Chapter Six: Strange Reunions
"Gohan, hurry up and finish off your homework, I don't want to be late" Bulma shouted to her 4 year old son.
"I'm already finished mum see" said Gohan holding us his completed homework. He then ran and gave his mum a hug.
Bulma was meeting up with all her old friends from the Z Gang which she had not seen much of since she had adopted Gohan.
"Will Uncle Yamcha be there mum?" Gohan asked Bulma about her on again off again boyfriend.
"Most likely" Bulma replied smiling at her son.
Bulma was excited at seeing all of her friends again. They had grown up together, they where her family. She was couldn't wait to find out what they were all doing, she couldn't believe that it had been four years since the last time that she'd seen them all. It was unlike her to not see the whole gang for so long. Yamcha had already left for Roshi's island earlier that morning while she had a conference that she had to attend and couldn't get out of causing her to miss the start of the reunion.
Gohan was really nervous about the reunion meeting all of his mum's old friends, he knew all of the people that worked at Capsule Corporation but that was different, these people where her actual friends that she had grown up with. Gohan didn't know how he was meant to act around them.
Bulma finished getting herself and Gohan ready and got in one of the Capsule Hover jet and headed towards Roshi's Island. Gohan looked out of the window of the jet and saw they were flying out of the city.
Bulma felt really good flying out this was again, it was familiar considering the number of times that she had flown this way over the years, it felt like it was only last week that she had last flown this way when in fact it had been a few years.
It didn't take long and they were flying over the ocean and lots of small islands. Bulma landed on one of the small islands and helped Gohan out of the Capsule Hover jet. He clung to the back of her leg. No one saw Gohan as she came in.
"Bulma my lovely lady how are you?" the old turtle hermit asked slyly as she came in.
"Fine, how are you guys? I haven't seen all you guys in ages" Bulma said in a cheery voice.
"I'm good Bulma, but it's not like you to disappear for about 4 years without talking to any of us" said a short man named Krillen.
"Yeah Bulma it defiantly not something that you would do, now Goku on the other hand would go off and lose total track of time" a man with three eyes stated.
Everyone saw a flicker off sadness in Bulma's eyes but just as quickly as it came, it was gone. "Now Tien I have been really busy. So what have you been doing, and where is Launch she's not here?" during that time his mother was talking Gohan had spotted Yamcha and had started to inch towards him, no one else in the room beside Bulma has seen Gohan move, the others beside Yamcha didn't even realize that Gohan existed.
"Launch blew up my house last week and I haven't seen her since" Tien said.
"That's Launch for you" Krillen laughed. "But where are Goku and Chi-Chi I thought that I had invited them, It would be good to see them I haven't seen them since the last martial arts tournament and that was about six years ago"
Gohan had finally got over to Yamcha "Hello." Gohan said to him in his shy little voice.
"Hey where did that kid come from?" asked Roshi stunned that he didn't notice him before know.
"Yamcha, Bulma is he yours? Why didn't you tell any of us that you two had a kid" Krillen teased.
"Uncle Yamcha is not my dad, is he mum?" Gohan asked a little bit confused about what was happening.
"But if Yamcha is not his dad then who is" asked Tien.
"Look at him guy he has a tail who do you think is his dad" said Yamcha with a big smile on his face confusing everyone why he was happy that Bulma had a kid to someone else.
"Goku, but Bulma what about Yamcha and Chi-Chi didn't you think of them" said Krillen almost in shock. Yamcha had burst out laughing and Bulma was getting angry.
"Oh" Gohan said coming to some type of conclusion. "You want to know who my real parents are. They died when I was a baby. You got my dad's name right but my other mum's name was Chi-Chi" said little Gohan who had always known that he was adopted.
"Goku and Chi-Chi died, how? And Why Didn't Any One Tell Us?" Choutzu said utterly stunded.
"It was not long after Gohan was born, Goku has a heart condition and Chi-Chi died in a car crash" Yamcha started explaining to all of his and Bulma's friends.
After Yamcha had finished Krillen asked "But that doesn't explain why none of us where ever told".
"I guess that I kind of lost track of everything when I adopted Gohan" Bulma told her friends.
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While everyone in the Kame house was trying to process that Goku and Chi-Chi had died and that Bulma had adopted their son they failed to notice a very strong ki coming towards them. That very strong ki blasted open the door, Gohan ran and hid behind Bulma's leg. Everyone was shocked to see this man with long black hair and black eyes blast down the door.
"I am a saiyan known as Raditz and I am looking for my brother Kakarot" demanded the man standing in from of him.
"We have never heard of anyone called Kakarot or the saiyans, so why don't you go look somewhere else" yelled Bulma.
Raditz looked behind Bulma and saw a small buy standing behind her. "Mum" said a scared little Gohan. Bulma then bent down and picked Gohan up, who was very scared of this man that was standing in front of them.
"That boy has a tail, his father must have been my brother Kakarot. That boy does remind me of my father. Boy where is your father?"
