Dragon's of Tribeta-sei
Part 1 A New Life
Chapter 10 Control the Mind
After several more days, Goten was finally let out of the hospital. He told everyone that when he came to, he had no idea as to why he was in the hospital in the first place. Toma had told him that he changed while in the gravity room for third years. Goten asked what he had meant by that and he explained, "It's almost like you switched personalities on us. First you powered up further then a Super Saiya-jin, and then you started to shout 'die' and started to destroy everything in sight. You were acting like an enemy or like the scum of space. Mrs. Typhoon knocked you out before you could injure me more and you were taken to the emergency room for us to find out what made you do that."
It was hard for Goten to digest that, a few seconds after Toma told him all of this; he raced to the sink and vomited. Afterwards he collapsed in a nearby beanbag. (They were back at the hut where Toma, Bow and Pine lived.)
"Ar.are you s-sure that I did a-all of th-that?" he asked nervously.
Toma bowed his head sadly.
Goten couldn't believe that he, the son of Goku would do such a thing. then he started to remember something that made him feel a couple dozen times more sick.
*********Flash Back**********
"HEY BRAT! Your going to pay for what you did to me yesterday!" The school bully Ikosa and his gain had decided to pick on him and Trunks for revenge of messing up his 'beautiful' face. Trunks told him to get lost and were insulted for telling them to leave. Then Trunks and Ikosa starting an insulting fight. Goten was having a bad day; first he was late for school and created a big mess with the principle, then he fell asleep in math class, then he talked back to an adult, and now the school bully won't even give him some peace.
He could feel all of these negative feelings creeping up on him; he was angry that no one would give him a break, angry that he might get grounded for all of these things that happened that day, angry because it just HAD to be a school day. Then he felt a huge surge of negative energy flow through his veins, he didn't even know who he was anymore, he just felt like destroying things, making lots of destruction, he didn't know why. In his mind he tried to call to his father for help. but didn't receive it as he grew angrier and angrier until. everything went blank for just a few seconds. then the next thing he knew, he was surrounded by a huge crater. debrease everywhere. and some clothing articles. Around the crater were a few dead bodies and some injured bodies.
He was silent for a moment until he heard an 'imp' from behind him as Trunks landed carrying a few unconscious bodies with him. Those bodies were the bullies. Somehow Goten just knew that he had been the one to create such mass destruction. Then he felt a hand on his shoulder and heard Trunks say, "Uh, lets get outta here and skip school." Goten could only nod and follow him outta of there before the cops could get there. *********End of Flash Back***********
Goten could also recall a faint memory of nearly killing his mother once. but now he felt absolutely sick. He was way too shocked to hear what Pine was babbling about.
"Hey cheer up man! Master Yamoo said that he knows someone who can help ya control that awesome power of yours."
When Goten heard that, the only thing that he could do was hope that this guy could really help him.
Bow groaned and shook his head, "I wouldn't quite call it 'awesome', Pine. Yea he has gotten a lot more powerful then we first thought; but he could seriously hurt someone if he doesn't learn to control it soon."
"Aw, come on Bow! Toma! Chill out! I would be so damned happy to have THAT kind of power! I mean think about it, think about what you could DO with that kind of power. I would teach Mrs. Madison a thing or two about respect, oh and what about those bitches that give us such a hard time? That would be so cool if I could just."
"SHUT THE FUCK UP WILL YA!" Toma barked angrily.
"Yea man, shut up! That gets really annoying you know, you just keep going on and on. gives me a head ach."
Pine shrugged and continued to go on thinking about the 'possibilities' in his head, a daydream like expression on his face.
"Bow is right." Goten said barely above a whisper. The others turned to him in question.
"I'm a danger to everyone, I havta learn to control it or I will hurt someone with out realizing it. While I was still on earth, I. I think I came close to killing my mother once. and. if it weren't for my father. I. I think I would have finished her off." he spoke as a single tear rolled down his face, he curled up into a ball and hugged his knees tightly.
Toma sighed and rested a hand on Goten's shoulder, squeezing it gently. "Well anyway lets get something to eat, wash up and hit the sack. What do ya say?"
A small smile creped up on Goten at the mention of food and he nodded. ********************** Goten got up early that next morning to take a relaxing bath. He needed to think about how he was going to control his 'other' personality. After he had undressed himself, he slipped into the hot bath wincing slightly as the hot sensations from the moisture seeped into him. His mussels then slowly relaxed and he sighed heavily and sunk in further. The water was up to his chin; he closed his eyes and quietly enjoyed the comforting warmth that the water provided. A few minutes later he opened his eyes to stare at the wall in front of him. But he really wasn't staring at the wall, but was staring at something else. From what he could figure out from what Toma had told him, he changed when he got really angry or sad about something. 'I remember getting really upset over the memory of my father not being there for my mom while she was crying over his death, I cried because when I see her sad, I get sad too. Then when I went to Trunks' house, Vegeta-san offered to be my father and allow me to train with him and Trunks as an attempt to cheer me up because I didn't have a father.sigh. What am I going to do?'
His thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door to the restroom. "Oi, Goten? Are ya in there?" Bow voice hollered through the door. He sounded tired, almost like he just got up. Goten sighed again, "Hia!"
"Well uh, could ya come out? I gotta go."
Goten sighed yet again and pull himself out of the water and stepped out of the tub. Once he was out, he draped a towel around his waist and secured it there with his tail and walked over to the dryer where his clothes should be clean about now. He smiled slightly as he felt the warm and clean fabric of his orange battle gi, but then he frowned when he looked at it, while looking at them he saw an image of his father but dismissed it when he heard Pine shout from the other side of the door.
"Hurry up Goten! There are more then one person waiting to use it, ya know!"
