Nina woke up the next day quite worn out. She slowly opened her eyes only to squeeze them shut again from the blinding light that streamed in throughout her room. Nina pulled the covers over her head and groaned. "I’m so glad it’s Saturday!" she mumbled.

Just then the phone rang right next to her ear. She roared with anger, longing for sleep

but knew it would not come. She threw the covers off her and straightened out the blue bandana she wore in her hair. The phone rang a second time and she glared around the room at her phone. It rang a third time and she growled then furiously picked up the phone. "Hel~lo!" Nina said rather annoyed.

There was a brief pause and the annoyance soon left her voice. She smiled lightly and sighed. "Hi Trunks. What’s up?" Nina asked. Another pause and she looked at her clock. "But why so early? And on a Saturday?!" Nina shrieked. She clambered out of bed while yawning and walking to the closet. "Alright. I’ll be there in a minute. Mm-hm. Okay bye."

She clicked off the phone and laid it on the dresser. Nina yawned and stretched while

pulling on a t-shirt. She slipped into some faded baggy blue jeans that had a cut up knee and

pulled her hair up in a tight ponytail. Nina went into the bathroom and brushed her teeth

quickly and opened the window in her room. The crisp morning air blew in her face and she

sucked it all in, savoring the wind. Nina climbed on the window sill and flew off the balcony,

gave off a burst of ki energy and headed toward the place she was going meet Trunks at.

* * * * * *

Trunks began to kick his foot on the soft grass that was covered in moist dew. He had

just got off the phone with Nina and also had to make up a lame excuse to get by his father

Vegeta. But the lie worked, although he did give Trunks a funny look before he left. Trunks

stared into the sky and saw the feathery clouds float above in a hazy pattern. He suddenly saw

Nina’s face in the clouds and nearly fell over with shock. But it was only his imagination.

After all, he wasn’t used to waking up so early on a Saturday unless it was for intense training.

"I wonder what it’s like to be a full Saiyan. Nina is somehow special and so full of

mystery." Trunks said to himself thoughtfully. He looked down at his sword in its scabbard that

lay in front of him. He began to think how close they’ve gotten in just one day. Trunks’

feelings towards her have gotten stronger and he constantly found himself worrying about her.

"Even though Goten says that he’s in love with Nina, I doubt that totally. He usually

calls me if he’s worried about something no matter what time it is. But me, I find myself

thinking about her often. I wonder does she feel the same? Probably not." Trunks sighed and stared out towards the crystal lake that was landscaped in front of him.

"Maybe, if we just had that study session at Goten’s, she’d have fallen for him and I wouldn’t have these mixed feelings for her myself. If only it had been at Goten’s then I wouldn’t have had to fight her and she wouldn’t have gotten wounded." Trunks suddenly smiled as another thought flashed through his mind. "And her brother would hate Goten instead of me because she would’ve fought him instead. She probably thinks I’m a naive fool who knows nothing of kindled spirits. Oh man..."

"Huh? Why would you think that Trunks?" a soft voice said in his ear. Trunks gasped and whirled around, standing in a fighting position. He looked at the person who snuck up on him without his Saiyan senses detecting them.

It was Nina. Her hair was down and she wore a blue and white bandana on top. She was dressed casual, baggy jeans that had a cut up knee and a white shirt with some black tennis

shoes. Her bright brown eyes sparkled in the morning sun’s rays. Trunks relaxed his muscles a

bit and gave a breath of relief, which turned out to look like a small white cloud as his warm

breath mixed in with the cool morning air.

Trunks brushed his lavender hair out of his view. "Nina! Don’t scare me like that! You could get yourself killed scaring a Saiyan half out of his wits!" he scolded.

Nina frowned and walked toward Trunks. Just when she was a half inch away from his face, Trunks backed away a little but Nina grabbed his wrist. Trunks looked at her with confusion and fear, afraid that she had heard what he had been saying to himself. Nina stared straight into his blue eyes and didn’t even blink. Trunks was beginning to feel uncomfortable in her gaze.

