Author's Notes: Guess what, fellow fanfic readers? I have Chapter 4 done! I worked my butt off and see what I accomplished? Yup, Chapters 1-4 will be up in my HUGE update! UPDATES: Chapter 8 of CM: Quest to Save Vegeta-sei (Oops! That's already up!), new Thoughts of Pain, and Chapters 1-4 of Desperate Search (Kami, I've been busy!). Well, you have a lot of catching up to do. Read, enjoy, and please review all the work I've done. Ja!
Disclaimer: Don't own DBZ or its characters, demo, Akira Toriyama does.
Desperate Search
Chapter 4-True Identity
I woke up the next day feeling a lot better than I had the day before. I noticed that my forehead had stopped hurting, so I decided to remove the bandage and check it. Sliding out of bed, I crossed the room to the large mirror hanging on the wall. I unwrapped my bandage and discovered the gash was almost completely healed. It was unbelievable because yesterday it had been still quite severe and was freely bleeding. 'How did it heal so fast?' I wondered as I continued to stare in awe at my almost healed up wound.
"Oh, you're up! How are you feeling today?" the sudden presence of a new voice made me jump about a foot into the air. I fell and I looked up to see Lime's ojiisan.
"Oh, gomen nasai, young man! I didn't mean to startle you!" he laughed and offered me hand.
"I didn't hear you come in, so you scared me at first. Don't worry, sir, it's all right. I'm okay," I explained as I took his hand and he helped me to my feet.
"You must be feeling better if you were standing!" he chuckled. When I was totally on my feet, he took a good look at me. He saw that I had taken off my bandage and gawked at the partially recovered wound. "My that wound really healed fast! That's astonishing! Well, besides that, how do you feel?"
"I feel a lot better than yesterday! I no longer have a headache or feel dizzy! I feel totally healed, yet I still can't remember anything," my tone lowered with the sadness I felt. I desperately wanted to remember who I was, how the accident happened, and why I recognized some of the people mentioned in our conversations. Maybe then I would be able to find out why everyone was living in fear the last few days. I had a feeling I had a big part in what was happening. I just HAD to get my memory back soon! I felt that time was running out.
"Don't worry! I have a feeling that you will gain it back soon!" the old man reassured me.
"Hai!" I said, optimistically. "Sir, do you any chores to be done?" I asked, changing the subject and wanting to help the kind elderly man who had helped me.
"Sure I do, demo, are you sure that you're up to it?" he asked, unsure if I should be helping in my condition.
"Hai!" I said again. "I told you, I feel great today!" I added with enthusiasm.
"Okay, young man. I am chopping wood today. You can help Lime carry them away and place them in the pile.
"Sure!" my face brightened at the thought of being able to carry my weight around here. I quickly got dressed and rushed outside to help with the chores.
"Ossu!" welcomed a happy voice when I ran outside. I turned to see Lime.
"Oh, ohayo, Lime!" I returned her greeting, politely, even a little shyly. She giggled as I turned slightly red. 'She's pretty!' I noticed as I looked at her, closely. I realized that I was staring at her and turned away, very red. I hoped that she hadn't seen me staring at her or that I was as red as a tomato now. I sighed with relief as I found out that I wasn't caught.
I turned back when I had returned to my normal color and Lime spotted my cut. "Wow! That was a quick recovery! How'd you do it?" she asked with awe.
"I don't know. I guess I heal fast," I hypothesized my quick recovery.
"Well, it's great to see you're okay!" she replied. "So, what are doing out here?"
"I'm going to help with chores today," I explained.
"Are you sure you can or should?" Lime asked, uncertainly.
"Yeah! Your ojiisan said I could."
Before she could counter, the old man came out with an ax. "Okay, you two! Time to help me with the wood chopping!"
"Okay, Ojiisan!" Lime replied, and we ran to his side.
Lime's ojiisan started to chop wood and when he finished a log, Lime and I would carry it to the pile and place it carefully on top of the others. This went on for awhile until the old man took a small respite to stretch. In mid-stretch, he groaned, slightly, and thumped his lower back. Lime and I gasped in shock and ran to his side.
"Oh, Ojiisan! It's your back again! Let me chop for awhile!" Lime said with deep concern.
"Iie, Lime. You're still too young! I can handle it!" he insisted as he tried to chop wood again, only to drop the ax and grab his back in pain.
"Sir, how about I chop for you for awhile?" I suggested, slightly begging for him to stop. I didn't want him to get hurt more than he was.
"Okay, young man. You can try," the old man agreed, painfully.
Nodding, I took up the fallen ax and then placed a log on the chopping block. To everyone's surprise, especially mine, I chopped the log with great speed and ease. I chopped some more, with the same result. 'Wow, I'm fast!' I thought with astonishment. 'How am I doing that?'