"My daddy's dead" said a scared little Gohan.
Everyone saw that this man had a tail. It was quite possible that the man Kakarot that he was talking about was Goku as he had a tail and was adopted by Grandpa Gohan when he was found as a baby.
"Well since it seems that Kakarot is dead I will take his son instead" Raditz walked over to Bulma slowly.
Bulma moved back "I will not let you take my son"
Everyone had moved into defensive positions. Raditz noticed this and disappeared. A mysterious gust of wind filled the room as each fighter was knocked unconscious faster than the human eye could see, leaving Gohan and Bulma with the powerful saiyan.
"You don't have much choice in the matter" he said as he moved towards Bulma.
Bulma was not going to let anything happen to her baby. She ran towards the window and jumped out of it with Gohan in her arms, she was running scared towards where she has left her Capsule Hover jet. She had got in and took off and was speeding over the ocean towards the main land.
Raditz was quiet amused by this attempt of escape by Bulma. He followed her out of the Kame house and stood on the beach for a few moments before deciding to start his chase. It didn't take long for Raditz to catch up with the blue haired scientist. Gohan looked out of the window and saw that the saiyan warrior catching up to them and fast. Gohan didn't even have time to warn his mother that he was catching up for he was already in front of them. Bulma attempted to swerve in another direction be it was no use. She crashed straight onto the man that wanted to kidnap her son. As Raditz ripped thru the jet he grabbed his nephew leaving the blue haired woman that called herself the boy's mother. He looked down for a few moments as the jet fell into the ocean.
"" Screamed Gohan as he watched the jet with his mother fall into the ocean. Raditz was having trouble holding Gohan who was squirming trying to get to his mother. Then Gohan stopped squirming, his rage building. It wasn't even a full second that Gohan turned around in Raditz's hands, anger evident on his face.
"You hurt my mum" Gohan yelled and attacked Raditz out of blind rage.
Raditz was totally taken by surprise especially when his armour split causing him to drop Gohan into the ocean.
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Piccolo who had encountered Raditz not long after he had landed on the planet was flying towards the area. He thought that his enemy Goku would be there fighting this evil monster. As Piccolo flew through the air, was planning on taking his revenge on Goku. He knew that Goku would not let this guy destroy the planet or the humans, so he was going to take advantage of the situation and attack Goku after he had finished with this alien. The demon prince was surprised when he arrived and saw that Goku was not in the area at all, the only person was the blue haired girl that was a friend of Goku's and the little boy that was in the jet with her. He saw the alien rip apart the jet and snatched the little boy. Piccolo's jaw dropped when he saw the kid attack the alien, causing him to be dropped into the ocean.
Piccolo looked around for Goku and realised that he wasn't coming. He started weighing up the options in his head wait for this guy to destroy the planet and kill him or fight this guy and be killed anyway. Piccolo decided that he would rather die fighting then sit around waiting for it to happen.
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Raditz was looking in the ocean for Gohan, he could not leave the planet without the little boy. He was actually there to recruit his brother Kakarot so that they had one more to help over through the Cold Empire. He didn't notice Piccolo in the area at all. Piccolo took advantage of the fact that Raditz was occupied with other thing and knowing that he only had one shot he sent his strongest blast straight towards Raditz. The saiyan warrior fell out of the sky and landed on a rocky island.
Piccolo nearly fell out of the sky in amazement when his blast went right thru the saiyans stomach, he had expected the guy to move out of the way or a counter attack. Piccolo flew to the small rocky island where the saiyan had landed.
"You think that you have won" said Raditz who had blood coming out from around his mouth "but the others of my kind will come for the boy, and to avenge my death and they are a lot stronger than me" he then coughed up some quite a bit of blood before taking his final breaths and closing his eyes for the last time.
Piccolo knew that he was in over his head, he was lucky that he beat Raditz he couldn't beat two more of them. Piccolo could sense a small ki coming from the ocean, he remembered how large that ki had been when Goku's blue haired friend was in trouble. Piccolo found the young boy unconscious; he picked him decided that he would train him and started to fly towards his training ground.
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Bulma who had managed to get out of her capsule jet and swim to a small island had see Piccolo attack Raditz and overheard the sayians warning but didn't know where Gohan was until Piccolo pulled him out of the ocean. She saw Piccolo take off into the distance with her son. "Hey you bring Gohan back right now, that's my son you have there" Bulma yelled to the demon when he took off with her son.
Piccolo having sensitive hearing heard every work that Bulma had yelled even thought he was a good distance away from her. "So your name is Gohan, the son of Son Goku, the man who killed my father."
Everyone from the reunion had woken up, and made their way to where the battle had taken place. Yamcha found Bulma on a small island crying about Piccolo kidnapping Gohan after rescuing him from Raditz and more saiyans on the way. They all looked on in fear knowing that they had a lot of training to do if they were going to beat these saiyans.
