8
Legends
In the skies above Capsule Corp. a full armored and powerful sayajin warrior had dishonored his king and sought the only repentance by sayajin law. The wind blew softly in the blackness of the night as the mighty warrior opened his eyes…
"Taking the easy way out again, huh Vincent?" Vegita crossed his arms and smirked at his former caretaker as he hovered over the Earth eye to eye with Vincent.
"My lord…" Vincent was surprised. "Why are you here?" He asked.
"This might have been the answer on Vegita-sei if I were king…" Vegita moved forward. "But I am not king, Vincent… I am not king."
"No!" Vincent snapped angrily. "Don’t say that! By your blood you bare the sayajin crown… I have dishonored it… I must repent." The warrior closed his eyes with no intention of stopping his mission, but Vegita had already planned a strategy to get him to stop.
"Fine then… I have no need of the sayajin crown" Vegita was up to something "I denounce my thrown forever!" Vincent’s eyes were now open "All of those traditions I learned from you long ago, worthless!… You! Worthless! Just my father’s pet whom he kept a chained leash for…dog! All you are is just a constant reminder of how much I hated living on Vegita-sei with my worthless father!" Vegita moved in and grabbed Vincent by the neck "He died with the crown on, not me… Die with the crown, fool!" Suddenly Vincent slapped the prince’s hand from his neck; his teeth ground into each other as he curled his lip. "You don’t have the power to take me, fool!" The prince laughed. Without warning Vincent exploded in a bright blinding aura of energy, to Vegita’s surprise Vincent’s hair had faded to white, his eyes had opened and had turned an evil bright red. The monster’s every muscle tensed up as he breathed heavily, the beast had awoken. "It’s not super sayajin!" Vegita was unfamiliar with this form. "I thought for sure the transformations Vincent had on Vegita-sei was super sayajin! He must be some kind of hybrid!"
Without a chance for Vegita to bury his thoughts Vincent snapped a powerful blow to the price’s cheekbone, stunning him senseless. The punch had bruised Vegita and for a brief moment he thought that his plan would backfire, but the prince could change his form also and was not to be taken lightly! His thoughts had gone back to his childhood "This is the legendary Vincent, eh?" There was no response; Vincent was in a mindless state in this form. He had become the warrior that even king Vegita feared. Vegita felt it would be safer to fight as a super sayajin and quickly changed his form, His eyes turned green and his hair bright golden in an explosion of ki. "Come on then, bastard!" but as soon as Vegita spoke Vincent rushed the prince with a right hook whirling the golden-haired sayajin to the ground.
"Oh my god!!! Poppa!" Screamed Bura who had been watching the fight from the ground. "Vincent stop!!!" She yelled.
"Get out of here!" Vegita yelled as he rolled to his feet avoiding another attack. Bura, in tears, ran into the house.
"Trunks! Trunks!" She called frantically running upstairs to her brother’s room.
"…Yeah man… And then I don’t know it was like… And then we were kissing…" Trunks was finishing a story to Goten who was sitting on the floor.
"No way!… Pan? My niece?" Goten rose to his feet just as Bura slammed the door open startling only Trunks.
"Trunks! Goten!" Bura caught her breath. "Dad… Vincent… Fighting outside!" She finished
"Oh shit!" Both boys stunned momentarily but then quickly started to run outside.
"We’ll talk about this later, Trunks…" Goten grabbed the other boy by the shoulder, Trunks Quickly smiled, somewhat Vegita like, and both boys continued running.
Outside both sayajin warriors were at each other’s throats, Vincent’s relentless attacks had prevented Vegita to upgrade another power level. Vegita might have been stronger, but Vincent’s knowledge of fighting techniques greatly exceeded even the highest of masters. The fight was a blinding display of summersaults, kicks and ki blasts. The prince had never fought anyone this fast before and so relentless. Suddenly he caught a strong fist to his stomach; the sayajin prince fell to his knees. Trunks and Goten were about to run in but the injured prince held out his arm warning then to stay back.
"Must find a strategy…" The prince thought to his-self as the crazed sayajin continued kicking Vegita in the torso. "…That’s it!" Vegita suddenly swept Vincent’s leg as he kicked, knocking the sayajin down for the first time. Vincent quickly recovered and jumped forward again to attack but this time the prince stood toe to toe talking as he defended the flurry of punches. "Look at Bura, Vincent… " The warrior kept on attacking. "I said look at her!" Vegita was getting weaker from blocking.
"Vincent…" Bura called to her warrior who suddenly stopped in his tracks as if to see who called his name. His red eyes looked to Bura who could hardly recognize him.
