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The last time in "The Lost Warrior":

That evening the whole gang, except for Jenny, was gathered in the largest room, which happened to be the room of Bra, Pan and Shana. Shana agreed to look over the kids in the night, so that they don't have to sleep in the same room as their parents. "So, now we know that Goten fell in love and bonded with Shana, but is there also someone in your life Trunks?" Trunks didn't react at Krillin's question, because he had his own little conversation with Jenny, who was in her room on the same floor. "Hello, earth to Trunks!"

"Huh?"

"Wow, where have you been with your thoughts? Let me guess, you've also got a girlfriend and you were thinking about her."

"Yeah, that's right."

"And why didn't you bring her here?" Yamcha wanted to know.

"She didn't have time. She's in holidays with her parents, that's why she didn't make it."

"Is she pretty? What does she look like?" Trunks looked at Mutenroshi.

"She's beautiful. She's got blond curls and blue eyes. And I really love her." Jenny was lying smiling on her bed. Trunks let her hear everything he said. With that smile on her face she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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Chapter 19: „Tenkaichi Budokai: Day One"

'Jenny, are you awake?' The girl opened her eyes and yawned. Then she looked at her clock.

'Trunks, it's 7.30am, what do you want?'

'I wanted to wake you up and tell ya that there will be breakfast at 8.30 downstairs.'

'Okay. By the way, how long were you up last night?'

'Not long, but after you fell asleep they wanted to know if we already found the one we were looking for.'

'And what did you answer?'

'That we didn't found her yet.'

Jenny sighed. 'Good. See ya at breakfast.'

'See ya!'

After Jenny had taken a long shower, she changed into her gi, transformed, sprayed her tail with the fluid and went downstairs for breakfast. Unfortunately after she opened her door, she ran into Yamcha who came out of his and Krillins room (Juuhachigou and Marron didn't come with Krillin). "Hey baby, wanna join me at breakfast?" Jenny ignored him and walked to the elevator, waiting for the doors to open. "Will you join me if I pay for the breakfast?" The door opened and Jenny walked in.

"Food's free for competitors and besides," she turns around smirking, "I'm sure you couldn't pay for my breakfast." After she said that, the door shut and a stunned Yamcha was now standing in front of the closed doors.

"I will get you. You'll see."

"The brat surely knows how to take care of you." Yamcha turned around and saw Vegeta leaning against the wall, as usual arms crossed and a smirk plastered on his face. Yamcha 'hmphed" and walked back to his room.

'How ironic. First he couldn't get Bulma because she was in love with me, and now he won't get Jenny, because she's with my son.'

Jenny could feel how pissed of Yamcha was, because he had problems to keep his ki under control. 'I wonder what Vegeta has said. I'll just ask Trunks later.' With that thought Jenny got out of the elevator and went to the room where they'll served breakfast.

"Do you take part at the Budokai?" a waiter asked her.

"Yes, I do."

"Under which name?"

"The Lost Warrior." The waiter looked at his list and eventually found the name.

"Follow me please. We reserved a table for you." He led her to a round table for five persons.

"Excuse me please, is this table reserved for more persons?"

"Yes, you'll have breakfast with some people who signed themselves up shortly after you did it."

"And who are those people?"

"One moment please… Goku Son, Goten Son, Trunks Briefs and Vegeta Briefs."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. I will come back in a few minutes to take your order."

A few minutes later, the others arrived and where led to their tables. Yamcha and Krilling got a table next to them together with some other fighters. They greeted each other and acted as if they were strangers. Jenny was glad as they got their breakfast, so they could eat instead of talking. She was careful not to eat as much as the others because she felt Yamcha's gaze in her back and she didn't want to reveal her identity.

"Hey Yamcha! What are you staring at?" Krillin asked and looked around. "Ah, I see, the girl. Did you get her to go out with you?"

"Not yet. But I'm sure she will after she saw me fighting."

"Don't you think she looks somehow familiar?" the small man asked his friend.

Jenny swallowed. 'Did you just hear what Krillin has said?'

'Yeah, but don't worry about it. I'm sure he won't find out.'

'I hope you're right.'

Yamcha looked at her. "Not that I know. Why do you ask?"

