I don't really have anything to say but: I hope you have enjoyed my story so far, and that I hope you read the two stories I advertised last chapter. They are wonderful.

Disclaimer: I do not own DB, DBZ, or DBGT, or any of the characters that are in them. The only characters that I do own are Pia, Kabocha, Nasu, Midori, and Mame. And I might make more characters up too so I own them. Please do not use Pia, she is MINE!

Chapter Nine

Training and… Shopping?

"Uh… Goku, where exactly are we going?" Pia asked as the two saiya-jins flew over the flat landscape, they had long ago left the mountains and Pia was confused. She had gotten up, got dressed in one of the orange gis and blue, short-sleeved undershirts, ate breakfast, and then she and Goku had set out to go train. They had promised Chi Chi to be back by dinner, although she knew perfectly well that the two would come home when their stomachs declared that they were empty. All this had happened maybe half an hour ago, and Pia didn't have a clue as to where they were going, or why they had to go so far.

"You'll find out when we get there. It shouldn't be too long now." Goku said glancing over at Pia, and flinched. She flew with her arms crossed, glaring daggers at him. The seven-year-old still hadn't forgiven him on volunteering her for school. He breathed a loud sigh, and looked forward again.

"Fine…" Pia breathed, and a small sigh escaped her lips. Uncrossing her arms, she put them at her sides, and looked down at the land that was rushing by below them. Here and there houses dotted the flat, grassy land that had relatively few forests. On some parts of the land were animals, most black and white spotted creatures or a chestnut color that gleamed, but then there were some animals that ranged from a yellow to brown, and black to white. Pia had no idea what these animals were and would have investigated if she weren't following Goku for training.

Slowly the landscape began to change. The land below them started to loose almost all vegetation but bushes and some trees with weird, spiky leaves. There was the smell of salt in the air that stung Pia's nose slightly. Looking up ahead, Pia could see a bright glittering that had to have been sunlight reflecting off water, but it reached from one horizon to the other. Pia was dumbfounded somewhat, but as they drew closer to the shiny surface Pia realized that it was water. Not just water, but the ocean.

Soon they were flying over the water, and Pia rather enjoyed it. The air was a bit cooler above the water, and she had dropped to where she was skimming just a few yards above the surface, creating huge waves in her wake. Glancing at the water then at Goku, who was in front and was flying slightly higher than her, Pia was struck with a sudden idea.

With a grin Pia flew up until she was above the man, and suddenly dropped towards him, arms out-stretched. She shoved him, hard, and he went down towards the water with a yelp. Just before he hit the water though, and to Pia's disappointment, he flew up into a vertical position only a few feet from the water. He turned around and looked at Pia, a stern expression on his face. She gave him a lop-sided grin and shot forward towards the water at Goku's feet. Pia splashed water at his legs, getting them drenched, and shot back up into the sky as fast as she could, not giving him a chance to retaliate.

Goku just watched her go, and Pia could feel his eyes trained on her. Maybe a mile from the water she stopped ascending and looked down at Goku who was still floating there, looking up at her. Slowly Goku floated up to her.

"What was that for?" he questioned, water dripping from his legs. Pia had managed to get up to his knees wet.

"Payback. I didn't want to go to school, but now I have too. That's just payback." Pia said, her lop-sided smile still on her face, tail flicking happily. She saw Goku's eyes momentarily dart to the flicking tip of Pia's tail, and immediately her smile disappeared. Wrapping her tail protectively around her waist Pia looked at the man in front of her, face a mask devoid of emotion. Then she asked stonily, struck by a sudden thought, "What's so special about my tail, and if you and Vegeta are a saiya-jin, what happened to your tails?"

"I had mine cut off when I was a kid, and Vegeta had his cut off when he was still evil, here on Earth," Goku explained. Pia let herself soften and let her mask fall away; she was seven after all and couldn't keep up the game of showing no emotion at all for too long. Goku sighed at the changed and said, "Come on. No more playing all right. We are almost there."

"You said that almost ten minutes ago," Pia said, and a smile curved Goku's lips.

"I know, but we are almost there. Really!" He exclaimed before turning around and flying away.

Laughing slightly Pia followed him. He was right, after all, when he said that they were almost there, because five minutes later they were on a tiny island. On the island was a pink, two-story house, with "KAME HOUSE" written on the side in big letters. There were only a couple of those trees with the spiky leaves as far as Pia could see.

When the two landed Goku strode up to the screen door to the house calling, "Hey, Master Roshi! Krillin! 18! Maron! It's me! And I brought my new friend!"

As soon as the words were out of Goku's mouth the door was flung open and a blonde girl threw herself at Goku with a shriek of, "SON!" before looking around the beach. Her eyes stopped on Pia, who had a large sweat-drop on her head. It was there because of the house being pink of all colors, and because of the girl that had flung herself at Goku.

"Who's that?" She asked, blue eyes wide and curious, as she walked over to Pia. "And why does she have a tail?"

"That's—"

"Goku, back already!" An old man with big, red sunglasses cried out from the small front porch of the house making Pia jump slightly. Beside him stood a short man with no nose, dark, kind eyes, and dark, gray hair that stood up, and reminded Pia of grass. Next to him stood a tall woman with blonde hair and ice-blue eyes that studied Pia, and seemed to go right through the young saiya-jin, she was obviously the girl's mother.

"Yes, Master Roshi, I'm back, and this is Pia," Goku said, waving a hand towards the girl, "and she didn't know that I came here to tell you guys about her, but now she does. Pia, this is Maron, —" – Goku indicated to girl – "— this is Master Roshi, —" he pointed to the old man – "— this is Krillin, —" – he pointed to the short man, who gave Pia a warm smile – "— and, last but not least, is 18, —" – Goku pointed to the woman – "— and you guys this is Pia!"