"Right, I'm coming." he called as he opened the door to find Bow and Pine both sleepy eyed waiting to use it. Goten could smell something cooking down stairs, which signaled that Toma was making everyone something to eat. He stepped aside to allow Bow and Pine to go in, or try to go in because the both of them tried to go in at once but that door way was only big enough for one person to fit through.
He ignored them went into the large room which was made up of pillows for the walls, matrices for the floors and loose pillows and blankets all over the place. It was supposed to be their room. The temperature was always kept a nice warm or cool. He then started to get dressed, pulling on his unders first then his orange pants, he didn't bother to pull on his long sleeve blue shirt and just pull on and tucked in the matching orange sleeve less shirt. Next he rapped his blue belt around his waist and double knotted it. Then he pull on his tight blue wrist bands then he finally slipped into his shoes and headed down stairs while rolling his head and shoulders, loosening his mussels.
He met Toma fixing the table with up to ten grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, an extra large mug of milk and a bowl of fruit for each of them. Toma smiled when he saw him, "Morning, how did ya sleep?"
"Ok."
Toma shrugged and motioned for him to sit and start eating, which is exactly what he did and started to eat each sandwich in two bytes. Toma turned to face the stairs and heaved up a deep breath and hollered, "OI, YOU GUYS HAVE BETTER GET YOUR BREAKFAST EATEN BEFORE IT GETS EATEN BY ME OR GOTEN!"
There was yelp and a couple of thumps coming from upstairs followed by a yell, which was Pine. "DON'T YOU GUYS DARE TOUCH MY FOOD!" after that was said there was an even louder thump and bow came down the stairs with a victory grin plastered on his face. He calmly sat down and started eating while stealing a little of pine's food. Once he took about half of Pine's food, he ate it all in a couple of bytes swallowing it whole then pretended that he didn't do anything and continued to eat his own food. Pine came tumbling down the stairs shouting, "BOW DON'T YOU DARE! IF YOU TOUCH MY FOOD, I'M GOING TO KILL YA!"
Both Toma and Goten chuckled as Pine approached glaring at anyone who might be sneaking some of his food. He took a glance at his portion and turned to look at everyone else's portion and was relieved to find them even, except that Toma and Goten were almost finished with their share. So he started eating while completely unaware that some of his share was taken. Goten couldn't help but giggle as Pine glared at anyone who was looking suspicious. "What're you laughing at. huh?" he growled, his gaze on Goten who could help but chuckle. Pine was looking very suspicious then a thought popped into his head, "Did you steal any of my food?" Goten still giggling shook his head, "I think you did, because he laughing at me thinking that I don't realize it. give it back. c'mon, give my food back."
"But I didn't take any of your food." Goten said nervously.
"Don't lie! I know you took some, Give it here!" he shouted and pounced Goten and the two of them went rolling. Pine was trying to pry his mouth open so that he could 'reach' in and pull out his food while Goten resoled him off. Goten then got on top and tried to pin Pine down only to be socked in the jaw then found himself on the bottom. "Fine if you won't let me get it that way then lets see if I can get it this way." A mischief grin appeared on Pine's face as he started to tickle Goten sides with glee. Goten yelped "Nonononono! Stop! Quit it!" he rolled over onto his stomach giggling like there was no tomorrow while trying to crawl out from under Pine. "Oh no you don't." Goten eeped as Pine found a sensitive spot and rolled him back over onto his side. "Ah ha! Gotcha ya. There's a little overly sensitive spot. hehehe." Goten howled with laughter while Toma and Bow chuckled at the site. Finally Goten managed to get a hold on himself and power up into a SSJ. Once he transformed he found it much easier to knock him off of him. unfortunately he hit him just a tiny bit to hard because he went through the ceiling.
"Oops. Sorry about that. he he." He giggled while rubbing the back of his head; there was a muffled cry from where Pine was trapped. "Hey! No fair becoming a Super Saiya-jin! You fen!"
The others laughed and Toma called over the laughter, "C'mon you guys, lets head out before we get late!" *********************** When they got to the crystal Palace School, Bow and Pine went to Master Yamoo's classroom. Before Toma left to his class, he led Goten to his private classroom. "Your teacher will be Dr. Vercelli, she is one of the most best doctors that can help you learn to control your emotional power. There are rumors that she had gone through something similar in her youth. It appears that you are her second student to learn how control emotional powers. Her first student was taught how to control his mind almost 148 years ago. So you should feel lucky." Toma explained.
Goten swallowed the story and wondered how long this was going to take.
Toma led him to a small building a little ways away from the palace. It looked like it only held two or three rooms inside. "Well I'll leave you here. Colonel-sama told me that you won't be living with us, that you would be living with Dr. Vercelli until you can control that power of yours. She has already informed Dr. Vercelli of what she'll expect from you."
"Wait a second, you mean that I don't get to go back and live with you, Bow and Pine?" Goten complained.
Toma shrugged, "Sorry, but we'll see one another with in the next three years. Ja ne." Toma said as he waved and headed back to the castle shouting over his shoulder, "You'll be fine, good luck!"
Goten sighed as he watched his new friend leave to go to class. 'Three years of training without seeing those guys? That's kinda mean. oh well.' Goten thought as he turned to face the small building in front of him and sighed. 'Here goes nothing. it's now or never.' he marched up the two steps and knocked on the door. ************************* "Come in, young troubled soul." An old yet kind voice spoke from the other side of the door. Without even touching the door, it swung open magically. It appeared to be dark inside, but nonetheless he slowly entered the small building, the door creaked and closed behind him. He jumped when the door slammed shut and spun around to stare at the now closed door, then the door faded and vanished into thin air leaving him surrounded by darkness. He reached up to touch the area where the door once was and only touched air. 'What? Where did the door go?'
A sudden chuckle could be heard bouncing off of the walls; it made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up on end.
