20: To Escape Together

~*~*Belle*~*~

"Sesshoumaru?" I whispered and my mate smiled at me as he nodded, pulling me close and kissing me. The feeling of his lips was the same, the scent of his musk, the silkiness of his hair, and the beauty that was Prince Sesshoumaru. I pulled out of the kiss and looked at him as another explosion caused the world to jump. "H-h-how?" I looked at him as I stroked his cheeks, my claws moving over his silky skin, my blood leaving ruddy marks.

"I will tell you when we meet with the others," he said as he pulled me to my feet and held me close, burying his face into my neck by his mark. "Engetsu, I've missed you so much." I wrapped my arms around him and sobbed as I nuzzled against his chest.

"Sesshoumaru, my Sess, my mate, you're alive, thank God! Thank God!" I sobbed as I looked up at him. "I must look horrible." I laughed and cried in the same moment.

"You're beautiful," he whispered and I sobbed as I looked at him, my tears coming without trying as I held onto him, stroking his cheeks and face.

"You're back, you're back," I whispered as I kissed him. All my love, passion, fear, hope, and joy passing from me to him. He returned it all and we pulled away suddenly when we heard Naraku groan as he got up.

~*~*J'dee*~*~

"Megami I'm getting something… it's familiar…" I motioned in a direction. 'Sess?' I thought, why was I feeling him… was Belle thinking on him?

"Jay you're going pale." Vash looked as me and I motioned for him to set me down.

I was feeling so suddenly cold. It was cold all over the familiar thoughts of certain captors running through my head, they were near, and in the direction coming towards us the direction we needed to go to where I sense Belle, Sess and Naraku.

"Saiyans!" I exclaimed.

"What?"

"They're coming this way. The way we need to go where I can feel Belle." I clenched my fists.

Vash set me down and I formed a ki attack in each hand and stepped in front of the others just as Vegeta stepped in to the hallway and he looked at me then to the energy glowing in my hands.

"Let us pass." I growled.

"I think you're slightly out powered majo." Vegeta smirked and I watched as Zorn and Nappa stepped up behind him, followed by Broly and his father Paragas.

~*~*Belle*~*~

I growled as my vision bled red and Naraku looked between us. To Sesshoumaru, to me, back to Sesshoumaru.

"This cannot be! You're dead!" Naraku cried and Sesshoumaru smirked as he tapped Tenseiga. "No…that's just a myth…" Sesshoumaru laughed in a most disturbing way.

"No…it's not. Now I claim revenge for stealing my throne, for condemning me to slavery, for forcing my mate and children to suffer, for touching my mate, and for thinking you would not pay for it," Sesshoumaru snarled. "I condemn you to death." I snarled in agreement. "Shall we, my Princess?" I looked at him and flicked my energy whip out, catching Naraku's wrist. We all watched as his hand fell from his body and hit the ground. Naraku screamed in agony as he clutched the stump of his wrist.

"I see, together then?" Sesshoumaru asked and I looked at him as he unfurled his whip.

"Yes," I hissed and we struck at the same time. I looked at Sesshoumaru as he stroked my cheek.

"It is time to go," he whispered and I nodded as I followed him. The sound of Naraku's decapitated head hitting the ground followed by the sound of his body hitting the ground was music to my ears.

~*~*J'dee*~*~

Wolfwood slipped round the corner and I grinned as I stood over Zorn holding the ki attack in my hand. He looked up at me and I saw Vash looking at me and I fired the ki at him.

He let out a cry.

"Vegeta's getting away!" Hiei growled.

Wolfwood booted open a door and then he clapped his hands together and I watched him dive in to the room then emerged carrying a large cross covered in a cloth. "Ahhhh just what I was missing."

He held the large cross with one arm and in the other I blinked.

"Portable confessional. If you can't go to confession I bring the confessional to you." He just grinned and then tossed it to me and I caught it and watched as Zorn raced off, his tail left behind.

With one tug the cloth came clear and I blinked at the rack of guns, I gaped and stared at him.

"What kind of priest are you?" Vash asked.

"One that belongs in Desperado that's for sure." I joked.

Wolfwood hefted the thing up and on his arm and fired off a bazooka round down the way Zorn had ran, and it exploded in the distance.

"And he was kinda cute too for a Saiyan." I mused.

~*~*Belle*~*~

I looked at Zarbon's bathing pools and looked at Sesshoumaru.

"You need it, we will not make it to the others if you are not fully healed," he said as he reached up to stroke my cheek before bringing his claws down sharply and slicing through my collar. I purred as he stroked my cheek again.

"Thank you, my love," I whispered as I removed my robe and let it fall to the ground. I smirked as I heard him gasp. "Like my newest appendage?" I looked at him over my shoulder as he took in my tail. His mouth was slightly open as I climbed into the healing pool and began to clean myself off.

Sesshoumaru suddenly appearing behind me, his hand touched my brands and he kissed each one before he squeezed my shoulder. I nodded as I pulled my hair out of the way and gritted my teeth against the pain. I heard the sound of his acid being ejected and I felt the agony of having my skin burned off. I sunk into the pools and whimpered until large hands began moving over my skin, cleaning off the blood and dirt. I turned around and looked at my mate.

