The fight for the Future
A/N- thanks everyone for the review, and after the Cell games Shin will go back to his time, just so you all know, if you have any questions or commits, please review, actually just please review, thank you for reading. Now here is the chapter.
Something different was going through everyone mind over the week that had just past, which was not much of a surprise considering just how different the members of the group were also just as different. Krillin, and Vegeta were nothing alike, just like Piccolo, and Yamcha were nothing alike. The one thing that they all shared is the desire to beat Cell, even Vegeta had this desire burning deep inside of him.
In fact for Vegeta, all he wanted was to crush Cell, but he was really not sure if he could, it just did seem fair, that when he had the chance to prove he was the strongest warrior, that Cell would just become more powerful, and crush him as if he were nothing but a small little fly. It should not of been that way, it should have been his day. It should have been the day when he came to his full glory and brought back the saiyan empire, and the royal legacy of power. Vegeta looked at his hands as he thought, he had been spending the last week training as hard as he possibility could, using the gravity room at levels his body would never had a chance to take before his experience in the hyperbolic time chamber. He was going to make himself strong enough in that week, and looking back he knew he was not going to get embarrassed twice by this bug.
Across the planet in the house that belonged to Goku and his family, Goku and his friends were celebrating Gohan's birthday. Goku smiled at all of his friends who came to the birthday party, they had been such good friends over the course of his life, and he could not of asked for a better life at all. He had only spend one day in the time chamber, and he knew he was still weaker then Cell, but he had was looking forward to taking on Cell, it seemed like a impossible challenge. Just the type Goku had always loved to try his whole life. Something inside of him told him that he was not going to be on earth for much longer, and seeing Gohan fight we with he knew for some reason, it would be him to beat Cell, and take his place as the guardian of the earth. Goku looked across at Chi Chi, with a sad smile, he had tried to spend as much good time with his wife as possible, but of course he did say anything about his feelings about the upcoming battle.
Next to Goku were Tien and Yamcha, smiling at Gohan, who looked so much bigger then when they first meet the boy during the fight with the saiyans. Which seemed like a whole life time before this moment, a moment when the idea of monsters like Freeza and Cell were not believable, but things then were still just as hard. They both just hoped they would live to see the end of this fight, and they both also knew that at their strength they were not going to be much of a help in the fight to come. Tien had taken a break from his training and spend the whole week with Lunch, which make Lunch's week and then some. Yamcha on the other had kept training, not having anything better to do, even spent a day with Shin in the time chamber when he need someone to train with. He knew he was much stronger after the experience, but he knew that even with the increase in power, he could hardly help against someone like Cell.
On the other side of the room Piccolo sat silently watching the party, he was talked into coming, but the real reason was, he wanted too. He wanted to wish Gohan a Happy Birthday, and his long time rival, and the others. He had well somehow became came friends with them at some point and time, though he was unsure exactly when. During the last week, he mediated and also worked on getting Dende to come to earth. He like Goku was sure he would not beat Cell, but wanted to try, and he like Goku knew that Gohan would be the one who could beat him. During his time training with Gohan, he felt the extra special power in the boy grow, and become something even greater then before. Looking at the boy he smirked thinking of the past, and how he had changed due to him.
Krillin also watched looking at his best two friends in the world, he had a fake smile plaster across his face. His mind was only on one thing the last week, how he had lost 18 to Cell, and why he failed his friends. He felt like he was just a failure unable to shut down 18, and unable to save her. No matter how he looked at it, he was the reason everything was so bad. Over the past week he had done nothing but thing about her, and about how she looked scared at the end of her time, but also he had checked up on 16 to make sure his repairs were going well, and when they were done, he would ask the android a lot of questions about 18 looking for answers about her. 16 would try to help, but the large android felt he also needed to help somehow in this fight too for his new friend.
Down at the other end of the table, Shin watched the others, and had a large smile. Having this party for this Gohan, made him a bit homesick again and he remember the good time he had with his Gohan, working and training over the years. He looked around at everyone's faces, and smiled. They were so happy, how he wished he could sit around a table in his time, and do this, he had to make sure that help to make sure these good people did He had been training all that week, he spend a day in the time chamber Yamcha, in that year of training he figure out that as he got stronger his Kaio-Ken attack helped less and less. Also the higher the Kiao-Ken attack the less power he gained, he began to wonder if he had max out his human potential. He did know if he could help in the fight, but he was sure he could at least to a little bit.
Gohan sat looked at everyone at his party with their smiles on their faces. He also smiled, he felt like the last week was perfect, he was able to spend more time with his father, then ever before, and after his training he spend the rest of the time with his father having fun, minus this one point when he ran across the odd rich people trying to build a doomsday protected building. He also thought of his run in with Lime on that journey, and his fathers old enemy Tao. He made himself remember kind people like Lime, and her father, and he knew he would have to put his all into the fight ahead. He just hoped he could make a little difference, but he was sure if his father and Piccolo took on Cell at once, they would be able to take him, and save the world.
As the group celebrated Gohan's Birthday, they all had smiles, but they all knew the Cell Games where the next day.