In a forest, orange light flashed revealing a young seemingly five-year girl covered in orange fur with a red and yellow mane reaching down to her neck. She had horse ears and teal eyes, she was wearing blue shirt and black shorts with her hooves removing any need for footwear. She also had a red and yellow equine tail.

She was standing near a round metal pod, she approached it only to see a naked baby with a monkey tail inside. She frowned as she noticed the tail “He seems to be a strange baby monkey.” She pounded on the orb, as soon as it opened the young baby monkey leapt at her. She ducked and weaved around his wild swings, she grabbed him by the tail in order to immobilise him.

As the baby’s struggles became much slower, an elderly voice full of wisdom spoke “You have handled yourself quite impressively for one so young.” She turned around to see a short, stubby old man wearing a martial arts uniform.

She became defensive “Who are you!”

The man waved a hand “I am Gohan, an old man who lives on the nearby mountain. May inquire as to your name.”

The girl bowed “I am Sunset Shimmer, I may look like a child but I am actually sixty years old.”

Gohan looked at Sunset “You don’t look sixty years old, how do you look so young?”

Sunset frowned “I am from a different species, we don’t reach physical maturity until eighty and age very slowly afterwards. I assume your species is very different from that.” She then looked at the boy “I wish I could more about him though, I just found him in a strange machine.”

Gohan smiled warmly “How about you stay at my place for a while, we can find some clothes for him.” Sunset nodded as the baby flailed at her, she started carrying him like a baby with one hand holding onto his tail. Gohan smiled as he looked at the baby “He needs a name, Son Goku will be his name.”

Sunset frowned as they walked past the lightly forested area “It would suit him I guess.”

Gohan waved his hand “By the way I can offer you martial arts training, I can tell that you have potential to grow stronger.”

Sunset nodded “I would be very grateful, I came here seeking power. I wasn’t expecting an offer from anyone, yet alone so soon after I arrived. This place is far different from where I expected to end up to be honest.”

Gohan chuckled “Well I’m glad you did, it is quite lonely around here. Any excuse for company is much appreciated.” He then looked at the baby “Why did you get the idea to hold his tail?”

Sunset shrugged “He is a monkey, the tail is a pretty obvious weak point although it is working better than I thought. I just thought he would give up but it actually weakened him.” She ignored Goku’s weak flailing.

They soon arrive at a small hut, Sunset frowned “This will take some getting used to but I will adapt with time.”

Gohan raised his eyebrow as they walked towards the door “My home is a little small but it’s not that bad surely.”

Sunset sighed “Well I did use to live in a castle as the personal student of the Princess, still it was better than I was expecting when I came here. I thought I would be living on the streets, subject to the weather.”

Gohan closed his eyes “No child should be left to live on the streets, regardless of their age. I am going to cook up a hearty stew, you don’t mind meat do you?”

Sunset smiled “Meat is fine, some purists back home disagree but I was all for allowing meat into our food. Food is food and we shouldn’t be picky.” Gohan nodded with a smile as they entered the small, one room home.

Sunset took a seat on a small soft cushion, on one side of the small wooden table as Gohan headed out to the kitchen. Gohan soon returned with a baby bottle full of milk “Feed him with this.” She took the bottle from him, removing hold on the tail.

Goku started hitting her harder, Sunset glared at him with fire in her eyes. She frowned “Do you want me to grab your tail again?!” He lashed out only, her eyes narrowed as she felt the impact. She put the bottle down and grabbed his tail again, he angrily bashed at the hand holding onto to his tail.

Goku paused as his belly rumbled, Sunset frowned as she let go of his tail and picked up the bottle. Goku eyed it warily, she slowly put she it near his mouth. He instinctively wrapped his mouth around it and begun to suckle. Sunset smiled as she watched him drinking the milk.

Goku finished the bottle and seemed eager for more, Sunset carried him into the kitchen and filled the bottle up three more times before he fell asleep. Gohan smiled as she began chopping up ingredients for the stew “You are taking good care of him.”

Sunset frowned “He is like a wild animal right now, showing dominance and offering food is enough to placate him. That may change as he gets older and we will have a much rougher time keeping him in line, still we need to give him an outlet for all that aggression.”

Gohan smiled at her “What would you suggest would be a good idea to help raise him?”

Sunset looked down at Goku “Training him would be the best option, the discipline will help him calm his more violent ways when he is old enough to join us.”

Gohan nodded with a smile before continuing preparing the food. A few hours later after Sunset put a nappy on Goku, she was carefully watching Goku as he moved around. He seemed to behaving well under her watchful gaze. Gohan entered and placed two bowls of stew on the table, one in for Sunset and one for himself.

Gohan asked as Goku investigated his surrounding “He seems pretty placid.”

Sunset looked only to see him look back cautiously “Because he knows I am watching and that I am in charge.”

Gohan raised his hand “There was something I was meaning to ask you, you said you weren't human right. What are you exactly?”

Sunset frowned “Well I am a unicorn, I’m note sure if you know what that is or not?”

Gohan looked at her forehead “Only in stories of old, but they are usually depicted with horns on their head. You don’t have one.”

Sunset smirked “Well horns became redundant when we became bipedal, horns did have the limitation on only really being effective for between thirty to forty-five degrees cone in front of the caster and required one to stand still. Also magic had a bad habit of causing anything flammable to ignite.”

Gohan nodded “So you evolved hands to grab things with greater ease.”

Sunset turned to Goku for a moment before turning back to Gohan and nodded “Yes, of course horns being on our heads mean to use them we needed to point our heads down and we couldn’t see where we aiming. We gaining the ability to fire magic through our hands and thus the horns just stopped forming on our heads. Unicorns haven't had horns for over one thousand years but the name just stuck.”

Gohan nodded with a warm smile “That is quite interesting.” The pair finished their stew, Sunset laid down and allowed Goku to approach. He hesitantly laid down, she then curled around him like a cat. Gohan smiled as he watched the pair slowly doze off. Gohan then headed to his bed, he was awoken during the middle of the night to a loud roar.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoy this chapter, also Power Levels for those who are interested.

Power Levels

Gohan: 100

Sunset: 20

Goku: 2