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Rebuilding a Broken Soul

Chapter 8

~*~ 8 Months Into Training ~*~

Gohan was impressed with how much Serena had progressed. It was obvious she had been a fighter in her world, for there was no way she could have improved as much as she did otherwise. Still, there was more power inside of her. He could tell. It was just locked up somewhere, hidden deep inside of her. He had been contemplating for some time of how to bring it out, but he just couldn't figure out a way. It was a delicate matter. He couldn't just let it be released, when she was angry, he had to teach her how to use it. *Oh well* Gohan thought. *I still have four more months left to figure a way to teach her.*

"Hey Gohan!!!" shouted Serena, interrupting Gohan's thought process. "Dinner's on! Come eat!"

"Looks great Serena. Let the food frenzy begin."

Gohan and Serena dug in. They had more food than usual, because they had decided to take a break from training for a few days. Gohan still remembered from when his father trained him, that rest was just as important as the actual training.

"So Serena. Tell me about your home," said Gohan, finally deciding to learn something about his girl that had just appeared so suddenly. Seeing the look that crossed her face, he realized that maybe he shouldn't have said anything. "Sorry. You don't have to say anything. I was just wondering what your family was like."

Serena's face lit up. The memory of her family was obviously a good one. Unfortunately her smiling face then faded, for the thought of never seeing them again entered her mind.

"Sorry Gohan. I guess I just miss my family and wonder how they are doing. They were all great, even my annoying little brother. His name is Sammy. We always fought, but we both cared about each other very much. It was always fun to get into fights with him. We had fun seeing how far we could go until my mom would step in and tell us to stop it. We rarely got into any big trouble with our mom. She was great. She loved being a mother. It was obvious in the way she acted. She liked having a family and keeping the house and family in working order. She loved to surprise us with new things that she was trying to bake. She was an awesome cook. I loved her cakes so much, they were really good. She was extremely laid back and was pretty lax in letting me do things. The opposite of my dad. They always say that opposites attract though, right. Well, my dad was overprotective of me. He didn't like the idea of me going anywhere near a boy. He didn't like me out late at night either. I got pretty good at sneaking out of the house, so I could destroy the youma that always attacked. All and all, we were a happy family that had a pretty good life, in the suburbs of Tokyo."

"Wow! That sounds great."

"What about you Gohan? What was it like for you growing up?"

(AN: Sorry to all Goten fans, but he isn't in my story. I really don't know anything about him, and I don't know how to write him in. Gomen.)

"Well, my life was definitely different from yours. You've met my parents, so you basically know what they're like. My mom made me study almost non stop while growing up. It's not like there were any kids for me to play with though, because we lived in the middle of the forest, so I guess the only thing I could do was study. Dad always somehow managed to sneak me off to have some fun though. Whenever we came back, we would get in trouble though. Of course, having your dad be the strongest fighter in the world has its drawbacks. When I was five (AN: I think that's the right age.), my dad took me to a reunion of the rest of the Z fighters at Master Roshi's house. The party was crashed by the appearance of Radditz, who was my dad's brother from Vegetasei. He kidnapped me as a way to get my dad to join them. My dad attacked him with Piccolo. They were able to pinpoint the weakness of him, which was his tail. My dad grabbed it, making Radditz freeze. Piccolo was then able to kill Radditz, but unfortunately that killed my dad too."

"Your dad died? But how? He's alive isn't he?"

"Yes he is." Gohan laughed at the look on Serena's face.

"What?" Serena's look of confusion, only got worse.

"Sorry. I shouldn't laugh, but your face is just priceless. We have these things here called Dragon Balls. If you collect all seven of them, you can be granted a wish. So using these, we wished my dad back to life."

"Oh okay. I get it now."

"Well, during the fight with Radditz, the fact that I had power within me was discovered. After the battle was over, Piccolo trained me, for we found out that two more saiyans were going to be coming. Vegeta and Nappa arrived a year later." Gohan looked at Serena's perplexed face and said, "Yes, it is the same Vegeta. Anyway, when they arrived, all of the Z fighters assembled. My dad wasn't there yet, for he hadn't gotten back on Earth yet. He had gone to train with King Kai when he died. Anyway, Yamcha, Tien, and Chaotsu died in the battle against the saiyans, before my dad arrived."

"But you were able to wish them back with the Dragon Balls right?" asked Serena, hoping that she was learning this correctly.

"Yes and no. We used dragon balls but not Earth's dragon balls. Piccolo died also in the battle, just a few minutes before my dad arrived. He died to save me." This part was obviously still painful for him. Piccolo means a lot to Gohan, and Gohan obviously blamed himself. Serena put a hand on Gohan's shoulder in understanding.

"When, Piccolo died, Kami died as well. Kami was the previous guardian of Earth. He split himself in two to rid himself of the evil inside of him, which created Piccolo. Kami created the Dragon Balls, so when he died, so did they."

"Oh, I think I get it. But where did you find other Dragon Balls? Do all planets have them?" asked Serena.

