Author: "AUTHOR-FREAKING-NOTE TIME! This chapter doesn't have much action, but it is IMPORTANT. This chapter tells you most of Scorzette's story, and as you will clearly notice, Scorzette will have a major role in the story. So, yeah, you probably wanna know what's up with her.

On a side note, if brains and luck are on my side, I will start uploading the other DBZ fan fiction I've been working on next week. Again, I realize that Lost Origin is barely a true fan fiction, and that it's just a completely different story, but with Saiyans. I promise this new fan fiction will keep as truthful to the DBZ storyline as I can, whilst giving you a banquet of fresh, new content! Anyways, without further ado, ON WITH THE STORY!"

Lost Origin: A Saiyan's Quest

Starflow citizen: "Ahhhh, such a beautiful day to go outside! Watch the flowers, observe the birds, play with the kids, there's nothing that could possibly ruin this da—" *black spike falls from the sky, activates antenna, and begins scanning* "WHOA! The hell is that?! Looks like a spike of some sort… I wonder…" *approaches spike*

The black spike released its laser gun and shot at the citizen, disintegrating his clothes.

Starflow citizen: "CRAP! … am… am I still alive…? Oh, good, I'm still ali—OH, FFFFFF… MY CLOTHES! I have to hide, I have to hi—"

Starflow guard: "Sir! It is illegal to wander off naked. I'm going to have to take you to the judge. Do not put up resistance, I have a spear."

Starflow citizen: "… I hate my life…"

Chapter 30: Tragedy of the Past

Unimaginable but truth, our heroes had officially finished their quest of going to West City! Now that there was nothing else planned, they decided to wander off and return home. From eight to four members, the party was now composed of Sakura, Scorzette, Andromeda, and Ninomiya. They were on their way back to Starflow Kingdom, to drop Andromeda off, so the three remaining members could proceed to Waterleaf Village. Thanks to Andromeda's comet-summoning skills, they were about to reach Starflow Kingdom, taking them only two days! Our heroes were currently flying on a comet.

Sakura: "Hey, Scorzette, are you hungry?"

Scorzette: "Eh, somewhat. What've you got?"

Sakura: "Let's see… tomatoes… chicken… two peaches… fish…"

Scorzette: "I'll take a fish." *Sakura hands over fish* *Scorzette noms away* "Hmmm… Errlng phsh innt hev behd [Earthling fish isn't half bad]."

Ninomiya: "You say 'Earthling' like you were an alien…"

Scorzette: *facepalm* "… I AM an alien, you idiot… though I prefer 'out of this world' better, thank you very much."

Andromeda: "Well, get ready to see something out of this world, because we're here!"

As Andromeda said this, our heroes turned to look to the distance and saw a galaxy-decorated castle! As they got closer, they noticed that it wasn't just a castle, it was an entire kingdom! In fact, it was Starflow Kingdom (like we didn't see that coming within the first sentence…)!

Sakura: "Hey look, it's Starflow Kingdom!"

Scorzette: "Whoa… that's some interesting design right there. How much did that cost to make?"

Andromeda: "Legends say that the kingdom was built as a control station for the entire Solar System! This is just one of many stations around the galax—"

Scorzette: "Seriously, how much did it cost?"

Andromeda: "… (Smart little…) like… 50 billion Zeni…? But this place does have special features! Like the fact that the moon here is always full!"

Scorzette: "Really?! Ah, god… freaking…" *glances angrily at Ninomiya*

Ninomiya: "What?! Oh, could you please let it go?! I had no choice!"

Scorzette: "You could have just waited a couple of seconds, my transformation was about to run out! It's not like I was able to move!"

Our heroes had officially landed at Starflow Kingdom, right in front of the entrance gate. Though it took some time for Scorzette and Ninomiya to realize as they were arguing.

Sakura: "Ah, just as beautiful as I remember!"

Andromeda: "Yeah, Starflow Kingdom has always been a gorgeous and peaceful place. Oh, there's a newspaper on the ground."

Starflow News: "BREAKING NEWS! Just this morning, an anonymous man was caught wandering around Starflow Kingdom naked! He was immediately taken to court by a near-by guard and found guilty of public disturbance. The man now faces two years of prison."

Andromeda: "… I leave for, like, a month… and THIS happens… let's just go in, I have to check if anything else of the sort has happened…"

To Andromeda's relief, nothing else had particularly happened during her absence. She told our heroes to wander around the kingdom while she met with her parents again. Not sure where to go, our three heroes went inside the first building they saw, which turned out to be a library.

Ninomiya: "Ummm… why a library?"

Sakura: "Well, I might find a book about martial arts or something similar."

