So sorry for missing a last few weeks. I've been so busy with work and school and my youtube Channel and making things (it's that time of year where people are just buying and buying and buying) I usually get super busy around this time with so many order but anyway, here you go, I swear I'm trying to catch up.

V hovered in the air rubbing at her eyes, her body curled up, her tail circling her.

"Krillin!" Gohan called "what are you doing?" Krillin looked at V and let the disc dissipate into the air.

"I'm coming." Krillin flew toward Gohan and they disappeared. V let the flash wear off and sighed Frieza isn't going to be happy V sighed and flew back to them.

"you lost them" Zarbon sighed, bored, pushing his hair back "never send a monkey to do a man's job."

V's temper flared at the implication, it shouldn't have but maybe if Krillin hadn't been thinking about killing her, she wouldn't be so angry with him.

"Now, now Zarbon," Frieza actually defended her "children must be taught and all she's had are those other idiots to teach her." Frieza hovered over to V and patted her head "don't worry, you'll have more opportunities to learn." Frieza rested his hand on V's shoulder "after all, you have far too much…potential." Frieza chuckled as if he knew something no one else did. It was likely that he did know something no one else did.

"come now, V, you'll learn from me." Frieza waved her to his side "Dodoria, go and find those brats." Frieza turned sharp eyes on the Namek huddled over the child. V looked the older Namek in the eye I'm so sorry. She thought toward him. he didn't physically acknowledge it but somehow, V got the sense that he heard her.

"You can tell me the location of the next Dragon Ball and I'll have Dodoria bring your other brat back alive or you can deny me again and I'll make sure you watch him die." Frieza's eyes cut like broken glass, the Namek raised his eyes, V felt the energy gather before he leapt in the air aimed a blast straight at Frieza's face.

"you, insolent fool." Frieza muttered spearing the Namek with his death beam. The Namek hit the ground. V swallowed hard and followed after Frieza as he led them into the sky.

"did they teach you anything?" Frieza asked V casually. V considered the question seriously and shrugged "how to take a hit?" she said unsure if that really counted.

"I supposed that's something." Frieza sighed "you seem to have taught yourself a great deal." He noted, was Frieza making small talk with her?

"I didn't want to stay with them." V said honestly "so I made a way out." It was only half true, Goku gave her her way out, but she did choose to stay with them and be good. As good as she can be anyway.

"well, maybe you'll prove useful at some point along the line, Vegeta proved to be of use, maybe there's hope for you yet."

"I'll be better than Vegeta." V huffed, at least this she didn't have to pretend, she would be better than Vegeta and one day he would know, she was better than him.

"That's the spirit." Frieza chuckled "I love that silly saiyan pride you all share." Frieza looked her in the eye and said "do you have the pride of a true saiyan though?"

"Yes." V said with conviction, she could feel the proud bloodline of her ancestors, she didn't have to know her parents, she didn't have to be part of the royal family like Vegeta was, V knew she met Gohan for a reason, she knew she survived for a reason. She was going to be the one to end Frieza, if only to keep him from killing Gohan, she was the one that was going to end him.

Gohan

"you can't possibly think she's still good." Krillin yelled at him "she just shot at us!"

"Is he talking about Veroca?" Dende asked.

"Krillin, she was helping us, she told me where she was going to blast so that I could dodge it." Gohan didn't yell, not like his mom does, he took after his dad like that.

"She's playing you!" Krillin snapped.
"Veroca would never do that!" Dende yelled at Krillin, his hands clenched into little fists.

"no offense, little guy, but you don't know her like I do." Krillin gave Dende a bit of a condescending look.

"and you don't know her like I do." Gohan pointed out.

"I knew V before both of you." Dende made a point of looking at Krillin when he said it. "she was smaller last time she was here and she didn't dress like us. She dressed like them."

"because when she came here," Krillin said "she was one of them."

"no." Dende shook his head "you're wrong, Veltro would never be friends with someone bad, and Veroca is Veltro's best friend."

