The Day Dreams Died
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Last Time On Triple D-
Only four… But didn't Vegeta say there was five?
"Go home, boy."
"I see you're your cheery self, Vegeta."
~*~Chapter 6~*~
Krillen dashed through the pelting rain with his jacket to shield his bald head. The rain had somehow sprouted out of nowhere, seeming as if the sun had only been relaxing on the horizon hours before. His feet were sinking into the mud as he ran making it difficult to keep his balance. He stumbled over to his destination. A small grove of trees that withdrew to a opened cliff. A sort of thorn on the landscape seeming to protrude like a zit on the earth's surface. Goku's favorite place to sit with Gohan.
At one point of time, it had been filled with wild flowers covering up it's blunt surface. But the floods lately had washed the happiness away. It was as if the earth realized who was amiss. The view was still as breathtaking as always but yet not as satisfying without the giggling of Goku's eldest son when 'Mr. Caterpillar' crawled up his arm.
It was one thing to have a miscarriage. But to have had the child for two blissful years… and then this empty silence replace him.
'Kami, let this next child of theirs make them forget.' Krillen had prayed constantly.
But his prays seemed ignored. Despite the fact, that the dragon balls were only days from being called, Goku still appeared vacant of all soul.
Krillen made his ascent up to the perch that Goku rested upon. The young man had his legs swung over the steep precipice and was staring transfixed at the abyss below him. His eyes startled Krillen with their eerie despair gaze. He didn't make in notation that his best friend had sat down until Krillen opened his mouth to speak,
"Go home, Krillen."
It was clear, unmarked with the choked tears that had often coated his throat. The statement was one that most wouldn't question but yet Krillen was obligated as a friend to figure out why Goku wanted to banish him from his sight.
"Goku… Let me help you?"
"What can you do?" Goku remarked.
It sounded just like any normal question. Almost as if he was amused by Krillen's eagerness to help Goku out for a change. He kept his eyes on the bottom of the cliff. He looked like he longed to explore it's sharp entrails.
"I can help you. Please. You can't still be worked up about Gohan…"
Goku didn't answer the question. He just continued to stare.
"Goku, please look at me."
He didn't.
"You have a wife and soon another son. Try and focus on that. Yes, Gohan is gone but you have a life to continue. We will wish Gohan back."
"No." Goku spat suddenly, "No, you won't."
"What do you mean?" Krillen muttered curiously, "Of course we will?"
"No." Goku shook his head, "Another Sayian is coming. He'll come before we can make the wish. We need to save the Dragon Balls for life that is important to restore."
Krillen started at Goku in utter shock. How could he sense someone so far away was drawing near. It seemed rather hard to comprehend.
"Are you sure."
"Yes." Goku lifted his head a bit, "Gawd, it's gonna happen all over again."
"Goku, don't think like that." Krillen whispered grabbing his friend's arm, "What happened to Gohan was… an accident. Nothing more or less. Please try to put it in the past-"
"No!" Goku spat shaking Krillen off roughly, "I won't forget. I can't."
Tears made their way out of his dark eyes splashing down his burning cheeks. He cringed at the idea of forgetting his son's death. As if the prospect of that would lead to the end of the world.
"Why are you up here, Goku." Krillen asked softly hoping to draw Goku away from the edge.
"I was preparing to jump." Goku answered honestly.
Krillen suspected that but he had forgotten how truthful Goku was. It stabbed his heart sharply. Goku didn't even try to somewhat block the pain of what he uttered. He just said it as if it were nothing.
"What made you stop?" Krillen inquired hoping the answer would not push Goku over.
Goku smiled for perhaps the first in months. He turned to face his bald headed companion and answered,
"Because I knew it would hurt."
Goku and Krillen laughed softly in a way to mask the unnerving of how that was the only wall pushing Goku back. Needles and Goku didn't mix. Perhaps sharp rocks looking like needles would be the same way on him.
"I have a new son coming." Goku spoke suddenly, "He'll be a handful for Chichi. I'd rather not leave her… again."
"Thank Kami, you have a bit of sense, Goku." Krillen joshed patting Goku on the back.
"Yeah. But you know what, Krill?" Goku smiled tenderly as he drew his legs back onto the ground.
"What, Goku?"
"If I did jump…" Goku muttered trying to block the image away, "I wouldn't want to face Gohan. I mean, he would want to know why his daddy had come up… I know… I know he wouldn't like a genuine answer to that."