"Trunks." Nina whispered.

Trunks swallowed hard and felt a sweat drop form. "Y-yeah?" he mumbled.

Her eyes seemed to glow at that moment. "Y’know, even if we did have the study session over at Goten’s and I ended up fighting him..." Nina paused. She leaned over even closer and went past his face, her hair lightly brushing up against his cheek. Nina breathed slowly into his ear and Trunks felt the invisible hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. "I still would’ve ended up liking you." The words laced in through her tongue and came out, weaving them into Trunks mind.

Trunks was now speechless. Nina moved away from his ear and stood in front of him, arms folded. He blinked several times to see that she remarkably looked like his father Vegeta.

The same stern face, same position and everything. Trunks felt his cheeks grow hot and stuffed

his hands down his pockets while looking down at his feet. "Nina...I, uh..." Trunks studdared.

Nina simply gave a smirk and sat down on the wet grass. She looked at Trunks and then whistled at him, trying to get his attention. He snapped out of his trance and looked at her. She patted the soft blades of grass next to her, signaling him to come over. He trotted over and sat down. Nina smiled and stared across the lake. "So Trunks, what did you call me up here for so early in the morning huh?" she asked, miraculously acting like the event that just took place hadn't even occurred.

Trunks let his chin rest on his knees as he pulled them up to his face. He gave an

inaudible sigh and blinked a few times before answering. "Well, I wanted to ask you something Nina." he said matter-of-factly.

Nina turned her gaze from the lake to his face, still knees to his chest. She gave him a

look of confusion. "Yeah, what?" she questioned.

He wasn't sure if he should ask this question. "Were you holding back on me when we were fighting? Do you have more power inside you but you simply wanted to refrain from hurting me?"

Nina gave her usual playful snort. "What kind of question is that? ‘Course I refrained from fighting to my full extent! If I did, you and I would’ve been in that hospital wing together!"

Her eyes narrowed into a suspicious expression. "Why did you want to know?" she asked, trying to be accusing.

"..." Trunks didn’t say anything.

Nina's eyes narrowed even further. "Trunks! Answer me!" she said quite annoyed this time.

He looked at her and smiled to himself. Man! She acts so much like my father! Quick temper and everything...I just love that about her! Trunks thought to himself.

Trunks sighed again. "Are pure Saiyans stronger than half-Saiyans? I mean, is their power more consistent and abundant?"

Nina raised her eyebrows incredulously. "Are you just in a silly question askin’ mood or are you trying to mock me?"

She looked at his serious expression and knew he wasn’t kiddin’ around. She sighed and closed her eyes, then slowly opened them. "No. You can be the purest of all the pure Saiyans in the universe but still you can be the weakest. Just like you can have a drop or even less of Saiyan blood in you and be the strongest fighter in the universe. It all depends on the heart of the warrior and what his or her needs are. Being the strongest cannot be achieved simply by the desire or the hunger for battle, but it can be gained through courage, loss, and love of course."

Nina sighed again and looked down at a white daisy. "...love..." she emphasized the word to match the surge of emotion she felt inside her.

Trunks looked at her and felt a gentle feeling sweep over him. Suddenly, Nina felt

something nick her senses hard. Her eyes narrowed and she began to dart them in every

direction. Trunks noticed her sudden change of facial features and grabbed his sword. He

stood up and unsheathed it, ready to attack. "What’s wrong?" he asked Nina.

"..." she didn’t speak and Trunks decided not to ask why she didn’t answer him.

Just then Nina gasped and front flipped towards Trunks. "GET OUTTA THE WAY!" she cried out.

Trunks was confused but Nina got him out of danger. She leaped forward and slammed against Trunks’ side knocking him over onto the grass, causing him to slip and slide across the ground. He had the wind knocked out of him, but managed to look up and see what caused Nina to do this to him. What Trunks saw caused him to gaze in fright.

