Tales of Parenthood
Author's Note
Sequel to Coming of Age. Everyone except Goku and Doctor Briefs are alive, but Goku visits. Grand Tour happened and the dragon balls are gone. Ignores Dragon Ball Super.
Pan is 22
Bra is 25
Goten is 35
Trunks is 36
Henry is 5
Cora is 2
Maddox is 3
Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ or any characters or variations of DBZ. I only own my OCs.
Chapter Nineteen: World Tournament
"Sign in is this way," Videl led the way.
"Are you sure about this, real fighters like Uub and Goten are in this to win?" whispered Trunks.
"No, but I know my mom has something up her sleeve," answered Pan. Henry was holding Videl's hand while Gohan held Cora.
They reached the sign in area. Henry had a big Son grin as he rushed to the table. "I would like to sign up for the tournament please!"
"Sure, the junior division will be starting soon," the man behind the table said with a smile.
"Sir, I want to be in the adult division please," Henry announced still wearing a smile.
"Sorry kiddo, everyone fifteen and under have to be in the junior division"
Henry looked disappointed for a moment then a smirk came to his face. "Even if I'm Mr Satan's great grandson?" Henry asked the smirk on his face resembling Vegeta's.
The man looked panicked for a moment.
"Henry," Pan growled in disapproval.
"The junior division is fine sir," Henry sighed. Henry was led off to the locker room to get ready.
"Did he just try to scheme his way into the adult division?" Trunks snickered.
"Yes he did. I don't know where he would have learn to do that," Pan said rolling her eyes. "Mama, you knew they were having a junior division this year, didn't you?" Pan asked giving her mother a smile.
Videl smiled devilishly, "Of course not."
Cora yawned as she started to wake up in Gohan's arms. "Gampa Gohan?" asked Cora snuggling up.
"Yes Cora?" he asked hugging her close.
"When is Henry gonna fights?" she asked still not opening her eyes.
"Soon, I'll wake you up before his fight if you want to get some more sleep," Gohan told her kissing the top of her head.
"Okay," she said snuggling closer.
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"Everyone welcome to the World Championships! Our first event of the day is our junior division. There is no qualifying round, so all thirty-two of these youngsters will get a chance to be the junior division world champion!" shouted the announcer.
Henry was in line with all the other participants. He seemed to be the youngest and smallest of all the children.
"Go Henry! Grammie loves you!" yelled Bulma.
"You look great out there!" shouted Chi-Chi.
"Those two sure seem excited," giggled Pan.
"You should have seen them when Trunks and Goten were in the tournament as kids," laughed Yamcha.
"They were so embarrassing," Trunks smirked at the memory.
"Chi-Chi knocked out a mouthy mom. It was great," laughed Oolong.
"I hope Henry isn't still upset about having to be in the junior division," sighed Videl.
"He won't have much of a challenge, but at least he gets to practice a little," smiled Pan.
"This will be his first time fighting someone without powers. I hope he remembers what we told him about fighting normal people," said Trunks leaning against the railing.
"I'm sure he'll do fine," smiled Gohan still holding a sleeping Cora.
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"I can't believe they even let a shrimp like you enter this tournament," laughed a thirteen year old boy who was getting in Henry's face.
"I'm strong enough to win this competition," smirked Henry.
"Yeah right," laughed the boy leaving Henry alone.
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"The next match will be between twelve year old Jacob, and five year old Henry," announced the tournament announcer.
"That little guy doesn't stand a chance," laughed someone in the audience.
"I hope Henry doesn't hurt him too bad," smiled Gohan.
"Go Henry!" cheered Cora from Gohan's shoulders.
"Begin!" yelled the announcer.
Jacob dropped into a fighting stance. Henry didn't bother. The boy threw about a dozen punches which Henry stopped all of with a single finger.
"My turn," smiled Henry punching the boy in the jaw. He fell to the ground unconscious.
"Wow that was fast," giggled Rini. Goten nodded his agreement.
"Henry is the winner and will be advancing to the next round"
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Henry was now entering the ring for the semi finals. "In our next match we have fourteen year old Adrien against five year old Henry!" shouted the announcer into his microphone. "I know many of you here today have been wondering how a five year old could have such power, and I just wanted to remind you all that Henry here is the great grandson of our hero Hercule."
