Chapter 5 - Versatile Princess

 

 

Princess Nia prepared herself for a month for her leave to Goku Black’s planet. She wrote down recipes, packed up spices, brought seeds of vegetables to be planted on his planet, extra clothes, and things the princess needed as the official cook of the god of destruction. Anxious yet excited about the new life she’s going to experience off planet, her maids and eunuchs cry as they pack her dresses and mattresses for their beloved princess, and the empress almost does not want she will be safe under the protection of the god.  They all tearfully waved goodbye and wished great health for their beloved young princess, who will be serving the god of destruction for the rest of her life. Mitarashi transports the princess and Goku Black back to his planet.

The moment she set foot on the ground of a foreign planet, she sank her face to the ground, smelling it while crawling around. “P-princess, what are you doing…?” Mitarashi asks with concern, trying to lift the princess' head from the ground. “I’m smelling it if it’s good for planting my vegetables!” she retorted as she continued smelling. A few moments later the princess raised her head, “All good! Your soil here will make healthy vegetables my lord!” she exclaimed in excitement wagging her tail. “that’s good. Now get in and arrange all the things you brought from your planet, Mitarashi, help her arrange her things.” Goku Black commanded with a straight face walking back to his dwelling.

Goku Black, sat back on his throne placing his palms on the back of his head then closing his eyes to relax, he heard knocking on the door, with closed eyes he yelled; “Mitarashi, someone’s at the door!”, Mitarashi from the kitchen arranging the spices the princess has brought her answered the door and as she opened, it was Assistant Kai Tatsu behind it. “Oh, Assistant Kai Tatsu!” she raised her right hand in the level of her hand and did a light bow; “What brought you here?” she asked. The moment Tatsu entered the house, the princess jumped on him like a kangaroo and starts to claw his face with her sharp claws. Mitarashi in an instant took the princess away from him leaving him unharmed.

“Princess! What’s wrong with you?!” she exclaimed at the princess. “I smell… foul…” she snarles. “He shouldn’t be here!!!” she screams trying to claw away from Mitarashi’s grasp on her waist and dress. Goku Black sees everything remained unfazed with Princess Nia’s sudden fury, he then focused on Tatsu’s direction; “Why are you here Tatsu…?” he asked the assistant kai whose wiping himself of sweat. The kai approached him and kneeled; “Lord Black, Master Zamasu noticed that there is no movement or any dedestruction;on!princeshe'sthe tdestruction. Is,. Youroying you made in the universe in a month, is there something wrong? He sent me to check on you.” he asked with concern in his voice as the princess is clawing and meowing loudly at the back. “I visited the planet of Nyan-Qing and got a nice time there to relax and drink tea, you and Zamasu should go with us there sometime, they have nice tea.” Goku Black replies with a relaxed expression in his face. “MY LORD! DON’T LET THIS BLUE SKINNED EEL GET IN MY PLANET” The princes shouts from the kitchen. “That’s Princess Nia from the planet I mentioned, shes my new cook here.” Goku Black nonchalantly introduced her to Tatsu. “I hope, Princess Nia and I get to be friends in the future…” Tatsu nervously replied to the God of Destruction.

After Tatsu left the planet, Goku Black walked to the kitchen filled with ingredients and spices hanging from the ceiling and pantry filled to the brim. He then sits on the head of the table and looks at Princess Nia; “Did Tatsu smell something that riled you up…?” he asks with annoyance in his voice; “My lord, forgive me for my outburst.” she kneels in front of her; “He smells nothing… but the energy he emits…” she added as she tries to remember something in the past. “You can smell energy…?” Mitarashi lowers her head to the princess whose kneeling. “Is his energy overwhelming for you…?” she added. “Maybe, it makes me feel uneasy that my feline instincts act out…” the princess tries to explain her confusion about, of the situation as well. “Interesting, Lord Black’s ki doesn’t bother you but a kai’s does...” Mitarashi commented as she scratches her head. “wai--Waitt! I’m a kai! But why aren't you riled by my ki?!  You’ve been with me most of the time!” Mitarashi exclaimed as she realizes it.