"No, Piccolo is a namek, so all we had to do was travel to his home planet. Anyway, my dad was able to defeat Vegeta, but he let Vegeta live, believing he should have had a second chance. Bulma was able to build a spaceship for us, and Krillen, Bulma, and I went to the planet Namek. My dad was unable to join us at the time, because h was too badly injured in the battle. He left fairly soon after us though. When we got on Namek, we were not the only ones searching for the Dragon Balls. An evil monster named Frieza was there also. He wanted to wish for immortality. Vegeta also showed up, hoping to have the same wish granted. The trouble caused by us and Vegeta, caused Frieza to call his Ginyu force to fight. It was during this fight that my dad arrived on Namek. He had trained under intense gravity on the ship that he took there. He was able to defeat the Ginyu force, but he was injured pretty badly. Luckily, Frieza's ship had this medical equipment that allowed him to heal in a couple of hours. In that time though a lot happened. Krillen and I, with the help of Dende, called on the Namekean dragon. This dragon though, allowed us to grant three wishes. We wished Piccolo back to life, and then wished him to Namek. Unfortunately before we could use the third wish, the elder of Namek died, and so did the Dragon Balls. Vegeta was about to attack us when Frieza showed up. My dad ended up fighting him, and we thought he was defeated with my dad's spirit bomb attack, but he wasn't. Frieza killed Krillen, and then my dad turned into a Super Saiyan. Frieza was unable to defeat my dad, so he resorted to destroying the planet. We all got wished back to Earth before it blew up, but my dad was still there, but he managed to escape. After that, we have had to fight more power hungry, 'I want to rule the universe' enemies."

(AN: This big explanation of the DBZ time line was for my friend A-chan. She doesn't know about DBZ so I thought I'd actually explain it in here. It was all for you A-chan. You should feel very special now.)

"I guess we aren't that different after all," commented Serena.

"I guess now that I think about it, we really aren't. What do you say we get back to training now?"

"Alright."

Both of them had a new initiative to get better now. They remembered their reasons for fighting again, and understood the other's reason as well. They both wanted to get stronger, so that not only they could get better, but the other person would get better as well.

~*~ 4 Months Later ~*~

The door that was the only entrance into the room of Spirit and Time opened up, to reveal too very worn out warriors. Gohan and Serena stepped back into the real world. Both were a lot stronger.

Everyone had come up to greet them, when they returned. They were all quite shocked at how much stronger both had become. Although the biggest surprise was the amount of energy Serena now had. They were shocked. They knew her power would increase, but the could never have imagined such a dramatic increase. Gohan had obviously done a great job training her.

"Hey everyone!" shouted a happy Serena.

"Hey, we thought we'd come up here to greet you when you came out," said Bulma.

"And we brought you some new clothes," said Chichi. "Obviously that was a good idea."

Serena and Gohan looked down at themselves. Their clothes were torn in many places, and had holes where there weren't rips. If the material hadn't been a durable one to start off with, their clothes would have been non-existent. Gohan and Serena changed into the clothes that Chichi had brought with them.

"So has Hecate done anything while we were gone?" asked Serena.

"No," said Goku. "She and her minions haven't showed up at all."

"Minions?" asked a voice.

"Is that what you really think of us?" asked another.

"I'm crushed, that you have such a low opinion of us," said yet another voice.

Everyone there turned around to see Astral, Breeze, Celeste, Juno, and Altus floating in the air above them.

"Minions would mean that we don't have much power, which isn't true at all," said Breeze.

"That's right. Infact, we have doubled our strength since the last time we saw you."

"We haven't exactly been sitting doing nothing ourselves, you know," said Gohan.

"I'm sure of that," said Celeste.

"Maybe we can finish our fight now Gohan. I hope you'll pose as some sort of challenge for me."

"Exactly what I was thinking," said Gohan, as he turned into a super saiyan.

"That same old trick again. When will you realize that I just don't like blondes?"

Meanwhile, Goku and Vegeta turned super saiyan, and the others powered up.

"Now, now," said Altus. "I can't let anyone interfere with Juno's fun. She won't be too happy then. I'm afraid you will not be able to be joining the fight today. Let me tell you a little story. Once upon a time there were seven fighters who opposed the all powerful Hecate. With a snap of the fingers..."

Altus snapped his fingers, and there was an explosion right where the Z fighters were standing. Goku and Vegeta were able to avoid from getting hurt, however the other Z fighters were not so lucky. Yamcha, Tien, Krillen, and Chaotsu all lay on the ground injured from the blast.

"Most of the fighters fell, and then there were three," said Altus.

Serena was pissed off that he would attack them so heartlessly. She teleported to right behind Altus and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Excuse me," said Serena. "But I think you mean four."

And with that, Serena punched Altus in the face, hard. Altus flew backwards from the blow.

"Well, well," said Celeste. "It seems the princess has finally learned to help herself instead of relying entirely on others. Too bad it won't help you at all."

"Let the fight begin!" said Astral.

:o)~ b l u e r h a p s o d y ~(o:

3.15.01

There you go. I think that was a little longer than my previous chapters. At least it took longer to write it. The big fight scene will be coming up next time. I guess I could have done it this time, but it's almost 3:30 in the morning and I really want to go to sleep. Can you blame me? Well please please PLEASE review my story. The effort is appreciated. If you want to e-mail me go ahead. My address is :

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Hope to hear from each of you wonderful readers. So until I come out with my next chapter, ja ne!!!!

- Ra~chan