Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Distant Horizons ❯ Old Threats and a New Life ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

By: Adge06

Author: Hello readers. It's been a while. I wrote this about 4 years ago and decided to revise and repost.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z. All rights belong to Akira Toriyama

Distant Horizons

Chapter 1- Old threats, New Life

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The soft winds flew gracefully along the deep, red stained fields. Bitter rain poured down unmercifully upon the corpses of the brave Saiyan soldiers. The skies darkened, dulling the plea's for help ringing through the long endless night on the fateful planet Vegeta-sei.

"What now, sire, what now?" a dark figured questioned.

The dark frame turned to his henchmen. "The family," his eerie voice whispered out as his violent red eyes shimmered in the darkness.

"Kill who is not of importance."

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Sirens rang throughout the entire castle. Figures scurried down the halls in fear, silently pleading for hope among the current chaos. A small girl amidst all the rush was sitting on the ground curled in a ball, waiting. But no one noticed.

"Help," the four year old whispered , as she grabbed the maids dress and tugged it lightly.

The tall woman turned slowly and looked down towards the floor, her eyes widened in shock.

"Princess! Kami, what are you doing out here, you should be with your mother!" the maid yelled, picking the girl up into her arms.

The young princess looked away, tears brimming her eyes, "I-I was," she whimpered as she turned her head to the side. "She won't wake up! Celeria! Mom won't wake up, the man..he-" her tears ran hard down her face and her voice became strained.

"Hush Nira, everything will be alri-"

"Nira!!, Nira , Thank Kami, you're alive!" a young boy cried as he rushed over and tore the princess from the maid arms.

"Vegeta," she cried as she fell to her knees.

"Shhhh, Nira, we must leave at once, be strong for me. Nira, I-" He knelt down and looked into his sister's golden eyes.

"I won't let anything happen to you, I promise, keep close," he whispered as he clutched her small, fragile wrist and ran through the halls, pushing the servants as he made way to leave the castle.

Hastily, brother and sister ran through the enormous hallways of the majestic castle. Everything seemed to be going in slow motion for the small girl as she clutched to her small doll with one hand, and to her brother with the other as she ran to keep up with him.

" Vegeta, I can't keep up, ple-“ she began until interrupted by an unfamiliar voice.

"Well, well, well, look what we have here, fella's, I think we've struck gold." A tall, blue alien laughed as the two children ran into him, causing both of them to fly back a few feet. The prince flipped backwards, landing on his feet, hunched, while the princess landed roughly on her stomach. Vegeta growled as he helped his sister up, never letting his eyes leave those of the blue alien's.

"Stay. Away." he hissed, his eyes narrowing along with his sisters.

"Now, why in Kami's name would we want to do that," one of the aliens laughed, "when we can have a nice grand reward from Frieza if we return you and...kill that." he said, pointing to the small girl.

"Err, you're not touching her!" Vegeta growled, as he pulled Nira close to his body as she clutched to him in fear.

"Well, who's gonna stop us...you?" The alien laughed with his men.

"No, me." The group turned to see the furious glare of a Saiyan solider. The solider stepped aside for the King. Both children walked quickly over to their father.

"Are you two all right?" he asked, kneeling down to their heights."Yes father," the girl replied. Vegeta simply nodded. The King eyed both his children up and down. "Good, both of you follow me, Bardock, take care of these filthy aliens."

"Yes sire."

As soon as Bardock finished his words, the castle shook wildly and a loud explosion was heard. Everyone looked outside the castle, only to see the waves of a tremendous after shock heading towards. All eyes widened in fear. The king quickly knelt down to cover his son and daughter. They all screamed as they were suddenly thrown far out of the castle boundaries.

"Got the monkey's out of there tree," Frieza laughed vengefully. King Vegeta, are you going to reconsider my offer, or will I just have to destroy you all?" he asked, as he paced back and forth in front of the group, who was recuperating from the blast.

"Dodoria, you and your men, over here, now." Freiza barked out as the aliens rushed behind their master.

"What's a matter Frieza, afraid we'll overpower you?" the King questioned arrogantly.

"Ha!" the short lizard like creature laughed,"When all hell freezes over," he replied. He looked straight into the eyes of his enemy. "Now, give me the boy or,"

"Never!"

"Wrong answer."

Bardock, King Vegeta and the children were soon blown back effortlessly.

"Fine then, I'll take him myself." Frieza levitated and landed in front of the group. Bardock and the King shot up and started throwing everything they had at the vicious alien. The battle lasted for a while, as the two children looked on in awe. Vegeta snapped out of his trance and shot a look towards his sister.

"Nira, now, lets leave," he whispered.

