Chapter Thirteen: The Dragon Balls of Namek: Crash Course in Namekian
The people of planet Namek had stopped whatever task that they were doing to look up at the sky. A space ship of Namekin design was hurtling towards the planet. "Nail" one of the young Nameks yelled out as he ran looking for his mentor. He was all alone on the fields and it looked like the space ship was going to land near where he was standing. The small Namek assessed that the ship was of old Namek design. He was scared; their enemies had used their own ships against them before to get onto the planet. Everyone that came recently was after the Dragon Balls. It was common knowledge among the people of Namek that the only planet besides their own possessing Dragon Balls was Earth. No other planets besides Earth and their own knew about existence of the Dragon Balls until a Namek named Slug one of the super Nameks turned against them and spread the news about them to certain crime rings. The small Namek once again looked at the ship coming towards the surface of the planet. He was trying to find a place to hide. He noticed that the ship was going faster and faster towards the surface of the planet, he stopped in his tracks frozen with fear; to him it didn't look like the ship was going to land it looked like it was going to crash.
"Oh no it is going to crash" the small Namek child whispered as he shook in fear, to frightened to move at all.
The ship crashed into the ground creating a big crater in the ground. It burst into flames on impact and it looked hot. The young child walked over the where the inferno was burning and noticed three beings lying unconscious. He didn't know if these aliens where friend or foe but it was a part of his nature to help. The alien that was the same size as him moved.
"How many people where on your ship" he asked the other boy in Namekin.
Even though he spoke Namekin the boy replied in a different language "Only me, my mum and Krillen" he said before he blacked out.
The Namek child didn't understand how they were able to understand each other, but he was relieved to find out that they were the only ones on the ship and they had all made it to safety somehow. He wasn't sure whether he should trust them or not with all of the attacks that had happened lately, nor did he know whether they would attack him when they got better or if they were friends that could help protect them. He took a deep breath from a moment and decided that he would help anyway. He moved them all of the aliens into the small cave that he played in one by one, exhausting himself after he had managed to move them all. He looked over the three strange aliens and saw that he had never seen anything like them.
With the little strength he had he moved over to the blue haired alien who seemed to be the most injured. His hands started glowing as he slowly moved them across the alien's body. Recently he had a healing ability unlocked by an old Namek named Guru who was the guardian of the planet. He noticed that the alien's body seemed different to heal then Nameks. A few moments later he had finished the blue haired one and had moved to the bald one.
Bulma woke up amazed that she was still alive. Only moments ago she had on her space ship which had taken damage by a meteor shower that they had encountered earlier.
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"Gohan, Krillen get as many capsules as possible and get in here now" she screamed into the ships intercom.
"You heard my mum Krillen, let go" Gohan said grabbing as many capsules as quick as possible, also grabbing the Dragon Radar.
Krillen grabbed a few capsules and ran after Gohan who had run to the control room.
"What's wrong mum?" Gohan asked his mother who was moving over the control panel at one hundred miles an hour.
"That earlier meteor shower damaged the landing controls and I can get even get the ship to manually land" Bulma said calmly.
"How can you be so calm when we are going to crash and die on another planet" Krillen yelled shaking with fear.
The surface of the planet came towards them faster and faster. Gohan grabbed his mother and Krillen. He ran towards the door to the outside world, blasted the door open and watched the ground come closer before choosing a time to jump and fly. They were caught in the explosion affecting Gohan flying them any further away. They crashed into the ground knocking Bulma and Krillen both unconscious.
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Bulma looked over and saw that a small Namek was leaning over Krillen. 'The Namek looked like Piccolo did when he was a child so this Namek must be a child too' Bulma thought as she looked over and saw that he was in fact healing Krillen. Bulma didn't want to distract the Namek child as he was healing her friend. She didn't know whether this Namek was a friend or an enemy as most of the Nameks that the Z Gang had met so far had been evil, the only Namek that they knew of that wasn't evil was Kami the father of King Piccolo the grandfather of Piccolo who had kidnapped her son. She moved closer to Gohan and saw that his breathing was really shallow.
"If Gohan dies Chi-Chi will kill me!" Bulma said startling the Namek who had just finished healing Krillen.
In the other world Chi-Chi and Goku had been watching on Baba's crystal ball "Your wrong Bulma I am coming to kill you now because you took my baby to another planet and got hit by a meteor shower and then crash landed on another planet and almost killed him, then there was that time that you took him to meet the Z Gang and he got kidnapped twice in one day" Chi-Chi screamed out waving her frypan everywhere and hitting Goku with it a couple of time then she sat down on the ground and started crying hugging her frying pan "Goku did I make a mistake letting Bulma bring up our son?"
"No Chi-Chi, my crazy alien brother probably would have kidnapped Gohan whether we lived or not. Bulma is our one and only friend that I believe is capable of bringing up Gohan as close as what we would of done" Goku told his wife and let down and gave her a hug "Sure some of Bulma's ways of brining up Gohan is different then what you would have done, but no one in the whole entire universe has the exactly the same way of bringing up their kids". Chi-Chi nodded knowing that her husband was right.