"I just had a small déjà vu." Krillin watched her. Somehow it seemed for him that there's a tension between the girl and Trunks. It almost looked like that it was hard for both of them to hold something back. 'Could it be? Nah…. Why should they lie to us? But I will keep an eye on her,' he thought.

Suddenly Jenny stood up. "Please excuse me, but I have to go now." With that she left the room. She couldn't take sitting next to Trunks; it was hard to act like they don't know each other. She looked at the clock. '9.15am, I think I should go to the stadium.'

Trunks could understand why Jenny left and he was somehow glad that she did it. He felt the urge to kiss her while she was there and he knew that she felt the same way. 'Trunks?'

'Yeah?'

'I just wanted to say that I'm sorry that I left.'

'You don't need to say sorry.'

'Good. And there's one more thing. I won't talk to you during the tournament and you won't be able to talk to me. I just want to concentrate on the fights and that's why I'll put up my mental wall. I hope you understand that.' Trunks was shocked. He hoped he could talk to her when they were not fighting.

'Okay, when you think it's the best for you.'

'Thank you Trunks. I love you.'

'I love you, too.'

Jenny arrived at the stadium 20 minutes later. She had been walking slowly and looked around the city. 'The others were right. This dimension is totally different than mine. Much more modern, and then the people. Some of them look like normal humans and others look like animals. Interesting.' On the campus of the Budokai was one large ring in the middle, surrounded by terraces. On the other side was a very big gym. 'That must be the place of the elimination rounds.' She walked towards the gym and was stopped at the entrance.

"Hello. Do you participate at the tournament?" a small man asked.

"Yes, I'm The Lost Warrior." He looked at his list.

"Okay, if you need to change, the locker rooms for women are at the end of the hallway on the right side. The entrance to the gym is the second door on the left. Good luck."

"Thank you." Since she had already changed in the hotel, she directly went into the gym. Jenny stood there in awe. The gym was huge and there were so many people. There were four rings inside and a board at the wall with a list of the competitors and in which ring they would fight. She walked over to the board to see where she should fight. "Good. Ring one. And I don't need to fight my friends. That's good. So I get a chance to get through the elimination rounds," she mumbled to herself. Suddenly she could feel her friends enter the gym, so she decided to quickly go to her ring, so that she wouldn't meet them. From now on she had to do this alone.

Goten spotted Jenny standing at the board as they entered and then saw that she went to ring one. "Hey guys. I think we can see there where we should fight," he said and pointed to the wall. They looked at the board and saw that they all would eventually get to the final rounds, because none of them had to fight another.

At 9.55am the referee (you know the guy with the blond hair) announced that he wanted to say something. "First of all, welcome to the Tenkaichi Budokai. I now want to tell you the rules. They are simple. When you fall out the ring, you'll lose, when you're counted out or unconscious, you'll lose, when you surrender, you'll lose and when you kill your opponent, you'll lose. The best 31 fighters will get through the elimination rounds. Fighter 32 will be Mr. Satan since he won the last tournament. In each ring will be 8 fighters at the end. That means that there'll be 32 fighters left. After that you draw lots for a fight where we will eliminate the last one, so that there'll only be 31 fighters left. Good luck to all of you!" The fighters applauded and then went to their rings.

Jenny got the first fight and entered in her ring. Her opponent was a tall, fat man, who looked like a sumo-wrestler. "Hey Yamcha, you're lost warrior will fight now," Krillin told him, "maybe we should watch this fight." The others agreed and went to the ring. Jenny could feel their presence at the ring but quickly blocked them out to be able to concentrate fully on the fight.

"What? I have to fight against this GIRL? This isn't a challenge for me. I recommend you to give up before I hurt you," the fat man told Jenny. She just stood there and looked at him smirking. "So, you think you can make fun of me… I'll show you how it feels like when someone loses against me." With that he rushed forward and threw his fist towards her face. Jenny dodged it and kicked him in his stomach, forcing him to fall on his knees and another kick sent him to the outside of the ring. "Number one is out, winner is number two!" a man called out and Jenny left the ring.

"Wow, that was good," Krillin said.

"She's strong… But not strong enough to win against one of us, if she reaches the final rounds," Yamcha stated.

"We'll see," Krillin mumbled. 'There's something about this girl. But I can't tell what… not yet.'

