A New Beginning
by htmLord
Chapter 2
4 Years Later
Gohan sat at the dinner table, (im)patiently waiting for his mother to serve the evening meal. He stared at his plate, thinking about.. things.
"I've got something to talk to you about, young man," Chi Chi had said that morning... "So don't you dare miss dinner!" She had given that final order with the kind of fierceness that she had so often had to resort to with his father, and even, at times, with him, in days past.
"But that was the past, when he had been young and his mother had been over protective.. what was she doing now?" Gohan thought, still lost in thought as his mother and brother started to eat.
The sound of food being eaten, however, was more than enough to rouse Gohan from his stupor. With the appetite of a typical Saiyan, Gohan attacked the mound of food his mother had prepared. "Wow, Mom.. this is great!" he said, his mouth half full.
"Gohan!" Chi Chi snapped. "How many times do I have to tell you? Don't talk with your mouth full!"
"Sorry.." Gohan hung his head, slowing down his food consumption.
It only lasted for a moment. Within seconds, Gohan's look of shame dissolved and his appetite reasserted itself. A few metric tons of food later (just kidding), Gohan sat back in his chair and issued a satisfied sigh. "That was great, Mom.." he said, standing and pushing in his chair. "I'm gonna head out and-"
"Oh, no you're not, Mister! We have something to talk about."
"Oh, yeah.. that's right.." Gohan replied, crestfallen that his evasion hadn't worked.
"Gohan," Chi Chi began, "I'm worried about you. You do nothing but train.. what about your studies? And don't you want to have any friends? Is fighting so important to you that you would sacrifice all else for it?"
"Well.. Mom.. you see.." But Gohan had no defense against his mother.. not even his driving desire to train ever harder.
"I've enrolled you in a public school," she said, much to Gohan's surprise. "Its a ways away, but you can make the trip in no time." Before Gohan could react, she continued. "And there won't be any skipping out so you can train. Period. You need to study, Gohan... not just goof off in the woods or by the river, training. I've let you off long enough.. now its time for you to go to school."
Gohan finally was able to put together a sentence. "What.. made you decide to do that, Mom?"
"Bulma and I were talking about it.. you are much to intelligent to spend your entire life training, Gohan.. whatever happened to your desire to be a scholar?"
Gohan, a bit flustered, tried to respond, but couldn't seem to form the words. "Fine, then," Chi Chi said. "School starts in August. You have two more months of your precious training, and then you better start hitting the books, you got that young man?"
Gohan, still unable to stand up to his mother, even on this, merely nodded. "Good. Oh, and you'll have to take a placement test in two weeks. We're going to this school tomorrow to take it, so you'd better look over your books." With that, Chi Chi nodded toward a closet that held Gohan's scholastic texts, books that hadn't seen the light of day in at least 6 months.
"Mom.." Gohan started to protest weakly, but Chi Chi immediately cut him off.
"No 'buts' young man.. you are going to school, and that's final!" The way she said it was final, too. Gohan knew there would be no more discussion on it from the look in his mother's eyes, so he gave up.
"Great.. now I have to go to school.. there goes my training regimen.." he thought.
"What are you waiting for, Gohan? Go study!" With that, his mother shooed him away from the dinner table and toward his books. Gohan sighed and opened the closet, only to be buried in an avalanche of almost forgotten books. Under the pile of books, he let out a sigh of exasperation, then got to work taking them to his room to be read.
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Short chapter, but I'm trying to make em quickly readable.. hopefully one more post tonight. Oh, and as to those who disagreed with me on which characters don't die, I was sort of wrong. The dog, Bee, never dies either. However, Dende dies on Namek during the Freeza saga, and Gohan, Goten, and Trunks die toward the end of the Buu saga, when the Earth is destroyed. With that out of the way, on to the next piece of DragonBall trivia:
Q: Who is the last principal character from the original DragonBall series to die for the first time? That is, who, of the main DB characters, is the last to ever die, chronologically?
by htmLord
Chapter 2
4 Years Later
Gohan sat at the dinner table, (im)patiently waiting for his mother to serve the evening meal. He stared at his plate, thinking about.. things.
