Holy Crap I'm actually posting! I know its amazing. I posted a
chapter for a different story yesterday, and now I'm doing it again-
YAY! I don't own DBZ
Morning finally came, giving way to a cold, rainy day, and Bulma found herself to be the first one awake-at 10:30. She sat up quickly, realizing she was in her own bed. "Oh no," she thought aloud, "I must have come up last night, so that means no one's in the lab." She then ran down the stairs, and into her lab. And to her great surprise, she found Vegeta sitting in a chair, his arms folded, eyes closed, with a scowl on his face. When had he come in? Had he been there all night? Bulma sighed and walked around him to the table where the girl lay. "So, you're royalty are you? If Vegeta doesn't want to kill you though, I imagine you're pretty important to him. I'm his wife, and you're in my medical lab, in case you can hear me I just thought you should know." She stood up and moved over to the boy's table. "You're a saiyan too, huh? But you're not, royalty. You know, there's a young woman pretty interested in you. I don't know why, but, she'll be in later to day. Now that you're stabilized, well both of you are, people are going to want to come gawk at you. Now if you can hear me buddy, listen up. I know that that girl over there is under your guard, but when you wake up, DON'T freak out again and try attacking someone. You're likely to get your ass kicked, at least around here." She stepped away again and looked at Vegeta. What she wouldn't give to know what he knew. She grabbed a blanket and pulled it around his shoulders before leaving the lab again to go start the many auto-meal machines on making breakfast.
*Lost in unconsciousness, the girl was having a dream-like flashback. *
*A woman in a red gown rushes down a long corridor with one door at the end. She is calling out a name, inaudible, bangs on the door, no answer. She opens it. "HE'S GONE!"* another picture comes *A man in shadows leans against a wall, something draws nearer to him "You're late" ~Please don't go! Its not that important is it? ~ "By asking you insult me, you should be proud that your fiancée is going" ~But what if…~ "HAH! Impossible!"* The scene changes again * A woman in black approaches, "He is dead! Stop being foolish and except it! You are a weak excuse for a saiyan!" ~I just wanted to be with him!~ "You must stay here now, find another man" she leaves,~I'll never marry anyone else, I don't believe he's dead, I'll prove it somehow~* another vision flashes, alarms are buzzing everywhere * "This isn't possible!" A woman in armor screams "We cannot be defeated, we cannot!" "Starista!" an old woman in bright green calls. "You must go, use whatever means possible and GO!" ~But my brother! ~ "He is brave!" (Her visions turn down a long hallway toward a steel door, a man with green hair appears) "Princess!" ~We're leaving! NOW! Prepare the ship! ~ He opens the steel door and starts some sort of engine. She tries to step in when a voice from behind calls her. "STARISTA!" She turns, a man approaches quickly and glares at her, he stops. "WHERE are you going?" ~My lady in waiting, she told me to go~ "GO? Are you MAD!" ~Please, I..~ "NO!" He grabs her by the neck and lifts her, she kicks him in the crotch, punches him in the nose and jams her fingers into his eyes. He drops her while screaming in pain, but recovers quickly and catches her before she gets too far into whatever doorway was opened. He grabs her by the waist with one arm and pulls her hair back with the other, causing her to look straight up. He produces a knife and whispers, "did you really think you'd get away, that I'd let you go, you belong on the throne, you need to RULE!" ~That's impossible, I can't rule a graveyard. ~ "HOW DARE YOU! YOU DISGRACEFUL LITTLE BITCH!" He slams her onto the floor, and jams the knife deep into her back, right beneath the shoulder blade. She crys out in pain, the knife glows blue, and she knows that it is cursed, that is why she cannot stand against it. But she kicks her feet up, hits his arm, and he lets go of the knife. She pulls it out, stands up and faces off with him. But she finds herself outnumbered. Four more men appear. One against five corrupted monsters, formerly known as saiyan nobility. "You have a decision to make PRINCESS! Take the throne or DIE!" ~If it means destroying this war-torn place more than it already is, I choose death! He would never want this, he would rather I die then allow his planet to be dominated! ~ "NO! YOU MUST DO AS I SAY! NOW TAKE THE THRONE OR DIE!" ~You really are assholes aren't you~ "FINE then. You WILL die." The lead man fires several ki blasts at her, as do the others, only one grazes her arm as she out maneuvers the rest. All four charge her once the smoke has cleared and take out daggers, all glowing blue. ~Shit~ Just then the man who started the engine runs out of the door he had been in. "What's going on?" ~Can't you tell Nomokai? We're having pedicures and discussing our differences!