DragonBallZ: When Dreams Become Reality
Chapter 6 writtten by Noble....
Talk about an intense but enjoyable month. Noble was having the time of his life now, finally given the peace and solitude he so richly deserved. 3 weeks ago school had played hell on him mentally, being stared and gawked at like he was the hottest property to look at. Girls gawked at him and whistled their approval of his body and appearance, boys scowled with menacing looks, angry at the fact that he was getting all the attention and they weren't. But as much as a normal boy would have liked to bask in the popularity he was recieving, it just wasn't him.
Noble had grown up alone and relied upon himself and no other. He was so used to secluding himself away from the world and being alone with his thoughts that it was even harder now being surrounded by so many people that it was slightly imtimidating. But now that didn't matter anymore...
An entire month in his new surroundings, with new people and new experiences left nothing to the imagination. He could finally study and make his way through lessons without much difficulty, he wasn't exactly what you might call the perfect student but he was intelligent enough and a quick learner none the less. He would on the occassion have a few students gawk and stare at him curiously and usually this would bother him to no end, keeping his temper in check. But secretly inside he was smiling.
No one had yet discovered his little get away between break and lunch time. His personal training area within the school gym where little or no students bothered to venture. You see the pupils of their school enjoyed their brief time to themselves, indulging in their own activities of their choice. Learning from lesson to lesson was tedious and a little boring. And some students couldn't wait to get out in the sun and rest their minds from all the knowledge they recieved and just relax doing their own thing. Whether it was football, reading or general gossip and chatting, the students enjoyed their small amount of freedom they had from classes and it was enough time to get away from it all.
For Noble, it was like getting the best of both worlds. Usually he would go to school, go through the lessons asigned to him and then tiredly return back to the wilderness he called home to train his body and become stronger. However since his little conversation with the school PE teacher, he had gained access to the school gym to train freely without worrying about prying eyes watching him or anyone disturbing him for that matter. No more glares or uncertainty, no more losing his temper and keeping it to a thin line. Now with the opportunity of quality time to himself, he got to use his mind and his body all in the same day without fear or redicule of someone discovering his 'abilities' that he tried so hard to keep hidden.
It all seemed so perfect and he was satisfied with how well things were working out for him. Although Noble still had yet to discover the answers that remained in the back of his mind like a ticking time bomb waiting to explode, he was content with how things were going so far. He was patient and could wait until fate decided when he was ready to accept all that would possibly lead to his downfall...people say that knowledge is power and that if you gained access to all that supposed knowledge, then seemingly you would be called something along the lines as a 'god'. Ultimate knowledge to know everything and to be a god? No, that seems to far fetched and unreal. knowledge, wisdom, the need to know everything. It's good thing to question nearly everything about yourself and the world about you, what people are like, why people are the way they are and why we simply exist. But some questions, like the darker ones are often left unquestioned because they frighten the people that actually think of them.
For instance; are we born simply only to die? Are we really who we are in name only? What is the meaning of our own existance? Where do we go when we do eventually die? And is there really life after death?
It is true that once we are born that we are already dead. We live our lives through hardship and pain, enjoy the good times that come along so that we may look back on those memories, happy at the times people shared with one another. Each and everyone of us experiences the same things along the roads of life, despite the circumstances of who or what we are. Some people believe that we are just merely puppets, that exist for fate's own amusement and then when we do evetually pass on, fate would toss us aside like overly used piece of garbage and move on to it's next form of amusement. As harsh as the reality of it is, the fact of anything is that nobody can live forever, we aren't immortal and were not gods so eventually we will die when our number's up, it's all matter of time....
That's why the time that we have now is important to us. Even though we can't or probably won't accept that one day we will be nothing more than ashes and dust, we have to accept the fact that we have to use the time we have left to embrace life and enjoy it. Even Noble, as powerful as he is must accept that. We live only to do and theres nothing we can do about it other than accept our fate and enjoy life. But the young warrior isn't exactly ready to embrace life just yet. Only when the missing pieces of his memory and his origin are discovered only then will he decide what to do with his life, that is if he ever finds the answers that seeks.