"Look, kid." Krillin began

"Just because I'm a kid doesn't mean I don't know good from bad and Veroca." Dende looked at the sky, he had hoped Veroca would follow so that he could thank her, he saw what she did, she took that shot for him. "Veroca is good, whether you believe it or she knows it yet or not."

"that doesn't even make any sense, how can you not know if your good?" Krillin demanded. Gohan frowned at him. Krillin would always hold a special place in Gohan's life, he was family, even if he was acting like a big jerk right now.

"Because people have told her her whole life she isn't." Gohan met Krillin's eyes, Krillin sighed, defeated, he wasn't going to convince either of these kids of the truth. V was bad and they'd see it when the time came. He just hoped Gohan wouldn't hold back when he needed to defend himself.

"We'd better get back to Bulma, she'll be doing enough yelling for everyone once she finds out what's happened." Krillin sighed and took to the sky. Gohan offered his hand to Dende to help steady him. Dende smiled at him "thank you."

"So you met, V before?" Gohan asked

"yes." Dende nodded "I didn't get to spend as much time as I would have liked with her because she was only here for a few days and Veltro was always taking her somewhere to show her things. But she went by Veroca then, you call her V?" Dende asked. Gohan nodded.

"yeah, my dad Called her V first, she was nervous when we found her in the woods, she looked lost and a little scared." Gohan chuckled "I don't think she'd ever admit that though, she stuttered over her name and my dad jut though that she was saying her name was V. My dad jumps the gun a bit sometimes." Gohan explained "but V ended up liking that name and she kept it."

"I see." Dende looked at the ground as they flew.

"I'm Gohan by the way." Gohan smiled at him, Dende couldn't help but smile back, this alien was just so nice and if Veroca liked him then he must be good too. "I'm Dende."

"Nice to meet you, Dende." Gohan pointed at Krillin flying just a little way ahead "that's Krillin, he's not always so suspicious."

"Why doesn't he like Veroca?" Dende asked curiously "did she beat him up."

"No." Krillin snapped his cheeks turning red.

"Krillin is just worried about me, he thinks he needs to protect me from V because when she came to earth it was with Raditz, and Raditz was a bad guy." Gohan explained "he's worried she just pretending to be good, but I know she's good, I can feel it." Dende looked at Gohan a little funny "is your kind psychic too?"

"what?" Gohan laughed "oh, no, it's just V I can feel, it's like I always know how she's feeling and the longer we're together the stronger it is, sometimes I can hear her thoughts when she's not trying to talk to me."

"Uh!" Dende exclaimed nearly falling out of the sky in his shock "you're bonded! That's why I can sense you and her."

"What?" Gohan asked confused "I can sense your energy, when you're bonded it's not just thoughts and feelings that flow back and forth, it's power, you carry some of her power with you, always."

"does she have some of mine?" Gohan asked, he didn't want to take power from her that she might need.

"Yes, but it's not like power power, not like fighting power." Dende tried to explain "it's more like a piece of you."

"Dronare said that before, that me and V are bonded." Gohan said "Veltro wasn't too happy about it though." Gohan remembered "what does it really mean?"

"you two are lucky." Dende said "the legends say that everyone is missing a portion of someone else, you and V are very lucky to have even found each other."

"Luck is a relative term here." Krillin muttered but Dende heard him clear as a bell.

"V is good." Dende said with conviction "and when you see that you're going to have to say you're sorry to her."

"I hope you're right, kid." Krillin looked ahead do I hope they're right Krillin questioned his own intentions, of course I do, that means she's not going to hurt Gohan or our other friends.

GOKU

"Come on." Goku hung upside down the gravity dragging on his muscles "the gravity isn't that high!" Goku wanted to yell at something, guess now I know why Chichi yells so much Goku just wanted to get down from this and get a senzu bean in him, yeah, that'd fix him right up.

