The Legacy of the Saiyaness

Chapter 1: Mystery Girl

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z, but I do own my OC.

Author's Note: If you are reading this for the first time, you may not know that I have updated this chapter and will be updating a few more. The story plot is undergoing a few changes, one in particular affecting the whole story, but it's going to be epic. If you have this before and are reading this over and are wondering what's going on, don't worry. These changes will only add to the story and make it better and more interesting. If you have any questions, message me and I will answer them. And don't forget to review! Enjoy!

Age 778, May 26th

On a peaceful day in the month of May a space pod crash-landed on Earth miles off the coast of the island where Kame House resided on a small dirt pile island. Goku, along with his son Gohan, and Krillin took off from the Kame House, in the direction of the crash, leaving 18 with Marron.

"Oh man!" Goku heard his friend say squeamishly.

"What's wrong Krillin?" he asked him.

"I'm just afraid that this is what I think it is," he answered.

"You mean the alien from another planet?" Goku asked innocently. Something he couldn't help himself from doing.

"WHY'D YA HAVE TO GO SAYING IT LIKE THAT?! THAT'LL JUST MAKE IT MORE REAL!"

"Well, there's no point in hiding it. It's already happening."

"Dad's right, Krillin," said Gohan. "Whoever this is and whatever they want, we have to face them head-on."

Krillin sighed, sounding exhausted. It was weird how he would feel that way, considering the fact that they hadn't even reached their destination yet. "We can never catch a break around here...!"

As the three of them landed, they saw all their old friends had come as well: Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha. Goku guessed they heard the crash as well.

"Piccolo!" he heard his son cheer and turned around. And what do you know; he was standing right there, separate from the group. Though he was Piccolo, always so focused. Goku laughed sheepishly as he remembered the battles they fought in together in the past twenty plus years.

"Oh, hey Piccolo! How's it been? I guess you heard the crash, too," he chuckled. "Then again, why else would you have come?"

"As if there would be any other reason for me to be standing here," Piccolo muttered in a low tone. Yep, he still hadn't changed and the kind-hearted Saiyan wouldn't have expected him to have.

The next thing he saw brought him back to his mellow self, or more correctly someone and that someone was Vegeta, who was standing slightly impatient off to the side with his arms crossed against his chest. "Vegeta. Why am I not surprised?" he smiled.

Vegeta's eyes were still focused on the space pod that continued to let off smoke without control. He must have been the first one to show up. He cocked his head backwards at me and smirked. "Kakarot." He looked back after that, obviously not wanting to engage in conversation unlike the rest of them. Yep that was Vegeta all right. Man of very few words.

"I see you're in the zone… which is good. If this guy turns out to be evil, we'll need to be on our feet ready for anything."

"I know what you're thinking Kakarot and I am going to fight him. No one else. I don't want you getting in the way of that, got it?"

"That's fine by me. Just try not to drag it on for too long, that's only if what we're dealing with someone who's looking for trouble. But if that's the case, then it's your fight. Just don't be afraid to end this quickly. We're on a time sensitive schedule."

"Yes, I know. You don't have to remind me like a child," Vegeta said with a tinge of annoyance in his voice.

Goku could tell by the attitude in his voice that he was rolling his eyes, but he would never tell him that out loud.

"Whatever you say. But just in case something happens and you can't finish things off…" he turned his attention back on the pod and became excited about endless possibilities, grinning cheerfully, "I'm going to fight him."

Goku overheard Vegeta growl to himself. So proud, well he was going to have to put his pride aside if he got a chance to fight the guy, whether he liked it or not.

Everyone was quiet for the most part, small talk between old friends and catching each other up on everything that had happened so far since they all split up. Tien and Chiaotzu still remained close in friendship, as anyone would expect them to. They visited Launch after so many years apart, and her and Tien soon enough had a child. It was a girl, taking after both of her parents. She had Launch's hair and Tien's third eye. Yamcha was still dating in hopes of finding his true love after realizing there was nothing separating Bulma and Vegeta. He hadn't found her yet, but he was keeping his fingers crossed.

