Almost a year passed by since Chidori was taken in by Piccolo, the green man. She was scared at first, mind you, but soon she only had one thing on her mind: Training. Since then, she had trained vigorously, excitement building inside of her as the Saiyans drew closer to Earth. She had never been so frightened and yet so thrilled at the same time. She just couldn't wait to show her father how much she had progressed and how strong she was getting!

Piccolo had ended up being not so bad and Chidori had grown a sort of bond with him even though the man would always try to scorn her. She couldn't help but to feel attached to him. She knew her father would have never trained her and the thought that Piccolo was giving her the time of day was far more than she could ask for. Piccolo had even started to call her by her nickname, 'Chi'.

What Piccolo didn't know what Chidori sort of knew who he was from stories her father would tell her of his past fighting days. He was the Demon King Piccolo's son but Goku had seen more in him than that, sparing his life. Perhaps that is also why he hadn't killed her yet? Was he also paying off a debt?

Strangely enough, Piccolo detested Chidori's tail but found that he could learn from it since the Saiyans had tails as well. So he trained her to not feel pain when he squeezed it. It hurt Chidori but she learned fast and soon all pain in her tail was gone. It was just a good thing for Piccolo that the girl never looked at the moon, taking the advice from her mother to never do so or else bad things would happen.

She never knew what would happen but she didn't want to find out!

Now was the time for the Saiyans to soon arrive. Chidori and Piccolo stood in the wastelands when they felt the great power heading their way.

Chidori stared uncertainly at Piccolo, "Do you really think I'm really ready to fight, Piccolo?"

The green man glared hard at her, "It makes no difference. You must be ready or face death with pride like a warrior."

Chidori took in every word and shivered at her teacher's intensity, "Yes sir!"

Piccolo smirked at her, "Hmph. Let's just hope what little training we got was enough, kid"

On the inside, she was sort of panicking. Was she really ready for this? The whole weight of it all was barely even comprehensible to her and yet she felt like she'd get sick from it.

Suddenly a similar power to theirs was pinpointed by them coming in and a short bald man landed on the ground beside them. Piccolo smirked at him and Chidori immediately relaxed. So this man wasn't a Saiyan. But who was he?

'He looks kind of familiar'

Piccolo spoke, "So you have gotten a bit stronger after all. Good. That'll be a bit of help to us, I guess"

"Gee, thanks Piccolo" he didn't seem so privileged by his remark. He looked over at Chidori, "Hey I know you! You're Goku's little girl! What was your name again, sweety?"

Chidori smiled brightly, remembering the man, "I'm Chidori!'

He smiled gently, "Well hey there! I'm Krillin, your father's friend. But tell me" he came closer to her and whispered so Piccolo wouldn't hear (even though he could), "Was Piccolo's training really hard? I bet it had to be but you've seemed to have gotten so much stronger than before!"

Chidori laughed, "Yeah I have! Piccolo trained me good in fighting. He wasn't so bad! He's actually really nice once you get to know him!" 

Piccolo growled deeply but didn't respond to that.

Krillin chuckled, "I doubt it"

She got in a stance, ready to defend her teacher, "What's that supposed to mean?!"

Krillin backed off, "Whoa there! Wow you certainly do have your mother's temper, don't you? I didn't mean anything by it!"

Chidori growled a little and Piccolo whopped her upside the head, "Stop babbling, you two! Didn't you realize that they're already here?!"

Chidori whipped her head around to look around them but Krillin just stared up at the sky. Chidori followed his lead and looked up too to see the two men floating in the air with dangerous glints in their eyes. 

Chidori shivered, 'They look like demons from mom's stories'

One of them laughed a little in a rasp, "It seems they've been expecting us, Nappa"

The bigger Saiyan chuckled heavily, "You sure are right Prince Vegeta! But these little bugs don't look so tough! I could squash them with one boot"

The Saiyans landed on the ground before them and they smirked at their opponents. 

Piccolo glared at them, not in the mood for their shit, "What are you here for exactly?"

The smaller Saiyan the other called Vegeta grinned, "Ah! That voice! So you're the one that killed Raditz?"

"Voice?"

He smiled, "Didn't Raditz tell you? These scouters also serve as a transmitter. We heard everything"

They all looked a little pale in the face except for Piccolo, of course.

Nappa looked down at his shorter partner, "Hey Vegeta, he's a Namekian isn't he?"

The one called Vegeta nodded, "Looks like it. Then it's no wonder he killed Raditz so easily."

Krillin looked at Piccolo, "You're an alien, Piccolo? Wow, never would have guessed" no one knew if that was a joke or not.

Chidori built up her confidence and wiggled her tail a bit in the excitement, "Wow! That's so cool Piccolo!"

Vegeta and Nappa turned their attention slightly to the girl and Nappa noticed the tail and glanced at Vegeta without a word who in turn nodded to him affirmatively.

