Where did it all go wrong?

This time a month or so ago, Pan was laid on her bed, looking at her ceiling and wondering why her life was so boring. Her biggest concern was getting a job, and getting up in the morning.

Since then, she had run off to join the army, the same army that stole CC from Bulma, gotten attacked, come home, refused to tell everyone where she was or why, had a creature attack her friends and family, chase her and her PV into the woods after taking her powers, trying to absorb her, and now here she was.

A month ago, she was laid on her bed.

Now, she was curled up, dirty and damp from rain and tears, huddled at the back of a cave. She twitched at every sound, her eyed wide awake now, and alone.

Vegeta had gone to scout the area, and get some food and water.

Pan was ordered to stay in the cave, like she would leave! Pan pushed herself up against the back of the cave, and held her knees to her chest. she tucked her hair behind her ears, and grimaced at how greasy it was now.

Then, she tensed at the sound of someone approaching the cave.

Her heart raced, her breathing quickened, and she made herself as small as she could.

Until Vegeta swiftly came inside, with a large leave of berries.

"Pan, I have some food for you. And I found a lake." He knelt before her, and looked down at her with pity. "Don't worry. There was no sign of Major."

"Good." She pushed herself onto her knees, and ate a few berries with Vegeta. They decided that was enough, as they had no idea how long this was going to last them. "I need a wash…"

"I found a lake." He tried to cheer her up. "I will have to go with you to protect you, but you could use it to clean yourself up."

"Thank you." She whimpered. She didn't want him to die.

But she knew he would.

All because he was protecting her.

Unless…

"Come on. Leave those here." He referred to the berries, and took her hand. He then lifted her up into his arms, and used his purging skills from back when he served Frieza, to manoeuvre through the thick trees. "Almost there." He cooed, before they reached the lake. He put her down, and walked forward. He walked around for a while, to make sure the coast was clear.

Pan held herself next to the wood line, over shadowed by trees. What I would do for a hug right about now.

A set of large hands started to reach out from the shadows, and were about to grab her…

"Pan!" Vegeta called, and the hands withdrew into the woods. Pan none the wiser. "Come on. Be quick." He shouted, and Pan shuffled forward. Vegeta turned his back to face the woods, to make sure she was safe.

Pan crept down to the water edge, and pulled her nightgown off. She waded out into the water, and submerged in it. She opened her eyes in the water, and smiled at the small multicoloured fish that swam past her. I bet your don't have to worry about being absorbed, do you fish? She rose out of the water, and scrubbed her hands through her hair. Pan then scrubbed at her skin until it was clean like her hair, and sighed, lowering into the water. It was certainly soothing, the water rising and falling against her skin gently, washing away the impurities and worries of her mind.

But those worries sure came hurtling back with a vengeance with a cry. "PAN!" she crossed her hands over her chest, ducked down in the water, and turned to face her PV.

To see his eyes were blank.

As if in slow motion, his body fell forwards, to reveal his attacker stood behind him.

"Major…" she whispered, and started shivering. How did he find them so quickly.

"Pan." He smiled. "At last, we are alone." He stepped forwards, and closer to the fallen Vegeta.

You can imagine what Pan thought.

"Please!" she begged. "Don't hurt him, I, I'll come quietly if you don't hurt him, please…" She closed her eyes, tears falling down her face, and didn't see Major look down at Vegeta, and then to her.

"Come my love, I have missed you so." He stepped over Vegeta, and reached out for her. Pan opened her eyes, and very slowly made her way out of the water. Her arms covered her breasts, and she stopped when the water came up to her bellybutton. "Why have you stopped?"

"I…have no clothes on."

"I shall get you some soon." He chuckled, and stepped towards her, but saw her flinch. "I am your mate Pan, I am not ashamed of your body. Nor should you be."

"But…I'm not your mate."

"Oh yes you are. The wound proving such is even on your neck." he still smiled, and stepped up to the water's edge. Pan felt a sharp pain in her neck as she looked down with a yelp, and she felt a dribble of something warm fall down her cold neck.

And she knew it was blood.

It was then she looked up, to see Major was stood right in front of her. As in, his body touching hers. Pan screamed when the sensation in her neck, was joined by his fangs penetrating her skin, and his large hands held her shoulders still. Pan sobbed, and opened her eyes.

"V…ve…ge…ta…" Her eyes half closed, as the large bio android moved his hands to hold her back tenderly, as he drank the blood from her veins.

Her blood was the strongest elixir, the sweetest honey and had the richest texture in the world for him. He wanted nothing more than to suckle at her neck for eternity, while she did his.

But she wasn't returning the gesture of being mates, and he looked to her with his yellow and black eyes. He then withdrew from her neck, and lovingly lapped at her real, open wound.

"Oh my mate, we shall be one soon." He growled, and licked his mouth clean, and her neck.