Where do we go when eventually die? Many thousands of people have believed and preached that when we do pass on, that the gates of heaven will welcome us with open arms and finally live in the afterlife in eternal peace and happiness...where there is no pain and suffering, just freedom. Or perhaps if we have lived a terrible life as killers, murderers and rapists that we will be sent down to the fiery pits of hell, where they will be punished and tortured for all eternity, knowing for our crimes that we never be granted the atonement we seek. Either way, wherever we go...it's not our choice to make. It's decided by a flip of a coin. But as I've always believed personally; that if earth is hell...there has to be a better place than this when we die...
Noble was different though, he didn't believe in heaven or hell. He never gave it much thought. He only believed in himself and relied on himself only. Maybe one day there will be a time when he will have to rely on others, but if the offer ever presents itself would he take it? Who knows, he never was faced with such a dilemma. But in the meantime all he could do was watch and wait and accept how things were now.
Coming up to the end of the fourth week however, someone had decided to gate crash Noble while in the middle of his training regime within the deserted school gym. The one place that he considered to be his training grounds that were not defiled by others had now successfully been breached by none other the girl that on occassion made his mind and emotions hard to cope with...Nioki...
Just two lessons away from his break from the school population and into the gym, Nioki had argued with him yet again. Being as sarcastic and spiteful as ever, bothering him with questions that he felt no need to answer. The other students may have not caught on to where Noble was going to spend his free time, but Nioki now being all the more curious about the new kid was hell bent on discovering where he dissappeared too. Just why wouldn't she leave him alone? Was she really all that threatened by his mere presence that she wanted to get rid of him, or all the more annoy him? He really didn't know, nor did anyone question her motives to why she acted the way she did. But none the less she was persistant and her following him one fateful day was rewarding, if not shocking.
As Noble entered the gym and closed the door, he looks about causiously as he always did, making sure that no one else was there to see or disturb his training and satisfied that he could not detect any ki around the gym or in the immediate vicinity he walked into the centre of the gym and closed his eyes, concentrating clearly on his weighted cape and turban. In a small flash of light they appear as always, on his broad shoulders and head and in minutes he's underway, going through the motions of his fighting techniques.
Even though his training only lasts two hours a day through lunchtime, two hours is more than enough time for him to exercise his body as well as his mind that was coping with the knowledge he recieved from lessons and soon when school finishes he would be able to go back to training until he deemed it suitable to stop and sleep until the start of the weekend kicked in. Now Noble usually would keep his mind focused on his training as well as keeping an eye out for any powerlevels close by, because he didn't want to be found out. His privacy was of the upmost important and if interrupted could be deadly for any would be watchers that would come in and walk into one of his attacks...very deadly indeed. Unfortunetly for Noble as he was too busy keeping his body focused with the swift movements he was making, he failed to detect a small ki outside the gym doors. It was Nioki...and she saw everything that transpired the minute he summoned his weighted cape and turban.
She couldn't believe nor keep up with how fast he was moving, it was unreal like nothing she had ever seen or imagined. How could he move so fast and strike blows in thin air like it was second nature to him? Nioki then guessed that he probably had been training like this for a very long time. She could actually feel the ground beneath her and the door she was leaning on tremble slightly as he struck the air, so fast and deadly as he moved gracefully, listening to a silent ballet play that matched his movements. The look on his face, so determined....it was like he was preparing for something omnious ahead, something that people could only second guess at. Whatever it was didn't matter to Nioki, what was important was here and now. She couldn't force herself to move away from the door, she was mesmorized at what he was doing. It actually made her stomach lurch and tingle, feeling like it was butterflies.
Now Nioki never really did pay attention to guys. She was so sick of boys acting out, boasting about their machezmo and how much stronger they were then every other guy. Boys like that were always full of themselves and were always too arrogant. The only time they were never were is when someone would knock them down a few notches. Like what Noble did to Simon; the resident school bully. Simon was always harrassing and bullying other kids for their lunch money and if he never got it, he would beat them to a pulp regardless of the fact if they snitched on him to the school princible. Undoubtably of course he would deny having anything to do with it and with a quick glare to the worried student that he had beaten earlier, they would withdraw their claim about what Simon did to them and leave...only to get another thrashing after school.
That's how it went for a whole year. Kids were beaten and had their lunch money stolen and were too afraid to fight back. Simon basked in knowing he could get away with anything he wanted and took that for granted, until Noble enrolled within their school. Talk about the irony of it all though. For the first time in his life after recovering a week later, Simon reported to the Headmaster and told him that it was Noble that beat him up and that he couldn't even move for a couple of days without feeling pain all over. He was being honest for once and was actually wanting the headmaster to dish out Noble's just punishment for raising his hand against another student. Then again if you were publicly exposed and your arrogance and pride went with it, being called the school 'jackass' who wouldn't want revenge?
