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Chapter 11

Gohan was zipping around the gravity room in his new gi as he rained punches down on Vegeta. He no longer had to worry about messing up his outfit thanks to Bulma producing plenty of them and even storing one in a new watch for him to be able to change into his hero clothes in a split second.

"Gallick Gun!", Vegeta roared as he sent the young half breed sailing into the far wall.

Using his new found breathing room Vegeta powered up to his ascended state while Gohan stood and regained his balance. Vegeta glared down at the teenager who was still fighting in his base form as he launched himself at him. The golden and blue blur slammed into the teen as they flashed across the floor locked in their early morning spar.

With a sudden grunt Gohan surged his power and jumped straight to the second level for himself. The two ascended saiyans landed in their stances as their bioelectricity filled the dome shaped room. With a roar the two launched at each other and let the battle begin again.

Meanwhile in the kitchen an irritable blonde teenager was hunched over her breakfast as she peered out the window at the still dark sky. She grumbled into her eggs and watched the little boy across from her inhale a pack worth of bacon in a matter of seconds. The blue haired scientist and youthful grandma were both sipping at their coffee chatting away as though all the explosions and shaking were a normal event.

"Is this really what it's like to live with a saiyan?", Erasa finally asked as a particularly rough shake sent her plate clatter across the table only to be saved by Trunks.

"Thank you Trunks. Now back to the matter at hand", Erasa stated.

Panchy just nodded her head as Bulma answered, "Well this is the general basics of it. Normally it's not this bad and it wouldn't start for another hour or two, but Vegeta has had a sparring partner in years. They both were itching for a fight at two o'clock so be happy I could make them wait till four. Why were you wondering about life with a saiyan is what I want to know though."

Erasa did a wonderful imitation of a tomato as she stammered, "It's nothing, I was just using it as a general term you know? I figure I'll be seeing more of Gohan now and I wanted to know what to expect when I see him in the morning. I just realized that I am only digging myself a deeper grave."

The other two women were both chuckling as they watched the teen girl focus on her food again. With a final explosion the shaking ceased. After a few moments of silence the kitchen door opened and a battered Vegeta limped in supporting a nearly limp Gohan.

"What ever happened to moderation?", Bulma asked as Erasa just gaped at the two.

"Nothing is wrong. We just got a little out of control", Vegeta replied with a wince.

Gohan seemed to rally his strength as he cut in, "There was no 'we' and you know it Vegeta. You lost your temper and decided to unleash a final flash in the gravity room as an ascended saiyan. Not much room to move without letting it destroying the place."

Bulma massaged her temples as Erasa found her voice, "Gohan we have to be in class at eight and it's already five thirty. Last night you didn't look nearly this bad and you were in that tank for an hour. I mean look at you. Are those burns on your arms?"

Gohan smirked as he did put his hand behind his head, "Well yeah, I mean catching a world shattering blast can get a little hot when you're not expecting it."

Bulma interrupted before Erasa could get more fired up, "It'll be fine. Just shoot over to Korin's place. I'm sure he has some senzu beans by now. Vegeta can have the tank. Also this will give you a chance to stop on the way back and get some clothes for school. Just be back in time to change and get Erasa to school on time."

Gohan nodded as he shook the weariness from his body and swayed towards the door. Erasa hopped up and grabbed his arm, "Come on fly boy, I'm coming with you to be sure you make it."

"Exactly how will you help me if I just fall out of the sky?", Gohan replied sarcastically.

Erasa grinned, "There's two reason I'll help. First off if you pass out and start to fall my screaming will definitely wake you up", Gohan rolled his eyes as she continued, "The second reason is that your responsible for me so you won't let yourself fall from the sky. See, it's foolproof. Now really let's go meet this Korin person."

Gohan let out a huff as they walked outside and shut the door between them and the giggling Bulma. Hey there's a thought. She could come along and I wouldn't have to worry about losing energy. He took a deep breath and bellowed at the top of his lungs, "Nimbus!"

Erasa cast him a dirty look as her ears were ringing. Then it clicked. Nimbus? Isn't that the cloud thing that Gohan mentioned last night? It's real? I mean I believed him but to actually be seeing this is something else. She continued to stare as a golden trail streaked across the sky and dived down. Just as it looked like it would collide with them it stopped before Gohan to real it's golden fluffy form.