"Who's there?" he called sharply, sliding into a battle stance while glancing around him. There was nothing but darkness, the chuckling continued to echo. Goten's eyes darted around the dark room in search for the owner of the voice in the darkness. Then he spotted it, a dim light way off in the distance, slowly he approached it while keeping his guard up. As he got closer, he saw that there was an old woman floating in mid air in the middle of the dim light. The old woman wore a simple emerald green robe with light green swirls of fabric on it. She also wore a hat resembling a witch's hat. Her hair was a graying brown color and she wore a pair of square shaped reading glasses.
'Bizarre.' Goten thought as he gazed at the old woman before him.
The woman continued to chuckle for a few more minutes before she said something, "You were wondering where that door disappeared to? Well it comes and goes, you can never know when it might come back." she continued to chuckle.
Goten glanced back in the direction in which he had come from and saw that it was now different. It was no longer pitch dark but was bright and resembled a backdoor to a temple. There was a clock on the arch above, and to either side of the temple were to huge hourglasses with green sand flowing through them. The roof to the temple was pink. and the clock was yellow. 'That's odd, this reminds me of.' he felt a change in the gravity, it was heavy. He looked back at the old woman and found that she wasn't there but a huge white endless space. 'What? I'm in the.'
"Yes you are in the hydrologic time chamber as you remember it back on earth."
Goten spun around to find the old lady standing behind him now wears a lavender colored robe.
"But. how?" he asked as he continued to gaze around in awe.
"We are inside your memory, where we shall understand how you came to have separate personalities. Come we shall go and see what your mind has in store for us." The old lady said as she led the way to the door leading into the holy temple of Kami's place on earth.
Goten looked around once they exited the hydrologic time chamber and found that he was indeed on Kami's place on Earth. They turned a corner to find Majin Buu. Goten yelped and adopted a battle stance. But it appeared that Majin Buu either couldn't see him or was just ignoring him because he appeared to be paying attention to his mother who was standing beside him. Goten gasped in horror when he heard Buu say, "Do you like eggs?" and he changed his mother into an egg and stomped on it then he went back to watching the hourglass.
"NNNOOOO BASTARD!" Goten cried out and charged up to a Super Saiya-jin and charged Buu. When he though a punch at him. his fist went right through Buu as did his kick. It almost seemed like Buu was a ghost and that he couldn't touch him. Buu wasn't even paying attention to him. Then his hearing picked up slight yelling from a nearby tower. He turned around and saw. himself preparing to jump out and charge Buu. But didn't attack and turned to go back into the building.
"What?"
Goten flew up to the tower to peer inside and found Piccolo, Krillen, Trunks, and all the others trying to convince himself not to go out and attack Buu, but to go and train in the Room of spirit and time. He remembered it almost like it was yesterday. but it was one of those memories that he was trying to forget like how Buu killed his mother. He then saw Videl staring in his direction and turned to hide but she was already walking towards him, she put her hands on the railing and gazed down, through him towards Buu. He waved a hand out in front of Videl but she ignored him. He even got in front of her and made faces and she still ignored him.
"They cannot see, hear or touch you young one." The voice of that old woman said from behind him. "Nor can they, me."
He turned to her, "Huh?"
"We are inside you memories to find out when you started to feel negative emotions, but it appears that we'll have to go back further for a better example." With those words, everything around them changed and they appeared to now be standing inside of a house. Goten recognized it as his house back on Earth, they were standing in the living room with Gohon in there doing homework while watching a scientific show. The only difference in Gohon was that he wasn't 21 years old, but was only 13 years old, which made him to be about 3 years old. Goten tried rake his memory to find out what he was up to at this time. So he started to explore the house and found himself in his parent's room trying to find out why his mom is crying again. 'Wait a minute here, I was only 3 years old when I started to get curious and confused about what all the fuss was about.'
"Precisely young one, you were getting very confused as to why your mother always cried." The old woman commented.
Goten scowled as silently wished that she wouldn't do that, read his thoughts like that.
At that point the scenery changed again to where he was only 6 years old and that it was his birthday. And that everyone forgot all about it, but they were also very sad too. Goten watched as he asked his mother who that person was in the picture that his mother was holding. His mother replied that it was his father. Then he asked 'where his father is now?'
"He's dead and in heaven, Goten." Gohon answered for his mom.
Chibi Goten looked confused before an idea popped into his head, "Why don't we just use the dragonballs to wish him back?" he appeared to be pleased with the thought and believed that he would get a pat on the back for being so smart. But everyone only seemed to look sadder, Krillen then slowly answered, "Goten, your dad didn't want to be wished back."
This only appeared to make the chibi even more confused, but he wrinkled his nose, "That's being stupid."
Everyone in the room stared at him in total shock, then his mother slapped him and said that he was the one being stupid and that his father was the greatest man ever. She also told him that he should be honored to be his son.
Chibi Goten then yelled no and ran out of the room and up the stairs to his and Gohon's room and cried.
"Now that was entertaining, you only said what you thought about it and what did you get, a slap in the face from your own mother."
Goten growled, but that was all that he did.
The scenery changed yet again up to where his mother got killed by Majin Buu, then flickered to when Buu was fighting with Super Gotenks 3. This was where Buu was feeling the full wrath of Goten, Trunks was only a small part of it. Everything was going fine until the time limit ran out and they were forced to separate leaving them completely helpless to Buu.
Goten growled, as he had already believed that this was the reason why his father doesn't spend enough time with him or gets bored with him.
Finally the scenery changed to where he is at the age that he is now, and that the moon had suddenly returned. Goten was glad that his father was spending a lot more time with his mother, but when he was around him. 'He acted like he didn't want to be around me. even during that trip to the zoo, he acted like he wanted to be somewhere else. Then when he started to ignore me or act like he doesn't want to be with me, everyone else started to do the same.'
A tear formed and slid down his cheek and the most horrid memories.
