Jade shook her head at his ridiculous grin and couldn't help the one that spread across her face. "So tell me more about this Saiyan thing Gohan. What does it mean? What's a Saiyan, I mean?" she asked as they flew to meet Gohan's dad.

"Oh, well a Saiyan is a…hmm. Well it's kinda like a monkey/warrior race I guess you can say which is where the tail comes from. We all had tails at one time, but we all had them removed because of how destructive our transformation was."

"What transformation?"

His eyes widened a little, "Yo-you mean you have never noticed, I mean no one has told you of your transformation?"

"What are you talking about?" she was starting to get frustrated.

"You-your tail, it-it makes you-." He gathered his thoughts and tried to figure out a way to tell her. "Have you ever looked at a full moon before?"

"Of course I have," she said defensively.

"Do you ever remember what happened when you looked at it?"

"Yeah, I remember. Well-," she looked ahead as she tried to think back. That's strange, I don't remember.

"You don't remember do you? That's because on the night of a full moon when a Saiyan that has a tail looks at the moon they turn into a giant ape that is almost indestructible."

Fear set in Jade's eyes, "Are you saying-?"

He tried to make her feel a little better. "I'm not saying anything. I'm just saying that that is why we all had our tails removed because we didn't want to hurt anyone with our transformation. We could never control it so we had to get rid of our tails, even if it wasn't by choice. Your tail does give you a lot more power though."

Jade's eyes never strayed from Gohan's. She didn't want to think of what she might have done. A giant ape? I really am a monster. Her eyes saddened a little as she remembered another scarring moment from her past.

FLASHBACK

"Eww did you see that!?" a little red-headed girl was pointing at Jade. "She has a tail!"

"Eww! She's a monster!" a group of girls screamed and ran off leaving Jade to cry by herself.

"I'm not a monster," she said to herself. She looked back at her tail which made her cry even more. Not knowing what else to do she wrapped her tail securely around her waist making it look like a belt. She made sure to never let her tail show freely again.

END FLASHBACK

"Jade? Are you okay?" Jade didn't notice that Gohan was talking to her.

"What? Oh yeah sorry."

"What were you thinking about just then?" he asked a little worried at why her face was so sad.

"Nothing. Don't worry about it," she tried to smile, but they both new it was fake. "So tell me about your dad. Is he a nice?"

"Huh?" a little confused by the sudden change of topic. "Oh yeah, he's the greatest. He's the strongest guy in the whole world and the strongest Saiyan ever. He was the first to become a Super Saiyan," he said with a proud smile.

"Wait, a Super Saiyan?"

"Yeah, it's a level that's beyond a Saiyan. It's supposed to be really hard to reach, but now we all have reached it. Even me. I'm actually a Super Saiyan right now."

"How do you tell if you're a Super Saiyan or not?"

"Well for us our hair turns gold and our eyes turn green. My hair is usually black you see. When I finally turned into a Super Saiyan my dad taught me a way to stay this level without draining my energy. I think it's just a strategy to defeat cell because I usually don't walk around like this."

"Wow, you guys must all be pretty strong especially if you guys know you're going to defeat cell. Are there a lot of you?"

"No, just me and my dad. Oh and Vegeta, he's kinda like my uncle I guess you can say."

Jade took a moment to let all this sink in. I'm about to meet the strongest guy ever. What do I say?

She didn't have too much time to think about it because Gohan was pointing at a small house that they were quickly getting closer to. "There."

They descended quickly and Jade stayed behind Gohan while he led the way up to the house. He knew that she was nervous, "Don't worry he's going to like you."

Jade only nodded as she followed in his foot steps. Gohan opened the door and yelled in, "I'm home!"

"Oh Gohan you're home," a lady in black hair said sweetly. "I was wondering when you were going to get ba-." Suddenly realizing that Jade was standing behind Gohan, "Who's this?" she asked in a not sweet of a tone.

Gohan smiled at her mom and turned around to introduce Jade. "This is my friend Jade."

