A/N: This is another joint work with my sis, Yuri Rekusentai! Give her a round of applause!!! ::crickets chirp:: Okay, don't. The chapters start out really short, so I've put two together untill they lengthen out. The odd numbers are Yuri's, and the evens are mine. It starts out introducing the two OC main characters, but next update the real DBZ chars come in. The sooner we get a review, the sooner you get to see Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks, Goten, and Vegeta. Among others, eventually. The story is three years old, but I'm just now starting to type it. Tell me exactly whatcha think, no matter how it may come across. Thanks!


Ch.1

"Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Yippity yay! My, oh myy-"

"Shut up, Zjun. You're singing it wrong." A silver haired teenager slapped her twin brother, who affected a slightly hurt tone in his response.

"That's mean, Aiko." Aiko smiled slightly and hefted her backpack a little higher.

"'Mean' is my middle name. So, did the martial arts teacher assign us anything?" Zjun shook his head. A breeze blew up, ruffling his short black hair. Violet eyes glinting, he tried to trip his sister, who nimbly jumped his foot. Her amber eyes sparkled at her brother's antics.

"What do you say we take the back road home?" Zjun suggested off-handedly. Aiko considered it.

"It is quicker... All right." The sixteen year olds turned down an overgrown path lined with old trees.

"Creepy. It's usually lighter back here..." Zjun remarked. Aiko had to agree. The sun was barely shining through the leaves.

"Well, at least we're halfway home." AIko mumbled as they entered a small clearing. She shivered and pulled her jacket closer around her shoulders. Zjun was silent for once. A strong wind whipped up, rustling in the branches.

"Let's hurry." Aiko agreed hurriedly with her brother and they lengthened their strides. Out of nowhere, a lightning bolt hit a tree about a yard away. With a yelp of surprise, Aiko crashed to the ground, a sudden pressure all along her body. She felt a painful twinge as her tail was pinned under her. She couldn't move, and wind was howling around her. She heard her brother yelling for her and she tried to yell back, but her lips only scraped against what she now realized was a tree. And the tree was on fire.

"Help! Zjun!" She managed to scream frantically. She'd trned her head, and saw her brother orient on her voice, and then her. He bolted forward and tried to roll the tree off of Aiko. She bit her lip to keep from screaming when more pressure was put on the right side of her body. Surprisingly, Zjun was able to pull her from the burning wood.

Shaking and gasping, they watched the circular fire ring. There was no way out. The wind was making the fire spread!

"We're trapped! What do we do?" Aiko shouted. Her now-free tail writhed. Zjun's own tail was still.

"I don't know. We're done for!"
Ch.2

The two sixteen year olds stood, shocked.

"Come, on, think! What can we do?" Zjun asked, half to himself, half to his sister. "I mean, I knew I'd die eventually, but I didn't ask for a cremation!" he tried to joke. Aiko apparently wasn't in the mood to be cheered up.

"Can't you be serious for once, Zjun?!" she exclaimed loudly. "This is the biggest jam of our lives and you're joking!! Now help me think of a way out of this!" Zjun shut up, and the two of them searched frantically for even the tiniest of gaps in the fire.

"This is hopeless! We can either stand here, get burned to a crisp slowly and DIE!!!" Zjun said as the fire grew closer to them. "Or we can try to jump through it, get burned to a crisp, and face more fire while hurt!" The frightened boy was screaming by the end of his sentance.

"Calm down already! You have a point, for once, but I'd rather try to survive than not." Aiko said shakily, thinking of what her brother had said.

"So what, you're gonna jump?" The boy yelled. Aiko nodded, and Zjun forced himself to calm down. "You are crazy, sis, but I am too. I'm going with you."

Aiko smiled. "Figured you would."

Zjun took off his jacket, and held it in front of his face, intending it to shield him. Aiko did the same.

"Well, let's get it over with." The twins took a deep breath and dove into the flames, running as fast as humanly possible. The wall of flame wasn't as thick as they'd thought. As soon as they'd crossed, they threw down the jackets and burning backpacks.

"Teach'll never believe this excuse." Zjun joked grimly, patting where his pants and shirt were smouldering. Aiko was hurriedly doing the same, and both were lucky their hair hadn't caught.

"Now what?" Aiko asked. They looked around. The fire had spread, but nat as much as might have been expected with the wind still blowing.

"Uhm... Aiko? Which direction's home?" Zjun asked, nervous. He didn't like the idea of bing lost in the woods in the middle of a fire.

"I'm not sure. I was hoping you knew." Aiko answered. They looked at eachother, then around at the flames. They were starting to spread again.

"Let's just go somewhere. I think I see some light in that direction. Let's go see what it is, before a fiery tree decides to fall in on us." the boy said, referring to their earlier mishap.

"That's a good idea, but what if it's just a reflection of something and we end up even more lost?" Aiko retorted coldly.

"Fine then. I'll follow you." Zjun shot, rolling his eyes. He was getting frustrated. Between school, the fire, and his sister, he had a reason. Or maybe the heat was just getting to the both of them.

"Okay. Let's go this way." She said, pointing to a light neither had noticed untill that moment. They didn't move a moment too soon- a flaming branch landed right where they'd stood a few steps after they'd moved. The incident seemed to spur them on, and they ran towards the light.

"Stay away from the light, O young one." Zjun joked as he ran next to his sister.

"Oh, very funny." The unenthusiastic reply came.
A/N: Oh yeah, and though they don't come in yet, I don't own DBZ, or any of the characters from. Now you can't sue me. So Nyah!