"Vegeta…" she whimpered, and cried softly. This upset Major, as she wasn't biting him too, like mates should. And they were mates. He looked over to Vegeta, who was up on all fours now, and slowly looked up at them.

It took one look at Pan, her bleeding neck, and the small dribble of blood down the side of Major's mouth, to get Vegeta up on his feet and snarling angrily.

"YOU BASTARD!" he powered up, the trees starting to bend over from his fury. "HOW DARE YOU TOUCH HER!"

"She is my mate Vegeta. I have the right to touch her." Major turned his back to Vegeta, and licked at her neck. "Oh Pan, you taste more divine than any ambrosia, or the most expensive wine." He then licked at her cheek, and whispered in her ear. "I love you Pan. We are half way to being one, whole. The next step is yours." Vegeta jumped up into the air, and rocketed towards them. "I will kill him before he gets to touch you." He promised, with no trace of remorse. "And then we can live as one, forever."

"P P Please don't kill him. I love him, he is my father."

"Gohan is your father." He whipped his tail out behind him, and ensnared the cursing Vegeta instantly. It didn't matter that he was in SS4 now, he couldn't escape. And the needlepoint of his tail was inches from his forehead.

"But Vegeta is too. He has helped raise me, and has always been there for me." She whimpered, and tried to pull herself out of his arms, and to Vegeta. "Papa Vegeta…"

"I must kill him my love." The tail recoiled, ready to strike. "He is the one keeping you from me. And I can not allow him to live while ever he prevents me from being with the one who completes me."

"STOP!" she screamed as his tail began to strike forward.

In the briefest second, Pan grabbed his face, turned him to face her and crushed his mouth with hers. Major was shocked at first, but closed his eyes and enjoyed the kiss.

Their first real kiss.

One hand held the middle of her shoulder blades, and the other held the small of her back. Pan opened her eyes, and looked over to Vegeta. The tail spear had missed, and hung limply next to the trapped, and very speechless Vegeta. She then looked to Major, and was about to pull away…when he opened his mouth.

He nibbled on her bottom lip gently, and dragged his tongue over it. Pan's hands became loose, and moved down his neck. Major then suckled on her top lip, and she found herself with her eyes closed, and her tongue licking at his bottom 'lip'. Before she could register what she had done, he plundered her mouth, thrusting his tongue against hers, and groaning. Her hands were now on his shoulders, and she was on her tiptoes, slowly moving with him. She forgot herself, and pressed her entire body against his. Major was in heaven, his mind span in vivid circles, and he groped at her ass. With a guttural growl, he lifted her up against him. Pan wrapped her legs around his waist, still under the water thankfully, and slid her tongue into his mouth. He used one arm as a bar under her bum to hold her to him, and the other hand roamed up to the back of her head, lost in her raven hair. Their mouths smoothed over each other passionately, Pan kissing down on him and had her arms wrapped around the back of his neck and head, pulling him against her. Her chest vibrated in time with his, as she was purring, and he was growling. The hand on the back of her head, fell down her damp back, and his fingers found the base of her tail. "Aah!" she moaned, as he started to stimulate the sensitive skin beneath her fur. She panted at the air; her eyes closed, and then pulled his mouth against hers again. Their passion grew, turned hot and intense, bodies rubbing and grinding against each other, and she wracked her nails round the back of his shoulders, and down his arms. Pan arched her back and purred louder, her head back and her mouth was open. With lust filled eyes, Major saw her fangs were at last at their full length. He released her tail, and gently pulled her back against him. He held her head again, and guided her mouth to his neck…

Pan opened her eyes, and looked to the bare neck he offered to her. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest, and could hear the blood pulsing and gushing through his veins. Right beneath his skin. She could almost taste it…and it was so very, very sweet. She closed her eyes, and cocked her head to one side. Her mouth opened, and her body knew just what to do. She breathed on his neck heavily, and heard him groan in response.

"Yes…" she was finally going to claim him, finally. They would be together.

Pan brushed her sharp canines over his skin, and he growled again. "Don't tease me, please…" he begged. "Please Pan, I love you so much. I just want to be yours. Pan, please." She had reduced this monster, into writhing, pleading putty in her hands. And to know she was in control, made her feel powerful.

She liked it.

He felt the sharp points of her fangs against his skin, and prepared himself.

"PAN NO!" Major opened his eyes, and looked up into the air at the intruders.

Vegeta had his tail wrapped around his mouth, so he couldn't interrupt. But in the air, was Gohan, Goten, Trunks and Krillin.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" they all powered up to full, Krillin with his white aura around him, Trunks Goten and Gohan at SS2. The three Saiyans circled above them, and put their hands together. KA ME." Major threw Vegeta away, and coiled his tail into a shield over them. "HA ME." Their energy gathered, and it happened.

Krillin slipped from behind.

He grabbed Pan's arm and tail.

He flew right past Major with her.

Major roared with anger and lifted his tail up to go after him.