Everything was quiet and the Z Fighters had stopped talking after a short while to watch as the space pod continued to emit smoke from the crater it made. Although it wasn't quiet for very long when Vegeta became very impatient by the seemingly endless wait and spoke up.

"How long are we going to stand here twiddling our thumbs like a bunch of half-wits, Kakarot? I'm not waiting for the idiot to come out and introduce himself!" he shouted.

He was right. Why did any of them have to stand there? It was then that Goku realized he could do something other than waiting in one spot until the person showed their face. Goku ignored Vegeta and took a step towards the space pod. He stopped to think about his decision as he ignored his friends' gasps and questions. Goku thought he was acting crazy, like he had lost his mind. But soon recognized the potential of whoever was in the pod and regretted halting, proceeding slowly towards the pod. He only took his time because he wanted to really enjoy the moment while his curiosity grew with the stillness in the air and his anticipation.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing, fool?" Goku vaguely heard Vegeta yell at him. "You're not seriously going to go up to the thing, are you? For all you know there could be a complete psychopath in there ready to blast you! Don't go near that pod! Leave this to me, Kakarot! I'm perfectly capable of taking this guy down!"

"Calm down, Vegeta. I'm just going over there to see what's up. I'll be fine so don't worry about it," he said simply with a smile on his face.

Goku continued down the way to the space pod, reaching the edge of the crater. He was so excited to know who the mystery person was and whether or not they were on Earth for wicked reasons. He was certain his behavior had made Vegeta angry; he could vaguely hear the sound of his growling in the background. But while he was still standing at the edge, Goku heard a sound come from the pod. Following that, the door to the machine opened as it steadily made its way to the ground. Goku backtracked a step or two from what he remembered. The sound of the door hitting earth nearly made him scared and yet he was still grinning. His heartbeat picked up more when he heard the being's foot emerge from the machine and touch ground. As if his heart wasn't beating fast enough as it was. Goku could hear the sound of feet moving in the dirt and wasn't sure if his friends were moving forward and backward. Maybe both. All of them were waiting for the alien to show himself or herself.

Minutes went by and Goku could feel the tension grow in the air. His smile faded a little, worried for a second they would not have made it and the being would come out and kill the gang off, one by one, and then go after the rest of their friends and family and eventually the entire Earth. And if this person was the evil monster they all feared him to be… there was no telling what he could do to the entire universe. Goku's stomach twisted in knots; waiting wasn't doing him any good. But he knew it would be foolish to pull whomever it was out of there, plus he would never do that. And so he waited anyway.

The smoke finally started to settle, thus giving Goku and the rest of the Z Fighters the opportunity to find the face of the enemy before the enemy found theirs. Goku squinted to get a good look at the being. He heard Vegeta tell him the mystery alien didn't have much energy and became excited over the statement, saying that it would not take much to defeat the being. Goku tried to sense their energy and after a moment, he realized Vegeta was right. Their energy was very low but he wasn't sure that was necessarily a good thing. In fact he had a bad feeling the alien's insignificant energy wasn't a sign of good news, and for two reasons: he or she could be hurt or know how to lower his power level just as they all had learned to do over time.

The black figure in the dissipating smoke visually transformed into an actual life form and all of a sudden Goku gasped in amazement; this person didn't look like a mercenary, or even remotely evil for that matter. It took a while for Goku to realize the gang was trying to grab his attention. He continued staring at the person who stepped out of the space pod while everyone was calling for him to snap him back to reality one more time. Luckily for them they were successful because Goku turned his head around to see them.

"Huh, what?" he uttered, not having any other words to say.

"Goku, tell us what's going on?" Piccolo asked him, to which he did not reply.

He thought for a moment, then realized he had been spacing out and turned back to recollect what he saw of the being.

