Chapter 4: Unlikely 'fall'

On her way home, Katrina had been feeling strange ever since she was walking toward the Capsule Crop.

"Hey Kat, What's the matter with you?" Reyna had said popping out of her bookbag.

"Oh, nothing. I just have the weird feeling again. You better hid before someone sees you," she answered opening up her bookbag to let Reyna in.

"Hi," a boy said. Katrina jumped and shoved Reyna out of sight.

"What? Are you talking to me?" Katrina said puzzled making sure Reyna actually had listened.

"Who else would I be talking to? My name is Danny. What is yours?" he replied extending his hand out to hers.

"Well, hi, my name is Katrina, but all of my friends call me Kat," she said accepting his hand. "I never seen you before at school. Did you just move in?"

"Why, yes I did. I just live down the road."

"Hey, so do I."

"That's cool."

"When do you start school?"

"I don't I'm going to be homed schooled."

This is strange… It's like I met him before somewhere, and that strange feeling has not gone away. Maybe… it's this boy, wait that can't be I felt it before I met him. Oh well.

"HHHELLLOOO?! Earth to Kat, are you there?" he said waving his hand in front of her face.

"Huh?! Oh, yeah. I'm here. Sorry, I do that a lot. What did you say?"

"I said, where are you heading now?"

"Track practice."

"On a Saturday?"

"Yeah, I like to get an early start for the week. Call me crazy.'

The two had begun to walk around the corner when Katrina started to sway, then passed out. Danny began to shake her to try to wake her up. When he 'failed' he picked her up and walked her to the front door of the Capsule Crop. and rang the door-bell.

"Hold on, Goten. Let me answer the door," Trunks replied as he left the gravity room, and powering down. "I'll be right there," he yelled through the door. "Okay… Hi."

"Hi, can you help me? You see my friend here just passed out in front of your house," Danny said holding the limp girl in his arms to show a purple hair boy. "I don't know where she lives, we just met a few minutes ago."

"That's all right. Just follow me. She can stay in the infirmary until she wakes up." Leading the teens to the room.

"Yeah, My name is Danny."

"Oh, mine is Trunks. You can just put her on the bed," he said opening the door and pointing to the bed.

"Thank you very much. Your parents don't mind us being here?" Danny asked placing the young teen on the bed.

"No, they're not here at the moment. It's just me and my friend. We're training."

"Training? For what?"

"Nothing. Our fathers wants us to stay in shape just in case."

"Hey, Trunks what's going on? You never came back," another teen said poking his head through the door.

"Oh sorry, Goten. These two had to come and use a bed. She had passed out and Danny didn't know where she lived."

"Sorry. Hi, I'm Goten," he said shaking Danny's hand.

"Hi, I'm Danny. Man I'm meeting a lot of people today."

"What's her name?" Goten said looking at Katrina.

"Oh, her? Her name is Katrina."

"Goten, did you hear that? Doesn't that look like that girl we met at the hospital about five year ago?" Trunks whispered to Goten.

"Yeah, your right… She does."

***

An hour later…

"Uh, where am I? What am I doing here?" a confusing teen said waking up.

"Your up. We are at the Capsule Corp. You had passed out about an hour ago. Are you okay, now?" Danny said helping the teen up. Trunks had entered the room with a glass of water.

"Oh, your up. How are you doing?"

"Who are you? You look familiar to me. How do I know you?"

"My name is Trunks. We met at the hospital about five years ago."

"Oh now, I remember. How are you doing? Where's Goten, right?"

"He's here. He's just resting."

"Well, I better get going. My coach must be wondering where I am. Thank you. I'll see you later. I hope," Katrina said getting up and started to leave, before she collapsed again.

"Kat, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's that weird feeling again." She was trying to regain her balance.

"What weird feeling?" Trunks said.

"Well, when ever I'm near here I feel funny."

"I don't know. That sounds strange to me."

"Any ways, I have to go."

"But, are you sure you are all right?" Danny said.

"Yes, I'm fine. The sooner I leave the sooner the feeling will go away. I hope. Thank you, again, for helping me. Tell Goten I said hi."

"Yeah, I have to go, too. Thanks again," Danny said trying to catch up with Katrina.

"Goten… Goten, did you see that? She almost fainted again," Trunks replied as he entered the gravity room, where his friend was.

"No."

"Well, she got up and collapsed. She also said it only happens when she's around Capsule Corp. and I think when she was at the hospital she had passed out when we came. How odd is that?"

"I don't know. Maybe she can detect something about us that is unique. Like our energy. We were training when the doorbell rang. Right?" questioned Goten.

"You could be right. Next time let's figure out a way to find out, You know? Her green little friend wasn't around ether. I wonder why."

"I don't know, but all this talking makes me hungry. Let's eat."