Gohan looked at it and slowly went to get on. Man I hope I can still ride this thing. According to Piccolo I've had become more like a saiyan. While being a saiyan isn't necessarily making my heart impure it sure as hell wasn't associated with kindness. He sighed with relief as he sat atop the squishy cloud firmly. He grinned and extended his hand towards Erasa. She hesitated for a heart beat before grabbing his hand and clambering aboard.

I thought he said you had to be pure of heart to ride this thing? Either the standards are nowhere near as strict as I thought or he doesn't know how this thing works. She pushed the negative thoughts aside as she felt the cloud quickly ascend and accelerate through the gray early morning sky.

The wind was whipping her short hair up and tickling Gohan's nose as she nestled back against him. He scrunched his nose and stifled his response. He heard her laughing as she suddenly leaned forward and peered over the edge in a spurt of bravery. He breathed out a sigh of relief as she leaned back again and continued to observe the world around her while being within grabbing distance.

As the sun was breaking the horizon the nimbus started its final ascent brought them to a stop atop Korin's tower. He hoped off first and felt Erasa grab his shoulder for support as she slid off.

"Hello there Gohan. It's been quite a while. Who's your friend? Your dad probably never told you but the only people allowed here are ones that have climbed the tower, or that I know are capable such as yourself and Vegeta", Korin said as he climbed the stairs up.

"Sorry Korin. We were just needing to get a senzu bean and get to school. Vegeta got carried away. I don't think dad ever told me about the rule but I should've known though", Gohan said respectfully.

Korin let out a chuckle with a hint of a purr, "Hasn't he always gotten carried away? As for the rule I'll let it be this time for a quick visit but not anymore. Besides, Goku never was good at remembering things like that so it's no surprise that you didn't know. I'll go get you the beans that I have."

Korin went back down the stairs to fetch the water as Erasa pulled on Gohan's sleeve, "Is he really a cat?"

"Yeah did I not tell you about Korin last night? Dad met him when he was younger", Gohan replied.

"You did but you must have to forgotten to mention that he's a freaking cat", she snapped before turning back towards the stairs as Korin came back up.

He tossed the small brown bag towards Gohan, "Seven is all I got right now. Oh also young lady, several members of our little group have excellent hearing and I am one of them. You didn't say anything rude or offensive it's just a friendly warning. Well take care and have fun at school."

Erasa blushed red as she waved bye and scrambled back to the nimbus cloud. Gohan grinned and said his farewells as he too climbed back on the cloud. Nimbus slowly hovered out out of the covered top to prevent the disturbing anything.

A loud voice boomed down from above as the cloud was about to blast off, "Gohan! Get up right now!"

"Does God normally yell down to you?", Erasa asked as she twisted to stare at the boy behind her.

Gohan paled, "Oh I know the Earth's equivalent of God and trust me when I say that I would much rather go see him right now. Could you hang here for just a moment? I'll be right back."

Before Erasa could object he had unfolded his legs and shot upwards. She squinted at where he had disappeared too and managed to see a small floating dot. Looking to the side she saw a red pole extending out from the top of Korin's towards the dot. So I'm good enough to meet the talking cat that grows some sort magic beans, but I'm not good enough to meet whoever lives above him.

She crossed her arms and hissed out her command, "Nimbus follow his up there. We are not being left behind."

The cloud shot upwards as it seemed to match Erasa's determination. It brought her level with the tiled floor of the Lookout. She slid off the cloud and could Gohan's spiky hair over the shoulder of tall figure with a cape and turban. She watched as his face paled when he caught sight of her. The figure he was talking to noticed this also and turned towards her.

She stumbled back as the hard black eyes bore into her. She slowly adjusted to the sight of the green skinned behemoth staring her down. He raised a single hand and beaconed her forward. She took a deep breath and marched towards the two.

Gohan slid around Piccolo and looked at Erasa as he spoke, "Why couldn't you just wait down there for just a minute."

"I wasn't just going to be left down there like some unwanted guest", She said as she put her hands on her hips.

