They stood staring at each other. Goten looked frantically at his friends. Suddenly, Trunks disappeared and Nina looked around speedily. Trunks reappeared behind Nina and nailed her in the back with a punch. She stumbled forward but managed to catch her balance. She turned around to find Trunks nowhere at all. She heard a faint wisp of noise above her and shot a glance towards the sky. Trunks was shooting down towards her, fist forward. She slid over to the right just when Trunks hit the earth. He hit it with such impact that it left a huge crater and it shook the earth violently.

Nina looked down and saw Trunks inside the gorge rubbing his head. She laughed. "Do you need an aspirin?" she asked, pretending to be sympathetic.

He gave her a sarcastic smile and shot up through the gorge barely missing her face. Nina looked up and saw Trunks floating in the air. She gave a chuckle and disappeared. Trunks looked about and turned around expecting to find Nina behind him. Instead, she appeared behindhim then and kicked him in the face. Blood dribbled from his mouth. He turned around to find Nina had disappeared again.

She appeared stealthily below him without knowing. She grabbed his ankles and flipped backward. Trunks looked down but it was too late. Nina had wrapped her feet about his neck in a leg grab and sent him plummeting down towards the earth. He caught himself and shot an energy blast at her. It belted her into the stomach.

Nina held out her hand and shot out a red flamed energy ball at Trunks. He rolled over in mid-air, the flame just missing him by a hair. He looked up at Nina and saw that her hand was swaying from side to side. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain pierce his side with burning fury. He cried out and fell from the air.

Before he could catch himself, Nina came crashing into his stomach with a flurry of punches but he managed to block most of them. She froze in the air and watched as Trunks hit the earth. She held her hands above her and energy surged up her arms throughout her body.

Trunks flipped himself up after he collided with the ground and looked up at Nina. She seemed to be gathering energy. He held his hands to his sides in a claw position. A golden-white ball began to form in his hands. Goten looked about feverishly and felt ill.

Nina threw down her arms and yelled out. "KAMEHAMEHA!"

Surprisingly, down below, Trunks had the same attack in mind. He threw his arms to the sky and cried out. "KAMEHAMEHA!"

The attacks came at each other with maximum force. Then they crashed into one another. The balls just held their massive position upon each other. Trunks strained to hold his energy blast. Nina was also determined to do the same. They stayed in that position for nearly five minutes until Nina felt herself breaking loose.

The blast that belonged to Trunks buried itself into Nina’s side as she tried to dodge the power. She screamed in pain and shot through the air. She looked down to see her shirt have a large hole on it and found her side bleeding. Nina stopped in the air and held her side.

Trunks looked up and felt something drop on his face. He rubbed it off and saw that it was blood that seemed to be oozing out of Nina’s side. Suddenly he saw that from so much loss of blood, Nina came tumbling towards the surface. Trunks ran to where she was falling and caught her. When he looked down at her wound, something was dangling from behind her. It was a long furry tail.

Goten sped towards Trunks and punched him in the face. Trunks looked up at him puzzled. Goten powered up his fist and it glowed. He swung hard but Trunks leapt into the air, eyes narrowed. Nina trembled in his arms. "What’s your problem Goten?!" He yelled at him, half confused, half mad.

A burst of blue ki energy surrounded Goten. "I TOLD YOU NOT TO HURT HER!" He floated up to meet Trunks’ face.

"How was I supposed to know she wouldn’t be able to dodge it?! She had dodged most of my other blasts!" Trunks retorted.

Nina stopped trembling and her breathing began to slow. There was a gust of wind and it made her tail flutter. Goten looked at it wild-eyed. He held it in his hands and looked at Trunks. He nodded. "We gotta get her bandaged up. She may need a blood transfusion." Trunks said calmly, though he was scared half to death, trying his best not to show it.

Trunks landed on the ground and began to run into the house. On the way he bumped into Vegeta in the kitchen. He looked down at Trunks and gave his usual stern look. He opened his mouth to speak but Trunks ran by him. Vegeta then saw Goten run inside. "Goten..." Vegeta began.

He ran past him. "No time to talk Vegeta!" Then Goten flew up the stairs after Trunks.

Vegeta stood there dazed and confused with a turkey sandwich in his hand.

* * * * * *

Nina awoke full of pain and she had a headache. She looked down at her side to see that her whole upper part of her body was bandaged. (Except for arms, shoulders and up.) The blood was seeping through her side and she winced with pain. She looked around her to see she was in some sort of hospital wing and to her amazement, Trunks and Goten slept at her side. She smiled and crept out of the bed.

She tiptoed silently until she stepped on a weak floorboard. It made a loud creak.

Trunks and Goten shot awake. Trunks pulled out his sword and looked about the room while Goten’s fist were ready to be hurdled at someone. Then they both turned at Nina who had shut her eyes tightly and cringed. Trunks resheathed his sword and Goten’s fist relaxed.

