DBAGs! This…is maybe not my best chapter, but…it's an important one. One year ago today (3rd October 2014) I started uploading a story call Dragon Ball AG: The New Journey Begins. The events of that first chapter took place 18th September Age 791. So…there is so much meaning behind the title of this chapter.

Not only is it uploaded exactly one year after the first chapter, but also the events within each chapter happen to take place on the very same day, just a year apart. (In this case there are a few more days also presented in this chapter.)

There was no other title choice for this chapter except for One Year Later but I decided that could mean I was jumping forward a year.

As always I'm so happy with the support I have received from fans throughout the year. If people didn't like this story I wouldn't have gone through all the effort I have to make it the best I can. You guys are the reason why I never want to walk away from this story until I get to complete Noca's story.

There is so much more to come in the next couple of years…and I hope you will all be with me until the finish line. Once again…I thank you and I hope you all enjoy this!

Also, if you don't know...I have uploaded the first part of my Spin-Off backstories. CHECK IT OUT! It is still part of this series.

Chapter 6: One Year (Anniversary Chapter)

Monday 17th September Age 792

Flashes of energy streaked through the pitch-black sky, bursting through the dark clouds and shining up the empty mountainous region. Well…almost empty. Standing a top a plateau was the young Quarter-Saiyan, Noca. He was looking down to the ground, but his eyes were closed. He could feel the energy flowing around him and through his body. The energy appeared to react to his control.

Noca clenched his fists and as he did, some more energy in the sky streaked through. The boy looked up and opened his eyes and this caused a streak of lightning energy to fire down from the clouds and crash into his body. There was a magnificent Golden flash and Noca was standing as Full Powered Super Saiyan. He opened his hands and put them in front of him. He looked closely and could have sworn that he saw blue energy flowing underneath his skin.

The Saiyan's attention was pulled to something that seemed to appear behind him. Noca dropped his arms to his side and looked over his shoulder. He caught a glimpse of the new person and it appeared to be a shadowed figure about the same size as the boy. Noca glared in the silhouettes direction and turned around. Both of them moved into a stance at the same time and instantly shot towards each other.

Noca threw a fist towards his opponent, but the figure performed the same move and both fists crashed into each other with an almighty blow. Both fighters moved away from each other and slammed in once more. They connected high in the sky by crashing their forearms into each other. There was a huge shock wave that erupted from the connection and also another flash of lightning from the clouds.

The fighters pulled away once more and both charged up powerful Ki blasts and as they did, it appeared that energy from the sky had started to swarm towards the two of them. Noca was building up an impossible amount of Ki and wasn't sure whether or not he had control over it, but upon seeing his opponent acting calm and composed Noca just smirked to himself and let it happen.

He pulled his arms to his side and began to power up a strong Kamehameha. The silhouette performed the same pose and attack and they seemed to be at even levels at the moment. No more time was wasted as the two of them both unleashed their attacks at the same time. They crashed into each other and a powerful beam struggle had been initiated.

The energy was pouring into the attacks and it appeared to be tiring out both of the fighters, but neither of them planned on giving up. Turns out, they didn't have a choice. Both lost control of their attacks at the same time and the beam exploded in the middle, blowing the two fighters away and severely damaging the environment.

Noca landed with a thud against a rock and watched his opponent do the same. He was feeling exhausted, but wasn't going to give up. He needed to prove that he was improving his control and would finally win this battle. He stood up slowly and began to power up some more. The other fighter stood up as well. He tried to power up, but there didn't appear to be any sort of energy increase.

Noca looked up and held his arms out wide and watched as all the energy from the clouds blazed down towards him and gave him an unbelievable power up. It was unlike anything he had ever felt before. He closed his eyes and clenched his fists. The sheer amount of energy building up managed to bring Noca down to his knees and without any warning, there was an explosion that allowed all the energy within him to flow freely and give him an advantage. Another Golden flash occurred and Noca knew his power-up was complete. He opened his eyes again and could see the faint flashes of blue electricity around his body. He was a Super Saiyan 2.

Noca stood up again and glared towards his opponent, but then a smirk formed on his face. He clenched one fist and then charged towards the silhouette with that fist aimed first. He was going in for a finishing blow and it would be sweet.

He was so close…but then…

"Noca?"

The voice echoed around Noca and it managed to bring him to his senses, he closed his eyes, there were no more flashes of energy and then he hit something very hard.

"Noca?" The voice said frantically once more as Noca felt the presence of someone beside him. He opened his eyes and noticed that he was lying on the floor of his bedroom. He glared to himself as he slowly sat up and looked to his side to see Pan staring at him.

"Why did you disturb me?" Noca asked, with somewhat concern and maybe a little agitation in his voice. "I was meditating…I had control…"

Pan looked down realising that she had been stupid to just barge in and disturb him when he was in a meditation.

"Sorry…I guess…I wasn't thinking," Pan uttered apologetically. Noca just smirked and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"It's ok…" Noca replied in a friendly tone. "I didn't mean to get annoyed with you…I guess it was just because of the state I was in…"

Pan smiled back at her boyfriend and nodded before standing up and starting to make her way to the door. She stopped at the door and turned back to face Noca who was still sitting there on the floor, just watching after her.

"You need to get ready for school," Pan said with a slight chuckled, noticing that Noca didn't realise what day it was.

"Uh…really?" Noca groaned as he pulled himself up and dragged his feet towards the bathroom. Pan just giggled quietly as she closed the door behind her and went back to her own bedroom.

Noca stood in the bathroom and thought back over the meditation session he had just had.

"That was a good one, but my focus…why can't I keep focus? Pan managed to pull me out of that state so easily…" Noca buried his head in his hands and shook those thoughts away. He decided that it would be best for him to address those problems another time. He needed to get ready for school now so that he could have enough time to have some breakfast.

The day at school was an ordinary one as always. All the classes dragged and as usual Noca would drift off in Miss Hartley's lessons. He really wasn't in her good books, but he didn't care about that. Noca just wanted to get through the day, get home and try some more meditation. He needed to ensure that he actually made some improvement and managed to keep focus.

