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The Raising of a Saiyan, Chapter six; Going Home
Chikyuu. Gohan never thought he would hear that planet spoken from living beings lips again. It flooded him with relief that it hadn't been purged or destroyed, and that the fact that Vegeta had come back injured meant that the planet could take care of itself. But he also knew that Vegeta would not leave this planet alone. It was reportedly lush, with huge oceans and massive forests, slightly lacking in the technology that they had. Vegeta would go back to reclaim his honor, and capture the planet that supposedly was the most beautiful planet in the northern galaxy.
Gohan was in his room, preparing to train. He had an idea for an attack, one all his own. It dealt with using the other person's ki to form a blast that depended on the victim for its power. He knew how to draw the ki from an opponent, making them weak, but he couldn't form that energy into a blast. He was hoping to find a challenger at the training center, one upon which he could practice this new technique and several others he had developed.
He set off to the training center, passing through endless corridors until he reached his destination. He then walked over to the middle off the sparring creatures, and looked about for a free fighter. Not many off the lower level warriors wanted to fight him, but some of the higher class fighters came and asked for a bout. Or demanded it.
He chose to fight the one whose resting ki level was the highest, utilizing his scouter. It was a large purple and yellow alien, somewhat reminecent of a bull, with great, curving horns, and clearly tough skin.
They quickly went into the white energy field that surrounded most of the center, and blocked part of it for their match. Another white wall of energy shot down, cutting them off from the rest. It quickly became slightly transparent, and they could see currency changing hands as bets were made as to who would win. Sangoroth, as his opponent was called, took up a strange fighting stance, and waited for Gohan to do the same.
Gohan knew that the moment he got into the stance of his choosing, his opponent would attack, not waiting for him to settle in fully. So he didn't choose a stance. Instead he raised a hand and discharged a blast of cerulean ki. It flashed at the surprised alien, blazing at him with great speed. He just barely managed to get out of its way before it was absorbed by the shield, making it that much stronger.
Sangoroth lunged, swinging a fist at the boy's stomach. Before it hit, he shifted back and let fly with a kick. It grazed Gohan's shoulder as he dropped flat. The half-breed pushed up off the floor to lash out with a foot at the huge monsters face. Sangoroth felt the foot smash into his face, and felt his back slam into the energy wall an instant later. He slid down the wall, and fell to the ground. As his opponent came to see if he was really defeated, he jumped up and poured yellow ki through his mouth, forming it into a blast of sufficient power to harm the demi-Saiyan.
The Saiyan in question dodged, cursing him self for being so stupid. The blast singed his arm, making it more painful to move it, though not by much. He jumped into the air, and fired a ki beam at the monster to gain time for him to prepare his attack.
Sangoroth sidestepped the beam of blue light, and looked up to where the boy was floating. He was charging up an energy blast, made of pure white ki. He got ready to block it, as the boy stabbed his hands forward to fire. But the blast never came. Instead, Sangoroth fell to his knees, suddenly unable to stand. His energy was ebbing, leaving his body. Suddenly, he heard hundreds of tiny explosions as scouters outside the arena blew at the massive increase of power the boy was building.
Gohan was elated. It worked! He had successfully developed his very own attack.
"ENERGY RELFECTION WAVE!"
A huge beam of energy swept down upon the purple and yellow alien, blasting into him with a power huge enough to kill any other soldier. The explosion blasted several walls and other sparring partners away, leaving, under all the debris, a very painful looking Sangoroth.
Gohan looked at the destruction, shocked.
"Whoa. That was strong."
Vegeta had been walking to the training center, contemplating on just how he would destroy Chikyuu once he defeated that poor excuse for a Saiyan Kakkarot. He had decided on blasting away the earths crust in one point, and letting incinerating magma sweep over the earth, turning every thing in its way to ashes, when an explosion rocked the ship, throwing him back into the walls, and crushing the door out of shape. He jumped to his feet, blasting several soldiers in his rage. What the heck was that?!
Gohan, a little shocked at the power his blast unleashed, mainly because he didn't know Sangoroth was that powerful, was picking up some off the debris that was lying about when a purple energy beam fried the door into non existence, and a very angry Vegeta stormed through.
Vegeta fired a beam through the door and stomped inside to see the almost complete destruction of the training center. What surprised him the most however was that a small boy was floating in the center of the room, apparently the cause for all this? Heck, HE would have a hard time causing this. 'Well,' he smirked. 'Not anymore. That beating Kakkarot gave me was enough to raise my power level considerably. No, this fool here probably was hiding behind the shield.'
Vegeta called out, "You, boy! Who did this?" The boy turned, and Vegeta was surprised that he had met him before, just before he had left to go to Chikyuu. He was the half breed, one of the only Saiyans left in the universe.
He stopped his train of thought to listen to the boys reply. It was short and unnecessarily blunt. "Me." Vegeta looked at him, outraged. How DARE he lie to the prince of Saiyans!
"You honestly expect me to believe that you caused this destruction? And you aren't even tired!" the boy took an exasperated look, like it was the most obvious thing in the universe.
"Duh, because it wasn't my energy."
Vegeta smirked. "So you admit it wasn't your blast."
Gohan sighed, letting his frustration show clearly.
"NO you idiot, it was MY BLAST!"
Okay, now Vegeta was confused. First, the boy said that he had destroyed the room. Then, he said it wasn't his energy. But then he said that it was still his blast!
Vegeta growled low in his throat.
"What the heck are you talking about?"