"Hi…" Pia said, bowing—not curtsying—to be polite, she felt awkward being the center of attention, and she let it show in her flicking tail-tip. There was a gasp from Krillin, and 18 just looked at him, then back at Pia's tail, lost. Master Roshi remained silent, the light reflecting off of his sunglasses. Pia just stood there unsure of what was wrong, but she was brought up to speed when Krillin commented on her tail.

"Um, Goku, why does she have her tail?" Krillin asked, looking up at the tall man.

"Why? Well I don't see any harm because there isn't a moon anymore so there's no chance of her transforming into an Oozaru. So there isn't any danger right? Unless Vegeta does that weird moon sphere thing." Goku said, a thoughtful look crossing his face, a look that didn't quite suit him.

Pia tensed up at the words "moon" and "Oozaru." She didn't know why, but they freaked her out. There was a reason to it, but if Pia tried to think up the reason it slipped away with her head throbbing painfully. Just as she had given up something slipped through. A memory of blind rage, lust to kill, and primal instincts that overwhelmed all coherent thoughts, in other words: a monster identity. Her body was big and bulky, people tiny ants, and nothing could reach her, harm her, but she could harm others. The ones that were like pesky mosquitoes, she could swat them, and destroy them easily. A full moon shone its light in her mind. A beautiful addition to the night sky, but a dangerous weapon for a saiya-jin.

All this flashed through her mind in a few seconds. Unlike her other memories this one was more sensations than fuzzy images or crystal clear everything. It was almost as if at the time her mind had been clouded, but not clouded enough to not remember things. Like Pia had only been able to go along for the ride at the time as she went out of control, with no way to stop.

One thing that Pia did know was that the transformation had been because of her tail. Something about her tail had made her transform. All that she had done was look at a full moon, and transformed into an Oozaru. She knew that without her tail she wouldn't be able to transform, but without a moon she wouldn't be able to transform either. Good for her the latter was there; she really didn't want to get rid of her tail.

"Yoo-hoo! Hey, Pia? Are you ok?" Goku's voice snapped her out of her thoughts. He was waving his hand in front of her face, and Pia's eyes immediately focused on the moving limb. Finally having caught her attention he stopped waving his hand and said, "Back to earth now? What happened? Another memory?"

"Sorta…" Pia said as she looked up at Goku. "I only have one thing to say: I am so glad that you don't have a moon." She shivered slightly out of some impulse, and continued. "Let's just say I don't like the full moon, and if Vegeta does that moon sphere thing punch him real hard for me ok. If I don't squash him first." She added the last part in a whisper so only Goku could hear, but her voice carried to the others across the quiet island, causing the others to stifle their snorts of laughter at the thought of a prince pancake.

"If he does that I will, but if you don't squash him first," Goku said placing a large, callused hand on Pia's shoulder. "Now how about we do what we came here to do!"

"Yes!" Pia said bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet, all seriousness forgotten, and a large smile on her face. "Let's train! What first?"

"First you have to get it to where you can pull up your ki without any real problem. Plus you have to not pull out all of your reserves at first go, so that goes under controlling it, unlike what happened yesterday." Goku instructed as everyone watching gained a large sweat-drop.

"I guess he just can't come and say 'Hi' anymore can he?" Krillin said softly as Pia groaned inaudibly.

"You know how hard that's gonna be don't you, Goku," Pia complained as she prepared to power up.

"That's why you need to learn how to control your ki, all of it. So how about power up to almost your full extent, about five percent lower than your top."

"Sure." Pia complied, and with that she started to power up. This time it was easier to power up and it took half the time for her to get to the level where she started struggling to control her power. Then she powered up at a slower pace, trying to remember exactly how high her power went last time. Slowly she reached her limit, then dropped her power by about five percent. She could feel that her hair had lifted somewhat off of her neck, and was whipped around by the uncontrolled, blazing, white aura that had sprung up around her.

Looking up at Goku she saw a pleased expression on his face, and she glanced at Master Roshi, Krillin, 18, and Maron and just about lost her control on her ki as she held back laughter. Master Roshi had fallen on his back at some point, and was looking at Pia, glasses askew, and sitting in the sand. Krillin was staring at Pia, wide-eyed, open-jawed, with shock. 18 and Maron, on the other hand, looked indifferent. Goku followed her gaze and a smile curled his lips up a little, but the humor of the moment quickly died as Pia brought her attention back to her ki control.

"Good," Goku said, bringing his coal-black gaze back to Pia, "now keep it there for as long as you can."

Pia's jaw dropped in surprise, but she didn't complain. She knew better than to complain, because she needed to control her ki. If she didn't know how she could hurt someone accidentally, like she had almost done to Pan and Bra. Grimly Pia nodded and concentrated on her ki. Slowly she came to grasp of her ki, putting reins on the power, and it became easier to contain the blaze and not just let it run wild. Able to contain it some Pia started to tame her aura, and it reluctantly was tamed into a less crazy inferno. This took the better part of two hours, but Pia didn't complain as she started to grow tired from the exertion.

"Can you keep it up longer, or are you done?" Goku questioned a worried tone in his voice as large drops of sweat rolled down girl's face and arms, and created dark spots on the sand.

"Longer. Have. To. Control. Ki. Can't. Let. It. Be. Wild." Pia growled between her clenched teeth in a detached way. She didn't care that she was tired, she just didn't want to hurt her friends and she would if she couldn't control her ki. "I. Don't. Want. To. Hurt. My. Friends."

Goku looked down in shock at Pia, and Pia looked up at him, determined to keep this up for as long as she could. Then she closed her eyes and concentrated every part of her on controlling her ki. She stood there and sensed out the kis of every one on the island. Krillin was outside the house, on the other side of the island, his ki was staying relatively the same. Maron's ki was near Krillin's. While Master Roshi was inside the house and his ki was spiking up and down somewhat for some reason. Pia couldn't find 18's ki, but she didn't think too much about it. She just figured that she was suppressing her power.