"You came back to me," I whispered as I stroked his cheek, cleaning off the blood I had put there. "I thought I wouldn't see you again till after my death." He looked at me with lust filled eyes.

"I wouldn't let death keep me away from you, Belle, you are my mate and Queen, and I will never be able to go on without you," he growled and pulled me into a kiss, pressing my hips against him, allowing me to feel his arousal. I locked eyes with him and wrapped my arms around his neck.

"I've missed you so much," I growled and he returned the growl, lifting me up out of the water and thrusting in suddenly. I screamed in complete pleasure as my mate and I joined as one again. I screamed again and again as he took me to a place we had never reached before. I felt my climax hit and I bit down hard on the mark that had killed him. He returned the favor and we rode out waves of pleasure with our teeth imbedded in the other's shoulder.

~*~*J'dee*~*~

"Who's this?" I asked at the new guy who had arrived on the scene.

"This is Koga." Zarbon explained.

"Oh…"

"We need to find the prince." He stated.

I heard the thoughts of the others they all thought he was talking about Inu Yasha but I could feel Koga's thoughts, my new powers were right I had sensed Sess… but I didn't get how he could still be alive.

"Keep going in that direction." I pointed. "I'm going after Vegeta." I looked at Koga. "He's that way. Just go I'll catch up later."

I raced off down the hall to where I sensed Vegeta's thoughts drift from. They were determined and he was heading to the shaman's place. I had totally forgotten the shaman, I would do what I could to save him.

As I raced down the hall I looked to the side as Vash caught up to me and I blinked. "What did I just say?" I complained.

"What happened last time you tried to fight Vegeta?" He stated.

"Right right point taken. Six feet under not a good look."

~*~*Belle*~*~

Sesshoumaru helped me dress and I looked at him with a smile as I pulled on the Japanese-like robe he brought me. It matched his only with a blue instead of a red. I let my fingers play over the blue flowers embroidered on.

"I know your lust for blue," he whispered as he caught my hand and kissed it. I looked at him and smiled as I looked at him.

"We need to stop at my lab quickly," I whispered and he nodded.

"Through the secret passages, no Saiyans will be hiding in the walls.

~*~*Raine*~*~

"Stop it…"I shuddered, "Please…just kill me…"

They ignored me. They always ignored me. Only when they got a reaction out of me with their ministrations did they respond to me. My back began to hurt from being arched for that long. The back of my neck ached as well. I was on the verge of unconsciousness, but Radditz always lightly bit me on my breast to wake me up. He smiled at me and grunted as he went in and out. I couldn't tell what expression Brolli had on his face, but he was probably content. My neck was laden with his teeth marks and he was soon leaving nail imprints on my hips.

I kept begging for them to stop and end it. It hurt externally and internally, but they wouldn't even grant me the mercy of putting me out of my misery when they were done with me. Then we reached our peaks. I cringed when they released and fell limp against Brolli. Radditz pulled my legs down from his shoulders and let them fall roughly on the floor. I felt Brolli disappear from behind me and I fell on my back. Thankful that they had finally stopped, but also thankful when I was finally allowed sweet darkness to cover my thoughts…

"Raine? ….Raine?" a familiar voice echoed through my mind. I winced, suddenly feeling a sharp pain from my side. I gladly woke up from reliving that nightmare. I lifted my hand to see light dabs of blood on my fingers. There was a bandage where the wound was. How did I get it?

"You fell on a piece of shrapnel when Zarbon dropped you," a voice said and I turned my eyes towards the source. Golden orbs greeted me. They were outlined by smooth pale skin and silver white hair.

"Y-Yaten?" it couldn't be. It couldn't.

He looked dismayed, though trying to mask it with a placid look. He couldn't fool me. He knew.

I turned my back to him.

Why? I couldn't cry because there was no more water left for my body to let out. I clenched my eyes shut and hugged myself, wishing that he'd just vanish. Maybe he was just a dream, something to haunt me.

"Raine, look at me," I heard him. I felt my stomach sink. He was really here.

When I felt his hand on my shoulder I nearly jumped.

"Talk to me, say something," he said. I suddenly felt overcome by anger.

"Why did you have to come back now?" I sat up and glared at him. He looked confused.

"Why now? Now of all times? Where were you when…" I couldn't bring myself to say it, I couldn't bring myself to look him in the face. But when I felt his arms wrap around me and I struggled in his grip.

"Let me go!!" I struggled and beat at his chest, causing a scene, but I didn't care. I kept struggling and hitting until he suddenly pushed my hands down, grabbed my face and kissed me. I suddenly forgot what I was mad about. I had a new reason. I slapped him again.

"Yaten!! What the hell is wrong with you?!" I snapped.

"Well, I've gotten your attention now," he smiled warmly and I blinked. It was one of those moments where you had just been embarrassed and you didn't know whether to laugh or smack the person responsible.

