A.N: Hey, guys! I know it's been awhile since I've updated this story, but there is a good reason for it. My beta, Serradragon, and I are working on several stories including this one. We've got several chapters prepared in advance for all of our stories except for this one. Different has been giving us problems so we've been going chapter by chapter. Now we've decided to place this story on a temporary hold until we can get more chapters completed. Now, we are not giving up on this story, so don't worry about that!

We do have an offer to give all of you readers though. If you all have some scenes that are following cannon in season 8 that you want to see, please feel free to write them and send them to my profile over private messaging. If we like what we see, Serra and I will include them in the story! Thank you all for your support and understanding!

Wolfy and Serra

Goku frowned as he watched Vegeta make a fool of the white and navy male that come to fight them. The prince had won the right to fight first and was obviously enjoying playing with his opponent. The orange clad saiyan huffed as Vegeta effortlessly dodged every strike. While his anger had faded, it still left him with annoyance and irritation, and it simmered under his skin with the inability to take his frustration out yet.

Dabura and his master were stalling for time to release this Majin Buu creature and somehow brainwash Calla into serving under the evil wizard. He knew that the saiyan woman had a pure heart, but if the Supreme Kai was worried that Babidi could still twist her, then they had to hurry. The situation would have Goku's tail, if he still had one, bristling. He only had a limited amount of time to remain on Earth, and it seemed all everyone was doing was dilly-dallying around.

At least Goten wasn't crying anymore. The cub was still latched on his shirt, but now his wide eyes were watching the fight with curiosity. He followed how Vegeta took control of the fight and was showing Pui Pui just how inadequate he was. That was a welcomed change, and Goku was thankful for that at least.

Goten let out a small giggle when Vegeta hopped off the elongated head of his opponent. Goku felt his lips twitch up at the sound, somewhat happy that the cub was finding a little enjoyment in the fight even if he wasn't.

Goku really wanted this fight to be over with already so he could get to Calla. There were so many things he wanted to talk to her about, and he was outraged over the fact that someone was trying to brainwash her. She didn't deserve to have her free will taken away like this, no one did!

The tall man growled as the saiyan prince started to toy with Pui Pui, and he was about to shout at Vegeta to hurry it up when the scenery of the room morphed into something else.

Goku looked around but other than Goten, which he still held in his arms, he was alone in the void. He turned his head around to try and get his baring as he tightened his hold on his son, but all that remain was darkness.

Just then, a flash sparked in the darkness and a vision filled Goku's eyes.

++DBZ++

In a torn and burnt teal colored gi, Calla was walking through the woods. She was rubbing one of her shoulders before she stopped suddenly. There was a look concentration on her face as she tilted her head to the side.

Off in the distance was the sound of a baby crying. Calla frowned in confusion over the sound before an animalistic snarl had her flying through the trees to get to the source of the crying. The forest blurred around her until the saiyan woman came to a clearing, and her eyes widened at the sight.

In the center of the clearing was a baby wrapped in a blue blanket crying against a stump and a few yards away was a large saber tooth tiger stalking to the infant. Calla let out a snarl as she fired off a ki blast and kicked off the ground.

The blast knocked the tiger away from the baby, and the woman landed in a crouch in front of the infant with a heated glare. The feline turned with a snarl on its face only to freeze in fear at the sight of the saiyan.

Calla slowly straightened up at took a step towards the tiger, and that had the large cat fleeing in terror. She watched it run off for a few minutes before the baby let out another cry that had her turning to check on the squirming bundle.

"Shh…there, there," Calla whispered to the child as she lifted it to settle it in the crook of her left arm. Her soothing voice seemed to calm the baby as it's crying lessened. "It's alright now. That pussy cat can't get to you anymore."

Once the infant was settled in her hold, Calla took the blanket off the baby to look him over, and her breath was taken away at the sight.

Black, spiky hair popped up as soon as the fabric was gone, and a tiny black tail wriggled out from under one of what could only be a boy's leg. Small fists waved in the air for a couple of seconds, then wide, onyx eyes blinked up at her with tears still swimming within them.

