Ancient History: The Forgotten Past of the Saiyans

Ancient
History: The Forgotten Past of the Saiyans

Chapter 18: Education Part 1

    Breakfast. It is my favorite meal
of the day.  I sit here looking at these creatures that call
themselves humans.  They have the strangest ideas for a morning
meal. What are these things called again? Pancakes I think one of them
said.  I watch my grandson roll up a sausage and eggs in one, and
pour syrup on it.  Copying his actions I try it, and find it
tastes
delicious. I reach out to myself some grapefruit juice. \"I don\'t
recommend that father.\" My son declared. I pour some anyway, giving him
the
\'you\'re not man enough to drink it?\' look.  As soon as the liquid
touches my tongue, I want to spit
it out, The bitterness of the juice is a certain contrast to the
sweetness
of the pancake roll-ups.

    \"Kakarott.  Where is your
brother?\" I asked my youngest.  \"He is dead.  He tried to
kidnap my son.\" He said matter-of-factly.  I frown with
sadness.  No parent wants to outlive their children.

POV: Goten

    Trunks and I laugh inwardly at
the look on the face of my Grandfather, Bardock, as he tastes that
awful stuff my mom liked so much.  Surpassingly he finished the
glass.  After breakfast was finished, all of us had retired to the
living room to reveal our news.  \"Everyone we have some good news
to share.\" I said.  \"First of all, Goten and I are bonded mates...
and...\" Trunks stated. \"We are with child.\" Both of us said
simultaneously.

    Buma, Bra and Pan fainted in
their chairs.  King Vegeta and Bardock smirked, and  Gohan
just sat there like a fish out of water.  Vegeta just narrowed his
eyes at me, and scowled. And dad just grinned like he did when he was
nervous.  At least I know my old dad is still in there. 
Vegeta then shifted his eyes to glance at my dad, still scowling.

POV: Goku

    Wow.  I didn\'t expect this
to happen so soon, to have a grand kid from my youngest child
anyway.  It seems like yesterday that I held him in my arms. 
Now he\'s all grown up.  But the thing is the gender identifiers
are divided on this world.  Saiyans are neither he, nor she.
Neither are they asexual in nature.  We as a people, are
unique.

I have recently learned from the books that were given to
me, that were saiyan \'females\' but those were mutated saiyans with
their male reproductive organs removed, to increase birthing rates
under King Cold\'s father\'s reign, so he and the Tuffles could
perform painful experiments on the offspring, then dispose of
them.  That\'s why King Vegeta purged the Tuffle\'s
home world and moved in.

    I am glad that Vegeta and I
aren\'t the only ones left; it takes some unnamable weight off my
shoulders.  He glances at me with his usual scowl.  I just
look away and talk to my dad, after all, this is the first time I get
to
talk to him for some length of time.

POV: Gohan

    Staring in shock at my younger
sibling, my mouth hangs open.  I knew he was bonded with Trunks,
but this is news to me; I did not know about that aspect of
saiyan biology.  I\'m going to be an uncle.  Closing my gaping
mouth, I ponder theses facts further.  I wonder if the children
will be human, saiyan, or halflings.  \"When did this happen?\" I
asked when my ability to speak returned.  \"We were bonded two
months ago.  But conceived during our last rut: two weeks ago.\"
Trunks declared.

    My eyes bulge as they both drop
the energy barriers around them, to hide the evidence of their
conception.  It is then, that I can sense the lives developing
within them– the power levels are very impressive for their stage in
development.  I smile to myself as I finally fully comprehend this
situation, and it makes me happy and nervous at the same time.  I
wonder how Vegeta will handle this.  He is still scowling.

POV: King Vegeta

    I\'m glad to see my son again
after so
many years.  He seems very bitter about the turn of
events, regarding my grandson. I am excited to meet my grandchild and
his mate.  It appears that my son has yet to choose a mate after
all these years,
despite having two children.  I cannot imagine the horrors he had
to endure during  Freeza\'s rule.

    My granddaughter, along with her
human mother passed out at the
sound of being an aunt, and grandmother, respectively. I know Bardock
in grinning inwardly at the sight, bringing a smirk to my lips, the
humorous looks on their faces further dramatizing the situation.