Scorzette: "We'll have to wait for Andromeda. I might as well look at what you humans have… hmmm… what's this? 'Magic 101: Runes for Dummies…' Huh, cool symbols… Oooo! 'The runic alphabet comes from…'"

Ninomiya: "Well, she found a book. How about you, Sa—"

Sakura: " 'Elements 101: Lightning for Dummies.' 'Channeling electricity throughout one's body is one of the most effective…'"

Ninomiya: "What the… do you people have, like, the entire '101 for Dummies' collection or som—"

Library worker: "Shh! Sir, please remain quiet! Other people are trying to read."

Ninomiya: "But they were also talk… ugh… fiiiiiiiine…"

Meanwhile, in Starflow Castle…

Starflow Queen: "Your turn."

Starflow King: "Uh… uh… ummm…" *moves king forward*

Starflow Queen: *slowly shakes head left to right* *moves knight* "Check Mate."

Starflow King: "WHAT?! Aaaahhh! Why do I always lose?!"

As the king and queen finished their chess game, Andromeda walked in, greeting her parents.

Andromeda: "Mom! Dad! I'm back!"

Starflow King: "Andromeda?! But I thought you said you wouldn't come back until there was a chaos of galactic proportions!"

Andromeda: "Well, that kind of already happened two weeks ago. Don't you read the news?"

Starflow Queen: "I showed you the newspaper like 20 times. Alfred, you need to start paying attention…"

Author: "Oops! Forgot to mention that 21 chapters ago! The king's name is Alfred and the queen's name is Margaret."

King Alfred: "I thought you were kidding!"

Queen Margaret: *facepalm* *sigh* "Any who, welcome back, Andromeda! We kept your room as clean as always. Nothing has happened in the time you were gone, really, mostly just the average piles of paperwork to fill out."

Andromeda: "Oh, you really didn't need me, huh. I can tell by the fact that I see no paper but a table of chess instead."

King Alfred: "We, uh… we… we're on our break! Yes, our break. Totally."

Andromeda: "At 11:30 in the morning? It' not like I forgot that you two actually start filling paper work at 11:20. Well, it doesn't matter. I'm just going to check the power core." *leaves for power core*

Queen Margaret: "Welp… she got smarter… and sassier… you should start finding a new hiding spot for your magazines, Alfred. I'll work on coming up with better excuses."

King Alfred: "You knew about the magazines?! I mean… ah… damn my old age…"

Back in the library…

Sakura: *reading* "… so… um… Scorzette… how old are you?"

Scorzette: *reading* "… 18… you?"

Sakura: *reading* "… 14… would…" *looks at Scorzette instead of book* "Would it be a problem if I ask… how did you survive?"

Scorzette: "…" *puts book down* "73 years ago… I was only five years old… my parents taught me what some Saiyans did for a living, but they always said that something - something terrible - was going to come out of that life-style. They were considered low-class Saiyans because they never fought to conquer other planets or kill for fun… instead, they always trained with their friends, each other, and even me. Thanks to them, I was just as strong as the other kids on the neighborhood. We lived on the South-Western part of Planet Vegeta, far from the base where King Vegeta and Frieza did all their negotiations. Do you know in which part of the planet you lived in, Litua?"

Sakura: "I… I don't…"

Scorzette: *sigh* "You might know about Saiyan origins, but you don't know much about YOUR origins, do you?"

Sakura: "I… no…"

Scorzette: "… look, if you still have your spaceship, I might be able to help you with that. Anyways, my parents spent a lot of their time with me during day time, but I don't remember ever seeing them during night time. And it didn't have anything to do with the moon, because there was only one full moon every seven years on Planet Vegeta. I asked them several times where they went during the night, but all they ever said was 'it's for your own good.' I loved them, regardless, and we were a happy family. Until it happened… Frieza was about to destroy Planet Vegeta. Since the town we lived at was of lesser important, there were only a few spaceships for us to leave at. They were all used to save the children, including me. Before blasting me into outer space, my parents said one last thing to me: 'Survive.' And with that word, I was sent to outer space, watching as my planet was blown into pieces, with my parents and the rest of the Saiyan race still on it."

Sakura: *talking to herself in low voice* "Scorzette was sent to outer space just like me…"

Scorzette: "All I could do was just watch and cry. Little by little, the destroyed planet became further and futher away, and the other spaceships with children in them either left to different parts of the galaxy or froze. For a week, all I could do was wait, wait, and wait some more, for something to happen. Then one day, I saw a desert planet not too distant, where my ship seemed to be headed to. The ship landed there, creating a huge crater, and soon after that, a man wearing dark clothes came towards the ship and got me out from it. As soon as he saw my tail, he knew I was a Saiyan. I was scared, very scared in fact, but he told me that he would teach me how to be a true warrior, and that I would survive if I went with him. I didn't trust the stranger, but my choices were extremely limited, so I followed him. To this day, I'm still not sure if that was the right choice."

