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Chapter 6
Gohan rolled over and slammed the pillow over his head as the alarm buzzed on the nightstand. It wasn't that he minded getting up early but getting up early to go to school was different. He normally got up at 7 A.M. every morning to eat the tons of food him, his father, and his brother consumed and then go spar with Goku.
"Get up this instant young man or you'll be late to school," ChiChi yelled from the other room.
"But mom it's only 5 A.M. School doesn't start till 8."
"You have to go all the way to Satan City to go. It will take you awhile to get there."
"Mom the Nimbus Cloud can make it in five minutes. Or I could use instant transmission."
"Well get up anyway before your breakfast gets cold."
In an instant Gohan was up and out of bed in front of the table gobbling down food. Beside him were Goku and Goten.
"So Gohan, do you think you'll have time to train before school today?" Goku asked between mouthfuls.
"Sure. I've got three hours before I have to be there."
"You'll do no such thing mister. I don't want you showing up for school on your first day in a ripped up gi all bruised. They may think we mistreat you or something"
Two hours and forty-five minutes later Goku and Gohan were throwing punches at lightning speeds. Gohan deftly dodges out of the way of a punch just as he realizes what time it is. Dropping out of Super Saiyan, he says, "Got to go dad. If I'm late mom will kill me."
"Good luck son," Goku yells.
Gohan runs into the house and changes out of his sweaty gi into a pair of pants and a long sleeve shirt and runs back out the door a minute later with ChiChi yelling at him about why he hasn't left yet. Gohan takes to the air and in less than a minute he is landing in Satan City.
"Don't move or I'll shoot. I'm not kidding." Gohan looks up wondering what's going on and sees eight guys with guns holding several hostages in the Satan City Bank.
"I better do something," Gohan says to himself. "But, I don't really want everybody ogling me so I'll try not to be seen." Gohan flashes instantly into Super Saiyan and in and instant he is down there and, moving faster than the eye can follow knocks out all the robbers. "Child's play," Gohan says to himself as he floats up and lands on a nearby roof.
"What was child's play?" a voice from behind him says.
"Dealing with the robbers down there," Gohan says without thinking.
"Who are you?" Videl Satan asks.
"Sorry gotta go," Gohan says before raising his fingers to his forehead and disappearing.
"I wonder who that golden fighter was," Videl says to herself. "He sure left in a hurry. I wonder how he did that."
Later in the class room, Ms. Chalk addressed the class. "Students today we have a new student, Son Gohan." Gohan enters the room. "Tell us a little about yourself Gohan."
"Well I was home schooled most of my life."
"Yes I already informed the class of that but what do you do in your spare time."
"I practice martial arts with my dad. We spar a lot. He's a great teacher"
"Interesting Mr. Son. Well, take a seat"
"Yes ma'am."
Gohan walks to the back of the room and takes a seat.
"Hey are you really a martial artist?" a blonde girl behind him asks.
"No Erasa he's probably just a punk who thinks he can fight," Sharpener said. "After all he said his dad taught him."
"Well Videl's dad taught her and she really kicks ass", Erasa retorts.
"Yeah but her dad is the world champ. If this punk were serious he'd have a real martial artist teach him."
Just then Videl come in the room panting. "Sorry I'm late I had to stop a robbery."
"It's alright Videl just take a seat," Ms. Chalk calmly replies.
Videl walks up and sits beside Gohan.
"So how you'd stop the robbery this time?" Sharpener asks Videl.
"Actually some guy with golden hair stopped it before I even got there, but then he just disappeared. He moved so fast I couldn't even see how he knocked out all the robbers but they were all knocked out in like three seconds."
"Man that guy sounds strong," Erasa said.
"Yeah but he could never beat Hercule," Sharpener retorted. "He's the strongest person alive. He beat Cell after all."
Gohan hearing this can't help but chuckle.
"What's so funny punk?" Sharpener asks.
"Nothing I just think you overestimate Hercule's strength," Gohan replies.
"Oh yeah well I'm his student and I could kick your ass any day of the week."
"I'd like to see…" Gohan is interrupted by the bell.
Gohan's next class is gym. He walks into the gym after changing into a gi. He almost faints when he sees who the teacher is. "Yamcha, what are you doing here," Gohan asks.
"Well the school hired me to teach a martial arts unit to all the students. They think that it'd be good if all the students could defend themselves. And I needed the money." Yamcha sees the concerned look on Gohan's face. "Don't worry Gohan, I've seen you fight you've pretty much already passed this class."