Nina, just when she had knocked Trunks out of harm’s way, a large white blast had hit

her hard on the side. She growled in pain and fell face first into the grass, rolling across the field. When she stopped rolling, Nina automatically flipped herself off the ground and went into a fighting position. She turned her head in different directions to look for the target. Her eyes widened and she turned around quickly to block an upcoming attack. However, the enemy was untraceable, not that his power was so great and so fast you couldn’t detect his movements, just that he truly was invisible to even Saiyan eyes.

Nina lifted both arms to block and she did it successfully, but it was so powerful that

when she blocked, it knocked her completely over. She fell onto her back and flipped off of

the ground once again. But this time as she got up, something had hit her in the side that

caused her body to look like the bow of an arrow shooter. Nina screamed and even though her screams were loud, Trunks could still hear a faint, sickening crack. Trunks growled angrily

and began to charge toward Nina and the invisible enemy.

Nina saw him coming and while on the ground she fired a strong energy blast that caught Trunks off guard and knocked him out of mid-flight. He looked up from the ground and stared at Nina who was now standing up, keeping her eyes where her instincts guided her. Sweat streamed down her cheek. "STAY BACK!" she yelled.

Trunks gulped in amazement. Nina began to turn slowly around and her eyes narrowed even lower to the point where it seemed she wasn’t looking at all, but she was. Nina turned around and gave a fierce roar. She held out her hand and a red energy blast shot from her hand. Trunks looked at what she was trying to shoot and thought she had gone crazy. She was aiming at nothing, but suddenly the blast had connected after all and Trunks heard a faint grunt from the invisible enemy.

Trunks looked down at the ground and saw the enemy’s foot prints slide across the grass and then stop. The invisible enemy did not move for the blades of grass were still flat.

Trunks then looked towards Nina and saw she was looking around again. She couldn’t see or feel him unless he attacked! But Trunks was a good 5 feet away from him and could see where he was clearly just by staring at the ground.

"NINA!" Trunks called out to her. She jerked her head towards him but still dashed her eyes in

other directions as well. Trunks pointed to his side and she looked. "HE’S ON MY RIGHT SIDE!"

Nina didn’t even hesitate. She gathered a bit of energy and shot off a golden ki blast.

The enemy didn’t have time to block and Trunks could hear him grunt again. This time the

invisible adversary fell to the ground and Trunks could see a whole patch of grass being

crushed. Also to his eyes, he noticed that the empty space seemed to quaver and Trunks could

her a faint noise of cloth being flapped open.

Nina heard the light wisp sound and streaked over towards the sound with a burst of red flame-like ki surrounding her. She stopped in front of the enemy and grabbed at what appeared to be air, but she seemed to be holding something. With a loud cry, she pulled her hand back and Trunks looked to see what it was. She held up a bright silver material in her hands. Nina let the object fall to the ground and when it did so, it looked almost like the quick silver mercury element found in rare objects. At one end there were the silver strings that tied it

together. It was an invisibility cloak.

Trunks looked from the cloak back up and saw the revealed enemy’s true form. Trunks gasped in shock as he looked at its appearance.

The now revealed enemy was tall and slender. He had shoulder length silver hair, it

looked almost like the cloak itself. He had dirty black and white sneakers on. He wore black

baggy clothes and they seemed to be ripped and torn in several places. His white shirt was

dirty and tattered and over his shirt he wore what used to be a black jean jacket, but the

sleeves were ripped off and the fringes just hung. It looked almost human, maybe in his late

20’s but in the back something fluttered in the distance. Trunks couldn’t believe his eyes.

It was a long, furry, brown tail!

Trunks tore his eyes away from the tail and looked into the face of the enemy and saw his burning purple eyes. His eyebrows were the same silver color as his hair but his skin seemed to look like a dark tan. The enemy had his lips pursed together and was quite mad. His hair was tied back by a black bandana, many strands in the front fell in his face and on his back he had a long slender piece of wood...a bow.

Nina’s eyes narrowed and she bared her teeth and growled like a dog. Her eyes now blazed and Trunks could’ve sworn they were on fire! She balled up her fist and Trunks noticed her tail was fluttering about. Nina usually wrapped it through the belt loops of her jeans but

somehow from her anger it flew out through the holes and swished back and forth violently.