Trunks folded his arms across his chest. "I see you’re up and about!" Trunks said as he smiled.

Nina gave a short laugh and sighed. "Uh, yeah. Just that I’m starving!" she said, unsure of herself.

Goten sat on the bed and pointed at her tail. "Not until you tell us who you are!" he said.

She moaned and sat on the bed opposite of Goten. Trunks pulled up a chair and Nina looked at the ceiling. Nina then let her head fall and gave a long sigh. "So you guys wanna know who I am? Well as you’ve probably figured out by now since Mr. Fluffy appeared, yes I’m a Saiyan." she held her tail. "I was not born on the planet Vegeta. I was actually born here on Earth. My Mom and Dad escaped the destruction of planet Vegeta when they were mere children. They grew up together and fell in love and got married and blah blah blah. Then I was born and they called me Nina. Mom and Dad died in a car accident while I was at the babysitters’ house. I was sent to an orphanage when I was six months old." Nina looked at Trunks and then at Goten who seemed real anxious to know more.

"So you never even knew your parents were Saiyans? How did you know you were one?" Trunks asked.

"That’s simple. When I was eleven years old, I was sent to a foster home. But, the night before I had to leave, I snuck into the file cabinet room, picked the lock and read my file. My Mother’s name was Taliyah and my Father’s name was Jutus. I wrote their address down on a sheet of paper and put it in my pocket. The next day, the Langs were my foster parents. Cruel people they were, but I didn’t plan on staying there for long. We lived far out in the country. I hated it too! It was a farm and they had about a dozen children as it was!"

~FLASH~

"Get your things girl and stay by the car till I tell you to leave." Mr. Lang ordered.

Nina glared at him. "And who are you to tell me? You’re not my father!" she snapped.

Mr. Lang slapped her in the face and she rubbed her cheek. He gave an evil sneer. "Watch your mouth girl or you’ll be sleeping with the pigs tonight!"

"I DON’T CARE! IT’S PROBABLY A LOT BETTER THAN SLEEPING IN THAT RAGGEDY THING YOU CALL A HOUSE!" Nina said rather curtly.

Mr. Lang picked up Nina by the scruff of her neck and threw her in with the horses. They kicked and neighed at the sound. "Let’s see how you can cope with the horses tonight! If you’re hungry, see if the horses will lend you some of their grain!"

He shut the barn door laughing wildly. Nina stood up and dusted off her tattered

clothes and walked around the barn. It was fairly big and he kept some dogs there too. They were very friendly towards Nina and so were the horses.

It was later on that night when she heard a faint scratching at the barn window. She brushed off the hay that she used as a blanket and stood up. Nina walked over to the window and saw a boy about her age standing there behind it. She scooted over so he could climb through. Nina sat down on a bail of hay and sighed. The boy walked over and gave her a sausage biscuit. She took it and shuffled over for the boy to sit down. He sat.

"So what’s your name?" the boy asked.

"I’m Nina, and you?"

"I’m Samuel. So what did you do to end up in a place like this?"

She shrugged. "Besides being born, I have no clue. How about you?"

"I was an orphan." Samuel said quietly.

Nina gobbled down the biscuit. "Didn’t you ever wanna just run away?" she asked.

"Yeah, but I have no place to go." he replied.

She gave a small snort and smirked. "Does it matter? As long as it’s away from here! Anywhere is better than this pigsty!"

Samuel laughed. "I guess you’re right."

"Do you have any maps of Koga around that shack?" Nina asked bluntly.

He looked at her befuddled. "I think so. Why?"

"Cuz I’m gettin’ outta here! Me and my tail are leavin’ this joint!" Nina said proudly.

Her tail swished about and Samuel looked stunned at the sight. "You have a tail?! Wow! But, what’s in Koga?"

Nina's eyes glowed with excitement. "The home I’ve always wanted! Do you wanna come with me and get away from this dump?"

His eyes glowed with excitement this time. "REALLY!?" Samuel asked.

She nodded. "Yeah, but we need a map of Koga and some money before dawn. Can you handle it?"

Samuel nodded his head. "Okay Sam. We’ll need about two hundred dollars. Y’know, for clothes and food. Go find a map that has the city Koga and all the areas around it. I’ll saddle up some horses and we’ll be gone. Alright?" Samuel nodded his head and disappeared though the window.

~Back in the present~

"Well, we fled to Koga. We located my parents’ house and lived there. It was a three-story building and it was abandoned. We bought plenty of food and clothes. But little did we know that the house wasn’t bought for a reason. I was fiddling around in my bedroom, when I found a copy of my parents’ will under a loose floorboard. The house belonged to me alone! No parent or guardian had hold over the house in years. Sure someone came in and cleaned once a month, but everything belonged to me! Then I looked around the house some more when I went down into the basement and saw two white round pod ships." Nina explained.

