Alright here is the first chapter of the sequel to Into Hell Itself!
btw sentences in italics are thoughts. Also it's rated M because I had a bloody scene and might have more and wasn't sure what rate was right. So If you don't like blood, don't read.
Sequel title: Never Left Hell!
Summary: Gohan is wished back to earth after having been in Hell for one year. But his return isn't as cheery as he thought it would be, for no one has come to welcome him back. Where is everyone? Gohan sets out to find them. Will he find them?
Chapter one: Empty Return
A flash is seen passing by a mountain. Next second the mountain blows up. The flash stops a few meters away from the rubble of the mountain. It's a boy about 12 or 13 years old. He takes a fighting stance and cups his hands together. He starts chanting some words and a white/blue glow forms in his hands.
Suddenly a white monster lands across him. Without a second to waist the white/blue glow is fired straight at it. Just before the creature is blown away he screams a name that echo's through Hell.
'GOHAN!'
The creature is fired away into the distance and the boy stands up. He grins just before he begins to flicker. His form is disappearing. He looks worried at his own body.
'What the …..!' He says, but the rest is not heard for he vanished from Hell leaving no trace of him ever being there.
A guard from Hell sighs after watching everything. He then smiles thinking about what happened.
'Guess the year is over, he?' He says already knowing the answer and walks away.
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A huge dust cloud appears in the desert area known as the place where Cell died at the hands of Gohan. The dust clears to show a figure standing surprised. He looks around confused.
'What happened?' Gohan asks himself for there is no one else around. Gohan realizes where he is as he sees the cliffs. 'Guess I've been wished back then' he speaks out loud.
Gohan gets a strange feeling since no one's here to see him. He forgets about it thinking they didn't know he'd be brought back to that place. Guessing they are on the Look Out Gohan flies off to find them there, leaving behind the empty desert.
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Gohan can see the Look Out in the distance. He feels happy to be back here, but something isn't right. He can't sense anyone. Gohan knows they can hide their energy level, but still he has a bad feeling.
Carefully Gohan lands on the Look Out. His expression turns immediately to shock as he sees the burn marking like someone fired ki-blasts. He runs inside desperate to find someone. He checks every room, the kitchen and outside. Not even Dende is around or Mr. PooPoo.
Gohan jumps off the Look Out to check on Korin. He finds no burn markings, but the place is just as deserted as the Look Out. Gohan fears the worst and flies off to his home.
'Please let them be alright. Please say they're just somewhere else. Please be alright' Gohan thinks as he flies at full speed turning to SS in his panic.
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Gohan is closing in on Mt. Paozu when he comes to a full stop in the air abruptly. There's smoke rising from Mt. Paozu. Gohan shakes his shock away and flies further. When he sees his home he drops down from the air and lands on his knees. His home, his house is completely burned down. Gohan tries to see if there was anyone inside, but in his heart he already knows.
Gohan can barely stand from the pain in his heart so he flies again. He goes to the waterfall where Piccolo always meditates. Half way there Gohan spots something. He reluctantly lands, but as soon as he sees what it is he grabs his stomach in a desperate way to not throw up. He closes his eyes but the tears keep running freely.
In front of Gohan there are two graves. One holds the name 'Chichi'. To Gohan's surprise and shock the second one holds the name 'Goten', as in his little baby brother Goten. Gohan can't think straight anymore and yells in pure agony.
'Why! Why did this happen!? How did this happen!? Why!!' Gohan thinks in his mind.
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After what seems like hours Gohan shakily gets up tears still running down his face. He holds his hand over his heart as if trying to stop the pain it feels. Without another glance at the graves Gohan flies off to Capsule Corps hoping to find some answers there or anyone alive.
As Gohan flies to Capsule Corps he encounters a few cities. To add more worries he finds they are completely empty, deserted. Gohan looks away and flies as fast as his SS state will let him without transforming again.
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Capsule Corps, Bulma's home, Vegeta's home and Trunks's home. Gohan feels sick when he thinks Trunks might be gone as well. 'Not just adults, but even children…What happened while I was gone?' Gohan thinks. He doesn't give it more thought and enters Capsule Corps.
It's pitch-black dark in there. Gohan hits the light switch, but not surprising it doesn't work. Gohan gets a bad feeling again and forms a ki sphere in his hand. The room lights up to reveal Bulma's living room. It seems normal except for the mess. Furniture and other stuff are damaged and all over the place. Gohan reluctantly continues to check the other parts of the house.
The whole house is the same except for the lab. Bulma's lab is worse. Burn markings cover the place and everything is destroyed. 'You would think whoever did this would just blow up Capsule since it holds so much explosive things. Why did they do it so "personal"? Perhaps he knew them, us' Gohan wonders.
Gohan continues to look through the lab. Then he sees something. Gohan pushes some stuff aside and turns pale. In front of him lies a lab assistant, but his body is chopped into pieces. Blood has spilled over the floor. Gohan turns green and covers his mouth in an attempt to stop the vomit. Luckily he succeeds.