For what seemed like eternity, they all stood there motionless. Neither Nina, Trunks or

the mysterious foe moved that whole time. Finally Nina spoke up.

She balled up her fist till the knuckle was a pale white. "Why...are you...HERE?!" she screamed to the man.

"..." the man did not speak, but simply huffed and turned his head away.

Nina growled and threw her fist forward at him. "ANSWER ME! NOW!" Nina yelled at him.

" ... " Still, no answer.

Nina bared her teeth and stomped towards the enemy. She slammed her fist to his chest and grabbed hold of his shirt, balling it up in her hands and she pulled him to her face. Nina felt her blood begin to boil. "YOU ANSWER ME NOW JARVUS!" she roared at him.

Jarvus looked down at where Nina held his shirt and then looked back at her. His eyes narrowed lower and his violet eyes shimmered in an evil way. He then grinned a devilish one and gave another huff. "Is this anyway to treat your big brother Nina?" he asked calmly.

Trunks’ eyes widened in disbelief. What?! Her b-brother? But I thought Sam was her only *living* family! Trunks contemplated.

Nina gave a loud yell and threw Jarvus off to the side. He crashed into the grass,

causing his already dirty shirt to gain a grass stain. Jarvus got up and dusted himself off.

Then he continued to give Nina his devilish smirk and this just made Nina explode.

"You...are not...MY BROTHER JARVUS!" she shouted angrily.

Nina ran towards Jarvus and then kicked him in his face causing him to collide with the

ground once again. Jarvus was about to get up again when Nina kicked him hard in the ribs.

Jarvus gave out a cry of pain and then began to choke. He coughed out some blood and a little

remained on the side of his lip. Even in pain he began to chuckle and he still continued to grin. Nina narrowed her eyes and she spat at Jarvus. He turned his head to miss the saliva but it still hit his cheek. He still smiled devil-like, violet eyes glowing.

Nina's eyes blazed like a roaring inferno. "You never have been my brother! I will never accept such evil into my life!" Nina closed her eyes. "Samuel is my brother." she replied calmly.

Jarvus got up and placed his hands in his pockets, his grin widened. "You mean that pathetic human? He’s not even you’re blood brother like I am Nina." he mocked her.

Nina looked at Jarvus, eyes now as cold as stone. The blazing flames were replaced by marbled eyes. "Sam is my true brother, maybe not by blood, but he is my real brother. Besides..." she paused and then gave a growl. "HE’S MORE OF A BROTHER THAN YOU’VE EVER BEEN!"

Jarvus removed his hands from his pockets and crossed his arms against his chest, then he shut his eyes. "Don’t blame me for things you couldn’t handle yourself. I was not about to stay in that orphanage for your sake. I was 8 years old when our parents died. I was not going to stay in that place and wait for you to grow up! I had plans of my own!" he answered arrogantly.

He opened his eyes and then sneered at her. "Anyway, I knew you’d be just fine. But I made a mistake in not removing that tail of yours. As a matter of fact, I made a huge mistake in letting you get the best of me one night when we met for the first time."

Nina pulled the hair away that dangled in her eyes. "I hoped it would have been the last time!" she muttered curtly.

Jarvus blew the spiky banes that were in his face and he wiped away the blood from his

lip and chin. He then gave a spit. "Yeah well, you should’ve killed me when you had the chance Nina. I’m not the same anymore y’know." he said proudly.

Nina removed her bandana that was around her head and began to untie the not. "Neither am I Jarvus. You forget that was 5 years ago when I battled you. I’ve become a whole lot stronger since then." she answered, her own since of pride detected in her voice.

She rolled up the bandana and then tied her hair back in a loose low ponytail. She

returned to her fighting stance and wiped the sweat off of her nose. Nina gestured her head

towards the cloak on the ground. "That thing proves how much of a coward you are and how much of an advantage I have over you."

One of Jarvus’ eyebrows raised up. "And how’s that?" He asked, trying to sound sarcastic and less anxious to know.

