Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ TOSOV (BOOK 2) ❯ ULTIMATE POWER ( Chapter 18 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: sunrissa 
Vegeta discovers a power level that belonged to the highly emotional and ultra- sensitive females of Vegeta- sei.
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / / Hentai / Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.21.2002 | Updated On: 05.15.2003 | Pages: 4 | Words: 8.1K | Visits: 412 | Status: Completed
Vegeta discovers a power level that belonged to the highly emotional and ultra- sensitive females of Vegeta- sei.
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / / Hentai / Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.21.2002 | Updated On: 05.15.2003 | Pages: 4 | Words: 8.1K | Visits: 412 | Status: Completed
CHAPTER XX
ULTIMATE POWER
Kayla dominated the battle and for a second time since getting out of the healing tanks, the princess sent Lissa into the ground. Lissa tried to get up but Kayla stood above her with hand extended like her big brother's so often was. Kayla licked her lips and hissed, "Prepare to eat chi!" and with that, she let fly a chi blast from her palm, which headed straight to the astonished young female. However, the blast never hit its target, but had been effectively blocked.
When the dust that had been picked up by the blast had settled, a mixture of gasps and growls emitted from the gathered crowd of Saiya-jin. There in front of the shaking female stood young Captain Chokarti with his arms crossed to protect her from the blast. Then he turned to the girl and took her in his arms to comfort her.
"It's all right my lady, Chokarti's here and I won't let a soul do harm to you again," the captain said and kissed Lissa.
Lissa sobered and pushed the warrior away. "What do you think you're doing, soldier? How dare you touch me in such a forward manner!" she snapped and raised her hand to blast her rescuer.
"Parlissa Saturna, power down!" it was the prince's voice that boomed like thunder during a summer storm. "Face me, woman!" he ordered and she did so. "You have disgraced our race by rejecting the no Ouji, but that matters little. Treating my family, my friends and me as if we were common trash under your feet is inexcusable! Be grateful the captain was willing to save you because I was about to declare you branded," at that statement every Saiya-jin gathered, with a few exceptions, drew sharp breaths.
"Vegeta, you wouldn't? Surely, self-defense is no reason-"
"Self- defense! What she did was not self-defense but the act of a challenged female. Allow me to make one thing clear to you, Miss Saturna, I am the no Ouji of this race. I am the heir apparent king! If I desire to choose a new mate, it is my right! You rejected me because of a small blemish that allows me to accept both genders of our race. You have no open males in your family so you can't know how to relate to one. You don't want me, Parlissa, and frankly, I never really wanted you. Oh, I had to put forth the show because for me to show interest in a commoner would have been her death! I couldn't allow that. I was a child when I chose you and after I had found out that Frieza had obliterated my entire race, I let myself fall in love with you, even though my heart had been claimed long ago by what our class would term as trash. I've since learned that what we regarded as trash was a hidden treasure. I've met two such treasures and they both belong to me. Any challenge against them will bare vicious results. Now, if we've done with our amusement, we have a battle to prepare for and we need to focus. After today there will be very little physical pursuit of pleasure, by that I mean mating. I expect everyone, the X-team, Tsuria-jin, Rockaria-jin and fellow Z warriors, to be meditating, training and sparring. Commence!" Vegeta ordered and, placing an arm around Ceraina's waist began to walk off.
Suddenly, Ceraina went flying and Vegeta looked to see an enraged Parlissa Saturna pummeling his love with punches and chi blasts. Then Lissa took Ceraina by the hair, dragged the princess into the air, swung her forward and began beating her all over again. This time when he saw his mother getting beat up, baby Endive wasted no time in going after her. He was followed by his big sister. Sensing that she was being followed, Lissa took one hand from Ceraina, powered a chi blast and hurled it at the children.
The kids froze in petrified horror in mid-air. They could only watch as the ball of the blast impacted Endive and sent him crashing into his sister. Both children found themselves barreling towards the ground at a frightening rate then their little bodies impacted the Earth with the force of six simultaneous volcanic eruptions. Their mother soon impacted beside them
The prince had been pulverized with mind numbing fear, petrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. Multiple emotions battled for dominance of his being and Goku sensed that Vegeta needed to explode. Thus he approached his prince, his passion with trepidation; however, Trunks cut his path short.
"Kakarrot, I'll take care of momma and the chimps, you take care of 'Tousan," the young man could barely get the words passed his tightened throat. Goku followed the young prince as he approached his Outusan and Trunks put and arm around the elder prince's shoulders. Goku grabbed hold of the elder prince and teleported the two of them to the same large desolate planet they had retreated to when the group had landed on Namek after the other Saiya-jin had blamed the prince for not knowing what type of life forms inhabited Espion-5.
"Okay, my prince, let it go. Don't sit on it," Goku urged and the prince let out a mighty scream.
All the anger, sorrow and hurt over what had just transpired surfaced in one cataclysmic explosion that tore the planted in two but did not completely destroy it. The prince was more enraged that he had been too horrified to react and protect his family or catch them as they had been thrown to Earth in heaps
"Why, Kakarrot, why? My mate, my chimps! Oh, God, my chimps and I just stood there like a friggin statue and watched it happen! I can't believe she did that to me. I knew she was a dirty fighter but... She didn't even let Rainami have a chance to fight back!" Vegeta's throat closed up from the intense sorrow and he had difficulty in breathing.
Then the prince screamed and released a power so great that Vegeta reached the most recent SSJ level he and Kakarrot had discovered a few nights ago. Without a source of light, the prince transformed into a were-gorilla, not a were-ape and he was still in SSJ form. He began to rampage over the planet and Goku wisely got the hell outta Dodge before he found himself on the next morning's breakfast menu.
Goku had worn a timepiece but he didn't need it to know what time it was as his stomach told him that it had been a long time since he had put something inside of it. He wanted to go find a food source but he didn't want to leave the still rampaging Vegeta gorilla, either. He had to get the prince to return to his mortal state but how? Maybe King Kai would know. He was well connected in the after life universe.
'King Kai, can you hear me?' Goku asked through telepathy. 'Its Goku, sir.'
'Oh, hi, trouble, long time no hear from. To what do I owe the pleasure,' King Kai asked in the same manner.
At that instance, Goku materialized in front of the blue dog like being. "King Kai, I need your help. Vegeta's gone crazy! He's transformed into some kind of ware-gorilla, not the ape we usually change into if we see a light source like a moon," Goku explained.
King Kai's mouth dropped open in shock and he trembled. "Oh, my! Now, what caused that, I wonder?" the Kai asked.
"A girl Vegeta had chosen for his lifemate trashed another girl he had also chosen but he had released the first girl. Oh, the first girl trashed his kids, as well," Goku explained further then his stomach sounded off. "Heh, heh, King Kai, you wouldn't have..."
"I'll tell the maid to fix something, while I ask Kami Geta how to bring a Saiyan out of the highest most powerful form of your being," King Kai mused.
"Thanks, King Kai, you're the best! Vegeta means a lot to me and I'd hate to see anything happen to him," Goku sighed.
A half-hour later, Goku sat and devoured a meal that could have fed ten medium sized planets and King Kai communicated with the late guardian for the Planet Vegeta. He had told the guardian about the situation.
"King Kai, if you don't know how to get him back to normal then ask the Grand Kai," the former Kami replied.
King Kai then asked the same question of the Grand Kai on whose planet he stayed.
"I thought the tail had a lot to do with it. When I first met Goku, he didn't have one. Does Vegeta have a tail?" the Grand Kai asked and Goku replied that every Saiyan on Earth had their tails or had re-grown them such as Goku and his prince had done.
"Son of, Bardock does Prince Vegeta have an abnormal opening in a private part of his body that never closed?" it was the late guardian of Planet Vegeta who had asked.
"You mean the pleasure zone? Yeah, both our sons, he and myself, why?" Goku asked as he chewed on a whole chicken.
"That explains why he's transformed into the gorilla and gone passed the standard ape stage. The last Saiya-jin to make that form could neither sustain nor survive the transformation in general." At that piece of information Goku whimpered as if his tail had been pulled. "But, child, they had been closed males. I know of instances where the female gender had no negative recourses during the transformation. I think it's linked to how sensitive and emotional those being are. That stage is very rare and very powerful. For a male Saiyan to sustain it, he must suffer a deep hurt that he's buried so deeply, he can't bare to face it."
"Vegeta's become very emotional lately since April last, he had been in the healing tank one day after the other. Had been caught in an explosion and had the roof of a tunnel collapse on top of his head. He hadn't recovered from the first accident before he had the second one. He's nearly the exact opposite of what he once was," Goku related. "Plus, I think he still has pain from his days as Frieza's slave. I mean the Prince of the proudest race ever to exist reduced to a common slave. Beaten, mistreated and molested from the time he'd been taken until he escaped. I come along. A low born Saiyan who's not even worthy to lick the boots he wears much less aspire to be his equal, I attain the Super Saiyan form, which had been his birthright. I avenged the proposed death of our race against Frieza. My son annihilated Cell and I destroyed Majin Buu. My family's surpassed his and through me, I've destroyed his pride," Goku sighed in a heavy tone. "I was also born with a higher power level than he had been, that in itself was an added shame to his perfection."
