Chapter One

A small bit of plaster fell from the ruined ceiling onto her head. Just enough to wake her from her seemingly endless slumber. She woke up and got on all fours while staring at the floor. There was dust and dirt scattered all around. This was different from the clean floor she remembered. Trying to collect herself, she swept the plaster out of her raven hair and looked up. What she saw next scarred her.

The ceiling of her classroom was collapsed and a red sky was exposed. Scarred skeletons dressed in the rags of her former classmates were scattered throughout the room. A large hole in the wall extended up to the exposed ceiling. Her blue eyes widened in horror and at realization that everyone was dead.

'This has to be some sort of nightmare,' she thought trying to recollect her last memory…

Erasa and Sharpener sat at both her sides, for some reason Gohan wasn't there even though it was his first week in school. The teacher was going through a rather boring lecture in a monotone voice that wasn't helping. She started to rest her head on the desk when she heard someone yell, "is that someone flying outside?!"

As she started to look up, her vision flashed white and she heard screams as she was engulfed in a large beam of energy. Painful heat overtook her body and then everything went dark.

She shuddered at the thought of what she thought was her death. Her eyes widened again, "Sharpener! Erasa!"

She looked to her sides trying to find her friends, unfortunately she did. Two skeletons dressed in rags that were similar to her friend's clothes were on the ground where here friends were. Tears started to flow from her eyes as she fell to her knees. She managed to ask through her sobs, "What the hell is happening?"

Her next move was to open her cell phone. It still had about 75% charge just like in her last memory, however there was no signal, no missed calls, no messages. She checked the date, it still read September 1, 2013. She closed the phone and cautiously walked to the large hole in the wall while wiping tears from her eyes.

Satan City was almost completely razed to the ground. The odd thing was that the whole city was still. There was no smoke, there was no sign of life at all. She shook her head as more tears flowed down her face. She knew what her next move had to be. She started to climb the hole onto the roof.

When she reached the roof she reached into her pocket and pulled out her capsules. She pulled her jet copter out and activated it. As she climbed into the pilot seat she noticed that the GPS system was down. She didn't need it anyway in order to go home. The jet started to hover and took off towards the Satan mansion. She was still trying to take everything in, the more she flew, the more debris started to fall off of buildings. Almost as if she was the first thing disturbing the airspace in years.

She landed on the road where her house used to be. All there was left was a crater, no sign of the grand mansion and grounds that used to occupy the space. Her tears became a full blown weep as she collapsed to the ground crying. Every element of her old life is gone. After 15 minutes of crying had passed she collected herself slightly and tried to think of her next move.

'Gohan was the only one not in class that day, maybe he knows what happened,' Videl thought walking back to her chopper. 'But where does he live?' she thought.

"439 east district," she mumbled remembering how Erasa barraged him the first day. She opened the glove compartment in the passenger seat and pulled out a map.

"It's directly east of Satan City, or what used to be Satan City," she noted on the map, "still, I don't know where exactly in the east district he lives. I might have to go back to the school to find out."

She started flying back to the high school, unaware of the eyes watching from afar. Two men stood on top of the remains of a building watching the teenager fly in her chopper. Both wore black and yellow body armor, had tails wrapped around their waists, and scouters on their ears. One was short and bald while the other had black hair that came down to his shoulder and was an average build.

"That's the first sign of life in this city in a decade," the shorter one said in a deep voice.

"It appears so, should we go after her?" the partner asked.

"Not yet, let's follow her from afar and see if she leads us to any others. Maybe even better she will lead us to that old bastard."

This made the partner grin and answer, "I'll keep a line in with HQ if that happens." The pair took off, keeping their distance from the speeding chopper.

The chopper landed in front of the school and was recapsulized by its pilot. The entrance to the front of the school was collapsed, a pile of debris was all the remained. Videl climbed over the top of the debris and slid down into the main hall. The records hall was the door to her right.

She opened the door to see a skeleton in a ragged dress spewed across the records dress. She tried to look away as she slid the once-living body off the desk. She opened up the drawer full of records for kids in her grade and found the file she was looking for, Son, Gohan.

It was stamped with a seal from the Ox Kingdom and read "Confidential: Do Not Open Without Express Permission of Ox Kingdom Royal Family."

"Gohan was royalty?" Videl asked as she opened the file. The record sheet was almost completely blank, stapled to it however was a map of the 439 East District which was marked with the location of the Son house.

"That's convenient, an address wouldn't have done any good anyway," Videl mumbled as she tucked the envelope under her arm and climbed back over the pile of debris. She decapsulized her chopper and took off for Gohan's house unaware of the two strangers tailing her.

Half an hour into the journey Videl started to ponder to herself, 'Gohan made this journey every day? He had to have had a chopper faster than mine, and this one is top of the line. Then again he apparently has ties to the royal Ox family.'

The whole forest underneath her was starting to blend and look the same as another hour passed. According to the math in her head, she should reach somewhere near Gohan's home soon. The sun was starting to set and the sky was turning into a darker and dirtier blood red. A clearing became visible with a small stream of smoke came from above the foliage. In the middle of the clearing sat a small cabin attached to a capsule house. Videl set down next to it in the clearing.

"Haha this is it!" the bald stranger exclaimed.

"Quite or she'll hear you, we'll go back and get reinforcements and be back in the morning," the taller one said hushing his partner. The other nodded and they flew away.

Videl walked out of her chopper and started to take in the scenery around here. 'If he's living here then he definitely made it,' Videl thought before an explosion startled her. She turned around and her chopper was in flames and she gasped.

"Who are you and why are you here?" an old but hardened male voice asked.

"Videl Satan, who are you and why the hell did you blow up my chopper?!" Videl yelled back.

"Goten Son, and you didn't answer my question," the voice answered as a figure stepped out of the woods.

"I'm looking for Gohan Son, do you know him?"

The man that stepped out was old but clearly in shape, he had black eyes and gray hair that rested neatly on his shoulders. Whenever he heard Gohan's name he spat on the ground and answered, "I know him, he's my damn brother. And he's not here anymore."

I'll try to keep chapters between 1000-1500 words. Any questions will be answered at the start of the next chapter.