The crowd cheered. "You know you didn't get your strength from Hercule right?" asked Adrien. Henry didn't respond. "Cause he's not your real great grandfather, he is just your step!" laughed the boy. Henry raised an eyebrow at the odd statement, but still didn't respond. "Yeah, so who is your real mom?" Adrien asked looking curious.
"My mom's name is Pan," replied Henry not seeing why that mattered.
"No she's not," laughed the boy.
"Yes she is," growled Henry. He was getting mad.
"Begin!"
Henry dropped to the arena floor kicked the boys leg out from under him and, in a move resembling a soccer kick, kicked the boy out of the ring and into the sadium wall.
Pan's eyes were huge, "What was he thinking? He shouldn't have hit the boy that hard." Pan was now rushing down to the back area. Trunks was right behind her.
"Adrien is out cold. Henry advances to the finals!"
"I need to talk with my son now," demanded Pan the tournament staff blocking her way.
"Ma'am, this area is closed to parents," explained the staff.
"Then can you ask him to step out here?" asked Trunks trying to keep Pan from just pushing past the man.
"Sure, which one is your son?" asked the man. Trunks chuckled as if it wasn't obvious.
Pan was less amused. "Henry, he's five. Looks like a miniature him," she snapped pointing to Trunks. The man nodded going to find Henry.
Henry walked out not super surprised to see his parents. "What were you doing in that last match? You could have really hurt that boy," demanded Pan.
Henry stared at the floor before answering, "He made me mad."
"How did he make you mad little man?" asked Trunks squatting down next to Henry.
"It doesn't matter what the boy did. Henry knows better than that," growled Pan.
"He said Mom wasn't my real mommy," answered Henry. His eyes were starting to tear up.
Pan's eyes went wide for a second time today. "Honey," Pan dropped to the ground and pulled him into a tight hug. "I am your real mommy, and I'm sorry that boy said that. You're my baby boy, and I love you so much. I'm sorry I got so upset at you," she told him holding in the tight hug.
"I'm sorry I hit that boy harder than I was supposed to," replied Henry.
Once Pan released Henry, Trunks ruffled his hair. "You better get back in there. You still have one more match if you want to be the junior division world Champion," smiled Trunks. Henry nodded giving them each another hug before heading back inside.
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"The final match of the junior division is about to begin. Both these boys have shown amazing strength here today. Lets hear it for Henry and Eli!" shouted the announcer as the two boys entered the ring. Eli was a fifteen year old. "Begin!"
Eli bowed which Henry smiled and returned. Eli quickly started a wave of punches. Henry smirked deciding to only dodge instead of block.
"Get him Henry!" screamed Bulma.
"You can do it!" yelled Chi-Chi.
"Go Henry Go!" cheered Cora still seated on Gohan's shoulders.
"Why is he only dodging?" asked Videl watching the match.
"He's trying to make the match more of a challenge," observed Master Roshi.
Henry hopped into the air and landed behind Eli. He swept his legs, but Eli quickly caught himself and launched another attack at Henry. Eli couldn't believe it. They had been fighting for ten minutes, and he had yet to lay a finger on Henry. Henry smirked before throwing the much larger boy across the arena, but not out of the ring. "You're really good kid," huffed Eli.
"Thanks, you're not bad yourself," grinned Henry. The fight wasn't as good as the ones with the adults in his family, but it was better than the rest he had had today.
Eli and Henry continued the fight until eventually Henry knocked Eli from the ring.
"Eli is out of the ring, so that means our Junior Division World Champion is Henry Briefs!" yelled the announcer. The crowd cheered.
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"Mr Son, you'll need to sit here and answer some reporters questions," instructed one of the tournament workers. Goten made a face. He was expected to sit in Hercules' throne. A mob of reporters was already forming.
Meanwhile back with his family. "I am going to head to the ladies room since I have to pee every five seconds," growled Rini as she stated down the stairs. Once she rounded the corner the area seemed deserted. Rini tensed up, but then she relaxed again, she was sure she was just being paranoid. Then she heard a man's voice, "Is Mr Son a good husband?" A man stepped into view staring at her intently.
"Yes," Rini answered curtly before taking a step back. She heard a chuckle from behind whipping around to see another man. Rini grumbled this wasn't looking good.
