A/N This is a piece set in the Dragon Ball Z universe. I have tried to keep the main characters, places and events of the original work as close as possible to the story by Akira Toriyama. Please review, I love feedback!
This is just an introduction to the main character of the story.
Name: Azumi
Age: 11
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 100lbs
Personality: bold and forward when she wants to be, but has an extremely timid side when confronted with personal issues. Enjoys a challenge and loves training to become stronger. Considered a slight bookworm because when something perks her interests she learns all she can about the subject, and she loves reading, but rarely historical works or non-fantasy fiction.
Likes: reading, fighting, and trying new foods
Dislikes: her parents and being in the middle of large crowds alone
She had been five when Majin Buu destroyed the world, not that she could remember anything about it, along with the rest of the Earth she had no recollection of Majin Buu. But in her classes at school, they talked about Mr. Satan, the Savior of the World. They talked about how Mr. Satan had saved the world from destruction; that had sparked her interest. So she dug up what she could about the time Mr. Satan saved the world.
There had been a large number of people at the fight, but they weren't around at the end. She watched the Cell Games over and over again, watching the fighters as closely as she could. There was no way it had all been just a trick like Mr. Satan said, it just couldn't be. These people came and did so much, everything they did was spectacular, but Mr. Satan, who barely had anytime in the ring, had all the glory.
That had to be it; Mr. Satan was just taking all the fame for what they did. She wanted to do that too. She begged and begged her parents to let her take martial arts, found all kinds of information about why martial arts where good for a growing child. They had refused, saying they wanted her to do something worthwhile, not flaunt around like a certain world savior. So she left. She walked away from her house in Gingertown, from her parents, from everything she had known. She would learn martial arts; she would learn to fight like the people from the Cell Games. She just had too.
She ended up at the Orin Temple first, where she learned the basis of martial arts before determining that she was not in the right place to learn to fight like those people. So she moved on, from temple to temple, studio to studio, avoiding any place that sported the fighting styles of the World Champion Mr. Satan. She listened too, she picked up on everything that could possibly lead her to these martial artists, and finally she found it.
While passing through West City she heard some people talking about a Master Roshi, the Turtle Hermit. She had never heard of the man before, but they had called him a master so she dug into all the information she could find on Master Roshi, which was quite extensive. Master Roshi had fought in the World's Martial Arts Tournament several times, trained the great and powerful Ox King, which she later did research on, and some guy named Goku there were a few other people on the list but they had nothing like this Goku guy. The Goku character had made it to the final match of the twenty-first Tournament when he was twelve years old and on several occasions used energy blasts like what she saw in the Cell Games during the various tournaments he participated in. That seemed to be the ticket; she would find this Master Roshi and beg him to train her.