"I've got something to talk to you about, young man," Chi Chi had said that morning... "So don't you dare miss dinner!" She had given that final order with the kind of fierceness that she had so often had to resort to with his father, and even, at times, with him, in days past.
"But that was the past, when he had been young and his mother had been over protective.. what was she doing now?" Gohan thought, still lost in thought as his mother and brother started to eat.
The sound of food being eaten, however, was more than enough to rouse Gohan from his stupor. With the appetite of a typical Saiyan, Gohan attacked the mound of food his mother had prepared. "Wow, Mom.. this is great!" he said, his mouth half full.
"Gohan!" Chi Chi snapped. "How many times do I have to tell you? Don't talk with your mouth full!"
"Sorry.." Gohan hung his head, slowing down his food consumption.
It only lasted for a moment. Within seconds, Gohan's look of shame dissolved and his appetite reasserted itself. A few metric tons of food later (just kidding), Gohan sat back in his chair and issued a satisfied sigh. "That was great, Mom.." he said, standing and pushing in his chair. "I'm gonna head out and-"
"Oh, no you're not, Mister! We have something to talk about."
"Oh, yeah.. that's right.." Gohan replied, crestfallen that his evasion hadn't worked.
"Gohan," Chi Chi began, "I'm worried about you. You do nothing but train.. what about your studies? And don't you want to have any friends? Is fighting so important to you that you would sacrifice all else for it?"
"Well.. Mom.. you see.." But Gohan had no defense against his mother.. not even his driving desire to train ever harder.
"I've enrolled you in a public school," she said, much to Gohan's surprise. "Its a ways away, but you can make the trip in no time." Before Gohan could react, she continued. "And there won't be any skipping out so you can train. Period. You need to study, Gohan... not just goof off in the woods or by the river, training. I've let you off long enough.. now its time for you to go to school."
Gohan finally was able to put together a sentence. "What.. made you decide to do that, Mom?"
"Bulma and I were talking about it.. you are much to intelligent to spend your entire life training, Gohan.. whatever happened to your desire to be a scholar?"
Gohan, a bit flustered, tried to respond, but couldn't seem to form the words. "Fine, then," Chi Chi said. "School starts in August. You have two more months of your precious training, and then you better start hitting the books, you got that young man?"
Gohan, still unable to stand up to his mother, even on this, merely nodded. "Good. Oh, and you'll have to take a placement test in two weeks. We're going to this school tomorrow to take it, so you'd better look over your books." With that, Chi Chi nodded toward a closet that held Gohan's scholastic texts, books that hadn't seen the light of day in at least 6 months.
"Mom.." Gohan started to protest weakly, but Chi Chi immediately cut him off.
"No 'buts' young man.. you are going to school, and that's final!" The way she said it was final, too. Gohan knew there would be no more discussion on it from the look in his mother's eyes, so he gave up.
"Great.. now I have to go to school.. there goes my training regimen.." he thought.
"What are you waiting for, Gohan? Go study!" With that, his mother shooed him away from the dinner table and toward his books. Gohan sighed and opened the closet, only to be buried in an avalanche of almost forgotten books. Under the pile of books, he let out a sigh of exasperation, then got to work taking them to his room to be read.
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Short chapter, but I'm trying to make em quickly readable.. hopefully one more post tonight. Oh, and as to those who disagreed with me on which characters don't die, I was sort of wrong. The dog, Bee, never dies either. However, Dende dies on Namek during the Freeza saga, and Gohan, Goten, and Trunks die toward the end of the Buu saga, when the Earth is destroyed. With that out of the way, on to the next piece of DragonBall trivia:
Q: Who is the last principal character from the original DragonBall series to die for the first time? That is, who, of the main DB characters, is the last to ever die, chronologically?