Chapter 6: "The Dream"

Two weeks after Pan was able to fly, Faith and Dawn managed to do it as well. First, the Scoobies wondered how Pan was able to do it that fast, but they then came to the conclusion that someone must have trained her to control her ki, or at least to meditate properly, before she lost her memory and that this was the reason for her to learn the rest that fast. That should be the first night, where they wanted to show their new ability to the world of demons at the Hellmouth.

All of the Scoobies wanted to be present in that special night to see the reaction of the vampires towards the flying Slayers, but Giles, Trunks and the Chosen Ones thought that it would have been to dangerous for them. After about half of the day passed with arguing with Dawn about, if she could go with them or not, they allowed her to watch, but just under the condition that she would run or fly away as soon as it became too dangerous for her.

So, that night, Pan, Faith, Trunks, Spike and Dawn were patrolling on the biggest cemetery in Sunnydale. They've heard from Willy that the vampires were planning something and they would hold some kind of meeting at that graveyard. So, they thought that it would be the perfect chance to show them what they've learned from Trunks.

"Okay, you all know the plan," Trunks said, when they were lying behind a few bushes, watching the vampires, as they were standing in front of a crypt, talking about something. There were about ten of them, but they looked strong. The others nodded and Spike stood up, while the rest of them was remaining on the floor.

He lit a cigarette and walked to the other vampires. "Hey mates! What's up?" he asked coolly.

"Who are you?" one of the vampires, who seemed to be the leader, wanted to know.

"Don't say you don't know me…" Spike said disappointed. "I'm Spike. Slayer of two Slayers"

The leader snorted. "You're Spike, William the Bloody. The pathetic excuse for a vampire, who kills his own kind. You loved the Slayer, right? Too bad, she's dead. Otherwise it would have been a pleasure for me to suck her dry in front of your eyes."

"Dream on…" the chipped vampire mumbled.

"What did you say?"

"I said 'Dream on' or do you really think you could've laid a hand on the Slayer? She would've staked you before you even knew that she was there."

The others were watching patiently as Spike was talking to the leader and waited for him to give the sign to attack. Finally he threw his cigarette to the ground and stepped on it with his boot.

"That was the sign," Trunks said, when Faith and Pan slowly got up and each floated to one side of the crypt while Spike was still occupying the vampires.

"I am not a lovesick vampire. And I'm not weak."

"So, and why do you still help the friends of the Slayers? Do you really think they do appreciate your help? I think I could kill you instantly and they won't even notice that you're gone. I'm sure that's the reason why you're here. You – the big bad - wants to beg us to accept you as one of us, even though I first thought that it would be a trap, but I didn't hear and see anything of your 'friends' coming here and I don't even think that they would be able to land a surprise attack on us." The leader told him self-confident but Spike just raised his eyebrow.

"Really?" At that moment, Pan and Faith both staked a vampire of the group from behind. There they stood, both holding a stake in their hands, ready to stake.

"What? How?" the leader looked around and saw the two smirking Slayers. "What are you waiting for?" he shouted at the other vamps. "Attack them!" With a roar the vampires attacked the Slayers and the leader attacked Spike.

"Okay Dawn, stay here. It's show time." Trunks pulled out his sword and joined in the fight, separating a head from a vampire's body the first second he got there. He didn't have any problems with the demons and it didn't take long for him to pulverize another one with a small ki blast.

"Hey Faith!" Pan shouted. "Do you see that? Trunks gets all the fun with the killing. Should we follow his example?"

"Of course!" At that moment she staked one of the vampires she was just fighting with. "You see?"

"Okay!" Pan, who was fighting three vampires at once, suddenly leapt into the air and, much to the surprise of the vampires, stayed there. The girl used the distraction of the vampires and prepared an attack Trunks had taught her. She first stretched both arms to each side away from her body and gathered the energy in her palms. Then she moved her stretched arms to the front of her body, pointing with her palms at the three still stunned vampires, who could see the energy crackling around her body, which glowed slightly. "FINAL FLASH!" With that she sent a for the Slayer's proportion huge ki blast at the three vampires and pulverized them and coincidentally also the one's Trunks and Faith were fighting, because they standing in the way. Breathing hard, Pan saw that the leader Spike was fighting tried to escape. He had noticed that the blond vampire was stronger than him and after he saw what Pan did to his minions, he knew no other way to prevent the end of his undead life. "Faith! Get him!" the other Slayer shouted as she saw him getting away.

