A/N: Gohan will usually speak and think in "Japanese". He will only talk or
think in saiya-jin when he's distressed or insulting someone.
Disclaimer: Still don't own DBZ. Bummer.
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If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.
Chapter 2
Piccolo flew quickly trying to find a good place to train Gohan. He watched as the city turned into a mountainous area with no one around for several hundred miles. As he landed on the rocky surface below, he pondered on the best way to wake Gohan up. Spotting a small pond nearby, Piccolo smirked before throwing the kid into the water.
"AHHHH!" Gohan wailed coughing up water. "What'd you do that for? Namekeem teepsheem."
"Quit your complaining brat. We're out here to train for the two saiyans that are coming in a year. You have some special power and I am going to make sure that you know how to control it." Piccolo replied, ignoring what he figured to be some kind of insult in saiya-jin.
"Special power?" Gohan queried. "You have got to be kidding me. How do I control it?"
"I'm not sure." Piccolo said. "That's why we're out here."
Without warning, he grabbed onto the back of Gohan's green shirt and flung him at a nearby mountain. Reacting quickly, Gohan gathered some energy into his palms before firing it at the mountain, both destroying it and sending him launching backwards towards Piccolo. Piccolo, not expecting that reaction, got head-butted in the stomach.
"So, you have some training," Piccolo observed. "I didn't actually think that Goku would train you so young."
"Humph. Shows what you know. I trained myself."
'Interesting.' Piccolo thought. 'He learned how to manipulate his ki on his own at such a young age. This may be easier than I thought.'
"Whatever," Piccolo nonchalantly replied. "I'm going to leave you for the next six months and all I want you to do is survive. If you survive then I'll train you myself for the next six months."
"Are you crazy?!?!" Gohan shrieked. "How am I supposed to survive out here on my own for six months?"
"Figure it out." With that said, Piccolo flew off to meditate and become stronger.
"Just great," Gohan commented sarcastically. "Not only does he tell me to survive in the middle of nowhere, he just leaves me alone out here. Oh well. Might as well find myself a place to camp out in while I'm stuck here."
Gohan searched around and discovered that there were a few trees, none of which provided good shading from the blazing sun or if it were to rain. Searching along the mountains, he found several small, damp caves. Since there was nowhere better to stay he went inside of the cave to relax a bit, still not completely recovered after throwing the blast at Raditz earlier.
'At least I won't have to worry myself about studying for the next year. I guess I'll just work some with my mind.' Sitting himself down, Gohan crossed his legs and rested his elbow on his knees. He then closed his eyes and began to concentrate.
He continued meditating until the ferocious growl of his stomach told him he was hungry. "Oh yeah," he remarked aloud. "I haven't eaten since breakfast this morning. Now where am I supposed to find any food around here?"
Searching the trees, he discovered that none of them had any fruits on them whatsoever. Using his nose to try and smell some food, he only got the scent of some animals in the area.
"Looks like I'm hunting for food tonight." Gohan said.
Following his nose, Gohan continued moving closer to the animals. When they were within viewing range, he realized that they were tyrannosaurus rexes. Since he only had some basic ki blasts, Gohan aimed and fired at where he assumed its brain would be. He grimaced in disgust as he had put too much energy into the blast and blown its head right off of its body.
'This should hold me over for a couple days.' He thought happily.
Grabbing the T-rex by his tail, Gohan pulled it back to his cave and threw it in. He walked in afterwards and ate some of its tail.
After dinner, Gohan decided to do some physical training so he removed his green shirt and wrapped his fuzzy tail around his waist. He started off with a warm up by doing two hundred pushups and crunches. After finishing them, he went on a short run. Tiring himself early, he walked briskly back to his cave to sleep.
As he was heading back, he noticed, with curiosity, that he had a shadow. Looking above and behind him, Gohan saw the full moon shining reflected light onto the planet. Gohan immediately felt his tail twitching and tried to turn away only to find that his body wasn't responding.
'Zeh low tov.' He thought to himself.
He felt surges of pain as his body began growing while growing brown fur, similar to that on his tail's, all over his body. His front teeth grew longer and sharper while his mouth grew outward. His clothes were ripped from his body, as they were too small to fit on him with the growing his body was doing.
Upon the completion of his transformation to oozaru, Gohan began destroying the nearby landscape by firing off energy blasts from his mouth. He grabbed some nearby dinosaurs that were trying to escape and ate them. He stomped on and punched mountains reducing them to rubble.
The ruckus Gohan was causing eventually caught the Namek's attention as he was nearly hit by one of the stray ki blasts.
'What does that kid think he's doing?' Piccolo pondered. 'I should probably see what the problem is.'
