*I would like to thank everyone who has reviewed my fic so far! Your support inspired me to rush this new chapter out ASAP. I have all the chapters written on papers that I've been writing in school since Nov. except the last 2, but all of the chapters need MAJOR revising! I completely added Chapter One; it wasn't there before, so you can see how much work I still hafta do. It's not just copying. I would give you a hint of things to come, but that would ruin the plot! ^_^ Chapter Three will be out sometime within the next 10 days, so be on the lookout!* ~Sage
After being at the Kame House for five days, I have already beaten Yamcha, Chauseu, and Tien in sparring. They were all challenging in their own ways. Yamcha was strong, but what he had in strength, he lacked in creativity. He was pretty predictable once I got his patterns down. Chauseu was fast and hard to keep track of because of his size, but a few high-powered punches, an energy blast and an axehandle and he was down. Tien's strength was his psychic powers. He can create multiple instances of himself and that Tribeam attack is very powerful. I got hit with one of those and I almost went down. But when he came close to inspect me, I took advantage with a hurricanrana flip and some quick kicks. Even though I suggested that I stay here to Gohan because 18 was challenging me, I have to admit that everything I said to him was true: I needed the rest and relaxation and open air before any serious training was to begin. By my fourth day on the island, I was back in top form and had reached my highest power level ever. I would have taken on 18 even sooner, but she insisted on studying my patterns, which was fine with me because I knew I could beat her anyhow. I was never desperate enough in any of my sparring to use my secret Entari technique, so if I got into any trouble with 18, I could just use it on her and she wouldn't have any idea what was going on. Hopefully she'd survive it though; I've found Krillin quite helpful in the past few days. In fact, he began my preparations and training for learning the Kameahmeah wave attack, not Master Roshi. He just sits inside watching exercise videos or staring at 18's knockers. "Turns out Gohan and Piccolo were right after all!" I thought with a grin on my face. An immortal dirty old man. But he probably does feel left in the dust when even the trainees are more powerful than he is, and Gohan and Piccolo are so far above him it's embarrassing. I kinda feel for the guy.
But right now I needed some r&r. I laid out on the beach in my shorts and closed my eyes. "So they call this tanning..." I thought to myself. But my thoughts were abruptly halted by a hand flowing down my chest from my neck. I opened my eyes quickly to find that the hand belonged to 18, much to my surprise. "You know, there's a lot of mystery surrounding you still. And you're cute." Her hand was now moving to the drawstring on my shorts. "Dangerously cute." I smirked and grabbed her wrist tightly and removed it from my body. "Stick to Krillin; I'm too tall for you." I then got up and proceeded to walk away. Until I sensed 18 powering up. (Looking back, making her mad was probably not my smartest move, but I... well, you'll find out!) I turned to face her and began to power up myself. I had a feeling this was going to turn into quite the battle. We already created a huge sandstorm that was now ravaging the Kame house, and everyone came outside to find out what all the fuss was about. She was about the equivalent of Piccolo in power, just as I predicted she would be. In my current form I was about three fourths of her power level. "Fine for now; I'll wait to surprise her with my Entari Technique until I'm in trouble." She rocketed towards me, enraged, with energy balls blazing from her hands. I blocked them all with relative ease as I flew backwards with the ocean now beneath me. I caught one and shot it back towards her, which she dodged and began coming at me with even more rage and intensity than before. She caught up to me with her lightning speed and speared me. With no way to quickly recover, I slammed into the water and went under. My pain subsided after a few seconds, but I knew if I didn't act fast, 18 would come into the water after me or shoot energy down here. I knew 18 had an idea what I was capable of, but she didn't know that I had my own specialty attacks that I hadn't used in battle yet. I put my hands together and started my space sword attack. I shot the bright gold energy spike out of the water and towards 18. It sliced her a half inch thick on her leg near her kneecap. She let out a short scream and winced and held it as I arose out of the water. "YOU... CUT ME!! GERRRR!!!" Her rage was even more intense than before as she flew towards me with all her speed. She blasted punch after punch at me, and I tried my best to dodge them all, but it was obvious she was faster and more powerful than I. After a few lighter hits on me, she slammed her fist into my stomach with such force that I went unconscious and fell from the air and back into the water. As I came to and saw my blood permeating the water around me about thirty seconds later, I knew I had to kick it up a few notches if I was to win this fight. I blasted all the water away from me with my energy and flew high into the sky. "I guess this is trouble enough to use my technique!"
