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Alex: Hey! A.U., you seen the cheesy puffs?
Alex Ultra: No, I think you ate them all.
Alex: Darn, hey, what you doin'?
Alex Ultra: Gettin' ready for chapter 7.
Alex: Really? Let me see!
Alex Ultra: Hey! I haven't got it yet!
Alex: Well, whatever, I still wanna see! I want to make sure you don't make me seem like some kind of dork or anything...
Alex Ultra: Don't worry, I will!
Alex: Grrr...
Yet again I find myself compelled to say that I don't own DragonBall Z or any of its characters. But I do own Alex (as well as anyone else I make up in this and other stories!)
Moving on....
This chapter Alex learns to fly, and Tien learns a few things as well.
See what I mean here in chapter 7.
~~~~~~*** TAKE FLIGHT ***~~~~~~
"Uhn, what time is it?"
"6AM, time to get started, now get up!"
"All right, all right! Just give me a minute..." Geeze, a headache is not the right thing to wake up to.
"I'll be expecting you outside in five minutes. You'd better get the lead out."
"Yeah, I'll hurry."
"No! I mean get the lead weights out!"
"Oh..." I should have known.
"And make sure and get your gi nice and snug, it's supposed to be particularly cold today." I nodded my head groggily and got out of bed, or cot, or whatever...
This was only my second day here, (conscious anyway...) and already he had my by his strict schedule. He had shown me around his house (a capsule house by design) and told me where everything was. I already knew where all the training equipment was and could get myself weighted down, but he had told me that I wouldn't be using them today, he wanted me to get them for him to use. Not that I was complaining... somehow, even the lead weights didn't seem all that heavy anymore!
I dawned my gi and took the equipment outside.
BRRRR!!! Tien wasn't kidding about it being cold! Good thing he's teaching me to harness my energy today...
"About time!" Tien seemed, well, a bit tired, and as Chaotzu told me last night, he tends to get grumpy when he's tired.
"Well, here they are, anyway." Tien took the weights from me and put them on.
"Well, let's get started. First I want you to power up again, like you did yesterday."
"Uh, sure." I assumed the position again, with my hands at my side, and started concentrating. Again, I started out slow, trying not to outpace myself, but for some reason Tien thought I was doing it wrong.
"No! Don't go slow."
"Why not?"
"Because, if you go slow and take your time on the battlefield you'll be dead before you get a chance to throw a single punch!"
"Okay, so you want me to go fast?"
"Exactly. Relax your mind, clear your lungs, and flex your muscles, but keep them relaxed."
"Huh? Flex and relax..."
"Just do the first two first, then it'll come to you. Then all you need to do is call it, call it like you need it."
"Whatever you say..." I relaxed my mind, took a deep breath, and assumed the position, this time with my arms flexed at my side, but not so flexed that they shook like if I was angry or something, just enough to make them bulge a little. And, like before, I called it. And it came.
It came in force, I was afraid I might overload again, but for some reason it didn't even tingle this time. I mean, I could tell it was there, and it was rushing to me like a herd of bulls, but it didn't seem to be causing any damage, which made me a little braver.
Rather than calling for it, I started shouting. COME TO ME!! I NEED YOU HERE!!
I circulated it around me, and like a reel pulling string, or a tornado sucking at anything it can reach, it came to me. More and more quickly.
I was shouting now. Or, with my new high-pitched voice it might have come off as screaming!
~~~ Tien ~~~
Well, at least this time she's not angry. But her power is still impressive!
But she's an amateur, she doesn't know the slightest thing about the martial arts, but that's okay for now, that's not what I'm teaching her, is it?
Well, now that we've got the powering up part down, let's move on to other things.
~~~ Alex ~~~
Still... not... finished...
I still wasn't at maximum. There was still some energy that I could just barely sense at the back of my mind. There was still some power that I hadn't gathered, power that I had before.
So, rather than trying harder, I let go. Let go of all the efforts, of all the uncomfortable cold (which even now still threatened to give me frostbite), and even let go of the very fact that this was hard!
And it came, ALL OF IT! But it didn't hurt this time, instead... instead I felt like I could do anything. Like the entire world didn't matter, like any moment now I might... might... I have... no idea how to describe it... I just know that I felt incredible! Full of energy, and calm as a cucumber.
