In Search of Amity
Period 13
With his hands knitted behind his back Goku strolled through the vacant
hallways in the east wing, his mind occupied by many things and one of them
being Dendes reclusive behavior from the moment capsule 4 took off, unless there
was a group meeting Dende would be no where in sight and Goku felt it were his
duty to find out why. Channeling his senses as he wandered he
discovered the recluse just a breath away down the path, reaching the spot the sayajin
stopped looked around the area carefully for any signs.
"Dende can I speak with you please?" he voiced serenely, hearing his
voice echo slightly but there was no voiced response or any sound at all for
that matter in return, he couldn't have mistaken Dendes location but ki just
doesn't lie that way, unless Dende was deterring him on purpose. Pacing a few steps forward his knee impacted
with some kind of metal, looking down to the darkened floor he found a large vent
casing leaned up against the wall.
Knitted his eyebrows in confusion he looked above him to find a large
ventilation duct molded into the ceiling and a few feet away was a missing casing.
"What the?" he asked himself before going to stand directly under the
opening that sat 4 feet above his head.
"Dende are you up there?" he voiced, again there was nothing to
indicate the presents of anyone. Seeing
as everything pointed to someone being in this precise location Goku bent his
knees slightly and leapt up to the vent, his fingers gripping the edge he
easily pulled himself up high enough to see what was inside, instantly he felt
a cold rush of air blow across his skin.
"Brr man its cold up here!" he exclaimed before reverting back to the
problem at hand, Lying right in front of him was Dende, motionless almost corps
like except for his chest rising and falling every so often.
"Dende are you alright," he whispered, taking his index and gently
poking the Namekian hairless head.
There was a slight twitch from his eyebrow ridges then a shallow nasally breath
that made Goku blink with shock, for was in a state that Nameks do not
experience, sleep.
"You gotta be kidding me."
he said aloud, but before saying another word dropped down to the hallway floor
quietly to make minimal disturbance. Suddenly without warning the floor swerved
onto a 45 degree angle and Goku stumbled uncontrollably to his right until his shoulder
fell hard against the wall
"Ahh what the hell!" he shouted, grasping his shoulder as the ship
tilted back the other way and his body went flying into the left wall, this
continued until he caught his balance and levitated from the ground.
"What the hell!" the prince growled, floating up from the floor his
body didn't impact any walls or sustain any damage, Pan on the other hand was
rolling from one side of the floor to the other, her hands dragging across the
floor as she tried to slow herself down but to no avail. Finally managing to
slow down enough when the ship straightened up, she flew up into the centre of
the chamber beside Vegeta.
"What's happening?" she shouted looking around with angst as
equipment resistant to the gravity chamber effects came tumbling to the floor.
"Do I look like I know?" Vegeta shouted back then soared down to the
controls, trying to verifying if the chamber had turned itself off which it
hadn't.
"Lets get out of here now before anything else happens." he advised, flying
up and clutching hold of her arm he hauled her swiftly to the door, kicking it
out off its hinges with the underside of his boot, outside they found Piccolo
and Bra had already arrived and were holding on for dear life to unmovable
apparatuses. When the ship turned again
to the right everyone was watching in time to see Goten suddenly slide out of
one of the rooms on his buttocks, flying past everyone across the floor he used
his feet to cushion his stop against the wall he was heading toward.
"I've heard of 'induce nausea' but this is ridiculous." he protested
grabbing his mouth quickly with his lips tightly together. As suddenly as it
began the shacking and tipping came to a sudden stop as if nothing ever
happened, everyone waited a few seconds before letting go and getting to their
feet, from the top of the staircase the cockpit door suddenly swung open
violently.
"Is everyone aright?" Trunks shouted anxiously.
"I could have been better, what the hell was that." Goten shouted,
rubbed his carpet burned rear with both palms; Trunks bit his lip with an
overabundance of nerves.
"Well um, we were just testing some piloting skills in case they are ever
needed, you know if the pilot is injures or something but next time ill be sure
to let you all know before hand ok BYE!" he said waving down to the group
who were surrounded by fallen equipment and before anyone had a chance to speak
he closed the door quickly behind him, there was a tense pause in the group
before Pan started shaking her head unsatisfied.
"Since when does Savarna get to pilot the ship as her training and we get
beaten to a pulp." she griped angrily tucking her loose, messy hair behind
her ears.