Standing in front of him was a girl. She had black eyes and had the appearance of a preteen. She had black, spiky, medium length hair with blonde streaks in it. There were even, spiky bangs arranged across her forehead. The two that were the most prominent resided on the sides of her face, the left side—from his perspective—was a little longer that the right; the right one reaching her shoulder while the other side barely skimmed her neck.

She was wearing a white, collared satin dress decorated with thick, golden trimming. The top portion of her dress, from below her chest and up, was a shimmering, colorful nylon lace-separating the piece from the rest of her outfit another gold ribbon. A bold and thick piece of gold bordered the bottom of her dress. She came off as innocent and fair in a way by the design of her attire, even though it was tattered here and there and stained with blood.

She also had silk-like, loose-fitting leg and arm warmers identical to the dress she wore, with ruffled top ends that came from right below her shoulders and overlapped the backs of her hands in a V shape. They started slipping down to her hands and feet—exposing her scuffed, white boots—as she limp farther and farther away from the space pod towards the group.

Boots, knee length and nothing like his in appearance; donning a rainbow-like shimmering pattern with the same honey color themed heels and outsoles, and gold laced on the insteps, also splattered with blood. A golden link wrapped around her waist at least three times.

And around her neck, Goku noticed, was a silver, loose-dangling chain inside of her dress. At first he couldn't see if there was anything else to it until he saw a silver figure of some sort through the top half of her dress, still he was unable to make it out. It was probably the only possession on her that was spared.

It was almost hard for him to watch her and he was close to looking away twice. Actually it was hard to watch her because of his tendency to pity the souls whom had been hurt. He felt tempted to look away for a third time, but he couldn't. He didn't know why he couldn't turn his attention elsewhere—he was just stuck. Stuck watching this girl help herself, while he did nothing. Nothing! No matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't look away.

There was just something about that look in her eyes; they seemed awfully familiar. But wasn't just her eyes, it was everything about her...

Her face was drained of color. Blood smeared her eyes, neighboring her sockets. And her hands were stained with blood as well. She looked as if she had just survived an awful battle—very awful at that, hunted after and nearly taken out for acquiring secret information… nearly.

She was dressed so beautifully, it was a shame her clothes were coming apart.

Goku could see the tiredness in her half opened eyes and could tell she was within minutes of passing out. Because this was important, he knew he would have to be ready to help her as soon as she did if she were to go unconscious. Tears slowly forming in her eyes and this had to have been that hardest part of being rendered powerless, due to him still being in shock.

It wasn't necessarily because she was crying, even though that part was sad for him to watch, but that the girl was trying to hold back her tears. Goku knew this because she occasionally sniffle them back and tired to hold her eyes wide open and try to not blink for a while but failed for she was still tired. It was like as if she did it for self-pride or something close those words, something a Saiyan would do. But soon enough she gave up all together, seeming to not care if anyone noticed her crying or not.

Though, she stopped this and looked directly at him. Directly into his eyes in fact, which made looking back at her even more difficult. He could read her face, her eyes were telling him to save her. To care that she was hurting both physically and emotionally for reasons he was not yet aware of. Do something other than just stare at her like an idiot and watch her fend for herself on a foreign planet!

Which brought him to a question. She looked human, had the outer presentation of a human, she displayed all human characteristics, she embodied everything human—he understood that. And yet she wasn't from there... She wasn't from Planet Earth. Why would he be thinking about this? Well, for starters her pod was that of the kind extraterrestrials had used for intergalactic missions, like Frieza, the Ginyu Force, etc. There's no doubt that she did come out of the space pod because all of them watched her get out. She didn't just get hit with it or something. Kami forbid it.

She was barely holding onto her left arm with her right and her legs staggered forward. The girl moved back and forth from side to side due to obvious dizziness, and as she continued to walk towards the group her attention was focused on nobody else but Goku. Keeping him frozen in place against his will so to speak. Then her eyes rolled to the back of her head as she suddenly fell backwards, catching air before she hit the ground hard.