Disclaimer: Once again, I still don't own DBZ but if I ever do I will take some of these stories and make them movies. However, fellow authors, don't hold your breath.

Author's Note: Here's the chapter the story is named after. YAY!



Chapter 15 The Prophecy

At dinner that night, I announced that I had an announcement (think about that one!) Everyone just looked at me.

"Ok. So tell us already." Vegeta growled. He had warmed up oh so much in the five years I had known him.

"Well, it's not really an announcement as much as it is a demonstration. Actually, it's the kids who have something to show you." Goten said.

"What do they have to show us?" Goku asked.

"Oh, you'll see. C'mon kids, show everyone what you showed me and Daddy this afternoon." I told my children.

"Oh, Mom. We don't want to. It makes us so-" Purinsesu started.

"-tired and we've already done it twice today." Yuushi finished. You really had to get used to them finishing each other's sentences.

"If you do it one more time, you can each have double dessert tonight," I said, "and I'll take you back to the park tomorrow." Like all parents, I was not above a little bribery when needed.

"Really? Double dessert? OK we'll-"

"-do it, but only one more time."

They climbed down and stood in the empty space beside the table. Like with Goten, everyone just kind of smiled when they hit their fighting stances, like, great, yeah, so they can do that. However, also like with Goten, when they powered up, everyone sat bolt upright and stared. I let the kids fight for a little while until I told them to stop.

"Good job, guys. Thanks for doing that for me." I said giving them a little hug each. Goten was just smirking, obviously proud that both of his children could power up. Pan never did and Bra probably never noticed that anyone did. It was kinda cool, in its own little my-kids-are-the-best type way.

"Wow. How do you think they learned that?" Goku asked.

"Well, according to them, they saw you and Vegeta sparring one day and you both went Super and then the next day they saw you and Gohan. And they've been hearing about it all their lives. It's not really surprising that they did it. They just wanted to." I explained.

"Well, we will start training them tomorrow. Now that they can become Super, they need to learn how to control it." Vegeta said.

I rolled my eyes. "Vegeta, they are only five years old. I don't think they need any hard-core training. But you're right, we can start them with something."

Suddenly, we all felt a familiar ki coming our way. Shin then popped up next to the table. We all looked at him. It had been years since he had last shown up. Quickly he looked around, and then focused on the twins, still in my arms. "We have no time for pleasantries. I need to talk to you all, but not in the presence of the young people."

"Ok." Goku said, surprised. "Pan, Bra, take the twins up to the nursery and keep them there until we tell you to sit come back down." Pan and Bra collected the twins and headed upstairs.

"Now, what's this all about?" Goku asked.

Shin sat down in the chair Pan had been in. "I have to tell you all some things. Some of it won't be easy. I know it's been years since you've heard from me, but that's for good reason. Karista has been wrecking havoc across the universe for the last five years. Since her escape from us, she has been doing nothing except try to keep the prophecy from coming to pass. I come to you now to warn you of her. She will be especially dangerous for you all now, because of the prophecy."

"What prophecy? And how can she be dangerous to us because of it?" Goten asked.

Shin looked surprised. "You mean you don't know of the prophecy? You of all people in the universe?"

"If we knew of the prophecy, he would not have asked you." Vegeta said.

Shin sighed. "This is worse than I thought. It is a good thing I came when I did.

Thousands of years ago, well before either human or Saiyan, their was a great Prophet. His name and race are lost to antiquity, but his words remain. Every single one of his prophecies has come to pass, except for one. "

"Which one?" Goku asked.

