Chapter 2: Dreams From Beyond

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Italic = Thought

Time skip: 6 months, Rhea's POV

"What a long day!" I thought to myself as I flopped back onto my bed. My schedule had changed a lot in the past 6 months, and there had been a ton of stuff me and Old Man Hashi did together during that time. Some had been crazier than others in my opinion though.

I am now able to complete the exercises with ease these days so Old Man Hashi began putting weights on my clothes about three months in and boy, it was tough.

At first, it was difficult to even move, much less even attempt at basic strength training. I got the hang of it after a while though, without needing it changed at all during that time!

Old Man Hashi had decided it would be a good idea if I started out light. Eight pounds for my undershirt, two pounds for each my arm bands, and four pound for each boot, so that is a total of twenty pounds.

But now, I found that I can do some strength training much more easily now, but I am still no closer to being able to hit Old Man Hashi in our weekly spars and I needed to work on my stamina, which would be a problem if my fighting style involved mainly my speed.

It was during this month, Hashi began added one more thing, it was sparring sessions with him on a weekly basis, which I immediately jumped for. Sparring against Old Man Hashi was fun!

I eventually figured out how he fought when he sparred against me, however it didn't matter if I knew where he would appear or attack. I simply wasn't fast enough to dodge or strong enough to block.

I could never figure out the problem with what I was doing. It just always frustrates me to know that I can't do something against a certain opponent, no matter what I try to do.

Recently, Old Man Hashi told me to increase my weights, about four times more than before, equaling a total of eighty pounds. This made my jaw drop. Sure, I wanted to get stronger, but even I know I have limits. I don't really like being forced to do things I know I can't do. It will always frustrate me in the end.

I still changed my weights anyway in the end though, training was meant to help me break through my limits anyway. I knew what I was getting into.

Anyway, that's about all we did for the past six months or so. Today though, something really weird happened. Something that was able to amaze even Old Man Hashi. This, in itself, is pretty hard to do normally. This is how it happened.

Flashback: 2 hours ago

"Take this!" I yell; throwing a couple more punches at Old Man Hashi. Which he blocked, which was good. It was proof I am beginning to draw out more and more of his power.

Albeit, the rise in power he uses against me is minuscule, but so far it is better than what I have done before. He had slightly more difficulties dodging my attacks too, but I knew my goal of surpassing him would take years at the rate I was going.

I needed to push him as far as I could! Whatever it took to get stronger!

I jump back a distance to the other side of the clearing and back flip onto the tree trunk, using that and footing by crouching down then rushing Old Man Hashi once more. Hashi launched off his feet too, meeting me halfway, ducking under my right handed jab and sidestepped my right foot when I tried to kick him then sucker punched me in the gut which caused spittle to fly from my mouth and made my fly all the way back to the tree I flipped off of with a hard thud.

Hashi rushed towards me again while I tried to get back on my feet, but that's when the weird thing happens.

I let out a huge yell of frustration; the huge power gap between me and Old Man Hashi was getting to me. Then, to my surprise, everything in a ten foot radius got sent flying away from me.

Even Old Man Hashi skid back a foot or two. I could even see the dirt on the ground where the snow was not even a minute before. This wasn't even the weirdest part.

The weirdest thing was that I was coated in some kind of white aura. I looked over myself a bit and noticed a lot of things. Firstly, I was covered in injuries from earlier in the fight and with that punch to the gut, I had lost a lot of my of my stamina, so I knew that I didn't have much time.

I take a quick look at Hashi, who is still gaping at me in surprise and confusion, I guessed he didn't know either, and I quickly blitzed myself in front of him and threw a flurry of punches and kicks even faster as they were before!

Old Man Hashi quickly shook off his apparent shock and put his guard up in the nick of time and blocked my attacks.

The fight continued when Old Man Hashi blocked both of my fists with his elbows and threw them out to his sides, forcing my arms to follow his movement in the process and effectively breaking my guard.

He quickly brought his arms closer to his body and gave me a hard right hook to the face, which sent me flying back for a couple of meters before I quickly flipped my body backwards and landed on my feet before falling into a crouch.

