A/N: Man, I am getting way too distracted by other things. Now they have
animes I want to watch playing later at night giving me less updating time.
Inuyasha is finally getting into new episodes, they're now showing the Dark
Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho, and they put Trigun back on, w00t! And then
there are the other animes that they have thrown into the lineup.
Thanks for the name ideas for multiform. For now, their names will be Phantom and Damien. One zillion imaginary points if you can guess why I chose Damien. No, it has nothing to do with the devil or any other religious belief. Wait, Damien was the son of Satan in South Park, right?
Godzilla2: Ooh, I like
Luna's Meow: Yeah he is. This is the fourth different place he's bothered me about this fic and I've told him about his stupidity in opinions every time. Goku moved pyramids with his mind? Wow, I thought that was only Piccolo.
Reviewer W: That isn't even funny to suggest that. I'm not going to tell you about my plans for Gohan's super saiyan powers because that would ruin whatever suspense there is right now. Mystic powers? Um... not sure, but he'll probably get them in my other fic. Of course someone is going to die. Oh, besides Cell? Probably. I had Mirai say that? Woopsies. Bulma and Vegeta got together in the series on television, didn't they?
Dark Wolf on a full blood moon: The crossover thing is only in the other story. I may decide to have Gohan take "vacations" to other dimensions if he wants to get away from everyone or something. Don't (don't) make Gohan a nerd? Your using double negatives so you want me to make him one? Just kidding, I don't like the nerdiness either.
ESSJGohan: Actually, that was originally there as a joke. Although you just unintentionally gave me a very evil idea *evil laughter*
D: I'll try but I'm not very good at coming up with original ideas and such. It's a miracle if I come up with a good idea that's original.
Metsu Shoryuken: Thanks for the support. We all know that stuff but some people seem to forget what actually happened in the actual story and can't notice the differences I make. Probably because I started off really close to what happened and have slowly been changing it.
Tipsy Azn Boi-
Jared: That's okay; besides, we have to prepare for tomorrow night.
Tipsy Azn Boi: Why, Jared? What are we going to do tomorrow night?
Jared: The same thing we do every night; try and take over the world! ^_^
Disclaimer: Still own jack diddily squat.
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Chapter 16
Gohan slowly opened his turquoise eyes. He groaned and shut them as they were bombarded with blinding sunlight.
"Grandpa!" a young girl called. "He's waking up! Come quick!"
Gohan felt the bed shift as the little girl climbed onto the bed. Gohan opened his eyes again and let his eyes adjust to the light. Once they were adjusted, he took notice of the girl's curious green eyes staring down at him. She was so close that her wavy red hair was almost in his eyes. The girl smiled widely then started firing off questions at him.
"So, who are you? Where do you come from? Why were you in such bad condition? What happened to you? When are you going to get better? Will you go out and play with me when you're better? How did you end up by a rock in our village? Where you running away from Cell?" she fired rapidly in one breath.
Gohan sat up and tried to comprehend what she just said. He had never been around any children, a girl especially, so he didn't know what to do. His saiyan instincts were telling him to grab her by her blue jean overalls and throw her off of him and out the window, but something else was telling him not to that and just let her do whatever it was she was doing. New to experiencing normal humans, Gohan listened to the latter voice, which he assumed was his human side.
Deciding to leave the girl be, Gohan turned his attention to the room, which obviously wasn't his. The only similarity was that the rooms were both made out of wood. The walls and ceiling were painted a light green and there was a dresser next to the bed with some toys on it. The desk in the corner lacked the mile high stack of work that he found in his room to work on for that day, as well as the equally tall stack of finished papers. The bookshelf didn't have very many books in it either.
"Leave the child alone there," the girl's grandfather said. "He probably needs his..." he stopped in shock when he saw that Gohan was sitting up as though he had no injuries. The doctor had told them that it would take over a week for him to heal, and it was nowhere near a week since they had taken him to the doctor's.
Meanwhile, the girl had finally stopped hopping around on the bed and firing off questions at Gohan faster than he cared to comprehend. She stood back as her grandfather examined the boy and checked his injuries.
"Well, your healing is coming along miraculously," the man said. "Oh, how silly of me, we didn't even introduce ourselves. You can call me Mr. Lowe and this is my granddaughter, Lime." The two looked at him expectantly, waiting to hear the boy's name.
"Oh, my name's Gohan," Gohan stated once he figured out what they wanted.
"So, how did you end up in such bad condition?" Mr. Lowe asked. Gohan examined his body.
"Bad condition? What are you talking about? My body looks just fine."
"No, I'm talking about when we found you. Your body was very beat up; it looked like someone had put your body in a blender or something." Mr. Lowe laughed at that, but Gohan just scowled slightly at having been seen in such weak condition.
"Yeah, it didn't look very good," Lime commented. "So, how did you end up like that?"
"I was doing some training."
"And you hurt yourself that bad training by yourself?"
"Um, no. I was sparring with my friend, Phantom. He had probably gone to get some help but you guys found me first. Speaking of which, how long have I been out?"
