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Chapter 9; The Fire Eater, part 2
"ChiChi!" Goku yelled as he dropped himself through the opening. He didn't wait for her reply as he bolted forward.
"Goku!" he heard her faint cry followed by a scream.
And he ran, he ran as fast as he could. His sight allowing him a clear vision of the path that lay ahead of him and it brought him straight to the clear opening.
The sight of an oversized angry lizard lunging forward greeted him and he was barely able to see ChiChi jump on its' snout and pull herself into a small opening above the rock wall seconds before the lizard opened its' mouth and launched up to grab her legs.
"ChiChi!" Goku yelled but his yell was muffled by the loud crash made by the giant lizard. Who by now roared in anger as he saw its dinner slip out of its sight. The animal slammed its huge head against the rock over and over again, its' body not being able to climb up on the wall to reach ChiChi.
With one jump Goku managed to land right behind the giant hungry lizard but it appeared he was too late.
As he was about to grab its' tail and drag the creature away from the wall the giant lizard crashed its' head against the rock one final time. The wall and every bit of rock connected to it started to crack, creating a loud downfall of rock debris landing straight on top of the lizard's head.
Goku barely had the time to duck for cover as a part of the cave crashed in. A loud explosive noise burst through the sound barriers quickly followed by the lizard's cry of pain. Then… nothing but silence remained.
Pushing the debris of his body he jumped up, noting the pile of rocks covering the lizard and the opening he had seen ChiChi disappear through was now blocked by the fresh debris of rocks.
"ChiChi?!" he yelled and hurried up on the pile of stone. He began removing whatever rock that was lose.
But it was no use, each and every rock he managed to remove was immediately replaced by others falling right back on the empty spaces.
Again he called for her name "ChiChi?!" but there was no answer. It couldn't be though, it couldn't be that she was stuck underneath the rocks. For he heard her, he could hear her heart beat.
It had to be her heart beat. Right?!
"No, no, not like this!"
In a desperate attempt to reach the princess Goku began slamming his fists into the rocks, hoping he would crush enough of them in to powder by the time the last rock had fallen. But the more he punched the more the rocks around him started to get lose. The already weakened foundation of the cave started to crack up, as more came crashing down.
"Goku?!" ChiChi's muffled voice came from behind the rocks, his heart leaped in joy as he threw himself against the wall.
"Chi?!"
"I am okay… are you?!" the girl replied and Goku couldn't help but laugh in relief.
It was her heart beat.
"Where are you, can you get out of there?"
It was silent for a while, "I think I am closer to the center of the volcano, I can see something." She started but her voice faded away a couple of times through her speech.
"What?" Goku asked and blinked, pushing his ear against the wall even harder.
"I don't know for sure alright?!" ChiChi said frantically, "But there's a narrow passage around the river, I think it will lead me to the platform in the center. You try and find a way to get there as well, don't burst through this wall, I don't want you to stumble over in to the lava!"
Goku blinked confused again, "Lava?..."
"Just keep on going Goku, I'll meet you there!"
Goku nodded, "Right, I'll see you soon!" and with that he pushed himself away from the wall. Eager to get to ChiChi as fast as possible.
In the distance, the eyes belonging to emperor Pilaf and his crew followed him closely.
An evil laugh escaped the lips of the tiny blue man, "This is going to be a lot easier than I thought, we just follow him around, let him punch his way through the rocks until he reaches the egg!"
"And then we'll steal it from him." Mia finished for her emperor. A smirk appeared on her thin red lips as she casually placed her gun on her shoulder.
With that the three set of to follow Goku from a safe distance.
It took a while, but Goku had finally managed to reach an area where the scent of sulfur reached his nostrils.
He stopped when he had reached another stone wall blocking his path. He could clearly hear movement on the other side from where he was standing.
Without thinking to long about it, Goku took one large swing and slammed his fist straight into the wall made of rock. As the pieces of rocks crumbled down an orange light warm light greeted him.
"Ha!" Goku yelled in triumph and began creating a bigger hole for him to crawl through "I am here!" he called once he was on the other side.
Expecting to find the princess waiting for him on the other side. When he was greeted with nothing but steam and lava he couldn't help but be a bit disappointed.
"Chi?" he called. His voice carrying through the area.
But there was no answer. He was about to wander around the open area until a strange beeping sound stopped him in his tracks. He turned only to step on something hard and round. He bent through his knees and inspected a black cable going through the open area.
"Is that electrical?" he wondered as he let his eyes follow the path the cable was going through.
"Now, how the hell did that get there?" he wondered and began to follow the cable. The beeping sound getting louder and louder.
Rounding a large corner of rocks Goku's eyes widened once they landed on a large machine that seemed to be holding a huge egg.