Frowning Pia extended her senses. As she extended she ran into a multitude of weak kis, many were clustered in hundreds to thousands. There were some that were manly alone though with only a few other kis near them. Just then Pia felt and extremely high ki in the middle of nowhere and it wasn't one she recognized. Concentrating, Pia tried to form a mental picture of whomever the ki belonged to. All she came up with was green. Pushing farther, Pia felt her mind barely brush against something. This something was alien, and attacked back at Pia, swarming into her mind through the slight connection she had made, almost making her lose her slim control over her ki.

"Who are you, and what are you doing?" A male voice growled, serious, and Pia shrunk away from the being in her mind as her ki flamed around her almost out of control. Pia heard Goku gasp, and heard the shifting of sand as he backed up. Still Pia kept her eyes closed, trying to control her wild ki.

Gathering her courage Pia replied, "I-I'm P-Pia. And I'm only t-training. I didn't m-mean to intrude, I didn't realize I could t-touch others minds if I wanted too."

"Pia…" The voice said, before a long pause, that if Pia hadn't been touching this person's mind she would have thought that he had left, then, "Why are you training?"

"To control my ki. I'm powered up right now. I was only sensing out energies and I prodded too deep when I felt your ki. I'm sorry." Pia went to draw away, but the being tightened his grip on her mind, holding her in so she couldn't retreat. "W-What's your name?"

"Piccolo. Where are you training?"

"Um… I don't know… Can I show images this way?"

"Yes, yes can."

"Then I'll do that. Give me a second." Pia concentrated bringing up an image of the island that she was on, without everybody swarming on it. This was how she had seen it from above.

"You're at Kame House!" the voice exclaimed, and Pia felt the ki move slightly, coming towards her slowly.

"Yes, sir."

"Who's training you?" Piccolo questioned his tone even more serious.

"G—" Pia started but stopped as an image came to mind of Goku, and she knew that Piccolo "saw" the image. She felt his ki stop.

"Goku? You're training with Goku? Who are you?" Piccolo questioned rhetorically, but Pia didn't know that.

"I'm Pia! I'm a saiya—"

"Saiya-jin! How can you be a saiya-jin? Goku and Vegeta are supposed to be the only one's left!"

"I don't know! I've been asking myself that since I woke up three days ago!"

Piccolo didn't reply, but his ki shot off in Pia's direction at a furious pace. Tentatively Pia started to back out of the link and Piccolo didn't stop her. Quickly she cut the connection, and trained herself on Piccolo's ki. When it had almost reached the island Pia opened her eyes and stopped sensing for ki. Looking up at Goku she saw that he was looking up at the sky in the direction Piccolo was coming in from.

When Piccolo came into view Pia almost gasped, he looked a lot like Dende! He had the same green skin, and had pink parts on his arms. On his head he wore a white cap with purple in the center, and a white cape with large shoulder pad-things sticking out. He landed and Pia took a slight step back when the two locked eyes, not thinking that because she was powered up she could be stronger than him. Then he looked at Goku, and back to Pia, a strange look in his eyes.

"What's going on here, Goku?" Piccolo asked, and Pia looked at him dumbfounded, not noticing Krillin, Master Roshi, Maron, and 18 come to the part of the beach they were on.

"I'm training Pia. What are you doing here, Piccolo?" Goku said curiously in a very friendly way, a hint of confusion in his voice though.

"Let's just say little Pia learned her lesson about sensing ki, and how dangerous it can possibly be if you push too far at someone's ki." Piccolo stated, shooting a hard stare in Pia's direction.

Pia moved behind Goku, out of Piccolo's penetrating gaze. This temporary barrier didn't last long, because Goku turned to face the young saiya-jin, letting Pia feel Piccolo's eyes once again boring into her.

"Pia, what is Piccolo talking about?" Goku asked, and Pia didn't reply, staring determinedly at the ground for a reason the escaped her. Goku knelt down and placed his large hands on the girl's shoulders, attempting to look into Pia's eyes, but Pia was still looking at the ground, unable to meet his eyes. Goku spoke again, more softly this time so only Pia could hear. "Pia. What is Piccolo talking about? You won't get into trouble."

"I was sensing ki and I felt Piccolo's ki," Pia murmured, not looking up, "I didn't recognize it so I tried to form a picture of what he looked like in my mind, I wanted to see if it would work. Instead somehow I touched his mind when I tried to picture him harder. We had a conversation and then Piccolo came here."

"Ah… But why do you look ashamed? There is nothing to be ashamed about!" Goku whispered so only Pia could hear, and Piccolo heard as well apparently. The namekian gave a huff, surprising Pia; he really didn't get this sentimental stuff like this for a warrior.

Pia looked up into Goku's eyes startled. She knew he was right, there wasn't any reason to feel ashamed. In response Pia shrugged her shoulders and made an 'I don't know' sound and a small, goofy smile transformed her expression. Goku laughed slightly at this while he straightened up, Pia knew that she didn't have to explain too much to the older saiya-jin seeing as how he knew about her amnesia.

Pia waved her tail behind her happily, still not paying attention to her being powered up, although she was now barely powered up thanks to her slip of attention. At the sight of the girl's tail there came a small sound from Piccolo and Pia looked curiously up at the tall namek. His face was set in a scowl and his eyes were following the movement of Pia's tail. Unconsciously the girl wrapped her tail around her waist and moved her feet ever so slightly to give her better balance. At this Piccolo's scowl disappeared and he grinned slightly, and Pia noticed his sharp canines. At the smile Pia didn't let her guard down, but listened to some instinct screaming at her not to let her guard down even slightly or she might get hurt.