"Almost four days!" Lime chirped.
"Four days?! Oh man is my mom going to give it to me when I get home."
"Should we go with you and explain the situation to her? She couldn't possibly punish you for having been injured like that."
"You don't know my mother. She'll punish me just because I worried her. I don't want to have to do anymore studying, it's so boring," Gohan wined.
"Well, we can figure that out at a later time," Mr. Lowe said. "Right now, you need to heal some more before you even start to worry about going anywhere."
Gohan inspected his body, and found that all of his serious injuries had already been healed. He didn't see what the big problem was; he only had bruises all over his body and some open wounds- maybe even a broken bone or two. Those injuries were nothing compared to what he had experienced in previous fights.
"Why do I need to heal more?" Gohan inquired. "My body is healed enough for me to move around."
"I'm sure it is," Mr. Lowe proclaimed. "But you should still wait until you're in better condition before you try and start doing anything that could hurt you again."
"Oh fine, if your going to worry about it that much..." Gohan grumbled.
Gohan pulled out his bag of senzu beans, pulled out one of the green beans, and ate it. All of his injuries started healing until it was impossible to tell that he had even been injured in the first place.
"What the...? How? What happened to...?" Mr. Lowe stuttered, trying to comprehend what was going on. Lime, however, had a much different approach to the situation.
"Sugoi!" she squealed, causing Gohan to flinch due to his sensitive hearing. "That was awesome! How did you do that?"
"That? That was nothing," Gohan stated. "I just ate a senzu bean."
"Senzu bean? How could a bean make you better?" Mr. Lowe asked.
"Not quite sure how, but a senzu bean heals all of your injuries. Go figure that Phantom would forget that I carry those with me at all times."
"Is Phantom his real name or a nickname?" Lime questioned. Gohan raised an eyebrow and tried to figure out how to answer that.
"Actually, it's his real name. Either that, or he hasn't told me what his real name is." Gohan figured that it was the closest he could get to the truth without telling about his multiform, which he didn't care to explain. His clone hadn't told him if he had a name, so he figured it wouldn't matter if he just gave them both names.
"So then why did he hurt you so bad?" Lime inquired. "Usually, spars only leave people with a bruise or two, not fifteen broken bones. Or were you training for the Cell Games?" Gohan grinned sheepishly.
"Yeah, we were training for the Cell Games," Gohan admitted. "Plus, when we have senzu beans that will heal us to full strength, we might as well go until neither of us can battle anymore." Lime nodded her head in understanding, while Mr. Lowe was shaking his head at their 'foolishness' as he saw it.
"Well, I guess you're healed, so you can go," Mr. Lowe said. "Though it's almost nighttime so I suggest you just stay here for dinner and sleep here tonight."
Gohan's ears twitched as he heard several loud voices coming from a distance away. It didn't take long until the other two heard it also.
"Oh great, they're at it again," Mr. Lowe grumbled. "Those people will never learn." Gohan looked at them quizzically, waiting for an explanation.
"Oh, that's right, you aren't from around here so you don't know what that ruckus is about," Lime pointed out. "All the villagers are investing in some shelter that they think will save them all from Cell. They're too stupid to realize that it won't do them any good. I'll be right back, grandpa." Lime ran out the room, down the stairs, and out of the house.
"You should probably follow her," Mr. Lowe proclaimed. "That girl has a tendency to get herself in trouble a lot." Gohan nodded and took off after Lime.
Gohan ran through the trees, following Lime by her ki signature. He was going pretty fast, but not fast enough that he would suddenly appear next to her. Gohan didn't exactly feel like explaining how he could move so fast. The distance between the two closed rapidly, and soon Gohan could see Lime's red hair flapping against her back as she ran towards the shelter.
Lime looked over her shoulder once she heard footsteps following her, and waved at Gohan, who smiled back. The two soon came to a bush, and on the other side of the bush, they could hear the villagers rambling and complaining.
"But we paid for it, why aren't we being allowed in yet?" a villager asked.
Gohan peeked over the bush and at the group of people, and the shelter itself. The shelter wasn't anything all that spectacular, just a large gray dome. He figured that the shelter had less of a chance of surviving one of Cell's attacks than an eighty-foot tall giant drowning in a stream.
"And those fools expect that thing to defend them against Cell? Pathetic..." Gohan muttered. Gohan watched curiously as Lime slowly crept away and around to one of the sides of the shelter.
All of the villagers seemed to be complaining to one guy, a fat guy, probably in his forties at least, who was wearing a dark gray suit and white shirt underneath. The guy was wearing a hat and seemed to be showing off how rich he was.
"Cell! It's Cell! Everybody run!" Gohan heard Lime shout out in fake fear.
The shout started a mass riot, as all of the villagers tried to rush inside the shelter that they thought would protect them from Cell. All of the doors closed and the only person who made it inside was the fat guy in the suit, who Gohan figured to be the one who brought about the construction of the pathetic excuse for a shelter.