Once the day was over and Noca and Pan returned home and after that day, they had been given a lot of homework, much to the disappointment of both teens. Noca had been given extra homework by Miss Hartley after falling asleep in her class. She told him that any time he fell asleep or wasn't focussing then she would give him extra homework. Noca felt it was unfair, but didn't argue. He didn't want double the extra work. Pan promised to help him and that's just what they were doing about 20 minutes after getting home.

They were sitting at Pan's desk and trying to work their way through the work, but they had noticed that Noca had been given some advanced questions and both of them were clueless.

"My lord…she must really hate you," Pan suggested with a little chuckle. Noca, on the other hand, didn't seem amused. He just sat there glaring at the work and had no idea what he should be doing.

"Why do I have to attend school?" Noca questioned, slamming his head on the desk and earning some more laughter from Pan. Noca grumbled out a small groan, but didn't lift his head up. Pan, realising that he would end up giving up if he stayed like that, whacked him on the arm to get his attention.

"Hey! Don't leave it all to me," Pan exclaimed as Noca slowly lifted his head and looked at Pan. He smiled at her and then picked up his pen before turning back to the page. Pan just continued to look at him with a satisfied smile on her face. She soon realised that she had distracted herself and turned back to the work.

As the time went on, they two teens managed to get as much of the work done as they could. They realised that whatever had been done was enough, no matter what any teacher told them. They were just tidying up their papers and putting them away in the folders, but Noca stopped when he fixated upon the date once more. It was the homework due date on his question sheet. 18th September.

Noca just stared at the date for some time and this earned a concerned look from Pan. She looked from the sheet, back to Noca and tilted her head in wonder. She moved over to him and wrapped her arms around him. Noca didn't react immediately, but when he did, he lifted an arm and held onto Pan's.

"Tomorrow will be ok…right?" Pan questioned. She didn't really know how Noca would truly feel at the moment. The connection they shared wasn't good enough to know exactly how he was feeling, especially when there were so many conflicting emotions within him.

Noca sighed and turned around so he was looking into Pan's eyes. He nodded his head and forced a weak smile.

"I'll be fine…I've had my closure," Noca turned away again and stood up. He packed his things away in slight anger and walked towards the door. "It was Tenura…and he was dealt with…"

Pan could hear the cynicism in his voice and the rage in his heart. She grabbed onto his arm to stop him from continuing. Noca halted and stood in the same position.

"Then why are you so angry?" She asked, walking around in front of him. Noca looked away, but knew that looking into her eyes would help him feel so much better.

"Tenura's still alive…I never got my revenge…and…I'm fine with that…" Noca said in confusion as he buried his head in his hands. "Why am I fine with it?"

The question surprised Pan. In actual fact, Pan was very surprised by the fact that Noca was fine with Tenura being allowed to live on. She had no answer for him, but she knew he would need to hear something otherwise these thoughts would plague his mind all night.

"Maybe…maybe because…uh…" Pan was stumbling over her words whilst trying to frantically think of something to tell him. Noca looked up at her and the look in his eyes told her why he was fine. "It's not the person you are…"

"What? What do you mean?" Noca asked as his brow furrowed.

"You're ok with not having revenge because…you're not a killer," Pan explained to Noca. He just nodded once in response and looked up at her again. He smiled weakly once more and Pan smile back.

"It still doesn't make sense to me, but at least you're here for me…" Noca said as he lifted a hand and gently stroked her cheek. Pan blushed and looked down as his hand connected with her skin and it just made Noca chuckle. "Thank you."

Pan looked up at him once more and quickly pulled Noca in for a short kiss. Now it was Noca's turn to blush a little. Whilst they knew they were in a relationship now, they still had to settle into it some more.

"Just promise me you'll be ok tomorrow," Pan requested as she held onto his hands. Noca looked down and then back into Pan's eyes. His smile faded and he looked to the side.

"I hope I will be…" He turned back to her once more and smiled before gathering the rest of his work and taking it back to his room. Pan just sighed, but felt like she had truly managed to help Noca with this. She looked to her door and smiled weakly. She stood in silence for about 5 minutes until she heard a call from downstairs.

"Pan, Noca! Time for Dinner!"

Both the quarter-Saiyans in the upper level of the house reacted and headed downstairs to get their food.

Tuesday 18th September Age 792

Noca had gone to bed with a lot of worry in his head the previous night. He dreaded that he might end up having one of his bad dreams once more, but that didn't appear to happen. Actually…Noca managed to have one of the best nights sleep in a while. It was shocking.

He woke up peacefully, turned to his phone and checked the time. 6am. The time he normally woke up. He pulled himself out of bed, stretched and headed to the bathroom. He looked at himself in the mirror and smiled weakly, but it still didn't quite feel right. He knew that he would be in some sort of bad mood, no matter what. He just didn't want the others to see the brunt of it. He needed to remember that he had his closure.

He knew that Tenura had done it. He had managed to see his mother and say a proper goodbye. At least he had the chance to live his life. Noca remembered what his mother had told him when in Other World. She never had much of a life and she wanted Noca to live his as best as he could. Noca smiled to himself and told himself that today was just another day, but he still needed to keep those memories of his mother's life in his head, after all…that was the day that Noca's previous life ended and his new one began.

Once Noca was ready, he went downstairs and saw that the family were all sat there about to eat breakfast, but they had been waiting for Noca. They all looked to doorway up at Noca and they seemed to have somewhat saddened expressions.

Noca didn't want people to feel sorry for him so he smiled at them and sat down to eat his food. Everything was silent for a bit though. No one seemed to know what to say. Pan realised that Noca did have a slight conflict of emotions, but he seemed to be very calm. Noca couldn't take the silence anymore.

"So Gohan, I've been trying some more meditation…" Noca said, trying to break the quiet. Gohan looked up from his food and smiled at the boy.