'So this is what it's like? I like it!' It's too bad Tien interrupted me. Because for the first time in my life, I felt good! For the first time, I felt whole, that something that was always missing to me, this must be it. My ki.
My ki. Not anyone else's, MINE! Honestly, I didn't care how much or little I had, IT WAS MINE! And that alone made me happy.
But that wasn't why I was out here, was it?
Nope, not why.
"Okay, now put it under you and pull up." I did as I was told, almost immediately I lifted off the ground. And started spinning out of control!
"Oh shoot! I'm ge-etttiiinggg diiizzzzyy!!"
"Ah! Stop! Let it go!" I tried to let my ki go and ended up landing on my but. 'Ow, more cold!' "What did I do?"
"You didn't stop your energy spinning first!"
"Oh, well, then, let me try again."
"Good idea." He crossed his arms over his chest and watched me intently.
So, I tried again, first I gathered some ki (without spinning it this time) then shoved it underneath me. When I pulled it up I took to the air again and sort of floated there for a while. "Uh, now what?"
"Now, you practice!"
"That's it?"
"Yup. That's about it."
"Oh. Well okay."
"I'll be over there if you get stuck or anything."
"Yeah, okay." He went over 'there' (wherever that was) and I practiced my flying skills. Even when Chaotzu announced breakfast (he makes the breakfast? And I thought Tien was a loner...) I didn't even come in unless I could fly well enough to get through the door myself. A task which took me about ten minutes because I kept starting to spin around and ended up either banging into the top of the door or hitting the ground and I'd have to start over. Tien thought it was pretty funny and Chaotzu remained unaffected (as always, that kid, er, whatever he is, never shows any emotion unless it's directed toward Tien, know what I mean?)
Breakfast wasn't all that great, but who's complaining? Anyway, after breakfast I went out to practice flying, I wanted to get as good at it as I could.
After a little while, I started to get the hang of it. Rather than shoving my ki under me like Tien had told me to do, I found it easier and more effective if I kind of filled my body up with ki and moved THAT around. Soon (by sundown, which was only six hours after sunup, which was at nine o'clock in the morning...) I was doing everything from spins, to flips, and even flying upside-down (which was an especially interesting experience because my blood didn't seem to notice and I never got light-headed, must be the ki...). But even then I wasn't satisfied, mostly because I couldn't go very fast. My flying was sloppy and reminded me of when Goten first learned to fly.
But hey, at least I could fly, right? That was enough for me.
~~~ Tien ~~~
'She's an awfully fast learner.' I was still in awe of how quickly she picked up flying. Now she seemed to have even more control than I do, as if I've been doing it wrong all these years.
{Tien?} Chaotzu's voice in my mind brought a welcome distraction.
{Yeah?}
{Do you really think we ought to leave her in Japan?} I had already asked myself that question a couple of times.
{Well, I don't really think we have much of a choice.}
{What do you mean?}
{Well, from what I see, she seems to be more powerful than either of us.}
{Don't you think that's a good reason to keep her around?}
{Yeah, it is a very good reason. But we also have to consider what she said about the future.}
{What about the future?}
{Well, mostly that it might not turn out right if she interfered. She said she's not supposed to be here, so I don't want to force her into something that might screw up the timeline.}
{You've been thinking about this for a while, haven't you?}
{Yeah, quite a while.}
{Tien?}
{What?}
{I hope everything turns out right, anyway.}
{Yeah, me too buddy.}
"Hey, Tien! What are you staring at?" I must have jumped a mile from surprise when Alex dropped down in front of me. I guess I wasn't paying attention to anything while I was talking to Chaotzu.
"Uh, nothing."
"Okay, well anyway. I think I can do the rest of this flying thing later. So what's next?"
What's next? Well, honestly I hadn't thought that far ahead because I thought she would take longer to learn to fly.
Well, what does come next?
"Let's turn in. We'll figure it out tomorrow."
"Oh, okay." Almost gracefully she went into a reclining position in mid- air and floated in the house.
"Man, what next?" And I followed her inside.
What other surprises does she have in store for me?
