Rated T for language, violence and sexual themes. Changed to M if said themes become more explicit.


Author's note: Hey everyone! This is my first DBZ fanfic so I'm going to try to do my best with making sure no character goes to the OOC category. I'm sorry if the first few chapters are boring. The intro idea probably wasn't the best idea to start off a story but it was the only thing I could think of to build up new characters. Also I'm not sure (since it's a partial romance) if i'll put in lemons (since I've never never written any but do know how to) but if readers so desire I will. So please R&R and let me know where I can improve.


Chapter 1: Encounter

Piccolo stood there, unsure how to react. His body hurt from physical pain of fighting and his heart hurt from the loss. The ground shook violently but he didn't notice. His was starting to feel numb and a little sick. There she stood waiting for her fate to be sealed and there was nothing he could do to change her mind. There had to be another way than this, there just had to. And as he thought he thought of how he ending up in this predicament.

Goku stretched and felt the sun warm his skin. 'What a great day for a tournament,' he thought as he looked around. He had waited a long time for this tournament and the fact that his friends had come to join in the fun made this all the better.

There were a lot of people here today and he wondered how many were there to watch and how many were actual fighters.

"Hey Master Roshi, do you-" He stopped when he saw Master Roshi franticly looking around. "Um, What are you looking for?" He question feel on deaf ears.

"He's probably looking for women to stare at." Krillin whispered to him.

"I am not!" Goku and Krillin jumped at the sudden outburst from Roshi. "I'm looking for someone important." After a few more minutes of searching, Roshi seemed to have found what he was looking for and started to wave. Goku and Krillin looked at each other and then into the crowd in hopes to see the person Roshi was waving to. It didn't take too long before they saw an old man and three young women walking towards them. The older man was a average height, tall for his age, had a full head of white hair and a white mustache and wore a standard green and white trim martial arts robe. The women were of various heights and from the way they walked Goku could tell their personalities were just as different.

The shortest of the women was of average height and had short blonde hair and blue eyes. The second woman was a few inches taller and had long, wavy, black hair that fell to her waist, and onyx eyes. The last woman stood out the most. She dwarfed her companions in comparison, being a few inches taller than himself. She had shoulder length brown hair but he didn't know her eye color because she kept them closed as they walked which made him wonder how she didn't run into people as they passed through the crowd.

The old man walked right up to Roshi but the women seemed more apprehensive and kept more of a distance between them and the group that stood before them. The tallest of the women stood sideways to them and looked back the way they came, as if she were waiting for someone. Soon enough a small boy came running through the crowd and ran up to her. He had short, spiky, black hair and blue eyes that seemed to have a hazy, distant look to them. As far had Goku could tell his age was around eleven or so.

The three of them had similar outfits that looked almost like the warrior outfit he wore on planet Yardrat but with a few variations. The young boy and the shortest of the women wore a one, long sleeved shirt with no collar under the blue chest plate while the other two wore nothing, but they commonly wore the same shade of dark green pants.

The boy gave the brunette an apprehensive look, as if he wasn't sure how she'd react to him falling behind but once she place her hand on his head he smiled and relaxed. With the boy accounted for the woman focused her attention on them. A shock ran through Goku's back. The woman's eye were a bright shade of green but the way she looked at them, made him feel like she was looking right through his soul.

"Hey um Goku, are you getting a weird feeling from that stare of hers?" Goku slowly nodded at Krillin's question.

"Everyone," Master Roshi began. The two older men had apparently been talking while Goku had been distracted. "I'd like you to meet an old friend of mine, Master Raiden. Raiden these are my students, Goku, Krillin, and Yamcha, and their friends and family Piccolo, Gohan, Tien, Chiaotzu, 18, Trunks, Vegeta."

"Roshi has talked highly of you all in the past. It is a pleasure to finally meet all of you." Raiden gave them a small bow and then gestured for his companions to come closer. "These are my students, Ramira, Isha, Saiyia, and Saiyia's student Tye."

The short, blonde, Ramira, smiled and waved slightly in greeting; the black haired woman, Isha, nodded in acknowledgement; the boy, Tye, bowed with respect, but the tall brunette, Saiyia, made no attempt to move a muscle. She just stared the group down.

"Well it's nice to meet you all." Goku scratched the back of his head, unsure of how to react to their greeting. Some of the other Z warriors gave small greeting but many were too confused to do much. "Um, Master Roshi no to sound rude, but who exactly are these guys? You've never spoken of any of them."

Roshi stiffened as if Guko had said something wrong. "Does the boy speak the truth Roshi?" Raiden asked.

"Yes, I just never got around to telling them about you what with all the threat to Earth and all." Roshi said sheepishly.

Raiden laughed. "Well we might as well tell them seeing they will be pitted against my students."

Roshi nodded and began to explain with Raiden speaking up every once in a while. They explained how the two masters grew up and learned martial arts together and how when the two opened their schools, their communication slowed due to the distance and then suddenly lost contact for the past twenty years due to some important issues Raiden had to take care of.

"So if you two haven't talked in the past twenty years how did Master Roshi know you would be here?" Tien asked after the long explanation.

"Simple," Raiden smiled. "I sent a student from our school in the mountains to his home telling him I was hosting the next tournament."

"No way!" The Z fighters were shocked. Here stood the man who was putting on this tournament and they hadn't known.

"Well I'll be! And here I thought it was Mr. Satan who was putting this on, what with all the money and fame he has." Goku laughed.