"I…can do…this." Goku brought his hands together "ka…me…ha…me…" Goku pushed his hands up aiming at the top of the rope "Ha!" he grunted, the gravity pushed down against the weight of the blast, Goku pushed it farther, it inched closer and closer but it was getting there "come on…" Goku watched the painfully slow blast barely move "come… on!" he grunted just as the weight seemed to press harder and slam his blast back down at him. The blast rammed into his face and threw him back toward the ground, the rope held tight and the gravity tried to rip him in two. Goku screamed. He hung there for a moment panting, trying to think a way out. Goku's thoughts drifted toward Gohan, how he was off on an entire other planet, thousands upon thousands of miles away from him. Gohan could be in trouble, he could need Goku's help and here he was dangling uselessly in the middle of a giant space pod. Then V entered his mind her firm eyes the night before they left, he woke him. she had the most determined eyes he had ever seen centering her stern face as she looked him in the eye and made her oath.

"dad I swear, I'll bring them all home safe" V had said, her eyes never wavered, she wasn't just saying it to put him at ease, she was saying it because she was willing to go to any length to make it happen what if they run into something too much for her? What if she needs him right now because she's pushing herself too hard to keep Gohan and Krillin and Bulma safe? That was something V would do. V was trying to prover herself to someone she had nothing to prove to. Darn it, V, why'd you have to go and make a promise like that Goku cursed her, but at the same time he would place his life in her hands, but was he really willingly to place Gohan's life in it? They were both just kids, Goku was fairly certain that V was younger than Gohan, she was tinier than him, both in height and frame. She like this petite little doll next to Gohan, especially since Gohan had beefed up from Piccolo's boot camp.

The pain ebbed away as Goku thought of his. kids, his maybe a little too pampered son and his new doll like daughter that thought she was some evil warrior, Goku almost didn't have the heart to tell her how silly she looked when she was trying to look intimidating, she wouldn't understand that just because it's her mean face doesn't mean it looks all that mean to everyone else. Goku was slightly convinced that even her enemies found her mean face adorable. Huh, does Gohan have a mean face? Goku considered it, maybe not so much mean as serious. Goku chuckled and felt suddenly the pain wasn't so much, it wasn't so overwhelming. Goku drew his arm back, energy gathering in his hand and lunged toward the rope, in that split second, Goku gained the momentum and strength and sliced the rope, his body smacked against the ground and Goku found himself staring at the ceiling, he was so tired he wasn't sure if he was going to be able to make it to the beans. Gotta be ready to help Goku thought forcing himself over onto his stomach and inching his way toward the bag.

PICCOLO

I can't believe it Piccolo thought as he meditated, although it made sense since she didn't transform like Gohan and Vegeta did. but her tail was her weakness, was that from her heritage or her other abilities. Piccolo mulled over V's behavior, her abilities, they weren't like Goku's and Vegeta's. She didn't transform, but she did read minds, given the right circumstances she may even develop the ability to see into the future or gain more Nemekian type abilities, regeneration perhaps Piccolo thought it might look a little ridiculous for someone like her to be able to regenerate an arm or a leg like he did but was there even a limit to the abilities she could develop? Gohan and V, the beginning of the next generation of fighters Piccolo smirked the future looks promising. Piccolo felt a bit of pride at the knowledge that he had a hand in that. That Gohan and V would carry his style above everyone else's style of fighting no matter who else taught them. They were his pupils, his students and nothing anyone did could change that or take that away from them. Piccolo ignored the realization that he had, at some point, singled them out as them. Gohan and V and himself. Piccolo focused on the triangle that the three od them formed. The presence of V somewhere in existence, the attachment of Gohan to her. He wondered what this would feel like when they existed on the same plane. Would they love in their own world within the world, would she grow outward and encompass the rest of her family and friends? Piccolo was entranced by his own ideas and thoughts but he was learning, he didn't leave himself completely open. King Kai approached, silent as ever.