"What is so interesting about my tail, Piccolo?" Pia asked rather bluntly, looking up at the namek who towered over her.

"Well let me just say I have ran into some bad problems with tails and the moon," he replied his smile evaporating, to be replaced by a calculating look.

Pia shivered slightly at the thought of the moon, she really didn't like what would happen if she looked at the full moon. In this lapse of attention Piccolo sprung his attack at Pia so fast she didn't see him move, and grabbed her tail even though it was still around her waist. The pain froze Pia for a moment and she vaguely heard Goku yell something. Then she swung around, propelled by that strange reflex, and threw a ki-loaded punch at her tormentor, her blood pounding in her ears; her aura sprung to life around her a bright white.

Her small fist hit the unsuspecting namek in the stomach. Krillin gave an astonished yell as he saw Pia's fist in the namek's stomach. There was a rush of wind that indicated that Piccolo had had his breath forced out of his lungs. Letting go of the girl's tail he grasped his stomach, doubled over in pain. Pia's aura immediately faded away and she dropped to her hands and knees.

The seven-year-old's tail was hanging to the ground limply. Her eyesight blurred in and out as she fought back the unconsciousness that threatened her. As her eyesight blurred the world also started to swim, and Pia fought back the urge to curse as her stomach threatened to empty its contents for some unknown reason. Slowly darkness swarmed the edges of her vision, and her arms threatened to collapse and send her face into the sand.

"Pia, come on get up." Pia heard the voice in her ear, but barely registered it.

"Used to much ki…" she murmured, barely able to keep her eyes open, and added, "Tail grabbed didn't help. Hurt a lot."

"Come get up. I know that having your tail grabbed hurt, and that you're low on ki, but you have to get up, come on. " The voice said again and Pia recognized it. It was Goku.

"Yes, Goku…" Pia complied. She tried to move and her body only trembled slightly. Inwardly she growled and fought against the gravity, which seemed to have doubled to her tired muscles. A strong pair of hands grabbed Pia's arms and pulled her onto her feet. Once on her feet the girl swayed and almost fell down, but the hands on her arms didn't let her fall.

Wearily Pia rose her head and followed the arms to the shoulders, and then looked into the face of Goku. Goku was looking down at her with a very worried expression. From somewhere Pia managed to pull her face into a very small grin. Goku returned then smile, but Pia didn't notice in her exhausted state that it didn't quite reach his eyes.

Pia turned her weary gaze to Krillin, 18, Master Roshi, and Maron. She saw Krillin's mouth move, but to her no sound reached her ears. The blackness that was hovering at the edges of her stared to creep into her mind, fogging and slowing down every thought. Once more she heard the tones of Goku's voice but she couldn't make out the words. Her knees buckled and the blackness overwhelmed her. She felt Goku catch her before she hit the ground, then she sank into oblivion.

Goku caught Pia when her knees buckled; not letting her hit the ground. He was surprised that she hadn't become unconsciousness before then, but then again she is his sister. Shifting his arms Goku held Pia the way he had just the day before, and a few days prior to that. He held her with her head in the crook of his left elbow and her legs over his right arm, her tail dangling over his arm as well.

"Is she ok?" Krillin asked looking at Pia, who was at that moment breathing deeply indicating slumber. "I guess that answers that!" Goku's old friend exclaimed when Pia wrapped her tail around Goku's upper-right arm like she had before, and turned her head towards Goku's chest.

"Yup, that answers that!" Goku laughed softly.

"Goku." Piccolo's voice rumbled.

"Hmm?" The saiya-jin looked at Piccolo.

"Why is there another saiya-jin? You and Vegeta are supposed to be the only ones left in the universe. And why does she look like you, well somewhat?" Piccolo queried the tone of his voice leaving no room to leave his questions hanging in the air unanswered.

"As for the first one not even Pia knows why she is here, she has a very bad case of amnesia. But for the second question I can answer that easily, she's my sister!" Goku exclaimed, still holding the unconscious child in his arms. At Goku's words Piccolo's eyes widened in surprise.

"Wh-what?" the namekian said once he had managed to get his mouth to work.

"Yeah, real shock, and before you ask, no she is not like Raditz," Goku explained to the shocked namek, "So you don't have to worry."

"Good," Piccolo growled, preparing to take off so he could go meditate again.

"Exactly how does Pia look like me. I just can't figure that out." Goku said, and everyone fell over anime style. Goku stood there, a sweat-drop adorning the back of his head, thinking, Was it something I said?

"Really, Goku, you haven't seen it?" Krillin asked his long time friend once he had gotten over the fact that his friend was really, really, really dense. He was the first one to recover, though, but the rest soon followed.

"Seen what, Krillin?" Goku questioned, tilting his head. He would have scratched the nape of his neck in confusion if he hadn't been holding Pia.

"Er… Ok… Well you two have the exact same bangs, and I bet that if Pia got the right haircut, her hair-style would look very similar to yours." Krillin explain, exasperated, to his friend.

"Oh… I guess that's true…" Goku said, examining Pia's hair more closely. Her bangs were exactly like his, and there was the fact that there were the semi-large spikes in the front that looked similar to the spikes in Goku's hair. The only difference was the fact that Pia's hair was shoulder-length and the spikes in her hair were not as prominent as Goku's. "Ah, I see it now…"

During Goku's lapse of attention Piccolo took off. The namek was ready to go back to meditating, he had a lot to think about. Especially the fact that Goku now had a sister. So when the large saiya-jin looked up he only saw a dot on the horizon that was Piccolo.

"What now, Goku?" Krillin asked, still next to his friend but his eyes were focused on Pia.

