Hey there, KeyToUnivers speaking! And welcome, WELCOME to my new story!

For those of you who got lost while browsing through the Net or just had a sudden amnesia ("o_o) you are in an X-over story mixing my two favorite mangas EVER! (no, I'm not a fanboy.) Dragon Ball and Naruto!

Of course, I'll begin this story at the moment Gohan gets ready to fight androids 17 and 18: Hope you'll like the fight scene! I'll also appear ONCE in the story at any moment, try to guess when…

Gohan and Naruto, each one of you do the disclaimer of your own series!

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I\ A brave warrior's last stand

(On a mountain, near a city)

On the summit of a mountain, two boys were taking a break after a tough training session. The two boys were a man around his twenty years-old and a teenager around his fifteen.

The man was a muscular youth with a scar on the left side of his face, going from above his eye to his cheek. He had short black hair, slicked in spikes in the front, and black eyes. He wore an orange gi that read on its back the kanji word 'Han' (飯) meaning Meal, with blue shirt underneath with elbow length sleeves, covering only his right arm since he missed the left one, and matching blue wristbands, belt and boots. He was lying on the ground, supporting his head with his remaining arm, looking at the sky.

His friend was slim teenager with straight purple hair and blue eyes wearing a long-sleeved white shirt with blue on the shoulder to the end of the sleeves. His shirt had the words 'CAPSULE corp.' on it. He also wore grey pants and black boots. He was sitting on a rock while looking at his friend with a grave look.

"I can't believe myself! I've been trying over and over and I still can't turn into a Super Saiyan?!" the purple-head complained, upset that he couldn't achieve what his father and his master achieved before him. The said master looked at his and gave reassuring smile.

"Relax, Trunks, just forget a little about becoming a 'Super Saiyan', will you?" he told him.

"Relax? But, you're my teacher, you should know what's wrong with me!" the teen, now know as Trunks, replied.

"Nothing is wrong with you," his teacher said, causing the teen to turn around and face him "you just need to find the right motivation. It's easy for me," he added, looking back at the sky and frowning while resuming his sentence "all I have to do is think about how those Androids killed Picoro-san and Kuririn-san, and then I feel a horrible pain. This pain turns, then, into rage: I don't want this to happen again and that's when the dam breaks!" as he was talking, Trunks was attentively listening to him.

Silence fell upon them.

"Hey, Gohan-san." The teen said, hesitant, breaking the silence.

"Hn? What wrong, Trunks?" the young man, now known as Gohan, replied.

"N-nothing… I just wanted to know," he paused, looking down to his feet before resuming and looking back at his companion "what was my father like? I never met him while you have known him for quite a long time." he finally managed to ask.

Gohan, at first, just looked at Trunks, expressionless. Then, he smiled and answered "You're father was a proud Saiyan warrior. He and my father would always fight to know who was the strongest. He sure was overconfident, mean and sometimes cruel, but do not forget that he was the Saiyan Prince." That description made the younger Saiyan smile while looking back at the sky.

Gohan did the same, but now, a flow of memories came back to his mind: memories of Vegeta, Trunks' father, but also, memories of his own father. He couldn't help but remember all those times he was in danger and Goku would appear to save him from the fatality. He clearly recalled the time Nappa, a scary bald Saiyan warrior that was Vegeta's ally during the time the latter was an evil planet destroyer, was about to crush him with his foot and there, his father came and saved him. He recalled the time he was severely injured by Recoome, a member of the Ginyu Force, and Goku arrived just in time to heal him with a Senzu Bean. He also recalled the moment everything seemed lost during the fight against Frieza, the galactic tyrant, and his father transformed into a Super Saiyan: a legendary transformation achieved only by the strong-willed Saiyans, and put the monster in a critical state.

'When thinking about it,' he thought 'you have always been a savior: even in the face of disaster, you always had a way out for us. I am not like you, I am not a miracle-maker and the Androids will get me sooner or later. But…' He looked at his student and friend, Trunks 'If that day ever comes, I will join you in the Other World with a clear consciousness, because I left a shining light of hope for the future… Trunks.'

