When Earth Arises

Disclaimer: All characters from Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens, The Immortals, The Lioness Quartet, etc. belong to Tamora Pierce. I do not own them. Or characters from Dragonballz, which belong to Mr. Toriyama...anyway

I know this is a weird combination, cross-over, whatever, but then, I'm a weird person. O_^

Prologue:

Briar Moss stretched his arms and looked at Evvy. She was tucking her stones into the pouch, smiling happily. He grinned fondly down at his student, and ruffled her hair, making her scowl in his direction. He laughed.

"Hurry up, Evvy," he ordered. "It's about time for dinner. Go get cleaned up while I warm up some stew."

She started to answer, then a panicked look came over her face as she stared, open-mouthed at something over his shoulder. He turned to see a dark vortex of clouds gathering, spinning and sucking. He pulled back, trying to get away from the hurricane- like power caused by the vortex. It proved too powerful. Mentally, he reminded himself to lock his arms around Evvy, catching her as she was sucked into the clouds. If he lost her, Rosethorn would kill him.

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Piccolo's eyes snapped open. He eyed the two young figures creeping around in the foliage below him. He let a grin slip through his normally expressionless features, recognizing Trunks and Goten. It widened as he felt an enormous power he recognized as Gohan's coming toward him at an alarmingly fast pace. He dropped, supressing his ki, and fell from the skies to land silently among the trees behind the devious pair. He bit back laughter as he caught the panicked look on their faces as they felt the older boy. They didn't have to wait long, as he landed before them, a furious look on his face.

"I'm going to kill you two," he told them in a beguilingly calm voice.

"Heh, heh," Goten started, rubbing the back of his head as he tried to plead with his older brother. "We didn't mean it, Ani-san..." His voice trailed of and he hid behind Trunks as Gohan grinned evilly at him.

"Of course not, Ototo," he smirked. "I'm sure you regret it now, right?" The two nodded violently, relieved.

"And I'm sure I'll regret killing you later, when Mom gets mad," he continued, laughing to himself as the panicked look came back on their faces.

"AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" The two turned tail, and ran, heading straight for Piccolo. Surprised, he let them crashed into his chest, not having time to get out of the way. Gohan blinked.

"Oh, hi, Sensei," he smiled. "What were you doing in there?" Piccolo rolled his eyes, then they widened. Gohan had just enough time to turn before the spinning vortex of clouds sucked him, the two chibis, and his Sensei into its darkness.

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Alanna the Lioness straightened as she felt something strange tug at her Gift. She rose, then stared wide-eyed at the two spinning masses of a cloud-like substance that hovered before her. They gurgled out six different figures, four from one and two from the other, before vanishing as quickly as they had come. She gaped at the strange figures fallen on the floor before her.

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