Alrighty, I, Raven, am revising this fic. Since it was my first writing was, it was rather (cough cough VERY) choppy in format. And since this was started, I've figured out how to use bold, underlining, ect. So I really hope this goes better. I hope to include more detail and such. This will be posted as a separate fic until complete!

Tear Through Time

The wind blew, whipping up vast haze of sand into stinging clouds of grit and dust. Nothing but the sun blazed overhead in this unforgiving landscape. There was no trees, no water, only the occasional rock formation, and those were few and far. To many, it would seem like a desolate wasteland, devoid of all life and water.

But from the mist of choking sand, walked a girl. By the looks, she was no older than eight years old. In reality, she was ten. Her black hair, which stood up in irregular, tangled spikes, lashed in the wind, and a blue dyed, limp piece of bang was tucked behind her ear to keep it there. Dark, flowing bangs almost completely hid her right eye, a dark, obsidian pool. If one looked into her shadowy colored eyes, they would see a bright, young girl who was hardened by misfortune and survival. She always had a dark blue headband tied around her forehead, for comfort and she liked it. On her belt, was a simple dagger and short sword, on her back, a katana in a black lacquered scabbard. Quick to smile, though hard to gain the trust of, her name, was Raven. Now she had one oddity to her features. Behind her, protruding from a hole in her black fighting gi, was a long, brown, furry monkey tail, it moved ceaselessly. If one could tell tail-signs, her moods could easily be determined from the appendage. This tail was a mark of who she was, a Saiyan. Proud by nature, a born fighter, willing to die before loosing a battle, this properly defined her and her race of Saiyan.

The Saiyan girl did have one traveling companion. A young, solitary wolf, sleek, and stony gray colored. For about a year, he'd followed her. She'd called him Ferox, Latin for wild. The wolf liked her, she liked him, it was a strange bond of friendship, but it was tight. And he'd never left her, even for another pack they might have past in traveling. Together, they roamed together, keeping away from cities in a more natural life.

Raven's mouth was set in a frown of thought, going over old memories and past times. Though so young, her life had changed at many points. At the moment, was she walked through the relentless land of sand and sun, she was thinking of her parents. They had died against Cell, an evil creature, of cruel thinking. In an effort to protect Raven, who was three at the time, they had sacrificed themselves in an easily determined battle. They'd left her hidden and flew far, so she might be safe. Her father, an elite called Fortis, her mother, Osprey, was a third class Saiyan. Though not very strong, her parents had carried the courage of a pack of wolves, never once backing down to the evil being. Cell killed them, and was about to kill herself when found, until he saw her own tail, then he'd fled strangely like the coward he was.

For days afterward, she remembered, was spent waiting. Waiting for her parents to return. After a while, she began to give up hope in them coming and went searching instead. Nothing came from that except landing three years in an orphanage until her escape at six years old. Raven shook her head and sighed, bad memories. Though she grinned inside, not that many good ones to concentrate on though.

At midday, the pair reached one of the few rock outcroppings. The wolf found a bit of shade and laid down on the ground with a satisfied groan.

"Yea," Raven said, "kinda hot, I know." She dug around in the worn backpack she carried and pulled out a water bottle. Cupping a hand, she poured water into it and held it out for her wolf friend to drink, he did so eagerly. "Two more hours of walking," a gust of wind blew sand into her face, she snorted as some went up her nose "and we'll reach the ocean. Then there will be streams and fish, we'll get to camp out for a while. But for now," she pushed the blue headband she wore around her head over her eyes, "we take a bit of rest."

Ferox did not argue with this, promptly he rested his head on his paws and dosed, still ever alert. Though it may have seemed like the Saiyan girl was sleeping, she was only so lightly, and would wake up if even a pebble dropped a mile away.

In her backpack, she failed to notice the her blue glassed scouter was going insane with numbers.

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Goku clenched his fists in utter anger as he looked at Majin Buu. The beast had absorbed both of his sons, eaten his friends, and killed most of the earth.

He let that rage go in super Saiyan level three, two was way too low for this battle. On he fought, becoming ravaged and beaten as the battle went on. But then he sensed a familiar presence, one that was dead, yet present. He clutched the fusion earrings in his fist as he raised two fingers to his forehead. The Buu rushed just as he did the Instant Transmission technique. The world flashed momentarily before clearing in a whole new place. His eyes flicked around until they fell on Vegeta, a golden halo floating over his flame-shaped, black hair.