Piccolo quickly arrived at the scene and was shocked when he saw a giant monkey-like creature. Deciding to kill it off, he sensed how much energy it had so he would know how strong to make the blast. When he felt its energy, he realized that it had the same signature as Gohan.
"GOHAN!!!!!" Piccolo bellowed in shock. In response, the transformed Gohan stopped his rampage and turned his glance towards the sound of the distraction. He prepared to fire another blast of energy when he suddenly stopped and closed his mouth. It looked at Piccolo with some recognition in its eyes. Piccolo realized that it was having an inner conflict with itself about whether to kill him or not.
Piccolo made the decision for him as he flew away while he still could. Gohan, realizing that the object of his debate was no longer there continued his rampage, which slowly got weaker and weaker, until the sun came up and he shrunk back to his original form with only fur on his tail.
Sensing a major decrease in energy, Piccolo returned to find an unconscious Gohan lying on the ground without any clothes on. He concentrated on the boy and made an outfit exactly like his father's usual gi appear on him, but with his symbol instead of the Turtle Hermit's. He also materialized a short sword in a red sheath for Gohan figuring that he may need something sharp for cutting.
Upon hearing Gohan groan, Piccolo quickly fled the scene so that he wouldn't be spotted. When Gohan woke up, the first thing he realized is that he was wearing an outfit he didn't have before. He smiled when he saw what he was wearing.
He grunted when he tried to sit up upon realizing that, like his father's gi, the boots, undershirt, and wristbands were weighted. He tried harder until he managed to stand up, leaning on the cave wall for support. Panting from the effort, he finally noticed the sword that was left lying on the ground next to where he had been lying moments before.
He grabbed the sword and walked over to the dinosaur at the back of the cave, falling over several times trying to accustom himself to the additional weight of his gi. When he was close enough, Gohan unsheathed the sword and cut off part of its tail to eat for breakfast.
After eating, he went outside and did the same exercises he had done the day before, pushing himself to finish it with the extra weights. After his jog, he returned to the cave, and had lunch. When he was done, he assumed his meditative position and tried to figure out how he could make himself fly. After trying for a long time, he switched over to training his mental powers. He stopped when he got hungry to eat another meal of tail steak. After dinner, he went back outside and sparred against an invisible enemy. When he tired himself, Gohan returned into the cave and meditated some more before heading off to sleep.
This process was repeated for the remainder of the six months of survival with an increase in the number of pushups and crunches he did and how far he ran. He also noticed that the weight often increased when he woke up in the mornings and that his body was relying less on sleep and that he could recover energy while meditating. After figuring out how to fly, Gohan switched to other forms of ki manipulation instead. There was also the monthly transformation into oozaru, but those were becoming less violent with less damage done as Gohan slowly began controlling that form.
"Well, looks like you've survived, kid," Piccolo stated. Gohan winced, as his ears were unaccustomed to hearing anything except for his yells for the last six months. "It's time to move on to the second part of your training."
"Good, I've been getting pretty bored with no one to beat up other than myself." Gohan joked.
"Very well then. Let's spar."
Wasting little time, Gohan powered up some and flew right at Piccolo aiming a punch at his head. Piccolo used his speed to avoid the blow and retaliated with a kick to Gohan's stomach.
"That's cheap," Gohan complained while firing a ki blast at Piccolo, which was deflected, followed by a punch to the chest. "I just ate."
"Too bad, kid. Your first lesson is that anything is fair in a fight." Piccolo concentrated and created three copies of himself and they all attacked Gohan who couldn't keep up with them. Punch after punch, kick after kick, all landed their mark on Gohan who was bleeding all over.
Gohan landed and powered up some more, blowing the Piccolos away. With the time he created, he removed his weighted clothes for the first time and charged right at one of the Piccolos. Gohan elbowed the Piccolo in the gut, flew below him, kicked him skyward and delivered a roundhouse kick to his head. He followed it up by hammering his fists into Piccolo's back and watch as he fell to the ground unconscious.
"Lesson number two," Piccolo declared as he flew threw the air and kicked Gohan in the jaw. "Never turn your back on an opponent."
While lying on the ground, Gohan began concentrating and formed two duplicates of himself. They all stood up and flew at one of the Piccolos. Piccolo was inwardly shocked that Gohan had managed to do the multiform technique so good but showed no outward signs of anything.
Gohan flew at Piccolo again and disappeared right before he hit Piccolo, reappeared above him, and attempted a kick. Piccolo caught the kick and threw Gohan to the ground. Gohan stood up and growled, his tail twitching around his waist and fired an energy blast at Piccolo. Piccolo, realizing Gohan was repeating what he did earlier, deflected the blast and thrust his elbow backwards where Gohan reappeared a moment later.
