Chapter 4: Revenge

Gohan slowly landed in the forested area, looking right and left to make sure no one was around, before placing himself at the foot of a tree. He sighed wondering himself what he was doing, and why he was doing it, whilst no answer came he still felt as if he should carry on doing it, like some sort of spell was on him that he couldn't shake off. He had to leave the lookout, if only for his own safety, he could feel the anger building in him, and knew he would burst into new power, but he managed to keep it back, and walk away.

"Why are you doing this Gohan? You won't even have a family soon…" He spoke to himself, mentally beating himself up.

Suddenly his eyes perked up as he sensed a Ki level, close yet it was strange, there didn't seem to be an actual direction it was coming from. He felt something cold of his wrist, which lay, beside his body, and quickly he sprang to his feet. As he got to his feet he heard a click and looked on his wrist to see a metal bracelet of sorts, but it seemed thicker, but did not have the weight you would link to a metal object of such size.

"You will pay for what you did, I don't care who the hell you are, but no one! And I mean NO ONE! EVER gets away with harming me like that…" The voice echoed through the forests, Gohan's attention taken from the metal object attached to his wrist as he searched for where the voice came from.

Suddenly a white orb of Ki energy came out of forests headed for Gohan. The boy leaped sideways narrowly missing it and fell flat on his face, his arms just getting to the floor in time to absorb some of the impact. The voice appeared once more out of the gloomy wood, once more with no noticeable direction to it, Gohan's senses weren't able to pick it up, it must be a trick by whoever it is, because he is surely powerful enough to sense where it was coming from.

"What's the matter Gohan? Is that power of yours not working anymore… aww isn't that a shame…" Full of sarcasm the voice came closer and closer, until Gohan finally pinpointed it. It was right behind him.

The boy jumped to his feet and aimed a punch for where the voice came from, but he punched through midair, no one was there. His eyes widened as he saw the lack of an opponent, but then they shut in pain as he was sent flying through the air due to a kick to the spine. He hit the floor unable to stable himself, and rolled uncomfortably onto the floor.

"Show yourself… you coward!" He shouted pushing himself up, finding it a strain to even do that now. He looked around with his head on all fours as he tried to regain his composure. The right side of his face had scratches all down from the dirt littered floor, and his clothes were tattered also on the right side from the skid.

"You know who it is Gohan… don't deceive yourself." He spoke with laughter towards the end.

Suddenly he appeared the menace who attacked him so cheaply. Gohan looked up, shocked at the sight of the Saiyan Prince, Vegeta. Gohan blinked unable to believe it, but he wasn't about to give up, especially not against Vegeta, who he knew he could easily outfight. He clenched his fists as he returned to a stand and begun to shout, the tell tale signs of a Saiyan powering up.

Vegeta watched with a large smirk, as if his plan was coming to plan, and indeed it was, as Gohan could not even reach a Super Saiyan state, let alone get to his Super Saiyan 2 stage. He gritted his teeth in anger and spoke through his clenched teeth. "What the hell have you done to me…" Vegeta could only laugh at the question.

"Look on your wrist, it allows only a small portion of your power to be used, meaning you are currently as weak as a Human, making me far more powerful." He smirked once more and grabbed Gohan around the neck with his right hand.

Gohan grabbed the hand with both of his trying to pry it off, but no matter how hard he tried, nothing succeeded. Suddenly all anger left him, and all that remained was fear, fear for his life. He was lift off the ground by the Saiyan prince and forced to stare eye to eye with an extremely pissed off looking Vegeta. To say he felt small would be an understatement, right now all he wanted to do was crawl under some rock and hide.

"So Gohan, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. Well either way you are going to be hurt, but at least the easy way gets done quicker." He paused showing him he was serious. "So what'll be?"

Gohan stammered but finally got the words out of his mouth, his voice was rough from being held around the throat, so it came out quietly, but it was enough for Vegeta to hear. "Easy…"

Vegeta dropped Gohan, and quickly sent his fist into the chest of Gohan, the kid screaming with pain from the impact of the Saiyan's punch. Gohan fell backwards from the pain of it and rolled holding his chest, gasping for air. Vegeta was not finished and pulled him back up by the kid's hair and sent a few more punches into the chest and face of Gohan. It was too gruesome to do by anyone else but Vegeta who still had a sense of conflict in his head from working for Frieza.

It was 20 minutes later or so when Vegeta finally grew bored and left, not before giving Gohan a final last kick for a goodbye. Gohan lay on the ground, tears flooding down his face and onto the dirt from the pain he had been inflicted. He felt alone in the world, weak and depressed beyond belief. He no longer felt angry, but in its place came a wave of sadness, the like of which he hadn't felt in his life…

(Well yeah its been a while I know, things have been occupying my time, I'm not saying I haven't had the time to write another chapter, but I have been more interested in other things, so sorry for the wait, and hope you enjoy this one! If you want to suggest anything for this story feel free to say so in a review, well either way reviews are much appreciated. I will try and update sooner from now on.)