Chapter 2
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Daisuke groaned softly as she opened her eyes, awakening from her slumber. Rubbing her eyes blearily, not far from her she saw a small campfire and a tent which looked like it had been repaired multiple times with whatever fabric could be found. Daisuke saw beside the campfire was a young boy who was wearing a red Gi with a black belt and boots. He had black hair which was spiky, wild, and untamed. "Almost reminds me of Tai's hair," Daisuke thought before she winced. She had no idea whether or not she would ever see her friends and family again. She would even miss Jun's nagging every morning.
"Hey, you're up I see," Daisuke's attention was now drawn to the boy who was smiling at her.
"Uh….yeah I am," she replied uneasily.
"What's your name?" the boy asked, walking over to her with his arms behind his head. Daisuke also noticed that he had a sheath on his back which was holding a pole of some kind.
"You should say your own name before asking for others'," Daisuke chided the boy.
"Really? I didn't know that," the boy replied, scratching the back of his head sheepishly. Daisuke groaned.
"Why am I not surprised that this kid is being rude," she muttered.
"Hey, I'm not a kid. I happen to be fifteen years old thank you very much. Oh and my name is Goku Son," the boy now known as Goku said, making Daisuke look at him with wide eyes.
"What? But….you're so um….short," she said, looking at Goku who only reached up to just above her waist.
"Oh yeah? Well you are real um…tall," he replied.
"Nice comeback shorty," Daisuke said with a teasing grin and Goku pouted. "Anyway, where are we? This doesn't look like any part of Japan that I've been too."
"Japan? What's a Japan?" Goku asked making Daisuke looked at him shocked.
"Japan is a country. It's where I was born," she explained.
"Are you sure? I've never heard of Japan."
"You haven't?" she asked, and Goku nodded. "What about Europe?" Goku shook his head. "France, Italy, Germany, Spain?" Again he shook his head. "What about Russia? The United States of America?"
"Nope sorry," Goku replied, and Daisuke sighed deeply as she rubbed her forehead.
"Either this guy has literally been leaving under a rock for his entire life or…or… I'm not Earth anymore, or at least the Earth I was born on," she thought as everything that had happened to her hit her like a tonne of bricks. She turned and looked at her tail before beginning to cry. Tears slid down her cheeks as she fell to her knees and began to sob quietly. 'To think that she had lost everything so quickly. What was the point of continuing on?' Goku looked at her with visible concern.
"Are you alright? Can I help?" he asked, walking towards Daisuke. She pushed him away and snarled, her eyes actually glowing.
"Am I alright? Am I alright?" she asked rhetorically before growling, baring her elongated canines at Goku whose eyes went wide. "OF COURSE I'M NOT ALRIGHT YOU IDIOT! I've just escaped from a mad man who held me prisoner for about half a year. I don't know where I am, or if I can ever get home! And I'm now a….a…a monster! A freak of nature!"
"You're not a monster," Goku told her firmly.
"I am. Look at this!" she shouted showing her tail to Goku. "Humans don't have tails! They don't have elongated canines or slit pupils. They don't have bones made of metal. I'm unnatural now, less than human," she finished sadly.
"Hey, don't cry," Goku said as he wiped her tears away. "You're not a monster," he told her again.
"But I'm a freak…" Daisuke started before she noticed that Goku had a brown monkey like tail coming out of his backside. "You have a tail too!?"
"Yup," he answered with a chuckle. "But just because I have a tail doesn't mean anything. It doesn't make me a monster or a freak of nature, neither does your tail, or your fangs, or your eyes. What matters is who you are on the inside. If you're a good person, it doesn't matter what you look like," he said making Daisuke smile. "Plus, I think your features are pretty cool."
"Thank you, Goku. I needed that."
"Anytime," he replied before Daisuke's stomach growled, making her blush in embarrassment. Goku chuckled. "Hungry huh?"
'I guess so. That's a relief, at least that bastard didn't rip out my organs,' she thought.
"Well, you're in luck. I just finished cooking breakfast," Goku said as he grabbed Daisuke's hand and pulled her over to the campfire. He handed her a wooden bowl with cooked meat of… some sort. I certainly wasn't what her parents would make back home, but she guessed it was reasonably good for the circumstances.
"Thanks," Daisuke replied as she and Goku dug into the food. "So, what're you doing on your own Goku, you going somewhere?" she asked him.
"Actually, I'm on a one year training trip."
"Training for what?"
"Well, there is this martial arts tournament that lots of people compete in. I competed last year and I almost won. I'm going to enter this one as well. This time I'll win for sure!" he answered.
"Do you think I can come with you?" Daisuke asked making him look up at her. "I don't have anywhere else I can go. If there's any prize money, I might even enter the tournament myself. I mean, if you don't mind… You've been really nice to me so far, and I don't want to inconvenience you," she began to babble, but Goku raised a hand.
