Oops! I forgot my A/N when I first published this chapter.

I do not own DBZ or any of the characters except for Akina/Velina.

In my story I'm going to try and keep the original dialogue from the show, but add in my character to different conversations. There will be scenes that will go much differently from the show, but it is so I can fit my character into the story and hopefully add more interest.

I hope you guys enjoy! :D

I was very young back then, but I can remember a few things. As a baby I didn't understand the meaning. I do understand now though. I remember seeing an explosion. Its was so bright I had to close my eyes. I still couldn't talk back then so I just cried. A boy had come up to me and picked me up. He mumbled a couple of things into my ear and put me in some kind of spherical ball. Last thing I remembered from that day was that boy looking through the window at me. It looked as though he was going to cry. I guess I had fallen asleep shortly after I was launched into space and heading for the planet that I know reside on.

When I first landed, I think I may have spent a day in the mini ship before someone found me. Their race was quite odd. The people had pickle green skin and weird antenna protruding from their head. Of course, I was a baby. I didn't think it was odd. Actually, I still don't think it is odd. If anything, I feel that I am the one that sticks out from everyone. For one, I have this soft fluffy stuff hanging from my head. The Namekian people had said its was called hair. I am not quite sure how they know that since they have none. Anyway, my hair is long and black. It lays straight and flat down to my hips. Its has always been that length. My skin was not green like theirs. My skin was a tan color. I had blue eyes that didn't really compare to anything on the planet. Everything on the planet Namek was green, teal, or brown it seemed. The only thing that is close enough to the blue of my eyes would be the water. I didn't have any antenna sticking out of my forehead, and then there was the one question that plagued us all, what am I?

Namekians never had separate genders. I, of course, possessed different body parts than they did. They said that many planets had separate genders. One being a boy, and the other being a girl. In my case, they decided long back when I was a baby that I was female.

Every night I dream about that day that my planet had been blown up. I couldn't say it was a dream. More of a nightmare. Their is always a black figure in my nightmares. I can't see the creatures face, but I can hear his laughing as he blows up my home. I wake up panting and sweating...I just wish those nightmares would go away...


"Akina, wake up. It is time to go train." I could hear the ruff voice of my guardian, Muuri. I just ignored him and continued to sleep until he walked over to me and yanked the covers off me. I rolled over to the other side of the bed away from him. Muuri walked around to where I continue to sleep. Next thing I know I am being flung onto the floor.

"Ow!" I sat up rubbing the back of my head, "you didn't have to throw me at the wall." I begin pouting, but Uncle Muuri cracked a smile and withing seconds began laughing. "It's not funny, Uncle Muuri!"

His laughing died down, but the smile still graced his old face. "Well you better hurry up now, Nail, Dende, and Cargo are waiting on you." He exited the room.

The though of seeing Dende and his little brother Cargo gave her all the encouragement she needed to get ready for the day.


I don't know how long they had been waiting outside my house, but when I saw Dende and Cargo, I sprinted toward them and attacked them with hugs.

"I missed you two! I haven't seen you in maybe ten days!" Dende and Cargo began laughing and hugged her back.

"Sorry, Akina" Cargo said, "We have been really busy working on out language skills!"

A smile spread from ear to ear across my face, "I can tell. You talking much more in my language today. I'm proud of you guys!" I gave them another hug then stood back up and looked over to Nail. He was just standing their with a slight grin evident on his face.

"You ready to spar? I have been brushing up on my skills." He had a smirk on his face as if he was hinting that he might beat me.

"Oh, your on Nail! I have beat you several times in the past, and today I will continue to win." We were both smiling and then Nail took off in the other direction. "Hey! Wait up!"

I pushed myself of the ground and started speeding off after Nail. Dende and Cargo followed behind at a much slower pace. When we arrived at our usual training spot I noticed Nail taking off his weights.

"I guess your trying to make sure you win this one?" I questioned when he looked up to find me standing a few feet away.

"Well you are the quickest person I know. I don't want to fall behind because of my weights." He smirked, "Anyway, you don't wear weights so it should even out the playing field."

"Uh-uh! You may wear weights, but don't forget, We haven't sparred in awhile. I have been training my tail end off." With that I sped toward him and lifted my right knee aiming for his gut. He blocked it by placing his left hand on my knee and pushing me back.

"Your supposed to wait! I wasn't ready!" Nail pouted before flying at me.

