Hi all! Thanks for all the reviews, you ppl keep me going!


Digi fan: Thanks, and you will see the Z-Fighters together again. Only a bit more waits...                              



Marshmellow13Dragon: You bet! And the next Afterlife Tournament will soon be held. The only question is, will Gohan be allowed to participate? Well, you'll soon find out...                       



DBZ Chick1: Glad you liked it! And I will continue and always update as soon as possible (well, writing two other stories besides this one costs time^^)



animeprincess1452: You're welcome. I really think your stories (especially Saiyan life) are very good, but in most cases you are too fast with updates for me. Thanks for the compliment, but I think you're talented too! I only try to write more than only one genre, and I like to think that I do manage it well.



Note: Sorry for the delay, but I wasn't able to update till now. Due to my use of A/Ns (and Reviewers responses) my acc has been blocked till this time...

Original Note from ff.net:

'Chapter: "Authors Note and Reviewers Responses"

the above chapter has been removed because it violated the guideline detailed on the upload page.'

Well, bad luck...

Never use A/Ns or something like that in your own stories, although your only intent might be to purify your chapters. It will result in acc blocking, and that's... argh!




Again special thanks to my beta, who's doing a great job, as always!



Now to the story:



Welcome to the afterlife, son!




Chapter Three: The Grand Kai


Last time...

A tall, human looking warrior with short black hair, green pants and black boots greeted them.

"Hey Goku! Nice to see you're back! You competing?" he asked.

Goku grinned sheepishly. He had not foreseen that someone else could mention the tournament before he had told his son what was awaiting him...

Gohan looked at his father.

"'Competing'? In what?" he asked.

Goku scratched the back of his head.

"Umm, that was something I wanted to tell you later, son... well, there will be held a new Afterlife Tournament in two days. I will compete, and if you prove to be strong enough you will too!" he exclaimed.

That caught Gohan by surprise...



Now the continuation...

"Wow, dad! A real tournament like the old Tenkaichi Budokais on Earth before the darn tinkertoys came and destroyed everything?" Gohan asked his father with gleaming eyes.

Goku was glad to see that his son was still thrilled at the perspective to fight, but he himself was curious at the same time.

"Yeah, son, that's right. A real tournament with rules and everything. Really cool! I won the last two tournaments, and naturally Vegeta was pissed as hell!" he said, smiling goofily.

Gohan grinned too. Yeah, he could imagine...

Goku continued.

"But son, tell me what happened after Vegeta and the others had been killed. Sure, I've heard it from them that those Androids were very strong and killed them brutally, but I want to hear what you went through." he said with sympathy in his eyes.

Gohan looked at his father and nodded.

"I did what Vegeta had asked of me. I went into hiding and trained. I knew I was no match for either of them until I had achieved Super Saiyan, so I went into the dessert and put me through the grinder. I told Bulma to keep a low profile, and so she began to construct underground tunnels beneath Capsule Corp. And luckily the Androids are not able to sense KI, otherwise Bulma, Trunks and I would have been all dead in the blink of an eye. Well, I trained hard and long, and when I was fifteen I had finally reached my goal. I became a Super Saiyan, dad. You told me once that you used your anger to become a Super Saiyan on Namek when you fought Freezer, but I used the pain of loss. I had only to imagine how this monsters killed mum, Vegeta and the others, and then something in me snapped and I transformed." he said.



Goku looked extremely sad. He could now imagine what hardships his son had gone through. And he had only thought of his training! How meaningless in comparison to what his son had done and gone through...

Gohan smiled a sad smile and continued.

"Naturally I thought that I had become strong enough and flew straight to West City and Capsule Corp. Or better it remains. Everywhere I looked destroyed houses and streets, skulls, decayed bodies and so many other horrible things. Those blasted Androids had waged an inhuman onslaught against all of humanity, and nobody had been able to stop them. I became so angry that I turned Super Saiyan, and that was when the Androids arrived. Obviously they had thought they could continue with their pervert fun, and they actually smirked when they saw me. I remember #18s words all too clearly:

'Look what we have here, #17, and another lightning bug. And, what do we do with bugs?' she had asked her brother.

Her darn twin had smirked and said

'We squash them!'

and then the fight had started. At first I was able to stand up to them, but the longer the fight lasted the weaker I became. And those darn machines were not down by an inch! Whatever Gero had equipped them with provided them with seemingly endless energy! They were soon able to gain the upper hand, and #17 punched me into a building that crumbled on top of me. They thought me dead, and gladly this evil, f****** 'Dr.' Gero had not equipped them with devices to pick up other peoples energy. Else I would really have been dead at that time. I realised that I had become stronger, but it was not enough." he explained.

Goku looked baffled. He had heard from Vegeta and the others that these Androids were apparently life-hating, self-satisfied killers, but to hear it from his son in detail was really something else. Apparently those machines had toyed around with his son!
"And what happened then, son?" he asked with concern in his voice.


Gohan continued.

