Dragons of Tribeta-sei
Part 1 A New Life
Chapter 02 The Recurring Dreams
"Goten, Time to get up... I'm not going to tell you again." Son Chichi had been spending the last 10 minutes trying to force her son to get up so that they can start on his new schedule. She left the room to go and put some water on to boil. By the time she got back she found her son still fast asleep. But his position did change. It had appeared that when he tried to roll over, he went headfirst off of his bed; and now lay on the floor tangled up in his sheets. She smiled evilly but fought down the erg to tickle her son awake. Knowing Goten takes after his father in many ways. There are many things that he and his father have in common.
1. They are both unusually really ticklish.
2. They are both terrified of something. Goku is terrified of needles and Goten is scared of needles a little bit but it is snakes that bother him, especially the kind that are monsters big.
Actually that was all Chichi could think of on comparing Goku and Goten... Aside from the fact they are look-a-likes but this has to do with weaknesses.
No enough of that Goten still needs to get up. So she left the room once again to fill a bucket up with icy cold water. Once she got back with it she didn't hold back and flung the contents all over her son. Goten's eyes flew open and made a startled yelp as his head hit the floor his body following suit. (He was hanging off of his bed in an upside-down position) He proceeded to curl up into a ball to try and find warmth. At this point he heard his mother say something.
"Well it's about time you got up and joined the living world."
Goten scowled and glared at his mother whom was expecting this kind of attitude from Goten. But she didn't back down, she smacked her son over the head with a frying pan while saying; "Don't you scowl at me young man! It's your own fought that your being treated likes this. So don't you dare start blaming me for a crime that you committed?"
It was quite obvious that hitting Goten over the head with her frying pan was not going to change his mood. But he forced himself to not to talk back or snap at his mother. He knew better then that.
"Now I want you down stairs as soon as you're dressed. Do you understand?"
Goten only merely nodded and preceded to find something to wear. As soon as he heard his mother shut the door behind her and heard her footsteps disappear he let out a long sigh. He absently messaged the area where the frying pan hit as he searched through his drawers and pulled out his usual outfit. (His orange martial arts uniform that matches his father's. Except for the long sleeves.)
He made very sure that he had fresh unders on as he proceeded to get dressed. Pulling on his pants then his long sleeve blue shirt and soon after that his orange vest that goes over the shirt. He slipped on his shoes and casually headed out of his room. He strutted slowly down the hall, he paused a bit to sniff the air. He couldn't help but smile as the lovely smell of breakfast on the table waiting to be eaten reached his nostrils. At least he will be able to eat all the food he wants without being bothered... At this point Goten scowled as he remembered those damn bullies annoying him while at school yesterday. Suddenly a low growling noise could be heard. He looked around startled. He only had to wait a minute to hear the exact same kind of noise again, but as soon as he realized what it was, he flushed in embarrassment and realized that that must have looked amusing to anyone who was watching.
By the time Goten got downstairs he found his father was already seated at the table eating away. He took a quick glance around the room and noticed a desk that was piled in books had a pad of paper and a pencil. Something lurched in his stomach, as he somehow knew that that was set up for him. Knowing how his mother is and studying, he is in for it. BIG TIME.
Chichi noticed her son had also noticed the desk in the corner. She turned and noticed the breakfast she had made was disappearing faster then you can say 'what the....' "Goten, you better hurry up and start eating or your father will have it gone before you know it."
Goten didn't need to be told twice as he quickly sat down and proceeded to eat as fast as he can.
In less then 60 seconds the table was now covered in dirty dished. Goku was now stretching his limbs sighing. "Wooooooo. Man that hit the spot." Goten couldn't help but agree with out saying a word. Goku then stood and approached Chichi and nuzzled her and licked the bite mark she had on her neck. She giggled and whispered something to her mate that Goten couldn't understand. For a second he saw a hurt expression on his father's face. It disappeared as quickly as it came. Then he heard his father say that he was going to go out for a bit and maybe do some training. At this Goten quickly got to his feet.
"I'll go too, dad?" He asked his father in his innocent tone of voice.
Goku of course saw that Goten was trying to get out of his punishment from what he did yesterday. Although he wouldn't mind spending some time with his son. But he knew that he couldn't do that right now. "I'm sorry Goten. Even though I don't mind at all, you still have something you need to do first..."
"That is right. You won't be doing anything else except studying until lunchtime. So get to it."
Goten gaped at her. He does nothing accept study all morning? "Mom? That's not fair... Can't I just do that later?" Goten wined. Chichi shook here head while saying...
"Uh uh, out of the question Goten. You did something horrible yesterday and now you can't go back to school until they rebuild it so now you have to face the consequences. You will do exactly what I say for the next 2 weeks. Do you understand me? Now help me clean up after breakfast then get to work. All right?"
Goten didn't say anything as he helped his mother clean up then trudged over to the desk and opened the top book on the stack of books then shifting the rest of them to block his mother from view. His first subject was Mental Mathematics by Alicia Jefferson.
During Goten's studies, he fell asleep twice and was given a spanking for not paying attention to his studies. Later his mother brought him a glass of blue berry juice. This was his favorite to drink. The hours that morning seemed to want to pass very slowly, he had to excuse himself once or twice to go relieve himself. Finally the lunch hour came and he was very glad about that.
After lunch, he was told to go do a long set of chores. Clean the living room, mow the lawn, gather firewood, wash her car, tend to the garden weeds, mop the kitchen and dining room floor and polish all of her wood furniture. This took another three to four hours. While Chichi was cooking supper, Goten was sent to take a bath. He was very relieved to do this. Then he was given his supper and was sent strait to bed
~*~
That night, Goten had dreams about that guy and those Aliens with that bizarre ship. They had asked him to come with them to some unknown planet or something. He tried to ask them why but the scenery changed again. He found himself facing three boys of whom he never met before.
One of them has sewer green skin with green eyes and dark green spiky hair. He wore a black fighting gi and had this goofy grin on his face. The next one has dark cream-colored skin with a red bushy mo hock and wore red and white colored fighting robes. The last one to Goten surprise looked a lot like Trunks at the age of 13 or 14 only with black hair and the pupils of his eyes were completely royal blue. But there was a detail that shocked him, they were Saiya-jins because they all had tails. Goten didn't understand it and didn't get the chance to ask about it because it was time to get up.
That morning he dressed in a pair of loose gray pants held up by a dark gray stash and a white tank top tucked in. His newly grown tail waved lightly behind before holding still by his left leg. During dinner yesterday, he had begged his mother to let him keep his tail but he had to make a promise to not to look at the full moon if they let him keep it. He had never had a tail before and he already liked it. Once dressed he headed to the restroom and met his father there who was brushing his teeth wearing a pair of blue sweat pants and a tank top tucked in as well.
"Morning Tousaan." He greeted him before he proceeded to brush his own teeth.
Goku nodded and ruffled his son's hair in return seems how his mouth was full of foam from brushing his teeth. He bent over the sink to wash out his mouth and then yawn again. Goten copied his father and while he was washing his face his father was soothing out his hair which hardly did any good. "Goten, I've been talking with your mother," Goten looked around at his father in question. "About what had happened at school and she agreed that I take you to gather the dragonballs so that we can resurrect those that were killed and mortify everyone's memory. Afterwards your gonna have to just do what your mother says ok. She won't listen to me."
