disclaimer: Disclaimer's are against my religion. D:

Cesna: Woot, I wrote another chappie. OMG

Gohan: At least I'm not dead in this story.

Goten: And you got a random review. Leik, woah.

Cesna: I know, right? DBXLV, chapter one folks! And you really need to read the prolouge before you'd even begin to understand this... ha ha.

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"Goten, we are not getting a baby dinosaur for Mom's birthday."

"But it would be so cool!" Gohan's ten-year-old brother exclaimed.

Onlookers took the brotherly duo for face value, which was nothing out of the ordinary. Two dudes shopping for their mom. But not for long.

Gohan was ten when the last adventure took place, the adventure that pushed him to the limit of super saiyan. Androids #17 and #18 weren't exactly easy to overcome, but once they finally did, the pair finally relented their twisted reign over the Earth and agreed to find more peaceful methods of entertainment. This marks the last great adventure of Gohan, his father, and his father's friends. Since that time, Gohan's little brother Goten was born. Seeing him grow up had been an adventure all on its own, Goku would often remark.

Gohan's current stress load was coming from college. Not because it was hard or anything, but the social pressure to be 'normal' was overwhelming. All in all, Gohan realized he was relieved to a certain extent that peace has settled over Earth. He never really liked fighting all that much, and would much rather a life in the city than what his father made for himself in the country. Country living was nice, sure, but Gohan wanted something different for himself. Too bad there's a lot of crime in the city, or else Gohan could pretend to be normal without any guilt on his own part. Maybe he could take care of both problems…

Goten was the first of the two to realize that day was going to be dramatically different from the past ten years of normal days. While Gohan continued his inner monologue of crime and college, he decided on a three-heart necklace for his mother's present from the two of them. The younger demi-saiyan casually looked back from the transaction to look out of the little window at the front of the shop. He sensed a slight disturbance in the energy outside on the street, but nothing that seemed that big.

A moment after throwing his gaze back, Goten noticed a mob of angry people run by. He missed what they were chasing, that or it was invisible.

He strode on over to the window and tip-toed to see out of it better. After a minute, he saw a child run by. Other than running at a ridiculously quick speed, she seemed pretty average. Average size, short auburn hair, teal eyes… It was her outfit that really caught Goten's attention that something was out of the ordinary. It looked like something Trunks' dad would wear, if he still wore armor.

"Hey Gohan?" Goten called, looking back as the mob ran by once more.

"Hold on a sec, Goten," Gohan insisted as he paid for the necklace.

"Alright, but a little kid's in trouble out there." Goten breezed over to the door and peeked his head out, the jingle of overhead bells having caught the older brother's attention.

Taking the bag, Gohan walked over to his little brother and copied his gesture. Goten looked up to Gohan.

"You and Dad used to have tails… right?"

"That's a random question," Gohan mumbled as the mob turned a corner. "Wonder what made them so angry?"

"Gohan!" Goten spouted. "That little girl they're chasing…"

Gohan smiled and looked down to his brother. "They're chasing a little girl? Wonder what she did."

Gohan scratched the back of his head when Goten fumed at him, seemingly randomly.

"That little girl!" Goten almost screamed. "She had a tail!"

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Gohan's first reaction? Laughter.

"That's impossible, bro." Gohan stepped outside, leaving Goten to sputter after him. "That would mean she'd have to be a saiyan!"

"I'm just telling you what I saw!" Goten whined, following his brother. "She was also wearing weird clothes!"

Gohan, still with a laugh on his face, asked his brother what he meant.

"It looked like some old armor Trunks' dad has lying around."

Gohan stopped. Facing his brother, hands clenched tight, he prodded further.

"Are you sure, Goten?"

Goten crossed his arms and puckered his bottom lip. "Oh, so NOW you're taking me seriously?"

"If you're absolutely sure about 100 of what you said… then yes. Yes I am." Gohan closed his eyes. Goten assumed that he was reaching out his senses to catch 'sight' of the energy let off by the strange girl.

"She's definitely faster than your average human… Let's go, this could be serious."