His hands rested on my arms, "God, if I knew that something like this was happening I would've stayed."

I sighed and shook my head, "It's good that you went with your family."

He frowned, "Yeah, but I wish even more that you had come with me."

I looked down, "Well, you can't change the past. What's done is done and no one's gonna be punished for it."

He suddenly pulled me into his arms and I hugged him tight. I knew he had reacted to that comment, but I didn't see what expression was on his face. I merely sighed, releasing a phantom weight off of my chest, something that I'd been holding ever since he left. I didn't want to cry again. I seemed to be crying every damn day of my life since I was brought to this planet. I didn't want to look like the weepy damsel again…and yet, I couldn't stop. I sobbed quietly into his chest and hugged him tight, "God I've missed you so much."

~*~*J'dee*~*~

I skidded to a halt at the slave common room and stared at the door hanging off its hinges and I raced through the door and heard a loud explosion and looked at the secret door blasted open.

"No." I breathed.

Vash stared at the door and I raced through Vash close behind.

We stopped. Vegeta stood over the body of the shaman.

"VEGETA!" I shouted and he turned round and looked at me a cold look in his eyes, all the years of serving him and him letting me see a side to him no one else did, he still didn't change his ways.

"Step away from him." I ordered.

Vegeta turned round fully. "And what will you do majo?"

"I'll reveal your true thoughts to the Saiyan world." I pointed to the side.

Nappa stood there glaring daggers at us. "Nappa… nothing personal." Vegeta smirked.

"Huh? Wait Vegeta no!"

Vash gasped as Vegeta blasted Nappa in to nothing and on to oblivion. "You destroyed one of your own kind."

"Nappa was a gossip anyway." He smirked. "Now tell me Majo what are my thoughts?"

I stood there just looking at him. 'hmph this should be interesting… the majo knowing my thoughts. She doesn't have that ability.'

"Yes I do." I stated.

He looked at me and I just smirked back. "Thank the Kanassans they saw me coming and picked me to pass their gifts on to."

His eyes narrowed at me. "Those lizards if they weren't dead I'd kill them myself."

"Frieza killed your father, but you escaped his ship, you warned everyone, took them to a new planet isn't that right?" I asked.

Vash looked at me. "I didn't tell you that."

"I know you were the King's slave as well and when he died Vegeta inherited you. When you first fought Vegeta he was only five years old. But now here he is all grown up… how does it feel to know that Vash is going to outlive you too?"

Vegeta stepped down the steps and walked towards me and stopped only centimeters away from me staring me in the eyes.

"Frieza made you do some terrible things, made your people do terrible things. But I can see your future and I'm glad to see that we're all gone, every slave this palace has is gone…" He just kept staring at me and I could see his soul bared and he growled at me.

"Majo… if only you were a Saiyan." He just walked past and I looked over my shoulder at him as he left.

"You can't kill me can you?"

"You have what I've spent years trying to get from the Kanassans, if you leave… I will hunt you down and I will follow you and your children, and your grandchildren. Until I have what I want."

"I respect you Vegeta, you had a bad past like I did, but we are leaving here today and we are taking all the slaves with us you can't stop that."

"We'll just see Majo." With that he walked out.

I let out a breath and Vash looked at me. "Despite all he put you through and did to you… you still like him?"

Looking up the steps at the shaman where he lay. "He reminds me of my father… I've had a bad history of falling for men who were like my father, the arrogant cocky type to beat me to the inch of my life kind." I jogged up the steps and knelt down by the Shaman's side, his head moved to the side and he looked at me and smiled.

"Child… they granted you a gift… I saw it… You will make good use of the power to help others… and do not worry about the… child you lost, it was not it's time… to be born in this world, but it will return to you… both of you… soon." I scooted my knees under his head and brushed hair from his face.

"Please don't go…" I whispered.

"It is my time… but it is not yours… take your man… leave. Today."

I watched as his eyes closed and Vash looked up the steps at me as I hugged the limp body of the shaman. "Thank-you for your guidance and wisdom old man. I won't forget you, you taught me that even in captivity there is freedom of choice."

The ground shook the place and part of the ceiling caved in. "Ummm J'dee… Jay… I hate to break up the moment… but we gotta leave now BEFORE THE CEILING-"

*THUNK*

I cringed and Vash pushed the piece of the roof off him. "Hurts someone…" He finished. I pulled off the sports coat I wore and slipped it under the shaman's head.

"Sleep well, see you in the next lifetime." I raced down the stairs and Vash grabbed my hand and we left before the entire room collapsed in.

We raced down the hallway and I motioned. "This way I can sense Raine closer than Belle, she's heading towards Raine too."

"Jay are you alright?" Vash asked as we raced.

I wiped the side of my face form any tears I shed over the shaman. "I think… ow." I tripped Vash caught me before I hit the ground. My vision clouded with red.

"Jay…"

I held my hand up. "I'm seeing something…"

Vash scooped me up. "Well tell me when it's over I can't leave you behind to get squashed."