"That's good to hear. How's it going?" He asked. The Demi-Saiyan realised that Noca was upset and angry, but he had a good control on it and he was holding up on what would be a very hard day for him.

"Not good…Well…It's ok, but I'm struggling with maintaining focus when there are…noises…and other distractions around," Noca explained to his former teacher.

"That will always be a struggle, but just try to push them aside by constantly trying," Gohan continued to talk to Noca about how he can improve his strength in the meditation department, whilst Pan just continued to watch on with a smile on her face. Videl noticed the way her daughter was looking at the boy and nudged Pan in the arm lightly. The girl turned to her mother and went a very bright shade of red and tried to carry on eating her food.

Soon in was time for the teens to leave for school and leave they did. The journey to Satan City was quiet, but mainly because the two of them didn't really have anything to talk about considering that they lived together and spoke all the time. Once they arrived, they met up with their friends and walked of to school.

The first lesson was something dull. Noca didn't actually pay much attention to what books he had picked up. At least he had an excuse for accidently forgetting his homework, but Noca wasn't planning on worrying about homework in any lessons today. He managed to get through the first 2 lessons and it was now the lesson just after their first break.

Noca was sat in his seat in Dr Price's history class and due to how boring it would be, the Saiyan decided to try and focus on his meditation in these types of situations.

Dr Price was giving some lecture about something and Noca just made the decision to start now and closed his eyes. He closed off his surroundings and attempted to delve deep into himself to try and find the best way to regulate emotional control and use it to his advantage. It was one of the main priorities in his training, that and trying to become a Super Saiyan 2.

Noca entered a very dark room. He quickly scanned to see if anything was there, but it seemed to be completely empty. There was no energy ball that held the secrets to his potential like usual, but it still felt like that energy was close. The Quarter-Saiyan felt that he needed to take a couple of steps forward, but as he did there was a pain that shot up his spine and he fell to his knees.

As Noca connected with the floor, the whole room seemed to light up, but it was a very bright red. Noca looked around and didn't understand what was happening. A figure slowly started to make its way towards Noca and it bent down beside him.

Noca looked to the side and when he saw who it was, he wanted to grab a hold of them and rip them apart. It was Tenura. The Vosan backed away with a confident smile on his face and once Noca stood up, he fell to his knees once more.

"You may be within your own mind, but your thoughts aren't clear today," Tenura said as he leaned in closer to the boy. Noca looked up and tried to swipe for the Vosan's face, but Tenura backed away and suddenly vanished. Everything changed again and Noca was spun around and suddenly landed in some sort of blue room. In contrast to the bright red it was now a very light blue.

Noca stood up and looked around once more, but didn't find anything…until someone stepped out of a corner. This time…it was his mother.

"Noca, this is your peaceful place. The place where you can keep your happy memories and live life feeling fine…" Noca had no response for his mother and just shook his head and looked around once more. She decided to continue. "The other place…is where you hold all your regrets and much of your anger."

"What am I here to do?" Noca questioned as he slowly walked towards his mother. He was within 2 feet of the woman when all of a sudden the room shook, twisted and changed once more. He ended up back in the red room and Tenura was standing over him again.

"You are here to confront your emotions and find a balance," Tenura uttered in a somewhat helpful tone. Noca looked up at the Vosan with a raised eyebrow.

"Why are you helping me?" Noca asked, a very defensive tone in his voice.

"Because I am a figment of your emotions. You were here to confront your emotions and you harbour a lot of rage towards Tenura." The Vosan walked away from the teen and looked back at him over his shoulder. "Your rage chose to take the form of the being you consider your worst enemy."

"What help is that meant to do?" Noca questioned as he was finally able to stand up, but as he got to his feet the room started to shift and shake once more. Noca was flung up into the air and landed down on the ground in front of his mother once. He looked up at her and slowly stood up. "And what are you the embodiment of?"

"I symbolise your love towards your mother and your happy memories like I stated previously." Noca didn't know if he could believe what this version of his mother was saying to him. He didn't understand any of this. There was another huge shake and suddenly both rooms seemed to blend and it became a white room. Both Emna and Tenura stepped forward and stood in front of Noca.

"How do I confront my emotions? How do I find this balance?" Noca asked as he slowly made it to his feet once more and looked between the two of them.

"You need to make peace between your anger towards Tenura and your sadness and guilt about my death," Noca's mother said to the boy, but he still seemed to have a very confused expression on his face. "There will never be peace within your heart if there is so much conflict between your emotions."

"Your mother wanted you to move on from those bad memories, from the vengeance you hold towards me." Tenura told the boy as he folded his arms and smirked. "You will never be successful if you can't learn how to control your emotions. You will never be calm enough to focus on your training."

Noca seemed to have some sort of understanding now, but there was still quite a lot of confusion, that was very clear. He shook his head trying to make complete sense of the situation, but this was all proving to be very difficult. Noca looked down and contemplated what he needed to do, but by the time he looked back up both of the beings had disappeared.

The room started to shake and twist once more and Noca was thrown into a very deep chasm. He had no idea where he would end up, but he was sure it wouldn't be calm. When he finally hit the ground there was an electric shock that coursed through his body and it caused him to wriggle and shudder. When it finally stopped, Noca sat up and looked around.

He could see flashes of moments in his life that were not the best of his memories. The time he was tormented by kids in his village, the day his mother died, the final of the tournament when he died, when Tenura came to earth. They all shocked through his mind and flashed in front of his eyes causing him clench his fists and shake his head.

"STOP IT!" He screamed out in anger at seeing all these bad memories and it caused some static energy to flash around him in real life. Pan turned to look at the boy after feeling the static and saw that he was in a meditative state. She decided to let him stay in this state and not disturb him, but that wasn't to say Dr Price would be too please to see Noca like this.

Back in his meditation, Noca's visions stopped and all of a sudden some more memories began to flash around. Life with his mother, seeing his mother in Other World, first kiss with Pan, starting relationship with Pan, these were all the memories that had flashed around him this time.