"That's enough Rhea." He called "It's about time for dinner anyway!"

"Oh… okay… got it… whew!" I manage to say before a wave of exhaustion, which definitely was not there before, hit me and caused me to collapse backward.

"You okay there Rae?" Old Man Hashi calls over his shoulder as he is walking back to the house.

"I'm fine. Just a little... tired." I stated back to him with my breath more visible due to how hard I was panting.

"You know, I can carry you back if you want, you know that right?" Old Man Hashi offers while walking towards me with no signs of fatigue.

I wanted to protest but before I do I freeze for a moment thinking it over while Old Man Hashi walks over.

He crouches next to me holding his left hand out to me and I roll over a little so that I could grasp it with my left hand.

He then pulled me to my feet and picked me up by my waist and put me behind his neck, with my legs stretched on both shoulders and my hands holding on to his chin.

"Let's go eat!" I cry, pumping my right fist into the air with a large grin on my face while Old Man Hashi just sighs.

"Of course you say that…" He mumbles quietly while I giggle at him. He grumbles quietly as we walk back home, and I didn't really hear what he said because I felt exhausted on a mental and physical level, catching only a few words like, "40 years reduced to 6 months.", "Stupid metabolism.", although I think the second part was because of how much I ate.

I ended up snapping him out of his musings when I told him "We're here!" He looks up and opens the door, immediately going to my room after closing the door and put me to bed.

"Just rest a little bit; I will call you when dinner is ready." He grins before leaving the room as I closed my eyes.

When I opened them again, it was about to completely turn dark outside so I rushed out of the room, ignoring my slightly aching body and towards the dining area.

I saw a pile of food on the table and a note on the chair I usually sit in with a note, so I took the note, sat down, and began eating with one hand and to read the note in my other hand.

"Rhea, I made extra food for you due to how well you have been doing for the past 6 months. Considering your age, you have grown leaps and bounds beyond my expectations! I already ate so don't worry about me and I didn't want to disturb your sleep. Anyway congratulations on using your ki for the first time! I won't really be able to help you much with it, seeing as I can't tap into mine in such a way. You will need to find your own way to harness it. I want you to see if you can tap into your ki again and experiment with it on your own. I have to go back to the Guild again for some more work and probably will be back by tomorrow evening. The day after take a break from training. Every warrior needs their rest after all! See you in the morning! –Hashi" I read.

"So the Old Man DID know what that aura was. Ki, huh…? So that's what it was…Eh, I'll figure it out some other time. In the meantime, I wonder what he wants to show me tomorrow though." I muse to myself before noticing that the food pile dwindled considerably when I wasn't paying attention.

I quickly scarf down the rest of my food and placed my plates in the sink, before rushing off into the bathroom to shower.

15 minutes later, Rhea's POV

I walk out of the bathroom feeling refreshed while wearing a plain red T-shirt and white pants, with my fighting clothes in the laundry.

I let out a big yawn before I head to my room.

Flashback End

"It really has been a crazy day, even by my standards." I think to myself before falling completely asleep.

Rhea's Dream; Third Person POV

Rhea opened her eyes, finding herself floating in a rocky mountain area and looking around in confusion.

"What in the world? How did I get here? And why am I flying?" She mumbled to herself before hearing sounds of combat behind her. She turned around as quick as she could and immediately gapes in awe at the scene.

There were two men covered in wounds from fighting each other and were moving at speeds Rhea couldn't believe were possible.

One was a man without a shirt and wearing only orange pants, a blue belt, blue wristbands, and dark blue boots with the spiky black hair that had bangs that formed a unique hairstyle.

The other man was shorter than the other one, wearing some kind of armor on top as well as a body sized blue spandex with black hair that stands straight up with a prominent widow's peak and to her surprise, a brown furry monkey tail just like her own wrapped around his waist, who seemed familiar somehow. Why he did she didn't know, just that he was.

Rhea, unlike other saiyans, had been unable to recognize the information her pod had tried to imprint in her brain when she was young due to the little time she spent in the pod. The pod also ended up malfunctioning when it crossed dimensions, making most of the information it held useless with only a few bits of information imprinted in Rhea's mind. She never pursued it though, wanting to focus more on the present than the past and wrote it off.