Gohan turned as he heard Lime yelling at someone to put her down. He saw one of the villagers holding her by her shirt and dragging her towards the entrance of the shelter.
"Do not panic! This is the girl who has falsely brought about the information!" he called to all of the villagers.
As soon as he said it, the fat guy came thundering out of the shelter shouting out strings of curses at Lime for her foolishness.
"Mercenary Tao! Come out here and destroy this girl!" he called.
Gohan turned his attention to the one called Tao. The name rang a bell somewhere, but he couldn't recall where from. The mercenary's body was made almost entirely out of metal, making him look like an android. He had a long black hair that was held back in a ponytail. The strangest thing was that he wore clothes that were dark pink, definitely not colors suited for a warrior.
"Well, little girl, it would seem that you have become much too annoying as of late. I guess I'll just have to kill you. Oh well, it's been along time since I got to kill anyone anyways, so this should be fun. I'll let you fight me so that you can at least die honorably," Mercenary Tao said. Gohan leisurely walked out of the bushes and towards Lime.
"What do you know? Your grandfather was right; you are a trouble maker," Gohan exclaimed casually, as though there was nothing wrong. Everyone just stared in shock at the blonde haired kid who looked as though he didn't care that one of his friends was about to die.
"I'm standing here, about to be killed, and ALL YOU CAN DO IS CHASTIZE ME ABOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE! You are so dead when I get over there," Lime shouted, thundering her way over to Gohan.
"Where do you think you're going, little missy?" Mercenary Tao asked. "Take one more step and you're dead." Mercenary Tao pulled off his right hand, revealing a large hole in it that was presumably a weapon of some sort.
Lime was rooted to her spot, too scared to do anything. Gohan was still just standing there smiling as though nothing was wrong.
"Sorry, pal, but I can't let you do that," Gohan proclaimed.
"Oh? And how do you intend to stop me?" Tao taunted. He finally took a good look at the boy and almost recoiled when he realized that the boy looked very familiar to him. "Boy, what is your name?" Gohan was taken aback at the question.
"My name? It's Gohan. What is it to you?"
"Oh, good. For a moment, I thought you were a boy named Goku. He's the only person who has ever managed to defeat me." Tao muttered the last sentence under his breath, but Gohan still heard it anyway. Gohan smirked as he finally remembered why Mercenary Tao sounded familiar, and that he was no longer a threat.
"Oh well. Guess I get to be the second person to defeat you," Gohan said nonchalantly.
"Very funny boy, but you don't stand a chance. DODON RAY!"
The beam of energy shot rapidly at Gohan, who just let it hit him. When the beam connected with his body, it covered the area with smoke, obscuring him from view. Lime gasped in shock that Gohan didn't do anything and worry for her new friend. Everyone else was just shocked at the boy's stupidity.
The smoke cleared, and everyone was surprised when they saw Gohan standing there, yawning.
"What was that? Are you going to start fighting seriously, or are you just going to continue being weak?" Gohan asked before yawning again. Tao was seething in anger that the boy showed no signs of damage from his attack.
"You think you're tough boy? Then chew on this! SUPER DODON RAY!!!"
Tao held his right arm out. Energy began to gather into the hole where his wrist should be until Tao felt it was powerful enough. The beam was released at Gohan, who continued standing there, face showing how bored he was with this.
Gohan raised his arm and swatted at the beam of energy, which caused it to reverse direction and head straight back at Mercenary Tao. Tao attempted to dodge the assault, but was too slow. He managed to avoid most of the blast, so he only lost his left arm and some of his torso. Wires sparked around inside of him where they should have been connected to wires that were no longer there.
"Consider yourself lucky, boy. I'll be back for you later," Tao said, trying to sound threatening.
"You couldn't defeat my father, what makes you think you could ever defeat me?"
"Your...fa...ther?" Tao's face paled as he realized that this boy in front of him was the son of Goku. "I'm out of here!"
Tao chopped down a nearby tree, threw it into the air, then jumped onto it, riding it as far away from there as he possibly could.
"Well that was boring," Gohan stated. He turned his attention to the shelter and smirked. "You people are all fools if you think such a pathetic structure could ever save you." Gohan held up his hand and fired a weak energy blast at the shelter, annihilating the structure easily.
All the villagers started yelling at the boy, feeling that they could no longer survive Cell's attacks, not that they could have anyway.
"Whatever. Come on Lime; let's get out of here. These people are really starting to annoy me," Gohan said. Lime came running towards him and then the two walked back to Lime's house.
"How did you do that?" Lime asked.
"Do what?"
"Fire that light from your hand and block Tao's attack."
"Oh, that? That was nothing. It's just a matter of manipulating your energy. I deflected Tao's attack because I have more energy that he does, so his attacks are weaker than a fly compared to me."
"Could you teach me to do that?" Gohan looked at her and judged her ki.
"I could. But it looks like you need a bit of training first."
"YAY!!" Lime cheered as she ran home faster, excited at being able to learn something so cool.