"What are these memories meant to help with?" He shouted out once more. He didn't like that his memories were being forced upon him.

"You need to realise that your memories aren't all bad. You focus on all the bad memories and the negative emotions. This will not help you focus. Understand that you can put the memories of our past to bed, but you need to focus on the future." Noca's mother explained to him. He could only hear her voice, but it seemed to be very calming and just as caring as ever.

"I can't just forget about my past with you…" Noca started, but his mother's voice was quick to interrupt.

"I'm not saying you should forget about it, but you shouldn't dwell on those thoughts anymore."

Noca seemed to understand, but there was still a struggle of emotions in his head. He tried shaking it to help sort it out, but nothing was happening.

"You can't just get away from it Noca. You need to learn to fight against these negative emotions and focus on your future!" Emna's voice exclaimed to Noca. He couldn't bear this anymore and he was finding this far too hard.

In real time, there was another spark around Noca's body and it managed to grab Pan's attention again. She turned to the side abruptly and the Teacher at the front of the class noticed and saw that Noca was sitting there doing nothing, with his eyes closed.

"Noca, I would appreciate it if you would pay attention to this class," The teacher called towards the boy. Everyone turned around to see that he was sitting there with his eyes closed. Pan put a hand on his arm and tried to get him to come back to reality. But he didn't.

Noca was still in his mind and was finding things increasingly difficult. There were more memories sparking around and it wasn't very comforting.

"Come on…you can fight this…you can fight this…" Noca muttered to himself over and over. Trying desperately to calm himself. It was working though. His mother was constantly telling him that he needed to resolve the conflict in his heart. He needed to find a way to balance all his emotions together. Noca needed to stop focussing so much on Tenura and his mother's death.

He was starting to realise it now. His memories of his mother needed to be the good ones, the times when he enjoyed her presence. He needed to be able to move past the anger he held towards Tenura for being the one to kill his mother. That had been resolved. Tenura was defeated and will never come back to the Earth. He would just be beaten again if he did try.

Noca shook his head once more and he realised that he was making great progress, but there was still some more digging that he needed to do. He was about to follow on down into the chasm some more, but there was a loud smacking sound and it was enough to pull Noca from his meditation.

He opened his eyes and saw Dr Price standing in front of him with his ruler slammed down on the desk. Noca looked up at him blankly until a glare started to appear on his face. Pan noticed the glare and the significant rise in his anger.

"Thank you for waking up, now we can continue with the lesson," Dr Price stated as he turned around and walked back towards his desk, but he hardly got close before Noca slammed his fist down on the desk, cracking it. The teacher turned around and looked at the boy shocked. He slowly stood up and glared towards the teacher

"You…you…ARE A FOOL!" Noca screamed, much to the surprise of everyone in the room. "I was so close and you had to fuck it up!"

Pan was looking up at her boyfriend and she honestly seemed quite scared about how he was reacting. She whispered his name in the hope that he would hear, but she had said it far too quietly.

"M…Mr Brief!" The teacher explained in a very stern, but nervous voice.

"I was making tremendous progress with my emotional control and now you've ruined it!" Noca shouted at his teacher once more. He then looked around the classroom and sighed. "You know what, I'm out of here."

Noca gathered up his stuff and bent down to be eye level with Pan before uttering a quick "I'm sorry," he kissed her on the cheek and then walked towards the door and left the school. He took his stuff to his locker and then made his way towards the exit.

Meanwhile, someone had watched the entire outburst. It was Mr Teki.

"Interesting…he lacks control…my boss will be very interested…" The mysterious technology teacher stated to himself as he turned and started to walk back to his classroom. "He'll be very interested."

Noca had made it out of the school and was flying away from the City, but he wasn't going anywhere in particular. Suddenly, he felt someone's Ki spike a few miles North of West City. He instantly realised that it was Vegeta and he knew that the Prince was trying to get his attention. Noca sighed and powered in that direction.

He got closer to Vegeta's location and noticed that the Prince was standing in the middle of a rocky wasteland. Noca took a deep breath and then descended down to the ground and landed behind Vegeta. The Saiyan Prince didn't bother to turn around and face Noca and the teen didn't really care. He knew why they were here, but he honestly couldn't be bothered with any of it.

"You seem to have a lack of emotional control..." Vegeta uttered in quite a calm and reserved tone. Noca still didn't care for why he was here and hadn't actually managed to calm down from his earlier outburst. "We're going to calm you down."

Vegeta turned around to face Noca and without saying anything he powered up to a Super Saiyan 2. Noca still didn't react and just kept his glare focussed on the Adult Saiyan in front of him. Vegeta could see the attitude that he was showing right now, but knew how to settle it. Noca turned to face away and then sighed to himself once more. He looked back to Vegeta and there was a flash of energy around the teen. He became a Full Powered Super Saiyan and glare in Vegeta's direction.

"Come on then…let's get this over with," Noca said in a bored tone. Vegeta grunted and charged towards the teen straight away.

The Prince was inches from Noca when the boy simply phased out of the way, reappearing behind Vegeta. Noca then swung his leg towards Vegeta's head, but the prince grabbed his leg and then swung a fist around, planting it square in the boy's face. Noca backed away through the air, shook his head and then charged back in and aimed a barrage of punches.

Vegeta simply avoided every one of the punches and then shot his knee up into the boy's gut, taking him completely off guard. The Prince then lifted his hands up into the air and plunged them down into the back of Noca's head. The boy shot down towards the ground, but managed to power his aura to stop himself from hitting down. He had to throw a quick guard up, as Vegeta charged down in for another attack. Vegeta smashed his arm into Noca's and there was a powerful shock wave that erupted through the area.

The wave managed to shake everything and destroy a couple of rock formations. Both Saiyans backed apart and then charge back in towards each other again. Noca aimed a fist for Vegeta's head, but the Prince rose above it and slammed his own punch into Noca's face. The teen was knocked away, but once again managed to regain his control and prepared to fly in once more. Vegeta backed away with his arms crossed and wasn't at all satisfied with how the fight was progressing.

