Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Arranged Love ❯ Hello, I'm Pan Son ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Moon Star 
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 01.18.2003 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 349 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 01.18.2003 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 349 | Status: Completed
Moon Star
Here's chapter two for you readers. Thanks to all who read the last chapter and continue to read this. Hope you like it.
SIDENOTE : If you like Bra and Goten fanfics, please read Bitten by You... I wrote it and I'd appreciate it if you would read it... I'd like to know what you think, so please review...
This is a Bra and Goten fan fiction. Don't like it, don't read it.
Disclaimer : I don't own any of the characters used in this story.
Arranged Love
Chapter 2 : Hello, I'm Pan Son
"Why?"
"Because you and him have been promised to each other since the day you were born," replied Vegeta. No man nor people had known that but he had made the decision. There was also something there that no one else saw. He knew that they were to be married.
"But Dad," Bra wanted to change this. She wished that she hadn't been a princess, maybe then she would have been able to choose the man she wanted to marry and not because people expected her to.
"Now," Vegeta changed his tone. "You will receive the child of Gohan when she arrives tomorrow."
"Yes father," responded Bra. Without anything else to say, Bra turned and stormed out of the room throwing the door closed. It's hinges creaked at the force of her manner. The guards stayed still but knowing the force that the princess contained. A half-saiyan wasn't a person that you would take lightly.
Bra threw herself to her bed and cried. A woman stood by the door, her hand in her chest as she heard the young princess cry herself to sleep. She waited until she couldn't hear anything from the inside. The door slid open, fraction by fraction. The bed was disturbed by the silhouette of the young woman, her breath even and face strained with fresh tears on the pillow.
*It's a wonder she didn't blow up the whole palace,* the woman told herself. Her paces were silent and adjusted to the delicate rug that caressed her feet. Her hand reached to her face and dried the tears away. *You were just a little girl some time ago.*
Her eyes opened and met hers. "Why did he do this to me Agatha?" The princess asked to her nanny. She couldn't be called that anymore but she had been the second mother and the other person in her life.
"It's not like he wants to," Agatha sat on the bed and put her head on her chest. Bra embraced her and wept the frustration of the arrangement. "He had to choose someone to give you to even if he didn't want to. It's the tradition of the princesses of the planet."
Her embrace tightened, Agatha caressed Bra with her old fingers. She had seen many things like this in her lifetime. But, she also knew that Vegeta loved her daughter. "He would rather see you marry someone he knows than a complete stranger that might not treat you like the princess you are and deserve."
"How long have you known this?" Bra asked, her eyes shut tightly not wanting to know the real answer. Her dissolution could break the faith she had on her second mother.
"Ever since you were born," Agatha answered. She had never been able to say a lie to her. She wasn't going to start now hiding this from her little girl.
"Why didn't you tell me?" There was apprehension on her voice.
"I wasn't supposed to know," responded Agatha. "I found out by accident. The queen didn't even know until after the trip from Earth."
Bra kept silence, her brain taking all of this in. Her sniffles had diminished but her trail of thoughts weren't in the present time.
"Do you know him?" Her question took the elder woman by surprise.
"You mean Goten?" Bra nodded, her head still cradled on her knees. "He's your brother's best friend and companion." Bra signaled that she knew that already.
"Okay," her face took a thoughtful expression. "I've also known him since he was little. He has the heart of his father and his mother."
"You mean Kakarotte and Chichi?" Bra's attention turned to Agatha's face.
"Yes," Agatha smiled remembering. "They are an odd pair, those two. Just like your father and mother."
"I know," Bra affirmed. "How old is he?"
"One year younger than your brother." Agatha answered. "He was born on Earth and brought here on a trip of his brother. He was about three years and a half and with tremendous strength. The king had seen that when the child in his playing habits single-handedly knocked out the instructors of the classes he had sat down to see."
"Since then, he has been supervised by his brother and by his father on Earth," Agatha saw the look of interest on Bra's eyes. "When it was time for your brother to go through space for a year, Goten was selected because of his strength and capabilities."
"Why did my father choose him?" Bra asked, she was curious for this aspect.