She continued. "I looked inside one and saw a row of buttons and a note on the padded seat. I picked it up and it read:

Hello Nina my dear child. Press the button above you that is blue.

"Well, I looked around and pressed the button. Suddenly the pod door closed me inside and I frantically tried to get out. I called out for Sam but I guess the pod was soundproof cause he would have been down by now. Then a hologram picture popped up in front of me. The picture was of a woman with long brown hair like mine pulled into a ponytail. She smiled. She wore a blue bodysuit and had on some tan and white armor that curved where it protected her shoulders. The hologram began to speak."

~FLASH~

"Hello Nina. My dear sweet Nina. By the time you’ve gotten this it would’ve already been too late for your father and me. If you thought that we abandoned you as a child, well that’s not true. We knew our time would come."

A tear trickled down the young Nina’s face. The hologram winked at the young Saiyan girl.

"But enough chitchat right Nina? If you’ve wondered why you have a tail this is the answer. You are a Saiyan. A superior race of talented fighters. At night when the full moon is up, you will transform into an Oozaru. A monkey like beast that can cause mass destruction. There is a small cabinet with discs in them. There should be one about the Oozaru form. But for right now, keep a calendar that has moon dates on them and the days that do, STAY INSIDE!"

Nina scanned the small pod and sure enough, there was a small file cabinet. She opened it to find many discs labeled with all sorts of information. She looked back up to the hologram.

"There’s one disc labeled ‘basic training’. Boot that up first and begin your basic

combat motives. The others are basically fighting forms I’ve mastered that were unknown to your father even to this day! He still doesn’t understand why I’ve managed to beat him at times with my sly tricks!" her Mother continued to speak.

Nina laughed and she noticed her eyes began to blur from the tears that were about to stream. She wiped them off on her shirtsleeve and gave a huge sigh.

The hologram sighed. "But, your father’s pod also contains maneuvers that he mastered and that I never knew about until we were out on the battlefield. I want you to practice in this type of uniform that I’m wearing."

The hologram shrugged and gave a grin. "Sure it’s not the latest fashion, but the armor helps you adjust better. Look under the padded seat and you should find some that fit."

Nina lifted up the padded cushion and there were several different colored bodysuits, white boots and gloves. But only one set of armor.

"I didn’t know how old you’d be when you finally found your way back to this house, so I put all the suits I ever wore right when I was a child, up to when I was an adult inside there for you. Once you’ve mastered everything, I want you to find some friends of your father and mine. One is called Kakarot but everyone calls him Goku. His father was a very nice man. Then find Vegeta. If you can manage to, find Kakarot’s son Gohan. If Kakarot or Vegeta won’t take you on as a student, then I’m sure Gohan will. He always was a fine young man."

Nina touched the hologram as if her mother would solidify if she did so. But, her hand just went straight through the image. "Take care, my Nina. I am sure I will see you again some day."

Nina began to cry and touched her mother’s image, at least she tried to. "No Mom! Don’t leave me here alone! Please! I have no clue where to start my search for these people! How will I know who they are?! MOTHER!"

But the hologram image blinked off the screen and the pod door opened, leaving Nina with her sobs of loneliness and her mother’s words filled her head.

~Back to the present~

Nina sobbed and laid back on the bed. The tears rolled down each side of her cheek in opposite directions. She wiped them away and exhaled slowly.

"It took me four years to master those techniques and I spent another couple of years just training. I claim Samuel as my little brother. He is also a fighter and the strongest human I know. He admires me for taking care of us for so long. One day I told Samuel to stay home and watch over the place while I was gone. I decided to go look for these people my Mother was talking about. I went to every city outside of Koga and searched through every phone book. But I found no Goku or Vegeta."

"I had marked out all of the cities I had been to and was about to take the next bus to Koga when I had missed the town called Satan City. I measured the distance and realized it was only a l and a half of a mile to get there from where I lived. So I went to a secluded forest and flew down to Satan City in no time. When I got there, I looked in a phone book and sure enough there the names were: "

Son Goku & Chi-Chi........... 723-0856

"I grinned at my discovery and decided to register Sam and me at a good public school. But before I did, I went home and got on the computer to do a little ‘research’. I hacked into every school file in Satan City and finally I found you guys under Saki High school. Your names showed up so I uh, read your file."

Trunks and Goten glowered at her. "Well what else was I gonna do, guess who you were? Anyway, I had to make sure you were who I expected you to be and I was right. Your files read: "

Trunks Goten

"Ya’ll were perfect. I was planning on using you guys to get me here. But I think

you’re cool. Too bad you couldn’t see my little brother Sam. You would’ve loved him!"

Trunks cocked up an eyebrow and frowned. "Well you seemed real anxious to tell us Nina. It’s as if you lost on purpose just so you could tell us." he said sarcastically.

Nina stood up and smiled at Trunks. "I did."

Then she went to the bathroom, leaving two very foolish half-Saiyans behind.