You should have seen the look on Simon's face when the teacher looked at him for a few minutes and then burst out laughing to the point of hysterics. The headmaster laughed and smugly told Simon that nothing could be done. No other students had come to him to complain about Noble, nor did he injure anyone else or get into a fight. He obeyed the rules placed to him and was excelling well within his lessons, much to the approval of the teachers that taught him. Besides the fact that Simon was a bit bigger than Noble, how could he punish him if their was no proof of the fight other than Simon's injured groin. His year being the school bully had backfired on him completely. With the numerous accounts of other students coming to the headmaster with their own complaints about Simon and then withdrawing them at the case conference, it was only fitting that for once Simon got his just deserts.
But what about Noble? What about him...? Right before Nioki's very eyes, he was revealing more than she previously thought possible. Somehow magically bringing forth new clothing that covered his school uniform and then after throwing punches and kicks into thin air, moving quicker and faster unlike anything that she had seen. He was unknowingly revealing a side of him that he tried so hard to keep hidden from everyone else that only now was Nioki beginning to understand why. As in why he was so secluded from other students, why he kept away from others like he was some tainted disease. And why he seemed so cold and collected.
The answers were all presenting themselves to her. Noble feared getting too close to anyone because he was afraid of harming them, that he cared for the welfare of the students about him. Being as strong as he was how could he not be so cautious? Maybe being alone wasn't something Noble really wanted and perhaps he accepted that fate, but whatever feminine powers she had, she was determined to make sure that Noble would open himself much much more to herself and others, no matter the cost....even if it meant exposing him for what he truly was or could possibly be?...Something completely extraordinary...
The Lunch hour came to an abrupt end as the two hours came and went and the students returned to their respective tutors to wearily await another day in assembly, where the headmaster would drone out articles in the bible much to the disapproval of those attending. But that would be in 5 minutes...Noble returned to his regular clothing, his turban and weighted cape dissappearing from sight and he walked out the gym looking about as he did before. The young warrior made his way back to his tutor room and entered to notice immediately that Nioki was staring at him, never keeping her eyes off him.
(The hell? Don't go telling me that she's gonna stare and drool all over me like those other women?! *Sigh* I should have guessed she'd be acting like this sooner or later).
Walking to his seat, he sits down beside her and folds his arms and closes his eyes like in usual retrospect, as she continues to glance at him out of the corner of her eye. Noble may have his eyes closed but he could feel her eyes burning right through him, of all people Nioki was the last person he expected to act like this. Before he could even stare back at her menacingly to ward her off, she was already closer to him whispering into his ear, "I know what you are..and you think you might have fooled everyone else here but not me..."
Opening his eyes he turns to her, his face revealing a mild case of shock. (Shit!) he thought. Obviously he knew what she meant. She caught him single handedly training in the gym when he was supposed to keep his ki focused on any would be passers by, but he was so focused with his training that he neglected to see if anyone was watching him! Did she really see him or was she bluffing? The tone in her voice didn't suggest that she was and if she wasn't Noble wasn't going to like the result of what she could do. She could expose him and he couldn't do a single thing to stop her, other than deny it that is.
Before he could question her their teacher had ordered all students to make their way to assembly and growling mildy in his throat, Noble followed the other students in line with Nioki right behind him. The pupils from all classes of the school took their seats in the assembly hall and listened boredly to the headmaster drone out his preachings from the bible and when it seemed that assembly was over, a large crashing of the doors erupted throughout the entire hall revealing 7 heavily armed men in military combat suits, equipped with guns of all shapes and sizes. There reason for disturbing and gate crashing the school was a mystery and very frightening for all the students and teachers alike, however as Noble would soon discover...it was him they came looking for....
Author's note: Ok people here it is, the clincher! Coming up in ch 7? The terroists have stormed the school walls and are now holding everyone hostage but for what reason? It looks like it's up to Noble to save the day but will he still go thru with it while trying not to risk his power when he finds out that it's him they've come searching for? Whatever the reason of it all get ready, because the answers that he's been searching for all present themselves in ch 7 of 'When Dreams Become Reality'.
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Until ch 7 which I will start straight after this chapter is posted, keep them reviews coming and take care...
Signed Noble....