Secrets Saga (Heart of a Warrior)

The Secrets Saga is the first saga in Dragon Ball: Heart of a Warrior and introduces the character Nion and deals with her discovering her past as well as her friendship with her high school classmates, Futo and Sala.

Chapter 1: Visions
The visions were coming in swarms now. They were pumping into her head like rapid fire. Beforehand, they would come one at a time, especially at night. But these were unlike the rest. Beforehand, she could only see the chaos unfold. Now see could feel every sweat, every drop of blood, and every dying breath of every fight that she hallucinated. Yesterday, she was on Earth, watching in awe as a mighty warrior and his green alien ally did battle with another mysterious figure with freakishly long hair. Today, she was away by the ruined canyon. It would’ve been a more relaxing sight had the ground not been trembling from beneath her. Startled, she searched for the source of the disturbance and saw two individuals in the distance, more than likely engaging in a battle of sorts. Although she couldn’t exactly make out their faces, their voices spread throughout the entire landscape.

Figure 1: KAAA… MEEE…

She squinched her eyes at the two figures and realized that their arms were each positioned to their sides, with their bodies turned likewise. Tiny balls of what seemed to be energy began to develop and form in each of their hands. The individual standing on the ground had a blue energy ball while the other individual standing above him had the color of purple. As they held them for much longer, the ground beneath them began to rumble and crack away.

Figure 1: HAAA…

Figure 2: Now, Kakarot, prepare yourself for oblivion!

Figure 1: MEEE…

Figure 2: GALICK GUN!

Figure 1: HAAAAAA!!!!

Almost simultaneously, the two brought their arms in front of them and unleashed spectacularly bright energy waves straight at each other. Instead of one overwhelming one another, the beams clashed and wrestled against one another. The winds and whiplashes temporarily deterred her vision from the beam struggle, much to her chagrin. She took a knee on the now-cracked terrain and peeked through her fingers at the action.

Figure 1: TIMES FO-

Random Voice: Nion!

The voice snapped Nion out of her vision state and she brought her head up from her hands to see her teacher, Ms. Faulconer, calling her out right in the middle of class. She looked around the classroom and saw that while many of the students were either struggling to hold in their laughs or were just laughing in general, two students in the front row simply stared her down. One of them, a boy, smiled and waved, while the other, a girl, raised a suspicious eyebrow. She frowned at the two and gazed at her teacher with an even moodier expression.

Nion:  What?

Ms. Faulconer tilts her head to the side and puts her hand on her hips.

Ms. Faulconer: You were dozing off in my session, young lady. Again.

Nion: So what?

The students began to buzz around Nion, because if they knew one thing, it was to never talk to Ms. Faulconer like that, unless they were asking for trouble,

Ms. Faulconer: So you’ve missed out on very important lessons!

Nion: And?

Ms. Faulconer: And your rebellious attitude does not help in this situation, Nion! If you keep up this falling asleep in class gimmick and your rebellious attitude, you will be held back in my class!

Nion: I already know 90 percent of the material in this class.

Ms. Faulconer: But that doesn’t mean you’re correct!

Nion: Incorrect.

The class went deathly silent, all eyes glaring at Nion in all of her rebellious glory. The look on Ms. Faulconer’s face clearly told Nion that she wasn’t putting up with her attitude any longer.

Ms. Faulconer:  Young lady, I’m going to have to ask you to leave right now!

Nion simply scoffs and raises from her desk.

Ms. Faulconer: And I’m going to have to contact your parents about your outlandish behavior!

As Nion was making her way out of the classroom, almost as if by instinct, she turned to a group of students that were giggling at her and tilts her head at them.

Nion: Do you have a comment?

The students immediately fell silent. One of them, a boy of average height, stood up from the group and smiled.

Boy: Yeah, I do!

The boy made his way towards the front of the classroom, in an arm’s reach of Nion.

Boy: I find it funny that almost every time we’re in class, you’re away in your little fantasy world!

Nion: Maybe I find solace there instead of here.

Boy: Not only that, but every time we have tests, you cheat and get perfect scores every time while we suffer!

Nion: Is it my fault you kids don’t study?

Boy: Word of advice, you might think you’re all big and bad because your parents work at Capsule Corporation, and you might not like hanging out with us “lower-class individuals”, but here, that’s not gonna fly. So I say you find solace in your little crazy mind somewhere else, because we don’t like weirdos in our class!

Nion could feel her fist clenching inch by inch. She took a step towards the boy and, before she could react, the girl that was sitting in the front puts a hand on the boy’s shoulder.

Ms. Faulconer: Sala, please take your seat!

She did not respond. Instead, she looked Nion in the eye and nodded. Nion, confused as ever, looked back at the boy and smiled.

Boy: Wha- what are you doing?

Still grasping the boy’s shoulder, Sala slowly turned him around to face her. Almost without warning, Nion got down on her knees and delivered a crippling chop beneath the boy’s legs, immediately sending him to the floor.

Sala: Yikes! Not what I had in mind… Nion simply shrugged her shoulders and smiled. Sala stepped over the injured boy and extended her hand to Nion.

Sala: Sala...

She was reluctant, but she eventually extended her hand out in return.

Nion: Nion…

Sala: I’m surprised he had anything down there to hurt.

Nion: You and me both.

The two girls quickly exited the classroom, leaving Ms. Faulconer with her mouth open and the boy heavily holding his crotch.