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Nina returned home in high spirits after saying goodbye to Trunks for the day. She loved him dearly, and he loved her just as much, this she knew. As much as she would've liked to stay with him all day, she had felt a large ki energy approaching. Nina wanted to ignore it so badly, but to her dismay her 6th sense would not let her do so. The ki energy was too familiar and too distinct to ignore it. But for some reason, only Nina could sense it clearly like a smack in the face. Trunks did not feel it until moments after she did. Nina knew it was a blood linked energy, but who else is related to her that she had not known about? Could it be that her mother had another child? Nina had no time to wait, the questions in her mind had to be answered now.
As she came closer towards the energy, she could now feel 4 different ki energies. One belonged to Kino and the other was Vegeta's. But who were the others? She had to know. Nina continued to soar above the ground until finally she spotted Kino and Vegeta. They were in the comapny of 2 other people Nina could not recognize at first. She landed on the ground and the 4 fighters turned their gazes upon her. But the one she couldn't take her eyes off of was the strange woman clad in Saiyan armor, grey bodysuit and white gloves, shin high black boots, hair in a high ponytail and one eye covered by a green scouter. The other was a piercing a violet and a silken white cloak was draped over her shoulders. The woman could not take her eyes off of Nina either. They were both overwhelmed.
Nina was the first to react. Tears welled up in her eyes and she ran forward, embracing the warrior woman. "Oh Mom! Mom it's really you! Mom!" she cried out happily through sobs.
Taliyah sighed as a tear trickled down her cheek. She brushed a gloved hand through Nina's long, silky hair and smiled. "Oh, my little Nina! My precious one, you're safe!" she exclaimed.
Nina took notice of the handsome man standing next to her mother. He was built and had shoulder length silver hair held in a ponytail. For a brief moment, she thought she was looking at Jarvus. But the thin scar was missing and he had brown eyes. She was overjoyed and left her mother's grasp and jumped into his arms, smothering her face in his neck as he stroked through her hair comfortingly.
"Father, it's really you! How I've longed to see you! Dad!" Nina said, ecstatic.
Jutus wiped a tear from his eye and sighed. "Yes my little girl, I've missed you as well." he whispered to her.
Once everyone had calmed down and gotten settled, Vegeta decided it was time to get serious. It was time he had to get some things out in the open, like Nina's powers for one. As well as training to do for the 3 assasins arrival.
"Alright, enough chatter. It's time we got down to business." Vegeta said.
Taliyah gave a snort. "As always." she said under her breath. Vegeta eyed her warily and she simply smiled her 'Just try me' smile.
"Now then, about these stones that Nina wears. Am I correct that each of you had one?" Vegeta asked. They all nodded. "Alright, well in the last few hours I've noticed that you 2" He pointed at Nina and Kino. "can unlock some of the power within the stone. I'm sure that you, Taliyah and Jutus, can do this as well?" The 2 nodded. "Okay then, now listen carefully for what I'm about to tell you is known throughout Saiyan history."
Vegeta cleared his throat. "Okay, long ago there lived a great and wise dragon named Enya. He was very powerful and was the one who granted the Saiyans the ability to transform into Super Saiyans. Enya was as peaceful as he was powerful and hated war. When he granted the Saiyans the great power of transformation, the one Saiyan who accomplished this feat was very powerful but could only maintain his power in the transformed state. Enya was proud that one of the Saiyans had finally gained enough power to become a Super Saiyan, but the power was too great for the Saiyan and it destroyed him."
"Enya was so taken over with grief that he wept the first and last tears he would ever weep. Out of his crytstal eyes fell 5 tear drops that soon froze and became 5 small stones. The stones were collected from the desolation of space. The mystery and beauty of the 5 stones were so entoxicating that no one could bear to just leave them there. So a small race of people kept the stones as a good luck charm and stowed them away in a jade box. That was nearly 3 milleniums ago and now they seemed to have resurfaced again. It is said that in each of the 5 Dragon Tears, holds power from Enya himself. But the only people who can tame the power were the Saiyans and the only Saiyan who could control all 5 of the stones' incredible power was the purest and most powerful Super Saiyan in the galaxy."
Vegeta sighed. "This legend has never been told to anyone except of noble blood. The reason is that no one ever bothered to mention it because so many people were concentrating on beocoming Super Saiyans rather than finding the stones. They were of value yes, but until someone became a Super Saiyan, Dragon Tears were worthless. Needless to say that we had to find them first."
He turned his gaze upon Taliyah and Jutus. "And it appears that you 2 have stumbled upon them." he said.
Taliyah shrugged. "Hey, we weren't of noble blood so we had no idea that there was even such a legend. We found the 5 stones on some planet we conquered when we were young. I'd say we were about 13, 14 I do believe. It was the same day that planet Vegeta was destroyed by Frieza. We had gotten the stones and Jutus, you Vegeta, and I were going to each have one and give the other 2 to the children we had, if we planned on having any back then." she explained to him.