"Don't you dare take another step young man!" a voice suddenly roared up on his left. Turning around Goku was face to face with an old man aiming a gun at his head.
"Wow!" Goku called to the old man, holding his hands up, "How the hell did you get here?!"
The old man glared at Goku, "None of your business, just what do you think you are doing here young man?!"
Goku smiled innocently, "Looking for the Fire Eater birds of course." He answered.
The old man snarled and raised his gun up further, "If you think I am going to let you steal the egg, you've got another thing coming young man!"
"No, no, no!" Goku quickly said, "I don't want the egg, we're looking for a Fire Eater bird's feather, I swear! We would never steal anything."
The man glared at the young teen, "I swear!" Goku added.
"I am not an idiot, you know perfectly well that the birds are extinct! The egg is the only thing that is left of these magnificent beasts! "
Goku blinked, "I thought they were all still alive, hiding on the Volcano island for over a hundred years?!"
"You thought wrong! There's nothing left of these birds, other than the egg behind me." The old man glared at Goku, "And I will do anything to keep it safe from the likes of you!"
Goku still held his hands up but was not at all impressed by the threats coming from the old man. Instead he just looked at the egg behind the man which was held by a large machine. A few cables seemed to be attached to the entire egg as the cable let to some other sort of machine. Which was the owner of that beeping sound he had been hearing the entire time.
"So there are no birds left anymore?" Goku asked.
The old man looked at him puzzled, "Didn't you just hear me threaten you?! Why do you think I would answer that question?!"
Goku shrugged, "Because I asked? It is the polite thing to do you know." He stated knowingly.
The old man stuttered the gun shaking in his hand, "No there are no birds left any more. Which considering this situation, might be good thing for them after all. People like you are exactly what drew these magnificent beasts into extinction. At least in death, they'll be able to live in peace without having to worry about getting killed for their feathers!" the old man spat.
Goku moved his hands down, "Who said anything about killing? I just want one feather!"
The old man's face turned bright red, "Obviously you ain't getting any! Now go away before I am forced to use my bullets on you!" he threatened.
"Please do!" a piercing voice interrupted.
Goku turned around to find emperor Pilaf, his henchmen joining him as they dragged the motionless body of ChiChi with them.
"You!" the old man gasped looking at emperor Pilaf.
"Let go of her." Goku said angrily, glaring at the two who carelessly dropped her on the ground.
"My Kami what have you done to that girl?!"
He aimed his gun at the grinning face of emperor Pilaf, who was not at all impressed.
"Put the gun down Professor, unless you want the death of this young girl on your conscious."
"You locked me up in here!" the Professor spat.
Pilaf laughed insanely, "That I did, I was about to start and lose hope of getting back here with my egg. Until these youngsters came along, leading me straight back."
"What the hell do you want with this egg?!" Goku spat, his angry eyes glaring at Mia who was aiming her gun at ChiChi.
"The shells are made of diamond you idiot! What do you think we want with it?!" Pilaf spat at him, then turned to the old man who still had his gun up.
"Do you really want the death of an innocent young girl on your conscious?" Pilaf asked, "Because we will kill her if you do not lower your gun at this instant."
Mia smirked and watched how the old man lowered his gun and tossed it aside. Her eyes now gazing back toward the young male teenager who looked directly back at her.
With the light in these parts of the volcano Mia was finally able get a good look at the teen's face. There seemed to be something rather familiar about this boy. She couldn't however quite put her finger on it.
"Shu,…" she whispered low enough for her comrade to hear, "Don't you think that boy looks familiar?"
The dog raised his eyebrows, "Somewhat…" the dog responded and cocked his head slightly to the side. Oblivious to the fact that a certain someone was starting to wake up.
"Old man, we can do this the easy or the hard way. You give us the egg and we won't kill you or these youngsters here." Pilaf began to negotiate.
Mia was not able to focus on her emperors words though. She kept studying Goku's face. For some odd reason he was no longer glaring at her and Shu, but instead wore a smirk.
"Maybe he reminds us of someone we owe money to…?" Shu whispered, but Mia shook her head.
"No, no that's not it. It was someone short… a boy-" she looked at his hair, the same hairstyle of a strange looking boy they had met a couple of years ago. Riding a yellow cloud, fighting them, taking their Dragonball, stopping them from making their emperor's greatest wish. The list ended with that. But it was enough for her to realize,
"Goku…" Mia whispered just low enough for Shu to hear.
"What?! Goku?!" Shu cried in surprise in shock and aimed his gun straight at the young male teen. But before he could even pull the trigger, he heard Mia cry out in pain, his emperor yelled and just when Shu turned to look at his fallen comrade he saw a fist belonging to the female teen fly against his face. He had no time to recuperate for once he fell he felt another full hard blow in his ribcage which sent him flying backwards.
