Welcome to DBZ Love Garden

A pair of blue eyes slowly opened and dazzled by the strong sunlight that hit them, so they closed again pressing the eyelids with strength and once they opened again, they had already got used to look better and clearly. A lavender haired boy almost entering on his teen years turned his head to verify where he was now, he could see that he was in a clearing in the middle of a kind of forest that he had never seen before, but of something he could be sure and that was that this forest was nothing like the ones on his home planet. The wind blew gently moving the branches of the trees and some strands of his hair, he slowly got up from the grass and began to walk and look between the trees looking for a way to get out of there, when, suddenly, a little bird flew past above his head until he was perched on the branch of a tree, the boy stared at the bird for a few minutes until he turned his head to look at him making him shudder, he could see how the bird opened its beak to say something but the only sounds that came out of it were lullabies and little trills; however, he could mysteriously hear a voice coming out of his beak, the voice of a man, a man a couple of years older than him but (unfortunately) he was not able to understand what it was saying to him. Clearly, that man did not speak the Saiyan language as he did.

“T... Tru... Trunk...”

"Huh?" the lavender haired boy cocked his head slightly to one side and arched an eyebrow in a signal of confusion “wait... is that bird trying to communicate with me?”

“Trunk... Trunks... Trunks...”

There was no doubt, that bird was saying his name, his name, for Kamisama’s sake! that was the only thing he could understand because he was not able to decipher what kind of language the little bird communicated with. Without stopping to think twice, the half-saiyan wanted to approach to that little bird and touch it, but barely he took a couple of steps, the animal took flight and flew away from there.

"Wait!" Trunks yelled running after the bird, following him "please come back! where are you going? come back… come back!” he had been chasing the bird for a while until he came to a waterfall. The little bird that he was chasing before, landed on a tree branch and under that tree there was a dark haired young teenager standing in the shade with his back so that the minor could not identify his face “huh?” no one else was around except the waterfall and a few mountains in the distance “hey! what are you doing standing there? who are you? look me at the face and answer my questions!”

No matter how much he tried to communicate with that teenager, it seemed that he did not intend to turn around to look at him, much less answer his questions, so Trunks reached his hand and tried to call that dark haired teenager attention gently touching his shoulder; however, the sunlight became more intense than before, forcing him to close his eyes and turn his head away...

The morning rose up in Vejitaseii, the sun rays filtered through Trunks huge bedroom window in the royal palace. The young half-saiyan opened his eyes slowly feeling the warm light hitting his face, he sat up, remaining seated on the bed and stretched out while rubbing his blue eyes as a sign of tiredness, last night he had had the weirdest dream of all but that did not matter to him. it mattered, after all, it was only a dream but... why in that dream could he hear a male voice calling him by his name? he decided not to give importance to the matter, for now, he got up from his bed and walked to his closet ready to look for an armor to wear that day.
Once he finished putting on his armor, Trunks opened his bedroom double rounded door with an unknown code that only he could use, he greeted the guards who were custodian the access, and began to walk down the corridor towards the kitchen and dining room in where his mother, Vejitaseii’s queen and scientist Bulma and his little sister, Bra, were waiting for him to have breakfast together. As he walked towards the dining room, suddenly, he could perceive food scent invade the atmosphere, a pleasant scent of fried eggs, crispy bacon and freshly toasted bread, his stomach began to growl hungrily and without wasting any more time, he hurried his steps towards the dining room but halfway there he met Nappa, his father's right hand man, his caretaker since Trunks was just a child and now Bra's current caretaker.
"Good morning, Prince Trunks" Nappa greeted the lavender haired boy once he saw him.
“Good morning, Nappa what's up? why are you here?” Trunks asked to the taller Saiyan standing in front of him.
“Your father, King Vegeta, asked me to find you because he wants you to have a training session before breakfast.”
“Ouh really? but… can't he wait until I finish eating breakfast? I barely got out of bed and I'm very hungry” the young half-saiyan complained “also... I don't want to make my mom, or my sister wait too long”
“I'm sorry, Prince Trunks. But it’s your father's order to start training before breakfast from now on” Nappa told him “now, come with me, he's waiting for you in the training room”
“I'll go there right now, thanks Nappa.”
Despite the hunger he felt and the desire he had to go to have breakfast with his mother and little sister, Trunks knew perfectly well that training with his father was more important than all that, he kept walking, passing the dining room door and went the training room door, once he arrived, he greeted the guards who were custodians the room entrance, he pressed another type of code to open the door and entered. Inside the room he could see Vegeta, his father, who was flying around using his newly acquired fighting techniques against robots that shoot lasers at him, the Saiyan king fought the robots with agility and precision avoiding being touched by one of its lasers, because if one of them touched him even just barely, training would be over and he didn't get up so early in the morning or train so hard only to end up losing to some puny machines. For stopping for a second to look at his son, a robot shoot its laser touching Vegeta's right arm and with that the training session ended.