Gohan was cut off as a rough bark of laughter cut him off from Piccolo, "You damn saiyans seem to attract strong willed women like flies to honey."

"Thank you for your observation Piccolo", Gohan replied with an eyeroll.

"Don't get snappy with me kid. We already covered this last time, even I know why you're going to school. Now be quiet before you're late on your first day. So you're Erasa, I must say I'm impressed that anyone at all was able to get Gohan to come to a standstill in one place. I'm glad of it too. Now you two run off before you're late", Piccolo said before turning and walking off.

After they were both back on the nimbus and well out of earshot Erasa spoke up, "So that was the feared demon king Piccolo?"

"Pretty much", came the simple reply.

Erasa tried to restrain her laughter and failed miserably, "You mean the mighty feared demon king that we still learn about to this day is nothing more than your best friend and possible father figure? The man that overthrew the king of the world and wanted to enslave all of humanity. He didn't even try to be frightening. Not even a snarl."

Gohan just shook his head and let out a quiet chuckle. Good she didn't met him when I was four. She would've thought he had crawled from hell itself. He glanced at the smiling girl in front of him and noticed that she had actually been leaning back against him the whole time. Is she really this light? She has the force of wind pushing her against me but she still doesn't have enough mass to be noticed. She really wasn't lying about being underfed. Let's try to fix that.

"Hey it's only just now six forty-five, why don't we stop and buy me some earthling clothes and get us some stuff for lunch, from what I've read school food is awful. What do you say?", Gohan asked with a grin.

Erasa kept smiling as she nodded her head and watched as the ground rushed path beneath them. Soon they were in Satan City and landing behind of the one stop shop supermarket. She slid off the cloud with Gohan's help and started around to the front of the store as Nimbus shot straight back into the sky before it could be spotted.

"Come on we'll get you some fresh clothes too. I know you've had those on all day yesterday and the whole car incident and what not. Are you okay with all of that by the way?", Gohan asked as they walked into the front door.

"Honestly so much more has happened since then that I haven't really even thought about it. I guess that means that I'm fine, but you don't need to get me any clothes. If wasn't for the fact that school food does suck I wouldn't even take the lunch offer. I don't really like help. Hell, my oldest friend is filthy rich and I haven't even told her what sort of trouble I'm in. If it wasn't for Bulma I never would've told you", Erasa said while studying her feet as she walked through the store.

"I'm glad that I know. Everybody needs some help at some point. Also, you're getting the clothes. I may not be rich but I've kicked up some money as I traveled. Nowhere near a living but it's enough to get us some food and clothes for now. I'll find some more work soon and then I can keep on helping you", Gohan explained.

Erasa just made a skeptical noise in the back of her throat as they walked through the grocery section. He can't be serious. No one is this helpful not even half aliens. Especially half aliens that can laugh and talk so calmly about fighting to the death. He's going to ask for something in return soon. Oh well I'll just enjoy the kindness while it lasts and even return it. For now.

In no time the two had a large paper bag filled with premade sandwiches. Gohan had been ordered by Erasa to buy a pair of jeans and crisp white shirt that fit uncomfortably snug for his liking. He opted to wear his old worn down sneakers instead of buying new shoes. Erasa on the other hand bought a pair of white skinny jeans and loose red shirt that hung around her shoulders that all finished off with a new pair of sneakers.

"Thank you Gohan!", Erasa sang out as she danced out of the store and down the road.

"No problem now let's get to class. We only have thirty minutes to get there, since I doubt you want me flying around in the city then we have to walk like humans", Gohan finished with a slight grumble.

"Oh come on it won't take that long if we don't complain the whole way. Plus, you flew me halfway across the world before sunrise so you can just deal with it fly boy", Erasa finished as she stuck her tongue out.

"What's with the fly boy name?", Gohan asked finally.

Erasa shrugged, "I don't know it just seems to fit so yet again you can just deal with it."

Soon enough the school was in sight. Gohan cringed slightly at the sight of all the students flooding into the building. He did a quick ki search and was left disappointed at even their collective power. With a deep breath he made sure Erasa waas sticking near him and plunged into his newest adventure.