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Kestrel-main character- age16 (picture link on my profile, but basically described in chapter)

brother- age 22 (link also on my profile)

Their personalities will be very obvious, don't worry.

I picked up another rock and absently pitched it into the lake. "So, now what?" I asked, looking over her shoulder at my older companion.

My brother thought for a moment. "How 'bout we do one more job, then we can take off for a while."

"Why can't we lay off now? I'm getting' tired of this. It's boring."

"Come on, we'll take one more planet, something that'll fetch a high price on the market. We'll just have to pick a good one. What about Kataris?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Kataris is too hot. No one wants to buy a lump of sand desert planet, dumbass."

"Fine, what about Sienna?"

"No."

He sighed. "What?"

"It's just a bunch of country hick farmers there. No actual cities. Who cares about that?"

Kain glared at me. "You know, you're making this harder than it needs to be."

"You know what? Screw you."

"...what about Earth? Big cities, green forest, oceans. What's not to love?"

"I don't want to go."

"You don't even have an argument! Just-you know what? Just get in the ship."

"I'm not going."

He started to leave. "We're not going to Earth. We'll just drift awhile 'til we decide on something. Come on, Kess."

"Whatever."

I woke up groggily hours later in my room on the ship. Wait. Why aren't we moving? I thought suddenly. I jumped up and sprinted to the window. Yep. Outside I could see...green forests. Blue skies. Nice place. Wonder where we are. I thought sarcastically. He had landed while I was asleep. Probably planning to do the whole job and come back before I even noticed. I swear I am going to kill him. I furiously strode across the room and hit the release button for the door. Nothing happened. I hit it again. Nothing. Damnit! I realized that the door was locked from the outside.
I slammed my palm against the metal.

"Kain, I am going to murder you when I get out of here!" I screamed. I knew he was already gone, but I needed to vent. Or better yet...I looked to the window again. I bet I could probably break that if I tried

So, after a moment of consideration, I dragged a desk over to the window and climbed on top of it. Reaching my hands up to the ceiling, I steadied myself, and kicked the window as hard as I could. It took a few tries, but the thick plastic finally cracked and broke off in pieces. My foot was tingling a little from the impact, but now I was free to find and strangle that bastard of a brother I had.

After a while, I finally found him. It was pretty easy. All I had to do was follow the sound of explosions and flying rubble. Kain must have had to fight people for this one. Good. He deserved it.

Once I found him, he was in the middle of a fight with 3 guys. An older one with spiky black hair all over the place, one that could be his son, with black hair spiked straight up and wearing the same orange clothes. The last one seemed to be younger than them. He had lavender hair and wore dark clothes with a denim vest. I waited until they had a lull in the fight, then picked up a rock and carefully aimed at Kain's head.

He hadn't noticed me yet, and laughed at the Earthlings. "You may as well give up. I've been doing this a long time, there's no way I'm going to lose. And I'd rather not wreck a planet that will sell for as much as this one could."

The purple-haired boy looked pissed when he heard that. "You're going to regret you ever came here!" he shouted, starting toward Kain.

I knew if they started fighting again I probably wouldn't get another chance. So I flung the rock as hard as I could at Kain, hitting him right on the side of the head. He dropped like a rock (ironically) to the ground, clutching his head and glared over for the source of the attack. The boy stopped half-way to Kain and looked down quizzically, first at me, then at his felled opponent on the ground. The other two looked confused as well.

"Damnit Kess! What are you doing here? You're supposed to be at the ship!"

"Oh really?" I snapped."Is that where I'm supposed to be? I didn't know, since you never even told me we were frickin' coming here! And then you locked me in my godamn room! I'm not 5 years old, dumbass, I know how to get out!"

"You threw a frickin' rock at me!"

"So?"

By now the Earthlings had this look on their face like they could not believe what was happening. They were probably wondering what kind of planet-conquering tyrant got hit in the head with a rock by a teenage girl. I bet he had been acting all macho, too, telling tales of all the civilizations he had conquered, ruthlessly and without a single regret. What a bunch of bull-shit. We'd been in this business a grand total of two years, and so far had hardly needed to fight anyone, just say that we'd conquered it and sell it to whoever wanted it. They never asked too many questions, and if they wanted to force their newfound subjects into submission, that was their problem, not ours.

Kain grunted in frustration, bringing me back to the situation at hand. "Well, since you're here anyway, could you at least help me out here?"

"No!"

"Fine! Just stay out of the way and I'll be done in a minute!" He got up and charged the purple-haired one, catching him off guard. Then the whole thing started again for a while. I knew mybrother was good, but something about these guys told her they weren't giving it their all. They were just sporting around with him.

And their dumb little fight for the planet just kept dragging on. It was so frikin' boring! The longer they fought, the angrier I got, until I was so pissed I couldn't see straight. The next time they took a break, I snuck up behind Kain and hit him in the head again, catching him with the metal armguards I wore. He slumped down unconscious onto the ground.

"Freakin' idiot." I muttered, looking down at him. I looked up and saw the three of them staring at me. "What? He was taking too long and you were just going to beat him anyway, weren't you?"

After a moment of silence, the spiky-haired man started laughing. "Wow, knocking out your own partner. You remind me of Vegeta when he first came here." He looked over at the younger boy. "So, Trunks, do you think Bulma would mind taking in two house guests for a while?"

"Goku, I'm not sure that-"

I blinked, taken aback by this discussion. "What are you talking about? I'm not staying here. Do whatever you want with him, but I'm not going anywhere."

The man still looked like he wanted to laugh at me. "Well, we need to keep him until he wakes up. And we can't just leave you by yourself on a strange planet. How old are you anyway?"

I frowned. "What does that have to do with it?"