Faith nodded and took off into the sky, following him over the trees. He looked back to make sure that no one followed him and ran almost into the girl who was now floating in front of him. "Did you really think I would let you escape?" Faith asked in a mocking voice.

"Y-you can fl-fly!"

"Wow, is it that obvious?" the girl asked before she tossed a stake right through his heart, making him to dust.

As Faith got back, just a few minutes later, the others were standing in front of the crypt. "Wow! Pan! What was that?" the other Slayer asked curiously.

"That was the Final Flash. Trunks taught me that, while you were still learning how to fly. It's a ki attack," the black-haired girl with the orange bandana answered.

"Huh? Whatever. But I think it has impressed the vampires, but also our flying. I bet the rumors will spread like… I don't know what, but soon every demon will know about The Flying Slayers."

~*~

"Hey mom! Hey Gohan!" Trunks greeted them as he came back from work and entered the lab of his mother. It has now almost been three months since Pan disappeared through the vortex and they were still looking for a way to find her and to bring her back. But they slowly lost their hope, because they knew that they would soon be at a loss of what they could try next.

"Hi Trunks!" Bulma greeted him, but Gohan didn't even raise his head. He still blamed the son of Vegeta for the disappearance of his little girl. Trunks rather wished that Gohan would beat him to a bloody pulp instead of punishing him by ignoring him or throwing him death-glares when Gohan was talking about Pan. But even when Gohan didn't do things like that, Trunks felt miserably. He didn't know if he could live with the knowledge that his best friend could be dead because of his stupidity.

"Anything new?" he asked nervously.

"No, nothing."

Trunks hung his head, when Bulma told him that and walked to his room, where he threw his bag to the floor and leaned with his forehead against the wall. "AAAAAHHHH SHIT!" He clenched his fist and hit a hole in the wall. "Why Pan? Why was it not me who flew through the vortex? Why? Why?" He slid down the wall and let his tears running free. He was really afraid that they wouldn't find her and he knew that with each day the chance shrunk.

~*~

In the following two months after they first surprised the vampires with the flying, the rumors found their way through the whole underworld of Sunnydale, so that Pan, Faith and Trunks became the fear of the vampires and demons at the Hellmouth. But they didn't allow Dawn to come with on patrolling, because she was just at the beginning of her fighting training – much to the girl's dislike.

One night Trunks and Pan were patrolling alone on one of the smaller graveyards. While they were walking, Pan played with the stake in her hand and they were talking. "Tell me Pan, why are you always wearing this bandana?" Trunks asked her, when he noticed, that every time they're patrolling she was wearing this orange piece of cloth on her head.

"To be honest, I don't know. I have the feeling that this bandana is something special for me. No, I know it. A person I loved gave it to me - I simply know it. Don't ask me how. It's like a talisman for me."

"Oh, I understand. Maybe you slowly get your memory back."

"Yeah maybe," Pan said thoughtfully. "Hey Trunks! Look there! Vampires!"

"You're right! Let's go!" he said smiling and both semi-Saiyajins ran towards the vampires. They were fighting for a few seconds, as one vampire managed to land a hit at her head and wiped off the bandana of her head. Pan tried to grab it, but a vampire was able to reach it before she could do anything and ran away with it.

"Shit! Trunks, take care of them. I'll go after him!" Pan shouted and followed the vampire, who already had a head start.

"Okay, but be careful!" he shouted after her.

Pan followed the vampire for a few minutes and after she came running around a corner she saw how he jumped into the sewers. "Eww, great. But I have no other choice. I want my bandana back." She took one deep breath and then jumped after him. 'Okay, where did he go? Good, I'll try this way.' The girl followed the sewers until she came into a chamber. On the other side she saw the vampire. He held her bandana in his hand and smirked. "What the hell…" At that moment, the door behind her closed and many other vampires came from each side and surrounded her. 'Holy shit.'

