It was a midsummer's night the air was warm and carried the gentle sent of apple blossoms. The neighborhood was quiet the street light flicker on reveling a lone figure drifting from one sphere of light to the next. A soft melody floated from one of the homes, the only one with a lighted window the figure stopped in front of the home just under a street light, which melted away the shadows revealing the figure's true form. There in the light stood a young woman with long brown hair braided down to the middle of her back wearing a tank top and cargo shorts. She sighed wistfully as she recognized the song coming from the house, it was soft and sad…..

She took a deep breath, No I wont think about him…..I wont…

A tear fell gently down the side of her face she placed her hand on her cheek feeling the moistened trail it left behind.

"No…" she whispered barely able to stop the tears let alone the memory they brought with them.

Flash back

The sound of a gun shot echoed through the small dinner as she watched his shoulders sag and knew the bullet had hit him. She reached out for him as he fell back and held him in her arms as they folded to the floor. Her hands covering the wound in his chest tears streamed down her face.

"Ria…I'm sorry" he whispered looking into her eyes.

"Damian" she whispered lovingly unable to hold back the tears, he stroked her cheek.

"I…love…you" his voice barely above a whisper as his hand fell away from her. She watched his eyes close the sound of sirens were drawing closer, but they were too late.

End Flash back

She opened her eyes and through the tears she realized she was no longer standing in front of the house. She was in the park surrounded by trees her hand rested on a wooden step which belonged to a rather old looking building. The building appeared to resemble a Japanese shrine, she wiped away the remaining tears and walked up to the shoji door and slid it open. There were runner lights along the outer walls giving off enough light to make out the silhouette of a statue in the center. Ria walked towards it never taking her eyes off the statue's red jeweled eyes. It was a large serpentine style dragon with four claws on each foot. She placed her hand on the bridge of its snout and leaned her head against the dragon's brow as fresh tears began to stream down her face. Her tears continued down the dragon's brow and into its jeweled eyes which began to glow. A low rumble resonated from the dragon; Ria stood back looking at the dragon as its eyes continued to glow, a deep soothing voice spoke over the rumbling.

"Wish granted" the dragon's eyes brightened casting everything into a bright red light and then all went black.

The mid afternoon sky was perfect not a cloud in sight as the lone youth flew through the sky. His thoughts still returning to his trip to the past, his father the man he never knew. He was quit the enigma as his mother put it. He pulled his lavender hair back out of his face securing it in a pony tail. It was unusually warm today and he was wearing his usual black tank top and blue cargo pants, strapped across his well toned chest was a belt that held a sheathed broad sword against his back. The youth was so deep in thought that he didn't notice the gravity abiding figure just above him till they hit. The force spun him around and he saw a flash of white followed by a red haze of pain as they hit the ground below.

Ria opened her eyes and took in her surroundings. It was daytime and she wasn't in the shrine anymore, then she noticed something soft underneath her. She turned to see a young man with long lavender hair his eyes opened and blue eyes met with green.

I must be dreaming right?! I can not be looking at Future Trunks! her mind screamed at her. His cheeks turned a slight shade of pink as did Ria's as she realized she was in his lap.

"Sorry" she mumbled as she got off and stood wincing a bit she offered him her hand more so as a show friendship then anything else.

"The names Ria and you might be?" might as well play dumb about knowing all about him till I figure out how the hell I got here and why

"Trunks" he took her hand as he stood shaking it lightly.

"How did you end up falling from the sky?"

Ria shrugged "I'm not sure to be honest, one minute I'm in a shrine next I'm falling. Lucky for me you were there otherwise I'd be dead" she smiled at him

"So then I take it you don't have a place to stay then?"

"Yep"

"Well I'm sure Mother wouldn't mind company………you probably can't fly then either?" he ventured knowing that the last part was a bit weird since she was just falling out of the sky.

"Nope, and if you're sure its no trouble…" she let the sentence trail as something was tickling her upper leg, grabbing it she pulled it around so she could see what it was. There in her hand was a silvery white piece of fur she pulled on it and felt a tug on her lower back.

"How in the seven hells…" she continued to stare at her new found tail when Trunks stepped up next to her.

"You didn't have one before?"

"No" she dropped the appendage and it swished behind her. She pulled her braid around and to check it as well sighing.

"Thought so" as she noted her hair was the same color as her tail.

guess I'm not dreaming she sighed mentally

"Heh sorry I usually have brown hair and no tail" she shrugged and gave him a partial smile

"Don't worry I'm sure mother could help you out"

With that he picked her up and blasted off into the sky heading towards Capsule Corp. Ria buried her head in the crook of his neck and tightened her grip not really liking the abrupt take off. A few minutes later they landed just in front of a dome shaped building with the Capsule Corp insignia on the side which had several other larger domes just behind and next to it.

"Sorry about that" Trunks said sheepishly as Ria unglued her self and stood off to the side.

"S'ok … just lead the way" she grinned and followed Trunks inside the smaller dome.