*BOOM*

His thoughts were interrupted by a huge explosion that came from far away. The two warriors stood up and looked in front of them: a dark cloud of smoke was emanating from the city near their emplacement, letting them deduce what happened 'The Androids!' they thought.

"Uuuugh… ARRRGH!" Gohan shout as he converted his anger into power.

He was now enveloped in a golden aura that surrounded his whole body. His muscles were now twice as developed as they were. His hair, however, were spikier, as if hit by a thunderbolt, and took a golden taint, matching the aura that enveloped him. His eyes, from the black color they had, changed into emerald green orbs around his iris. His expression also metamorphosed: from the calm, serious young man, he transformed into a furious and enraged warrior, ready for the fight.

"I can't let you fight them!" shout the teenager.

"Trunks, listen: I have to go! You stay here and don't leave no matter what!" ordered Gohan.

"Are you crazy?! You don't stand a chance: especially not with your injury!"

"Just listen, if you come with me, I'll be more vulnerable!"

"But I'm stronger this time! Trust me, I can handle myself!" after that last argument, the two hybrids stared at each other for a moment, before Gohan sighed and slightly smiled.

"Okay, Trunks, you win." He said.

"Yes, let's get them!" he said, turning his attention to the burning city in front of him.

The Super Saiyan still stared at him with a hint of sadness in his eyes 'Forgive me, Trunks…' he discretely raised his open hand behind the other Saiyan hybrid and hit him on the back of his neck, knocking him off.

Trunks began falling on the ground, unconscious, and then, Gohan grab him by the shirt and slowed his fall, putting him slowly down. He was still looking at him with sorrow 'You're still not quite ready for this fight. I can hear all those people down here, crying; that's why I have to go. You are our last hope, Trunks, you have to live…' he prepared to leave, but rested his emerald eyes on the Future's last hope, for the last time 'Goodbye, little brother. Hopefully, you'll understand someday and forgive me.'

With that, the warrior powered up and flew off at high speed towards the battlefield.

(Meanwhile, in the destroyed city)

To think that the day began by being a casual, sunny and beautiful day and ended up to become an apocalyptic spectacle: before the people of the town could blink, a gigantic shining energy blast fell from the sky upon the city and caused an enormous explosion in the area around it, destroying everything standing in its path: streets, vehicles, buildings, people… everything caught in that explosion.

If the town was, some minutes ago, filled with the noisy crowd enjoying their day, now it was filled with screams of fear for the ones trying to escape that rampage, and of agony for those suffering it.

What was the cause of all this chaos, you ask? The answer is simple: The Androids, two human-shaped war machines created by Dr. Gero.

Dr. Gero was a mad scientist who was working for the Red Ribbon Army, a powerful army known across the world and led by the diminutive Commander Red who had one goal: get the seven Dragon Balls dispersed in all the corners of the globe by all means, including: enslaving people, interrogating them, stealing them, menacing them, torturing them and even killing them to 'keep them quiet'.

It said that if you collected all seven of the artifacts, the mighty dragon, Shen-long, would come out of them and grant you one single wish before vanishing with the Dragon Balls and dispersing them across the world once more. Commander Red heard a rumor about them and immediately ordered his army to search for them. But what was his wish? Was to sell them? No. Was it to be grant money? No. Was it for the title of the lord of the world? Not even close. His ultimate goal was quite stupid: he wanted a normal height since he was, as stated before, very short for an adult.

However, not only did the Red Ribbon Army failed to achieve its goal, but it has also been terminated by a single man, or should we say, a single kid. That kid assaulted the army, defeating their most feared and powerful generals and destroying the entire bases. That mighty boy was actually Goku during the time he was around his 14 years old. He successfully annihilated the R&R name from history… or so everyone thought.

As they thought that the R&R army was done for good, there actually was a sole survivor, Dr. Gero.

