Author's Note: Hello! I'm back again with another wonderful chapter of Twilight's Kingdom. I hope that you guys are enoying reading this as much as I am enjoying writing this. Anyway, I do not own Dragonball Z. I wish I did, then I wouldn't have to write this annoying disclaimer everytime that I write a fan fic! I think that I have babbled enough. On with the tale!
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"Enjoy your stay mighty Green Dragon!" one of the dungun guards said as he shoved Pan into one of the cells.

Pan charged forward to attack him but she slammed into the solid oak door of the cell. Pan began baning on it and shouting curse words that even the two guards who had just locked her in had never heard.

"Do you think that we were a little ruff on her?" one guard asked.

His companion shook his head. "Nope. She is a traitor to the crown. She deserves what she gets! Come along now. Let's go see if there is any lunch left in the mess hall."

With that the two guards left. "How could I have been so stupid! I should have realized that this was all a trap!" Pan muttered to herself.

"Sometimes we are blinded by things that we do not expect!" a voice in the cell next to Pan's said.

"Who's there?" Pan called out as she walked over to a window that joined her cell and the cell next to here.

Pan looked through the window. She saw a man dressed in a dirty tunic and matching breeched. He sat on the other side of his cell facing the window.

"The name's Yamcha." he replied. "Pick pocket and thief extrodinare at your service! And you might be?"

"My name is Pan, but you might know me as the Green Dragon."

Yamcha let out a laugh. "Imagine that! I get to be stuck in the cell next to the legonday Green Dragon. Is it true what they say? Do you have a huge dragon tatoo running from your middle finger tip, up your arm and onto your face?"

Pan let out a laugh. "No. Where did you get an idea like that?"

"Just things that I have heard in local taverns." Yamcha replied. "So Pan, tell me about yourself. How were you actually caught?"

"By being stupid."

Yamcha nodded. "That is how most of us thieves get caught. No me on the other hand, I fell in love with the Queen and tried to kidnap her. My plan didn't work as you can see, so I get to be one of the lucky residents here in this wonderful dungon."

"How long have you been here?"

Yamcha shrugged. "I have no idea. The days seem to all run together the longer that you stay here."

Pan sighed and walked away from the window. She couldn't believe that this was what she was doomed to be.


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Trunks' boots made a soft clinking sound as he walked down the hallway to his father's study. Behind him was his sister Bra. "I still don't understand why you just had to have me come along. I never said that I was going to help you!" Bra complained.

Trunks looked over his shoulder. "You are going to help me, or I am going to mention to mother that the real reason your sewing teacher ran off, was not because that she had a family emergency. But because you threatedned to stab her to death with her own needles if she made you sew one more embrodary!"

Bra's face paled. "How did you...?"

"You really should hide your diary a whole lot better!"

Bra glared at Trunks. "I really hate you sometimes!"

Trunks smiled sweetly at his sister and then began walking faster. He knew that he had to do something about Pan before his father did. A few moments later Trunks and Bra arrived at his father's study. From inside they could hear their parents aruguing. "Vegeta! Are you out of your mind? You can't hang the girl!" Bulma shouted.

"Why not? She is a traitor!" Vegeta replied.

"She is a young woman who fought for what she believed in. If you hang her. There will be others that will see her as a maryter. They will take up her cause!"

"Woman! You will not tell me how to run my country!"

It was at that moment that Trunks decided to barge in, with Bra in tow. "Father, Mother is right. The girl will be seen as a hero if you hang her. Mother, Father is right. Pan does deserve to be punished. That is why I say that I should be the one to deal with her."

"And what makes you say that brat?" (A/N: Hey that rhymes!) Vegeta asked.

"When she captured me, I was poisoned by one of her men. She saved my life and I feel as if I should repay her by saving hers." Trunks lied through his teeth, not really sure why he wanted to save Pan.

"What punishment did you have in mind?"

"Pan has grown up as a man. She dresses as one. She talks as one, so what better punishment would be to teach her to be a lady."

Vegeta though about what his son had said for a few moments. "And just who would teach her to be a lady?"

"Bra would."

"WHAT!!??" Bra and Vegeta said at the same time.

"If you think, for one minute, that I am going to let my little princess stay in a room with that traitor then you have another thing coming brat!" Vegeta growled.

"Bra is the best person to teach her, and I will be with her at all times! So if Pan tires anything. Then I will be there to stop her. Possiably even kill her if I have to."

"Fine. Bra will be her teacher."

"She will also need a room of her own and new cloths."

"You are asking for a lot brat!"