"I am going to tell you. He prophesized that one day, far from his own time, a great evil, the greatest evil ever known, would rise from the pit it was entrapped in to conquer the universe and send it plunging into eternal darkness. No one would stand a chance, except for a set of twins, part Saiyan and part human. Now, remember, this was before either humans or Saiyans, so it did not make much sense. But ever since both races evolved, I have been on a lookout for such twins. It has never occurred. Once Karista appeared, at the same time Liz and Cat did, I began to become suspicious. When Purinsesu and Yuushi were born, I knew the prophecy was going to come true. So you see, I'm here to warn you for the safety of the twins, for in their destinies lie the fate of the entire universe. I do not know if Karista has knowledge of the twins, but I know if she does, she will not hesitate to get them, especially since they are descendents of Kosho. I also know that both children have transformed, and all the better that they have. They both need to be trained as soon as possible, so that they have a chance if Karista tries to get them." He stopped and looked around the table.

I had never been so scared in my life as right then. My children were going to have to save the universe? My babies? I reached over and took Goten's hand. Everyone else looked just as surprised.

"Wow. How come we never knew of this prophecy before? I mean, Puri and Yuushi are not the first Saiyan/human children." Goku said.

"Yes, but they are the first Saiyan/human twins. That makes all the difference. And Karista is by far the most evil being in the universe. She could have destroyed Frieza and Cell with a single shot. Majin Buu and Babidi would have crumbled at her feet. If she manages to get a hold of the twins, I cannot imagine the horror that she will inflict on the universe." Shin replied.

"What can we do, then?" I asked.

"Train them. Teach them as much as you can, but never let them know about the danger they are in. It is their absolute innocence that will save them, in the end. It may be days, it may be years, but I know that Karista will try to take them. Now, I must go. I will come back when I can." Shin said, then disappeared.

Once he was gone, I looked around. Gohan, Goku, Chichi, Bulma, Cat, Trunks, Videl, Vegeta, and Goten. My closest friends and allies in the world. In fact, many of them had already saved the world, several times. Now I saw a look in their faces I had never seen in the last five years. It was the sheer determination that made them the fighters that they are, the determination that made me know that they would do anything for my babies. As would I.

"Well gang, what do we do now?" Goku asked. No one said anything for a moment.

"I don't know. This is the first time we've ever had an enemy that we can't fight immediate." Gohan said.

"I think we should just go to bed now and not worry until tomorrow." I said, swallowing the fear in the pit of my stomach. Everyone looked at me like I was crazy. Maybe I was.

"You are their mother and you don't want to do anything?" Bulma exclaimed.

"I didn't say that. I said wait until tomorrow. Then we can begin to train them like Shin said to do. We'll just hope that Karista waits until later to attack. I don't want anything to happen to my children. Don't doubt me on that. But we have to be rational. They cannot learn anything tonight." I said, meeting the eyes of every person around the room. Slowly, everyone nodded.

I stood up. "Right. Now that we've decided that, I have to get my children ready for bed. I'll see you all later." I went upstairs.

That night I bathed my children, clothed my children, read a book to my children, kissed my children goodnight, like I had done for the last five years. When I closed the door to their room, I had a sudden moment of panic at the thought of a night I might not have the chance to do all that, the night after they were gone for any reason. I went into my room and collapsed on the bed. Goten came in after a few minutes and sat down next to me. I pulled him down so I could lie in his arms.

"It's wild, isn't it? Knowing that our children have this great destiny in front of them but we don't know when it is going to play out. Goten, I'm so scared. Tonight after I put them to bed, I thought of if they were gone. What if she takes them? What kinds of horrible things will she do to them? I wish we had somewhere we could take them, but I know that would never work. Karista would just find them there." I said. Goten pulled his arms even tighter around me.

"I know. I've never been scared before in my life, but tonight I was. And still am. But as Piccolo always says, you cannot escape destiny. If our children are destined to save the universe, we can't stop it. We might not like it, but we have to let it happen." Goten said. I rolled over to look at him. Sometimes I still thought it weird, the life I was leading. Actually finding DBZ in real life, living with them, looking at the faces that had at one point in time had only been cartoons. And actually marrying one and having children that were really the fulfillment of ancient prophesy. It was crazy. But I wouldn't have changed it for anything.

"You're right. All we can do is train them and prepare them. From now on, life is completely about them. But tonight, tonight will be ours." I said. And it was.