After what Goku did to his army, the scientist live with the hope of getting revenge one day on Goku. He began kidnapping human subjects, trying to create androids with their shapes. Most of his early experiments failed, causing the death of his subjects and feeding his anger even more. Every day passing, every minute passing made his thirst of revenge even greater.

Meanwhile, he decided to build a microscopic fly-shaped robot to spy on Goku and his friends and follow his progress through the years and study his techniques: from his fight with King Picoro to his fight with Vegeta, missing the journey to namek. But, it didn't make a huge difference, though. It's only after seventeen years of patience that he finally activated his master-pieces.

Android 17, a young man-shaped cyborg with shoulder-length black hair, hiding his earrings, and blue eyes full of life, he was wearing a black T-shirt that had the Red Ribbon's logo on the left side of his chest with an orange bandanna around his neck, and he wore a long-sleeved white shirt underneath his T-shirt. He also was wearing a belt to hold up his blue torn jeans and just below this belt, he wore another one with a pouch and a gun holster. He had a pair of blue and white sneakers and green socks.

Android 18, however, was young woman-shaped cyborg with a similar look with her twin brother: shoulder-length hair, only that her were blonde and she kept the left side of it behind her ear, revealing her hoop earring. She had blue eyes just like the cyborg 17 and wore blue denim open jacket that revealed her black undershirt with black and white striped sleeves. She was wearing a short skirt matching her denim blue jacket with, under it, some dark blue stockings. She had brown boots.

The two cyborgs were powerful and created with one goal: eliminate Son Goku. However, Gero lost his control over them and they ended up killing him, their own creator.

The two Androids began looking for their target, afterwards. They started by attacking South City, attracting the Z-fighters' attention. They tried to face their new threat, but ended up getting killed, one after the other except for Goku who died some months prior due to an unknown Heart Virus he caught from God knows where, and Gohan who managed to escape the monsters.

Knowing that they had not any real purpose of living since Goku was dead, the Androids decided to do whatever they felt like doing which means enjoying themselves by breaking all the rules of life and destroying towns when they were really bored, usually ending up with them fighting Gohan and Trunks, the last survivors of the Saiyan race and the last Z-fighters to block their path. They kept that style of life for the following thirteen years.

Today, again, they were the ones responsible for the destruction of the city they were in right now. 17 was standing on a building, throwing energy balls at every human crossing his eyesight while 18 was watching him from her place, sitting on a destroyed building, crossing her legs and with annoyance visible in her pretty face.

"Won't we do something else for a change?! This is getting boring!" she complained.

"Boring?" he repeated, turning his attention to her and leaving the poor citizen for some seconds "But this is actually fun! Waiting for you while you try every single dress in the stores we cross, THIS is boring!" he then returned his attention to the people running everywhere and launched another beam from his index finger "C'mon, look at them; isn't it great to have them scream and try to run their ass out of here?"

The female was still unhappy. But, she noticed that, behind her, a random victim was pushing his way out the debris of a building that collapsed on him and was beginning to crawl around, severely injured. The blonde smiled while pointing her left index finger behind her right arm and said, watching 17.

"I think you missed one." with that, she released from her finger an energy ray that caused an explosion when it connected with her target, pulling up smoke and debris and obviously killing the unlucky man.

"That's 10 more points!" said the male Android, hinting that the two of them were comparing their destructive ambitions with a videogame and that their victims were the targets to hit to get points "Now, we're tied." As he finished pronouncing those words, something violently hit him in the face and sent him crash in a building, causing it to collapse on him.

18 raised her eyes to see who was the culprit behind that interruption, just to see a pair of feet, covered in familiar blue boots, landing on the building her brother was standing on, a moment ago. As she raised her eyes more, she could perfectly see a blonde-haired man standing straight with his green eyes staring at her with hate: the new arriver was nobody else than Gohan who just joined the battlefield.

"Ugh. AAH!" the voice belonged to 17 who just used his energy to repulse the debris surrounding him. As the smoke cleared revealing him standing, 18 laughed, pointing her finger at him.