"I agree. Let's." The two were off to the kitchen to have their 'snacks'.

"You don't have to follow me to practice. I'm fine," Katrina said turning around to face Danny.

"I just want to make sure you are all right. Is that a crime?"

"I'll be fine. So, please go." She ran off leaving Danny, who was dumbfounded, on the sidewalk.

Chapter 5: A strange enemy

"Hey, Kat! How are you doing?"

"Huh?!" Katrina said turning around to see that it was Trunks and Goten. "Oh, hi! I have been doing fine. And you?" She was wearing a white tank top, with a denim jacket and pants, and black laced high heals boots.

"We're fine. Nice to see you awake and not passed out," joked Goten.

"Where are you heading?" questioned Trunks.

"I'm meeting my friends at the movies, that starts about nine. Do you two want to come?" She winked at Goten. Which made him blush. Trunks looked at Goten and shrugged.

"Sure. Why not?" answered Goten.

"Hi, Katrina," said an evil voice coming from behind Katrina. Katrina spun around, reviling a green man hovering over the sidewalk.

"Who are you?… Do I know you?" shuddered Katrina.

"My name is Darius. I'm here to make you my wife. Come quietly and no one will get hurt," Darius replied as he reached for the frightened Katrina.

"NEVER," yelled Katrina. She grabbed his arm and flung him across the street, which made the wall crumbled. "There," Katrina added. Goten and Trunks looked at each other wide-eyed.

"Why you little…" said Darius angrily. He got up and 'shot' straight toward Katrina.

"Katrina, WATCH OUT," Goten said, pointing behind her. As she spun around Darius had kicked her right in the face.

"That should teach you not to mess with me," laughed Darius. "What? Do you want some?" Looking at the two boys. Goten bent down to see if Katrina was all right.

"Are you all right?" he asked her, and helping her up.

"Yes, I'm fine. Let me finish this guy. You two leave me alone, for the moment," she replied pushing him off to the side. "I will never go with you. You will wish you never messed with me," she said.

"Ha, don't make me laugh, silly, little girl. You don't know whom you are messing with. I'm a Nameck and you can't beat a Nameck," he laughed. She had managed to get her strength to punch him dead in the face.

"I don't care who you are. Leave me alone." Punching him again in the face.

"Trunks, did he just said the he is a Nameck? What does he want with Katrina? She is just a regular girl," Goten asked.

"Yeah, but I wouldn't quite say that she is regular," he replied.

"What?!"

"Well look… She is kicking his butt, and he is a Nameck. That isn't normal."

"I see what you mean."

The two just watched the girl and Nameck fighting. Darius had managed to get 'away' from Katrina for the moment, but before sending a ki right at her.

What in the world is this, I don't know but I feel faint. I think I'm going to pass out, and I can't move. My leg is killing me. Katrina has a high tolerance for pain but she couldn't handle this. Goten notice that Katrina couldn't get up, so before the ki hit he ran and blocked the blast. When he turned around, he noticed that she had a broken leg, her lip was split open, her cloths were stained and torn and was knocked out cold.

"How about you leave her alone right, now, or you are going to have to put up with me; and you will not like it," Goten said angrily as he picked up Katrina and started to walk away.

"No, she is mine. Give her to me," roared Darius.

"Trunks, please watch her for me and put her in a safe place. I think I have to get rid of a pest," Goten said to Trunks and handing him Katrina. "I have warred you. Now, you are going to pay." Goten watched to make sure Trunks was in a safe place, before he lugged toward Darius. Darius dogged Goten's attack and shot a ki beam right at the back of Goten's head. Goten had managed to fly up and miss the beam. Goten had had enough and began to power up.

"Oh, I'm scared. You're powering up. You know so can I? Do you want me to show you?" questioned Darius. Goten, now half way powered up, said nothing but just glared at him. "Fine, then let me show you."

Darius had powered up.

"Is that the best that you can do? Come on, with all the talk that you said I was hoping for some competition," smirked Goten.

"Don't mess with me!" Darius said. "IT… SUMO… HIDOI." And a strong yellow ki hurdled toward Goten. Goten deflected the attack and sent it in the sky. When Goten was busy deflecting the attack, Darius had faded behind Goten and kicked him right in the back, sending him to the street below, making a small crater. Goten now very angry, got up slowly, spat out some blood, brushed of the dirt and blood on the side of his mouth, and shot right back up at the laughing Nameck.

"You are going down. KA… ME… HA" Darius, knowing that he was in troubled, started to amscray. "Yeah, you better run," Goten shouted.

"I will be back. Just you wait."

Goten powered down and went to where Trunks was. "Hey, how is she?"

"Not too good. We have to get her to my house. Maybe my mom can help."

"I don't think so. Your mom will kill us if she knew we let Kat, fight. How about the hospital?"

"Her mom works there. Do you have a senzu bean?"

