"HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOHAN!" cheered everybody in the room as a young boy with black messy hair in a white suit and strangely enough a monkey tail blew out a bunch of candles on a pink icing covered birthday cake.
Gohan cheered happily and made a wish as the rest of the people in the room laughed, joked and chatted.
"Happy birthday Gohan" smiled a man that looked like an older version of Gohan, although not wearing a suit, instead wearing orange training clothes, placing his hand on his son's shoulder.
"Thanks dad" smiled Gohan.
"Alright everybody!" said a woman in a purple dress who was called Chichi as she clapped her hands, "Present time!"
Gohan ran into the centre of the room and sat on the carpet while everybody else stood about the room.
Vegita sat in an armchair with a bored expression on his face, Bulma sat on the arm of the armchair. Piccolo leaned casually against the wall, unable to hide his smile for Gohan's joy. Krillyn sat next to Gohan with his legs crossed as he laughed at Yamcha's joke. Yamcha himself was also sitting in an armchair, next to which Master Rochi stood accompanied by Goku and the Ox King. Chautsu (or however its spelt) was floating childishly near the ceiling and Tein had gotten himself a dining room chair to sit on.
"Here you are Gohan" said Krillyn cheerily passing him a gift wrapped present
"WOW!" said Gohan as he unwrapped it with glee, "Cool! 'The secret techniques of martial arts'" he read the title of the book with a broad smile on his face.
His mum on the other hand didn't seem so pleased and gave Krilen an icy look. She did it with all the other presents too. Rochi's training clothes, Piccolo's weighted clothing and Bulma's capsule corp. training area.
"Now a gift from mummy!" said Chichi merrily as she handed Gohan a heavy square object.
He unwrapped it quickly and his joyous face dropped slightly but he managed to bring it up to a 'cheerful' grin. "Uh, wow mum…'Studying Advanced Advanced Mathematics' gee, you…uh…shouldn't have"
Chichi smiled and hugged her son "Only the best for my little Gohan!"
"Cake everybody!" shouted Goku sensing the uneasiness on his friends faces.
Like a charging stampede everybody ran over to the cake leaving Goku behind with a confused expression on his face before he dived in the fray and began taking several slices of cake at once.
knock knock
Their festivities were interrupted by a knock on the door. Everybody stood there silently looking at the door.
"Huh?" said Chichi, "That's odd, were you expecting anyone else Gohan?"
Gohan shook his head everyone was here. There wasn't anyone else.
Chichi pondered for a moment before moving over towards the door and opening it carefully. There, in the doorway, holding a large yellow box with a red ribbon stood a little girl. She looked to be not much younger than Gohan. Her hair was a thick black and was tied back into a ponytail; she wore a pale pink dress with a white jacket over the top and sandals. She smiled cheerily up at Chichi.
"Hello. This is Gohan's house right?"
Chichi nodded, "Yes…are you one of Gohan's friends?"
"No," said the girl simply, "But here's a present for him"
She handed Chichi the present then waved and began walking away. Chichi looked at the present in her hands. 'That was odd' she thought. She shrugged and closed the door heading back into the room with the present.
After explaining what had happened the present was placed (wrapped up still) on the table with everybody crowding around it with puzzled faces (including Piccolo) except Vegeta who was busy trying to be a nuisance.
"What do you suppose it is?" questioned Krillyn
"I don't know" mutter Goku
"Can you sense anything from it?" questioned Piccolo
"Oh for crying out loud!" shouted Vegeta from his vantage point, "Just open it you idiots!"
Gohan frowned annoyedly at Vegeta 'why'd he have to come to my party?' he thought before sighing slightly and unwrapping the present.
Suddenly the entire room was filled with a bright, blinding light.
"Arggh!" shouted Tien, "It's so bright!"
"What is it?!" cried Yamcha, shielding his eyes
"Gohan?!" screamed Chichi
"I'm here mum!" murmured Gohan as he attempted to see through the bright light.
"Let's get it outside Krillyn." said Goku as he walked blindly over to the box.
After several tries of bumping into things and people Goku and Krillyn had successfully taken the box outside and the bright light was somewhat diminished.
"What is it?" everyone said as they ran out of the house to examine the 'thing' well, everyone except Chichi and Gohan (who was being restrained by his mum).
"I don't know" said Goku as he rubbed the back of his neck "Piccolo?"
Piccolo looked at the thing in awe but then noticing everyone's eyes on him he grunted and turned about "Ahm, well it certainly has a high ki. I'm sure everybody can sense it now. But when it was in the package we couldn't sense it at all. As to what it is I have no idea. Vegeta?"
Vegeta snorted and folded his arms "Why would I know? It's probably some kids prank"
"I don't think so" muttered Rochi from the back of the pack, Piccolo's right, its ki is awesome…but yet…we have no idea what it is…"
"May…maybe it's…a…a bomb?!" stuttered a terrified Chichi
The group stepped back away from the box except Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and Gohan who had escaped his mum's clutches.
"I don't think so mum" he said, peering into the box.
Suddenly the sky turned dark even though it was the middle of the afternoon, a large 'whirring' sound came out of nowhere and a star-like thing appeared in the sky and began to grow larger.