Goten nodded showing his father that he had understood the situation but then a confused look crossed his face. "People got killed? Me and Trunks thought that only the bullies were in that part of the school."
"15 people got killed, Goten and several others got injured. It will be a while before they can build the school back up." Goku explained with a sad tone.
"Oh." was all Goten could say for the time being.
~*~
Goten followed his father outside after breakfast, now with a blue book bag on his back. Chichi had given them a couple of day's worth of food in a couple of capsules. She stood outside in front of the door to see them off on the Dragonball hunt. She had told Goten to pack some schoolbooks but instead he had packed some marital art books and some coloring books. His father now wore his usual orange gi.
"Alright, Goten. I expect you to be continuing your schedule when you come back. And Goku-sa, make sure he does some schooling while your out on this trip. And don't spoil him! He is still being punished you know! Yosh. Have fun but not too much fun!" Chichi called as they took off into the sky.
"See ya, Kasaan!" Goten called over his shoulder as he took off. At the same time, Goku called "We'll be back in a couple of days, see ya, Chi!"
They disappeared into the horizon. Goku pulled out the dragon radar and depressed the button, a single dot bleeped onto the screen. "Yosh, the first ball is due 10 miles north and 8 miles west from here," he pocketed the radar and turned to his son, "lets go."
Goten nodded, "I'll race ya, tousaan!" With that he powered up and tore off north. Goku powered up to follow his son.
~*~
The trio father and son landed in a rocky area at the location of the ball. It was a maze of Rocky Mountains and hardly any animals in site. Goku pulled out the dragon radar and changed the distance to close up and started walked several paces west. Goten followed looking around with unhidden curiosity. He then gasped and headed over to a large rock and picked up a walking stick and turned to show his father. "Tousaan, look it! It's a walking stick, a very big one!"
Goku grinned and commented to 5-inch long bug then suggested that they continued their search.
Goten nodded, "right." And set the bug back down before running on ahead of his father. As he ran he spotted a huge hole in the ground up ahead and found that it was a crater. His first thought was if his father had trained in this area. "Ne, tousaan? Did you an Veggie-chan train here or something?" Goten pointed at the crater.
Goku gazed at the crater before letting his eyes to wonder the area they were in. Then he spotted something off to the side and raised an eyebrow. "What." he whispered and walked over to it. It was a white head of an android, android 19 to be exact. Goku gazed at it before taking a look around the area again.
"What is it, dad?" Goten questioned once he spotted the head too.
"This was a battle field. This is where, Vegeta, Piccolo, Ten shin Han, Krillen, Gohon and I fought the androids," he paused to count off the years with his fingers, "About 8 ½ years ago."
"So that head used to be an android?" Goten asked.
"Yea, its dead though. I'm surprised that it is still here after all of these years." Goku shrugged it off and turned back to the radar and took a glance at the crater, "The Dragonball should be somewhere inside that crater. Why don't you go and look for it?" he told his son.
"OK, tousaan!" Goten called over his shoulder as he enthusiastically leaped into the crater, landing in the middle of it. He proceeded to search for their first Dragonball, getting his hands, clothes and face covered in dirt and dust. It is always much more fun to search for it this way then to use energy blasts to blast your way through the dirt. After digging nearly 3 feet into the interior of the crater, he started slowly working his way to northern exterior of the crater. After about 15 minutes Goten jumped out of the crater completely covered in dirt holding up an orange orb with 2 red stars in it. "I found it! I found it Tousaan! It's the two star ball!"
Goku, who had been seated on a large boulder grinned and laughed at the state his son was in. "Hahahahaha Yea but did you have a dirt bath in the process of finding that ball! You need a bath!" he stood up walked over to his youngest son and proceeded to brush as much dirt off of his son as possible. "Your mother would shoot me if she knew how dirty you were!"
Goten giggled as he let his father brush him off. "Hehehe It just happened. I was really exited to find this ball!"
Goku chuckled, "I'm sure that you were, son. Anyway lets head out to find the next Dragonball, ok? I've gotten you as.err. as clean as I can get you." The only thing that Goku was able to do was brush the dirt off of his clothes but he tanned Goten's skin on his arms, neck and face a lot darker by smearing the stuff all over him. Goten nodded and went over to where he left his book bag and stuffed the two star ball into the bag and zipped it up. He pulled the bag over his shoulder and turned back to his father, waiting for instructions.
Goku nodded once he saw his son ready and pulled out the radar again. "The next Dragonball is pretty far off in that direction." he turned and pointed east, then glanced back at the radar and switched the radar to long range, "looks like an hour flight from here." Goku pocketed the radar and turned to his son who nodded once. And they took to the skies again.
~*~
2 days later.
Darkness everywhere, not one single light. Goten walked through endless darkness, then up ahead was a person surrounded by a gold light, it was someone he knew. "Otousan! Wait for me!" Goten ran even faster to catch up with his father but he kept getting further and further away. Then total darkness rained again; Goten looked around, scared of being left alone in this dark place. "Otousan! Where are you!" his voice echoed off of the air.
A blinded flash of light and the scenery changed. There was his brother and Videl-san and his parents, hunched over a bundle in Videl-san's arms. Curiosity hit him as he approached and looked into the bundle and saw it was a baby girl and he realized that it had to be his niece. He smiled at the happy site but then his smile faltered, where was he during this happy time? He tried to get everyone's attention by asking what the baby's name is but no one answered him nor did anyone look up at him, he tried tugging on his father's gi but got no response. He tried waving his hand in front of Gohon's face and still got no reaction. He even grabbed a couple pans and banged them together and he was still being ignored. Were they doing this on purpose? Or was this a different timeline where he just plainly didn't exist.
"Okaasan, why can't you see me? Can't any of your hear me or sense my presence?"
Still no answer. Then everything around him turned dark again. He stood there uncertain of what will happen next when a deep, menacing frightening voice echoed off of the air like thunder making the poor chibi jump.
"YOU ARE SEEING YOUR FUTURE BRAT! GET USED TO IT! YOU ARE DESTINED TO BE ALONE IN YOUR LIFE! AS SOON AS THAT BABY GIRL IS BORN, YOU WILL START A LONG AND LONELY LIFE FOR ALL ETERNITY! HAHAHAHHAAAAAAAA!"
Goten stood rooted to the spot and what he had just heard. "Nani?"
Silence and then.
"Goten?"
~*~
"Goten, c'mon squirt time to get up. Breakfast is ready." Goku's voice range through Goten's head as he stirred and slowly opened his eyes to stare up at his father who grinned and rubbed his head with his hand. "Up and atom sleepy head. The fish is ready. C'mon up you get."
Goten felt himself being pulled to his feet and felt himself getting undressed and into fresh clothes even though he wasn't doing that. He was pulled out of his dizziness when his father brushed his fingers across his stomach making him giggle. "You up yet? The sooner we eat the sooner we can summon the dragon!" Finally with the whiff of cooked fish in his nose and with the fact that if he doesn't get a move on, his father will be forced to tickle him until he moves faster, Goten pushed his father off of him, "I'm UP already." He growled in annoyance. He never was the morning person sometimes. Goku didn't seem to hear his son's attitude but grinned and aloud his son to get dressed on his own and returned to the fish by the camp fire.
