What has Become of Me...
Story by: Sohma Star (Star-chan)
The full moon still hung high in the sky, casting a dim erie glow on the trees. She was safe, for now... Pan crouched in the shadow of a huge tree, while she tried to catch her breath as quietly as possible. Even now her heart was racing, tonight was the hunt. Any saiyan male that caught her would have the right to mate with her, but that was not the only thing that worried her... during the hunt saiyans uninterested in finding a lifemate could collect any females they wanted and sell them to slave traders. If she was bested in battle tonight, her freedom would be gone forever, that was the last thing she wanted.
Pan wanted a mate like her mother's, one that she knew and cared about BEFORE they mated, not just some random thug that grabbed her, and did his thing. The thought sickened her, even as the moon began it's descent she knew the night was far from over. Already she had beaten off half a dozen crazed saiyans, and her energy was beginning to fade. A stick cracked under her foot as she shifted her weight. The usually soft sound seemed amplified to an almost deafening level with her desperation to stay unnoticed. She held her breath, hoping and praying the sound hadn't been heard. But the sound had been heard...
A male saiyan waited in the shadows, he could smell her fear... He licked his lips soon she would be his. He smirked as he crept soundlessly toward his prey. She knew something was wrong, her ears heard nothing. Yet, she could tell danger was very near. All sound was drowned out by the rapid pounding of her heart. She took a sharp breath and decided to make a break for it. All of her courage was gathered it was now or never, she leapt up, but was caught from behind by another saiyan. She flipped him over her shoulder, the male saiyan landed hard on his back in front of a very startled Pan. He started to climb to his feet a look of hunger in his eyes as he eyed the female before him. She quickly threw a ki blast in his face and took of as fast as possible, but she didn't get too far...
Another saiyan jumped out of hiding and tackled her to the ground. He quickly cuffed her wrists with saiyan-proof bonds and threw her into a wagon. She had been caught. Pan eyes watered as she took in the reality of her predicament. she hadn't just been caught, she had been captured by a slave trader which meant she wouldn't even have a lifemate. She'd become the whore of some rich snob, if she was lucky she wouldn't be too badly abused, but with saiyans abuse was almost a certainty.
As the wagon began to move forward she looked at the others in the wagon, this trader had done very well. In the wagon with Pan there were five other girls, to get two or three away from the hormonally challenged males was one thing, but to get six? This trader must really know his stuff... Pan watched the scenery pass as the night finally ended. How ironic one of the strongest females on the planet was caught by a slave trader... Pan idly wondered if it would have been better to let one of her attackers win and become her lifemate, oh well it was too late for that, it was too late to do anything... or was it?
The wagon lurched to a halt and the slave trader took off to catch another girl... Pan quickly took her chance, with her hands still bound and her ki suppressed she jumped off the back of the wagon into the brush. There she waited in complete silence until the he returned with another girl. While he was facing the wagon she crept up behind him and threw her cuffed hands over his head using the chain to strangle him. He flailed helplessly as the Pan slowly choked him until he passed out. Once she was sure he was out cold Pan released him and searched his pockets for a key. After three pockets and no luck she was getting desperate finally the she drug the key from the fourth pocket. Pan quickly maneuvered the key into the lock of her cuffs and slid them off. Next she freed the other girls. The grateful girls thanked her repeatedly and finally took off.
Pan was just about to leave when the now conscious slave trader grabbed her ankle. Pan froze and looked down at him with renewed fear. His dark eyes bore into hers as he spoke, "Never in all my years has even ONE slave escaped, but now I lost an entire night's worth of work. When I return empty handed I will be laughed out of work." His glare intensified, "You will pay DEARLY for my humiliation." He grabbed her other ankle and swiftly threw her face first into the dirt bringing out more cuffs he jumped on her cuffing her hands behind her back. He then picked her up, and threw her into the wagon, taking another pair of cuffs he secured her ankle to the wagon, with that he was satisfied. "You may have freed the others, but your fate is sealed." He walked past her to the front of the wagon quietly musing to himself, yes this girl will get the worst master on planet Vegeta he'd make sure of that.
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