It happened again. Pan couldn’t shake off her dreams. It wasn’t as clear as it usually was this night. It never happened in order anyway. Pan turned her head to the window and was staring outside.

She never told anyone about her dreams, not even Bra. She usually had them more frequent when something bad was going to happen. Waking up in a cold sweat, remembering only flashes, not the whole picture, of the near future.

It wasn’t like they would come true indefinitely. She managed to change a few of them. When she was younger, she dreamt of what happened to Grandpa Goku. At that time she tried to act stupid, saying that she didn’t know it was him when he turned into a kid, but she knew. She just didn’t want to believe it. She also saw glimpses of what would happen if she didn’t go on the spaceship and Goten went instead. She wasn’t going to let that happen to them. That’s when she “accidentally” launched to ship to space.

Pan smiled to herself. ‘Some accident,’ she thought. Her presence made a big difference, a bit more to better side. Everyone lived. But at the cost of her grandfather. She knew that too from her dreams. But she also knew he had a choice. He chose to leave his family. Pan had hoped that her presence enough should change his mind and make him stay. It didn’t, and now he is gone.

Pan sat up in her bed. She looked for some sweats to put on, and thought that a night’s flight would make her feel better. Glancing at Bra, she opened the window to fly out. ‘At least she doesn’t have the problems I have,’ Pan thought and flew out for a while.

The air was cool, and it cleared her head of her thoughts. The sky was darker than usual because there where clouds overhead, but Pan could see everything perfectly anyway. When she got far away from the campus, she landed and started walking for a while.

Back at the dorms, Bra turned her head to see Pan flying off into to the night. She couldn’t imagine why she left. Bra sat up in bed, put on a sweater and jeans, and sat back on the bed. ‘Should I go after her, or not?’ she thought. Bra also had trouble sleeping. She felt her friends distress during the night and that’s what caused her not to sleep. Pan kept a lot to herself, so Bra was not able to get a full reading of her problems.

Bra thought about this, and tried to scan to area for Pan’s ki. She was pretty far so Bra decided to follow, maybe try to help her in any way she can.

Bra always had that extra sensory to her. It got stronger after the seven dragon incident. She just didn’t want to be left out anymore, so she asked Pan in private if she could teach her how to fly and fight. She would never really fight, it would just be nice to have the skill, and felt that Pan needed to do it. Her extra sense wasn’t strong, but when Goku left, she felt Pan’s feelings. Giving her the task of teaching her how to use her powers distracted her from her loss.

After she learned how to feel for ki, she found that her other power grew also. She was able to feel the moods of everyone around her, and that was very useful. If she concentrated enough, she could even feel what kind of problems they where having, if they had any.

Her training under Pan stopped, however, when dad found out. Vegeta then decided to train Bra himself, and he definitely wasn’t as easy as Pan. She never said anything though. She felt how he felt when he found out she’s been training with Pan, and made up something that she wanted some skills before training under him. ‘Yeah, right,’ Bra thought. Although he didn’t show it, she felt how happy he was with the idea of his daughter becoming a fighter, and decided to go along with it. Maybe all for the best.

Pan, she could never read for some reason. She was always on her guard, and never showed if she was upset, or if she was, she somehow hid it. This night however, she did feel that Pan was upset, and decided to go after her.

Pinpointing where Pan might be, she found out that she was walking already. Bra flew to her side and started walking beside her.

“Nice night, huh?” Pan said, still looking ahead of her.

“Well, its as nice as it could be. Its getting cloudy”

“It would be brighter if there was a moon. Did you ever wish you could see the moon, Bra?”

“I’ve seen it in books.”

“That’s not what I asked.”

‘Hmmm, are these questions going to lead anywhere?’ Bra thought. “Yeah, I guess it would be nice to see the moon.” she said. ‘I still feel like she’s upset. She trying to talk about a different thing, trying not think about whatever is wrong. But what’s wrong’ She thought to herself.

“So, Bra, your out for a nice walk too, or just to follow me?”

“Huh? Oh, well, both of the above I think. I couldn’t sleep too.”

“Oh.”

They kept walking for a while, stopping when they came to a lake near a forest. Both sat down on a rock near the water, and tossed small pebbles into the water. Bra watched the ripples in the water, being able to see everything. Her vision in the dark was better than Pan’s maybe because she had more saiya-jin blood in her. When Pan ran out of pebbles, she sighed and turned to Bra.

‘Great! Now she’s going to tell me what’s wrong!’ Bra figured.

“Bra, um I got something to tell you, about why I can’t sleep.” Pan said then turned back to the lake.

