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Life's Like ThatChapter 2 – So This is My New Life?
Written by RJ =)
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Disclaimer: Same old, same old.
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"What? Who's Lord Frieza?" Gohan questioned
The blue creature was literally speechless.
"You mean you know not of Lord Frieza?" he said in his strange accent.
Gohan shook his head.
"Hmmm" he mused "Stay there, boy"
The tall blue creature pressed a red button next to the door, making it slide open with a hiss of air. He exited the room and the door whooshed shut behind him.
Gohan listened to the creature's footsteps fade as he walked down the hallway.
When he couldn't hear them anymore, he silently slipped off the cold bench and walked over to the door and pressed the large red button as he'd seen the strange creature do.
He peered out the door and all he saw was an expanse of hallway stretching for miles in each direction, curving around behind him.
"Wow, it sure is big" he said quietly to himself, his words echoing slightly down the hallway.
He took a step into the hallway and looked to the left, then looked to the right.
'What now?' he thought quickly before making the decision to go to the right.
He started down the hallway, trying not to make a noise so he didn't alert others to his presence.
Gohan kept walking, taking in his surroundings with interest. There wasn't much to the hallways, just a great expanse of whiteness except for a single black stripe, which ran along the top of each side of the curved corridor.
Up ahead was a 4-way intersection. Gohan stopped for a second, listening for a noise before he made his decision. He froze when he heard a footstep.
More footsteps followed and Gohan looked around frantically for a hiding place, he didn't really want to get into trouble. But there was no place to hide in the huge expanse of smooth white walls.
"Hey, there you are" the blue creature stated as he rounded the corner "You don't want to be caught out here by one of the guards, you don't want to get on their bad side"
He turned Gohan around and led him down another corridor for what seemed like ages. Finally they stopped and the creature pressed a large red button, which made a door hiss open.
"These will be your quarters from now on," he said.
Gohan surveyed the new room quickly. The walls were a pale blue colour instead of white, and in the middle of the room was a bed and to the side was a desk with a strange looking computer-like thing sitting on it.
"I must go now," the blue creature said, turning around to face the door.
"Wait" Gohan said "I don't even know your name"
"I am Masil from the planet Yambreen" he said before leaving the room.
Gohan watched Masil disappear around the corner. Did he just say that he was from another planet? He knew from what Raditz had said that he was alien, well half alien to be precise, but it still hadn't really sunk in yet. This alien business was still very strange to him.
Gohan sat on the bed and sighed. He had a feeling in the pit of his stomach that he wasn't going to see his family again for a long time, if not never.
"What would dad do?" Gohan mused "He'd be strong and not be put down by this. I've gotta be like my dad"
He sprung off the bed with renewed energy. He would survive this...whatever 'this' was.
He walked over to the desk and inspected the electronic device on it. It looked much like a computer, but it was a funny shape.
There was a button on the front, and Gohan, with the typical curiosity of a five-year-old, pressed it.
The thing burst into life and a computerized female voice similar to the one in Raditz's ship said "Welcome, Master Gohan"
Gohan stood there, staring at the computer, stunned that it'd known his name.
"H-how do you know me?" he stuttered.
"I know lots about you, Master Gohan--" the computer was cut off when his door hissed open and a large, burly guard stood at the door.
"Lord Frieza has requested to see you now" he growled, waiting for the young demi-Saiyan, before turning and marching down the corridor again, Gohan following right on his heels.
"Excuse me, but who is Lord Frieza?" Gohan questioned, but he got no answer.
"Excuse me?" Gohan said, trying to get an answer, but gave up when he wasn't given one.
'How rude' he thought as he crossed his arms over his chest and picked up his pace to keep up with the guard.
After another walk which seemed to last forever, they finally stopped in front of a doorway bordered with an ornate golden design.
The guard opened the door and bowed low as he entered the room.
Gohan quickly copied the guard, deciding that it was probably safer for his health to play along.
When he looked up again, he saw a funny-looking purple and white lizard-type creature sitting on an elegant throne. He was holding a wineglass, which contained a purple liquid, which he was swirling around.
"So...this is my new recruit," he said, taking a small sip of his drink.
"Yes, my Lord" the guard said.
"Thank you, you may leave" the lizard guy said
There was an awkward silence as Gohan stood there, while Frieza looked over him from his perch on the throne.
"What's your name, boy?" he asked.
"S-Son G-Gohan" Gohan stuttered.
Frieza noticed Gohan's tail, which he'd tried to wrap around his waist so that it was unnoticed.
"Ahh, so you have a tail. Are you a Saiyan?" Frieza asked, his tone becoming less menacing as he realised the potential of the young boy in front of him.
