Odianna began to speak, her voice surprisingly soft, "It all began roughly forty years ago, during the First Invasion. I say roughly, because I'm not sure how old the first Saiyan was when he first started massacring people."

"First Saiyan?" asked Pan.

Odianna nodded. "The first Saiyan to invade Terra was sent as a baby. His name... was Rutabage, though, we came to call him the Despoiler. Everyplace he went was ruined, everyone's lives he touched were destroyed. Despite how weak he was compared to the Saiyan's we deal with nowadays, he was singlehandedly responsible for killing the vast majority of humanity. He wiped out over half of our population before he was stopped."

"One... just... one single Saiyan?" asked Pan with disbelief.

Odianna nodded again. "I encountered him when I was six years old. Despite being the same age as me, he was utterly merciless. My village was one of the first to fall. He killed everyone, all the villagers, my mother, my father, my brother, and toyed with me for amusement."

Pan frowned, growing confused. "But... that was forty years ago...? You're not that old..."

"You still don't get it, do you?" said Odianna coldly, "How were all still alive, how we could possibly stand against the might of the super saiyans."

Odianna shook her head. "You'll understand soon enough."

She cleared her throat. "Just before Rutabage was going to finish me off, the legendary fox hermit, Master Kokatsune appeared, and fought the boy off. He tended to my wounds and had planned to leave me at an orphanage. However, I begged him to train me, to allow me to take revenge for my family."

She brooded, poking the fire with a stick. "He trained me alright, though, he was still focused on hunting Rutabage down, so it wasn't as indepth as it should have been. We encountered Rutabage in the act of slaughtering towns a few times and drove him off, though, I was nothing but a detriment and distraction to my Master at that point."

She frowned. "We continued to try to stop him, along the way over the years, we began to pick up other survivors. The first was an Indian who went by the name of Kiaan, his entire family had been killed, and he had been knocked out cold, powerless to stop Rutabage. Kiaan swore revenge and joined us on the hunt. He was a gentle giant at first, but, Rutabage changed him."

"The next was... was someone who would become a dear friend to me," said Odianna sadly, "Her name was Dina."

Odianna smiled faintly. "She was a weird one alright. The only reason she lived through the attack on her village was because she scared the crap out of Rutabage."

"How?" asked Pan.

Odianna smirked. "She had a... condition... whenever she sneezed, her hair and eyecolor would change and her personality would dramatically shift."

Pan blinked a few times. "That... sounds like Launch."

Odianna gave a start. "Sounds like Launch?"

Pan nodded. "Launch is a lady I know who does the exact same thing when she sneezes. When her hair is blue, she's really nice, and a bit naive. When her hair is yellow, she has a wicked temper and always pulls out a gun to shoot people. She was a major bank robber back in her youth."

"Pfff, bank robber," said Odianna with distaste, "Well, they sound similar except for the last part. Though, nice Dina was a brunette, and angry Dina was a redhead. Her switching between her personalities freaked Rutabage out enough to make him run away. Having no one else to go, she joined up with us. I looked up to her, kind of like a big sister. She saved my ass a lot back then."

She gave an amused look towards Aneurin. "The final one that joined us was a homeless teenager wandering the ruins of a city. Looked an awful lot like this guy here. Didn't talk much, we never asked him to join us, he never asked permission to, he just followed us and did his best to help out."

Aneurin gave a small smile, but said nothing.

"Rutabage grew more cunning and ruthless as time dragged on, he started leaving no survivors, and our battles started getting more brutal until finally, one day, we thought we had done him in. Bashed his skull bad, and knocked him off a cliff into a ravine that went over a waterfall. We thought we had stopped him for good," said Odianna.

"The fox hermit took us back to his home, and began to train us properly for a time, deciding that we would take over for him when his time came and watch over Terra if anyone as monstrous as Rutabage ever appeared," said Odianna, "Little did we know, Rutabage wasn't dead. He recovered and started the slaughter again. We learned of his resurfacing months later and left to pursue him."

"When we fought him for the first time in months, we were shocked how stronger he was than before, though, we had come along in our own way as well. Especially Dina, she was the most gifted out of us, and is the reason we got out of that battle alive," said Odianna.

"How so?" asked Pan.