"Ahahahah! Your shirt, it's torn!" she kept laughing like that.

"That's quite an entrance you made," the subject of laugh told Gohan as he walked toward him, hiding his anger in his voice "I hope you enjoyed it, because it will cost you your life!" then, he clenched his hands in fists and almost yelled "And you trashed my favorite shirt!"

He kept staring at the Hybrid before smiling, a sadistic smile that would never result in anything good "But I'm glad you came, though. Yeah, this is perfect: you can be our tie-breaker!" by the time he ended his sentence, 18 descended to their level, right behind Gohan, crossing her arms and copying her brother's sadistic smile.

"First who kills him wins; it's sudden death: no tie." She said staying in the videogame concept.

"You know you can't win, you can't destroy what I really am!" shout Gohan, switching his glance from an Android to the other "Even if you manage to kill this body, someone even stronger would surface and take my place!" as he said those words, the two monsters closed the distance between them slowly, mockingly laughing "Not one death will go uncounted for, NOT ONE!"

~Music Recommendation: 'Prevent it! Cell's perfect Body'~

With that, he finally began powering up, the golden aura surrounding him again, giving his face even more bestiality. At the same moment, the cyborgs stopped walking and began rushing toward him from both his front, for 17, and his back, for 18, leaving him minor options to dodge.

The Saiyan raised his only hand up and created a blue orb of energy in his palm. Both Androids were ready to attack; they knew he wouldn't be able to do much with only one arm left.

To their surprise, the Hybrid didn't launch the attack on them. At the last moment, he threw it to the ground, raising a cloud of smoke to confuse his opponents AND evading them by sending himself to the air, flying.

The twins, however, didn't lose his track for too long, they quickly followed him up in the air and caught up to him 'I should have expected it, from them…' the warrior thought.

Then, they got above him and charged yellow energy balls in each of their hands and throwing them at their enemy who now had in total four blasts to handle. The young Saiyan stopped his ascension to the sky and concentrated his KI around him "Devil Shell!" he pronounced as a green barrier of energy formed around him, blocking them and protecting him. The shock resulted in a massive explosion and a blinding light.

'Dammit! This is the kind of moment they've been waiting for!' Gohan thought as he perfectly knew that one the biggest advantages of the Androids is that they don't have KI so it is impossible to feel their presence. However, they can feel his which is pretty much to his disadvantage. He decided to instead focus on his ears and try to hear their movements.

"UAH!" He heard something coming at him from the left, so he got his right arm ready to block whatever was coming at him.

*BAF*

He successfully blocked the punch that was thrown at him, and his aggressor revealed it to be Android 18. As he struggled to push her away, he heard yet another person coming at him, 17 this time, for sure. However, his only arm was already occupied and before he had time to think of another solution, he received the strike on the back of his neck, pushing him to the female who got on the other side and joined her hands into a hammer and hit the weakened man on the back so violently that he crashed to the ground at high speed, hitting his back on a tunnel in the process.

As he opened him eyes after the impact, he quickly rolled backward and used his hand to push himself back, evading just in time the blow his enemies were about to deliver him while he was still down.

He did a series of jumps to the back before stopping on where he thought was a reasonable distance to use his attack 'Look, dad! I'm doing this one for you!' he thought, preparing his attack: a special technique he mastered with the help of Master Roshi, after his father's death.

He gestured his hand backward 'KAAA…' he saw the Androids getting closer to one another 'MEEE…' they joined their hands to the front: 17 the right hand and 18 the left one 'HAAA' a blue orb of energy began forming in his hand, and a yellow one formed in front the cyborgs' ones 'MEEE…' they were the first to launch their attack: a golden beam that moved fast toward him "HAAAAA!" Finally, he also released the energy wave he has been preparing.

The two attacks collided, resulting in a violent clash between the two waves of energy, repulsing everything around them, as the three fighters were struggling to keep on their feet, even if the Androids were having the upper hand. Goku's son desperately stood as he was watching the golden light surround him even more than the blue one did, proving that he was losing the struggle.

