Explanation
At
the end of the Dragon Ball Z series, Uub and Goku left their fight to
go and train together. This is my continuation of what happened
before and after that battle. On the cartoon they had ten fighters
that made it through to the qualifying rounds, in my story there were
twelve. The twelfth fighter is a blue haired original character that
I created. His name is Draken.
Chapter
I
Uub and Draken lived together in a quiet but poor village. They never really had a chance to live like children, because they had to work to help keep the village alive. One day Uub heard about a way to raise money for the village. A world tournament, and the winner of the tournament would get one hundred thousand zenie (one zenie is equal to two dollars).
The two boys would
spar whenever they had the time and then they'd continue training by
working the chores around the area. Uub was reluctant about sparring
with someone so much younger than he, but little Draken was not going
taking no for an answer. Uub asked Draken why he wanted to train with
him, even though he wasn't able to go to the tournament. Draken
erased Uub's reluctance by explaining that he didn't want Uub to
lose with one hit.
Time passed quickly. Ready to
leave his village, Uub prepared to trek the long road towards the
airport where the fighters were supposed to go. But it seemed that he
had a companion. Uub turned his head towards the extra shadow and saw
that it was Draken. With a puzzled look he asked, "Why are you
following me?"
Draken looked back at Uub and answered, "Because I'm going to the airport. Why do you ask?" He said innocently.
Uub stopped and turned his whole body towards the pint sized boy, "No, your not! You're staying here in the village!" Uub said with authority.
Draken crossed his arms being quite disgusted with Uub's words, "No way I'm staying here! I'm going with you, I'm not going to be in this hot, dry, and un-shaded wasteland, working and let you have all the fun!" Draken said completely unaffected by the firmness in Uub's voice. He continued, "Why do you think I trained with you and exercised by myself? And did extra work around this village?" Draken asked.
Uub was determined on not letting Draken go with him; unfortunately Draken was just as determined on going. He realized that this conversation could last all day and all night, and Draken was not going to stop until he was allowed to go. So Uub simply said, "Look, even if you could come, I only have enough money for myself."
Draken closed his eyes and walked past the taller boy saying, "Look Uub, I thought that you wanted a companion to travel with you, but if you'd rather walk 20 to 30 miles to the airport alone, have fun. I said I'm going, whether it's with you or by myself."
Uub was completely taken aback at how indomitable Draken made himself appear. Noticing that Draken was actually leaving him behind, he quickly walked in front of him. "Excuse me, but where are you going?"
Aggravation shown clear on through Draken's other wise sweet childish facial features, "The airport…I thought I explained that. Didn't I?"
Uub eyed Draken then replied, "And how are you going to get on the airplane without money?".
Draken's goaded expression faded and he smiled, "When I worked at the other villages, I made quite a bit of money."
"Other villages?" Uub yelled. "Do you know how far the nearest village that has money is?"
"Yeah I'm quite aware of how far it is, but I only jumped about five times to get there." He smiled finally revealing his unique ability to get from one place to another.
Uub's jaw dropped. Considering that the nearest village that had decent amount of money was at least eighty miles away, the feat that young Draken had pull off was quite spectacular.
After seeing the young boy complete such a task, Uub allowed Draken to accompany him. Having said their good-byes to family and friends, they left on their long trip to the airport.
48 hours later
After almost two whole days of walking, the exhausted Uub and Draken reached the West city airport. Uub exhaled after walking inside the building, "Goodness, I hope we never have to do that again." Uub said wiping his brow. He looked over to Draken and saw that he also was quite tired and placed his hand on the boy's shoulder, "Don't worry Dra, we'll be at the airplane soon."
Draken looked up towards Uub and replied, "I sure hope so, my feet are killing me along with the fact that I'm tired and I'm hungry."
Uub shook his head. "I can't believe you. Before we left you acted so grown up now you want to act like a little kid and complain."
Draken was too tired to make any response so he just ignored Uub's cutting remark and looked around for the place they were supposed to be. "Okay we got here, now where do we go?"
"I guess we look for the ticket counter." Uub replied scanning the airport trying to find where to purchase their tickets.
After finding the right counter and paying for their seats, Uub and Draken found the gate their plane would depart from. They boarded and gave their tickets to the flight attendant.
Staying together they sat in the section of the plane where all the fighters are supposed to occupy. Uub decided to sleep the whole trip. Draken going to go to sleep as well, but he wanted to stay up for a while, considering that this was his first time in an airplane.
Uub was fast asleep until something struck him, he sat up and turned towards Draken, "Hey Draken, are you awake?"
Draken yawned widely as he slowly awakened, "Are we there yet?" He asked.
"How come we were so tired when we got here?"
"Because we walked 30 miles."
"Why did we walk, when you could have jumped us?"
"Becau…uh...hmm." Draken was about to answer but was completely stumped. He continued, "I have no idea why we walked."
Uub fell into his seat; completely frustrated that they could have flown to the airport.