"No," Goten said, searching his pockets, "and we don't have any at home."

"Nether do I."

"I've got it. How about we go to Dende's. Maybe he can heal her?"

"That's a good idea. I hope he will." And the two were off, with Katrina in Goten's arm.

"Hey, Dende, are you here?" shouted Goten, searching the tower, with Trunks.

"Yes!? Aah, it's you, Trunks and Goten. Who is this with you?" Dende said, walking toward the three.

"This is Katrina. Yes, we know no one can come here, but it is an emergency. Can you heal her?" begged Goten.

"Yes, sure anything for you two… What happened?"

"Well, this weird person, came up and clamed that Katrina was going to be his wife. The weirdest part was… he was a Nameck, and Katrina had no clue who he was," Trunks said as he watched Dende heal the young teen.

"Ahumm. You guys take a look at this," Dende said almost done healing Katrina.

"What? What is it?" questioned Goten. "What the?"

Chapter 6: A clue to the truth

The three stared wide eye at Katrina, as she started to stir around.

"Huh?!… What happened? I'm all right. Wait, who are you?" Katrina said puzzled. "What? Why are you staring at me? Do I have snot on my nose or something?"

"Oh, sorry, his name is Dende, and he healed you," answered Goten.

"Hi," Dende said. "I am always happy to help."

"Thank you, but are you with that other guy, Darius?"

"No, I don't know any one named that."

"But Katrina, I think you should look in a mirror because you look different," Trunks said in a weak voice.

"What do you mean, I look different? I feel fine." Katrina looked at her hands and noticed that they were green. "WHAT AM I, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO ME; I'M GREEN?"

"Well, you do look kind of like me. I mean you look like a Nameck," Dende replied. "Which is odd because all Nameckians' are males. Hey Piccolo, Mr. Popo, can you two come out here, I have a question for you two. I mean Goten and Trunks have a question."

"What is it Dende?" Piccolo asked walking toward them.

"Look," he said pointing to the teen.

"What in the world… Who is she, and what is she doing her?" Piccolo questioned.

"Sorry Piccolo, but Trunks and I brought her here. She was badly hurt and we asked Dende if he can heal her for us, and when he did she turned in to this," Goten said with is head held low. "Her name is Katrina, and some creep Nameck said that she was to be his bride, and they got into a fight."

"So Piccolo do you know what she is? Look," Dende added.

"Hey… what is going on here…? What are you people…? Some kind of aliens?" Katrina screamed. "You know you don't have to talk like I'm not here."

"Kat, calm down. This is Piccolo, the former guardian of the Earth, but now Dende is. Don't worry they wont bit, but I would watch out for Piccolo, he can get very angry when you mess with him," Trunks snickered.

"I heard that," Piccolo sneered.

"Oh, okay… Hi!?" Katrina said extending her hand. "Okay, now would some one tell me who or what I am?"

"Well, I don't have a clue I have never seen a girl Nameck before. I didn't even know that one exist. Did you know?" Dende said looking at Piccolo.

"No, but I think I do remember hearing something about women warriors that were able to turn into humans. That's all I remember."

"Hey, does that mean that I'm a warrior of some weird race? How cool is that? I wonder how I became a warrior? Does that mean that my mom is one of those warriors? I all was thought she was strange, how her and I can heal those people," Katrina said smiling and thinking at the same time.

"Maybe," Trunks said.

"Wait, did you say that you can heal people?" Goten added.

"Yes, but I am not aloud to use it in public and only on my friends. They can't tell tough, because if they did then I wouldn't be able to heal them again. Odd, huh?"

"Hey, Mr. Popo, can you come out here please," Dende said. Katrina watched as a little, black man came out.

"Yes, Dende, how can I help you?" he said.

"Do you know any thing about a race of women warriors who can turn into humans?"

"Ummm, let me see. Hum, I think I do recall one race, I believe they are called Humaikians. They can turn into a human form, and they have great powers. They look like Namecks but they are all women. They run their planet like the Namecks do. That is all that I can tell you," Mr. Popo said.

"Ahum, Goten, what is that?" Katrina whispered to Goten.

"That is Mr. Popo, he helps the guardian. He is very nice."

"Thank you Mr. Popo. You have helped out a lot," Trunks said.

"Well thank you all but I really have to go now, I think I should ask my mom about this," Katrina said bowing to every one as she headed to the edge.

"Kat, watch out it's a petty far fall from here. I think Trunks and I should help you back. I don't think that you should be seen like that, until you can control you human side," Goten said.

"What does that mean? I think I can mange." Katrina closed her eyes and concentrated very hard. She let out a faint scream and a light-yellow, swirling aura started to appear, next thing any one knew she was back in her human form. "See, I said I can mange."

"But how?"

"I guess Dende healed more than my body, he probably woke my powers."