“So why can’t you?”

“Well, um, how can I put this? I have a bad feeling that something is going to happen”

“How do you know?”

“Dunno, just call it a gut feeling.”

“Oh.” Bra said. ‘Is that it!?! It was only a feeling that she had, and that’s whats causing her distress! Then again, sometimes the things that she says are right. Maybe something is going to happen.’ Bra thought.

“Hey Bra, lets fly around a bit more, before going back. I still need a little air.”

“All right no problem.” ‘Actually, it is a problem, I’m exhausted’ Bra thought.

Pan looked at her friend, gave her a half smile, and took off. She just wanted to enjoy the feeling of the wind in her face. Flying first high up in the clouds, she stared at the stars which were much brighter up higher than on the ground. The clouds were below her so she couldn’t see the ground. Looking behind her, she saw Bra keeping up with her. If Bra was in the lead instead, Pan would have trouble keeping up with her, she was just too fast for her.

Pan made a few loops in the air and fly into the clouds. She closed her eyes then practiced using her sixth sense. Bra was right above her which meant that if Bra can’t see her, that she was also practicing. Anything to keep her training. She wasn’t training with her that often anymore, nor did she come over the capsule corp. that much anymore. If looks could kill, Vegeta would have killed her a while ago. He didn’t like the idea of her training his daughter. It was a good thing that she was able to have sparring matches with Bra afterwards. With Vegeta training Bra, it always forced Pan to train even harder, so she could keep up with her. She was thrilled with the idea of fighting Bra. Because of Vegeta’s training, and Bra knowing her fighting style, it always forced Pan to do better, and to alternate her fighting style.

Pan flew upwards out of the clouds, catching Bra off guard, and made a direct descent to the ground. Flying as low as possible, she made as many maneuvers as possible between the trees. She felt Bra catching up, maybe she surprised her a bit much and just stood floating a bit long, Pan thought, ‘She’s probably tired.’ Suddenly she stopped. Bra caught up to her, took a few deep breaths and relaxed.

“Whats wrong Pan, why did you stop?”

“Do you smell that?”

“Hmmm, actually yeah, I do. Its smells like something is burning.”

“Yeah, and there isn’t anybody living around here for miles around, and its not a fire, we would have seen it.”

“So. The fire might have gone out. Does it matter?”

“I dunno, I still want to know where the fire could come from. If there aren’t people living around here, how did the fire start?”

“Yeah, that is a good question.”

“Lets take a look up in the air. We’ll keep our eyes open for where the fire might have been.”

“Right.”

Pan and Bra went a bit above the trees and flew slowly. Bra looked around, when she saw something strange. Not too far a way, there seemed to be a clearing of trees. Signaling Pan, they went to that area. Looking from above, they saw a crater. Around the crater, the trees seemed a bit burned and were pointed away from the center of the crater. A lot of the grass was burned up, and there was still a few branches still red from a fire. The trees were more sparse in this part of the woods, so the fire, how big it might have been, wouldn’t spread.

Pan and Bra floated to the center of the crater. There was a space pod in the center and the hatch was open. Pan run her hands in the inside of the pod, but took it out immediately when hand touched something wet. Making a small ki ball for light, she looked at her hand and almost shrieked when she saw her hand had blood on it. Shaking off the feeling, she lit the interior of the pod, and saw spots of blood inside. Slowly leading her ki ball to the ground, she saw some footprints, very faint. Whoever, got out the pod, they were badly hurt. The footprints showed that someone was dragging there feet. She tried to follow the footsteps, but they grew fainter and fainter and finally disappeared at the edge of the crater.

“Hey Bra, see if you could sense this person. I can’t feel him out.”

“Whoever he is, assuming its a he”

Bra closed her eyes and felt everything around her. She felt the whole forest come to life at once, and once she got used to that feeling, she spread her senses further and further, but felt nothing else but the nighttime animals.

She opened her eyes and looked at Pan. Shaking her head, she said “Whatever or whoever it is, I feel nothing. It or him, well, is probably dead. Its best if we look tomorrow, when the sun is out, after we register for classes.”

“Your right. At least we could find out what it was, but that could wait till tomorrow. Lets go back to the dorm and sleep.”

“Yeah, I’m feeling tired, But I’ll race you!!! Ready, Set, Go!!!!”

“Bra, wait!!!!”

Pan flew as fast as she could, but Bra won anyway. Pan went to bed, thinking of the space pod, the crater and the blood. She thought of what might have been in the pod and as she drifted off to sleep, she knew that the odds were that it was still alive. Her dreams told her so.