During the next hours the others won their fights without any problems and when they weren't fighting they were watching Jenny. The Saiyajins because they wanted to know how strong she got, Yamcha because he liked to watch her body during the fights and Krillin because he wanted to figure out what was strange about this girl.

A few hours later Goku, Goten, Vegeta, Trunks, Krillin and Yamcha had all reached the final rounds and walked over to Jenny's ring, where she was about to fight her last opponent. This one looked really strong. He was tall and had muscles all over his body. He attacked her first and they exchanged a few punches and kicks until Jenny was thrown to the ground. Trunks felt the urge to run up to the ring and help her up. Goten noticed that and put his hand on his best friends' shoulder, to calm him down and motioned to him that Jenny was getting up again.

'Shit. He's stronger than I thought. But still no match for me, I just have to make my ki a bit higher.' With that she powered up.

"So girl, you really wanna try again? Why don't you give up? It will be better for your health. And I say, better be a living coward than a dead wanna-be-hero." At the word coward Jenny sent her opponent a death glare.

"No one dares to call a Saiyajin a coward," she mumbled under her breath, so that no one could hear it.

"Did you say something, girl?" Jenny knew, he just wanted to make her lose her head, but she won't do him that pleasure. She just looked him directly in his eyes and just smirked confidently and before her opponent could actually react he was already out of the ring. "Winner is #2," the judge declared. Most of the fighters didn't even see her movements.

"First two punches in his face…"

"And then the kick in his back which sent him out," Goku completed Vegeta's statement. Krillin looked at his friends. Goten and Trunks looked almost shocked, but Goku and Vegeta looked somehow satisfied. But Yamcha interrupted him in his thoughts.

"Wow, this girl is really hot."

"Yeah, and dangerous," Krillin stated.

"Come on Krillin, you know me. Danger is my second name!" Yamcha told his friend.

"Really? Then I can't wait to fight you, and I hope that I will get the chance to do it," Jenny said, who had overheard the conversation and was now passing them.

About half an hour later the last fight was finished and the qualified fighters were now gathered around a box. "Okay, first of all congratulation to all of you who've reached the final rounds. Now I want all of you to draw a lot. On two lots will be a x and those two people will fight face each other to eliminate the last one. When I call your name you will draw. Okay, I'll begin with fighter #2: The Lost Warrior." Jenny walked to the box and put draw a lot. 'Weird, why did it felt like this lot flew directly in my hand? I think I just imagined that. Okay… what do I have?' She unfolded the piece of paper and found the x on it. "Dende, why me?" She walked to the referee and told him that she got one of the lots with the x.

"Good, the first fighter will be The Lost Warrior." Her friends were shocked, but didn't show it.

"Sorry Jenny. But I have to do this," Dende whispered standing on his lookout, watching the events on earth.

After almost all of the other fighters, including Jenny's friends, drew empty pieces of paper, the referee called a man with the name Chan to draw a lot. "Okay, now we have fighter number two! The fight will be The Lost Warrior against Chan and it will start in five minutes. Jenny eyed her opponent. He was normal built. Not many muscles but there was something strange about him.

'It feels like he's very powerful. I have to be careful. I may not underestimate him.'

Both of them stepped into the ring. "So, are both of you ready?" They nodded. "Then start!" For the next seconds, which seemed like hours to everyone in the gym, the two opponents were just looking at each other. In a flash both of them disappeared. The only ones who could still see them were the Z-Senshi, all the others could just hear several screams and the sounds of punches and kicks. This exchange lasted a few minutes.

"I didn't expect that she's that strong," Yamcha admitted.

"Yeah, but she's fighting at her maximum," Trunks added.

"How do you know?" Krillin asked.

"Eh, I… her ki didn't get higher since the beginning." At that moment they all heard someone hitting the floor. It was Jenny. She managed to get up again and wiped blood from her mouth.

'Great, I was right. He IS strong. And he still didn't show me everything. I could make my ki higher, but I don't want to do it. I can't show them how strong I am. First when I fight one of them. Okay, I raise it a bit more.'

"Can we continue?" her opponent asked and before Jenny could answer he was already rushing towards her again. Her opponent raised his ki as well and Jenny was barely able to dodge or to block his attacks and soon she was on the ground again.

'Damn, if I don't raise my ki more I'll lose. But if I raise it they will know how strong I really am. And I don't want to go Super Saiyajin. But maybe if I raise it just for a small moment I'll be able to kick him out of the ring and the others wouldn't notice.'