"Whoa... There are people that exist with this kind of power?" Rhea thinks quietly to herself when suddenly they stop. "Wait, what?"

"Are they… talking?" Rhea questioned herself. Suddenly, the shorter man shot upwards in a burst of purple ki and prepared an attack while the man on the ground flared a crimson ki and began to do the same to Rhea's shock.

"They can use ki?!" Rhea thought to herself as she watched the landscape tremble.

"KAAA, MEEE, HAAA," chanted the taller man as small rocks all around the area began to rise due to the amount of power being used.

"NOW KAKAROT, PREPARE YOURSELF FOR OBLIVION!" the shorter man screamed while the now-named Kakarot simply continued his chant.

"MEEE," Kakarot's crimson aura began to flare even more violently than before and grew in size.

"GALICK GUN! HAAA!" the man in purple aura screamed as he threw his hands out toward Kakarot with a purple beam shooting out of his hands. "HAAAAAA!" Kakarot threw his hands towards the man as well, causing a blue beam to shoot out of his hands which then collided into the purple beam, causing the environment to shake at their power.

Rhea just watched on from where she was floating staring in disbelief at the monstrous power struggle the two fighters were displaying.

Kakarot was clearly pushing his body far past his limits by his screams of pain but still kept his attack going. The shorter man and Rhea both seemed to be in disbelief at Kakarot's power. "It can't be! His beam is as strong as my Galick Gun!" he said to himself pushing more power into his attack.

The struggle continued as smaller rocks from the entire area levitating higher than even the rest of the mountains and both sides of the struggle grunting in an effort to gain an advantage over the other.

Suddenly, Kakarot cries out "KAIOKEN…!" which seems to be what was letting him keep up with Vegeta, some kind of power boost Rhea deduced, "…TIMES FOUR!" he finishes as a massive burst in energy erupts from his hands and travels up the beam until it reaches the point of contact with Vegeta's Galick Gun and began pushing it back.

Vegeta tries to push more energy into his attack but it isn't enough, as Kakarot's beam completely overtakes Vegeta's body and continued skyward and up into space long after Kakarot stopped feeding his attack power.

Kakarot holds his position for a little bit, panting in exhaustion before falling to one knee, and lets his arms fall to the ground while Rhea is stunned at the display. She suddenly feels he consciousness slipping away again like a punch to the gut as she closes her eyes.

Reality; Third Person POV

Rhea's eyes shoot wide open as she suddenly bolts upright in her bed, hyperventilating slightly at her experience, before looking around her to see she was no longer at the scene where the battle occurred, but in her own bedroom.

"So it was a dream… but it felt so… real…" Rhea murmurs to no one in particular as she lies back down into her bed, knowing she probably won't be getting anymore sleep after an experience like that.

In the Morning: Rhea's POV

I quietly groan to myself in slight annoyance. Having the sunlight pierce through your room and bathing your face in mentioned sunlight can do that to you. It was certainly worse than it usually is though, considering I didn't get much sleep the night before.

Turns out I was right about the whole not being able to sleep thing. I ended up feeling restless at what I had seen last night. This was weird, because usually when I have dreams, I can't really remember anything about it the morning after.

However, I was able to remember my dream last night very vividly, and to tell the truth, it frightened me to believe that anyone could obtain that kind of power.

…Oh well, it's probably nothing important. Anyway, now that I know that I can use ki, it's time to see if I can do what those guys did…Eh, I'll do it later, I'm hungry.

AN: Hey-o! I am back and yes, I did just rip off an episode from Dragon Ball Z, which doesn't belong to me by the way, and you can't do anything to stop me!

I also made some changes to the tag. I am going to change it from Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z due to the present elements so far. I am going to keep the rating the way it is though, because I don't a reason to change it. Definitely my longest chapter by far (So far)!

Anyway, please leave a review about your thoughts about the chapter on how I should better my writing. If you have any questions for me, I will most likely answer you through a PM (Eventually). I hope you enjoyed the chapter! See you all next time!