Goten geared up and got ready to run after his brother. He couldn't help the giddy smile spread over his face, though. He always listened to the older men talk about the adventures they endured so many years ago… It's been over a decade since something interesting happened. His father joked that Goten was Earth's good luck charm, and he hated himself for it.

But finally something was about to happen. And he was the one to notice it.

Gohan darted off at an impossible speed (for a pure human, anyway), and Goten matched it. The chase had begun.

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This tailed child proved a bit of a challenge to catch up to. She hadn't seemed to take off to the air (though Gohan thought she probably could), but she darted down every turn possible. They had lost the mob by now, but the child could probably sense Gohan and Goten pursuing her, hence her heightened speed and difficult choice of a course.

Goten loved running. The colors and shapes that flew by him brightened up his senses, especially in the city. So many smells, so many sights, so many people! All the city needed were lots of animals running around and trees to climb. Big ones, not the dinky little ones in the median of the streets.

After running through the next alley and turning onto a street, they caught sight of her just a little further down. Gohan almost stopped in shock.

"You were right, Goten!" He called over his shoulder. "She DOES have a tail!"

"What'd you think, that I was making things up?!" Goten yelled back, a bit flustered. "Hey, she's speeding up!"

"Okay, enough of this!" Gohan said, speeding up considerably. "This chase ends now!"

Goten almost had a hard time keeping up with Gohan's new speed. The girl disappeared into another alley, appearing… scared, maybe? But she had a slight smile on her face. This wasn't very typical of a saiyan, if that was indeed what she was. At least to Goten's knowledge, anyway.

Flying past cars and a few confused city-folk, Gohan and Goten barraged into the alley to find this young girl jumping over a chain-link fence… that was easily the height of two Gohan's. Gohan seemed more amazed by this than Goten, though. Gohan was more used to the usual limitations of normal beings than Goten.

"We're going to have to trap her. I'll fly past her, and don't let her run by you when she turns around!" Gohan said, almost too quickly for Goten to catch. But once he sailed right on over the fence, he followed his lead.

Gohan landed in front of the child as she started to run again. The girl slid to a stop and turned to run the other way, when Goten landed in her way. Once more, she slid to a stop. Her head spinning about, she was obviously thinking of a way to escape this situation.

Gohan took in a deep breath and relaxed his fingers from a fist position. "Listen, we're not here to hurt you." He said sternly, but softly.

The girl's head shot in Gohan's direction once he addressed her. A look of bewilderment and tension entered her posture.

"Adelak cana sheayata!" She spouted, her tail wagging around furiously and her hands in tight fists. "Shirouto… Kananya say outto!"

Goten almost laughed. "What the heck is she saying? Sounds like gibberish…"

Gohan narrowed his eyes and crossed his arms. "Definitely another language, and I think we're just scaring her."

The girl backed away from Gohan, tail standing straight up now and the hairs of it standing on end. If he didn't feel so sorry for her, he would have laughed. Not to say that Goten wasn't chuckling on his end though. Suddenly the girl turned her head towards the young demi-saiyan.

"Kanata! Shou faeen saiya-jin no ouji!" She spouted, as if this should somehow hurt Goten. This just made him want to laugh more. Gohan paused before saying anything further.

"…Did she just say 'saiya-jin no… ouji'?"

Goten was laughing too hard to reply. Probably didn't even hear his older brother's question.

Recognition flew across the girl's face as she peered back at Gohan. "No ouji! No ouji!" She cried out, pointing to the crest placed on her armor's chest.

Gohan laughed. "That's a term very much like Vegeta used to say a lot… Goten, I think we need to bring her with us to Capsule Co., you go call the house and tell Dad to get over there."

Goten nodded and ran off. The girl looked like she wanted to take this opportunity to speed off as well, but didn't. Gohan came forward, and knelt down to her level. He attempted looking as gentle as possible.

"Yeah, no ouji… It's okay, we'll take you to the saiya-jin no oujo…" Gohan took her wrist and her eyes grew with wonder."

"P…papia?"

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