"Goku?!" Emperor Pilaf cried and backed away, quickly running past ChiChi who looked thoroughly pissed off.
Goku laughed, "The one and only! Long time no see Pilaf." he stepped forward to which Pilaf immediately grabbed Mia's fallen gun.
"Get any closer and I will shoot!"
Goku smiled which earned a whine of utter panic from the blue emperor. Pilaf's arm started to shake in fear, one of the things he remembered about this boy was the fact that not even bullets could stop him.
"Oh bother…"
Pilaf gulped, looked at the angry ChiChi standing behind Goku for a brief second and then screamed bloody murder.
"Out of here!" his crew scrambled up on their feet and rushed after their master. Leaving nothing but a hot trail of dust behind them as they disappeared.
"Yeah! Take that you bastards!" the professor yelled and jumped up and down in joy.
"You sure showed him boy!" he grinned showing both teens exactly how many teeth he had.
Two.
The Professor jumped up and down in utter joy with gun still in his hand.
ChiChi blinked and leaned toward Goku, "Goku?" she asked, "Who is this man jumping up and down with a gun in his hand?
The Professor heard her question which reminded him of the gun.
"Oh this old thing?!" he grinned sheepishly, "Not to worry love, it's not even loaded." And with that he tossed the gun aside.
"Besides, from the looks of it I have nothing to fear from the two of you. You did come here with the right intentions!"
"That's what I have been trying to tell you!" Goku said with a smile.
Suddenly a loud growl erupted through the area causing the entire cave to rumble.
"What was that?!" the Professor yelled.
"Heh…" Goku laughed sheepishly, "I am hungry."
"Really Goku?! How can you think of food right now?!" ChiChi asked in disbelief.
Goku just shrugged his shoulders, "It's been a while since I last ate." He laughed while he placed his hand behind his head.
Shaking her head she turned back to the old man, "The Fire Eater bird, do you-" again the ground underneath their feet started to shake violently. Rocks around them began to crumble as the large egg on the machine shook about.
ChiChi snarled and turned to Goku, "Goku! We get it, you're hungry! You'll just have to wait until we find a way out of here before we can eat anything!"
Goku looked at the angry princess with wide eyes, "That wasn't my stomach…"
Before ChiChi could even open her mouth to say something, a loud crash above them shook the entire cave. Debris started to fall down around them forcing the three to duck for cover. The shaking caused cracks to form in the ground, like a snake the crack moved through the ground and pushed the entire place apart.
"The egg!" the Professor cried as he watched helplessly how the crack ran underneath the machine of his precious egg. The machine tumbled as the egg crashed violently on the ground. "No!" the old man rushed to the egg and threw himself over it. Trying with all his might to keep the egg from falling into the crack.
The shaking continued, steam burst through the ground as each of the cracks grew wider with every second. In seconds the path that lead to the entrance of the volcano was blocked.
Goku jumped up and rushed towards the old man and the egg, grabbing the egg with the man right on top of it he moved the them to a more secure place. All the while avoiding the rocks that fell down around them.
ChiChi got to her feet and joined Goku. Narrowly escaping as the walls around them began to fall apart.
"Is there an easy way out?!" Goku yelled at the Professor who was struggling to hold on to the egg.
"No! I was trapped in here remember?!"
Goku glared and placed the egg on the ground, "Stay back!" he yelled at both ChiChi and the Professor. ChiChi knew right away what he was planning. She ran toward the Professor and forced him to take shelter as Goku took a stance.
Lava was coming up through the cracks as Goku yelled, "Ka-me-Ha-Me-HAAAAA" a blue ray erupted from his hands bursting straight through the outer wall of the volcano. Without saying a word he picked up the egg as ChiChi yelled at the Professor to run.
Both Professor and ChiChi ran first through the newly created corridor, Goku hot on their trail with the egg on his back. The entire corridor shook alongside the volcano. Each running as fast as they could which rewarded them with the sight of an end of the tunnel.
One jump later and the three were outside, landing on the hard rock of the island surround the volcano. The corridor behind them caved in as the ground continued to shake.
ChiChi panted, looking up at the skies and seeing no clouds of ashes or any of the kinds erupting out of the volcano. "Is…is it going erupt?"
"I don't want to sit around and find out!" said the Professor as he motioned the teens to follow him.
Goku took the egg and carried it on his back, following the man to a boat which was floating above the rocky edge of the island.
They hurriedly got on the boat. A few heart beats later the boat moved forward and far away from the shaking island.
To Be Continued...