"You must always be on your guard, Nail. You never know when the enemy will attack." I bent backward to avoid his kick that flew toward my upper torso. I kicked my legs into the air finishing my back-flip as I successfully kicked him in the back of the leg that he tried to kick me with. When I was back upright, Nail was coming at me again, but this time he disappeared. I focused on his energy and felt him appear above me. As he tried to land a fist on me, I grabbed his wrist and slung him around until he smashed into a large mound of rock. I was about to follow my attack until something caught my eye. There in the sky was a spaceship. It looked quite large for the distance it was away, but I could not be sure, for it was still quite a ways off. It was moving fast though.

Nail noticed that I seemed to be preoccupied with something and so he spoke up, "What is it?" He now stood by me and followed my gaze into the sky. "It's a ship." He said answering his own question.


We were heading back to our village to confront Uncle Muuri about the strange spaceship landing, but as we were flying we noticed another ship in the sky. This one seemed to be much smaller, and as it got closer, we realized it was a Namekian ship. We did not bother to worry about it. We figured it was just one of our fellow people returning home from a long trip.

Nail, Dende, Cargo and I landed in front of my home. I ran inside and found Uncle Muuri sitting at the table. His hands were linked together in front of his face deep in thought.

"Uncle Muuri! There was a ship that landed. It looks too strange and uncommon to be one of our ships. Should Nail and I go check it out?"

It was quiet for a minute or two before my uncle sood from the table and faced me, "Tell Nail to go and stay with the elder. I need you to stay here. These people are not our friends..."

I understood what I was to do. I went outside and told Nail to go to the elder and protect him. Next I took Dende's and Cargo's hand. I lead them back into the house.

"Akina, what's going on? Are we in danger?" I looked down at Dende. I could tell he was scared, but I believe most of his fear came from the fear of losing his little brother.

"I don't know what is happening out there, but I do know one thing, I will protect you both with every bone in my body. Stay strong for Cargo, Dende. He needs you." With that I handed them over to Uncle Muuri. He told me to go hide the dragon ball somewhere no one will find it.

I went out back and dug a hole in the ground next to a tree. I placed the dragonball into the hole and piled the dirt back into the hole. I packed it down and sat down on the spot right under the tree. I looked up to the sky. 'I wonder if they know anything about where I came from. Maybe that boy from my memory is looking for me.' I don't know why, but I got a strange sense of longing when I thought about him. I decided to let my eyes rest a bit so I leaned my head back against the tree and closed my eyes. Before I knew it, I fell into a light sleep.

"Now give me the dragonball!" A shrill voice yelled. My eyes snapped open and I jolted up onto my feet. 'What on Namek is going on?' I peaked around the corner of my house to see several strangers standing in our midst. Well except one of them, he was floating in some weird pod thing. 'Lazy ass.' I couldn't help the thought.

There stood Uncle Muuri, Dende, and Cardo. The children were clinging to him for dear life. I took notice of the five bodies on the ground. Three of them were Namekian warriors I had trained with in the past. And two of them were the elders of the village. Their bodies lie mangled on the ground. I left the tears rise to my eyes, but I pushed them back down. I was so zoned out on the bodies I didn't realize that Uncle Muuri was walking around the house toward me.

Once Muuri cam around the corner I tackled him in a hug. "I'm going to go fight them..."

Uncle Muuri pulled back from the hug a shocked look on his face. It quickly turned serious, "No. Stay back here. You and Nail are our last hope. The only thing I ask is that if things look like there are going to turn out bad when I bring them the dragonball, I want you to. Grab the two children and escape as fast as you possibly can. Then go find Nail and help protect the elder and the last dragonball."

This time I couldn't help the tears that slid down my face. I nodded my head and gave him one last hug. I then pulled away and knelt down by the tree to dig up the dragonball. I handed it to him then went into the house from the back door. I went to the front of the house and peaked out one of the opening so that I could see what was going on. I couldn't hear much since everything was muffled because of the walls around me.