Goten pulled on his orange martial arts gi and then crawled over to where his father was cutting the giant fish in half and giving Goten the tail half of the fish before chewing down on his half. Goten barely got a quarter of a way through his half of the fish when his mind went back to that dream that he had last night. What did that voice mean that he'd have a long and lonely life? Another thought then popped into his head, that made him wonder something.
"Tousaan?"
"Un?"
"What is the other world like?" Goten asked hesitantly.
Goku glanced at his son as he seemed startled by the question and swallowed the mouthful of food he had before answering his son's question. "The other world his not much different then this world except that your surrounded by all sorts of fighters that saved their own worlds and got to keep the bodies because of their good deeds. The ones with bad deeds got to keep their bodies too but were sent to HFIL or Place For Infinite Losers or in other words 'Hell'. The ones with good deeds had the choice of either going to heaven or going to the Kia's world and that is where I've been when I was dead after the Cell games. Although I like the food here better then the other world."
"Would you have stayed in the other world if you had a choice between the other world and Earth?"
"Well. I stayed and was going to stay in the other world because when I'm on earth, bad people always come to take over the planet or to kill me and so I believed that if I stayed out of the way that the earth would be at peace."
Goten sighed as he thought about how life would have been without his father here. more jealousy of Trunks because he had a father and more having to deal with his mother's crying over his father's absence and more having to deal with the pain of the thought that your causing everyone the pain because your Goku's mini clone. No! That was too much to deal with. But then an ugly thought came into his head and he looked almost fearful but slowly asked, "Would you have stayed in the other world if you knew that I was going to be born. or would you have stayed when you knew that and wanted my life to be at peace too?"
"Goten." Goku put down his fish and pulled his son into a hug, "I had no idea that you were going to be born when I was in the other world. If I knew that I would have never asked everyone not to bring me back. I would have been given another chance to be a good husband to your mother and a good dad to Gohon too, but if I knew I was going to be a father again I would have been here for you."
Goten smiled weakly and returned the hug, 'that dream can't be true, I know that it can't be.'
~*~
"So, how do ya think we should say our wishes, dad?" Goten stared at the orange red orbs that lie on the ground in front of them. He looked up at his dad as they both reached up to simultaneously scratch a spot on their heads, the thick locks of hair refused to get displaced even by that casual gesture. Goku rubbed his chin in thought while the Dragonballs continued to flicker on and off like almost dead light bulbs. " Why don't I just say the wishes ok? Besides the last time I let you to be the one to make the wish, we ended up in another dimension."
Goten laughed sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "Heh. sorry about that."
Goku shrugged, "Yosh, call the dragon Goten."
"Right." Goten turned stare at the orange balls on the ground in front of them and said, trying to sound dramatic,
"ARISE DRAGON AND GRANT OUR WISHES!"
The spheres glowed brightly, too brightly for the Goten to look at. From the center of the seven balls a serpentine form emerged and grew. It expanded to fill the darkened heavens, taller than any building the Goten had ever seen, with green scales and glowing red eyes. Those twin orbs stared down at the father-son duo, "YOU HAVE TWO WISHES. WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?" The dragon's voice rumbled like thunder, thrumming in their blood.
Goku stepped forward, "I wish that all of the people that were killed by Son Goten to be resurrected and to be brought to earth from Emma's Checking station!"
The dragons eyes glowed brightly, "IT IS DONE. NAME YOUR SECOND WISH."
Goku nodded and spoke up again, "Our last wish is to erase from everyone's except for the earth's special force's memories of Goten being the cause of the destruction and the cause of those children's deaths!"
The Eternal Dragon's eyes flashed again. "IT IS DONE. FAREWELL." With that, the dragon disappeared and the dragonballs shot off into seven different directions to lie dormant for a year before they could be gathered and used again.
Goku stretched his arms up over his head and let out a loud, long yawn. "Whew that's finally over with. Nnneeexxxt time Goten," he yawned again " Try and control your temper?" Goten nodded and was about to say something else when.
RRRRRGHRRRRRR
Their stomachs simultaneously let them know that it was time to eat.
"Hehehe, well I'll bet your mother is making lunch right about now. Grab onto me and I take us home the easy way." Without waiting for an answer he placed a hand on Goten's shoulder and placed his four finger and middle finger onto his fore head and quickly found Chichi's chi and teleported them both home leaving an empty clearing where the two once stood.
~*~
It was Thursday; he only had three more days before he will be aloud to see Trunks again. He had just finished helping his mom with the gardening and was now backing up in his room doing schoolwork. (Last week his mom had him doing schoolwork down in the dining room. This week he was doing it in his room.) He was only half way through his second book, which happened to by Arithmency Grade 8 By Joe Bishop. He sighed as he paused for a few minutes to stretch himself out. At that moment he heard some voices coming from down stairs. Out of curiosity he left his room and crouched down at the top of the staircase to ease-drop on the conversation that was taking place in the dining room. The first voice was his dad.
"Chichi, you and I both know that human size servings of food are like a mere snack compared to Goten's appetite."
At this point he heard his brother pitch in. "Yea mom, I mean if it were me, I wouldn't be able to concentrate hard enough on school work on an near empty stomach. At least let Goten have normal meals instead of this diet you have him on. Please?"
Goten smiled, they were trying to convince his mom to lighten up on this weeks punishment. And he had to agree about the less food part. He hoped that Gohon was pulling a puppy dog look and hoped that his mom would take the bate. But unfortunately his hopes were in vane...
"For the last time! No way, I'm not going to just start being nice to him until this week is over with."
"But Chichi, don't you think that kind of cruel? I mean..." He heard his father protest.
"Not at all, Goku-sa. Let me explain."
There was a moment of silence then, "Goten did an unforgivable thing, and in bare public too! I don't care how his day at school went, but he should have tried harder to control himself until after school was out and away from the city. But he didn't control his temper and now he has to face the consequences. He will take his punishment like a man without complaint. It will only make things harder on him if he loses control over himself again. Goku, I can't start being nice to him now; because he will start thinking that must be ok to get into trouble because he gets extra attention. I can't have that in this house, he is spoiled enough as it is already. And besides he only has three more days before I can release him from this punishment anyway. He will just have to sit this one through."
Goten could not believe his ears. Goten turned and trudged back into his room to continue his studies. From that point on he was miserable for the rest of that evening. A few hours past and he finally finished his evening schoolwork.
He was more then happy to take a bath it was the only thing that aloud him to relax some. As soon as the tub was filled with hot water, he undressed himself and slipped into the hot tub. He winced slightly as he felt the hot sensation from the bath water flow through him, slowly his mussels started to relax and melt into the hot liquids. He inhaled and exhaled a few times while closing his eyes. He smiled as he let himself sink into the water up to his chin. A moment later he allowed his head to sink completely into the water. He stayed underwater for a little while before coming to the surface because he nearly fell asleep. He then proceeded to start scrubbing himself clean and then climbed out of the tub, draining it. He dried himself off and got into his red striped pajamas. He didn't bother with supper and headed strait to bed; he was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
~*~
Goten awoke to be outside in a clearing in the forest on a stormy night. The sky was dark with rain clouds with no stars in sight. The clearing was slowly turning into a swamp it was raining that hard. But as he looked around he noted some trees have been knocked down and looked as though they were recently burned. Then it dawned on him that this was one of the places where he and Gohon or his father trained. Why was he there? He was obvious to the fact that he was seated inside of a trunk of a tree. He felt a liquid roll down his face. He reached up to brush away the tears... tears? Why was he crying? What did he do?