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 7 ***~~~~~~
Well, do you like it? Was it good, bad, too short, too long? Well anyway, she knows how to fly now, AND I've asserted that she's a rather quick learner.
Soon I'll expose the two most prevalent ways she learns.
Alex: Yup! I'm smart!
Alex Ultra: Uh, huh. Whatever.
Alex: Hey! It's true!
Alex Ultra: Yeah, I know.
Jennifer: Hey! Alex!
Alex: What?
Jennifer: What's his name is on the phone; he says he wants to talk to you!
Alex: Great! Which 'what's his name'?
Jennifer: The one with the eye-thingies.
Alex: Oh! Coming!
Alex Ultra: O.o Uh, whatever.
Anyway, that's it for chapter 7. Review please!
Buttercup: A U !!! Hide me!!! Please!?!?
Alex Ultra: Why?
Vegeta: WHERE ARE YOU!? LITTLE BRAT! I'M GOING TO WRING YOUR NECK!!
Buttercup: Ahh!! [Zooms away]
Blossom: Man, that guy's dangerous!
Alex Ultra: Hey! Since when was there a reunion in my house?
Blossom: I don't know. Hey, who are you?
Alex Ultra: [Dark aura surrounds him as he reaches behind his back] Hehe, I thought I might need this. [Pulls out 'GASP' THE FRYING PAN OF DOOM DEATH AND TERROR!!!]
Bubbles: AHHHHHHHH!! HE'S GONE CRAZY!!
Alex Ultra: [Laughs maniacally] Ah HAHAHAHA!! THAT'S RIGHT!! NOW GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!
Vegeta: Make me!
[Whack! Whang! Twonk! Bang! Thwonk!]
Vegeta: OW!! Mercy! I give in to your almighty power!
Alex Ultra: OUT!!!
[All leave]
Alex Ultra: Ahh, peace and quiet.
ChiChi: Nice work!
Alex Ultra: Thanks.
ChiChi: That really was the perfect gift!
Alex Ultra: Thanks again!
ChiChi: No problem. Later! Oh, and if you see Goten tell him he's got to go home.
Alex Ultra: Kay!
LATER
Alex: Hey! A.U., you seen the cheesy puffs?
Alex Ultra: No, I think you ate them all.
Alex: Darn, hey, what you doin'?
Alex Ultra: Gettin' ready for chapter 7.
Alex: Really? Let me see!
Alex Ultra: Hey! I haven't got it yet!
Alex: Well, whatever, I still wanna see! I want to make sure you don't make me seem like some kind of dork or anything...
Alex Ultra: Don't worry, I will!
Alex: Grrr...
Yet again I find myself compelled to say that I don't own DragonBall Z or any of its characters. But I do own Alex (as well as anyone else I make up in this and other stories!)
Moving on....
This chapter Alex learns to fly, and Tien learns a few things as well.
See what I mean here in chapter 7.
~~~~~~*** TAKE FLIGHT ***~~~~~~
"Uhn, what time is it?"
"6AM, time to get started, now get up!"
"All right, all right! Just give me a minute..." Geeze, a headache is not the right thing to wake up to.
"I'll be expecting you outside in five minutes. You'd better get the lead out."
"Yeah, I'll hurry."
"No! I mean get the lead weights out!"
"Oh..." I should have known.
"And make sure and get your gi nice and snug, it's supposed to be particularly cold today." I nodded my head groggily and got out of bed, or cot, or whatever...
This was only my second day here, (conscious anyway...) and already he had my by his strict schedule. He had shown me around his house (a capsule house by design) and told me where everything was. I already knew where all the training equipment was and could get myself weighted down, but he had told me that I wouldn't be using them today, he wanted me to get them for him to use. Not that I was complaining... somehow, even the lead weights didn't seem all that heavy anymore!
I dawned my gi and took the equipment outside.
BRRRR!!! Tien wasn't kidding about it being cold! Good thing he's teaching me to harness my energy today...
"About time!" Tien seemed, well, a bit tired, and as Chaotzu told me last night, he tends to get grumpy when he's tired.
"Well, here they are, anyway." Tien took the weights from me and put them on.
"Well, let's get started. First I want you to power up again, like you did yesterday."