Jutus flicked a strand of silver hair from his face. "We thought you were dead when we tried to get back to Vegeta, but we knew you couldn't die that easily so we began to search the galaxy for you. Many planets and space explorers said that they had seen you, Raditz, and Nappa heading to some planet in the West Quadrant of space in sector 782. So we decided to see where you were headed and what you were planning. When we got to sector 782, the planet was nothing more than ashes and dust, along with countless bodies on the grounds." he continued.
Vegeta flinched at the last remark. He hated being reminded of his past, cold-blooded nature. "So, how did you end up on Earth?" he asked them.
Taliayh brushed her dark brown banes from her eyes, but they just fell back again. "Before we left planet Vegeta, we said goodbye to Bardock and his kid Kakarot. He was such a cute little tike back then. We asked Bardock where they were sending Kakarot, but he didn't know and didn't have time to talk because he was due for a mission by Frieza himself on Meat. After we told him to tell Fasha and Torra we said hey, he left to go do battle. On our way out we decided to stop by the pod rooms and get a list of the pod launches and who was going onto what planet. But there was one baby we were looking for and we found him. It was Kakarot and he was being sent to Earth."
Jutus smiled. "I've always had a 6th sense for trouble, me living on the streets my entire life, so I copied the coordinates for Earth onto my scouter for future reference. Something bad was going to happen. I knew it the day that Frieza took you away, Vegeta. I mean sure, we got to see you whenever we got back from our assignments and you from yours. But that Frieza character always gave me a bad vibe. Taliyah and I decided to break you outta there when we got back from our mission. Like I said though, you were gone when we got back and we began to search for you." he said.
Taliayh arched an eyebrow. "But your butt was always moving! You never could stay still. We had been chasing you for what seemed like forever, but in actuality it was 4 years. We were always 1 step behind you. Finally we gave up on trying to find you so we decided to see how Kakarot was doing and if the planet was still good enough to live on, we would stay there. When we got to Earth, we found the place lush and beautiful as though no one had ever touched it. Then we found out why."
She took a breath. "Kakarot had fallen into a ravene when he was young and couldn't remember to do his mission of destruction. So instead he became a sweet child, yet powerful, but with no desire to kill. We had been meaning to confront Kakarot about this sudden mishap, but he seemed so happy and was a young, energetic child and the influence upon him was everything but destructive. Nothing would have made him change from his goodhearted nature. Jutus and I had grown to love eachother and we married at the age of 18, built a large house around our space pods and had our first child in the some years later."
Jutus shook his head and continued to smile. "His name was Jarvus. After we got back from the hospital with him, we decided to give him something that would recognize him as our son. So we made him a necklace with the stone we had found on the planet we conquered. 5 years went by and we watched him grow. Taliyah gave birth to another child, a little girl, and we named her Kino. During these times, specifically years before we had our kids, we had watched Kakarot, or rather Goku, grow up as well. Since he was the son of a close friend of mine, Bardock, I secretly vowed to take care of his son as well. He was about 9 now and had entered the World's Martial Arts Tournament against Tien. If Taliyah and I did not have other things to worry about we would have gladly entered, but we decided to let Goku have some glory while he was still young."
"We knew that we weren't the only ones who knew of Goku's existance." Taliyah continued. "Of course there was Raditz, his older brother and you Vegeta. We knew you would come because of the Dragonballs. Yes, we knew of the Dragonballs' existance and it's power. But unlike you Vegeta, who craved for immortality, we did not wish for that. We just wanted happiness and that's what we had. Besides, we would rather watch young Goku collect them and do extrodinary things with them, which proved he had a pure heart, Saiyan though he was. We were here when Raditz came and also when you and Nappa showed up. We could have intervened in this too, but decided not to. It was good to see you though. You had not fully mastered the art of ki sensing like we had, so you knew nothing of our presence at that time. Note that at this time we didn't even have kids yet. It wasn't until 2 years before the androids showed up that Jarvus was born. He was 5 years old when Cell arrived."
Vegeta glared at her. "You were here when Cell was?! Why didn't you help Girl?! Do you know how ruthless that battle was?!" he demanded, but as usual Taliyah just smirked in his face. She was happy to be getting on his bad side already.
Jutus chuckled at Vegeta's expression. "Yeah, we knew Vegeta. But for 1, we had a kid and 2, we knew you guys could handle it. We may not have become Super Saiyans just yet, but we were certain you all would win against him and did not need our help." he explained, then waved his hand aside. "Besides, you were the one always bragging on how you were the one who was going to defeat Cell." Jutus' brown eyes narrowed at Vegeta angrily. "And you would have too, had not your stupid pride got in the way! I must tell you Vegeta, I was infuriated by that move you made against your own son, Trunks, like that!" he snapped.