~*~*Belle*~*~

I grabbed my journal and various other possessions that I had accumulated in my years of servitude. I looked at Sess as he watched the door. I walked up to him and kissed him again.

"God, I've missed you so much," I whispered and he smiled as he stroked my cheek again.

"I have a good idea how much," he whispered back as we started through the walls until we came to a blasted out wall. I could smell death and blood. Familiar blood.

"Raine!" I cried as I rushed out of the wall and ran towards the source, Sess by my side as we sprinted at inhuman speeds. "She hasn't lost enough for it to be fatal."

"Yes, and I smell…Yaten?"" Sess said and I looked at him.

"She must be safe then," I said and our fingers brushing before a band of Saiyans jumped in our way.

"Together then?" I asked and he chuckled and we used our poison claws and whips to shove our enemies out of our way as we rushed to join our friends.

~*~*Raine*~*~

We were still in the palace, Yaten told me. There was chaos still going on around us. They had merely stopped to bandage me up before moving on. Zarbon rejoined us after he heard me screaming.

"What's wrong?" he stopped when he saw Yaten and I hugging.

"Is everything alright?" he asked.

I gave Yaten one last hug before letting him go, "No, but the sooner we get out of here, the better."

Zarbon nodded and readied his sword, which was already drenched in blood, no doubt Saiiyan's. No love lost on my part.

There was suddenly an explosion in the distance, followed by footsteps…lots of them. We all looked up to see a large group of saiiyans marching our way, all of them smirking. Their uniforms were damaged and sprinkled with blood, and they looked anxious to stain them further.

Brolli was at the front.

I suddenly lost the feeling in my legs.

Zarbon stepped in front of me and Yaten and his brothers quickly flanked him.

"On the count of three," I heard Zarbon mutter.

"THREE!!" they all yelled at once and ran at their opponents.

~*~*J'dee*~*~

Vash sat me down and I held the side of my head. "Now I know why they say demons are better vision hosts." I groaned.

"What did you see?"

"Too many things… Vegeta, Saiyans… gardens… we're going to the gardens the ships are there. Vegeta's sent out a mini Saiyan army…"

Vash helped me up and pulled me along as we ran and we skidded to a halt and I looked at Kakarott he pulled open the hatch of a ship and was ushering slaves on to it.

"I knew he wasn't truly evil." I raced up to the scene and jumped on top of a saiyan's shoulders as he charged at Kakarott and the Saiyan landed face first in the dirt.

"Watch out!" I heard Kakarott shout and I spun round in time to catch a ki attack in my hands and flicked it upwards before I shook my hands. "Ow Ow Ow OW!" I started blowing on them.

Kakarott smiled at me. "First time huh?" he joked and helped a slave family on to the ship.

"Was it that obvious?" Vash joked and ducked dodged several attack hitting vital points before knocking them out.

"Keep them away so I can get these people on the ships!" Kakarott motioned towards a new mini Saiyan army attacking.

I looked at him. "You'll be punished though."

He looked at me. "No life deserves to be enslaved, I was only one, and if I let on how I felt Gohan and Chi-chi would pay…"

"Where is Gohan?" I pulled my hands back to my left side and them pushed them forward forming a larger ki attacking holding back a group of Saiyans.

"Chi-chi slipped back this mornings she was scouting the area for planets where we could smuggle slaves to freedom."

"It was an act this entire time…" Vash smiled, and he fired off several shots of his magnum like gun hitting limbs feet and hands causing them to fall and other charging behind to fall over the fallen.

"Man you soooooo have to teach me how to do that one day." I grinned.

"How about the honey moon?" He laughed.

I raised a brow and looked at him. "Well at least I know you don't shoot blanks…"

"Jay!" Kakarott looked at me.

I feigned innocence. "What? He rubbed off on me."

~*~*Belle*~*~

Sess and I growled as we saw the huge wave of Saiyans that were attacking the ships in the gardens. I smirked as I looked at my mate.

"Allow me, my Prince," I chuckled as I jumped into the air, bouncing off a few Saiyans' heads before landing in the middle and spraying my poison, knocking a hundred or so out. Sess ran past me, taking care of the next group of Saiyans. We stood surrounded by unconscious and conscious Saiyans. We turned back to back and pulled out our whips.

"Time to dance, my Princess," he whispered and I smiled as we locked elbows with our non-whip arms. Then we began to spin, faster than I thought was possible. Our whips flying around us in a yellow and blue light show. We stopped to see the small army unconscious or wounded. I looked at Sess and he stroked my cheek before we both took off to where we could see our friends fighting for their very lives against more Saiyans.

~*~*Raine*~*~

Zarbon's fighting technique hadn't softened since the first time I saw him fight and I found myself shielding my eyes at times. Yaten and his brothers were just as brutal. Though the inner lady in me was squeamish as each slab of flesh hacked off, the vengeful spirit in me demanded more. In the midst of the fighting, Taiki and Seiya bumrushed Brollli and sent him careening into the air, landing painfully only a few feet from me.

He twitched and opened his eyes. By this time I was hiding behind the rock I was sitting on and was slowly moving backwards in case….He looked right at me.