"T-that's what that mean m-man said my d-daddy was" Gohan stuttered.
"Can you fight?" Frieza asked, possibilities forming in his head faster than he could voice them.
"N-no, my mom made me study, but my d-daddy can fight real good," Gohan said.
There was another silence as Frieza took another sip of his drink, draining the last drop.
"We'll have to see about that then. Your training starts tomorrow" Frieza said, then pressed a button on the side of his throne. A servant came through a door in the side of the room.
"Yes M'Lord?" the short female purple creature said.
"Get me a top-up" Frieza said, shoving his glass towards the servant "And take this boy back to his quarters"
"Yes M'Lord" the servant said, taking the glass and motioning for Gohan to follow her.
Gohan followed the servant blindly, back through the corridors of which he'd come from and back to the room that he now knew was his.
The servant stopped in front of the door and opened it for Gohan and left abruptly, without a word as soon as she'd seen the young boy enter the room.
Gohan entered the room and turned his attention back to the computer again.
"Welcome back, Master Gohan" it greeted cheerfully.
"Hi" Gohan said, then remembered his unanswered question "So, how do you know all about me?"
"It's simple really, we used some new technology that we acquired recently to read your thoughts when you were unconscious when you first came here" it said
"Oh" Gohan said, flopping down onto the bed "What's gonna happen to me now?"
"This is going to be your home from now on and you will fight for Lord Frieza" the computer said.
"Oh" Gohan said rather dejectedly and lay down on the bed and closed his eyes, trying to remember his parents. He was surprised and horrified to find that even after a day, he was finding it hard to remember what they looked like. Instead he tried to remember how they acted and what they would do. Comforted with the thought, he soon fell asleep.
The next day, Gohan was woken up by a shuffling sound. He opened one of his eyes a little bit to see who was in his room. It was just a servant. He could tell by the uniform she wore. She was different to the one from yesterday. She was also purple, so they must have been the same species, but her face was softer and she looked kinder.
Gohan sat up and gazed curiously at the servant.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to wake you" she said softly as she placed a large tray of food on a table to the other side of the room.
"It's okay," Gohan said, tilting his head on an angle and asked "What's gonna happen to me today"
"I do not know for sure, but I think maybe you will get your first training" the purple servant said
"Training?" Gohan asked
A beeping sound prevented the servant from answering as she pulled a communication device out of a pocket in her apron.
"I must go now" she said and hurried out the door.
Gohan frowned but slid off his bed and went over to the tray of food and inspected it. It didn't look like anything he'd seen before, but it smelled good. He picked up a piece of food, which looked like a green piece of bread. It tasted okay, but not as good as his mother's cooking. He grabbed another piece and crammed it into his mouth. He was really starving. The rest of the meal followed soon after and soon the tray was cleared.
"Mmm, that was good" Gohan said, patting his now full stomach "But I sure do miss mom's cooking"
Suddenly, his door slid open with a hiss of air and a guard stood outside the door.
"Come, your training starts now" he said brusquely and turned around and marched down the hallway. Gohan ran to catch up with the guard and fell into step behind him.
"What's training?" he asked, but like the previous day, he got no answer.
The guard took him down another passage that he'd never been down before. How these guys knew the layout of the ship was a mystery to him, all the white was so confusing and it was definitely disorientating.
They stopped outside a set of double doors and the guard pushed them open.
Inside the room were two other people. The guard pushed him slightly so that he was in the room and then closed the doors behind him.
Standing over the other side of the room was a harsh looking creature. He was tall, red and he had claws on the end of his fingers and a blade on the side of each arm.
There was also a young girl, around Gohan's age. She wore similar armor to Gohan and she had short black hair, which had been cut messily but what was most surprising about her was that she also had a tail!
She looked over to him and gave him a small smile.
"Brat! Get over here" the red creature said
Gohan quickly rushed over to where the other two were standing and he stood next to the girl and looked up at the creature nervously.
"I have to teach you two rookies how to fight" the creature barked "You may call me Raion"
He paused to look over the two small children, calculating something in his head.
"Fighting is quite simple really" Raion said, sinking into a fighting stance "First you go like this, then..."
Before the two kids could realise what was going on, Raion pressed a button on the wall and a door hissed open and the 4 small green creatures leapt into the room.
"These are Saibamen. Let the training begin!" Raion said, then yelled to the Saibamen "Attack!"
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Author's Notes: There ya are. The second chappie. To tell you the truth, I didn't think it would be this successful just on the first chappie so I'm happy. Now for the bad news, I won't be updating for about 3-4 weeks because my mom said I can't write cause I have exams and I have to study. So all my stories are going on hold for about that long. I'll update if I can cause I have a few more chappies of this story written up…sorri about that…^.^ peace?