"But, where Vegeta, they'll find us anywhere on this planet, wh-" Vegeta grabbed her hand and looked in her eyes," Then we'll leave, you and I, we'll leave the planet, its the only way," he turned his head as his whispered those words. " But what about father , mother, the planet, we-" her small brown eyes narrowed," we can't just leave!"

Vegeta shot a dangerous look towards his sister. "What about them Nira! Mother's dead, father is most likely to sell us to Freiza-"

He couldn't believe this was happening so fast. One minute he was in his training lessons and the next he was formulating a plan to escape his home planet. Even at the tender age of eight, he understood everything that was going on and the consequences that would be held if they didn't escape.

"No he won't! Father will fight for us!" she yelled as she tore her hand from is grasp.

"Fine," he growled, "then he will most likely die along with Bardock, and that bastard will destroy our planet and take us away." he declared turning her towards him.

"You."Nira stated twisting her head away.

"What?"

"You, he'll take you away, he wants nothing of me and you know this, he'll just kill me along with everyone else," she screamed, tears slowly starting to fall down her small, elegant face. Vegeta looked into his sister's eyes for a moment and smiled slightly.

"I promised I wouldn't let anything happen to you, I will protect you with my life, wherever I go, you go, got that?" he affirmed. She wiped her tears away and smiled, then looked down. "It's-I just want to be home with father and mother, I want to be training with you, I want to be happy or- anything, anything but this..I don't want to leave home Vegeta-" she cried as she looked up and noticed that it started to rain.

“Nira, we can't stay here-". They were both blown back by a large chi ball thrown in their direction. Nira looked up, wiping the rain from her face.

“Vegeta?" she strained , as she coughed up her blood. Her eyes scurried around frantically, searching for her brother. She stared to panic as she couldn't find him.

She stood and screamed out, "Vegeta! Vegeta where are y-" before she could finish, the battered body of her father slammed to the ground directly in front of her.

"Father!"

The young girl dropped to her knees and she wiped the blood from his face. "N-Nir," he strained. "No father, I'm here don't worry." she cried brushing the soaked hair from her face.

"Help your brother kitten," and with that his eyes shut and body fell numb.

Tears mixed with the rain and she shook her father "Father!"

She then heard a loud scream and looked up tosee her brother being carried away.

"Vegeta! No, leave him alone, leave my brother alone!" she screamed as she quickly got up and started running after her brother's kidnapper. She growled as she began moving faster. 'Vegeta hang on, I won't let anything happen to you either' she thought and she scurried forward. As soon as she went to jump at the man, she was grabbed from behind. She let out a frustrated scream as her small legs began to kick vigorously.

"No, leave her be! Don't touch her, errrahh! Nira!" Vegeta protested as the two children reached hands out to each other as they were being pulled apart.

"Good-bye little girl," Dodoria laughed and he held his palm out inches away from her scared face.

"No wait! Please! Frieza I-"

"Wait," Frieza said sternly as he turned to face the young prince, "You what?" he questioned.

"Please, if you take me, take her, I'll take care of her. Please I do anything!"

"She'll be a weakness"

"No! I promise, I beg you, don't kill her, we'll both come peacefully, no fights, nothing," the young boy pleaded as he look the beast in the eyes.

"Do you think it matters? What pleasure do I get in keeping her instead of just another monkey on board. Although. . .” he pondered with a smirk growing on his pale face, “I'm sure we could find some use for her in the future.”

Vegeta's eyes burned with hatred at the statement as he growled.

"No? Well then, I can just kill her now and save the whole argument-"

"No! Fine whatever, just let her stay with me." The prince requested.

Freiza eyed the boy for a moment and smirked evilly. "Fine, let them both go, you'll come peacefully-"

A large blow interrupted him as he blocked it and looked up to see King Vegeta and Bardock in a fighting stance. "It's too late, your son already gave me his word he would come peacefully, he yelled as the henchmen grabbed the two men from behind holding them back with all their strength.

"Oooh, we have a great fight to look forward to, don't we King Vegeta," one of the men spat. The King growled as the two men struggled with everything they had, but it wouldn't work. The king looked up into the dark skies.

He saw the face of two of his children being torn away from him, and there was nothing he could do, nothing.

"I will see you again!" he yelled over the storm. The children looked at him and nodded with sad faces and no hope as they were dragged away from their home planet, their birthright, which they would never see or know again. They were shoved into the ship and it took of quickly. Frieza smiled as he stared out the window.

"Hn, pathetic monkeys."

Nira and Vegeta clutched hands as they watched their planet fade away from there eyes forever. Both of them knew, even at their tender age, that their lives would never be the same again. Both looked towards each other.

"Nira, don't worry...we'll be fine," he told her, staring out into the vast emptiness of space.

"We'll be fine."

And the years went by. . .

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A: Hello all. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Please review!

Until Chapter 2, "Adjusted”