“Do… Kais have an evil energy…?” the Princess asked looking up to Goku Black. “There are evil kais indeed… though most of them are left in the demon realm to serve the higher-ups there… And none of them are sent to the normal realm to serve as regular kais” Goku Black explained as he leans his right arm on the wooden table. Mitarashi sighs in exhaustion; “Well my lord, let’s just make Princess Nia evade Tatsu and the other way around when Supreme Kai Zamasu is here visiting.” she suggested. “That is right, we can’t afford to lose her, she’s our only cook.” the god of destruction crosses his arms again sighing in exhaustion.

The next morning arrived, the cold breeze in Goku Black’s room awoke him, he expects Mitarashi to be there on his side then he realizes she isn’t there, he then walks down the stairs, into the living room and the kitchen, Mitarashi nor the princess cannot be seen, he grew concerned, he opened the front door to look for them outside then he saw a large table half the height of a normal one with a blanket underneath, different food both sweet and savory placed on plates and freshly steeped tea. It seems like the two have been waiting for the arrival of their master, Goku Black walks forward and approaches them.

“Picnic for breakfast…?” he asks confused. “Today got a nice weather, its lovely for you to have your breakfast here, the sun isn’t that hot and its windy! An optimal time for you to have breakfast outside!” The princess speaks with glee in her voice. Without a word he plopped himself on the blanket covered grass at the head of the table liking the sight, as Mitarashi placed a freshly steeped tea in front of him then the princess placed an empty bowl and a pair of chopsticks in front of him. Suddenly the three heard rustling from the distance, Goku Black, holding his cup placed it back to the table to see who it is; two figures emerges from the distance; It was Zamasu and Tatsu approaching.

The princess starts to snarl again yet Mitarashi waved at her to command her to keep it down, the princess calmed down as she trusts Mitarashi’s words. Zamasu approaches; Mitarashi raised her hand near her head and made a standing bow as respect to the supreme kai; “You have a nice picnic right here Black.” Zamasu compliments. Goku Black sitting in a relaxed position looked up at him; “Zamasu, Tatsu, take a seat, and join us have breakfast and tea together.” he gestures the empty space beside him. “Seems like we’re in perfect timing!” Zamasu happily accepted the offer as he sits down beside Goku Black and Tatsu sits beside Mitarashi.

“Why are you visiting me here…?” Goku Black asks as he sips on his cup; “You’ve been visiting a planet lately…” Zamasu replies as he looks down at Princess Nia whose munching on a moon cake. “Yeah, I’m supposed to destroy it, but when I look deep into its civilization, I believe they needed to be spared.” Goku Black explains as picks a steamed bun with his fingers. “What did you find in that planet that convinces you to spare it…?” Zamasu asks as he picks the food in front of him with his chopsticks. “Their sense of divine justice… It actually surprised me that those mortals know what is justice…” Goku Black grins as he reminisce the words exchanged between him and the emperor. “A level of justice similar to ours huh? Quite surprising… If I might be there, then I would spare them as well!” Zamasu smiles and agrees with the destroyer. “And their food and tea is quite delicious as well---” Goku Black added with a compliment and a light laugh. Zamasu then sips the tea from the fields of Nyan-Qing and he pulls away from the cup with interest; “A planet with strong sense of justice and equally good quality tea? Now I fully understand why you spared it!” the supreme kai compliments.

He now turns to Princess Nia; “So is this girl… from that planet…?” he points with his finger; “Yeah, She’s the eldest daughter of the current emperor of the planet of Nyan-Qing, a princess… Her name is Princess Nia.” Goku Black introduced her. “Just call me Nia, sir!” The princess speaks as she didn’t know who Zamasu is yet; “Princess… The man beside Lord Black is his other half into ruling this universe; he is Supreme Kai Zamasu. He’s the creator god of our universe.” Mitarashi explains to the princess. Upon hearing it, the princess stood on her knees and kowtow to the supreme kai; “I humbly greet your lordship! May ten thousand years of fortune be on your way!” she greeted. “How respectful… If all mortals see us that way…” Zamasu compliments yet aired his dismay.

