Title: Drabble Royale
Disclaimer: Don't make me waste my words on this...
Rating: G ( K ) – Subject to change per chapter. Be sure to keep an eye out.
Featured Characters: Lunch, Tienshinhan and Krillen
Theme/Question: What happened to Lunch after Dragonball?
Word Count: 163

And away...we...GO!

"Hey, Tien!" Krillen called, waving his hands about madly to catch his three-eyed friend's attention.

Finally looking up from his meditative position, Tien smiled (sort of). "Krillen! How long has it been?"

"About three years," replied the former monk. "What have you been up to?"

"Training."

Krillen laughed. "So same old, same old, eh?"

"Pretty much," replied Tien, his lips bent slightly into a smirk.

"Still a confirmed bachelor?"

"Yeah, it's just me and Chiaotzu up here," the triclops explained, nodding his head toward the mountain peak above them where a little house was settled amongst the crags.

"What ever happened to that Lunch chick?" Krillen couldn't help but ask. The last he'd heard of her, she'd gone off chasing Tien into the great blue yonder.

"She...died," Tien said, all traces of his former almost-smile gone from his face. "Two years ago this February."

"Oh...," replied Krillen, awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck. "Bank robbery gone wrong, or somethin'?"

"Sinus infection."

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Author's Notes: Just for the ever livin' hell of it, I'm going to start writing DB/Z/GT drabbles. It sounds like fun and, besides that, it's a great opportunity to write about characters other than Gohan and/or Videl (though I'm sure they'll show up in this at some point, too) without having to spend a lot of time developing plots 'n whatnot. Plus, I get to answer some random DBZ questions that had always puzzled me (what happened to Lunch, why Krillen doesn't have a nose, how VB hooked up...etc). If you've got any themes/DBZ questions that you'd like me to address, just drop them in the review box and I'll do my best to answer them for you!

Anyway, I expect most of these drabbles to be between fifty and a thousand words and humor-based, but I'm sure that a few other random genres (maybe angst, romance, action/adventure, etc) will get mixed in, too. Multiple characters/pairings will be featured, as well, so this is a drabble "battle royale," if you will. (That's my title pun and I'm stickin' to it.)

Anyway...read on. There's bound to be something you like in this eventually.

. ( . Ms Videl Son . ) .