"And have to meditate to the pretzel alter, in pretzel comfort!" Bra
added with equal spite, unaware of Piccolos icy glare boring into her head. The
language was starting to foal up so Goten stepped in.
"Just calm down a second your all going to train as pilots, Savarna was
just first on the list to do so but she will go through the same training as
you guys" He pointed out, not wanting things to get ugly. Pan and Bra
didn't dispute the subject any further, though they wanted to, they wanted to yell
and banter as to why she was treated with more consideration but of coarse the
reason was more than clear, she had only the blood of humans flowing through
her veins making her the weakest. A puffing Goku came jogging into the foyer
holding his chest with one hand.
"Is everyone ok here?" he asked puffing profusely.
"Were fine Dad, you look like shit though" Goten remarked smartly
coming to stand beside his father.
"Piccolo, there's, something you have to see, come." The sayajin
panted, signaling by hand for the Namek to follow, Piccolo uncrossed his arm
with confusion on his face and followed none the less picking up his pace as he
went along. Goten looked over to Vegeta
for some kind of indication as to what was going on, the prince locked eye with
him for only a second before turning away and with a snort and returned to the
gravity chamber.
"C'mon girl, I still have you for 6 hours of ass shaping and muscle
building before your free to claim your life back from me" he shouted from
inside, Pans eyes widened and she naively twisted her head around to observe
her rear.
"Lol, you ditz Pan he says that to me all the time and I don't look!"
Bra chuckled hysterically, harshly his green talon poked his companions pink
shoulder muscle, receiving a low groan and then a total body shivers before
steeling down.
"Hmm" Piccolos throat murmured before he dropped down from the vent
to the floor.
"Well is he alright or should I get a first aid kit or call Bulma or
something!?" Goku demanded with urgency as Piccolo dusted off his
shoulders before reaching down for his shoulder weights.
"He's fine, preparing for the conditions on new Namek" Piccolo
remarked, slipping the weighted pads over his head and down comfortably onto
his breastbone. Goku gave a single long blink lifting his eyebrows higher
forming wrinkles in his forehead.
"Come again, what this temperature thing that I haven't heard anything
about until now?" his hand twirling around asking for elaboration as he
spoke in a calm tone. Piccolo was
already in the midst of leaving the room and stopped upon hearing Gokus
question, neglecting to turn and face the sayajin he took in a deep breath,
exhaling it voluminously.
"Namek is very far from what it used to be, further than you could
possibly imagine Goku" he warned before daring to speak any further on the
matter, uncrossing his arms he whipped the length of his face with a dry cold
palm and then looked down at it to find it covered in his sweat, yet he felt
cold from the ventilation shaft air above and around them.
"The air is made up of the fumes from the dead and smoke from the burning,
its dark, you never see the sun even during the day, just a faint light like it
was permanently an overcastting thunderstorm." He began speaking and
walked to the nearest wall, staring into it as though the stars on the other
side were visibly.
"Any above ground water is deadly to consume and in some cases touch,
animals abandoned the motto of survival of the fittest, now its survival of the
last to be assassinated, no trees, grass, rocks or seasons." Mono was the
tone he spoke in as Goku listened on hardly taking a breath.
"The ground is so unstable and weak that earthquakes are as common as
temperature change, any rain they get is filled with acid burning their flesh
so quickly that you melt alive... If I were human and believed in their god
Goku, ids say it's the worst parts of the bible." the Namek finished, his
anger growing in his heart and throat with every work that went by. Goku was
left stunned as Piccolo finally turned to face him, the look in his eyes made
it very clear that his comrade was suffering inside more than first thought.
"You weren't just told this were you... you saw it.when
you read Dendes mind you saw everything that he saw" No Verbal response
came, However the body language from Piccolo was more than enough to confirm
the truth to Goku.
The sayajin hands shook against the cloth of his gi bottoms, what passed
through his mind was anger at all the pain and fear that the Namekian race was
enduring and he didn't get there in time to prevent it, the peaceful and simple
farmers and brave, noble warriors were all but vanishing in the blink of an
eye. Perhaps worst of all he would never get to see those that he loved most
and l, they were already long gone. this for Goku was the most painful factor
of all
"Piccolo, I promise you whatever is causing this I will find out what and
ill shut it down so help me god, I wasn't there for them for too long, im going
to be there for them now" he pledged making a fist and slamming it against
the wall on his left.
Thank you for reading.
