Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Windows to the Soul ❯ Secrets Revealed ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter Four - Secrets Revealed

"I already told you no!" Pan screeched and blocked Trunks' fist.

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No!"

Trunks blocked her kick and puffed out his bottom lip. "Pretty please? My mom really wants to meet you."

"I said no!!" Pan hissed and vaulted forward. Trunks vanished and her fist hit a large rock formation. A small crater had formed and a large crack ran up the side. She tugged her arm out of the hole. She couldn't even scream as the rock caved in on her.

"Pan!" Trunks screamed. No answer. "Pan!" He ran up to the pile of rubble and furiously pulled rocks off of her. "Pan?" He found her covered in her own blood, cuts and bruises maimed her beautiful body. He cupped her cheek, "Pan?"

She grunted and opened her eyes. "Trunks, be-behind you…" She passed out. His sapphire eyes went wide. He turned around and gasped.

A teenage boy with short, midnight hair stood twenty feet away. He was dressed in blue jeans, a white long sleeved shirt underneath a black shirt with a red symbol with the initials "RR" and an orange bandana was tied around his neck. "Juunana-gou." Trunks seethed.

Juunana smirked, "So glad you remember me, Prince."

"I killed you!"

"Did you? Then why am I standing before you in tip top shape?"

"I don't know."

"But I do." He raised a finger to his forehead. "In your fit of fury, you forgot to make sure that my core had disintegrated. I rebuilt myself over time." He lowered his finger.

Trunks crossed his arms. "You are a fool if you think I won't kill you now."

Juunana-gou chuckled, "On the contrary, Prince, my strength and ability has tripled."

Trunks' eyes grew wide. He turned around and picked up the unconscious Pan. "Sorry, but I don't have time to test your theory." He said before blasting into the sky at top speed. Juunana watched him disappear from view. A smirk touched his lips.

*****

Bulma wrapped the last bandage around Pan's head. "Are you sure it was Juunana-gou?"

Trunks nodded, "He seems to believe that his strength has tripled."

Bulma's look was solemn. "I don't understand it, I thought you had killed him."

"So did I, I'll have to do a better job this time."

Bulma looked away from Pan and back at her son. "He might not be bluffing."

"I'm close to reaching Super Saiya-jin level two." His eyes averted to a sleeping Pan, "Will she be okay?"

Bulma followed his gaze. "She'll been fine after a days rest. Trunks, I think there is something you should know about her."

*****

Pan groggily opened her eyes. She sat up, ignoring her pain. She noticed Trunks sitting by her bed, studying her. "How long was I out?"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

"That you were Saiya-jin!" Trunks stood up in his chair, knocking it to the ground.

Pan looked down at her hands. "I wasn't sure how you would react."

"How could you be Gohan's daughter! We would have known if he had a daughter!"

Tears fell onto her clenched fists. "Did he tell you about Videl, my mother?!"

Trunks began pacing. "She was Gohan's girlfriend. They were close, but she disappeared when she found out that Gohan was fighting the androids."

"What you didn't know was that she was pregnant with me when she left!" More tears fell. "She left because she didn't want to get hurt. She feared for my father's safety. She thought that if she left she could avoid her feelings for him. Years later she still cried herself to sleep over his death!" Her eyes over-flowed with tears. "It's hard not knowing where to turn. It's hard living without knowing your own father!" She buried her face in her hands.

"I know those feelings." She looked up at him. "I know what it's like to feel useless. To try and change things only to have your heart ripped from your chest and torn into a million pieces." He headed towards the door, but stopped to look at her. "We are more alike than you may realize, Pan, even if you refuse to." He exited her room and softly closed the door.

Pan cried for the next hour or so until she ran out of tears to shed and fell into a restless sleep.

*****

"Run, Pan, run!" Videl screamed through the rush of water and loud thunder.

Young Pan stood at the edge of the lake below her mother. She shook her head, tears clouding her eyes. "Kaa-san!"

Videl's midnight hair danced in the wind, her crystal blue eyes reflected her terror. "Listen to me, Pan. Run and save yourself! I'll always be with you, no matter what happens!"