"Don't be so hard on yourself, son of Bardock. You were destined for all those things, except maybe destroying Vegeta's pride. He did that himself. Oh, the accidents contributed to his change but his mother was given the chance to bond with him unlike most females, especially those of the royal household. Prince Vegeta was very close to his mother, which sent Vegeta Ou into spasms. Vegeta took chances other children would have been killed for. He even fell in love with a girl from the same class as you were. In other words, he's as soft as he was hard. Friendly where he was non-sociable, that sort of thing?" the Kami asked and Goku confirmed every word. "Has he mated with both genders of the children of Saiya?"
Goku had the grace to blush and admitted the fact. "He and I are partners and we've brother bonded. If anything tragic ever happened to him, I don't think..."
"How far has it progressed?" Kami Geta asked.
"Hunt and accept. I'm finding that I want to be with him but then I'm mated to his little sister Kayla," Goku replied in a near whisper. "How can he be restored to his mortal form? The last time I checked time it was midnight back on the Earth and we left at noon."
"Well, the females, once they've spent their energy and anger over whatever made them transform, would revert back to normal, so perhaps it works the same with the open male. Go back to where you left him and see if he's changed," the Kami instructed.
At the completion of his meal, Goku thanked those of the other world, bade them good-bye then left to return to his rampaging prince. However, when he materialized on the planet, a horrifically gorgeous sight met his ebony orbs. Although the planet's desert hard surface had been ripped to shreds, among the destruction, lay the body of Prince Vegeta in a curled ball in the normal splendor of his being. His tail was wrapped about his shoulders. From his vantage spot, Goku could not tell if his prince was still in the physical dimension or not. He slowly descended landed and crept closer to the prince. He breathed a sigh of relief when the sound of shaky purring met his ears.
Vegeta had been lying with his back to Goku, then he rolled over so his face was in view and Goku gasped. Deep pain was etched on the angular planes of that beautiful face. Goku wanted to reach out and smooth away whatever was causing such distress to his monarch.
'Vegeta, no!' Goku thought to himself then placed his hands to lift the prince onto his lap.
Vegeta gasped then screamed but then his eyes met those of his commander's. Goku noted that the transformation had changed him in a lot of ways, the first being the prince's tail. It had been lush, brown and only as thick as a tree limb like any monkey's tail. Now it was thick furred like a fox's tail but it was still black-brown with auburn/gold highlights entwined in the fur. His hair was still waist length-that due to the fact that Goku had begged to trim it the day after they had bonded.
"K-Kakarrot, what happened? Why are we on Pilzara?" Vegeta asked, his body shivering from the coldness of the planet.
"Pilzara?"
"The name I've just given this planet. What happened to me, I'm so cold. I feel like I expended every scrap of energy I had ever had in my being," Vegeta remarked as he crossed his arms to try and warm his upper body.
"C'mon. We'll talk when you recover. Here, it's a small one, but it'll serve until we get back to Earth," Goku placed something in Vegeta's mouth.
"What d'ya do, grow these things outta your own body?" the prince quipped as he bit the senzu bean.
Goku held onto Vegeta and teleported them back to Earth and into Goku's private cottage. Goku lay his prince in the double sized bed, covered him with two heavy blankets then went to gather wood for a fire. After Goku had ignited the fire with a chi blast, he stood by the bed.
"Ya gonna stand there like a sentry or you gonna join me?" the prince's voice was weak and he struggled to hold his eyes open.
"You'd like that, wouldn't you, my prince?" Goku smiled and sat on the bed beside his prince. Placing his hand on Vegeta's back, Goku began to massage that area as he transferred some energy to the weakened royal.
Vegeta tried to raise a hand but found it weighed a ton, despite the ingestion of the senzu bean. "Why are you always rescuing me?" he asked as he felt heat from Goku's hands enter his body.
"You're the prince of my race, we're brother bonded and from what you told me, we defend each other to the last. Other than that, I hope we're friends," Goku responded.
"You know we are. Thanks. What happened to the planet? It looked like an army of transformed Saiya-jin had a party," Vegeta chuckled as he moved to turn over onto his back.
"Not an army. Just one, your highness, you," Goku nodded, smiled and lilted a hand to caress Vegeta's cheek.
"I did that? That planet has no moon, I couldn't have transformed," Vegeta shook his head and nestled his cheek into the caress.
"I couldn't believe it myself. After you were in that state for several hours, I began to worry that you might not return to normal, so I sought help in the other dimension. I asked King Kai about the transformation and he nearly died a second time. He then asked the late guardian of Planet Vegeta who suggested he ask the Grand Kai. Everything came back to the Kami answering. He said that a few closed males had ever reached that state but that they had died not long after the transformation. He said it was a transformation the females of our race generally took on whenever they were deeply hurt or angry. He was gonna suggest I cut this gorgeous tail of yours off but I would never do that." Goku had picked his prince's tail off the floor, stroked it, rubbed his face in it then hugged it.
Vegeta's eyes popped out of his head when his eyes met the sight. "Oh, my God! That can't be mine, can it?" he gasped in shocked surprise. "Male Saiya-jin don't have tails like this and I've only seen this kind of tail on two females; my parents' mothers. No, wait!" the prince thought then his eyes lit up. "Ceraina. Ceraina!" Vegeta had sat up and ran his hand over his new tail.
"Ceraina? You mean..."
"Yes, she's made that level and so has her majesty! I have to ask them when we get back. For Ceraina, it must have been on the planet she bore Endive on. Huh, you said the Kami said that no male had ever survived the transformation? I hope he can explain me, then," Vegeta snickered.
"He did. You're a mated open male. It must be a very rare and powerful transformation. Both the Kami and King Kai trembled when I mentioned that you had made it," Goku remarked.
"Powerful! I'll say it is! I witnessed my mother's mother, Irisanna, in that state on a purge mission she had gone on. It was a huge hunk of rock that Frieza wanted very badly but the locals loved his pretty boys in more ways than one. That sick white horned bastard had to send three teams of Saiya-jin to take care of business. Mommasanna's team had been on the north side of the planet when a local attacked her team, kidnapped and killed my mother's baby sister. Outusan, his elites and myself were on the West Side of the planet and we had destroyed our sector. We went to check on hers and that's when we saw her in a horrific state! She towered over the others, who themselves were in Oozaru form! She alone took care of the rest of that planet. Mommasanna was awesome! I'd never seen such power! I think that incident caused the rift between my father and his mother-in-law. I asked him if I'd ever reach that level and he shot back that it was a female thing. Said that because of how emotional and sensitive the troublesome creatures were, they became the most powerful in the race. However, since females weren't exactly recognized as anything other than breeders on the home planet, it didn't matter how powerful they could get or what levels they reached.
"Anyway, I kept what Outusan said in my head and lamented that it was a shame that the most powerful form of our race belonged to mere females! Do you know what that does to a male's pride? That ate at me as much as your success in attaining SSJ over me. Was I SSJ when it happened?"
Goku thought. "Come to think of it, you were. Yeah and were you powerful! I'd never seen so much power come from one source. You could have supplied half the universe with power! With that transformation, you just reclaimed the title of universe's most powerful. The one you once held before this low-life son of a third-class dog crossed your path. Frieza has nothing on you, now. Nobody does. You can take our enemies out yourself, you don't need me or any of us anymore," Goku lamented as he rose from his seat.
"Where are you going?" Vegeta asked as he threw the covers back and got out of bed. He saw Goku's eyes widen.
"Vegeta! That transformation made you taller but then, I guess you have to be to carry that tail around. Oh, well," Goku sighed. 'What does he need me for, now. I'm not just gonna be around when he wants physical attention. He has Ceraina for that. At his level, he'll be more than impossible to live with,' the commander thought to himself. "Good-bye, Vegeta. I know you'll win against Frieza this time around. You'll finally have both your pride and honor back. The two things which you have accused me of taking away from you." and with that Goku left the cottage.
Vegeta's mouth dropped open. Had Kakarrot just left him like an unsatisfied mate? That was unbelievable! The prince thought to go call the commander back but then why should he lower himself to groveling? The prince of all Saiya-jin never groveled. If he wanted Kakarrot, he knew Instant Transmission so he could easily find him. Shrugging his broad, powerful shoulders, he then padded his way to the wash. He felt stronger but he knew that he was not a full 100%. As he washed, he thought about the events that had led up to the rare and outstanding transformation. He had never been so hurt and enraged as when he just stood and watched his entire family get beaten into the ground. That hussy gave Ceraina no warning just began fighting. Vegeta had wanted to step in but wouldn't until it was absolutely necessary. Well, hadn't it been necessary from the very beginning? Admittedly, and he could find no logical reason as to why he didn't step in to stop it. Maybe because he felt it would have dishonored his mate and honor and pride were two of a Saiya-jin's strong holds and what made the race what it had been in the past before Frieza and would be again under his rule.
