- I talked to him, he said as caressing the black fur gently.
- ...
- He was... Shorter than I thought.

The cat mewed, bringing a smile on the young man's lips.

- He said there would always be someone to save those who need it...
- Imbecile!

Trunks' voice hit his friend as a whip, the dark eyes widened slightly. The purple haired man got up, turning back to the other one.

- Going back time was completely useless! he shouted sharply. And you could have changed History!
- No way, you know what your mom and Yamcha told us. And if it was that useless, why would Bulma had built the machine, huh? And why would they have let me go?
- Because you're such a brat!

On those words, he left the room. Goten blinked, then shrugged and caressed the cat silently, looking thoughtful.

~~~

Bulma, Yamcha and Pan were sat at the table, silent. Bulma was sipping her coffee silently, Yamcha was deep in thoughts and Pan was starring at ceiling. In fact, it wasn't a regular ceiling, but rocks, polished into a relatively regular surface, just as the walls and floors, which were covered with carpets.

With time, the huge cave had been amenaged into something that started to resemble a home. Rooms had been built in the mountain, using the strenght of Goten and Trunks, as well as Bulma's plans. That has been a little more than two years ago...

But for the moment, they were there and silent. A pitch-black cat with funny spikes on the head stepped in silently, jumped onto Bulma's lap and sat, dignifiently. The now old woman smiled, started caressing him tenderly. She grinned when she noticed another cat, scampering toward her, its eyes shinning with gentle malice.

- Come on you two, stop being so childish, she told them.

Pan had a little jump when the amused voice broke the silence, then considered the cats, frozen. The second animal turned its head to her, mewed happily and came to rub itself against her legs. The young woman clenched her teeth and jumped from her seat, almost sending the cat into a wall.

- Don't come near of me! she hissed before leaving the room angrily.

On Bulma's thighs, the spiky cat seemed to be smirking at the now sad one. Yamcha smiled and picked it up.

- Don't mind her, buddy. You know she doesn't like... Cats...

The poor cat looked down, but soon Yamcha's petting made it all happy-going again. Bulma shook her head.

- Even as a cat he doesn't change, she said, resigned.

Her old friend nodded as the cat carefreely jumped on the floor and went away. Only two seconds later, Trunks came in, visibly angry. But that wasn't a surprise to the older adults; they knew that the young man didn't like the idea of a temporal travel that wouldn't bring help back. Now that it was done, he felt defeated somehow.

With a dark glare to the spiky cat on his mother's lap, Trunks went out by the other door, the one giving direct access to the outside. Once he was gone, Bulma and Yamcha looked at each other and shrugged.

On Bulma's thighs, the cat had curled up and fallen asleep.

~~~

Marron was laid on her bed, reading one of the few books she'd been able to bring with her when they'd moved into the cave. Keeping it opened with one hand, the other one playing with a piece of hair, she didn't notice the terribly thin cat who walked into the girl's bedroom without a sound, its eyes gleaming. It jumped onto the bed, still unnoticed, and slowly approached the young woman.

As tiny paws touched her butt, obviously intentely, Marron let go a high scream, sent her arm around in a reflex. The cat flew into a wall, fell on his four and shook its head quickly. Her blue eyes widened with anger, she sat down, daring the animal to come back at charge. After a short moment of reflection, it decamped as fast as possible.

The blond woman sighed.

- Pervert... she grumbled at returning to her initial position, already forgetting the incident.

On the other bed, Pan sighed deeply. Meditation was really not her thing, especially with all those cats around... She glared at the two ones who had taken over Marron's pillow since ever. One was oddly green and seemed to be asleep despite its straightly sitting position. The other one, a bit smaller, was black with soft blue streaks, and was sleeping against its companion.

- Cats... grumbled the raven haired girl as leaving the bedroom.

Marron shrugged slightly to the green cat, who had opened one eye.

- You know how she is... she whispered, returning to her book.

The cat closed its eye. The black and blue one shivered slightly in its sleep.

~~~

Trunks didn't move as Pan sat beside him silently. He had calmed down, but not enough to talk yet. Besides, he could feel that the young woman hadn't come to chat. She sighed heavily, starring at the sky above them, just like the older man.

The mountain chosen to be their new home was surrounded by a huge forest and the main entrance was dissimulated by bushes, while the emergency one was following a small river out of the rock. It was a rather cold area of the planet, but Bulma had conceived a good system to keep the "home" warm. Plus they were now in June and the sunrays were hitting the mountain the whole day long.

Pan, Trunks and Goten had found a nice spot, higher on the mountain, where they could all sit down and watch the landscape under them (a huge forest with a destroyed city in background, wonderful scenery) as talking or just thinking. That one evening, both Trunks and Pan were silent, staring at the clear blue sky.

Suddenly, the forest started to tremble, even the mountain shivered a little. They jumped on their feet, alert, scanning the area furiously. The major problem with their actual enemy was that his ki was very hard to detect...

- This can't go on, said Trunks through his teeth.

Pan nodded, tieing up her hair quickly. She'd let it grow despite the situation and would do a thick bun with it when it was time to fight or train.

- There! she shouted as pointing something far away.

Trunks followed her as they both flew toward it at full speed. The half human man turned into Super Saiyan. He had enough of hiding in a mountain, of seeing his father and sis as... That thought angered him even more and he accelerated. Pan followed easily. She hated the cats and it was Miga's fault if... If there was so many of them now... Clenching her fists, she vowed that this time, they would beat, defeat, kill, destroy that damned big, red, juicy and so incredibly powerful being!!

With the same war scream, they went down without decreasing speed, their auras made the building explode before they could fly into it.

Less than a second later, they could see their enemy: Miga. The ugliest and strongest alive thing ever. And they would kill him.


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