"Well, after I had freed myself from the debris I flew straight to Capsule Corp., battered and bruised as I was, and to my delight I found Bulma and Trunks alive. Trunks had sensed my KI, and they were so glad that I was still alive. I reported to them how my first encounter with the Androids as a Super Saiyan had gone, and naturally Trunks was very angry that they had nearly killed me. He saw me as his mentor, and in the following months and years I did my best to live up to the expectations. But dad, you can't believe the horrors those inhuman creations have done to Earth and its population, and I am so damned angry that I was not able to destroy them! Blast it!" he finished.



Goku patted his son on the back.

"Hey son, you did your best. Remember, not even the combined Z-Fighters were able to destroy them. And Vegeta was a Super Saiyan at that time, too. So don't put the guilt for not being able to do so alone on your shoulders. You are not responsible! If anyone is, then Gero and the Androids. And Gero rots in hell, so much is sure." he said.

Gohan managed a semi-smile.

"Too bad that his creations won't join him in the near future..." he said.

Goku nodded.

"Yeah, but who knows what the future will bring... well, first of all a new tournament!" he exclaimed happily and smiled in anticipation.

Now Gohan really smiled. That was his dad as he remembered him. Always thrilled at the prospect to fight...

"Dad, you said 'if I'm good enough'. What did you mean by that?" he asked.

This time it was Gokus turn to smile.

"You will find that out soon enough, son..." he said mysteriously.

They had reached the end of the path and were now standing in front of a very large white building. King Kai was standing in front of it and was obviously waiting for them.

Gohan had not seen the catfish god in a long time, but he still looked the same way he had back then. Quite, umm, chubby, not very tall, blue-skinned and with antenneas on his head. Yup, King Kai.

"Ahh, there you are, Goku. And you must be Gohan. You sure have grown since the last time I saw you." he exclaimed.

Gohan nodded, but otherwise said nothing. He wanted to know why King Kai had waited for them in front of that particular building, and he hoped to get an answer soon.

King Kai continued to speak.

"Well, Goku, the Grand Kai will arrive soon. Time to bow before him. Do it this one time, okay, Goku?" he asked with a nearly pleading voice.

But Goku just smiled.

"You know that I don't do that. I do honour the Grand Kai, but not in this way." he stated.

Suddenly King Kai looked up towards the top of the building.

"That must be the Grand Kai!" he exclaimed, and seconds later a blinding light appeared on top of the building and flew very fast towards them.

"Brace yourself, son!" Goku warned him with a smile, and seconds later Gohan knew why his dad had said that. The Grand Kai impacted like a bomb before them, and King Kai was sent flying backwards for some yards. Gohan looked away from him and saw... the Grand Kai!

But he was completely different from the person he would have awaited, for this guy wore classic blue jeans, a white shirt with a blue jeans vest, sunglasses and red hand shoes. On his left shoulder he was balancing a radio, and he was dancing to the rock music coming from it.

~ Whoa, he does look like a rock'n roller with this long white hair and his outfit... ~ Gohan thought, and the Grand Kai looked at him smirking. Obviously he had 'heard' that thought from Gohan, as had King Kai, who looked at him like he had just insulted a majesty.

The Grand Kai did not seem affected; he was rather smiling and danced to the rhythm of the music until he had reached them. King Kai was still bowing to him, and seconds later the Grand Kai put his radio on the ground and turned it out.

"Hey, guys! And hi Goku! I see you've brought your son with ya! Will he compete?" the Grand Kai asked.



Goku nodded.

"He surely will!" he said in the breast-note of confirmedness, smiling proudly. He had seen what his son could do, and that would surely be enough to pass the test...

Grand Kai nodded. He had expected no less.

"Good! But ya know, he'll have to pass the test! But if he fairs as good as you did back then when you were new, that shan't be a problem for him."

"What shan't be a problem?" a female voice asked from behind. They turned around to look at the speaker, and Gohan was surprised to see a woman with similar looks as King Kai, only that this woman had blonde hair and a skin colour similar to that of a human. And she had antennae... yeah, obviously another Kai.

"Oh, where are my manners... I am the Kai of the East galaxy, and this time we will win!" she exclaimed.

"Only in your dreams!" another voice exclaimed, "for we from the South Galaxy will win this time!" a tall pink-faced Kai with pointed ears and earrings exclaimed. Obviously he was the South Kai...

"Hah! That's what only you think! We will win, that's for sure! So says the West Kai! For Pikkon will win this time!" he exclaimed.

Gohan surveyed him. He was smaller in size than even King Kai, had a violet face and all the attributes of a Kai, except the antennae. Instead of those he had some strange kind of hair tuft on the middle of his head, and he wore a monocle in his right eye. And he was glaring at King Kai...

It became obvious quite fast that King Kai, the North Kai as Gohan knew by now, and this other Kai, the West Kai, did not like each other overly much. No, there was definitely no love lost between those two...

They gnashed their teeth and glared at each other.

"That's what you said last time. And the time before!" King Kai exclaimed.

"Hah! Pikkon has improved, and this time he will beat all of your fighters!" West Kai exclaimed.

King Kai found that hardly believable, and his facial expression made this all too clear.



However, before things could get out of hand the Grand Kai stepped in.

"Dudes, we will soon see who the best is. But before we will see if Son Gohan will be able to qualify himself for the tournament!"

Gohan was curious what this test would be. And he was also curious when he would see the other Z-Fighters again...




to be continued...



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