~ * the image fades again, bringing forth a new one.* Both man and woman are on the floor of a small spaceship, Nomokai holding Starista's head in his lap. Both have blood all over them, four bulky bodies lay sprawled around them, the henchmen of the original attacker ~At least, we got these.~ She holds up two black balls with her family crest on them in red.~ "Lets pray we find the other two before anyone else does" she nods ~I'm going to go clean up a little~ she stands up, and suddenly feels pressure, then pain on her back. She turns to see the first attacker, just finishing his threat of death. Nomokai rises, and shoves her aside just as the attacker brings down his knife again, deep into his chest and pulling down. Starista heard nothing, she was in a trance, she couldn't quite breath, couldn't quite see. This was what falling under the spell was like wasn't it. That wicked woman knew what she was doing when she decided to attack the saiyans. Nomokai spit up blood and hit the floor, Starista stumbled on something and was backed against a wall. Her vision blurred but she saw him pull back two knives and let them fly at her, through skin, muscle, past a bone, and through muscle, then out the skin and into the wall. Both her wrists had been pierced, crucifying her to the wall. She felt herself being laid down on the floor, and opened her eyes to see the attacker and Nomokai, because she was dazed, she could think of only one thing to do, get help. She would be of no use to him, and so she went down a hallway. But she forgot what she was doing, where was she? What was going on? Was someone calling her name? Starista just couldn't find the strength to get up. But she was caught by someone, and then she heard Nomokai say to her "It's ok Starista, your father's gone for good."
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Pan sat up and looked at the clock, 11:00, only 6 ½ hours of sleep, she'd had worse. She stood up and stretched, then walked downstairs since she had been sharing a room with Marron and Bra, and now found herself alone. Sure enough, the kitchen was bustling with females. Her two companions were sitting at the kitchen table zoning out at each other. Bulma was sipping coffee on the couch with Videl and 18. ChiChi was moving around from room to room talking to various people. Pan said good morning to everyone and then sat down with her friends. "So, anything new?"
"Morning Pan, no Vegeta's asleep in the lab. When he gets up you can go in and check on that guy, he's stabilized now. And everyone else can play 20 questions with Vegeta." Marron explained.
"Hey that's right, you want to see this guy don't you, I mean, like, check him out sort of thing, right?" Pan only blushed a little.
"So what if I do want to see him?"
"See who?" The voice came from right next to her ear and she jumped.
"TRUNKS!" Came Bra's annoyed voice. "We were TRYING to have a conversation, now go bug somebody else." She had barely finished the sentence when her eyes lit up and she declared, " I want coffee." She stood up and walked away.
"Hey Trunks, I don't suppose Goten's up yet is he?" Marron asked.
"No. Why?"
"No reason!" She got up and headed for the stairs.
"Now you've done it. Poor Goten." Pan smiled. But Trunks didn't say anything, he just stood next to Pan. "Sooooo…"
"Pan, last night when we were at that building, you started to say something about a dream."
"Oh! Did I? I really don't remember, you know me Trunks, I babble when I'm woken up in the middle of the night. I probably wasn't even fully awake." She stood up and tried to walk away. "I'm gonna go try to save Goten." But he got in front of her.
"No, you have to talk to me first. Please Pan, this is important." She gave him a cautious look.
"Please?"
"Alright. Lets go into the den."
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Goku and Gohan descended the staircase as Pan and Trunks walked by. "Hey," Gohan started "Where are they going?"
"Oh for heaven's sake Gohan, they're just going to talk in the den. Don't worry about it." Videl reassured as she walked towards him. "You know that Pan and Trunks are only friends. Now would you two like something to eat?"
"Would I!" Goku laughed, "If you've got to ask, then you don't deserve an answer." And he ran down to the kitchen. Eventually Krillin rolled out of bed and everyone decided to enjoy their breakfast and then wait for Vegeta to come in. Meanwhile, Nomokai was also dreaming….