"We wait for her to wake up of course!" Goku replied cheerfully before striding into Kame House. Once inside he headed to the stairs and made his way up stairs. Upstairs Goku went into the room that had so long ago been his sick room when he was still recovering from the heart virus. The mattress was still on the floor and gingerly Goku placed Pia on it. Quickly Goku found a sheet and draped it over the girl, before going over to the window and opening it slightly so there would be a slight breeze to clear the room of dust.

Satisfied the man walked over to the door and out into the hallway. With a last look at his sister sleeping peacefully on the mattress he closed the door and headed downstairs. He ran into Master Roshi at the bottom of the stairs.

"She good?" The old master questioned.

"She's good. Now, when's lunch?" The saiya-jin asked with a sheepish grin, and a rumble of his stomach.

Pia flailed some under the light sheet she was under. Fighting against an unseen enemy. A moan escaped the young girl's mouth as she jerked her arms. Her chest heaved up and down as she breathed hard.

"Come on little brat! I didn't realize you were this weak!" A boy's voice taunted Pia, as she stood, bent over, gasping for the breath that had been forced out of her lungs. At this comment she growled deep in her throat with what little breath she had. Once her breathing became stable again, and the pain in her stomach had diminished, she straightened before settling into her fighting stance.

"I am not weak, big brother!" She hissed, anger boiling the blood in her veins. She could barely keep her tail wrapped around her waist in her anger as she glared in the direction the voice had come from, and ultimately at her brother. Her brother was no more than a dark shape in the white fog that surrounded Pia.

"Don't deny it, Pia. You are weak!" With this her brother launched himself towards Pia.

Prepared, as she was Pia dodged easily. She may have been weaker physically than her brother, but in speed she excelled for her age, unlike him. With a growl Pia spun around and grabbed the back of her brother's armor, stopping his movement, and pulled him towards her with a jerk. As she had guessed he turned around, his arm was flying forward to punch her in the face. Pia leaned back, placed her hands on the ground, and brought both of her legs up into his chin, sending a spray of blood out of his mouth as he bit his tongue. Then she brought her knees to her chest and flipped backwards, kicking her brother in the chest in the process, using her ki to keep her off the ground until she got her feet under her with a tap sound. Pia's brother stumbled backwards, hand at his mouth. Suddenly everything was thrown into sharp focus.

Pia's brother had long, spiky, black hair that went down to about mid-calf, and he had a very prominent widow's peak. His armor was mainly brown, and he had on spandex shorts. Around his waist was his fluffed-out, brown tail. He wore no gloves on his hands and his boots were black. The most noticeable feature was his constant scowl that looked as if it never relaxed into any other expression; onyx eyes bore into Pia as he glared at her once he saw the blood on his hand.

The siblings were fighting outside, with a blood-red sky above them, in what looked like an obstacle course. Then Pia realized that it was a training course, not an obstacle course. Right then three dozen other saiya-jin children were swarming through the many different physical challenges like the tunnel that shot out laser blasts or tongues of fire that threatened to burn the children that walked across the metal wire that spanned a twenty-yard gap. But where the siblings were there was a tunnel that, starting about three feet in, jutted out four-foot-long spikes that could easily spear a careless child.

"You will pay for that dearly, sister," Pia's brother growled.

Without warning he flew over to Pia and grasped the back of her armor. The girl struggled with all of her might but couldn't get rid of her brother's iron grip on her armor. Having no other option, Pia started to gather ki in the palm of her right hand. She brought it to her left shoulder, a bright, yellow ball of ki in her hand, and prepared to fire. This was the shoulder that her brother's face was behind. With a shout of alarm the boy threw Pia away from him without thinking, but she was headed towards the tunnel.

"Damn it, brother!" Pia yelled as she realized that she had been thrown from too close of a range, and was unable to use her ki to stop herself from going into the tunnel. Once three feet into the tunnel spikes started to jut out from everywhere with hisses that made Pia want to cringe. Using her momentum to her advantage, Pia used her knowledge of flying to go as fast as she could, and even then barely dodged the multitude of spikes. Pia set her mind on auto pilot as she dodged up, down, left, right, and any other direction known across the galaxies as she flew forward. All the while she was cussing her brother with some of their father's favorite curses in languages that she didn't know, but only knew those select words or phrases in some cases.

Halfway through Pia didn't move fast enough, and her shoulder was sliced just barely by one of the spikes. She let out a cry of pain, but didn't stop flying because if she did it meant certain death. Eventually Pia made it out of the tunnel and flopped on the ground, facing the sky, limbs splayed, tail somehow still wrapped around her waist, but loosely. For a handful of minutes she lay there, breathing heavily, thankful to be alive. Very few saiya-jin children could make it through that tunnel alive because it took more skill than many had. Pia had been very lucky.

Sitting up, Pia winced with pain as she moved her shoulder wrong, and blood gushed from the wound that had sliced through her armor so easily. Looking at the tunnel Pia saw her brother staring open-mouthed at her. He had not expected her to even be able to make it through the tunnel with only one injury, and was mainly shocked that he had managed to throw her the worst way. If Pia would have happened to have died, the sibling's mother would have beaten him to a pulp.

"I am so going to kill you, Raditz!" Pia screamed, jumping to her feet, preparing to go back trough the tunnel for the sake of beating her brother to a bloody pulp, anger giving her energy. A hand on her uninjured shoulder stopped her from taking off with a strong grip on her armor that wouldn't let her move, let alone take off through the tunnel.

"Don't do that, Pia, or I will have to punish you." A very familiar voice growled from behind Pia, making the small girl freeze.

"Yes, Otousan." Pia said, and felt the hand lift off her shoulder.

"Good," Pia's father growled, and there was the soft sound of footsteps and he ordered, "Now come, Pia. You need to get to a regeneration tank. No saiya-jin needs to be wounded, even if it is just a minor wound. Any wound is a weakness, and must be eliminated."

