Updated 14-01-2009: Revised by Beta-Reader texaspeach. So many thanks to you. Like I said, I knew this was the best decision. I have so much respect for the readers, so I want to give them good stuff!
Mirai Gohan's Legacy
By: Makai Alexa
This is the idea that I'm already working in Spanish. By request of a friend of mine I'm translating now. I hope we'll get through this without problems, so, Let's get started!
I think with your reviews, the story can contain little differences with the one in Spanish. I hope so :P, because your suggestions help me a lot!
Today's Disclaimer: Dragon Ball doesn't belong to me! It belongs to Akira Toriyama, and that's why 20 years later he's receiving money! Ok? I wish that could be me, but no…
I'll be waiting for your reviews!
This is the way I write the story:
"Text": talking
"Text": Thinking or telepathy
Anything I would be missing, just tell me by a review!
Some important stuff (by the BR suggestion):
[1] I'll use the 'Saiya-jin' word. In the latin dub they used it, so I'd became accustomed to it. I don't like the 'saiyan' term.
[2] I'll refer to the androids as 'Jinzoningen', like in Japanese.
[3] Instead of #17 and #18, I'll use Juunana-Gou and Juuhachi-Gou.
[4] Remember: The Zenkai Power is the Saiya-jins ability to get stronger after being seriously injured.
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--- And now, with the story… ---
Chapter 1: The Letter
Actual Date: Mirai Trunks' AU. Three years before the time travel...
"GOHAN!!! NO!!!! ARGH!!!" Trunks' yelling could be heard everywhere…
The lilac haired boy, with only fourteen years old, had found his 'big brother', his master and only friend dead by the hands of the Jinzoningen, who had been terrifying the Earth for more than 10 years. They had turned the world into a living nightmare.
Seeing his master's corpse just pulled the trigger: the young demi Saiya-jin reached the top of his fury and finally became a Super Saiya-jin.
"It wasn't supposed to happen like this!" Trunks told to himself. "I didn't want to become a Super Saiya-jin like this!!!... Why did it have to be this way!?"
A few days later…
"This is very sad news, people from Orange Star City: The young man known as 'the Golden Warrior', Son Gohan, the same that has been a great help to us, he –" the reporter sobbed "– his dead body was found near the ruins of the center of North City". Comments like this ran through the entire planet, by the voice of the announcer of the only radio station of the city.
One person was listening closely the news. This person was very afflicted because of the reporter's words, and only could pronounce a few words before crying too hard to continue.
"You're gone… Now you will never meet him, Gohan…"
Gohan's funeral was three weeks ago. He was buried next to his father, in a lake near the Son house. In the 439 West District, everyone was sad. An unexpected visit, however, was about to change some of that feeling.
"Good morning! Are you Mrs. Son Chichi?" The 'mailman' asked, standing by the door, looking at the woman. Her face expression was one of total depression. She was tired, physically and mentally. The pain of being without her husband and her only son was unbearable.
"Yes, that's me. What can I do for you, sir?" The woman asked.
"This letter is for you, Mrs. Son"
"A letter? From who?" She asked, surprised.
"It says that the sender is Son Gohan, Mrs… hey! Son Gohan! The Golden Warrior!" The mailman was surprised just hearing the name, "Oh kami! You… you have to be his mother!". The man's expression changed, just remembering the tragic day, "Oh, Mrs. Son, I'm so sorry for—!"
She sighed, "Don't worry, it's just—!" She wasn't going to say anything, but then remembered that the letter's sender was her son. "OH KAMI!! My son left me a last message!!!"
"This letter was written some weeks ago. The mail service just sucks because of the Jinzoningen; I was entrusted with this task… I see why it was so important!"
"Where do I have to sign?" asked a very impatient Chichi. Her eyes were now full of hope.
"Here, please…"
"Thanks a lot, mister! Have a nice day!" Said Chichi as she went inside her house. She was very excited. She wanted to read whatever her son had wrote for her. She wanted to know what her son was thinking.
Chichi closed the door quickly, and hat in the nearest chair to read the letter.
"Gohan..."
Capsule Corporation Building: Bulma Briefs had started with her most ambitious project…
"Mom, I don't think that it'll work… I don't think that bringing here the warriors from the past to fight is gonna solve our problems…"
"I'm not building a time machine to do that, son" The genius said while she was saving some files in the only remaining computer.
"So…?" Asked young Trunks.
"You're going to the past to learn everything from Gokuu to defeat those damn androids!" – Answered his mother
"WHAT –?!" yelled the hybrid, "If we couldn't anything before, we can't do it now!"
"Son, you don't know what I'm thinking for this trip. Just wait and see this beauty when I finish…"
A few days later…
"Hello? Is there anybody home?" Asked a woman's voice from outside the building, "Bulma?!"
"Who's there?" Answered a voice, from the inside of the building "Chichi-san, is that you?"
"Yeah! It's me!" Trunks opened the door.
"Welcome, Chichi-san… We weren't expecting you to be here!" the young man said.
"You have to know this! Let's go in, young man!" Said Gokuu's wife while walking inside.
"What happened?" Trunks was very confused.
"Take me to your mother! We'll talk about it there!"
"Ok, Chichi-san. Let's go" Trunks closed the door, and took Gohan's mother to the lab, where Bulma was working.
The Briefs were astonished. Chichi had just shown them the letter she had received from her son…
"GOHAN WHAT?!" The Briefs family yelled at the same time…
"Yeah, that's what he said… Gohan had– I mean, had someone by his side… A woman" – commented Chichi.
"As a… mate?" Bulma asked.
"As far as I can tell, I think so…"
"BU– BUT HOW?! If he had a mate, why he didn't tell us?" Interrupted Trunks.