Nina was the one to grin this time. "Because I’ve gained the golden fleece of our native planet Vegeta!"

Trunks looked at her and gasped. Does this mean...does this mean that she’s a...?

Nina yelled out and large chunks of the earth began to rise from the ground. Her feet

dug into the ground as if the gravity on earth just quadrupled 100 times! Her ki began to rise and her muscles began to pulsate. Her eyebrows flickered from gold to black and back to gold. Her eyes blazed green like jade and golden ki flames surrounded her. Nina’s hair began to change into a radiant gold color and it flamed upwards and in different directions. The bandana she wrapped around her hair was just a waste of time in the first place. The knot ripped loose and the bandana fell to the ground.

Her once brown hair was now golden and spiky. Her brown eyes were now green and they blazed with excitement and rage at the same exact time. She tightened her fist into a firmer

ball and then held both arms in an ‘x’ like formation. Nina growled and gave a roar and threw

her arms down causing the ki winds to build up her energy and cause her hair to blow in

different directions.

Jarvus looked at her bewildered and horrified. He began to step away and felt his knees give way. But Jarvus managed to control himself. My God! What is she?! he thought to himself, feeling a bit frightened.

Trunks began to sweat from the heat of Nina’s power. Trunks stood up and jumped away right when a rock exploded in front of him in the air from the emense power that was building. Trunks couldn’t believe his eyes, yet it was happening right there in front of him.

Nina is a Super Saiyan! Nina is the first female to achieve the great power of our race. And what's so amazing is, she's probably the first Super Saiyan to transform with a tail! Perhaps Pan and Bra will too.

Nina stood there, burning like a raging candle flame. Jarvus was there watching just as

stunned as ever and so did Trunks.

"Now I’m going to finish you off Jarvus!" Nina said with pride.

Jarvus began to growl in anger and pumped up his ki, although he knew no matter how high he did it wouldn’t get anywhere near Nina’s power level. Jarvus began to curse at his ignorance and removed his bow from on his back. Suddenly it turned into a silver metal rod and it began to electrify.

Jarvus, full of jealousy against his younger sibling, charged towards her. Nina didn’t

move, but only waited for him to strike. Trunks began to look from one to the other in fear.

Why won’t she move?! Trunks thought.

"NINA! MOVE! GET OUTTA THE WAY!" he cried out to her.

Nina was listening, but did not plan to heed his advice to move. Jarvus was getting

closer and Trunks’ yelling got louder. But she did nothing, she just waited.

* * * * * *

Goku looked up from practicing in the woods when he felt some sort of power trigger his senses. He stared up into the sky and then to the south where the power seemed to be coming from. Goku gave a thoughtful sigh. "It seems that there is another great power among us." Goku smiled. "And it would seem this person has pure intentions as well. It’s just a shame, a power like that and I haven’t even met the person yet!"

* * * * * *

Vegeta phased out of Super Saiyan form and his hair returned to its natural black color,

so were his eyes and eyebrows. He looked down from the mountain area he was training in and he gave a glum groan. Something caught his senses, but what? Then, Vegeta felt it and his eyes narrowed as his attitude built up with its usual rage and arrogance. What is this power I am sensing?! It’s HUGE! Vegeta thought to himself.

Vegeta gave a growl of annoyance. "I’VE GOT TO KNOW WHO IT IS THIS TIME!" he screamed out.

A burst of blue energy ki surrounded Vegeta as he headed towards the south where the

energy was being sensed from.

* * * * * *

Jarvus leaped into the air and came crashing down with his electric rod bow and was about to ram it into Nina’s skull. Trunks closed his eyes in pain while he waited for her cranium to be smashed when he heard an annoyed yell from Jarvus. Trunks looked back up and saw that Nina held the silver rod in her fist, and it was still electrifying. The sparks shot everywhere and Nina still had her eyes straight in front of her.