Another man walked up, he looked the most demented of the three. "This her?"
"Yeah Boss, this is Mr Son's wife," explained the first man that had appeared.
"Good," he smirked taking another step toward Rini.
"What do you want?" demanded Rini holding her ground.
"We want Mr Son out of the tournament… We figure the easiest way to get him out is to have a little chat with you," he punched his palm.
"By chat you mean threaten," snapped Rini. These men were cowards.
"No, not threaten. We figure a good husband, like Mr Son, wouldn't leave his wife if she were to say have an accident and end up in the hospital," elaborated the creepy man.
"You'd put a pregnant woman in the hospital?" she asked. She was getting angry.
"Yeah we would. No man would leave his pregnant wife alone in the hospital," chuckled the second man.
They all slowly closed in. Rini knew she shouldn't be fighting, but there was no way she was going to let someone hurt her baby. Rini eyed them over. The man that appeared second seemed to be the largest and the slowest. If she could get by him, she could make it back into the crowded arena. The three men were on her. She grabbed the man's arm when he grabbed for her and pulled him forward. Rini was then able to dart behind him and knock him off his feet. Then she ran screaming for help.
Back at the interview, "Mr Son are there any special moves you plan to use today?"
Goten froze. He felt panic and fear then he heard a scream. He ran pushing through the crowd of reporters.
One man caught up to her pushing her back down the staircase she had just ran up. Rini managed to catch herself by throwing out her arm, but she hurt her arm pretty badly. The third man now approached holding a pipe in his hands. "You had to make this harder on yourself," the man announced shaking his head. He swung the pipe only to feel like he hit a brick wall.
Goten punched the man in the head then the gut causing the pipe to drop to the ground. The reporters had caught up to the world champion as he knocked out the man that had thrown Rini down the stairs. Gohan, Uub, and Yamcha all arrived at that point as well. Yamcha rushed down to Rini while Uub and Gohan went to calm down Goten before he ended up murdering the men.
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"Goten, it's just a sprain. I'm fine," Rini assured him as the doctor in the tournament infirmary looked her over.
"It may be broken, but we don't have a x-ray machine here to check. Other than the arm she seems fine," commented the doctor before leaving the two alone.
"This all happened because of some stupid title and prize money, well I don't want them," snapped Goten.
Rini smiled moving to be right in front of Goten. "If you do that, they win. None of the three guys who jumped me are entered in the tournament, so whoever they were trying to fix it for is still out there. If you pull out of the tournament, they get exactly what they wanted. Goten, I want you to fight in the tournament," Rini explained caressing his cheek.
Goten sighed. "If I figure out who the fourth man is, he'll wish he was dead," growled Goten. Rini smiled standing up on her tiptoes to kiss him.
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"Why would someone hurt Aunt Rini?" asked Henry sticking close to Gohan.
"They were trying to scare Goten out of participating in the tournament," explained Gohan while they waited to check on Rini.
Goten and Rini exited the infirmary. Rini was wearing a brace on her right arm. "Are you okay now?" asked Henry rushing to hug her.
"I'll be fine," Rini assured fine ruffling his hair.
"Her arm might be broken, she should be taken to the hospital," grumbled Goten.
"No way am I going till the tournament is over," declared Rini.
"Once the tournament is over, we can take her up to the lookout to see Dende," suggested Gohan.
"Where did you leave Cora?" asked Rini surprised Cora wasn't with the two.
"Hercule has her. He and Videl are talking to the press and the tournament committee about what happened," replied Gohan.
"I'm sure the press is loving this," sighed Rini wrapping her good arm around Goten's.
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"After the events of earlier today, our current World Champion has decided to remain in today's tournament," announced the tournament announcer.
The crowd cheered as the matches started. Goten was in the first match. He bowed to his opponent then got into a fighting stance. He wasn't in the mood to study his challenger.
"Mr Son, I'm sorry to hear about your wife. That was really low," proclaimed his opponent before all so getting into a fighting stance. Goten nodded and relaxed a little. This young man wasn't the one that had hurt Rini, so he won't take his anger out on him. The fight was still short though.
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"Hey Marron, hi Madddox," greeted Rini. Marron was holding Maddox's hand as they went around the arena.
"You okay? Uub told me about what happened"
"Yeah my arm is hurt, but other than that I'm fine," replied Rini.