The old woman didn't say anything as she changed to scenery again and they were back at her place. Goten sighed as he suddenly had the erg to go somewhere to be alone. at let it all out. He felt a comforting hand on his shoulder,
"Child, now that we've found out about your past and found out how you start to get filled with these negative emotions, maybe we can find a way to control that. But for right now, I want you to get some sleep then we'll start your training tomorrow."
Goten merely nodded and went over to a mat that was lying in a corner and laid himself down. It was a long time before he went to sleep, but he cried silently into his pillow and slowly went to sleep. ***************************** After that nap he took he was asked to change into some different clothes seems how those clothes weren't good enough. He changed into a black and red uniform; black slightly baggy pants with a red stash, black sleeveless top with red wristbands and ankle bands over a pair of black boots. Goten didn't mind these dark clothes at all. Afterwards he headed to the main room where Dr. Vercelli was waiting patiently for him.
"What do I do now?"
The old woman pointed to the area of the room that was lit by a spotlight and said, "Sit and empty your soul."
Goten tilted his head to the side in confusion. "Um, 'empty my soul'?"
"Become a rock where nothing can bother you, not wind, not sunlight, not weather, nothing can bother you. Think of nothing, use your senses. Concentrate on nature that surrounds you, concentrate on you and your emotions. Do this, and you would have taken the first steps to controlling your power."
Goten slowly nodded, 'Okay, become the rock.' he went over and sat down Indian stile and closed his eyes. His mind replayed those words again. 'Nothing can bother you; not wind, sunlight, nor weather or anything. become the rock.' He straitened his back and just sat there thinking about what the good old doctor said. He felt a cool breeze and heard something that sounded like birds and monkeys screeching. Curiosity got to him and opened one of his eyes to find himself in the middle of a jungle. "What the."
"Child! Do not move, you have to stay still, if you are to become a rock then nothing can bother. What you hear can't bother you, what you feel can't bother you, what you smell can't bother you. Think of nothing and stay still."
"Ok." he sighed and closed his eyes again and resumed the position he was in before.
The old woman watched him for a while. *********************** About three hours passed and the boy has not moved, so she decided to test him. She picked up a small pebal and blew it towards him, it hit the boys jaw and he jumped and yelped.
"Ow. who did that?"
The old woman seemed to sigh in frustration. "Child, you are not to be bothered by anything."
Goten groaned and went back to what he was doing. A few more minutes later the old woman did it again. Goten merely shifted himself a little to avoid the pebal. The woman smiled as he did that. And let him do that for a little while longer. ********************** About two more hours passed when the old woman went to check on him and found him fast asleep. She sighed in frustration and dumped a bucket of ice water on him. He yelped and shivered.
"EEEEEEEKKKK."
"You may eat now." She sighed.
"Huh? YAHOO! Food, food, food, food, FOOD!"
The bowls of food were set out and all table manners flew out of the window as Goten stuffed his face. Plates started to pile up until they were towering over him. Finally he was done; he even ate the meat raw. (Which he learned from his grandfather)?
"Uh, anyway back to your meditation." ************************* About 3 months past as Goten learned to empty his soul and learned how to defend himself better. He had done some extra training in a gravity room that Dr. Vercelli had. He had trained under 300 times earth's gravity and had a tremendous power up. Now he was somewhere in between an SSj2 and an SSj3. All last month he had done lots of mental training and meditating. And now he was ready to give it a try, he was ready to see if he has more control over himself when he looses control.
"Now think of a memory that makes you change into your negative self and do it."
Goten nodded and closed his eyes to think.
'Lets see what would make me change. my father. he.....'
********Flash Back*******
The moon had suddenly appeared and his father was spending a whole lot more time with his mother. But when ever he was spending time with Goten, he acting like he didn't want to be with him. Once he trained with him but after he learned what he needed to learn. his father got bored with him and left to go find a challenge.
********End of Flash Back*******
'He never wanted you, you were weak, weak, YOU WERE WEAK!'
Goten clenched his fists until there was blood dripping from his hands, his eyes were shut tightly and he clenched his teeth and growled.
'You are weak.'
"NNNNOOOOOOO!" his power erupted as a gust of wind went out in all directions. Energy crackled like electricity, a few of the blue crackling energy touch a lamp and a TV and they exploded on contact. The harsh winds through everything back away from him. Dr. Vercelli was also thrown back into a wall; she couldn't move to get off of the wall because of the pressure of the wind. 'What power is this?'
"GGGGRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!" There was a blinding flash of golden light, which engulfed Goten as his power level shot through the roof to his highest power. His hair was slightly longer then it was before and more spikier. His eyelids had a red out line around them. And his battle aura was huge; about two more kids his age could fit inside that aura. His gaze could have melted glaziers. He turned to her and bared his teeth and adopted a battle stance.
She had no chance as he attacked her, throwing her around like a ragged doll. He beat her down to the bloody pulp. The only think he had to do was give the final blow. He pinned her underneath his feet and aimed an energy blast at her head. She closed her eyes to except her death, but at that last second he jerked his arm away from here and shot the blast at the wall. "NO!"
When to woman looked, it appeared that he was in great pain trying to decide weather or not he should kill her. Goten glanced at her and slowly relaxed. He growled but lowered his head. "No, I will not kill you. you are not my enemy." Just after he said that he collapsed, his hair returned to normal color.
When he collapsed, Dr. Vercelli saw one of the elders standing a small distance behind Goten. She was smiling.
"You've done it, he is learning to control that power of his. Now it will only be a matter of time before he finds complete control over his feelings."
Dr. Vercelli pulled herself to her feet and nodded also smiling.
Will this training me enough to help Goten know who is his enemy and who isn't? Or will things backfire and he becomes just as violent as he was? We will find out what happens in three years on chapter; Goten's First Mission.
