4. Gems
Gohan was out flying when he noticed a power blip, someone had just used a fair bit of power in a remote area. He flew towards it.
Soon he found the source. A small cave in a cliff. Barely large enough to permit him in. He immediately lit a chi ball once inside. Inside the cave was much larger, matching an normal room in height, and about that wide too. It was rounded into a circle.
There was only one way to go, slightly down and straight ahead. The power blip had come from in front of him. Gohan flew down the passageway, his chi all lighting the way before him.
When he had gone about 500 feet through a few twists, he came upon a huge open area. The space was enormous. Possibly 200 feet in height and 400 in depth. Looking to the side Gohan saw that it was maybe 400 in width too. The power blip had come from in here, but where? Suddenly he felt it again, the room lit up like a Christmas tree, reds, blues, greens and white lights all around.
Gohan threw a hand over his eyes to block out the light. It dimmed to a more normal intensity, just slightly less bright then outside. Looking around Gohan discovered that there was a hole in the opposite wall, as well as the one behind him, about the same size too.
There was one difference, water was flowing out of that hole onto the ground. The ground was a huge lake, the walls and the lights on them curving under the lake, then the ground flattened out about two feet under he water. The lights disappeared. In the center of the lake there was an island. The sound coming from the water fall was loud, and distracted Gohan. He decided to go take a look at the hole.
Suddenly on the island the was a movement. Gohan spun around to soar towards the island.
He prepared to go to Super-Sayin, zoomed in on the island touched down and -
Smacked into Raditz who was just getting up.
"Ow!" Raditz yelled, the sound muffled by the water falling.
"Raditz?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah, what?"
"Why are you here? And what's with the lights? Or these caves at all? And the waterfall? Why aren't the caves filling up?"
"Woah, back off, okay lets see, I'm here because I wanted to be, sorry if I intruded on some place of yours, The lights I'll explain later. The cave was from a spring, and that's why there's a water fall. The water flows out over on the other side of the cave." Raditz pointed away from the water fall, below where Gohan had first entered.
"No I didn't know about this, otherwise I wouldn't be asking!" Gohan answered.
"k"
"So, why is there another hole?"
"near as I can tell, there was a stream that flowed into this cave. The stream followed some fault line in the rock, but it turned upwards at this point. So the stream ate it's way upwards forming that other passage, the one you came in. Then it ate downwards as well. Eventually it found another way out. I just happened to stop at the stream where it come out, and I looked up and saw the cave."
"Okay, but what about the lights?" Gohan asked, bored, he'd only listened to about half of the explanation.
"Well that's harder to explain. They're all gems. See, the blue is a sapphire, the green emerald and the white is diamonds. Oh, and the red is rubies."
"You're telling me that there's a cave covered in gems and no one came here yet?"
"Well, yeah, gotta be undiscovered places somewhere."
"And they glow because...?"
"I channeled chi through them."
"But wait, that doesn't work for me."
"Yeah well, it has to be spirit chi."
"wait, spirit chi?"
"Yeah, spirit chi. Okay listen, you know how I was really weak when I first came to hell? Okay, well the trick is that normal chi and spirit chi don't relate. So you can't use spirit chi because you've never been to hell."
"So you can kick my ass because you've got something that I have no defense against? I don't think I trust you with that much power, or really trust you at all." Gohan's voice had a bite to it.
"Yeah well, I don't blame you, but no, I can't kick your ass because Spirit chi can only affect spirits, not bodies."
"So you're saying that I have no spirit" Gohan definitely had anger in his voice.
"No, Spirits inside of bodies can't be affected."
"Huh? So you are just a pathetic weakling, just like Vegeta said!"
"You're taking advice from Vegeta now? Good idea, I can see how far it's gotten him!" Raditz began to mirror Gohan's anger. He realized this and suppressed it, he then asked "Why do you hate me so much anyway? And don't act so shocked. I've talked with the others, but you hold yourself aloof. And you glare at me whenever I'm around!"
