Dark Fire: Chapter 6 (And the lazy author writes again…)
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Chapter 6: Let's See What You Got!
"A… A what?" Krillin asked, staring opened mouth at Piccolo.
"A demon, or something very close to one." The Namekian repeated, his eyes still closed. Tien stared at him for a moment, and then nodded.
"I guess if any of us would know, it would be you Piccolo."
"So, let me get this straight…" Vegeta suddenly spoke up, his usual glare deepening. "According to this brat, in an unknown amount of time, we are all going to be killed by some random being from the Underworld?"
Piccolo nodded.
"Sounds about right."
Vegeta sighed, and leaned back against the tree.
"Figures, it's been nothing but one disaster after another since I came to this miserable planet, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this."
"Hey, no ones forcing you to stay! I for one wouldn't mind if you took off back into space!" Yamcha suddenly yelled, glaring at Vegeta.
"Watch your mouth weakling! Or I kill you before this demon gets the chance too!"
Pan, watching this, just groaned and leaned over to Gohan.
"Are they always like this?"
The young Saiyan laughed, and nodded.
"All the time."
While Yamcha cowered from Vegeta, Gohan got to his feet, and walked over to Piccolo.
"Hey Piccolo, I was wondering something."
The Namekian looked down at him, and gave him a curious look.
"What?"
"Well, aren't demon's immortal?"
Piccolo stared at Gohan for a second, and then sighed.
"Most aren't, however…"
"A few are?" Gohan asked, finishing Piccolo's sentence. His old master nodded.
"And given our luck, this ones going to turn about to be one of those that are." Tien said, walking over to the two of them.
"We have years left right? I say we all start training. Better safe than sorry." The three eyed man continued.
"We were planning on doing that anyway, Pan and I already convinced my mom to let me continue my training." Gohan told him.
Meanwhile, Krillin had managed to talk Vegeta out of killing Yamcha, who had failed at keeping his mouth shut, and asked why Bulma would ever choose Vegeta over him. Vegeta had told him because he wasn't the one who was about to be nothing but a pile of ash. Chiaotzu had watched all of this wide-eyed, hoping the Saiyan prince wouldn't decide to use him for target practice.
However, Yamcha decided to get one last word in.
"Hey, who are you calling a weakling anyway? I may not be as strong as you Saiyans, but I'm one of the strongest humans alive!"
"Yamcha, shut up!" Krillin said, knowing they would be lucky if Yamcha didn't lose a limb or two.
To everyone's surprise, Vegeta started laughing, it was mocking laugh, but a laugh.
"Oh, you are? Well, you'll see how outclassed you are."
He turned his head, and looked at Pan.
"You, spawn of the brat. Power up."
"What?" Pan asked, staring at him
"You heard me! Power up! I'm not going to tell you again!" Vegeta ordered, glaring at her.
Pan looked over to Gohan, who just shrugged, but was looking worried. She sighed, and stood to her feet. Closing her eyes, she searched for her energy. It had been awhile since she had powered up, the Ki suppression device wouldn't be able to contain her full power, so she had to keep it low. After fifteen seconds of searching, she found it again.
The wind suddenly picked up, and Pan's eyes sprung open. A white aura slowly expanded around her, and her hair was raised up a little. The Lookout rumbled, and started to shake.
Krillin's eyes grew wide, and he laughed nervously.
"Well, I've been outclassed…" (A/N: Of course you have Krillin.)
The girl's energy easily surpassed his own, and was still rising. Tien and Yamcha had similar looks on their faces, Gohan was smiling, and Piccolo was staring at her thoughtfully. Vegeta had a smirk on his face, and suddenly Krillin got a bad feeling as he felt the prince's energy rising as well.
"Humph, just I thought." The Saiyan muttered, and then, Vegeta leapt at Pan.
The girl's eyes grew wide as Vegeta attacked, and she barely had time to dive to the right as punch whizzed past her. Her hands hit the Lookout floor, and she used them to push herself into the air, just as Vegeta's fist slammed into same spot, creating a small crater.
The Saiyan fazed out of sight, and Pan barely had enough time to spin herself around in time to block a powerful punch, which sent her flying backwards. She landed on her feet, and leapt back into the air as a Ki blast exploded where she had been standing.
Gohan was watching the battle with wide eyes, and was about to jump in, when he felt Piccolo's hand on his shoulder.
"Don't, Vegeta's just testing her. He wants to know how skilled she is."
Gohan sighed, and nodded.
Vegeta meanwhile was growing frustrated, the girl was obviously extremely agile in the air, and was able to either dodge or block every punch he threw. After twenty seconds of every one of his punches not connecting, the Prince suddenly launched himself backwards, and fired off a Ki blast.
Pan spun her body horizontally as the blast went over her head, but the light from it blinded her for a second, and she didn't see Vegeta's second attack till it was too late. His kick connected with her stomach, sending her flying towards the Lookout floor. She caught herself in midair, but Vegeta was quick to follow. She turned herself sideways as he threw a powerful punch, leaving her an opening. She quickly brought her knee up, connecting it with his stomach, stunning Vegeta for a second. She then brought her elbow down on his back.
Vegeta was surprised that the girl was actually a capable fighter; she had flaws, but was still skilled. Her attack had sent him flying downwards, and as his feet connected with the Lookout, a new plan formed in his mind.
He raised both his hands towards the girl, who was still floating about twenty feet in the air, and fired. She flew out of the way of the first Ki blast, right into the path of the second.
She landed on her knees, blood dripping from a cut on her forehead. As she pushed herself up, she heard Vegeta laughing.
"I'll admit, you've impressed me, but then again I wasn't expecting much. But enough toying around, let's take this to the next level."