Vegeta growled and then turned his head away. "It's none of your concern what I did Jutus! It was of my affair, not yours!"
Taliyah grunted at his remark, violet eyes slitted. "Hah! And what a beautiful performance you made, simply spectacular! Anymore of your foolishness and we would've all died!" she replied curtly, then clapped her hands. "Bravo! But please...no encore okay?"
Vegeta jumped off the boulder and balled up his fists till electricity sparked out of them. He moved in close to Taliyah's face, so close that their noses were barely touching one another. He growled in her face, teeth bared while she simply glared at him through her scouter and the other eye blazing violet. She didn't even flinch at his movements, but crossed her arms and then her legs. A gust of wind was heard and it blew her white cload off her shoulders as it fluttered behind her.
Vegeta began to power up. "Are you challenging me woman?!" he shouted at her.
Taliyah smirked. "And what if I am? You may have become a Super Saiyan but make no mistake," She closed her eyes. "I'll still beat you." Taliyah finished.
Vegeta powered down and crossed his arms over his chest. "Very well then Girl. Let's see how much you've been lazing about since you had kids." he dared.
Taliyah got off the rock and threw her cloak aside, then she took off her scouter and placed it neatly on top of the cloak. "Alright Vegeta, but you're asking for it." she warned.
Nina got off the ground and stood in front of Vegeta, eyes narrowed angrily. "Vegeta, what do you think you're doing?! My mother just got here and you're already being hot headed!" she snapped.
Vegeta pulled back his fist and swung, but Nina held up her arm and blocked it easily. He eyed her warily. The girl's improved quite a bit since last night. he commented to her silently.
"Stay out of this child! This isn't any of your business!" he snapped back.
Nina smirked, but her brown eyes still blazed viciously. "That's my Mom you're about to fight and if it concerns her then it is my business! Gosh, can't you be reasonable for once and act like a man instead of a pride filled jerk?"
Vegeta was about to say something but Taliyah cut in. "Don't worry Nina, I can handle this on my own." she said, and then burst into red ki flames.
Vegeta powered up and blue ki flames burned all around him. Nina backed away in disgust of his pride and how it was going to get him hurt. But soon she turned away and sat down with her father on the rock. He placed his arm around her and she twittled with his silver hair, how it was so silky and light in her hand.
Taliyah simply shook her head from side to side and then flickered from her opponent's view. He scanned the area but soon felt a painful attack collide with his stomach. Vegeta doubled over in pain, but sucked it up and stood upright. Taliyah was still nowhere in sight. Suddenly he felt something crash against the back of his neck and he flew forward. He placed his heels on the ground and felt them skid along the grass. Once he came to a hault, he looked around only to see that she was still nowhere to be seen.
"Grrr...SHOW YOURSELF!" he demanded.
"Very well." a femanine voice replied and out Taliyah appeared.
Just as she did so she charged at the Saiyan Prince, sending a blow so powerful that the energy from it exploded when they made contact. Once the radiant energy light faded, you could see that Taliyah's elbow had smashed into Vegeta's jaw. He fell back hard onto the grass and just when he was about to give up, Taliyah placed a heavy booted foot on his chest, shoving him back down. She put her elbow on her knee and smiled at how royal he looked now so low to the ground.
"Vegeta, you've lost." Taliyah stated.
He shoved her foot off his chest and sat up, cursing under his breath. "Yeah Yeah, I know you stupid Girl." he muttered.
She held out her hand to help him up, but he just glared at it. "Don't be a spaz, take my hand." she ordered.
After awhile he finally took it, reluctantly nonetheless. Taliyah patted him roughly on the back. "Well now, looks like getting married has taken its toll on you. You're lucky that I'm your friend and not some crazy woman out there to kill you for destroying her planet am I right?" she said cheerfully.
Vegeta scoffed at her and pouted. "Yeah, whatever." He looked at Nina, eyes narrowed. "C'mon girl, we've got training to do." he comanded.
Nina looked at him, wondering what he was planning. "Vegeta, why can't I train with my parents, or my sister? Why do I have to train with you?"
Vegeta huffed at her questions. "Because I'm the only one who can teach you how to control that power to its full extent. Only those of noble blood were told of the secrets on how to control it. Now come on!"
Taliyah placed a hand on her daughter's shoulder. "Go on dear, I'm sure his Lowness has good reason for doing this." she said, then winked at her.
Jutus put a hand on his daughter's head and rubbed it soothingly. "Yeah, go ahead sport. We'll catch up once we've gotten things settled back at the house."
Nina sighed, finally agreeing to her parents' wishes. "Very well."
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