DRAGONBALL

GELEDUS SAGA

Life On Earth

Geledus considered his life, and the way it had been for the last three weeks. His employer at Albertsons had been ready to fire him because he had missed three work days in a row, but once the manager learned he had been recovering from

severe injuries recieved at the hands of some gang, a good cover story in Geledus's opinion, he had let it drop. Now the mighty saiyan lived in his apartement, had a job, and had even gotten to know some of his neighbors by inviting them to a BBQ, after he spent a few days learning how the Barbaque grill worked, and how long to cook things on it, and how to avoid burning down the building.

Now he was deeper into Earth life than ever, he had just bought a gamecube, and after Bob, who was a crazed gamer who lived just down the hall, had reccomended it, Geledus bought Super Smash Bro.s Melee. He was frustrated now

because he was completely unable to beat Pikachu in the poke battle match. The one thing Geledus found he did not enjoy about his new life, was the way Goten made it a point to check up on him once a day to make sure he wasn't up to anything he shouldn't be, though Geledus couldn't really blame him.

The knock came at the door two hours earlier than normal that day, and when Geledus anwsered the door Goten strode in as if he owned the place.

"So what are you up to today?" Goten asked suspiciously as he started looking around.

"Playing my Gamecube, what makes you think an evil plot from a saiyan would take place within his apartement anyway?" Geledus replied.

"Huh?" Goten asked.

Geledus sighed. "If I were planning an attack against you or your friends, which I'm not, it would be in a more direct manner. Such as flying up and blasting you before you had a chance to power up, so I have a hard time understanding why you

insist on searching my place again and again when we both know there is nothing to find, with the sole exception of a discarded starbucks cup," The mighty saiyan explained.

Goten opened his mouth for some retort, closed it, opened it again, then said "Damnit!"

Geledus smirked in victory as he moved to his fridge, grabbing himself a corona beer, which he found very relaxing as long as he only had one or two bottles a day. He tried more than that once, and the next thing he knew he woke up in an

alley and upon returning home found several videos on You Tube of himself claiming to be a messanger for The Invisible Pink Unicorn. He had no desire to repeat the experience.

"Aside from the pointlessness of your continued searches, you are here early today," Geledus observed.

Goten scratched the back of his head as he said "Well I kinda have something I'm doing later today,"

"Like what?" Geledus inquired, taking a sip of his beer.

Goten glared at him and said "Its none of your buisness!" Then without another word he left the apartement and flew off for his place.

"What a strange individual," Geledus muttered before taking another sip of beer.

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Goten grumbled to himself as he flew towards his house, where he had some very important things to do. He had gone to see Geledus early today because tonight he planned on making a second attempt at proposing to Valese, something

he knew he had put off to long. He turned his thoughts more towards this evening leaving his contempt for Geledus behind for the moment. He had lots to do, he needed to shower, use some deoderant for once, comb his hair, get on some formal clothes, and most of all he had to remember the ring. It was quite a lovely ring, and it had cost him 5000 zeni, almost as much as his house had cost him.

"Ok Goten, relax. You like her she likes you, so theres no way she'll say no," Goten said to himself as he landed and ran inside. He rushed to getting ready, determined not to let anything get in the way, not this time.

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While Goten was preparing for the most important night of his life so far, and Geledus was drinking beer and playing video games, Gohan was considering the Shadow living inside the newest saiyan on Earth. Gohan was very uncomfortable

with the idea of such a threat living so close, yet he also did not want to deny Geledus the chance to change his ways. As a result he was thinking almost constantly in an effort to figure out a way to remove Shadow, without getting rid of Geledus.

'This would be so much easier if we still had the dragonballs, then we could have just wished Shadow away! As it is we don't have the dragonballs, though we could go to Namek and use their dragonballs, but then those are only for

emergencies. Hmm, maybe Dende will have an idea,' Gohan thought.

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Goten shot through the air at nearly a thousand miles per hour, his aura swirling around him as he put on an extra burst of speed. He had spent so long in the shower that he was running late, and had only five minutes to get to Valese's

place,

which was not good because at his current speed it would take another fifteen minutes. With a sigh he pushed his inner power to the surface causing his aura to turn a brilliant gold and his peed multiplied several times over, and within two minutes he was setting down in the front yard of the girl of his dreams. He quickly reverted back to normal and ran for the door, which opened a second before he had the chance to knock.

"Hey, looking good!" Goten said as Valese stepped outside. She was wearing the same thing as last time they went out.

"Thanks, well lets go," Valese said smiling.

Goten smiled wider as he thought 'Tonight will be perfect!'