“Oh, they will be brother; we are just starting our crusade into changing this universe for the better.” Goku Black assured his other self as he pats him on the back comforting him at the same time. “However, why did you bought the emperor’s daughter here…?” Zamasu asked with concern in his face. “Ah, My lord loves the dishes the Nyan-Qing people offer plus they’re fresh and healthy, It was the princess who prepared our food when we arrived and Lord Black loves it ever since.” Mitarashi replied with joy in her tone. “So you cooked all of these? That’s so cool! I wish I could learn to cook from you!” Tatsu piped up trying to compliment the princess yet what he received back is a snarl.

“Mitarashi, you’re spoiling Black too much, first is you’re basically his nanny or a wet nurse, now you allowed him to have his personal chef, don’t tell me you’re going to provide him with a sparring partner?” Zamasu sarcastically commented as he picks a moon cake from a plate of assorted treats. “I could be his sparring partner as well, supreme kai.” Mitarashi replies as she gracefully sips from her cup. “I hope you can take the level of my godly strength especially the saiyan strength!” Goku Black proudly exclaims showing his pride to the rest of the table; “I’ll see what I got.” Mitarashi replied with a sweet innocent smile.

They all chatted for awhile until they finished breakfast, Mitarashi and Nia along with Tatsu helped around to fix the table and the dishes that needed to be cleaned, Zamasu is standing beside Goku Black under the tree in front of his house. Goku Black leans his back standing on the trunk as he leaves a toothpick between his lips, his arms crossed; “How are you in your planet though…?” He asked with care in his voice. Zamasu sighed; “It seems like I’m doing Gowasu’s job after all, overseeing and observing the mortals and the creation in the universe, can’t do anything to fix the mistakes that old kai did, just cover it all up…” Zamasu complains as he leans his back against the tree as well, crossing his arms too. “however, something is different this time…” Zamasu’s voice grew stronger as he looks at the lavender sky of the planet. “what is it…?” Goku Black lightly turns his head to Zamasu’s direction, his eyes fixed at him; “I have you to clean things up… To correct the mistakes the former supreme kai and we did…” Zamasu looks at Goku Black directly at the eye with a smile on his face.

Goku Black smilled back and looked at the sky spitting the toothpick from his mouth; “Oh, we can’t be in this perfect scenario without each other.” he spoke so softly that only Zamasu can hear his words, closing his eyes feeling the breeze of fresh air. Zamasu just smiles as he looks at him. He opens his eyes and turn to Zamasu; “Just visit me here anytime when you feel lonely in your planet, Brother, the cat got a lot of meals under her sleeve.” Goku Black offers with content in his expression. “When you return to Nyan-Qing bring me this time! I want to try their variety of teas!” Zamasu nags at his other self placing both of his fists on the side of his waist. “Haha! I will, I will!” Goku Black laughs as he waves his hand over his head walking away from Zamasu returning inside. Zamasu just stood there, smiles contently as the cool breeze of the planet hits his olive cheeks as his white locks brushed by it.

Eventually Zamasu followed Goku Black inside, it seems like the princess prepared the supreme kai a bunch of snacks to take back to their planet, seven layers of what it seems to be large wooden bento boxes is filled with different sweet, savory and flaky snacks just for the supreme kai to bring home with him, all wrapped in large sheets of embroidered golden silk cloth, “All of these…? for us…?” Zamasu asked the princess with shock on his face. “Yes! So you can have some snacks when you do creating things and stuff!” the princess sweetly replied. “Ah, thank you for the snacks!” Tatsu thanked her taking the wrapped boxes from the table. “Supreme Kai Zamasu, please don’t feed him with my snacks.” she menacingly requested Zamasu. “Why are you so mean to me…?” Tatsu asks as if he’s in the verge of tears. “Just ignore her, she’s got too much feline instincts not to identify ki very well, it overloads her senses…” Mitarashi spoke her alibi to the  assistant and supreme kai. “Not going to lie, these snacks you will send with us are actually quite tasty, perfectly paired with tea.” Zamasu compliments the feline princess; “Oh and I added a small jar of loose black tea on one of those boxes, I believe you and Lord Black likes that type of tea!” Nia informs them. “Oh, that’s lovely and considerate of you, is it okay if I send Tatsu here for once a month to restock our snack supply…?” Zamasu clasped his hands in admiration and requested to the kind princess. “You may, Supreme Kai, I would love to bake and make snacks for your consumption! Just send Tatsu in and he can be fish food as he waits for me pack your snacks!” The princess sweetly waves her hand. “F-fish food…?” Tatsu’s eyes widened as his voice tremble in fear.

