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Awakening

Gohan's frustration and anger peaked, and with a scream of hatred he gathered all the unending power from the invisible source that seemed to be all around him…

…He was floating…He was floating in blissful emptiness…his mind was void of thought or emotion…all of the feelings of grief, sorrow, loneliness, frustration, anger and self-hatred that had been plaguing him seemed distant and numbed, as though they had happened a long time ago, and where now only a memory…

He felt content to float there, in the emptiness, free of the cruel world he lived in. He felt full or perhaps complete, as though a part of him that had long been missing (and had in fact been gone so long that he didn't even realize that it was missing) had finally been returned to its rightful place.

Had the boy been in his normal state, the scholar in him would have demanded to know what had been missing that he now felt so strangely complete. However the scholar in Gohan seemed to have disappeared along with all of his other thoughts and emotions.

Therefore he was quite happy to float there in the void and let the sole feeling of being complete, cradle him in its tender caring arms.


He heard a faint bird call, as though from miles and miles away. It was followed by the gentle brush of a breeze upon his face. Then came the feeling of soft grass beneath him…

And all too soon, reality began to draw Gohan, bit by bit, out of the void, leading him out of the void and into the sunshine.