It was pretty obvious what happened at that point. He smirked my way and I ran for my life. For someone who had just gotten his ass kicked, he seemed pretty fast and able.

Déjà vu.

In a matter of seconds, the breath was knocked out of me and I found myself pinned up against what was left of a palace wall, and my pursuer holding me in place.

"Where's that smart mouth of yours now, bitch?"

"Such a pretty little whore."

It was just like what had happened. I couldn't move fast enough, I couldn't get away fast enough. I was going to be a victim again. I screamed as loudly as my lungs would allow. I struggled and thrashed as he laughed at me.

"Onna, I've missed you. Still begging for death?" he asked with a smirk.

"Maybe I can help this time."

I suddenly gagged when he took hold of me by the throat and made a reach for one of the straps of my dress, "After some fun, of course."

"No…please no…" I muttered, but he mocked me, laughed even.

"Amazing how quickly all that back talk is forgotten when you no longer have your prince to hide behind," he said before ripping the strap away.

I coughed and kicked and clawed at his hands, but only amused him, until someone's fist connected with the side of his face. I fell to my side, the wounded one, and winced in pain. I managed to open my eyes to see Yaten throwing blow after blow at Brolli who couldn't seem to strike him fast enough.

I managed to sit up, still holding the bandaged wound to see that the blood had soaked through it. I winced and clenched tall rubble to help myself up. Yaten was still holding his own against Brolli who was growing agitated, but at the same time, his face was turning purple from all the connecting punches. I looked back to see Zarbon, Taiki and Seiya still fighting off the other Saiiyans. I managed to stand up when Yaten was suddenly batted to the ground. I tried to back away when he came flying at me. I merely shielded myself, waiting for the connecting blow, only to hear a sick crunch. I opened my eyes to see Brolli sprawled on the ground, holding a broken nose. I was in shock, Zarbon's knee was covered in blood. I stepped back as Zarbon and Yaten closed in on him.

"Not so tough when you're up against a challenge, are you?" Yaten said coldly.

Brolli coughed up blood and lifted his head, "UME!"

My eyes widened and I turned to around to indeed see Ume amongst the group of remaining Saiiyans that were starting to overpower Taiki and Seiya.

"Yaten! Help your brothers!" I heard Zarbon yell and Yaten suddenly zoomed past me, literally jumping on Ume and fighting him. I looked back to see Zarbon holding his own against Brolli, but I wasn't going to stick around so I quickly made a run for it. I had to meet up with the others. I'd be safe amongst them and hopefully out of the way of a fight.

But I left too slowly too late.

I cried out as the ground met my wound. Shuddering, I held myself and looked up to see Ume standing over me. He smirked, "Talk about luck!"

I tried to push myself up.

"And here I was thinking I'd never get my turn!"

I started crawling backwards until I inevitably came up against something solid. Tears began to fill my eyes.

"Aw, you aren't going to start begging for me to spare you? Not after all those hurtful things you said about me," he chuckled as he began to reach down towards me.

I kept crawling back, though I had nowhere else to go. He laughed at my tears and promised to be gentler than Brolli and Radditz were with me…

"SPIRIT SWORD!!!"

When the tip of a glowing blade suddenly protruded through his gut. We both stared wide-eyed. The blade suddenly disappeared and Ume slowly turned to his side. Kuwabara and Yusuke were standing there. Kuwabara had that glowing sword in his hands. It looked liked something otherworldly, unliving. Blood began to flow from Ume's mouth and he fell to his knees.

"Have mercy," Ume choked.

Both raised a brow and Yusuke pointed his hands at Brolli's head in the form of a gun…

"Go to hell," Kuwabara muttered sharply.

"SPIRIT GUN!!!"

A glowing beam suddenly flowed from Yusuke's extended fingers and shot a hole through Brolli's head! He fell backwards, lifeless.

Their serious demeanor suddenly vanished when they looked my way. I was crying again, but this time Kuwabara was there to comfort me. I held him as tightly as possible, for fear that someone would come at me again. He didn't say a word, merely held me close.

"RAINE!!" we both turned as footsteps came pounding our way. It was Zarbon, Yaten and his brothers. They were all a little worked up, but still alive and still able to fight by my guess.

"Are you alright?" Zarbon knelt before me, touching my face.

I nodded before he wiped away stray tears. Kuwabara suddenly let go of me and stood up.

"We should get going," he said and walked off without looking back. I frowned in his direction. Yaten and his brothers followed suit and Zarbon scooped me up into his arms, following as well.

~*~*J'dee*~*~

"Kakarott you traitor…" Radditz held Inu Yasha. "You're going to die for this."

"I may die but at least I know my mate and child are safe away from this planet being brought up in a peaceful environment away form the evils you tried to inflict on me while I grew up."

"You would kill your own brother." Vash glared at Radditz.

Radditz looked at him. "We knew something was wrong with him especially after the damn Tsufuru-jinn dropped him on the head, his programming was messed up, he lost his thrill to purge and kill, even though we tried to fix it he wasn't the same. Shame really, but there's still me and my father still has his mate, there will be others. Kakarott is expendable."