He began clenching his teeth 'Darn! If today is the day I join you…' he was thinking about both his father and Picoro as he felt them closer to him, maybe because he felt his end near?

~Change the music to: 'Bardock's death theme'~

For a moment, he had a vision. He was in a dark space, with nothing around him. He randomly looked around, before noticing a light in the distance. The light was growing bigger, closer, until it consumed him completely and blinded him.

When he was able to see again, he was in a land with grass and mountains. He distinguish silhouettes in front of him that he immediately recognized: he recognized himself, as a kid, Kuririn on the ground, severely injured and a bald, giant half-naked man who was starring angrily at his younger version.

"That's it, kid, you've done it this time!" he said as he raised his hand and a white form of energy formed around it, frightening his young self.

"AWAY WITH YOU!" he growled as he launched the attack.

The real Gohan was watching this memory, powerless: he tried to move forward and punch the bald, but he was unable to move. What came next perfectly fitted his memory: as the blinding white attack was thrown at him, a new silhouette came in front of him and separated his hands to each side in a protective way 'P-Picoro-san…' he barely managed to whisper.

Then suddenly, the persons in front of him disappeared, he was all alone, now. He stood still for a moment and began noticing changes in his environment. The sky and the grass exchanged their respective colors: the grass took the sky's blue color while the sky took the grass' green one.

Deep down, he had a flow of memories of this place 'Namek…?' the planet Namek was a faraway planet in the galaxy where he lived big adventures with Kuririn and Buruma, Trunks' mother, to bring back the warriors that died by the hands of Nappa, and the Saibaman for Yamucha's case.

As he turned around, he distinguished new silhouettes. This time, it was him during the fight against Frieza, Kuririn and Picoro who was brought back to life earlier and whose powers, even after his training with Kaio and fusion with Nail paled in front of the tyrant's strength. Speaking of him, the latter was near them, holding an injured Vegeta by his armor with one hand, and preparing to cut his throat with the sharp nails of the other.

As the monster was about to put an end to the Saiyan Prince's life, someone landed in the middle of the battlefield with a speed that caused wind to spread in the area around his landing spot. Everyone turned their attentions to the new intruder who revealed to be, to the big relieve of everyone except Frieza, Goku.

Goku stood still looking around him and resting his glare on Frieza, staring at him seriously "So," he said, finally addressing his new opponent "you are Frieza… I thought you were more intimidating than this."

He turned his attention away from the tyrant to look at the small group besides him and smiled "Sorry for being late, everyone." He approached the younger Gohan who had tears in his eyes: he has been waiting for his father to save him for so long. He closed the distance between him and his son and stroked his head "You sure handled it perfectly, son. I'm proud of you. Now, leave the rest to me."

The Pure Blooded Saiyan returned his glare toward the Galactic Emperor and began walking to his direction, walking past the older version of his son who was now eyeing him from the back.

At this moment, his surrounding faded into nothingness, and he was yet again in the dark, empty space. Only this time, not everything faded: his father was still here, still walking in front of him. He was walking, but the distance between them didn't change at all.

He kept eyeing him from behind: a tall, well-built man with spiky black hair. He was wearing a similar outfit as his current timeline son: an orange gi with a blue T-shirt underneath with the sleeves shorter his son's. He wore blue wristbands, belt and boots, just like his son. One of the biggest differences between their outfits was the Kanji word written on the back: his read 'Go' (悟) meaning Wisdom.

He was walking fearlessly in front of him, without turning back, not even slowing down his pace. He was courageous, strong, experimented and, on top of that, pure hearted: you could hardly find someone who held a grudge against him; everyone loved him for his sincerity and confidence.

In other words, he was everything Gohan to be; he wanted to succeed his father in his task, especially after the latter's death. That's when his vision ended and he was brought back to reality.

~Change the music back to: 'Prevent it! Cell's perfect body'~

The struggle was still going on as he was an inch from losing it. But, he couldn't let it end like this… He couldn't.