Gohan quickly leaves and runs outside. He arrives in the back of Capsule and sees the Gravity Room or what is left of it. The top holds a hole and it's burned out from the inside. Gohan doesn't dare to look inside, but does so anyway. This time he can't help it and turns around and vomits on the grass.
Inside the GR lay Vegeta with his arms and legs cut from his body and the rest of his body is flat as if someone squashed the blood out of him. The blood was everywhere, even on the walls of the GR. Gohan wants to close his eyes and never open them. Before he can close them he sees blue hair. He crawls closer and yells in horror when he sees Bulma, Yamcha and Trunks in the same state as Vegeta. Blood all over them and the grass they lay on. All their arms and legs cut off and their bodies flat like the blood was squashed out of them.
Gohan screams again while tears keep flowing and his heart hurts like hell. 'No! NO! No! NO! NO! NO! ' Gohan thinks over and over. Then he yells in pure agony and grieve.
'NO!!' Gohan yells until his lungs hurt and he falls unconscious from the pain and sickening images of his friends.
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Hours later Gohan wakes up. The sun is setting already. Gohan remembers why he fell unconscious and quickly pushes the thoughts away. He stands up and wonders what he will do. A groan snaps Gohan out of his thoughts and he turns around. He sees nothing. Fearing the worst Gohan transforms to SS since he lost that form after fainting. Carefully he walks to the streets where he thought the groan was from, if it even was a groan. Gohan isn't sure about anything anymore. Gohan stops on the street and looks around him. He doesn't hear anything anymore.
'Did I really hear something or was it my imagination? I wouldn't be surprised if I started hearing and seeing things' Gohan thinks.
He turns to normal leaving his SS state. Just when his power is down to normal he again hears the groan. Gohan tenses up, but doesn't transform this time. The groan was coming from across the street. Gohan sees the rubble and carefully approaches it. Then he sees something that causes his heart to tense so much it almost feels like a heart attack. There under the rubble, a small orange piece of clothing. Gohan abruptly turns SS and shoots forward. As quick as he can he moves the rubble revealing a person dressed in an orange gi.
'DAD!!' Gohan shouts.
Quickly and carefully he pulls his father out of the rubble and lays him down on the street. He's breathing, but weakly. The rubble had been pressuring his lungs. Goku has cuts everywhere with blood even now oozing out. Goku's face is covered with blood from a serious head wound. It's almost a hole in his head. His legs seem to be broken and he has a fatal wound in his stomach area. How he can still be alive Gohan doesn't know. He quickly runs inside Bulma's house, trying to find anything to help his father, without looking at the bodies as he passes them.
Gohan returns with bandages, medicines and stitches etc. He cleans Goku's wounds and bandages them after attempting to stitch them. They might not be done well, but as long as they hold his dad alive until he can find Dende it doesn't matter.
'I will find help. I won't let you down this time!' Gohan thinks.
Suddenly he hears his dad's voice. 'Who's th..there?' Goku asks weakly. Gohan feels tears run down his face upon hearing his dad's voice. 'He'll make it, I know he will' Gohan thinks.
'It's me dad, Gohan' Gohan says. Goku's eyes are open weakly and look as though they don't recognize that name. When Goku looks at the person next to him his eyes open wider.
'Go…Gohan?' He asks unsure. Gohan nods frantically.
'Yes dad! It's me!' He says loudly while shaking of relieve that he didn't lose everybody. Gohan feels his dad's hand touch his cheek as if he tries to be sure it's his son. Then Goku mumbles something weakly as his eyes slowly close again.
'Gohan, the dragon…balls…..one……wish…still….re…..' Goku says but can't continue as he falls unconscious again. Gohan feels the panic rise again, but upon seeing his father breathing calms down.
'The dragon balls.. one wish remains, he?' Gohan thinks. Right there and then Gohan makes up his mind. 'This wasn't the home I wanted to return to. I didn't go into Hell to let the world end up like this! I will fix this! I will find the dragon balls again and change earth's fate!' Gohan thinks.
He stands up and transforms to SS 2. Then he lifts up his father and flies off to find a place to keep his dad safe while he searches for the dragon balls.
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Gohan lands near the waterfall where Piccolo always meditates. He knows there is a cave behind it and only he and Piccolo know about it. Gohan places Goku carefully on the ground in the cave and tries to make his dad comfortable. Then he steps outside and looks up at the sky with a determined look.
'I don't know yet what happened to Piccolo and the others, but I will find out and I will fix this mess if it is the last thing I do!'
With that Gohan flies off into the sky feeling determined and angry.
This was the first chapter of Never Left Hell. I hope you liked it.
I know I didn't have Goten in Into Hell Itself!, but he was born already. I just didn't put him in there yet. (chichi left him in her dad's care when she was gone)
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'Till next chapter!