"I'm surprised Goten let you out of his sight," Marron commented shaking her head.
"I'm being babysat," laughed Rini rolling her eyes.
"By who?" Marron asked. Rini smiled pointing to Henry and Gohan.
Henry noticed her pointing then got excited to see Maddox. "Maddox, you're dad is really strong! Is he teaching you how to fight yet?" asked Henry thinking of Uub's earlier match.
"No," answered Maddox looking a little disappointed.
"Uub is going to start training him after he turns four," explained Marron.
"Once he does, we can start sparring together!" exclaimed Henry bouncing with excitement.
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"And Goten will be advancing to the finals. Our last match before the finals is between Uub and Kane," yelled the announcer as the two fighters entered the ring.
"You might as well give up now kid that title is mine," sneered Kane.
"You think you can defeat me?" asked Uub smiling at the man's stupidity.
"I'm sure I can. The only difficulty here today is that Goten Son, and if my plans earlier hadn't gotten off track, there won't even be him," chuckled the man.
Uub was now longer smiling. He growled slightly. "I'm going to do you a favor," said Uub in a stern voice.
"And what favor is that?" asked the man in a mocking tone.
"I'm going to beat you, so you don't have to face Goten," announced Uub.
"You think I will lose to Goten?" the man asked raising an eyebrow.
"Oh you might win, but only if Goten is disqualified for killing you," smirked Uub.
"Begin!"
Uub took his time inflicting more damage than was necessary on the man, before finally throwing the near unconscious man out of the ring. Uub then walked over to the announcer and informed him of what Kane had admitted to before the fight.
Uub walked back to the waiting area. "It was him wasn't it?" asked Goten. He's ki had risen to a point that sparks seemed to be coming from him.
"Yes, but I didn't want you to kill him. He's being arrested as we speak Goten," Uub tried to calm his friend.
"Thank you for that and for roughing him up a little, but if I run into him when he's alone, he'll regret ever hearing my name," growled Goten slowly lowering his ki.
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"Our final match is about to begin! Our current world champion Goten verses Uub. The fight can be won by knock out, ring out, or down for ten counts. If both fighters are still standing by the time limit, the judges will decide the winner," yelled the announcer as the two men entered the ring. They bowed to one another before dropping into a fighting stance.
"Go Uncal Gotens!" cheered Cora from Trunks arms.
Rini had returned to her place with the others. Marron and Maddox had gone to find Krillin and 18.
Goten and Uub were fighting hand to hand, but were slowly levitating into the air. After ten minutes, the two broke apart. Uub shot an energy beam at Goten. Goten used his own energy to force the beam back up and out of the arena. Goten lunged forcing Uub down with so much power that the arena floor cratered underneath them. Then the two jumped up into the air separating again. Goten formed a Kamehameha attack and launched it at Uub. Uub barely dodged the powerful blast.
The crowd was stunned by the sheer amount of power the two fighters were giving off.
Uub and Goten returned to what was left of the arena floor and continued with the fight hand to hand. Soon the two were rising into the air yet again. The crowd roared with excitement. It all seemed to be happening so fast. Everyone was shocked when the announcer yelled time. Uub and Goten both landed back down both seeming a little out of breath. They bowed to one another again as they waited for the results.
A judge handed the announcer a slip of paper. "Alright everyone, are you ready to find out who your World Champion is?" the announced yelled getting the crowd pumped for the results. "And the winner is… Goten Son!"
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"Mr Son please we'd like a word," yelled numerous reporters as Goten tried to slip away.
"Come by the dojo on Monday, I give a statement then," called Goten over his shoulder before rounding a corner and instant transmissioning to Rini. He scooped her up and instant transmissioned to the look out.
"Hi Goten," greeted Dende.
"Hi Dende, I was hoping you could heal Rini up," Goten asked setting Rini down.
"Sure thing, Rini let me see your arm," Rini handed Dende her arm cringing slightly. "It's broken but not too serious of one," commented Dende before he got to work.
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"Two World Champions in the family, not too bad for one day," smiled Chi-Chi giving Henry a kiss.
"Are you going to fight in the next tournament?" asked Gohan ruffling his grandson's hair.
"Not if I have to be in the junior division again," grumbled Henry.
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