A girl I in a white dress stood in a hallway, talking to a man, "You will marry him…..You NEED to marry him" "I will lose my freedom?" "What would you do with it if you didn't?"* Another image came, the girl standing before another man now * "DON'T think you can tame me! I'm not one of those foolish girls from the lower class. I am your equal in rank and your superior (by far) in power." "HAH! Care to prove it?" "YES" she lunged at him, hitting him square in the jaw, taking his feet out from under him with her own. As his back hit the floor, she slammed her heel down on his chest, then placed a knee on either side of his hips and (yes she was straddling him HAPPY? I said it) formed a ki blast right over his throat. He shot a hand up to punch her in the face, but the ki blast hit it first and she hit his other hand with another. "Damn you woman!! What was the second one for?!" "Just so you didn't get any ideas"* Now he saw the girl's face, close to his * "I'm going to show you something that you can't tell anyone else" She produced a ki blast and held it a moment ~So?~ "So watch this." It rose in the air, slowly, and turning colors once it was up about ten feet, it turned blue, began sparkling, and exploded. When a small cloud had passed,a dagger floated down, also glowing blue, and landed in her hand. ~Holy Crap! You can do it too?! You could save us, I mean, you could stop it! What else do you do?~ "I can do many kinds of magic, transfiguration, levitation, a certain type of mind control…"* Again the scene changed, now to the spaceship, where a bloody mess lay around.* Starista was just standing up, NO! BEHIND YOU! Too late, she had been stabbed once, but not again! MOVE STARISTA! Then he felt a rush, a piercing pain in his chest, then darkness. He heard a scream a few minutes later, it was her. He forced his eyes open, to see, though he only saw shadows, he saw her on the wall. NOT her! NO!SHE'LL DIE! ~YOU BASTERD, I'LL DESTROY YOU! YOU HEAR ME! YOU'RE DEAD!~ Nomokai didn't even recognize his own voice. His green hair went gold, and he rushed the back of the huge thing that had once been her father. He slammed into his head with his foot, and landed in front of the man, who was now stumbling clumsily around. Carefully, Nomokai took the knives out of Starista's wrists and eased her onto the floor. Now one of the cursed blue daggers was in his hand, if he used it, the Master of it's creation would have partial control of him, but he didn't care. Starista's father was once the most powerful saiyan on the planet, her mother the most powerful sorceress, this dagger was the only thing strong enough to corrupt her father, so it was the only thing strong enough to kill him. The man was just straitening out, Nomokai jumped, and plunged it deep into his forehead. The man screamed and fell backwards. The blue light spread over his entire body, and all the henchmen's corpses. The remaining daggers, which were in various places also began to glow bright blue. Then everything began to fade, and vanished. He turned around and she was gone, but where…? ~Starista? Starista? He limped down a partially destroyed hallway, and saw her trying to run down it, when she collapsed. But he reached her in time and pulled her up to him, and closed his eyes. He knew that nothing could be done to save the ship, that they had ruined the computers, but he wasn't frightened, and he knew she wasn't either ~Its ok Starista, your father's gone for good.
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"Pan, I'm not trying to force you into saying something you don't want to, but if you're having visions too, then I think you need to tell someone." Trunks was sitting in a big chair, Pan was standing, she didn't want to stay very long. "Now I know you might not want to tell me, so if that's the case will you just answer one question for me?" She nodded. "Are you having visions like mine? I mean, do you see what I said that I saw?"
"Not exactly. I already told Bra, but you can know too." So she told him about her recurring dreams of a man and the crying girl, and the blood. " Trunks, please don't think I'm crazy, but, umm, the guy in my dreams, resembles that guy that I found, and the girl, well, her injuries are awfully familiar too, so I was thinking that maybe my dreams, and yours were.."
"Predictions?"
"Well, that's all that I think makes sense. But they would have been predictions leading up to last night if that was the case, so they'll either stop, or change now. Right?"
"Makes sense to me, all we have to do is ask them. When they wake up of course"
"Duh."
"Hey, don't make fun of me, I'm running o 6 hours of sleep."
"Oh poor baby." She taunted. He stood up.
"Careful Pan, you don't want to tick off an already cranky saiyan now do you?"
"What's-a-matter," She started backing towards a pool table for cover. "Is Trunks gonna need a nappy-wappy?"
