the first time in his existance, feeling emotionally drained.

"Dad!" Trunks yelled as he ran over to his father. Too weak to protest Vegeta let his son wrapp his hands tightly around his wait and cry as he just sat their, emotionless. Goku, Gohan, Goten and Zoron surrounded the father and son in silence. Their heads downcast.

"I can't loose you too! You're all I have left." At his son's pleas Vegeta wrpaped his hands around the boy, though only for a second before he regained his self control.

"Dry your tears boy, you are a warrior. And you are not going to loose me." The last words, to anyone else, would have sounded like an after thought but only two people in the univers would have been able to read the true promise in it. And one of them was dead. The other nodded his head before bravely lifting his hands to roughly wipe away the signs of his weakness.

Vegeta stood up and looked at his mate. He could not bare to take her from Kakarots arms for the pain of loosing his sanity. Though he knew if he didn't he would regret it for the rest of his miserable life.

As Vegeta took Bulma's lifelss body he almost held his breath for her to open those sparkling blue eyes and gaze at him like she did when he would awaken her in the middle of the night to sate his arousal. He almost expected her to open her mouth and if not to seduce him with her melodious voice then to shriek at him for something he did not even know he did.

But she continued to remain lifeless in his arms and he had no choice but to exhale as he blew a long tenfril of silky hair away from her face. A small smile graced his lips invoulontarily. She had left her hair to grow aver since she had returned to Planet Vegeta and now he would never see it in flowing waves again. The pain he felt was beyond him, for he had never felt anything like it in his entire life. A man who killed mercvilessy was now drowning in the deepest depths of pain. But he knew he had to survive for he had a son to take care of. Their son and he would not let his mate down. Even in death he would try to please her.

"I really wish Aunt Bulma did not have to leav us." Goten said soflty.

"That's it!" Trunks screamed in triumph. "We can wish mom back." All eyes turned to him in utter disbeleif. "The Eterenal Dragon on the Planet Namek will grant us this wish." Trunks said jumping up and down on the spot. But when no one else joined in his excitement he looked determinedly at Zoron. "Tell them Zoron, you tell them."

Now all eyes turned to Zoron. A part of Vegeta looked at his advisor with hope that by some miracle his mate could return but the realisticly cynical part if him looked at Zoron as if to say 'explain to my son that wish grabting dragons did not exist'.

Zoron looked at Trunks reufully. "Master Trunks you know very well that the Dragon Balls have been said to be a myth."

Trunks placed his hands on his hips and lifted his defiant chin, just as his mother would do. "Well Planet Namek and its people were also said to be a myth too, remember Zoron, but our sattelite proved otherwise." The half Saiyan said determinedly.

"Yes, yes you're right." Zoron acknowledged. "Trunks was taken with the myth of the Eternal Dragon and Planet Namek so we put up some satelites to see if the planet exisited." Zoron explained at the raised eyebrow Vegeta gave him.

"Its not a myht." Trunks said fiercly. "I'm going to Planet Namek and I will find those Dragon Balls. I won't just accept the death of my mother that easily. I have to try, I won't loose hope!" Trunks spoke passionatley.

"Then I'm going too!" It was Goku who said the words that made everyone look at him as if he were crazy, except Trunks of course. But that was ok, Goku was used to that look by now. "Look, if its one thing I know, my sister never looses hope. Even when there isn't any, she finds it. And her son definetly has that same characteristic. So if there is someway to bring back a mother and a mate, then I'm willing to try!" He looked straight into Vegeta's eyes, idnetical pairs of black clashing with black.

But Vegeta only walked past them in utter difference. He was not going to have hope on a darn Dragon that was most probably a myth. Even his mate would not believe it.

And only to himself he admitted he was taking the cowards way out! He could not bear the thought of loosing her again. Because that's what would happen if, he allowed himself to believe and there was no Dragon to wish her back to life!

As an after thought he stopped before the others, but did not turn around to face them, for fear they may be able to read his rioting emotions as he was not as masked as he usually was thanks to the ordeal of today. "You foolish Earthlings may do as you wish, but my son is staying tight here. And that is final." Vegeta growled sternly as his son made to protest and flew back to the Castle.

Goku placed a restaining hand on Trunks' sholuder as the little boy made to take of after his father.

"Let me go." Trunks shrugged his shoulder but could not shake of Goku's hand.

"Listen to me Trunks. You're father has been through a lot, just like you. But he is a man who finds it hard to believ these things. Now we all deal with the loss of a loved one in different ways, so I want you to give him time ok." Goku spoke sternly but lovingly as he looked at the blue eys of Trunks that was so much like Bulma's.

Trunks nodded. "Now, Gohan, Goten and I will go to this Planet Namkek, if Zoron will help us." Goku looked over at the elderly man who simply nodded his head.

He too agreed with the Saiyan, if there was anyway that Bulma could be brought back to life, then he would do whatever was in his power to ensure that happened.

"Good." Goku said. "Now, you are to stay here and take care of your father."

"But Uncle Goku!" Trunks complained.

"It was what your mom would have wanted." Goku said and again Trunks nodded.

"Don't worry Trunks, we'll get that Dragon." Goten said determinedly and Trunks smiled.

"Yeah." Gohan agreed. "And you can still keep up with us on the ships monitor. Like you said, don't loose hope right."

"Right." Goku and Goten said. And as if following a hopeful chant Zoron said the same and Trunks finally joined in.