"HA!" Pan opened her eyes just in time to look down at Major, as the blast consumed him. Gohan cradled Pan in his arms, and they all quickly blasted off, joined by Vegeta. He gave a good blast at the area for good measure, and took the lead with Gohan.

"Oh Pan." Gohan kissed his daughter's forehead, and then looked to her bleeding neck. "What has he done to you?" but Pan didn't answer. She saw the energy consume him, he couldn't have survived that. She watched him die…and felt…cold.

"He claimed her." Vegeta answered, and held his hand out to Gohan. "I grabbed this before I joined you." It was the long nightie, and Gohan wrapped it around her.

"Claimed her?"

"Did Kakarott ever tell you about mating?"

"What?"

"I take that as a no then." Vegeta held a stern, deep in thought face, as they hurtled through the air. Pan sobbed quietly, shocked. "When you find the one you love, and will spend the rest of your life with, you bond with them, make them your mate. As they will you. To mate." He continued before Gohan could stop him. He looked very worried where this was going. "One partner will bite the neck of the other, and drink enough blood, to ensure they are literally in your system, and you leave a permanent mark of your claim over them. Even after the wound has healed. And…" he looked to Pan. She was listening, and had one hand cupped over her bleeding neck. It was bleeding very slowly, and she soon got blood on her hands.

"And now he has claimed her." Gohan finished.

"But it isn't over. The second half of the mating ritual, is for Pan to claim him. At the moment, Pan is now his. She is his property, and with her blood in his system, and he will now have a very strong bond with her…he could overpower her easily. He could even put thoughts and images, suggestions and hints into her mind, and we would never know."

"How can we reverse it?"

"Stupid boy." He spat. "There is no way of reversing it. Pan is his mate now, no ifs, no buts, no reversing, nothing. If there was a way, being the Prince of all Saiyans, don't you think I would have thought of it by now?"

"There is no need for you to raise your voice at me Vegeta. I didn't do this to her…" Gohan couldn't bare it. His daughter was claimed, to a monster. "But she didn't claim him did she?"

"She almost did."

"I don't believe you." Gohan said sternly. "Pan would never-"

"The Pan we know would never mate with him, no." Vegeta looked down to Pan. "But at the moment, this isn't the Pan we know. She is half full, half empty, half complete, half a person. To her, now, she is not a whole person, unless she completes the ritual. She will yearn for him. She will fell wanton desire for him. Pan will lust for him, and feel like she is dying inside without him. And it will not stop. And…" he frowned. "If we killed him now, it would only get worse…"

"But we have killed him."

"Don't be naïve boy. He is more powerful than a SS5. That little pallor trick of yours only prevented him from following us." He then raised a brow. "How did you find us?"

"When you lost your temper, we all sensed it. And came running, well, flying."

"I see." He then realised where they were going. "We can't stay here. Our families will be in danger!"

"If we stay together, we can protect Pan. And where else could we take her? There is no way to protect anyone, if we either take her to a strong hold, into the city, or back to your house. My home is in the middle of nowhere, like Dad liked it, and away from civilisation. Everyone else is safe if she is here, and so of she."

"I will never be safe." Pan spoke with a croaky voice, from over use. "No one will ever be safe, while ever I am here."

"It has already begun." Vegeta sighed. "The shock of being separated during the ritual, her despair has only begun."

"Will it get worse?" Gohan landed outside their home, and looked down at the shaking mess that was his daughter.

"Boy, we have seen nothing yet."

"You will all die." She whimpered, tears falling down her face, as she wrapped the night dress around her. "And I will kill you."

"No you won't." Gohan cooed.

"Yes I will. Just for being here, I will kill you all." A searing pain pulsed in her head, another in her chest, and another in her gut. Pan screamed with agony, and writhed on the floor.

Vegeta lifted her up, and looked to a heartbroken, and confused father.

"It is also physically painful to be away from your mate, half way through the ceremony. No matter which one was not bitten."

"So he will be in pain too?"

"Yes. But…" he looked down at Pan, and they both had to hold her arms and legs in place. She thrashed her body and twisted around in pain, screaming and tearing the hearts from the chests of both her 'fathers'. "But Pan will be in far more pain than Major. As it is she who was bitten, and did not bite back."

"I will kill him."

"No you won't." Vegeta looked up to see Bulma and Videl in the doorway. "We are not strong enough to kill him." He then scowled. "Yet."

"Then we shall all train. And become powerful enough to kill him." Gohan snarled.

"The problem is, there was one person who could have killed him. But he has ensured she can't."

"Pan…"

"Yes. And now he has her powers…she can't defeat him. Even worse, she is his mate now. So unless she is strong enough…and right now she is not…she might die simply from the shock of his death."

"Bastard." Gohan ground his teeth together. "I will kill him if it is the last thing I do."

"Then it will be the last thing you will do." Vegeta warned, and looked back to the house.