Dragon Ball NG Chapter 21: Time to Start Training!
Gosu and Junsei made the decision to start training with the great Master Krillin. Gosu especially was looking forward to the training that was in store, both to get stronger and learn new things, as well as train with Junsei, who he was determine to defeat now. Krillin had decided they would head out after a night of rest.
The next day, the trio met at the coastline.
"So, uh, where are we headed, Krillin?" Gosu asked.
"Gosu, don't talk to him like that! Call him Master Krillin!" Junsei remarked.
"Oh, don't worry about that. I have a feeling he's as unsophisticated as an old friend of mine…" Krillin replied.
"Yeah, that's right, I get special privileges!" Gosu said.
"Hey, if you think this is going to be a cakewalk, then you've got another thing coming!" Krillin replied.
"Okay, okay, calm down, Krillin." Gosu said.
"That's Master Krillin to you!" Krillin harshly responded.
"But you said not to worry about it…" Gosu replied.
"Oh, shut up!"
Junsei was utterly confused. Maybe age was catching up to Krillin?
"…anyway, we'll be headed to my island, which is approximately 3,000 miles away from here." Master Krillin said.
"3000 miles?" Gosu and Junsei said in unison.
"Damn, how did you get here, then?" Gosu asked.
"I used the ocean!" Krillin replied. Gosu and Junsei's jaws dropped.
"Wait a minute, you swam that many miles across the sea?" Junsei asked. "That's insane."
"I didn't swim – I walked." Krillin explained.
"Are you serious?" Gosu asked in complete amazement.
"Wait a minute, do you mean to tell me that you walked on water? Don't be ridiculous, that's impossible!" Junsei said.
"Just watch." Krillin said. He jumped up and down to the ocean and landed perfectly on the water. Then he started walking around in circles!
"Unbelievable!" Junsei said.
"I don't know why, but I somehow get the feeling that this is blasphemous." Gosu pointed out.
Krillin hopped back onto the surface. "See, I told you!"
"Th-that was amazing!" Junsei said.
"This will be your first training lesson. If you can't learn to walk on water and get to my island, then you aren't worth training." Krillin explained.
"What? How do you expect us to walk on water?" Gosu protested. "I've never even heard of anyone doing it until today!"
"It's not impossible." Krillin began. "People are able to get stuff like jet skis, certain shoes, and other objects to repel the water to keep them from falling into the sea. And we will do it using our own natural feet!"
"But I don't understand…how would we able to get our feet to do it?" Gosu asked.
"Our energy; or rather, our Ki." Krillin said. "You have to channel your Ki to your feet to keep the water from sucking you in – that's the only way you can do it successfully. You two have both shown that you at least know how to channel your Ki to produce attacks. But that's not the only way to use Ki. You're going to learn how to channel the ki to your feet to use it to repel the ocean."
"Channeling the energy into our feet, eh? At least it doesn't have some silly name like Chakra or something." Gosu joked.
"Hey, you will respect the works of other writers, especially since this training liberally rips off of them!" Master Krillin retorted.
"Wait a minute, what?" Junsei asked.
"I don't get it." Gosu said.
"Moving on…let's begin. I'll jump on the water first, and you two will follow my lead." Krillin hopped on to the water and was floating on top of it. Gosu and Junsei both concentrated hard and channeled their energy to their feet. Before they realized it, they were making cracks in the ground. They both slowly stepped onto the ocean…and quickly fell through it.
"Focus!" Krillin directed. "If you don't think you can walk on it, you won't. If you go into a task thinking it can never be achieved, then you'll never get anywhere!"
Gosu and Junsei both responded with, "Right!" and jumped back up from the river and hopped on top of it.
"You have to constantly put out Ki from your feet in order to hold off water. It's a relatively small amount, but you have to constantly focus. Eventually, you'll get to the point where it's second nature. But for now, just maintain it as best as you can." Krillin explained.
Gosu and Junsei continued pumping out energy through their feet, and indeed, they were floating on the ocean. They tried to maintain their energy pattern as much as they possibly could, and slowly began taking steps. Krillin started walking and the two trainees followed him, struggle though they may. Junsei seemed to be having an easier time of it than Gosu. After all, he had been training his Ki attacks for three years and could manipulate them easily, whereas Gosu just learned stuff like the Kamehameha on the spot.