"Huh?" Pan looked up, alarmed. It taken all she had to match Vegeta's speed, but she quickly realized what he was doing.
In a blinding flash of light, Vegeta's hair changed from black to golden, and his eyes from onyx to turquoise. Before Pan could react, Vegeta's fist slammed into her, sending her skidding across the Lookout floor, stopping right at the edge. She tried to push self up, but only succeeded in sending a jolt of pain through her whole body.
"Is that the best you have? Pathetic." Vegeta said, walking over to her. He looked down at her, and smirked.
"You hit me twice; I guess I should return the other one."
Suddenly, an energy blast struck Vegeta in the back, surprising the Saiyan prince; as he turned, Gohan planted his fist firmly in Vegeta's stomach, knocking him to the ground.
"Back off Vegeta." He commanded, before walking over to Pan, and kneeling next to her.
"Pan, are you ok?"
The girl nodded, trying once again to push herself up. She winced, and fell back to her knees. Gohan shook his head, and picked her up bridal style.
He walked back to the center of the Lookout, and carefully laid her on the ground.
"Pan, you can't go Super Saiyan can you?" He asked.
Pan shook her head, wincing at the pain this movement caused. 'How hard did Vegeta hit me?'
"Not a surprise, I didn't expect a quarter-Saiyan could reach that level." Vegeta interrupted from where he leaned against a tree.
"If you knew she couldn't transform why did you go Super Saiyan?" Gohan asked, shooting Vegeta a glare.
"Oh, getting protective are we? The brat needed to be shown who was the strongest, that was all."
"Unless I'm mistaken, you're the one who attacked her." Piccolo pointed out, the tiniest hint of a smirk on his face.
By this time, Dende had hurried over, and raised his hands over Pan. A low humming suddenly filled the air, and Pan's wounds faded.
"Thanks; that must come in handy huh?" Pan asked, getting to her feet and examining herself.
"More than you know." Krillin said, walking over and grinning at the girl.
"I must say, I'm impressed, you held your own against Vegeta. Not many people can do that."
Pan just smiled, and shrugged.
"He's right Pan, you did great, especially considering you're not a Super Saiyan." Gohan said, smiling at his future daughter.
"Thanks dad."
"Oh, I think I'm going to be sick." Vegeta suddenly said, an extremely annoyed look on his face.
"The girl doesn't need to be showered with praise just because she knows how to fight. She's might be stronger than you weaklings, but she's nothing compared to me and the brat, or even the Namekian."
"I don't know, she seemed to get in some good hits on you Vegeta." Yamcha said, smirking. But Tien caught him off.
"Vegeta was just testing her, there were plenty of chances for him to end the fight, but he was gauging her power."
Gohan and Piccolo nodded in agreement, and Vegeta gave a slight smirk.
"Anyway, back to the important subject, we need to decide what to do about this new threat that is coming. Gohan, Piccolo and I have already agreed to continue our training." Tien continued.
Everyone agreed to continue training, with the exception of Yamcha, who said his contribution wouldn't be worth much compared to the others. This gained a scoff from Vegeta, and a glare from Piccolo, who knew that the real reason was the man was too lazy to go back to training. Maybe Vegeta was right, times of peace weren't completely good.
Yamcha and Krillin were the first to leave, followed by Tien and Chiaotzu. Piccolo told Gohan him and Dende would keep a watch over earth and monitor it for any extremely high power levels. After Gohan told his old master goodbye, him and Pan prepared to take off, but were suddenly stopped by Vegeta.
"What do you want Vegeta?" Gohan asked, still angry at the Saiyan prince about earlier.
"Calm down brat, I have a proposition for your offspring."
Pan rolled her eyes at that term, but turned to look at the Saiyan.
"What is it?" She asked, feeling confident that Vegeta wasn't going to attack her, especially with her future father right there.
"Watch your attitude, girl, or I won't even bothering offering it to you. You see, you might just be a quarter-Saiyan, but you're still a Saiyan. You have some potential, but what little you have is undeveloped. It disgusts me, so I intend to fix it."
Pan stared at him, not quite grasping what he was saying, but Gohan did.
"You're offering to train her?" The young half-breed asked, opened mouth.
"You might put it that way. But I warn you, unlike that Namekian or your father, I'm not soft, my training is harsh and unforgiving, and I will kill you if you annoy me."
Pan gulped, not liking this idea at all. But thankfully, Gohan spoke for her.
"Vegeta, I'm going to train her."
Piccolo, who had just started meditating, looked up in shock. He opened his mental link to Gohan, calmed himself before speaking. (A/N: Well, thinking.)
'Gohan, what are you doing?'
'Piccolo, she's not ready for Vegeta's training, but I can sense she has potential, Vegeta does too, that's why he's offering to train her.'
Piccolo just stared at his old pupil from across the Lookout. There was no way this was the same four year old crybaby he had trained years ago.
'Goku's death really had an effect on him. He's far more mature than his father will ever be.' Piccolo thought, before refocusing his link.
'Alright Gohan, if you need help with the training, tell me.'
'Ok, thanks Piccolo.'
"Will you two stop talking with your minds? It's really annoying!" Vegeta said, glaring at Gohan.
Pan looked back and forth between her father, Vegeta and Piccolo. She was really confused now.
"As I said, I'll be training Pan." Gohan said, interrupting Pan's thoughts. Vegeta just shrugged, and turned his back to the two.
"Fine, doesn't matter to me."
Gohan smirked slightly, before turning to Pan and giving her a questioning look.
"So, will you let me train you?"
Pan stared at him for a second, before smiling, and nodding.
"Yeah!"
Suddenly, a loud rumble came from her stomach and she blushed.
"Um… Do you think Grandma has lunch ready yet?"
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