"He was a child that Vegeta had known from birth. Because of his status, he was the most worthy of marrying a princess of one of the most powerful races in the universe."
Agatha understood Bra's apprehension toward everyone. A woman who had never been allowed to leave the palace or contact with males outside of it and just as she earns the right for her 18th birthday, she learns the news that she has to marry a stranger to her.
"You should rest Bra," Agatha helped her change her clothes from her formal wear to sleeping clothes. "I know that you had to stay up the whole day trying new clothes and the dressers measuring you."
Bra stifled a yawn, hiding it behind her hand. The pins were undone off of her hair sending it down, spilling all over her back. "It's also about time I go to sleep." Bra agreed with her nanny's orders. "I've been up since the rays of the sun came out." By the signal of Agatha, Bra drank a cup of tea on her dresser.
Agatha waited until the princess' breathing came even signaling her sleeping. She had hopes that Bra would feel better when she woke up on the next day, by the way she sleep, it could be a long time for tomorrow until she actually got up.
Agatha silently departed just like she came and shut the door behind her. No one was allowed to the rooms of the princess but the queen, king, some of the servants that were strictly for Bra and herself. She wondered when it would be changed to keep the princess in isolation from the outside world as a custom in the planet. She may not live to see it happen though.
They didn't know it, but she had felt it too. It was good for her to be an Yresiam. She could see things that were there that no one else could. Just like the king had seen it, she had too. That's how she knew that Bra and Goten were to be promised to each other.
"Just give it time," Agatha walked out of the hallway and into the gardens. The queen stood there, waiting for her appearance.
"What happened Agatha?" she asked, her worry evident on her tone.
"She's taking it better than expected Bulma," Agatha had always been like that to her and Vegeta. Being on the palace before he had been even born, Agatha saw Vegeta grow and transform himself to be a worthy king of the powerful planet.
"I wish I could've done something," Bulma diverted her eyes toward the roses in full bloom. They seemed to sparkle from the new water sprayed directly from the river.
Agatha chook her head. "You wouldn't be able to do anything."
"Can you tell me anything?" Bulma asked hopefully. She knew of the strange power and aura that Agatha could perceive to use in people.
Agatha smiled, she knew the queen too well. "Give her time," that was all she wanted to say. "You'll see."
***
Bra's eyes opened as she heard the hard knocking on her door. There was someone calling her outside getting her attention. She wondered what could be happening.
"Bra," the knocking resumed. "Open up please." Bra recognized the voice of one of her servants. All she had to do was organize her bedroom and make sure that everything is in order of it.
"What?" Bra finally responded to the calling.
"You're late." The comment didn't get to her. Slowly, Bra stood up from her bed and approached to door that had the lock on.
"Must've been Agatha when she left yesterday," she muttered to herself as she yawned. Grudgingly, she threw the door open.
"Your instructor is worried," the smiling girl appeared on the door. She was barely 15 years old and a good person to count on as far as Bra knew her.
"Why is Bardock worried?" Bra inquired, letting the smaller saiyan enter the room.
"You've missed your morning spar with him, which you never do," stated Banoito. Everyone in the palace called her Ban, a short name given to her by the queen.
Bra looked around the room distraught. Her eyes settled on the clock by her bed and she let out a screech. It was well passed the time for her sparring, she was late for her studies on the capsules with her mother.
"I'm late," Bra shouted as she ran around the room, looking for her clothes. She was stopped on her tracks as she saw Ban laughing her head off.
"What are you laughing at?" demanded Bra. "This is no laughing matter."
"You forgot princess," Ban couldn't hide her surprise on her tone of voice.
"Forgot what?" Bra inquired.
"Your classes were suspended for the day because of the arrival of Gohan's child," Ban informed. She looked around the room to find the cup that Agatha had told her to get for her. "I think the tea that Agatha made for you was a tad bit stronger than she inquired."
Bra remembered the cup that she drank right before she fell asleep by Agatha's wishes. No wonder she had been so light-headed when she woke up. It was probably a tranquilizer for her body and nerves.
"When's the girl going to arrive?" Bra asked hoping that she would have enough time to get ready.