The baby was naked, and he looked half starved. His hair and fur on his tail looked dull and slightly matted. Calla looked so horrified at the state he was in that she seemed to freeze for a few seconds to get herself back under control.

The woman's eyes looked like they were watering as her free hand lifted up to grasp the teardrop shaped pendant around her neck, but the boy's whimpering snapped her out of whatever was haunting her.

Calla brought a finger up to her mouth and sliced the pad on one of her sharp incisors. Blood bloomed on her skin, and she lowered the digit to the baby's mouth. As soon as her finger got close enough, the boy greedily latched onto it. His little hand grabbed ahold of whatever he could grab as he nursed. The infant's eyes slowly closed as the black haired woman cuddled him to her chest over her heart.

"Sorry it's not milk, little one, but it'll do for now." Calla nuzzled his spiked hair with her nose. "Thankfully, we saiyans can use blood for nutrients."

Calla sat on the stump to watch the child as he fed. Her eyes darted down to the ground to the crumpled fabric that the infant was wrapped in before. The saiyan female used her tail to pick it up, and when she saw a glimpse of orange thread. The woman straightened the fabric out to see a name embroidered.

"Goten?" Calla received a coo from the baby. His eyes had opened, and his tail wrap around her left wrist. She smiled as she watched the baby slow down in his feeding, and the woman could see a small improvement in him already.

"Well, Goten, I'm Calla." Here she paused as her dark eyes looked around the clearing once again. She frowned at the lack of energy traces and sign that any human had been here recently. "And it looks like I'm going to take care of you for awhile."

++DBZ++

"Useless!" Babidi shouted as the memory finished. "There's nothing about that I can darken, although it does give me something to use with the child. Abandonment never seems to go away in a person." The wizard mused without letting the saiyan woman from under his spell. Sweat was beading on her forehead as her will battled his and Babidi found himself grudgingly finding himself impressed. Saiyans were ever so easy to control in the past, he'd even convinced a few to follow him without magic, just the promise of fighting to their heart's content was enough to snare most of them. That was nearly 500 years ago.

He expected that the race had evolved over time, all races did but he wasn't expecting this. It made sense he supposed with the extinction of their race the survivors would have unique qualities. The power this woman had was mesmerizing. With her and another of the savage race he could rebuild them, become a god and be worshiped by them! With the saiyans and Majin Buu the whole universe would bow to his whims. But first he needed to break this woman. Calla arched her back with a cry of pain as the wizard hammered harder at her mind.

"That won't do my dear, we'll just have to go deeper."

++DBZ++

"What…was that?" Gohan said confused.

"That was a memory." The Supreme Kai said mildly surprised.

"A memory...does that mean Babidi showed us that? Why would he do that?"

"I don't believe that was his intention. He must be trying to find moments of weakness in the woman to use in turning her to his side. His ship is designed to amplify the effects of his magic, which leads me to think us seeing it was a side effect of his spells. He is using too much active magic for total control of his newer spells."

Gohan nodded absently before his mind drifted back to what they saw. How had his little brother ended up out in the wilderness? It couldn't have been a trick because that was the same blanket their mother made when Goten had been born. She said she buried him in it. Further more how had Goten ended up in such bad shape? Goten was always healthy, he didn't even spit up after eating like other babies. The baby in that memory…..he shuddered. No baby should ever look like that. And Calla had immediately tried to help Goten, never even hesitating after the obvious shock at seeing a child in such a state.

His heart was torn. He wanted to be angry and hate this woman. She had his little brother believing she was his mother, she had to have known who Goten's father was, so why didn't she bring him home to them. But at the same time he knew she hadn't done anything other than save a lost, very sick little baby.

He didn't understand why his mother told him Goten died.

His eyes flickered over to the smaller boy seeing that he didn't look as surprised as Gohan thought he would have. He didn't have any time to ponder why that was when the scenery around them shifted once more.

Now they were on a dusty planet with multiple moons in the sky. Wind made the dirt blow past Gohan and the others as he tried to figure just what happened.

