AWAY FROM HOME 2: WELCOME TO DBZ
By Vampy
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Summary: Lucas finds out where he is.. Well... at least we do. *grins*
AN: Thank you Melissa, my fateful beta-reader.
Disclaimer: *sights* I know... You know... But it just HAS to be black on white...
"They,,, ,,,aren't,,, ,,, ,,,mine."
There, I did it!
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"Captain Picard: 'Explain this phenomenon, Mr. Data.'
Data: 'Well, captain, it involves the coincide of time-space-continuance whereby the borders between parallelworlds within the fictive universe disappear to form a wormhole between publications.'
Captain Picard: 'In normal language, Mr. Data?'
Data: 'It's a crossover, sir!'"
(c) Steven Smet
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My feet were nagging at me, all the way to the top and it drove me crazy.
Crazy enough to stop halfway and turn around. But I didn't.
I dropped at the second I could see the horizon and took a HUGE break.
My stomach ached and my skin burned. At least my feet were content with their well-deserved rest.
I wasn't, I wanted to know if there was any hope left of rescue.
I stood up and started to look around and saw a whole horizon. The land was filled with the strange trees and grass were I was already accustomed to. There was nothing else; I looked again, but better this time. This couldn't be true. I sat down. It was...
The sun was setting in, right in front of me creating beautiful colors in the sky. I hugged myself watching her go beneath the horizon. Though I didn't know for sure, I believed I had never been more afraid of the dark in my whole life then right there.
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When I started to wake up I
couldn't help myself but think that I hadn't fallen asleep that
evening.
But when I was fully conscious I realized I did because I was in
another place. Namely in a room, in a bed.
I couldn't stop blinking. Then I thanked God a million times. I slowly got up.
I was a little nauseous and unsteady. Not to forget hungry. But that would be fine since I had found civilization, or better yet, civilization had found me.
I looked around the room. It was stuffed with junk; there were boxes all over the place and even a hot iron from the year zero. This room was obviously for guests. I turned to the window. It had happy yellow curtains and I pushed them aside to get a good view of where I really was.
The sun shone inside and lit up the room even more. I had to blink and used my hand to over my eyes, so I could see something. There they were again, the strange overly green and round trees, but this time I got to see them from first floor. I pushed my face against the window to see what was down below and I saw a little terrace with a couple of wooden chairs and a big table. How I loved civilization.
The door behind me opened and I was remembered that I only had my jeans on. They probably threw away my torn up shirt and jeans but that didn't matter.
In the door entrance stood a woman with raven black hair. She smiled while I blushed and wished me a good morning. I wished her a good morning too but I'm sure it came out awkward.
"How are you doing today?" She walked towards the nightstand and putted her orange bundle on top of it.
"Fine... Thanks!" I shook my head because I didn't make sense. "Thank you for taking me in. I don't know exactly what happened but thanks for helping me." Her smile became bigger and she told me I could take these cloths and I should go downstairs for something to eat. We would talk later. Then she left and I took a look at the bundle. What the heck was this? There was a blue T-shirt and an orange tunic of some kind; I believed they would use such a thing for karate or judo. The texture was very rough. The thought of asking for some other clothes left my mind in a second and I got dressed. They were a perfect fit but they were kind of old. You just know with those kinds of things.
When I got down I swallowed before I opened the door. The voices I heard through the door stopped. Every eye in the room was glued to me and I froze, stunned. Luckily the voices started again to ask me how I was doing and saying hello. I was overwhelmed but tried to answer all of their questions that I did know, namely that I was doing fine. I also thanked all of them for helping me and that satisfied them. The nice lady that had brought me the weird outfit guided me through the crowd to a table and I sat down. I forgot that everybody was looking at me when I saw the bowl of rice before me. Next to the bowl were some eating sticks and a spoon. I grabbed the spoon and started to eat to my heart's content.
After two bowls of rice I finally had enough and I became aware of my surroundings. Right in front of me at the able sat a man in the same kind of tunic as me but he was way bigger. He had black spiky hair and the nice lady was standing behind him with her hands on his shoulder. They were probably married.
I took a sip of my water and looked at the rest of the people in the room. A woman with almost blue hair was arguing with a small bald guy who was also wearing an orange tunic. I put down the glass. A guy who was a little shorter then the guy in front of me and had longer hair was laughing at the argument. He had scars all over his face. When he noticed I was looking at him he came forward and extended his hand to me. I stood up and shook it. He told me his name was Yamcha and asked me what my name was.
There I was with my mouth full of teeth but nothing to say. "I'm. I'm... " I didn't know what to say, I could've lied but that would've been a bad take off so I didn't say anything. "You don't know your name?!?" Yamcha was devastated. And I, well I was lost and sat down, not even bothering to verify it.
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Luckily they were sensitive poeple because ChiChi shoved everybody out the door except for Goku and Gohan to stop the firing squat from asking questions.
They apparently had a lot of friends..
I turned around in my seat. Did I just see what I think I saw? A green guy? That must've been my imagination or these people are taking body-paint way too serious.
I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Goku's and he took the seat beside me.
