When Gohan would wake up, he still felt heavily drained, his sight showing him that he lay in his bedroom then, lying on his back as he laid on his bed.
By then, it was nighttime, and as Gohan stared at the ceiling, he took note of the moonlight streaming into his room, illuminating part of it as he finally pulled himself up into a sitting position, grunting ever so slightly as he did so.
How late had he slept? he mentally wondered, him pulling himself out of bed while rubbing his head tiredly.
For a moment, he was too groggy to think, yet the memory of the dream flickered in his mind, and he narrowed his eyes.
He tried sensing his mother's energy for a moment, and once he decided she was asleep, he rose from his bed.
"I have to look for Dende." He said to himself, him soon climbing out the window before he flew off into the night sky quickly, flying towards Dende's Lookout.
Upon arriving, Gohan quickly found his friend looking towards him in surprise.
"Gohan?"
"Dende!" Gohan ran up to him. "Sorry if this is sudden, but could I ask you a favor?"
Dende turned himself so he fully faced Gohan, nodding.
"Of course. What is it you need?"
"Did Mr. Popo tell you about the Divine Holy Water yet?" Gohan asked while remembering Garlic Jr.
"He did." Dende nodded. "Why? Did you need it for something?"
"I... I think." Gohan said. "I... Think I might be possessed somehow."
Dende's expression became shocked, before the young Namek's eyes hardened with a surge of determination.
"Let me be sure..." Dende raised a hand up to Gohan's chest, eyes narrowing as he concentrated his energy, Gohan's eyes widening as he felt a sudden burning sensation fill his body, red lightning sparking between his body and Dende's hand, it scorching through Gohan's shirt and burning Dende's hand.
The lightning quickly became much more frequent, creating a massive number of arcs between Dende and Gohan, before they began zapping the Guardian's wrist and burning parts of his sleeve as well.
Gohan began to give grunts of pain through clenched teeth, as did Dende, who snapped one eye shut.
He let his cane slip from his hand, his now free hand whipping up and gripping the hand getting zapped as Dende squeezed it, fanged teeth clenching tighter before he gave a final roar, a divine energy shooting into Gohan's body, creating a white barrier of light around his body before Gohan gave a cry of pain, before a shockwave blew both of them back.
Dende was blown back in such a way that he was sent through a mid-air back flip before he landed with a clap on his feet, skidding to a stop, him a foot away from the edge of the Lookout.
Gohan caught himself much quicker, one eye snapped shut tightly as he breathed heavily, grasping at his chest as his lungs suddenly felt several times cleaner than they were before.
Where the two had once been standing however, was something that Dende expected.
Standing amidst a cloud of purplish aura was the same golden eyed demon from before, eyes narrowed.
"Tsk," he grit his teeth, "isn't this troublesome?"
"Why were you inside of Gohan?" Dende half exclaimed, walking to his left to avoid getting blown off the Lookout.
"Ideally, I meant to take his body as my own, with his consent." The demon scowled. "But I haven't had enough time to acclimate to him yet. It's a shame."
"Who... Who are you?" Gohan asked, his voice raspy as he said this.
"Imashil." The demon said, tightening his hands into fists as his power swelled around him. "And my purpose is the total destruction of-"
He deliberately moved in the middle of his sentence, moving with a burst of speed off the Lookout.
Gohan and Dende's eyes widened, yet Gohan flew directly after him, Imashil whipping around in mid-air before his golden eyes flared with a bright light as energy began to form around him.
Sensing this, Gohan whipped a hand up and shot an improvised beam of energy at him.
When the beam connected, the collision sparked the energy Imashil had created, and it caused a reaction that blinded Gohan deeply, the effect not too different from a Solar Flare as he became disoriented and blind.
He tried to sense the demon's energy, but could not pinpoint a direction or distance, his sense of balance disrupted as his flight was hindered.
There was the sound of Dende calling out to him, the feeling of something grabbing him, before he recovered.
When he'd done so, he only then noticed Dende flying back to the Lookout while carrying him.
He tried to sense Imashil a moment longer, until he realized that he was gone.


Gohan sighed as he sat on the ground minutes later, eyes narrowed after telling Dende his entire account of meeting Imashil, along with the dreams he'd had where he'd heard his voice.
"It must have been when you first killed him." Dende said. "This could be bad."
"How?" Gohan asked, him understanding the idea of possession after the time dealing with Garlic Jr., but him wanting to see his friend's perspective on it as well.
"I've been trying to study old texts Mr. Popo gave me." Dende said. "And... If what we know means what I think it does... This could end really badly, if we aren't careful."
Gohan looked up to him, then nodded.
"Can we confirm it together first?" Dende asked him, and Gohan nodded, rising up to his feet before the Demi-Saiyan and Namekian walked towards the house at the center of the Lookout.