"Looks like Babidi hasn't changed at all." Supreme Kai muttered making the saiyans glance in his direction. "He'll do anything to give his fighters the advantage. You need to work with Vegeta to finish this."

"No we won't." Goku snorted making his both of his sons look at him. His eyes were narrowed as he watched Pui Pui brag about how his planet had a higher gravity than Earth. "Vegeta isn't even trying, this will be over soon."

Within the next ten minutes, Vegeta had blasted Pui Pui into oblivion.

++DBZ++

Babidi blinked at his crystal ball as he allowed the room where the Supreme Kai and the others returned to normal. It took a few minutes for what just happened to sink into his head, and once it did, he let out a shout of frustration. He didn't expect for all of them to make it past Pui Pui like that.

He had never had one of his fighters dispatched so easily, and that only fueled his anger. Babidi prided himself with finding the strongest warriors in the universe to serve under him. Seeing one of his top warriors defeated like that made him wonder if he was becoming lax over his servants.

"Seems theses warriors are stronger than I first thought." He growled out through gritted teeth. The wizard's eyes flickered over to the saiyan woman still in his spell. She was providing harder to break then expected, but Babidi knew that once he took control of her mind, it would be worth it.

"Dabura, send Yakon for the next round." He turned back to Calla to resume his search for darker memories. "He should at least take one of them out while I finish with her, and prepare yourself for a fight as well. I don't want to take any chances!"

"Yes, master." The pink demon bowed at the waist before leaving the room.

Babidi glanced back at the group waiting in the first chamber before sending a mental command for the door in the center of the room to open. The men were not hesitant at all since immediately the saiyan male holding the child was the first one to jump through. The wizard came back over to Calla and started another spell. He had paused in his quest to dig deeper in her mind once he saw the defeat of Pui Pui, but now he turned his attention back to the woman.

"Now, lets see what else you have." Babidi's eyes glowed as he started to go through her mind again.

Her screams echoed off the walls as her power surged in response, but the orb just absorbed the ki not allowing it to cause any harm. Tears were starting to leak out of her closed eyes as the wizard found another memory.

"Lets see if this is what I'm looking for."

++DBZ++

Calla held a bottle to a crying Goten's mouth, but the baby just turned his head away. She tried again without success, so she set the bottle down with an exhausted sigh. The saiyan woman tried to sooth the crying infant by bouncing him in her arms as she tried to figure out what to do next.

It was obvious that taking care of the child was taking its toll on her. She was looking very pale and her hair and fur on her tail looked brittle and matte. Her fingers were shaking where she was holding the infant in his blue blanket.

"Come on, little one." She cooed to the baby as she nuzzled his forehead. She gave a weak smile as his cries morphed into hiccups, and he seemed to calm some. "You have to eat something else. I'll give you anything…"

She had taken Goten with her to her house not far from where she found him, and Calla had been trying everything she could think of to get the boy to eat for the past few days.

Unfortunately, the only thing he had eaten was several servings of her blood. The poor saiyan woman had been allowing Goten to almost drain her dry just to keep him alive. A warm bath had been the first thing she did for the cub and while he seemed to look better than when Calla found him, the boy was still looking very ill. His skin was pale and his hair was dry and brittle. His little body didn't have any extra weight to lose at this point.

The teal clad woman shifted Goten over in one arm as she pulled out some of the formula and some shredded red meat. With her tail and free hand, she managed to mash the meat up into very fine bits and she mixed it in with the formula. Calla heated the mixture with a finger before holding it out for the baby.

Goten opened his mouth, but he spit the mixture back out with a weak cough. Calla slumped with another sigh before she cleaned his face. The woman collapsed in a chair feeling hopeless at her failure.

The cub was almost skin and bones at this point! He needed to eat something soon or he wouldn't make it, and Calla would not allow that to happen! Pricking her finger, she smeared some blood on the bottle's nipple. If he wouldn't take the bottle maybe she could trick him into nursing.