Vegeta went on as if nothing happened, "Anyways, the Namekians were warriors but were also sorcerers. You created the dragon balls didn't you?"

Krillin freaked out, "How do you know about the Dragon balls?!"

Chidori piped up, "They said their scouters were also transmitters, Krillin. Maybe Piccolo said something about them before Raditz died?"

Vegeta perked at the girl's intelligence, "And what is your name exactly little girl?"

Chidori squeaked a little but answered politely, "My name's Chidori, sir"

Vegeta was intrigued by her mannerisms and smirked, "So you're Kakarrot's brat, eh? Tell me. Where's your father so we can give him a proper greeting?"

Chidori froze. Didn't they know her father died?

A light bulb flashed in her head, 'Maybe the scouters didn't pick up everything! They don't know that the Dragon balls were used yesterday to bring dad back!'

She smirked back at them, equally as conniving, "My father will show up! And you'll be sorry because he's the strongest EVER!"

Vegeta and Nappa chuckled at the girl's naivety, "How cute" Vegeta sneered.

Nappa tapped his scouter to read their power level, "Ah Vegeta, these guys aren't so tough! Their power levels are just in the three-hundreds!"

Vegeta huffed with distaste, "Nappa don't you remember? These fools can manipulate their power levels! These scouters are useless against them!"

Before anything else could be said, a tall bald man with a third eye showed up on the battle field with a small child-looking person with make-up on.

Chidori was surprised but hoped these guys were enemies, too. Her tail puffed out nervously.

But it seemed like Piccolo and Krillin knew them and the short bald man grinned, "Tien! And Chiaotzu! You guys made it!"

Tien glared at the Saiyans but answered his friend lightly, "Of course we did. We wouldn't miss this fight for anything"

Nappa grinned evilly and Vegeta took out a vial from an unknown pocket, handing it to Nappa, "Eh Nappa, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that they're not going to tell us what we want. How about we persuade them, hm? Plant the Saibamen"

Nappa chuckled, "You got it boss"

The others watched precariously as the large man did as asked.

Chidori watched carefully as Nappa dripped the green liquid into the Earth's soil in several different spots. The large man caught her curious gaze and smirked devilishly at her, making her shudder. As he stood back up, the process was quick and Piccolo growled as six Saibamen crawled out of the ground with screeching voices.

Chidori wanted to puke, they were so creepy and gross looking, 'What the hell ARE those things!? They look like cabbage patch kids gone wrong!'

Not only moments later did another of Earths' troops appear and everyone shouted, "Yamcha! Hey, you made it!" Except for Piccolo, of course.

Chidori honestly didn't know who this guy was. She knew for SURE that she had never met this one before. All of whom she knew was Piccolo and Krillin, really, but she was just glad she wasn't in on this alone.

Vegeta laughed, "Well well. How convienent! Six of them just as there are six Saibamen. How about we play a game? Our Saibamen vs you lot?!" h winked at them all.

Piccolo was furious, "What?! A game?! That's ridiculous! Just fight us and get it over with, you cowards!"

Krillin tried to calm the Namek down, "Hey Piccolo wait a minute. This could work to our advantage. Goku's not here yet. Please chill out, man"

He huffed, "Fine. But that idiot better get here soon"

Vegeta spoke again, "Each of these Saibamen hold a power level exactly the same as Raditz's. But just to let you know so you don't get too cocky . . . Nappa here is four times stronger than Raditz. And I'm four times stronger than Nappa!"

Everyone tried to remain stoic in front of the enemy but Chidori could just feel the fear in the air.

Tien stepped up bravely, "I'll go first"

He attacked quickly and really, it wasn't even a fair fight. Tien was destroying the Saibaman and in the end, cracked its head open. Thinking the match was over, he walked away but the Saibaman got up with a sneer and went for an attack!

Everyone wanted to shout to warn him but Chidori got to it first, "Tien! Look out!"

Tien whipped around at the warning but Vegeta killed the Saibaman with a mere gesture, "Pitiful."

Everyone was shell-shocked.

Nappa even seemed surprised at his team-mate's behavior, "Vegeta why would you do that?!"

"The Earthling already had him beaten. It would have been a waste of time. Now you!" he pointed to another Saibaman with death in his eyes, "Didn't I tell you all to go full out?! Try again and this time, don't disappoint me!"

The Saibaman ventured out cautiously but this time to face Yamcha.

They started to fight when suddenly they disappeared and Chidori didn't know what exactly happened, "Huh?! What's going on? They vanished!"

Piccolo huffed, "Everyone can see them except for you. Try sensing them out by their Chi, Chi"

Chidori snorted a little, catching the small humor that Piccolo placed out for her that only she could hear, "M'kay" she giggled softly.

