"Jadie! Jadie! Come down to have breakfast, dear!" - called ChiChi, at about nine o'clock on that day. ("Gohan! Come too! And call your brother.")
"My name is Jade! Not Jadie!" - yelled Jade as she got up from her bed.
"As you wish dear, but come down!" - answered her mother.
Jade got up and stretched her arms. She put her slippers and her dressing-gown on.
"I'm coming..." - she said to herself, as she went towards the kitchen.
"Oh, Jade, I was starting to think that you weren't coming." - laughed Gohan when she entered.
"Ridiculous!" - answered Jade. - "It is not even funny!"
"Oh, be good children. And especially today at aunt Bulma's house." - told their mother while she was serving them some milk.
Jade froze.
"Aunt Bulma's?" - said the three children at the same time.
"Yes, you all have to go there because today I'm going to shop all the afternoon." - informed ChiChi.
"We have to go there because you want to go shop? Why do you need to go shop, TODAY?" - asked Jade.
"BECAUSE YOUR DAD IS COMING! Soon. In fact tomorrow, so I won't have another chance to go shop." - ChiChi answered with a sweeter voice.
Jade made an annoyed face.
"I hate to go to aunt Bulma's." - she said - "In the minute we get there Goten and Trunks go immediately to that stupid training room and Gohan goes to talk with aunt Bulma and I stay there, staring at nothing."
"You can always go talk to Vegeta" - laughed Son Gohan.
"What happened to you today? Did you take the day off to annoy me?" - distempered Jade.
"Now that you talk about it..." - Jade made an angry look - "Ok, I got it, I got it. For celebrate our new armed peace I suggest that we all go train a bit."
"Ok." - said the twins.
"It all seems very well to me, but first go have a bath and dress yourselves. Then do you homework while I prepare lunch." - ChiChi said while she was washing some dishes.
"Yes mum!" - they answered.
Jade went to her room, picked up her clothes and ran to the bathroom.
Ten minutes later she came out of the shower, dressed herself, brushed her teeth and her hair and went out of the bathroom.
Jade was feeling a little calmer now and walked slowly to the garden to start the training.
She was training a lot these days because she wanted to be really strong to her dad. She had heard a lot about his powers and she didn't want him to think she was a silly weak girl. In fact she was hopping that he could teach her his shukanido technique.
And was with these thoughts that Jade arrived to the training field.
"Great! Jade has just arrived, Gohan." - smiled Goten.
"Good. Now we can start." - said Gohan.
"Yeah, I'm ready." - said Jade putting herself in position.
"Ok," - commanded Gohan - "transform into super saiyan one."
"Right!" - answered the twins.
In a second the twins earned the yellow aura of the super saiyans.
"Yeah, good. Now, fight each other." - said Gohan.
"Right!" - turned again the twins.
Jade backed up and hit Goten, Goten responded and tried to quick his sister, they both backed up again and started all over again.
In the meanwhile Gohan tried some new moves and raced against the wind.
The twins trained their flight too racing against each other.
They all would train a little bit longer but their mother appeared in that instant to call them to lunch.
"Children! Come home. Lunch's ready!"
"Right mum." - they answered and the three of them ran back home.
"Now," - said ChiChi as they sat for lunch - "I was wondering if you need some new clothes, Jadie."
"No, I don't need, and I've said enough times that I hate to be called Jadie. It is too childish!" - she answered.
"Then, why don't you imagine that they're calling you JD instead of Jadie? It sounds the same but JD is more adult like." - suggested Gohan.
"Not bad," - analyzed Jade - "not bad at all. In fact it is surprising how I never thought about it before."
Gohan smiled proudly and finished his fourth noodles dish.
"See, when you want you are excellent kids!" - approved their mother.
ChiChi smiled too and picked up the dishes putting them over the oven.
"Now," - she continued - "go upstairs and brush your teeth. We are going to leave in a couple of minutes."
Jade obeyed her mother and ran to the bathroom, brushed her teeth and ran to the door.
Minutes later the family was going towards the city, and a few later Gohan was knocking at Bulma's door.
Seconds later Trunks came to the door.
"Oh, it's you, come in. I was already thinking that you weren't coming." - he said as they entered the house. - "My mum is there in the lab, Gohan." - he said pointing to a door in front of them.
"Right, I'm going to meet her." - he said entering the room.
"Now, Goten," - said Trunks turning to the twins - "lets go to the training room."
"Right!" - answered Goten.
Jade followed the boys in their way to the training room always with an annoyed face.
At the door of the room was Vegeta waiting for them.
"There you are Trunks," - he said turning to them - "I suppose you are going to train, hein?"
The boys assented.
"Right." - confirmed Vegeta, and opened the door.
The three kids entered the room followed by Vegeta.
Trunks and Goten immediately stepped a side and transformed themselves in super saiyans.
Vegeta followed the kids example and turned himself too into super saiyan.
Only Jade stayed there in her usual form, watching her twin and Trunks fighting each other.
After a while Vegeta noticed her penetrating look as she was watching the fight and stared at them for a while. Vegeta felt the huge energy emerging from her little body.
He had to test her fight skills against Trunks.
"If she beats Trunks she is an extraordinary powerful and developed child," - thought Vegeta - "but on the contrary, if she looses against him she's just a common girl. But better test her before she surprises me."
"Trunks!" - he called.
The boys immediately stopped.
"It doesn't seem fair to me that you always play with Goten instead of Jade, so I want you to train a bit with her." - ordered Vegeta.
