I Wish - Chapter II

By:

Arthur E. King

As I awoke, my first thought was that I was alive. My second, was wondering why. As I fought my way forth from the bottomless abyss of Unconsciousness, I found myself lying naked on the grass, staring up at the huge grey sky.

There was a light drizzle spattering my body with moisture. I sat up, only barely beginning to remember what had happened. Oh yeah, the whole giant monkey thing...

"Well that was an experience. Now lets try something else." My voice was hoarse, ragged, like wood sliding on gravel. My tongue felt like sand, my mouth was on fire, not to mention the heinous fungal growth on my teeth.

I pulled myself to my feet and got my bearings, glad I had marked the position of the spaceship. I walked over to the nearest stream, and splashed some water on my face to wake up. After taking a short break, and a drink, I was ready.

I stood up, and felt down within myself for the source of my power. From deep within, I felt a tiny spark of energy, then I pulled at it, fueling it into a bright flame. Then I pooled it beneath myself, and floated up into the air.

It took but a moment to find it, and even less to get there. Man I'm lucky, another couple thousand miles and I could have destroyed it.

Once I was safe inside the spaceship, the first order of business was to get some clothes. I Had of late decided to wear a loose-fitting orange suit, quite similar to that worn by the late great Goku. I thought it fitting that the worlds greatest warrior, look like the worlds former greatest warrior.

After that, I had to go down to the kitchen. Ever since the transformation I had a virtually insatiable hunger, but no matter how much I ate, I never seemed to get fat. It was both a blessing and a curse, my grocery bills had been skyrocketing.

Once my stomach had quieted down, I was ready to train , so I flew back out again. I followed the path of broken boulders, and shattered mountains. I followed the great swaths of blackened death where my breath had seared the ground of every living thing.

Eventually I came upon the great plain of nothingness where it had begun. There was nothing now. Before I had transformed, there had been green grass, trees, shrubs, birds singing, bees buzzing, even worms crawling upon the ground.

There was none of that now, just utter silence, for miles. It was then that I began to be afraid of what I was truly capable of. Never before had I witnessed such utter devastation, such wanton lifelessness, at least not on so grand a scale as this.

"Well, here we go again..."

I took one deep, cleansing breath, resigned myself to this needed destruction, this thankless fate, and began again.



So went my days, waking, dry-mouthed, from a night of incomparable havoc, to find myself ever farther from where I had begun, though thankfully, never so close to my shuttle as that first night. Each time though, I felt I could remember more, sense more of what had occurred.

It was a long time before I felt confident of my ability, of my memory, but at long last, this power, among others, was mine. Now, just as Vegeta before him, Hoshito of earth had complete control over this most basic of the Saiyajinn transformations.

By then though, my food stores had long since been depleted, and I had been forced to fish and hunt to survive. Thankfully the water wasn't in short supply, nor was it tainted. If it hadn't have been for that, I might not have made it.

But I did make it, and when I finally returned to my ship, I felt sure of my abilities. It may not be Super-Saiyajinn, at least not yet, but it's a start. It was another three months before I got back to earth, and by then, I thought I was unstoppable.



"Hey there Eighteen, is Krillin there?" She had come to the door wearing only a towel swirled around her hair, and one on her body, so I knew the answer was yes.

"Sure Hoshito, he'll be out in a minute." Her dry tone, and flippant manner told me that this wasn't an odd occurrence. "Krillin, you got a visitor!"

I winced at that, knowing Krillin would be more than a little embarrassed. Krillin's bald pate popped up from around a corner, trying to figure out who was here. "Hoshito! Nice to see you there! Come on in, I'll be out in a minute, K?"

"Sure thing, thanks." As I walked into the place, I noticed that most of Krillin's old furniture had been replaced by more feminine pieces. Not only that, but there were bowls of potpourri everywhere, not to mention the flowers.

"So when did you guys move in together?" This said to Eighteen, seeing as she hadn't yet gone to change.

"Only about a month after you left. Right about the same time he gave me this." With that said, she held out her hand for my appraisal of the gem on her finger. I took a careful perusal of the setting and stone, letting the occasional "Oooh" or "Aaah" fall from my lips so as to seem interested.

Of course, I wasn't actually paying attention to the ring, but to the rather significant amount of cleavage that was exposed as she bent over to show me, not to mention the copious quantities of upper thigh. Man, if she had been half-way interested in me I wouldn't have cared a whit that she was my best friend's.

It was right at that moment, while I was thus occupied, that Krillin decided to burst upon the scene. I looked up just in time so that Krillin wouldn't know what I was really looking at. Man, reflexes are definitely getting better... Phew.

"Krillin! How you doing there bud? Your new fiancé was just showing me the rock you gave her. Quite impressive." I said that just a fraction of a second too quickly. I could see the jealous rage building in Krillin's eyes, and saw it as quickly disappear. Man, you really are a friend, and my reflexes aren't quite as good as I thought.