Sakura: "It got worse from there?"

Scorzette: "Oh, much worse. He took me to his hometown, where more men like him were, as well as some enslaved innocents. He took me to a dark room, and told me that he knew what had just happened to the Saiyans, and even more strange, he knew who my parents were. As if he was reading my mind. He told me that it was because of Saiyans like my parents that we were obliterated, that Saiyans like my parents were too weak and held back by foolish emotions. All I needed was rage, he said. If I made the same mistake my parents did, I would end up just like them, dying at the hands of a traitor. Then, he told me there is no such thing as a friend. He said that friends didn't exist; all there existed was you, your allies in battle, and the target. No one else, not even someone from your own family could be called a 'friend.' And I've lived by those words… until now."

Sakura: "Don't worry, I'm your friend! I'm never, ever, ever going to betray you!"

Scorzette: "Heh… if you didn't want to be my friend, you would have left me to die. But back to the story. From that day onwards, the men would put me in intense training every single day, all day long until my bones felt like they were about to break. And then on full moon nights, they made me transform into a Great Ape and fight against savage creatures in the planet, and made me carry boulders as big as mountains, just for fun. Not only that, every day they would indulge the idea that there are no friends and that one cannot be weak, to the point where I forgot all about the other friendly Saiyans back in Planet Vegeta. I had to live like that for ten years - ten years of endless pain and suffering. And don't even get me started on the food…"

Sakura: "But… how are you 18 if this was 63 years ago?"

Scorzette: "Well, this is what happened. Soon after I became 15, I had become a much more powerful and ruthless warrior, in contrast to my five-year-old counterpart. However, I started developing my own ideas, my own way of thinking, developing myself mentally. And I realized… I didn't need to keep under the training of those bastards. I was far more powerful than them; I had the ability to crush them like insects. And I did. On a full moon night, I got away from them before they could catch me and make me do the usual. I came back soon after, this time as a Great Ape, and began smashing and blowing everything up. Not a single one of those imbeciles got away; the only people who fled were the other slaves. But just as I was seconds away from killing the last one of those bastards, he shot a blast towards the moon, destroying it, and with it, turning me back to normal. I managed to catch him, though. I grabbed his face and lifted him up, about to blast him, but he cast a spell on me before I did. My feet turned to stone, then my legs, and it kept rising. Yet, I blew his damn face off before I was completely petrified, so there were no survivors."

Sakura: "That's horrible! But how did you free yourself from the spell?"

Scorzette: "I stayed like that for 60 years. Then, a group of Tuffles, another race that lived on Planet Vegeta, came to the planet to explore, as it was supposedly free of any life forms. But they were wrong, because they found me. They could only see my head, so they tried to lift me out of the ground. Unable to do so, one of them, an alchemist, tried a potion to break the spell on me. And it worked, freeing me of that hell. When I came back to my senses, I looked at them, confused, but they seemed happily impressed to see me. Until I got out of the sand, revealing my tail, which scared them lifeless as Tuffles and Saiyans had been enemies for ages. I could have done what any other Saiyan did and killed them on the spot… but I didn't. I just looked at them, told them to give me one of their armors, conveniently design as a Saiyan armor, and left. I managed to remember where my ship was, hopped on, and escaped that hell of a planet, forever."

It seemed like Scorzette had fair reasons to act like she did. What happened when she escaped the deserted planet? Will Sakura ever find out what happened to her before escaping Planet Vegeta? Find out next time on Lost Origin: A Saiyan's Quest!

To be continued…

Bonus skit

Both Sakura and Scorzette were really enjoying their respective books, learning a lot of possible techniques for future battles. But the absence of Ninomiya paused Sakura's reading, as she didn't know where he went.

Sakura: "'… electrical shocks can be used to paralyze enemies for…' Wait a minute… where's Ninomiya?"

Scorzette: "Don't know, don't care. He's probably out there somewhere, being the loser he is."

Sakura: "I'll go look for him real quick."

5 minutes later…

Sakura: "Where could he… oh, there he is! And he's reading something! Hey, Ninomiya, you found a… book…"

Ninomiya: "'… make sure to make quick, sarcastic respons—' Sakura?! Look, this book just had a pretty cover, I'm just looking to see if the content—"

Sakura: " 'Life 101: The Dummy's Guide to Not Be a Loser?'"

Scorzette: "Are you… AAAAHAHAHA, that's just hilarious!"

Ninomiya: "Hey, you can't judge a book by its cover!"

Scorzette: "No, but you can judge a reader by the books they read!"