Chapter seven: Training begins
Gohan flew through the window of his and Alex's room and landed softly on the carpet. He walked over to the dresser and started to pack his Alex's clothes.
"tap tap tap"
Someone was knocking at the door.
"Who is it?" Gohan called still packing clothes.
"Gohan, it's Bulma." came a voice from the other side of the door.
"Come in." Gohan called out to Bulma
Bulma opened and walked through the door closing it behind her
"Going somewhere Gohan?" Bulma asked noticing that he was packing clothes.
"Yes, my Mom went on a vacation and Alex and me decided that it would be best to stay there."
"She needs a good break from everything around here; does Alex have any clothes? Bulma asked
"He's wearing some of mine, we'll have to go and buy him some soon."
"I'll buy him some tomorrow, does he wear the same size as you?" Bulma asked.
'Yeah, get him a lot of training gis, he'll need them." Gohan said a slight smile on his lips.
"Oh, that reminds me why I came to see you; I've improved the battle armor, I need you to test it for me."
"Guess that means that Alex won't need as many gis as I thought then." Gohan said, capsulizing the duffle bag he had filled with clothes.
"Here, catch!" Bulma tossed him a capsule.
"What's in it?" Gohan asked as he caught it.
"It's the Battle armor, the black on is weighted." Bulma answered.
"Hey, that's a good idea, make the half the gis weighted, going up twenty pounds for every gi; color code them." Gohan said as we went over to the nightstand, putting the capsule that contained the armor into his pocket, he got a notepad and pen from the drawer.
He quickly wrote something down, making sure it was legible before tearing it off and handing it to Bulma.
Bulma read:
Wristbands: ten pounds each
Shirt: twenty pounds
Pants: twenty-five pounds
Boots: thirty pounds each
"You're really going to give him a hard time training, aren't you?" She asked.
"Yep, the harder the better." Gohan jumping out of the window
"Bye, Bulma." He shouted over his shoulder flying towards his home in the woods.
"Bye, Gohan." Bulma shouted watching the dot of light that was Gohan, flying to fast for normal eyes to follow; didn't want to start a panic or anything.
Seconds after Gohan flew out of the door Alex got up and started to explore the upstairs to the house. He walked into Gohan's room first, and the first thing he spotted was some CD's and a stereo. He walked over and started to go through the CDs.
"Shinedown? Wonder if they're any good" Alex asked himself and put the CD into the stereo and pushed play.
"Shinedown-Song 01- 45." He read the display on the stereo.
"Um, never seen a stereo do that." Alex said, talking to himself yet again (They say that talking to yourself is a sign that your going nuts.) Alex stretched out on Gohan's bed, listening to Gohan's CD.
Twelve songs and forty-five minutes later Alex was again looking for something to do.
"When's Gohan getting back, I can't wait until the training starts." Alex thought to himself, a grin forming on his face thinking of training.
"Must as well warm-up, Kami knows what Gohan has in for me." Alex thought, but in reality the young Kami of Earth had no idea what Gohan had in store for Alex.
Alex went back downstairs, and then outside so he could do his warm-up.
Gohan floated high overhead watching Alex do his warm-up. He had been watching him since he came out of the house, which was about ten minutes ago. Seems like the warm-up had turned into a work out when Alex had unsheathed his sword two minutes ago and set into a deadly dance of complex motions which included flips, rolls, dives, slashes, stabs, and even blocks, from Gohan's vantage point, as he fought an opponent only he could see.
"He better not do this too long he may be too tired for the training, after all using ki for the first time is a bit rough." Gohan thought as he remembered learning how to use it himself.
"Enough, Alex, don't won't to tire yourself out before we've even started do you." Gohan shouted down to Alex, lowering himself at the same time.
Alex must have had no idea that Gohan was even there because when Gohan called out he nearly dropped his sword, which he had thrown into the air to do a few quick spins before sheathing it.
"GOHAN! Don't sneak up on me like that!" Alex shouted; he hated being surprised.
"Chill, when were done you'll be able to sense me no matter where am at." Gohan said touching down softly on the ground.
"Really? Cool! Let's get started." Alex said, lowering down into a fighting stance.
"We don't fight until you learn how to control ki." Gohan said.
"Sit down."
"Um, ok." Alex sat down Indian-style on the grass.
"Now, concentrate, look deep inside of yourself, do you feel the energy burn? Bring it out to your arm. Now to you hand." Gohan said this watching Alex give nods to continue.
A bright blue ball formed in Alex's hand, about the size of a baseball.
"Great, Alex! You're doing better than I thought. Now throw it at me." Gohan said a slight smile on his face at his student's achievement.
Alex threw the glowing sphere; not asking any questions though he did think it was quite odd. Gohan caught the glowing ball, using some of his own ki to keep it from exploding.
Alex stared in wonder at how Gohan held the sphere without any effort at all. Gohan then lazily tossed the ball towards a boulder as big as an aircar, which promptly exploded into a thousand and one pieces.
"D.did you do that" Alex questioned astonished.
"No, you did, I just redirected it towards the boulder." Gohan said a full smile now on his face
"That was very powerful for the first time you created a ki attack." Gohan said a smile on his face.
"Do it again." Gohan said the smile replaced by a serious look that was all Goku.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Alex thought
Six hours later.
It was dark, the only thing Alex could see was a bright blue ball glowing in his hand, he knew Gohan was out there waiting for the ball to be thrown, but this was the last one he could make, he knew that the training was going to stop after this, he was sad thinking about it stopping but he needed rest, sweat was pouring off of him, his shirt was soaked.
"Alex what's taking so long, hurry up we don't have all night." Gohan's voice came from somewhere out of the darkness.
Alex put more power into the ball, trying to keep it the same size, which he succeeded in doing.
"Here it comes!" Alex shouted as he threw the ball towards Gohan.
Gohan was getting worried about Alex, sweat was coming off of him in buckets, and his shirt was sticking to his skin.
"After he throws the sphere, we're going inside, he has to get some water soon or he'll pass out." Gohan thought
Alex what's taking so long, hurry up we don't have all night!" Gohan shouted watching Alex in the semi-darkness, the light from the fire he had started lighted up their little training ground.
The ball suddenly grew brighter, so bright it hurt Gohan'seyesto look at it
"This is bad, what's he doing!" Gohan thought as Alex threw the sphere towards him.
Gohan summoned his power quickly, and dropped to the ground, flinging his own ball of ki up at it sending it to space where he detonated his ball, making the other explode as well.
"That could have killed me, where did he get that much power!" Gohan thought looking at the unconscious form of Alex.
"Alex!" Gohan shouted rushing over to the still form on the ground.
"Alex, stay with me." Gohan said as he rolled Alex onto his back
A quick check of Alex's pulse told Gohan that he had just passed out from exhaustion.
"Next time we train for five hours." Gohan said softly as he picked Alex up and took him into the house.
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