At this point there was a light up in the sky and a sound of something landing, it wasn't human. Goten crawled out of the trunk and saw that it was some kind of space ship. It was pitch black with crystal like spikes going in different directions and spikes underneath pointing down those were in different sizes. In between all of these spikes was a sea green huge globe of some sort. It hovered a couple of feet above the ground then something started to materialize just below it. It was an alien. When Goten got a better look, it appeared to be a woman, only it looked some-what like Piccolo. It had pale sea green skin, pointed ears and antennas like piccolos'. The alien had bright red hair that came down to her shoulders; it was very fluffy up but just slightly messy. She also wore a light blue Greek God like outfit with black sandals. She had blue eyes. Another alien materialized next to the first one. This one looked more human. It was also female. She had a pink skirt with light blue armor over her pink tank top, light blue gloves and boots; she had black spiky hair and had a tale. For a second there he thought she was a Saiya-jin, but the tail was yellow. So she probably wasn't a Saiya-jin. Her eyes were more like Juuachigou eyes.
The female Namekien approached Goten. He was not sure yet if he should adopt a battle stance or not. The woman was smiling too. She held out her hand to Goten and asked him to come with her.
"Who are you? What do you want of me?"
The female alien spoke in a different language. He only managed to get out something that sounded like "Protector" and "Realm". He looked confused. He then assumed that she just introduced herself and she probably meant that she was a protector of a realm or something or other. Suddenly there was a flash of light and then everything went black. Goten could hear screams of agony, pain, and terror. He wanted to go and help those people. But then he saw a light in the distance and ran towards it. It then appeared to be a guy that looks just like his father only he had a thin scar right through his left eye and a thick ugly one on his right cheek. He wore blue pants and shirt with a black belt and wristbands. Goten couldn't quite put his finger on it but he knew that guy...
Then all of a sudden several hands grabbed Goten from every direction and began to pull him back into the darkness. He called to the warrior for help but the warrior wasn't there anymore. As he was being pulled away he felt a hot thick liquid on his hands he looked at them a gasped in horror. Blood. Then the next thing he knew he standing above an endless field of corps and dead bodies and lots of blood. There were a few craters everywhere. "G-Goten..."
He looked down and saw that it was Trunks; he was a corps too but barely alive. Goten made to kneel down to help his friend but was startled by the look of terror on Trunks's face as he tried to squirm away. "Trunks? What...?"
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU MURDERING FREAK!" Then Trunks died. His eyes left wide open in terror...
It slowly dawn on Goten that he killed everyone here...He looked around at all of the bodies, his own body starting to tremble with horror. His eyes watered up his mouth opened and closed as he looked around at all of the bodies. He trembled a bit longer before screaming out his pain and horror to the heavens around him.
"NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
~*~
It was 2:30 am, everyone was in bed, and Gohon was sleeping in peace while Goku and Chichi were awake in bed having some fun. Or should I say just now finishing their fun. Goku rolled off of Chichi, both breathing roughly and covered in sweat. Goku sighed and then grinned, "...You know Chi, we should train like this more often..." "Goku, I think training like that all the time is sure to kill us someday..." Goku looked at her before just shrugging her off and nuzzled her shoulder. "Nahh...." "Stop that..." Goku was licking the byte mark Chichi had on her neck. "Goku! That tickles..." Goku grinned and continued what he was doing making Chichi aroused again. Chichi lightly kissed his forehead and started sucking on it, Goku paused and started to kiss her again. Their moment together was interrupted by a loud horrified scream coming from one of the boy's rooms...
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Later Goku could have sworn that he had jumped at least five feet into the air. The two of them landed on the floor with Goku landed on his rump and his mate on his lap. "Was that Goten?" The two of them glanced at each other before they detangled themselves, Chichi pulled on her pink bathrobe while Goku hoped into a pair of blue pants. Just as the two of them exited their room, Gohon's bedroom door flew open as he came out wearing a pair of black boxer shorts and a black tank top tucked in. Goku and Gohon glanced at each other before nodding only once, Gohon opened the door to Goten's room and his father then he then his mother went into the room. They glanced around the room which appeared to be in perfect order when they turned to Goten who was squirming around in bed, his eyes were shut tight, eye brows completely knitted, fists clenched on his sheets and he was groaning then he screamed out again in horror...
"NOOOOOO! NOOOOOO! Wha.... what have done!?"
Goku started to try and shake his son out of his dreams. "Goten! Goten! Come on, Wake up!"
"Trunks, Gohon... Otousan... Okaasan..."
Gohon and Chichi exchanged worried looks as Goku continued to try and force Goten to wake up shaking him roughly. "Goten! Come on! Wake up!" At that moment Goten stopped struggling and his eyes came open half way, before he suddenly sat strait up screaming at the top of his lungs.
"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Goten hair turn gold and spiked up and his eyes turned green as he powered up into a Super Saiya-jin, scorching his sheets. Goku was thrown off of Goten by a step when he did that. "GOTEN!" Chichi howled in startlement. Goten paused startled to see his father standing there next to him...
"Otousan..." Slowly he looked around and saw his mom and his brother were alive and well. Then he took note of his bedroom, and then it dawned on him... "A dream...?" Goten's body and muscles were as stiff as a board almost, he was soaked to the bone in sweat, his battle aura vanish but he didn't power down yet. He looked back towards his father, thourly confused. Then he suddenly launched himself at his father.
"OTOUSAN! I... I thought I killed you and.... I...................." Goten broke down in tears... Goku looked startled when Goten launched himself into his arms, because of the fact that his son was a Super Saiya-jin at the moment, he was therefore knocked off of his feet. He stared at his son for a moment then hugged him tightly, rubbing his back trying to get him to calm down. "Shhhh, its ok, Goten. I'm here. I'm not going to leave you...its ok..." Goten soon come down within a few minutes and just stayed there clutching his father's gig. Goku gently rustled his son's golden spiky hair. "Goten..." Goten slowly looked up at his father who gently pushed out to arms length. "You alright now?" A small smile came onto Goten's face as he nodded "Hia..." "Are you sure, Sweet hart?" Chichi said bending down to check her son searching for any injury in case if someone before attacked him they came into his room. Goten squirmed before he let a few giggles come out, "Mom! Quit it, I'm fine!" Gohon smiled, "Now your starting to act like the carefree Son Goten that I know..." Goku chuckled.
"Hey, Goten." "Huh? What?" Goten looked at his father in question. "Would you mind powering down?" Goten looked confusingly at his father before noticing a mirror on his wardrobe. His hair was spiked up and was yellow... "Oh... sorry bout that..." Within a second his hair turned black and fell back down into its every which way direction black spiky hair. Exactly like his father's hair. His eye color returned back to its coil black color and his power level dropped dramatically. By this point Chichi came back into the room with a big glass of water, she was glad that her son turned back to normal because she still disapproves of the Super Saiya- jin form. Goten took the glass of water and emptied it immediately. Now he felt better. "Thanks guys... I guess I'll go take a bath and get back to bed." "I think I'll join you." Goku said and followed his son out the door.
Will Goten's dreams come true in the future? Will he ever be free of this punishment that his mother has on him? We will never know until the next chapter, The Troubled Soul.
