Chapter 1: The Tournament


Goten ducked from his opponent's punch, sending one of his one aiming straight at his jaw. The man
was sent sprawling back, and Goten pumped a fist in the air of victory, as the chimes rang and the
crowd cheered. This was his first match in the tournament and he won it like a piece of cake.
' And the winner is folks, Goten Son!' The MC man yelled.
He went over to where his family was, sitting on benches. Chi Chi congratulated her son proudly, and his
elder brother gave him a big bear hug. After releasing Gohan's hug, he felt a little touch of disappointment.
He wanted his father to be there, be right next to him, cheering him on, and maybe even in good spirits he'll
be able to fight in the tournament. Something deep inside of Goten's heart an aching feeling crept and started
spreading. He sadly looked up to the heaven's, and knew that his father was watching with the famous Son
smile on his face, knowing that his was family was okay. He felt something ruffle against his hands, and he
looked down to see his cousin Lil Pan looking up at him with blue eyes.
' Cousin Goten-sun. For you!' Pan said in her cutesy voice and held out a rose. Goten smiled and kneeled
down to be in length with her, and accepted the rose.
' Thank you Pan. I'll keep it in my pocket' He stuck the rose in his gi pockets and watched her giggle and run
away to Gohan.

Meanwhile, his best friend was being silenced by his arrogant dad.
' Why couldn't you have picked to fight first? Why do I have a such idiotic, cowardly, son?' Vegita raved on
waving his number card that said 45 in front of Trunk's purple face.
' Dad.... They chose those-'
' Silence! I'm watching the round. This weakling human knows how to fight, and she has a
saiyan tail!' Vegita was staring off to
the battle that was happening between a female that looked like she was winning against a pirate look-a-like.
Trunks shifted his gaze eagerly to see what had caused his dad to stop his mad raving, to see the female with a tail beating
shit out of the unfortunate muscled man. He raised his purple eyebrows in astonishment. This girl had the most
strangest tactics, flee, then when the man was running towards her and was about to hit her when she was
slowing down, she kicked the man in surprise.
He stopped noticing on how she fought, and focused on this strange girl he had begun to feel ki from. Her
red hair was tied into two braids that were tied back into one full double-braid, and she had jade-emerald
eyes that were so clear Trunks could see from his distance the pupils. She wore strange fighting clothing,
teal colored jeans and a gray short shirt, showing her stomach that had a dragon tattoo around her belly.
' Wow I wouldn't have the guts to get a tattoo!' Trunks admitted, watching her back flip and hit the man
halfway.
' And if you did, Trunks-kun, you'll never get one!' Bulma scolded walking up to them with Bra holding
her hand, eating melted ice-cream.
' If you're finished with your insignificant chatter, you'll notice that she has naturally won!' Vegita said
as the female walked to her bench nearby, and sat down all alone.
' The winnah! Keerah Red!' The loudspeaker blared.
' Amazingly, Keerah has ki for a reason, and has a tail.' Vegita mumbled.
' I pretty much noticed that dad.' Trunks replied.
' Well don't just stand there, baka! Go find out why!' Vegita snapped facing him.
' What? Find out what?' Trunks sputtered.
' Go find out why she has ki, she might be very powerful! She must be a saiyan!'
' But why me? My match is gonna be up soon! Why don't u go and talk to her?'
' Because your a young boy and can communicate! And besides, I can't stand foolish women' Vegita
smirked.
Trunks uneasily walked over to where Keerah was standing, looking onto the battle. ' What the heck am
I gonna say to her?' Trunks muttered. ' I need Goten's charm, I'm no good with women..'
He stood next to her and watched the battle while saying, ' I noticed your not the average fighters
around here cuz you fight pretty good.'
Her shiny hair reflected the sun, hurting his eyes when she tilted her head to look at him. ' I've
trained hard for this time' She said in a low almost-growling voice.
Trunks waited for her to say something, then blurted. ' Are you from this planet ?'
Keerah jerked her head and fully turned to him. ' What do you want?'
Trunks avoided her bright eyes. ' Are you? You have ki'
' Ah, now I see why your here. Your a saiyan right?'
' Well yes! How - wait that must mean that you are from space!' Trunks said, and he heard that the match
was over.
' Oh that's good.... I'm half-saiyan.. um your name?' Keerah's voice was drowned by Bra's screams.
' What's wrong?' He asked worried.
' Tousan! Its your turn!' Bra screamed.
' Oops. I got to go.. We'll talk later, Keerah!' Trunks waved and went into his side of the battlefield.
' Wait! Your name!!' Keerah yelled irritably, but he couldn't hear her.
And as usual, Trunks won. He took his time because he went carefully on the young boy, careful not to injure
him to death. Keerah watched from her bench at the sidelines, observing his attacks.
' So he can levitate too...' She noted as she left to get something from her car. She wasn't there to hear the
loudspeaker announce the winner late.
Keerah fished through her jeans pockets and found her car keys. She opened the back door, and took out
a red bag, and headed back to the tournament.
Trunks slapped Goten high five, then after talking with him about some moves they both did, Trunks
fervently scanned the benches to find Keerah as battles went on.
' Did you see a girl named Keerah, the one that beat that guy to pulp? Around here?' Trunks asked Goten.
' Oh yeah, the girl with the tail! Gohan seemed really tense when she finished that guy off - he said she had a ki.
I liked her navel.' Goten admitted.
' Yeah that was cool - I started talking to her and she suddenly disappeared! Hey- there she is!' Trunks waved
over to Keerah, motioning for her to come. Keerah came up to them, slinging the bag on the floor and sitting next to Goten.
' Oh hey. Your Goten right?' Keerah said slowly.
' Yeah. Phat fighting back there, Keerah' Goten commented eyeing her belly when she looked at Trunks.
' Thanks. You said your half saiyan, right? Well I'm sure your familiar with these?' Keerah revealed what was
inside her red bag.
' Are those?' Trunks sputtered.
' Yep. The earth's shenlong dragon balls' Keerah looked at the bright orange balls with numerical red stars
on them. She glanced at the two boys, and naturally expected to see their surprised faces.