Lime's Ojiisan's POV:
I watched in amazement as the boy sliced through each log with such speed and ease, that it seemed impossible for a child his age to be able to do that. Demo, HE was doing that. Then something snapped in my memory. This has happened before!
Five days ago, a boy named Son Gohan wondered into the village wanting some spices for his kaasan. When Lime showed up shortly after, they seemed to have met before. He quickly charmed my granddaughter and they immediately became friends. He stayed with us a short while until his tousan came to take him home, for he had forgotten to go home after getting the spices. During the time he stayed with us, the boy had shown us bits of his immense powers that he hid and some of it he didn't even know he had. He showed great strength and one event made me realize that was when he...chopped wood! He had no trouble quickly swishing the ax into the wood and it breaking a short time after impact with the ax. Just like this boy.
Could this boy be Son Gohan? Iie. He couldn't be. Son Gohan had gold spiky hair and green eyes. This boy has ebony hair and deep black eyes. Demo, what if he is...? What if that was a sort of "transformation" he was in before? What if his amnesia caused him to "de-transform"? Yet who could he have fought to cause him so much damage? The only one with that much power was...Cell! Demo, Son Gohan is stronger than that. Cell couldn't have taken him down that easily! What happened in that fight three days ago? What did Cell do to defeat Son Gohan with such ease?'
Lime's POV:
I gazed at Ojiisan, as he seemed to be thinking hard about something. "Ojiisan? What's wrong?" I quietly asked him, breaking his trance.
"Lime, do you remember Son Gohan?" he asked.
Confused about what he was getting at, I replied, "Sure, Ojiisan! Doshite?"
"Do you recall the way he chopped wood?"
Then it hit me...this boy chopped wood like Son Gohan! "Ojiisan, do you think...?"
"Hai. I think he is Son Gohan!" he exclaimed.
"No way! How could HE be?" I asked in a hoarse whisper.
"I think something happened in that fight three days ago. The fight between him and Cell..."
"Cell! There's no way Gohan could have been hurt that bad by Cell!" I yelled back at him this time.
"Something happened in his fight..." he simply stated again.
'There is no way!' I continued to think. 'Gohan isn't that easy to take out! Gohan is stronger than Cell! Ojiisan told me so! We saw his power! Demo...what happened?'
As I heard the conversation between Lime and her ojiisan, my head began to throb again. Then my ears picked up two words that would shake my world. Those words were 'Son Gohan'. I realized that my head throbbed because I recognized that name.
'Who is Son Gohan? Why do I recognize that name? Who is he?! My vision started to spin as thoughts swam viciously around my brain. Then something snapped. I was Son Gohan! After my memories flooded my mind, I screamed, and suddenly transformed back into a Super Saiya-jin. A sudden shock coursed my brain; I collapsed, faded out of Super Saiya-jin, and passed out...
Lime's POV:
Ojiisan and I watched in horror as we saw the boy grab his head in pain. 'He must have heard us and recognized something again,' I realized. He suddenly screamed and a strange golden aura surrounded him. 'Just like what happened to Gohan after he saved Ojiisan! That same aura flashed around him then...' "Huh?" I said as I tried to figure what was happening to the boy.
"He's transforming!" Ojiisan shouted.
Sure enough, right before our eyes, his hair turned a rich gold and his eyes a bright green. Son Gohan!
Something seemed to overwhelm him and he faded to his dark hair and eyes as fast as he transformed. He fell to the ground and didn't get up. He had lost consciousness...
"Ojiisan!" I cried, as I turned to look at him. "He IS..." I was unable to complete my sentence.
"Son Gohan!" my ojiisan finished.
We turned away from each other and looked at the unconscious form of Son Gohan...
Elsewhere...(Cell's POV)
'How hard is it to find that gaki?' Extremely hard, I realized because I had been looking for three days. He also had an awfully low chi, which was hard to track. Suddenly, I felt a sudden increase in a familiar chi...Son Gohan! Demo, as quickly as it had appeared, it disappeared. Because of my superior design, I was still able to sense it, though. "It's so low, I can hardly feel it, yet I know it's that gaki's! It's hard to believe that I caused HIM so much damage! He has so much potential, yet he refuses to let it out. Oh well. Here I come, Son Gohan! Prepare to meet your fate, boy!" I powered up and blasted through the sky, flying in the direction of the weak chi...
To Be Continued...
Next Desperate Search: The search for Son Gohan has been fruitless so far for the Z-Senshi. Are they too late? Demo, Son Gohan's sudden burst of chi alerts Son Goku that his son is still alive. Yet his chi is not the only chi out there. Cell is heading in Son Gohan's direction! Quickly warning the others, Son Goku rushes to save his only son. Demo, who will reach Son Gohan first: Son Goku and the Z-Senshi or Cell?