"Can you just feel the brotherly love reek of him?" Wolfwood drooled.

Wolfwood and the others had raced to our ship where we helped it take off getting at least another two hundred slaves off the planet. Then Radditz had just shown up with Inu Yasha basically a trump card over the Yamainu.

I looked to the Yamainu they didn't have to even think anything for me to know their thoughts. 'surrender' I shook my head.

'It's not going to end this way…' I thought.

I saw Tien look my way he'd arrived only a few minutes before to help us fight the Saiyans off while the others got slave after slave on to the ship. Thought he ship had been gone for two minutes, we hadn't had a chance to split and race to the next one, now Radditz was slowing things down. But I'd seen this all before, it was like some kind of Déjà vu but even my vision showed this and the end that would be Radditz. Follow the visions they would lead us to freedom, the final and true step of freedom and off this planet.

"Radditz…" Kakarott took a step towards him. "Let him go."

Radditz just glared at him. "You're a traitor Kakarott, and I'm holding him here and when Vegeta arrives I'm going to tell him what you did. You let the slaves escaped, and you helped them."

"Be that way Radditz, but this is between us not them, let him go."

"No." Radditz glared.

'And I thought my fights with boy were bad.' I thought to myself and saw Tien look my way. 'Stop reading my thoughts!'

'Stop thinking so loud.'

I raised a brow and looked at him. 'I'm only new at this.' I thought with a huff. 'Telepaths… really.'

~*~*Raine*~*~

I froze when I laid eyes on Radditz. Though his attention was on Kakarott and Prince Inuyasha. I felt like I was looking over a 50-ft drop and that something was fluttering about in my stomach at the same time. I felt sick and nauseous and scared all at once.

His eyes scanned the entire group before falling on me. I could see a brief and fading smirk in his glance before it suddenly returned to a glare. I felt my knees get weak, luckily Yaten had caught me to keep me standing without attracting attention.

"Damn him….I hope they slit his throat…" I thought only seconds before Belle went flying over me.

~*~*Belle*~*~

I looked at Sess as I watched Raditz lift Inu Yasha off the ground by his neck. I growled as I leapt into the air, using Sess's shoulder as a springboard, flying over several Saiyans and throwing out my whip. I used the same move I had with Naraku and ripped the whip back, smiling as Raditz's arm left the rest of his body, allowing Inu Yasha to fall to the ground and roll out of the way for when I hit Raditz in the chest, knocking him into the nearest marble pillar.

"Bad monkey," I snarled as I landed next to Sesshoumaru as he helped Inu Yasha to his feet. Ripping off his brother's collar and ripping the back of his shirt to acid away his brother's brands.

"How do you feel, Little Brother?" Sess asked and Inu Yasha smiled as he looked at his brother.

"Bruised, bloody, and free," Inu Yasha replied and I smiled as I looked at my husband and brother-in-law.

"I do not believe this!" Vegeta roared and we all turned to see a large army of Saiyans rushing towards the ship and we slowly moved to face them, the Yamainu who were not helping the wounded onto the ships readied their weapons.

"I need the Tetsusaiga!" Inu Yasha growled and I looked at him.

"I will get it!" I hissed and leap over my friends, looking down to see Raine and Jay were a bit bruised but alive. "Stay there, I'll be back in a flash!" I raced down a hallway, leaping over the familiar faces of Manten and Hiten.

~*~*Raine*~*~

Yusuke suddenly chuckled, "In the meantime…you guys feel a fight comin' on?"

"Hell yeah, Urameshi!" Kuwabara yelled, Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Kurama and Hiei all nodding in agreement, smirks on their faces.

With yells of energy they went ramming into the Saiiyan horde.

~*~*J'dee*~*~

I raised a brow. "There she goes again… she's part dog… we need a leash."

I saw the look Sess, Inu Yasha and the other Yamainu gave me.

"Attacking Saiyans…" I motioned and ducked a punch and jumped back as Zorn grabbed for me and I found myself firing several ki attacks at him he flicked each one away.

"You cut off my tail." He growled.

I hit the ground as I felt the punch to my face and I looked up at Zorn as he hovered over me. I scuttled back worried the look on his face screamed 'Die bitch bie.'

"Time to die, no one cuts off my tail." He growled.

"Leave the majo alive, she is mine." Vegeta shouted.

Zorn growled. "You cast a spell over him witch." I took the chance to jump to my feet.

"Sticks and stones don't work when it's the truth." I socked him back and shook my hand. "YEOW! Throbbing… pain…"

Kakarott grabbed me and took to the sky I squealed and clung to him and watched as a ki attack landed where I'd been moments before. I let out a cry as I watched Vegeta blast Zorn through.

"What did I say Zorn?"

I watched as he hit the ground. "Kill the rest leave the Majo!"

I looked at Kakarott and he looked back at me. "Hang on."

"Erk!" I was flung round to his back and clung on to him holding him round his shoulders as he pulled his hands back to the side and I watched as a blue shining ki attack began to form.

