I can remember…like if it was yesterday…

"What's up with this kid?" the nurse looked over, "What do you mean…?" "I mean this kid doesn't cry. All the other's here do, but look at him, lying there solemnly…hasn't cried since the day he was born." The nurse's tail twitched and she walked over to the lone man standing beside the child. "What's his name?" The man bent down to look at the small card at the foot of the crib, Shais was inscribed neatly on it in flowing letters. Startled, he got up quickly and ran out of the small hospital to the castle…The nurse looked thoughtfully after him, than hurriedly flew to a small house, knocked, exchanged a few words with the woman who answered, and flew back. At the dead of night a cloaked figure slinked to the hospital, knocked five times, and was let in. "Where is he…?" The nurse escorted the person over to the tiny child. When the cloak was lowered, Shais' mother reached over and woke her son up. Gingerly she picked him up, put her cloak back on, and ran…

I still remember mother…how they chased us…I remember looking up into your terrified eyes as we fled…I remember your soothing words as I looked over your shoulder at the people with tails and strange armor chasing us…but we had tails and armor too mother…

Three of the guards tore off after her, chasing her into the night. She got in a small pod like ship and took off, the guards not very far behind. The chase continued for some days before they landed on the nearest planet. Being weak from hunger and dehydrated, the guards caught up to the woman quickly…

I remember mother, wondering why…why…? How they hurt you…how they held me still so I could watch. I remember how they killed you…how they killed me…or so they thought…

The guards left shortly thereafter, thinking Shais dead. The young saiyajin was wounded terribly, but he shakily got to his feet and plodded over to his still mother…

I remember looking into your sightless eyes mother…I remember being confused why you wouldn't wake up, why you wouldn't move mother…

There was something clutched tightly in her hand. A gold chain came out the end and lay shining on the grass…

I also remember that gold chain…You had it clutched so tightly though, that I had to break your cold life-less fingers off of it before I could grasp it…

It was her necklace that she always wore, and now the young, frightened Shais put it on his neck. He collapsed on the grass beside his mother and fell asleep. When he woke up, well after morning, a bloody knife laid beside him, his hands soaked with it, his mother cold and blood-caked beside him…

No matter what anybody says, mother, I didn't kill you…I didn't kill you mother, you know I didn't…but I vowed revenge…I would kill the one-no, the entire race of the one who had killed you…even if it meant I had to kill my people mother…

Over the years Shais stayed on that planet and grew, never forgetting his vow, never forgetting how they had killed his mother. His only companions were a lone wolf and a raven. His long spiky hair often got in the way, and he yanked out his tail so many times it stopped growing back, food was scarce and the water was dirty, but somehow or another, he lived on. The wolf taught him to hunt, how to survive. Slowly, over the years, he learned to fight. He envied the raven so much; he soon even taught himself how to fly. But alone, he brooded. His thoughts were always evil, always negative. One day though, during a year-long famine, when food was impossible to get and the rivers dried up, the wolf, being so hungry, snatched the raven out of the air and gobbled it up. As Shais witnessed his friends' death, anger filled every corner of his mind, until it overcame him. It controlled him, tainting his mind and soul black. He killed the wolf. And then, he got the bloody sharp stone he used to kill his last friend, and turned it upon himself…

I remember being so mad…so angry...I was alone now. It didn't hurt though, when I stabbed myself, mother, didn't hurt at all. If warm blood wasn't running down my hands I would have thought I missed…but I remember…

His wound healed itself and left a jagged, ugly scar. Since then he became a creature of the dark, bent on killing…bent on revenge…

Oh yes…how I remember…