Author's Note: I'm finally back! I apologize to keep you waiting for a long, long time! *bows head* I'm so sorry! I had been in school for two years and still have one more year left to go. Hopefully, I'll be able to continue this fanfic.
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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Dragon Ball Z and Disney's Frozen.
King - Son Goku
Queen - Son Chichi
Elsa - Son Gohan
Anna - Son Goten
CHAPTER 1
Great Power Comes with Great Responsibility
Born of cold and winter air
And mountain rain combining
This icy force both foul and fair
has a frozen heart worth mining
So cut through the heart
Cold and clear
Strike for love and strike for fear
See the beauty sharp and sheer
Split the ice apart
And break the frozen heart
Hup! Ho!
Watch your step!
Let it go!
Hup! Ho!
Watch your step!
Let it go!
Beautiful!
Powerful!
Dangerous!
Cold!
Ice has a magic, can't be controlled.
Stronger than one
Stronger than ten
Stronger than a hundred men!
Born of cold and winter air
and mountain rain combining
This icy force both foul and fair
has a frozen heart worth mining
Cut through the heart
Cold and clear
Strike for love and strike for fear
There's beauty and there's danger here
Split the ice apart
Beware the frozen heart
~NORTH MOUNTAINS~
The sun was rising all over the horizon, its brightness waking up every single ice worker. They were either yawning loudly, mumbling and grumbling sleepily, or stretching out their arms tiredly on the way to the north mountains just a few miles away from the 13-year-old Vegeta Kingdom.
Among with about ten Saiyans, there was a 8-year-old child flying with them. And he was not alone.
"Icarus! Don't get left behind!" The child yelled, as a light-purple-skinned dragon was trying to keep up with him. What made him completely stand out from the Saiyans was his unusual lavender hair and blue eyes.
"Why are we letting him come with us again?" one of the Saiyans whispered to another one.
"The King said so. I heard that kid's mother died a while ago. He came here from West City, and… I guess he's trying to earn money on his own. He claimed that he was also a Saiyan…" the second Saiyan said with a light shrug. They glanced at the child one more time, noticing that he did not have a monkey tail unlike all of Saiyans did.
"What is his name again?"
"Trunks Briefs."
As soon as they arrived at the huge valley in north mountains with a large lake which was completely frozen, they got to work immediately. They used their ki to shoot lasers out of their fingers at their own spots while others, with their tremendous strength, pulled the one-ton ice cubes out of the lake with their own bare hands easily.
Trunks, on the other hand, was completely opposite of the Saiyans. He was struggling with trying to learn how to use ki. It was his first time witnessing Saiyans using their ki. His mother used to tell him about it all the time, but she never knew how to use it. She was a human, after all. And so, Trunks never learned it.
"Brat, you used ki to fly! How is it that you don't know how to use ki to attack?!" one of the Saiyans gave a light-hearted chuckle. "Instead of letting it flow freely throughout your body, force it into one area… in your finger."
"Thanks, mister!" Trunks exclaimed. He held his finger up and stared at it almost intensely, trying to concentrate harder.
The rumor was that his father was a Saiyan, and that he was very close to Goku, who is the current King of Vegeta Kingdom. But he died months before Trunks was born. Someone asked Goku about this before, but he said he had no idea who the mother was… so he was never able to find his good friend's child.
When Trunks showed up at the palace two days ago, he told Goku that his mother's name was Bulma Briefs. He was offered a place to stay, but he declined it and decided to work on his own. This really amazed Goku because of the fact that Trunks was only 8 years old. The lavender-haired child reminded him of his younger self who had been living on his own since his grandpa died.
Goku suggested him to work as a ice worker, and Trunks accepted the job. After Trunks left, the King was wondering how Bulma had been doing as they had not seen each other for almost ten years. But then she died, so it greatly saddened him that they would never be able to meet again. But, could it be a coincidence that it could have been Goku's good Saiyan friend Vegeta who knocked up with Bulma and had a child? Nah, it could not be.
And so, here Trunks was. At the frozen lake in the north mountains.
