Disclaimer: I GOT MY FIRST FLAME.....oh yeah....I don't own DBZ
A/N: I GOT MY FIRST FLAME, I GOT MY FIRST FLAME. You might ask why am I so excited, but knowing that someone out there thinks I can do something to improve my writing inspires me to work harder at it. I am going to start taking suggestions on songs for my fic (Looking for a good song that will go well with the final battle chapter), MUST BE ROCK, nothing else. Send me your suggestion in your review along with the name of the band/artist. A few of you are angry that I didn't tell you who won in the polls, well I guess if you really want to know...answer this question in your review and also send your e-mail address, and I'll e-mail you if you answered the question right. (Question: Who is Icarus and what color was he? Hint: DBZ related)
I would like to thank BladEofThECloudS, Borachio, Rejhan, Evil Bra (not so much), FroBoy, En Satsu Koku Ryuu Ha, DarkAngel-Raven, wicked angel grls, Gopu, Hathor, and willie for reviewing my last chapter. Now to address my fans and 'critic'.
Hathor- I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW. (I don't like people who cheat, but it doesn't matter anyway, because you're wrong, serves you right, lol.)
wicked angel grls- Ha ha ha ha ha yeah I'm mean, but I'm trying to be nicer, so now I've made it so you can know who won, you'll just have to answer the question above correctly. About Gohan's new ability, it's actually more like what Android #19 could by absorbing energy from an opponent to help himself. Gohan can't absorb as much, but enough to recover some of his lost strength. I hope you're not still confused.
Evil Bra- EVERYONE THIS IS THE PERSON I RECIEVED MY FIRST FLAME FROM (hope I didn't embarrass you.) Well if you're going to be critical of me then I'm going to be critical of you. In your review, and I quote "Theres this thing called a Tab key" Well you know THERE'S also this thing called an apostrophe have you ever used one before. If you would really like me to start indenting my paragraphs then give me the reason why it bothers you so much that I don't.
Rejhan- I don't think so, in fact I'm not going to let Goku even learn the truth. The only thing it MIGHT change is that he wouldn't be friends with them anymore, Bra would still be his target, but chances are he won't learn the truth anyway. I'm glad you liked the chapter.
Borachio- Don't worry about e-mailing suggestions now just send them in your reviews. I will try to keep this story going, but I have this awful tendency to get bored with things especially if no one like what I'm doing, just a warning. Yes of course I've listened to Meteora, what true Linkin Park fan hasn't, and I would have put one of those songs in but I haven't found a good place to fit one yet.
Ok I think I'm done, oh yeah one more thing, remember if you're going to flame me DO IT WITHOUT MAKING MISTAKES, Sheesh.
Chapter 10- Dark Truth
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Bra was busy drawing while Trunks was playing a video game. 18 had taken Bulma out shopping to get her to relieve some stress. It had been three days since the incident with Gohan. No one had wanted to talk about it either. Bra was focusing on drawing a small dragon when suddenly a ki spiked just outside the house somewhere and then vanished. Bra quickly looked over to Trunks who had dropped his controller and was staring back at her.
"That...was..." whispered Trunks.
"What should we do?" asked Bra.
"I don't know, we should just wait here. I felt it somewhere near the backyard." said Trunks as he walked over to the window to try and get a look.
"Well do you see him."
"No. Let's just wait here." Five minutes passed in silence until Bra got up and left the room. "HEY WAIT WHERE ARE YOU GOING."
"He would have been in here by now" she said over her shoulder to Trunks who was running to catch up. Bra exited the building and flew over to the backyard where she then felt the familiar ki waiting behind the large row of bushes. She was just about to continue but Trunks placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you sure about this?" he asked quietly.
Bra just shook him off and flew slowly to the top of the bushes and peeked over to the other side. There he was leaning on the bush, eyes closed, and frowning. He then opened one eye and looked directly up at her. "Five and a half minutes, that's a new record low."