'Human girls sure are weird,' Gohan thought. 'They can have the strangest mood swings and yet, can often be pleased by doing some easy and basic things. I don't see how I could possibly be of the same species as them; even if I'm only half human.'
That night, Gohan ate at Lime's house. Both Lime and Mr. Lowe were shocked at how much food he consumed, and wondered how his parents ever managed to feed him.
After dinner, Gohan figured that it would probably help his situation some if he called home now instead of just showing up there later, with an even more distressed mother waiting to yell her, as Vegeta constantly put it, banshee mouth off.
"Are the earplugs necessary?" Mr. Lowe asked when he observed Gohan stuffing some into his ears.
"Yes. I have sensitive hearing and my mother can yell. Very loudly. You two should probably put some in too," Gohan advised. Lime decided to trust that he was right and stuffed ear plugs into her ears, while Mr. Lowe just shook his head, obviously thinking that Gohan was overreacting.
Gohan picked up the phone and dialed home. He listened as the phone rang a couple times before it was picked up.
"Moshi moshi," an exhausted voice said. Gohan snickered to himself.
"Hi mom! It's me, Gohan!"
"Yeah, how are you?" Gohan, expecting this, waited a couple moments for the information to actually process in his mother's mind. That didn't take too long either.
"GOHAN? WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN YOUNG MAN? YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR NOT CALLING EARLIER. I was so worried about you and that something horrible happened to my precious little baby. How could you worry me so? It's all Piccolo's fault. If it weren't for him, you would have never become so rebellious and gone out training," Chichi sobbed. Gohan snickered when he saw Mr. Lowe clutching his ears in pain, while Lime was rolling on the floor laughing her head off.
"Sorry about the delay, mom. But I was unconscious until earlier this evening," Gohan explained. He hurried the next part in before his mother got into her overly worried mother mode. "Don't worry though, I already ate a senzu bean so I'm not in any pain."
"Well, I'm glad that you're alright and that you called me as soon as you could. I knew I raised you better than to leave for a long time without calling. That doesn't mean that you won't get punished though. You're going to have to do extra homework as well as washing and cleaning all of the dishes; and no super speed." Gohan groaned silently, knowing that she would just increase the load if she heard.
"Alright mom. Is it okay if I stay here tonight? I'm at a friend's house and they already invited me."
"Oh, my baby is already making normal friends. Of course you can, sweetie. See you tomorrow then."
"All right, bye."
Gohan hung up the phone and then let out a huge sigh of relief. Both he and Lime, who was still snickering at her grandfather, pulled their earplugs out of their ears.
"That went better than expected," Gohan said.
"Really? That punishment sounded pretty bad. But what's super speed?"
"You remember the energy I was talking about earlier?" At Lime's nod, he continued. "Well, super speed is using that energy to move really fast."
"Oh. That's right, you promised you'd teach me how to use energy."
Gohan would have pointed out that he never actually promised her that, but was worried that she had strong lungs and would yell really loud into them, so he just complied and taught her how to use energy.
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Gohan returned home the next day, and was told to march straight to his room to study, which he reluctantly did. He spent just about all of the remaining five days left before the Cell Games studying or helping to train Lime, who could now summon her energy at will without exhausting herself too much.
On the morning of the fight, Chichi prepared a large meal for Gohan and Goku, who happily consumed it and thanked her. They stood up and prepared to leave when Chichi came out to wish them luck.
"Well, good luck Goku," she said. Goku hugged her and then backed off. "Promise me that Gohan won't fight." Goku nearly fell out of the air when she said that.
"What?"
"I said promise me that Gohan won't fight in this crazy tournament."
"Um...well...I'll see you later, Chi! Don't want to keep the others waiting." With that said, Goku and Gohan took off for the Cell Games.
The two quickly caught up to the others and flew with them to the arena. Once they got there, they saw Vegeta already waiting there, as well as another android, which they could tell because he gave off no life force, and a group of humans.
"Welcome everyone," Cell said. "It's good to see you all here. Now then, let's get the Cell Games underway."
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I'm not sure why, but I felt that I had to put Lime in, probably because I like her and she was only shown once. I know that she didn't act like she did in the show, but wouldn't any ten year old girl act like that when some injured kid comes along?
It was recently brought to my attention, by several people, that I'm making Gohan act like a full-blooded saiyans, which wasn't what I meant to do. Gohan was supposed to still be pretty nice, but care more about saiyan things. It's probably because I have really only done fight scenes and haven't given him time to do normal things and such. Of course, most of Gohan's childhood was fighting, so it isn't too hard to have done that.
I want to thank my good friend, Ryan, for allowing me to bounce ideas off him and helping me get some ideas for this chapter. Todah rabah Reuven. And I want to thank ESSJGohan for unintentionally giving me that evil idea for the upcoming fight. Though don't get angry if you dislike what I came up with because of the review. You can read it for yourself and see that it didn't state any ideas so it's my entire fault if you peoples think it's stupid, though it is an original idea, which is rare for me. Unfortunately, you won't know what I'm doing for another two chapters *evil grin*
Thanks for the name ideas for multiform. For now, their names will be Phantom and Damien. One zillion imaginary points if you can guess why I chose Damien. No, it has nothing to do with the devil or any other religious belief. Wait, Damien was the son of Satan in South Park, right?