"You're DEAD Pan!" He laughed and ran towards her.
"Not if you can't catch me!" She lapped the pool table a few times, then diverted her course towards a staircase. Once atop it, she wasn't sure where she was, and ducked into a doorway, and when she heard Trunks coming, she opened the door and ran forward. It appeared to be another one of Bulma's labs so she decided to slow down to a walk, there was no glass on the door and Trunks wouldn't see her. She realized after a moment though, that she wasn't alone, someone was opening the door on the other side of the lab, so she ducked behind a bookcase to look at them. It was the boy from last night! He staggered a little, and then dropped to the floor. "What the hell" she thought, "I'm feeling brave, and she cautiously approached him. The light in this room was from the open ceiling, and since it was cloudy, there wasn't much, Pan was only about two feet away from him when she finally said something. "Excuse me, I think you came from the other room, and before I say anything else I want to tell you that I have no idea who you are, and all I know about you is that you're a saiyan that Vegeta doesn't want to kill. That's good by the way." He looked up at her and Pan eeped slightly at his good looks. His hair was dark green, and his eyes were like holes, she almost felt lost just looking into them. He had finely chiseled cheeks, and (like the other saiyans in her life) had 0% body fat. He was only wearing a pair of black boxers and Pan found herself ogling. "Do you need a hand?" She reached out a hand to him, not sure if he would take it or not.
"What's your name?"
"Pan, how about you?"
"Nomokai. Before we go anywhere, Pan, where am I?"
"You're on Earth, in the, well you were in the medical lab of Bulma Briefs."
"Oh, then I was only dreaming. For some reason I thought I was still on Planet Vegeta, I thought I saw the Prince."
"You probably did, that is, if you're referring to Prince Vegeta." He just stared open-mouthed at her. "But..then he succeeded! He took over this planet?"
"Umm, not quite, actually, he's on our side now!"
"Our?"
"Earth."
"I see. But you're a saiyan aren't you?" She was now the one gaping.
"Yes, partly, but how did you know?" He pointed behind her. Somehow her tail had snaked loose, revealing her. "Oops." He smiled at her.
"Are you related to the Prince then?"
"Hah! Yeah right, I'm the exact opposite. I'm his rival's grand- daughter."
"Where did he come from?"
"Well, have you ever heard the name Bardock?"
"Yes, actually, that is familiar. He's lower class though right?"
"Yup, he's my great grandfather." Nomokai looked back toward the ground and whispered.
"no way…it worked…"
"What worked?" His head shot up again to look at her.
"I'll make a deal with you Pan. I can't explain any of this yet, I'm just not allowed to, but when I can tell, you'll be the first to know." Pan pouted playfully but then settled to those terms.
"You gonna sit on the floor all day?" She once again gave her hand, which he took and then used her shoulder as a support as he steadied himself. "I'm probably going to be in trouble for talking to you, but that's too bad, fate stepped in." He smiled again.
"How old are you Pan?"
"18, you?"
"23." The two went back into the med-lab, gave Nomokai a towel, and then walked into the living room.
"Why don't you let me give the introduction." And with that she walked into the kitchen to find everyone awake and questioning Vegeta.
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"Wow," thought Nomokai, "She's pretty cute! Pan, you and I need to talk again sometime. But how could this have happened. Prince Vegeta was the best, and he switched sides! Maybe he won't be able to help." He could hear Pan in the other roo now, trying to explain herself.
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"Pan! Where've you been, I lost you upstairs, and then everyone else said to come down here." Trunks asked
"Ok, well that's actually pretty interesting." She looked up to see Bra, Marron, Trunks, and Goten sitting on the countertops around the kitchen. ChiChi, Videl, 18, and Bulma were sitting at the table, and Krillin, Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta were standing against various walls, but all were staring at her. "Trunks was trying to kill me," He blushed furiously and got 'looks' from various people and an elbow from Goten. "so I ran up a staircase, but I didn't recognize where I was. When he came up after me I ducked into a room and realized it was a lab. So I was about to leave again when somebody else opened the door on the opposite side of the room, and I ducked behind a bookcase to see who it was. The mysterious person stumbled a little and fell, so I went to look at who it was." She stopped short.
"Come on Pan, don't leave us hanging here, who was it?" Came Goku's happy voice. Pan cleared her throat, but Nomokai entered before she could continue.