"It's not that I know I can fight. I just don't want to accidentally hurt anyone."
"Don't worry I have a bag of sensu that Korin gave me just in case we need them." Yamcha raises his voice. "Ok class we'll begin with a little sparring today. So pair up in groups of four and take turns sparing on the mat."
"You! Get over here now." Gohan hears Sharpener talking to him. "This is a perfect time for me to put you in your place." So Gohan goes and joins the group with Sharpener, Videl, and Erasa.
A minute later Gohan and Sharpener face each other down on the fighting mat. "I'll even let you take the first punch," Gohan tells Sharpener.
"Ok punk. You're going down." Sharpener charges Gohan but he swiftly dodges the sloppily thrown kick.
His fighting skills are bad enough I can beat him without looking like a freak, Gohan thinks to himself. Gohan continues his dodge to the left and brings around a light punch to Sharpener's ribcage. Sharpener falls to the ground for a second then gets back up and charges Gohan with a flurry of punches. Gohan dodges them all with ease before finally using Sharpener's own weight to bring the blonde off balance and throw him off of the mat.
Sharpener starts to get up but is stopped by Yamcha. "No that's a ring-out. You lost the match."
"Besides he was tearing you apart, Videl commented.
"Shut up," Sharpener starts, but then notices the pain by his ribs. He pulls up his shirt to reveal a nasty bruise right where Gohan hit him."
"See he's tougher than you thought. Isn't he?" Erasa laughs.
Before anyone can respond the bell rings ending the period.
The rest of the day goes by pretty uneventful. After school just as Gohan is walking out of the building, he hear, "Wait up Gohan." Gohan stops and turns around. "Mind if I walk with you?"
"Well I live pretty far away."
"It's okay I can walk pretty far."
"No I live really far away."
"And where would that be?"
Gohan silently curses himself as he answers. "East Mountain Area 439."
"That's at least three hours by helicopter. How do you get to school everyday?"
"I get up really early and fly very fast."
"Oh you have a capsulized jet copter. Can I see it?"
What am I going to do? I can't show her a copter because I don't have one and if I tell her I can fly, she'll think I'm a freak for sure.
Before he can get his thoughts together Videl interrupts. "So Gohan are you entering the World's Martial Arts Tournament? You are pretty good. You might even make it to the semi-finals if you don't go against me or my dad. Besides if you don't enter I'll tell everyone at school that you're the Gold Fighter."
A completely shocked look flashes across Gohan's face. "What makes you think I'm the Gold Fighter?"
"Well, First he and you both show up on the same day. Second, you are both wearing the exact same clothes. Third, you fight well but it's obvious that you were holding back in your fight with Sharpener. And finally, except for the blonde hair and turquoise eyes you look almost exactly the same." And if I'm wrong then show me your copter that you use to get home."
"Ummm…"
"You can't because you don't have one. When you say fly you mean like you flew up to that building top after kicking those criminals' asses. Admit it Gohan. I've got you."
"What do you want?" Gohan braced himself for demands for money and other items.
"I want you to enter the tournament so I have a real challenge and I want you to show me what kind of tricks you use to fly like that"
"It's no trick Videl. It's just energy." Gohan slowly levitates off the ground and hovers a few feet. "Anyone can do it once they learn how."
"Ok I want you to teach me how to do that then."
"Ok but you have to promise that this stays between us. I'll teach you on Saturday."
"Ok"
The week passes fairly uneventful. Videl and Gohan talk some more and get to be pretty good friends. Videl comes over to Gohan's in her copter.
As soon as Videl arrives the first thing Gohan notices is her newly cut hair. "What happened to your hair?" he asks.
"I cut it. Do you like it?"
"Yeah it looks great."
"Thanks. So where are you going to teach me to fly?"
"I was thinking that we could do it out behind the house."
"Can I come too big brother?" Goten asks.
"You already know how to fly Goten."
"Yeah but maybe I can get a quick spar in with you while we're out there."
"Ok you can come as long as you are good and don't cause any trouble."
They go out back.
"Ok the first thing you have to do is find your energy," Gohan explains. The easiest way to do this is through meditation."
"Ok," Videl sits down and starts to meditate. "I'll try."
"When you find your center, grab the energy in there and push it out."
After about an hour of this Videl finally forms a small ki ball in her hand. "You're doing it. Now to fly you just push downward with this energy."
Just then Goku comes flying down (after sparring with Vegita) looking pretty beaten up. "What are you guys doing?"