"She loves you … Idiot… If you die… and you will if you keep pissing me off… She will be all alone… Just like us, Vincent … Just like us" Vegita slowly gathered his energy. "Do you love her?" He asked. "I said do you love her!" he yelled Again. Vincent’s arms slowly lowered, he looked to Bura who was standing closer to him now, he could see all that had first caught his eye about her from the first day he had landed on the planet.
"I do… I do love you, Bura…" The beast had finally spoken in Vincent’s voice.
"I love you too, Vincent…" Bura answered back.
"…And I definitely love you, Good night!!!" Vegita had pulled back as far as he could and then unleashed a winding right fist into the back of Vincent’s head knocking him unconscious. The warrior’s body fell to one knee and then gradually over to his right, the great Vincent was defeated and his hair slowly faded to black. "…What the hell are you looking at, Brat?" The prince yelled at his son who was surprised that his father had knocked Vincent down like that.
"Huh?" Was all he could say.
"You and idiot boy pick him up and put him in a bed…" Vegita ordered. "Yes that you, Goten!" The boys quickly ran over to the unconscious Vincent and carried his body inside.
"Poppa?" Vegita heard his daughter. "May I watch over Vincent tonight?" She walked over to Vegita who was limping inside the house behind Trunks and Goten.
"You may…"He answered in a gruff voice. "Tell him… No hard feelings…" The sayajin prince had made his way up to his bedroom where Bulma had awoken.
"What the hell happened to you!?" She yelled.
"Never mind that, woman!" Vegita scowled as he closed the door behind him. "I just want to rest…" He laid down, but eventually he told the whole story to Bulma who found Vincent’s tale to be one of sadness; it had also reminded her so much of an evil sayajin prince she had fallen in love with long ago. Later on that night she would talk with her husband who, as tired as he was, remained awake staring at the ceiling. His arms were crossed behind his head and Bulma was curled up with her head resting on his chest, his ordeal with Vincent had filled his head with cloudy memories of Vegita-sei and what could have been… and was by right of blood what should have been.
"Do you ever sometimes wish that you hadn’t met me… and that you were king?" She had guessed what he had been thinking about all this time he had been laying in bed.
"No, Woman! Now go back to sleep!" He was annoyed that Bulma always seemed to be reading his mind.
"You will always be my king…" She kissed him and closed her eyes. Vegita could not help but smile as he moved his arm around his mate’s body.
"Good night, woman…I love you…" He had put great thought in that sentence. Bulma looked up at her husband, she was pleased he had told her that, knowing that her prince, after all these years, still had a hard time saying it. "You know the last person I said that to I knocked unconscious." He joked as the couple started to play fought in bed.
Trunks and Goten had put Vincent in an extra room down the hall from Bura’s room. The warrior slept on the bed in peaceful slumber, by his side Bura sat rubbing her fingers through his course black hair. Trunks and Goten stood a couple of feet away arguing.
"Well how do you think I’m supposed to feel? She is my niece…" Goten yelled in a whisper.
"Hey! It wasn’t my fault. She started talking about when we were looking for the black star dragonballs… She always had a crush on me… I started to like her too… one thing led to another…"
"So!" Goten Interrupted. "I can’t believe you did this… Gohan’s gonna kick your ass sooo bad!"
"So your mad?"
"Well …Yeah! But… You are my friend, and I do trust you … " Goten put his hand on Trunks’ Shoulder. "Whatever floats your boat, man…"
"Thanks!" Trunks was happy he had not lost a friend "Do you really think Gohan’s gonna kick my ass?" He seemed slightly worried.
"Hey!" Bura yelled. "Do you guys mind?"
"Sorry…" Both boys crept out of the room.
"Hey, you…" Bura had seen Vincent was starting to come too.
"Hey…" The beaten warrior was groggy.
"That was stupid, you jerk!!!" Bura punched Vincent’s arm with no effect
"I’m sorry" His voice was soft. Bura quickly buried her face on top of Vincent’s chest.
"Why were you going to leave me?" Bura started to sob.
"I didn’t know what to do…" He gently lifted her head up to look at her face "I don’t know any other way to live… But I fell in love with you" The sayajin looked into Bura’s eyes "… It was new to me and I was scared… I’m still scared… Our kind, we don’t deal with fear very good and…"
"Shhh…" Bura put her fingertip over Vincent’s mouth "I’m scared too… We’ll both be scared together." Vincent held Bura within his massive arms, she held him as tight as she could as if he would go away from her again; but she knew deep inside that when she awoke he would still be there.
THE END
VINCENT IS A CHARACTER CREATED BY ME. IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS AT ALL, GOOD OR BAD, PLEASE CONTACT ME.