"Two personalities, two styles," Odianna explained, "Master Kokatsune came up with the idea to carry a bag of powder around that Dina could use to sneeze at will. Her two personalities had drastically different approaches to the fox style, one was conservative, a master of defense and counter attacks. The other was aggressive and ruthless, an unrelenting force in battle. Rutabage could not properly deal with a warrior who could so easily switch styles at a whim, couldn't properly adapt."

"That actually sounds really cool," said Pan.

Odianna smirked. "It was 'cool', yes, but, that advantage only lasted so long. Each battle, it appeared that Rutabage was somehow growing stronger and stronger. We couldn't understand it, he was growing so strong so fast, it was taking everything we had as a combined group to deal with him. Finally, one battle, when we were all almost defeated, Master Kokatsune feigned defeat, and pretending to be in his death throes, demanded to know Rutabage's secret, and why he was doing this."

Anger played across Odianna's face. "Rutabage revealed that his mission was to kill all of humanity, and for some reason, whenever he recovered from injuries, he grew more powerful, the closer he was to death, the more powerful he became. We had been inadvertently making him more powerful the entire time. Master Koketsune was determined to stop him at all costs and battled him to a fierce standstill with us supporting him when we could. Finally, Master Koketsune blew a hole through Rutabage's chest and he moved no more. Once again, we thought we had killed him. We were stupid fools, we should have destroyed his body, or at least blew a hole through his head."

She sighed. "We buried him quickly, not even three minutes after the battle, and left. I figured he awoke and dug himself out soon after we left. That son of a bitch just never seemed to die. Though, he didn't go back to killing, not right away. He was damn near crippled from that battle and had to deceive others into tending to his wounds."

"In the meantime, we resumed our training with Master Koketsune, entered a martial art's tournament, and our performance drew the attention of the Blue Bowtie Army, a group hell bent on world domination. They attempted to recruit us, but our Master refused. They of course tried to kill us on the spot, but we were strong enough to drive them off. That was the start of a several year struggle between us and them, it drew in other martial arts schools, and other nations of the world in a bloody struggle for domination," continued Odianna.

She clenched her fists. "Rutabage had recovered during that time, and started killing again, though, we didn't know it. Any ruined village we came across, we just assumed it was the Blue Bowtie Army. Suddenly, the war began to change, and the Blue Ribbon Army began targeting museums, art exhibits, and people with massive artifact collections rather then trying to take over towns or destroy us. We didn't understand it, not until we saved the life of an old hermit living alone on a mountain. On his person, he carried a peculiar orange orb with stars on it, what we would come to know as a dragon ball."

She closed her eyes. "He told us of their power, to be able to grant any one wish when all seven were collected. He implored us to safeguard the ball, and to seek out the source of its mystical energies. We went into hiding after that, not wanting to risk the ball being stolen from us. The old hermit had given us a few clues, about a tower going up high into the sky. Eventually, we found it, and climbed to the top. That's where we met Master Papaya and received training from her for a few months."

She opened her eyes, her gaze darkening. "That's also when we learned Rutabage was still alive, and that he was taking on both the Blue Ribbon Army, and the world governments. We wanted to stop him right away, but Master Papaya forbid us, saying we weren't strong enough. When we finished our training with him, he said we needed to continue up above to receive the guardian's training. We had no idea what he meant, but, he taught us how to levitate, and we rose into the sky, discovering the Lord's Palace."

"The guardian was an old, but insanely powerful green creature. His was distrusting of us, but, desired to have Rutabage stopped. He could have done it himself, but, he was apparently bound by rules that prevented him from interfering. He taught us the secrets of sensing ki and flying, honed our techniques, and trained us to a new level. During that time, we learned that he was the creator of the dragonballs, though, he never told us why he made them," continued Odianna.

"After we finished our training a year later, we left to take the battle to Rutabage. The world... was in a bad state, so much of it was ruined by Rutabage's rampage. Our first fight with him was utterly brutal, Master Papaya had been right, if we had fought him head on before receiving the guardian's training, we would have been slaughtered. Rutabage was intrigued by our growth in power, rather than finish the fight then and there one way or another, he fled," said Odianna.

"We didn't realize he was using us to get stronger, he could have killed us at any time after the first few recoveries he made, but he held back. It was during this time, we noticed him stealing dragonballs from the Blue Bowtie Army. We confronted him again, and then, we learned what his horrific desires were. He wanted to gather the dragonballs and wish for immortality," said Odianna.

"Immortality," murmured Pan.