Icarus burst out into loud laughter when Trunks's face got blasted by his own ki by looking too close to his finger. He yelled with black ashes on his angry face, "Not funny, Icarus!"
After an hour or so, some of Saiyans tried to help him out but Trunks stubbornly declined their offers.
It took him many hours until he was able to finally shoot ki laser out of his finger at what's left in the lake. He did not have any time to celebrate his success because the sun was already setting. He hurriedly pulled the heavy ice box out of the lake, but it kept slipping out of his hands. It was quite smaller than other ice boxes that Saiyans gathered, but come on! He was a Saiyan, like them!
By the time it was dark, he finally got the icebox. He carefully placed it on Icarus's back and strapped it down with a loud phew.
~VEGETA PALACE~
"Gohan! Gohan!"
Gohan was mumbling something tiredly and barely opened one of his dark eyes. He sighed lightly, "What do you want, Goten?"
Goten was grinning widely, his face way too close to his older brother's. "Do you want to spar with me?"
"This late? I'm too tired," Gohan yawned loudly and turned over on his large bed, away from his brother. "Go to sleep. I'll spar with you tomorrow."
"I can't sleep!" Goten jumped onto the bed, much to Gohan's annoyance. He tried his best to show him his puppy eyes. "Please? You know, Daddy has an im… imp… impo…"
"Important meeting tomorrow?"
"Yeah!"
The older Son brother yawned again, as he shoved his brother who fell off his bed with a loud oof. "Nah, I'd rather sleep now. Go back to sleep."
Goten was pouting angrily until his face lit up with excitement as soon as an idea popped up in his head. He climbed back onto his older brother's bed and whispered into his ear, "Gohan… Do you want to build a snowman?"
Gohan opened his eyes with a huge smile on his face.
~TRAINING ARENA~
The Son princes sneaked into the enclosed training arena without trying not to be way too loud. Goten giggled loudly, who then was shushed loudly by Gohan.
"Do magic again!" Goten could not help but exclaim loudly with so much excitement.
"Alright!" Gohan held out his right hand. He waved his left hand above his right one. Flakes of ice appeared out of nothingness and were being gathered together above Gohan's hand. He quickly flickered his wrist with his waving hand, making the ice explode into flakes of snow.
"Wow!" The younger prince exclaimed again, watching the snowflakes falling from the ceiling. No matter how many times Gohan did awesome ice magic, it always amazed him.
"Watch!" Grinning widely, Gohan stomped one of his feet on the floor, creating ice all over not only the floor, but also the walls and ceiling. Goten giggled playfully as he was sliding without any effort as if the ice was moving him itself.
For the next hour, they were playing nonstop. They were throwing snowballs at each other, making snow angels, laughing at each other when one brother slipped on the ice, and building a snowman.
"Let's name it Kuririn!" Goten laughed, as he was making small dents on the snowman's forehead.
Gohan took a look at the tiny snowman that they made and recalled a certain character named Kuririn from Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Z. He could clearly see the resemblance because the snowman did not have any nose. He nodded in approval.
"Kuririn! Kuririn!" Goten threw himself at the snowman and hugged it tightly, only to accidentally sever its head. He cried, "Ack! Oh no, Kuririn!"
It only took the younger Son brother a few seconds to get over the snowball when he jumped around happily. "C'mon, Gohan! I want to go higher!"
Gohan created a smooth-looking pile of snow in front of Goten who cheered in return. Goten jumped on the pile and yelled, "Keep going!"
The older brother nodded and made a few more piles of snow, bigger every time for Goten to jump on. The past hour made him feel exhausted, but he did not want to stop playing at all. He suddenly slipped when he took a step on the icy spot.
After he fell on the ice, he quickly swung his hand only to realize how little icy magic he had left.
"Goten, stop!" Gohan shouted in panic, but Goten seemed not to hear him as he was happily jumping on the last pile of the snow.
Gohan knew that Goten had not learned how to fly yet. It was fifty feet tall when Goten landed on the last pile of the snow. He tried to make ice hastily in his palm. As soon as he felt a faint magic, he threw his hand only to realize that he was throwing a sharp magic of ice at Goten who was still jumping into the air.