"Oh, isn't that touching." Juunana-gou appeared behind Videl.

"Get away from me, you monster!" Videl thrust her fist in his cheek. He chuckled as he grabbed her wrist and pulled her to him. "Don't touch me!" She screamed as she pounded against his chest.

"Don't make this any harder than it has to be." He squeezed her arms and waist.

She gasped and clenched her eyes shut. "Let go of me." She spit in his face.

Juunana wiped the spittle from his face. "Now that wasn't very nice. Now you have to die slowly and painfully."

Videl screamed as he ripped off her clothing. "Pan, Run! Please!"

Pan watched in horror as the android raped her mother until the breath left her body and she stopped moving. "Okasan!!" Juunana stood and looked down at the frightened child. Pan gasped, turned, and ran. She ran blindly through the trees, her vision was watery and branches bit at her skin. She lost her footing over a tree root and fell face first into the soil.

Juunana-gou appeared in front of her. He raised her by the throat. "Don't worry, little kitten, we will have our time." He threw her into the ice cold lake.

*****

Pan shot up in bed as the ice cold surrounded her. She glanced down at the wet rag that had flopped off her forehead.

"Gomen, I didn't mean to wake you."

Pan looked at the blue haired woman that sat at her bedside. The strange woman smiled, "You caught a fever and slept for days. My name is Bulma, I'm Trunks' mother."

Pan smiled, "Pan."

Bulma took the rag and set it in a bowl of water. "I know your name. Trunks has told me a lot about you."

Pan blushed, "Why are you helping me?"

Bulma pushed her to her pillow and set the cloth on her forehead. "Because I like you and you're my son's friend. I think it's good that he found someone, I mean, he isn't very sociable. Besides, you're the only other being with Saiya-jin blood in this dimension."

"This dimension?"

"Long story."

Pan smiled a little. "Would you tell me?"

Bulma sighed. "A few years back I built a time machine. I sent Trunks to the past three years before the androids had arrived with medicine for your

grandfather, Goku. In our time, Goku had died of a heart virus before the androids appeared. Trunks returned again to help the Z fighters defeat the androids. He learned that there were five androids instead of two." Bulma took on a sad complexion. "Vegeta, Trunks' father, defeated one android and Juunana-gou destroyed another. While Juuroku(16), Juunana(17), and Juuhachi(18) went on a search for Goku another creature appeared. His name was Cell and was created with the cells of the strongest fighters in the galaxy. His purpose was to absorb Juunana and Juuhachi to achieve his perfect form. He succeeded and called on a world tournament to be held in ten days after. Chikyuu's warriors trained in the Room of Spirit and Time where they could get a year of training in one day. When the Cell Games began, Goku was the first to fight. Both were evenly matched and Goku suddenly forfeited. Goku asked your father to fight. He knew that Gohan had the strength to achieve a level beyond Super Saiya-jin."

"Super Saiya-jin?" Pan asked.

Bulma nodded, "When a Saiya-jin reaches a high energy level their hair becomes gold and their eyes change into turquoise. As Super Saiya-jin you are more powerful and much faster than before. Now where was I? Oh yeah, Gohan fought Cell and didn't achieve level two until Juuroku was killed."

Pan raised an eyebrow, "Wasn't he a bad guy."

Bulma smirked, "He was until my expertise and vast knowledge turned him to our side. Gohan defeated Cell after he had spit out Juuhachi-gou and Earth was safe again. But we learned that Trunks had only created a parallel universe instead of changing our time. Thankfully he had gained the strength to defeat the androids of our time…" She shook her head, "Or at least we thought. He came close to achieving Super Saiya-jin level two, but he's still trying."

Pan looked grave, `Poor Trunks.'

Bulma stood, "I'm going to start lunch, I'll bet your starved. You can get cleaned up in the bathroom across the hall, and there is clean clothes for you in the closet."

Pan got out of the bed. "I don't need your charity."

Bulma reached the door, but didn't turn around. "I don't believe that, and I don't think you do either." She exited and closed the door.