Almost instantly, they two Saiyans began to bicker. It was predictable, they were rivals of slight. Goku tried to convince the stubborn prince to forget the old planet, there was a new one to protect. But the prince held firm in being immovable.

But after the Buu had caught up with them, and Vegeta had found out it was hopeless to continue. Eye twitching, he accepted the fact and joined forces grudgily with Goku. The result was an insanely powerful being originally called Vegeto…

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Their nap far behind them, Raven almost jumped as Ferox barked loudly and raced ahead of her. Again she'd been thinking, so it came as a start. The air was now crisp with the sea breeze, not longer dusty and dry!

"Wait up!" She yelled and flew after him, raising a dust cyclone behind her. She breezed past him and went over a cliff, but did not fall. Instead she floated about five feet out in the air, in shock at what her eyes saw.

The once lush, fertile ocean line of this area was gone. So was most of the huge cliffs and valleys, collapsed and crumbled. It was a torn battlefield of destruction and chaos.

"What!" She exclaimed into the air, "did they use this place for nuclear testing or something!"

There was a sound, like someone moving extremely fast. The air in front of Raven flashed and the Buu floated directly in front of her. His lips were pulled in an evil grin as he said in a deep voice, "So it seems there is a speck of life after all."

Ferox growled loudly behind them. Raven sneered at the pink being, "ahh, the Buu, that little Babidi thing made everyone of earth see you. But you a little more pudgy then, and a little shorter."

Majin Buu's eyes flicked to her tail and back to her and laughed, "a Saiyan! I might have fun with you, before I destroy this planet for good. As for my image, I now hold three Saiyans and a Namek in me, more powerful than before. "

Raven got in a fighting position, motioning with her tail to Ferox to take cover, he did so with forlornly. "Bring it Buu!"

Again the Buu laughed, "your nothing compared to me!"

Raven chuckled as she cracked her fist, "I feel being compared to you is an utmost insult. As for you, you're something that I believe should belong on Barney, pinky. Less talk more fight!"

She charged it, or should I say it, it definitely seems like an it, kinda like Michael Jackson, heh, sorry, Anyhoo……… She charged the Buu, fight blazing in her eyes. The thing merely stood in the air, deeply unimpressed by the show of fight. When she was close, he swung his arm at her. Raven squeaked as she went pelting into the cliff face!

Raven wretched herself from the rock and again, was used to make another indent in the stone! He looked bored, she was enraged than she could get thrown around so easily! Five more rushes later, and a crumbling cliff face too, she decided to change her tactics before he became so uninterested that he just outright killed her. She tore at him in flight, fist raised ready to throw a punch. He already was prepared to tiredly smack her. She sneered and flashed the ki in her body in bright flare of light! The Buu yelled and covered his eyes. Still brightly lit like a tiny sun, she lashed out with punches and kicks!

"Fooled you." Majin Buu said and seized her tail. Even though she was burning so intensely that it should hurt to look at her, he was grinning evilly again. But at the feeling of having her tail grasped, the light instantly faded. "So," Majin Buu said, "a weakling, I've killed things far stronger than you. He pulled her close, his tentacle thing on his head wrapped around her throat and tightened to an unbreatheable level. "Time to die!"

"No," she gurgled, and thrashed about. She sank her teeth in his flesh, growling like a mad dog, it did nothing to deter the tightness around her throat! Her hands were firmly wrapped around the chocking object, digging her nails as deep as possible! Stars twinkled over her eyes and the rush of the sea seemed to get farther off. She craved air, she wanted it!

There was a real growl and the sound of running paws. Raven saw in the corner of her eye Ferox launching himself off the cliff at Majin Buu! The wolf landed on the Buu's shoulder and latched his sharp teeth into the pink beings throat! The Buu yelled in surprise, Ferox snarled and growled, the sharp claws on his paws scratching Majin Buu deeply. Raven was freed and Ferox let go, getting caught by Raven so he did not become flattened by falling on the ground far below. She placed him on the ground and faced the Buu again, but was met by an odd sight.

Majin Buu was twitching and foaming at the mouth like he had rabies on a far off ledge above the sea. He was now oblivious to her presence as she watched, boggled.