"Nomokai."
Morning finally came, giving way to a cold, rainy day, and Bulma found herself to be the first one awake-at 10:30. She sat up quickly, realizing she was in her own bed. "Oh no," she thought aloud, "I must have come up last night, so that means no one's in the lab." She then ran down the stairs, and into her lab. And to her great surprise, she found Vegeta sitting in a chair, his arms folded, eyes closed, with a scowl on his face. When had he come in? Had he been there all night? Bulma sighed and walked around him to the table where the girl lay. "So, you're royalty are you? If Vegeta doesn't want to kill you though, I imagine you're pretty important to him. I'm his wife, and you're in my medical lab, in case you can hear me I just thought you should know." She stood up and moved over to the boy's table. "You're a saiyan too, huh? But you're not, royalty. You know, there's a young woman pretty interested in you. I don't know why, but, she'll be in later to day. Now that you're stabilized, well both of you are, people are going to want to come gawk at you. Now if you can hear me buddy, listen up. I know that that girl over there is under your guard, but when you wake up, DON'T freak out again and try attacking someone. You're likely to get your ass kicked, at least around here." She stepped away again and looked at Vegeta. What she wouldn't give to know what he knew. She grabbed a blanket and pulled it around his shoulders before leaving the lab again to go start the many auto-meal machines on making breakfast.
*Lost in unconsciousness, the girl was having a dream-like flashback. *
*A woman in a red gown rushes down a long corridor with one door at the end. She is calling out a name, inaudible, bangs on the door, no answer. She opens it. "HE'S GONE!"* another picture comes *A man in shadows leans against a wall, something draws nearer to him "You're late" ~Please don't go! Its not that important is it? ~ "By asking you insult me, you should be proud that your fiancée is going" ~But what if…~ "HAH! Impossible!"* The scene changes again * A woman in black approaches, "He is dead! Stop being foolish and except it! You are a weak excuse for a saiyan!" ~I just wanted to be with him!~ "You must stay here now, find another man" she leaves,~I'll never marry anyone else, I don't believe he's dead, I'll prove it somehow~* another vision flashes, alarms are buzzing everywhere * "This isn't possible!" A woman in armor screams "We cannot be defeated, we cannot!" "Starista!" an old woman in bright green calls. "You must go, use whatever means possible and GO!" ~But my brother! ~ "He is brave!" (Her visions turn down a long hallway toward a steel door, a man with green hair appears) "Princess!" ~We're leaving! NOW! Prepare the ship! ~ He opens the steel door and starts some sort of engine. She tries to step in when a voice from behind calls her. "STARISTA!" She turns, a man approaches quickly and glares at her, he stops. "WHERE are you going?" ~My lady in waiting, she told me to go~ "GO? Are you MAD!" ~Please, I..~ "NO!" He grabs her by the neck and lifts her, she kicks him in the crotch, punches him in the nose and jams her fingers into his eyes. He drops her while screaming in pain, but recovers quickly and catches her before she gets too far into whatever doorway was opened. He grabs her by the waist with one arm and pulls her hair back with the other, causing her to look straight up. He produces a knife and whispers, "did you really think you'd get away, that I'd let you go, you belong on the throne, you need to RULE!" ~That's impossible, I can't rule a graveyard. ~ "HOW DARE YOU! YOU DISGRACEFUL LITTLE BITCH!" He slams her onto the floor, and jams the knife deep into her back, right beneath the shoulder blade. She crys out in pain, the knife glows blue, and she knows that it is cursed, that is why she cannot stand against it. But she kicks her feet up, hits his arm, and he lets go of the knife. She pulls it out, stands up and faces off with him. But she finds herself outnumbered. Four more men appear. One against five corrupted monsters, formerly known as saiyan nobility. "You have a decision to make PRINCESS! Take the throne or DIE!" ~If it means destroying this war-torn place more than it already is, I choose death! He would never want this, he would rather I die then allow his planet to be dominated! ~ "NO! YOU MUST DO AS I SAY! NOW TAKE THE THRONE OR DIE!" ~You really are assholes aren't you~ "FINE then. You WILL die." The lead man fires several ki blasts at her, as do the others, only one grazes her arm as she out maneuvers the rest. All four charge her once the smoke has cleared and take out daggers, all glowing blue. ~Shit~ Just then the man who started the engine runs out of the door he had been in. "What's going on?" ~Can't you tell Nomokai? We're having pedicures and discussing our differences!