Chapter 2
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Tallena blocked the next crasher ball thrown at her. She preformed a Double Tsuihikidan and shot her blasts at her opponent. She was getting tired of fighting, and none of them had the upper hand anyway, so she went onto her final technique, the one she uses at the end of a battle.

Tallena began to perform her special attack, the Kakusanyu-dokodan. She released the energy and the ki bolts followed Trunks. He was too busy trying to get away when with a swift motion of her hand, the ki bolts hit him hard. Trunks fell on the floor, with blood covering his navy suit. Tallena looked down at his innocent passed out face, and went down next to him. Goten ran to Trunks. Tallena was glad, she was afraid of these strangers...

' Trunks! Are you okay?' He asked.

' He'll be fine. I need to talk to him.. Stand back, I'm going to give him some of my energy.' Tallena took out the metal piece and turned it into her sword. She stood back and cut a slit on her palm. She flew away and got a leaf, and put her blood on it.

Tallena chanted a series of latin words, and lifted the blood-covered leaf to the heavens. Tallena yelled and her aura glimmered silver. The last thought that left her mind was, ' WHY AM I DOING THIS???' Silver energy balls went out of her body and entered Trunks' bleeding one. Goten covered his eyes just in time to see Tallena's body flash negative, and from the flash that sent Tallena to the ground, fainting.

Goten shaked Trunks. Trunks mumbled something, then he opened his eyes. ' What happened?' He looked at Tallena.

' She gave up her energy so you could wake up. It looks like she has a nice heart after all..'

' You okay man?' Goten asked worriedly.

Trunks got up and groaned from all the pain in his body. He looked up to see a silver energy ball float to him. It entered his body, and Trunks' body glimmered sliver for a second.

' Whoa! The pains gone!' Trunks exclaimed as he stood up. He crouched over to Tallena, whose body was ghostly white and she was unconscious. He picked her up, and grabbed her stuff she dropped. He noticed a leaf with blood stuck on her forehead, and brushed it off. He looked at her sword on the floor with blood at the tip, and understood what she did. He heard of sacrificing magic rituals on other planets where you give blood to Gods in exchange of energy to the wounded...

He brushed her long hair back and told Goten, ' Lets take her back to the ship, she'll stay at our house.'

' Cool. I'll get the rest of her stuff..' Goten washed the blood off her sword and grabbed her pouch that she carried strange things from the water like a pearl and a strange sharp shell. He powered up and flew after Trunks & Tallena.

Trunks looked ahead and saw the Capsule Corp. Ship. He landed on the deck, with everyone around them surprised at the stranger in Trunks' arms, and all the blood over his body.

' Who's that?' Pan asked hotly.

' Her name's Tallena.. She had the three dragon balls..' Goten explained shortly.

' Underwater?' Bulma asked putting Tallena on a chair slowly.

' She's a shape shifter from the planet Ztar. She was a mermaid, and then she...' Trunks explained the whole thing. Pan, Bra, Gohan, Videl, and Bulma listened.

' That's why I'm covered in blood and she's unconscious..' Trunks said washing the blood off his face.

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Tallena stirred, ' I think she's gonna wake up!' Bra whispered as she gently wiped her scar on her forehead. Tallena opened her eyes to a slit, and she looked at Bra. Her eyes went wide open and in an instant she was in the air with her sword's tip almost touching Bra's head. Tallena was shaking, and Bra was shaking of fear.

' Umm.. Mommy??!?!' Bra screamed. Tallena growled, ' Be silent. Who are you?' Tallena held her sword tightly, then out of exhaustion, she fell back on the chair with limp hands.

Bulma and Gohan came up to the shaking Bra. ' What happened?'

' She woke-u-up .... But sh-she's still tired...' Bra whispered as Tallena slowly sat up and glared with all her energy at Bra and the rest.
' What do you want from me?' She snarled and tried to back away from them with weak legs. She put one hand on her throbbing forehead and tried to stop the dizziness she was in.

Trunks came out and put his C.C. jacket on. His eyes snapped to the attention of Gohan advancing at Tallena, who was about to faint from exhaustion again. He ran up the deck, pushed passed Gohan, and grabbed Tallena right before she fell.

' Noo...' Tallena whispered softly. ' Leave me...' Trunks put her back on the chair.

' Tallena, we're here to help you ...' Trunks told her as she looked at him with a stare that she gathered all her energy for to make it look stabbing.

' Mom, don't you have those energy elixirs?' Trunks asked Bulma. She nodded, and went into her lab. She came out with a bottle full of yellow-greenish liquid.

' Drink this' Bulma gave it to her. Tallena looked at her wearily.

' Is this poison?' Tallena looked at Trunks. Fear shined in her eyes, of everyone surrounding her, breathing on her, observing her like she was a specimen.' I should have never challenged Trunks..." she thought looking at each face.

' No, it'll help you regain your strength.' Bulma told her. She drank the elixir, and could feel the warm glow of energy flow Tallena looked at the young man next to her, and she focused on the face until her eyes adjusted to form a shape image of the man. She gasped.

' Kakkarot?' Tallena hissed with amazement. Gohan's eyes widened.

' Um, no I'm his son'

Tallena looked at Gohan and Goten. ' Yes, yes.. I see the resemblance in your father in both of you.. He's such a legend....' Tallena gazed at Gohan and Goten, taking in every detail.. What luck, she thought.

Videl held Gohan's arm, Tallena noticed. She must be his wife.... Tallena stood up and looked at every other person.

' Oh yeah, I forgot... Tallena this is...' Trunks introduced everyone to her.

After a while, all the girls left to work on lunch, leaving Tallena on the deck with Trunks and Goten. Trunks kept on giving side-glances at her, uneasy.

' What?' She asked curiously.

' What what?' he shot back.

' Why do you keep on looking at me? What do you want?' She said opening one of her pouches. Goten looked at her pouch curiously, wanting to know what she kept in there.

' Oh.. Ok then... Can you tell us why your here? I mean, besides the magic gathering stuff...'

' Ztar... I told you, its a planet of magic.. Once I heard that gathering the seven dragon balls on Earth would add a greater power to the person who has the dragon, I headed over here.. And I found out about a group of people looking for them, I thought that if I battled them it would increase my power by training here.'

'Another reason why I've come here is because back home we're having a challenge tournament, and I've come here to find Kakkorot as my partner, or any other strong fighter... Challenging you was a good experience, and I'm going to ask you two a favor...' Tallena turned
to the sea, watching the sun go down.