"In about two hours," Ban informed. "The ship's supposed to dock in the second perimeter, inside the palace dockings."
"Thanks," Bra let out a breath of relief. She would have enough time to get ready for the palace guest. Ban helped the princess get ready on the time they had to get it all done.
"The queen said that Pan is really powerful," she informed the princess. "She says that King Vegeta was pretty impressed with her too."
Changing the subject, "When's the prince coming back?"
"I don't know," Bra responded truthfully.
"Isn't your fiancée supposed to come here with him too?" Bra froze as she heard the question. She had completely forgotten about that with the whole being late thing and the arrival of Pan. Ban noticed the way Bra changed completely. "Did I say something wrong?"
"No, you didn't." Bra controlled the tone of her voice. She wasn't going to get Ban worried. It wasn't her fault that the subject wasn't liked by her.
"It's time to go," Ban said pushing the princess out of the room and closing the door behind her. "You can't be late for the arrival of Pan. I'm curious to know who's stronger."
"Stronger of who?" Bra asked, she liked to have Ban around her. The girl seemed to make her forget the things that went around her.
"Of you and Pan," responded Ban. "Bardock is her grandfather you know."
"I hadn't thought of that," declared Bra. And for the most part, she didn't care.
"I also wonder who is stronger of the two?"
"Of the two what?" Ban was asking too many questions that day.
"Of your brother and Goten," Ban smiled at the princess. "They say that he's a hunk." Dreamy eyes came to Ban's face expression.
Bra laughed getting her out of her dream state. "Weren't you supposed to have a crush on my brother?" Bra remembered the little girl trying to impress Trunks who was ten years older than her.
Ban blushed, she had felt something for the prince too. "That's over," she declared. "I know that he's way older than I am."
"Plus," added Bra gaining her attention. "You're too pretty and too good for him to have." Ban giggled, she liked it when the princess said good things about her.
They both remained in silence until they appeared on the palace's docks. Some of the guards eyed Bra carefully, Bardock being in the same place looking at them with a daring mask on his face.
Bra smiled at him, knowing that he felt as a second father to her and Trunks. He had been as overprotective of her as his father, him not having a girl of his own on the family. He was proud of his sons but he had hoped to have another woman in the house than his mate.
Smiling, Bra and Ban approached him. Both of them continuing their talk not really caring that the older man heard them. Bardock though, had other plans for them.
"What happened Bra?" She flinched at his tone of voice.
"I slept late," she heard his snort at that only making her indignant. "Agatha gave me a sleeping tea last night, it wasn't my fault."
"I didn't say it was," he bit back as she explained.
"Well, you out of all people should know why she was calming me." An accusing finger made it's way to his armed chest.
"I expected you to blow up the palace," he responded, a smirk present on his face.
"I would have if I had wanted to." Crossing her arms on her chest just like her father, she turned her attention to the docks computer. It showed the trajectory of the ship that was about to arrive in five minutes.
Ban, curious as she always was, approached it slowly. It started beeping constantly as it read that the ship was entering the planet's atmosphere and gravity.
"Do you know anything about her?" Bra asked as Bardock and her approached the docks in which she was to enter.
"It's not like I talk with my son in Earth," he answered.
"You could if you wanted to," she muttered to herself. Not knowing what to expect was one thing that she hated, just like her marriage with the grandson. "It's not like you didn't know that I was to marry your Grandson." It came out even if she hadn't wanted it to.
Bardock just laughed at her tone. He out of all people would know how she would react at such a thing. Bra was easily read with the way she responded to actions that happened by her. "I knew."
"How could you not tell me?" she demanded.
"I didn't tell you because it wasn't my place."
"My place, my butt." She growled. "You have the authority to even smack me in public and you don't think it's your place to inform me what is going to happen in my life?"
All of her shouting was drowned by the racket that the ship made as it entered the docks. Bra soon stopped her shouting at Bardock as she noted that it wouldn't make a difference to this. Puffing and huffing at herself, she muttered her stupidity at this.
There were some minutes until there was any communication between the computer and the ship. A woman's voice was heard through it, as all the information was being processed to authorize the opening of the doors.