Then Vegeta thought about Pilzara, both the planet and the transformation. The highest and most powerful known level of their race had belonged exclusively to the highly emotional and delicately balance female gender, until now. Now, he held the prize and he, not Kakarrot, was the first to attain this particular goal. Along with Ceraina as his queen, they would level the others up and once again rule the cosmos. Ceraina was everything he had ever dreamed of in a female mate. She was so gorgeous that it should have been outlawed, she was brilliant beyond all that was natural, but then what member of the lower classes wasn't? Even Kakarrot had his fair share. Kakarrot, there was another enigma to his life. This time, he hadn't provoked the big lout in any fashion and he left! He was having a hard enough time dealing with the being that he was, now he had to deal with Kakarrot's moodiness? Life was such a complex and came with absolutely no instructions for how to carry on. Not for the open male beings the four of them were. He'd have to go talk things over with his son, again. God, how humiliating, for him to be going to his son with his problems. Then again, Trunks had been going with Goten since the two had entered their in-between stages.
'Well, you can't blame him for being moody, and it's only going to worsen. You know male carriers become more moody and very highly emotional as the time of delivery draws closer,' Vegeta reminded himself that his mate was very possibly with child.
Following his wash, Vegeta dried himself, located and dressed in a set of cranberry colored spandex that accentuated the brownish-red highlights in his hair and tail. Let Kakarrot have his tantrum, he'd be back to fight. But didn't fusion partners have to be of equal strength and size? Now he was more powerful than Kakarrot and the only other being that he could fuse with was his own mate, but he would work out that puzzle later. He had a lady mate and a pair of two and half-year-old (Saiyan aged) chimps to look in on. After he had dressed, he tidied up the cottage, blew out the fire then visualized Ceraina and...
"Vegeta! Oh, God, where did you come from, you scared me, princemi," Ceraina asked the second her eyes had caught sight of her mate, her prince. She had been in the playroom with the chimps.
Instead of giving a reply, Vegeta wrapped his arms and tail around her and took strong passionate possession of her lips. She didn't struggle but surrendered her entire being to him. His lips left her mouth and trailed a path down the side of her face to her neck. He went to give her his mark when...
"Daddy, you're home! We missed you!" a pair of tiny voices peeped and the prince felt his waist encircled and Ceraina pushed away from his being.
Vegeta looked from the chimps to their mother. "Why didn't you tell me that they were still awake?" the prince tried to hide his horror as he lifted the children in each arm for a hug.
"Where were you, poppa? We thought you left us," it was Endive who spoke first.
"Kakarrot took poppa off planet to let him expend some power. Kakarrot told poppa that he became very powerful," Vegeta told his children as he held them.
"Hey, Endive, look at 'Tousan's tail! It's fluffy and thick like momma's tail! I want a tail like that, 'Tousan. Can I have one, please," Cilvi whined as she climbed down to nuzzle Vegeta's fox-like tail.
"I want one, too! No fair if poppa gets you one and not me! I'm his chimp, too, y'know!" Endive argued as he also went to investigate his male parent's new appendage.
"Chimps, behave! Tell 'Tousan good night and go with Sagia to get ready for bed," Ceraina ordered and the little ones promptly jumped to attention and bowed.
"Good-night, poppa. We train tomorrow?" Endive asked and Vegeta nodded then took the boy in a hug.
"I'll train with momma. I love my momma. She's pretty and smart," Cilvi nestled against Ceraina then moved to hug her dad. "G'night, daddy. Will you come tuck us in and sing to us?"
The parents looked at one another. "You sing to her? I sing to Endive. Shall we?" Ceraina smiled at her prince who nodded.
Sagia took the little ones to prepare them for bed and Vegeta told her to call them when the kids were ready. The maid bowed and said that she would. After the chimps were taken away, Vegeta approached his mate.
"Shall I pick up where I left off, mate of mine, or am I to be kept waiting for such a tempting dish?" he drawled in a languid tongue and closed the gap between the two of them an went to reclaim her lips.
Her heart pounded in her chest at his closeness and her arms went about his neck as she reciprocated the kiss. They devoured one another as if tasting one another for the first time, then he began to peel away her clothing but she stopped him.
"Mi amour, calm down. We have a life time," she smiled and his heart turned over as her brown flecked, silver speckled eyes held his and she caressed his face.
Vegeta calmed down-he must have been high from the newest power surge to his being. He'd have to control his ardor and the new power. He nodded, closed his eyes and just hugged his female.
"Thank you, Rainami, you've always known how to calm me down like Kayla," he lifted his head and bent to give her a small peck.
It was at that second Ceraina noticed. "Vegeta, you're so much taller than this morning and your tail is like your mother's and my own," she remarked in a surprised voice and she took hold of her mate's new thicker, fuller tail. "I was told that only very powerful females gained the tail like this! I've never known any male to have acquired it."
Vegeta threw his head back and snickered. "Well, woman, I'm not just any male. I'm Vegeta no Ouji! I'm the most powerful male ever to have emerged from our race! This and you are my prize to rule the universe!" the prince pronounced then a call came over the scouter that the chimps had been put to bed. "Come, my one, let's put our chimps to sleep," and with that, the prince took hold of his female's hand and they headed to the chamber in which Lissa had occupied.
That chamber had been emptied of the former mate's possessions and lay waiting for it's next occupant who entered on the arm of her handsome prince. She was smiling into his black eyes as he sat her by the bed and he sat behind her then he began the notes of the ancient song that wove a magic spell and sent any hearer to slumber within moments of its beginning. Her higher pitched voice joined his.
Sunrissa and Okrion had been passing the room at the time and stopped when they heard the tune. They peeped into the room and were taken aback when they saw and heard their own offspring expressing themselves in such a manner. Their voices in perfect union as their hearts and souls were. Both parents stepped in, took hold of their offspring, then gave their own voices to the song.
The second a dual purring was heard from the location of the bed, the younger parents nodded to their own parents and the four of them left the little ones to their slumber. The parents teleported to the first floor sitting room where a human servant stood waiting. Yes, a human was in the castle. Vegeta had found out that there were many humans who could not find employment and had families to support. He had located a place called an 'employment commission,' and asked for several domestics. It was getting so that the other very powerful Elite and first class Saiya-jin were in need of servants to keep after them. Little Vegeta's population had grown by leaps and bounds, so much so that the Z sensi were losing contact with one another, not that the prince was the most sociable of the lot.
Nonetheless, Vegeta had hired several hundred humans who had no qualms over a position of servitude but then, when given the choice between eating or being eaten, the choice was clear and not a hard one to make. The servant bowed upon the entrance of his master and his guest then asked if they required refreshment and received an unquestionable, 'yes.' After the servant poured the drinks-there was little to no alcoholic beverages at Little Vegeta-Vegeta dismissed the servant with a wave of his gloved hand then he sat his mother on the floor, sat Ceraina not too far from her then sat between them. Okrion sat on the other side of his daughter.
"Now, my handsome princemi, where did you go and how did you come by this luscious tail?" Ceraina asked as she caressed her mate's thick appendage.
"Yes, Ichimi, how did you acquire the Femzoro tail? Only very powerful females acquire that appendage and only four have done so; two of which are sitting right here. The other two are the king's mother and my own," Sunrissa explained.
"I know, I saw your mother once and she scared Vegeta Ou worse than Frieza could have ever done. I asked him if I'd ever get that powerful and he replied it was a female thing and only you troublesome creatures with your exposed emotions ever attained such power. I think that's when the two of them had stopped speaking and when he had turned on you," Vegeta said in a near whisper.
"No, he never turned on me. Oh, I know it may have seemed like that but he loved the both of us until the day he sent us off in his ship. I'll never forget the look in his coal black eyes when I looked into them. They had misted over and a tear crept down his handsome face. I wanted so much to go wipe it away but he shook his head when he saw me get out of my seat. No one will ever know how I miss him even though I told the others that I had missed you more, it was even between the two of you. Your Outusan meant the universe to me and here's a secret only he and my parents know. He chose me of the third class like you chose Ceraina but unlike me, Vegetanna was less tolerant of us lower class members even though I was the most powerful female ever to set foot on Vegetaseian soil. She had to swallow her pride when her prize brought me home and would not hear no for an answer because he was already the king and could chose anyone he wanted. He chose me. But that's another point in history," Sunrissa became pensive.
"So, how did you acquire your tail, momma?" the prince asked as he took a sip of the Chardonnay the servant had fixed for him.
"Hmm? Oh, sorry, Ichimi. It was on Planet Minerva not long after Vegetasei had been destroyed. I learned of your Outusan's death and the planet's death, plus I was still overset at my baby having been sold to that white devil for the freedom and peace of our people. I knew he never meant to keep his end of the bargain and by females being no class citizens, Frieza felt he didn't need to hide any secrets from us. I was in a sitting room with the twins when I overheard Frieza remark that once he had gained the prince of the planet and promise us freedom, he would return and exterminate the entire barrel of monkeys and our glorious race would be a memory. I was horrified but then I shouldn't have been. After he had taken the man that I loved and tortured him for his own sick, twisted pleasure, I knew he would be capable of anything. Then he stole my grand prize. All my own hurt, anger and sorrow bottled up over the years exploded one night on Planet Minerva when I had heard the voice of my second love call to me as plainly as we're talking now. That and the arrival of several Icejin served as a catalyst and I exploded. I don't remember any of it," Sunrissa shook her head.