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The Namek child looked at the blue haired person. He was scared, he had just finished healing the bald one and was about to heal the boy when he heard him speak. "If Gohan dies Chi-Chi will kill me?" the alien was speaking in another language that he understood but was not their own.
He tried talking to the alien he believed was male in Namek "Who are you?"
"I'm sorry I don't understand?" he said trying to communicate, "If I have long enough and the right equipment I should be able to make a translating device so that we both understand each other" He said looking at strange metal containers.
"I can understand you, I just wanted to see if you could understand Namek, the young boy seemed to understand when I spoke to him" he said to the alien.
"That's good I don't have to spend a few hours making a translator then, my name is Bulma Briefs, and my bald friend over there is Krillen and the boy is my son Gohan" he said.
"My names Dende, how come Gohan doesn't look like you? On Namek a child always looks like there parent" Dende asked.
"Gohan is adopted and looks a lot like his father but I can see a bit of his mother in him too" Bulma replied.
"What's a mother? And why does Gohan have two parents? What is a mother? I know what a father is because all Nameks have a father" Dende asked confuse.
"Are all Nameks male?" Bulma asked.
"Yes aren't all um whatever you are males as well?" Dende said seeming to become more and more confused as the conversation moved on.
"I am a human and I am not male. I am female." Bulma then tried to explain to Dende why humans have two parents and what a mother was "All humans have two parents one that is male, one it is female. The female is the mother and the male is the father, um do you understand?"
"I think so. Do females have other names? Because males can be called men, boys, and gentlemen" Dende asked.
"Yes they can be called women, girls and ladies, words that also mean female are she and her, to be used the same way as he and him" Bulma explained.
Krillen had meanwhile woken up and had heard the whole conversation. He was concerned that Bulma was telling this Namek a lot about the human race. This type of information could be used against them if she told them too much. He was also trying not to laugh at the way that the Namek boy was fascinated by the information about humans.
"I am going to see how Gohan is doing and finish healing him, your friend you call Krillen should be awake by now" Dende said to Bulma.
Krillen moved over to Bulma. "What do you think of this Namek kid? Do you think that he can be trusted?"
Bulma looked at Krillen "I think that we can trust him. I have a good vibe from him, but..."
"But every Namek that we have come across except for Kami have tried to kill us at one point or another"
Dende who had really sensitive hearing like all Nameks heard this. He was shocked that they had been attacked by more than one bad Namek. The only bad Namek that he knew of was Slug, but these people knew of others then they mentioned Kami. He had heard the name Kami before but couldn't think of where he had heard is mentioned. As he thought, Dende became very shocked about how fast it was to heal Gohan. It was like all he had to do was guide Gohan's own natural ability at healing to heal his body. Because it was so easy to heal Gohan he was able to ask Bulma and Krillen about the Nameks that they had met and ask what side that they were on.
"Um who is Kami and the other Nameks that you said that you have met" he asked.
"Kami was the guardian of our planet until recently" Bulma said.
"What do you mean about until recently?" Dende asked.
"Kami was somehow joined to another Namek named Piccolo, Piccolo died in a battle protecting me and when he died, Kami died" Gohan said who had heard most of the conversations as he woke up basically as soon as Dende had finished healing him "Thanks' for taking us away from our ship as well"
"You're welcome, but that just creates more questions?" Dende said.
"Krillen and I met Piccolo when he was a child about your age. He was born on Earth; he was the son of King Piccolo and was born so that he could avenge the death of his father by killing the person that killed him. Before I continue on with Piccolo it is properly best to start at the start. Kami came to Earth to be guardian of our planet, but wasn't worthy of being guardian of the planet because of not being pure. Kami attempted to remove the evil from his body and in the attempt created Piccolo, who called himself King Piccolo, who was only evil and had no good in him at all. Kami was then able to take over the position of Guardian of the Earth when the old Kami retired. Because of the way that King Piccolo was created if either he or Kami died they would both die. With how evil King Piccolo was, he was kept on the lookout tower until he escaped. King Piccolo caused chaos and destruction all over the Earth until he was defeated by a little boy named Goku. Before he died he spat out an egg that was Piccolo Junior. When King Piccolo spat out Piccolo Junior he somehow passed on his link with Kami so when he died Kami didn't. A few years later Goku, Krillen, myself and a couple of our other friends met up with Piccolo again and he was causing as much trouble as what King Piccolo did. We managed to stop him for a short while until the World martial arts tournament which is a competition held on Earth where he was defeated by Goku in the competition in the final round of the tournament. Piccolo realised that he was unable to defeat Goku at the time and went into hiding until he was strong enough to defeat Goku. That time never came because Goku had died a couple of years after the martial arts tournament. A few years later, an alien had come to Earth and had kidnapped Goku's son but Piccolo was able to defeated the alien and then kidnapped Gohan who was then trained by Piccolo to protect the Earth from the alien's friends that where coming to Earth to kidnap Gohan. In the 6 months that Gohan and Piccolo spent together, he changed, but Piccolo died in battle against the aliens when they came, and being the one that was joined to Kami, Kami died also. Which is why we are here, when Piccolo and Kami died, the Dragon Balls that Earth had turned to stone so we can't wish our friends back from the dead" Bulma explained to Dende.
