The Saiyan and the Hybrid
Piccolo sought out Gohan and Nanake. He eventually found them together, giggling madly, running from a huge dinosaur.
"Catch me if you can!!!" Gohan shouted in a song-like, taunting manner.
"Hey dino! You're WAAAY too slow!" Nanake called back to the enraged and hungry dinosaur.
They laughed hysterically as they ran on.
Sooner or later, they lost the dinosaur after tricking it into running off a cliff, and they panted, laughing at the same time. Piccolo approached them then. They both looked up, startled at the character who's shadow loomed over them.
"What is your mission?" Piccolo ordered.
"To defend the Earth and defeat the Saiyans!" Gohan and Nanake shouted in unison.
"Very well. Come with me for your REAL training."
Weeks flew by and their training intensified...
Piccolo fired ki blast after ki blast at Gohan as he narrowly dodged them all. Nanake tried to sneak up behind Piccolo and attack, but he turned at the last second and blasted her off a cliff. She tumbled all the way down to the bottom.
Gohan sparred successfully with Piccolo until he stopped and smiled with his achievement.
"Good work, Gohan... BUT DON'T STOP!!!!!!!!!!" Piccolo roared as he sent Gohan off the cliff as well.
Just as Nanake was getting up, Gohan landed smack down hard on her back, slamming her back down in the dirt.
"PICCOLO!!!! I TAKE BACK ALL THE NICE THINGS I SAID ABOUT YOU!!! HERE I COME!!!" Gohan shouted before starting to climb up the cliff. He made it halfway and slid back down, unable to climb higher. Nanake was dusting herself off when he landed next to her.
"Gohan. Listen... Hang onto me and I'll fly us both up and we'll take him by surprise." Nanake said solemnly.
Piccolo, with his sensitive hearing, smirked atop the cliff.
"Surprise. Right."
"Get on my back." Nanake ordered. Gohan obeyed and they took off. Once she was three fourths of the way there, Piccolo appeared on the edge of the cliff. She screeched to a stop and gawked up at him as he smirked evilly down at the two of them.
"There'll be no easy way out!" Piccolo blasted Nanake hard in the gut, sending them both back down the cliff.
Nanake sat, wheezing and huddled up in a ball. Gohan glared up at Piccolo as he turned and walked out of vision. Gohan roared and started up the cliff once again.
After yet another long and hard day of training, the three fighters wound down next to a campfire for a well-deserved rest. For once, Gohan was the first to fall asleep. It was Nanake's turn to talk to Piccolo. Piccolo, thinking they were both asleep, stood up and walked over to the edge of the cliff. Nanake sat up in her blanket. She wrapped it around her and walked over to Piccolo.
"Piccolo?"
"Go to sleep Nanake. I want your full energy tomorrow. The Saiyans will be here any day now." He spoke without turning to her at all."
"I want to know more about the Saiyans. You fought one before... right?"
"Knowing about them isn't going to make you stronger, Nanake. Go back to sleep."
"Piccolo... I just-"
"GET OVER THERE AND GO BACK TO SLEEP! NOW!" He turned and roared at her.
Nanake took a step back, frightened. Piccolo turned his back on her once again and said nothing. There was a pause, and just as she was about to scamper back to the fire, he spoke a little more softly, but still his usually firm tone.
"The Saiyan I fought with Goku was strong. He knew several cheap tricks. You can't trust em. And the two coming are even worse. They'll stop at nothing to get what they want." He paused, and then said, "That's all I know."
"Thank you..." she said softly. She walked up to him cautiously and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Good night Master Piccolo..."
She went back fireside once again and curled up in her blankets to fall asleep. Piccolo blushed and growled angrily.
"What's this I'm feeling for those two? ...I don't like it." He glared into the night as the two by the fire slept peacefully.
As our heroes rest up after a hard day, evil draws near! The Saiyans are due any day! What horrors will they face? Find out next time on DRAGON BALL Z!!!!