"So, how long have the two of you been training?" Krillin asked.
Junsei and Gosu were both struggling. They knew that Krillin was messing around by trying to spark up a conversation. "U-uh, Master, I don't th-think this is the best time…!" Junsei said.
"C'mon, I just want to know!" Krillin said. He couldn't hold back his laughter.
"Y-you're not making this any easier!" Gosu said. He almost fell through the river.
"Watch your step, Gosu!" Krillin said.
"You're in front of us, you couldn't have seen that! I-it was Junsei anyway!" Gosu lied.
"Hey, who do you think-" before he could finish that, he almost fell into the river but frantically managed to get himself back up. Gosu laughed at him. Junsei was determined to outdo Gosu. He was gradually getting a better grasp of it and was more or less walking normally at this point, whereas Gosu was still having to strain himself to continue walking. Krillin upped his speed and Junsei did the same thing. All this managed to do was frustrate Gosu, as he still couldn't really make any progress.
"H-hey, don't try to show off! I-I can do it, too, just watch!" Gosu tried to increase his walking speed but quickly lost control and fell in the ocean and continued sinking down.
"Hey, Gosu fell in the river! Should we go and help him out?" Junsei asked.
"Nah, let's keep going. If he's worth anything he'll figure his way out." Krillin replied. Junsei and Krillin moved along. Junsei couldn't help but feel sorry for Gosu.
Gosu sunk down further to the ocean. If he could actually talk, he'd be cursing up a storm right now. He tried to swim back up to the surface but he was drained. He tried to aquaire a clear mind so he could get his way out of here, but he just couldn't sea a way out at the level he was at. He saw some fish, which made him want some marine-ated meat of some sort. He just wanted to drown in the deliciousness of the food, too. And he…
Hey, King Kai, give me back my computer.
…anyway, Gosu tried to swim his way back to the surface until he saw a huge shadow tower above him. Gosu turned around to find an enormous barracuda staring him down, ready to tear him apart. Gosu almost froze in fear as the monster opened up its huge mouth and sucked Gosu into it! Gosu plunged down the inside of this disgusting creature's stomach and screamed in fear once he saw the digestive acids. It was only a year and he had been in the belly of a massive creature twice! Gosu figured that there was only one way to get out of this. He cuffed his hands together and gathered his energy for what was sure to be his signature attack at this point.
"Ka…Me…Ha…Me…HAAAAA!"
Gosu fired the energy wave directly at the body of acid and used it to send himself backwards. However, he ran straight into the "ceiling" of the creature's insides. He came crashing back down to the acid. Gosu saw what looked like a bar and decided there was another measure to take. He fired a Kamehameha at the upper surface, which went straight through the monster's back! Then, Gosu grabbed onto the bar-like thing, swung on it, and then jumped off of it to fly straight out of the newly formed hole in the beat's back. Just to make sure it was dead, Gosu kicked it hard. Gosu grabbed the dead fish and started swimming. Screw walking on water, I'm gonna swim to the island! Gosu swam away as the hours passed by. Junsei and Krillin had made it to the island.
"Excellent work, Junsei. You managed to successfully walk across the sea." Master Krillin complemented.
"Thank you, master." Junsei replied.
Master Krillin sensed Gosu's Ki. "Heh, he's coming." Gosu indeed swam up to the land with the barracuda in hand.
"I finally made, Krillin!" Gosu said.
"No you didn't." Krillin quickly dismissed.
"What do you mean? I'm here!" Gosu replied.
"The task was for you to walk on water!" Krillin yelled. He fired a kiai blast at Gosu to send him all the way back to the ocean!
"Well, at least he brought some lunch." Junsei joked.
"Eh, I'll let him have that. He actually earned it." Krillin replied. "And I decided to be nice and send him back to the point where he fell originally instead of sending him all the way back to the beginning."
Gosu rose out of the ocean. "Goddammit, I should've known he'd do some shit like that!" Gosu focused his Ki back to his feet and tried to stay on the water again. I'll show them! He thought. Gosu pumped energy out of his feet and absolutely wasn't going to move until he got a perfect grasp of it. The water was bubbling beneath him. Gosu finally felt comfortable standing on the water. He stood firmly and looked up. "ALRIGHT, I'M COMIN'!" he yelled before running straight towards Krillin's island. Gosu was storming towards the island as Junsei and Krillin saw him approaching the surface.
