Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Phoenix Chronicles ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

--- The Phoenix Chronicles ---

Prologue

This is my first fan fiction ever, and I thought before I get into the story, I should clear some things up now so I don't have to clog the chapters themselves with explanations. First thing's first:

Disclaimer: I make no claim of ownership for Dragonball, Dragonball Z, or any other copyrighted material that may appear anywhere in the entirety of this story. If I did I wouldn't be posting this online for free, I'd be selling it on the markets.
This fiction contains various materials that some people may find offensive, such as course language, frequent violence, and sexual references, and if you are one of these people I suggest you leave now. But who am I kidding? By saying this I've more than likely enticed you to read the story instead of turning you off it. In truth, I'd rather people read this, but you do so at your own risk, so don't come complaining to me should you find anything you don't like.

Ok, now that that little bit of unpleasantness is over with, I should explain what this story is about. First, this story is _not_ set in the Dragonball Z world, nor is it in Dragonball, it's set before both of them, at least 7 years before Dragonball, and around 25 years before Dragonball Z. The Vegeta everyone knows and loves is around 7, and Vegeta-Sei is still very much intact.
This story was, in it's original form, a DBZ-style PNP RPG (pen-and-paper role-playing game, for those who didn't know) that I am currently playing with friends, and I got bored one day and decided to write it up this way. This means that I'll only be able to update as often as we have a game session. The story may or may not ever cross over into the DBZ world, that's up to our GM (game master) to decide.

There are a few things you, as the reader, should keep in mind as you read this story. First, as this is a prequel, of sorts, for Dragonball Z, irony is our best friend. Second, the Dragonball Z world you know has been ruthlessly parodied in this RPG, but it's all in good fun. Third, as the main character, my character, is Saiyan, or Saiya-Jin if you prefer, unless mentioned otherwise with "Standard" (meaning Earth) all times listed are in Saiyan terms, so I'll put these below.

Saiyan times: 14 days in a week; 8 weeks in a month; 15 months in a year
This works out to be: 1 Saiyan week = 2 Standard weeks; 1 Saiyan month = 4 Standard months; 1 Saiyan year = 5 Standard years.

Note that everything from 'days' down is the same, merely because we couldn't be bothered working out a different day/night cycle.

I should also mention that, from time to time, I use Japanese words instead of English. While I am prefectly aware that this, in all reality, wouldn't happen, sometimes the Japanese words just _sound_ better than their English counterparts. You'll know them when you see them. I've tried to use as few as possible, but as I said, sometimes it just doesn't sound right using English.

Also, as a devotee of fanfiction myself, I am aware that from time to time I am influenced by some of the ideas that other authors have in their stories, and that said influences can come out in my way of thinking, and thus my writing. Therefore, if any ideas, theories, or opinions that appear anywhere in this story have been used before by anyone else, I give them full credit for it and claim no ownership myself. As far as everything in this fiction goes, I am merely an actor in a story, and the person that complied that story into a readable format.

Finally, I should list the various symbols I use. Seeing as how this is a multi-race RPG, and each race has their own language, I've used different symbols for the quotation marks around each.

"text" = Galactic Basic speech (English)
'text' = thoughts (same across all races)
[text] = Saiya-Go/Saiyan speech
{text} = Namek-Go/Namekian speech
-text- = telepathy (same across all races)

I think that's about everything I need to mention, for now at least. Hopfully, having made this large disclaimer I won't have to add one in every chapter. If anything else comes up while I'm writing I'll add it after the chapter in question.
Oh, and this will be both the first and the last time I'll say it - please review. Good or bad, I'd like to know what people actually think, but please try and make it constructive rather than insulting if you don't like it. It's not like I'm not forcing you to read it...