“Dammit! it was so close, I was almost going to make it!” the spiky haired Saiyan exclaimed with fury, he did not realize that his eldest son was there, standing behind the door of the training room and as soon as he noticed his presence, startled a little “what are you doing here, brat?”
“Uh... good morning, father, I mean, King Vegeta” the young half-saiyan greeted him following the royal protocol “I came here because you asked me to have a training session before breakfast, right?”
“It’s true. I said that" Vegeta replied, remembering the order he had given to Nappa minutes before "but... do you think you have what it needs to spar with me?”
"Of course!" Trunks exclaimed enthusiastically.
“Okay, then let's spar, but first… I need to do something.”
As soon as he said that, the sovereign walked towards the control panel placed on one of the room walls, pressed some buttons and the gravity inside it changed to three hundred levels of pressure, instantly, Trunks felt his body get heavy with the pass of seconds and he fell to his knees on the cold floor.
“Agh! I-I feel so heavy...” Trunks mumbled as he tried to get up without much success “b-barely I c-can... move”
“That's because you’re weak, you aren’t used to train with these pressure levels. Unlike the pressure levels I use daily to train, this is nothing compared to that" Vegeta told him, Trunks's breathing became ragged and his body trembled as he made an effort to stand up "well? what are you waiting for? are you going to fight me or not?” once the young half-saiyan prince was finally able to stand up, they began with their training, Vegeta told him that today their fight would be hand-to-hand without flying. Trunks gave the first attack, his fists approached one after another wanting to hit the other Saiyan's face, but all were easily dodged by the sovereign, he jumped high and tried to kick him in the face; however, his ankle was stopped by a strong grip, Vegeta had taken his leg without much effort and thus stopped his attack, the half-saiyan could see his father giving him a small arrogant smile and then throwing him away from him, fortunately, Trunks was able to stop his constant spinning in the air by placing his hands on the floor, he tried to attack Vegeta again, this time with a punch but got the same result. What he did not expect was that the spiky haired Saiyan would attack him giving him a strong head butt that made him take a couple of steps back, covering his nose with both hands while a few small sobs along with some slight moans of pain escaped from his mouth. The guards could hear something was wrong with the young prince so they tried to stop the fight, but the commanding voice of their sovereign rang out through the door “if you dare to interfere or stop our fight, I will personally take care of sending you both straight to the depths of hell!”
The guards did not hesitate his order and went back to their original positions, Trunks slowly removed his hands from his nose, which was bleeding a bit from the strong head butt that Vegeta gave him, he lunged forward and resumed their fight. Kicks, punches and blows of all kinds were launched against these two Saiyans who seemed not to want to stop, but at a certain point in the fight, Trunks attacks reduced their intensity as soon as he heard the same voice that he heard in his dream calling him.
Trunks... Trunks...
“Heh? you again?" Trunks muttered as he looked around the room where he was training with his father "what do you want from me?! why do you say my name how do you know my name?!”
Trunks... Trunks...
Suddenly, the half-saiyan was knocked out by a blast of ki that Vegeta threw at him and that he could not dodge in time, ending the training.
"If you’re stupid, never let your guard down when your opponent sends a ki attack to you!" Vegeta said to the young prince, but Trunks was not listening, his gaze was lost somewhere in the room “hey hey! look at me when I'm talking to you, brat!”
“Huh? uh… um… sorry, father, I mean King Vegeta” Trunks apologized as he slowly left the crater that had formed in the wall “just… I haven't been concentrated recently; I had a weird dream”
“I am not care about what happens in your dreams, the only thing that cares me is that you don’t end up injured in our next sparring” Vegeta said “now, let's get out of here, we made your mother and sister wait too long for us to have breakfast together”
Trunks could see how his father turned his back on him and left the training room, the lilac-haired semi-Saiyan reacted and began to walk behind him trying to call him but the other Saiyan was not listening, so he accelerated his steps to the point in which he was technically running to catch him up.
“But... father, wait!” Trunks said as he ran after the spiky haired Saiyan “that dream was really weird, I dreamed... I dreamed of a bird, I stared at it until a... a voice from its beak was calling my name and then…”
"WHAT?!" Vegeta stopped his steps and turned to see his eldest son with an expression of disbelief in his dark eyes "what the hell are you talking about?! Birds can't speak, baka!”