Ferox tugged on Raven's hand, a silent gesture to get out of here. She turned to him and gathered the wolf in her arms and flew down into one of the deep crevasses. Both now hiding behind a rock, they still had a clear view, but could not be seen as well.

At that moment, two men popped out of the air, seemingly out of nowhere! Raven yelped in surprise and tumbled backwards, then crawled back to her lookout point. Ferox gave her the oddest look a wolf could give, but she pointed out to him what was startling.

The men, one with flame shaped black hair, the other, irregular spikes exactly like her own. That was not the thing. But the flame haired guy was holding a senseless boy, and that boy had a tail. And the other man also had a young unconscious kid with spiky hair and a tail too!

The pair of men flew into the same crack in the earth. Ferox and Raven ducked, Raven had to make sure her anti-gravity hair did not show too!

The flame shaped man dropped of the purple-haired tail kid and a tall green alien thing and growled, "I know someone's there, come out before I make you."

The other guy dropped off his two senseless people on the ground and looked around, "Vegeta, I don't see anyone."

"Shut up Kakarot!"

Raven bounced up and exclaimed, "Kakarot!?"

The man with hair exactly like hers rubbed the back of his head and laughed, "oh hi, my real name is Goku."

Raven shrugged as she looked at the two men, and then at the two boys with tail. When Raven had gone back to her parents house after they'd died, she'd found something. It had been a letter saying that she had a relative on the same planet named Kakarot. Also that the Saiyan Prince Vegeta was on the same planet too. "So you are Kakarot?"

Goku nodded, "yes, but who are you…" his eyes fell on her tail. "You're a Saiyan!?"

Vegeta snarled, "of course she is fool, only a Saiyan has a tail. Why is a Saiyan on this planet, talk!"

Again, Raven shrugged her shoulders, "well Prince Vegeta, I was born here, and one might ask the same question to you." She laid her hand on Ferox's head, "and if I am correct, Kakarot, you are my uncle. By the way, my name is Raven."

Goku looked at her hair, "that could explain the hair, but not to be rude, but why are you on the battlefield here?"

Raven rubbed the back of her neck, "umm, well, I never figured this place would exactly become a battle field. And what is up with the Buu guy?" She pointed to Majin Buu; he was at the moment spouting steam and drooling worse than ever.

Vegeta growled lowly as he gazed at Goku, "Hmm, his power level is spiking to unimaginable levels."

Yea," Raven rubbed her temples; "It's been giving me a headache the past few minutes."

Goku glanced at her, "you sense energy?"

"Yea, but that probably isn't the biggest deal at the moment. Majin is done."

Vegeta whipped around, eye twitching as he looked at the Buu's newest form. "it's so short, looks like a kid, huh, this shouldn't be hard to beat now."

Raven sniggered as she hovered a few inches above the ground, "I think you should not be commenting on shortness."

"Brat!" Vegeta snarled and balled his fists.

Goku shook his head, "let's go Vegeta, we have bigger problems to deal with than insults. Umm, Raven? Could you watch the boys?"

"Alright!" Snapped Vegeta, "stay here girl!" The two Saiyans flew off without another word.

Raven scowled and made to follow, but Ferox whined. She relaxed her tenses muscles and patted her wolf friend's head. It was kind of rude to be made instant kid sitter without any consulting. The wolf yipped and trotted over to the purple haired kid and licked his face and whined. Raven sighed and walked to the small, spiky haired Saiyan kid and bent over. She shook him gently, getting no response. "Hey kid, wake up," she called to him. Nothing, his eye didn't even twitch. She frowned and thought for a second. The little light bulb clicked on when she glanced at his tail. Chuckling, she said, "wake up call," and yanked the furry, brown appendage!

The kid jerked into a sitting position with a yell of pain and surprise! "Hey," he whined to Raven, "don't pull that!"

"Well," Raven stood and stretched, "that's one way to get 'em up. I'm Raven"

Goten looked all around, getting his bearings, " I'm Goten and where are we and, and WHO ARE YOU!!"

"Obviously someone's mom told him not to talk to strangers, "Raven mumbled, rubbing her ears. "Your father, or at least I think he's your father, Goku he's called, is off fighting Majin Buu," she glanced over her shoulder, "yea he is." Ferox suddenly yipped and the purple haired kid groaned. "Seems your friend has decided to come back to the living."