"Are you sure?" he asked her hesitantly. Daisuke shrugged and nodded as Goku silently thought it over. Nodding, a smile came over his face. "I don't see why not, but be warned. I move pretty fast. I'm not really going to slow down for you, if you can't keep up it would probably be better for me to drop you off at a nearby town."
"I think I can keep up shortie," Daisuke replied with a confident grin.
"I told you I'm not short!" Goku exclaimed, and Daisuke laughed at his reaction.
"Yeah keep telling yourself that," she told him and Goku frowned.
"Okay fine, how about a race to see if you can keep up?" he suggested.
"You're on. Where to?" asked Daisuke, and Goku stood up and packed up the camp. Putting the tent into a backpack, he put it onto his back before pointing to a large rock formation far in the distance.
"That rock formation. If you can keep up or win, you can come with me on my training trip. If not, I'll make sure you get to a town safely."
"Just to there?" Daisuke asked. Goku nodded and ran off, dust actually flying behind him from the speed. "Hey!" Daisuke shouted as she ran after Goku. To her surprise, she could move like the wind. Daisuke found her surroundings moving past at a blur, and noticed idly that somehow her body wasn't off balance. It reminded her of her partner when he was running.
Goku was nearing the rock formation and looked back to see that Daisuke wasn't within view. He sighed. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to keep training on my own, it might have been nice to have a training partner," he thought.
"Hey shortie!" he heard Daisuke shout, and he turned his head. Eyes widening, he saw Daisuke burst from the forest behind him, and was getting closer! "You can't lose me that easily!" she told him.
"Okay then, now things are exciting!" he shouted before he began to run faster, kicking up a cloud of debris as he sped off. Daisuke still managed to keep up and soon Goku was the first to the rock formation. A few seconds later, Daisuke arrived. The two were barely even winded.
"How did I do?" she asked Goku who was looking at her.
"You might even be faster than Krillin. You actually managed to keep up with me."
"Of course I did. I do play a lot of soccer," Daisuke replied.
"What's soccer?" Goku asked her and she groaned.
"Never mind. So can I join you on your training trip?" A bud of eagerness and apprehension filled her. She didn't have anything in this world… but perhaps this boy would be the key to finding something.
"Of course," Goku answered making Daisuke smile as he walked off and Daisuke followed him. "So tell me what you know? Can you fight?" he asked and Daisuke was hesitant in her reply.
"Um….yeah actually. All I can say is that it's pretty instinctual for me, but I don't think I'm too bad," she answered.
"Do you know how to use your Ki?" this question confused Daisuke until she remember what had stated as she fought Android 10 during her escape.
"I think so. I mean the man who held me captive said I had used my Ki when I did this." She stopped walking and turned towards a small boulder, taking a deep breath in. "WILD ECHO!" she shouted opening her mouth, and a concussive blast of energy flew out and it hit the boulder, causing it to shatter.
"Whoa, awesome! That was unlike any other Ki move I've ever seen," Goku said.
"Thanks but I still don't know what Ki is," Daisuke replied.
"I'm not an expert or anything, but I think I can share the basics," Goku told her. "Ki is a tangible energy inside every living being, that springs from a strong body and mind. By drawing it out, an individual is able to manipulate it and use it outside the body. Ki can be used for many different techniques, like what you just did."
"Got it, but I only have that move and one variation of it," Daisuke said.
Goku paused, humming for a moment. "Why not. I can give you another really cool attack that I know."
"Really, you'd do that? But you just met me, you don't care that it's your technique?"
"So? I can tell you're a good person, that and you look like you could use a friend," he replied. "Plus, it's not like I created the technique, it was taught to me, and now I'm going to teach it to you."
"A friend?" Daisuke thought before she smiled. "I'd like that," she told him and Goku nodded as he faced another large boulder. He cupped his hands and drew them to his right side and a small sphere of blue Ki began to form.
"Ka-Me-Ha-Me…." Goku said as the sphere grew in size until it was about the size of a soccer ball. "HA!" he shouted, thrusting his hands forward, and a powerful beam of energy shot forward towards the boulder. The boulder shattered into countless little pieces upon impact.
"Holy crap! What the heck was that!?" Daisuke asked.
"The Kamehameha. It's really powerful, I once saw it demolish a castle," Goku answered.
"Are you serious?" she asked and Goku nodded. "Damn, that's really powerful."
"Give it a shot," Goku encouraged. Daisuke frowned.
"Just like that? Hold my hands there and say Ka-Me-Ha-Me-Ha? I need a little more than that, there's no way the technique's that simple."
Goku scratched his head. "Um… well, it sort of was for me. But try to gather your Ki in your hands, compress it into a sphere. Then thrust it outwards. Sorry, that's the best I can explain."
Daisuke frowned. She wasn't sure how she would gather Ki, but maybe something like her Wild Echo? Focusing on that sensation, she drew her hands back and began to concentrate on the space between them. "Ka-Me…," she began, a small sphere of Ki appearing between her cupped hands. "Ha-Me-HA!" she shouted as she thrust the sphere forwards where it transitioned into a small beam. The attack hit a large boulder and shattered a chunk of its face, making Daisuke smile.