"Is it that you don't know your name or that you rather not say?" "Uhm.. " I looked up, right into two almost black eyes. "I'll tell you all I can remember." And I did, though it wasn't much that I could tell them. They listened. And told me I must have been hallucinatingen when I came to the part about the leaves. I would prove them wrong later.
"...The last thing I can remember is climbing that mountain and seeing the sun go down. That's probably where you found me..."
"Oh, well actually Gohan found you. He trains there with Piccolo."
"Trains?" I never meant to be noisy but I guess it is human nature.
Gohan was happy to apply. "Yeah! Piccolo is the best.. Well second best!" He hinted to his father.
Guess dads will always be number one. "Do you train too?" He was very enthusiastic, but when he said that he shut his mouth immediately and looked shocked. There was a silent for a second. But he never lost his footing. "I guess you don't know, huh?" I hopelessly shrugged my shoulders.
Goku spoke up. "We should get you to a doctor in the morning. Maybe it's a temporary amnesia. If it is, you could stay with us until you get your memory back and then we'll bring you back."
ChiChi interfered. "We've already got a description of you with the authorities, but unfortunately nobody has responded on it." She smiled at me and I thanked her and Goku for letting me stay with them. It's good to have a place when you don't know who you are. I shivered at the thought of being left behind at a police station right now.
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That day I didn't get to do much. Gohan had enthusiastically showed me all around the house but when he wanted me to show the rest of the world ChiChi told him I should get some rest and he had apparently still some studying to do.
So there I was, lying on my back in the guest room. Worrying sick.
Nobody had responded to my description. Why not? Certainly somebody missed me?
Even if I were kind of a loner, there would have been one person who missed me. I was a kid! Okay, didn't feel like one, but I was one non-the less. The ceiling didn't do anything to comfort me so I closed my eyes. Maybe I was far away from home, my plane crashed but nobody knows yet. I turned around so I could lie on my side. Yeah, right, like they wouldn't notice a plane crash. Sure it was in the middle of nowhere but if Gohan had found me, how could he miss an at least 10 meters long airplane. They told me that after they had found me, I slept for almost 3 days. I didn't know anyone could sleep that long, well I should be glad I wasn't dead. I turned to my other side. I had that stupid, nagging headache again.
Maybe I should try not thinking, it had helped me in that stupid deserted land. But I had been hallucinating out there, or so, they said.
"Can't sleep?"
I looked up to see Gohan standing in the doorway. I laid back down, telling him that my brain was on overload. He chuckled at that. And surprisingly practically jumped on the bed. "I know the perfect place to go."
I was a little surprised at his outburst, but I had taken a liking to the little guy so I didn't mind. "What place?"
"Ancient. It will keep your mind off things."
That certainly sounded.... Interesting. "But what about your mother?" I sat up in bed. I had used my old set of jeans as pajamas.
Gohan shook his head smiling. "She also wants me to study for nine hours a day." He looked real harmless when he told me that but I didn't know yet, and he could see it in my face. WELL. DUH! If you're a guest at someone's house and you don't even know the people, you go to sleep when they tell you to go to sleep. Even if you have been asleep for 3 days and could use some fresh air.
"If you try to sleep right now, at the middle of the day, you won't be able to sleep at night and then you have a chance you might get hungry or bored at night and you'll get out of bed and then you have to xplain my mother why you weren't sleeping while you could've just exhausted yourself by coming with me to this really cool place which causes you to sleep out tomorrow, and we won't wake you because you've kinda been sick an' all."
All I could do was stare, and blink, occasionally. But when he didn't show any signs of stopping I had to jump in. "Okay, okay, I'll go with ya, just let me get dressed okay?" The little squirt jumped off the bed being his happy little self and opened the window... and then climbed out of it. That was a bad sign. A sign that said: NOW YOU REALLY HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU DON'T GET CAUGHT!!!!!
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Though the trip had been long and hard for me, even if it probably only lasted a half hour.
It was worth it though. Every step.
Gohan had leaded me to an open space inside an old monastery.
I had never seen anything like it
in my whole life. It was an old monastery, almost completely in
ruins but still.. It was a monastery. Judging from the style, I
would guess it was an monastery from monks who worshipped the
Dalai Lama, thought worshipping might not be the right word. The
court was open and able to let thousands of people come together
to honor the Dalai Lama. It made perfect sense.
Looking at the stones that were left of beautiful buildings, I
figured out they must've been 200 years old. I whistled. That was
pretty short time because the people stopped believing in the
Dalai Lama for centuries now. Of course it was known that the
Dalai Lama reincarnated so the people who never stopped believing
would still be able to continue there religion, but still... If
such a culture was still alive.. It would be unbelievable for the
recent scientist, they wouldn't be able to resist a study of
their lifestyles...
I hadn't realized I was talking out loud when Gohan let out a
"wow". I turned to face him. "You must know a lot
about these cultures... Hey, maybe your mom and dad are
archeologists."
That sounded reasonable, how else should I know about these cultures. "Maybe... Hey, what's over there?" I walked towards it without waiting for a response. There was this hall toward a large area. Now I was dumfounded.