Find out in Race to Be First
Well, THAT took forever! I hope you appreciate all the work I did for you! Please review and tell me what you thought of the first four chapters of Desperate Search. Ja...I'm tired!
ssj1songohan
Disclaimer: Don't own DBZ or its characters, demo, Akira Toriyama does.
Desperate Search
Chapter 4-True Identity
I woke up the next day feeling a lot better than I had the day before. I noticed that my forehead had stopped hurting, so I decided to remove the bandage and check it. Sliding out of bed, I crossed the room to the large mirror hanging on the wall. I unwrapped my bandage and discovered the gash was almost completely healed. It was unbelievable because yesterday it had been still quite severe and was freely bleeding. 'How did it heal so fast?' I wondered as I continued to stare in awe at my almost healed up wound.
"Oh, you're up! How are you feeling today?" the sudden presence of a new voice made me jump about a foot into the air. I fell and I looked up to see Lime's ojiisan.
"Oh, gomen nasai, young man! I didn't mean to startle you!" he laughed and offered me hand.
"I didn't hear you come in, so you scared me at first. Don't worry, sir, it's all right. I'm okay," I explained as I took his hand and he helped me to my feet.
"You must be feeling better if you were standing!" he chuckled. When I was totally on my feet, he took a good look at me. He saw that I had taken off my bandage and gawked at the partially recovered wound. "My that wound really healed fast! That's astonishing! Well, besides that, how do you feel?"
"I feel a lot better than yesterday! I no longer have a headache or feel dizzy! I feel totally healed, yet I still can't remember anything," my tone lowered with the sadness I felt. I desperately wanted to remember who I was, how the accident happened, and why I recognized some of the people mentioned in our conversations. Maybe then I would be able to find out why everyone was living in fear the last few days. I had a feeling I had a big part in what was happening. I just HAD to get my memory back soon! I felt that time was running out.
"Don't worry! I have a feeling that you will gain it back soon!" the old man reassured me.
"Hai!" I said, optimistically. "Sir, do you any chores to be done?" I asked, changing the subject and wanting to help the kind elderly man who had helped me.
"Sure I do, demo, are you sure that you're up to it?" he asked, unsure if I should be helping in my condition.
"Hai!" I said again. "I told you, I feel great today!" I added with enthusiasm.
"Okay, young man. I am chopping wood today. You can help Lime carry them away and place them in the pile.
"Sure!" my face brightened at the thought of being able to carry my weight around here. I quickly got dressed and rushed outside to help with the chores.
"Ossu!" welcomed a happy voice when I ran outside. I turned to see Lime.
"Oh, ohayo, Lime!" I returned her greeting, politely, even a little shyly. She giggled as I turned slightly red. 'She's pretty!' I noticed as I looked at her, closely. I realized that I was staring at her and turned away, very red. I hoped that she hadn't seen me staring at her or that I was as red as a tomato now. I sighed with relief as I found out that I wasn't caught.
I turned back when I had returned to my normal color and Lime spotted my cut. "Wow! That was a quick recovery! How'd you do it?" she asked with awe.
"I don't know. I guess I heal fast," I hypothesized my quick recovery.
"Well, it's great to see you're okay!" she replied. "So, what are doing out here?"
"I'm going to help with chores today," I explained.
"Are you sure you can or should?" Lime asked, uncertainly.
"Yeah! Your ojiisan said I could."
Before she could counter, the old man came out with an ax. "Okay, you two! Time to help me with the wood chopping!"
"Okay, Ojiisan!" Lime replied, and we ran to his side.
Lime's ojiisan started to chop wood and when he finished a log, Lime and I would carry it to the pile and place it carefully on top of the others. This went on for awhile until the old man took a small respite to stretch. In mid-stretch, he groaned, slightly, and thumped his lower back. Lime and I gasped in shock and ran to his side.
"Oh, Ojiisan! It's your back again! Let me chop for awhile!" Lime said with deep concern.
"Iie, Lime. You're still too young! I can handle it!" he insisted as he tried to chop wood again, only to drop the ax and grab his back in pain.
"Sir, how about I chop for you for awhile?" I suggested, slightly begging for him to stop. I didn't want him to get hurt more than he was.
"Okay, young man. You can try," the old man agreed, painfully.
Nodding, I took up the fallen ax and then placed a log on the chopping block. To everyone's surprise, especially mine, I chopped the log with great speed and ease. I chopped some more, with the same result. 'Wow, I'm fast!' I thought with astonishment. 'How am I doing that?'
Lime's Ojiisan's POV:
I watched in amazement as the boy sliced through each log with such speed and ease, that it seemed impossible for a child his age to be able to do that. Demo, HE was doing that. Then something snapped in my memory. This has happened before!
