Endangered Saiyans

Part 9

All eyes were turned to the three Saiyans who sat on one side of the table.

Radditz and Nappa turned their attention to Turles, who, noting that he had been the one elected to speak, stood and describe to his quiet listeners all the happenings that had led up to their being there now. (A/N: If you don't know how Nappa, Radditz, and Turles got there, then I DO suggest you read all the chapters that come before this.)

When Turles was done, there was a silence of understanding, but soon, that transformed into an uncomfortable silence. Every one seemed very intresed in the food that lay before them, and wondered exactly should be done in the situation.

Finally, Radditz spoke the question that lay heavily on people's minds, "So now, what is to become of us?"

No one said anything at first. They didn't know. Finally, Vegita just said, "We shall see."

That edgy silence resumed for a moment.

"Oh!" Chichi said, "Where are my manners!? Everyone, feel free to dig in any time."

So all the guests started eating, nursing each of their own separate thoughts and ideas. The silence was only interupted every once and a while by the laughter coming from the kids table, as Trunks and Goten laughed and kidded. Soon, all of the adults had turned their attention to the two jovial half-breeds, as they talked about anything and everything under the sun.

Everyone, Saiyans included, found themselves smiling. Trunks and Goten had fallen into whispering to one another, and after a while, they nodded solomnly to one another. They got up from the table and ran into the house.

"Wonder what they're up to," Krillian said, his and everyone else's eyes following the two youngsters as they "snuck" into the house.

"What ever it is.....,"Gohan said grinning, "It's gotta' have something to do with mischief."

"Obviously," Krillian agreed, "Wonder what they're planning this time........"

The adults were kind of dissapointed that the kids were gone, and so they turned their attention back to the food at hand, again.

Nappa gorged all he could eat and was pleased to find even more. He started to watch all the others eat. He looked at Turles and Radditz, his fellow resurectees. He looked across the table at Yamcha, and remembering how he had died last time they had met. He looked at Krillian, and thought of how the midget had gotten so strong.....

"How DID you get so strong, any way!?" Nappa blurted out the thought in his head.

The others were kind of surprised by the sudden question, then Gohan said simply, "We became more powerful as the situations involved demanded increasingly higher chi levels."

"Huh?" Nappa said brightly.

"What he means is," Goku said, "We kept on meeting stronger foes, and had to keep ourselves nearly in constant training to keep our powers up strong enough to survive each enemy."

"Yeah!" Nappa said, "But who did you fight that was stronge you had to get THAT powerful!?"

"Well, first I guess there was you guys.....then I guess the Ginyu force......then Freiza.......then Cell.............." Goku started counting off on his fingers all the major bad guys he had fought in the past.

"The Ginyu force!? FRIEZA!?" Turles was almost speachless, "No way!"

"Who won?" Nappa asked.

"Well, OBVIOUSLY they did!" Radditz glared at Nappa for his stupidity.

"There was a heavy price for some of those victories, though," Goku said, eyes kind of distant.

"Boy I'll say," Krillian mumbled, looking down at his food again.

"So....Frieza is.......really dead, right?" Turles had a hard time believing it. He had heard that Frieza's power level was over a million.

"Well, yeah," Goku said casually, his hands behind his head.

"Hmph," Radditz said thoughtfully, "Alright. I have a question. How exactly DID Vegita get to be on your side? I would think he would have killed you all by now."

"I STILL DO plan on killing them all off,"Vegita snarled. He thought for a second, then added, "Except maybe my mate and children. Maybe. It all depends on my mood at the time."

Most of the people at the table just looked at their now empty plates and kept silent. Bulma snickered, but shut up when Vegita sent a rather NASTY look her way.

Goku, however, just couldn't bite his tounge!

"PWAAHAHAHAHA!" he burst out laughing, "Vegita, you know you couldn't bring your self to destroy any of us! Besides, you couldn't stand a chance if it came down to a REAL fight between us! In the whole time I have ever met you, you have never won agenst me!"

"Kakarot!" some would swear Vegita accually DID breath fire, "Haven't you realized by NOW that I have been mearly TOYING with you? I would have destroyed you easily the first time we met on this dirt-ball planet. You just cheated, then! You had all of your friends at your aid! I faught all alone!"

"Your right," Goku said, nodding, "You could have killed me then. And I DID have help from friends at the time. But you must not remember, you ALSO had help. Nappa was there with you, wasn't he? I just didn't KILL off my help when they were hurt. You did. Had Nappa been alive, he may have been the deciding factor in the fight. But, lucky for me, you weren't really thinking too hard, were you?"

"Yeah....but...yeah...you.....JUST SHUT UP, KAKAROT!!" Vegita crossed his arms and glared at his empty plate.

"Um. Yeah," Radditz said, kinda stunned that Kakarot was so discurdious to Vegita. The respect of the Monarchy had been bred into the Saiyans over centuries of time. It had never been questioned before, so Radditz found himself dumbfounded that Kakarot, a third class warrior, could talk to Vegita, the Prince, no, the KING now, of all Saiyans as though he were an equal. The thought had never occured before.

"You still haven't told us how Vegita went to your side," Turles said, ever curious about how Vegita would WILLINGLY choose to stay on this planet with his weakling mate and ugly half-breed son, while no one seemed to respect him in the least.

"Well," Gohan said, seeing that Vegita wasn't in the mood to talk any more, "I guess it all started on the planet Namek...."

Nappa, Turles and Radditz all listened intently as Gohan described as vividly as he could all the happenings that they had exirianced on Namek, from their arrival on the planet, to Vegita's death, to the point where they had found themselves suddenly on Earth, thinking Goku was surely dead. Even Vegita listened with curiosity to some of the things he hadn'e known before, like the many times Krillian and Gohan had nearly been caught, both by him and Freiza's goons, and about how Gohan had come to take Vegita's hidden Dragonball.

They then all turned their attention to Goku, who told his side of the story, from the moment he had left Earth for Namek to the moment he had barly escaped destruction on the planet after Freiza's self defeat.

All the while, Turles, Radditz, and Nappa could only listen, none daring to interupt, only in awe at how all the events had seemed to haphazardly come together, only to end in the best for intire universe.

It was uncanny.

To be continued........

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