Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Queen's Gambit ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

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The Queen's Gambit

By: Vegeta's Mate

Warnings: A big change from what has been written thus far...

Disclaimer: I own neither the characters nor the idea of DBZ, I am not affiliated with Toei, Funnimation, Akira Toriyama or any other licensed company who owns likenesses of DBZ. I do however own this fic. This fic is not intended for monetary gain but for the love and adoration that my willing slaves....er fans lavish upon me.

Onward and um...downward!

Chapter 8

Like a shadow, he crept through the halls of the empty palace. He was not after gain...well at least not jewels and trinkets. His intentions were secret to all but he and his master, none of the combatants on either side knew he had deigned to make planet fall.

All of the un-willing warriors his master had collected knew he was a being of select tastes; they knew that if he saw something that appealed to him, however remote that appeal was, he would do nothing short of going against his master to get it.

Now was his chance to steal the one thing his master had allowed him to take under the condition that 'it' was shared when his lord asked it of him.

The halls were easy to traverse, laughably so. The layout simple in it's own winding way.

His master had obtained the blueprints of this specific palace for reasons that were unknown at the time, his master had shown no real interest in the simian race that infested this hole-in-the-wall planet. That is until he had seen her.

The queen that would never be his.

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"Sasha, could you bring Rhiannon to me dear?" Bulma called out across the room from her position on the small couch where she sewed a new dressing gown for her rapidly growing offspring.

The quiet girl had opened up in the last few weeks since the invaders had come, she spoke to Bulma and the child more frequently yet still quietly. "Here she comes, my lady. Dressed in nothing but her nappy's, as requested."

Bulma's smile lit her face, her eyes had lost their sad gleam and she could see the lad Dorino from time to time without breaking down in to hysterical fits. What he had done was wrong but Bulma had stretched forth the hand of friendship to him and saved his life a second time. He was not allowed to visit her alone but he was allowed to visit.

Her new guard, Kakarott, had finally arrived and was now spelling his brother on the battlefield. Almost as soon as she had met the slightly goofy guard she had liked him, his banter was easy and friendly without being forceful and he loved little Rhiannon almost as much as her own father had.

The once round baby was slimming down now that she had mastered pulling herself up on any surface that was low enough for her to reach. Her small tuft of blue hair had darkened slightly, instead of being the same light blue of her mother it was a darker blue now and showed signs of turning nearly black as she grew.

"Come here to Mama, darling. I have a new dress for you, princess." Bulma coo-ed at the sweet faced baby as Sasha passed her over. "It looks like it will fit you for a little while and is much shorter so that you can crawl around and get in to mischief!"

Bulma sat the baby on her lap and pulled the dress over Rhiannon's head. "There! Oh my, Sasha doesn't she just look adorable!"

Sasha grinned as she took in the child's new clothes. The pale pink of the fabric emphasized the rosy glow of her cheeks and the not quite knee length skirt was just long enough to cover the nappy but short enough to allow the child to crawl, while the fabric was one that would be sturdy under a one year old's mischievous fingers yet soft enough to keep from rubbing the babe raw. "She looks absolutely wonderful, my lady. You did a fine job with the stitches, they are hardly visible."

A knock sounded at the door, "Sasha could you get that dear, I want to put Rhiannon down for her nap."

Bulma walked to the baby's room and lay her in her crib, "Goodnight, my little princess. All will be well when you awake, no evil can enter here. As I say it will be as I repeat this one times three. All will be well when you awake, no evil can enter here. As I say it will be for two times three. All will be well when you awake, no evil can enter here. As I say it will be as I finish this three times three. Sleep well, Mama's angel." With a kiss she left the child to sleep with a ward of protection over her child's room.

As she closed the door she felt something tap her shoulder, when she turned she was greeted by the face of a man she had never seen before.

"Just as I remembered you, my lady."

Bulma's world went black.

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Kakarott walked down the halls at a leisurely pace, his joints and muscles protested anything more after the battles he had fought this day. It would be good to see Bulma again and have her rub his shoulders with that heavenly lotion she had made just for him and Radditz.

He was glad that she was here, it gave him a reason to come home and be with his family.

Bulma was a sweet woman, granted she was far easier to listen to than his own mate, Geisha, who had a wicked tongue when not kept in check. His daughter, Sasha played nurse maid to the small princess and was treated far better than she had been when she had worked in the birthing room.

It also seemed as if Radditz had moved up to personal guard where he was once just a sparring partner for the prince. It seemed that his life would be cream from here on out as soon as the troops fended off the invaders.

As he turned to walk up the hall towards Bulma's rooms he heard a cheer break out on the battlefield and he rushed back the way he came.

Grabbing one of the rejoicing troops up from the sea of bodies of men trailing in from the battle grounds he found out the reason for the jubilation; the invaders had retreated and a celebration was being held for the conquering hero's in the main ballroom.

Joy flooded Kakarott's mind until the warrior spoke again. "They just pulled back and took off! We sure scared the HFIL outta them! You should have seen it! They all just tapped the eye-pieces they were wearing and left!"

Kakarott tore down the halls in an effort to find his prince, but he was too late.

A massive energy ball lit the darkening sky and the Saiyan home world was no more.

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A/N: How is that for an update!? Hells yeah! lol Hope you guys enjoyed this NEW CHAPTER! Let me know what ya think!

Love ya!

V.M.