"I do, my queen. You were some kind of gorilla and very fierce. I went out with you to stand guard and heard your roar. When you transformed, I freaked! You stomped around the planet and the locals ran for cover. The Icejin, well before that Golden Warrior made his appearance, let's just say they were ready to surrender. Those beings were so frightened they melted into mere puddles at the sight of you. When the Golden Warrior showed up, all he basically had to do was mop up the mess," Okrion had spoken for the first time and explained how he had seen his queen's transformation. "When she had returned to her mortal state, she was..." Okrion blushed and turned his head from the royal mother and son. "Let's say I had to send Onya to retrieve her," Okrion replied through his embarrassment.
"Were you SSJ when you made the level, my queen?" the prince asked is mother.
"No, I only recently made that level. Femzoro, from what I understand is a purely emotional transformation and very easy to flip into if one is upset beyond the point of tears and pure rage is the only course of action. Now, you, my son?" the queen asked Vegeta.
"All I remember is being highly upset that Lissa would charge Rainami, not give her a chance to fight back and I did nothing to stop the fight nor assist my mate. I stood frozen while the ones that I cared deeply about were trashed into the ground. It was as if I had been transferred back to the Planet Namek and Frieza was killing Krillin. I couldn't handle that then and just hung in the air like a rag doll, too overcome with fear and thought of what that monster had in store for me after he had finished with the chrome dome. I knew Lissa was no match for Ceraina and maybe that's why that chicken weakling stole the upper hand. All I know is that every emotion I had ever buried and one's I had no idea were still locked away surfaced at that instant. If Kakarrot hadn't of taken me off planet, well, we four wouldn't be having this exchange," the prince affirmed with a nod.
"As to where I went, he and I had discovered a rather large uninhabited planet, to which he had taken me after the Espion-5 event. I was upset then and today's fight sent me over the edge. Kakarrot told me he had to seek the advice of the late Kami of Vegetasei because I had been transformed for such a long period of time. I even heard his abdominal alarm clock sound off.
"Kakarrot was afraid that I'd never return to my mortal stage, so like him to fret and fuss over me. I have one momma so I don't need another. Anyway, the Kami told Kakarrot that maybe the fact that I'm a mated open male had something to do with both my attaining the level and staying in it so long. He said a few closed males had made the level but that they didn't survive, however, you troublesome banes of a male being's existence had no difficulty. How long have you been SSJ, my queen?" the prince asked trying to make connections.
"Four of our years (eight Earth years), which was just after we had left Minerva to settle on Kale-alea. I had reached Femzoro before I reached SSJ," the queen replied.
"Before? I could only attain it during! I can't believe I've tapped into a power source so strong. It's amazing!" the prince exclaimed.
"Now, you must learn to control Pilzara so that kind of power can come through in your mortal state," Sunrissa nodded and Vegeta's mouth dropped open.
"That's suicide! No body can withstand that much power! That's impossible, woman, and you know it! I doubt that you can sustain your Femzoro power as a mortal being!" Vegeta countered.
"That smells a little like a challenge, my prince," Sunrissa purred.
"Well, my queen, if you're fool hearty enough to take it as one, then I guess it is! Let's go to Pilzara, that planet's about destroyed, anyway," Vegeta nodded and the four of them linked hands and teleported to the location of Pilzara.
Vegeta's face fell in complete shock at the sight that met his eyes. "I can't make this out, there's no sense in it! When I left, the planet was still in tact even if the core had been slightly exposed! It's gone!" the prince wailed as the team landed on a planet opposite the former location of Pilzara. Just then, Vegeta perked up as if he had sensed something. "Kakarrot? No, it can't be," he looked around the debris that was their play planet. He sucked in a breath so deeply that the rocks of the planet he stood on nearly came with the inhalation. Vegeta's keen eyesight had picked up something out of the ordinary among the debris. "Kakarrot, no! Please, no!" he took off at a blinding speed and flew to where he had sensed the power level. 'Please, love, you're carrying my cub and have to deliver her.'
As he flew, he removed the glove from his left hand and gave it a gentle shake. Out fell a senzu bean and for once the prince was thankful that Kakarrot had put the annoying pit inside. He drew up short as his eyes met a charred mass that labored to breathe. The only color was a swatch of orange and blue gi. Vegeta went ballistic when recognition set in. "Mi amour, what happened to you? I'm sorry for whatever it is I did to drive you to this point. Here, this will get you back to Earth until I can place you in the burn tank," Vegeta completed as he pushed the bean into Kakarrot's mouth.
Almost instantly, Goku's breathing improved and some of his less severe wounds healed and he righted himself as he had been laying on a piece of the planet. "Gee, thanks, Vegeta. I didn't think you cared," Kakarrot smirked after he had ingested the bean. "Where'd you get a senzu bean?"
"Where you've been stashing them since like forever: the left hand glove. Can you fly?" the prince asked and at Goku's nod, the two flew to where the prince had left the others. On impulse, the prince threw his arms around Kakarrot and held him as if he had not seen the warrior in a long age. "I do care, Kakarrot. You mean the world to me," Vegeta whispered to the larger Saiyan who barely nodded.
"We need to get outta here, Vegeta, I feel two presence we are not ready to face," Goku pointed out, however before any action could be taken, a power blast signaled that they were not alone.
There was no time to think and the five of them locked hands and teleported off the planet and back to Little Vegeta. The prince told Okrion to take the females and settle them down while he placed Kakarrot in the tank.
"Thanks, Vegeta. I'm sorry about earlier," Goku said as Vegeta prepared him to go into the isolation tank.
"Did you think I was gonna let my right arm die? I've grown fond of you, you idiot and the bond proves it," Vegeta spat but his tone lacked its usual hardness.
"How's Ceraina handling the fact?" Goku asked in a slow voice.
"I told you, my openness means nothing to a female with brothers. My own little brother is still open, which means that he can reach Pilzara. C'mon, in ya get. Heal up so that I can train the open males to attain Pilzara. I have only a very short time to do so," the prince remarked and before he put the breathing mask over Goku's face, the prince leaned and took the commander's lips in his own in a quick kiss. "I love you," he said quickly, put the mask on Goku's face then closed the tank, filled it and let the commander heal. 'I'll be in to sit with you, mi amour, after I see to the females,' and with that, Vegeta left the treatment room.
When the prince joined Okrion and the females, he shivered. They were in the sitting room of Sunrissa's chamber. Ceraina rose from her seat on the floor and all but ran and embraced Vegeta. She shivered and was ice cold and her emotions gave away. He felt her fear and held her tightly.
"It's all right, Rainami, let it go. I'm scared, too," the prince sighed as he fought to control his emotions as he was unsure if having attained the new level was indeed triggered by deep, painful emotion and rage. Well, having seen what Frieza had done both to his and Goku's planet and the commander himself sent the prince to the borderline.
Vegeta bent down and lifted his mate into his arms, sat her on his lap as he sat on his mother's bed. The queen and Ceraina had prepared for bed some time earlier in the night while the prince had gone to placate his sorrow on the late Planet Pilzara. Sunrissa lay on her bed, face down and tried to be the stern Saiya-jin queen she had been on the home planet. After that near miss, the warrior queen was anything but the pillar of power their king had fallen in love with and had three offspring by. Her body shook from the tears that fell from her obsidian eyes and soaked the blue satin cased pillow upon which her deep auburn and black mixed head lay. The prince had never seen his mother in such a weakened state. To him she, along with Vegeta Ou, had been the pillar upon which he had built his own strength and life. Now, he saw just how frail, petrified and vulnerable she was. The same went for Ceraina, his chosen one, who sat on his lap, her head against his and looking for the world like Cilvanti after a night terror. Onya had chosen to stay in medical with her son as was proper.
Vegeta began to rub both his mother's and his mate's backs in an effort to calm them down as he sang the Saiyan lullaby.
"Hey, I'm supposed to sing that to you, my prince," Sunrissa tried to smile through her sorrow.
"Hush, woman," the prince said and the queen laughed despite herself. "What's so funny?"
Sunrissa reached and placed a hand on her son's other arm. "You sound just like your Outusan. I remember the night you were conceived, I was in a fair taking because Frieza had one of his guards try and take me for himself. I had escaped into the garden and hid. I let my emotions go and Vegeta Ou heard me. He asked why such weakness in one so strong and I told him. He became incensed but knew that he could do nothing against the tyrant. He lifted me in his arms and took me to a private place in the palace that Frieza had no idea existed. He held me the way you're holding Ceraina but we sat on the ground. He had taken me to the royal vault. Anyway, he held me and began to hum then he opened his mouth and... Only your voice compares to it, my son, in both quality and depth. Plus, you look so like him without the goatee and moustache," the queen smiled, turned over to lay on her back and looked into her son's onyx eyes.
Sunrissa raised her hand to caress his face. "I love you, Vegeta. I know you feel you have failed Vegeta Ou and I by revealing your deeper self and you couldn't be more wrong. I've always told you to use your emotions to attain the unattainable and now look at you! The male counterpart of Femzoro is yours! Poppa would be so proud of you, I know he will, Ichimi. He may have appeared otherwise and never said as much, but you made him so happy. The day you screamed into the universe and when he was told, he flew through the kingdom and let every Saiyan know that he had a son and heir. He even came and held you. Then that white devil came and enslaved us, took my mate for his hideous pleasures and stole my first treasure next to the king away from the bosom of his race, family and my heart. Kill him, Vegeta. Avenge our race and all other races he has polluted throughout the ages," the queen nodded to her son who nodded back.