Bra's eye widened in surprise. "Go..GOHAN" she flew down and latched on around his neck, Trunks was soon to follow hugging him tightly around his mid section. Tears began their way down her face.
Gohan pried Bra off his neck and placed her back down on the ground. "Bra, about what happened a few days ago...I'm sorry. I'll explain everything later but first I should take a shower and change clothes." said Gohan as he looked himself over. Dried blood and dirt still clung to his arms, face, and clothes.
"Yeah no kidding, you stink." said Trunks while holding his nose.
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Gohan let the warm water flow over his body taking off the dried blood and dirt with it. 'I haven't felt this clean for a while' thought Gohan as he began washing his hair out. Once he had gotten off all the dirt he bent down and turned off the water. He felt Bulma's ki enter CC, so he figured he should get out now and go explain to everyone. He put on a clean black gi, and walked out of the bathroom. He made his way to the living room where he could sense everyone waiting.
As he walked in, Bulma had not started screaming, so he guessed that Bra and Trunks had told her of his arrival. 18 was standing in the far corner of the room while Bra, Trunks, and Bulma sat on the couch waiting for his explanation.
Gohan walked over to the center of the room. "There's a lot I need to tell you, but first off, I'm sorry about what happened a few days ago. Ok it's like this..."
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"So you're really ok with all of this? I mean you're father not knowing what really happened to you all these years." asked Bulma concerned.
"Actually yes, I don't care who he believes. He is after Bra as well and I won't stand for it."
"Does he know about Chi Chi or Goten?"
"I told him I guess his friends hadn't told him because he sounded surprised when I did.""So why are they even after me?" asked Bra still confused about the whole thing.
"...I can't tell you right now, even if I did you won't understand. I'll tell you when you're a bit older."
"So what are we supposed to do?" asked Trunks.
"I'm going to train the both of you. They will be coming again, but they know that as long as I'm here they don't stand much of a chance. Like I said before they have a way of becoming even stronger. I can take on my father alone, but if they all team up on me, I don't stand a chance. Chances are they may not be coming for several years, how ever long it takes them to train to be strong enough and how long they'll risk letting you live." Gohan replied.
"How long do you think it will take them to reach the level you're at now, with the Kai's help?" asked Bulma.
"I'd say nearly eleven years, but I'm not exactly sure. Human potential is far lower than that of a Saiyans, but there are still ways for them to raise it to the same level. They have access to the Namek dragonballs. We've tried to go to Namek to use the dragonballs before, but they always got in the way when they sensed us trying something, but now they're too busy with getting stronger. I might be able to use Instant Transmission to get there."
"Then what?" asked Bulma.
"We bring them back here and keep them here so they can't use them, possibly use them later on to bring Vegeta, Piccolo, and Dende back to help."
"DAD!" said Bra and Trunks together.
"First I'm going to need you to find out where New Namek is, Bulma. As soon as I know where it is I can use Instant Transmission to get there and get the dragonballs together."
"Alright I'll get to it right away." said Bulma standing up and walking briskly towards the labs.
"You two, we need to start training everyday from now on."
"Ok." said the two together.
'hmm They will be interested in hearing this bit of information' thought 18 to herself while watching Gohan and the twins head towards the GR. 'I'll bet I get a big bonus for this info.'
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5 years have passed
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It was late night, the moon had risen hours ago. Gohan, Bra, and Trunks were still training in the GR while Bulma and worked in the labs, using astrology equipment to try and find New Namek. That's the way it had been every day for the past five years, Gohan training Bra and Trunks while Bulma constantly searched the stars. Gohan was twenty-one now and the twins were going to turn twelve in a week.
Bra and Trunks had not managed to ascend to level two yet and both were at about the same level. Together they were a match for Gohan when he was in his second transformation, but whenever he went to level three he became too much for them.