'I'm not meeting you without putting everything I've got down here!' with that, his eyes widened, his teeth clenched even more and the aura surrounding him grew bigger. The roles in the struggle reversed as Gohan's Kamehameha was now quickly gaining ground, getting closer to 17 and 18.

In the end, the Turtles' signature technique hit the two abominations, dealing considerable damages. Gohan immediately took his fighting stance again and rushed toward the knocked down Androids to attack them. However, 17 recovered from the energy wave he took and launched a fireball at the Saiyan who deflected it just in time at the cost of his guard. Taking this opportunity at hand, the male cyborg punched the Hybrid in the face, throwing him back.

The Super Saiyan used his hand to push himself back on his feet, and automatically began jumping away from the cyborg that was following him 'He's getting closer…' he released from his palm three consecutive explosive energy balls before the sound of some getting closer came to his ear: 18 who was missing for a moment.

He just had enough time to use an after image technique to dodge her coming kick, before re-appearing behind her and hitting the back of her neck with his elbow. As for 17, he barely deflected two of the explosive fireballs, but got the third one straight on his face, sending him crash on a building.

As his sister was about to recover from Gohan's counter-attack, the latter quickly grab her foot and descended on the building where 17 crashed earlier at high speed, slamming her on it with all his strength, causing the construction to collapse.

The saiyan slowly landed on the ground, barely catching his breath. Of course, not too much time passed before the Androids emerged from the smoke emanating from the debris of the destroyed structures. Only that they weren't exhausted at all, but their clothes were a mess as well as their hairs. 18 arranged hers behind her ear as she usually did while 17 wiped off what looked like blood from his face with the back of his hand.

Truth being said, Gohan was already out of breath, he didn't knew how much longer he would be able to keep up this infernal rhythm.

'No! I still didn't reach my limit! Not yet.' His hand clenched into a fist, so hard that he began feeling his nails cutting through his palm. The golden aura surrounded him once more, even more intensely than before, and pink lightning spread around him. His power up caused the sky to cover with dark clouds as the sound of the thunder could be heard around the area. A drop of water fell on the ground, followed by another one then two more, before it started pouring.

The three fighters stared at each other under the rain and the lightning, the usually mocking face of the cyborgs was now quite serious; they now knew that Gohan wasn't a fighter to underestimate anymore: they had to kill him today!

The two monsters exchanged a glare before nodding at one another "This thunderstorm is a perfect backdrop for your demise." Said the male Android, trying to intimidate the gashed man.

"There is no end for me… NO END!" he yelled, determinate to fight with all his will.

"We're definitely killing him this time, 17: he's beginning to get on my nerves!" said 18, decided to end this fight.

The two abominations began getting closer to each other, as if fusing into one being with the female cyborg standing behind her brother 'What are they preparing?!' wondered the Hybrid.

Then, without warning, they rushed toward him and, at the last moment, separated the sides, leaving him no way of escaping them. They released a fury of punches and kicks while the older Saiyan alive barely managed to block/evade them.

'I can't keep up with them. At this rate, they'll…' as he was desperately fighting for his life, 17 got down and tackled him, making him lose his balance.

He turned his back on them and flew off quickly, trying to escape them. They, however, followed him closely from behind, not willing to let him get away this time. As he was about to lose them, two shining energy waves came from his sides and connected in front of him, resulting in an explosion followed with smoke. The poor Saiyan closed his eyes and used his hand to protect himself from the explosion.

As he made it out of it, he was hit on the back by his enemies, crashing on a building, before falling on the ground. "C-Curse… you…!" he managed to say as he was supporting his body with his elbow to get up.

However, he was quickly hit by a laser beam followed by another one before a rain of plasma landed all around him. This time, he knew it: there was NO escape to his fate.

He powerlessly lay on the ground as he was stroke by the blasts. His vision began blurring as his heart skipped some beats. 'So this is how it feels… to die.' he managed to think, as he lost consciousness 'Sorry, Trunks. It looks like the rest is up to you.'