ULTIMATE POWER
Kayla dominated the battle and for a second time since getting out of the healing tanks, the princess sent Lissa into the ground. Lissa tried to get up but Kayla stood above her with hand extended like her big brother's so often was. Kayla licked her lips and hissed, "Prepare to eat chi!" and with that, she let fly a chi blast from her palm, which headed straight to the astonished young female. However, the blast never hit its target, but had been effectively blocked.
When the dust that had been picked up by the blast had settled, a mixture of gasps and growls emitted from the gathered crowd of Saiya-jin. There in front of the shaking female stood young Captain Chokarti with his arms crossed to protect her from the blast. Then he turned to the girl and took her in his arms to comfort her.
"It's all right my lady, Chokarti's here and I won't let a soul do harm to you again," the captain said and kissed Lissa.
Lissa sobered and pushed the warrior away. "What do you think you're doing, soldier? How dare you touch me in such a forward manner!" she snapped and raised her hand to blast her rescuer.
"Parlissa Saturna, power down!" it was the prince's voice that boomed like thunder during a summer storm. "Face me, woman!" he ordered and she did so. "You have disgraced our race by rejecting the no Ouji, but that matters little. Treating my family, my friends and me as if we were common trash under your feet is inexcusable! Be grateful the captain was willing to save you because I was about to declare you branded," at that statement every Saiya-jin gathered, with a few exceptions, drew sharp breaths.
"Vegeta, you wouldn't? Surely, self-defense is no reason-"
"Self- defense! What she did was not self-defense but the act of a challenged female. Allow me to make one thing clear to you, Miss Saturna, I am the no Ouji of this race. I am the heir apparent king! If I desire to choose a new mate, it is my right! You rejected me because of a small blemish that allows me to accept both genders of our race. You have no open males in your family so you can't know how to relate to one. You don't want me, Parlissa, and frankly, I never really wanted you. Oh, I had to put forth the show because for me to show interest in a commoner would have been her death! I couldn't allow that. I was a child when I chose you and after I had found out that Frieza had obliterated my entire race, I let myself fall in love with you, even though my heart had been claimed long ago by what our class would term as trash. I've since learned that what we regarded as trash was a hidden treasure. I've met two such treasures and they both belong to me. Any challenge against them will bare vicious results. Now, if we've done with our amusement, we have a battle to prepare for and we need to focus. After today there will be very little physical pursuit of pleasure, by that I mean mating. I expect everyone, the X-team, Tsuria-jin, Rockaria-jin and fellow Z warriors, to be meditating, training and sparring. Commence!" Vegeta ordered and, placing an arm around Ceraina's waist began to walk off.
Suddenly, Ceraina went flying and Vegeta looked to see an enraged Parlissa Saturna pummeling his love with punches and chi blasts. Then Lissa took Ceraina by the hair, dragged the princess into the air, swung her forward and began beating her all over again. This time when he saw his mother getting beat up, baby Endive wasted no time in going after her. He was followed by his big sister. Sensing that she was being followed, Lissa took one hand from Ceraina, powered a chi blast and hurled it at the children.
The kids froze in petrified horror in mid-air. They could only watch as the ball of the blast impacted Endive and sent him crashing into his sister. Both children found themselves barreling towards the ground at a frightening rate then their little bodies impacted the Earth with the force of six simultaneous volcanic eruptions. Their mother soon impacted beside them
The prince had been pulverized with mind numbing fear, petrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. Multiple emotions battled for dominance of his being and Goku sensed that Vegeta needed to explode. Thus he approached his prince, his passion with trepidation; however, Trunks cut his path short.
"Kakarrot, I'll take care of momma and the chimps, you take care of 'Tousan," the young man could barely get the words passed his tightened throat. Goku followed the young prince as he approached his Outusan and Trunks put and arm around the elder prince's shoulders. Goku grabbed hold of the elder prince and teleported the two of them to the same large desolate planet they had retreated to when the group had landed on Namek after the other Saiya-jin had blamed the prince for not knowing what type of life forms inhabited Espion-5.
"Okay, my prince, let it go. Don't sit on it," Goku urged and the prince let out a mighty scream.
All the anger, sorrow and hurt over what had just transpired surfaced in one cataclysmic explosion that tore the planted in two but did not completely destroy it. The prince was more enraged that he had been too horrified to react and protect his family or catch them as they had been thrown to Earth in heaps
"Why, Kakarrot, why? My mate, my chimps! Oh, God, my chimps and I just stood there like a friggin statue and watched it happen! I can't believe she did that to me. I knew she was a dirty fighter but... She didn't even let Rainami have a chance to fight back!" Vegeta's throat closed up from the intense sorrow and he had difficulty in breathing.
Then the prince screamed and released a power so great that Vegeta reached the most recent SSJ level he and Kakarrot had discovered a few nights ago. Without a source of light, the prince transformed into a were-gorilla, not a were-ape and he was still in SSJ form. He began to rampage over the planet and Goku wisely got the hell outta Dodge before he found himself on the next morning's breakfast menu.
Goku had worn a timepiece but he didn't need it to know what time it was as his stomach told him that it had been a long time since he had put something inside of it. He wanted to go find a food source but he didn't want to leave the still rampaging Vegeta gorilla, either. He had to get the prince to return to his mortal state but how? Maybe King Kai would know. He was well connected in the after life universe.
'King Kai, can you hear me?' Goku asked through telepathy. 'Its Goku, sir.'
'Oh, hi, trouble, long time no hear from. To what do I owe the pleasure,' King Kai asked in the same manner.
At that instance, Goku materialized in front of the blue dog like being. "King Kai, I need your help. Vegeta's gone crazy! He's transformed into some kind of ware-gorilla, not the ape we usually change into if we see a light source like a moon," Goku explained.
King Kai's mouth dropped open in shock and he trembled. "Oh, my! Now, what caused that, I wonder?" the Kai asked.
"A girl Vegeta had chosen for his lifemate trashed another girl he had also chosen but he had released the first girl. Oh, the first girl trashed his kids, as well," Goku explained further then his stomach sounded off. "Heh, heh, King Kai, you wouldn't have..."
"I'll tell the maid to fix something, while I ask Kami Geta how to bring a Saiyan out of the highest most powerful form of your being," King Kai mused.
"Thanks, King Kai, you're the best! Vegeta means a lot to me and I'd hate to see anything happen to him," Goku sighed.
A half-hour later, Goku sat and devoured a meal that could have fed ten medium sized planets and King Kai communicated with the late guardian for the Planet Vegeta. He had told the guardian about the situation.
"King Kai, if you don't know how to get him back to normal then ask the Grand Kai," the former Kami replied.
King Kai then asked the same question of the Grand Kai on whose planet he stayed.
"I thought the tail had a lot to do with it. When I first met Goku, he didn't have one. Does Vegeta have a tail?" the Grand Kai asked and Goku replied that every Saiyan on Earth had their tails or had re-grown them such as Goku and his prince had done.
"Son of, Bardock does Prince Vegeta have an abnormal opening in a private part of his body that never closed?" it was the late guardian of Planet Vegeta who had asked.
"You mean the pleasure zone? Yeah, both our sons, he and myself, why?" Goku asked as he chewed on a whole chicken.
"That explains why he's transformed into the gorilla and gone passed the standard ape stage. The last Saiya-jin to make that form could neither sustain nor survive the transformation in general." At that piece of information Goku whimpered as if his tail had been pulled. "But, child, they had been closed males. I know of instances where the female gender had no negative recourses during the transformation. I think it's linked to how sensitive and emotional those being are. That stage is very rare and very powerful. For a male Saiyan to sustain it, he must suffer a deep hurt that he's buried so deeply, he can't bare to face it."
"Vegeta's become very emotional lately since April last, he had been in the healing tank one day after the other. Had been caught in an explosion and had the roof of a tunnel collapse on top of his head. He hadn't recovered from the first accident before he had the second one. He's nearly the exact opposite of what he once was," Goku related. "Plus, I think he still has pain from his days as Frieza's slave. I mean the Prince of the proudest race ever to exist reduced to a common slave. Beaten, mistreated and molested from the time he'd been taken until he escaped. I come along. A low born Saiyan who's not even worthy to lick the boots he wears much less aspire to be his equal, I attain the Super Saiyan form, which had been his birthright. I avenged the proposed death of our race against Frieza. My son annihilated Cell and I destroyed Majin Buu. My family's surpassed his and through me, I've destroyed his pride," Goku sighed in a heavy tone. "I was also born with a higher power level than he had been, that in itself was an added shame to his perfection."
"Don't be so hard on yourself, son of Bardock. You were destined for all those things, except maybe destroying Vegeta's pride. He did that himself. Oh, the accidents contributed to his change but his mother was given the chance to bond with him unlike most females, especially those of the royal household. Prince Vegeta was very close to his mother, which sent Vegeta Ou into spasms. Vegeta took chances other children would have been killed for. He even fell in love with a girl from the same class as you were. In other words, he's as soft as he was hard. Friendly where he was non-sociable, that sort of thing?" the Kami asked and Goku confirmed every word. "Has he mated with both genders of the children of Saiya?"