Five days ago, a boy named Son Gohan wondered into the village wanting some spices for his kaasan. When Lime showed up shortly after, they seemed to have met before. He quickly charmed my granddaughter and they immediately became friends. He stayed with us a short while until his tousan came to take him home, for he had forgotten to go home after getting the spices. During the time he stayed with us, the boy had shown us bits of his immense powers that he hid and some of it he didn't even know he had. He showed great strength and one event made me realize that was when he...chopped wood! He had no trouble quickly swishing the ax into the wood and it breaking a short time after impact with the ax. Just like this boy.
Could this boy be Son Gohan? Iie. He couldn't be. Son Gohan had gold spiky hair and green eyes. This boy has ebony hair and deep black eyes. Demo, what if he is...? What if that was a sort of "transformation" he was in before? What if his amnesia caused him to "de-transform"? Yet who could he have fought to cause him so much damage? The only one with that much power was...Cell! Demo, Son Gohan is stronger than that. Cell couldn't have taken him down that easily! What happened in that fight three days ago? What did Cell do to defeat Son Gohan with such ease?'
Lime's POV:
I gazed at Ojiisan, as he seemed to be thinking hard about something. "Ojiisan? What's wrong?" I quietly asked him, breaking his trance.
"Lime, do you remember Son Gohan?" he asked.
Confused about what he was getting at, I replied, "Sure, Ojiisan! Doshite?"
"Do you recall the way he chopped wood?"
Then it hit me...this boy chopped wood like Son Gohan! "Ojiisan, do you think...?"
"Hai. I think he is Son Gohan!" he exclaimed.
"No way! How could HE be?" I asked in a hoarse whisper.
"I think something happened in that fight three days ago. The fight between him and Cell..."
"Cell! There's no way Gohan could have been hurt that bad by Cell!" I yelled back at him this time.
"Something happened in his fight..." he simply stated again.
'There is no way!' I continued to think. 'Gohan isn't that easy to take out! Gohan is stronger than Cell! Ojiisan told me so! We saw his power! Demo...what happened?'
As I heard the conversation between Lime and her ojiisan, my head began to throb again. Then my ears picked up two words that would shake my world. Those words were 'Son Gohan'. I realized that my head throbbed because I recognized that name.
'Who is Son Gohan? Why do I recognize that name? Who is he?! My vision started to spin as thoughts swam viciously around my brain. Then something snapped. I was Son Gohan! After my memories flooded my mind, I screamed, and suddenly transformed back into a Super Saiya-jin. A sudden shock coursed my brain; I collapsed, faded out of Super Saiya-jin, and passed out...
Lime's POV:
Ojiisan and I watched in horror as we saw the boy grab his head in pain. 'He must have heard us and recognized something again,' I realized. He suddenly screamed and a strange golden aura surrounded him. 'Just like what happened to Gohan after he saved Ojiisan! That same aura flashed around him then...' "Huh?" I said as I tried to figure what was happening to the boy.
"He's transforming!" Ojiisan shouted.
Sure enough, right before our eyes, his hair turned a rich gold and his eyes a bright green. Son Gohan!
Something seemed to overwhelm him and he faded to his dark hair and eyes as fast as he transformed. He fell to the ground and didn't get up. He had lost consciousness...
"Ojiisan!" I cried, as I turned to look at him. "He IS..." I was unable to complete my sentence.
"Son Gohan!" my ojiisan finished.
We turned away from each other and looked at the unconscious form of Son Gohan...
Elsewhere...(Cell's POV)
'How hard is it to find that gaki?' Extremely hard, I realized because I had been looking for three days. He also had an awfully low chi, which was hard to track. Suddenly, I felt a sudden increase in a familiar chi...Son Gohan! Demo, as quickly as it had appeared, it disappeared. Because of my superior design, I was still able to sense it, though. "It's so low, I can hardly feel it, yet I know it's that gaki's! It's hard to believe that I caused HIM so much damage! He has so much potential, yet he refuses to let it out. Oh well. Here I come, Son Gohan! Prepare to meet your fate, boy!" I powered up and blasted through the sky, flying in the direction of the weak chi...
To Be Continued...
Next Desperate Search: The search for Son Gohan has been fruitless so far for the Z-Senshi. Are they too late? Demo, Son Gohan's sudden burst of chi alerts Son Goku that his son is still alive. Yet his chi is not the only chi out there. Cell is heading in Son Gohan's direction! Quickly warning the others, Son Goku rushes to save his only son. Demo, who will reach Son Gohan first: Son Goku and the Z-Senshi or Cell?
Find out in Race to Be First
Well, THAT took forever! I hope you appreciate all the work I did for you! Please review and tell me what you thought of the first four chapters of Desperate Search. Ja...I'm tired!
ssj1songohan