"what do you want?" Piccolo griped

"Piccolo, there's more you should know." King Kai said seriously "when you get back to Earth, V will need someone to help her learn about herself, to understand what she is." King Kai peeked onto the planet Namek, he could see V among the bad guys, he even peeked into her memories to see who this Veltro boy was and when exactly she had gone to Namek. As far as King Kai could tell, V thought she was one hundred percent Saiyan, V had no idea of the power she truly held.

"she's already bonded with you, her kind does that, usually when they're born they bond with their parents as they grow but she grew up with Raditz, Nappa and Vegeta, people who didn't care if she lived or died."

"What makes you think I do?" Piccolo snapped at him. King Kai cocked his brow at Piccolo "because you two have bonded, you hold a similar place to where her father would have been had she grown up on her home planet."

Father? Piccolo thought, Piccolo had come to see Gohan and V as his pupils, his children almost, he hadn't imagined they returned the feelings, especially V. V who wanted so badly to be accepted into Goku's family that she'd die again and again just to prove herself. She didn't need to prove herself to him. she knew that, as annoying as that little brat was, being around her was easy, being around Gohan was easy.

"Gohan and V are bonded in a different way than you and V, you can sense them as if they were one person through V's bond to you." King Kai explained "Gohan and V, they're soul mates, a bonded pair, a matching set." King Kai said "whatever you want to use, they're two halves of a single soul, not reflections, not complementary, Piccolo, two halves, they need each other to be whole. It's why V didn't have a reason to fight before, she had the power but not the desire. Gohan is her fuse. For Gohan, V is his independence, together they're good. Apart, they have too much of each other and they can make poor decisions V's need to protect Gohan is a perfect example. They're a freshly bonded set, they'll want to protect each other to the death, they might not be aware of it but something inside them is telling them to risk everything to live together or die together."

"How can they each only have half a soul?" Piccolo scoffed at the ridiculous notion.

"most people are missing a portion of their soul." King Kai explained "most is maybe less than five percent." King Kai said "but on every planet there is a perfect match out there for each person, for people like Gohan and V the universe somehow makes sure they get together because if they don't, they're only ever half of themselves. Forever wandering through life wondering what is missing from it."

"what does this have to do with what V is?" Piccolo demanded.

"V's has a very strong mental presence, or haven't you noticed?" King Kai snickered. Piccolo grumbled under his breath

"I'm concerned that when V starts to struggle with her ever developing abilities, her presence will endanger Gohan's own feelings." King Kai said looking serious.

"Why don't you tell her father?" Piccolo griped.

"Goku may be the one who adopted her." King Kai said "but you're the first one that accepted her, she's connected to you whether you like it or not." King Kai smirked "and even though you're being a sour puss about it, you like that she challenges you in ways Gohan is too respectful to and ways no other creature has ever dared to do before." King Kai watched Piccolo's expression change ever so slightly "she challenges your very competence as a fighter."

"get to your point." Piccolo snapped finally giving up on his meditation, he set his feet on the ground and turned on King Kai.

"Goku won't be able to help V the way she needs help, you, as another telepathic being by nature and the one she bonded with first, are the only one that is going to be able to help her." King Kai smiled "the bonds her kind of people make are strong, she'd die for you, Piccolo, just as quickly as she'd die for Gohan and maybe even quicker than she'd die for Goku."

"What am I supposed to do?" Piccolo folded his arms and gave King Kai a condescending look "put her in time out?"

King Kai smirked "good one, Piccolo but it's actually much more painful than that." King Kai turned and started to walk away "I'll be back later to get you, I don't want the others to know, it'll only make them fear V."

"What are you talking about?" Piccolo growled after him but King Kai had given yet another cryptic message and left him to mull it over what exactly are you, V?

VELTRO

Veltro's senses came back gradually, even after V's first visit, even after the last week with these people threatening his home and his people, Veltro did not live waiting for the next disaster. Instead of panic, Veltro woke slowly, reaching outward for Dronare's energy, he was probably in the fields already. Wow, he had the most incredible dream, Veroca was there and she was here on Namek again but she brought people with her. Veltro sat up, he wasn't sure how he felt about this dream, he wasn't entirely sure it was good or bad.