Goku had the grace to blush and admitted the fact. "He and I are partners and we've brother bonded. If anything tragic ever happened to him, I don't think..."
"How far has it progressed?" Kami Geta asked.
"Hunt and accept. I'm finding that I want to be with him but then I'm mated to his little sister Kayla," Goku replied in a near whisper. "How can he be restored to his mortal form? The last time I checked time it was midnight back on the Earth and we left at noon."
"Well, the females, once they've spent their energy and anger over whatever made them transform, would revert back to normal, so perhaps it works the same with the open male. Go back to where you left him and see if he's changed," the Kami instructed.
At the completion of his meal, Goku thanked those of the other world, bade them good-bye then left to return to his rampaging prince. However, when he materialized on the planet, a horrifically gorgeous sight met his ebony orbs. Although the planet's desert hard surface had been ripped to shreds, among the destruction, lay the body of Prince Vegeta in a curled ball in the normal splendor of his being. His tail was wrapped about his shoulders. From his vantage spot, Goku could not tell if his prince was still in the physical dimension or not. He slowly descended landed and crept closer to the prince. He breathed a sigh of relief when the sound of shaky purring met his ears.
Vegeta had been lying with his back to Goku, then he rolled over so his face was in view and Goku gasped. Deep pain was etched on the angular planes of that beautiful face. Goku wanted to reach out and smooth away whatever was causing such distress to his monarch.
'Vegeta, no!' Goku thought to himself then placed his hands to lift the prince onto his lap.
Vegeta gasped then screamed but then his eyes met those of his commander's. Goku noted that the transformation had changed him in a lot of ways, the first being the prince's tail. It had been lush, brown and only as thick as a tree limb like any monkey's tail. Now it was thick furred like a fox's tail but it was still black-brown with auburn/gold highlights entwined in the fur. His hair was still waist length-that due to the fact that Goku had begged to trim it the day after they had bonded.
"K-Kakarrot, what happened? Why are we on Pilzara?" Vegeta asked, his body shivering from the coldness of the planet.
"Pilzara?"
"The name I've just given this planet. What happened to me, I'm so cold. I feel like I expended every scrap of energy I had ever had in my being," Vegeta remarked as he crossed his arms to try and warm his upper body.
"C'mon. We'll talk when you recover. Here, it's a small one, but it'll serve until we get back to Earth," Goku placed something in Vegeta's mouth.
"What d'ya do, grow these things outta your own body?" the prince quipped as he bit the senzu bean.
Goku held onto Vegeta and teleported them back to Earth and into Goku's private cottage. Goku lay his prince in the double sized bed, covered him with two heavy blankets then went to gather wood for a fire. After Goku had ignited the fire with a chi blast, he stood by the bed.
"Ya gonna stand there like a sentry or you gonna join me?" the prince's voice was weak and he struggled to hold his eyes open.
"You'd like that, wouldn't you, my prince?" Goku smiled and sat on the bed beside his prince. Placing his hand on Vegeta's back, Goku began to massage that area as he transferred some energy to the weakened royal.
Vegeta tried to raise a hand but found it weighed a ton, despite the ingestion of the senzu bean. "Why are you always rescuing me?" he asked as he felt heat from Goku's hands enter his body.
"You're the prince of my race, we're brother bonded and from what you told me, we defend each other to the last. Other than that, I hope we're friends," Goku responded.
"You know we are. Thanks. What happened to the planet? It looked like an army of transformed Saiya-jin had a party," Vegeta chuckled as he moved to turn over onto his back.
"Not an army. Just one, your highness, you," Goku nodded, smiled and lilted a hand to caress Vegeta's cheek.
"I did that? That planet has no moon, I couldn't have transformed," Vegeta shook his head and nestled his cheek into the caress.
"I couldn't believe it myself. After you were in that state for several hours, I began to worry that you might not return to normal, so I sought help in the other dimension. I asked King Kai about the transformation and he nearly died a second time. He then asked the late guardian of Planet Vegeta who suggested he ask the Grand Kai. Everything came back to the Kami answering. He said that a few closed males had ever reached that state but that they had died not long after the transformation. He said it was a transformation the females of our race generally took on whenever they were deeply hurt or angry. He was gonna suggest I cut this gorgeous tail of yours off but I would never do that." Goku had picked his prince's tail off the floor, stroked it, rubbed his face in it then hugged it.
Vegeta's eyes popped out of his head when his eyes met the sight. "Oh, my God! That can't be mine, can it?" he gasped in shocked surprise. "Male Saiya-jin don't have tails like this and I've only seen this kind of tail on two females; my parents' mothers. No, wait!" the prince thought then his eyes lit up. "Ceraina. Ceraina!" Vegeta had sat up and ran his hand over his new tail.
"Ceraina? You mean..."
"Yes, she's made that level and so has her majesty! I have to ask them when we get back. For Ceraina, it must have been on the planet she bore Endive on. Huh, you said the Kami said that no male had ever survived the transformation? I hope he can explain me, then," Vegeta snickered.
"He did. You're a mated open male. It must be a very rare and powerful transformation. Both the Kami and King Kai trembled when I mentioned that you had made it," Goku remarked.
"Powerful! I'll say it is! I witnessed my mother's mother, Irisanna, in that state on a purge mission she had gone on. It was a huge hunk of rock that Frieza wanted very badly but the locals loved his pretty boys in more ways than one. That sick white horned bastard had to send three teams of Saiya-jin to take care of business. Mommasanna's team had been on the north side of the planet when a local attacked her team, kidnapped and killed my mother's baby sister. Outusan, his elites and myself were on the West Side of the planet and we had destroyed our sector. We went to check on hers and that's when we saw her in a horrific state! She towered over the others, who themselves were in Oozaru form! She alone took care of the rest of that planet. Mommasanna was awesome! I'd never seen such power! I think that incident caused the rift between my father and his mother-in-law. I asked him if I'd ever reach that level and he shot back that it was a female thing. Said that because of how emotional and sensitive the troublesome creatures were, they became the most powerful in the race. However, since females weren't exactly recognized as anything other than breeders on the home planet, it didn't matter how powerful they could get or what levels they reached.
"Anyway, I kept what Outusan said in my head and lamented that it was a shame that the most powerful form of our race belonged to mere females! Do you know what that does to a male's pride? That ate at me as much as your success in attaining SSJ over me. Was I SSJ when it happened?"
Goku thought. "Come to think of it, you were. Yeah and were you powerful! I'd never seen so much power come from one source. You could have supplied half the universe with power! With that transformation, you just reclaimed the title of universe's most powerful. The one you once held before this low-life son of a third-class dog crossed your path. Frieza has nothing on you, now. Nobody does. You can take our enemies out yourself, you don't need me or any of us anymore," Goku lamented as he rose from his seat.
"Where are you going?" Vegeta asked as he threw the covers back and got out of bed. He saw Goku's eyes widen.
"Vegeta! That transformation made you taller but then, I guess you have to be to carry that tail around. Oh, well," Goku sighed. 'What does he need me for, now. I'm not just gonna be around when he wants physical attention. He has Ceraina for that. At his level, he'll be more than impossible to live with,' the commander thought to himself. "Good-bye, Vegeta. I know you'll win against Frieza this time around. You'll finally have both your pride and honor back. The two things which you have accused me of taking away from you." and with that Goku left the cottage.
Vegeta's mouth dropped open. Had Kakarrot just left him like an unsatisfied mate? That was unbelievable! The prince thought to go call the commander back but then why should he lower himself to groveling? The prince of all Saiya-jin never groveled. If he wanted Kakarrot, he knew Instant Transmission so he could easily find him. Shrugging his broad, powerful shoulders, he then padded his way to the wash. He felt stronger but he knew that he was not a full 100%. As he washed, he thought about the events that had led up to the rare and outstanding transformation. He had never been so hurt and enraged as when he just stood and watched his entire family get beaten into the ground. That hussy gave Ceraina no warning just began fighting. Vegeta had wanted to step in but wouldn't until it was absolutely necessary. Well, hadn't it been necessary from the very beginning? Admittedly, and he could find no logical reason as to why he didn't step in to stop it. Maybe because he felt it would have dishonored his mate and honor and pride were two of a Saiya-jin's strong holds and what made the race what it had been in the past before Frieza and would be again under his rule.
Then Vegeta thought about Pilzara, both the planet and the transformation. The highest and most powerful known level of their race had belonged exclusively to the highly emotional and delicately balance female gender, until now. Now, he held the prize and he, not Kakarrot, was the first to attain this particular goal. Along with Ceraina as his queen, they would level the others up and once again rule the cosmos. Ceraina was everything he had ever dreamed of in a female mate. She was so gorgeous that it should have been outlawed, she was brilliant beyond all that was natural, but then what member of the lower classes wasn't? Even Kakarrot had his fair share. Kakarrot, there was another enigma to his life. This time, he hadn't provoked the big lout in any fashion and he left! He was having a hard enough time dealing with the being that he was, now he had to deal with Kakarrot's moodiness? Life was such a complex and came with absolutely no instructions for how to carry on. Not for the open male beings the four of them were. He'd have to go talk things over with his son, again. God, how humiliating, for him to be going to his son with his problems. Then again, Trunks had been going with Goten since the two had entered their in-between stages.