Godzilla2: Ooh, I like
Luna's Meow: Yeah he is. This is the fourth different place he's bothered me about this fic and I've told him about his stupidity in opinions every time. Goku moved pyramids with his mind? Wow, I thought that was only Piccolo.
Reviewer W: That isn't even funny to suggest that. I'm not going to tell you about my plans for Gohan's super saiyan powers because that would ruin whatever suspense there is right now. Mystic powers? Um... not sure, but he'll probably get them in my other fic. Of course someone is going to die. Oh, besides Cell? Probably. I had Mirai say that? Woopsies. Bulma and Vegeta got together in the series on television, didn't they?
Dark Wolf on a full blood moon: The crossover thing is only in the other story. I may decide to have Gohan take "vacations" to other dimensions if he wants to get away from everyone or something. Don't (don't) make Gohan a nerd? Your using double negatives so you want me to make him one? Just kidding, I don't like the nerdiness either.
ESSJGohan: Actually, that was originally there as a joke. Although you just unintentionally gave me a very evil idea *evil laughter*
D: I'll try but I'm not very good at coming up with original ideas and such. It's a miracle if I come up with a good idea that's original.
Metsu Shoryuken: Thanks for the support. We all know that stuff but some people seem to forget what actually happened in the actual story and can't notice the differences I make. Probably because I started off really close to what happened and have slowly been changing it.
Tipsy Azn Boi-
Jared: That's okay; besides, we have to prepare for tomorrow night.
Tipsy Azn Boi: Why, Jared? What are we going to do tomorrow night?
Jared: The same thing we do every night; try and take over the world! ^_^
Disclaimer: Still own jack diddily squat.
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Thank you for visiting reality, come again........... Now entering your life, welcome!
Chapter 16
Gohan slowly opened his turquoise eyes. He groaned and shut them as they were bombarded with blinding sunlight.
"Grandpa!" a young girl called. "He's waking up! Come quick!"
Gohan felt the bed shift as the little girl climbed onto the bed. Gohan opened his eyes again and let his eyes adjust to the light. Once they were adjusted, he took notice of the girl's curious green eyes staring down at him. She was so close that her wavy red hair was almost in his eyes. The girl smiled widely then started firing off questions at him.
"So, who are you? Where do you come from? Why were you in such bad condition? What happened to you? When are you going to get better? Will you go out and play with me when you're better? How did you end up by a rock in our village? Where you running away from Cell?" she fired rapidly in one breath.
Gohan sat up and tried to comprehend what she just said. He had never been around any children, a girl especially, so he didn't know what to do. His saiyan instincts were telling him to grab her by her blue jean overalls and throw her off of him and out the window, but something else was telling him not to that and just let her do whatever it was she was doing. New to experiencing normal humans, Gohan listened to the latter voice, which he assumed was his human side.
Deciding to leave the girl be, Gohan turned his attention to the room, which obviously wasn't his. The only similarity was that the rooms were both made out of wood. The walls and ceiling were painted a light green and there was a dresser next to the bed with some toys on it. The desk in the corner lacked the mile high stack of work that he found in his room to work on for that day, as well as the equally tall stack of finished papers. The bookshelf didn't have very many books in it either.
"Leave the child alone there," the girl's grandfather said. "He probably needs his..." he stopped in shock when he saw that Gohan was sitting up as though he had no injuries. The doctor had told them that it would take over a week for him to heal, and it was nowhere near a week since they had taken him to the doctor's.
Meanwhile, the girl had finally stopped hopping around on the bed and firing off questions at Gohan faster than he cared to comprehend. She stood back as her grandfather examined the boy and checked his injuries.
"Well, your healing is coming along miraculously," the man said. "Oh, how silly of me, we didn't even introduce ourselves. You can call me Mr. Lowe and this is my granddaughter, Lime." The two looked at him expectantly, waiting to hear the boy's name.
"Oh, my name's Gohan," Gohan stated once he figured out what they wanted.
"So, how did you end up in such bad condition?" Mr. Lowe asked. Gohan examined his body.
"Bad condition? What are you talking about? My body looks just fine."
"No, I'm talking about when we found you. Your body was very beat up; it looked like someone had put your body in a blender or something." Mr. Lowe laughed at that, but Gohan just scowled slightly at having been seen in such weak condition.
"Yeah, it didn't look very good," Lime commented. "So, how did you end up like that?"
"I was doing some training."
"And you hurt yourself that bad training by yourself?"
"Um, no. I was sparring with my friend, Phantom. He had probably gone to get some help but you guys found me first. Speaking of which, how long have I been out?"
"Almost four days!" Lime chirped.
