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Last Chapter: As a look of shock made its way over Yan's face as Gohan smirked, uttering a single syllable as he brought his arms forward sharply. "HA"

Chapter 5 - Fate's Warrior

May 31st 771 1:57pm

The beam discharged at point blank right into Yan, but instead of exploding as expected, it hit him with blunt force, smashing him heavily against the wall before disappearing without trace. Gohan lowered his stance before tilting his head in a slight bow and turning back to Tien, indicating to the older fighter that the mach was now over.

Turning away from the unconscious figure of Yan, Gohan made his way to the changing room's to change into a new gi for the remainder of the lesson. After walking into the room Gohan sat and went into a light trance, remembering the process Piccolo had taught him to allow him to create his own clothing at will. Although his Sayjin ability to quickly remember and copy any ki based technique he had seen helped to some degree, ki was only part of the process, most of it having to draw energy directly from the other world, a force which had been dubbed 'Magic' by the ignorant masses. This meant that he still needed a lot of training to get to the point where he could crate the clothing without having to meditate to gather the energy needed.

After a minute a light glow surrounded him as the tatter remains of his gi darkened to black and new material was created to rebuild the gi to its former style. After another minute he stood up, bracing himself for the bombardment of questions, and the berating from Tien he was going to receive the second he walked out the door.

As Gohan had guessed, when he entered the room he found Tien standing silently in the rooms far corner. As Gohan entered the elder Z fighter motioned for him to join him. "What the hell do you think you were doing Gohan, you could of really hurt someone there." Tien was about to go on but stopped when he saw the pointed look Gohan was giving him.

"Tien, count yourself lucky that his last attack didn't hit Miss Satan else we would probably now be in an open air courtyard and Yan would be in the Other World. I saw him as a possible threat and reacted accordingly, and while the burden of this worlds safety primarily lies on my shoulders I will take the measures I deem necessary at the time to ensure its safety." With that Gohan turned form his old friend and slowly made his way back to the remaining members of his class, sitting silently non the edge of one of the benches, his head bowed in sorrow.

Tien raised his head to the skies quickly before returning to the class and asking the previously untrained members of his class to spread out on the now slightly bucked gym floor. 'Goku be proud of your son, for he is a wiser man than many of us'

***

The rest of the lesson went without a hitch, that is if you ignore the frenzied whispers the entire class was making concerning a certain Son Gohan who was now every thing from an escaped convict to the most powerful being in existence come to take over and rule the planet. There were even a few remarks that he may also be a strong as Hercule but all of those were quickly ridiculed. It was a pity though, that they would probably never have any idea how close to the truth the last two theories were.

As soon as the bell went the entire class started to leave for last period, until all of them remembered that they had to make their way to their form rooms instead. For tomorrow, for all but two of the class was the most joyful day of the year. Mr Saturn Day. This fact did not escape Gohan and although dew to his schooling he had been able to keep high sprits until the day it's self, where as before he had gone into self imposed isolation for weeks before to stop himself causing any damage to his friends or the planet, he still felt the heavy tug on his heart as he remembered that he was not without blame for Goten having to grow up with out Goku being there.

Videl, noticing the pained expression on Gohan's face walked over to him. Although she was continually trying to find out more about him, she still considered Gohan as one of her only friends, as he at lest had the honesty to tell her that her being Hercule's daughter made no difference to the way he was going to treat her, which pleased her no end. She got rapidly fed up of the fact that almost every body yin the school continually trued to use her to get lessons or autographs from her father.

"Why the sad face Gohan"

" No reason" he replied solemnly, not even trying to disguise the pain he was felling.

" Has anyone told you that you are a really bad liar" she joked earning a small smile from the teen standing in front of her.

"I'd rather not talk about it" Gohan said, the pained expression replacing the smile again. With that he placed his back on the wall and sighed, crossing his arms in a very Vegita like pose, waiting for the teacher to come so he could get back home. Videl however continued to press the subject.

" Come on, you should be happy" she said, putting aside her own hatred of 'Hercule Satan Day' momentarily. " Tomorrow is a celebration of the fact that we are still hear thanks to the defeat of Cell" As she mentioned Cell something in Gohan's posture changed, and she later swore that she saw his eyes flash a light turquoise briefly before his response.

"WOULD YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE" Came the angry shout before Gohan turned away from her and the rest of the class, moving further down the corridor and resuming his pervious stance against the wall where there was a gap in the long row of lockers.

The rest off the class stood awe struck, amazed at the face that a so- called nerd would shout at the daughter of Hercule Saturn, but even more amazed that rather than shouting back at him Videl, just stood there, with a look on her face that could be considered as almost regretful. Quickly though her normal demeanour took over and she quickly shouted at the rest of the class for staring at her and turned away from them before walking down the corridor, to end up leaning on the wall a few meters away form Gohan.

Gohan on the other hand was trying desperately to control his temper. He was still felling the hurt of his early thoughts but that had now been added to by the regret he felt for shouting at Videl, and the reminder of the monster that caused all of his currant suffering, however indirect the link between the two were. All this added up to a near lethal cocktail, just weighting to be relived. At that moment Gohan decided that a certain Saiyan Prince was going to have his backside handed to him on a platter later on that afternoon.

***

30 minuets later Gohan was flying at top speed towards Capsule Corps. The next day was going to be extremely interesting. There were going to be no lessons during the day and instead there were going to be a large number of assemblies. Four in total. There was going to be two during which the school would be talked to by various famous people on there feelings about what happened that day 6 years ago. There was then going to be a screening of some previously unrealised footage of the cell games, followed finally by a entire hour of the big fool Hercule himself before the students were let out of school forty mins early to allow them to watch the parade that was held in the big man's honour.

Gohan laughed despite himself at his last thought. However much pain he felt on the anniversary of Cell's death he had always been able to laugh at Hercule whenever he made a speech or came out in the open on that day. The fact that the public ate up even the most ridiculous things he said made it all the more entertaining. Realising he was getting close to Capsule Corps. Gohan sped up slightly, eager to get rid of some of the anger he had accumulated that day. Vegita was most likely not going to be happy, and probably in a fair bit of pain in a few hours.