"You're bringing home girls already? Gohan you're too young to date! First my baby changes his hair and now he's bringing home girls. Waaah!" She dropped to her knees with tears shooting out of her eyes like simultaneous water fountains.

Gohan went up to her to try and calm her down. "Mom, no, she's just a friend that I want to introduce to dad."

This made her wail even louder. "You only brought home your girlfriend to introduce to your dad and not me?! You don't even care what I think. Waaah!"

Jeez mom first you're worried about me having a girlfriend then mad that I didn't want to introduce her to you.

Jade didn't move from where she stood and could only stare at the spectacle. What is going on? What is she talking about?

Meanwhile a tall man walked in with spiky golden hair and green eyes to match Gohan, from the sound of hearing his wife crying. "What's wrong ChiChi? Why are you crying?"

ChiChi remained on the floor still pouring out tears and wailing when she pointed at Gohan. "Your son brought home a girlfriend. Waaah!"

He looked over at the frightened girl who still stood by the door. "Oh, is that true Gohan." He smirked as he leaned in and started elbowing Gohan, "Is this you're girlfriend?"

"Dad, stop, you're embarrassing me. I just met her," Gohan couldn't help, but blush.

"You just met her?! Waaah!" ChiChi let out another loud wail.

"Mo-om," he said annoyingly.

Meanwhile Gohan's dad went over to Jade and stuck out his hand. "Hi, I'm Goku, Gohan's dad."

She took his hand nervously and shook it, "Hi, I'm Jade," she said nervously.

"Wow, that's quite a handshake you got there," he exclaimed holding back how surprised he really was.

"Dad," Gohan walked over, "she's a Saiyan."

Goku laughed and looked over at his son. "Gohan you just get funnier everyday."

Gohan rolled his eyes. Jeez dad you never take anything serious. "No really dad, look, she has a tail, too."

Gohan pointed at the tail wrapped around Jade's waste. "Go on Jade, show him, it's okay."

Jade was hesitant, but reluctantly unraveled her tail and showed it to Goku. Goku eyes just about jumped out of his head. "WHAT?! SHE'S A- A SAIYAN?!"

Jade back away and lowered her hair in embarrassment.

"Yes dad, that's what I'm trying to tell you," Gohan said softly trying to spare Jade from anymore embarrassment.

"Wow, that's amazing, another Saiyan…and a girl, too! Where did you meet her Gohan? She must have parents that are Saiyans too!"

Gohan saw how Jade had flinched at the mention of parents and tried to stop his dad from another rant. "I don't know dad. I just met, I didn't ask too much about her family."

"Oh well, that's awesome that you're making friends Gohan. Any friend of yours is a friend of mine," he said with the same goofy smile that Gohan had.

Jade couldn't help, but smile at the resemblance.

"Dad, I was wondering if me and Jade could go out and train."

Goku looked down at his son with a dumb look on his face. "Oh, well I thought you would want to relax during these last few days before the tournament, but if you want to train with your new friend, that's fine with me." His goofy smile returned with his eyes closed this time, "Go out and have fun with your friend."

Gohan smiled, "Hey, thanks dad."

Meanwhile no one noticed the figure that was creeping behind Goku and Gohan. "DOES MY OPINION NOT MATTER ANYMORE?!" ChiChi screamed.

Everyone, including Jade, jumped and held frightened faces. "Sorry ChiChi, I guess I just got caught up in the excitement." Goku was holding the back of his neck nervously because he knew his wife was about to let him have it. He watched as she clenched her fists to her sides and lowered her head as her body shook in anger.

"NO ONE EVER PAYS ATTENTION TO WHAT I SAY. YOU NEED TO ACT MORE RESPONSIBLE AS AN ADULT GOKU. YOU LET OUR SON GO OUT WITH A STRANGE GIRL WHO HE JUST MET-!"

Gohan grabbed Jade's arm and snuck her out quickly while his mom was distracted. They both took off in the air as fast as they could in fear that ChiChi might come and chase them.