"Well, kids your age can't just be out on their own. People are going to be wondering where your parents are, and you can't exactly tell anyone you came to sell our planet without people thinking you're crazy. So, you'll just be coming with us." Goku said, suddenly wrapping one arm around my stomach and lifting us both into the air.

I struggled to get out of his grasp. "I said I'm not going! Let me down!"

He simply held me a bit tighter and didn't seem at all affected by my struggles. He probably wasn't, considering how strong he was. He also ignored my shouting, and turned to his son. "Gohan, can you take him for me?" he asked, nodding toward Kain.

"Uh, sure Dad." He picked up Kain and hoisted him over his shoulder. Then the whole group flew over the city, with me still fighting to get down the whole way. At this point, I really didn't care if I fell or not. I absolutely despised being forced into anything, and I especiallyhated being carried.

After a while, all of them arrived at a large, dome-shaped building. Goku landed in the yard, still holding me absently to his side. And since he was taller than me, my feet were hanging almost 3 inches above the ground. I felt like a damn rag-doll being carried around like that.

"Hey, Bulma! We're back!" he called.

A woman with light blue hair came outside from the building. She looked surprised to see the two additional people with the group. "So, are they what all the trouble was about?" she asked.

I saw my opportunity and kicked Goku hard in the shin. He dropped me instantly and brought his knee up to his chest, gingerly rubbing his leg.

"Yow! Gosh, if you wanted to get down you could have just said so!"

"I did say so! I said so the whole way here! I never even wanted to get up in the first place!"

Bulma, along with everyone else, stared at me for a minute. I was getting kinda tired of that. "So, uh, Gohan, Trunks will show you someplace to put the other one, and you-"she said, meaning me, "-can stay with him until he wakes up. Meanwhile, Goku, you have to tell me what's going on. I have a feeling this is going to be an interesting story."

So the two of them stayed outside talking, and I followed Trunks and Gohan to a room on the second floor. He put Kain down on a bed and left pretty quickly, probably to go talk to his dad about what they were going to do. Also, seeing how I had acted so far, he probably didn't want to be around me for very long. Which was alright by me.

Trunks stood at the door, looking at me for a moment. "If you want to rest, there's an empty room on the right."

"I'll stay here." I said shortly, looking out the window. He left.

:Trunks POV:

He stood unnoticed for a moment outside the doorway, watching the strange new pair sitting in his house. The girl obviously thought he had left and sat apathetically on the edge of the bed, one leg crossed and the other hanging off. There was something about her that intrigued him. She was wearing a tight black leather tank top, torn in places and buttoned in the front. The two silver armguards she wore were the only color to her. Her pants were another dark, tight-fitting material, he could assume leather as well. Her hair hung down like a silken curtain, blending perfectly with her clothes and partially concealing her face. Still, he could still see her dark eyes, and her slightly fanged canine teeth, both of which she shared with her sleeping partner. She stared crossly at her companion, who lay still on the bed without any signs of waking. She sighed and rolled her eyes, and glanced over at the doorway. She did a double-take when she finally noticed his presence, eyes narrowing to her customary glare.

"If you're just going to stand there, could you at least do something useful first?"

"Like what?"

"I don't know." She looked down thoughtfully at her fallen companion, lightly lifting his hair to see the area where she had hit him earlier. "Like maybe a washcloth and some water?"

He went to the bathroom down the hall and got the two items she asked for, a plain white cloth and small bowl of warm water, and returned to the room. She took them without thanks, not that he really expected any, and set to work lightly dabbing blood away from the man's sleeping form. She barely glanced at him, dismissing him with a look.

"You can leave now."

:Kess' POV:

I watched the lavender-haired youth from the corner of my eye, making sure he actually left this time, then returned my attention to my damn fool brother. Once I was done with as much doctoring as I felt he needed, I discreetly slipped the bowl and cloth under the bed, where they wouldn't be seen when he woke up.

After about half an hour, Kain finally began to stir. He groaned and felt his head slowly opening his eyes after trying a few times. But the second he saw me sitting there, he shot up, glaring indignantly at me.

"What the hell, Kess? You frikin' knocked me out? Where did that come from?"

"You took too long to lose the fight! I didn't feel like waiting all day for you to get your ass whupped, excuse me."

"I might have won! You don't know!"

I snorted. "Yeah. Sure. 3 to 1 fight, against people better than you. You're right, I have completely screwed up your perfect little plan."

For the first time he seemed to notice where he was. "Wait...this isn't the ship. What happened?"

"They brought us here. This is Trunks' house. The purple-haired guy." I added, seeing his confusion.

"You know his name?"

"I picked up their names, there wasn't any formal introduction!" I snapped, irritated that he would think I would actually talk to these people. This day was not going at all like I had wanted it to.

The sound of our fighting had attracted the whole group to the room.

"So, are you guys staying?" Goku asked. "Bulma said it's alright with her if you do."

Kain sighed and scratched the back of his head. "This is how you treat people who try to take over your planet?"

"Yeah, we're pretty much used to it by now."

"Well...if it's alright, then I guess it couldn't hurt to stay. It might be better for us to lie low for a while, anyway."

I stared at him. "We're staying. Are you serious? I didn't even want to come here in the first place! And what do we need to 'lie low' from?"

"We've been selling planets. Some people don't like that, you know. That's why I said we should take a break soon and let things cool off, just in case." He turned to the Earthlings. "My name's Kain, and this is Kestrel."

I glared at him.

"Or, you can call her Kess, especially when she's all bright and sunny like she is today." he continued sarcastically.

"Bite me, asshole."

Kain took a deep breath and visibly fought the impulse to start another argument. "So, anyway, it's not too much trouble for us to stay here?" he asked.

This was really not turning out like I had planned.