The tall green man silently lifted his head. Cold black eyes narrowed slightly. His large ears wriggled on the sides of his bald head. As always, he was silent. His cape snapped in the wind and his clothes ruffled too. He closed his eyes and felt the wind against his face. When the wind stopped blowing for a moment the son of a demon opened his eyes so he could watch the icy landscape. It was barren but beautiful in its icy way.
A single tear slid down his cheek. He had just lost the one thing that had held him down to Earth for so long. Gohan was dead.
Piccolo physically winced as he thought about his first friend. The little boy who had accepted him despite everything. The baby he had trained and protected so long ago. The child who brought him back from the dead and saved his life. The warrior who had fought at his side and defeated Cell at all costs. The father who named him as Pan's Godfather.
Piccolo slammed to his knees and screamed.
"Gohan! Gohan!"
Tears began to stream down his cheeks as screams were yanked from his thoart. He sobbed and screamed until he was hoarse and could cry no more. His body jerked silently.
Pan had died several years before from a forced overdose of heroin. Now his little Gohan was gone. No one really knew what killed him but they did know that he was killed before he was mutilated.
"Gohan" Piccolo whispered before deciding. He would leave and never return.
He got to his feet and flew to Capsule Corporation. Vegeta met him in the front yard. For the longest time neither moved. Then Vegeta silently motioned the Namekian to follow.
"You leaving" Vegeta finally asked.
"Nothing left to stay for."
Vegeta said nothing more as he led the way to his old pod which sat hidden behind the Gravity Machine.
"Where to?"
"New Namek."
"Setting coordinates to New Namek" the pod said in a metallic female's voice.
"You'll get blasted with sleeping gas in space" Vegeta said.
Piccolo nodded and climbed in. The pod door closed automatically and the pod blasted off. The gas covered him and he began to fall asleep as he left Earth…never to return.
"Good-bye Gohan. I'll defend Namek with all the power I have. I stayed because of you. And now I'm lost without you."
The End
AN: Please R&R. The last part(some of it) is from the beginning of the Trunks Saga. Gohan asks why Piccolo stayed when he could have left with his people.