A/N: Well, believe it or not, this came to me while I was
watching "The Hulk."
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"Mom! Dad! Gohan! Trunks! Mia!" Goten ran as fast as he could. The field was very long. He could see the members of both the Briefs and Son households standing at the far end of the field, waving and smiling. Why were they all just standing there at the other end? Didn't they want to play with him?
Goten continued running. The grass in this field was tall and green, and there seemed to be every kind of flower growing here or there. He tripped, and rolled through a patch of Iris, landing on his back. Warm against his round face, the sun shown over the land. All was so right with the world. So…right.
Suddenly it was cold. What happened? Why was the sun gone? He rolled over onto his stomach, pushed himself up, and gazed at where his family stood. They looked scared. Why were they scared? And where was Mia? 'I should go and play with them, then they won't be scared!' he thought. He began running again, when a bolt of lightening crossed his path. He fell back with a shout. Acrid smoke filled his nose and made his eyes burn, as the dry grass was set aflame. Now he was scared.
With another flash of lightening, three shadows appeared before him. One looked familiar, but through the smoke and the dark, he couldn't make it out. His family, he needed his family. But they were gone. He didn't know when or how, but they had somehow gone.
He stood again, no longer wearing his childlike clothes of years before, but a training gi that had once belong to no other than Son Goku. He stood taller than before, too, about 3 feet taller. He crouched low into a fighting position. Somehow he knew he had to fight these people. They were very bad. They had hurt his loved ones.
'They hurt Mother…' he thought, glaring at the three shadows. A fourth shadow now arose on the horizon, engulfing everything in it's path. 'That is my true enemy,' he thought. The shadow gained speed, moving farther over the land, trapping everything, like a moving black hole. It was a few yards away when Goten ran. He couldn't overcome this foe, not in his current state. He powered up and flew, flew as fast as he could. If he could get back to the base… The shadow had engulfed its 3 companions, and was hot on his heels. 'NO!' he thought, 'I have to get back I HAVE TO SAVE THEM! I HAVE TO PROTECT EVERYONE!!!'
Too late. The shadow was upon him, like some great and terrible dark monster. It devoured him, it consumed him. He felt his flesh burning, every inch of his physical being was on fire! He wanted to scream, wanted so badly to scream… But it was hurting less. Has his body burned away, his soul merged with the shadow… Ah, it felt so good…so cold…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!" Five year old Goten sat up in his bed, screaming.
"Goten?" Chichi ran into the room and hugged her youngest son. "Goten, baby, you're pale as a sheet and…oh, you have a fever! What's wrong, are you okay? You're shaking so—Goten, Goten look at me, what happened?!"
"Night…mare…all…gone…" He held his mother. Suddenly he was back home, in the safety and warmth of Chichi's domain. He knew that his mother would never let evil come into her home. She would take good care of him, and they would be a happy family. He laid back, while she went to get a cold rag for him. Tomorrow he would feel better. Perhaps tomorrow he would go play in the fields and meadows beyond his home. Tomorrow would be beautiful…
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A/N: Well, this is interesting, what have we here? I'm really excited about writing this story. I've been planning and refining the characters and story line all day, and now I'm hoping it'll go out well. I'll get chapter one up soon, it takes me a while to type while I've got…
DUN DUN DUN, DO DO, DAAAAA! BURRITOS, BABAY! ::munches happily:: ^_||' Oh yeah! ::victory sign::
Laters! Btw, I know it's short but PLEASE…review…for me? XD