"Four days?! Oh man is my mom going to give it to me when I get home."
"Should we go with you and explain the situation to her? She couldn't possibly punish you for having been injured like that."
"You don't know my mother. She'll punish me just because I worried her. I don't want to have to do anymore studying, it's so boring," Gohan wined.
"Well, we can figure that out at a later time," Mr. Lowe said. "Right now, you need to heal some more before you even start to worry about going anywhere."
Gohan inspected his body, and found that all of his serious injuries had already been healed. He didn't see what the big problem was; he only had bruises all over his body and some open wounds- maybe even a broken bone or two. Those injuries were nothing compared to what he had experienced in previous fights.
"Why do I need to heal more?" Gohan inquired. "My body is healed enough for me to move around."
"I'm sure it is," Mr. Lowe proclaimed. "But you should still wait until you're in better condition before you try and start doing anything that could hurt you again."
"Oh fine, if your going to worry about it that much..." Gohan grumbled.
Gohan pulled out his bag of senzu beans, pulled out one of the green beans, and ate it. All of his injuries started healing until it was impossible to tell that he had even been injured in the first place.
"What the...? How? What happened to...?" Mr. Lowe stuttered, trying to comprehend what was going on. Lime, however, had a much different approach to the situation.
"Sugoi!" she squealed, causing Gohan to flinch due to his sensitive hearing. "That was awesome! How did you do that?"
"That? That was nothing," Gohan stated. "I just ate a senzu bean."
"Senzu bean? How could a bean make you better?" Mr. Lowe asked.
"Not quite sure how, but a senzu bean heals all of your injuries. Go figure that Phantom would forget that I carry those with me at all times."
"Is Phantom his real name or a nickname?" Lime questioned. Gohan raised an eyebrow and tried to figure out how to answer that.
"Actually, it's his real name. Either that, or he hasn't told me what his real name is." Gohan figured that it was the closest he could get to the truth without telling about his multiform, which he didn't care to explain. His clone hadn't told him if he had a name, so he figured it wouldn't matter if he just gave them both names.
"So then why did he hurt you so bad?" Lime inquired. "Usually, spars only leave people with a bruise or two, not fifteen broken bones. Or were you training for the Cell Games?" Gohan grinned sheepishly.
"Yeah, we were training for the Cell Games," Gohan admitted. "Plus, when we have senzu beans that will heal us to full strength, we might as well go until neither of us can battle anymore." Lime nodded her head in understanding, while Mr. Lowe was shaking his head at their 'foolishness' as he saw it.
"Well, I guess you're healed, so you can go," Mr. Lowe said. "Though it's almost nighttime so I suggest you just stay here for dinner and sleep here tonight."
Gohan's ears twitched as he heard several loud voices coming from a distance away. It didn't take long until the other two heard it also.
"Oh great, they're at it again," Mr. Lowe grumbled. "Those people will never learn." Gohan looked at them quizzically, waiting for an explanation.
"Oh, that's right, you aren't from around here so you don't know what that ruckus is about," Lime pointed out. "All the villagers are investing in some shelter that they think will save them all from Cell. They're too stupid to realize that it won't do them any good. I'll be right back, grandpa." Lime ran out the room, down the stairs, and out of the house.
"You should probably follow her," Mr. Lowe proclaimed. "That girl has a tendency to get herself in trouble a lot." Gohan nodded and took off after Lime.
Gohan ran through the trees, following Lime by her ki signature. He was going pretty fast, but not fast enough that he would suddenly appear next to her. Gohan didn't exactly feel like explaining how he could move so fast. The distance between the two closed rapidly, and soon Gohan could see Lime's red hair flapping against her back as she ran towards the shelter.
Lime looked over her shoulder once she heard footsteps following her, and waved at Gohan, who smiled back. The two soon came to a bush, and on the other side of the bush, they could hear the villagers rambling and complaining.
"But we paid for it, why aren't we being allowed in yet?" a villager asked.
Gohan peeked over the bush and at the group of people, and the shelter itself. The shelter wasn't anything all that spectacular, just a large gray dome. He figured that the shelter had less of a chance of surviving one of Cell's attacks than an eighty-foot tall giant drowning in a stream.
"And those fools expect that thing to defend them against Cell? Pathetic..." Gohan muttered. Gohan watched curiously as Lime slowly crept away and around to one of the sides of the shelter.
All of the villagers seemed to be complaining to one guy, a fat guy, probably in his forties at least, who was wearing a dark gray suit and white shirt underneath. The guy was wearing a hat and seemed to be showing off how rich he was.
"Cell! It's Cell! Everybody run!" Gohan heard Lime shout out in fake fear.
The shout started a mass riot, as all of the villagers tried to rush inside the shelter that they thought would protect them from Cell. All of the doors closed and the only person who made it inside was the fat guy in the suit, who Gohan figured to be the one who brought about the construction of the pathetic excuse for a shelter.
Gohan turned as he heard Lime yelling at someone to put her down. He saw one of the villagers holding her by her shirt and dragging her towards the entrance of the shelter.