~ * the image fades again, bringing forth a new one.* Both man and woman are on the floor of a small spaceship, Nomokai holding Starista's head in his lap. Both have blood all over them, four bulky bodies lay sprawled around them, the henchmen of the original attacker ~At least, we got these.~ She holds up two black balls with her family crest on them in red.~ "Lets pray we find the other two before anyone else does" she nods ~I'm going to go clean up a little~ she stands up, and suddenly feels pressure, then pain on her back. She turns to see the first attacker, just finishing his threat of death. Nomokai rises, and shoves her aside just as the attacker brings down his knife again, deep into his chest and pulling down. Starista heard nothing, she was in a trance, she couldn't quite breath, couldn't quite see. This was what falling under the spell was like wasn't it. That wicked woman knew what she was doing when she decided to attack the saiyans. Nomokai spit up blood and hit the floor, Starista stumbled on something and was backed against a wall. Her vision blurred but she saw him pull back two knives and let them fly at her, through skin, muscle, past a bone, and through muscle, then out the skin and into the wall. Both her wrists had been pierced, crucifying her to the wall. She felt herself being laid down on the floor, and opened her eyes to see the attacker and Nomokai, because she was dazed, she could think of only one thing to do, get help. She would be of no use to him, and so she went down a hallway. But she forgot what she was doing, where was she? What was going on? Was someone calling her name? Starista just couldn't find the strength to get up. But she was caught by someone, and then she heard Nomokai say to her "It's ok Starista, your father's gone for good."
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Pan sat up and looked at the clock, 11:00, only 6 ½ hours of sleep, she'd had worse. She stood up and stretched, then walked downstairs since she had been sharing a room with Marron and Bra, and now found herself alone. Sure enough, the kitchen was bustling with females. Her two companions were sitting at the kitchen table zoning out at each other. Bulma was sipping coffee on the couch with Videl and 18. ChiChi was moving around from room to room talking to various people. Pan said good morning to everyone and then sat down with her friends. "So, anything new?"
"Morning Pan, no Vegeta's asleep in the lab. When he gets up you can go in and check on that guy, he's stabilized now. And everyone else can play 20 questions with Vegeta." Marron explained.
"Hey that's right, you want to see this guy don't you, I mean, like, check him out sort of thing, right?" Pan only blushed a little.
"So what if I do want to see him?"
"See who?" The voice came from right next to her ear and she jumped.
"TRUNKS!" Came Bra's annoyed voice. "We were TRYING to have a conversation, now go bug somebody else." She had barely finished the sentence when her eyes lit up and she declared, " I want coffee." She stood up and walked away.
"Hey Trunks, I don't suppose Goten's up yet is he?" Marron asked.
"No. Why?"
"No reason!" She got up and headed for the stairs.
"Now you've done it. Poor Goten." Pan smiled. But Trunks didn't say anything, he just stood next to Pan. "Sooooo…"
"Pan, last night when we were at that building, you started to say something about a dream."
"Oh! Did I? I really don't remember, you know me Trunks, I babble when I'm woken up in the middle of the night. I probably wasn't even fully awake." She stood up and tried to walk away. "I'm gonna go try to save Goten." But he got in front of her.
"No, you have to talk to me first. Please Pan, this is important." She gave him a cautious look.
"Please?"
"Alright. Lets go into the den."
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Goku and Gohan descended the staircase as Pan and Trunks walked by. "Hey," Gohan started "Where are they going?"
"Oh for heaven's sake Gohan, they're just going to talk in the den. Don't worry about it." Videl reassured as she walked towards him. "You know that Pan and Trunks are only friends. Now would you two like something to eat?"
"Would I!" Goku laughed, "If you've got to ask, then you don't deserve an answer." And he ran down to the kitchen. Eventually Krillin rolled out of bed and everyone decided to enjoy their breakfast and then wait for Vegeta to come in. Meanwhile, Nomokai was also dreaming….