"Do you give up?" the man asked, standing a few meters away from her.

Jenny got up again and gritted her teeth. 'Why does that remind me of my first beating I got from Vegeta?' She smirked and finally answered. "Never." With that she rushed towards him and powered up just for a millisecond as she hit him with her fist in his face. The man stumbled backwards but quickly regained his composure and beat her up until she was again lying on the ground. She tried hard to stand up, but was about to pass out as she heard his voice.

"I surrender."

'What did he say? He gives up? Why?' She blinked a few times and saw him jumping out of the ring.

"Chan gives up! That means the winner is The Lost Warrior." As Jenny has managed to stand up, Yamcha ran towards her to support her.

"Put your arm around my shoulder. I'll help you. You're hurt badly."

"No thanks. I can do it on my own." She shook his hand away and walked to the locker room. She walked in and closed the door, leaning against it. "Why did he give up? He was much stronger than I. One more of this beatings and I would have passed out," she said to herself. She then walked over to the bench at sat down. Each part of her body hurt like hell. Jenny checked her injuries as Vegeta taught her and as she felt her chest she winced of pain and coughed blood. "Great. A few broken ribs and it seems like one even hurt my lung."

After the fight the others were about to walk back to the hotel, although they wanted to see if Jenny was okay. Since the girl put up her mental wall Trunks wasn't able to check her. And they knew, if she felt that she needed help, she would say it. They were just about to go, as Krillin stopped. "You guys can go ahead! I forget my anorak."

"Okay, but hurry! We'll wait at the big gate," Goku answered, but Krillin had already disappeared. He ran through the hallways to the men's locker room and got his things and as he walked back he heard someone wincing in the women's room. Normally he wouldn't eavesdrop, but his inner voice told him to wait. As he got closer to the door he heard a girl saying something about broken ribs and a hurt lung. Then he recognized the voice. It was the one of The Lost Warrior. He knocked and slowly opened the door.

Jenny looked up. "What do you want?"

"Uhm, I heard you and I wanted to ask you if you're okay?"

"Sure am…" She coughed again and spit out some blood.

"No, you aren't okay. Here, I got something for you," he said and pulled a senzu bean out of his pocket, "This is a senzu bean. When you eat one of them, your injuries will heal. The inner ones as well as the outer ones." Jenny took it and swallowed it and within a few seconds all her wounds were gone.

"Thank you," she said with a warm smile.

"You're welcome," Krillin said as he walked out the door.

Soon Krillin caught up to his friends. "Hey Krillin! What took you so long?" Goten asked.

"Sorry, but I was stopped. The girl, you know The Lost Warrior, was in the women locker room. As I passed the room I heard her wincing and so I went inside. She was really badly injured. She coughed blood, so I gave her a senzu."

"And she's alright now?" Trunks asked worried.

"Yep."

"Okay, now let's get back to the hotel. I bet the women are already waiting for us and it is getting dark." The others agreed with Goku and went back to the hotel.

A few minutes later Jenny decided to leave as well, since it already began to get dark. On the way to her hotel, she noticed that someone followed her. She searched for the ki and recognized it as the ki of the man who beat her nearly to death. "You can come out now! I know that you're there."

"Didn't take you long to find out that I'm here." The man stepped out of the shadow.

"What do you want?"

"I wanted to tell you that you passed the test."

"Test? Which test?"

"The test that shows that you're Goku's daughter."

Jenny turned around. "How do you…?"

"You must know that this isn't my real body. I kinda borrowed it."

"And what does that mean?" Jenny was getting annoyed.

"I'll show you." With a scream the body of the man was separated into two bodies. The human body fell on the floor unconscious and another very tall green man was now standing in front of Jenny. "I'm Piccolo. You might've heard of me."

"Piccolo, why did you give up? I was about to lose."

"As I told you, it was a test. I just wanted to see if you really are Goku's daughter. And you are. I could see it in your eyes shortly before your last attack. And I gave up because I want to see your maximum power in the final round, and I guess that you just will show it when you're fighting another Saiyajin, right?" Jenny nodded. "Thought so. I'll see you tomorrow." With that Piccolo flew away.

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That was the first day of the Tenkaichi Budokai!

In the next chapter the first final rounds will begin!

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