Bardock touched a key of the computer that opened the radio system to it. "How was the trip?" No image appeared on the screen.
"Uneventful." was all that was said back for some time. There was typing heard on the background of the silence. "Just had an uninvited guest while I was making my way here."
"Uneventful guest?" Bra inquired entering the conversation.
"Well, two in actuality." Her tone changed as she approached the radio system of the ship. "First, I ran into some space pirates that wanted another ship to add to their collection. All they have now is a battered ship with 90 percent of it's occupants dead."
Bardock smirked at the surprise intake of gasps heard around the room. He just wandered which raid of pirates was it that were dead. "Do you know the name of the pirates?"
"Their insignia?" Pan asked as she could be heard muttering something low.
"Yes." Bra approached the radio waiting for an answer.
"Ok, hold on." Movements could be heard all the way through the com-line. Swearing could be heard as it seemed that things were falling apart inside.
"Ok," she was back to the radio. "I managed to swipe a helmet that one of them were wearing. There's a sign on it, like a red line going through a blue line making a cross. Does it ring a bell?"
"Maybe," Bardock remembered encountering a ship of creatures wearing something like that years back.
"I'll show it to you after this ship opens it's damned doors." She swore under her breath as she tried to put everything in order inside the ship. "I remember something though," everyone turned their attention to the computer that processed the communication.
"I heard one of the crew members contact someone before I entered the room. He said something like Captain Hordelain or something. Does that help the memory?" The connection was made with Bardock. He now knew who she had encountered on her trip.
"Did you know that he's one of the most pirate known across the universe?"
"He said the same thing before his magnets attracted the ship in," her laugh could be heard through the silent room. "But please, a creature who looked like a man with pink hair doesn't strike me as the type to be feared through the universe."
"I guess my grandson was right." Bardock let that slip out.
"Which one great-grandfather?" Now he knew that even if he couldn't see her face, she could see his.
"Your father child," he answered. "He said that you weren't that easily impressed and I can hear that Kakarotte did right on training you."
"A little here and there did a lot of good," she said truthfully.
"They also told me that you are really good with computers." There were steps that could be heard as Pan answered to his elogies.
"Did your computer get all the information?" she questioned.
"Yes," Bardock looked over the information. "You can let your ship open the door."
"If I could," she whispered to herself. "With that little encounter, the ship did take shots in the door closing and opening systems. It is not pretty to make it open now."
"Need any help?" Bardock offered.
"No," Bra and him moved over to the ship now. "I'll open it." Movements inside the ship could be heard. In an instant, the door slid out of the ship and moved to let the stairs out.
Anything that Bra had expected was brought out of her mind as a figure was coming out of the space ship. A girl her age with long black hair and onyx eyes stepped out of the ship. Her clothes were a simple bottom up shirt and black jeans that went down to her shoes wrapping to her legs as a second skin almost. There was an orange bandana that wrapped her hair making her figure daring to anyone that saw her.
Pan smiled as she made her way to Bardock and the princess. Blue eyes rested on the deep onyx, questions coming and going through both of their faces.
"Good to see you great-grandfather." Without giving a look to anyone else in the room, she walked to him and gave him a kiss on his cheek and a hug.
"Good to see you in person Pan," he said back. He directed himself to the people around him, giving a daring look to any of the guards that stood there. "This is Bra."
Bra extended her hand to the woman that stood there in such different manners that any other woman she had ever seen do. "She's that princess, daughter of Bulma and Vegeta."
Pan smiled at her proving gaze, knowing that her appearance shocked her. "Nice to meet you."
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I' m done with this chapter. It took a lot of work out of me. Ideas came and went that had nothing to do with what was going on and I can't stop my mind from wondering off.
Anyway, the guys will be introduced into this in later chapters. Chapter four would be the earliest and my intend on getting them here.
As I said, this is a Bra and Goten fan fiction so they will be a couple in this short story. I'm not sure if I should include some Pan and Trunks, it may all come down to you, the readers to decide it for me.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter and continue with me on this. The next chapter won't be far off from being put up. I'd like to know what you think of it as the story is progressing.
