Chapter 5: At the Gate of heaven I stand.

Shiver: Gate of heaven.

"Coming " sounded from inside the house. On the porch stood a young lady almost jumping up and down from excitement. It would be a matter of seconds before she would see her again. Slowly the door opened. Gohan always had an exiting life but even he did not expect to see the day Vegeta would give in to someone. "Is Pan here? " Bra asked. "No she has moved out, her apartment is downtown in the same street as Marron's it's number 34. Without giving her self-time to wonder why Pan moved out or for that matter even being surprised she went of again.

That day the police department received quite a lot of phone calls about a very strange sighting. About half the city had seen a girl flying in the sky like a bird.

"Geez I look like I am drunk out of my mind " all kind of happy thoughts cluttered up her mind. Bra ran trough the last five streets at lightning speed. The old lady selling fish at the corner nearly had a heart attack when she saw a blue haired girl appear out of thin air.

Knocking, silence, franticly knocking, silence. 'Idea!' Bra mentally slapped herself, its possible she is at Marron's or working.

"Yes, who is it? " Several minutes later a blond woman opened the door. She saw who stood at her doorstep, almost shrieking and ripping her own door of its hinges, she furiously hugged Bra. After a couple of moments she had calmed down enough to give the poor girl a chance to speak.

To anxious to bother with polite chitchat, Bra quietly asked " where is Pan?" The feeling of dread in her stomach seemed to explode when she saw Marron's facial expression confirm her suspicions. Feeling Ki had been one of those things she never got the hang of, despite Pan's had been the one she could find all around this world. She knew Pan kept hers low to not give away that they had trained extra. After they had been discovered she still kept it low, so that she wouldn't stand out. However the last weeks she had 'lost contact ' Bra just managed to tell herself it would be because of Pan wanting to be alone.

"Bra! Are you ok? " Seemed to sound from far away. Marron now heavily concerned by her friends reaction, decided to give her a slight pat on the cheek. It worked. Bra stared at her as if the heavens burned and turned around and ran.

Frantic knocking, silence. A falling door.

Emptiness.

Fear swelled up inside her as she walked into the small apartment. Everything had been removed. Every trace of Son Pan was swiped away like old dust. Bra searched every room in a daze finding absolutely nothing except one little box.

Drip, Drip silent tears fell from ocean like eyes.

The blue haired lady read the small note. Never did one sob or plea escape her lips. Curling into a little ball on the wooden floor crying a lost human passing by never hared a sound pass that small window at the street. In her mind raved one silent whisper " She's gone, She's gone, She's gone"

Finally exhaustion fell over the demi-sayjin as a cold blanket.

Bra just slipped in a kind of catatonic state and her Ki dropped until a dangerously point.

Goten was out shopping with the flavour of the week, suddenly he felt the Ki of his friend drop. Shocked he gave the blond model a crappy excuse and decided to check up on the blue haired woman.

The last time he felt her life force strong was when she was a couple of blocks away. Hoping she never left the place he literally ran as fast as the wind.

"Bra? Come on girl where are you. "The black haired man tiptoed into the small apartment. Relieved he let out a small sigh as he saw her sitting on the floor. One aspect of the scene concerned him gravely however. The spark had diminished. Once blue ocean blue eyes lost their oceans. Staring into thin air grasping a small note.

"Bra are you ok? " No answer. With amazing grace he pried it from a pair of elegant fingers. "Oh sweet Kami. Come on Bra we need to tell the others." He never asked her why she had been there in such a state. Whispering kind and soothing words he swooped her in his arms and carried her to his mothers home ignoring the strange looks people gave him when they saw the crying female in his arms.

' Yeah don't get your knickers in a twist I'm coming' the young waitress replied to the impatient nagging of a buff young man.

"Awh come on baby don't you want to have some fun with Remy? " He purred in her ear when she ignored him as she had been doing for weeks now.

She could withstand a lot of sexist talk. It was not like she could afford to loose her job over some fight with a thickheaded male. Rolling her eyes at the comment, an evil notion popped up in her head. "How about some of your own game " she thought and decided to do it.

"Why honey, I would love to. Baby just got one tiny problem" surprised and hopeful his arm started to slip around her waist. "Besides the fact I could pulverise you without breaking a sweat I kinda shop in the different apartment."

Small gasps of surprise and embarrassment went up in his circle of friends. Remy was still looking at Pan, to wrapped up in his own dirty mind to pay attention to what she said. "What you say baby? '

"I give up! I tried to tell it without making you look like a jackass" she snarled and growled "I am GAY get it?" The arm vanished from her waist; Remy's head turned a lovely shade of crimson red.

Well the look on his face certainly made her day, whistling she went back to cleaning the bar.

Being a member of the infamous Satan family certainly had its benefits. Being the little Girl Scout she was, never spending too much money and always saving, a nice little bank account had been at her disposal while searching for a place to stay.

When she stepped out of the bus so many days ago she fell in love with the town. It wasn't very big, but large enough to be entertaining and lose it's small town ignorance. Still it was small enough to have a kind of charm.

'Yes this is it' the woman had squalled when she flipped trough the local newspaper.

A small apartment in the centre of town was available for reasonable price.

Granted it had not been the Ritz but cosy, clean and cheap she cleaned out the bank account and bought it.

A few days later she landed a reasonable paying job at the local diner and a new life had started for Son Pan.

The first month Pan was perfectly happy, people were friendly, she made good money and even made some friends.

The sad thing is that all good things end.

First in her dreams then during the day it started. Nightmares were the first stage. The fear-less demi-sayjin became afraid of sleeping. Even the sickest of minds couldn't imagine the images she saw in her minds eye.

One of the worst one's was when she and Bra were running to each other on some kind of cornfield. Just before they could embrace each other an invisible force pulled Bra away. Pan's legs froze preventing her to save her lover. Helplessly and enraged she was forced to see tiny rivers of blood coming from Bra's eyes. The harder she tried to save her, the worst it got. At the end blood was flowing from her nose and mouth. The dream ended when finally she could move again and started a desperate run towards her. She never made it at her side, every time the blue haired woman crumbled into dust and blew away at Pan's feet.

Deprived of sleep and rest her health started to fall back. Dark circles formed around her eyes. Friends and customers started to worry of her fate. No one even suspected the cause of her so called sudden 'illness'. The longer it went on the worst it got. Physically the once strong and beautiful woman started to deteriate. With sadness in her eyes she formed a plan. Even if she was only a one-quarter, the blood of a proud warrior race flowed in her veins. Never would Pan allow herself to wither away without honour.

In a dark bedroom sat a girl whispering in the air "Yes I will! Have honour."

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