Hey. I hop you all had a good Thanksgiving, that is if you celebrate the holiday. Well I don't have much to say today. I'm actually sleepy right now.
I don't own Dragonball/ Z/GT but I really wish I did!!! Can't say I own "Someone to Hold" by 112 either. (Sighs and sits on the floor in disappointment)
"…" is spoken, *…* is thoughts, **** is telepathic conversation, #### is flashbacks, is the song. Enjoy!!!!
*Yamucha, why did you have to make her cry? Bulma didn't deserve to hear that. I could have told her something different, but for some reason I didn't. But then I would be lying to her and she is owed the truth, even if it did hurt.*
Yamucha flew at a fairly slow pace while he thought about his conversation with his ex-girlfriend, his first love. As he remembered the pain he felt when he saw a tear fall from his eye, a little voice inside of him said,
*You know Vegeta is coming to kick your ass, right?*
The man stopped in mid-air as he realized eventually he would, indeed, have to deal with the territorial, temperamental Prince of Saiyajins. Since Bulma was pregnant, Vegeta has been a little extreme about Bulma and the way she is treated by everyone excluding her parents, ChiChi and himself, even if he refused to admit it.
"There's no way I can fair against Vegeta, even if he doesn't go Super Saiyajin! Oh man, why did I have to go and be 'Honest John' now!!
*"Yamucha!!! I need your help!!!" * Yamucha looked around for the owner of the panicked voice. When he realized the owner was using telepathy, he said,
"Dende'? Is that you? What's wrong kiddo?"
*"It's Gohan, Yamucha!!!"* When the human heard the name of the boy he now thinks of like a son, he tensed.
"What's wrong with Gohan!?! Was ChiChi and Goten with him?!"
*"No. He's going to try and kill himself! If no one goes to save him, he will succeed!" * Yamucha eyes glossed over with tears as Dende's words soaked in. He powered up and asked in a demanding voice,
"Where is he!! Tell me now Dende'!!"
*"The area where the Cell Games occurred! I will contact everyone else. Please, Yamucha, hurry. You don't have much time."* Yamucha heard the young guardian's voice crack, indicating he was crying. The ex-desert bandit quickly wiped away a tear that escaped and flew to the old battleground where so much sadness has occurred twice in the past three years.
*Gohan, please don't do this. Your mom, your brother, and I love you so much.*
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Gohan touched down at the old battleground where his father once died and walked around with the memories of the horrific fight playing in his head.
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Goku placed his hand on the bloated Cell and place two fingers on his forehead. Gohan knew his father was about to do the Instant Transmission. He thought to himself,
*Yeah, dad!!! I knew you'd save the day!*
A small smile appeared on the eleven year old's dirt-smudged face. Goku turned to his son and smiled, but the smile wasn't his normal happy smile. The smile in some weird way said, 'goodbye'. Gohan asked his father mentally,
*"Daddy? What are you doing? What's wrong? You're about to beat Cell, right?"*
Goku blinked back tears as he looked at his only son's concerned face as he said,
"Gohan, take care of your mom. I'm sorry it had to end this way. I love you son.", then the noble Saiyajin disappeared.
*Daddy? What? Wait !?! No! Don't go!*
Gohan's eyes widened as he realized his father had just sacrificed himself because he messed up. His mind raced as he replayed his father's last words in his head a hundred times per second. Words seemed to be stuck in his throat although his mouth moved. He became blinded with tears as he prayed his eyes and mind were playing tricks on him. Finally, his mind registered what happened, even if it did feel like a sick dream and he finally screamed,
"Daddy!!! NOOO!!!"
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Gohan wiped away tears as he looked around at the area. He saw a flicker of red hair under a rock. He went over to the boulder and lifted it easily. Under it was the trodden, barely recognizable head of Sixteen. He picked up the head and said to no one in particular,
"I'll be with you real soon." The boy gently placed the head back onto the ground and said,
"Daddy, I hope you're waiting on me in the next dimension.", then quickly powered up to Super Saiyajin. He strained to hit Super Saiyajin 2 but eventually attained it. But he didn't stop powering up. Lighting cackled around the young teen as he forced his body to go to levels it has never went to before. His blindingly bright golden aura turned a reddish gold as Gohan felt the blood in his veins begin to boil from the intense power he was emitting. The boy began to feel his body start to degenerate from the raw power it was experiencing.
