A/N: I know Goku and the rest don't show up for some time but I'd like for you to get a little better acquainted with Maria and what type of life she has somewhat.

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Chapter 2

Act wild he said, it's easy just let go... It was easy for him to say but to Maria it just wasn't in her to act what she assumed only uncivilized beasts would. She had grown up in a somewhat spacious cage that Burnaby put her in ever since she was small. There was a tire swing and a small tree in it along with a mat meant for a large dog to sleep on.

All of this just to keep up the appearance of being this so called wild missing link. She was now 27 and she refused to act like a wild beast. It was one thing to act that way while she was a child it was expected, she was alone in a cold foreign place with hundreds of excited eyes gaping at her throwing nuts and trash at her.

Sure she had a tail but she also had an alien beauty about her. Her hair was a wild mess of loose black curls that fell down her waist and was in desperate need of brushing, her skin was a natural golden color, and then there were plump lips and her oddly contradicting green eyes that glowed at night. She felt oddly powerful at night especially those rare nights that seemed to come only once a month when she felt she could escape her confinement and be free and do whatever she pleased. But during those nights Burnaby locked her in a cramped room in his basement.

It all made no sense in her mind she couldn't be this missing link called Fifi as the sign on her cage had dubbed her, she was intelligent and since Maria was the first and only name she could remember she assumed that it was hers. Burnaby was surprised that she could communicate fully and intelligently by the time she was 5 but not so much considering he found her in an alien spaceship but that was all kept a secret from her. She settled into her sad excuse for a bed and turned to her side trying to ignore the feeling that her life was about to change drastically and soon.