"You're awake." Dronare placed a hand on Veltro's shoulder. Veltro's tail wrapped around his wrist without thought.

"What time is it?" Veltro rubbed the back of his neck.

"Sorry about this." Dronare touched the Veltro's neck, "but you wouldn't have come with me and you already caused enough of a scene." Dronare gave Veltro an apologetic look "you're still young, you're not used to these things, Veroca is." Dronare prodded Veltro's mind but Veltro was always slow to wake, slow to remember what was a dream and what was reality.

"Veroca is here!" Veltro exclaimed "it wasn't a dream."

"No." Dronare said "I'm afraid none of this is."

"she had people with her." Veltro was still on trying to decipher fact from dream, maybe it was all a dream "she's really bonded with someone else then?" Veltro asked Dronare.

"Yes." Dronare said, he didn't want to watch Vltro be hurt all over again but now was not the time to coddle him. Dronare had done too much of that over the years and nowit was Dronare's fault that Veltro wasn't ready for this or maybe I'm not ready for him to be ready Dronare thought thinking of what V said he's more ready than you think V was much more confident than the last time he saw her, she was becoming increasingly aware of her abilities and more importantly, her purpose.

"where is she!" Veltro suddenly exclaimed leaping up from the ground "i-I got her killed didn't I, she had to save me and they found her and they killed her didn't they?" Veltro started to tear up.

"Veltro." Dronare placed a firm hand on Veltro's shoulder and pushed him back to the ground "calm down, I need you to be a warrior right now, we can still get her back, she knows what to do." Dronare softened a little "Veroca has been around these kinds of people her whole life, she knows how to survive long enough for me to figure out a plan."

"you?" Veltro asked

"yes, me," Dronare gave him a stern look "you're not ready for this, you have so much more to learn."

"but she's my friend." Veltro exclaimed.

"yes and she made me promise to keep you safe. She can survive on her own if you show up they can use you against her."

"But I can fight, I'm bigger and older and stronger than her." Veltro tried to sound tough, he wanted to fly into battle like V, strong and brave, he wanted to save his friends even if it meant his own life. Dronare felt Veltro's thoughts and emotions. V had this way of stirring up Veltro's inner turmoil. Dronare wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing but it was something Veltro wasn't used to and that wasn't going to be good in the middle of a fight if he was too preoccupied with being a better friend than Gohan or trying to risk his own life just to save V when in reality V can handle it. But Veltro, while bigger than V, while seemingly older than V, Veltro was not like V, he was gentle, soft, a good and promising fighter but not a warrior, not yet at least.

"You will help to keep Dende safe, we'll go and find Veroca's friends but you will not be fighting the men she's with."

"But Dronare!" Veltro exclaimed.

"No." Dronare said firmly "you'll do what I tell you or you I'll send you off of this planet her her friends and we'll handle it."

"you… you want me to leave Veroca?" Veltro stared at Dronare as if he had just slapped him.

"in battle we need different people for different things." Dronare explained "I need you out of the fighting so that Veroca and I can focus on saving everyone and not worried about you."

"but I can fight!" Veltro tried to defend himself.

"but can you get hit?" Dronare challenged. Veltro hesitated. He remember the fight with Raditz too well. Raditz enjoyed the pain he caused. That was the first and last time anyone had ever tried to hurt Veltro. Of course, Veltro was much stronger now, much bigger and better, he could take it this time.

"no." Dronare sighed feeling Veltro's inner pep talk "training and battle are different, you aren't stronger than these people, you're much weaker, much smaller and much easier to hurt, this conversation is finished, you'll stay with Dende." Dronare stood and allowed Veltro to climb to his feet, he did so tentatively.

"But you're gonna get her back…" Veltro asked in a small voice "right?"