"I know they can't do it, dad!" Trunks replied with the same tone of voice that made Vegeta's expression of disbelief turn an anger one "that's why I say it was just a dream."
“Hmp, it's good to hear that and I don't want you to mention one more word about that strange dream of yours during breakfast, is it clear?” Vegeta told him, the lavender haired half-saiyan gulped and nodded, the other saiyan softened his serious gaze but not much and resumed their way to the dining room.
Upon entering on the dining room, Trunks could see his mother, Bulma, feeding his little sister, Bra (who was sitting in a special floating baby chair that she had created herself) with a kind of fruit compote, but by the strong pink hue that that thick substance had, he seriously doubted that it was a simple fruit compote. He could also see a large amount of food placed on the table ready to be eaten by him and his father, apparently the light blue haired woman had not eaten because she had been feeding her daughter and waiting for them to come in to have breakfast with her. His stomach growl when he saw the food in front of him, something that Bulma noticed right away and shifted her gaze to him and Vegeta with a smile.
“Good morning, you had a good training, didn't you?” the light blue haired woman asked.
"Of course, I do" Trunks said as he took a seat in his chair with a thud "I'm so hungry now! all I want to do is have breakfast!”
“Great, so what are we waiting for? go ahead! let's eat” Bulma said to her son, she looked at Vegeta who was standing by the dining room door with his arms crossed and his gaze fixed on another point in the room “Vegeta? what are you doing there? come on, let's have breakfast all together”
“Yes of course. Whatever you say, onna” the spiky haired Saiyan said, he walked and took a seat next to his wife but near the floating chair where his daughter was, who smiled at him and squealed happily as soon as he saw him “good morning, Bra. How is my little princess?” Trunks just rolled his eyes and continued to eat from his plate covered to the top with food, ignoring his parents talking to his younger sister, sometimes he envied the way the baby received all the attention of his parents, including Vegeta. After a few minutes playing with the baby, the spiky haired Saiyan went back to his previous position in the chair and began to serve some food on his plate “oh, I almost forgot to tell you something, Trunks” he turned his gaze towards his son without stopping to serve himself toast and fried eggs on his plate “after breakfast I need you to come with me to the headquarters where the Elite Saiyan Army trains, I have a surprise for you”
“Really?! wait… you're not kidding, are you?” Trunks asked his father with a hint of mistrust in his voice.
“Do you think I'm someone to come with jokes, brat? because if you're thinking that about me, then you don't know me, besides what I'm saying is not a joke, I want you to come to headquarters with me once you finish having breakfast.”
“Alright.”
After an hour and a half, father and son had already finished breakfast. Trunks got up from his chair and ran out of the dining room eager to see the surprise his father had for him, but not before greeting his mother with a kiss on the cheek and tossing his little sister's light blue hair, something that annoyed the baby girl a bit. Vegeta got up from his chair and left the dining room but a hand on his shoulder stopped him, he turned his gaze and found a pair of blue eyes looking at him seriously.
“Vegeta, wait” Bulma said stopping her husband “before you leave, I need to know something, what is the surprise you had planned for Trunks?”
"I was thinking on sending Trunks on his first conquering mission" Vegeta told her, but instead of being happy, Bulma got worried and looked at her husband with a slight frown.
“W-what ?! A conquering mission? and when were you going to tell me? Trunks isn't leaving us, he's still too young to go on a mission! did you at least take the trouble to talk to me or consult me before making this decision?” Bulma said to the saiyan a little upset for having given that news too late.
"I don't have the need to ask your permission to do that, onna" Vegeta replied "besides, Trunks is old enough to go on a conquering mission by himself. He is no longer a baby; he doesn’t need his mother to be constantly looking at him and protecting him”
"Trunks may not be a baby anymore but he is..." Bulma exclaimed but stopped before saying what she was going to say, Trunks had no idea that his mother was earthling and he had no right to know it, at least not for now, she would tell him when the right time comes “he’s still a child, he must stay here with us, you can send someone else on this mission. Trunks can wait until he's old enough”
"Trunks is old enough to go on a conquering mission and that's all I'm going to say! You have lived here for a long time and you still haven't learned anything about our culture, onna? this discussion is settled, our son is going to do his first mission and you can't do anything to stop it.”
