*(Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, or Dragon Ball GT. All characters and places associated with the Dragon Ball series belong to their own respected creators and I have not used them to make any profit in any shape or form.)

Jason9000: Hello once again. Today we're going to focus on Piccolo like I said. This'll be another Piccolo centric chapter with other characters. I have something to address regarding the ages of the younger generation. I will explain in the author's note since there is something I also need to talk about. Well without further ado let's begin.*

Too say that Pan was excited was an understatement. She was probably the happiest five year old on the planet! She was going to train this week with not just her father, but her uncle Goten, grandpa Goku, and her uncle Piccolo! This was going to be the best week ever!

Pan left her room with her backpack on that kept all of her clothes and other necessities her mother had packed over the week. She couldn't wait to get started so she half ran-half flew down the stairs into the kitchen where her parents were waiting for her.

"Good morning mommy and good morning daddy!" Pan said announcing she was up and ready to go.

Gohan turned around from the fridge bringing out the milk and smiled.

"Ah, I was just about to come and get you up but I see you're ready," Gohan said smiling.

Pan sat herself down next to her parents and started eating the breakfast that was waiting for her. Typical to the Son family named she wolfed it down within seconds and then ran back up to the bathroom to brush her teeth.

"Well she certainly is excited," Gohan said laughing a bit.

"I think that would be an understatement," Videl said taking Pan's dirty dish to the sink.

After a minute Pan came back down the stairs and waited by the front door.

"Come on dad! We'll be late at this rate!" Pan exclaimed to her father.

"Alright I'm coming Pan!" Gohan said chuckling and grabbing his own bag by his chair.

Videl walked with them and kissed her husband and daughter good bye.

"Now you be good for daddy okay? I don't want to have you come home and be in trouble got it?" Videl said addressing her daughter.

"Okay mommy!" Pan said to her.

"You sure you're okay with us leaving for the week? It'll be awfully quiet with us around," Gohan said.

Videl laughed at her husband. "Oh don't act like you're not excited for this. I know you've been wanting to do this for a while with your family. Go on and have fun. I'll probably spend some time with my dad. Don't worry about me," She said kissing her husband goodbye then doing the same to her daughter.

With that Gohan and Pan left their home and went to where they were going to spend the next week training.

Piccolo was already there waiting for the entire Son family to show up. Since he didn't require the need to pack anything he was the first one there. Piccolo was looking forward to this since he wanted to see where he stood against his former student Gohan and Goku since none of them ever had the chance to spar again since the Androids. Even though Piccolo knew that both Goku and Gohan were far stronger than him he still wished to test his strength against them.

Not only that but he wanted to see how strong Goten and Pan were. He never really sparred with either of them since there were no killer Androids or Saiyans coming to destroy the world. He only was Goten's instructor of how to do the fusion dance properly with Trunks when Majin Buu was trying to destroy the planet. While he could guess Goten's power from the watching him do that mock fight with Pan last year at the World's Martial Arts Tournament where he purposely lost to please his niece Pan. Piccolo couldn't guess where Pan would fall in her age. Undoubtedly she was far stronger from Gohan when he was her age when Vegeta and Nappa arrived. Since she was both Goku's granddaughter and Gohan's daughter she had to be strong.

An idea suddenly popped into his head. One of which he hadn't had in just about 30 years. He grinned to himself for a moment. Pan once said she wanted to train with Piccolo himself just like Gohan did…well now was a golden opportunity to see if he could train another Son student. Far be it from him disacquiescing to the child's simple request.

Five minutes later he felt four familiar Ki energies flying to his direction.

"Hey Piccolo glad you could make it!" Goku's cherry voice said while he set down to land.

Piccolo nodded at Goku and his family as they landed. They chose the spot not too far from where the three oldest fighters trained to fight against the Androids. It was a sort of familiar landscape to most of them as if it was imprinted in their subconscious.

Goku threw his backpack to the side since they all knew they wouldn't find a spot to sleep till after dark.

"So we all ready to get started?" Goku asked nearly jumping up and down in anticipation.