"Do you want it back?" the first vampire asked her and she nodded. "Then you first have to kill all of us." With that, all of them rushed forwards. Pan managed to dodge a few, but others were able to hit her. Pan didn't stand a chance. There was no way to escape and there were about thirty vampires and all beating on her until she was lying on the ground, almost unconscious. Then one vampire hit her in her side and kicked her to the first vampire. She was lying just a few meters in front of him and looked up. "So, what now? I think I will kill you. But before I want you to see how I burn your bandana. You seem to like it a lot," he said and held the bandana a few centimeters over a flame.

"No, please not," Pan begged, but the vampire held it almost directly into the fire. "No," she whispered and then she felt the rage building up inside her body. "NOOOOOO!" From that moment on she felt nothing but rage and anger and some kind of new energy.

The vampires took a step back and the first one let the bandana fall to the ground, when he saw the girl in front of him. She was standing straight and a strange golden aura was surrounding her. But not just that - the earth was cracking under their feet and small rocks were floating in the air. The girl was still screaming and slowly her hair changed the color from black to blond and her eyes changed from dark do teal. That was the last thing all the vampires saw, because with her changing the energy exploded and dusted every vamp in that room.

When all vampires were gone, the rage and anger subsided and Pan changed back to normal. Exhausted from what has happened, she fell to the floor, unconscious.

~*~

Shortly after Trunks had finished up the vampires, he felt Pan's ki exploding and vanishing shortly after that. Feeling that she's in serious trouble he flew as fast as he could to the place where he felt her ki last. Not even a minute later he burst through the door and saw Pan lying on the floor, unconscious. "Pan! Pan! Wake up! Come on!" When she didn't react, her pulled her body close to his, cradling her into his arms. "Please! I need you! I think I love you!"

At that moment she stirred and slowly opened her eyes. "Trunks? What happened?" she asked weakly.

Trunks sighed with relief, but was somehow disappointed that she hadn't heard his declaration. "I don't know. Your ki sky-rocked. And then I found you here."

"Oh... Trunks, my bandana, where is it?"

He looked around and saw it lying on the floor. He picked it up and gave it to Pan. "Here it is. I bring you home now. You have to rest."

~*~

While Trunks was flying her home, she fell asleep in his arms. In her room he laid her gently on her bed. 'I have to talk to Giles about this.' He kissed her on the forehead and left.

Pan found herself sitting at a lake in the middle of a forest under a tree. She didn't know where she was, but she knew that she knew this place - that she had been there before. She looked around and saw a large figure walking towards her. She couldn't see the face, but she had the feeling that she knew the person. "Hey Panny!" The voice sounded cheerful and it made Pan comfortable as she heard it. But it also made her sad, like she had missed this person for a long time. She didn't recognize the person, but she somehow knew who it was.

"Grandpa?"

"Yeah Panny, it's me. Do you remember me?" the person without face asked her. Actually she could just see some kind of shadow.

"No, I just knew that you were my grandpa. Don't ask how," she replied him with a sad smile.

"Are you okay?" he asked her concerned.

"Yes I am. What happened?"

"I'm sorry Panny. But I can't tell you yet. You must remember it on your own." For the next few minutes they sat next to each other in silence.

"You were the one who gave me this bandana. That's why it is so important for me. It remembers me of you," she stated in a whisper.

"Yes Panny, it was me."

"Grandpa, who am I? Am I really a Slayer? Who are my parents? Who are my friends? Do I have parents or friends?" Those questions just suddenly started to come out of her mouth. She knew that he had the answers she needed so desperately.

"Panny, as much as I wish to tell you that, I can't do it. I'm not allowed to do it. But I promise you, when the time is right you'll remember everything. But I can tell you that your friends and parents care for you and that they're looking for you." He inhaled the fresh air of the forest deeply. "I'm sorry Panny, but I have to go now."

"It's okay." She sighed a bit disappointed. "Grandpa, one last question. Did I have a reason for jumping from that roof?"

The figure shook his head. "No, you didn't jump. You fell."

Pan sighed with relief. "Grandpa. I've missed you."

"I've missed you, too. But remember, you are not alone. You have friends here and you have Trunks."

"Grandpa, I think I love him, but I can't tell him that. We don't know when he will leave," the girl said sadly.

"Talk to him. He's a nice guy. I like him. Panny, I really have to go now, I'm sorry." The shadow got up and prepared to go away, but it turned around and Pan could feel the warm smile. "I'll watch over you. Bye."

"Bye," Pan whispered, when her grandfather disappeared. She leaned back in the grass and closed her eyes.