"Do not panic! This is the girl who has falsely brought about the information!" he called to all of the villagers.
As soon as he said it, the fat guy came thundering out of the shelter shouting out strings of curses at Lime for her foolishness.
"Mercenary Tao! Come out here and destroy this girl!" he called.
Gohan turned his attention to the one called Tao. The name rang a bell somewhere, but he couldn't recall where from. The mercenary's body was made almost entirely out of metal, making him look like an android. He had a long black hair that was held back in a ponytail. The strangest thing was that he wore clothes that were dark pink, definitely not colors suited for a warrior.
"Well, little girl, it would seem that you have become much too annoying as of late. I guess I'll just have to kill you. Oh well, it's been along time since I got to kill anyone anyways, so this should be fun. I'll let you fight me so that you can at least die honorably," Mercenary Tao said. Gohan leisurely walked out of the bushes and towards Lime.
"What do you know? Your grandfather was right; you are a trouble maker," Gohan exclaimed casually, as though there was nothing wrong. Everyone just stared in shock at the blonde haired kid who looked as though he didn't care that one of his friends was about to die.
"I'm standing here, about to be killed, and ALL YOU CAN DO IS CHASTIZE ME ABOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE! You are so dead when I get over there," Lime shouted, thundering her way over to Gohan.
"Where do you think you're going, little missy?" Mercenary Tao asked. "Take one more step and you're dead." Mercenary Tao pulled off his right hand, revealing a large hole in it that was presumably a weapon of some sort.
Lime was rooted to her spot, too scared to do anything. Gohan was still just standing there smiling as though nothing was wrong.
"Sorry, pal, but I can't let you do that," Gohan proclaimed.
"Oh? And how do you intend to stop me?" Tao taunted. He finally took a good look at the boy and almost recoiled when he realized that the boy looked very familiar to him. "Boy, what is your name?" Gohan was taken aback at the question.
"My name? It's Gohan. What is it to you?"
"Oh, good. For a moment, I thought you were a boy named Goku. He's the only person who has ever managed to defeat me." Tao muttered the last sentence under his breath, but Gohan still heard it anyway. Gohan smirked as he finally remembered why Mercenary Tao sounded familiar, and that he was no longer a threat.
"Oh well. Guess I get to be the second person to defeat you," Gohan said nonchalantly.
"Very funny boy, but you don't stand a chance. DODON RAY!"
The beam of energy shot rapidly at Gohan, who just let it hit him. When the beam connected with his body, it covered the area with smoke, obscuring him from view. Lime gasped in shock that Gohan didn't do anything and worry for her new friend. Everyone else was just shocked at the boy's stupidity.
The smoke cleared, and everyone was surprised when they saw Gohan standing there, yawning.
"What was that? Are you going to start fighting seriously, or are you just going to continue being weak?" Gohan asked before yawning again. Tao was seething in anger that the boy showed no signs of damage from his attack.
"You think you're tough boy? Then chew on this! SUPER DODON RAY!!!"
Tao held his right arm out. Energy began to gather into the hole where his wrist should be until Tao felt it was powerful enough. The beam was released at Gohan, who continued standing there, face showing how bored he was with this.
Gohan raised his arm and swatted at the beam of energy, which caused it to reverse direction and head straight back at Mercenary Tao. Tao attempted to dodge the assault, but was too slow. He managed to avoid most of the blast, so he only lost his left arm and some of his torso. Wires sparked around inside of him where they should have been connected to wires that were no longer there.
"Consider yourself lucky, boy. I'll be back for you later," Tao said, trying to sound threatening.
"You couldn't defeat my father, what makes you think you could ever defeat me?"
"Your...fa...ther?" Tao's face paled as he realized that this boy in front of him was the son of Goku. "I'm out of here!"
Tao chopped down a nearby tree, threw it into the air, then jumped onto it, riding it as far away from there as he possibly could.
"Well that was boring," Gohan stated. He turned his attention to the shelter and smirked. "You people are all fools if you think such a pathetic structure could ever save you." Gohan held up his hand and fired a weak energy blast at the shelter, annihilating the structure easily.
All the villagers started yelling at the boy, feeling that they could no longer survive Cell's attacks, not that they could have anyway.
"Whatever. Come on Lime; let's get out of here. These people are really starting to annoy me," Gohan said. Lime came running towards him and then the two walked back to Lime's house.
"How did you do that?" Lime asked.
"Do what?"
"Fire that light from your hand and block Tao's attack."
"Oh, that? That was nothing. It's just a matter of manipulating your energy. I deflected Tao's attack because I have more energy that he does, so his attacks are weaker than a fly compared to me."
"Could you teach me to do that?" Gohan looked at her and judged her ki.
"I could. But it looks like you need a bit of training first."
"YAY!!" Lime cheered as she ran home faster, excited at being able to learn something so cool.
