Chapter 11

It had been six months since Gohan had left with Piccolo to prepare for the arrival of the Sayains. In that time Piccolo left Gohan alone in the wilderness to get him accustomed to living on his own. To piccolo's surprise Gohan did exceptionally well in that task. Within the first hour of Piccolo leaving, Gohan managed to create a shelter for himself, and in the next hour he managed to gather a weeks' worth of food, and then he trained. Gohan had the discipline to get up in the morning and train all the way until sunset. His routine was simple but effective, when he woke up Gohan would eat and then run around the valley he was in about ten times, then Gohan would fight some invisible opponent for a couple hours and then to end his day he would do as many pushups and sit ups his body could take until Gohan just passed out from exhaustion. Every day for about a month Gohan would do this routine. Piccolo was never far when Gohan would train, he would always observe the boy, and from what he saw, he was impressed. Piccolo then decided it was time to truly start training and began to train with Gohan. The training was intense for both Gohan and Piccolo. For Gohan it was intense due to the fact that piccolo was a very different opponent then his father, and for piccolo it was due to Gohan being much stronger the himself. When Piccolo first started training with Gohan, the boy was cocky and thought that he could take piccolo on, and he was right, he could take piccolo on quite well. But Piccolo had years of experience under his belt verses Gohans two years of training. Piccolo quickly taught the boy that just because he was stronger then he was didn't mean that Gohan was sure to win. It was a lesson that Gohan would never forget.

On The other side of the world, Bulma, Chichi and Roshi were still searching for the dragon balls. Not long after they departed from Kami house they had found the one of the dragon balls, but the other six balls were still all together, and they kept on moving, It was as if whoever had the balls were one step ahead of them. After a little while, the ox king left the group and had to go back to the ox kingdom to perform his duties as king, leaving just chichi, Bulma and Roshi alone. One day the trio had a stroke of luck, whoever had the majority of the balls seemed to be slipping up because when Bulma and the others found one of there hide outs, they found another dragon ball there. This kept on happening for some the next few months until they only had one ball left to find, but master Roshi didn't like it at all. There they all were sitting in Bulma's large jet pondering on what they were missing.

"I don't like this one bit." Roshi said.

"I know what you mean, six months ago they had almost all the dragon balls but now we have six and they have one, it does take sense to me, they were so close why give up? Bulma asked.

"Who cares, we only have one more dragon ball to go and then we can get Goku back, so lets just go already." Chichi said wanting to get the show on the road.

"But chichi, don't you think that there is something off about this whole situation, I mean I don't know about you guys but It almost seems like they want us to find them, whoever they are." Roshi said.

"Oh come on, whoever it is I doubt they are any match for you Roshi, I mean we are so close, we have to at least try right" Chichi said trying to win them over.

"Yeah, your right chichi, lets just fly over there and get the dragon ball, if he does mean business then we sick roshi on him." Bulma said. Roshi still had a bad feeling though.

"well I'll do it, but I may need some…convincing, if you know what I mean heh heh" roshi said laughing. Suddenly though chichi then hit Roshi over the head with her frying pan.

"You will do it and that's that you pervert." Chichi yelled at the old man while Bulma laughed at his expense.

"Alright fine then, let's go." Roshi said as he was rubbing his head. Bulma then went and sat in the driver's seat and fired the engine of her jet. Roshi and Chchi then quickly sat in their respective seats and waited for them to take flight. Bulma quickly glanced at the built in Dragon radar and saw that the last dragon ball was to the north, the far north to be exact.

"Alright guys, we are heading to the arctic region" Bulma let the other two know as she took cranked the jet into overdrive.

The jet managed to make it to the northern region in record time. Bulma landed her jet on a long stretch and disembarked.

"Damn its cold out here, Bulma why didn't you bring jackets." Roshi said as he shivered.

"Relax Roshi, I always come prepared" Bulma said as she opened a capsule. In the capsule were a bunch of winter jackets and boots. Roshi and chichi wasted no time and quickly put the gear on.

"Alright now that we are all worm and cozy let's see where the dragon ball is." Bulma said as she pulled out her dragon radar. " It looked like its just a short walk ahead of us." Bulma said.