"It says that he would bring her to us soon, but I see that he… He couldn't" – By the end of this phrase, Chichi started to cry. Bulma got her and tried to comfort her…
"Can I read that note, Chichi-san?… Please" Inquired the hybrid.
"Here it is…" Gokuu's wife handed the paper to Trunks and he immediately started reading.
Gohan had just woken up. He was just covered by a bedsheet, and he was with someone. It was her, the girl that gave him hope, love and filled his life. She took care of him, and reached his heart.
The young man turned his face to see the most beautiful thing in the world: the girl who was sleeping beside him. She was so beautiful, and he couldn't take care of her all the time… He had the responsibility of saving the Earth on his shoulders and he couldn't allow those damn Jinzoningen to win. They had caused so much trouble, but he had made an oath: destroy them. He was a Super Saiya-jin already, and he hoped that the intense training and Zenkai Power would help him defeat the Jinzoningen and the Earth will have peace in the end. After thinking about that, he decided to take a shower and get dressed.
After his shower, Gohan opened a drawer of a chest that was in the room. The room was from his 'mate' as Vejita would say. He found a notebook, some white papers and a pen.
"It looks like her diary…" Gohan opened the notebook, read some pages and was amazed about what he saw. After a while reading the contents of diary, he decides to take the white papers and the pen.
"Orange Star City, Day 4 Month 7" The young Son wrote the date in one of the papers. He sighed; maybe it wasn't a good idea to write a letter. But a hand above his shoulder surprised him.
"That's the best you can do, Gohan… After so much time of not seeing your mother…" The woman who slept with him was watching him with her blue-colored eyes. He watched her, upside down. Frequently he thought about her beauty, and the fact, despite the short time, she gave to him everything: body and soul.
The girl kissed him in the cheek, and encouraged him to write the letter while she embraced him…
"Mother… This short message is to tell you that I'm fine, for now… Well, I'm alive. I want to see you. I miss you so much! I miss my grandpa and I miss our house in Paozu Yama. I miss the peace we had so many years ago, when we were together with dad… I miss his optimistic smile in the difficult times!" – Finishing the writing of this sentence, he let a heavy breath out, just to prevent the tears from coming out - "Now I have the responsibility of saving the world and, sincerely, I think it's so much weight to carry. But I'm not worrying you more with this.
Right now I'm in the city where I met her; where I met this beautiful woman. She has a look where I see reflected what you feel when you said to Dad not to go training, what you insinuate when you were going to your room in the nights… That look that said to me that you were so happy with your husband. That look that was so worried when we were sick, and was full of hope and happiness when we were all right. She opened a window of hope for me… A window full of love.
Things have happened so fast! But… Well, I want you to meet her, I want everybody to know her. I would like to get everybody reunited in our house: you, grandpa, Trunks, Bulma, Kamesennin… All of them! I think you can be the best friends, just as Bulma and you are. She's so smart! – She loves to cook for me, she likes the nature, and she has a brave heart, just like you. When I met her, she was a fighter! It isn't great?
If I survive, in a couple of months I think we will stop by the Paozu Yama."
Gohan's feelings were a jumbled mess: from happiness to complete sadness… All at the same time. But he continued in his business…
"Mother, tell Trunks to never stop his training. I have taught him everything I know, and I hope he can manage to get something with it. Tell him that he never can forget that his father is Vejita, the Saiyajin Prince, making him an elite warrior. I know that if tomorrow I'm not in this world, with her mother's help, he can save the world and take us out of this living hell.
Tell Bulma I always thought of her as a godmother. I swear if these things never happened, I would become a scholar and would love to work by her side at CC. Soon… Very soon, you will meet her, the woman who made me look at my life from a better angle and often reminds me of keep going. When everything is better, I promise I'll start living with you again in Paozu Yama.
Never forget you, your son, Gohan"
"Nii-san..." Tears started flowing by Trunks' face…
"Trunks..." His mother gave him a chair because he was just processing the information… - "This note felt like a good-bye message… He was always thinking about us besides he was always absent because of training and fighting…"
The three people looked each other, thinking about Gohan's last words. But, above all, he gave them hope, because he always thought the world would be a better place.
"Just like his father. Right, Bulma?"
"Yeah, Chi…"
Trunks remembered the 'Gohan's mate fact'…
"But mom, how do we find her? I mean, how are going to find Gohan's girl?" The young demi asked his mother...
"Well, I don't know… This letter was written in Orange Star City, and that's a good place to begin with..." Bulma commented...
"So, I have decided! I will look for Gohan's mate in that place! Orange Star City, here I co –!!"
The radio interrupted Trunks sentence with the sound of emergency sirens. "Last time news!!! A new attack from the Jinzoningen in West City! The entire city is in emergency state! Please! Listen to this warning! Get into your shelters or in the refuges!" The radio announcer interrupted the moment…
"No!!! I'm going to stop them! Grrr!!!" - Trunks said while running outside of the house and later raising up to the skies, ready to fight again versus Juunana-Gou and Juuhachi-Gou.
"TRUNKS!!! DON'T DO IT!!!" – Yelled Bulma while Chichi was trying to calm her down.
And the fighting scene with the Jinzoningen began again, like an infinite cycle.
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--- To be continued… ---
What do you think about it? Is BETTER than the first version. Thanks again to texaspeach for all her advices.
If you like this story, please, let it know by a review! I'll be waiting for critics (not destructive! Onegai!), suggestions, or any information that could be used to continue this story. I decided to translate it because I noticed there are so much people who keep reading DBZ fanfictions in English. I'm so impressed with this community!
So, thanks for reading my story again! See you next time.
Bai-Cha!!
- Makai Alexa