Chapter 5

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Vegeta could see all the mistakes Bulma was doing. He could see she wasn’t blocking at all and was having a hard time hitting her and moving fast.

" Come on Bulma, I thought you could’ve at least hurt me. Your brains do you no good here. You will die at my fingertips and I shall rule forever with harsh slavery and high taxes!" Bulma’s body kept on screaming." Get away get away fast come on"! But her body wouldn’t move. It’s like the untamed part of her soul, the panther part, was driving her to stay and keep her pride while her other tamed past, the human part, was ranting and raving get away. Blow after blow, punch after punch. She just wasn’t stopping. Her face was now bloody and she had a black eye. Her right arm was half-broken and pain was clouding her judgement. She just had no fight in her left. She just stood their wait for her to hit again. Vegeta was tapping his foot nervously. He knew if he didn’t do something quick, she was going to die a honourable death. He could interfere, but maybe just this once…

So, quickly, he turned Super Saijin and charged towards the queen. He slammed headfirst into the ship’s invisible force field. He got so mad he started to pound on the invincible shield. Bulma was right next to where he was and she started to wake up. Queen Tora was going to enjoy this so she stepped back to watch Bulma’s last actions before she died. She started to stand up and her vision was blurred but she could see the golden glow Vegeta had.

" Vegeta," she started to whisper. Immediately Vegeta stopped pounding and listened to every word.

" I’m so sorry. I’m so weak." She started to cough and blood splattered on the shield.

" Woman," Vegeta didn’t know what to say for the first time.

" I just wanted to say that," she hesitated for moment before she started again. It looked like she didn’t want to finish the sentence but she had too," I just wanted to say that I never hated you. I actually love you." She lifted her head to meet with his eyes. She smiled at him trying not to show any pain. Vegeta didn’t speak; he just looked at her enjoying her face even though it was beaten to a pulp.

" I guess I…" he didn’t get to finish as Queen Tora jabbed her elbow into Bulma’s back. Her eyes widened with pain as she slowly fell to the ground and the last thing she saw was, was Vegeta going into a rampage.

" HOW DARE YOU HIT SOMEONE WHEN THEIR BACK IS TURNED DON’T YOU HAVE ANY HONOR BEAST!" Vegeta yelled as loud as he could. (Which is pretty loud mind you.) He looked down at Bulma. Her face was relaxed. She’s probably knocked out. Then Queen Tora picked up Bulma but her neck and started to squeeze ever so slowly. She was jolted awake by the shortage of air. She started to gasp for air.

" See you in hell little one." She said to Bulma so Vegeta could hear it too. Bulma sucked in as much air as she could and spoke.

" Not before you bitch." And she lifted her knee and slammed it into her gut and she went flying backwards and almost hit the ship. She dropped Bulma and she rested her hand on the force field.

" Pretty good shot for a," she coughed up blood again," for a weak girl right?" she smiled weakly.

" You are going to pay for that little girl. I have the best torture machine in the universe."

" No matter how hard you beat me up. No matter how much you make fun of me. You can never hurt me." She said with confidence.

" You know, you are pretty strong for a reject experiment from Princess Burakkupansa. Do you know anyone else who is almost as strong as you that is a female?"

" Yes, but why should I tell you. You’re just a mangy MUTT!"

" Don’t you ever call me a dog you worthless thing. You couldn’t even please Vegeta."

" That’s it, you just broke the number one rule. You never make fun of Vegeta in-front of me."

She started to change into her panther form and roared as loud as she could. (Just like Vegeta WOW! What a pair. Hee, he I’m so evil. Oops I forgot to put that in parenthesis. Oh well. Boy am I bad to the bone. That’s a stupid saying. Back to the story!)

Bulma ran towards the queen and aimed her teeth for her neck. She barely missed catching a chunk of her shoulder. Then queen roared too and changed into her own panther form. But instead of yellow eyes, she had purple eyes.

" What's with the eye trick?" Bulma asked.

" It took me weeks to change my eyes so people can differentiate from others." She said proudly.

" WOW! It took you weeks just to change your eyes. I wonder how long it would take you to change your whole face. LOL!" he started to laugh. Queen Tora was really mad now.

" You better tell me who else is as strong as you or else Vegeta will get it." She smirked an evil smirk.

" Do what? Tickle him until he wets his pants! You can’t hurt him enough until I go into submission." Bulma laughed at her own joke. (I do that all the time at school hee. Just ask Kenie. Anywho where was I? Oh yea.) She just sternly looked at her.

" I will laugh at you when I hear you pleading for mercy when I kill you for your insubordination!"

" I could care less. I will battle to the end with honour. So try your best." She crouched down ready to strike.

While they were fighting, Vegeta was trying a new way to get into the force field. Maybe if I over run the shield then I generator will short out. Well, worth a try. He thought to himself. He powered up to as far as he could go and did his best attack.

"BIG BANG ATTACK!" he yelled and the blue beam came accelerating fast and hit the shield. Both the queen and Bulma looked as Vegeta shorted out the shield. The queen took this opportunity and bit Bulma’s neck and scratched her back with three huge claw marks.

" REVENGE IS MINE!" she yelled as she ran onto her ship and it took off. Bulma fell down to the ground and changed back to her human/panther form. Vegeta stopped when he saw the ships shield power was depleted and ran towards Bulma. He bent next to her and picked her head up stroking her now black hair.

" Ve...ge...ta…Thank you so much," coughed up blood again. (BLOOD ROCKS!) " I would’ve died without you. I owe you my life." She smiled and winced at the claw marks and the other hundred of cuts and bruises on her body.

" Time to get you home. Walk or fly?"

" Walk please, I want to savour my victory so it seems." As they were walking, he kept on looking at her to check to see if she’s okay once and a awhile. Her eyes were closed and she was sleeping like a baby.

" Home." he said as he opened the sliding door. He put Bulma on the couch and went to the fridge. He opened it up and found an empty butter jar and shook it too see if anything was in it. It made a rattling sound meaning there was indeed in fact some sensu beans inside. He opened it up and got the biggest one. Shut the door and walked back to Bulma. It seemed like that all of her superficial cuts stopped bleeding. Except the 3 claw marks on her back. Vegeta bent down and held Bulma’s head into an upright position. She opened her eyes and looked at him.

" Thanks, but I think I feed myself thank you. Last time I checked I was a weakling."

" Fine, be that way. I am going to train." He said as she took the bean and swallowed it whole.

" Wait," she began as he was about to leave," you need to check the wound on my back. Please?" he sighed in defeat and Bulma turned herself around making her back upwards. Vegeta looked at it for a while and saw that there was now way of looking at the cut fully without taking her shirt off or breastplate.

" It’s okay, you can untie my breast plate and I will hold on to it and then you can Ummm… rip the back of my shirt." She said with hesitation.

" Fine, but if I screw up, you told me to do it." He untied the breastplate and ripped the back of the shirt even though it was almost off anyway. He saw the claw marks were almost done bleeding and he knew right then and there, they were going to become scares.

" So, how is it doctor, I can take it."

" Well, form the looks of here they are going to be scares for the rest of your life." She gasped when he said the last part and knew it was an everlasting reminder what had happened that day.

" Please tie my breastplate back on." She asked with a whisper. He did was he was told. (WOW and no complaining! Give it up for VEGETA!)

" Thanks a lot, I owe you just more than my life." She sat up, looking at him. One inch was away from their faces. She whispered the next part.

" I owe you my soul." And she kissed him romantically.

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