Odianna nodded. "He beat us handily and stole our dragonball, but again spared our lives. We recognized that we were outmatched, but, we could absolutely not allow him to get his wish. We returned to the guardian and begged him to aid us, but he refused. We changed tactics, and instead begged him to disable the dragonballs. Again, he refused. Finally, we managed to convinced him to alter their capabilities. While he refused to disable any particular wish, he did weaken the dragonballs power in certain regards. Rather than be able to grant true immortality and invulnerability, it would only grant a lessor form immortality. It was a small victory, because if he got that wish, we were still all dead regardless."

"In the end, after Rutabage had gathered six of the seven dragonballs, we were forced to ally with the Blue Bowtie Army and anyone else who would stand alongside us. We gathered here at this very spot to make our stand. It... it was a slaughter. Rutabage was so powerful, his power was monstrous compared to ours. He killed our allies, he wiped out the Blue Bowtie Army and their leader, and then he fought us for the dragonball. Master Kokatsune entrusted the ball to me, since I was the weakest of us, and told me if we were to lose, that i had to take it and run," said Odianna.

A pained look crossing her face. "He picked us apart one by one. Piaan was the first to die, next was Aneurin..."

Pan gave a start. "Wait, Aneurin, you died?!"

He nodded. "Yeah, how do you think I learned the Kaio-Ken and the Spirit Bomb from Prince Kai?"

Pan nodded slowly. "Oh."

Odianna sighed. "Master Kokatsune fell after an hour long struggle between Rutabage and the three of us. When he did, I... I lost hope, lost the will to fight. Oh didn't he get a sick thrill out of that. To beat and kill an opponent was one thing, to rob them of their fighting spirit was another. Dina fought with everything she had one on one with Rutabage, it was battle of such intensity never seen before on our world, but he beat her, breaking one of her arms, roughing her up, and casting her aside. He took the dragonball from me, laughed at how pitiful I was, and blew a hole through my chest. As I laid there dying, he told me he wanted me to see him achieve his ultimate victory before I passed on."

Odianna closed her eyes. "Dina crawled to me as he gathered the dragonballs together, trying to comfort me. He... summoned the dragon then, lamenting that his struggle for immortality was finally over. I'll admit, I cried, I felt humiliated and useless, that I had failed everyone who counted on me. I was pitiful, cried about dying when I deserved it for my weakness. Dina... looked at me sadly, told me she knew what she had to do to save my life and stop him, and begged my forgiveness, though I didn't understand why. Just before he could make his wish, just before he uttered the last word, Dina rushed him from behind and clamped a hand over his mouth. She stole his wish, and used it to grant me immortality."

Pan blinked a few times, staring at Odianna with disbelief. "You... you're... you're immortal?!"

Odianna opened her eyes and met Pan's gaze. "I am, a lesser immortal to be exact, ironic how our begging the guardian to weaken the wish hurt us in the end. I've been sixteen years old ever since that day. Let me ask you something, how do you think I can sustain a Kaio-Ken times fifty? How do you think I could have survived all these years against the might of the Saiyan race? Survived against the first super saiyan and ascended super saiyan? I couldn't, not without immortality. If it wasn't for my immortality, humanity would have been exterminated during the First Invasion, forget about all the rest."

It all made sense to Pan now. Odianna's absurd strength, her ability to use impossible levels of the Kaio-Ken, her skill, her youthful age, how everyone obeyed her and looked up to her as their leader, and Aideen's utter faith in her. Aideen was right, faith was irrelevant in regard's to Odianna, she was immortal, the Saiyans could never kill her.

Pan nodded slowly. "I guess I understand now. So, you killed Rutabage after?"

Odianna slowly shook her head. "Not right away. After Dina stole his wish, he was enraged, he... he..."

For the first time since Pan had met her, Odianna almost looked like she would cry. "He... killed Dina. Snapped her neck completely around and blew a hole through her as a mystical light enveloped me. That snapped me out of my depressive stupor, and after the dragon and the light faded, I threw myself at him in a rage. However, immortal or not, I had been the weakest of my group. While my stamina and durability were greatly increased, I could still be hurt. My wounds did not instantly heal, instead, they repaired themselves over time. While my ki could recover quickly, it still took a bit of time."