Part 1 A New Life
Chapter 02 The Recurring Dreams
"Goten, Time to get up... I'm not going to tell you again." Son Chichi had been spending the last 10 minutes trying to force her son to get up so that they can start on his new schedule. She left the room to go and put some water on to boil. By the time she got back she found her son still fast asleep. But his position did change. It had appeared that when he tried to roll over, he went headfirst off of his bed; and now lay on the floor tangled up in his sheets. She smiled evilly but fought down the erg to tickle her son awake. Knowing Goten takes after his father in many ways. There are many things that he and his father have in common.
1. They are both unusually really ticklish.
2. They are both terrified of something. Goku is terrified of needles and Goten is scared of needles a little bit but it is snakes that bother him, especially the kind that are monsters big.
Actually that was all Chichi could think of on comparing Goku and Goten... Aside from the fact they are look-a-likes but this has to do with weaknesses.
No enough of that Goten still needs to get up. So she left the room once again to fill a bucket up with icy cold water. Once she got back with it she didn't hold back and flung the contents all over her son. Goten's eyes flew open and made a startled yelp as his head hit the floor his body following suit. (He was hanging off of his bed in an upside-down position) He proceeded to curl up into a ball to try and find warmth. At this point he heard his mother say something.
"Well it's about time you got up and joined the living world."
Goten scowled and glared at his mother whom was expecting this kind of attitude from Goten. But she didn't back down, she smacked her son over the head with a frying pan while saying; "Don't you scowl at me young man! It's your own fought that your being treated likes this. So don't you dare start blaming me for a crime that you committed?"
It was quite obvious that hitting Goten over the head with her frying pan was not going to change his mood. But he forced himself to not to talk back or snap at his mother. He knew better then that.
"Now I want you down stairs as soon as you're dressed. Do you understand?"
Goten only merely nodded and preceded to find something to wear. As soon as he heard his mother shut the door behind her and heard her footsteps disappear he let out a long sigh. He absently messaged the area where the frying pan hit as he searched through his drawers and pulled out his usual outfit. (His orange martial arts uniform that matches his father's. Except for the long sleeves.)
He made very sure that he had fresh unders on as he proceeded to get dressed. Pulling on his pants then his long sleeve blue shirt and soon after that his orange vest that goes over the shirt. He slipped on his shoes and casually headed out of his room. He strutted slowly down the hall, he paused a bit to sniff the air. He couldn't help but smile as the lovely smell of breakfast on the table waiting to be eaten reached his nostrils. At least he will be able to eat all the food he wants without being bothered... At this point Goten scowled as he remembered those damn bullies annoying him while at school yesterday. Suddenly a low growling noise could be heard. He looked around startled. He only had to wait a minute to hear the exact same kind of noise again, but as soon as he realized what it was, he flushed in embarrassment and realized that that must have looked amusing to anyone who was watching.
By the time Goten got downstairs he found his father was already seated at the table eating away. He took a quick glance around the room and noticed a desk that was piled in books had a pad of paper and a pencil. Something lurched in his stomach, as he somehow knew that that was set up for him. Knowing how his mother is and studying, he is in for it. BIG TIME.
Chichi noticed her son had also noticed the desk in the corner. She turned and noticed the breakfast she had made was disappearing faster then you can say 'what the....' "Goten, you better hurry up and start eating or your father will have it gone before you know it."
Goten didn't need to be told twice as he quickly sat down and proceeded to eat as fast as he can.
In less then 60 seconds the table was now covered in dirty dished. Goku was now stretching his limbs sighing. "Wooooooo. Man that hit the spot." Goten couldn't help but agree with out saying a word. Goku then stood and approached Chichi and nuzzled her and licked the bite mark she had on her neck. She giggled and whispered something to her mate that Goten couldn't understand. For a second he saw a hurt expression on his father's face. It disappeared as quickly as it came. Then he heard his father say that he was going to go out for a bit and maybe do some training. At this Goten quickly got to his feet.
"I'll go too, dad?" He asked his father in his innocent tone of voice.
Goku of course saw that Goten was trying to get out of his punishment from what he did yesterday. Although he wouldn't mind spending some time with his son. But he knew that he couldn't do that right now. "I'm sorry Goten. Even though I don't mind at all, you still have something you need to do first..."
"That is right. You won't be doing anything else except studying until lunchtime. So get to it."
Goten gaped at her. He does nothing accept study all morning? "Mom? That's not fair... Can't I just do that later?" Goten wined. Chichi shook here head while saying...
"Uh uh, out of the question Goten. You did something horrible yesterday and now you can't go back to school until they rebuild it so now you have to face the consequences. You will do exactly what I say for the next 2 weeks. Do you understand me? Now help me clean up after breakfast then get to work. All right?"
Goten didn't say anything as he helped his mother clean up then trudged over to the desk and opened the top book on the stack of books then shifting the rest of them to block his mother from view. His first subject was Mental Mathematics by Alicia Jefferson.
During Goten's studies, he fell asleep twice and was given a spanking for not paying attention to his studies. Later his mother brought him a glass of blue berry juice. This was his favorite to drink. The hours that morning seemed to want to pass very slowly, he had to excuse himself once or twice to go relieve himself. Finally the lunch hour came and he was very glad about that.
After lunch, he was told to go do a long set of chores. Clean the living room, mow the lawn, gather firewood, wash her car, tend to the garden weeds, mop the kitchen and dining room floor and polish all of her wood furniture. This took another three to four hours. While Chichi was cooking supper, Goten was sent to take a bath. He was very relieved to do this. Then he was given his supper and was sent strait to bed
~*~
That night, Goten had dreams about that guy and those Aliens with that bizarre ship. They had asked him to come with them to some unknown planet or something. He tried to ask them why but the scenery changed again. He found himself facing three boys of whom he never met before.
One of them has sewer green skin with green eyes and dark green spiky hair. He wore a black fighting gi and had this goofy grin on his face. The next one has dark cream-colored skin with a red bushy mo hock and wore red and white colored fighting robes. The last one to Goten surprise looked a lot like Trunks at the age of 13 or 14 only with black hair and the pupils of his eyes were completely royal blue. But there was a detail that shocked him, they were Saiya-jins because they all had tails. Goten didn't understand it and didn't get the chance to ask about it because it was time to get up.
That morning he dressed in a pair of loose gray pants held up by a dark gray stash and a white tank top tucked in. His newly grown tail waved lightly behind before holding still by his left leg. During dinner yesterday, he had begged his mother to let him keep his tail but he had to make a promise to not to look at the full moon if they let him keep it. He had never had a tail before and he already liked it. Once dressed he headed to the restroom and met his father there who was brushing his teeth wearing a pair of blue sweat pants and a tank top tucked in as well.
"Morning Tousaan." He greeted him before he proceeded to brush his own teeth.
Goku nodded and ruffled his son's hair in return seems how his mouth was full of foam from brushing his teeth. He bent over the sink to wash out his mouth and then yawn again. Goten copied his father and while he was washing his face his father was soothing out his hair which hardly did any good. "Goten, I've been talking with your mother," Goten looked around at his father in question. "About what had happened at school and she agreed that I take you to gather the dragonballs so that we can resurrect those that were killed and mortify everyone's memory. Afterwards your gonna have to just do what your mother says ok. She won't listen to me."