"Oh, my." Krillin said. "He might have outdone you, here, Junsei!"
Junsei just rubbed the back of his head and laughed. All that comment managed to do was remind him of the fact that Gosu probably would've won if it weren't for that blast at the end. Gosu ran and made it to the island, but he was running so fast that he lost control of himself and ran straight into a tree.
"Gee, you got a little too excited there, Gosu!" Krillin said.
Gosu jumped back up. "I told you I'd do it!" Gosu said.
"Well, I suppose we should eat that big fish, eh?" Krillin asked.
"Of course!" Gosu said.
Krillin fired a huge blast at the barracuda, instantly roasting it. Gosu and Junsei looked in awe. But for Gosu, hunger comes before awe, and before Junsei even had a chance to even touch it, Gosu devoured the whole fish.
"Oh man, you're just like Goku!" Krillin said.
"Goku? You knew him? I hear so much about him!" Gosu said.
"Knew him? I was his best friend! As a matter of fact, I trained with him on this very island 250 years ago!" Krillin said.
"Really? Well damn, you're old!" Gosu said.
"Gee, thanks." Krillin said.
"KRILLIN!" a voice yelled from the pink house in the background. A beautiful young woman with blonde hair and a black tank-top and blue jeans came from the house. Gosu's and Junsei's jaws dropped.
"Holy shit, she's hot!" Gosu said.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to introduce you to her! Gosu and Junsei, this is #18, my wife!"
"WHAT?" Gosu and Junsei said in unison. This was the biggest bomb dropped on them all day! Their jaws were practically sunk into the ground!
"Woah woah woah woah, how the fuck did an old geezer like you sport a hot babe like this?" Gosu was the first to ask it.
"Hey, I'll have you know she's just as old as me." Krillin replied. "However, she is an Android that is based of a human girl, and the scientist that made her just took her body and added mechanical parts to her."
"Oh. Well, I guess that makes sense." Junsei said.
"And she's incredibly strong! Hell, she's probably about a thousand times stronger than me!" Krillin pointed out.
"WHAT?" Gosu asked.
"Are you serious?" Junsei asked.
"Shit, I want to be trained by her!" Gosu said.
#18 just rolled her eyes. "Look, Krillin, next time you bring more little punks to train, tell them not to fawn over me, got it?"
"Sure, honey." Krillin replied. "And guys, you'll be trained by me. #18 may be a great deal stronger than me, but she has next to no interest in martial arts anymore, and she's not as adept at it as me, anyway. Plus, she doesn't actually have Ki since she's an android, so she can't teach you about that anyway!"
"Well, that was blunt." #18 said. "And kids – you heard the man. I'm a thousand time stronger than him. If I catch you two going through my underwear…let's just the say the consequences won't be pleasant."
Damn. Gosu thought. Well, it was a fun dream while it lasted.
#18 went back in the house. "Damn, how did you two end up together?" Gosu asked.
"It's a looooooooooooooong story. " Krillin replied. "We'll save it for another day. Anyway, we've got a lot to do. The first thing we've got to do is move to another island."
"Are you gonna make us walk to it?" Gosu asked.
"No." Krillin replied.
"Thank goodness." Junsei said.
"Don't be relieved yet – you're actually gonna fly to it!" Master Krillin said. Gosu and Junsei both stumbled to the ground.
"Oh come on, it's not that bad! It relies on the same principles as walking on water!" Krillin said. "The fact that you were able to manipulate your energy to float on top of water already puts you a bit ahead. Don't tell Goshen and Trunks this, but I never taught them how to do that."
"Well, it certainly sounds easy." Gosu said.
"Just focus your Ki and use it as sort of a flotation device to make yourself levitate off of the ground. It's basically like jumping, but manipulating your Ki to make you stay in the air. They key is just learning to control your body in the air, really – using your ki to defy the laws of physics!"
As soon as Krillin finished that explanation, he looked up and saw Gosu already floating in the air easily. "Well, fuck, that was just as easy as it sounded!"
Junsei and Krillin both fell to the floor upon seeing this. Gosu was flying all around the Island like he had been doing it for years. This was more than enough to make Junsei jealous.
"Oh, don't sweat it, some people are just faster learners, that's all!" Krillin said. But that wasn't enough for Junsei. Dammit, he wanted to fly, too!