Gohan waited in the middle of the large dome structure with his eyes closed. He could sense Bra and Trunks moving circles around him. They knew he was too fast for them, so they had resorted to trying to cut him off, and it had worked until Gohan had found out their little secret. Trunks was the first to make a move. He charged in with a spinning kick aimed at Gohan's head, but he easily dodged it, by jumping, and the second attack by Bra aimed to his stomach while he was in the air.
"Come on you two I know you can do better than that. Where going to continue to train until one of you hits me,…or we could quit now, but no dinner."
Bra and Trunks just looked at each other, horrified at the prospect of no dinner. Then they both charged at the same time meeting Gohan in the center of the dome. Bra and Trunks both threw punches and kicks as fast as the could at Gohan, but he easily dodged each attack as if it were in slow motion. Trunks threw a punch at Gohan's head but he ducked and grabbed on to his arm, the next thing he knew, he was flung into the wall of the GR and Bra joined soon after each sliding down the wall and landing on the floor.
"Ok well I guess you two have had enough for today" said Gohan while walking over the computer and turning off the gravity. They had been training at nearly 700 times Earth's gravity. "Tomorrow we're going to do some meditation, along with a spar. Hopefully we'll make a bit more progress than we did today."
"Yes Gohan" they said together as they followed him out the GR and into the kitchen where Bulma had finished cooking. She turned around and placed two large plates of food on the table.
"Here you go. Hey Gohan, I finally found New Namek." said Bulma excitedly.
"Good, I should be able to get there. I'll come with you down to the lab later." said Gohan as he filled up his own plate and began eating. Bra and Trunks just shoveled food into their mouths, it didn't even look like they were chewing.
"You are such sloppy eaters you know that?" she said to the twins. Neither of them responded and just kept eating.
When dinner was finally over, Gohan followed Bulma to her main lab. She had a large computer screen that showed a map of space. She placed a marker on Earth and one on where New Namek was supposed to be. "Great, well then I guess I'll have to cancel tomorrow's training. I'll go there first thing in the morning, and it shouldn't take me more than a single day to collect all seven, and then I'll be back."
"Here take this, I designed it to carry the dragonballs." said Bulma while handing him a capsule. "I remember how large they are so this should save you a bit more time."
"Yeah, ok. Thanks a lot." said Gohan as he took the capsule and put it in his pocket.
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Gohan went up to his room and began meditating. Tomorrow he would go to New Namek, but his mind kept wandering. Two weeks from today was the day his mother and brother had died, and he had for the past five year gone to visit their graves, and this year would be no different. He sometimes found himself wishing that he didn't have to go there, but he knew that it would tear him apart inside if he didn't go pay his respects.
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Gohan stopped meditating early in the morning. Bra and Trunks were still asleep and Bulma was waiting in the lab. Gohan walked into the lab and spotted Bulma working on some of her old projects that she never got to finish.
"Good morning Bulma" said Gohan as he came up behind her.
"Oh good morning, here is the dragon-radar." she said as she handed him the small round object over her shoulder. "Don't take too long ok."
"Yeah I won't" said Gohan as he began focusing towards the area in space where New Namek was until he finally felt ki signatures. He then placed two fingers on his forehead and vanished form the lab.
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Gohan reappeared on a lush green planet, he could tell it was New Namek by the trees that were around him. He pulled out the dragon-radar and turned it on. When nothing appeared on the small screen he began to wonder. 'What the hell? Where are they?' He could tell it was on by the high pitch electronic sound it was making, but it wasn't detecting anything. 'Shit am I too late?' He began flying all over the planet to see if it would respond anywhere. Three hours had passed and he had searched over the entire planet and, nothing. 'Damn it, they must have taken them.' Just before he was about to leave someone appeared next to him.
"Gohan I thought you'd be coming here." said Goku as Gohan back a few feet away.
"What the hell do you want?" asked Gohan.
"Actually I came here to try to convince you one more time to give up protecting that girl."
