Half-Breed

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Chapter 2 – Preparation

Gohan sat crouched in the corner of his room, peering into his palm. The orange ball his mother kept hidden away in a hole was in his hand. Of course, she didn't know that he had, nor would she ever. He knew Chi-Chi would be angry if she knew that, as a grown teen, was playing with one of her most prized possessions. She would lecture him on how he was being very childish at such an age.

Gohan rolled the sphere into one of his hands, and folded his fingers around it. He relaxed his fingers, and stared at the ball again. His eyes caught his dull reflection; he looked away from it.

"Six more of these could make my wish come true." Gohan laughed to himself, putting the dragon ball onto the ground. "Of course, that was only a fairy tale, I mean, how many of these could there be? Thousands, perhaps millions, they are cool looking anyway."

He shook his head, and stood up, grabbing the dragon ball off the floor. He best get this back to its hidden place before his mother found it was missing. So he did. Gohan carefully looked around for any signs of his mother; foot steps, the smell of sweet food from the kitchen, or her gentle laughter from a room just around the corner. Silence is what he heard. Perfect.

Gohan warily snuck around the corner, and turned the door knob. Praying that the door would not creak, he pushed it open. Silence. Smiling, Gohan quickened his pace, and pulled the picture off of the wall, and then dropped the orange sphere back into the hole. He swiftly hung the picture back onto the wall. His mother would never know he had been there..

Gohan turned around, and gazed over his shoulder at the picture. Though he could no longer remember the specific details, his mother bedtime story lingered in his mind.

He shook his head again, "What a stupid idea of a wish-granting dragon. Only a child would believe such a thing. Besides, if it were true, the story wouldn't take place in a far away land. It was just a fairy tale."

The harder he tried to push the story out of his mind, the more his wanted to believe it. If it weren't true his mother most certainly wouldn't have stashed the orange sphere in a hidden wall behind a picture. Then again, Chi-Chi was a very strange woman, so she could have her reasons for doing such a thing…

"Nah," Gohan reassured himself, and went on with his business of the day. He knew not the wander to far from the house, the day was gradually growing darker, and the stars were beginning to shimmer against the blackened sky; he knew dinner would be ready very soon, which meant his mother would be hovering over the stove, adding any last minute ingredients in.

Gohan sighed, and shuffled his feet against the wooden floor. Though walking very slowly, he eventually made it into the kitchen, were he stood next to his mother. She carefully watched his hands making sure he was not going to steal any food before dinner was served. And if Gohan even tried, Chi-Chi would smack his hand with her trusty wooden spoon.

He jerked his hand back, waving it in front of his face while blowing on it. He looked up and smiled at his mother. "Hey mom," He was finally going to put his mind to rest, "Remember that story you told me about a long time ago; the one with the dragon-wish granter?"

"Mm-hmm," Chi-Chi nodded spinning back around to the food. A bit of smoke was pouring from the top of the pot, so she was trying to pull it off the stove. After many attempts of trying to grasp the metal handle, of the pot, she quickly moved the it onto the counter.

He sighed, but continued, "Where did that story take place?"

She looked up at him for a brief moment and then turned to get plates from the cupboard; Gohan was already handing them to her. She took them from him, and began dishing out the dinner onto the plate in equal proportions.

"Earth," she mumbled. She grabbed two plates and balanced them on her hands, putting the plates in there normal spots. Gohan sat down beside his mother, Goku soon joined them. They ate in silence.

Gohan and Goku gobbled down their food like a wild animals, and tripped over themselves trying to get to the pot for more, while Chi-Chi ate normally with elegance and some type of manners, and walked to the pot to get her seconds if she desired any.

He cleaned his plate off rather quickly, and then placed it into the sink with the other dishes that were yet to be washed. Chi-Chi finished soon after, and washed the remains off her plate, and slipped her own plate onto Gohan's.

"I'll do the dishes later Mom!" He called out, and then continued into his room with a satisfied grin on his face. There he plopped down onto his soft bed and leaned back onto his squishy pillows. His eyes fluttered closed, but then popped back open.

Gohan yawned, and crawled under his covers, and curled up into a small ball. He shook his head, his bangs falling back into place. He snuggled into his pillow again, and pulled the covers over him. Gohan slowly closed his raven colored eyes, and rolled onto his side where he slowly drifting off into sleep.

"Sleep is good for me," He mumbled to himself, pulling the covers over his head. Getting a good night sleep was not a delight he got often. So, if the opportunity aroused, his might as well take it. The half saiyan fell asleep on his pillow, with his leg half hanging off the bed and his toes dug into the pale cerulean carpet of his room.

Then his eyes busted open. The word Earth bounced around in his mind. He knew Earth was a real place, he knew that was the land where all the Humans had once originated from.

He had an idea.

Sometime later

"Gohan you can't sleep just yet!" Chi-Chi threw open the door just to stick her head into her son's room. She sighed, and marched on over to him. She grasped the edge of the cover near his head, and yanked it off.

But he wasn't there. In his place, pillows were stuffed up to make it look like he was still sleeping. Chi-Chi gasped, and sharply looked around the room; his drawers had not been cleaned out, nor had his small desk been cleared away from all the items that sat on the shelves.

But a single piece of paper rested on the desk. She immediately walked over to it as soon as it caught her eye. With all the questions Gohan had been asking earlier, and his sudden disappearance, Chi-Chi knew where her son had run off to; Earth.

And that was true. Gohan was crouched in the dead of the night by the landing zones for the Saiyan Pods; his only hiding space was behind an over-grown raspberry bush. The lights of the landing zone slowly flickered off one by one; Gohan knew that it was almost his time. He clutched the bag to his side.

He quickly slipped through the closing door, and waited in the dark until all the sounds faded away around him and his vision to adjust to the darkness. Then he quietly scampered over to the side where the Saiyan Pods were kept. Most were either damaged or needed to be inspected from past journeys, but Gohan would have to manage. These pods would not be missed.

Gohan pushed the red button on the side, and waited for the top to slide fully upward. He waited a minute before climbing into the seat, where the color variety of buttons glowed around him. The lid slowly closed, though Gohan took no notice as he looked around, deciding which buttons were worth trying to both, and which buttons seemed to look dangerous.

He shrugged, and pushed one of the larger buttons located on the panel to the left side of him. The pod glowed from the button, and then shot up straight into the air; it surprised Gohan when he was jerked back into the cushioned seat.

He closed his eyes, and leaned further back into the cushioned seat, which was gradually molding into his body shape. He let the bag fall into his lap; a ball rolled at the bottom.

Thanks for all the reviews again! I'm pretty good on updating my stories, since I have no life other than go to school XD Thanks again, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter! It was rushed if you couldn't tell, but it turned out okay. No for the fun part – Earth.