Vegeta watched the girl with interest, not even paying the battle any mind, 'The girl's a fast learner, I can tell already. Perhaps with the proper training she could be a valuable warrior to our ranks just as Raditz had said on the scouter. That is, if she isn't as stupid as her father and cooperates'

The Saibaman, much to everyone's shock, attached itself to Yamcha and blew itself up, killing Yamcha in the process. Vegeta just smirked, "An eye for an eye I suppose. Who's next?"

"YAMCHA, NO! DAMN YOU!"

Krillin was horrified as was everyone else on the team. Krillin was the one, however, to lose control and immediately destroyed three of them right off the bat with a large chi disk, only missing one.

Chidori was so impressed, "Wow Krillin! That was amazing! That was-"

"Skkkreeeeeeeeee!" A Saibaman came out from behind her and tried to attack but Piccolo grabbed it by its hand before it could hurt Chidori.

He punched it in the gut, threw it up in the air and blew it up with chi that came out of his mouth.

Chidori gasped, not expecting that at all, "T-thank you Piccolo!" her tail was poofed out again, shaking.

The green man just snarled, "Don't get the wrong idea kid. I've just had enough of this foolishness is all. And you should have sensed it, yourself, anyway!"

Chidori blinked but understood that Piccolo would never say anything nice in front of other people. So she merely nodded, "Yes, Mr. Piccolo. Sorry."

The death of Yamcha, however, worried her. She had never seen another person die before, 'How am I supposed to be of a match against them when I can't even defend myself against a Saibaman? . . . .  whatever they even are'

A few hours later

Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu are dead.

The Saibamen were all dead and it was Nappa's turn to face off against them all next.

They had been waiting for the last half hour and Chidori felt horrible. Piccolo had shouted at her and told her that she should have helped in the battle but she just couldn't help it. She was scared. How was she supposed to fight against the Saiyans? She was just a little girl!

They had gone against Nappa who was currently gone who knows where for the next two hours. Vegeta was there, however, staring them down. Mostly watching Chidori.

Nappa was about to kill the rest of them when Vegeta had his interests peaked. He wanted to see Goku or Kakarrot as they called him. Vegeta wanted Kakarrot to see his friends die before him. So he decided that they could wait three hours until he arrived. But if he didn't show, then things were about to get very frightening.

What they all didn't know what that Vegeta wasn't about to just kill Chidori. She was valuable whether any of them knew it or not.

Chidori sighed, though knowing Piccolor was angry with her and rightly so, 'Maybe I should just go' she thought, 'Like Piccolo said, I'm useless anyways. Who was I to think that a girl could fight? No wonder daddy never taught me'

Chidori got up and started to walk away, heeding Piccolo's advice.

Krillin seemed baffled, though, "Hey! Chidori! Where are you going, kid?"

Chidori looked back but only in Piccolo's eyes who seemed angry at everything she did. She started to walk away again when someone appeared in front of her. 

Chidori yelped and bounced backwards in fright, looking up. Vegeta stood in front of her with a sneer on his face, "Yes. Where ARE you going, girl?" He stared down at her, his eyes reflecting the fearful look on her face.

Chidori shivered, "I .. . . I um." She gulped and cowered a little, feeling his power weigh over her like a giant boulder, "Piccolo told me I should leave because I'm of no use to them!"

Vegeta smirked only slightly, curious again, "And why is that?"

Chi shook, suddenly really stiff and tense, "Because I'm not a fighter! I'm just a weak little girl"

Vegeta moved quickly and grabbed the girl by her tail, lifting her upside down so she was face to face with him hanging. Chidori curled in on herself, worried she'd die right then and there.

Piccolo and Krillin tensed and was about to save her when Vegeta merely laughed, "You don't seem TOO weak, little brat. For being so young, you can withstand the pain in your tail not to cry out. And besides. . .  You've managed against us for this long. That's not bad for a child your age. Half Saiyan or not. Doesn't matter if you ARE a girl"

Chidori looked into his eyes, upside down that is, and blinked. She had just received praise from the enemy yet again. The first time being from her uncle but this time it was different.

Suddenly the man dropped her to the ground and she yelped, wiggling her tail around to stretch it from being treated so poorly. 

She looked back up at him and Vegeta just smirked, "You still could prove useful to me. If your father doesn't show, that is. You're not going anywhere, though, that's for sure. You're going to stay right where you are. Aren't you, little one?" His voice sounded sweet but she could tell it was a threat.

Chidori nodded fearfully and wrapped her poofed-out tail around herself as if to protect her. Vegeta laughed and walked away, "Only two hours to go!"

Krillin walked over to her and spoke comfortingly, "Hey you okay kid?"

She nodded. Something was definitely off about this Saiyan that was for sure.

She was doubtful on herself but for some reason, the enemy believed in her skills more than her. Chidori didn't know what to believe, really.

But one thing was for sure.

She really hoped her father would just get there already.

'What's keeping him!? Daddy, where are you!? We need you!'