A girl I in a white dress stood in a hallway, talking to a man, "You will marry him…..You NEED to marry him" "I will lose my freedom?" "What would you do with it if you didn't?"* Another image came, the girl standing before another man now * "DON'T think you can tame me! I'm not one of those foolish girls from the lower class. I am your equal in rank and your superior (by far) in power." "HAH! Care to prove it?" "YES" she lunged at him, hitting him square in the jaw, taking his feet out from under him with her own. As his back hit the floor, she slammed her heel down on his chest, then placed a knee on either side of his hips and (yes she was straddling him HAPPY? I said it) formed a ki blast right over his throat. He shot a hand up to punch her in the face, but the ki blast hit it first and she hit his other hand with another. "Damn you woman!! What was the second one for?!" "Just so you didn't get any ideas"* Now he saw the girl's face, close to his * "I'm going to show you something that you can't tell anyone else" She produced a ki blast and held it a moment ~So?~ "So watch this." It rose in the air, slowly, and turning colors once it was up about ten feet, it turned blue, began sparkling, and exploded. When a small cloud had passed,a dagger floated down, also glowing blue, and landed in her hand. ~Holy Crap! You can do it too?! You could save us, I mean, you could stop it! What else do you do?~ "I can do many kinds of magic, transfiguration, levitation, a certain type of mind control…"* Again the scene changed, now to the spaceship, where a bloody mess lay around.* Starista was just standing up, NO! BEHIND YOU! Too late, she had been stabbed once, but not again! MOVE STARISTA! Then he felt a rush, a piercing pain in his chest, then darkness. He heard a scream a few minutes later, it was her. He forced his eyes open, to see, though he only saw shadows, he saw her on the wall. NOT her! NO!SHE'LL DIE! ~YOU BASTERD, I'LL DESTROY YOU! YOU HEAR ME! YOU'RE DEAD!~ Nomokai didn't even recognize his own voice. His green hair went gold, and he rushed the back of the huge thing that had once been her father. He slammed into his head with his foot, and landed in front of the man, who was now stumbling clumsily around. Carefully, Nomokai took the knives out of Starista's wrists and eased her onto the floor. Now one of the cursed blue daggers was in his hand, if he used it, the Master of it's creation would have partial control of him, but he didn't care. Starista's father was once the most powerful saiyan on the planet, her mother the most powerful sorceress, this dagger was the only thing strong enough to corrupt her father, so it was the only thing strong enough to kill him. The man was just straitening out, Nomokai jumped, and plunged it deep into his forehead. The man screamed and fell backwards. The blue light spread over his entire body, and all the henchmen's corpses. The remaining daggers, which were in various places also began to glow bright blue. Then everything began to fade, and vanished. He turned around and she was gone, but where…? ~Starista? Starista? He limped down a partially destroyed hallway, and saw her trying to run down it, when she collapsed. But he reached her in time and pulled her up to him, and closed his eyes. He knew that nothing could be done to save the ship, that they had ruined the computers, but he wasn't frightened, and he knew she wasn't either ~Its ok Starista, your father's gone for good.
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"Pan, I'm not trying to force you into saying something you don't want to, but if you're having visions too, then I think you need to tell someone." Trunks was sitting in a big chair, Pan was standing, she didn't want to stay very long. "Now I know you might not want to tell me, so if that's the case will you just answer one question for me?" She nodded. "Are you having visions like mine? I mean, do you see what I said that I saw?"
"Not exactly. I already told Bra, but you can know too." So she told him about her recurring dreams of a man and the crying girl, and the blood. " Trunks, please don't think I'm crazy, but, umm, the guy in my dreams, resembles that guy that I found, and the girl, well, her injuries are awfully familiar too, so I was thinking that maybe my dreams, and yours were.."
"Predictions?"
"Well, that's all that I think makes sense. But they would have been predictions leading up to last night if that was the case, so they'll either stop, or change now. Right?"
"Makes sense to me, all we have to do is ask them. When they wake up of course"
"Duh."
"Hey, don't make fun of me, I'm running o 6 hours of sleep."
"Oh poor baby." She taunted. He stood up.
"Careful Pan, you don't want to tick off an already cranky saiyan now do you?"
"What's-a-matter," She started backing towards a pool table for cover. "Is Trunks gonna need a nappy-wappy?"
"You're DEAD Pan!" He laughed and ran towards her.