"You're right, Goku." Krillen nodded, "But you know what?"
"What?"
"You can tell him after we kick this Sayian's butt."
"If not sooner…"
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'I haven't come this far… To fail.' Krillen thought as he stared at the menacing fighters, 'Goku needs this. He needs Gohan back.'
"So who will die first?" Captian Ginyu smirked staring, of course, at Vegeta first.
Vegeta was about to step forward when Krillen volunteered himself by striding in front of the sayian prince. His eyes were fill with a strange sort of determination. Gohan was rather curious of the bald earthling. His image was not that of sharp distant feeling of a stranger but rather of a warm feeling as a equal. Of someone he had met briefly before. Earth. Gohan hid his mixed feeling from the people about him by masking it with a vacant expression of someone extremely bored. Inside he was struggling with the word earth. It was a vague and rather blunt word. Roughly in a more universal code it meant home. But the complexities of the word were lost to him. It seemed there was more to it's name. Earth did exist. The place where butterflies were. The place of his dreams. He gazed steadily at the bald man. What caused him to stray from such a heavenly place.
"You fight him." Captian Ginyu spat suddenly nodding to Gohan.
Gohan nearly fell over in shock. He didn't quite understand the meaning of Captian Ginyu's order. Didn't he want Vegeta? He would surely want to save the strongest for the hardest fighter… that other man looked quite hard. Much harder then Captian Ginyu could handle. Perhaps he was just dumb to his ego.
He didn't want to cause too much attention to arouse about him. He would rather just get the work over with. The bald man seemed to sag a bit with relief as Gohan stepped forward to fight. He was assuming way to soon in the battle…
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'Why does he look so familiar?' Goku shouted inside his mind, 'Why do I recognize that kid's face? Did I know him somehow before… No. That can't be possible. He is much too young to have survived from the explosion of Vegeta-sei. Then he must have been bred a different way…'
The child glanced his way suddenly silencing Goku's thoughts temporally. Goku wondered if the child was intentionally doing that…
"No, Krillen. Sit
this one out-" Goku began.
"I can handle myself."
Krillen answered stubbornly, "I'm not so pathetic to get bullied by a kid."
"You're arrogant if you think this battle will be easy." Vegeta hissed under his breath, "But go ahead. It's better to go while you think you have a chance."
Krillen overlooked Vegeta's warning with a wave of his hand. He smiled at Gohan pleasantly as the child gave back a wry smirk. There was a certain calm feeling about the child. Krillen didn't feel in any danger. He knew that the appearance of the child was one that would make a grandmother coo with giddiness. He was a rather cute boy reaching to maybe 9 or 8 years. Goten might even have a hard time matching up.
"Hey. What's your name, kid?" Krillen asked.
He didn't answer. His smile faded into a look of puzzlement.
"You have a name, don't you?"
"Yes." He answered, "But why would you ask me?"
"I… Iunno really." Krillen shrugged, "Conversational purposes?"
"But I'm here to kill you." The child muttered in a flat tone, "And you're gonna try to kill me…"
"Doesn't mean we can't get acquainted." Krillen shrugged, "I'm Krillen."
"What are you doing, baldy?" Vegeta spat, "Why are you making friends with the enemy?"
'He doesn't have to be a enemy.' Krillen thought to himself, 'And this kid, by looking at him, doesn't want to be.'
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Krillen's hand was held out to Gohan ready for his fingers to be wrapped out with Gohan's own. He longed to place his hand there but he was still too confused. This bald man, Krillen as he said, was trying to befuddle him to join their side. Gohan knew this but yet he didn't feel as if he were being tricked. It was more like Krillen was offering a spot on their side to him. All Gohan could do was stare at him and then at the other man.
'Yes. You could do this, Gohan. You can leave all that hurt behind…'
Wait. What am I thinking? Gohan shook his head, I am loyal to Frezia. I can't let these goons confuse me.
He stared down at Krillen's hand again. He was taunting him like a piece of candy might. He looked up into Krillen's kind face. Just because he was going to fight him didn't mean that they couldn't respect each other. Gohan took Krillen's hand with a faint smile,
"I'm Gohan."
To Be Continued…
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Muhahaha! Goku's and Krillen's reactions are gonna be rich. If you haven't noticed, Vegeta has been trying to keep Gohan from revealing his name… So he isn't so happy in the next chapter. ^^ But don't worry. You'll get your Gohan vs. Goku. I have a way of making the tides turn…