See You all later. . .
Moon Star
Here's chapter two for you readers. Thanks to all who read the last chapter and continue to read this. Hope you like it.
SIDENOTE : If you like Bra and Goten fanfics, please read Bitten by You... I wrote it and I'd appreciate it if you would read it... I'd like to know what you think, so please review...
This is a Bra and Goten fan fiction. Don't like it, don't read it.
Disclaimer : I don't own any of the characters used in this story.
Arranged Love
Chapter 2 : Hello, I'm Pan Son
"Why?"
"Because you and him have been promised to each other since the day you were born," replied Vegeta. No man nor people had known that but he had made the decision. There was also something there that no one else saw. He knew that they were to be married.
"But Dad," Bra wanted to change this. She wished that she hadn't been a princess, maybe then she would have been able to choose the man she wanted to marry and not because people expected her to.
"Now," Vegeta changed his tone. "You will receive the child of Gohan when she arrives tomorrow."
"Yes father," responded Bra. Without anything else to say, Bra turned and stormed out of the room throwing the door closed. It's hinges creaked at the force of her manner. The guards stayed still but knowing the force that the princess contained. A half-saiyan wasn't a person that you would take lightly.
Bra threw herself to her bed and cried. A woman stood by the door, her hand in her chest as she heard the young princess cry herself to sleep. She waited until she couldn't hear anything from the inside. The door slid open, fraction by fraction. The bed was disturbed by the silhouette of the young woman, her breath even and face strained with fresh tears on the pillow.
*It's a wonder she didn't blow up the whole palace,* the woman told herself. Her paces were silent and adjusted to the delicate rug that caressed her feet. Her hand reached to her face and dried the tears away. *You were just a little girl some time ago.*
Her eyes opened and met hers. "Why did he do this to me Agatha?" The princess asked to her nanny. She couldn't be called that anymore but she had been the second mother and the other person in her life.
"It's not like he wants to," Agatha sat on the bed and put her head on her chest. Bra embraced her and wept the frustration of the arrangement. "He had to choose someone to give you to even if he didn't want to. It's the tradition of the princesses of the planet."
Her embrace tightened, Agatha caressed Bra with her old fingers. She had seen many things like this in her lifetime. But, she also knew that Vegeta loved her daughter. "He would rather see you marry someone he knows than a complete stranger that might not treat you like the princess you are and deserve."
"How long have you known this?" Bra asked, her eyes shut tightly not wanting to know the real answer. Her dissolution could break the faith she had on her second mother.
"Ever since you were born," Agatha answered. She had never been able to say a lie to her. She wasn't going to start now hiding this from her little girl.
"Why didn't you tell me?" There was apprehension on her voice.
"I wasn't supposed to know," responded Agatha. "I found out by accident. The queen didn't even know until after the trip from Earth."
Bra kept silence, her brain taking all of this in. Her sniffles had diminished but her trail of thoughts weren't in the present time.
"Do you know him?" Her question took the elder woman by surprise.
"You mean Goten?" Bra nodded, her head still cradled on her knees. "He's your brother's best friend and companion." Bra signaled that she knew that already.
"Okay," her face took a thoughtful expression. "I've also known him since he was little. He has the heart of his father and his mother."
"You mean Kakarotte and Chichi?" Bra's attention turned to Agatha's face.
"Yes," Agatha smiled remembering. "They are an odd pair, those two. Just like your father and mother."
"I know," Bra affirmed. "How old is he?"
"One year younger than your brother." Agatha answered. "He was born on Earth and brought here on a trip of his brother. He was about three years and a half and with tremendous strength. The king had seen that when the child in his playing habits single-handedly knocked out the instructors of the classes he had sat down to see."
"Since then, he has been supervised by his brother and by his father on Earth," Agatha saw the look of interest on Bra's eyes. "When it was time for your brother to go through space for a year, Goten was selected because of his strength and capabilities."
"Why did my father choose him?" Bra asked, she was curious for this aspect.
"He was a child that Vegeta had known from birth. Because of his status, he was the most worthy of marrying a princess of one of the most powerful races in the universe."