"You really disappoint, don't you?" Vegeta simply muttered, whilst shaking his head. Noca growled in anger and fired a Ki barrage towards the prince. Vegeta simply phased away from them and watched as they flew into a mountain. Noca realised Vegeta wasn't there and cancelled out the blasts and looked towards the prince. He still had a glare on his face and decided to charge towards Vegeta once more.

He flew up to him and aimed a fist, but the Saiyan prince simply dodged to the side and attempted to kick. Noca was the one that managed to avoid the attack this time as he ducked down and kicked up into Vegeta's face. He had managed to leave the Prince unguarded and proceeded to carry on the rest of his attack. He threw a right hook into the side of Vegeta's face and then used his left to hit the prince in the stomach.

Vegeta bent over the fist and then Noca continued by sending his knee shooting up into the Prince's face. Vegeta shot up so that his back was straight, but still wasn't given a chance to regain his control. Noca grabbed a hold of his arm and pulled the prince through the air. He flew towards a large rock formation and threw the Adult Saiyan's body through the mountains. He then pulled his hands to his right side and powered up the Kamehameha. He then unleashed the attack and blew up a large amount of the mountainous area.

Noca straightened up and looked down at the area. He still had a glare on his face and hadn't worked out his anger just yet. Vegeta wasn't ready to go down just yet and exploded out from underneath the rocks. He fired towards Noca and chased the teen through the sky. Noca knew that Vegeta was planning to take him out and would go full powered. Noca charged away and flew around in circles to tire the prince out. He pulled down into a canyon and flew in an awkward pattern to try and catch Vegeta out, but the prince wasn't so easily defeated. Vegeta powered up and this heavily increased his speed. He was about to catch the boy, but Noca phased away and left Vegeta trying to scan the area. Noca was above Vegeta and threw in a strong Ki blast towards him.

The Prince swung around and saw that the blast was about to crash into him. His eyes went wide in surprise and he turned to the side and watched as the blast crashed into the ground. He growled in annoyance at being caught out and turned to face Noca again and saw that he was dropping in with his feet aimed first. Both feet crashed into the side of Vegeta's face and fired him towards the ground. As he flew down to the floor he managed to flip and land on his feet, but ended up dropping to a knee.

He slowly stood up and smirked up in Noca's direction. He was actually pleased that Noca was finally deciding to take things seriously again. The Saiyan teen carried on towards Vegeta and was preparing to take things further. He was about to smash another fish into Vegeta, but the prince duck to the side and kicked up. Noca managed to block the kick and threw his fist down to try and hit Vegeta in the gut. The Prince was quick to twist and avoid the attack once more and then went in for a few punches. He aimed one towards Noca's head, but the teen dodged to the side. Another fist came in towards Noca's gut, but he managed to turn his body and avoid the punch again.

Vegeta was just starting to get a bit more frustrated and carried on trying to crash a barrage of punches into the teen. Noca just started backing away and staying just out of arms length of the attacks. He started to rise into the air and was beginning to let Vegeta just get a little closer so that he could get the next part of his plan to pull off. He managed to catch Vegeta's right hand and as the Prince aimed in with his left, Noca managed to catch his wrist and tightened his grip around the prince's arm.

Noca then went in with a head-butt and managed to send Vegeta stumbling back. The Prince held his hand to his face, but shook it off and charged back towards him. Noca simply threw his arms up in front of his face and blocked Vegeta's incoming attack, but the strength of Vegeta's punches was enough to break through Noca's guard and smash him in the face. Noca was stumbling back and Vegeta threw another fist square into the teen's face and then grabbed the front of his shirt with his left hand. He then began to pummel punch after punch into Noca's face with his right fist. Vegeta's punches were coming in so rapid that Noca couldn't get the time to just break out of it, but he was certainly getting angrier and that served to increase his power.

Noca managed to lift his hands up and held them around Vegeta's left arm and tried to pull the Saiyan prince off of him. Vegeta noticed this, but didn't let up on the continuous punches. The thing he didn't noticed was that the increased strength on Noca's shirt had managed to tear it and within 30 seconds and a few more punches from Vegeta, the top was torn from the teen. Vegeta now had no grip and Noca simply fell away and landed on his back.

He slowly pushed up to his feet and glared up at Vegeta. The Prince just dropped the shirt to the ground and smirked at the boy.

"Are you still angry? Are you going to make this a challenge? You know that neither of us are using enough power to make this interesting…in actual fact…I'm very bored…" Vegeta explained to the teen whilst looking off to the side.

"Well maybe you should just leave…" Noca suggested, still feeling really annoyed with Vegeta, but not really knowing why. Vegeta turned away from Noca and faced the distance.

"You have anger to get out, but you're not trying hard enough," Vegeta stated in a more neutral tone. Noca growled in annoyance again and charged back towards the adult Saiyan. Vegeta smirked and turned around, he managed to time it right and catch the boy's fist. Vegeta then punched the teen in the face and swung around swiftly and planted a kick into Noca's face. Noca was knocked back and stumbled, but as he opened his eyes and looked forward he saw Vegeta had charged in again and sent an uppercut into the teen's gut.

Noca bent over Vegeta's fist, but as he did the Prince powered up some Ki and then opened his hand, unleashing the blast and firing Noca up into the air. As the boy shot up Vegeta decided to follow on and flew up and above Noca, proceeding to slam his fists down on Noca and sending him rolling towards the ground.

Noca crash-landed on his back and felt a slight pain strike all the way up his spine. Noca arched and grunted in pain, but then fell flat on his back again. He opened his eyes slowly and saw Vegeta up in the air, but it appeared that he was coming in closer. In fact, that's exactly what Vegeta was doing. He charged down towards the ground and landed his knee straight down in Noca's gut. The young Saiyan bent up due to the impact and cough out a lot of saliva.

Vegeta then flipped away and landed on his feet.