"Not if you can't catch me!" She lapped the pool table a few times, then diverted her course towards a staircase. Once atop it, she wasn't sure where she was, and ducked into a doorway, and when she heard Trunks coming, she opened the door and ran forward. It appeared to be another one of Bulma's labs so she decided to slow down to a walk, there was no glass on the door and Trunks wouldn't see her. She realized after a moment though, that she wasn't alone, someone was opening the door on the other side of the lab, so she ducked behind a bookcase to look at them. It was the boy from last night! He staggered a little, and then dropped to the floor. "What the hell" she thought, "I'm feeling brave, and she cautiously approached him. The light in this room was from the open ceiling, and since it was cloudy, there wasn't much, Pan was only about two feet away from him when she finally said something. "Excuse me, I think you came from the other room, and before I say anything else I want to tell you that I have no idea who you are, and all I know about you is that you're a saiyan that Vegeta doesn't want to kill. That's good by the way." He looked up at her and Pan eeped slightly at his good looks. His hair was dark green, and his eyes were like holes, she almost felt lost just looking into them. He had finely chiseled cheeks, and (like the other saiyans in her life) had 0% body fat. He was only wearing a pair of black boxers and Pan found herself ogling. "Do you need a hand?" She reached out a hand to him, not sure if he would take it or not.
"What's your name?"
"Pan, how about you?"
"Nomokai. Before we go anywhere, Pan, where am I?"
"You're on Earth, in the, well you were in the medical lab of Bulma Briefs."
"Oh, then I was only dreaming. For some reason I thought I was still on Planet Vegeta, I thought I saw the Prince."
"You probably did, that is, if you're referring to Prince Vegeta." He just stared open-mouthed at her. "But..then he succeeded! He took over this planet?"
"Umm, not quite, actually, he's on our side now!"
"Our?"
"Earth."
"I see. But you're a saiyan aren't you?" She was now the one gaping.
"Yes, partly, but how did you know?" He pointed behind her. Somehow her tail had snaked loose, revealing her. "Oops." He smiled at her.
"Are you related to the Prince then?"
"Hah! Yeah right, I'm the exact opposite. I'm his rival's grand- daughter."
"Where did he come from?"
"Well, have you ever heard the name Bardock?"
"Yes, actually, that is familiar. He's lower class though right?"
"Yup, he's my great grandfather." Nomokai looked back toward the ground and whispered.
"no way…it worked…"
"What worked?" His head shot up again to look at her.
"I'll make a deal with you Pan. I can't explain any of this yet, I'm just not allowed to, but when I can tell, you'll be the first to know." Pan pouted playfully but then settled to those terms.
"You gonna sit on the floor all day?" She once again gave her hand, which he took and then used her shoulder as a support as he steadied himself. "I'm probably going to be in trouble for talking to you, but that's too bad, fate stepped in." He smiled again.
"How old are you Pan?"
"18, you?"
"23." The two went back into the med-lab, gave Nomokai a towel, and then walked into the living room.
"Why don't you let me give the introduction." And with that she walked into the kitchen to find everyone awake and questioning Vegeta.
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"Wow," thought Nomokai, "She's pretty cute! Pan, you and I need to talk again sometime. But how could this have happened. Prince Vegeta was the best, and he switched sides! Maybe he won't be able to help." He could hear Pan in the other roo now, trying to explain herself.
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"Pan! Where've you been, I lost you upstairs, and then everyone else said to come down here." Trunks asked
"Ok, well that's actually pretty interesting." She looked up to see Bra, Marron, Trunks, and Goten sitting on the countertops around the kitchen. ChiChi, Videl, 18, and Bulma were sitting at the table, and Krillin, Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta were standing against various walls, but all were staring at her. "Trunks was trying to kill me," He blushed furiously and got 'looks' from various people and an elbow from Goten. "so I ran up a staircase, but I didn't recognize where I was. When he came up after me I ducked into a room and realized it was a lab. So I was about to leave again when somebody else opened the door on the opposite side of the room, and I ducked behind a bookcase to see who it was. The mysterious person stumbled a little and fell, so I went to look at who it was." She stopped short.
"Come on Pan, don't leave us hanging here, who was it?" Came Goku's happy voice. Pan cleared her throat, but Nomokai entered before she could continue.
"Nomokai."
