TITLE: Prologue - Dreams
AUTHOR: Rachel Wong
AUTHOR'S EMAIL: Hidden_Angel_83@hotmail.com
RATING: PG-13
NOTE: This is set in an alternate universe. Please do not read it if you do not like A/U's. This is about T/P. Pan is in no way related to Goten. Gohan never got the chance to marry Videl so she was never born. No one ever reached Super Saiyan (not even Goku) and there are no dragon balls.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Dragonball Z and am in no way connected to them. I only wish I was, than I'd have at least SOME $$$. Seeing as how I am broke, sueing me would do you no good. =Þ





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The rain pelted down relentlessly against the lone figure who knelt by the grave. The winds howled and blew, but the figure didn't flinch. A closer inspection of the figure would have confirmed that the figure was a male, a prince no less.

Trunks sat at his parents grave, the screams of pain resounding in his head. He brought his hand to his ears trying to stop the tormenting voices. Why him? Why? What had he ever done to defy the Gods?

At the age of eight, his parents had been killed by a person and ten years later, now, he still didn't know who had done it. He had been out training by himself and when he returned home, he had seen his parents lifeless bodies. He had cried, tears streaming non-stop down his face, as they did now. Eventually, he had buried them himself, using his bare hands to dig their graves.

Two years after his parents death, Goku and Gohan had been killed by, what he believed, the same man. Chi Chi and Videl died not long after. Now, all that was left was himself and his best friend, Goten. He had promised himself many times to kill whoever had killed his friends and family. It was a promise he planned to keep.

These deaths weren't what was haunting his sleepless dreams, however. It was something else. He was a prince, a prince of a dying race, the prince of Saiyans. His people, the people he had never known, had done evil things, killed innocent people. Now, all of them were in hell and all of them were paying for it. Even though he knew they deserved it, he could not help but feel pity for them as their screams of pain echoed in his head. He was their prince and he felt responsible to them.

Although his father had become a good man, he had also committed many evils and caused much pain in the past. Now, he too was paying for them. Trunks couldn't stand the thought of his father in pain. Vegeta had never shone much affection towards the 'brat', but Trunks could tell that his father loved him. He could see the love in the action, the way nothing was ever good enough when it came to his only child. He knew how much his father had loved him.

Trunks opened his eyes, determination shining through. He would find Kami-sama and find a way for Kami-sama to either forgive his people all together, or lesson their pain. Goten, his best friend and only other Saiyan, was sleeping back at their little house, the one they had built after Goku and Chi Chi had died. Trunks stood up, not wanting to drag the younger Saiyan into the possible danger he was about to face. Resolutely, he set off, rain pelting his already wet body, mind in a whole different world.

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Pan woke up, startled and utterly confused. Another dream? The demi-goddess shook her head and wrapped her arms around herself, trying to comprehend what her dream meant. It couldn't be just another dream.

Every night, her dreams had been invaded by the same thing, over and over for the past two weeks. It was always the same. A lavender haired prince saved her from an evil monster. Than he flew up to her and swept her away to his castle in the clouds. There, they would get married and live happily ever after. Even in her dreams, she could feel the warmth that enraptured her at the sight of his face. She could remember all of his features, afterall, who couldn't after seeing the same face for fourteen nights.

Pan took a deep breath. She couldn't take it anymore. She had to find this prince, to find out what these dreams meant, if they meant anything at all. Silently, thinking she was unnoticied, she snuck away from heaven and down to Earth. She snuck away in search of love, knowing the punishment for her actions.



AUTHOR'S NOTE: Alright, if you didn't read the note above, here it is again. Pan is in no way related to Goten. Gohan never got the chance to marry Videl so she was never born. No one ever reached Super Saiyan (not even Goku) and there are no dragon balls.