Part 1 A New Life
Chapter 10 Control the Mind
After several more days, Goten was finally let out of the hospital. He told everyone that when he came to, he had no idea as to why he was in the hospital in the first place. Toma had told him that he changed while in the gravity room for third years. Goten asked what he had meant by that and he explained, "It's almost like you switched personalities on us. First you powered up further then a Super Saiya-jin, and then you started to shout 'die' and started to destroy everything in sight. You were acting like an enemy or like the scum of space. Mrs. Typhoon knocked you out before you could injure me more and you were taken to the emergency room for us to find out what made you do that."
It was hard for Goten to digest that, a few seconds after Toma told him all of this; he raced to the sink and vomited. Afterwards he collapsed in a nearby beanbag. (They were back at the hut where Toma, Bow and Pine lived.)
"Ar.are you s-sure that I did a-all of th-that?" he asked nervously.
Toma bowed his head sadly.
Goten couldn't believe that he, the son of Goku would do such a thing. then he started to remember something that made him feel a couple dozen times more sick.
*********Flash Back**********
"HEY BRAT! Your going to pay for what you did to me yesterday!" The school bully Ikosa and his gain had decided to pick on him and Trunks for revenge of messing up his 'beautiful' face. Trunks told him to get lost and were insulted for telling them to leave. Then Trunks and Ikosa starting an insulting fight. Goten was having a bad day; first he was late for school and created a big mess with the principle, then he fell asleep in math class, then he talked back to an adult, and now the school bully won't even give him some peace.
He could feel all of these negative feelings creeping up on him; he was angry that no one would give him a break, angry that he might get grounded for all of these things that happened that day, angry because it just HAD to be a school day. Then he felt a huge surge of negative energy flow through his veins, he didn't even know who he was anymore, he just felt like destroying things, making lots of destruction, he didn't know why. In his mind he tried to call to his father for help. but didn't receive it as he grew angrier and angrier until. everything went blank for just a few seconds. then the next thing he knew, he was surrounded by a huge crater. debrease everywhere. and some clothing articles. Around the crater were a few dead bodies and some injured bodies.
He was silent for a moment until he heard an 'imp' from behind him as Trunks landed carrying a few unconscious bodies with him. Those bodies were the bullies. Somehow Goten just knew that he had been the one to create such mass destruction. Then he felt a hand on his shoulder and heard Trunks say, "Uh, lets get outta here and skip school." Goten could only nod and follow him outta of there before the cops could get there. *********End of Flash Back***********
Goten could also recall a faint memory of nearly killing his mother once. but now he felt absolutely sick. He was way too shocked to hear what Pine was babbling about.
"Hey cheer up man! Master Yamoo said that he knows someone who can help ya control that awesome power of yours."
When Goten heard that, the only thing that he could do was hope that this guy could really help him.
Bow groaned and shook his head, "I wouldn't quite call it 'awesome', Pine. Yea he has gotten a lot more powerful then we first thought; but he could seriously hurt someone if he doesn't learn to control it soon."
"Aw, come on Bow! Toma! Chill out! I would be so damned happy to have THAT kind of power! I mean think about it, think about what you could DO with that kind of power. I would teach Mrs. Madison a thing or two about respect, oh and what about those bitches that give us such a hard time? That would be so cool if I could just."
"SHUT THE FUCK UP WILL YA!" Toma barked angrily.
"Yea man, shut up! That gets really annoying you know, you just keep going on and on. gives me a head ach."
Pine shrugged and continued to go on thinking about the 'possibilities' in his head, a daydream like expression on his face.
"Bow is right." Goten said barely above a whisper. The others turned to him in question.
"I'm a danger to everyone, I havta learn to control it or I will hurt someone with out realizing it. While I was still on earth, I. I think I came close to killing my mother once. and. if it weren't for my father. I. I think I would have finished her off." he spoke as a single tear rolled down his face, he curled up into a ball and hugged his knees tightly.
Toma sighed and rested a hand on Goten's shoulder, squeezing it gently. "Well anyway lets get something to eat, wash up and hit the sack. What do ya say?"
A small smile creped up on Goten at the mention of food and he nodded. ********************** Goten got up early that next morning to take a relaxing bath. He needed to think about how he was going to control his 'other' personality. After he had undressed himself, he slipped into the hot bath wincing slightly as the hot sensations from the moisture seeped into him. His mussels then slowly relaxed and he sighed heavily and sunk in further. The water was up to his chin; he closed his eyes and quietly enjoyed the comforting warmth that the water provided. A few minutes later he opened his eyes to stare at the wall in front of him. But he really wasn't staring at the wall, but was staring at something else. From what he could figure out from what Toma had told him, he changed when he got really angry or sad about something. 'I remember getting really upset over the memory of my father not being there for my mom while she was crying over his death, I cried because when I see her sad, I get sad too. Then when I went to Trunks' house, Vegeta-san offered to be my father and allow me to train with him and Trunks as an attempt to cheer me up because I didn't have a father.sigh. What am I going to do?'
His thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door to the restroom. "Oi, Goten? Are ya in there?" Bow voice hollered through the door. He sounded tired, almost like he just got up. Goten sighed again, "Hia!"
"Well uh, could ya come out? I gotta go."
Goten sighed yet again and pull himself out of the water and stepped out of the tub. Once he was out, he draped a towel around his waist and secured it there with his tail and walked over to the dryer where his clothes should be clean about now. He smiled slightly as he felt the warm and clean fabric of his orange battle gi, but then he frowned when he looked at it, while looking at them he saw an image of his father but dismissed it when he heard Pine shout from the other side of the door.
"Hurry up Goten! There are more then one person waiting to use it, ya know!"