Pia turned to follow her father but shot a death glare over her shoulder at her brother. In response he just glared right back. She turned her head away and ran to catch up to her father, knowing full well he would leave her behind if she walked at too slow of a pace for him. She didn't expect him to say anything else though, and was shocked at the soft words he said next so only she could hear.

"Very well, only one scratch. Not even your brother could accomplish that at your age, and he can't do that now easily."

Pia resisted the urge to gape. Praise was hard to come from by her father, so was rare. It made the small girl swell with pride. She was five years younger than her brother was. This fact and the fact that she was a girl made her not want to be beaten by him, and made her strive to be the best she could be. Looking up Pia saw the side of her father's face; a scar marred the visible left cheek as he looked ahead. To Pia it only matched the ever-present scowl on his face, but not the unruly mess of his spiky, black hair.

Pia's eyes opened suddenly, and she looked around. Luckily the world wasn't spinning like last time, but was blurry and unfocused. The few things that Pia knew was that she was in an unfamiliar room, and that she must be in Kame House or somewhere near the ocean because the air was heavy with the smell of salt and fish. Blinking a few times Pia brought the world into focus.

Finally able to see clearly Pia sat up, trying to figure out why she was awake. Her answer was given quickly when the smell of cooked food was brought to her nose, her dream was forgotten by this point. In response her stomach growled, and this time she was unable to ignore the sound, so without a second thought Pia threw off the sheet that was covering her, and practically ran out of the room when she got her feet under her. She hurled herself quietly down the stairs, and followed her nose, leading her to the kitchen where she was met by a sight that made her laugh.

Goku was sitting at one end of the table inhaling food so fast that Pia was sure he wasn't even chewing. He was eating so fast that Master Roshi was having a hard time keeping up with the amount of food that was being eaten. As soon as the old man cooked one plate, ten plates were done. Krillin was just sitting at the other end shaking his head, a small smile on his face, while 18 and Maron looked on with strange expressions. At Pia's laugh all heads turned in her direction, except for Master Roshi who was cooking furiously knowing that he would have to cook more if he were to feed two saiya-jins. Goku had half a bowl of noodles in his mouth, and his cheeks were puffed out.

"Phiah, thour athake! Coomoon an' 'aphe phome 'oonch!" Goku said his mouth still full as he somehow managed to talk. (Translated into: "Pia, your awake! Come on and have some lunch!")

"If Master Roshi doesn't mind," Pia said, taking a seat near the end of the table Goku sat on.

"Oh, he doesn't mind do you Master Roshi?" Goku said after he had finished his bowl, and as he reached for a plate with food piled high on it.

"Uh… Oh well, you might as well get some, but I doubt we have enough for both of you two to be satisfied," Master Roshi sighed as he placed a plate on the table.

"Thank you, Master Roshi. I know this is a lot of trouble." Pia said before she attacked the plates of food as well.

With both saiya-jins now eating Master Roshi had an even harder time keeping up and 18 had to end up helping to keep up with the duo's fast pace. Goku and Pia were inhaling food at a furious pace, Pia more than Goku. She had burned a lot of calories earlier when she had been relearning how to control her ki and her body said that she needed them back.

When they were done it wasn't because of the two being full, but because of the fact that Master Roshi had run out of food. Even with this fact Pia felt a lot better, her stomach wasn't growling like crazy so she was happy, but she knew that she would need more food soon. Goku was the exact same way, but his stomach was a little more full seeing as how he had started to eat before Pia had come downstairs.

"Man, apparently all saiya-jins have that kind of appetite," Krillin stated as he looked at the mountain of dishes that were piled high on the table.

Grinning sheepishly Pia put her hand behind her head. This position brought a storm of laughter from Krillin.

"She's just like you, Goku!" The short man said in between laughs.

"He, he…" Goku laughed quietly, and ended up, unconsciously in the same position as Pia, a sheepish grip on his face as well.

This made Krillin laugh even harder. So hard he even fell off his chair and onto the floor. Pia and Goku looked at each other before they too started to laugh. Maron joined in eventually once she had realized getting her father off the floor was futile. Only 18 and Master Roshi didn't join in. Master Roshi because he wasn't too happy about having all of his food disappearing in a day. 18 didn't laugh just because she didn't find the scene in front of her amusing. After maybe five minutes the laughing died down.

Standing up Goku looked at Pia and asked, "Ready to go back home for training, Pia?"

"Sure!" Pia replied happily, hopping on the floor, her tail flicking happily.

"Well bye then every body, see you guys later!" Goku said, placing the first two fingers of his right hand on his forehead, extending his left hand towards Pia. Without a second thought Pia grabbed his hand, managing a quick goodbye to the residents of Kame House before everything around her disappeared and she was in front of the Son house.

"Well I think that is enough training for one day, don't you think so too, Pia? You did really well." Goku said as he let go of Pia's hand and started to stride towards the house.

"Goku, hold up!" Pia said, struck by a sudden thought. Goku stopped, turned, and looked at Pia questioningly, and Pia continued, "Well, can you teach me how to do that Instant Transmission thing please?"

Goku blinked, he hadn't been expecting that, Pia could clearly see that. After a second to think Goku's face broke into a grin. His next words were useless, Pia already knew the answer by his smile, but he said it nonetheless.

"Sure, Pia! But you have to learn how to control your ki better because the Instant Transmission technique requires a lot of control." Goku explained.

"Yes! Thank you, Goku!" Pia cried before flinging herself at Goku, wrapping her arms around his neck, her tail finding a place around one of his upper arms. The large saiya-jin stumbled back a few steps before righting himself, and he laughed slightly, returning the hug.

"Careful, I can't breathe well, Pia!" Goku choked out before prying Pia off from around his neck. He held the smiling girl up by the back of her gi at arm's length, and she dangled like an ornament from Goku's large hand. Her tail dangled down, waving side to side like a pendulum.