"That was good," Goku congratulated.
"Thanks, I guess I'm pretty awesome," Daisuke said with a grin.
"Meh, you're alright," Goku said making Daisuke glare and grab him by his ear.
"What was that you little twerp?!" she shouted angrily.
"Ow, ow, ow, sorry, sorry!" Goku shouted, and Daisuke let his ear go. She bopped him on his head hard. "Ow," he groaned.
"Serves you right, come on," Daisuke said grabbing Goku by the collar and dragging him off.
"Do you know where you're going?" Goku asked her and she stopped walking.
"Fine, you lead monkey boy," Daisuke said, and Goku nodded and walked off with Daisuke following.
Several months flew by and Goku and Daisuke travelled all over the world training. Both became even stronger, and Daisuke came to terms on her not being exactly human any more. She couldn't allow that to hold her back. She would become stronger to honour her partner Gaomon, and had found red fingerless gloves on their travels.
"So how much longer until we arrive at the tournament arena?" Daisuke asked Goku as they walked through a small patch of trees.
"We should be there in a couple of hours I believe," he replied.
"You'd better be right, last time you said a couple of hours, it took us three days to reach the next town," Daisuke retorted.
"Oh come on, everything worked out," Goku protested, placing a hand behind his head. Daisuke rolled her eyes at him but smiled nonetheless. Suddenly she heard something nearby and stopped walking. She sniffed the air discreetly.
"What is it girl?" Goku asked and Daisuke glared at him.
"Don't act like I am a damn dog," she snarled. "As for your question, we are not alone."
"It seems we've been discovered boys. Doesn't matter though," a gruff voice said as four thugs carrying swords jumped down from the trees, followed by another man who had waist length midnight black hair, icy red eyes, tan skin, a lean build with compact muscles. He wore bandages covering his lower mouth and right arm and torso, along with baggy hakuma pants that were solid black with black converse. Finally he had black flame-like tribal tattoos on his entire left arm and torso that began at his wrist and ended at his neck. He also had a red bandanna around his left bicep.
"What the heck do you bozos want? We don't have any money," Daisuke said, and Goku nodded.
"Money!? We're not here for your money. Someone hired us to stop some kid named Goku from reaching the Martial Arts Tournament in time," the man with the tattoos explained. "And that brat with you looks like the description we were given."
"Who wouldn't want me to participate in the tournament?" Goku asked.
'Idiot,' Daisuke thought angrily. 'You just confirmed their suspicions; we might have been able to bluff our way out of this.'
"Get them boys," the leader of the group said.
"WILD ECHO!" Daisuke shouted, letting loose a concussive blast as one thug jumped at her. He was knocked to the ground and Daisuke winced. She was sure she had ruptured at least one of his internal organs with the amount of power she had put into her attack. Goku had taken out his power pole and it grew to the length of a Bo-staff. He was dealing with the other three thugs who didn't give him any room to breathe.
"Now it is just you and me," the leader of the thugs said to Daisuke who frowned. She ran towards the man and punched at him, and he leaned to the side and kneed Daisuke in the gut. The blow sent her skidding back. Running towards Daisuke with his broadsword raised, the bandit leader swung it at her. She jumped over the swing and landed on the sword as it became wedged in a tree.
"WILD HOWLING!" she roared, emitting a more powerful concussive wave from her mouth towards the leader thug. It sent him flying back into a tree and Daisuke grabbed the sword and ripped it out of the trunk. She threw it at him and he failed to dodge, leading to the sword cutting through his right shoulder and leaving a deep wound.
"Argh! You're going to pay for that!" he told Daisuke. He ran towards her, but she back-flipped to avoid the man's kick and landed feet first on a tree trunk. Focusing on sending Ki to her feet, she shot towards the man, catching him off guard, and he was knocked to the ground in surprise.
"How are you doing Goku?" Daisuke asked, turning to face him.
"Oh you know, I'm managing!" he replied, hitting a thug on the head with his power pole before sweeping the thug's feet out from under him.
"I'll deal with you and then your little monkey friend," Daisuke heard from behind her. The leader punched the blue-haired girl as she turned around, but she shrugged it off and smirked.
"Was that your best shot? It didn't even tickle," she mocked. Kicking him in the stomach hard, Daisuke heard a snap, and her opponent coughed up blood before falling to the ground defeated. Moments later Goku finished defeated the other thugs.
"Well that was fun. Come on we're going to be late for the tournament," Goku said, and Daisuke nodded, walking off with Goku.
"This isn't over!" the leader of the group shouted getting to his feet. Daisuke stopped walking and turned to face him. Holding up her right hand with the pointer finger out, the fingertip began to glow.
"No," she said firing a yellow Ki beam from her finger and hitting him in the chest. "Now it is." She walked over to the thug and took the headband around his arm. Smiling, she wrapped it around her forehead and before turning to Goku and joining him.
"Next stop, the Martial Arts Tournament!" Goku exclaimed.
The end of the chapter
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