"You're a complete moron, how many times do I have to tell you." said Gohan as he began powering up and was soon in his second form.
"Well if you're not going to help us I can't let you live. It pains me to do this, but you must understand, if she is allowed to live her power will destroy the entire universe. I can't let your actions decide the fate of everyone else."
"Fine then let's settle this right now, if you really think you can kill your own flesh and blood."
"I can and I will if I have to." said Goku as he powered up almost directly to his third form, so fast that it threw Gohan a few more feet away. "I have gotten quite a power boost, with the help of the Kais."
Gohan just smirked. "So you finally caved. Knew you couldn't defeat me without the stupid Kai's abilities huh?"
"No, actually they used their powers to make their entire planet's gravity increase by nearly 2000 times that of Earth. It took a while to get used to, I had to stay in this form for a month just to get used to it. It also allowed me to increase my speed quite a bit as well." said Goku, who had vanished an appeared next to Gohan and said that last part in his ear.
'SHIT' thought Gohan as he then powered up even farther also going into level three. "Well lets see how well you stack up against me then." Gohan threw his fist back right where Goku's head was, but he had already vanished and was then in front of Gohan.
"You've been so busy training those kids that you've been slacking in your own training."
"How did you know I…" but before Gohan could finish his sentence Goku had placed his fist in Gohan's stomach causing him to cough up a bit of blood.
Goku then leaned in while Gohan was still on his fist. "We've been keeping a close eye on you. We knew you'd slip up and leave them unprotected to come here."
Gohan tried to kick Goku in the gut, but he had caught it easily and then swung him around and threw him straight to the ground. Gohan landed hard, creating a crater in the ground. Gohan was quick to get up and charged straight at Goku. Gohan punched and kicked as fast as he could, one would only perceive blurs for arms and legs, but Goku was able to dodge or block all of them.
"Ok I've think I've proved that you don't stand a chance." said Goku as he caught one of Gohan's punches, who then threw another but Goku caught it as well. Both of Gohan's fists were in Goku's hands. "I'm sorry I have to do this." Goku brought his head down on Gohan's causing him to scream out in pain. It felt like his head was about to split open. Goku then brought his knee to Gohan's stomach causing him cough up even more blood. Blood had also begun to drip down his forehead where Goku's head had connected. Gohan began losing power and soon fell out of his super Saiyan form and back to normal. He then felt Goku release both of his fists, but didn't have time to react as he was sent flying by an energy attack Goku had created and launched right at his chest. Gohan tried to fight it off but it was too strong. But just as he was about to give up it was sent flying upwards. Gohan was out of energy and let himself fall to the ground below and once again created a crater in the ground. He was on the edge of consciousness when Goku came walking over to him. He then felt a white hot pain as Goku shot an energy beam through the center of his chest. Goku then bent down and began searching through Gohan's pockets until he found a small brown sack.
"Ahh I thought you'd have some of these." said Goku as he took the sack of senzu beans. He opened it up and counted how many were inside. "Only twelve. Sorry but I can't let you have enough energy to be able to leave, so I'll be taking these. I'm sorry son. Tomorrow Bra will die, and the universe will be safe."
Blood dripped down the side of Gohan's mouth as he opened it to speak. "But…for how…long?" he managed to say. His face was almost entirely covered in the red liquid and he continued to cough up a bit more blood. The top part of his gi had been completely burned off his body. He also had several cuts from the large energy attack.
Goku just gave him a questioning look. "What do you mean."
Gohan smirked. "Don't…you get it…There's always…going to be…something that's going to…endanger Earth or the universe. Right now you're…saying the an eleven-year old girl…is going to destroy the universe…well you've already taken away part of her world. I think she has…a right to be angry.
"Gohan, you have to understand that everyone has a right to live not just…"
"THEN WHY NOT HER!" Gohan yelled before coughing up blood.