"I guess you lost…" Vegeta scoffed as he turned around and started to saunter away. "Why don't you just head home?"

Noca remained in the same position, trying to regain his breath, whilst Vegeta just continued to walk off and then took off and blasted away. Noca was still struggling to get his breath back and wasn't sure he could get himself up quickly. He was feeling really tired-out due to the meditation session in class and the damage that had been caused. He just couldn't be bothered to move right now and ended up drifting off asleep, or he fell unconscious…one or the other.

Noca woke up and realised that he was feeling rather cold, but wasn't sure about why. He rolled over and finally noticed that he was laying on a hard surface. He looked around and remembered the fight with Vegeta. He looked around and his eyes soon fell upon his torn shirt. The teen slowly stood up and realised that he was aching a little bit and he fell to his knees.

Noca tried to shake it off and remembered he had his Capsule-Case in his pocket. He took out the damaged case and noticed that his phone Capsule was ok. He took it out and checked the time to see that it was 4pm, so Pan would likely be at home by now. Noca sighed at how late he had let it get and then slowly lifted up into the air and flew back home. He didn't even know what people were going to say to him once he returned home, but he honestly didn't really care.

It took him about half an hour to get home, but he had already been relatively close. He couldn't go any faster due to his injuries from the fight. As soon as he landed, Pan had come rushing out of the house and she looked pretty angry until she noticed that Noca was in a bad state. He was missing his shirt, had blood on his face and had a few bruises and cuts on his torso. The look of anger suddenly changed to one of concern and she rushed to his side.

"Are you ok? What happened?" She asked frantically as he collapsed to his knees.

"I…I…need…a Senzu…please…" Noca managed to say whilst wincing painfully. Pan tried to help him to his feet and guided him into the house. She was quick to move to the stairs and take him to her room so that the others didn't notice and get worried. Once she had him set down on her bed, she rushed to her Capsule-Case and opened a Capsule that had a Senzu Bean inside of it.

She then took the bean to Noca and managed to get him to eat it and he seemed to be fine after that. She saw that the bruises had started to clear up, but she got a wet cloth from her bathroom to wash off any blood. Noca sat there in silence and had a very concerned look on his face. Pan didn't really know what was up and needed some sort of explanation about earlier on.

He explained that it was because of a meditation that was actually helping make progress. He also told her that it was Vegeta that had put him in that state after the Prince had tried to help him ease his rage. Pan made sure to move off from the talk about fighting and emotions and meditation so that she could tell him about something she and Bra had spoke about earlier.

"So…uh…I know you probably won't be that interested, but the School Football team won some tournament and are having a party this weekend and Kareshi…" Pan was explaining until Noca interrupted.

"No."

"What? Come on…Bra really wants us to go. Kareshi managed to get us in because he plays for one of the younger Football teams…"

"Still…no."

Pan sighed and didn't think that she would have any way to try and convince him to go with them.

"Uh…Well…maybe you should come…so you can keep an eye on me…" Pan took a shot in the dark and knew that Noca was protective of the people close to him, so this may just work.

"Damn you Pan…fine…I'll go…" Noca said, conceding defeat after hardly an argument. Pan smiled at him and thanked him with a small kiss on the lips. Noca took pleasure in having that connection with Pan as he had been feeling a little angry with himself, but she just helped calm him down.

Hopefully the group would be able to just enjoy this party, but not too much. Noca didn't want to see something bad happen.

Friday 21st September Age 792

The rest of the school week managed to pass by without any issues. Noca managed to maintain concentration in his lessons, but was still trying to learn how to focus on his emotions. He would attempt meditation in the evenings if he had the chance, but he wasn't feeling it after that strange session on the Tuesday.

Pan, Noca and Bra were all at Mount Paozu getting ready to go out for this party. They would be staying with Goten and Valese that night so that the parents didn't worry if they returned home drunk. Pan and Bra didn't want their parents to know that they were heading off to a party and Noca just complied. Goten also fully understood why Pan would be worried so he didn't try and argue with her. He also knew that Noca was smart and would be there to look after them. They were also extremely lucky that Chi-Chi wasn't there because she surely would overreact.

They had planned to meet Kareshi in Satan City at 7pm so they could head over to the house where this party was taking place. Noca was sure that it wasn't a good idea to go, but Bra was adamant that it would be fun. Pan had also made sure not to tell Noca what had happened the last time they went to a party so not to worry him.

The three of them were all ready by about 6:15pm so they had plenty of time to get to Satan City and meet Kareshi. Noca had actually been ready for half an hour longer than the girls, but he remained patient and waited for them. When the girls came downstairs to leave, Noca saw that Pan looked different to usual. It seemed that Bra had forced her to use a bit more make-up than she was comfortable with, but Pan hadn't actually put up a fight and just complied with her best friend.

Noca thought she looked nice anyway, but even he noticed that she had dressed up as nice as she had for the night where the two of them officially started their relationship. Noca just smiled to himself and felt that she had only dressed up like that for his benefit and his alone. Pan approached Noca, blushing a little and smiled up at him.

"Hey, so…do I look nice?" Pan asked, still blushing just a bit. She held her arms out to let him have a full look. He quickly looked her up and down and smiled whilst looking in her eyes.

"You look perfect…" Noca started as he took a hold of both her hands and pulled in closer to her. "As always."

When he finished the sentence, Pan breathed a sigh of content and looked down to the ground with a smile creeping on her face.

"Thank you," She muttered quietly. Noca just chuckled a little and put his arm around her. Bra just giggled and then decided to speak up.

"Hey you two! We need to get going," Bra quickly informed them and then the three teens all headed outside and jumped on-board Bra's Capsule-Jet. Bra flew them to Satan City and much to Noca's pain she had decided to play some club dance music to get them in the mood. The two girls had to inform him that he'd need to get used to it because of the party.

Now let's take a chance to talk about what Noca and Pan had decided to wear. Noca wore a Burgundy shirt with the sleeves rolled up as far as his elbows. The Shirt also had a bit of black trim. He also wore a pair of black jeans and some white trainers. Pan was wearing a Navy Blue Lace-Back Halter-neck top with some black skinny jeans and a pain of black heels. She wasn't always too fond on heels, but they weren't very high heels.