"Right, I'm coming." he called as he opened the door to find Bow and Pine both sleepy eyed waiting to use it. Goten could smell something cooking down stairs, which signaled that Toma was making everyone something to eat. He stepped aside to allow Bow and Pine to go in, or try to go in because the both of them tried to go in at once but that door way was only big enough for one person to fit through.
He ignored them went into the large room which was made up of pillows for the walls, matrices for the floors and loose pillows and blankets all over the place. It was supposed to be their room. The temperature was always kept a nice warm or cool. He then started to get dressed, pulling on his unders first then his orange pants, he didn't bother to pull on his long sleeve blue shirt and just pull on and tucked in the matching orange sleeve less shirt. Next he rapped his blue belt around his waist and double knotted it. Then he pull on his tight blue wrist bands then he finally slipped into his shoes and headed down stairs while rolling his head and shoulders, loosening his mussels.
He met Toma fixing the table with up to ten grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, an extra large mug of milk and a bowl of fruit for each of them. Toma smiled when he saw him, "Morning, how did ya sleep?"
"Ok."
Toma shrugged and motioned for him to sit and start eating, which is exactly what he did and started to eat each sandwich in two bytes. Toma turned to face the stairs and heaved up a deep breath and hollered, "OI, YOU GUYS HAVE BETTER GET YOUR BREAKFAST EATEN BEFORE IT GETS EATEN BY ME OR GOTEN!"
There was yelp and a couple of thumps coming from upstairs followed by a yell, which was Pine. "DON'T YOU GUYS DARE TOUCH MY FOOD!" after that was said there was an even louder thump and bow came down the stairs with a victory grin plastered on his face. He calmly sat down and started eating while stealing a little of pine's food. Once he took about half of Pine's food, he ate it all in a couple of bytes swallowing it whole then pretended that he didn't do anything and continued to eat his own food. Pine came tumbling down the stairs shouting, "BOW DON'T YOU DARE! IF YOU TOUCH MY FOOD, I'M GOING TO KILL YA!"
Both Toma and Goten chuckled as Pine approached glaring at anyone who might be sneaking some of his food. He took a glance at his portion and turned to look at everyone else's portion and was relieved to find them even, except that Toma and Goten were almost finished with their share. So he started eating while completely unaware that some of his share was taken. Goten couldn't help but giggle as Pine glared at anyone who was looking suspicious. "What're you laughing at. huh?" he growled, his gaze on Goten who could help but chuckle. Pine was looking very suspicious then a thought popped into his head, "Did you steal any of my food?" Goten still giggling shook his head, "I think you did, because he laughing at me thinking that I don't realize it. give it back. c'mon, give my food back."
"But I didn't take any of your food." Goten said nervously.
"Don't lie! I know you took some, Give it here!" he shouted and pounced Goten and the two of them went rolling. Pine was trying to pry his mouth open so that he could 'reach' in and pull out his food while Goten resoled him off. Goten then got on top and tried to pin Pine down only to be socked in the jaw then found himself on the bottom. "Fine if you won't let me get it that way then lets see if I can get it this way." A mischief grin appeared on Pine's face as he started to tickle Goten sides with glee. Goten yelped "Nonononono! Stop! Quit it!" he rolled over onto his stomach giggling like there was no tomorrow while trying to crawl out from under Pine. "Oh no you don't." Goten eeped as Pine found a sensitive spot and rolled him back over onto his side. "Ah ha! Gotcha ya. There's a little overly sensitive spot. hehehe." Goten howled with laughter while Toma and Bow chuckled at the site. Finally Goten managed to get a hold on himself and power up into a SSJ. Once he transformed he found it much easier to knock him off of him. unfortunately he hit him just a tiny bit to hard because he went through the ceiling.
"Oops. Sorry about that. he he." He giggled while rubbing the back of his head; there was a muffled cry from where Pine was trapped. "Hey! No fair becoming a Super Saiya-jin! You fen!"
The others laughed and Toma called over the laughter, "C'mon you guys, lets head out before we get late!" *********************** When they got to the crystal Palace School, Bow and Pine went to Master Yamoo's classroom. Before Toma left to his class, he led Goten to his private classroom. "Your teacher will be Dr. Vercelli, she is one of the most best doctors that can help you learn to control your emotional power. There are rumors that she had gone through something similar in her youth. It appears that you are her second student to learn how control emotional powers. Her first student was taught how to control his mind almost 148 years ago. So you should feel lucky." Toma explained.
Goten swallowed the story and wondered how long this was going to take.
Toma led him to a small building a little ways away from the palace. It looked like it only held two or three rooms inside. "Well I'll leave you here. Colonel-sama told me that you won't be living with us, that you would be living with Dr. Vercelli until you can control that power of yours. She has already informed Dr. Vercelli of what she'll expect from you."
"Wait a second, you mean that I don't get to go back and live with you, Bow and Pine?" Goten complained.
Toma shrugged, "Sorry, but we'll see one another with in the next three years. Ja ne." Toma said as he waved and headed back to the castle shouting over his shoulder, "You'll be fine, good luck!"
Goten sighed as he watched his new friend leave to go to class. 'Three years of training without seeing those guys? That's kinda mean. oh well.' Goten thought as he turned to face the small building in front of him and sighed. 'Here goes nothing. it's now or never.' he marched up the two steps and knocked on the door. ************************* "Come in, young troubled soul." An old yet kind voice spoke from the other side of the door. Without even touching the door, it swung open magically. It appeared to be dark inside, but nonetheless he slowly entered the small building, the door creaked and closed behind him. He jumped when the door slammed shut and spun around to stare at the now closed door, then the door faded and vanished into thin air leaving him surrounded by darkness. He reached up to touch the area where the door once was and only touched air. 'What? Where did the door go?'
A sudden chuckle could be heard bouncing off of the walls; it made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up on end.