Goten readily took the nipple and she felt her hopes rise as he started to nurse before he spit the nipple out with a weak cry. She didn't know what else to do. He wouldn't make it in a hospital, there were too many things harmful to young saiyans and even if she took him when she first found him there was still the issue of him not eating. And Dende wouldn't be able to heal starvation. The new guardian was polite but she didn't know if he would help her or if he would take Goten thinking she had done something to him.

Why did Goku have to die? Calla knew this would have never happened to little Goten if he didn't choose to stay dead. Goten looked so much like him….she needed for this little piece of him to live.

Calla was brought back to the present. Goten was shaking in her arms and the woman could feel his heart rate getting erratic making her feel a wave of panic. She surged to her feet and looked down at the child in alarm to see glassy eyes blinking up at her.

"No…no!" Calla sliced a finger with a fang and placed it at the baby's mouth. He weakly started to suckle on the deep cut, but that didn't make the woman feel any better. "Come on, Goten. I know you got more fight in you than this. You're his son."

Anxiously watching Goten trying to get more blood in his stomach, Calla's mind started to race trying to figure out what she could do to make him better. A sweat broke out over her body as she looked around the small kitchen for anything that might help her.

The saiyan woman had already eaten almost all of the meat in the cottage in an attempt to help her body recover all of the fluids she had lost in feeding the infant. Anything else food wise wouldn't be as effective in helping her body make more blood. It's not like there was a food that could instantly heal…Calla's head snapped up so fast her neck popped and her vision swam for a few seconds.

"A senzu bean!"

The saiyan female rushed to her bedroom and wrapped Goten up with her tail while still keeping her bleeding finger in his mouth. She started to tear apart her closet where she kept her gis looking for a small brown pouch. Her eyes darted from pants to shirts not finding the bag, and she let out a curse before her gaze landed on the bedside table. Calla almost yanked out the draw in her haste, but the pouch she was looking for landed on the floor.

"Yes!" Her hand snatched the bag up and she tore into it with her teeth. A small light green bean fell onto her bed and she picked it up only to hesitate for a minute. There was no way Goten could eat the bean. He was too small, and she only had one bean.

Her vision blurred once more and she glanced back at the infant that was still sucking on the cut on her finger. If she ate it, would the magic of the bean pass on to Goten while he was feeding? There was only one way to find out.

Calla quickly chewed the bean and swallowed.

Immediately, she could feel her energy coming back, and she looked down to see Goten still sucking, but it was slowly growing stronger. She could feel his body warming up and his heart was slowing down to its normal rhythm. He let her finger go and his stomach growled. It was so loud that it made both Calla and Goten blink in surprise. Calla let out a laugh while the baby looked up at her head tilted in surprise like he couldn't believe that noise came from him.

"Looks like you'll eat whatever now, huh?" She said giving him a nuzzle. Goten cooed softly before he babbled and put the tip of his tail in his mouth, something that despite how hungry she knew the cub had to be he didn't do. It gave her hope.

"Come on lets fill that black hole you have for a tummy, little one. How about that mash, huh? That should fill you up." The happy squeal from the cub only lifted her hopes further.

+++DBZ+++

Goten whimpered softly as the memory faded. His mama told him he was sick when she found him, and she looked bad in that too.

"It's ok." His dad soothed rubbing his back. The boy could feel the arms around his body tighten around him as if to protect him from the vision they all had just seen. The older male was shaken as well from what Goten could see. "You're fine. You're ok. I've got you."

"Mo- Mama never told me how bad I was. She said I was sick but that I got better." Goten whispered into the man's shirt. It scared him that he had gotten so close to death, and he was worried about how his mother had obviously done a lot just to help him survive.

"She fought so hard to save you, Goten, and she did." Goku purred deep in his chest to help calm the child down. "Its ok, I'm sure she didn't want to upset you and were waiting until you were older."

"Is Mama going to be ok?" The little cub asked softly. "You can get her back can't you? Make the bad guys stop hurting her?"

"I'm going to do every thing I can to help her, Goten." His dad gave him a hard look full of determination. "I promise."