The icy magic hit Goten's head, making him yelp in pain. He fell onto the soft snow floor after a long fall.
"Goten!" Gohan shouted worriedly and ran to his unconscious brother. When he placed his brother's head on his lap, he noticed that Goten had a white strand in his hair. He started shaking him a little, "Please wake up, Goten! Wake up!"
Goten would not wake up.
Gohan was breathing almost rapidly at the thought of his brother dying. He screamed tearfully, his icy magic suddenly freezing all over the room.
"What's going on?!" It was Gohan's sleepy father's voice. He heard the double door opening and turned to find his parents.
"What are you doing up this late - oh no!" Chichi ran toward the Son brothers. "What in the world happened?! What had you done?!"
"I… I-I didn't mean to hurt him!" Fresh tears were streaming down Gohan's face cheeks, as he threw himself into Goku's warm embrace. "H-he can't f-fly, so I-I tried to…"
"He's cold!" Chichi said worriedly after she picked up Goten who was not even moving a little bit.
"S-senzu beans! Come with me!" Goku quickly grabbed Chichi's hand and ran out of the castle into the snowstorm.
"Nimbus Cloud!" The King called and waited nervously yet patiently until a yellow cloud came into his sight. He helped Chichi to get on the cloud and glanced at Gohan briefly. He could tell that his older son was shaking a little in both fear and anxiety.
"Come, Gohan," Goku reached out his hand. Gohan nodded and took his hand so he could get on the waiting cloud.
After that, the Son family took off into the night sky right away. What Goku did not realize was that there was one Saiyan who sensed their ki, but he was so focused on getting Goten to a certain friend who could save him.
Meanwhile, Trunks was whispering to Icarus, who only whimpered in return, "I'm tired too, Icarus. It's only one more mile, and then we are home -"
He quickly turned his head toward a sudden presence. He shivered at the high power level and wondered who it was until he spotted a yellow cloud flying through the night sky. Is that the King?
He blinked in surprise when he saw a icy trail being formed right behind the yellow cloud. The further the Nimbus Cloud went, the icy trail turned into flakes which fell back to the earth. He tilted his head a little, "Ice?"
He decided to follow them.
~KAMI'S LOOKOUT~
"It's the king," one of the Namekians said in surprise. He jerked his head at the temple for another Namekian to inform their leader.
Goku was panting heavily as if he was running even though he did not. He grabbed Goten out of Chichi's arm. He collapsed to his knees, "Please… Please save him."
The Namekians were watching the royal family in both sadness and curiosity, completely unaware of another Saiyan kid and a purple dragon who were hiding and peeking from one of the poles.
Kami stepped out of the temple, only to make Trunks gasp in surprise.
"Kami? The god of Earth?" Trunks asked himself, only to be shushed by another Namekian, who was standing right next to him.
"I'm trying to listen!" The Namekian snapped.
"Who are you?"
"Piccolo," He turned to Trunks and Icarus. The purple dragon chirped happily, making Piccolo relax. He said approvingly, "I'm going to keep you."
Kami glanced at Gohan who was hiding behind Chichi. He shifted his eyes back to Goten and noticed the white strand in his hair, "I see. Was Gohan cursed or born with the power?"
"Both..." Goku answered hesitantly. "To be frankly… I wouldn't say he was cursed… but the spell was definitely placed on him before he was born."
"Mmmm," Kami placed his hand on Goten's sweating forehead. He frowned and shook his head, "There's nothing senzu beans could do… however… you got here just on time. My people were able to gather the last Dragon Ball just this morning."
One of the Namekians brought all seven Dragon Balls, which were repeatedly glowing in light and dimming, and placed them on the floor.
"Come forth, Shenlong! Grant my wish!" Kami commanded, as he raised his hands in the air. Thunder boomed across the dark sky. The Dragon Balls glowed in even brighter light until they were merged and formed into a long green dragon, who were looking down at the summoner.