"Yeah dad so how are we going to do this?" Goten asked his father.

"It's simple Goten. You train, you eat, and you sleep," Piccolo said while walking towards Pan. "Now Pan I believe you said at the party Bulma hosted that you wanted to train with me as your father did, right?" He asked the girl.

Pan's eyes lit up and she started jumping up and down for joy.

"Oh please can I go daddy? Can I, can I, can I please?!" Pan asked looking up at her father.

Gohan didn't say anything for a minute till he asked the question he already knew the answer to. "Are you going to take her even if I say no?"

"Why ask a rhetorical question when you already know the answer?" Piccolo asked him with a smirk.

Gohan sighed. "Alright fine take her. How long will you two be gone?" He asked.

"Three days. That way you three can have your family brawl without worrying about us," Piccolo said.

"Piccolo are you sure you want to do this?" Goku asked looking a bit unsure.

"Goku if I can train Gohan for a year I'm pretty sure I can handle his daughter for three days," Piccolo said floating up in the air.

"Come Pan, we're going to my favorite training grounds from my younger years," Piccolo said.

"Okay Mr. Piccolo!" Pan exclaimed floating after him.

Once Pan was near Piccolo he took off with Pan not far behind.

"Hey Gohan are you sure you want to have Pan train with Piccolo for three days? He's a pretty strict teacher," Goten said.

Gohan only shook his head. "Trust me bro, unlike you I got the full hands on experience of Piccolo as a teacher. He may be stricter than I or dad when it comes to training others but the results are worth it. Besides she'll be a lot safer away from here with three of us sparing together," Gohan said cracking his knuckles.

Goku only nodded and assumed a fighting stance waiting for his sons to start. He wouldn't trade this for anything in the world to spar with his family…

Piccolo and Pan flew for another 20 minutes till they got to a mountainous region that was very familiar to Piccolo.

Piccolo landed and Pan did the same looking up at him smiling. For a long while Piccolo only looked at her and she just stood there waiting. Pan couldn't determine how long they stood there just staring at each other. She felt as if Piccolo was observing her and waiting to break the silence. She didn't want to appear weak in front of the man her father the most besides her grandfather so she waited.

"I see you're not as impatient as your father was at your age. That's good since it means I won't have to beat it out of you," Piccolo said.

Pan only nodded her head and Piccolo saw she had nothing but determination in her eyes.

"Alright Pan before we begin I want you to know that I'm not like your father or Goku. I'm not going to sugar coat your training. You're going to go to sleep with cuts, bruises, and perhaps some broken bones. I only take the best as my students and today best means you. If you can survive these three days you'll make your parents proud. I promise you, that you will return to your father stronger than you are now," Piccolo told her.

Pan bit her lip since she was nervous about what her father's best friend said but she was determined to make her entire family proud.

"I will do whatever you ask Mr. Piccolo," Pan responded after a minute of thinking it over.

Piccolo only grinned for a moment then his eyes hardened and became a cold stare that only Vegeta could hold against.

"Alright listen up runt! Today you're going to commence your intense training under me! If I don't have you beaten and broken in both body and spirit by the time these three days are over then I have failed you as your master. Do you understand?!" Piccolo shouted at her?

"Yes sir Mr. Piccolo!" Pan shouted back.

"Good, then prepare yourself my student!" Piccolo yelled while charging at her.

Pan got into a defense stance just in time as Piccolo's fist landed with her cheek. She couldn't remember the last time she actually got hurt like this so the wave of pain distracted her as she cried out raising her right hand to her cheek.

Piccolo only growled as a response and then punched her again this time connecting it with her stomach.

"Don't leave yourself wide open brat!" Piccolo yelled.

Pan than jumped back a bit to recover from Piccolo's assault so she could try to get into the offensive. She then charged forward yelling as she brought her right foot straight up to kick him in the stomach.

Piccolo caught her leg with his left hand but what he wasn't expecting was her continuing her attack by launching herself so she connected a punch with Piccolo's jawline.

