Pan is a princess and Trunks is a slave boy taken from his family at a young age. He has been serving the royal Son family ever since Pan was born. Both live on Vegeta-sei, but Pan isn't a full saiya-jin and that's where the trouble starts.

Pan - 5
Trunks - 7
(Ages will vary)

Disclaimer - I do not own DBZ

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A young girl ran through the royal palace with her teddybear, crying. She looked behind her to find 3 men chasing after her, all screaming profanities and other phrases she did not understand. The men knew who she was, and knew that it would not be that hard to get her, but they still hadn't caught her.

The young girl's name was Son Pan, and she was running away from one babysitter, one cook, and one carriage driver. All she did was steal a royal cookie, punch the babysitter in the mouth, and startled the horse to the point of stampeed. To Pan, she should not have been chased, and by the looks of it, she was going to get caught very soon.

"Get Back her you hybrid retch!!" shouted her babysitter. Pan, who had now run into the slave quaters, ducked into an open room and looked the door behind her. The men tried banging the door down, but soon gave up, figuring she would come out sooner or later.

Pan broke down crying. She fell to the floor, getting her pretty blue dress dirty, which would piss her father off even more. She wiped her tears away and started to brush off the dirt. The room was dimly lit, and she could not see well.

"Who are you?" Came a voice from the shadows. Pan's throat tightened, and her body tensed. She heard footsteps and covered her face with her hands. "Hello? I asked you a question. Who are you" it came again. Pan looked up.

"My name is Pan...Princess Pan" she murmered. The person, most likely a boy, gasped and helped her up. He walked her over to a chair and got her some water. She looked at him curiously as he turned up the light in the room.

"Princess Pan, I should have known. Please forgive my ignorance" the young boy said, kneeling in front of her. Pan giggled. It wasn't everyday someone showed respect for her. Her giggling caught the attention of the boy who looked up at her.

"Whats your name??" Pan asked him sweetly, motioning for him to rise. He did, wiping some of his lavender hair from his face. He smiled when he saw Pan smiling.

"My name is Trunks." he said, extending his hand out to her. Pan grabbed it with hers and shook it. He seemed to be a nice boy, a little dirty, but arent all little kids.

"Want to be my friend. I'm awwfully lonely with no one to play with around here, 'cept my babysitter, but he ignores me most of the time." Pan said sighing. Trunks felt sympathy for the princess. For having all the riches in the world her life seemed pretty miserable.

The two young children talked for a while, Pan discussing her fathers neglect, and Trunks informing her of how he got to the palace in the first place. Pan thought it was awful how her father had treated these people, and hung on Trunks' every word. The more she listen to him, the more she began to like him.

"Hey Trunks? Since we both hate this place, maybe when we are older we should try and escape to some distant island or something. You know, live life our own ways and never have any worries or nothing!" Pan said laughing. Trunks joined in with the laughter. They both agreed that they would do that, if it was ever possible.

"Pan?" Trunks asked and Pan looked up at him. "Tag!! Your it!!" he shouted. Pan squealed and started chasing the purple haired saiya-jin. They had a blast just running around playing untill they heard a loud banging noise.

"My daddy ordered them to come get me after I 'ruined the kitchen, courtyard, and disgraced the babysitter' " Pan said, imitating her father. Trunks giggled a bit, but not for long when his door began to crack. Pan grabbed onto his arm. "Please hide me!!!" she begged him.

Trunks looked at the girl that held onto his arm. He nodded and led Pan to a panel in the room. He pushed it and it slipped forward, revealing a secret passage. "Come on get in and keep going until you reach another door. Wait for me there...." Trunks instructed, helping Pan into the passage. Then he slid himself in, covering the entrance behind him. He hit a button, and the passage lit up. He heard Pan gasp and he hurried to get to her.

After a few minutes of walking in the narrow halway, Pan and Trunks reached a door. "Where does this lead to??" Pan asked him. Trunks smiled.

"This leads out to the halway where your room is I believe. I'll go out first and make sure the coast is clear, then I'll get you to your room, okay princess??" Trunks asked. Pan nodded and grabbed Trunks' hand. He could sense the young girl was scared and gave a small squeeze, making her smile.

Trunks slid open the door. He glanced around. Suprizing to him, there were no guards or anyone to be found. "Lets go Pan!" he said, hopping out the door and running to Pan's bedroom. They were less than two feet away from the door when Trunks was jerked back.

"How dare you touch the princess you worthless brat!!!" shouted the larger saiya-jin, grabbing hold of Trunks' collar and lifting him off the ground. Pan ran over and grabbed the man's leg and began pounding him with her tiny fists.

"Let him go you bully, let him go!!!!!!" she shouted, pounding. The older Saiya-jin was Cumber, one of the kings bodyguards. He sneered at Pan and kicked her away. She smacked against the granite floor with a thud and began to cry at the pain that filled her body.

Trunks hung there, wide eyed at the treatment of the princess. He began screaming and trying to writhe out of Cumber's grip. The Saiya-jin replied with a slap accroos the face. "You'll spend your life in the horse pits, brat!" he shouted dragging Trunks along the floor, away from Pan.

"Trunks!!" Pan shouted as she watched her friend being dragged away. She began to chase after him, when she was grabbed by another guard, named Mato. He drug Pan in the opposite direction to the kings thrown room.

"Pan!!" Trunks screamed and began struggling again. The only thing he was rewarded with was a kick to the ribs, causing him to scream in pain, and tears to fall silently out his eyes. Now he knew he would never see the princess again, and it would be a long time before he could walk right again.

---King's thrown room---

"Running off with a slave, young lady? Are you trying to disgrace the royal name?" Gohan's voice boomed. He sat in his chair, looking like a king was supposed to, hard, unmoved, and stern. Pan, on the other hand was shaking like a leaf as her father continued his little speech about her 'running around like an idiot.'

Pan heard something. She didn't know what it was, but it was something. She listened to where she thought the sound was coming from, only to not hear it anymore. Pan shrugged it off and turned her attention back to her father who didn't seem to want to let up ranting about everything she had done.

"Sire," said a strong, tall saiya-jin," The boy is ready for whipping," he informed Gohan, who nodded and informed him to proceed. The saiyajin placed his hand over his heart and walked out. Gohan continued talking until he heard his daughter scream in pain. At the time he wasn't looking at her, but the scream made him. He gasped in horror.

Pan lay on the ground, a slash down the front of her dress with blood pouring out of it. She screamed again, and another wound, this time on her back, appeared. Gohan could only look on in horror as his daughter's face became covered in blood and scratched from something unknown. She screamed and writhed in an unexplainable pain. Gohan got up and ran to his daughter. He picked her up, craddling her small, frail form and ran her to the infirmery.

---Trunks' Room---

Trunks lay on his bed, no way in comfort. He had taken a whipping before but nothing like that before. It hurt a lot, and the gashes on his back and stomach weren't healing, even after that special balm his adopted mother, Kina, had applied.

His thoughts wondered back to Pan and what happened to her. Was she okay? He wanted to know but he knew he never would see her again. They would never be able to escape to that island and live their lives their own way. Trunks turned on his side, only to see the teddybear Pan had been holding earlier. He grabbed it and held it close to him, drifting off into an unpeaceful slumber.

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Want to know something about what happen to poor Pan? Well I will explain it in the next chapter and I hope you understand it. Please review and let me know how I am doing. I want to work my ass off on this story cus I see serious potential with it.

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