Free to Love
Chapter 2- Walking on Water and the Mystery Watcher
Gohan paused before entering his house. Readying himself for an attack, he walked through the door cautiously. All the lights were off in the house, and he sighed with relief. Too soon, he realized as a frying pan clanged the back of his head causing him to wince in pain.
"Where do you think you've been mister," Chichi screamed as she continued raining blows with the pan. "You are at least fifteen minutes late, that's fifteen minutes that you could have been learning." Suddenly Chichi broke into sobs, holding the disfigured pan to her chest. "Where did I go wrong, how did I end up with a dumb-skull and a delinquent as my children." Chichi cried out. Gohan cautiously hugged his mother.
"I'm going to go upstairs to study, ok?" He told her. Chichi instantly perked up.
"My son, the scholar," she quietly said as she made her way to the kitchen. Gohan sighed in relief, his mom was nuts! Gohan was almost to his room when a black-haired blur ran into him.
"Goten," he scolded, "what did I tell you about running in the house?" Goten grinned and scratched his head.
"I forgot," He said sheepishly, "and I really want to tell you what me and trunks did! We threw a water balloon at Vegeta, but then he got really mad, and kicked me and trunks! And then Bulma tried to slap him, but he grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder and she pulled his tail and then something bad happened!" Goten looked at Gohan with a guilty look.
"What happened," Gohan sighed and waited for the answer.
"Bulma told me and Trunkey to go get the scissors, and then she threatened Vegeta that if he wasn't nice that she would cut his tail off! And then Bulma left to go yell at someone else, and Vegeta picked me and trunks up by the hair, and it really, really, really hurt! He started yelling at us, and trunks told me to tackle him, but we did it too hard, and we kind of broke Vegeta's nose!" Gohan burst into laughter! He couldn't help it, he knew Vegeta was probably fine with the help of the senzu beans, but he still could imagine Vegetas face! Gohan wiped his eyes and tried to put his stern face back on.
"Did you tell mom yet?" Gohan asked.
"No, Vegeta did, cause he grabbed me and flew me home, and then threw me in the house and then started yelling at mom, telling her she was lucky he didn't kill me! Then she hit him in the head with the frying pan, and he said some bad words to her and flew off!" Goten said matter-of-factly. Gohan couldn't help the bubble of laughter than escaped his lips. He scolded Goten, and went to his room.
One hour later Gohan was done with his homework and was bored. Suddenly he had a great idea.
"Hey Goten, you want to go train with me," he yelled down the hall. One second later a very excited monkey-tailed child was bouncing in front of him.
"Yay, for real, do you really mean it?" Goten asked.
"Yah, of course I want to train with my little brother," Gohan said as he ruffled his sibling's hair. Gohan and Goten ran down the stairs and Gohan yelled to Chichi that they were going out for a bit. She told them to be back in an hour for dinner. They flew off on the nimbus in the direction of the lake, unaware of the eyes that were watching them from the thicket.
Damon
Damon used to have a family, and friends. But when his folks died, he was given to his Uncle. His uncle was nice, but didn't even acknowledge Damon. So when the Uncle died, Damon had no one to go to. He was going to be placed in foster care, but they could never find a home for him. So the authorities made an exception for him, he could live on his own. But no one would hire a 14 year old boy, so Damon couldn't afford to live anywhere. He had wandered until he reached a small town where a martial arts master had taken him in for a few months, but he too had passed away. So with the knowledge of how to defend him, Damon had continued to wander. He was now in the mountain area, and had been looking for somewhere to sleep when the most peculiar sight met his eyes. There were two boys riding a cloud! At first Damon had thought the lack of decent sleep and food was affecting him, but this didn't seem like a hallucination. Damon decided to humor his imagination, and followed the trail the cloud left. Eventually he spotted the two boys stepping off the cloud in front of a massive lake. The cloud zoomed off, and Damon moved closer to the mysterious boys.
"Goten, are you sure you can do this? I don't think even dad can run across water," The bigger kid said skeptically. Damon's eyes widened in shock could the boy walk across water, who were these kids? The small child gave the big one a grumpy look. Damon supposed that was Goten.
"Watch, I can do it, I swear!" Goten said. Damon watched in disbelief as the child sprinted to the edge of the lake and with a burst of golden light ran across the lake. The kid made it seem easy, besides the fact he was practically moving at the speed of light. Damon knew if someone was to take a picture of him, his jaw would be touching the ground. Damon looked over at the bigger kid who was just patiently waiting. After at least fifteen minutes the small kid seemed to be tiring out. Suddenly he started to sink. The bigger boy just shook his head, and flew over to the floating boy. Damon fell over anima style, the kid flew. After the larger boy dragged Goten to the lake, he scolded him.
Then the smaller child and the bigger kid sniffed the air. Damon froze, what were they doing? The older kid put an arm out to stop Goten and then he started looking around the clearing, and then walked toward Damon's hiding spot. Damon was scared, the kid reached out, and Damon saw a hand in front of his face that pulled away the branch hiding Damon! Damon screamed and tried to run away from the powerful kids. He felt a strong arm on his shoulder effortlessly stop him. Damon turned around slowly to face his captor. Suddenly a smile graced the boy's face as he held out his hand to Damon.
"Hi, I'm Gohan, who are you," Damon again fell over.
Gohan
Gohan had just rescued his brother when he noticed a slightly powerful Ki that was near them. He sniffed the air and smelled a strange unfamiliar odor. It smelled like a human, and following the spikes in Ki, he heading toward the source of the power. Pulling back a branch, he saw a dirty boy cowering in the clearing. The boy let out a shriek and tried to run, but Gohan stopped him. Remembering his manners, Gohan held out his hand to the boy and introduced himself. The boy just fell over with shock written of his face. Gohan waited patiently, hand outstretched. The boy cautiously introduced himself as Damon, as he shook Gohan's hand. Goten, seeing the new boy, rushed over and started pestering the boy with questions.
They learned Damon was a traveler, and was just looking for food when he saw them on the cloud. He was the same age as Gohan, but was way smaller. Damon was medium sized, with a fair amount of muscle. He had long dark wavy hair that covered one eye. He was wearing a pair of torn sweat pants and a black t-shirt. According to him, he knew some martial arts. Gohan, trying to make a new friend, invited Damon to eat with them. Damon agreed without hesitation.
Damon
Damon was riding on the cloud! Not only was he getting a free meal, but he got to ride on the cloud! He felt like he was on a rollercoaster in the air. Gohan was flying beside them while Goten piloted the Nimbus. In a few minutes the cloud stopped at a well-sized house resting on a mountain. They walked up and went in the house. A woman greeted Gohan and Goten and asked who their guest was. Damon told her his name, and Gohan asked her if Damon could stay for dinner. The woman agreed, and told Gohan to give Damon a pair of his outgrown clothes and to let Damon take a shower. Damon obliged and in a few minutes he was clean and wearing new clothes. When they went back down, the table was covering heaps of food. Gohan and Goten immediately dug in. Damon watching in amazement and horror as they consumed the vast amount of food. Chichi brought more to the table and Damon grabbed some before the boys could eat it. The food was amazing, probably the best he had ever had. Pretty soon all of it was gone and the woman started doing the huge amount of dishes. Damon was getting ready to leave, but the woman asked him if he would like to stay the night in the spare bedroom. Damon said yes, of course he would. Pretty soon everyone was out cold, except Chichi, that is.
Chichi
Chichi had a plan, and a she was proud of it. She heard the boy was homeless, and she wanted to find a family for him. And she knew the perfect candidate.