"A human taught me this." He smiled. "I think it's fitting."

"When did a human teach you?"

"Actually I only needed to see it once. He used it in the tournament in the warm ups he called himself Master Roshi."

"Oh." I nodded. "He obviously lost the preliminaries."

"Kaaa meee haaa meee… HA!"

The blast shot out and nailed several of them flinging them backwards like about half a dozen ruby fields in length.

Kakarott landed I slipped off his back and looked up at him. "That was so wow… remind me to never be the bad guy when you're around."

"It's good to see you're on our side Kakarott." Zarbon looked at him.

He smiled. "I may have done some bad things, but I hope freeing the slaves makes up for that."

"Kakarott you traitor!" Vegeta growled.

"Sorry Vegeta, I'm following my heart and not your orders for once."

"Then die like the rest of them! GALLACK GUN!!"

Kakarott caught the blast in his hands and I watched as it pushed him back his feet digging a trench in the ground.

'C'mon Kaky you can do it.' I thought worriedly.

~*~*Belle*~*~

I crashed through the armory doors and looked at the wall, smiling when I saw Tetsusaiga. I quickly grabbed it and wrapped my arms around it like it was a child before I began running back.

"Stop right there bitch!" Hiten snarled as he stepped into my path and Manten appeared behind him. "We won't let you return that sword to that brat, Inu Yasha!" I looked at them and smirked.

"And how do you two plan on stopping me?" I asked, I was out of poison, but neither one of them knew about my whip.

"We'll kill you," Hiten said as his claws began to glow with poison and I snarled as I lashed out with my whip. I smirked as I watched both of them grab their eyes…or what remained of their eyes.

"I have spared you your lives, the next time I see you, I will not be so merciful," I growled before I ran past them. I was getting tired, the adrenaline boost was wearing off and I had a feeling they would need the Tetsusaiga soon.

~*~*Raine*~*~

I averted my eyes, as I couldn't help to do so as my love, my three best friends and all our allies attacked the Saiiyans. It was 'Kill Bill' with male aliens instead of human women.

Kuwabara gladly planted his foot in the jaw of an oncoming soldier, Yusuke fired his spirit gun into the head of an opponent, Hiei brought out a sword and imbedded it in his opponent's chest, Kurama suddenly turned a rose into a whip and used it to rip the skin from those in his way, and Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were clawing and biting into the necks of the closest thing Saiiyan.

~*~*J'dee*~*~

The fighting had shifted up to practically outside the palace, Kakarott had said there was another ship near by we could use to escape, he motioned to it in the distance. Pai, Naile and Piccolo were ushering people on to the ship.

"I see the ship." I motioned. "We got to get to that ship!"

I let out cry as Gene pushed me to the ground and ki sailed over where I had been and I looked at him.

"You get distracted easily don't you?"

"Yeah strange for someone who can see the future isn't it?"

"Kakarott can you cut us a path?!" Kurama shouted.

He nodded and pulled his hands back to his side. "One pathway coming up…"

Vash helped Gene and myself up as Kakarott fired another blast cutting through the saiyans. "Quick hurry this way move it!" He called out.

'Kami let me help them escape.' I heard his thoughts. For someone borne in to a race of space pirates and murders, his thoughts for that moment felt so pure and I was pulled along by Vash, Gene, Melfina, Jim right behind Kakarott and he ushered us on the ship I looked back to the others who were still fighting their way through and I watched as Kakarott raced back to help them out and I looked at Vash.

"He's really helping us." Melfina remarked.

"I can't read any thoughts of it being a trap or anything." I mused.

"Gene you can start this ship up right?" Piccolo asked.

"I can try." He raced on the ship towards the bridge.

~*~*Belle*~*~

I leapt into the air and screamed in rage as I landed on the back of the Saiyan attacking Sess from behind. I used my claws on him looking to see Inu Yasha, I tossed him the Tetsusaiga.

"You will pay, bitch!" a voice growled and I looked up to see Raditz standing over me with a blast of ki in his hand. I leapt at the ground, slipping between his legs. His foot landed on my tail and I yelped! "Time to die!" I looked up and smirked.

"Not today, asshole!" I snarled as I brought a foot up right under his groin guard and into his crotch. I smirked as the ki vanished and I leapt out from under him, kicking him hard and sending him into the nearest wall by a suit of armor.

"Kill Sesshoumaru and Inu Yasha!" Vegeta's voice rang out and I looked to see the Yamainu retreating. I quickly found Sess and grabbed his shoulder.

"Time to go, Love," I hissed and he nodded as he covered for others to drag the wounded onto the huge ships. "Quick question, Love. How did you survive Vegeta's execution?" I asked as I used my whip to keep the Saiyans back. Sess laughed.

"Fine then my curious mate. The Tenseiga stores healing ki from my own body, over my lifetime it has stored enough to revive those freshly dead. When you claimed Sovereign it revived me soon after. However, because of the immense damage to my body I was in a coma and if Koga hadn't intercepted the ship I was on, I would have been discovered," Sess said and I smiled at him.