Muuri handed the dragonball over to one of the strangers. Before I could understand what happened the large pink tub of lard attacked Uncle Muuri. He was quick for his size size. Next thing I noes the fat guy, who apparently goes by the name Dodoria, shoots an energy blast out his mouth, but it barely misses the Namek. I turned to see that Cargo had gotten away, but Dende just stood there looking back, fear written all over his face. When I turn back to the fight, Dodoria is standing over Uncle Muuri's lifeless body. I can feel the tears stinging at my eyes, but I don't have much time to take notice because pinky of there started after Dende. I wasn't about to let him lay one finger on my green pickled friend's head. I flew out into the open and landed right beside Dodoria pushing my right leg up and effectively kicking him in the temple, but at the same time I noticed the foot of a small boy also connecting with the ugly monster's head. Dodoria's body crashed hard into the building beside us. I looked over to see the boy who had helped me take out Dodoria. He was very young maybe ten or eleven I don't know. He had dark hair like me and had no antenna. Maybe he knew what I was since we both seem to look a lot alike. I didn't have time to dwell on it for I could hear the grunt of someone standing back up. As he was about to attack, another boy showed up and knocked Dodoria another round. This guy seemed to be a lot older than the kid, but not much taller. He was also bald. No hair graced his head except for the hair on his eyebrows. He grabbed Dende in his arms a took off yelling, "Come on, Gohan!" I subsumed that was the younger boy's name. Speaking of which, Gohan grabbed me around the waist atoo flew off at a fast pace so we could catch up.

Gohan was very strong to be able to move this fast while carrying me, although it was not necessary. "Ummm...Gohan, I assume, you don't have to carry me. It will only slow you down and fatty back there will gain on us quicker."

"I'm not going to let you get captured by those crazy people!" He had such a determined look in his eyes. I could tell he had a good heart.

"Well I can fly on my own, if that makes a difference." He looked down at me with a shocked expression. I flew out of his arms and sped up to catch up with the bald guy. Gohan caught up as well, but unfortunately so did Dodoria. The bald guy said something about me and Gohan taking Dende and flying ahead while he distracted Mr. Chub Chub. When I did look back, Dodoria was holding his eyes and yelling. I didn't really understand what happened, but I wasn't about to stay out in the open to find out. We all moved down into the large rock cliffs to hide. At first, we thought we were safe, but then the horny pink ball of alien species flew high into the sky and sent down a blast big enough to destroy all the islands in that area. Lucky for us, we had time to get out of there and fly up above Dodoria so he could not see us. He apparently was too big on his ego that he assumed he rid us from the living. 'What an idiot...'

"Well that was lucky! I guess now we should go find Bulma," the bald guy looked over to Dende and I, "you guys can stick around with us if you want."

Gohan said something to Dende about flying. I looked down at the two boys and back to Dende. " I think it would be safest if we all stick together. My name is Akina. This here is Dende."

Gohan smiled and introduced himself and his friend, "I'm Gohan, and this is my friend Krillen. We have a third person to our party, but she is not with us at the moment. We really should go look for her though."

"Can I ask where you guys came from?"

Krillem seemed to be puzzled by the question, "Did you not come from Earth like us?"

"Earth? Huh...never heard of it. I was raised on this planet because mine was destroyed a long time ago by some evil maniac. I don't really remember anything because I was just a baby then."

Krillen seemed shock as he leaned over and whispered something into Gohan's ear. Gohan had shrugged his shoulders and replied with a 'Maybe'.

Krillen looked back up to me, "Do you know anyone by the name of Vegeta, Raditz, or Nappa? They come from a race known as Saiyans. We have a friend that goes by the name of Goku. He is also a Saiyan. That would by Gohan's father. I'm only asking because ...well, their planet was destroyed several years ago by a crazy maniac."

I stopped to think about it. 'Did I recognize any of those names?' I was positive that I had never heard the names Radditz or Nappa. One name did catch my attention though. Vegeta. I heard it a long time ago. I don't know where or who the name belonged to. I just remember hearing it at one point in my life. "I'm almost certain I remember hearing the name Vegeta at least once if not more when I was a baby. I don't know who the name belongs to though." Was I part of this race? The Saiyan race? Is that boy I remember as a baby named Vegeta. Who is he? How do I know him? And why do I feel like I need to find him?

Well I hope you all enjoyed my first chapter! I'm sorry to say, but I don't think Goku will be in the first two chapters. He is mentioned in the second chapter.

ANYWAY! Please review! I love reviews!

I have two other stories that I have been working on in the past. One was an Itachi story from the show Naruto and the other was a toushiro story from the show bleach. I haven't been keeping up with them very well and I want to apologize for that. I have been super busy with school, work, and graduation. Now I'm so caught up in DBZ, I have this urge to write a story for it. I'll get back to the other two as soon as I can!