Same Side Of the River

Princess Sango

A teen named Trunks walked to where a body was lying, Gohan's body, a tear goes down his face as he thought, Why Gohan-san? Why, did you have to go alone?

He picked up the body checking for a little ki, and tried giving energy to him, but nothing was going to bring him back he realized. "I've lost my dad, and now I lost my best friend, Gohan, what good is this?" shouted Trunks.

A little flower decided to land in his free hand, and that's when he looked up. A woman stood there quietly observing him, "Did you say Gohan-san?"

Trunks nodded to her and she looked like she was about to break down and cry, "I guess I'm too late to make up with him."

Trunks looked at her confused, "Excuse me, what's your name?"

"My name's Son Pan, or at least that's what I was told."

Trunks wiped his eyes and noticed the similarities of Chichi and Gohan in her face, "You look like him, and even Chichi-san."

Pan blinked her brown eyes and turned on her heels to go, "I must get going; I can't stay out here too long. My life probably just ended here, before it even started."

"How do you figure that?" Trunks asked, as if he was a little kid of eight again and not a teenager of age sixteen.

"I was searching for my dad, Son Gohan, and it turns out he's dead. I've been searching all my life with hope since my mama died, which was ten years ago. Do you think I feel better knowing he's dead?" she asked, turning around with tears in her eyes.

"Gohan was my best friend too! Everyone's life is hard in times of war, and my family is dead too, well most of them. Do you think that stops me Pan?" he asked her outraged.

"You wouldn't understand me! You probably haven't seen your mom killed in front of your own eyes, you haven't been defenseless to stop that! I watched you fight before; I've been in almost all the cities attacked! I was living by myself since I was six and had to learn survival by myself, hoping everyday that dad would show up out of the blue and take me somewhere safe!" she countered back, tears streaming down her own face and her hair clinging to her face in the pouring rain between them, as if god himself knew the grief they had both encountered in their life's.

Trunks looked at her and shook his head and turned to take of, "I'm going home, with him. See you!"

Pan stuck her tongue out at him and turned again to leave when she felt someone pick her up, "And I'm taking you with me."

Pan tried to scream but soon she felt pain and blacked out.

1 day later…

Pan awoke in a room that held expensive equipment and remembered that her dad had died and she broke down crying, when someone walked in, "Oh, you're awake, my name's Bulma Briefs, Trunks told me your name's Pan. Are you really Gohan's daughter?"

Pan blinked and nodded to her, "Hai, I'm Gohan-san's daughter, I just never met him."

Bulma sat down next to her, "Don't you have a mother somewhere?"

"Dead, both my parents are dead," Pan said while her face went stoic for a second before bursting into tears and flinging herself into Bulma's arms.

"It's okay to cry, I lost Trunks father to them. I know they're monsters," Bulma cooed slightly to her.

Pan shook her head and blinked away the tears, "I never was told it was okay to cry. I haven't cried since mama died."

"Who was your mom?" Bulma asked.

"Videl Satan, she only told me that, but the name meant more to the elders than to me," Pan answered shrugging the question off, "Do you know why?"

Bulma nodded, "That name was famous before the androids attacked. If this is true Pan, then you were born from two families that loved to fight, no matter what background."

Trunks walked inside at that moment, "No way mom, she's a sayain and a human?"

Pan shook her head, "I don't understand."

Trunks and Bulma exchanged looks, "You're one of the people the androids want dead."

TBC…