Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z, as I think you already know *glares* And I don't own "Still I Rise". It is written by Maya Angelou.

Hehe, since I don't feel like looking up food items for names, i'll just make up names and we can all pretend they're food items, k? ^.^ This is a little summary/prologue thingy for the story. Tell me if it sounds worthwhile, cuz i don't wanna write it if everyone is going to write it off as dumb. Anyhows, on with it.

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You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But sill, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin' in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But sill, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame

I rise

Up from a past that's rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave,

I rise

I rise

I rise.

She sat long and still, watching the room of her next target. Her tail that was neither a monkey's nor a cat's, but both, twitched where it lay in the shadows.

She had been begotten out of a Heijiekan princess, and one of the dirty ape-men of the Saiya-jins. She growled low in her throat as she watched people come in and out of the Prince's room. He was an arrogant ass. She had only been too happy to accept this assignment. His father had been the one to conquer her people, and if he'd gone to another world, she wouldn't have been brought forth shamefully into this world.

She'd never known her mother; she'd been traded around like a slave, bartered for and sold. She'd been trained to use her powers; she'd inherited the power in full from her father and mother. She knew all the herbs, all the drugs, all the ways of killing that would leave her unsuspected.

She'd known an uncle, who had for a period of three years kept her in the palace of Heijii, a tool to be used for killing off various peoples. There she'd seen her mother twice, by chance. The third time, oh, the lucky third, had been to kill her mother. So she'd done, and after that her pleased uncle had sold her off to a dirty Saiya-jin. That was really all he'd ever wanted her for, she'd found out. To kill her mother.

So here she was, studying the guards and general traffic around the palace, learning the Prince's habits so she could easily kill him. Maybe she'd wake him up first. Maybe she'd let him hear her little story before she slit his throat. She'd never seen his face up close before. She'd be waiting for that with pleasure.

"Enjoy your last days, little monkey. They won't last long." She breathed, so low that the guards couldn't hear her. Her black body suit whispered against her skin as she moved fleet footed from her hiding spot. She had all the information she needed, and now would go to concoct a poison to soak her blade with, to let the Prince suffer agony before he died. Right after he heard her name, and begged for mercy.

Such was her lot in life.

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Hehee does it catch your imagination? Don't worry, guys, i'm a b/v fan, so no original character in here is gonna steal veggi-boy from bulma. In fact, the girl will help them get together ^.^ And this won't be all about the new girl... i'm probly going to mostly do it from bulma's and vegeta's points, as well as the new girl (it may turn out to be a b/v... i don't know...) R&R!!! Good or bad? Let me know, so i won't feel like i did this for nothing. Next chapter you'll learn why our mysterious girl won't fall for Vegeta- it's a little twist that i've never seen done in another fic (tho i'm sure somewhere it has). And yes, the title is a pun ~.^ Until next time, then.

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