Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ or any of its characters. (I never thought I'd be writing that once)
* At this moment, Gohan is 18 years old and isn't dating Videl yet, Trunks is 9, Goten 8 and Marron 1
'thoughts'
"said out loud" *
A Long Hot Summer
Chapter 1
Everyone was glad vacation had begun, because it had been very warm for a few weeks already. Actually, very warm was an understatement, it was so boiling hot that even the Z warriors were affected by it. Although it was only 9 A.M. and they had planned to spar, everyone was lying in the shadow, trying to move as little as possible. Only Goten had some energy left and because he was bored he tried to keep a conversation going.
"Hey Kurillin, don't you think we could try to spar a bit tonight. It might be a little cooler by then."
"I don't know Goten. It will probably be as hot as last night, yesterday night and every night the last few weeks." His friend answered after emptying his sixth glass ice water.
"Hmmm, you could be right," the demi Saiya-jin said. Then he hit upon an idea. "Hey you guys, what if we gathered the dragonballs and asked Shenlong if he could let it rain or something like that."
"You moron, you're as stupid as your father." Vegeta grumbled. "If you'd ask that overgrown slug to let it rain, he'd probably cause a flood. And besides we might need those things later. Only a baka like you could come up with an idea like that."
Goku looked somewhat hurt by this comment and Gohan, who heard this, looked up from his schoolbooks (yes ChiChi lets him study, although it's vacation, poor boy) and yelled:
"Look who's the biggest baka here! My dad could've killed you in an eye blink and yet you're always brawling and bossing people around! I don't believe I still tolerate you around me and I…"
Suddenly he stopped. Everyone was staring at him, because it wasn't like Gohan at all to have such a short temper. It seemed like the teenager was startled by his own outbreak too, he blushed and engrossed himself in his book again.
After that the gang remained silent, except for Vegeta, who muttered a bit about youngsters being disrespectful towards royalty, and all continued their earlier activity; lazing.
After a while the peace was disrupted by a big tumult and a big red flash crossed the sky and landed a few miles away.
The company immediately awoke, leaped on their feed and looked in the direction where the object, that caused the entire disturbance, had disappeared.
"Uhm, maybe it could be a meteor. Or perhaps we just imagined it, a fata morgana, caused by the heat," Kurillin stammered.
"I hope you're right, but if it's not, Earth might be in big trouble again. It definitely didn't sound like a natural phenomenon. Lets go and check it out!" Yamcha said.
Everyone nodded and with a blast everyone flew of. Not much later they arrived at the place, where a little crater had been formed just a few moments ago. When the dust cleared away, they could see a sphere that was just large enough for a person to fit in.
"O no, a space pod," Tien exclaimed. "I wonder what sort of terrible monster could be in it!"
As if someone had heard this, the door opened and a humanoid woman stepped out of the pod. She stretched herself, probably because she was stiff after the long space journey. While doing this, all the men were gazing at her almost perfect body. She was long, slim and had long pitch-black hair. The midnight blue spandex suit fitted like a second skin and above the garment she wore an expensive looking armor with a red cross on it.
"Wow, what a babe," Yamcha whispered, who had been looking shamelessly at her breasts and was now looked now if he tried to undress her with his eyes. Therefore he was also the first one who saw it. "Hey you guys, look! A tail! She must be Saiya-jin."
This last part was almost yelled and the girl, who had stand with her back to the gang, turned quickly around. When she observed the group with her large light blue, almost gray eyes, she showed almost no emotion, but Gohan felt she was pondering whether to approach them friendly or simply blast them into oblivion. And if the girl were indeed Saiya-jin, the last option would be the most likely.
A few seconds later it luckily turned out that he was wrong. After her eyes had fallen on Vegeta, who stood, like always a little apart from the others, she started walking towards him. Everybody, except for the no Ouji himself, crouched into a fighting stance. For the third time that day the eyes of the Z warriors started out their sockets when the woman bowed deep for the smaller Saiya-Jin. Vegeta smirked when he saw the amazement of his companions. After he'd enjoyed the little scene for a moment, he grabbed the hand of the female, who was still kneeling before him, as a sign that she could stand up and said:
"Brats, meet your princess, my sister!"