"Who's there?" he called sharply, sliding into a battle stance while glancing around him. There was nothing but darkness, the chuckling continued to echo. Goten's eyes darted around the dark room in search for the owner of the voice in the darkness. Then he spotted it, a dim light way off in the distance, slowly he approached it while keeping his guard up. As he got closer, he saw that there was an old woman floating in mid air in the middle of the dim light. The old woman wore a simple emerald green robe with light green swirls of fabric on it. She also wore a hat resembling a witch's hat. Her hair was a graying brown color and she wore a pair of square shaped reading glasses.
'Bizarre.' Goten thought as he gazed at the old woman before him.
The woman continued to chuckle for a few more minutes before she said something, "You were wondering where that door disappeared to? Well it comes and goes, you can never know when it might come back." she continued to chuckle.
Goten glanced back in the direction in which he had come from and saw that it was now different. It was no longer pitch dark but was bright and resembled a backdoor to a temple. There was a clock on the arch above, and to either side of the temple were to huge hourglasses with green sand flowing through them. The roof to the temple was pink. and the clock was yellow. 'That's odd, this reminds me of.' he felt a change in the gravity, it was heavy. He looked back at the old woman and found that she wasn't there but a huge white endless space. 'What? I'm in the.'
"Yes you are in the hydrologic time chamber as you remember it back on earth."
Goten spun around to find the old lady standing behind him now wears a lavender colored robe.
"But. how?" he asked as he continued to gaze around in awe.
"We are inside your memory, where we shall understand how you came to have separate personalities. Come we shall go and see what your mind has in store for us." The old lady said as she led the way to the door leading into the holy temple of Kami's place on earth.
Goten looked around once they exited the hydrologic time chamber and found that he was indeed on Kami's place on Earth. They turned a corner to find Majin Buu. Goten yelped and adopted a battle stance. But it appeared that Majin Buu either couldn't see him or was just ignoring him because he appeared to be paying attention to his mother who was standing beside him. Goten gasped in horror when he heard Buu say, "Do you like eggs?" and he changed his mother into an egg and stomped on it then he went back to watching the hourglass.
"NNNOOOO BASTARD!" Goten cried out and charged up to a Super Saiya-jin and charged Buu. When he though a punch at him. his fist went right through Buu as did his kick. It almost seemed like Buu was a ghost and that he couldn't touch him. Buu wasn't even paying attention to him. Then his hearing picked up slight yelling from a nearby tower. He turned around and saw. himself preparing to jump out and charge Buu. But didn't attack and turned to go back into the building.
"What?"
Goten flew up to the tower to peer inside and found Piccolo, Krillen, Trunks, and all the others trying to convince himself not to go out and attack Buu, but to go and train in the Room of spirit and time. He remembered it almost like it was yesterday. but it was one of those memories that he was trying to forget like how Buu killed his mother. He then saw Videl staring in his direction and turned to hide but she was already walking towards him, she put her hands on the railing and gazed down, through him towards Buu. He waved a hand out in front of Videl but she ignored him. He even got in front of her and made faces and she still ignored him.
"They cannot see, hear or touch you young one." The voice of that old woman said from behind him. "Nor can they, me."
He turned to her, "Huh?"
"We are inside you memories to find out when you started to feel negative emotions, but it appears that we'll have to go back further for a better example." With those words, everything around them changed and they appeared to now be standing inside of a house. Goten recognized it as his house back on Earth, they were standing in the living room with Gohon in there doing homework while watching a scientific show. The only difference in Gohon was that he wasn't 21 years old, but was only 13 years old, which made him to be about 3 years old. Goten tried rake his memory to find out what he was up to at this time. So he started to explore the house and found himself in his parent's room trying to find out why his mom is crying again. 'Wait a minute here, I was only 3 years old when I started to get curious and confused about what all the fuss was about.'
"Precisely young one, you were getting very confused as to why your mother always cried." The old woman commented.
Goten scowled as silently wished that she wouldn't do that, read his thoughts like that.
At that point the scenery changed again to where he was only 6 years old and that it was his birthday. And that everyone forgot all about it, but they were also very sad too. Goten watched as he asked his mother who that person was in the picture that his mother was holding. His mother replied that it was his father. Then he asked 'where his father is now?'
"He's dead and in heaven, Goten." Gohon answered for his mom.
Chibi Goten looked confused before an idea popped into his head, "Why don't we just use the dragonballs to wish him back?" he appeared to be pleased with the thought and believed that he would get a pat on the back for being so smart. But everyone only seemed to look sadder, Krillen then slowly answered, "Goten, your dad didn't want to be wished back."
This only appeared to make the chibi even more confused, but he wrinkled his nose, "That's being stupid."
Everyone in the room stared at him in total shock, then his mother slapped him and said that he was the one being stupid and that his father was the greatest man ever. She also told him that he should be honored to be his son.
Chibi Goten then yelled no and ran out of the room and up the stairs to his and Gohon's room and cried.
"Now that was entertaining, you only said what you thought about it and what did you get, a slap in the face from your own mother."
Goten growled, but that was all that he did.
The scenery changed yet again up to where his mother got killed by Majin Buu, then flickered to when Buu was fighting with Super Gotenks 3. This was where Buu was feeling the full wrath of Goten, Trunks was only a small part of it. Everything was going fine until the time limit ran out and they were forced to separate leaving them completely helpless to Buu.
Goten growled, as he had already believed that this was the reason why his father doesn't spend enough time with him or gets bored with him.
Finally the scenery changed to where he is at the age that he is now, and that the moon had suddenly returned. Goten was glad that his father was spending a lot more time with his mother, but when he was around him. 'He acted like he didn't want to be around me. even during that trip to the zoo, he acted like he wanted to be somewhere else. Then when he started to ignore me or act like he doesn't want to be with me, everyone else started to do the same.'
A tear formed and slid down his cheek and the most horrid memories.