"…I can't let one person endanger the lives of everyone in the universe." Goku then place two fingers on his forehead and vanished.
"DAMN IT ALL" Gohan yelled. He leaned on an arm and looked down at his body. He only had the use of one eye but it was enough to let him see the extent of the damage to his body. He could tell just by looking that he wouldn't have enough time to recover enough of his wounds without the help of a senzu bean. 'He said twelve, but I have another' he thought slowly to himself while trying to dig through his pockets. He couldn't find it in either so he began looking on the ground around him. He saw the capsule Bulma had given him and the dragon-radar which had been smashed. 'Damn did it fall out some where.' He began crawling out of the crater searching along the way for the small silver case he kept the black senzu bean in. He could feel himself beginning to lose consciousness as he finally made it out of the crater. He then spotted the tiny silver box glinting in the light. He crawled his way over to it and opened it to find the black senzu bean. 'Damn it I didn't want to have to use this.' he thought and with his last bit of energy he put it in his mouth, chewed, and swallowed it before passing out.
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"Hey Bra wanna go out and play today since we don't have to train?" asked Trunks as they finished their lunches.
"Yeah sure." she said as she walked over to him and tapped him on the shoulder "You're it." she then ran out the door and flew off with Trunks right behind her.
"Hey that's no fair you got a head start."
Bra turned her head back towards her brother. "Quit complaining, you always used to do that to me." just as she turned back around she ran right into something very hard and solid. The hit had caused her to start rubbing her head. "Oww that hurt." she then turned to she what she hit. There stood a tall man with three eyes. "Oh no" she backed away a few feet before turning and flying back towards Trunks. "TRUNKS RUN!" she yelled as she headed towards him. He looked past her and saw the man she had run into, he was one that Gohan had described to them as Tien. He too turned and flew back as fast as he could to CC.
When he finally landed he turned around to see if they had escaped, but he couldn't see Bra anywhere. He could still feel her ki back where they had been along with a few others. "Oh no Bra." Trunks then powered up and sped off as fast as he could.
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Gohan opened his eyes, but quickly closed them again when the bright light of the noon sun entered his eyes. 'Damn I passed out, but for how long? I need to get back.' Gohan stood up and looked around suddenly realizing where he was and what had happened. He then looked down at his body, all of his wounds had been completely healed even some of his old scars had vanished, but for some reason he felt a bit different. He decided to put it off for now, he had to get back and make sure everything was all right. He began focusing in space until he found Earth and then placed two fingers on his forehead and vanished from New Namek.
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Gohan appeared right in front of CC but he couldn't sense Bra or Trunks inside only Mr., Mrs. Briefs, and Bulma. He then spread out his search farther until he found Bra and Trunks out in the woods near the city along with some other familiar ki signatures. 'Shit they're here.' He quickly used Instant Transmission and appeared at the scene.
Trunks was on the ground unconscious while Tien had Bra by the throat. Gohan's heart sunk to his stomach when he saw that Bra's ki was rapidly decreasing and she wasn't moving. Gohan quickly powered up and made his presence known by punching Tien in the face and sending him a long distance away. Gohan also saw Krillin and Yamcha both of which vanished before Gohan could do anything to either of them. Gohan quickly caught Bra before she hit the ground. "Damn it, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left you two here alone." Bra seemed to be just unconscious and her ki was beginning to steady. Gohan quickly picked up Trunks and flew them both back to CC.
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Ok I had to end this chapter here, sorry if some of you didn't like the big time jump, but it was necessary in order for the next chapter to come a little sooner. I will TRY to get it up in about three days. I hope this chapter wasn't too rushed for you all. I will also be posting my new story soon, so look for that as well, it's called One Fate. WARNING: IT WILL EVENTUALLY BE INSCEST NON-YAOI, IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THAT, THEN DON'T READ IT!
Ahh another 3000 words of pure gold…or ink…or bytes…::Sweat drops:: just review.