Goten nodded showing his father that he had understood the situation but then a confused look crossed his face. "People got killed? Me and Trunks thought that only the bullies were in that part of the school."
"15 people got killed, Goten and several others got injured. It will be a while before they can build the school back up." Goku explained with a sad tone.
"Oh." was all Goten could say for the time being.
~*~
Goten followed his father outside after breakfast, now with a blue book bag on his back. Chichi had given them a couple of day's worth of food in a couple of capsules. She stood outside in front of the door to see them off on the Dragonball hunt. She had told Goten to pack some schoolbooks but instead he had packed some marital art books and some coloring books. His father now wore his usual orange gi.
"Alright, Goten. I expect you to be continuing your schedule when you come back. And Goku-sa, make sure he does some schooling while your out on this trip. And don't spoil him! He is still being punished you know! Yosh. Have fun but not too much fun!" Chichi called as they took off into the sky.
"See ya, Kasaan!" Goten called over his shoulder as he took off. At the same time, Goku called "We'll be back in a couple of days, see ya, Chi!"
They disappeared into the horizon. Goku pulled out the dragon radar and depressed the button, a single dot bleeped onto the screen. "Yosh, the first ball is due 10 miles north and 8 miles west from here," he pocketed the radar and turned to his son, "lets go."
Goten nodded, "I'll race ya, tousaan!" With that he powered up and tore off north. Goku powered up to follow his son.
~*~
The trio father and son landed in a rocky area at the location of the ball. It was a maze of Rocky Mountains and hardly any animals in site. Goku pulled out the dragon radar and changed the distance to close up and started walked several paces west. Goten followed looking around with unhidden curiosity. He then gasped and headed over to a large rock and picked up a walking stick and turned to show his father. "Tousaan, look it! It's a walking stick, a very big one!"
Goku grinned and commented to 5-inch long bug then suggested that they continued their search.
Goten nodded, "right." And set the bug back down before running on ahead of his father. As he ran he spotted a huge hole in the ground up ahead and found that it was a crater. His first thought was if his father had trained in this area. "Ne, tousaan? Did you an Veggie-chan train here or something?" Goten pointed at the crater.
Goku gazed at the crater before letting his eyes to wonder the area they were in. Then he spotted something off to the side and raised an eyebrow. "What." he whispered and walked over to it. It was a white head of an android, android 19 to be exact. Goku gazed at it before taking a look around the area again.
"What is it, dad?" Goten questioned once he spotted the head too.
"This was a battle field. This is where, Vegeta, Piccolo, Ten shin Han, Krillen, Gohon and I fought the androids," he paused to count off the years with his fingers, "About 8 ½ years ago."
"So that head used to be an android?" Goten asked.
"Yea, its dead though. I'm surprised that it is still here after all of these years." Goku shrugged it off and turned back to the radar and took a glance at the crater, "The Dragonball should be somewhere inside that crater. Why don't you go and look for it?" he told his son.
"OK, tousaan!" Goten called over his shoulder as he enthusiastically leaped into the crater, landing in the middle of it. He proceeded to search for their first Dragonball, getting his hands, clothes and face covered in dirt and dust. It is always much more fun to search for it this way then to use energy blasts to blast your way through the dirt. After digging nearly 3 feet into the interior of the crater, he started slowly working his way to northern exterior of the crater. After about 15 minutes Goten jumped out of the crater completely covered in dirt holding up an orange orb with 2 red stars in it. "I found it! I found it Tousaan! It's the two star ball!"
Goku, who had been seated on a large boulder grinned and laughed at the state his son was in. "Hahahahaha Yea but did you have a dirt bath in the process of finding that ball! You need a bath!" he stood up walked over to his youngest son and proceeded to brush as much dirt off of his son as possible. "Your mother would shoot me if she knew how dirty you were!"
Goten giggled as he let his father brush him off. "Hehehe It just happened. I was really exited to find this ball!"
Goku chuckled, "I'm sure that you were, son. Anyway lets head out to find the next Dragonball, ok? I've gotten you as.err. as clean as I can get you." The only thing that Goku was able to do was brush the dirt off of his clothes but he tanned Goten's skin on his arms, neck and face a lot darker by smearing the stuff all over him. Goten nodded and went over to where he left his book bag and stuffed the two star ball into the bag and zipped it up. He pulled the bag over his shoulder and turned back to his father, waiting for instructions.
Goku nodded once he saw his son ready and pulled out the radar again. "The next Dragonball is pretty far off in that direction." he turned and pointed east, then glanced back at the radar and switched the radar to long range, "looks like an hour flight from here." Goku pocketed the radar and turned to his son who nodded once. And they took to the skies again.
~*~
2 days later.
Darkness everywhere, not one single light. Goten walked through endless darkness, then up ahead was a person surrounded by a gold light, it was someone he knew. "Otousan! Wait for me!" Goten ran even faster to catch up with his father but he kept getting further and further away. Then total darkness rained again; Goten looked around, scared of being left alone in this dark place. "Otousan! Where are you!" his voice echoed off of the air.
A blinded flash of light and the scenery changed. There was his brother and Videl-san and his parents, hunched over a bundle in Videl-san's arms. Curiosity hit him as he approached and looked into the bundle and saw it was a baby girl and he realized that it had to be his niece. He smiled at the happy site but then his smile faltered, where was he during this happy time? He tried to get everyone's attention by asking what the baby's name is but no one answered him nor did anyone look up at him, he tried tugging on his father's gi but got no response. He tried waving his hand in front of Gohon's face and still got no reaction. He even grabbed a couple pans and banged them together and he was still being ignored. Were they doing this on purpose? Or was this a different timeline where he just plainly didn't exist.
"Okaasan, why can't you see me? Can't any of your hear me or sense my presence?"
Still no answer. Then everything around him turned dark again. He stood there uncertain of what will happen next when a deep, menacing frightening voice echoed off of the air like thunder making the poor chibi jump.
"YOU ARE SEEING YOUR FUTURE BRAT! GET USED TO IT! YOU ARE DESTINED TO BE ALONE IN YOUR LIFE! AS SOON AS THAT BABY GIRL IS BORN, YOU WILL START A LONG AND LONELY LIFE FOR ALL ETERNITY! HAHAHAHHAAAAAAAA!"
Goten stood rooted to the spot and what he had just heard. "Nani?"
Silence and then.
"Goten?"
~*~
"Goten, c'mon squirt time to get up. Breakfast is ready." Goku's voice range through Goten's head as he stirred and slowly opened his eyes to stare up at his father who grinned and rubbed his head with his hand. "Up and atom sleepy head. The fish is ready. C'mon up you get."
Goten felt himself being pulled to his feet and felt himself getting undressed and into fresh clothes even though he wasn't doing that. He was pulled out of his dizziness when his father brushed his fingers across his stomach making him giggle. "You up yet? The sooner we eat the sooner we can summon the dragon!" Finally with the whiff of cooked fish in his nose and with the fact that if he doesn't get a move on, his father will be forced to tickle him until he moves faster, Goten pushed his father off of him, "I'm UP already." He growled in annoyance. He never was the morning person sometimes. Goku didn't seem to hear his son's attitude but grinned and aloud his son to get dressed on his own and returned to the fish by the camp fire.