Two hours later
The plane had landed directly onto the stadium grounds in a specially constructed airfield. Draken and Uub where awe struck at the sere size of the stadium. Not taking his eyes from the massive building Draken informed Uub that this was the place where they would part company.
Uub raised his eyebrow as he looked toward Draken and asked, "What do you mean, we have to spilt up?"
"Yup, if we don't, we won't have any fun. For all we know we could fight each other in the preliminary rounds. And if that happens one of us won't be fighting anymore. At least if we split up we'll have some fun before we fight. Or at least I will." Draken said with his innocent bright eyes glowing. "All right then, we'll split up. Be sure of the time, if your even a little bit late you won't be able to enter." Uub said rolling his eyes at Draken's attempt to sway him with that doe-eyed look he was famous for.
Draken didn't say another word; he instantly jumped towards the games and snack-stands of the stadium. His heart was filled with joy when he saw all of the fun stuff he could do. He placed his hand into his pocket and prayed that he had some money left. Before he could even pull his hand out, he looked up to see what time it was.
"Hmm, 2:50…ugh. I guess the tournament starts at 3:00; I have at least nine minutes before the qualifying rounds start." Draken started jumping, he would waste no more time in walking needing to get as much fun stuffed into the limited few moments before the fighting started.
In another part of the stadium:
"So where do you want to go first, Pan?" Goku asked his granddaughter.
"Let's go to the hammer thingie," she answered giggling with delight and excitement.
"Hammer thingie, where's that?" Goku said looking around. He saw what she was talking about and started to chuckle. "Oh that. That's called a strength tester."
The two walked over to the strength tester. The person in charge of the was a man about 30 years old; when he saw Pan's small stature, he didn't think she could do much damage so he gave her a free try.
Pan's little fingers wrapped around the hammer and to the man's amazement she not only lifted it up way over her head, but whacked the target with such force the bell went flying off the pole and high into the air.
Everyone there gawked in total shock at what this five year old, pixy faced, little munchkin had accomplished.
The man's voice trembled in disbelief, "Uh…err…Congratulations little girl you've… won…uh…a prize…." He offered her the biggest teddy bear that was on the shelves, not wanting her to be anything but totally happy and satisfied.
"Do you like my prize grandpa?" Pan asked, holding up a giant fuzzy brown teddy bear.
"Yeah it's great! Your pretty strong, Pan, you got that from your dad. And he got it from me!" Goku said.
Draken was yelling like a madman, "There are only two minutes left! I'll never make it in time! Uub's gonna kill me!" He was jumping like a locust landing only on the tallest people's heads so he wouldn't miss the sign up. Seeing the entrance was just a short distance he thought he'd make it with no problem so he decided to run the rest of the way.
"Come on grandpa we're gonna be late!" Pan said.
"Alright Pan, we'll make it." Goku said practically being dragged by his granddaughter. All of a sudden Pan released her grandfather's hand and starting running as fast as she could.
Draken had only 30 seconds left before it was too late, so he ran as fast as his short legs could carry him. "I'm gonna make it!" Draken exclaimed.
"I'm gonna make it!" Pan yelled.
A bone jarring, WHAM, filled the air as two little bodies made contact right at the gate entrance.
"Owww! Thaaat hurt!" Draken said rubbing his head after the collision.
"Owwie!" Pan said with tears ready to escape her eyes.
Pan looked up as her vision cleared and she focused on the object that had crashed into her and was instantly mesmerized by two gorgeous fire-red eyes that caught her gaze. Beautiful, thick, sky-blue hair wildly surrounded the most adorable face she'd ever laid eyes on.
He dressed much different then anyone she'd ever seen as well. A billowy red scarf encircled his body going from his waist up around his shoulders. Baggy white pants that seemed to be hand sown covered the rest of his peach colored, slightly glowing tanned skin. For lack of a better word this kid was gorgeous!
Goku couldn't miss the opportunity to tease his little granddaughter seeing the bright red blush covering her face. "Hey Pan, who's your new boyfriend?" He smiled, picking her up in his arm.
Pan's cheeks glowed brighter unable to control her reaction to her grandfather's jesting, "Grandpa!" She exclaimed shyly not able to look at the object of her admiration.
"So her name is Pan, she's kinda cute for a girl." Draken thought as he got himself up off the ground and brushes the dust from his clothes.
"Um, excuse me, are you okay?" He asked concerned that he might have injured the little girl.
"Yes, I'm fine. Sorry I didn't see you, are you okay?" Pan asked softly.
"Yeah, I'm okay. I'm sorry too. Well, I gotta go, I'm going to be in the tournament, and I don't want to be late. Maybe I'll see you inside." Draken waved as he continued running towards the entrance.
"Maybe," she smiled as she watched him leave "Come on Grandpa, we don't wanna be late either!" She turned her attention to her grandfather and hopped out of his arms pulling him toward the entrance.
Goku shook his head at how lively his Granddaughter was. But right before entering the gate, he sensed one large ki level besides the one that he had felt before. It came from inside where the fighters were waiting to battle. He swelled up with excitement as he walked through, "Oh wow! I can't wait to see who's generating this!"