"It's the only way to make sure that she is completly punished." Trunks replied.

Vegeta shook his head as he thought over Trunks' prosals. As he did, Bulma looked at her oldest child. She had no idea why Trunks wanted the girls's life spared, but she knew that it was best not to ask. Bulma then looked down at Vegeta. "It would be for the best if we did as Trunks says. If it makes you feel any better. Then I will also stay with Bra and Trunks."

Vegeta growled. "Fine, she will be given what you ask, and you will not be helping the brat with his project, Woman. This is something that I am going to allow him to handle on his own."

Trunks smiled. "Thank you father."

With that he bowed to his father and mother. He then grabbed Bra by the wrist and drug her out of the room. "You have a lot of explaining to do Trunks. You never mentioned that I would be stuck teaching this girl to be a lady. All you said was that I was going to help save her life." Bra shouted as soon as they were out of ear shot from their parents. "You better give me one good reason why I should help you!"

Trunks let go of his sister and looked at her. "Think about it Bra, what is it that you have always wanted to do? Train as a swordsman. Pan is conidered to be one of the most skilled swordsman in the land and she is a woman. Who better to teach you?"

Bra's face lit up. "Trunks you are a genius! What do I have to do?"

"Teach Pan to be a lady!"

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Later that afternoon, Pan was drug from her cell and into the room that was to belong to her. "What in Kami's name are you doing to me?" Pan shouted as the tailor began measusring Pan.

"I am fitting you for cloths. Prince Trunks' orders." the tailor replied.

"Why?"

The tailor shrugged. "I have no idea. I just do as I am commanded to do."

With that the tailor went back to work. After what felt like an enurnity, he was finally finished and left Pan alone. Just as she thought the torment was over, the three maids that had been assigned to her by Trunks entered the room carrying a large tub of steaming hot water. "What are you going to do with that?" Pan asked.

"Give the Lady a proper bath. Prince Trunks' orders!" one of the maids replied.

"Oh no your not!" Pan replied.

The maids ignored her. They placed the tub down on the floor and looked at Pan. "Are you going to do this willingly or do we have to force you?" the second maid asked.

Pan slowly began backing away as the maids looked at each other. They then charged towards her. A few moments later, loud screaming could be heard followed by a loud splash. Trunks laughed as he heard the screaming. "Serves her right for kidnapping me!" he muttered as he turned back to his studies.

The maids finally got Pan clean after what felt like hours of almost having to drown her. After the maids got her out of the bath they dressed her in one of Bra's old dresses and fixed her hair into a tight braided coil. They then turned and bowed to Pan before they left. Pan bit her tounge to stop herself from saying a string of curse words.

A few moments after the maids left Bra entered Pan's room. "So you are the girl that caused my father all that trouble."

Pan did not reply. Bra sighed. "Look, I know that you don't want to do this. Heck, I don't even want to do it myself! If it weren't for the fact that my brother is blackmailing me. I wouldn't even be here. But I am, so let's make a deal. I'll help you if you help me!"

Pan looked at Bra. "How could I help you with anything?"

"You do not know how annoying it is to be hit on by every single guy from a noble family, who wants to become a prince. If I could fight back then I would not have to deal with the arrogent windbags."

Pan smiled at that comment. She could see the blue-haired princess knocking every guy that came her way sences less. "So you are going to teach me if I agree to help?"

"How to be a lady." Bra replied.

"No, absolutly no!"

"You don't really have a choice here Pan. Either allow me to teach you how to be a lady, or hang from the gallows."

Pan sighed. She looked at the ground and then up at Bra. "If I agree to help you we will have to do this in secrete. If we don't, then you father will kill me. Your lessons begin tonight."

Bra smiled. "Your lessons begin now!"


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Uub and Goten sat beside each other in what used to be Pan's hut. "How are we going to be able to get her out of there?" Goten asked.

"Well, chargeing the castle would be out of the question because knowing the King he will kill Pan before we can even reach her." Uub replied.

"How about we kidnapp the King and force a trade?"

Uub looked at Goten and shook his head. "Goten your stupidity amazes me sometimes! There is no way that we could ever kidnapp the King. It was jsut by luck that we were able to capture the Prince."

"Sorry, it was just a suggestion." Goten replied. "How about this. We knock two guards uncounce and steal their cloths and then sneak into the palace. Then we could look for Pan and help her escape!"

"Goten! I take back everything that I just said! You are a genious!"

"I am? Cool!"

Uub shook his head and stood up. "Come on Goten! We have alot to do and a short time to do it in."


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