"Lesson number three, don't get caught in a pattern." Piccolo instructed.
The other two Gohans flew at the first one and they reformed as one before falling to the ground unconscious.
'The kid took more out of me then I thought. I'll just have to not hold back. He's saiyan after all. He can take it.' Piccolo assumed a meditative position and waited for Gohan to wake up.
Several hours passed before Gohan started groaning.
"Uh. Did someone get the number of that jet?" he said before realizing where he was and whom he was with. "Oh." Gohan copied Piccolo and crossed his legs to meditate so he could recover energy and train his mind. They only stopped hours later due to Gohan's hunger before meditating until morning.
That was how Gohan and Piccolo spent the remaining six months training, a spar in the morning, meditation or physical for Gohan, dinner, and meditation until they repeated the process the following day.
One day, while Gohan was sparring himself with his one-ton weights on, both he and Piccolo sensed two energies entering the atmosphere and flew off to where they would land.
When they got there, they saw everyone else there, including a small white mime-like person and a tall, bald, three-eyed man that Gohan didn't recognize. Preparing for the upcoming battle, Gohan wrapped his tail around his waist, crossed his arms over his chest and got a serious look on his face.
"Hey Gohan!" Krillin called cheerfully. "How was your training?"
"Just fine. Can we worry about that later? I can see two pods heading this way." He replied while using his advanced saiyan vision to spot the two pods heading their way. The others followed his eyes and their senses to where the two incoming saiyans were.
A moment later, the pods came howling towards the ground creating two craters upon landing. Steam hissed from both as the doors opened and a figure emerged from each pod. Both of them were wearing a spandex suit under saiyan armor with tails wrapped around their waists and scouters over their left eyes. The first one was large and covered in muscles. He was bald and had black eyes. The second one was short with hair sticking straight up like a flame. He too had black eyes and seemed to be the stronger of the two.
"So," the shorter of the two said. "This is Earth, huh? It doesn't look like much to me." Both scouters went off at once upon sensing the warriors.
"Oh look, my prince," the big one said. "A welcoming committee."
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I tried to make the training as exciting as possible. I'll try to get the next chapter up soon, it all depends on how much homework I get.
Translations:
Namekeem teepsheem- stupid Nameks
Zeh low tov- that's not good
Disclaimer: Still don't own DBZ. Bummer.
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If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.
Chapter 2
Piccolo flew quickly trying to find a good place to train Gohan. He watched as the city turned into a mountainous area with no one around for several hundred miles. As he landed on the rocky surface below, he pondered on the best way to wake Gohan up. Spotting a small pond nearby, Piccolo smirked before throwing the kid into the water.
"AHHHH!" Gohan wailed coughing up water. "What'd you do that for? Namekeem teepsheem."
"Quit your complaining brat. We're out here to train for the two saiyans that are coming in a year. You have some special power and I am going to make sure that you know how to control it." Piccolo replied, ignoring what he figured to be some kind of insult in saiya-jin.
"Special power?" Gohan queried. "You have got to be kidding me. How do I control it?"
"I'm not sure." Piccolo said. "That's why we're out here."
Without warning, he grabbed onto the back of Gohan's green shirt and flung him at a nearby mountain. Reacting quickly, Gohan gathered some energy into his palms before firing it at the mountain, both destroying it and sending him launching backwards towards Piccolo. Piccolo, not expecting that reaction, got head-butted in the stomach.
"So, you have some training," Piccolo observed. "I didn't actually think that Goku would train you so young."
"Humph. Shows what you know. I trained myself."
'Interesting.' Piccolo thought. 'He learned how to manipulate his ki on his own at such a young age. This may be easier than I thought.'
"Whatever," Piccolo nonchalantly replied. "I'm going to leave you for the next six months and all I want you to do is survive. If you survive then I'll train you myself for the next six months."
"Are you crazy?!?!" Gohan shrieked. "How am I supposed to survive out here on my own for six months?"
"Figure it out." With that said, Piccolo flew off to meditate and become stronger.
"Just great," Gohan commented sarcastically. "Not only does he tell me to survive in the middle of nowhere, he just leaves me alone out here. Oh well. Might as well find myself a place to camp out in while I'm stuck here."
Gohan searched around and discovered that there were a few trees, none of which provided good shading from the blazing sun or if it were to rain. Searching along the mountains, he found several small, damp caves. Since there was nowhere better to stay he went inside of the cave to relax a bit, still not completely recovered after throwing the blast at Raditz earlier.
