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A Birthday to Remember

He had midnight black hair and dreamy blue eyes. He stood at about 5 foot 9 inches. A sword was at his back. On his forehead, there were two blue gems implanted there. He was from the same place as Chinow.

They could all feel the powerful energy coming from him. It was pulsing, as high as both Goku and Vegeta's. It was dark, at the moment, but seemed to turn more pure-hearted the closer he got to them.

"I'm looking for the one called Chinow." He said once his foot touched the ground.

The Z fighters got a little tense and tried to protect Chinow at first. "Who? I don't know anyone named-" Krillin started.

"I'm Chinow." She said, stepping forward with a challenge in her eyes. "What do you want?"

For a second, the stranger paused. He had the look of a confused child at first. He, at the sight of Chinow, lost all menacing glares and aura.

"You are to report to the Emperor Tanago at once." He said with a slight bow.

Chinow cocked an eyebrow. "No thanks." And she turned around to walk away.

"Hey, wait!" He said, grabbing her arm with a firm grip. "You don't just refuse a direct order from his royal highness!"

"Well, tell his Royal Lowness that I am not bossed around that easily! I won't follow orders from some wussy ruler who can't even deliver his own messages. If he wants to see me so badly, let him come here!" She spun her arm around, a move that made the stranger lose his grip on her.

"Y-you-you just directly insulted a member of the royal court!" He stammered.

"So? You're point?!" she said.

"You can get killed for that!"

"Fine, let him and his wussy guards come after me! I'll blast 'em sky high!" She said, and walked back to the punch bowl.

The stranger fumbled around, then pointed at a random Z fighter. It was Gohan. "You, talk some sense in her!"

"Me?"

"Yes, you. Does your Saiyan blood make you deaf as well as stupid?" He stated.

This got a little someone nicknamed Veggie a little somewhat ticked off. "What do you mean deaf as well as stupid?!"

"Morons, no worse. Saiyans! Of all the senseless beasts in the galaxy, I had to end up bargaining with Saiyans!"

"You (bleeping)(bleep)! I'll blast you to kingdom come!" Vegeta growled.

"I'd like to see you try." Said the now cocky stranger.

"Ohh… a fight," Chinow said, suddenly interested in her surroundings again. "Veggie versus the semi-cute stranger."

This comment made the stranger blush. Blush a lot. "Name's Ricco." He mumbled, keeping his head low so no one would notice his tomato face.

"What?" Goku asked.

"My name is Ricco." He repeated, bringing his head up again. He had managed to control his blushing, so he was no longer tomato face. Awwww… too bad.

"I told you, woman! Don't call me Veggie!" Veggi- I mean, Vegeta yelled.

Chinow held her hands up in terms of surrender. "Sorry, I forgot!"

"Forgot my butt." Vegeta mumbled.

"Can we start the fight now, or are you just going to sit around and argue all day?" asked the stranger now called Ricco.

Vegeta quickly threw a powerful ki blast at Ricco. He, instead of dodging it, held out his hand and caught it.

"Lose something?' He said then, threw it right back at Vegeta.

Vegeta dodged the shot and came closer to him with a series of punches and kicks so fast that most couldn't see.

Ricco dodged them all effortlessly. "That all you got? Hmm... I was told Saiyans were decent fighters. Maybe you're just the exception."

Vegeta, in all his rage transformed to SSJ3.

"This, oughta be interesting..." Chinow said, moving out of the way with the rest of the gang. No one wanted to get hit by a stray shot from either Vegeta or this mystery guy.

"Who is he?" she heard many of them murmur under their breath.

Vegeta had his, "Bring it on." Face on. Ricco just sighed and replied, "I don't have time for petty fights. Chinow's presence has been requested back on Gemin, so she needs to come with me now."

"I told you I wasn't going you moron!" Chinow yelled.

"But the Emp-"

"I don't give a rat's butt about the stupid Emperor so just do us all a favor and get your ugly face out of my line of view!"

"You don't have to be so harsh." Gohan informed her.

Chinow replied with a Drop-Dead glare that could rival Vegeta's, causing to Gohan cringe back and Vegeta to flash a look of pride at her.

"In that case," Ricco shrugged, "You leave me no other choice."

Chinow cocked an eyebrow and had no time to even wonder what he meant when an electric cage fell over all the Z fighters except Chinow.

"Come with me, or they will be fried." He threatened.

"Big deal. Goku, do an Instant Transmission and get them all out of there, please." Chinow said sweetly.

"Yes, do an instant transmission." Said Ricco with an evil gleam to his eyes.

Goku only had time to put his fingers to hi head before Chinow stopped him.

"What would happen if he did that, freak?" she asked.

"Oh nothing really." He replied, "Except that they would get a shocking experience. Its formatted to electrocute people at my command, or automatically if the prisoners make any form of escaping. Instant Transmission is a skill most Gemindi already know how to do, so that is programmed in it as well."

Now Ricco was the victim of her Drop-Dead Glare.

"You will soon find that you made a grave error in forgetting to lock me up as well." She said, stepping forward and raising her ki.

Ricco snapped his fingers and all the people in the cages gave a scream in pain before the electricity stopped. "Try to attack me again, and you'll find I won't be as lenient in letting them live. My orders are to eliminate all who stand in y way and I'm sure I can convince the council that they stood in my way in bringing you here."

He paused before going on. Chinow's ki was still rising, only this time in anger. No one had ever gotten the best of her before and she hated the fact that this pompous brat had been the first. ~I will give him a slow and painful death, I swear this on Dende~

"Once I leave the Earth's gravitational pull, this cage will be goner. And I will only leave if you come with me." He spoke again.

"Fine… I'll go." She said through gritted teeth.

"Good, I knew you'd come to your senses. Follow me please." And he launched himself into outer space.

~Soon as we pass Mars, he's dead~ She thought, following him.



Once they were in the stratosphere, Ricco turned around quickly and the next thing Chinow knew, she was unconcious and being carried in a tomato face Ricco's arms.

"Sorry," he said to the passed out Chinow, "I couldn't risk you running away or fighting with me."



Well, I know it wasn't really worth the wait, but I have to get by the boring parts in order to get to the action part! Also sorry that it took so long. I was planning on having it done and up by Weds, but I found out that karate chopping the keyboard in half was a bad thing to do, and also you can't type anything when you do that. Hmmm… whoever would have thunk that?

PS. I'm thinking about getting a muse or two. Who do you all think it should be? Vote in the reviews! Byez!

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