'Human girls sure are weird,' Gohan thought. 'They can have the strangest mood swings and yet, can often be pleased by doing some easy and basic things. I don't see how I could possibly be of the same species as them; even if I'm only half human.'
That night, Gohan ate at Lime's house. Both Lime and Mr. Lowe were shocked at how much food he consumed, and wondered how his parents ever managed to feed him.
After dinner, Gohan figured that it would probably help his situation some if he called home now instead of just showing up there later, with an even more distressed mother waiting to yell her, as Vegeta constantly put it, banshee mouth off.
"Are the earplugs necessary?" Mr. Lowe asked when he observed Gohan stuffing some into his ears.
"Yes. I have sensitive hearing and my mother can yell. Very loudly. You two should probably put some in too," Gohan advised. Lime decided to trust that he was right and stuffed ear plugs into her ears, while Mr. Lowe just shook his head, obviously thinking that Gohan was overreacting.
Gohan picked up the phone and dialed home. He listened as the phone rang a couple times before it was picked up.
"Moshi moshi," an exhausted voice said. Gohan snickered to himself.
"Hi mom! It's me, Gohan!"
"Yeah, how are you?" Gohan, expecting this, waited a couple moments for the information to actually process in his mother's mind. That didn't take too long either.
"GOHAN? WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN YOUNG MAN? YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR NOT CALLING EARLIER. I was so worried about you and that something horrible happened to my precious little baby. How could you worry me so? It's all Piccolo's fault. If it weren't for him, you would have never become so rebellious and gone out training," Chichi sobbed. Gohan snickered when he saw Mr. Lowe clutching his ears in pain, while Lime was rolling on the floor laughing her head off.
"Sorry about the delay, mom. But I was unconscious until earlier this evening," Gohan explained. He hurried the next part in before his mother got into her overly worried mother mode. "Don't worry though, I already ate a senzu bean so I'm not in any pain."
"Well, I'm glad that you're alright and that you called me as soon as you could. I knew I raised you better than to leave for a long time without calling. That doesn't mean that you won't get punished though. You're going to have to do extra homework as well as washing and cleaning all of the dishes; and no super speed." Gohan groaned silently, knowing that she would just increase the load if she heard.
"Alright mom. Is it okay if I stay here tonight? I'm at a friend's house and they already invited me."
"Oh, my baby is already making normal friends. Of course you can, sweetie. See you tomorrow then."
"All right, bye."
Gohan hung up the phone and then let out a huge sigh of relief. Both he and Lime, who was still snickering at her grandfather, pulled their earplugs out of their ears.
"That went better than expected," Gohan said.
"Really? That punishment sounded pretty bad. But what's super speed?"
"You remember the energy I was talking about earlier?" At Lime's nod, he continued. "Well, super speed is using that energy to move really fast."
"Oh. That's right, you promised you'd teach me how to use energy."
Gohan would have pointed out that he never actually promised her that, but was worried that she had strong lungs and would yell really loud into them, so he just complied and taught her how to use energy.
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Gohan returned home the next day, and was told to march straight to his room to study, which he reluctantly did. He spent just about all of the remaining five days left before the Cell Games studying or helping to train Lime, who could now summon her energy at will without exhausting herself too much.
On the morning of the fight, Chichi prepared a large meal for Gohan and Goku, who happily consumed it and thanked her. They stood up and prepared to leave when Chichi came out to wish them luck.
"Well, good luck Goku," she said. Goku hugged her and then backed off. "Promise me that Gohan won't fight." Goku nearly fell out of the air when she said that.
"What?"
"I said promise me that Gohan won't fight in this crazy tournament."
"Um...well...I'll see you later, Chi! Don't want to keep the others waiting." With that said, Goku and Gohan took off for the Cell Games.
The two quickly caught up to the others and flew with them to the arena. Once they got there, they saw Vegeta already waiting there, as well as another android, which they could tell because he gave off no life force, and a group of humans.
"Welcome everyone," Cell said. "It's good to see you all here. Now then, let's get the Cell Games underway."
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I'm not sure why, but I felt that I had to put Lime in, probably because I like her and she was only shown once. I know that she didn't act like she did in the show, but wouldn't any ten year old girl act like that when some injured kid comes along?
It was recently brought to my attention, by several people, that I'm making Gohan act like a full-blooded saiyans, which wasn't what I meant to do. Gohan was supposed to still be pretty nice, but care more about saiyan things. It's probably because I have really only done fight scenes and haven't given him time to do normal things and such. Of course, most of Gohan's childhood was fighting, so it isn't too hard to have done that.
I want to thank my good friend, Ryan, for allowing me to bounce ideas off him and helping me get some ideas for this chapter. Todah rabah Reuven. And I want to thank ESSJGohan for unintentionally giving me that evil idea for the upcoming fight. Though don't get angry if you dislike what I came up with because of the review. You can read it for yourself and see that it didn't state any ideas so it's my entire fault if you peoples think it's stupid, though it is an original idea, which is rare for me. Unfortunately, you won't know what I'm doing for another two chapters *evil grin*