'At least I won't have to worry myself about studying for the next year. I guess I'll just work some with my mind.' Sitting himself down, Gohan crossed his legs and rested his elbow on his knees. He then closed his eyes and began to concentrate.
He continued meditating until the ferocious growl of his stomach told him he was hungry. "Oh yeah," he remarked aloud. "I haven't eaten since breakfast this morning. Now where am I supposed to find any food around here?"
Searching the trees, he discovered that none of them had any fruits on them whatsoever. Using his nose to try and smell some food, he only got the scent of some animals in the area.
"Looks like I'm hunting for food tonight." Gohan said.
Following his nose, Gohan continued moving closer to the animals. When they were within viewing range, he realized that they were tyrannosaurus rexes. Since he only had some basic ki blasts, Gohan aimed and fired at where he assumed its brain would be. He grimaced in disgust as he had put too much energy into the blast and blown its head right off of its body.
'This should hold me over for a couple days.' He thought happily.
Grabbing the T-rex by his tail, Gohan pulled it back to his cave and threw it in. He walked in afterwards and ate some of its tail.
After dinner, Gohan decided to do some physical training so he removed his green shirt and wrapped his fuzzy tail around his waist. He started off with a warm up by doing two hundred pushups and crunches. After finishing them, he went on a short run. Tiring himself early, he walked briskly back to his cave to sleep.
As he was heading back, he noticed, with curiosity, that he had a shadow. Looking above and behind him, Gohan saw the full moon shining reflected light onto the planet. Gohan immediately felt his tail twitching and tried to turn away only to find that his body wasn't responding.
'Zeh low tov.' He thought to himself.
He felt surges of pain as his body began growing while growing brown fur, similar to that on his tail's, all over his body. His front teeth grew longer and sharper while his mouth grew outward. His clothes were ripped from his body, as they were too small to fit on him with the growing his body was doing.
Upon the completion of his transformation to oozaru, Gohan began destroying the nearby landscape by firing off energy blasts from his mouth. He grabbed some nearby dinosaurs that were trying to escape and ate them. He stomped on and punched mountains reducing them to rubble.
The ruckus Gohan was causing eventually caught the Namek's attention as he was nearly hit by one of the stray ki blasts.
'What does that kid think he's doing?' Piccolo pondered. 'I should probably see what the problem is.'
Piccolo quickly arrived at the scene and was shocked when he saw a giant monkey-like creature. Deciding to kill it off, he sensed how much energy it had so he would know how strong to make the blast. When he felt its energy, he realized that it had the same signature as Gohan.
"GOHAN!!!!!" Piccolo bellowed in shock. In response, the transformed Gohan stopped his rampage and turned his glance towards the sound of the distraction. He prepared to fire another blast of energy when he suddenly stopped and closed his mouth. It looked at Piccolo with some recognition in its eyes. Piccolo realized that it was having an inner conflict with itself about whether to kill him or not.
Piccolo made the decision for him as he flew away while he still could. Gohan, realizing that the object of his debate was no longer there continued his rampage, which slowly got weaker and weaker, until the sun came up and he shrunk back to his original form with only fur on his tail.
Sensing a major decrease in energy, Piccolo returned to find an unconscious Gohan lying on the ground without any clothes on. He concentrated on the boy and made an outfit exactly like his father's usual gi appear on him, but with his symbol instead of the Turtle Hermit's. He also materialized a short sword in a red sheath for Gohan figuring that he may need something sharp for cutting.
Upon hearing Gohan groan, Piccolo quickly fled the scene so that he wouldn't be spotted. When Gohan woke up, the first thing he realized is that he was wearing an outfit he didn't have before. He smiled when he saw what he was wearing.
He grunted when he tried to sit up upon realizing that, like his father's gi, the boots, undershirt, and wristbands were weighted. He tried harder until he managed to stand up, leaning on the cave wall for support. Panting from the effort, he finally noticed the sword that was left lying on the ground next to where he had been lying moments before.
He grabbed the sword and walked over to the dinosaur at the back of the cave, falling over several times trying to accustom himself to the additional weight of his gi. When he was close enough, Gohan unsheathed the sword and cut off part of its tail to eat for breakfast.
After eating, he went outside and did the same exercises he had done the day before, pushing himself to finish it with the extra weights. After his jog, he returned to the cave, and had lunch. When he was done, he assumed his meditative position and tried to figure out how he could make himself fly. After trying for a long time, he switched over to training his mental powers. He stopped when he got hungry to eat another meal of tail steak. After dinner, he went back outside and sparred against an invisible enemy. When he tired himself, Gohan returned into the cave and meditated some more before heading off to sleep.