"Whoa," Gohan and Trunks said in awe at the same time.
"State your wish. I shall grant only one wish," Shenlong commanded.
Goku carefully placed Goten on the floor and got up. He looked all the way up at Shenlong, "I wish for Son Goten to be recovered from the power of ice!"
Shenlong paused briefly and stared at Goten's unconscious body. "I apologize, but I don't have any power to free him from the Ice-jin's curse."
"It's a curse?!" Chichi nearly shrieked, but Goku ignored her.
"Is there anything else you can do to, at least, bring him back?" Goku asked.
Seeing his father in desperation, Gohan could not help but feel guilty. If he did not have ice powers in the first place, then his brother wouldn't be like this and his family wouldn't have to suffer.
"Actually, yes," Shenlong boomed, "However, in order to do that, I will have to take away his memories of Gohan's icy powers. In the other words, his memories would have to be replaced with something else. For example, instead of Gohan creating a snowman by using his own icy powers, Goten would only remember building snowman with him using the normal snow."
"Does that mean we can't tell him about Gohan's icy powers?" Goku asked. "What about the people in my kingdom?"
"Just for this special case, I will also wipe out your people's memories of Gohan having ice powers."
"But why?" Goku frowned in confusion. "I don't see any harm in telling -"
"I don't know how that will affect Goten's well being, but it's entirely up to you to tell him or not," Shenlong answered honestly.
"Okay," Goku said. "Please do so."
At the same time as the unconscious Son brother's body was glowing in bright light, Shenlong's eyes glowed in bright red light.
"Your wish has been granted. Farewell," Shenlong boomed one more time and then turned back into the Dragon Balls, which then spread out all over the planet.
Chichi pulled Goten into her arms, making him mutter words. She smiled in relief.
Goku glanced at Gohan who was quiet for the entire time. Now that he knew Goten was going to be ok, he had no idea if Gohan would ever be ok.
"Gohan," Goku came up to Gohan and put his hands on his son's shoulders. He gave him a grin. "There's no need to be sad. Goten is going to be -"
"He is not going to remember I have ice powers?" Gohan interrupted his father, his dark eyes staring into another pair of dark eyes.
"No," Goku said after a few seconds of pause. "However…"
He took Gohan's hand and brought him to Goten, who was smiling in his sleep. "When Goten is ready, someday we will be able to tell him."
"For now, Goten needs to recover," Chichi pulled Gohan into one of her arms and placed a kiss on his forehead. "He will be fine."
"Okay," Gohan mumbles.
"Goku, I need to tell you something first," Kami saw the opportunity to interrupt the family conversation. "Gohan, you need to listen too."
"What is it?" Goku did not like the look Kami was giving him.
"I had seen the curses that the Ice-jins placed on other people. Gohan was not the first person to have the ice power. One of our people…" Kami glanced at other Namekians, who were staring at Gohan in fear. "As you could see… After you defeated Frieza, the Namekians were brought to Earth. One of them had the same curse that he received from Frieza while we were still on Planet Namek. His name was Nail. At first, he seemed fine, but because of his uncontrollable ice powers, he was a danger to others… and to himself as well. Gohan's curse… It will be your enemy."
"What do we do?" Chichi asked nervously.
"I strongly suggest…" Kami said calmly and turned to Goku, "For you to start training Gohan to hold his ice powers back -"
"No!" Goku shook his head, "I will make sure that he learns how to control his ice power! I will make sure that nothing harms any of us… including Gohan."
Kami sighed again, "Goku… Great power comes with great responsibility. Please remember that well."
Since that night, due to Chichi's demands (after the longest argument with Goku) for their safety, the palace was closed to the public. Nobody, except a few trustworthy servants, could come into the palace at all.
Chichi even made sure to move Goten into a different bedroom, but Goten was completely confused why he had to move. He loved being in the same bedroom as his older brother and sharing his stuff with him. So why?
Goten tried to ask Gohan what was wrong, but Gohan just ignored him and locked himself in his own bedroom.
~TO BE CONTINUED~