Satan City came into their view and the time was about 6:55pm. They would still have to find somewhere to land that was close to where they were meeting Kareshi and then they needed to walk to the location of this party. The closer to the time it got, the more Noca started to get annoyed. He wasn't looking forward to this, but he didn't have any choice now.

They landed in the city, met with Kareshi and started to walk towards where the party was taking place. It didn't take them long and when they arrived they saw that it was a relatively large house with a very big garden. There were already people hanging around outside and in the garden. Kareshi said hello to one of the senior Football players and walked past him with Bra on his arm. Pan and Noca followed in behind, even though the player sent a concerned look towards Noca. It made the teen feel uneasy, but then the player smirked at him and Noca nodded in response.

They could all hear the music from outside and it managed to get a sigh from Noca. Pan turned to him and held his hand, smiling up at him in the process. Noca smiled down awkwardly and then looked ahead at all the people inside. He wasn't going to enjoy this. Kareshi and Bra walked back over to them and appeared to be carrying drinks. Noca strong Saiyan smell could tell that it was alcohol and he instantly declined the drink.

"Ah come on, be fun!" Kareshi pleaded with Noca, but the Teen Saiyan wasn't going to back down.

"No. I think I'll be the only sane one tonight," Noca smiled at Kareshi as he walked towards a chair and sat down. He watched as Pan smiled weakly and headed off with Bra to have "fun" as she put it. Kareshi went off with his friends from the Football team whilst Noca was left alone. He didn't care, but it wasn't like it was peaceful. It did give him an idea though.

Noca closed his eyes and focussed on his energy and tried to push himself into a minor meditation. It proved to be very difficult due to the loud and abrupt noises, but there had certainly been progress because he could control it all eventually.

Whilst Noca was on his own, Pan and Bra were off having a good time and dancing. About an hour passed by and Bra was already pretty drunk. She really couldn't handle her alcohol. Granted she was still young and Pan would always advise against it all, but Bra was just as stubborn as her father and as rebellious as her mother.

Pan was lucky to have inherited her parents' sanity in these situations, but just like Bra and even Gohan, Pan couldn't really handle her alcohol either. So this led to Pan getting a little drunk as well. Some more time seemed to pass by, Noca was still in his Meditative state and wasn't keeping an eye on anything that was happening, so he didn't noticed what was about to happen.

Pan and Bra were still dancing, when out of nowhere Pan felt someone grab a hold of her waist and try to dance with her. Pan could tell the person was taller than her, but her senses informed her that it wasn't someone she was familiar with, so she swung around and pushed the person away.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" She exclaimed as the other person stumbled back. She soon got a good look at who it was and instantly recognised them. It was the boy from the previous party. It was Tony.

"Hey girl. Fancy seeing you here," He said, in a friendly tone, obviously forgetting what had happened last time. He tried to approach her again, but Pan just backed away from him.

"Why don't you piss off and leave me alone?!" She yelled at him. Tony seemed to be shocked by the reaction and looked around him.

"It doesn't look like your boyfriend is about…" Tony said noticing that Pan was with Bra again. She didn't say anything, but continued to glare at him. She had dealt with him on her own last time and she could do it again. The difference between this time and the last was that she was drunk and that could serve to affect a Saiyan's control on their power.

Noca could sense that Pan's energy was trying to react with her emotions, but was struggling. He noticed that she was filled with quite a bit of anger right now and that managed to pull him from his meditation. The noise of the party suddenly flooded back into his ears and when he opened his eyes there were lights flashing and he couldn't see any of the people that he had come with.

"Come on, why don't we get out of here?" Tony asked. Pan had a huge sense of Déjà vu flood over her, but she ignored it and glared at the boy.

"I can't because I'm here with my boyfriend and even if I wasn't with him, what makes you think I'd go with you?" She questioned, causing him to look pretty offended. Pan turned away and was about to walk back to find Bra, but Tony grabbed onto her wrist and pulled her back to him.

"If you're boyfriend is here, where is he?" Pan was about to answer, but Tony was suddenly turned around and Pan was pretty surprised with what happened next.

"I'm right here!"

The next thing any one knew, Tony had been lifted up by the front of his shirt. People turned around to see that Noca had a hold of the older teen and was glaring up at him.

"I'll ask you once…" Noca spoke with a lot of intimidation and Tony was scared right now. Pan was sort of pleased to see Noca acting this protective even though she knew it was primarily a Saiyan thing. "Kindly Fuck off."

Noca dropped Tony to the ground and put his arm around Pan and walked away with her. Tony stayed on the ground with people standing around him and he just looked blankly in the direction that Noca and Pan were walking.

"Are you ok?" Noca asked, once he and Pan were outside.

"I'm ok…but you didn't have to do that," Pan stated. She wasn't angry, but she did feel like she could've protected herself. She didn't mind that Noca was there to look out for, but felt that it wasn't that big of danger.

"I guess it was just an instinctual action," Noca suggested whist shrugging his shoulders. Pan smirked and pulled up to him, planting a quick kiss on the lips. Noca smiled back at her, but they were distracted when Bra and Kareshi left the building and came over.

"Hey what's up?" Bra asked, feeling worried about her friends as always.

"It was that creep Tony from before…guess he didn't get the picture last time," Pan explained.

"He certainly got it this time," Noca uttered in hushed tone. He was still feeling pretty angry towards the boy and he had to assume that it was a Saiyan thing. He knew that Vegeta, Goku and Gohan were all ultra protective of their wives, so it must just be a Saiyan thing. He wouldn't have acted that way otherwise.

"Well…I guess Noca and I will head back to Mt Paozu. I'll see you later Bra." Pan said as she walked over and gave Bra a quick hug.