“Okay, do what you want, Vegeta. But I'll make something clear to you” Bulma said as she approached to the spiky haired Saiyan in a threatening way, Vegeta just stared at her without removing the frown from his face “if Trunks dies or ends up wounded or captured, don't doubt that the fault will be entirely yours”
Vegeta did not answer, he just rolled his eyes letting his wife understand that he had gotten the message and once he left the dining room, Trunks walked behind his father wondering what surprise he had planned for him, what kind of surprise had prepared for him? could it be a spaceship? a new handcrafted armor? some troops to command perhaps? Gods, he was so anxious and impatient, intrigue was eating him alive, he was dying of curiosity to know what the surprise was. He did not realize when he had reached the headquarters doors, Vegeta turned his gaze at him and could perceive his nervousness and anxiety, then he turned his gaze again towards the door, he wrote a special code that only the spiky haired Saiyan know and once the door was opened, Trunks blue eyes pupils narrowed and his mouth opened slightly in amazement, inside the headquarters he could see some spaceships departing and landing, some were just landed there. He can also see many Saiyan soldiers enter on the ships carrying supplies, weapons and from one moment to the other, the spaceships were already ready to depart.
"So, father, what’s the surprise that you have for me?" Trunks asked as he looked to his father while he walked next to him "I'm dying for desire to know it"
"I've been considering it for a while and after a long negotiation with the inhabitants from an unknown planet I decided that you are going to go on your first conquering mission" Vegeta answer to him.
"What? really?! a-a conquering mission?!" the lavender haired half-saiyan exclaimed in disbelief, he could not believe the words that his father was saying to him "wait... is that true?"
"Of course is true, if it was not true then I will never invite you to come here with me" Vegeta answered, they walked a few more steps until the spike haired saiyan stopped in front of an spaceship a few meters away from where him and his son were standing "well, here it is. This is the spaceship that is going to take you to your mission"
Trunks looked up as soon as he heard his father saying those words and once he did, he could see an investigation spaceship, something that made him a bit upset because he thought he was going to go on this mission in a capsule spaceship or in one of the flying machines that his mother and the rest of the Saiyan scientists were building.
"Dad, is this the spaceship I'm going to use for the mission?" Trunks asked, looking at the spiky haired saiyan a bit disappointed.
"Yes, it's exactly that one" Vegeta told him "why do you ask? do you regret going on this mission? I did not train you so hard to tell me that you’re regretful and that you don’t want to go on your first conquering mission”
“No! It's not that, I'm really excited to go on my first conquering mission, it's just… I was hoping to see a capsule spaceship or maybe one of the ships that mom built” Trunks answered still disappointed of the spaceship that his father had assigned him for the mission.
“You don't have to judge by appearances, Trunks. Just go inside and look, I'm sure you'll take a big surprise”
“Okay, if you say so...”
The lavender haired half-saiyan did not question his father's order and they both walked towards the main hatch, Vegeta pressed a button that caused the hatch to open, metal stairs led them inside the spaceship, Trunks was the first on placing a foot on the metallic platform, he turned his gaze towards his father but he just stood there, motionless with both arms crossed around his torso and a slight frown, a common feature of saiyan pride, Trunks thought. He sighed and got inside the spaceship, the young boy mouth was slightly opened by what he was seeing, the ship was spacious enough for five crew members to enter it, it was equipped with a medical office that contained some regeneration chambers, a maintenance and engineering room, a huge database containing all the coordinates and data of the different planets in the galaxy managed by the computer panel at the main station, plus there was a vast library with tons of books on different topics that could be useful when repairing the ship or consulting life on other planets.
"So, what do you think of this spaceship?" Vegeta asked behind him, hearing his voice, Trunks started a little but turned on his own steps to see his father with a big smile.
“Is incredible! I like it, it's so spacious and comfortable… I thought there would be nothing else except for the medical office and the maintenance and engineering room but I think I was wrong” Trunks said “there’s also a library. Dad, I need to know, was it your idea to put all these things inside the ship?”
“In the beginning it was your mother's idea, if it were up to me, I would only have asked her to add a gravity room, but you're lucky that this ship has one inside” the spiked haired Saiyan replied.
“Really? let's go to see it!”
"Wait there" Vegeta said stopping his eldest son "first of all, I need you to meet some saiyans that are going to be part of the mission and which are going to accompain you the whole trip to your destiny, come with me" both, Vegeta and Trunks walked back to the main station and once they arrived at the door, they could find four saiyans (two males and two females) who were busy doing the last preparations on the spaceship because they are going to depart in a few minutes and they needed to have everything ready "attention, insects!" all the saiyans inside the spaceship stopped their tasks once they hear their soberan voice surrounding the room and placed themselves in military position in front of Vegeta "now that I got all you attention, I need you to meet someone, he is going to be in charge of this mission from now on and you are going to obey all his orders. Do you understand?"
“Yes sir!” the four crew saiyan members of the spaceship replied in unison to the spiky haired saiyan who was standing in front of them, Vegeta nodded at his son and Trunks shyly approached to them.
