Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ You left your mark on me. ❯ All good things… must come to an end. ( Chapter 18 )

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YOU LEFT YOUR MARK ON ME.
CHAPTER 18 – All good things… must come to an end.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN DRAGONBALL/Z/GT.ALL CHARACTERS ARE A PRODUCT OF AKIRA TORIYAMA.This story may contain Nudity, Sexual Themes, Violence/Gore, Strong Language, Ideologically Sensitive.A/N: -thought-"speech"(mental speech)

Bulma looked down at the radar as if it were the most interesting thing in the world.  –Pregnant?  I don’t really need this right now.  Do I love him?  If I have to ask that question obviously the answer is ‘No’.  Does he love me?-  Bulma raised her head slightly and stole a glance of Vegeta from her peripheral vision.  –He didn’t seem displeased when Guru said I was carrying ‘new life’.  He didn’t exactly jump up and down either.  Oh, Bulma girl, What have you gotten yourself into now.-
“Woman!  Did you hear me?  I ask you how much further?”  Vegeta asked his fragile cargo with a hint of annoyance due to having to ask her a second time, but it faded as quickly as it had come.  –She looked to be deep in thought.  Is she unhappy at the prospect of having my child?  What is the woman thinking?-
She clicked the top plunger a couple of times and saw they were close.  “It’s just on the other side of that landmass.”  She replied in a businesslike tone.
Goku felt his stomach rumble in hunger.  “Hey, Bulma, are we there yet or close because I’m starving.  Did you happen to bring any food?”  He said as he rubbed his stomach with both hands.
“There are more important things to worry about other than your stomach, Kakarott.”  Vegeta scolded the younger man.
Bulma suddenly heard a huge gurgling eruption come from her lover’s stomach.  “You were saying, Vegeta.”  She chided the soon to be crow eating prince and laughed.
Vegeta wanted to pretend he was angry, but he was relieved that she at least laughed a little at his mild discomfort.  He smirked at her short spurt of happiness she shared with him.
A little while later they landed in a destroyed Namekian village.  The village had been plundered and war torn, but somehow that overlooked the dragon ball. Bulma walked the radar’s illuminated path with Goku close behind her and Vegeta closer still.
Vegeta stiffened and pulled Bulma behind him to shield her.  He knew this ki all too well and he was coming in fast.  There would be no way that they would be able to outrun him.  
His actions confused Bulma.  “What is it?”
“It’s a ‘who’ and it’s Frieza.” Vegeta admitted through clinched teeth.  He hissed the name in distaste. Bulma paled at the sound of the lord’s name.

Frieza abruptly landed in front of the trio.  “Why, isn’t this pleasant surprise?  I’ve got the monkey, the whore, and… You are?”  He snidely clipped.
“I’m Goku and I don’t appreciate you disrespecting friends.”  Goku spoke seriously.
“Well, aren’t you the do-gooder?  You face?  You look so… Bardock?  No.  I killed him with Vegetasei…”  Frieza spoke his self asked questions aloud.
“He’s his brat, you slimy pedophile.”  Vegeta growled to the miniature lord.
“Oh, yes.  That would explain it.  You know it’s hard to tell you monkey apart from human’s without the tails.  My, It seems I’ve killed both of your fathers.  *chuckles*  Of course I’ve killed your fathers considering all saiyans, but yourselves are dead by my hand.  To think I killed a whole race at one with a single blast.”  Frieza smirked at his own joke.
“You-You knew my father?”  Goku asked in actual concern.
“…For all of five minutes.  From what I knew of him he was pathetic.”  The lizard clipped and then chuckled at his effect on the young saiyan, disappointment.
“I doubt my father was pathetic.  I bet a coward like you didn’t give him a chance to fight you before you shot him down.  Did you shoot him in the back too?”  Goku retorted in anger at the moral less creature before him.
“Don’t worry.  You will follow in his footsteps all too soon.”  The lord rasped.  He was growing tired of this game.
Goku went to charge Frieza, but Vegeta stepped in his way.  “This is my fight.  I am the prince of all saiyans and it is my right to defeat this creature.”  
“Vegeta, Vegeta, Vegeta.  You’ll never learn.  Once a hard headed monkey, always a hard headed monkey I always say.  You aren’t even fit for me to grace you with the death you want so badly.  I think I’ll just put you down like a rabid beast.”  His smile turned sinister and gained a new level of malaise.
Krillin and Gohan landed after feeling a surge in energy that they knew didn’t belong to either Goku or Vegeta.  Both agreed to leave Dende behind upon discovering that he knew how to summon Namek’s Eternal Dragon from the dragon balls. After finding the last ball they watched as words were exchanged back and forth. Then Frieza raised his arm and pointed his index finger to Vegeta as he gathered ki at its tip.
Frieza shot out his ki beam at Vegeta with intent to pierce his heart and be done with the monkey prince once and for all.  Before the beam made contact with its designated target Bulma let loose a wail. “NO!!” It was soon followed by a blood curdling scream.  The beam had shot through her and grazed his forearm as he attempted to dodge the blast.
Bulma collapsed against Vegeta and they both slumped to the ground.  Bulma coughed as the blood filled her lungs.  She wouldn’t last much longer.  She looked up with sightless eyes and smiled up at him. “Vegeta?”  She choked out weakly.
“I’m here, woman.”  He said in desperation.  He didn’t know what he could do for her because he knew she was done.  The minutes were few, but precious between them.
“I-I’m dying and you can’t even *cough* say my *wheeze* name.”  She struggled through her labored breaths.
“Don’t talk… Bulma.” Her whispered the beginning, but spoke her name with perfect clarity.  
She smiled at hearing her name and closed her eyes. “I love you, Vegeta.”  Her final sentence faded in volume with each word spoken.  She was gone.
“Bulma.”  He waited for her to answer.  “Bulma!”  He called louder watching for the rise of her chest. He saw none. “BULMA!”  He roared in pain of loss knowing she wouldn’t answer nor wake.  
“Ha! Humans.  Such weak little toys and they break so easily.”  The lord cackled at the sight before him. To him the sight of the planetless prince bawling over a weakling slip of a woman was priceless and he couldn’t contain his amusement. –Finally, some worthwhile entertainment.-
“NO!  You MONSTER!!”  Krillin shouted as his body tensed into a fighting stance. Gohan grit his teeth and clinched his eyes closed as if trying to will himself not to cry.  Goku Glared at the pale beastly creature as he clutched his fists with such a force they shook.
“Aw, you want to die with her. Hmm, I might as well oblige you.” Frieza’s lips crept over his teeth into a gluttonously amused snarl.  He took hold of Krillin with an invisible force and shot him into the sky causing him to burst into a cloud of red mist.
“KRILLIN!!” Gohan and Goku screamed in unison after they watched another of their friends die.
Frieza pouted in disappointment. “That was hardly amusing.  At least the girl had pluck. Oh well… now who do we have left?”  
Vegeta’s hair had shown brilliant gold and his eyes cold shade of teal as his energy peaked.  Bulma’s death was the tipping point to unlock the door to unfathomable power.  He laid her gently on the ground after giving her one final embrace.  Frieza was going to die if he had to take this planet with him. Vegeta charged the white lizard and his intent was to kill.
Everything Vegeta ever had was always taken away by the evil lord. First his father was murdered, then his planet was destroyed along with his race and now his woman and unborn child were dead.

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