"Uh, sure." I assumed the position again, with my hands at my side, and started concentrating. Again, I started out slow, trying not to outpace myself, but for some reason Tien thought I was doing it wrong.
"No! Don't go slow."
"Why not?"
"Because, if you go slow and take your time on the battlefield you'll be dead before you get a chance to throw a single punch!"
"Okay, so you want me to go fast?"
"Exactly. Relax your mind, clear your lungs, and flex your muscles, but keep them relaxed."
"Huh? Flex and relax..."
"Just do the first two first, then it'll come to you. Then all you need to do is call it, call it like you need it."
"Whatever you say..." I relaxed my mind, took a deep breath, and assumed the position, this time with my arms flexed at my side, but not so flexed that they shook like if I was angry or something, just enough to make them bulge a little. And, like before, I called it. And it came.
It came in force, I was afraid I might overload again, but for some reason it didn't even tingle this time. I mean, I could tell it was there, and it was rushing to me like a herd of bulls, but it didn't seem to be causing any damage, which made me a little braver.
Rather than calling for it, I started shouting. COME TO ME!! I NEED YOU HERE!!
I circulated it around me, and like a reel pulling string, or a tornado sucking at anything it can reach, it came to me. More and more quickly.
I was shouting now. Or, with my new high-pitched voice it might have come off as screaming!
~~~ Tien ~~~
Well, at least this time she's not angry. But her power is still impressive!
But she's an amateur, she doesn't know the slightest thing about the martial arts, but that's okay for now, that's not what I'm teaching her, is it?
Well, now that we've got the powering up part down, let's move on to other things.
~~~ Alex ~~~
Still... not... finished...
I still wasn't at maximum. There was still some energy that I could just barely sense at the back of my mind. There was still some power that I hadn't gathered, power that I had before.
So, rather than trying harder, I let go. Let go of all the efforts, of all the uncomfortable cold (which even now still threatened to give me frostbite), and even let go of the very fact that this was hard!
And it came, ALL OF IT! But it didn't hurt this time, instead... instead I felt like I could do anything. Like the entire world didn't matter, like any moment now I might... might... I have... no idea how to describe it... I just know that I felt incredible! Full of energy, and calm as a cucumber.
'So this is what it's like? I like it!' It's too bad Tien interrupted me. Because for the first time in my life, I felt good! For the first time, I felt whole, that something that was always missing to me, this must be it. My ki.
My ki. Not anyone else's, MINE! Honestly, I didn't care how much or little I had, IT WAS MINE! And that alone made me happy.
But that wasn't why I was out here, was it?
Nope, not why.
"Okay, now put it under you and pull up." I did as I was told, almost immediately I lifted off the ground. And started spinning out of control!
"Oh shoot! I'm ge-etttiiinggg diiizzzzyy!!"
"Ah! Stop! Let it go!" I tried to let my ki go and ended up landing on my but. 'Ow, more cold!' "What did I do?"
"You didn't stop your energy spinning first!"
"Oh, well, then, let me try again."
"Good idea." He crossed his arms over his chest and watched me intently.
So, I tried again, first I gathered some ki (without spinning it this time) then shoved it underneath me. When I pulled it up I took to the air again and sort of floated there for a while. "Uh, now what?"
"Now, you practice!"
"That's it?"
"Yup. That's about it."
"Oh. Well okay."
"I'll be over there if you get stuck or anything."
"Yeah, okay." He went over 'there' (wherever that was) and I practiced my flying skills. Even when Chaotzu announced breakfast (he makes the breakfast? And I thought Tien was a loner...) I didn't even come in unless I could fly well enough to get through the door myself. A task which took me about ten minutes because I kept starting to spin around and ended up either banging into the top of the door or hitting the ground and I'd have to start over. Tien thought it was pretty funny and Chaotzu remained unaffected (as always, that kid, er, whatever he is, never shows any emotion unless it's directed toward Tien, know what I mean?)
Breakfast wasn't all that great, but who's complaining? Anyway, after breakfast I went out to practice flying, I wanted to get as good at it as I could.
