Trunks heart slowly descended. "Pan?" This had to be a joke! He shook his head furiously. "She's like almost six years younger than me!" He whined. "I am soon to turn nineteen! Pan is not even fourteen! You can't possible expect me to marry her!" He said determined to make his point. What bothered him the most, Pan always had a crush on him… Or so Bra had told him! He had only ever seen Pan once and it was only really for a few moments. He was starting to feel desperate.
"Sorry, but you will wait until she turns sixteen, then the two of you will be married!" Bulma said firmly. "That gives you just over two years to get to know her! We are brining both Pan and Goten up!" She said. And without looking at either of their children Vegeta and Bulma left the room.
Trunks' hands soon balled into furious fists. "How can they expect me to go with Pan!" He snarled. "Its ludicrous!" He turned and stood towering above his sister who flinched.
"There is a good side to this!" She said softly gazing into his eyes with sympathy. She did agree to all he had said, and she could see it from his point of view! He must be furious.
"What?" He snarled glaring at her.
"At least you'll get to see Goten again!" She added giving a weak smiled. Trunks seemed to deflate himself. That was true! It would be good to see Goten again. He sighed and made his way out of the room.
Trunks spent most of the day sulking in his bedroom after the meeting. He lay sighing heavy on his bed. He didn't even like Pan! He was going to convince himself of this before she even landed on this goth forsaken planet! He scowled into his pillow, then an image of Goten flashed over his mind. He grinned lightly and sat up, reaching over to a drawer he pulled it open and pulled out a small photograph book. It was from his last day on earth before he came here with his mother and father. He left when he was sixteen.
He gazed down at the pictures, him and Goten were in most of them, there was a picture with Goten, Gohan and Goku all stuffing their faces. Trunks couldn't help but laugh at them. It would be good to see him again, that would cheer him up. There was a small knock on his door.
Quickly he stuffed the picture book back into his drawer and closed it. "Come in!" He said turning to see who it was.
Bra walked in and smiled at him. "I know that you love to sulk!" She said grinning. "But there is a meeting in the atrium and Mother and Father wants us there!" She said turning.
Trunks scowled. "I wasn't sulking!" But she had already left, closing the door behind her. Grumbling he pulled himself out of bed and marched across the room throwing open the door and making his way towards the atrium.
Trunks took his seat and placed his head on his hand apparently bored. Vegeta growled at his son telling him to sit up straight.
A guard entered through the golden doors. "Sir! We have sent troops to planet Shade, we have receive word there was a giant massacre and most of our allies have been left dead sir!" He said giving a small bow.
Vegeta looked mortified. "Why did they not send out a message? We would have happily have went to their aid!" He said his hand gripping his throne arm.
The guard shrugged. "They didn't have a lot of time to send a messenger, but we have sent a ship to search for survivors, they are due to return soon!" He said sighing.
Vegeta sighed and nodded. "Thank you, and if you find any bring them to me at once!" He said clearly. The guard gave another bow and exited.
Trunks looked at his father questioningly. "Planet Shade?" He asked
Vegeta nodded. "Home of the dragons! They are not dragons like Shenron, but smaller with arms and legs and wings!" He sighed. "They were some of our most loyal allies. I can't believe this has happened! The dragons have always been good to us!"
Trunks' eyes lit up. "Wow real dragons? With the fire breathing and everything?" he asked.
Vegeta snarled. "Don't be stupid they are not like your fairy tale dragons you get on earth, they fire energy blasts like us, only from their mouths! Not fire!" He said shaking his head.
Trunks and Bra exchanged excited looks.
"We don't even know if there will be any survivors!" Vegeta stated simply.
Just then the doors opened and a band of guards made their way in. They all held laster-like spears around what looked like a group of small children from the ages of three to five. There was one boy that was the age of nine, possibly ten. All of the children looked frozen with fear except the older boy who appeared to be trying to fend off the guard's spears.
There was a crash from outside, and two of the elite Saiyan guards came marching into the room holding a struggling young girl around the age of eighteen. She appeared to be wearing earth clothes! Was she a dragon? She definitely looked like she came from the planet shade!
The girl had long black hair that fell below her shoulders, the tips of which were streaked red. She wore long baggy dark blue jeans that were ripped and torn. Her top consisted of two dragons. One blue and one purple flying round each other in the shape of ying and yang. Across her neck she wore a chain upon which was a wolf howling at the moon. Her dark red eyes shot daggers around the room as she struggled against the guards.
Trunks eyed her up and down. She was fairly slim and strapped to her belt was a nine hole Zelda, ocarina. Dark blue in colour. The guards threw her into the small group of children which seemed to cower by her side. The boy grinned at her and continued to look menacingly around. Now that her hands were free Trunks spotted she wore two fingerless gloves, with deep red and black stripes and a skull and cross bones in the centre.
One of the guards walked over to Vegeta. "We found this band of orphans on the planet my lord!" He said indicating the group. "They do not seem to know we are allies of theirs!"
The girl snarled at a man who had poked a young boy back into the centre of the circle with his large laser like spear. She darted at him and head butted him square on the face, causing him to hit the floor with a nasty crack. Two guards dropped their spears and headed for her, she dogded the first and brought her elbow back on the second, causing him to run flat into it. The man fell towards the floor lying on his comrade.
Vegeta nodded. "This is a good chance for our prince to step in!" He nodded at Trunks.
Trunks looked up and back down at the girl who's eyes rested on his. He rose and made his way slowly down towards her. She snarled at him, and backed up slightly, fire red eyes meeting cold blue. He really didn't want to have to hurt her. But she was causing an awful lot of trouble. As he advanced the girls face screwed with pain then her eyes rolled into the back of her and she collapsed. Trunks dashed forward and caught her, he looked up, one of the guards had hit her with a tranquillising dart. All the small children started to whimper as the guns raised at them. The older boy threw himself in front of them and took many of the shots. One by one they all fell. Trunks gazed down at the girl in his arms, on the back of her chain read the name; 'Raven'
Please R&R Next chapter Pan and Goten come for a visit, and Trunks truely meets Raven and the other orphens hearing their story...