"Oh man, Junsei, you should try this, the air's great up here!" Gosu yelled.
"Shut up, Gosu!" Junsei said. He was trying to concentrate his Ki to use it as a launching pad.
"You're doing it all wrong, Junsei! You've got to relax! Just release your Ki!" Krillin explained.
Junsei took Krillin's advice and calmed down. He focused his energy as he did in battle, except now he used it as a means of advancing into the air. He used all of his force to move upwards while putting out Ki. Junsei closed his eyes, and when he opened them up again, he looked down to see that his feet were off the ground! He was floating!
"See? You did it!" Krillin said.
Junsei floated higher into the air and moved around the sky. He was finally flying. Gosu zipped past him, so Junsei went after him.
"You wanna race?" Gosu challeneged.
Junsei took him up on his challenge and tried to catch up to him. Gosu kept changing his direction to throw him off and managed to beat him back to the island.
"Alright, boys, that's good. Now, let's head to the new Island." Krillin said. Android 18 left the house and pushed a button to put it in capsule form. She picked up the capsule and flew off at a staggering speed.
Krillin sighed. "Always in a hurry…"
"Woah, I wanna fly like her!" Gosu said.
"You will in time." Krillin encouraged. "Now follow me!"
Krillin flew off and the newly airborne Gosu and Junsei followed him. The two were having so much fun flying around in the air. Not only was it enjoyable flying around, but it would enhance their fighting strategies considerably. There was a whole new world of possibility! Krillin made it to the island, where Android 18 was already at. The Island was big, and they had plenty of neighbors. 18 already had the house set back up as Krillin got a watch out of it.
"Alright, now I'm sure you two think you're pretty fast, right?" Krillin asked.
"I know I am!" Junsei said.
"I'm pretty fast myself." Gosu said.
"Well, like I said, you guys think you're fast." Krillin said. He pointed west. "How fast can you run a mile?"
"A mile?" Gosu asked.
"I'm sure I could run through a mile easily." Junsei said.
"Sure, you're able to. Let's see how fast you can do it and come back. Gosu, you go first." Krillin pressed a few buttons on the stop watch. Gosu prepared himself. "Ready…set…GO!" Gosu ran down the path. A few moments later, Gosu returned.
"Alright, two minutes and 52.3 seconds; pretty good, I must say." Krillin said.
"I'd like to see you beat that!" Gosu bragged to Junsei.
"Oh, please." Junsei responded.
"Alright, Junsei! Ready, set, Go!" Junsei ran down the path and return a few moments later.
"Wow, two minutes flat." Krillin said.
"What was that you said earlier?" Junsei taunted Gosu.
"Oh, shut the fuck up." Gosu replied.
"Now, sure, you two definitely ran through that mile a lot quicker than the average person. But you can't do it as fast…" Krillin vanished and reappeared a split-second later. "…as this."
Gosu and Junsei's jaws made their way to the ground.
"N-no fucking way!" Gosu said in amazement.
"I-I can't even fathom how that's possible!" Junsei said.
"Since you two are older and more skilled than Goshen & Trunks were when they started training with me, I'm going to push you guys a lot harder than I did with them." Krillin explained. "Moving on, look at these rocks. Try to use your Ki attacks on them."
"Alright, sure." Gosu said. He cuffed his hands together. "Ka…Me…Ha…Me…HA!" The blast demolished the rock, leaving it in little pebbles. Junsei fired his blast at another rock to the same results.
"Excellent. Now look at THIS rock." Krillin pointed to a massive rock that was almost the size of a cliff. "Now watch this!" Krillin cuffed his hands together. "Ka…Me…"
"He can do it too?" Gosu asked
"Who do you think taught it to Goshen and Trunks? Ha…Me…HA!" Krillin fired a massive Kamehameha at the boulder, causing a big explosion. When the smoke cleared, the boulder was completely vaporized, as well as about five hundred feet of land after it.
"Holy…" Junsei said.
"…shit." Gosu continued.
"Now you two try." Krillin pointed to two similarly sized cliff-like boulders. Junsei fired his blast at one of the boulders and all that was left was a crack. Then, Gosu fired a Kamehameha at it, leaving nothing.
"Dammit!" Gosu said.
"Oh, don't worry, that's what training's for! Now let's go." Krillin said.
