A/n: Hey guys I'm back after a week. Sorry this took so long I needed a break after the June promotion and I was going to update yesterday but I got sidetracked. By sidetracked I mean when I actually had time to type the chapter it was 1:00am. Thanks to xconversegirl99x, TPWABW, Ninuhuju, Animefangirl365, Dbzfanlover4eva and Guest for reviewing in the last chapter. Ninuhuju I thought the context of Gohans thought process implied that Gohan could sense the invisible man so I didn't bother specifically stating it. To basically everyone while in the anime Bulma's breasts are quickly flashed on screen in the manga there's actually a panel were it show Bulma's breasts…Never read Dragonball in school because I was reading it in school when that happened and I almost burst out laughing in English class. I own nothing.
Chapter 36: He's back
The previously group of 6 now 8 followed the all seeing Crone into a different arena for that is where the next opponent waited.
"Where on Earth is the next match going to be?" Yamcha asked as they climbed the stairs to the arena.
"The Devil cesspool," Roshi replied casually.
"Th-the D-Devils cesspool!" Yamcha stuttered out before continuing.
"Don't you have any advice?"
"I do. Don't die."
"That quite helpful," Yamcha snidely remarked.
The crone came to a stop as did the group.
"The contestants enter through here," The crone stated pointing towards a door.
"The rest of you come this way. There is an excellent view of the match from up here," The crone said continuing up the stairs.
When they got to the top they were in a room with a big window they could look out of to see the match.
The arena the match was taking place in consisted of two giant Devil statues that had long tongues that met so someone could walk across them from one statue to another. At the bottom was a bubbling pool of god knows what.
"You're going to fighting on top of these Demon tongues. Below you is a swamp of acid fall in and you die," The Crone explained while dropping the slab of meat into the "swamp" as the group watch it dissolve once it touched the surface.
'This lady is insane!' Gohan thought to himself.
The crones head jerked in Gohans direction and she gave him a dirty look. Gohan was confused at first but then remembered that apparently she could read minds.
"Let me introduce my third champion that living hunk of jerky the mummy!" The crone yelled.
On cue a mummy walked out of the other demons mouth and laughed.
"Remember if you say mercy or die you lose! Now begin!" The crone yelled.
"Yamcha please be careful!" Puar cried.
The crone turned away from the fight and towards Gohan.
"You! Come with me," She demanded.
The others looked at him wondering what the Crone would want him for.
"I'll be fine," Gohan reassured them.
That seemed to work for most of the group since they turned back to the match to watch Yamcha. The only one who didn't was Goku who watched "Roy" walked away with the crone.
After they were out of sight the crone spoke up.
"You're not supposed to be here."
Gohan was confused by that. Not supposed to be here?
"Huh?"
"I mean you're not supposed to be in this Time period."
"I don't know what yo-"
"Save it future-boy! I already know who you are and what time period your actually from…Son Gohan!"
"Is everybody finding that out this week! First Korin now You!"
"Hush Child!" The crone snapped.
"You need to get back to your own time period. You are creating an alternate timeline and the monster that sent you here is a running around re-creating other beings from the future and trying to kill your father,"
Gohans eyes widened.
"Do you know who this monster is?" He asked. Just knowing who this creature was would help him immensely in destroyed whoever dared try to mess with him and his family.
"I am not sure who but the creature appears to be an insect-like being comprised of many different people including Goku,"
Gohan couldn't believe it. This wasn't a or a android like the others. It was the real Cell.
"No…" Gohan said dropping to his knees.
His father's sacrifice had been in vain.
Cell was back.
"I thought he was dead! Does this mean everything my friends, my father and I did was in vain?!"
"You seem to know this creature," The crone concluded.
"He's a really bad guy named Cell. He killed millions of innocent people just he could reach perfection. He held a tournament to see who was the strongest. If he won he would destroy Earth so me, my father, Yamcha, Krillin, everyone entered the tournament to stop cell,"
Gohan's eye's started to prick thinking about that painful day. But he tried his best to ignore it before continuing.
"My father…he had me fight cell. He said I was the strongest there. So I did. But I got overconfident. I had the chance to kill him to finish him off but I didn't. Cell knew he was going to lose to he was going to blow himself and the planet up. My father…..he…he….he teleported himself and Cell to someplace else that wasn't Earth. Cell blew up killing my…my…"
Gohan had to stop talking for a moment or else it would have become crying. Despite his efforts however a single tear did escape his eye. After composing himself the boy resumed his story.
"Cell wasn't dead though. He teleported back to Earth and was going to blow up Earth using a Kamehameha. I was able to defeat him however but….I lost my father…and it's all my fault…."
The crone didn't say anything when Gohan finished. She seemed to surprised. Surprised that a child who hadn't even reached his teenage years yet had to go through all that pressure.
"You must find this creature and destroy him as soon as you can. Who knows what he's changing.
"I'm too late. He's already changed so much," Gohan started.
"I went to kill his creator to prevent Cell from ever being created. When I went to his base however he was gone along with all of his research. Cell must have had wanted Dr. Gero of that happened before I got there,"
"I'll see if I can find him," The crone said jumping off her crystal ball.
After a couple of minutes of making odd hand gestures in front of the ball she gasped.
"What wrong?" Gohan asked.
"It appears something's blocking me from finding him."
"It's cell! It has to be!" Gohan exclaimed his sorrow being replaced with rage as a familiar Golden aura and electricity started to form around him as his eyes flashed from black to aqua and his hair started to go from black to blonde and become more spiky then it already was. The whole building started shaking with how much power the child was blowing off.
"Settle down! Are you trying to bring the whole building down!" The crone yelled.
Gohan forcefully calmed himself down as his eyes and hair stopped flashing colors as the electric sparks died down.
"I'm sorry," Gohan said solemnly.
"You must learn to control that power of yours. If the wrong person saw that it could be disastrous."
"I understand,"
"Come along now. Your friends and father are waiting for you,"
The Crone led Gohan back to where the others were observing the match. He was shocked find Yamcha in the observatory.
"What happened?" Gohan asked.
"Roy your back. Yamcha gave up to that mummy guy," Bulma explained.
"Do you give up or do you planning to keep on fighting?" The crone questioned.
"I'm ready to fight!" Goku yelled excitedly.
"Just done get killed Goku!" Krillin yelled after him as the chibi tailed fighter ran out of the room and into the arena.
"Please just be careful,"
A/n: Forgive me for ending where I did I like usual needed a place to end the chapter. Before I go I'm doing an 50 random facts about me on my profile so if you want to know anything about me for whatever reason just PM me and if it applies to the rules I'll answer it. Until next time guys!