'Well, you can't blame him for being moody, and it's only going to worsen. You know male carriers become more moody and very highly emotional as the time of delivery draws closer,' Vegeta reminded himself that his mate was very possibly with child.
Following his wash, Vegeta dried himself, located and dressed in a set of cranberry colored spandex that accentuated the brownish-red highlights in his hair and tail. Let Kakarrot have his tantrum, he'd be back to fight. But didn't fusion partners have to be of equal strength and size? Now he was more powerful than Kakarrot and the only other being that he could fuse with was his own mate, but he would work out that puzzle later. He had a lady mate and a pair of two and half-year-old (Saiyan aged) chimps to look in on. After he had dressed, he tidied up the cottage, blew out the fire then visualized Ceraina and...
"Vegeta! Oh, God, where did you come from, you scared me, princemi," Ceraina asked the second her eyes had caught sight of her mate, her prince. She had been in the playroom with the chimps.
Instead of giving a reply, Vegeta wrapped his arms and tail around her and took strong passionate possession of her lips. She didn't struggle but surrendered her entire being to him. His lips left her mouth and trailed a path down the side of her face to her neck. He went to give her his mark when...
"Daddy, you're home! We missed you!" a pair of tiny voices peeped and the prince felt his waist encircled and Ceraina pushed away from his being.
Vegeta looked from the chimps to their mother. "Why didn't you tell me that they were still awake?" the prince tried to hide his horror as he lifted the children in each arm for a hug.
"Where were you, poppa? We thought you left us," it was Endive who spoke first.
"Kakarrot took poppa off planet to let him expend some power. Kakarrot told poppa that he became very powerful," Vegeta told his children as he held them.
"Hey, Endive, look at 'Tousan's tail! It's fluffy and thick like momma's tail! I want a tail like that, 'Tousan. Can I have one, please," Cilvi whined as she climbed down to nuzzle Vegeta's fox-like tail.
"I want one, too! No fair if poppa gets you one and not me! I'm his chimp, too, y'know!" Endive argued as he also went to investigate his male parent's new appendage.
"Chimps, behave! Tell 'Tousan good night and go with Sagia to get ready for bed," Ceraina ordered and the little ones promptly jumped to attention and bowed.
"Good-night, poppa. We train tomorrow?" Endive asked and Vegeta nodded then took the boy in a hug.
"I'll train with momma. I love my momma. She's pretty and smart," Cilvi nestled against Ceraina then moved to hug her dad. "G'night, daddy. Will you come tuck us in and sing to us?"
The parents looked at one another. "You sing to her? I sing to Endive. Shall we?" Ceraina smiled at her prince who nodded.
Sagia took the little ones to prepare them for bed and Vegeta told her to call them when the kids were ready. The maid bowed and said that she would. After the chimps were taken away, Vegeta approached his mate.
"Shall I pick up where I left off, mate of mine, or am I to be kept waiting for such a tempting dish?" he drawled in a languid tongue and closed the gap between the two of them an went to reclaim her lips.
Her heart pounded in her chest at his closeness and her arms went about his neck as she reciprocated the kiss. They devoured one another as if tasting one another for the first time, then he began to peel away her clothing but she stopped him.
"Mi amour, calm down. We have a life time," she smiled and his heart turned over as her brown flecked, silver speckled eyes held his and she caressed his face.
Vegeta calmed down-he must have been high from the newest power surge to his being. He'd have to control his ardor and the new power. He nodded, closed his eyes and just hugged his female.
"Thank you, Rainami, you've always known how to calm me down like Kayla," he lifted his head and bent to give her a small peck.
It was at that second Ceraina noticed. "Vegeta, you're so much taller than this morning and your tail is like your mother's and my own," she remarked in a surprised voice and she took hold of her mate's new thicker, fuller tail. "I was told that only very powerful females gained the tail like this! I've never known any male to have acquired it."
Vegeta threw his head back and snickered. "Well, woman, I'm not just any male. I'm Vegeta no Ouji! I'm the most powerful male ever to have emerged from our race! This and you are my prize to rule the universe!" the prince pronounced then a call came over the scouter that the chimps had been put to bed. "Come, my one, let's put our chimps to sleep," and with that, the prince took hold of his female's hand and they headed to the chamber in which Lissa had occupied.
That chamber had been emptied of the former mate's possessions and lay waiting for it's next occupant who entered on the arm of her handsome prince. She was smiling into his black eyes as he sat her by the bed and he sat behind her then he began the notes of the ancient song that wove a magic spell and sent any hearer to slumber within moments of its beginning. Her higher pitched voice joined his.
Sunrissa and Okrion had been passing the room at the time and stopped when they heard the tune. They peeped into the room and were taken aback when they saw and heard their own offspring expressing themselves in such a manner. Their voices in perfect union as their hearts and souls were. Both parents stepped in, took hold of their offspring, then gave their own voices to the song.
The second a dual purring was heard from the location of the bed, the younger parents nodded to their own parents and the four of them left the little ones to their slumber. The parents teleported to the first floor sitting room where a human servant stood waiting. Yes, a human was in the castle. Vegeta had found out that there were many humans who could not find employment and had families to support. He had located a place called an 'employment commission,' and asked for several domestics. It was getting so that the other very powerful Elite and first class Saiya-jin were in need of servants to keep after them. Little Vegeta's population had grown by leaps and bounds, so much so that the Z sensi were losing contact with one another, not that the prince was the most sociable of the lot.
Nonetheless, Vegeta had hired several hundred humans who had no qualms over a position of servitude but then, when given the choice between eating or being eaten, the choice was clear and not a hard one to make. The servant bowed upon the entrance of his master and his guest then asked if they required refreshment and received an unquestionable, 'yes.' After the servant poured the drinks-there was little to no alcoholic beverages at Little Vegeta-Vegeta dismissed the servant with a wave of his gloved hand then he sat his mother on the floor, sat Ceraina not too far from her then sat between them. Okrion sat on the other side of his daughter.
"Now, my handsome princemi, where did you go and how did you come by this luscious tail?" Ceraina asked as she caressed her mate's thick appendage.
"Yes, Ichimi, how did you acquire the Femzoro tail? Only very powerful females acquire that appendage and only four have done so; two of which are sitting right here. The other two are the king's mother and my own," Sunrissa explained.
"I know, I saw your mother once and she scared Vegeta Ou worse than Frieza could have ever done. I asked him if I'd ever get that powerful and he replied it was a female thing and only you troublesome creatures with your exposed emotions ever attained such power. I think that's when the two of them had stopped speaking and when he had turned on you," Vegeta said in a near whisper.
"No, he never turned on me. Oh, I know it may have seemed like that but he loved the both of us until the day he sent us off in his ship. I'll never forget the look in his coal black eyes when I looked into them. They had misted over and a tear crept down his handsome face. I wanted so much to go wipe it away but he shook his head when he saw me get out of my seat. No one will ever know how I miss him even though I told the others that I had missed you more, it was even between the two of you. Your Outusan meant the universe to me and here's a secret only he and my parents know. He chose me of the third class like you chose Ceraina but unlike me, Vegetanna was less tolerant of us lower class members even though I was the most powerful female ever to set foot on Vegetaseian soil. She had to swallow her pride when her prize brought me home and would not hear no for an answer because he was already the king and could chose anyone he wanted. He chose me. But that's another point in history," Sunrissa became pensive.
"So, how did you acquire your tail, momma?" the prince asked as he took a sip of the Chardonnay the servant had fixed for him.
"Hmm? Oh, sorry, Ichimi. It was on Planet Minerva not long after Vegetasei had been destroyed. I learned of your Outusan's death and the planet's death, plus I was still overset at my baby having been sold to that white devil for the freedom and peace of our people. I knew he never meant to keep his end of the bargain and by females being no class citizens, Frieza felt he didn't need to hide any secrets from us. I was in a sitting room with the twins when I overheard Frieza remark that once he had gained the prince of the planet and promise us freedom, he would return and exterminate the entire barrel of monkeys and our glorious race would be a memory. I was horrified but then I shouldn't have been. After he had taken the man that I loved and tortured him for his own sick, twisted pleasure, I knew he would be capable of anything. Then he stole my grand prize. All my own hurt, anger and sorrow bottled up over the years exploded one night on Planet Minerva when I had heard the voice of my second love call to me as plainly as we're talking now. That and the arrival of several Icejin served as a catalyst and I exploded. I don't remember any of it," Sunrissa shook her head.
"I do, my queen. You were some kind of gorilla and very fierce. I went out with you to stand guard and heard your roar. When you transformed, I freaked! You stomped around the planet and the locals ran for cover. The Icejin, well before that Golden Warrior made his appearance, let's just say they were ready to surrender. Those beings were so frightened they melted into mere puddles at the sight of you. When the Golden Warrior showed up, all he basically had to do was mop up the mess," Okrion had spoken for the first time and explained how he had seen his queen's transformation. "When she had returned to her mortal state, she was..." Okrion blushed and turned his head from the royal mother and son. "Let's say I had to send Onya to retrieve her," Okrion replied through his embarrassment.
