Chapter 1: The Find
Vittoria Lampo and the three children awoke to meet two boys, one with lavender hair and blue eyes and the other with messy black hair and dark-colored eyes, coming toward them. Six-year-old Gwendolyn moaned and woke with a start when they poked her with a stick.
"Wha? Who...who are you?" she asked.
"My name is Goten and this is Trunks," the messy-haired boy said.
"I'm Gwendolyn, this is my little sister Isis, my little brother Thurston, and our, uh, mother Vittoria," Gwendolyn said as she introduced the others.
"So where did you come from?" Trunks asked.
Now Vittoria was awake and she sat up. "We came from Trolland. Well, the kids did at least. I came from still another realm, though, I would not know what to call it."
"Would you like to play with us?" asked Goten.
"Uhhh...sure," Gwendolyn answered, looking back at Vittoria.
"Go ahead, why not?" said Vittoria.
The boys flew up into the air, and to the boys' surprise, the girls followed them, leaving little Thurston behind. They started a game of tag. Thurston looked at Vittoria, who stroked his head and told him, "If you want to play, go play."
Thurston then flew up to play with the other kids. They were hesitant at first, but they soon let him play.
The children soon came down from the sky. Trunks and Goten wanted to take the kids exploring. Vittoria wanted to go along with the kids, for exploring was one of her biggest interests. She was such a geography buff that the other Coolmeisters counted on her to help plan their concert tours.
"Trunks, Goten, time for lunch!" Trunks' mother shouted.
"So...would you like to join us for lunch?" asked Trunks.
"Only if your mother says it's O.K.," Vittoria answered.
The boys ran over to the building across the street. Trunks asked his mother if Vittoria and the children could eat lunch with him and his family. His mom said yes, and he motioned for everybody to come over to the domed building. Vittoria and the children walked across the street and into the dome home.
When they walked in the front door, they encountered a room full of people. These people seemed to be forming a line into the kitchen. Vittoria guessed that with all of these people that there must be a pretty good spread in the kitchen. She could not wait to get in there and get her food.