Jarvus began to bare his teeth and tried to free the rod from her grasp. But Nina gave

no sign of letting go. Instead her grip got stronger and she then broke the rod in half, sparks flying in every direction. Jarvus now unarmed, fell through the sky for all his weight had been put onto the bow and he was about to fall right on top of Nina when he decided to take advantage of this situation he was in.

Jarvus flipped himself up right and smashed into Nina’s face with a drop kick. She

merely turned her head to one side as blood came down through her lip. She licked the blood

off her mouth with her tongue and then spat it out as if it were nothing. Jarvus retaliated with a punch, kick and then a ki blast. Nina had blocked them all. Jarvus was getting quite fed up so he grabbed Nina by her golden hair and flipped her to the ground. But before she landed, she turned around and shoved both heels of her foot into Jarvus’ face, causing him to real back as he felt the blood seep through his nose.

Nina then grabbed him by the neck, lifted him up in the air and started to choke Jarvus.

He grabbed onto her hand, clutching and trying to breathe, gasping for air. Nina looked up at

him and she began to squeeze even harder, causing him to squeal and suck up air, her nails

digging into his flesh. Blood began to trail down his neck. A soft wind blew and it brushed

Jarvus’ silver hair to the side, causing him to reveal a thin scar on the side of his left cheek.

Trunks ran up to Nina, holding the arm she held Jarvus in the air with, blood trickled

down her arm onto Trunks’ fingers. "Nina! Nina stop this! You’ve won! Let him go." Trunks pleaded.

Nina’s eyes narrowed and she had the look of no mercy. "I won’t let go! He has to die!" she retorted.

"Nina, don’t do this. If you do, you’ll be just like him. Maybe even worse than he is! Don’t sink to that level Nina." Trunks' voice was beginning to quaver.

For a brief moment, Nina tore her gaze off of Jarvus and into Trunks’ blue eyes. She

felt that Trunks really did care if she was a killer or not. She stared back up into Jarvus’

violet eyes and then, her grip around his neck completely gone and he fell to the ground,

coughing and gasping for air and he fell to the ground exhausted. Nina walked over towards the limp body and turned it over to where Jarvus was now facing her from the ground. He was still breathing heavily.

"I’ll spare your worthless life once more Jarvus." Nina said flatly. Jarvus looked into her emerald eyes and cringed. "Next time I won’t be so kind-hearted Dear Big Brother!" she spat at him crossly.

Jarvus floated into the air and he held his chest still breathing and he grumbled. "Next time Little Sis, it won’t be easy for you to defeat me! Now that I know you’ve got this power, I’m going to claim it as well! You’ll actually have to break a sweat! We'll meet again!"

Nina smirked, eyes still burning with anger. "I look forward to it!" she replied cooly.

Jarvus then disappeared in thin air. Nina had held her strength long enough and knew she hadn’t turned Super Saiyan in while and was trying to get used to focusing her energy again.

Nina’s golden spiky hair had fallen back to its wavy brown state and it hung on her shoulders.

Her green eyes returned to their brown color and the flaming yellow ki was no longer around her. She stood for awhile and then fell onto her knees and then flat on her stomach. Trunks ran to her and cradled her in his arms. "Nina! Nina wake up! Are you okay?!" he asked nervously.

Nina struggled to open her eyes and saw that she was looking at Trunks. She smiled and nodded her head. "Yeah...I’m fine Trunks." she replied weakly. Then she fell asleep in his arms.

"Don’t just sit there Kid!" a voice called to Trunks irritatedly. A very gruff and familiar voice. Trunks looked up to see his father sitting on a tree branch and then jump down from it. He walked over to Trunks, the great head of black flaming hair and stern walk. He looked over at the girl in his son’s arms and had to smirk. Vegeta crossed his arms and then floated in the air. "Pick her up and let’s take her back home so we can patch the girl up."

Trunks smiled as his father turned away and went off. He picked up Nina, supporting her back with one arm and holding her legs where the knee bent up. He looked over in the grass and saw her blue and white bandana. He walked over and careful not to wake her up, he picked up the cloth and flew in the air, not too far behind from Vegeta.