Once the two kais left the planet, Mitarashi took the initiative to wash the rest of the dishes and help Nia to prepare for lunch; Goku Black then approached the two ladies; “Do you feel something odd from Zamasu?” he asked the princess who is washing rice. “My lord, I feel that you and him have same energy, however I’m not scared at all, not my instincts acting out…” she replied with honesty in her voice. “I see, well it’s not surprising that we have the same wavelength of ki…” Goku Black confirms her feelings. “Because you’re both gods…?” the innocent princess pipes up; “Yes Nia, because we’re both gods.” Goku Black just agreed without saying more.

“By the way what’s with you threatening Tatsu to be fish food…?” Mitarashi turned her head to face Nia as she remembered her words from recently; “Oh, I brought my pets Koi-Piranha here and freed them on the pond over there!” she explained as she points on the pond near the picnic area they just occupied in front of Goku Black’s house. “-And they’re carnivores, really hungry boys! They can even eat bones!” she added with sparkles on her eyes. Mitarashi without a word stared at her in horror, mouth agape, as she brought potentially man eating fishes into her lord’s planet. “Now I have carnivorous fish in my pond, how great.” Goku Black sarcastically spoke looks through the window where he sees the fish just jumps in its infested pond.

In the next few days, Goku Black and Mitarashi left the planet for a new one to judge and oversee; they stumbled on a planet covered with water; once they landed, its inhabited by a society of fish-like people, mermaids and creatures looking like jelly fishes. Its fish people seems to be familiar with what a god of destruction looks like, so they all bowed at Goku Black and welcomed him to their planet. Goku Black unfazed, asked for their leader, naturally he was brought to a palace divided by three different buildings of different designs, surprisingly the palace is the only land mass in the planet, designed to house guests from other planets who cannot breathe under water. Royal guards standing beside a large wooden door covered in barnacles opened the door for the two divine beings and as they entered they are welcomed with a smell of sea water. Besides the shocking aroma, the halls is covered with colorful corals and crystals that illuminates the inside  that emits a bluish and pinkish hue, at the end of the hall are three different looking fish men sitting on what seems to be thrones. Goku Black walked towards them, as the three men saw the approaching god, they left their seats and kneels to pay respects. “We welcome you to our planet Tubimil, our lord.” the three in unison. “Introduce yourselves.” the god commanded. “I am Geysir, the king of the Fresh water people.” “I am Dagat, the king of the salt water people.” “and I am Liput, the king of the pole water people.” the three introduced.

 “Why are your people divided?” the god asked directly. “Because as our people have different temperatures of habitat, people from the poles cannot live on the salt and fresh water due to high temperatures and so on.” King Liput explains as his head remains low. Goku Black, satisfied with the first answer took a seat on the long table in front of him in the middle of the hall, Mitarashi stands beside him, as the kings took their seats around the table willing to speak to the destoyer god. Goku Black asked the same exact question he asked to the emperor of  Nyan-Qing, the kings satisfied his questions, he’s surprisingly happy to see kings doing their jobs and not disappointing their subjects, Mitarashi just smiles beside him.

As the kings are almost about to do a sigh of relief, the destroyer layed them one last question; “What are your food here?” he asks with full intimidation in his voice, Mitarashi however was taken aback, turning her attention to the god beside her. One of the kings suddenly called one of his squires and whispered to him to prepare the best dishes this planet has to offer to the god of destruction. Mitarashi chuckles; “My lord, you might be turning into someone similar to Lord Beerus…” she commented. “If he destroys a planet because the food is horrible, then they deserve it.” the god playfully replies to his companion as he arranges the stacks of wooden records from the kings who presented him the evidences of their claim.