Everything within 5 miles of the young demi-saiyajin felt the wrath of his power. Mountains began to crumble. Soil lifted from the earth. From afar, the area looked like a well organized light show. Lighting crackled through the air. Thunder rumbled in the area. The scarce wild-life that dwelled in these areas scrambled to get away from the thermal melt-down but 7 life forms rushed towards the area with much determination.
After Dende' contacted Yamucha, he informed the rest of the Z fighters of the situation. Each warrior quickly left to save the powerful young fighter without reservations; each having their own reasons, although they all loved the boy.
Piccolo vowed that he would never let anything happen to the only human that brought love to his heart. Krillin saw Gohan as an extension of his best friend. Despite the major age difference, Gohan was indeed one of his best buddies. Tien and Chaozu saw him as a fellow warrior, but also as one of the most pure-hearted people they've ever known. Vegeta rushed to Gohan as the boy's Prince, his commander. How dare the boy decide to die like a coward outside of battle. Dende' hurried to his peer, his very best friend. Gohan was one of the two common bonds the Namekian god had on this planet; the other being Piccolo.
But Yamucha? He not only rushed to the boy as a friend or a fellow warrior, Yamucha rushed to the boy as a father figure. He refused to let anything happen to the child, he promised him that before. He knew that he was no where near Gohan's level but still he wouldn't let anything harm the boy; even himself.
He felt Gohan's ki rise continuously and gasped as he figured out what method Gohan was attempting to take his life with.
*Is he trying to blow himself up? Gohan what brought you to this point? Was it me?*
Yamucha forced himself to go faster although he was flying at his maximum speed. So many things flew through his mind as he rushed to Gohan. The teenager's attitude this morning finally came into focus as the man thought about what went wrong.
*When he asked me was I ever leaving, he wasn't trying to start a fight. He was ensuring ChiChi and Goten were taken care of. Kid, how long have you been thinking about this?*
As the man flew closer towards Gohan, the power the man-child was giving off began to sting Yamucha's face and arms. He could vaguely feel three familiar power levels nearby as he pressed onward.
"Yamucha stop! If you go further you'll get burned! Piccolo, Dende' and Vegeta are almost here. Vegeta can grab Gohan while Piccolo can get through to him telepathically and Dende will heal him!" Yamucha looked over and saw Krillin, Tien and Chaozu about 100 feet from him but he didn't stop. Instead he put as much energy as he could to speed up towards the boy.
"I can't wait for them. He might be dead before any of that can happen."
Yamucha ignored the heat of Gohan ki starting to burn his skin and clothing as he flew into the bubble of energy around the young Saiyajin. Once inside the energy field, Yamucha felt his skin starting to scorch from the extreme heat but still decided to press on. He could see his skin rise off his hands and begin to blister but he couldn't concern himself with that now. The closest thing he had as a son needed him, whether the boy knew it or not.
*Gohan, you will not die like this. I won't let you. Hell, I'll die in you place if I have to.*
Finally, Yamucha could see Gohan, well at least a being he assumed was Gohan. The child's normal shoulder length hair was now covering his entire upper body although it was gold and spiky. His muscles looked as though they were about to pop out of his skin and some of his veins looked as though they had already burst.
The sight alone made Yamucha's heart ache. He flew closer to Gohan although he knew he had most definitely caused himself some irreparable damage by being in the orb of energy. He felt himself losing vital energy as Gohan seemed to be further away than before. Yamucha pushed the thought in the back of his head as well, and kept going. His vision became blurry and his speed slowed tremendously.
*I'm almost there. I'll stop you no matter what kid. You're not leaving us anytime soon.*
Yamucha's world then went black.
Gohan could feel his body literally tearing apart from this energy. Although he knew his purpose for doing this, he couldn't help but be amazed by this level of energy he was experiencing, he also knew that his body could give off more before he would finally kill himself. He flared up his ki to go a little higher. Suddenly, he felt a pair of arm engulf him and hold on for dear life. Since he was not in full control of his body due to his new power level, he couldn't detect other's ki.