"You really can't figure out why?" without letting Raditz answer he continued "You kidnapped me and killed my dad!"
"Too bad you don't have more of him in you! He forgave me!"
"Yeah well my dad would forgive Freiza!"
"You think I haven't paid? You think I was HAPPY in hell? You think I like being the ultimate bad guy? You think I don't regret it? Believe me, That crime was way down my list, if that was all you hate me for then you hold a grudge far to long."
"So you're saying we SHOULD forgive Freiza? That's basically the same thing!"
Raditz exploded, shouting so loud the waterfall roaring down became a background noise: "Freiza can't even come close to comparing with me! You have no idea what I am do you? I'm the universes biggest murderer!"
"I'd believe it! Gohan roared back.
"Does it make you proud Gohan? That Your uncle is the universes biggest murderer! Do you think you can come remotely close to adding onto my guilt? If so then you've got FAR too high an opinion of yourself! NOW GET OUT!"
"I'll stay here if I want! And I might have a big opinion of myself but you obviously do too! You think your such a big hotshot on the list of bad guys, Me and my dad have faced down people you can't come close to imagining"
Raditz replied in a terse voice "you just don't get it do you? I'm not imagining it, I got told! I've killed more people directly then any idiot you have met! I might not be the most powerful, but my soul is blacker then theirs. Black with the blood of trillions of people. Now does that satisfy your overblown sense of vanity? That you're related to the most evil ass- hole ever?"
"Oh bullshit, maybe they told you that, but they lied you idiot! Freiza -"
"Did not kill directly, its stupid but it doesn't stain your soul unless it's direct. I can order you to kill anything and if you do it it's your soul that is darkened, not mine!"
"They lied Raditz and you just couldn't get it!"
"YOU CAN NOT LIE IN HELL!" As Raditz bellowed that phrase out the gems began to brighten. By the end they were each as bright as a small sun. Raditz took off and flew out of the cave. The gems went black.
And Gohan was left in the dark, thinking about his uncle, the man with a soul blacker then the now dark gems.
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Gohan was out flying when he noticed a power blip, someone had just used a fair bit of power in a remote area. He flew towards it.
Soon he found the source. A small cave in a cliff. Barely large enough to permit him in. He immediately lit a chi ball once inside. Inside the cave was much larger, matching an normal room in height, and about that wide too. It was rounded into a circle.
There was only one way to go, slightly down and straight ahead. The power blip had come from in front of him. Gohan flew down the passageway, his chi all lighting the way before him.
When he had gone about 500 feet through a few twists, he came upon a huge open area. The space was enormous. Possibly 200 feet in height and 400 in depth. Looking to the side Gohan saw that it was maybe 400 in width too. The power blip had come from in here, but where? Suddenly he felt it again, the room lit up like a Christmas tree, reds, blues, greens and white lights all around.
Gohan threw a hand over his eyes to block out the light. It dimmed to a more normal intensity, just slightly less bright then outside. Looking around Gohan discovered that there was a hole in the opposite wall, as well as the one behind him, about the same size too.
There was one difference, water was flowing out of that hole onto the ground. The ground was a huge lake, the walls and the lights on them curving under the lake, then the ground flattened out about two feet under he water. The lights disappeared. In the center of the lake there was an island. The sound coming from the water fall was loud, and distracted Gohan. He decided to go take a look at the hole.
Suddenly on the island the was a movement. Gohan spun around to soar towards the island.
He prepared to go to Super-Sayin, zoomed in on the island touched down and -
Smacked into Raditz who was just getting up.
"Ow!" Raditz yelled, the sound muffled by the water falling.
"Raditz?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah, what?"
"Why are you here? And what's with the lights? Or these caves at all? And the waterfall? Why aren't the caves filling up?"
"Woah, back off, okay lets see, I'm here because I wanted to be, sorry if I intruded on some place of yours, The lights I'll explain later. The cave was from a spring, and that's why there's a water fall. The water flows out over on the other side of the cave." Raditz pointed away from the water fall, below where Gohan had first entered.
