Loss

By Chichigal

I am fully aware that I don't own any of the Dragonball Z characters, etc…(Sigh. Too bad)

Chapter 1

Gohan giggled happily with amusement at the hopping toad near the cliff edge. He quickly pounced in an attempt to catch the toad, and tripped over a pebble, down the high cliff. Horror filled him, as he began to descend to the rocky ground below.

He screamed and closed his eyes tightly, and waited for the oncoming pain from the fall. But was surprised to find the sense of descending had stopped, and the feeling of something holding him up.

His father must have saved him from his impending doom. He smiled at first, then opened his eyes, expecting to see his grinning father holding him, but there was no one there. In fact he was levitating off the ground, about a 100-ft in the air, with nothing supporting him.

He blinked in confusion, then a sense of panic went through him, and he felt the power that was holding him up disappear, and he quickly grabbed securely to a part of the cliff with his tail, before he would drop. His heart began to beat quickly, when he looked down at the ground. Then he saw a familiar looking cloud in the distance, and with sigh of relief, he wailed and cried for his father, and continued to clutch at the Cliffside for dear life.

The yellow cloud that supported his tall father came to a halt near Gohan, and he grabbed the boy gently, and settled him onto the yellow fluffy cloud with a smile.

Gohan's tears subsided at his father's warm smile, and he weakly smiled back at his father in appreciation, and hugged his fathers leg as the cloud began to move quickly out to sea.

Goku looked at his son with a grin, as they approached Kame house. It had been so long since he'd last so his old friends that the excitement of seeing them again was almost overbearing. Nimbus slowed and came to a stop on the beach of a tiny island with a house built in centre of it, and Goku couldn't help but grin even wider, at the sight of his bald and short best friend, the old perverted man, and the beautiful Bulma Briefs.

Though Bulma was indeed very beautiful, to him no ones beauty could ever surpass his own wife's, and it wasn't her beauty that drew Goku to his wife. It was her strong spirit.

He was about to hop off nimbus and greet his old friends, when the young boy clutching his leg, shyly buried himself deeper into his leg. He smiled reassuringly at the small child, and swiftly lifted the boy up onto his shoulders.

Gohan giggled at the quick movement, and almost pleaded for an encore, but was silenced by the odd looks the people were giving him and his father and he shyly hid his face in his father's hair, and giggled as his fathers hair tickled his face.

Goku chuckled at his son in amusement, and stepped off the yellow cloud onto the sandy ground.

"Hey Goku, long time no see?" Shouted a happy looking Bulma.

"Hai." He simply said as the young boy squirmed to leave his shoulders. He quickly complied, and placed him onto the beach, and smiled as he chased a small crab shuffling along the beach.

"Who's the kid? Since when have you ever babysat kids, Goku?" Asked Krillin eyes on the child with curiosity. Goku almost grinned evilly at his bald best friend, and innocently answered.

"He's my son."

The three of then jumped back in a violent reaction with the shock of the very naïve Son Goku ever having a son.

"You're… You're…" Roshi stuttered.

"Hai, my son, Gohan."

After finally coming out of shock, Bulma watched the boy begin to imitate the crab; his monkey like tail, swinging from left to right. She smirked at the child's antics, he was simply so kawaii, and then looked at Goku, and quickly saw the resemblance between the two. She couldn't see why she hadn't seen it before.

The old friends huddled together, chatting happily about the past, present and future, while Gohan continued to play with his new friend, Mr Crabby.

A tall man with long hair went by the name of Raditz stood in the newly created crater. He hovered from the crater to the land above it, then stood still, while he scanned the land with the scouter that was attached to his head. A scowl appeared on his face from the readings on the planet, and he quickly re-scanned again to make sure the readings were correct.

'What had happened to Kakkarot?'

'Why were the people on this planet still alive?'

A tiny grin appeared on his face, when the scouter picked up a couple of readings larger than anyone else on the planet.

'One of them had to be Kakkarot, right?'

He jumped to the skies, and blasted off towards the largest ki present on the planet.

End of Chapter 1

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