The ground was molested and
spitted. Okay, the ruins I could figure out. Wind and rain would
do that for you, but this? Hell, most of the ground didn't even
have weed on it yet. "What happened here?"
Gohan had finely caught up with me and looked around, his guards
up. "Where? What?" While he was searching for an
invisible enemy I studied a crater.
"There must've been a great force after this to actual create such a crater." Gohan let his guard down and stood next to me. "Ha, this ain't nothing yet." I looked at him, he was dead serious. Okay.... "Well, show me something, then."
He shrugged and led the way. We walked over the arena onto the stages and looked out over the plagues behind it. It was filled with huge craters.
A butterfly had caught Gohan's attention but I was still trying to copperhead that there was a war going on.
Wait a minute... A war? No way! Well, it was a reasonable response to such a thing. I shook my head, why was I being such a dumb ass I had a guide. "Hey Gohan?" Gohan ignored the butterfly who was sitting on his nose and turned his attention to me with a: hmm?
"What caused all this?"
The butterfly flew away. And Gohan finally got the issue. "That? Oh, you don't have to worry you know. It's just where we train, sometimes things can get a little out of hand."
A little out of hand? Train? "What the heck do you train?"
Gohan's eyes began to glimmer. "You'll have to see for yourself. We could go here tomorrow, after you saw the doctor. You won't believe your eyes!"
I nodded... ...a little unsure.
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After a little tour trough the whole area, we decided to head
home since diner could be almost ready.
I was kind of lost in my own thoughts and let Gohan lead the way
back. Hell, it all looked the same to me. Trees, trees and more
trees. Okay, It was a nice forest and it did me an awful lot of
good, since my headache had disappeared like ice in the sun.
Gohan was humming a little singalong, which I didn't recognize. I would have a busy schedule for tomorrow, first a doctor then a war demonstration. Ooh, I could not wait.
This place was still very awkward and alien to me. That reminded me of something. I stopped to study a tree. It looked like it was supposed to look. It had the right shade of green and brown. And the bark was well... I touched it. It felt exact the way it should feel. How on earth? I looked at my hand, it was already dirty. Had I really been hallucinating? Nah, when you're hallucinating you must feel different, some how. I felt normal, only confused about this certain thing. I looked up to the tree and picked a leaf. It came off with little difficulty and I rubbed it. It disintegrated and came apart.
Maybe it had been all a dream.. I
dropped the leaf when I suddenly realized that Gohan had kept on
walking. I turned around and saw no one. "Oh shit." I
muttered. I practical ran the way we were heading. "Hey,
Gohan!?" damn... This was the last thing that was on my
want-to-happen list. "Gohan!" I yelled. I didn't care
if it looked dumb, I didn't want to get lost twice in one week.
"Gohan?" I stopped running. What if I was heading into
the wrong way? They would never find me if I did. But I also
couldn't just stand here and wait. Hell no! I shut up and
listened. I would've done anything for a little luck right then.
But I didn't hear anything else then some stupid birds. I started
walking in the way that was supposed to lead back to the house. I
walked quietly, hoping to hear someone call my name.
I stopped, smacked my head, for the fact that nobody knew my
name. Well, maybe Gohan would try calling for John Doe.
I kept walking. Why the hell didn't I hear someone calling? When I came to an open space where I had never been before I realized I had walked the wrong way. No, no, no... Okay, Everything was fine, I had to calm down. It wasn't that big a forest. I would just walk back, for as long as I know is right and then I'd wait for someone to find me.
I just started to walk when a hand grasped my shoulder, I practically jumped at this but when I saw Gohan I felt a flood of comfort wash over me. "Don't you ever, EVER, do that to me again!"
"What?"
I wanted to say 'scare me' but I changed it into 'leave me alone' because that one was number one on my list. Gohan didn't look so happy either.
"Where were you? I thought you were following me and next thing I know, I turn around and you're gone."
I couldn't believe this guy, I had been the one in despair and now he's blaming me? Oh wait, it had been my fault. I sat down on a tree stump. "I'm just glad you found me."
Surprisingly, he grinned. "You didn't made it easy for me!"
I grinned too, it was the truth. "Don't worry, squirt, I'll make you a boy's scout honor trophy some day."
"What's it gonna say?"
I thought for a sec. "It's gonna say: Thanks for waiting."
Gohan was about to protest when he remembered something. "We gotta go home quick! Mom's not waiting to call us for supper. And if she finds out, I'll be grounded for life!"
I nodded and we returned home.
On the whole trip back, I didn't let my eyes wander once, but held them firmly on Gohan's back.
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With a full stomach and the memories of that day still fresh in my mind I went to bed that evening. My muscles ached and my eyelids were almost too heavy to hold open. But non-the less, this day had turned out fine. The Son family (That was their last name) really didn't mind having me as a guest, which would be until ChiChi found out where I was this afternoon and with whom.
I kind of felt at home.
It's hard to describe... I had just
gotten my first memory of family and I kinda clung up to that.
I tossed my borrowed clothes on a chair that was standing there
and used my jeans once again as PJ's; I realized that it was the
only thing I had left of my old life. Whatever that may be. I
fell asleep wondering if I would ever find my way home.