Goten pulled on his orange martial arts gi and then crawled over to where his father was cutting the giant fish in half and giving Goten the tail half of the fish before chewing down on his half. Goten barely got a quarter of a way through his half of the fish when his mind went back to that dream that he had last night. What did that voice mean that he'd have a long and lonely life? Another thought then popped into his head, that made him wonder something.
"Tousaan?"
"Un?"
"What is the other world like?" Goten asked hesitantly.
Goku glanced at his son as he seemed startled by the question and swallowed the mouthful of food he had before answering his son's question. "The other world his not much different then this world except that your surrounded by all sorts of fighters that saved their own worlds and got to keep the bodies because of their good deeds. The ones with bad deeds got to keep their bodies too but were sent to HFIL or Place For Infinite Losers or in other words 'Hell'. The ones with good deeds had the choice of either going to heaven or going to the Kia's world and that is where I've been when I was dead after the Cell games. Although I like the food here better then the other world."
"Would you have stayed in the other world if you had a choice between the other world and Earth?"
"Well. I stayed and was going to stay in the other world because when I'm on earth, bad people always come to take over the planet or to kill me and so I believed that if I stayed out of the way that the earth would be at peace."
Goten sighed as he thought about how life would have been without his father here. more jealousy of Trunks because he had a father and more having to deal with his mother's crying over his father's absence and more having to deal with the pain of the thought that your causing everyone the pain because your Goku's mini clone. No! That was too much to deal with. But then an ugly thought came into his head and he looked almost fearful but slowly asked, "Would you have stayed in the other world if you knew that I was going to be born. or would you have stayed when you knew that and wanted my life to be at peace too?"
"Goten." Goku put down his fish and pulled his son into a hug, "I had no idea that you were going to be born when I was in the other world. If I knew that I would have never asked everyone not to bring me back. I would have been given another chance to be a good husband to your mother and a good dad to Gohon too, but if I knew I was going to be a father again I would have been here for you."
Goten smiled weakly and returned the hug, 'that dream can't be true, I know that it can't be.'
~*~
"So, how do ya think we should say our wishes, dad?" Goten stared at the orange red orbs that lie on the ground in front of them. He looked up at his dad as they both reached up to simultaneously scratch a spot on their heads, the thick locks of hair refused to get displaced even by that casual gesture. Goku rubbed his chin in thought while the Dragonballs continued to flicker on and off like almost dead light bulbs. " Why don't I just say the wishes ok? Besides the last time I let you to be the one to make the wish, we ended up in another dimension."
Goten laughed sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "Heh. sorry about that."
Goku shrugged, "Yosh, call the dragon Goten."
"Right." Goten turned stare at the orange balls on the ground in front of them and said, trying to sound dramatic,
"ARISE DRAGON AND GRANT OUR WISHES!"
The spheres glowed brightly, too brightly for the Goten to look at. From the center of the seven balls a serpentine form emerged and grew. It expanded to fill the darkened heavens, taller than any building the Goten had ever seen, with green scales and glowing red eyes. Those twin orbs stared down at the father-son duo, "YOU HAVE TWO WISHES. WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?" The dragon's voice rumbled like thunder, thrumming in their blood.
Goku stepped forward, "I wish that all of the people that were killed by Son Goten to be resurrected and to be brought to earth from Emma's Checking station!"
The dragons eyes glowed brightly, "IT IS DONE. NAME YOUR SECOND WISH."
Goku nodded and spoke up again, "Our last wish is to erase from everyone's except for the earth's special force's memories of Goten being the cause of the destruction and the cause of those children's deaths!"
The Eternal Dragon's eyes flashed again. "IT IS DONE. FAREWELL." With that, the dragon disappeared and the dragonballs shot off into seven different directions to lie dormant for a year before they could be gathered and used again.
Goku stretched his arms up over his head and let out a loud, long yawn. "Whew that's finally over with. Nnneeexxxt time Goten," he yawned again " Try and control your temper?" Goten nodded and was about to say something else when.
RRRRRGHRRRRRR
Their stomachs simultaneously let them know that it was time to eat.
"Hehehe, well I'll bet your mother is making lunch right about now. Grab onto me and I take us home the easy way." Without waiting for an answer he placed a hand on Goten's shoulder and placed his four finger and middle finger onto his fore head and quickly found Chichi's chi and teleported them both home leaving an empty clearing where the two once stood.
~*~
It was Thursday; he only had three more days before he will be aloud to see Trunks again. He had just finished helping his mom with the gardening and was now backing up in his room doing schoolwork. (Last week his mom had him doing schoolwork down in the dining room. This week he was doing it in his room.) He was only half way through his second book, which happened to by Arithmency Grade 8 By Joe Bishop. He sighed as he paused for a few minutes to stretch himself out. At that moment he heard some voices coming from down stairs. Out of curiosity he left his room and crouched down at the top of the staircase to ease-drop on the conversation that was taking place in the dining room. The first voice was his dad.
"Chichi, you and I both know that human size servings of food are like a mere snack compared to Goten's appetite."
At this point he heard his brother pitch in. "Yea mom, I mean if it were me, I wouldn't be able to concentrate hard enough on school work on an near empty stomach. At least let Goten have normal meals instead of this diet you have him on. Please?"
Goten smiled, they were trying to convince his mom to lighten up on this weeks punishment. And he had to agree about the less food part. He hoped that Gohon was pulling a puppy dog look and hoped that his mom would take the bate. But unfortunately his hopes were in vane...
"For the last time! No way, I'm not going to just start being nice to him until this week is over with."
"But Chichi, don't you think that kind of cruel? I mean..." He heard his father protest.
"Not at all, Goku-sa. Let me explain."
There was a moment of silence then, "Goten did an unforgivable thing, and in bare public too! I don't care how his day at school went, but he should have tried harder to control himself until after school was out and away from the city. But he didn't control his temper and now he has to face the consequences. He will take his punishment like a man without complaint. It will only make things harder on him if he loses control over himself again. Goku, I can't start being nice to him now; because he will start thinking that must be ok to get into trouble because he gets extra attention. I can't have that in this house, he is spoiled enough as it is already. And besides he only has three more days before I can release him from this punishment anyway. He will just have to sit this one through."
Goten could not believe his ears. Goten turned and trudged back into his room to continue his studies. From that point on he was miserable for the rest of that evening. A few hours past and he finally finished his evening schoolwork.
He was more then happy to take a bath it was the only thing that aloud him to relax some. As soon as the tub was filled with hot water, he undressed himself and slipped into the hot tub. He winced slightly as he felt the hot sensation from the bath water flow through him, slowly his mussels started to relax and melt into the hot liquids. He inhaled and exhaled a few times while closing his eyes. He smiled as he let himself sink into the water up to his chin. A moment later he allowed his head to sink completely into the water. He stayed underwater for a little while before coming to the surface because he nearly fell asleep. He then proceeded to start scrubbing himself clean and then climbed out of the tub, draining it. He dried himself off and got into his red striped pajamas. He didn't bother with supper and headed strait to bed; he was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
~*~
Goten awoke to be outside in a clearing in the forest on a stormy night. The sky was dark with rain clouds with no stars in sight. The clearing was slowly turning into a swamp it was raining that hard. But as he looked around he noted some trees have been knocked down and looked as though they were recently burned. Then it dawned on him that this was one of the places where he and Gohon or his father trained. Why was he there? He was obvious to the fact that he was seated inside of a trunk of a tree. He felt a liquid roll down his face. He reached up to brush away the tears... tears? Why was he crying? What did he do?