"Ok, see you guys later." Bra said with a wave as she and Kareshi headed back in. Noca turned to face Pan and put his arm around her as the two of them walked towards the outer area of the city so they could fly off without drawing too much attention to themselves. The young couple failed to notice that an embarrassed teen came stumbling through the crowds at the party with a few friends and glared after the two Quarter-Saiyans.

"I'll get that kid for embarrassing me like that!" Tony exclaimed as he beckoned for his three friends to follow him. "I'll show him!"

The group of four followed Noca and Pan as they made their way through the town and towards the western part of the city so they could fly home. Both Pan and Noca had pretty good senses and could tell that the group were following them. Pan was pretty concerned that Noca hadn't said anything about it though.

"You do know they are following us right?" She asked quietly.

"I know, but they haven't done anything yet and when we fly off they'll be surprised." Noca answered confidently, even though he would've loved to turn around right then and try and show them that they were too weak, but he couldn't, not in his current state of mind. He'd be doing purely out of instinct and he was worried about the harm he may end up causing.

Unlucky for Noca, Tony had decided to run and catch up. Noca just let it happen and felt himself pushed in the back. He stumbled forward a little and swiftly turned to take a hold of Tony and threw him to the ground down an alley close to them. It seemed that Tony was waiting to get Noca near an alleyway, but it had backfired on him. Pan tried to plead with Noca for them to just leave now, but he was already in that state of mind.

Tony slowly stood up and swung a fist for Noca. The teen easily grabbed the fist and pushed Tony to the ground. All three of his friends had run in behind Noca and believed they had him cornered. One of them ran forward to try and tackle him, but Noca simply jumped up and over him. The boy crashed into Tony and ended up tackling him to the ground instead. Noca landed behind the other two and tripped them both up by swiping their legs out from under them.

Both of them fell to the ground, but Tony and the other friend had managed to get up. Tony pushed his friend away in annoyance for pushing him away and Noca took his advantage. He jumped up and sprung off of the wall onto the other one and sprung off of that, tackling Tony to the floor. He landed on top of the older teen and had to hold back his power as he went to punch the boy in the face.

Tony's other friends had got up and one of them ran over and pushed Noca away. He still threw his punch, but it hit the ground instead and Tony breathed a sigh of relief. He stood up and smirked to his friends as Noca stumbled back and fell against a dumpster. It dug into Noca's back and a jagged edge managed to cut through his shirt and skin. Noca grunted as the pain stung, but he passed it off. Tony closed in on him, with the other three standing behind him.

"I'm gonna enjoy this," Tony muttered as he cracked his knuckles. Noca laughed as he slowly stood up. He glared at the little gang and leapt up into the air again. He landed behind all of them and grabbed onto two of the others by their collars and threw them into each other and out of the alley.

Tony and the other one were standing there and were about to try something, but Noca glared towards them and the other friend decided to give up and passed Noca, rushing away. Noca didn't have to bother with that one. He was already scared. His focus was Tony now.

Tony ran towards Noca, but the Saiyan jumped over him easily and grabbed on to his arm and swung him around into the wall. Not only was there a crack sound when Noca swung him around, but there was another one when Tony hit the wall. It was only when the older teen hit the ground that Noca noticed the damage.

Tony clearly had a broken nose and from the way his arm was, it seemed Noca had broken that as well. The Saiyan teen looked down at the injured boy and sighed.

"Pan…do you happen to have your Capsule-Case?" Noca asked, not turning from the boy on the floor. Pan looked from Noca to Tony and then back to her boyfriend.

"Uh…yeah, I have it…" She uttered, not really sure how to react. He still didn't look to her when he held his hand out.

"Can I borrow it please," He requested as she fumbled in her bag and pulled out the small case. She handed to him and he knew exactly what Capsule he needed. He took it out and pressed it, revealing a little bag. Pan recognised it as the one that held the Senzu Beans.

Noca took one out and bent down. He moved Tony's arm into a normal position and then gave him the bean. Tony was almost unconscious so Noca had to force him to take it. He eventually chewed it and swallowed and his arm cracked back to normal, as did his nose. He slowly sat up and started to back away from Noca across the dirty ground.

"You can Fuck off now," Noca stated sternly as he turned to walk away. "Next time I won't help you afterwards."

Tony didn't move a muscle as Noca returned the Capsule-Case to Pan and then started to walk up the street. Pan turned back to face Tony one last time before rushing to catch up with Noca. It didn't help that she was drunk and wearing slight heels. She started to stumble a bit and called out for him to stop. Noca turned and he appeared to look pretty concerned and maybe even scared.

"Are you ok?" Pan asked calmly as she gently rubbed his arm. Noca sighed and looked away from her.

"I really could've done a lot more damage back then…" Noca uttered in disgust at himself. "I wanted to hurt him…"

"You stopped when you knew it went to far…I respect you for that." She said to him as a smile slowly crept on her face. Noca smiled back weakly and then scooped Pan up in his arms.

"Come on. Let's head back to Mt Paozu."

He blasted off with Pan still in his arms and they returned to the house up in the mountains. Once there, the two of them went up to the Guest room and they slept in there together. Noca was unable to get straight to sleep, but with the raven-haired girl sleeping peacefully next to him, it didn't take long to find comfort and drift off.

So, I'm sure you guys enjoyed that chapter. It is my longest chapter to date, coming in at over 10,000 words. Get used to it. I think the next is something like 15,000 words. So…you know…FUN!

This chapter does hold a lot of importance and it was all in one brief scene. I'd like to believe that Noca has finally got closure over his mother's death. There are some more mentions of it in certain stories or arcs. For Example the next Arc will mention it as will the final Arc, but they will not be big deals. I'm certain you guys feel that part of Noca's life certainly needs to be closed and I feel the same.

Thanks as always for reading and reviewing. (That's right, I expect reviews now. Even if you're not saying anything about the story just say Happy Birthday or Happy Anniversary to this story. It is one year old after all.)

But seriously, please review. I love reading what you guys have to say.

Next Time…Chapter 7: A Couple of Celebrations