Inside of one of the storage rooms, Dende pulled out a thick scroll, him setting it down and opening it up.
"This room is a storage area for each Guardian." Dende said without looking back at Gohan. "Every Guardian of Earth has to remember these things to do their jobs to the best of their ability. Kami had to do it as well, when he was a Guardian."
Gohan looked at all the scrolls around him, then looked to the scroll Dende was reading, it being in the Universal Language.
Dende's eyes skimmed over it quickly, and while Gohan's eyes, long since adapted to reading things at college level speed, read at a faster pace, the content of it confused him.
"Dende...?"
Dende paused, eyes narrowing.
"Gohan, you understand how there are rankings for deities, right?"
He didn't look back at him, gaze set on the parchment in front of him.
"Every planet has a Guardian deity, every galaxy has a Minor Kai, every band of galaxies has a Grand Kai, and every universe a Supreme Kai."
Gohan looked at the Namekian for a moment more, and Dende looked back at him.
""Every"?" Gohan furrowed his brows. "There's more than one universe?"
Dende nodded.
"There are twelve, each one with their own set of gods, planets and galaxies." Dende said. "But... Over all of the universes," he looked down, "there's one deity who stands over all of them. His title is the Omni-King, or Zen-oh."
Gohan looked to the scroll again.
"Ok. But what does Imashil have to do with that?"
Dende looked back at the scroll.
"There was once a human, a very, very long time ago, who somehow learned of the Omni-King's existence. The sources vary, and even this account doesn't say how it happened," Dende looked to Gohan, "but it did. And... After realizing how meaningless existence could be, after learning about the Omni-King's nature, this human, a warrior named Bushido, vowed to become powerful enough to usurp the Omni-King. With this in mind, he learned of every type of martial art the world had to offer, and gathered for himself a number of masters who helped him, day in and day out, to become the ultimate warrior. By the time he mastered all the arts however, he was a wizened old man beyond his prime, but still a very powerful force nonetheless. Despite this, he began a martial arts school to create a set of warriors who could carry on his dream. Most of his disciples took him for a madman, but his teachings were undeniably sound, in terms of morality. Bushido was even the one who set the standards of the ideal warrior, even in this day and age. Bushido's disciples became incredibly powerful from his teachings, but... Some of them disliked his teachings, despite the power his training gave them. Eventually, a demonic wizard came, a wizard named Yugaina, and he convinced 11 of Bushido's strongest disciples to learn his teachings instead. While they did gain more power, the 11 disciples of Yugaina were transformed into demonic entities as a result of the power corrupting them. Yugaina eventually began to lead them to destaroy civilizations and planets as practice, and when Bushido caught wind of it, he immediately decided to confront Yugaina and the 11 disciples. While he tried to convince the 11 to stop their actions, they didn't listen. The other 11 disciples of Bushido who had stayed with him supported him, and not long after their rejection of Bushido, Bushido's disciples fought Yugaina's disciples to the death. The intensity of the battle nearly made the entire Multiverse collapse in destruction. Yugaina and Bushido's battle nearly pushed it to that point as well. In the end, both sides had killed one another. Yet, despite this, it was said that the 22 disciples' spirits live on, and those who followed Bushido will go and grant immense power to a warrior they collectively deem worthy. Despite this, the spirits of the disciples of Yugaina will be reborn when this person is chosen, to corrupt and possess them. If this happens, then the person is killed by the spirits of Yugaina's reborn disciples. So far... This has happened four times. Each time ended with the warrior being killed."
Dende sighed.
"And... I read the names of the disciples od Yugaina over again. One of them was named Imashil."
Gohan fell silent at this, eyes widened.
"They won't stop with just him." Dende said. "The others will come for you soon."
Gohan looked down, eyes narrowing.
"We have to warn the others." Dende told him. "And get them ready for what's coming."
"How?" Gohan asked.
Dende's gaze was pensive.
"We'll have to give you all the power in your arsenal." Dende said. "Elder Guru only unleashed some of your potential on Namek. But there's still some untapped potential that can be drawn out of you."
"How?" Gohan asked.
"There are a lot of methods." Dende said. "But some are more dangerous than others. For now, I need you to drink Holy Water and get some rest. This is a lot to deal with." Dende said.
Gohan nodded softly.


Imashil reappeared in the altered dimensional plane he and the others had created for themselves, him scowling deeply as he grit his teeth.
"Damn." He muttered, eyes narrowed.
"They keep getting craftier every time." Ragiel's voice said upon seeing Imashil again.
"This is a genuine pain in the arse." Imashil said, falling to the ground tiredly.
"Did you at least gather a decent amount of energy this time?" Xunder asked him.
"I managed to take a shilling's amount," Imashil replied, "it is not a groundbreaking amount, but every step is a step towards Yugaina's revival. We must cherish it."
"Hopefully this one doesn't kill themselves before we make them a good host." Modsew said. "It's game over all over again if they do."
"I doubt we need to worry on that end of things." Imashil said. "With my time inside this candidate, I've seen how greatly he is needed against powerful foes. To wit, he's quite young, so while he may be perceptive, he's still but a child. It may be a gamble, but it is one worth taking until we can accomplish our mission."
With this, the demon approached Yugaina's seal to pour energy into it.