"Were you SSJ when you made the level, my queen?" the prince asked is mother.
"No, I only recently made that level. Femzoro, from what I understand is a purely emotional transformation and very easy to flip into if one is upset beyond the point of tears and pure rage is the only course of action. Now, you, my son?" the queen asked Vegeta.
"All I remember is being highly upset that Lissa would charge Rainami, not give her a chance to fight back and I did nothing to stop the fight nor assist my mate. I stood frozen while the ones that I cared deeply about were trashed into the ground. It was as if I had been transferred back to the Planet Namek and Frieza was killing Krillin. I couldn't handle that then and just hung in the air like a rag doll, too overcome with fear and thought of what that monster had in store for me after he had finished with the chrome dome. I knew Lissa was no match for Ceraina and maybe that's why that chicken weakling stole the upper hand. All I know is that every emotion I had ever buried and one's I had no idea were still locked away surfaced at that instant. If Kakarrot hadn't of taken me off planet, well, we four wouldn't be having this exchange," the prince affirmed with a nod.
"As to where I went, he and I had discovered a rather large uninhabited planet, to which he had taken me after the Espion-5 event. I was upset then and today's fight sent me over the edge. Kakarrot told me he had to seek the advice of the late Kami of Vegetasei because I had been transformed for such a long period of time. I even heard his abdominal alarm clock sound off.
"Kakarrot was afraid that I'd never return to my mortal stage, so like him to fret and fuss over me. I have one momma so I don't need another. Anyway, the Kami told Kakarrot that maybe the fact that I'm a mated open male had something to do with both my attaining the level and staying in it so long. He said a few closed males had made the level but that they didn't survive, however, you troublesome banes of a male being's existence had no difficulty. How long have you been SSJ, my queen?" the prince asked trying to make connections.
"Four of our years (eight Earth years), which was just after we had left Minerva to settle on Kale-alea. I had reached Femzoro before I reached SSJ," the queen replied.
"Before? I could only attain it during! I can't believe I've tapped into a power source so strong. It's amazing!" the prince exclaimed.
"Now, you must learn to control Pilzara so that kind of power can come through in your mortal state," Sunrissa nodded and Vegeta's mouth dropped open.
"That's suicide! No body can withstand that much power! That's impossible, woman, and you know it! I doubt that you can sustain your Femzoro power as a mortal being!" Vegeta countered.
"That smells a little like a challenge, my prince," Sunrissa purred.
"Well, my queen, if you're fool hearty enough to take it as one, then I guess it is! Let's go to Pilzara, that planet's about destroyed, anyway," Vegeta nodded and the four of them linked hands and teleported to the location of Pilzara.
Vegeta's face fell in complete shock at the sight that met his eyes. "I can't make this out, there's no sense in it! When I left, the planet was still in tact even if the core had been slightly exposed! It's gone!" the prince wailed as the team landed on a planet opposite the former location of Pilzara. Just then, Vegeta perked up as if he had sensed something. "Kakarrot? No, it can't be," he looked around the debris that was their play planet. He sucked in a breath so deeply that the rocks of the planet he stood on nearly came with the inhalation. Vegeta's keen eyesight had picked up something out of the ordinary among the debris. "Kakarrot, no! Please, no!" he took off at a blinding speed and flew to where he had sensed the power level. 'Please, love, you're carrying my cub and have to deliver her.'
As he flew, he removed the glove from his left hand and gave it a gentle shake. Out fell a senzu bean and for once the prince was thankful that Kakarrot had put the annoying pit inside. He drew up short as his eyes met a charred mass that labored to breathe. The only color was a swatch of orange and blue gi. Vegeta went ballistic when recognition set in. "Mi amour, what happened to you? I'm sorry for whatever it is I did to drive you to this point. Here, this will get you back to Earth until I can place you in the burn tank," Vegeta completed as he pushed the bean into Kakarrot's mouth.
Almost instantly, Goku's breathing improved and some of his less severe wounds healed and he righted himself as he had been laying on a piece of the planet. "Gee, thanks, Vegeta. I didn't think you cared," Kakarrot smirked after he had ingested the bean. "Where'd you get a senzu bean?"
"Where you've been stashing them since like forever: the left hand glove. Can you fly?" the prince asked and at Goku's nod, the two flew to where the prince had left the others. On impulse, the prince threw his arms around Kakarrot and held him as if he had not seen the warrior in a long age. "I do care, Kakarrot. You mean the world to me," Vegeta whispered to the larger Saiyan who barely nodded.
"We need to get outta here, Vegeta, I feel two presence we are not ready to face," Goku pointed out, however before any action could be taken, a power blast signaled that they were not alone.
There was no time to think and the five of them locked hands and teleported off the planet and back to Little Vegeta. The prince told Okrion to take the females and settle them down while he placed Kakarrot in the tank.
"Thanks, Vegeta. I'm sorry about earlier," Goku said as Vegeta prepared him to go into the isolation tank.
"Did you think I was gonna let my right arm die? I've grown fond of you, you idiot and the bond proves it," Vegeta spat but his tone lacked its usual hardness.
"How's Ceraina handling the fact?" Goku asked in a slow voice.
"I told you, my openness means nothing to a female with brothers. My own little brother is still open, which means that he can reach Pilzara. C'mon, in ya get. Heal up so that I can train the open males to attain Pilzara. I have only a very short time to do so," the prince remarked and before he put the breathing mask over Goku's face, the prince leaned and took the commander's lips in his own in a quick kiss. "I love you," he said quickly, put the mask on Goku's face then closed the tank, filled it and let the commander heal. 'I'll be in to sit with you, mi amour, after I see to the females,' and with that, Vegeta left the treatment room.
When the prince joined Okrion and the females, he shivered. They were in the sitting room of Sunrissa's chamber. Ceraina rose from her seat on the floor and all but ran and embraced Vegeta. She shivered and was ice cold and her emotions gave away. He felt her fear and held her tightly.
"It's all right, Rainami, let it go. I'm scared, too," the prince sighed as he fought to control his emotions as he was unsure if having attained the new level was indeed triggered by deep, painful emotion and rage. Well, having seen what Frieza had done both to his and Goku's planet and the commander himself sent the prince to the borderline.
Vegeta bent down and lifted his mate into his arms, sat her on his lap as he sat on his mother's bed. The queen and Ceraina had prepared for bed some time earlier in the night while the prince had gone to placate his sorrow on the late Planet Pilzara. Sunrissa lay on her bed, face down and tried to be the stern Saiya-jin queen she had been on the home planet. After that near miss, the warrior queen was anything but the pillar of power their king had fallen in love with and had three offspring by. Her body shook from the tears that fell from her obsidian eyes and soaked the blue satin cased pillow upon which her deep auburn and black mixed head lay. The prince had never seen his mother in such a weakened state. To him she, along with Vegeta Ou, had been the pillar upon which he had built his own strength and life. Now, he saw just how frail, petrified and vulnerable she was. The same went for Ceraina, his chosen one, who sat on his lap, her head against his and looking for the world like Cilvanti after a night terror. Onya had chosen to stay in medical with her son as was proper.
Vegeta began to rub both his mother's and his mate's backs in an effort to calm them down as he sang the Saiyan lullaby.
"Hey, I'm supposed to sing that to you, my prince," Sunrissa tried to smile through her sorrow.
"Hush, woman," the prince said and the queen laughed despite herself. "What's so funny?"
Sunrissa reached and placed a hand on her son's other arm. "You sound just like your Outusan. I remember the night you were conceived, I was in a fair taking because Frieza had one of his guards try and take me for himself. I had escaped into the garden and hid. I let my emotions go and Vegeta Ou heard me. He asked why such weakness in one so strong and I told him. He became incensed but knew that he could do nothing against the tyrant. He lifted me in his arms and took me to a private place in the palace that Frieza had no idea existed. He held me the way you're holding Ceraina but we sat on the ground. He had taken me to the royal vault. Anyway, he held me and began to hum then he opened his mouth and... Only your voice compares to it, my son, in both quality and depth. Plus, you look so like him without the goatee and moustache," the queen smiled, turned over to lay on her back and looked into her son's onyx eyes.
Sunrissa raised her hand to caress his face. "I love you, Vegeta. I know you feel you have failed Vegeta Ou and I by revealing your deeper self and you couldn't be more wrong. I've always told you to use your emotions to attain the unattainable and now look at you! The male counterpart of Femzoro is yours! Poppa would be so proud of you, I know he will, Ichimi. He may have appeared otherwise and never said as much, but you made him so happy. The day you screamed into the universe and when he was told, he flew through the kingdom and let every Saiyan know that he had a son and heir. He even came and held you. Then that white devil came and enslaved us, took my mate for his hideous pleasures and stole my first treasure next to the king away from the bosom of his race, family and my heart. Kill him, Vegeta. Avenge our race and all other races he has polluted throughout the ages," the queen nodded to her son who nodded back.