"I love that sword now," I said and he laughed.

"Let us go now," he said and expelled a large cloud of poison. We turned to run for the ship and I looked over my shoulder in time to see Raditz standing with the spear from the suit of armor. He was aiming for Sess and I screamed as I watched it leave his hand. I quickly shoved Sess to the side in time. I stopped as soon as I heard the wet and hollow sound of a blade emerging from flesh. Sess turned to look at me, the horror in his eyes was amazing and I reached out towards him. The blade that had sprouted from my chest and was covered in my blood.

"Belle!" someone on the ship screamed and Sess's eyes filled with rage and turned red. He howled as he pulled out his other sword. Toukijin. With a single swing a blast of ki was released and I watched as Raditz's eyes widened before his upper body fell off of his lower body. There were similar results for several other Saiyans.

~*~*Raine*~*~

I felt like I was having an out of body experience. This didn't seem real. It was just like the day the Saiiyans attacked the earth. I thought the reporters were playing some kind of practical joke, maybe it was the trailer to a movie. But then people started fleeing their homes, and the Saiiyans came to my neighborhood, abducting whoever they could get their hands on. Riding in that transport ship didn't feel real either. And after the months of being shoved into a room with countless others, with no baths and poor rations, flashbacks of life before the attack began to rule my mind.

It felt that way, only the opposite. We were leaving this hell behind. Those who had harmed us had paid, though not slowly like I wanted. We were all truly free. I welcomed Zarbon's warm embrace, though he had blood on him. I winced when his arm tightened near my wound. He pulled away and scooped me up into his arms and took me to Yaten and his brothers who were bringing out some healing elixirs and fresh bandages.

~*~*J'dee*~*~

I watched as the door began to close and saw Kakarott still holding them off, I looked to where Sess held Belle, my turn to do something reckless and I raced off the ship.

"J'dee!"

I grabbed Kakarott by the arm. "No one gets left behind." I pulled him on to the ship just as the doors closed behind us.

"The engines are stalling!" Gene called out.

Kakarott raced towards the controls and Gene stepped aside as Kakarott punched in a few codes and button it looked like he was playing a computer game like a gamer with such a serious expression until he hit gold and the ship lurched and he took the controls sending us skyward.

I lay down next to where Vash was and he pulled my head in to his lap and I closed my eyes as I felt the ship shake as the engines revved up.

The ship took off and we were all sitting back watching Sess nurse Belle when the ship was settled in to space. Kakarott emerged from the controls and Gene had taken over. He sat down at another seat and let out a breath, he looked at Sess.

"I'm sorry for how I treated you and your mate while you were slaves…" He sighed.

I still had my head resting on Vash's lap and Vash was running his hand through my hair and I was holding his other hand.

"No you helped us." Vash spoke up. "What you did in the past isn't important now, you helped free millions today."

"I'm surprised you trusted me enough to pull me on to the ship." He looked in my direction.

"I could hear your thoughts. You're not like the other saiyans." I replied.

"I just don't want my son growing up thinking it's alright to enslave others, I don't want that for Gohan, he's my son and I care for him and Chi-chi so much they don't need those pressures." He looked down.

"Where is Gohan?" Raine asked what everyone was thinking.

He smiled. "Fertari has him, she took him on the ship with the Tsfuru-jinn slaves that she helped escape. She's taking him to where Chi-chi is, where I'm going to meet up with her, I know they'll be safe until I arrive." He looked over to where Belle was and he looked at me. "Can you heal her?"

I saw the looks people gave me, especially Sess. I looked down. "The healing white magick can… but I wasn't trained in that, and the healing can't always guarantee a one hundred percent recovery, especially with the changes her body has gone through, it takes anatomy knowledge and concentration, a thing I lack in both regards. I'm sorry Sess."

He looked to Belle worry in his eyes; I just kept lying where I was not letting go of Vash's hand.

Kakarott looked apologetic. "There has to be someone on this ship that can help her though right?"

I closed my eyes letting my mind wander through the various people on the ship. "They'll still all quite spooked I can't sense any doctor like thoughts…"

~*~*Belle*~*~

I coughed up blood as I stared at the blade coming out of my chest. I reached up and grabbed it, still not believing I was looking at it.

"Belle…" Sess whimpered as he broke the back of the spear off and lifted me up into his arms, carrying me.

"Sesshoumaru…" I whispered as I reached out to stroke his face, my fingers leaving a bloody trail in their wake. "I'm glad…"

"Belle, don't talk, we're going to get you help," Raine insisted and I looked at my friend before looking at my mate.

"…I'm glad…I got to see you…again…" I whispered as I looked at Sess's face. He looked ready to cry and I was aware of the others following, telling me I was going to be fine. "I…can die in peace…knowing you will…will watch out for our children."

"Belle don't talk that way!" Jay cried as she looked at me. I smiled slightly as I looked at Sess.

"I…I love you…I will always love you…and I'll be waiting for you…" I whispered as I used all my strength to pull myself up to his lips, kissing them one last time before the darkness consumed me.