"Videl this is my father Son Goku. Dad this is Videl. I'm teaching Videl to fly."
"Yeah it'll be really helpful in the tournament next week," Videl adds.
"Tournament, there's a tournament next week?"
"Yeah." Just then it dawns on Videl who Goku is. "Hey you're the former world champ aren't you? Why weren't you at the last tournament? My father really wanted to beat you to prove that he was truly the best."
"ChiChi wouldn't let me or Gohan enter. She was on one of her fighting is bad rampages at the time," Goku answers.
"Well we could just mention that the first prize is 1 million zeni. We might even get her to let me take off school to train to win."
"Yeah that's a great idea Gohan. We can get Vegita and the rest of the gang to fight as well. It'll be fun to see everyone again."
"So you guys are entering?" Videl asks.
"Yeah," Goku answers. He takes off toward the house to convince ChiChi.
"Okay back to my training. Gohan can you teach me that thing you do where you disappear too," Videl asks.
"You mean instant transmission?"
"Yeah big bro teach me instant transmission too," Goten adds.
"Instant transmission may be a little much for the first day. I didn't learn instant transmission until after I fought Ce… ah many battles."
"Come on big brother I'm ready."
"Ok Goten, I'll try to teach you while Videl practices her flying."
"WHAT?" Videl screams. "YOU DON'T THINK I CAN DO IT BUT YOUR SEVEN YEAR BROTHER CAN? ARE YOU SAYING I'M SLOW?"
"No it's not like that. Instant transmission is more complicated than flying. You have to have complete control of your energy and the ability to sense other people's energy as well. Goten has had energy training since he was born. That is why he is ahead of you.
"Oh," Videl says somewhat ashamed.
"Ok Videl, the only way to learn to fly is to practice pushing your energy up and keep trying. It gets much easier with practice."
Videl proceeds to push her ki under her and float up into the air. She floats higher and higher.
"Watch it Videl. Don't go too high."
"What did you say Gohan?" Just then Videl loses control and starts to pummel toward the ground. In an instant, Gohan is under her catching her.
"Keep practicing and don't go too high." Gohan turns to Goten. "Ok Goten the first step to instant transmission is to sense someone's power. Ok dad is busy and I'm too close so we'll have you sense Vegita's power."
"But Vegita is mean and nasty and he might hurt me if I interrupt him."
"I know Goten but the more power someone has the easier it is to transmit at least at first.
"Can't I just sense Trunks? He's outside playing right now away from Vegita."
"Ok Trunks should be strong enough for you to lock on to. Now can you sense Trunks's energy?"
"Yeah otherwise how would I know he's not with Vegita?"
"Do you want me to teach you this or not, Goten?"
"Ok sorry big brother. I'll behave"
"Ok lock on to Trunks's energy and use your energy to go to it."
"Ok!" Goten holds his fingers up to his head and concentrates for a few minutes and then suddenly disappears. A few minutes later he comes flying back. "I did it big brother. I did it."
"Why didn't you just instant transmission back?"
"I don't know how."
"All you'd have to do lock on to my power and concentrate just like you did to go to Trunks."
"Oh so I can go anywhere I can sense a power then?"
"Yes Goten that's instant transmission."
"COOL!" Goten starts rapidly disappearing and reappearing all over the place. Videl looks up from her flying practice just in time to see Goten reappear with something in his hands. "Check it out big brother. I got one of Roshi's magazines." Gohan takes the dirty magazine before Goten can look at it.
"That's not for you, Goten." He disappears and reappears later minus the magazine. "Now, Goten, don't use this ability to take stuff from people."
"Ok big brother"
Just then Videl comes down panting. "Man that takes it out of you."
"Yeah but it gets easier each time. Just keep practicing and you'll be an ace in no time."
"Well, I better be going for now. I'll see you at the tournament next week Gohan." Videl capsulizes her copter and takes off flying under her own power somewhat low.
"Now can we spar, Gohan?"
"Sure."
Goten flashes into Super Saiyan and attacks Gohan. In seconds fists are flying faster than lightening.
Later that day Goku and Gohan manage to convince ChiChi to let them fight in the tournament and to let Gohan train to be sure to be able to beat Vegita if necessary. All the arraignments are made. Next time the tournament.
Well I got another chapter out. The longest one yet. I shortened the high school saga from what it was in the saga and completely eliminated Great Sayiaman. They just don't really add to the plot and Gohan is an idiot as Sayiman. And this way we can get to the better action faster. Read and Review Please. I update faster if I know people are actually reading it.