"Oops… Sorry, Goku!" Pia smiled sheepishly.

"If you want to learn the basics of how to use Instant Transmission I think that it would be better if I could breathe," Goku teased, placing the seven-year-old back down on her feet.

At these words Pia perked up, literally. Her tail flicked up into a question mark shape, and the girl straightened up to her fullest extent, looking up at Goku. Her eyes were wide as she waited to learn the basics of Instant Transmission. Goku suppressed a laugh.

"Ok," Goku started, looking down at Pia with a serious expression on his face, he raised on finger. "Now here are the requirements. First, you have to be able to sense ki."

"We are good there, Goku," Pia said with a sharp nod.

"Second, you have to be able to concentrate on finding a specific ki." Goku stated raising a second finger.

"That will take some work. I'm still unfamiliar with every body's kis." Pia replied.

"Good, just a little work there on identifying kis." Goku said putting down his fingers, and placing his hand by his side. "Here are the basic steps to using the technique. First, you have to sense the ki of the person you want to go to; you can't go anywhere where there isn't a ki though. Second, you have to concentrate really hard on the ki, putting your fingers on your forehead helps, but it isn't necessary. Third, and this is the hardest part, you have to 'move' towards the ki that you are concentrating on."

"Huh? 'Move?'" Pia queried, tilting her head slightly to the side, one hundred percent confused.

"The word 'move' is the only word that I can really think that describes what you're supposed to do." Goku explained, but still Pia didn't quite understand what he meant. Trying to simplify it Goku said, "When you use Instant Transmission you move at the speed of light and get to where you want almost instantaneously. So what you do is concentrate really, really, really hard on the ki, your target, and it's almost like using the after-image technique. You move really quickly and phase, in a way, to the ki that you were concentrating on. Oh, and if you want to bring someone else along you have to extend the reach of you Instant Transmission to take them along with you and you'll understand what I mean by 'reach' when you actually have done Instant Transmission. Understand better?"

"I think so," Pia said, her thoughts swarming. Still lost in her thoughts she ran into the woods, yelling over her shoulder, "I'll be back in a little bit, Goku!"

Pia could feel Goku staring after her retreating form. It wasn't until the bushes swallowed her up did the sensation stop. The small girl wove through the trees, almost silent, and with a strange predatory-like grace. When she stopped about a mile from the Son house she wasn't even breathing hard. Granted her cheeks were tinted a little pinker than normal, but that was it.

"Ok, now time to test this out." Pia whispered. Placing the first two fingers of her right hand on her forehead, she took a deep breath. "Step one: sense the person's ki."

Reaching out with her senses, Pia looked for Goku's ki. His ki was one that she could easily find for some reason. She was shocked to find that he was with Gohan, but she didn't think that they were inside. Upon closer inspection, after she closed her eyes, Pia realized that she was right, they weren't inside. Goku had moved from the spot that he had been standing in when Pia left. Now he was to the left of the collection of kis that were Chi Chi, Videl, Goten, and Pan. Pia smiled. He must know what I'm doing. Otherwise he would have gone inside, she thought.

"Check. Step two: concentrate on the ki." Pia whispered, concentrating with all of her might on Goku's ki. "Check. Step three: 'move' towards the ki."

Pia concentrated on Goku's energy as hard as she could. For some reason she even pictured him in her mind, an unconscious thing on her part. She still had her eyes closed because it helped her keep her concentration on her goal. Then she tried the final step: moving.

Pia's eyes flew open and she felt herself 'move' and she didn't have that good of control over the technique, that much she was sure of. Next thing she knew was that she wasn't in the small clearing that she had stopped in. Pia yelped in shock when she stopped and was surrounded by tree branches. Forgetting that she could fly, she fell through the branches and leaves like a rock. Without thinking her tail wrapped around one of the branches, stopping her fall, and, right then, Pia loved her tail.

"Pia?" Gohan's confused voice came from the left. Looking to her left, Pia saw Goku and Gohan standing there, Goku was laughing.

"Um… Hi, Gohan!" Pia said, smiling sheepishly and putting one hand behind her head. She knew she was a sight to see. A little girl with a tail, hanging from a tree branch, upside-down looking for all the world like a possum, smiling her face off. "Look, Goku, I did it, but I ended up in a tree."

"I can see that!" Goku laughed walking over to the tree and looked up at Pia. "Good first try though! I can see that you understood what I meant whenever you actually had to use the technique."

"Yup! I sure did!" Pia said happily, dropping down from the tree. Flipping over on her way down Pia landed on her feet with a soft tap.

"Um… What are you two talking about?" Gohan asked, lost.

"Goku taught me how to use the Instant Transmission Technique, Gohan! Or well at least the basics!" Pia exclaimed before running off to the Son house to find Pan leaving the two men standing outside.

Quickly, two weeks passed, and it was time for Chi Chi and Videl to sign Pan and Pia up for school as well as shop for the school uniforms. Pia had excelled at her ki control, but hadn't gotten any better at Instant Transmission the past two weeks. She couldn't get her aim right, and always ended up in a very uncomfortable place and she couldn't go to far either.

"Aw, Chi Chi, do I have to wear this?" Pia complained looking down. She was wearing the green dress and had black leggings that she had gotten from Pan on. Chi Chi had forced her to wear the dress, but Pia had put on the leggings on so at least she could have some pants on. Her tail was just sweeping the ground behind her feet, which were in the pair of sneakers. Even though Chi Chi had had a fit about it, Pia didn't give in; she would not wear those dress shoes.

"Yes, Pia you have to wear it. Now wrap your tail around your waist under your dress and we can go." Chi Chi ordered as she walked out the door.