The boy sighed again, and turned to the personnel that had begun to collect in the trashed chamber. He put his hands in front of each other, and began forming energy. As the energy sphere grew, there was the distinct sound of bodies hitting the floor as Gohan drew the energy they needed to stand away from them. Vegeta looked on in wonder as the white blast grew. Finally, Gohan let the energy flow back to the owners, and they stood up with a relieved but scared look, and ran out the door, bumping into each other and knocking each other over.
When they had all gone, Vegeta turned back to the boy in awe of his attack, although he would never admit it. Suddenly, he had a perfect idea, and grinned fiercely, pointing at the boy..
"You. Me. Spar. Now.
Gohan whipped his head around from the door.
"What?" Vegeta answered, "I'll need somebody to come with me to Chikyuu, somebody who can fight. Those brats were strong enough, and the Namek tips the scales in the direction of that third-class trash heap. If you prove yourself, then I will take you along."
Gohan was nearly choking. Had Vegeta just offered him a chance, albeit unknowingly, a chance to see his home planet? Of course he would fight!
He turned to the haughty prince who stood to await his decision. With excitement clear in his voice, he replied, "I accept your offer."
Vegeta scowled from the lack of his title in his reply, but responded none the less.
"Good." And with that, he launched him self at the surprised demi-Saiyan.
Gohan dodged Vegeta's initial rush, and fired a ki beam at his rapidly retreating figure. If he wanted to see his home ever again, much less go there in person, he was going to have to give it his all. Oh great, he was losing his battle focus. He quickly wrenched his mind back to what was happening, and just in time to dodge a retaliation blast from Vegeta. He flew to the ground, and jumped up again as a blur attacked with a flurry of punches and kicks, each glowing as he brought his power to the surface to strengthen his attacks. With a mid level sweep to the ribs, Gohan managed to fight off the barrage, and quickly assaulted his opponent with his sonic wave technique. He built up energy into his hands until they began glowing a brilliant blue, and then slammed them together, open-handed. This resulted in a massive shockwave blasting outwards in an explosion of ki. The shockwave blasted into Vegeta and threw him against the far wall, which quickly had another dent in it as he impacted at several times the speed of sound.
Multiple, ear-splitting booms were heard as Gohan burst through several speed barriers in a brutal fore-knuckle punch that crushed Vegeta even more into the wall.
Vegeta, through the haze of pain, managed to build enough energy to fire a mouth blast into the demi-Saiyans chest, knocking him back and allowing him to pry himself from the wall which he had sunk into. With a howl of rage at his stupidity, he lunged forward and slammed his fist across the younger Saiyans jaw, brought his leg up into his side, and fired a jab into his chest.
Gohan was struck with several more blows before he retaliated with a sweep kick and a down ward elbow smash, the first attack missed, but the second scored a direct hit on top of the princes head. The blow snapped his head backwards, and Gohan took advantage of that with a quick punch across the face. And with that, he charged up one of his better special techniques. A huge energy wave appeared, and whirled down towards the struggling prince. But before it hit, it swirled into a cyclone, smashing into him and propelled him through the air. With a slight twitch of his hands, Gohan guided the beam into a wall. This time, however, it went through the wall and into the corridor, carrying Vegeta with it. Gohan slumped over, exhausted from all the energy attacks.
Vegeta was really torn up. His uniform was in tatters, leaving nothing but the left sleeve. He was currently buried in rubble, and as he painfully dug his way out, some soldiers walked by and gaped at the prince's state. Looking down, Vegeta saw what they were gawking at. His head snapped up, and almost instantly beams of light shot from his eyes and dissected them into two pieces. He fully intended to kill the boy now, the brat who had taken away his dignity, his pride! He stormed back into the room, searching for the gaki. He found him crumpled to the ground from ki exhaustion. He reached down, and took his tail, and crushed it, sending enough pressure to knock out himself. Gohan's eyes snapped open, and a low mewl of pain escaped his lips before his eyes shut completely.
Bringing his face closer, Vegeta said roughly, "Look at you. You're more dead than alive, you're tail is crushed, and you don't have any energy left to attack if you were conscious!" he got the surprise of his life as Gohan weakly opened his eyes, and said something so low that Vegeta, with his Saiyan hearing, could barely make it out. "But… what if it's not my energy…? Vegeta opened his mouth in shock as he realized what the gaki meant. He had no time to react as an energy reflection wave crashed into his chest, knocking him back, and down. Vegeta looked up in surprise at the boy, though his own consciousness was quickly fading. He did however manage to hold out until Gohan fainted until he dropped into his own dark slumber.
The next morning, Gohan, healed of his injuries, was staring out the view port at the empty blackness of space. He had lost. He wasn't going back. He had failed. He bowed his head in grief, when a sharp, rough voice came through his scouter.
"BOY! GET YOUR TAIL DOWN HERE!" Gohan jumped at the voice. Vegeta was supposed to be leaving! "What do you mean sir?" The voice bellowed back. "I MEAN YOUR COMING WITH ME TO THAT BLASTED PLANET CHIKYUU! BUT YOU WONT BE IF YOUR NOT HERE IN FIVE STANDARD MINUTES!" Gohan felt like crying.
"I'll be right there sir." Vegeta's voice was back to normal levels as he answered. "Hurry up brat."
"Yes sir!" Gohan sped down the hall way, not caring about the people he left unconscious in the hall way. He was going home.
Whew! That took a while, didn't it? My (insert four letter obscenity here,) computer flashed a "THIS SCREEN CANT BE DISPLAYED" thing at me every time I tried to update for the better part of a week for the better part of a week. So, tell me what you think!
(*_*) Jakar101