    Now that I have a chance to
peruse the appearance of my family and its new members, I notice the
absence of their tails.  This alone perturbs me for a
moment.  Upon further examination, the native creatures of this
world lack the posterior limb.

POV: Trunks

    My mate smiles brightly at
me.  We are both going to be parents.  I must admit that this
prospect terrifies me a little, even if it doesn\'t appear that way
outwardly.  The fact that we are bringing new lives into the world
is something I look forward to.  I just want to protect them, and
train them to be good, strong people.  If they have tails, I don\'t
want to cut them off and have to deal with the \'phantom limb\' effect
that the rest of us have to deal with.

    Sighing as I watch my father\'s
reaction to the news.  He seems conflicted about something besides
our news.  I can always tell when his right eyebrow twitches a
little more than his left one.  It is also a relief to find him
over his heat cycle.  His temper is bad enough without it.

    Sometimes I wonder what it would
be like to have a little brother, but mom is too old to
carry a half saiyan child, without killing her. I occasionally wonder
why my parents never got married.

    It is fascinating, to some
degree,
to observe my father interact with his.  Too bad he is scowling
more than usual.  I thought he would be happy to see him. 
Even my Saiyan Grandpa smiles more than he does.

    I am ecstatic to see a long lost
member of my Saiyan family.  I hope he can teach me and Goten
more of the customs of the Saiyan people.

POV: Vegeta

    My son is bonded to that third
class idiot\'s child!  And to top things off, my father is here! 
I haven\'t seen him (other than yesterday) since I was a
child; I thought he was dead.  And now he shows up with that brat,
Appuru. The kid
appears no older than 23 earth years. Appuru looks over at me and
smiles. \'He is very glad to see you again.\'  \"Get out of my head,
brat.\"  \'Forgive me, I\'m still adjusting to my new power level.\'
Appuru replied.

POV: Narrator

    Everyone was pulled out of their
musings and conversations, when they felt 32 powers park in
orbit. 
One was very large, another large, 15 medium, and 15 small ones. 
The 15 small ones were arrayed around the largest one.

    Before anyone has a chance to
budge from their spots, Tony materializes in the midst of them. 
\"I\'m back. The presumptuous ones are on board, awaiting your dealings.\"
Tony said.  King Vegeta and Bardock glanced at each other a moment
and smirked at their sons.  \"The both of you will handle the
knaves.\" King Vegeta said nodding to Goku and Vegeta.  The rest of
you will observe.  Let us depart to the ship.\"

    By chance, Bulma and Bra woke up
at this moment.  Trunks was relived that his mother and sister
finally joined the rest of them in consciousness.  Bulma was
excited to see the technology in front of her.  She was surprise
to see Goku operating it.  Goku tapped a few more icons and the
device shut off, and handed it back to Appuru.  \"What\'s that?\" She
asked.  \"It\'s a portable computer, with a three dimensional
holographic matrix as the interface.\" Goku replied.  Bulma was
floored. She never heard her best friend use such big words before, let
alone technical descriptions.  \'That is correct Kakarott.\' Appuru
responded.

    \"Ready?\" Tony asked.  All
present nodded.

   The living room before them vanished,
and was replaced with that of a small cargo chamber.  \'Welcome
onboard Solaris, my first ship with an A.I. biocore.\' Appuru
said.  The brief tour was continued to the bridge, where Bulma was
itching to press all the buttons on the consoles before her. \'Bulma
would you like Tony to give you the technical tour, while the rest of
us see to our current business?\' Appuru broadcast. \"I would love to!\"
Bulma exclaimed.

    Goku and the others proceeded to
where the captives were being held.  The sight of the other
saiyans sparked some inner emotion in Vegeta and Goku that they could
not identify, until the waving of the others\' tails caught their
attention for a moment.  Neither were happy about what had
happened.  The earth raised saiyans scanned the countenances of
each of the captives as they passed bye the cells.

    Some of the more uncouth
prisoners made cat calls and wolf whistles at the halflings, leering at
them with mischief filled eyes.  Trunks pulled down the collar of
his shirt, exposing his left shoulder: The claim mark was clear for all
to see, and Goten did the same, causing some disappointed grunts could
be heard.

    King Vegeta looked over at his
son and nodded.  \"Kakarott and I will be handling your
punishments.\"  Vegeta grinned ferally, as he enjoyed the reactions
on their faces.