"Hey there, what's up man? It's been what, how many months?" He said that as Eighteen gets up and walks over to him, hugging him in the process, more to embarrass him than anything else. He hugged her back possessively, and whispered something into her ear.

If I hadn't had such good ears I wouldn't have caught the, "Go get dressed dear." As they disguised it in the form of a quick peck on the cheek. And if I wasn't so observant, I wouldn't have caught the weird expression that flashed over her face in the mirror, then it was gone.

Eighteen let go and moved to the bedroom to change. Krillin came over to give me a big bear-hug, although a little tighter than usual. "Well no matter. Long time no see. Sorry about all that back there, but she's still in a bit of a daze over the whole thing. So am I actually!" We both had a good laugh over that one, even though it seemed a little stressed.

"Well she's a catch that's for sure. But she wouldn't have anyone other than you man. No one else could possibly put up with all the guys gawking at her all the time." Another good, strained laugh. "But seriously man, I came here to ask for a tiny little favor."

"Sure man, anything for you." There seemed to be a tiny glint in his eye... or maybe it was just the crud in the corner.

"Well, you know that I've been away training. What you don't know is what I was training to do, or why." There was a slight hesitation there. "See what I've been doing is basically making sure I don't blow the world up."

Krillin gave me a weird expression right then, but let me continue. "You see, as you remember, Saiyajinn have two transformations, the Super-Saiyajinn, and the big monkey thing." I could see he was beginning to understand, but kept explaining anyways. "Well, that big were-monkey form tends to be a little out of control."

"What you may not know though, it that to gain one transformation, you have to lose the other." He nodded at that one, finally figuring out where this was going. "Of course, you can't lose the tail under normal conditions, it'll just come back. So you have to cut it off while transformed."

"And of course, if you had transformed on earth, you might have killed a bunch on innocent people, maybe even destroyed the world. So you went out to someplace where you wouldn't be a danger, and practiced. Good thinking man."

"So now I'm back here to get rid of this thing," at that moment, I let my tail slip free from underneath my shirt, right at about the same time that Eighteen came out from the bedroom.

I didn't really have time to do much else, other than blinking, and not much for even that. Before I knew it, I was up against the wall, wondering what the heck happened to me. "Umm... Krillin, could you get your fiancé off me?" There was a little bit too much urgency in my voice, for my liking, "Please?"

"Who are you, and why are you here, and what have you done to Hoshito?" This said as she pressed her forearm a little too far into my neck, her elbow into my face.

"Umm, dear... This is Hoshito, he's just a little different. He's a Saiyajinn now, thanks to the dragonballs."

She held her place a moment longer, then relented, letting me fall to the floor gasping for breath. She flipped her hair back with an arrogant, "Hmph," and waltzed over into the kitchen.

"Don't mind her, she's still a little jumpy around the Saiyajinn." Krillin waved the whole episode off like it was nothing, which, for him, it was.

"Thanks though. Although if possible, I'd prefer to get this over with as soon as possible. Think she can spare you for an hour or so?"

"Sure thing." To Eighteen he yelled, "Hun! I'll be out with Hoshito for a bit. Back in an hour, okay?"

"Okay, just be back in time for dinner."

"Don't you just love women sometimes?"

I looked at him with a bemused expression, "Sometimes."



"Well that was an experience. Hurt a whole lot more than I expected." As I said this, I was rubbing the place where only a few moments ago, a tail had existed. "I know I only had a tail for like nine months, but it's a little weird to walk without it."

"Oh shush, You know you'll thank me for it."

"Yeah, but did you have to aim so close? A little closer and you would've cut me in half instead of my tail."

"Would that have really been such a bad thing?"

Now that wasn't something I had been expecting. I was about to respond when Krillin cut me off. He had flown directly in front of me, his face now mere millimetres from my own.

"I know you're probably a thousand times more powerful than I am, but it really doesn't matter. If you ever look at her like that again you will be cut in half. I'll find a way." The threat was evident in his voice as well as the words.

"Look, I'm sorry. It won't happen again, promise. Sometimes, when confronted with such a beautiful woman, I can't help it." Man, Krillin is never like this. "But seriously man, it won't happen again. I've got my eye on someone else..."

That caught him off guard. He hadn't been expecting such an admission, let alone the rest. His eyes narrowed for a second, "Who?" There was the faintest hint of a smile in his eyes.

"Oh nobody special..."

We both smiled again, the tense situation of but a moment before gone once more in the sense of comradery. After ten years this guy can still surprise me.

"So where are you going to go now?" He was slightly curious, but not pushy.

"Oh well, the only person who I can trust to give me a good run for my money without blasting me to pieces."

We both smirked at that one, and said out loud what we were both thinking.

"Piccolo!