"Um…something tells me that doesn't look too good" said a slightly terrified Krillyn as he peered up into the sky.
The dot got larger until a definite shape could be made out. It was a person! No, Two People! One was very large. Everybody got into their fighting positions, except Bulma, the Ox King, Rochi and Chichi (attempting to drag Gohan but failing miserably) who ran into the house.
The two people landed and looked abut the area with dull expressions on their faces. The normal sized person had long black spiky hair with a greasy sheen to it. He wore odd alien type clothing which looked like a leotard made of chain mail which was a metallic green. His skin was a golden colour and his eyes were a deep blue.
His partner that was perhaps three times as large as him looked very brutish. He had a small amount of tufty hair that was a violent red which matched his tunic-type outfit, again made of an odd type of chain mail. His nose was bulbous and held on his leather belt was a think that looked remarkably like a sword. Each of them had odd elf-like ears.
"Are you sure its here boss?" grunted the larger man.
"Positive Rien, positive" said the shorter man
"But boss, why would it be here? Usually it's on desolate planets" said Rien.
The shorter man glanced to his partner and crossed his arms, scanning the landscape, "Maybe they wanted a change of tact"
He spotted the group of people all who were wearing posh clothes and suits, what struck him as funny was the fact that they were all standing in martial art positions.
"Well what have we here?" he murmured turning to the group
"Don't let your guard down guys…they might be suppressing their ki" frowned Goku
"Peh! No doubt Kakarot!" spat Vegeta
"Now…where could it be?"
"Gohan!" screamed Chichi from inside the house as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Gohan turned about with a pained expression on his face to the house but then shook his head and turned back to the two with a determined expression on his face.
"Wait!" growled the 'boss' to the group, "Which one of you is this, 'Gohan'?"
"Don't move Gohan" whispered Piccolo
"It's that one boss" said Rien pointing to Gohan
"Really?" said the boss interestedly
Gohan looked at the two with surprise; now a sudden wave of fear hit him as he watched them 'what? So my name's Gohan, so what?'
Goku now stepped in front of Gohan now with a serious look on his face, the laughter and happiness of before now completely washed away.
"Why do you want to know about my son?" he said sternly
The boss chuckled and smirked nastily, "Oh, no reason, none whatsoever, Rien"
Suddenly without anyone knowing Rien appeared up behind the group's defences and kicked Gohan hard in the back causing him to hurtle through the air only to roll along the floor causing his arms and legs to rip open and begin bleeding.
"GOHAN!" screamed Chichi as she ran towards the door; it took Rochi, Bulma and the Ox King's entire might to pull Chichi away from the door.
The group outside were stunned, all except Vegeta who smiled and chuckled at Rein, "Heh, nasty trick. Attack someone from behind? Now that really is low."
Krillyn, Goku and Piccolo ran over towards Gohan who was badly bruised but none-the-less alright.
"Why have you come here?!" growled Piccolo
"Simple" said the boss in a cool, smooth voice "We came here for the Rectain, but then to know that Gohan was here too…now, that was a surprise"
Goku stood up angrily and faced the two, "Listen, you can take this Rectain thing, but you've hurt my son, that's unforgivable!"
Goku suddenly charged at the two and started shooting ki blasts out of his hands directed at the two.
The boss just laughed as the ki blasts came directly towards him.
The ki blasts hit the boss directly and a large ball of light surrounded the area for a moment before slowly diminishing and revealing a large, smoking crater.
"Boss! Boss!" shouted Rien from outside the crater
Vegeta laughed "Hm, surprising really…I suppose that show's who was the brains and who was the muscle? Too bad Kakarot killed him already…I was hoping for a bit of fun!"
"Then I won't disappoint you…" came a voice from the crater as out came the boss, floating calmly and peacefully, his clothing wasn't even singed.
"What the-!" gasped Krillyn who was now beginning to shake uncontrollably.
"He stopped it...but that was a direct collision course!" shouted Yamcha, completely gob-smacked.
"Heh" smirked the boss, "seems like you all want a piece of me…although I'll offer you a deal…"
He held up his index finger in front of him between his eyes and began humming something under his breath before suddenly before him on the tip of his finger there was a small blaze of light.
The boss chuckled as the group of heroes looked at it queerly, "Ha! –This- my 'friends' can annihilate the entire planet if I so much as touch the surface of it. That is why the Rectain has been hidden on deserted planets…so as not to endanger the lives of anyone…but now I suppose they have gotten desperate…"
"Stop talking!" growled Tien, "You said you want to make a deal so make one already!"
Rien growled, "How dare you speak to the boss like that you puny insignificant wretch! Show some respect or I'll tear you apart!"
"Calm yourself Rien…he is right…I did speak of a deal"
"Yeah? Then what is it?" growled Piccolo
"Heh. We will leave your planet free and unharmed, we will avoid it forevermore and will leave you poor defenceless beings alone…in fact…we will even protect your planet for you from other invaders"
"Gee boss, that's mighty charitable of you"
"Wait!" said Chautsu who was standing beside Tien "What about us?"
"Yeah" frowned Goku, "What's the catch?"
The boss smiled, "Aw…to think I almost forgot about the catch, silly me. The catch is that you give me the Rectain…and Gohan"