"One way or another." Dronare said "I will get her back for you." Dronare didn't dislike V, he was rather fond of her, even entertained by her but if it weren't for the threat of Veltro running off on his own to save her, would he be risking his life to retrieve her?

Probably not, Dronare decided, his people would come first, the dragon balls would come first. V was not on his list of first things.

"Get ready, Veltro." Dronare ordered "we're leaving now."

V

V stayed at Frieza's side by his order, she could feel Zarbon's distaste for her. She also felt his annoyance when Dodoria took far too long to come back.

"he's dead." V said suddenly when she felt Vegeta's power level skyrocket and Dodoria's fade. "Vegeta killed him." V had caught a few glimpses of his energy before that but this was the most solidly she had felt it since Earth.

"how could you possibly know that?" Zarbon snapped at her, his eyes got big for half a second and he narrowed his eyes at her "you planned this didn't you?" Zarbon accused "you never killed any of them did you."

"I did!" V exclaimed did I say I killed Vegeta? What if she did and now she said he was alive and had killed Dodoria I'm so stupid! She screamed at herself.

"She didn't say she killed Vegeta?" Frieza sighed as if he were talking to a naïve child. "Really, Zarbon, Raditz and Nappa are dead but, Vegeta to be killed by her?" Frieza laughed "would be ridiculous."

"then why are you so interested in her?" Zarbon asked astonished.

"our little saiyan here just wanted to actually learn how to rule. She wasn't going to learn that from them."

"But, what about Dodoria?" Zarbon asked "how could she possibly know that?"

"Because she has telepathic abilities similar to the Namekians." Frieza smiled at V "don't you?" V nodded, she thought she'd better not lie again.

"I knew Raditz came here a few years ago, she couldn't have been more than a small toddler but you know what they say, children are sponges." Frieza smiled at V even wider "and her kind love to absorb things."

"what?" V looked wide eyed at Frieza what does he know about me? She wondered

"you didn't really think you got this strong all on your own did you?" Frieza laughed "did you think you were a saiyan too?" frieza watched V's face become more and more confused "oh, you poor child, you did!" Frieza laughed and laughed and laughed as V's anger began to boil.

"I can't really blame you, that's what those idiots thought too." Frieza cackled "never wondering why she didn't transform, why she seemed to get stronger when she never trained." Frieza shook his head "stealing their very power right from under their noses!" Frieza threw his head back "you are so much more than a simple monkey, V." Frieza finally calmed himself down, turning dark eyes on V "so much better." Frieza looked at V as if she were some kind of precious planet he was ready to take over.

"Don't worry, Child, I'll teach you how to be the very best you can be."

V watched as Frieza turned away from her and headed inside the ship to wait for whoever he just called to bring them new scouters. I'm…not a saiyan? V thought to herself. Her stomach turned to knots as she processed this information I can't transform V thought I did get stronger even when I wasn't allowed to train V's reality began to crumble I stole their power. How could they not know? How could I not know? V squeezed her hands together I couldn't start to feel things until Namek, and then more until I was with Piccolo, he was always yelling at me for getting in his head V realized she hadn't been telepathic the whole time, it started on Namek, just feeling, fleeting powerful thoughts maybe, but when she spent that year with Piccolo it was like she could do more and more on her own with her mind. What am I then?

Thank you guys for all the comments and messages and for taking time to read my story, I'd really like to know what you're thinking about it though...

what do you think about

Gohan and V's Bond?

Veltro's Jealousy toward Gohan and V's relationship?

Veltro and Dronare as additional characters in this story?

will V stay with Veltro? Will she choose Gohan?

would Dronare even allow Veltro to go?

is Krillin ever going to trust V?

Piccolo's ever insistence that he is not interested in 'Goku's children'?

what do you think everyone is talking about,

V is a full saiyan... right?

and anything else you're thinking, want to comment or have thoughts on that I encourage you to share

and yes, I do intend to take this to the end of the Z saga, possibly to GT, we'll see... :)