Blue Eyes
Part Eight
By Maria Cline
Anyone can face a challenge with a healthy body, but who can face a challenge with a fading body?
Dear Diary,
It's been two years since I told everyone about what's happening to me. It was rough at first. The others have been very nice, almost too nice. Goten and Gohan tried to convince me to find a way to extend my life. Dr. Briefs has been checking up on me on a monthly basis. Chi Chi has been very sweet and careful with me. She has even been feeding me healthy foods to help me out.
Vegita has been going around crimefighting and saving lives on a nightly basis. I guess he wanted to do some good, or maybe practice being a hero after I'm gone. I don't know what the others are thinking... but I guess I made them think.
I can't tell them what's going on now. My eyes have been turning blue, now, others can see it so clearly. Panny asked me why my eyes are turning blue like her Mommy's and I told her that Saiyans' eyes change after a certain age. I didn't tell her the truth... I mean, she doesn't know that Saiyans are meant to live for over two hundred years, so she may accept it better when I depart this world forever.
Things are starting to get blurry now; I mean, not like before. Over the past month, things have been getting harder to see. I can't see things in the distance and sometimes not even up close. The world has been growing darker around me... not too much yet... but I'm scared. Dr. Briefs told me that my eyes are slowly going out and that I will go completely blind in two years. What will I do? The others have just adjusted to the fact that I'm going to die in thirty years or less, how can they react to the fact that I'm going blind now?
It's not like I'm going to be dead any time soon, but the thought still chilled me. Also, Dr. Briefs figured that my condition is getting worse. I have slowed down on my training and stopped teleporting, but the strain of my workouts are still taking their toll.
If I want to live another twenty years, I have to stop training completely. Can I do it? Can I just stop training? I've been training to get stronger literally all my life. Even when I was stuck in that body cast I still tried to train. I don't know if I can stop training; fighting, working on my body is what I do. I don't know what to do if I stop training. I can always just be a role model. Pan needs someone to train her, she has great potential, maybe even greater potential than her father's.
What should I do? Should I give up what I love and live for another few years or keep on doing what I do and go out with a bang?
*****
Goku slipped his journal into his drawer and sighed as he rubbed his eyes.
"Goku? Are you okay?" Chi Chi asked as she came up.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Goku grinned, "I... was just thinking."
"Oh." Chi Chi frowned slightly. "About what?"
"Just... trying to figure out what to do. Dr. Briefs told me that my condition is still getting worse. I... I would have to stop training all together if I want to live another twenty years." Goku said as he looked down and clenched his fists. "I don't wanna stop training but I don't know what to do. What should I do?"
Chi Chi closed her eyes and sighed. "I don't know. I can't tell you what to do... fighting is your life. You need to fight as much as you need to eat. I do want you live a long time but I can't picture you as the type that would sit and watch TV all day. What do you want to do?"
"I want to train the others and keep on training myself."
"Then maybe that's what you should do. I can't stand the thought of you spending your last years miserable." Chi Chi said as she came up and held him. "Just try to be careful."
Goku looked down and said, "I'll try." Goku gazed into his wife's face and nearly choked on a sob when he saw only a mere blur.
To Be Continued...
Part Eight
By Maria Cline
Anyone can face a challenge with a healthy body, but who can face a challenge with a fading body?
Dear Diary,
It's been two years since I told everyone about what's happening to me. It was rough at first. The others have been very nice, almost too nice. Goten and Gohan tried to convince me to find a way to extend my life. Dr. Briefs has been checking up on me on a monthly basis. Chi Chi has been very sweet and careful with me. She has even been feeding me healthy foods to help me out.
Vegita has been going around crimefighting and saving lives on a nightly basis. I guess he wanted to do some good, or maybe practice being a hero after I'm gone. I don't know what the others are thinking... but I guess I made them think.
I can't tell them what's going on now. My eyes have been turning blue, now, others can see it so clearly. Panny asked me why my eyes are turning blue like her Mommy's and I told her that Saiyans' eyes change after a certain age. I didn't tell her the truth... I mean, she doesn't know that Saiyans are meant to live for over two hundred years, so she may accept it better when I depart this world forever.
Things are starting to get blurry now; I mean, not like before. Over the past month, things have been getting harder to see. I can't see things in the distance and sometimes not even up close. The world has been growing darker around me... not too much yet... but I'm scared. Dr. Briefs told me that my eyes are slowly going out and that I will go completely blind in two years. What will I do? The others have just adjusted to the fact that I'm going to die in thirty years or less, how can they react to the fact that I'm going blind now?
It's not like I'm going to be dead any time soon, but the thought still chilled me. Also, Dr. Briefs figured that my condition is getting worse. I have slowed down on my training and stopped teleporting, but the strain of my workouts are still taking their toll.
If I want to live another twenty years, I have to stop training completely. Can I do it? Can I just stop training? I've been training to get stronger literally all my life. Even when I was stuck in that body cast I still tried to train. I don't know if I can stop training; fighting, working on my body is what I do. I don't know what to do if I stop training. I can always just be a role model. Pan needs someone to train her, she has great potential, maybe even greater potential than her father's.
What should I do? Should I give up what I love and live for another few years or keep on doing what I do and go out with a bang?
*****
Goku slipped his journal into his drawer and sighed as he rubbed his eyes.
"Goku? Are you okay?" Chi Chi asked as she came up.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Goku grinned, "I... was just thinking."
"Oh." Chi Chi frowned slightly. "About what?"
"Just... trying to figure out what to do. Dr. Briefs told me that my condition is still getting worse. I... I would have to stop training all together if I want to live another twenty years." Goku said as he looked down and clenched his fists. "I don't wanna stop training but I don't know what to do. What should I do?"
Chi Chi closed her eyes and sighed. "I don't know. I can't tell you what to do... fighting is your life. You need to fight as much as you need to eat. I do want you live a long time but I can't picture you as the type that would sit and watch TV all day. What do you want to do?"
"I want to train the others and keep on training myself."
"Then maybe that's what you should do. I can't stand the thought of you spending your last years miserable." Chi Chi said as she came up and held him. "Just try to be careful."
Goku looked down and said, "I'll try." Goku gazed into his wife's face and nearly choked on a sob when he saw only a mere blur.
To Be Continued...