A/n: This chapter took me a little longer then I expected but I'm blaming it on my compute! First it erased everything I had once the chapter was finished! It was originally longer then this. Then it wouldn't let me online. I was convinced something was seriously wrong with it, when I realized that all I did was unplugged the phone cord and I felt pretty stupid. Well either way you have your chapter now so I hope you enjoy!
Catch a Hot One
Gohan and Goku entered the waiting area only to see Jackie Chun waiting in there once again.
"Aww… we missed the match!" Goku whined…he really hated missing fights.
"Well that's okay, you can just watch the next one." Gohan smiled at the younger version of his father whom he was only slightly taller than, he then shoved him lightly toward the fighting arena. "You're up next anyway. Good luck."
"Good luck?!" Krillin grumbled to himself. "Why wish him good luck?! I'm the one who's gonna need it!" He then followed Goku onto the tournament ring.
"Alright ladies and gentlemen! Here are our next competitors! First off we have Goku, who came so close to winning it all last time!" The announcer gave a pause to let the crowd cheer. "And his opponent will be Krillin! Who's bald head won Jackie Chun the last match!" The crowd once again cheered as Krillin growled.
"Okay! Let the fighting begin!" Behind him a dong rang indicating the start.
"Don't hold anything back Goku, cause I'm not going too!" Krillin dropped into his stance. Goku gave his infamous grin.
"Don't worry! I won't either!" Before he could drop into his stance though Krillin was already attacking.
Punches and kicks connected to Goku's body faster than the human eye could see. Goku was flung into the air then smashed back into the ground just as quickly. Krillin was relentless, he knew the only way he had a chance at winning was to try and catch Goku off guard and surprise him with his strength.
After a vicious uppercut and hellish roundhouse kick in midair, Goku was sent to the other side of the arena in a heap. Krillin landed across the arena too catch his breath.
"And last tournaments runner up is down! Krillin seems to be dominating Goku like he is nothing! I don't see how anyone, and I mean anyone, could get up after such a voracious attack as that!" The enthusiasm in the announcer's voice sent the crowd into an uproar of screams and cheers, some directed for Goku to get up, and others just cheering Krillin on.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP AND START COUNTING ALREADY!" Krillin knew everyone second, definitely in a match against Goku, counted.
"Oh yeah…. One!" The announcer held up a finger to emphasize the number. It didn't matter though, because Goku jumped right up to his feet after one and began wiping the dust off his gi, as if Krillin's assault upon him was nothing. Krillin was not at all happy.
"If you had just counted when he first went down I could have won!" But his voice fell upon deaf ears, for the announcer and the crowd were all staring at Goku with misbelieve in their eyes. They had just witnessed this boy be beat into one inch of his life, and then he brushes it off as if it was nothing! This was unreal!
"Haha that was fun! You've really gotten stronger Krillin! Is it my turn now?" Goku gave his innocent smile, a smile that would fool just about anyone into believing this boy was harmless, which was far from the truth.
A sweat drop ran down Krillin's face. "Uh… sure." Goku then disappeared.
"WHAT!? Where'd he go! He just disappeared into thin air! I'm going to be mad if Goku learned to turn invisible and didn't tell me!" Krillin was staring around the ring shocked, along with the announcer and everyone else in the arena. Well everyone except one person, that one person being Gohan. Gohan's eyes just darted to and fro across the arena floor following Goku's flowing movements. He then heard a voice mutter something next to him, something he would have missed, but he was saiyan, and his keen hearing didn't miss much.
"So he didn't turn invisible, he's just moving really fast." Tien was speaking to himself. "I wonder how long it will take that idiot he is facing to realize this." Gohan wanted to laugh but fought the urge. Something about this situation, even if it wasn't funny, was just amusing to Gohan. He really didn't feel like watching much more of this fight, as entertaining as it was though. Just the fact that nobody can see Goku because he was moving too fast wiped the smile right off his face. To him Goku might as well been a sloth crawling backwards. He turned and left the waiting area to walk back into the field where the sun shone brightly.
"I can't keep comparing there older self to there younger selves. The future is gone, I need to forget it. I knew this was going to happen, that everyone would be weaker. I didn't expect it this bad though. I can't hold it against them though, even as weak as they are they grow to be strong, and it isn't fair to them if I judge them upon there strengths now since I know there true potential. I just have to forget there future forms."
Gohan took a deep breath and began to turn around when he saw a giant blue blast shoot high over his head. He recognized immediately, it was a kamehame wave. He quickly sprinted back into the waiting area where he floated into the air to see over the wall. What he saw was a shocked Krillin and a laughing Goku.
"I told you not to use the kamehame wave Krillin! You just wasted your energy!" Gohan couldn't tell if Jackie Chun was more shocked or angry that Krillin had learned the maneuver at such a young age.
"But I was holding your tail Goku! You shouldn't have been able to get away! You loose all your power when someone grabs your tail!" Krillin was still in disbelief.
"Yeah it used to be like that," Goku stuck his hand behind his head and laughed. "But I trained it so now it doesn't hurt anymore! Too many people had been grabbing onto it and my grandpa finally made me realize that I needed to either get rid of it or make it stronger." Goku crouched down into one of his most lethal stances. "And you've gotten quite a lot stronger too Krillin! You even learned the Kamehame! Now let me show you how strong mine got!" Krillin was frantic.
"No Goku don't!" He tried his best to protect his body as Goku began chanting.
"Ka..me…ha…me…HA!" A blue light erupted from Goku's palms and filled the arena. It threw Krillin out of the ring and into a wall despite his desperate attempts to block the blast.
"That was fun! I can't wait til my next match!" Goku jumped up and down in excitement, then walked over to his training partner and helped him to the ground.
"That was a good match Krillin! You sure have gotten a lot stronger."
"You have too Goku," Krillin hung his head down low. He hated to loose. "I never should have thought that I could beat you."
"Don't worry Krillin, you're really good! You almost beat me a couple times there." A smile appeared on his friend's face.
"Really?!"
"Yeah! Now let's go get some food!" The two friends made there way out of the ring and into the waiting area where Goku began to attack the table of food awaiting him.
"What a match folks! And this next match promises to be another great one! We have to first time fighters here! First up, the mysterious looking Choustou (a/n: once again I have no idea how to spell this). And he will be fighting the young Goten!" Many of the girls owed and awed at him. His muscles and facial looks easily got their attention. Bulma was in the front row screaming them on too.
"Okay you two! Lets try to make this a good clean fight!" A dog behind him swung his mallet and hit the dong to start the fight. Less then a half second later Choustou was in the stadium wall unconscious. Tien's jaw was on the floor.
***END!***
a/n: that long enough for you guys? It better be dammit! Well thanks for reading and any constructive criticism or praise is welcome. Until next time!
~AFI-Boy~