Gohan should have been happy: even if he was dying, he was sure that he left someone who would be able—no, who WILL save their world. Plus, he fought the Androids, the monsters that killed all his friends and loved ones, with all his strength and will and died an honorable death. So why? Why did he, deep down felt guilt and a feeling that his life wasn't fulfilled. This feeling felt so… selfish? He didn't know.

But, before completely falling into unconsciousness, he was sure that he felt a hand holding his and lifting him; was it death embracing him? He couldn't know, right now…

(Later, in a foggy area)

I was walking through a green, foggy place quietly. The area being filled with fog was already a trouble for anyone to find their ways, so knowing that I ended up here at night… I could barely watch my steps and the cold night was piercing through my skin. I just hope that I don't catch a cold, after this; no wonder nobody can be seen around here at that moment.

But, it actually was pretty convenient: I didn't want ANYONE to notice my presence here, in this Universe, especially not with what I had in hand.

As I was walking, I was carrying in my right arm the corpse of a young man. The man was badly injured, between life and death, and his clothes, some kind of orange gi and blue shirt, were in the hell of a mess. He could have died, if I didn't remember him and get one of my crazy ideas flowing through my head. I suddenly stopped in the middle of nowhere and rested my eyes on him, an evil grin drawing on my lips.

"You're lucky to be one of the characters I really respected and empathized with through the series…" I whispered while putting him on the cold grassy ground "After all, your history is an eternal cycle that repeats again and again. Isn't scary, to know that I could have another version of you instead of the one in front of me?"

I raised my hand to the sky as a blue aura enveloped me "I'll use my powers to give you a second chance in life to accomplish your dream, whether you take this opportunity or not is up to you. My power is," As I pronounced those words, a blue card formed above me, slowly descending to my palm. The card was a Tarot Card with, on the back, a blue mask drawn surrounded by a mystical circle, and on its front part, nothing: just a black space as if it was empty… Such was the strength of "the Authors' Arcana." At the moment the card reached my hand, I crushed it, empowering the blue aura around me.

I slowly lowered my hand toward the man's direction and released an energy wave in his direction. As the wave passed through his body, all his injuries were cured: no more scratched, no more blood; he was perfectly clean from any marks of the fight and even his outfit was fixed; his left arm was still missing, though.

I, however, didn't stop here "It would be a shame to keep you at this age, I guess I'll expend you lifespan even more than this." I immediately released another energy wave that passed through him and watched the changes occurring: his body was getting smaller as well as his clothes; he was getting back to his 7 years old self "Ah, and sorry but I can't do much about you arm..."

After this, I finally turn my back on him and proceeded to walk away. I glanced one last time at him from above my shoulder and said "Good luck, Gohan; son of Son Goku." before disappearing in the fog, leaving no trace of my presence.

FINALLY! I finished the first chapter of the first story I'm written for my two favorite mangas! So, just to make things clear before you ask any questions: I ONLY appeared here as the initiator of the story; every fanfiction author does this in a way or another, but I wanted to do it straight, plus I have the right to do something crazy once in a while, right? RIGHT?!

Then, if you are wondering whether or not Gohan's memories are erased, then stop thinking about it: he is perfectly fine, but he's younger. As for his power level, I want him to keep it the way it is, but if you guys prefer him a tiny bit underpowered, do share your opinion about it.

Well, that will do it for now, if you have any questions, suggestions, pairing ideas or complaints, do voice them through PM and reviews; I'll be glad to answer any of your questions right away (or in the next chapter, if you're a guest) as long as they are constructive for the story!

With that, I hope you enjoyed this first chapter and that you'll Review, Follow and Fav.

P.S: I won't be posting the next chapter anytime soon, since I first want to complete at least one of my two current in-progress stories ("Narukami's Journey" and "Persona Days") This should give you enough time to voice ALL what you feel about that chapter, and I hope you'll understand.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays! (^_^)