*Great, Piccolo would have to come and save me. Why couldn't he be somewhere meditating or training now. *
Gohan turned his head expecting to see a green scowling face but instead saw a badly burned, hardly recognizable face of his mom's boyfriend. He gasped at the sight of Yamucha and set himself to power down; he was willing to commit suicide but refused to kill a defenseless person.
*Yamucha, what are doing? Why would you do this? *
He looked at the Yamucha and realized that he was almost at death's door and started to lower his ki. But for some reason, his ki seemed to have a mind of it's own at this point. Gohan couldn't power down. His eyes widen in panic as he realized that he was in fact stuck with going through with killing himself and Yamucha.
*I can't kill Yamucha!?! What do I do? I honestly don't care about me but Yamucha has to take care of mom and Goten!*
Yamucha coughed as blood dribbled from his lips.
"Well, Gohan, it looks as if we're going out like this together kid." Gohan looked at the barely alive, charred man as he panicked to find a way to get the man out of this. He started to direct his ki to Yamucha in attempts to save him. He didn't notice his erratic energy level lowered at a consistent rate. Soon the only thing that stood in the bare area was a young Super Saiyajin and a badly burned man.
Piccolo, Vegeta, Krillin, Tien, Chaozu, and Dende stood in amazement as they watched Gohan channel his access energy into Yamucha. The boy held his mother's boyfriend with desperation as he said in a cracking voice,
"Please don't die Yamucha. Mom can't loose you because of me too. Please, you gotta stay and keep her happy."
Piccolo and Vegeta heard the boy's soft remark. Piccolo grabbed Dende and flew to Gohan's side. Immediately, Dende began to heal Yamucha as Piccolo looked at the teenage warrior and said,
"Do you think you killing yourself would make her happy?" Gohan looked down in shame as he replied,
"It wouldn't matter. I couldn't even do this right. I-" Suddenly, Gohan felt a hard blow to his face. He flew a couple of meters and hit one of the few standing boulders in the area. The boy shook away the stars to see what heavy piece of machinery hit him only to see a very angry Super Saiyajin Vegeta walking towards him.
"You wish to die like a coward and take your own life!?! If you are, you are no Saiyajin! You are NOT the legendary I assumed you to be! You are a disgrace to the Saiyajin and human race! You are dumber than your father boy!" Gohan ki flared up as Vegeta's words cut through him like a knife. Since his father died, Vegeta has been his only link of his Saiyajin roots. He thought of Vegeta as an uncle, a mentor.
"My father is not dumb! He saved all of us time after time and the one time he looked to me to help him I messed up! Do you know what it feels like to have your own father's death over your head! Fucked up!" Gohan stood tall, facing off with the Prince of all of four Saiyajins. Vegeta lunched his fist towards Gohan's face and stopped a millimeter in front of the boy's nose.
" Yes, I do know what it feels like to have your father's death hovering over you. My father was killed also. But I moved on and that is what you will do. You will NOT die until I say die. And when you do, it will be in battle. Do you understand me!!!" Gohan tried to stand bravely before the royal Saiyajin but failed horribly. He looked past Vegeta to see Yamucha finally coming to and Piccolo giving him a look that said, 'well, answer him!'.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!!!" Vegeta's voice sounded throughout the rocky ruins. One could see Vegeta was using all of his will not to go off on the boy. He was undoubtedly angry. Gohan hung his head again and said in a sorrowful voice,
"Yes."
Vegeta smirked slightly and completed his punch, pushing Gohan further into the boulder.
"That's for disrespecting me with your language. Your mother is at my house. Go to her." Vegeta then walked over to Yamucha who was standing, but everyone could tell his wasn't in any shape to do much of anything. The Saiyajin looked at the human and said,
"You are stupid enough to try and save someone although it could cost you your life." Yamucha blinked in surprised.
"Vegeta you are something else. I save Gohan's life. And you still find some way to argue with me. Please just leave me alone." Vegeta smirked and walked away from Yamucha. Before he took off he said to the man,
"You and I will talk about the way you spoke to Bulma today.", then flew off. Yamucha rolled his eyes and muttered,
"Naturally."
Okay, it wasn't the greatest but I'm building up to something. This story is about move very fast and jump some serious years because, well, it's my story!! Please read and review. Love Ya! PEACE!!!
NaCoBe