With a sigh Pia did as she was told, albeit grudgingly. Videl patted her on the shoulder as she passed, and followed after Chi Chi. She would have ruffled the girl's hair but Chi Chi had somehow semi-tamed it into a ponytail. Granted, there were still those spikes that stuck up in the front, but the majority of Pia's hair was pulled back. The spikes had driven Chi Chi insane, but after a whole bottle of hairspray and Pia's hair resisted all attempts on t to make it stay flat the woman gave up and let Pia's hair stay how in it was in its ponytail.

"Why do I have to hide my tail? It makes no sense!" Pia grumbled so only she could here, and followed Videl outside. Everyone else was already outside, and no one else was wearing something nice, except for Pan. Chi Chi had forced the other seven-year-old to wear a dress as well, but Pan's was a bright yellow.

Goten caught one look of Pia and busted out laughing. He just couldn't help himself; he didn't associate Pia with dresses. Pia death glared him, and he stopped almost immediately. The small saiya-jin had that effect on him.

"Everyone ready to go?" Goku asked as everyone got in line. They were going to Capsule Corp again by Instant Transmission. As soon as everyone grabbed hands and nodded at Goku the man placed the first two fingers on his free right hand to his forehead and the yard around the Son house disappeared to be replaced by the yard of the Capsule Corp.

"Now I'm going to go find Bulma and Bra," Chi Chi said walking towards the large Capsule Corp building. Over her shoulder she added, "Pia, Pan, don't get dirty ok!"

"Yes, ma'am," the duo chorused together.

As soon as Chi Chi was out of sight Pia let her tail drop down, she hated having to hide it, and having it under the dress was uncomfortable. With a glance at Pan, the two seven-year olds took off into the house, Pia letting Pan take the lead. Pan led her through the maze of corridors and to Bra's room. Not even knocking, Pan entered the room, Pia following right behind.

"Bra, you in here?" Pan asked into the room that Pia had at first assumed was empty. There came a muffled reply from the pile of stuffed animals in one of the corners.

Cautiously, Pia edged towards the pile, and when nothing jumped out she started to throw the animals away from the pile. Once she had removed a very large rabbit Bra's head appeared. Pia threw the animals across the room even more quickly now and uncovered the rest of Bra. Bra had been tied with a metal wire and she looked at Pan and Pia with a very relieved expression on her face. Easily, Pia broke the wire that had contained Bra.

"Who did this?" Pan asked as the blue-haired girl rubbed her sore wrists.

"I'll give you one guess."

"Trunks." Pia said as she held the wire in one hand and plucked a single pink strand of hair that had somehow got stuck on it.

"Yes! All that I did was go into his room this morning to play his Playstation and he did this because I accidentally deleted his saved game data." Bra exclaimed.

"What happened to your Playstation, Bra? Did you break it again?" Pan asked.

"Yes," Bra squeaked.

"You know Chi Chi is looking for you." A voice said behind them making everyone but Pia jump, and turn around. Trunks stood there in the doorframe, his blue eyes amused as his little sister death glared him. Pia looked back and forth between bra and Trunks, before walking over to Bra. She hadn't been startled by Trunk's appearance because she had felt him walk up because she had been sensing ki.

"Don't. Later." Pia whispered in her friend's ear. Bra looked at her, her blue gaze lit with fire, but Pia met it back evenly without cringing. Chi Chi's glare was way worse. Eventually Bra backed off.

Looking back at Trunk's Pia relaxed from the "don't challenge me" attitude to a more friendly person, and nodded at the half saiya-jin. The pink-haired teen returned the nod, his blue eyes piercing. He may have inherited his mother's bright hair and blue eyes, but her inherited his father's stare, Pia thought.

"Where is Grandma, Trunks?" Pan asked, breaking the silence.

"She's outside with my mom," he explained before walking off down the hall.

"Well I guess we will go to them. You two ready?" Pia stated walking to the door, and wrapping her tail back around her waist under her dress.

"Sure," Bra said, and the three ran through the house and went back outside.

"There you three are!" Chi Chi cried and ran over scolding Pan and Pia about something that was like: "You don't need to run off and not tell someone where you are going! Blah, blah, blah…"

"Hey, can we go? We have to get to the mall before it closes, and if you keep going on like this we will get there around midnight." Bulma said as she decapsulized a van.

"Do I have to go?" Pia asked as she got to the van.

"Yes, you have to go," Videl said. Pia sighed, and Videl whispered, "Hey cheer up. It won't be that bad."

"I guess." Pia mumbled as she got into the van and closed the door behind her. She flopped herself in one of the bucket seats in the middle. Pan and Bra were sitting in the back, Videl was sitting in the other bucket seat, Bulma was driving, and Chi Chi was sitting in the passenger seat.

"We will be back once we finish school shopping and signing the everyone up for school ok! See you later!" Chi Chi cried out the window to Goku, Goten, and Trunks who were on the lawn- it was another workday for Gohan.

"See you guys when you get back!" Goku yelled back, waving.

Soon the van was off to the mall first, taking a very reluctant Pia with it. This was Chi Chi's idea to take all of the girl's shopping. So now here was all the girls: Videl, Bulma, Chi Chi, Bra, Pan, and Pia. Pia sighed; knowing this was going to be one heck of a long day.

Author's Notes: Did you guys like it I hope you did. I am so sorry at how late I got this out! I had a memoir thing that I had to write a rough draft for and it was really hard because it was limited use of the b-verb. Don't ask. Also I had some writer's block, man do I hate it! Now don't hate me about this, but I have no idea when my next chapter will come out. This is a four-day weekend so I may be able to get another chapter out by Monday. Oh, and I'm going snow tubing tomorrow! Yay! I so can't wait! If you don't know what snow tubing is look it up ok. Don't forget: REVIEW! Do not make me ask for so many reviews before posting another chapter. I will do that you know! Ok, no I won't but please review; I would really appreciate it.