"I would train with her gladly, but she's not entering the Championship, so she doesn't needs to train. But on the contrary, Goten..."
"I don't remember to have asked you explanations, I just told you to do it. Now, be a good host and do what I told you to."
"Anyway, I don't kick girls!" - answered Trunks.
Jade got furious.
"I'm as strong as any boy." - she said.
"I don't care, I don't kick girls! They're weaker."
"Well, I don't think aunt 18 is weaker just because she's a girl. And in fact, she told me that seven years ago she kicked a lot of boys, INCLUDING YOU!"
Trunks laughed.
"Impossible. I wasn't a year old yet. And why do you call C-18 aunt?"
"Well, if you don't believe me ask your dad. And I call her aunt because she's my godmother."
These last arguments totally defeated Trunks. And he immediately looked to his father.
"I explain you that later, Trunks. Now fight with her." - he ordered.
Goten stepped a side and invited his sister to take his place.
"Right, Jade," - continued Trunks - "if you please..."
Jade walked towards him.
"Now, you know how to get to super saiyan one, right?" - he asked.
"Yes." - she said and in a minute she was surrounded by the super saiyans aura. - "In fact," - she added - "I'm almost achieving super saiyan two."
Vegeta froze. The girl was more powerful than he thought. Immediately his eyes turned to them.
Trunks got his father's look, but he wasn't convinced. Goten feeling Trunks's opinion turned to him and confirmed:
"It's true, Jade has been training every day with me and my brother. She's training real hard to achieve super saiyan two."
Jade smiled as she heard her brother and turned back to Trunks:
"Are we going to start or what?" - she said.
"Yeah, we're going to start." - he replied. - "And as seems that you are able to transform yourself in super saiyan, I'll do the same." - and saying these he too was surrounded by the yellow aura.
Vegeta was more interested than ever. The girl was definitely powerful.
Jade waited for Trunks to start, but he didn't seem to move.
"What are waiting for?" - she asked.
"Err... Nothing." - and he tried to hit Jade.
Jade moved quickly and he missed the kick, but immediately she responded hitting Trunks straight in the stomach.
Trunks didn't like to hit girls but being hit by one was a bigger damage to him. So he hit her in the arm.
JD responded and so did Trunks every time she kicked him.
Both the kids went this way for nearly forty minutes, until Vegeta tell them to stop.
They both stopped and started to breath loudly.
Vegeta was astonished. The girl was amazingly strong. Much more than he had imagined.
"Right. I think it's enough." - he said - "Now, you three go to the kitchen eat something. You have trained enough for one day."
"Right, daddy." - said Trunks leaving the room. The twins followed him.
"You're pretty good." - said Trunks to Jade while they entered the kitchen. - "I wasn't expecting so much."
Jade remained silently.
"I told you, Trunks. She's the strongest girl I know, and also the smartest." - Goten flattered Jade.
Jade made a tiny smile.
"Right." - continued Trunks - "What are you going to drink? We have milk, juice and some coke, I guess."
"Milk, please." - asked Jadie.
"And you, Goten?"
"Juice, if it is alright."
"Right. Anyway, Jade, I can't see why you're not entering the championship. You would beat every opponent." - started Trunks.
"That includes you?" - she asked.
"Well... I asked you first"
"Right. I don't want to compete because it's boring, you know. They don't let us enter the adults competition and the children one is too easy."
"I agree with you." - said Trunks. - "What about you, Goten?"
"Yeah, me too. I bet we could beat more than half of the competers. Maybe against Gohan, Piccolo, your dad or even 18 we would loose, but it would be fun, anyway"
"Yeah." - turned Jade - "Do you believe that Gohan's girlfriend, or friend or whoever she is, is going to fight? She has only learned to fly the day before yesterday."
"Well, so did I." - said Goten.
"But that's different, you're seven and she's fifteen, Goten." - said Trunks.
"How do you know she's fifteen?" - asked Goten.
"Well, you said she was Gohan's girlfriend, and his fifteen, right?"
"Well, yes."
"Then, you see, Gohan's girlfriend..."
"Gohan's what?" - said Gohan himself, entering the kitchen. - "What are you saying?"
"That you have a girlfriend, Gohan." - said Goten.
"Who has a girlfriend?" - asked Bulma joining them.
"Gohan has." - said Jade.
"No, I don't. Videl is just a friend of mine..."
"Oh, her name is Videl?" - smiled Bulma - "I think I've heard her name before. Isn't she that man's daughter...?"
"Who's man's daughter?" - asked Vegeta, he too entering the kitchen.
"That man," - said his wife - "the one who claims have killed Cell."
"Oh, that Satan something or whatever his name was." - said Vegeta. - "What's up with that clown?"
"His daughter is Gohan's girlfriend." - informed Bulma.
"No she's not!" - yelled Gohan.
"Calm down boy, there's no need of that." - said Vegeta.
"Right." - whispered Gohan.
They all remained silently for ten minutes, staring at each others, then Gohan spoke:
"Well," - he said - "it's time for us to go. Tomorrow is going to be a big day."
"Right." - said Bulma - "I was counting with you for dinner, but..."
"Thanks, anyway." - replied Gohan.
The three brothers went to the door with Bulma and Trunks.
"Well," - she said - "see you tomorrow."
"Right." - they answered and they left the house.
The three flew home in no time. When they arrived dinner was expecting them.
"Well, how did it go, Miss Jade?" - asked her mother.
Jade whispered something.
"Right." - ChiChi understood how tired Jade was so she didn't insist with her.
Jade went to bad right after dinner and immediately fell asleep, only waking in the next morning.