A/N: Oh screw that 15 review timeline! I just wanna write!

Oh, I give ultimate thanks to Reda and I luv Kai, this story's most loyal reviewers. I hope you continue to read and that everyone follows your example! ^_^ Cookies for all in the review box thingy maggiger. Oh and, though I no longer care about reviews for updates, I would greatly appreciate it if you did review. Please and Thank you!

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Disclaimer: ARRGH! I do NOT own it, much to my GREAT dismay and ANGER. Calm down. . . calm down. . . sing a happy song. . . I feel pretty. . . oh so pretty. . .

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Chapter 5 Brats and Besiegers

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All she saw was a blur. A great shining blur. The walls flickered and the lights cast by something unknown to her danced on the roof and the walls of what appeared to be. . . a cave. So she turned herself over to study this place further and she found the tip of her nose a mere millimetre away from fire. She blinked and then immediatly began panicking. ": Okay, okay, I have no clue where I am, my arm hurts like heck and I am face-to-face with a fire. Just calm down and be glad that. . . that. . . you have your clothes on! And. . .um. . .okay, just BACK AWAY FROM THE FIRE!:" Pan slowly inched farther from the jumping flames and as soon as she was far enough from them, she jumped up and scrambled to the far wall, awakening a certain cocky Prince(no, not Vegeta!).

"Ah. So the sleeping beauty hath arisen from thy slumber?" he drawled.

"Oh shut up!" she spat. "What am I doing here?"

"I would like to ask you the same question. It seems YOU followed ME here, when you were to be knocked out!"

"Oh yeah, and like I was supposed to just let the fact that you INSULTED me flip-flop away! Well I am sorry, but I think your brain has done that instead!"

"BAKA! You were not to be talking to your Prince like that and YES, you were to let it slide!"

"Stop talking about yourself."

"What?"

"Stop talking about yourself. Saying 'baka' and all, one would get the impression that your only concern is yourself."

"Ch- f- th- a-" Trunks was, for the first time in his life, at a loss for words of insult.

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"MOTHER! MOTHER! MOTHER! WHERE ARE YOU?! MOTHER!" yelled a voice. The carrier of said voice ran to her mother's room and pounced on the bed. "MOTHER!"

Bulma, an long aqua-haired beauty, groggily peeped out from the covers. "Yes Bura dear?" she groaned.

"MOTHER! My slave said that she could not make me pancakes! Just because there are no more eggs! I want pancakes mother, I WANT PANCAKES!" shrieked Bura, the minute version of her mother.

"Oh alright Bura. Go tell um. . . the one in the kitchen pantry, go tell that one to get eggs."

"Okay, but this one better be fast!" Bura jumped off the bed and ran out the room.

"Yes, for the sake of my eardrums," muttered Bulma.

"She got that mouth from you, woman."

"Shut up Vegeta."

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"So, Gokou? Did they agree?" asked a young and weary-looking woman with blue eyes and long black hair that was piled atop her haid and speared with a pair of chopsticks.

"Yes Beederu, they are sending one of the soldiers in the morning."

"In the morning?! But that is far too long, she has been missing for 5 HOURS since we found out!" cried Beederu.

"Calm down Ru-chan, calm down. We will find her and she will be okay. Pan is strong."

"Yes, but this planet is inhabitated by Saiya-jin! She is only a 16-year old girl!"

"Ah, but Ru, you have forgotten one important factor- she is a demi. A Saiya/Chikyuu-jin demi. They have a Saiya-jin's strength and a Chikyuu-jin's mind. She is smarter and stonger than half the planet!" mused Goten.

"Yea Ru-chan, Goten is right. She will be safe, just stay calm, and we will find her," consoled Gokou.

"Oh, I can only hope for so much," sobbed Beederu.

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The girl smirked at him, a smirk worthy of his father. He glared at her and frowned.

"Is that the best you could come up with? I should have known better from a baka!"

Trunks clenched and unclenched his hands. "You are not to talk to your Prince like that you disrespectful, inane, prosaic, obtuse little maggot!"

"There you go again, talking about yourself."

"SHUT UP!" Trunks stomped over to the girl and swung his fist. She ducked and kicked his head away. He growled and before she could run, he grabbed her by the throat and held her up to the wall. "You. Little. Wench! You will take that ALL back right NOW and you will take a fitting punishment at MY command! IS THAT CLEAR?!" he snarled through gritted teeth. Much to his surprise, amusement and anger, Pan did not nod, very much unlike what any other weak baka here would do. "SAY YES OR NOD!" he yelled.

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Pan struggled for air, but Trunks' hand was too tight around her neck. She was pale and frantic, searching for anyway out of her terrible predicament. She then saw it. It was swinging behind her beseiger and was very furry. ":A tail! Grandpa said his was cut off because it was cursed! And Papa said. . . it is extremely rude to touch a tail and. . . very painful!" Pan would have smirked, but due to her lack off oxygen, she could not muster up enough strength. Instead, she very slowly and very carefully reached toward the brown appendage, and grasped it firmly. Trunks hold loosened, but his hand did not leave her neck. She then narrowed her eyes at Trunks and -YANK!- tugged on the tail. He dropped her immediatly and howled in pain, his eyes watering. Pan then darted to his other side and kicked him down. "Yes."

"You little baka. . . "he wheezed. "Gloating as well!"

"Not like YOU do not! Besides, I was merely answering your question!"

"You will take the punishment?"

"Yep- when I propose to you!"

"But that will NEVER happen!"

"EXACTLY!" Pan then began her departure from the cave only to be stopped by a rough hand on the shoulder.

"But would this change anything?"

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A/N: Ai, sorry it took me so long to update. Well, you know the things school does to aspiring writers! ^.^;; I also apologize for saying "Screw new reviews" for I would loooove to get more reviews! It is just that I would also like to update as well. Please, review whenever you get the chance- reviews are what make me take the time to update. I write all the time, just updating takes SOME persuasion. ^.^;;

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