Agatha understood Bra's apprehension toward everyone. A woman who had never been allowed to leave the palace or contact with males outside of it and just as she earns the right for her 18th birthday, she learns the news that she has to marry a stranger to her.
"You should rest Bra," Agatha helped her change her clothes from her formal wear to sleeping clothes. "I know that you had to stay up the whole day trying new clothes and the dressers measuring you."
Bra stifled a yawn, hiding it behind her hand. The pins were undone off of her hair sending it down, spilling all over her back. "It's also about time I go to sleep." Bra agreed with her nanny's orders. "I've been up since the rays of the sun came out." By the signal of Agatha, Bra drank a cup of tea on her dresser.
Agatha waited until the princess' breathing came even signaling her sleeping. She had hopes that Bra would feel better when she woke up on the next day, by the way she sleep, it could be a long time for tomorrow until she actually got up.
Agatha silently departed just like she came and shut the door behind her. No one was allowed to the rooms of the princess but the queen, king, some of the servants that were strictly for Bra and herself. She wondered when it would be changed to keep the princess in isolation from the outside world as a custom in the planet. She may not live to see it happen though.
They didn't know it, but she had felt it too. It was good for her to be an Yresiam. She could see things that were there that no one else could. Just like the king had seen it, she had too. That's how she knew that Bra and Goten were to be promised to each other.
"Just give it time," Agatha walked out of the hallway and into the gardens. The queen stood there, waiting for her appearance.
"What happened Agatha?" she asked, her worry evident on her tone.
"She's taking it better than expected Bulma," Agatha had always been like that to her and Vegeta. Being on the palace before he had been even born, Agatha saw Vegeta grow and transform himself to be a worthy king of the powerful planet.
"I wish I could've done something," Bulma diverted her eyes toward the roses in full bloom. They seemed to sparkle from the new water sprayed directly from the river.
Agatha chook her head. "You wouldn't be able to do anything."
"Can you tell me anything?" Bulma asked hopefully. She knew of the strange power and aura that Agatha could perceive to use in people.
Agatha smiled, she knew the queen too well. "Give her time," that was all she wanted to say. "You'll see."
***
Bra's eyes opened as she heard the hard knocking on her door. There was someone calling her outside getting her attention. She wondered what could be happening.
"Bra," the knocking resumed. "Open up please." Bra recognized the voice of one of her servants. All she had to do was organize her bedroom and make sure that everything is in order of it.
"What?" Bra finally responded to the calling.
"You're late." The comment didn't get to her. Slowly, Bra stood up from her bed and approached to door that had the lock on.
"Must've been Agatha when she left yesterday," she muttered to herself as she yawned. Grudgingly, she threw the door open.
"Your instructor is worried," the smiling girl appeared on the door. She was barely 15 years old and a good person to count on as far as Bra knew her.
"Why is Bardock worried?" Bra inquired, letting the smaller saiyan enter the room.
"You've missed your morning spar with him, which you never do," stated Banoito. Everyone in the palace called her Ban, a short name given to her by the queen.
Bra looked around the room distraught. Her eyes settled on the clock by her bed and she let out a screech. It was well passed the time for her sparring, she was late for her studies on the capsules with her mother.
"I'm late," Bra shouted as she ran around the room, looking for her clothes. She was stopped on her tracks as she saw Ban laughing her head off.
"What are you laughing at?" demanded Bra. "This is no laughing matter."
"You forgot princess," Ban couldn't hide her surprise on her tone of voice.
"Forgot what?" Bra inquired.
"Your classes were suspended for the day because of the arrival of Gohan's child," Ban informed. She looked around the room to find the cup that Agatha had told her to get for her. "I think the tea that Agatha made for you was a tad bit stronger than she inquired."
Bra remembered the cup that she drank right before she fell asleep by Agatha's wishes. No wonder she had been so light-headed when she woke up. It was probably a tranquilizer for her body and nerves.
"When's the girl going to arrive?" Bra asked hoping that she would have enough time to get ready.
"In about two hours," Ban informed. "The ship's supposed to dock in the second perimeter, inside the palace dockings."
