Shining Friendship
This chapter will focus a little bit on Trunks. Enjoy the chapter.
Trunks walked from hill to hill, looking down as he did. King Yenma (Is that how you spell his name?) had just given him entry into the "other" world, along with the privilege of staying with his body. He continued to walk on the hills when he heard some laughter. He looked ahead to see two children who were about his age. One of them was wearing some torn jeans and a white oversized shirt while the other wore a yellow tank top and short black pants. The one with the white oversized shirt noticed Trunks and ran up to him yelling, "Hello!"
Trunks looked at him and when the other kid was a few feet away, he noticed something about that other boy. He looked much like Goten and was a wearing a band-aid on his left cheek. "What's your name?" the boy asked.
Trunks hesitated at first, but finally gave in. "Trunks," he replied. "Trunks Briefs."
"Oh. Well, hello, Trunks!" the boy exclaimed. "My name is Tovu. And this is my friend, Thomas." Tovu pointed to the other boy, whose brown hair was sticking in all directions and his hands were covered with mud.
"Hi there, Trunks," Thomas said.
"We were making mud pies. Wanna join us?" Tovu asked Trunks, who immediately agreed. "Great! Now we can make more mud pies!" Tovu exclaimed.
There was a huge pile of mud on the grass and Tovu and Thomas immediately began to throw mud at each other. Trunks joined them after watching them for a while. Soon, they became too tired and sat down on the grass, their faces and clothes completely dirtied with mud. As soon as they stopped laughing, Trunks wiped some mud from his face. "That was fun," he said.
"I know," Tovu wiped some mud from his face also. "It was a lot of fun." Then Tovu flashed a smile to Trunks that looked awfully familiar to him. It was much like…Goten's… "Something the matter?" Tovu asked when he realized that Trunks had been staring at him.
"Nothing," Trunks said. "You just remind me…of someone I knew…""Oh," Tovu looked at Trunks sadly. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay," Trunks said. "Those days are over now." But he missed his mother. He missed his father, Gohan, Krillin…his home. How had he ended up in here? Oh, yeah, he thought. I made myself get here. I was foolish to fight Buu alone and ended up killing myself.
"Hey, are you sure you're okay? You're spaced out," Thomas waved his hand in front of Trunks's face.
"I'm fine," he said. Then he realized something about the boys. When he had gotten here, every single person he saw was a ghost. Now, there were two children in front of him with their own bodies. "Hey, how come you guys are in your bodies?"
"Huh?" Thomas looked at him. "Oh, we were given a very rare privilege from King Yenma. We've had tough pasts and King Yenma allowed us to remain in our bodies. Cool, huh? We can see that you were given the same privilege. You should be grateful. King Yenma doesn't give just anyone this privilege, you know."
"I know," Trunks said. "Goku told me this when he died."
"Goku?""Forget it," Trunks sighed. "It was a long time ago."
"There they are!" Goku cried, pointing straight ahead to Gohan and Buu, who were clashing in the air. Vegeta sneered as he charged down towards Buu.
Gohan wiped the blood on his lower lip, when Buu suddenly fell to the ground. He looked at Buu in confusion when he realized that Vegeta had hit him from behind. But that wasn't the only person he saw. "Dad!" he cried. "You're alive!"
"Sure am, Son," Goku gave him a thumbs-up. "I'm alive and ready for battle."
Gohan laughed, glad to hear that Goku was fine. "It's about time you guys got here, too," he said. Then they heard Buu struggling to get up.
"Buu mad now," Buu said. "Buu will kill you. Buu really mad now!"
"This," Vegeta said, "Does not look too good."
"Does it ever become night in here?" Trunks asked to Tovu. He and Tovu were on their backs on the grass, staring at the sky. Thomas had fallen asleep next to them.
"Nope," Tovu answered. "In here, it's always daytime. But you can go to sleep whenever you want. Just like Thomas here."
Trunks giggled. "So, how did you die?"
Tovu's face saddened and Trunks began to regret he ever asked that. But soon, Tovu answered, "In an accident."
"What accident?" Trunks asked. He knew it wasn't his place to ask all of these questions, but he was curious.
"My parents were arguing all the time. I felt bad and went to my friend's house many times. He would comfort me all the time, and I was glad that he was there for me, at the least. If he weren't there, I don't think I would have lasted long with my parents," Tovu explained. "But then on one night, my parents were arguing again. I went to my friend's house and when he opened the door, he looked at me angrily. I didn't know why he was mad but I thought that maybe it was because he was having a bad day. But then, when he started yelling at me, I knew that he was mad at me."
"Why?" Trunks asked, curiosity written all over his face.
"He…he said that he was sick and tired of having to take care of me all the time. He said that I was too much of a weakling for him and he didn't want to be with me anymore," Tovu's eyes were now covered in tears. "I went back home, and had to deal with my parents' arguing in my room. I tried ignoring their screaming, but without my friend, I thought I could never do it. So one day, I decided to go over at my friend's house and apologize. But I didn't plan on doing it until it was nighttime. My parents' arguing had gotten even worse and once my father even beat me in my room, I decided that I had to visit my friend and apologize right away. So I got ready and walked through the rainy night, unaware of all the traffic. I ran through the slippery streets and began to cross the street to my friend's house when I saw two headlights in front of me," Tovu began crying and Trunks now knew how Tovu had died. A car hit Tovu, Trunks thought. But why does his story sound so familiar to me?
Tovu stopped crying after a while and sat up. "Thomas is the only person I've told my story to besides you," he said. "Please don't tell anyone else. I can't bear to hear people saying that they're sorry."
"I won't," Trunks promised. "I promise."
Soon, even Tovu fell asleep, leaving Trunks thinking by himself. Tovu's story sounded so familiar… It was much like Goten and I. I threw him off for being so dumb. I was a jerk. Trunks turned to his side. Now I'm dead, just like Tovu.
Goten flew across the sky, looking from the dragon radar to up ahead. "The dragonball's close," he said. He flew down, towards a small spring surrounded by a few trees and flowers. "Beautiful," he looked around in awe. The dragon radar continued with its beeping and Goten knew that he was close to a dragonball. As soon as he approached the spring, the dragon radar beeped even faster and louder. "So the dragonball must be in the spring," he assumed as he began to take off his clothes until he was in his boxers. Then he jumped into the spring. But as soon as he jumped in, he immediately jumped back out.
"Yeow!!" he yelped. "This spring is hot!!" He dipped his little toe in, and pulled it back out in a cry. "How am I supposed to get this dragonball if I can't even jump into the spring? By the time I reach the bottom, I'll be a boiled egg!" The thought of it made him shiver.
"Do you need help?" Goten turned around to see a beautiful little girl with blue eyes and blue hair that was tied up in a ponytail. "Are you trying to get into the spring?" The girl asked, as she began to approach toward Goten. He then realized that she was only a few inches shorter than him.
"Yeah," he replied. "I…lost something that belonged to me in there."
"Come with me," she took his warm hand. "My daddy knows how to get in there." Then she stared at Goten's half-naked body and giggled. "But before we go, get dressed!"
Goten blushed as he slipped back into his clothes. "By the way, my name is Abigail. What's your name?" Abigail asked.
"Goten," Goten replied. "Son Goten."
"Well then, come on!" Abigail grabbed Goten's arm and began to take him somewhere deep in the forest. "Don't you want to get into the spring soon?"
Goten blushed even harder and followed her through the forest.
To Be Continued…He, he…just a little bit more and the story will be finished. ^-^ Don't freak out, yet. There's still quite a bit more before the story ends.