Dende was fascinated. These people where friends of Kami but he was currently dead and there reason for wanting the Dragon Balls was a good reason. "You may not be able to get the Dragon Balls because there are currently some really bad people after them." Dende then took a breath. "You have told me about why you are here and the Nameks that you have already met. It is now my turn to tell you a bit about my Planet" said Dende to his new friends.
"I have always been interested in Nameks since my training with Piccolo" Gohan said looking on with just as much interest as what Dende had earlier.
"Just like Kami is the guardian of Earth, Guru is the guardian of Namek. My mentor Nail is the student of Guru and is training as a possibility for new Guardian if we ever need one. There are quite a few Nameks who train for this position. Hearing your story about Kami reminded me of a story that Nail once told me. He told me that there was that his mentor was another possible candidate for guardian, he wanted to be guardian but not of Namek, he wanted to be guardian of another planet. Um I can't really remember much more then that of the story but I think that Nail mentor was Kami. Guru is still the guardian of this planet; I can take you to him if you like."
"That would be great! Then we can ask him for permission to use the Dragon Balls to wish Piccolo and the others back." Gohan said excited about seeing his own mentor again. "Can I go mum?"
"Only if Krillen goes with you, I am going to stay here and set up a base camp, is it ok if we use this cave Dende?" Bulma said.
"Yes, Nail and I are the only ones that know about it" Dende said.
"Ok bro you sure you want to do this now? We can wait a while if you like." Krillen asked Gohan actually more concerned about himself.
"Ok lets go, we won't be to long Bulma Briefs" Dende said.
"Just call me Bulma, you three be safe ok" Bulma said and gave all three of them a hug.
"Can you fly Dende?" Gohan asked his new friend as he left.
"No, can you both fly?" Dende asked.
"Yep, Krillen would you be able to take Dende" Gohan asked his dad's friend.
Krillen carried Dende while he guided them to where Guru was. "This is it" Dende told his friends as they came to Guru's place. "Guru I have bought some friends from another planet. They said they were friends of Kami"
Gohan and Krillen looked at Guru; they could both see that Guru was an elderly Namek. He was also huge; he was the biggest Namek that either of them had ever seen.
"Hello Dende and friends of Dende. Tell me why you are here" Guru said to them.
"My name is Gohan Briefs and this is Krillen, we came to your planet in search of the Dragons Balls to revive our friends that were murdered on Earth by the Saiyans" Gohan said to the planets Guardian.
"Normally we would use our own Dragon Balls to revive the people of our planet but as Kami, our Planet's Guardian was joined to Piccolo who fought and died defending the Planet thus causing Kami to die, meaning that our Dragon Ball turned to stone." Krillen continued.
"I can see that your cause is worthy of using the Dragon Balls, but before I give you the Dragon Ball that I have, would you both come and stand here? I can see that you both have potential to be unlocked" Guru said to Gohan and Krillen.
"Don't worry guys it safe. This is how my healing ability that I used on the two of you was unlocked" Dende said.
"Gohan I'll go first, Nameks are slightly different then humans and your mum would kill me if you got hurt because of this" Krillen said to Gohan and stepping up to Guru.
Guru moved his hand and placed it on Krillens head. He left his hand there for a few moments. "It is done" Guru said.
"Wow I didn't feel a thing" Krillen said looking over himself and checking that everything was where it was meant to be "If fact I feel better then what I have ever felt in my whole entire life and stronger too"
Gohan walked up to Guru and Guru placed his hands onto Gohans head. He stood there with his hand on Gohans head longer then what he did with Krillen. Finally he took his hand of Gohans head.
"You have a lot of hidden potential Gohan, more then what I can unlock at this stage. You will find that more of your hidden potential will unlock as you grow older"
"Thank you Guru" Gohan said to the Namek Guardian.
"Guru, do you know where the other Dragon Balls are?" Dende asked "And do you know where Nail is? I am sure that he would be able to help"
"One of the Dragons Balls is in your village Dende. Where the other five are I am not sure. Nail on the other hand went looking for you but meet up with one of the aliens that are looking for the Dragon Balls. You are probably safest going to your village first." Guru told the young Namek.
"Thank you Guru" Dende said.
"Before you leave I will give you my Dragon Ball. I trust that you will use it well Gohan and Krillen. Dende remember the words that are needed to summon the Dragon. Your friends will need it when the time comes to wake the Dragon"
Guru gave his Dragon Ball to Gohan; they thanked him for it and left to see how Bulma was doing before they went on their search for the rest of the Dragon Balls.