"Thanks," Bra let out a breath of relief. She would have enough time to get ready for the palace guest. Ban helped the princess get ready on the time they had to get it all done.
"The queen said that Pan is really powerful," she informed the princess. "She says that King Vegeta was pretty impressed with her too."
Changing the subject, "When's the prince coming back?"
"I don't know," Bra responded truthfully.
"Isn't your fiancée supposed to come here with him too?" Bra froze as she heard the question. She had completely forgotten about that with the whole being late thing and the arrival of Pan. Ban noticed the way Bra changed completely. "Did I say something wrong?"
"No, you didn't." Bra controlled the tone of her voice. She wasn't going to get Ban worried. It wasn't her fault that the subject wasn't liked by her.
"It's time to go," Ban said pushing the princess out of the room and closing the door behind her. "You can't be late for the arrival of Pan. I'm curious to know who's stronger."
"Stronger of who?" Bra asked, she liked to have Ban around her. The girl seemed to make her forget the things that went around her.
"Of you and Pan," responded Ban. "Bardock is her grandfather you know."
"I hadn't thought of that," declared Bra. And for the most part, she didn't care.
"I also wonder who is stronger of the two?"
"Of the two what?" Ban was asking too many questions that day.
"Of your brother and Goten," Ban smiled at the princess. "They say that he's a hunk." Dreamy eyes came to Ban's face expression.
Bra laughed getting her out of her dream state. "Weren't you supposed to have a crush on my brother?" Bra remembered the little girl trying to impress Trunks who was ten years older than her.
Ban blushed, she had felt something for the prince too. "That's over," she declared. "I know that he's way older than I am."
"Plus," added Bra gaining her attention. "You're too pretty and too good for him to have." Ban giggled, she liked it when the princess said good things about her.
They both remained in silence until they appeared on the palace's docks. Some of the guards eyed Bra carefully, Bardock being in the same place looking at them with a daring mask on his face.
Bra smiled at him, knowing that he felt as a second father to her and Trunks. He had been as overprotective of her as his father, him not having a girl of his own on the family. He was proud of his sons but he had hoped to have another woman in the house than his mate.
Smiling, Bra and Ban approached him. Both of them continuing their talk not really caring that the older man heard them. Bardock though, had other plans for them.
"What happened Bra?" She flinched at his tone of voice.
"I slept late," she heard his snort at that only making her indignant. "Agatha gave me a sleeping tea last night, it wasn't my fault."
"I didn't say it was," he bit back as she explained.
"Well, you out of all people should know why she was calming me." An accusing finger made it's way to his armed chest.
"I expected you to blow up the palace," he responded, a smirk present on his face.
"I would have if I had wanted to." Crossing her arms on her chest just like her father, she turned her attention to the docks computer. It showed the trajectory of the ship that was about to arrive in five minutes.
Ban, curious as she always was, approached it slowly. It started beeping constantly as it read that the ship was entering the planet's atmosphere and gravity.
"Do you know anything about her?" Bra asked as Bardock and her approached the docks in which she was to enter.
"It's not like I talk with my son in Earth," he answered.
"You could if you wanted to," she muttered to herself. Not knowing what to expect was one thing that she hated, just like her marriage with the grandson. "It's not like you didn't know that I was to marry your Grandson." It came out even if she hadn't wanted it to.
Bardock just laughed at her tone. He out of all people would know how she would react at such a thing. Bra was easily read with the way she responded to actions that happened by her. "I knew."
"How could you not tell me?" she demanded.
"I didn't tell you because it wasn't my place."
"My place, my butt." She growled. "You have the authority to even smack me in public and you don't think it's your place to inform me what is going to happen in my life?"
All of her shouting was drowned by the racket that the ship made as it entered the docks. Bra soon stopped her shouting at Bardock as she noted that it wouldn't make a difference to this. Puffing and huffing at herself, she muttered her stupidity at this.
There were some minutes until there was any communication between the computer and the ship. A woman's voice was heard through it, as all the information was being processed to authorize the opening of the doors.