"Do you know how to get down?"

"What do you mean? Get down? Aren't we on the ground?" Katrina said puzzled.

"No, we are on the look out, which is pretty far from the ground," Goten said pointing over the edge. "Take a look." Katrina walked over and looked down.

"If we are so high up then how did we get here?"

"Trunks and I flew you here."

"Well then get you plane and fly us down."

"Well, umm, we didn't quite used a plane, we actually flew here," Trunks said.

"What, are you pulling my leg? No one can fly that's just impossible. On the other hand I'm not ruling anything our," Katrina said as she looked dumbfounded.

"No, it's true we can fly and so can you. Since you all ready now how to us some of you powers you should learn very easily," Goten said, looking at Trunks to see if he would help. Trunks just shrugged his shoulders in an agreement. "Okay, let's get started. Oh Dende, you don't mind if we stay here do you, just until she can fly?" questioned Goten.

"No, not at all, after she learns, you all can stay for lunch."

"Ahh, thank you, Dende. Now Katrina, you know that energy you felt when you transformed?" Katrina nodded, but she still didn't understand what was going on. "You just have to will your ki to lift you off the ground and thrust you in whatever direction you want. Don't forget that you have to concentrate on you ki, to direct you in the direction that you want to go. Do you think that you can do that?" Goten said looking that the confused teen. "Kat, let me show you." Goten had let his ki glow a beautiful gold, then he lifted off the ground and he was off. He flew around in circles above Katrina's head.

"That looks easy," Katrina said after she understood it.

She concentrated on her ki when she thought that she got it, she looked up and tried to lift herself up toward Goten, who was only about ten feet above her. Trunks and Goten looked at her in amazement when she began to lift of the ground.

"Hey, Kat, you are doing it," Trunks said. Just as he said that she fell, it wasn't far but she was going to get a bruise on her butt, she knew that.

"Now look what you did, you broke my concentration," Katrina said rubbing her butt.

"Sorry."

"NO talking, I think I finally got this thing," she said as she tried to concentrate again. This time she actually was able to reach Goten.

"You did way to go," Goten said, giving her a hug. "Oh, sorry," Goten said after he realized what he was doing and started to blush.

"No, that's okay," she said patting the blushing boy on the back. "Now… can we get back to earth?" she asked looking at the two.

"Well, first Dende offered us lunch, when we were done. Now, are you willing to stay and have some, Mr. Popo is a great cook," Trunks said looking up at the two in the air. Katrina was thinking for a moment.

"I would love to but I want to go find my mom to straighten this thing out right now," she said in a thoughtful way.

"Okay, time to get down," Goten said flying to the edge of the lookout. "Trunks are you coming?"

"Sure, why not, I would like to know what's going on here." The trio left the lookout. "Oh, wait shouldn't we say goodbye to Dende and Piccolo?" Trunks finally said.

"I think that they all ready know," Katrina said.

"And how do you know that?" Goten asked.

"I just do. I don't know how, I just can sense it," she snickered as she pulsed and looked up at the look out.

Thank you, for helping me figure out what I might be… I was just wondering if Piccolo would mind fixing my cloths for me, she thought directing it to the three that were at the Look out. She waited a second before she flew to catch up the Trunks and Goten.

"Hey, Trunks, I'll right back I'm just going to go to Korin's, to grab some senzu beans, just in case that creep comes back." Goten darted past Trunks and went to Korin's place.

"Where did Goten go?" Katrina had caught up with Trunks.

"Oh, no where. He'll be back, soon." With that Goten was back.

Goten had looked at Trunks with a smile on this face. Katrina was trailing behind to look around, but something that Trunks and Goten was thinking made her look. She noticed them giving each other a sign, then with out warning they picked up their speed and left a trail behind. Before they left Katrina knew exactly what they were planing, and faded with out the two noticing. Katrina had reappeared about ten feet in front of the two and was lying down in the sky facing the two. Before the two even knew what as going on. Trunks and Goten were to busy laughing that they almost ran into Katrina.

"What? How did you…? I mean we…" Before Goten could get the words out, Katrina cloths had become like new.

"Oh, I have my ways of knowing what is going on," she snickered nicely.

Thanks Piccolo, she thought as Trunks and Goten were still trying to figure what was going on.

"One more question. How did you learn how to do that? I mean you just learned how to fly but you were able to fade out and how did your cloths change?"

"My personal ways."

On the way to the hospital, Katrina almost had some close encounters with the ground, but she was able to stop herself before she hit.

***

Less then an hour later the three flew to an alley near the hospital so they wouldn't be seen. They walked to the elevator and went to the forth floor where Katrina said that was the floor that her mother worked on.

"So Kat, what do you think that your mother might say?" asked Trunks.

"Oh, I don't know. I hope the truth," she said turning the corner.