Chapter Six: The Life Cycle
I threw a ki blast at Bardock and smiled as I appeared behind him! He growled as he turned to face me in time to catch another ki blast.
“Now that had to hurt,” I smirked as I quickly dodged his own attack. “But then again you deserve it!” I put up and energy shield and crossed my arms in front of my face.
“What for? Training you, turning you from a powerless weakling to an almost normal Saiyan?” Bardock laughed as he disappeared and reappeared behind me, catching me and keeping me from moving. “At least you’ll be easy to catch in the Mating Tournament.”
“Not likely, I don’t plan on being a mother yet,” I said as I hit him in the face with the back of my head. “Besides, there’s no SAIYAN who’s good enough for me.”
“Hmm, you mean there’s no Saiyan that deserves to be stuck with you,” Bardock said as he began to crush me in his arms. I suppressed a grunt as I tried to free myself from his grasp. “Face it, Mabelle, once a male catches you in his arms, you’re going to be the happy mother of a bouncing baby Saiyan in twenty-four months.” He put just enough crushing force in his next squeeze to cause me to black out.
“*Bastard, pain in the ass, Bardock,*” I growled, (* this now means being spoken in Saiyan). I looked up to see that I was in a regeneration tank and I could see Freeza’s scientist looking in on me. I knocked gently on the glass and he quickly got me out of the tank.
“Well then, child, it looks like you still have to work on your fighting technique,” he chuckled as he handed me some clothing.
“Not my technique, I just can’t let them catch me,” I sighed as I quickly dried off using my ki and began dressing. I sighed as I thought back a month, how Bardock had to teach me how to use my ki, I had an impressive power level, but without the knowledge to use it I was helpless. I still had a lot to learn, but I had a feeling that Bardock wasn’t going to teach me everything he knew until after the Mating Tournament, which was in a week. I sighed as I rounded the corner of the lab to look at the Queen, she was sleeping and I was her bodyguard until the Prince was born. I knew it was Vegeta and I knew what was going to happen in a few years. I sighed as I looked around me, I had not seen Freeza yet and was in no rush to. I had a bad feeling that I was going to have to see him before this was all over. I shook my head and took my post beside the Queen, patiently waiting for her, my only friend, to die.
“*THE PAIN IS HORRIBLE!*” she screamed, waking me with a start. I looked at her and I could smell that her water had broken the Prince was going to be born any moment now. I gasped as I called for the scientist and the King. I couldn’t leave her side and I quickly turned off the gravity and picked up the Queen, carrying her over to the birthing table.
“Quick remover her clothing,” the scientist ordered as he prepared for birth and I ripped the royal garment off, tossing them to the side. “Now wait for me to hand you the child.” I stood and tried to shut my ears to the screams of Vegistie as she began to die. I felt the tears slowly fall down my cheeks, suddenly my hand was in a vise and I looked down to see her clutching my hand. I applied a little pressure and looked into her eyes and I could see she was sad. I didn’t need to hear a word, I knew, she wanted to see the stars as she had when she was a soldier, to visit strange worlds as she had done as an ambassador for Freeza, she wanted to go to balls as she had done once she was crowned Queen, and she didn’t want to die bring the King’s heir into the world. I knew all this just from looking in her eyes, she had told me all the amazing things she had done in her twenty-seven years. She had been a soldier till she was twenty, she had been an ambassador for Freeza for five years, and she had been Queen of the Saiyans for only two years.
“I’m sorry, I wish I could help you,” I whispered as I squeezed back, her pain apparent and suddenly she opened her eyes and screamed. The sound echoing through the whole palace; then the quiet, and finally the screams of an infant.
“Here, clean the infant off and feed him, you are his guardian until his father chooses another,” the scientist sighed as he handed me a bloody, slimy infant. I looked down at Vegeta and wrinkled my nose at him, he stunk of blood and death, not unpleasant, but I still didn’t like it.
“What do you have to do?” I asked hoping to get out of it.
“I have to prepare the Queen for burial,” and with that he was gone and I sighed as I walked over to the sink and began to clean the screaming infant. I sighed as I wrapped him in a blanket and found a bottle in the fridge, I warmed it with my ki and began to feed the little parasite. Vegeta grabbed onto one of my breasts through my armor as he fed and I was rather uncomfortable, but let him stay that way.
“Wow, do I envy that infant,” a young male said as he entered the lab, his tail swinging at his side. I glared at him and returned to watching the young Prince feed.
“Be careful, Turles, she could rip you in two and never even blink,” the King said as he followed the Elite soldier into the lab. “So this is my heir, Prince Vegeta, well Nappa will be here to pick up the child.”
“I understand, my King,” I said as I glared at the floor, my hatred and fear of King Vegeta merging together in my gut.
“Well, six more days, then the Mating Tournament, what a relief, it was getting so boring,” Turles laughed as he smiled at me, I smirked back at him.
“Too bad, you’re two years too young to participate,” I said as I glared at the little Elite, he growled at me as I smirked. “Better luck next time.”
“Watch it, female, I know something you don’t know,” he teased and I watched as the King left.
“And what would that me, annoying one?” I asked as I placed the infant in a crib. I looked at him and sighed, he reminded me of his mother.
“You’ve been chosen as the MFF,” he said as he stood next to me. I looked at him out of the corner of my eye.
“And that would be, what?” I asked as I stood up. He grinned evilly as he began to walk out of the room.
“Most Fertile Female, so you are going to be very popular,” he laughed as he walked down the hall. I growled as I watched Nappa come through a different door.
“Don’t even talk to me, Nappa!” I snapped as I charged out of the lab, I had lost the only Saiyan who talk to me civilly and now I was going to be the most sought after piece of meat at the Mating Tournament!
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I gulped as I stood in the center of the tournament ring, looking around at the other fifty females who were all available this time, each of us would form a bond with a male and then mate with him every mating season we were alive. Ten of the females there were widows, replacing their pure Saiyan mates with another. I groaned as I looked at the three hundred males that were fighting for the right to mate with one of us. I saw Bardock near the front as the group stood in front of the King. The speech was going to begin.
“Each of you males here are going to call out the female you wish to mate with, if you are lucky, there will be no others and you can go straight to the courtship hunt (that is where the male Saiyan chases the female Saiyan showing he had endurance). For the rest of you there will be other males calling out the chosen female, you will have to fight till there is only one male remaining. Then the courtship hunts will begin, followed by the mating dance (actually it’s a fight between the male and female, where the male must beat the female to prove he is strong enough to father her children), and finally the pair will consummate and mate, creating the bond. So it has been the way and so it shall continue to be the way!” King Vegeta cried as he finished his inspirational speech and exited. I watched as thirty-some Saiyan males lined up by me and called out that they wished to fight for the right to have me as their mate. I groaned, it was going to be a long day.
Boy, am I in it deep or what ? Hey, I smell something lemony…OH NO, not a LEMON!!! Great, now I have to sit through the tournament and wait and see who I’m going to have a Lemon scene with * grrr*! Next time on Dragon Ball YWBT find out who my mate is and what I have to say about it. See you next time ^_-