Bardock touched a key of the computer that opened the radio system to it. "How was the trip?" No image appeared on the screen.
"Uneventful." was all that was said back for some time. There was typing heard on the background of the silence. "Just had an uninvited guest while I was making my way here."
"Uneventful guest?" Bra inquired entering the conversation.
"Well, two in actuality." Her tone changed as she approached the radio system of the ship. "First, I ran into some space pirates that wanted another ship to add to their collection. All they have now is a battered ship with 90 percent of it's occupants dead."
Bardock smirked at the surprise intake of gasps heard around the room. He just wandered which raid of pirates was it that were dead. "Do you know the name of the pirates?"
"Their insignia?" Pan asked as she could be heard muttering something low.
"Yes." Bra approached the radio waiting for an answer.
"Ok, hold on." Movements could be heard all the way through the com-line. Swearing could be heard as it seemed that things were falling apart inside.
"Ok," she was back to the radio. "I managed to swipe a helmet that one of them were wearing. There's a sign on it, like a red line going through a blue line making a cross. Does it ring a bell?"
"Maybe," Bardock remembered encountering a ship of creatures wearing something like that years back.
"I'll show it to you after this ship opens it's damned doors." She swore under her breath as she tried to put everything in order inside the ship. "I remember something though," everyone turned their attention to the computer that processed the communication.
"I heard one of the crew members contact someone before I entered the room. He said something like Captain Hordelain or something. Does that help the memory?" The connection was made with Bardock. He now knew who she had encountered on her trip.
"Did you know that he's one of the most pirate known across the universe?"
"He said the same thing before his magnets attracted the ship in," her laugh could be heard through the silent room. "But please, a creature who looked like a man with pink hair doesn't strike me as the type to be feared through the universe."
"I guess my grandson was right." Bardock let that slip out.
"Which one great-grandfather?" Now he knew that even if he couldn't see her face, she could see his.
"Your father child," he answered. "He said that you weren't that easily impressed and I can hear that Kakarotte did right on training you."
"A little here and there did a lot of good," she said truthfully.
"They also told me that you are really good with computers." There were steps that could be heard as Pan answered to his elogies.
"Did your computer get all the information?" she questioned.
"Yes," Bardock looked over the information. "You can let your ship open the door."
"If I could," she whispered to herself. "With that little encounter, the ship did take shots in the door closing and opening systems. It is not pretty to make it open now."
"Need any help?" Bardock offered.
"No," Bra and him moved over to the ship now. "I'll open it." Movements inside the ship could be heard. In an instant, the door slid out of the ship and moved to let the stairs out.
Anything that Bra had expected was brought out of her mind as a figure was coming out of the space ship. A girl her age with long black hair and onyx eyes stepped out of the ship. Her clothes were a simple bottom up shirt and black jeans that went down to her shoes wrapping to her legs as a second skin almost. There was an orange bandana that wrapped her hair making her figure daring to anyone that saw her.
Pan smiled as she made her way to Bardock and the princess. Blue eyes rested on the deep onyx, questions coming and going through both of their faces.
"Good to see you great-grandfather." Without giving a look to anyone else in the room, she walked to him and gave him a kiss on his cheek and a hug.
"Good to see you in person Pan," he said back. He directed himself to the people around him, giving a daring look to any of the guards that stood there. "This is Bra."
Bra extended her hand to the woman that stood there in such different manners that any other woman she had ever seen do. "She's that princess, daughter of Bulma and Vegeta."
Pan smiled at her proving gaze, knowing that her appearance shocked her. "Nice to meet you."
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I' m done with this chapter. It took a lot of work out of me. Ideas came and went that had nothing to do with what was going on and I can't stop my mind from wondering off.
Anyway, the guys will be introduced into this in later chapters. Chapter four would be the earliest and my intend on getting them here.
As I said, this is a Bra and Goten fan fiction so they will be a couple in this short story. I'm not sure if I should include some Pan and Trunks, it may all come down to you, the readers to decide it for me.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter and continue with me on this. The next chapter won't be far off from being put up. I'd like to know what you think of it as the story is progressing.
See You all later. . .
Moon Star