The sun shone brightly in the morning, more brightly then the sunlight of
the past few days have been. Piccolo was sitting down in the warm sand of
Kame house meditating. It had only been twelve hours since Trunks had been
murdered violently. Piccolo did not want to even think about it. He was not
usually emotional about anything but because of the death of Goku he had
taken a new perspective on life. How quickly one can be taken away and how
much that person affected everyone around them. Speaking of that, Piccolo
had noticed a great change in Goten. Not only was he training extremely
hard but he was doing it all without food. Normally, a sayian would eat
tons of food. Goten, however had lost his appetite with the loss of his
best friend. He was always training with as much energy he could spare
without using the reserves he needed to live. Piccolo was sympathetic to
Goten but was hard on showing it. However now was not the time to sit in an
idle state. Piccolo jumped up and slowly joined the circle of fighters that
were left. So few.
The circle consisted of Krillin, Yamcha, Tien and Chaoutzou. Dende and
Master Roshi were inside talking amongst themselves. Piccolo could sense
Gohan and Videl somewhere together, not wanting to be separated in times
like these.
"How will we ever beat Buu without any miracles?" Krillin beat the ground
heavily with one fist causing small tremors that radiated across the small
island.
"Stop it Krillin!" said Piccolo. "We will overcome this threat and we will
all make it through. I will see to that."
"Oh yeah, well I am always the on who dies. It is always me. I can't stand
it anymore!" Krillin took off in a flash and before anyone could react he
lowered his Ki and was gone.
"No!!! If we are going to win this fight then we need all of us fighting
together."
"Let him go Piccolo." Gohan had approached with the departure of Krillin.
"He IS right, maybe he will do something about it. For now we need to work
out a plan to find a safer place to hide out. Roshi's place is great but
lets face it, its no fortress and we don't even know if Buu can sense our
Ki or not."
Krillin flew as fast as he could away from the island. He didn't know where
to go so he went to Capsule Corp. Bulma would be happy to see him. When he
got there Bulma was working on one of her many inventions. She was
constantly working on something. Ever since Trunks died she was stuck in
her lab. She was a broken woman, only eating if she was brought something.
Those meals were few and far between also because all of the help at
Capsule Corp. fled to their families. All that remained were Bulma, her
parents, Chi-chi, and Gohan along with Videl. However, now with Gohan and
Videl back at Kame's it seemed even bigger. Krillin stopped in the kitchen
to fix something to eat for Bulma. He felt so bad for her. She was really
pulling together in time of need though because as Krillin walked in he was
amazed at the things lining the walls. Most of them looked like weapons of
some sort. Most of them however were half-completed and strewn about like
Bulma just lost her inspiration for that particular project.
"Bulma? Are you here?" Krillin strode throughout the giant room looking for
his longtime friend. "Bulma?" He found her at her computer, imputing
numbers as usual. "I made you something to eat."
"Thanks Krillin, you can set it down here." Bulma pointed at the table next
to her that was strewn with papers. She never removed her eyes from the
screen. "How is everyone?"
"Not too bad. Piccolo is still a hard ass and Gohan and Videl are as close
as ever." Krillin looked at the screen and saw only numbers whereas Bulma
saw schematics and measurements. "Uh, what are you working on?"
"I'm trying to find out how senzu beans are effective so I can try to
reverse the effects and thus having a weapon for beating Buu."
"I see." Said Krillin.
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Somewhere on Earth Buu was menacing one of the last few towns that he could
find. Ki beams shot in a three hundred sixty-degree angle around the
monster. Homes and people all incinerated by the blasts. All the while Buu,
enjoying the destruction was laughing. Children were his favorite targets
because of the fear that radiated off them as he slaughtered them. Buu
spared nothing. Then he took off in search of the next town or village for
him to take his pleasure with. He flew with the precision of a bullet and
stopped for nothing but food and to kill. Without any opposition he felt no
need to be careful and he blew up everything.