Pan stopped her assault to she was damage she dealt but then she saw Piccolo move his head down slowly and only glaring at her.

"You'll have to do better than that to actually inflict pain on me!" He said darkly before throwing her into the sky.

Pan stopped herself from flying and then cupped her hands to her thigh and began chanting the traditional Son energy wave.

"Kamehameha!" She yelled pouring as much strength as she could into the wave.

Piccolo only stood there for a moment as if waiting for something and then just before the wave made contact he moved having it zoom past him.

Pan only moved her hands in the quick second she couldn't see Piccolo and found him standing before her.

"Like I said Pan you'll have to do much better than that," He snarled at her.

Pan only looked at him defiantly and stood there almost waiting for a cue from Piccolo.

Suddenly Piccolo felt something warm getting closer and closer. He turned around realizing that the only reason Pan moved her hands the way she did was not to have him grab her hands but to redirect the wave. Before Piccolo could react he was hit by the blast.

Pan meanwhile used the second that he was distracted to move behind the wave and then charge forward towards Piccolo once the wave had hit him punching him as hard as she could sending him flying into a plateau near them.

Pan stood still waiting for a minute. She knew that didn't bring Piccolo down. Her father said that Piccolo was one of the smartest fighters in the group and was able to think at a faster rate in a battle far beyond anyone else because of his Namekian biology.

Suddenly the remains of the plateau were shaking and Piccolo came out with his clothes torn a bit by his chest but other than he looked non worse for the wear.

"Very resourceful of you Pan, using my distraction to launch another attack at me. If I had to place you between the time I first met Goku at the World's Martial Arts Tournament and now I'd say you would have been a great help against the Saiyans when they first arrived. The fact that you were able to redirect the wave back at me shows that you have a lot of mental and ki discipline. No doubt all thanks to your father and grandfather," Piccolo said.

He then cracked his neck and looked at her with a gleam in his mind.

"Now let's see what a one-fourth Saiyan can really do!" He said charging forward.

*Jason9000: Well that'll do it for now. I know Piccolo may be treating Pan harsh, but remember Piccolo wasn't treating Gohan like a puppy during the Saiyan Arc. I just wanted to have Pan have a small understanding what her father went through when the Saiyans were arriving on Earth. As for the character Pan I don't hate her nor love her. She's tolerable but GT was basically the comedy and sometimes stupidity of Dragon Ball thrown in Z which resulted in what we got. Dragon Ball was more of a younger kids show and Z was more towards preteens and teens. I think they honestly tried to add them both but it didn't work since people were used to Z.

Now I would like to address the ages of the Trunks, Goten, Pan, Marron, and Bra. Just to warn you I only watched the Funimation Dub of the series and haven't read the manga past where Cell first arrives so this is just from the anime. As for Trunks and Goten I would say that they're around eighteen years old and nineteen years old respectively since they're about a year apart and Goten was seven at the time of the Majin Buu arc. Marron would be around 14 since she looks to be around three in the Majin Buu arc so add eleven years and the math should explain. Bra looks to be around six at the end of DBZ so she'd be seven here. Pan would be around five since she looks four in DBZ when Goku leaves with Uub.

I have one more thing to address and it's regarding the review left by Ozad:

"I really hope you keep Piccolo Daimaō in character and portray his relationship with his son correctly it seems many people in 'the west' have their problems, the Japanese are different."

I will try my hardest to keep King Piccolo in character. I only ever watched the DB Funimation Dub of the King Piccolo arc through the end of Dragon Ball. As stated earlier their relationship isn't really "I hate you" at first sight. I honestly have only seen two fanfics where King Piccolo and Piccolo interact with each other. In both of them Piccolo doesn't hate his father, he just as I stated earlier doesn't agree with his views on world domination. I'm curious though do you see much interaction between King Piccolo and Piccolo in Japan in fanfics or no? Again I will try to keep everyone in character but that is hard to do since most of them act similar in some way and different in others. Well that's all we have for today. Sorry about the long AN, but I like to address questions people have to avoid confusion in the future. Well that's all folks!*