"Lets hope we don't find any trouble along with it." Roshi said. The trio then started there walk in the cold area. The area itself was not too impressive, just a bunch of ice and snow.

"So chichi, what are you gonna do when Goku's back?" Bulma asked.

"well as soon as he comes back im giving him hell for letting Gohan out of his sight for a second and then im gonna make him go and get Gohan back from that terrible monster Piccolo." Chichi ranted. " Oh Gohan, I hope he is okay, he is probably so scared being with that monster…not to mention he is probably getting dumber by the second, he hasn't done his homework for the last half of the year, oh my god he is so behind, at this rate he wont be able to get into the best collages anymore, and he will be stuck flipping burgers for the rest of his life." Chichi continued. Bulma was actually quite shocked at how Chichi was reacting, even though she had only met Gohan once, she knew that Gohan was a really smart kid, and considering that Gohan was only four years old he was pretty well a child prodigy in terms of both academic studies and also fighting.

"Chichi, I don't really think that you have to worry about that, when I saw Gohan at the reunion, I could tell he was incredibly smart." Bulma said trying to reassure her friend, but chichi seemed tobe in an entirely different zone.

"When I get him back he is going be studying for the rest of his life i don't care what Goku says, my boy is going to be the greatest scholar that ever lived." Chichi said.

"I don't think she heard you Bulma." Roshi said. Finally after walking for about a half hour they found what looked like a metal dome of some kind.

"Im guessing that this is the place." Bulma said. Suddenly the ice around them all started to break apart and out of the ice came what looked like siabamen, only they had darker green skin. The trio were surrounded by the creatures.

"Oh no, Roshi do something." Chichi yelled at the old man. Roshi then tried to attack one of the siabamen but it moved out of the way and slashed Roshi across the face.

"Ugh." Roshi fell on his knees and clutched his face.

"Roshi are you okay.' Bulma asked as she checked on the old man. Suddenly a door opened on the metal dome and two figures walked out. One was a rather large figure draped in a large red cloak and the other was a small old man who looked to be even older then master roshi. The old man walked over to the trio and chuckled.

" I must admit you three have been a thorn in my side for the past while, making me have to leave every single safe house I have." the old man said

"Look we don't want any trouble, we just want the dragon ball, that's it." Bulma said trying to speak reason.

"Oh I know exactly what you are after young lady, and it just so happens that I don't need the dragon balls anymore." The old man said.

"Then you wouldn't mind if we took the one you have off your hands?" Bulma asked

"I wouldn't mind at all, but I do need something In return, after all I can't just give you my dragon ball." The old man said.

"Hey old man you hurt our old man here with your freaky monsters so why don't you give us the dragon ball and we call it even." Chichi proposed.

"no, no, no, that wont do, you see I am in need of some… fresh volunteers. For a sort of experiment of mine" The old man said as his smirk grew.

"If you think that we are going to be lab rats of some kind then you are dead wrong." Bulma said

"Oh I didn't mean you ladies, I ment him." The old man said as he pointed toward Roshi.

"What do you want with me?" Roshi asked

" I want to test you, after all, once apon a time you were the strongest in the world." The old man said.

"No way, just give us the dragon ball and we are out of here." Chichi yelled at the old man. Finally the old mans smirk disappeared.

"I wasn't giving you a choice." Suddenly all the siabamen all grabbed hold of the trio so tight that none of them could move a muscle.

"take the woman into the lab, and but Master Roshi here in the arena." The old man said. The old man and his large friend then walked back into the dome and the siabamen all followed while holding onto their prisoners.

Power levels:

Start of training Gohan: 1300

Start of training Piccolo: 710

After 6 months Gohan: 2600

After 6 months Piccolo: 1900

Roshi: 230

Alright guys, I am back, I know I have been gone for quite a while, and well im sorry, I had a massive case of writers block and not only that my job got in the way and it was just ridicules, I never forgot about this story though, and now I am motivated enough to come back to it, I promise you guys will like what I have a planned, again I am sorry for the huge delay for this chapter, I will try my hardest to get it out to you guys as soon as I can, until next time, I will catch you guys later.