Blue energy armor encased my body and a partial mask covered my chin and mouth. I was also now slightly stronger than 18; just enough to beat her. By now, 18's mouth was gaping; she couldn't believe I was holding out on her. I flew at her and landed a perfect punch on her chin, which sent her careening backwards. As she wiped the blood off her lip, I spread my hands apart and focused my energy.
18 now found herself surrounded my baseball-sized energy balls on all sides, blocking all means of escape. Using my hands to control them, I collapsed the energy balls in on her. She arched herself back and screamed as she got caught in the middle of the explosion. After the smoke cleared, I found her laying face first in the ocean, obviously unconscious. I powered down, picked her up and flew back to the island with her in my arms. I laid her on the beach as Krillin came rushing over. "18!!! No..." He looked down at her, then up at me. He slanted his eyes. "You MONSTER!!! What did you do to my wife?!" He started to power up until 18 interrupted him. "It was me.." It was faint, but she was talking. "What? Huh?" Krillin was trying to make sense of what she was saying. "I picked the fight with him; it was me... He was defending himself..." "Oh..." Krillin seemed ashamed that he was about to attack me. "Sorry man. I thought you attacked her." "That's OK, Krillin. I probably shouldn't have been so rough." "Nonsense," 18 butted in. "You were great. I'm sorry I was so rough on you before." She flashed as much of a smile that her energy would allow her to before she completely passed out in Krillin's arms. "Take her inside and let her get some rest. She only has some second degree burns. I'm trained in Entari medicine and I'll help her recover for the next couple of days while I'm still here." "Thanks, man. I owe ya one." Krillin was solemn. "No problem, as long as you keep my kameahmeah training up." "Sure, you got it, kid." He grinned and carried 18 inside."
Krillin spent my last two days on the island finishing my kameahmeah wave training, and by the time Gohan landed on the island during my last day, I was practicing shooting waves into the ocean.
My wave parted the ocean and speeded on to the horizon, where it left the atmosphere and dissipated in space. I smiled and gave Krillin a hi-five. "YES!!! That's awesome!!" Gohan rushed over. "Haha!! Great job!! You're becoming a great warrior!" "I hafta tell ya, Gohan, you have quite a trainee here! He's beaten Chauseu, Tien, Yamcha and 18 fighting at their highest power levels!" "WOW!!! That much in a WEEK?!!" "Yeah, I guess I just needed some rest and some experience!" I was beside myself. It took me two months to learn my Space Sword attack from the Entaris, and almost a year to learn the Deep Space Attack. And it took the Entaris three years to teach me to raise my power level using the Wake Angel Technique. One week, and I learn a new energy attack. Amazing. But since my parents were pacifists, and the Entaris were weak fighters, I had no fighting experience except what I saw from television and what my VR sims did. "Well Kelaru, we better get to the lookout so we can train. Are you ready?" "Sure!" "Then follow me and we'll begin your training." "Bye Krillin! Bye everyone! Take care!!" We flew off the island, over the ocean and up a long tower.
"Hey, Diende!" Gohan yelled as we landed on the flying island. "Gohan! It's great to see you! What brings you here?" replied the short Namek. "I'm going to use a day of chamber time today." Gohan replied. "WHAT?!! How much training can we do in ONE DAY?!!!" "A year's worth," Gohan said calmly. "watch." With that, the Namek opened a set of yellow doors leading into what looked like a bright white void. "Step in," Gohan instructed. "I'll follow." So, I entered. Once I got in, the design didn't look too different from what I just left. There were two beds, a table and a pantry, and that was pretty much it. When I looked beyond that, my eyes went wide and my mouth dropped. There was no background or anything! Only a bleak whiteness that looked like it went on forever. The door slammed shut and locked behind us. "Welcome to the Chamber." Gohan stated, voice echoing. "This place compresses time so that one day in the outside world is one year in here. I'm sorry I didn't tell you that beforehand, but this is a crucial part of your training. You must have mental as well as physical strength to conquer the chamber. As a rule, we only use the chamber one Earth day at a time, and more than two days within an Earth year is overkill. This is my second day in the chamber." Gohan pointed into the abyss. "That surface is 10 times the Earth's gravity." "Wow..." I said, astounded that such a place even existed. "I can't wait to get started!!" "That's the attitude, Kelaru!! You'll be a new and improved warrior by the time you come out of here!" And that's what I was counting on.