The groan was immediately followed by in a kind of raspyish voice, "Yeck! Dog germs! Ack!" Ferox jumped over the boy to go sit by Raven. The kid's eyes followed him until they landed on Raven standing by a sitting Goten. His eyes narrowed, "a Saiyan huh, my dad told me all Saiyans are evil."

"S'cuse me?" Raven demanded, "Have you taken a look in the mirror ever since you were born, you're a Saiyan too!!"

"Trunks Trunks Trunks!" Goten jumped to his feet and tackled the boy now known as Trunks, "our dads are fighting Majin Buu still! Whoa!" Goten's eyes grew big, "Mr. Piccolo and Gohan don't look that well."

Trunks raised his eyebrow, "forget them, let's go fight too!"

"YEA!" Goten yelled and the pair flew off.

Raven zipped through the air and caught them both by the back of their shirts. "Your daddies told the Saiyan to watch you guys." She laughed, "that means you stay right here," Pulling them back to earth as she talked.

Trunks crossed his arms and scowled, looking exactly like his father. "We don't even have to listen to you, we're much stronger than you!"

"Ahh my boy," Raven said with a deep look of wisdom, "strength does not precisely tell smarts, and you'd be very stupid to go out there when real warriors are doing the fighting."

"TRUNKS!" Goten screamed and pointed behind them all. The world had suddenly turned pink and purple, everything seemed to glow. What the child was pointing at was a massive ball of energy held by the new Buu form.

"Aww shist!" Raven said as the evil Buu laughed demonically. Her eyes fell on the energy and instantly raised a palm to the sky. A small orb of white ki form and shot off into the heavens. There was a sparkling explosion high up and almost gently, hung a moon in the sky.

Raven's tail twitched and writhed as she looked upon the ki moon! Her fists clenched and unclenched as her eyes turned a deep red! A roar ripped through the air as instantaneously, she transformed into the huge, snarling Oozaru! Her massive tail thrashed through the air as she clenched great clawed hands into fists. Lips pulled back into a permanent snarl, her eyes glowed red. She was Oozaru, a Saiyan changed at the sight of a full moon. She was a more wicked looking King Kong, cruel teeth shining white.

Raven snapped her fangs and advanced on the small Buu! With a last evil laugh, the pink thing sent the energy ball hurling towards the earth! The Oozaru leaped in it's path and seized the energy, holding it strong in the massive claws. She struggled to hold it, it tore to be free and destroy, to eat up this planet! Raven let out a huge, crying roar and pushed it back, muscles straining! Majin Buu let out a howl and forced his destructive energy away from him, pushing Raven back, claws leaving huge gashes in the earth.

There were thundering cries to bellows behind her as Goten and trunks became Oozaru too. They had obviously looked upon the moon too. They seemed to have a good control over their form, but not the best. Goten Oozaru, more spiky furred than Trunks, was destroying a rock formation while Trunks Oozaru was laughing.

Abruptly the immense energy sphere began to pulsate. Like a dying star, it collapsed upon it's own weight. Raven crashed backwards, and stood looking at the energy, which was quickly forming itself into a churning vortex! The air tugged at her, rocks boulders and trees flew into the purple and black tear in the dimension. Black clouds were suddenly everywhere, covering the moon, and dark lightning shot out of the gaping hole. It flashed, and doubled in size and strength! Way behind Raven, Goten and Trunks Oozaru were having a battle with the sucking winds.

The female Oozaru's hypersensitive ears heard a yipe and immediately caught an airborne Ferox with her massive tail, wrapping him securely so he did not get sucked into the vortex. She looked up as Majin Buu shrieked and the vortex again doubled in sized. She fell out of her Oozaru state, she'd been without moonlight long enough for Oozaru to be reversed. The wolf in her arms, black gi being tugged at by the ripping winds, she flew, trying to get away from the swirling mass. Ahead she saw Goten and Trunks, normal again, barely gaining any ground to fly away from the vortex.

Instead of passing the pair, Raven stopped and tried to help. Then she realized, almost like a silent barrier, there could be no movement farther on. She pushed, but it was like an invisible wall of glass. She ran her hands up and down the unseen obstruction. Her hands began to become hot and something like cords of energy shot out of the barrier, wrapping themselves around the three Saiyans and wolf. They were all bound and unable to move, or fly. Their own ki was draining from their veins faster than water through a fork.

The vortex sucked them in. Falling through dark, swirling mists, ki-less and paralyzed, their senses faded into the darkness….