The old woman didn't say anything as she changed to scenery again and they were back at her place. Goten sighed as he suddenly had the erg to go somewhere to be alone. at let it all out. He felt a comforting hand on his shoulder,
"Child, now that we've found out about your past and found out how you start to get filled with these negative emotions, maybe we can find a way to control that. But for right now, I want you to get some sleep then we'll start your training tomorrow."
Goten merely nodded and went over to a mat that was lying in a corner and laid himself down. It was a long time before he went to sleep, but he cried silently into his pillow and slowly went to sleep. ***************************** After that nap he took he was asked to change into some different clothes seems how those clothes weren't good enough. He changed into a black and red uniform; black slightly baggy pants with a red stash, black sleeveless top with red wristbands and ankle bands over a pair of black boots. Goten didn't mind these dark clothes at all. Afterwards he headed to the main room where Dr. Vercelli was waiting patiently for him.
"What do I do now?"
The old woman pointed to the area of the room that was lit by a spotlight and said, "Sit and empty your soul."
Goten tilted his head to the side in confusion. "Um, 'empty my soul'?"
"Become a rock where nothing can bother you, not wind, not sunlight, not weather, nothing can bother you. Think of nothing, use your senses. Concentrate on nature that surrounds you, concentrate on you and your emotions. Do this, and you would have taken the first steps to controlling your power."
Goten slowly nodded, 'Okay, become the rock.' he went over and sat down Indian stile and closed his eyes. His mind replayed those words again. 'Nothing can bother you; not wind, sunlight, nor weather or anything. become the rock.' He straitened his back and just sat there thinking about what the good old doctor said. He felt a cool breeze and heard something that sounded like birds and monkeys screeching. Curiosity got to him and opened one of his eyes to find himself in the middle of a jungle. "What the."
"Child! Do not move, you have to stay still, if you are to become a rock then nothing can bother. What you hear can't bother you, what you feel can't bother you, what you smell can't bother you. Think of nothing and stay still."
"Ok." he sighed and closed his eyes again and resumed the position he was in before.
The old woman watched him for a while. *********************** About three hours passed and the boy has not moved, so she decided to test him. She picked up a small pebal and blew it towards him, it hit the boys jaw and he jumped and yelped.
"Ow. who did that?"
The old woman seemed to sigh in frustration. "Child, you are not to be bothered by anything."
Goten groaned and went back to what he was doing. A few more minutes later the old woman did it again. Goten merely shifted himself a little to avoid the pebal. The woman smiled as he did that. And let him do that for a little while longer. ********************** About two more hours passed when the old woman went to check on him and found him fast asleep. She sighed in frustration and dumped a bucket of ice water on him. He yelped and shivered.
"EEEEEEEKKKK."
"You may eat now." She sighed.
"Huh? YAHOO! Food, food, food, food, FOOD!"
The bowls of food were set out and all table manners flew out of the window as Goten stuffed his face. Plates started to pile up until they were towering over him. Finally he was done; he even ate the meat raw. (Which he learned from his grandfather)?
"Uh, anyway back to your meditation." ************************* About 3 months past as Goten learned to empty his soul and learned how to defend himself better. He had done some extra training in a gravity room that Dr. Vercelli had. He had trained under 300 times earth's gravity and had a tremendous power up. Now he was somewhere in between an SSj2 and an SSj3. All last month he had done lots of mental training and meditating. And now he was ready to give it a try, he was ready to see if he has more control over himself when he looses control.
"Now think of a memory that makes you change into your negative self and do it."
Goten nodded and closed his eyes to think.
'Lets see what would make me change. my father. he.....'
********Flash Back*******
The moon had suddenly appeared and his father was spending a whole lot more time with his mother. But when ever he was spending time with Goten, he acting like he didn't want to be with him. Once he trained with him but after he learned what he needed to learn. his father got bored with him and left to go find a challenge.
********End of Flash Back*******
'He never wanted you, you were weak, weak, YOU WERE WEAK!'
Goten clenched his fists until there was blood dripping from his hands, his eyes were shut tightly and he clenched his teeth and growled.
'You are weak.'
"NNNNOOOOOOO!" his power erupted as a gust of wind went out in all directions. Energy crackled like electricity, a few of the blue crackling energy touch a lamp and a TV and they exploded on contact. The harsh winds through everything back away from him. Dr. Vercelli was also thrown back into a wall; she couldn't move to get off of the wall because of the pressure of the wind. 'What power is this?'
"GGGGRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!" There was a blinding flash of golden light, which engulfed Goten as his power level shot through the roof to his highest power. His hair was slightly longer then it was before and more spikier. His eyelids had a red out line around them. And his battle aura was huge; about two more kids his age could fit inside that aura. His gaze could have melted glaziers. He turned to her and bared his teeth and adopted a battle stance.
She had no chance as he attacked her, throwing her around like a ragged doll. He beat her down to the bloody pulp. The only think he had to do was give the final blow. He pinned her underneath his feet and aimed an energy blast at her head. She closed her eyes to except her death, but at that last second he jerked his arm away from here and shot the blast at the wall. "NO!"
When to woman looked, it appeared that he was in great pain trying to decide weather or not he should kill her. Goten glanced at her and slowly relaxed. He growled but lowered his head. "No, I will not kill you. you are not my enemy." Just after he said that he collapsed, his hair returned to normal color.
When he collapsed, Dr. Vercelli saw one of the elders standing a small distance behind Goten. She was smiling.
"You've done it, he is learning to control that power of his. Now it will only be a matter of time before he finds complete control over his feelings."
Dr. Vercelli pulled herself to her feet and nodded also smiling.
Will this training me enough to help Goten know who is his enemy and who isn't? Or will things backfire and he becomes just as violent as he was? We will find out what happens in three years on chapter; Goten's First Mission.