“Pfff...” one of the male saiyans member of the crew muttered in an attempt to contain his laughter, Vegeta noticed this and stared at him with a frown, something that made him shut up and cough slightly “sorry, sir, I... I didn't want to laugh but is... is this some kind of joke?”
“Yes, are we supposed to follow the orders of a kid?” the only female member of the crew asked pointing at Trunks with her finger barely touching his forehead, the lavender haired half-saiyan frowned slightly and tried to bite the female saiyan’s finger “oh, wow. It seems that the little kitten now has claws hahahaha”
“For your information, I'm not a kitten. I am Trunks Briefs, your prince, your future ruler, your commander and from now on you and all your crew mates are going to obey my orders and listen to me!” Trunks replied with a tone of anger in his voice that intimidated the female saiyan "was it clear?" she did not answer, she just looked at the young prince with a hint of fear reflected in her dark eyes "WAS IT CLEAR YES OR NOT?!"
"Y-yes yes sir!" the female saiyan replied as she adopted a military position looking again at a fixed point on the wall of the main station.
“Good” Trunks said as he smiled and without hesitation he even started to walk back and forth through the station “before leaving this headquarters, I need to know the names of the crew that my father assigned me for this mission to get to know each one better”
“M-my name is Maguro, sir” the first saiyan introduced himself giving a quick and efficient military salute, the same one who almost laughed at Trunks, once they go back home, the half-saiyan prince would make sure to ask his father to give him a severe punishment for laughing of him in his presence.
"I am Ika, it will be my pleasure to serve you on this mission, young prince" the second saiyan introduced himself.
“And I am Odoburu! nice to meet you, prince!” the third saiyan exclaimed with a slight nervous tone in his voice making it a little higher. A smile spread across Trunks face, he continued walking until he stopped in front of the last member of the crew, the woman.
“And what about you? won't you tell me your name?” the young half-saiyan prince asked, the female saiyan did not answer, she just remained in her place with her gaze fixed on the main station wall, Trunks could perceive her fear because she was sweating and her hands clenched into a fist were trembling, so he decided to take advantage of her fear to bend her to his feet “are you going to tell me your name, yes or not?!”
“Huh? Y-yes! excuse me, prince. My name is... m-my name is Gyoza. I regret my previous rude behavior with you, your majesty, I withdraw what I said before, you are not a cute kitten, you are very brave and fierce like your father” she turned her gaze at Vegeta who was still standing there a few inches from the crew “my sincerest apologies, King Vegeta. It was never my intention to make fun of your son, please don't punish me after we complete our mission!”
"I hope you don't bother me like that again because I'll make sure to give you a proper punishment as soon as we get home" Trunks said to Gyoza, the female saiyan shrinking into place trembling with fear and fear at the threat of the young prince.
Vegeta smiled proudly when he saw how his son could so easily break the strong character of those Saiyans, if he could break his crew so easily, then his mission of conquest would be accomplished in the blink of an eye. At that, a voice announced in the barracks that all the Saiyans should prepare and finish packing their supplies in their spaceships because they were all necessary for an important mission on a distant planet whose environment was quite dangerous and hostile. The coordinates were automatically sent to the central computer at the command stations of all the ships, displaying the planet information on the screen, and a countdown was programmed so that the spacecraft took off from Vejitaseii in fifteen seconds. After hearing that announcement, Vegeta could see how the crew finished with the preparations and took place in their respective seats preparing to leave, seeing that no one required their presence, he turned on his steps and left the main station towards the spaceship gate. Trunks noticed that, he got up from the commander's seat and ran out of the station to go after his father.
"Wait! Father wait! don't leave" Trunks said as he run off the station, Ika noticed this and get up from his chair in an attempt to go after the young half-saiyan.
"Hey! Come back here! don't you hear the announcement? the spaceship is going to take off in a few seconds" Ika said, after he got up from his chair he walked out the station but Gyoza stopped him "why are you stopping me? let me go! I’ve to go after him”
"Let him go" the female saiyan told him "he... he needs some time to farewell his father before we leave"
"Are you kidding me? we don't have time for this! the spaceship is..."
"You're going to let our commander farewell his father or I swear I'm going to be the one who will beat you personally if you try to stop him"
Ika did not say anything else, he just sighed and walked back to his seat accompained by his female partner, Gyoza smiled slightly when she saw that her partner was not in a position to argue with her right now, so she turned on her steps and walk back to her seat in front of the engine control panel, Trunks indicated to the pilot to take out the spaceship to the headquarters back door so they could take flight and get ready to fly away from Vejitaseii course to their destiny as soon as possible.