A weird, sadistic, pleasured look crossed Odianna's face. "We fought for hours, not once did I ever back down, no matter how many times he knocked me down, I got back up and threw myself at him. The first day was unending painful bloodshed before he knocked me out and fled. When I awoke, I immediately pursued him, recovering to full strength by the time I overtook him. Relentlessly I pursued him, hunting him down as he had hunted humans for a decade since he first appeared. I wore him down over time until he finally began to slip up due to exhaustion, lack of sleep, and lack of food. I began to wound him until the moment I had dreamed for ever since he had killed my family arrived. I broke his knees, broke his arms, knocked him to the ground, and blew a hole through the back of his head."

She smiled, sitting there, lost in memory for a few minutes before she continued, "I made one-hundred percent sure this time and disintegrated his body before I... took my friends back to the guardian. He put them in preservation caskets, which would prevent them from decaying. He told me that the dragonballs could be used to revive one of them in a years time, however, there was a time limit, anyone dead for more than roughly one year could not be resurrected. So only one of them could be revived. Since I had done him such a service by killing Rutabage, he recalled the now petrified dragonballs to him, and told me to seek him out in a year's time."

She licked her lips. "I was... distraught over being able to only bring back one of them. The guardian noted this, and said to think it over during my journey. I didn't understand what he meant by that before he explained to me that Rutabage had to have come from somewhere. He tasked me to hunt down that bastards origins and find out what could have spawned such a monster."

She clenched her fists. "In a wasteland, far into the dead lands, I found a large spherical orb object of some kind, what we would eventually come to know as 'pods'. Inside of it, there was a beeping flashing red button. I pressed it, and a voice started speaking, demanding to know why Rutabage hadn't picked up in so long, and how far along in his mission to wipe out humanity he was."

She laughed. "I'll admit, I lost my shit right there and screamed at the voice in a rage. I doomed humanity. I revealed to them that I had killed Rutabage, but rather than be angry, the voice congratulated me for killing a Saiyan warrior, even if he was as weak as Rutabage. He informed me that he would be sending Rutabage's brother to clean up his brother's mess in a years time. I had revealed to them our world, and caused the next invasion."

Pan frowned. "They would have come eventually to find out what happened to Rutabage."

Odianna shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not. Either way I cut down the time we had left. Soon after that, I returned to the guardian who put me in touch with Prince Kai. He revealed to me that he was training my friends in the otherworld, teaching them two godly techniques that could save our world. It was decided then and there that whoever mastered Prince Kai's techniques would be the one revived, in order to pass them on to me."

"Which was Aneurin," confirmed Pan.

Odianna nodded, "Yeah, it was..."

Aneurin bowed his head. "To be honest, I wish it hadn't been me. I was the loner of the group, didn't have any family or friends to come back to. I thought Dina deserved it the most out of all of us, but, her split personality made it twice as hard for her to learn the Kai's techniques, and because of the raw anger and impurity of her furious side, she was incapable of using the Spirit Bomb. I had always been quick on picking up new survival skills and tricks when I was a homeless kid, that carried on to techniques. At the end of the year, with only a month to go before the Saiyan arrived, I was revived and returned to Terra to teach Odianna the Kaio-Ken."

When he didn't continue, Pan asked, "And the Spirit Bomb?"

Odianna smiled sadly. "I'm not capable of using the Spirit Bomb, I never was after that final day of the First Invasion."

She leaned back on her bench and looked into the sky. "I'll freely admit, I could never let go of my hatred. To be honest, even if I was capable of it, I wouldn't willingly do so. I hate Saiyans, I hate them with everything that I am, and everything that I ever will be. One day, when the last human aside from me has fallen, I'm going to leave this world. I'm going to hunt down every single Saiyan, and kill them all. I don't care how long it takes, I will destroy them."

Pan looked at her, feeling numb. That hate... that malice Pan felt emanating from her. It was horrifyingly intoxicating and contagious. Pan blinked a few times before bowing her head, realizing something. She... she was part saiyan... if Odianna ever found out, she'd kill her. Pan clenched her fists, not angry with Odianna, but with herself for being part Saiyan. She had only just begun listening to the history of Terra, she was only through eleven of the forty years. She could only imagine just what else the Saiyan race had done to the humans of Terra over time as they were slowly wiped out. It was sickening to think she shared Saiyan blood, was even part of the same race who exterminated masses of other species.

It... it was sickening to think that Grandpa, that dad, Goten, Trunks, Bra and Vegeta... all shared their blood as well... she trembled, feeling an unfamiliar feeling... loathing... towards her family and friends...