At this point there was a light up in the sky and a sound of something landing, it wasn't human. Goten crawled out of the trunk and saw that it was some kind of space ship. It was pitch black with crystal like spikes going in different directions and spikes underneath pointing down those were in different sizes. In between all of these spikes was a sea green huge globe of some sort. It hovered a couple of feet above the ground then something started to materialize just below it. It was an alien. When Goten got a better look, it appeared to be a woman, only it looked some-what like Piccolo. It had pale sea green skin, pointed ears and antennas like piccolos'. The alien had bright red hair that came down to her shoulders; it was very fluffy up but just slightly messy. She also wore a light blue Greek God like outfit with black sandals. She had blue eyes. Another alien materialized next to the first one. This one looked more human. It was also female. She had a pink skirt with light blue armor over her pink tank top, light blue gloves and boots; she had black spiky hair and had a tale. For a second there he thought she was a Saiya-jin, but the tail was yellow. So she probably wasn't a Saiya-jin. Her eyes were more like Juuachigou eyes.
The female Namekien approached Goten. He was not sure yet if he should adopt a battle stance or not. The woman was smiling too. She held out her hand to Goten and asked him to come with her.
"Who are you? What do you want of me?"
The female alien spoke in a different language. He only managed to get out something that sounded like "Protector" and "Realm". He looked confused. He then assumed that she just introduced herself and she probably meant that she was a protector of a realm or something or other. Suddenly there was a flash of light and then everything went black. Goten could hear screams of agony, pain, and terror. He wanted to go and help those people. But then he saw a light in the distance and ran towards it. It then appeared to be a guy that looks just like his father only he had a thin scar right through his left eye and a thick ugly one on his right cheek. He wore blue pants and shirt with a black belt and wristbands. Goten couldn't quite put his finger on it but he knew that guy...
Then all of a sudden several hands grabbed Goten from every direction and began to pull him back into the darkness. He called to the warrior for help but the warrior wasn't there anymore. As he was being pulled away he felt a hot thick liquid on his hands he looked at them a gasped in horror. Blood. Then the next thing he knew he standing above an endless field of corps and dead bodies and lots of blood. There were a few craters everywhere. "G-Goten..."
He looked down and saw that it was Trunks; he was a corps too but barely alive. Goten made to kneel down to help his friend but was startled by the look of terror on Trunks's face as he tried to squirm away. "Trunks? What...?"
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU MURDERING FREAK!" Then Trunks died. His eyes left wide open in terror...
It slowly dawn on Goten that he killed everyone here...He looked around at all of the bodies, his own body starting to tremble with horror. His eyes watered up his mouth opened and closed as he looked around at all of the bodies. He trembled a bit longer before screaming out his pain and horror to the heavens around him.
"NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
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It was 2:30 am, everyone was in bed, and Gohon was sleeping in peace while Goku and Chichi were awake in bed having some fun. Or should I say just now finishing their fun. Goku rolled off of Chichi, both breathing roughly and covered in sweat. Goku sighed and then grinned, "...You know Chi, we should train like this more often..." "Goku, I think training like that all the time is sure to kill us someday..." Goku looked at her before just shrugging her off and nuzzled her shoulder. "Nahh...." "Stop that..." Goku was licking the byte mark Chichi had on her neck. "Goku! That tickles..." Goku grinned and continued what he was doing making Chichi aroused again. Chichi lightly kissed his forehead and started sucking on it, Goku paused and started to kiss her again. Their moment together was interrupted by a loud horrified scream coming from one of the boy's rooms...
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Later Goku could have sworn that he had jumped at least five feet into the air. The two of them landed on the floor with Goku landed on his rump and his mate on his lap. "Was that Goten?" The two of them glanced at each other before they detangled themselves, Chichi pulled on her pink bathrobe while Goku hoped into a pair of blue pants. Just as the two of them exited their room, Gohon's bedroom door flew open as he came out wearing a pair of black boxer shorts and a black tank top tucked in. Goku and Gohon glanced at each other before nodding only once, Gohon opened the door to Goten's room and his father then he then his mother went into the room. They glanced around the room which appeared to be in perfect order when they turned to Goten who was squirming around in bed, his eyes were shut tight, eye brows completely knitted, fists clenched on his sheets and he was groaning then he screamed out again in horror...
"NOOOOOO! NOOOOOO! Wha.... what have done!?"
Goku started to try and shake his son out of his dreams. "Goten! Goten! Come on, Wake up!"
"Trunks, Gohon... Otousan... Okaasan..."
Gohon and Chichi exchanged worried looks as Goku continued to try and force Goten to wake up shaking him roughly. "Goten! Come on! Wake up!" At that moment Goten stopped struggling and his eyes came open half way, before he suddenly sat strait up screaming at the top of his lungs.
"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Goten hair turn gold and spiked up and his eyes turned green as he powered up into a Super Saiya-jin, scorching his sheets. Goku was thrown off of Goten by a step when he did that. "GOTEN!" Chichi howled in startlement. Goten paused startled to see his father standing there next to him...
"Otousan..." Slowly he looked around and saw his mom and his brother were alive and well. Then he took note of his bedroom, and then it dawned on him... "A dream...?" Goten's body and muscles were as stiff as a board almost, he was soaked to the bone in sweat, his battle aura vanish but he didn't power down yet. He looked back towards his father, thourly confused. Then he suddenly launched himself at his father.
"OTOUSAN! I... I thought I killed you and.... I...................." Goten broke down in tears... Goku looked startled when Goten launched himself into his arms, because of the fact that his son was a Super Saiya-jin at the moment, he was therefore knocked off of his feet. He stared at his son for a moment then hugged him tightly, rubbing his back trying to get him to calm down. "Shhhh, its ok, Goten. I'm here. I'm not going to leave you...its ok..." Goten soon come down within a few minutes and just stayed there clutching his father's gig. Goku gently rustled his son's golden spiky hair. "Goten..." Goten slowly looked up at his father who gently pushed out to arms length. "You alright now?" A small smile came onto Goten's face as he nodded "Hia..." "Are you sure, Sweet hart?" Chichi said bending down to check her son searching for any injury in case if someone before attacked him they came into his room. Goten squirmed before he let a few giggles come out, "Mom! Quit it, I'm fine!" Gohon smiled, "Now your starting to act like the carefree Son Goten that I know..." Goku chuckled.
"Hey, Goten." "Huh? What?" Goten looked at his father in question. "Would you mind powering down?" Goten looked confusingly at his father before noticing a mirror on his wardrobe. His hair was spiked up and was yellow... "Oh... sorry bout that..." Within a second his hair turned black and fell back down into its every which way direction black spiky hair. Exactly like his father's hair. His eye color returned back to its coil black color and his power level dropped dramatically. By this point Chichi came back into the room with a big glass of water, she was glad that her son turned back to normal because she still disapproves of the Super Saiya- jin form. Goten took the glass of water and emptied it immediately. Now he felt better. "Thanks guys... I guess I'll go take a bath and get back to bed." "I think I'll join you." Goku said and followed his son out the door.
Will Goten's dreams come true in the future? Will he ever be free of this punishment that his mother has on him? We will never know until the next chapter, The Troubled Soul.