After a little while, I started to get the hang of it. Rather than shoving my ki under me like Tien had told me to do, I found it easier and more effective if I kind of filled my body up with ki and moved THAT around. Soon (by sundown, which was only six hours after sunup, which was at nine o'clock in the morning...) I was doing everything from spins, to flips, and even flying upside-down (which was an especially interesting experience because my blood didn't seem to notice and I never got light-headed, must be the ki...). But even then I wasn't satisfied, mostly because I couldn't go very fast. My flying was sloppy and reminded me of when Goten first learned to fly.
But hey, at least I could fly, right? That was enough for me.
~~~ Tien ~~~
'She's an awfully fast learner.' I was still in awe of how quickly she picked up flying. Now she seemed to have even more control than I do, as if I've been doing it wrong all these years.
{Tien?} Chaotzu's voice in my mind brought a welcome distraction.
{Yeah?}
{Do you really think we ought to leave her in Japan?} I had already asked myself that question a couple of times.
{Well, I don't really think we have much of a choice.}
{What do you mean?}
{Well, from what I see, she seems to be more powerful than either of us.}
{Don't you think that's a good reason to keep her around?}
{Yeah, it is a very good reason. But we also have to consider what she said about the future.}
{What about the future?}
{Well, mostly that it might not turn out right if she interfered. She said she's not supposed to be here, so I don't want to force her into something that might screw up the timeline.}
{You've been thinking about this for a while, haven't you?}
{Yeah, quite a while.}
{Tien?}
{What?}
{I hope everything turns out right, anyway.}
{Yeah, me too buddy.}
"Hey, Tien! What are you staring at?" I must have jumped a mile from surprise when Alex dropped down in front of me. I guess I wasn't paying attention to anything while I was talking to Chaotzu.
"Uh, nothing."
"Okay, well anyway. I think I can do the rest of this flying thing later. So what's next?"
What's next? Well, honestly I hadn't thought that far ahead because I thought she would take longer to learn to fly.
Well, what does come next?
"Let's turn in. We'll figure it out tomorrow."
"Oh, okay." Almost gracefully she went into a reclining position in mid- air and floated in the house.
"Man, what next?" And I followed her inside.
What other surprises does she have in store for me?
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 7 ***~~~~~~
Well, do you like it? Was it good, bad, too short, too long? Well anyway, she knows how to fly now, AND I've asserted that she's a rather quick learner.
Soon I'll expose the two most prevalent ways she learns.
Alex: Yup! I'm smart!
Alex Ultra: Uh, huh. Whatever.
Alex: Hey! It's true!
Alex Ultra: Yeah, I know.
Jennifer: Hey! Alex!
Alex: What?
Jennifer: What's his name is on the phone; he says he wants to talk to you!
Alex: Great! Which 'what's his name'?
Jennifer: The one with the eye-thingies.
Alex: Oh! Coming!
Alex Ultra: O.o Uh, whatever.
Anyway, that's it for chapter 7. Review please!
Buttercup: A U !!! Hide me!!! Please!?!?
Alex Ultra: Why?
Vegeta: WHERE ARE YOU!? LITTLE BRAT! I'M GOING TO WRING YOUR NECK!!
Buttercup: Ahh!! [Zooms away]
Blossom: Man, that guy's dangerous!
Alex Ultra: Hey! Since when was there a reunion in my house?
Blossom: I don't know. Hey, who are you?
Alex Ultra: [Dark aura surrounds him as he reaches behind his back] Hehe, I thought I might need this. [Pulls out 'GASP' THE FRYING PAN OF DOOM DEATH AND TERROR!!!]
Bubbles: AHHHHHHHH!! HE'S GONE CRAZY!!
Alex Ultra: [Laughs maniacally] Ah HAHAHAHA!! THAT'S RIGHT!! NOW GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!
Vegeta: Make me!
[Whack! Whang! Twonk! Bang! Thwonk!]
Vegeta: OW!! Mercy! I give in to your almighty power!
Alex Ultra: OUT!!!
[All leave]
Alex Ultra: Ahh, peace and quiet.
ChiChi: Nice work!
Alex Ultra: Thanks.
ChiChi: That really was the perfect gift!
Alex Ultra: Thanks again!
ChiChi: No problem. Later! Oh, and if you see Goten tell him he's got to go home.
Alex Ultra: Kay!
LATER