COLD

A DBZ One-shot

Those eyes. As long as I live, if I live, I will never forget those piercing blue eyes. Weren't they black just a little while ago? It's hard to think straight. But I swear to whatever gods will listen, I will never forget those eyes.

It's cold. It wasn't cold a few minutes ago. A few minutes ago I was sweating from the heat this world was generating. I guess both were my fault. I'll be dammed if I admit that to anyway. But it's so cold.

Normally the cold doesn't bother me. I'm from a frozen world. But something is different this time. This time, the cold is piercing my very heart. I can feel it sitting there like a lump.

This cold will never end. I see that now. Normally, if you go out into the cold air, you can always go back in where it is warm and safe. The thought of never being warm or safe ever again rips through my mind like claws. My claws? His claws? What is he anyway?

He is the only one here besides me. The only one who could possibly end my cold and give me back some warmth. I don't even have to think twice.

"Please… have… mercy… please…" it hurt to talk. I went to raise my left hand, but it wasn't there. I looked back and saw nothing below my waist as well. That was why I was so cold.

"How many people begged for their lives before you killed them anyway? Did you show mercy when I asked you to spare my best friend Krillen!"

"Please…" I choked out, feeling the cold grow even colder. I felt tears well up, but I would not cry in front of… whatever he is. Along with the cold came grogginess. I still had enough sense to understand what was happening to me now. I was going to die. There was no immortality for me. There was no grand empire to rule anymore. There was only the cold and the hopelessness.

I closed my eyes, accepting my fate. I always knew it would be a Saiyan that got me. That's why I blew up their planet and only kept those three under my watchful eye. It was the one I missed. I didn't expect it to be so soon.

Then the cold was gone. I was warm, and the grogginess was gone too. I opened my eyes, seeing him, those eyes, that golden glow. It was around me now too.

"There… that is just enough energy to keep you alive. Now I suggest you get out of here. You're beaten, Frieza." I managed to levitate into the air. No one had ever shown me kindness. How should I respond to that? What could I possibly do or say? I killed his people and his friends, yet he saved me. "Your pride has been damaged. You have challenged and lost, and worst of all, it was to a mere monkey, right?" that smirk…

Forget those piercing eyes. Forget my gratitude. He was right. I had been beaten by a monkey. I couldn't take it. I felt any trace of the cold melt into anger and hate.

He turned his back to me and started off, most likely to his ship. I should do the same, or at least fly into space. I don't have to breathe. But my anger, my hate, my honor wouldn't allow me to just let that pass. I had been beaten by a monkey… or had I?

"DIE! Saiyan scum!" I shot nearly all of the energy he had given me, aiming to kill him. I would never, never lose to a monkey!

The something happened that still haunts me. His voice, it was so angry. He wasn't this angry when I killed that small bald earthling or when I killed Vegeta.

"YOU FOOL!" my own energy was pushed back ten-fold by another, much larger blast. From him. He still had that much energy? How?

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"What...are...you?" I had asked.

"I am a Saiyan warrior! ... Ally to good, nightmare to you! … I am a Super Saiyan!"

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That was it. What he said was true. He really was a Super Saiyan. A monkey had beaten me, Frieza, heir to the Icejin throne. I screamed as the heat hit. But how can so much heat make you feel so cold?

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AS22: Okay, random, I know. But you got to understand, winter just started and it's freezing here! Whilst being so cold I thought this up. If anyone really likes it, I may post a second chapter about the fight against Trunks! So please, R&R!

Rina: (growls) We'll talk about this later…

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