 Thirty minutes later, lines of servants placed platter after platter of unique seafood tin front of the god, from sashimi, to fried kelp to different tasty looking dishes. Goku Black, already hungry from the interview, took a fork and takes one bite on a piece of marinated fish.

“How is it my lord?” Mitarashi asks as she lowers her head to see her lord’s reaction. He chews with no emotion, trying to wrap his head with the new flavor, he then swallows then looked directly at Mitarashi’s eyes; “This is surprisingly good despite being raw.” he commented wiping his lips with a clean napkin from the left side of his plate. “Take a seat and take a bite for yourself.” he added as he invited Mitarashi to eat by his side.

Mitarashi nodded as she sat down beside him and took a spoonful of this new dish and her eyes opens wider as it glimmers; “My lord, this food is quite flavorful and savory!” She expressed her approval. “Good, have someone give you a copy of their recipe so Nia can cook it for us.” He suggested to her.

“S-so, My Lord… How is your experience….?” the king asked with his voice jitters from nervousness. “It’s good I guess, yet you mortals are lucky, your records are fine by me, and at the same time the food is good. Just give her the recipe of all the food you all prepared for us today and I won’t destroy your planet.” Goku Black explains as he plays with a small pea sized pinkish energy blast on his fingers.
“Y-yes certainly, I’ll have the chefs write it down for you! Thank you for your mercy my lord” The king bows thankful that his planet will see the light of the next day. He then commands his squires to attain the recipes so they can send the two deities on their way.

Few hours later, the god of destruction and his assistant kai has returned to his home planet, “How’s your trip My lord?” Nia welcomed the two at the doorway with a standing bow. “It was fine, mortals who lives… Mitarashi, give her the recipes.” He commands her. “Here, these are the new recipes of dishes we attained back from the planet Tubimil, we also authorized you to visit their planet anytime for supplies for your cooking.” Mitarashi explains with excitement in her voice.
“Cool! I gotta read these later!” The Princess with a jump in her step puts the recipes away and stashed it in her room. Mitarashi then turns around and sees her master sitting on his throne though slouching, as if he is exhausted for the day of work being a god, his head leaning on the right, with his elbows on the armrest and his palm on the right side of his cheek and some of his fingers covering his closed eyes. She then approached him. “My lord, shall I take you to the bath and for you to have an early rest…?” she asked with concern in her voice.

“Ugh… that food we ate… it tastes good but I feel ill…” he mumbled. “Ah should I prepare a herbal remedy for your illness…” she asked with more concern in her voice. “You can make that…?” he opened his eyes then removes his hand to look at her directly. “Yes, My Lord, I can do that, as your servant knowing to treat illnesses is a must.” she explains. “Fine… Just let me lay down…” he requested. “Then I shall help you to your bed.” she agrees as she helps her ill master walk to his bedroom.

Mitarashi gathered different herbs around the god’s dwelling, as she picks each herb, she placed it in her woven basket provided by the princess, once done, she washes them and crushed them in a mortar and pestle collecting the juice and pouring it in a small bowl with a ceramic design of little birds.

She walks up to her master who is lying on his bed uncomfortable from all the food he ate from earlier; “My lord your medicine is here, please drink this to calm your stomach. I must warn you, this is quite bitter.” she warns. The god’s eyes opened and he carefully sits up and reached his hand for the bowl of medicine. He used a spoon to taste it yet the moment he sips the medicine, his face formed a scowl showing his disgust; “This tastes horrible! This is too bitter!” he complained. “Yet it can help with the discomfort my lord.” she tries to convince him. “Ugh… fine. Remove the spoon.” Goku Black, no choice but to drink the medicine or else he will feel ill for the rest of the day. He took the bowl and sips it in one go, making him cough after he swallowed the entire medicine, thankfully Mitarashi has brought a glass of water for her lord to drink and clean his palette.  

“You will be better sooner my lord.” Mitarashi assures her master as she rubs his back gently.