Gosu and Junsei left. When they were gone, the boulder that Gosu blasted started to crack and crumbled up a little. Guess he wasn't so weak after all!
Gosu and Junsei walked back to the island, and a turtle and an old man with glasses who looked to be even older than Krillin arrived on the island.
"Krillin, you should've told us that you were moving the island!" He said. He looked over at Gosu and Junsei. "Where did you get the mini-Goku from?"
"Those are my new pupils, Master Roshi!" Krillin replied.
"Wait a minute, you're Master Roshi?" Junsei asked.
"In the flesh!" Master Roshi replied.
"Who are you?" Gosu asked.
"This is Master Roshi, the creator of the Kamehameha wave, and to my understanding, you were Krillin's master weren't you?" Junsei said.
"Yup. It's great to see that Krillin has become my successor. I can live on in peace." Roshi said. Master Roshi went back inside the house. Just before Krillin was about to tell Gosu and Junsei what was in store for tomorrow, he couldn't help but notice that Junsei was looking strangely at Gosu.
"Is that a tail sticking from your back, Gosu?" Junsei asked.
Gosu looked down and found his tail. "Hey, look, it finally grew back!"
Krillin froze up. A tail? He thought. He had bad memories of when Goku turned into an ape at the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament, when Vegeta turned into one and nearly killed Goku, and when Gohan turned into one. He looked at the sky and it was evening. Oh, crap!
"Excuse me for a minute!" Krillin said. He ran back in the house and looked at the calendar. He looked at today's date and it said "Full Moon."
"OH NO!" Krillin exclaimed. He absolutely had to make sure Gosu didn't see the full moon. He ran to the drawer and found exactly what he needed. Moments later…
"What the fuck is this?" Gosu asked.
"They're blindfolds." Krillin replied.
"What will we need them for?" Junsei asked.
"Uh, well…they're for…" Think, Krillin, think! "…your senses! Yeah, that's it! You have to learn to be aware of your surroundings, so that even if you can't see, you won't be totally lost!"
Gosu and Junsei put their blindfolds on. "Uh, how long are we gonna have to wear these?" Gosu asked.
"For the whole night, even when you're sleeping!" Krillin replied.
"But that's ridiculous!" Gosu said.
"Don't question me! You absolutely must wear them!" Krillin commanded.
"Alright, alright, geez. No need to sound so urgent!" Gosu said as he attempted to walk in the house. He and Junsei bumped into each other a few times. Gosu wound up running into the trees, a rock, and the side of the house before making it to the door. Then, he and Junsei made their best attempt to find the doorknob. Gosu knew the kind of feeling steel had and had a good idea of the placement of the doorknob. He successfully grabbed it and opened the door, entering the house.
Krillin, you're a genius! You come up with training methods on the fly, even if it's just to keep yourself from getting squashed! Krillin thought to himself.
Gosu and Junsei continued bumping into everything possible, even breaking a few appliances. This more than pissed of #18.
"Hey, Krillin, if you're gonna do your little training then keep it out of the house!" She yelled.
Krillin ran up to her. "I'm doing this to keep Gosu from transforming at the full moon. His tail grew back." He whispered.
"Oh, I see." #18 replied.
"What about moons and tails?" Gosu asked.
"Crap, these Saiyans and their hearing!" Krillin whispered to himself.
"What did you say you were saying?" Gosu asked.
"Nothing!" Krillin replied. Gosu managed to find the stairs and tripped over them. Meanwhile, Junsei had run into the back door about 5 times, prompting #18 to grab him and toss him upstairs.
"Hey, Gosu, Junsei! You're gonna go to one of the rooms on the left, okay?" Krillin directed.
Gosu at least had a good grasp of his left and right. He turned to the left and ran into a wall, so he walked further and turned into what seemed like a room.
"And remember – don't take the blindfolds off under any circumstance, got it?" Krillin yelled out. "Well, you know what…?" Krillin went to a closet and found a bunch of boards. He boarded up every single window in the house, including Gosu's room. "Tell ya what, you can take them off if you want, now!"
"Geez, thanks!" Gosu said. He went to bed. Junsei did the same thing.
Well, the first day of training was finished! It didn't go exactly as planned, but that's for tomorrow! What lies ahead for our two young warriors? Find out on the next Dragon Ball NG!