They were fighting again; as always together, as they have to face some really strong opponent that could threaten mankind. But this time it was specially hard to fight the monster. Yamcha, Tien, Kuririn and Gohan were hiding after being quite much wounded only by one hit of Golden Straw's* ki. Vegeta was waiting somewhere up in the sky to attack, when Goku in his super saiyan form fought the monster. Piccolo tried to injure it, but even though he have used all his best attacks, Golden Straw remained quite untouched. He wasn't willing to confess that, but he couldn't threaten the monster anymore. He only hoped for Saiyans to beat him. But, unexpectedly, it was Goku who became the most injured at the moment. 'What's happening? He's strongest of us all, he MUST beat it!', Namekian worried. Then, suddenly, Golden Straw stopped like paralyzed, with unshot blow in his hand. All warriors goggled their eyes, Vegeta winced, a bit desorientated.

- Now or never! - Piccolo yelled. - Why are you just staring at him and not attacking?!

He started to prepare his Special Beam Cannon. Saiyans were bombarding Golden Straw with lots of very fast missiles. After Namekian's hit there was only some big crater left below, with some shreds of their opponent.

- Wow, that was amazing! - Kuririn called, flying closer to them with other warriors. - He just stopped and let you kill himself!

- Some power... - Piccolo wondered. - Haven't you felt anything? He surely didn't surrender, fools!

- I haven't felt anything strange - Vegeta growled, walking away.

- It wasn't any energy. It was some mental power. Someone had used telekinesis...

They goggled their eyes again. So strong telekinesis?

- But he's dead now, what we are worrying about? - concluded Yamcha.

Among common happines only Vegeta stood aside, and Piccolo was trying to hear something with his sensitive ears. Then, out of sudden, against the tree appeared not so big creature, floating in the air. Female figure landed softly on the grass and shaked her long, grey, plaited hair. Her skin was porcelain-pale and she wasn't tall, so black, wide costume that she was wearing almost covered her bare feet and shape of her body.

'Some kind of warrior? She looks like some normal person... is she a friend or an enemy?'.

- Who you are and what for are you here? - quietly asked Vegeta, frowning.

- It... it was you? I mean, was it you, who... - Kuririn couldn't help his curiosity, but still was tongue-tied seeing so cute-looking stranger.

- Don't disturb, when I'm saying something, you little faggot - Saiyan mumbled angrily.

The girl laughed slightly and some mysterious smile stayed on her face.

- It was you, who killed that creature? - Piccolo asked with poker face, although Vegeta looked at him with rage.

- Yes, Piccolo Daimaō.

He took a step back, completely thrilled.

- You... you know my name! Where from?!

She only moved her shoulders and smiled wider, bu only for short moment.

- I'm not from here. I must go back.

- Wh-what? I asked you a question, you weird creature! - Vegeta rushed in the air - he just hated to be ignored, but the girl disappeared unexpectedly like she vanished into the air.

- Well, whoever she was, she helped us... - thought Goku. - Let's go back home.

Vegeta flew away quite fast, with his disdainful grimace on his face. The others also flew to the above, the only one who left near that tree, was Piccolo. 'How could she just appear and how couldn't I hear nor notice anything? I was quite concetrated, but I felt her power only then, when she had used telekinesis! Who is she?!', he thought, feeling really curious and unpeaceful at the same time.

Few months after that incident we could see our warriors fighting another time. But now enemy wasn't so dangerous - it was only a mutation of some reptile living on Earth. Goku let his son beat that giant monster and Piccolo appeared to see how his pupil would deal with that kind of opponent.

The boy was very agile and haven't got any problem with weakening the monster. But a tiny moment of deconcentration was enough to become in danger. Gohan bared his teeth in wide smile showed to his father, floating above the body of stunned enemy, when it raised its paw. Goku froze with thrill on his face. Piccolo shot some ki to reach the beast under boy's legs, and... only half of a second before his missile hit it, reptile stopped suddenly and its heavy fist froze only milimetres before little Saiyan's head.

Namekian shuddered with bad feeling. 'It's impossible, maybe I have some hallucinations? But that power...', he thought.

- Oh, you saved Gohan at the very last moment - Goku sighed with relief.

- He shouldn't be so deconcentrated when fighting - responded Piccolo. - And that wasn't me who saved him.

Surprised face of adult Saiyan told him, that again only he felt that. Ironically, at this moment someone appeared above the ground and took scared boy in her arms. When she safely put him back on the ground, she smiled slightly.

- It's you again! About your power Piccolo was talking...

- It's true, we're meeting again. Piccolo talked about me?

- I said nothing. Go back where you are from - he told with cold as ice voice.

As the Namekian rose, Goku and his son also decided to go home. Saiyan looked back at mysterious stranger, but he didn't want to ask once more, who is she. 'Really weird', he thought only. 'It looked like Piccolo knows her!'.

- I'll fly some other way, I want to meditate for a while - said Piccolo and changed direction of his flight.

'It's so stupid!', he told himsefl, but he was too curious and wanted to ask silver-haired so many questions... he hoped, that she still would be there, but she wasn't. He tried to concentrate as much as he can to feel her power again, but without any result. He wondered, why only he notices it, why she always appears so unexpectedly and why she knows his name? 'She only smiles so annoyingly and then disappears! I must find out, what hides behind her abilities', Piccolo thought.

After some short time he found quiet place to contemplate and took place above one of giant rocks. However, he couldn't calm down due to all that questions and doubts.

It wasn't so long since last mysterious incidents, when Goku gathered with all Z warriors to talk about his plan to visit some other planet for training. Finally, Bulma helped them to find the best sphere, as she had the best information about gravity, climate and habitants of it. That aliens seemed a bit dangerous, but they wanted to choose that planet to train on, anyway.

- That's why I thought about finding that girl, that helped us with Golden Straw and saved Gohan - we may need some help again, as we don't want to kill that creatures...

- So, we'll fly to other planet and we'll still fighting with ourselves? - Piccolo asked ironically.

- Hmpf! - Vegeta snorted. - Fly wherever you want to, weaklings. I would rather prefer to knock out some aliens from another planet - he decided and flew away.

- Vegeta... yeah, as always - Kuririn summed up.

- I wanted to say, that I'll be glad if we could look for that strange girl together - continued Goku. - I guess she has a great deal of power.

Piccolo shook his shoulders with indifference.

They decided to search near the forest, where they had seen her last time. 'Of course, I'll fly around here wanting to find her and she'll just appear', Piccolo thought sarcastically and clenched his fist so tight, that his long, sharp nails hurt his skin. He momentally became angry, recalling himself about how she made fool out of him with some stupid mental tricks. He remembered that last time she appeared near the tree, so he decided to search in the forest. As he flew into it, he felt a lot less comfortable as in the open space and he sharpened his senses. He passed few metres long distance and them he looked up. Above, against the stately tree crown, was floating a small figure with silver-grey hair and black clothes. He half-closed his eyes, frowned and clenched his fist even more tightly. 'She's playing with me again! Damned creature!', he thought with anger.

- I didn't mean to play with you in any way, Piccolo.

*monster, that I created - his name comes from a lot of small, thin, gold swords that he held between his fingers and from yellowish ki spheres :)