"No I didn't know about this, otherwise I wouldn't be asking!" Gohan answered.
"k"
"So, why is there another hole?"
"near as I can tell, there was a stream that flowed into this cave. The stream followed some fault line in the rock, but it turned upwards at this point. So the stream ate it's way upwards forming that other passage, the one you came in. Then it ate downwards as well. Eventually it found another way out. I just happened to stop at the stream where it come out, and I looked up and saw the cave."
"Okay, but what about the lights?" Gohan asked, bored, he'd only listened to about half of the explanation.
"Well that's harder to explain. They're all gems. See, the blue is a sapphire, the green emerald and the white is diamonds. Oh, and the red is rubies."
"You're telling me that there's a cave covered in gems and no one came here yet?"
"Well, yeah, gotta be undiscovered places somewhere."
"And they glow because...?"
"I channeled chi through them."
"But wait, that doesn't work for me."
"Yeah well, it has to be spirit chi."
"wait, spirit chi?"
"Yeah, spirit chi. Okay listen, you know how I was really weak when I first came to hell? Okay, well the trick is that normal chi and spirit chi don't relate. So you can't use spirit chi because you've never been to hell."
"So you can kick my ass because you've got something that I have no defense against? I don't think I trust you with that much power, or really trust you at all." Gohan's voice had a bite to it.
"Yeah well, I don't blame you, but no, I can't kick your ass because Spirit chi can only affect spirits, not bodies."
"So you're saying that I have no spirit" Gohan definitely had anger in his voice.
"No, Spirits inside of bodies can't be affected."
"Huh? So you are just a pathetic weakling, just like Vegeta said!"
"You're taking advice from Vegeta now? Good idea, I can see how far it's gotten him!" Raditz began to mirror Gohan's anger. He realized this and suppressed it, he then asked "Why do you hate me so much anyway? And don't act so shocked. I've talked with the others, but you hold yourself aloof. And you glare at me whenever I'm around!"
"You really can't figure out why?" without letting Raditz answer he continued "You kidnapped me and killed my dad!"
"Too bad you don't have more of him in you! He forgave me!"
"Yeah well my dad would forgive Freiza!"
"You think I haven't paid? You think I was HAPPY in hell? You think I like being the ultimate bad guy? You think I don't regret it? Believe me, That crime was way down my list, if that was all you hate me for then you hold a grudge far to long."
"So you're saying we SHOULD forgive Freiza? That's basically the same thing!"
Raditz exploded, shouting so loud the waterfall roaring down became a background noise: "Freiza can't even come close to comparing with me! You have no idea what I am do you? I'm the universes biggest murderer!"
"I'd believe it! Gohan roared back.
"Does it make you proud Gohan? That Your uncle is the universes biggest murderer! Do you think you can come remotely close to adding onto my guilt? If so then you've got FAR too high an opinion of yourself! NOW GET OUT!"
"I'll stay here if I want! And I might have a big opinion of myself but you obviously do too! You think your such a big hotshot on the list of bad guys, Me and my dad have faced down people you can't come close to imagining"
Raditz replied in a terse voice "you just don't get it do you? I'm not imagining it, I got told! I've killed more people directly then any idiot you have met! I might not be the most powerful, but my soul is blacker then theirs. Black with the blood of trillions of people. Now does that satisfy your overblown sense of vanity? That you're related to the most evil ass- hole ever?"
"Oh bullshit, maybe they told you that, but they lied you idiot! Freiza -"
"Did not kill directly, its stupid but it doesn't stain your soul unless it's direct. I can order you to kill anything and if you do it it's your soul that is darkened, not mine!"
"They lied Raditz and you just couldn't get it!"
"YOU CAN NOT LIE IN HELL!" As Raditz bellowed that phrase out the gems began to brighten. By the end they were each as bright as a small sun. Raditz took off and flew out of the cave. The gems went black.
And Gohan was left in the dark, thinking about his uncle, the man with a soul blacker then the now dark gems.
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