This process was repeated for the remainder of the six months of survival with an increase in the number of pushups and crunches he did and how far he ran. He also noticed that the weight often increased when he woke up in the mornings and that his body was relying less on sleep and that he could recover energy while meditating. After figuring out how to fly, Gohan switched to other forms of ki manipulation instead. There was also the monthly transformation into oozaru, but those were becoming less violent with less damage done as Gohan slowly began controlling that form.
"Well, looks like you've survived, kid," Piccolo stated. Gohan winced, as his ears were unaccustomed to hearing anything except for his yells for the last six months. "It's time to move on to the second part of your training."
"Good, I've been getting pretty bored with no one to beat up other than myself." Gohan joked.
"Very well then. Let's spar."
Wasting little time, Gohan powered up some and flew right at Piccolo aiming a punch at his head. Piccolo used his speed to avoid the blow and retaliated with a kick to Gohan's stomach.
"That's cheap," Gohan complained while firing a ki blast at Piccolo, which was deflected, followed by a punch to the chest. "I just ate."
"Too bad, kid. Your first lesson is that anything is fair in a fight." Piccolo concentrated and created three copies of himself and they all attacked Gohan who couldn't keep up with them. Punch after punch, kick after kick, all landed their mark on Gohan who was bleeding all over.
Gohan landed and powered up some more, blowing the Piccolos away. With the time he created, he removed his weighted clothes for the first time and charged right at one of the Piccolos. Gohan elbowed the Piccolo in the gut, flew below him, kicked him skyward and delivered a roundhouse kick to his head. He followed it up by hammering his fists into Piccolo's back and watch as he fell to the ground unconscious.
"Lesson number two," Piccolo declared as he flew threw the air and kicked Gohan in the jaw. "Never turn your back on an opponent."
While lying on the ground, Gohan began concentrating and formed two duplicates of himself. They all stood up and flew at one of the Piccolos. Piccolo was inwardly shocked that Gohan had managed to do the multiform technique so good but showed no outward signs of anything.
Gohan flew at Piccolo again and disappeared right before he hit Piccolo, reappeared above him, and attempted a kick. Piccolo caught the kick and threw Gohan to the ground. Gohan stood up and growled, his tail twitching around his waist and fired an energy blast at Piccolo. Piccolo, realizing Gohan was repeating what he did earlier, deflected the blast and thrust his elbow backwards where Gohan reappeared a moment later.
"Lesson number three, don't get caught in a pattern." Piccolo instructed.
The other two Gohans flew at the first one and they reformed as one before falling to the ground unconscious.
'The kid took more out of me then I thought. I'll just have to not hold back. He's saiyan after all. He can take it.' Piccolo assumed a meditative position and waited for Gohan to wake up.
Several hours passed before Gohan started groaning.
"Uh. Did someone get the number of that jet?" he said before realizing where he was and whom he was with. "Oh." Gohan copied Piccolo and crossed his legs to meditate so he could recover energy and train his mind. They only stopped hours later due to Gohan's hunger before meditating until morning.
That was how Gohan and Piccolo spent the remaining six months training, a spar in the morning, meditation or physical for Gohan, dinner, and meditation until they repeated the process the following day.
One day, while Gohan was sparring himself with his one-ton weights on, both he and Piccolo sensed two energies entering the atmosphere and flew off to where they would land.
When they got there, they saw everyone else there, including a small white mime-like person and a tall, bald, three-eyed man that Gohan didn't recognize. Preparing for the upcoming battle, Gohan wrapped his tail around his waist, crossed his arms over his chest and got a serious look on his face.
"Hey Gohan!" Krillin called cheerfully. "How was your training?"
"Just fine. Can we worry about that later? I can see two pods heading this way." He replied while using his advanced saiyan vision to spot the two pods heading their way. The others followed his eyes and their senses to where the two incoming saiyans were.
A moment later, the pods came howling towards the ground creating two craters upon landing. Steam hissed from both as the doors opened and a figure emerged from each pod. Both of them were wearing a spandex suit under saiyan armor with tails wrapped around their waists and scouters over their left eyes. The first one was large and covered in muscles. He was bald and had black eyes. The second one was short with hair sticking straight up like a flame. He too had black eyes and seemed to be the stronger of the two.
"So," the shorter of the two said. "This is Earth, huh? It doesn't look like much to me." Both scouters went off at once upon sensing the warriors.
"Oh look, my prince," the big one said. "A welcoming committee."
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I tried to make the training as exciting as possible. I'll try to get the next chapter up soon, it all depends on how much homework I get.
Translations:
Namekeem teepsheem- stupid Nameks
Zeh low tov- that's not good