"Hurcule may have money and fame but he doesn't have as good of reputation as the Mantai School." Goku looked at the girl, Ramira who had spoken up. While the two Masters had been talking, Master Raiden's students had closed the distance between them.

"So your school is that good huh?" Ramira only smiled at Goku's question.

"Ha! How could it be?" Everyone's attention went to Vegeta who had been standing in the back of the group. "It seems more to me that you're desperate; desperate enough to even take in a blind boy."

"That would explain the glazed look in the boy's eyes." Goku curiously looked at boy and then the three women who seemed completely unaffected by the insult.

"Hn, shows how pathetic of a fighter you are." Saiyia broke the small silence Vageta had created. Her voice was calm and smooth; not showing any sign of emotion.

"What did you say bitch?" Vegeta was taken aback by the comment.

"A true fighter sees beyond his two eyes, which, obviously you can't." Saiyia smirked when Vegeta's anger and frustration continued to go up.

"How dare you insult me!" Vegeta was fuming.

"Hn, hypocrite." Her words were barely auditable and seemed to be an almost absent minded response as she looked at each person in the group. She stopped and rested her gaze on Piccolo. A twitch of her eyebrow told Goku something was up but before he could think she walked closer to them. She didn't stop until she right in front of Piccolo. The two just stared at each other; arms crossed and without a single word passed. Moments passed and no one spoke or moved. Even the two Masters who had been holding a small conversation of their own had stopped and viewed the encounter. Suddenly Saiyia gave a small grunt and a half smile as if she finally saw something that somewhat pleased her. She turned away from Piccolo and headed back to her companions.

"I think I might actually enjoy this tournament." Again her words had been quiet and sounded as if she was talking to herself but they had been loud enough for the group to hear. The group watched as she walked past her friends and silently beckoned them to follow. Without hesitation Tye bowed politely to them and quickly followed Saiyia. Ramira and Isha seemed a little unsure but after a few seconds of hesitation they chose to do the same.

"I guess we'll see you around." Rimira smiled and gave them a small wave before running after Saiyia and Tye. Isha gave a weak smile and followed suit. Goku liked those two. Ramira seemed nice and Isha, although shy, seemed pleasant as well.

"ALL CONTESTANTS PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE SIGN IN STATION."

A voice over a loud speaker sounded. Goku was getting excited again.

"Well it seems things are getting started. I have a few seats open for you and your spectating friends Roshi if you care to join us." Raiden offered.

Roshi nodded. "I'll catch up with you in a minute."

Master Raiden said his good-byes, wished them luck and left.

"What's up Master Roshi?" Goku knew the serious look in his Master's eyes and the excitement he felt earlier faded.

"Don't underestimate those four." Master Roshi's serious tone sent chills down Goku's spine but Vegeta only laughed.

"What's wrong old man? What's so scary about three human women and a blind child?"

"That's the thing, the women aren't human." Everyone was shocked.

"So are they androids or aliens?" Gohan was curious.

"They're aliens." Roshi looked as though he was trying to find a long, distant memory. "Remember when we told you Master Raiden and I had lost communication twenty years ago? Well they were the reason why. Their ship crashed landed on his vast property. When he found them they were in bad shape but after he nursed them back and they came to, all three and lost a good chunk of their memory. This included why they landed on Earth and where they had come from."

"Explains the tail on the shorter one." Everyone looked at Piccolo, who in return grunted. "If you all had been paying attention you would have seen it tightly wound around the woman's waist and when the argument between Vegeta and the tall woman happened her focus faltered and she lost her grip for a few seconds."

"So could she be a Saiyan too do you think?" Gohan asked.

"Impossible!" Vegeta barked. "There are none left except the four here. Obviously she's of some bizarre, low class race that also have tails. Besides, the other woman and that fucking bitch didn't have tails and taking in that girl's age, she wouldn't be traveling around in a ship with any non Saiyans!"

"Calm down father." Trunks tried in vain to sooth his father. "It was only a suggestion, and at the time with the information we have it only sounded logical. But aside from these women being from some other planet, Master Roshi why did you warn us of the boy. He is after all human and the factor that he's blind doesn't exactly help him much."

"Ordinarily I would agree with you Trunks, but from what I know about the boy this isn't the case." Master Roshi rubbed his head before continuing. "Yes, the boy may be blind but he has exceptional skill. He certainly is no push over and on top of that Saiyia has been the one to teach him from day one."

"Big deal old man. I'll still wipe the floor with them." Vegeta had a smug look on his face. Goku could tell he was still brooding over the insult Saiyia had given him.

"Well then I'm rooting for the Saiyia girl." Krillen looked at 18 who just shrugged. "She's gutsy enough to stand up and insult Vegeta without any effort or hint of fear and she also had a pretty cool name."

Everyone but Vegeta laughed and it seemed to put everyone in better spirits.

"LAST CALL! ALL CONTESTANTS PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE SIGN IN STATION."

"Oh man! If we don't hurry up we won't even get to find out if Master Roshi's warning is true!" Yamcha yelled as he took off. The others followed but at a slower pace.

"Hey Piccolo, can I ask you something?" Gohan asked. Piccolo only nodded in response. "What was up with earlier? I mean when you and Saiyia had that weird standoff."

"To be honest kid, I have no idea." One glance at Piccolo and Gohan knew that wasn't true but he knew better than to pry.

"What happened Piccolo? What are you hiding?" Gohan wondered as he signed his name and went to the strength station.


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