Lost At Sea

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"-And that's what happened last week!" Krillin finished off a tale of embarrassing moments.

Everyone laughed immediately and almost fell out of their seats. "Gez Krillin! No matter where you go you always seem to embarrass yourself!" Goku pointed out. Krillin looked down at the floor; blushing in embarrassment.

"Ya, well you know me…"

Goku shook his head in disbelief and looked at the clock. 'Hm….that's strange; Gohan should have been here by now….' He began to muse to himself. 'I guess Chi-Chi didn't let him go this time…'


Gohan continued forth to Master Roshi's house with spirits high. 'Almost there!' He said to himself and twirled a bit; but while he was about to twirl a second time, he saw something floating in the water.

'Huh? What's that?' He wondered and stopped where he was and watched as it floated by. He could faintly feel it, but he could sense life from it. "Oh my gosh! It's a person!" He cried and snatched the body out of the water.

It was a young man that seemed to be twenty or even eighteen with short black hair wearing a ripped up black coat.

"Hey mister, are you alright?" He asked the man. But when no reply came, Gohan began to quickly head to a close by island.

When he finally made it, he gently set the man on the ground.

Gohan looked at him closely to see that he was indeed still breathing. 'I don't get it! He's breathing yet he's not waking up!' He shook the man again. "Hey mister! Please wake up!" Gohan pleaded with tears beginning to appear. Even though he didn't know this guy, he still felt bad that he was dying.

'I wish I had a senzu bean…..' He wondered off as he saw the man stir.

Gohan smiled "You're okay!"

Dark sad navy blue eyes opened and stared right at him only to brighten up at the sight of the cheering five year old.

"Feeling better?" Gohan asked.

The man spit some water up before looking back at Gohan. "Yes, thanks to you."

"You're welcome! My name is Gohan! What's yours?"

The man smirked. "You're worst nightmare!" He screamed and tore his hand through Gohan's chest…causing him to scream in agonizing screams.

Piccolo's eyes flew wide open and dropped to the ground; breathing heavily the whole way. 'What, what just happened….' He asked himself as he recalled the terrifying vision he encountered.

Once he caught his breathe, he stood up and searched for Gohan's energy signal to find it normal. 'Good; at least it isn't real.'

Or was it? He could never tell when his visions were real or not. Most of the time, they were just about his fears; but this was different. He felt sadness overwhelm him as if it actually happened. "If this is real, I'm not gonna let whoever that was hurt Gohan…"


Gohan rode on the dolphin as he saw Kame House in view. "There it is!" He laughed. "Just a little further Mr. Dolphin; and I can see all my friends again!" He smiled. "I better let you get back to your family." He jumped off. "Thanks for the ride! See you later!" He waved before flying onto the soft soothing sand on the shore line. Faint laughter was heard from inside the house that made him feel at home as he ran to the door. He was about to open it when it had slammed opened; crushing Gohan. Krillin looked around all excitedly as he expected to see his friend there. 'That's strange…I know I sensed him…' He trailed off. "Gohan?"

Gohan opened his eyes a bit and mumbled something just faintly enough for the bald headed hero to hear. He slowly turned to his right side to see that he had crushed the poor little saiyan behind the door. Blushing in embarrassment, he let go of the door and let Gohan push it off of him. "He he…..sorry Gohan…"

Gohan shook the dizziness from his head and smiled at his old pal. "It's okay Krillin! It's not like you meant to do it."

"You sure about that?" Master Roshi hollered from the inside before bursting out in unknown laughter. Gohan and Krillin looked at each other before laughing them selves and going back into the living room where Goku and Bulma were playing card games.

Goku looked at Bulma intently as if to try and find out her next move, but with her evil competitive smile, he found it hard so he just picked up one; obviously one Bulma rather didn't care about.

"Hi daddy!" Gohan laughed and hugged his father. Goku smiled at this and placed his cards faced down on the table.

"Hey Gohan! Glad you could make it!" He ruffled his son's beautiful silky long black hair.

"Ya!"

"Hey, wonna help me win this card game and then catch some fish for Master Roshi and Bulma to cook tonight?"

"You bet! It'll be fun…"

(A few hours later…)

"I've got this one!" Goku called as he dived after a rather large cat fish. Gohan watched from above the water as his father took its whiskers and used to as reins to ride the fish back up to the surface.

"Woohoo!!! Go dad!!" Goku and the fish flew out of the water and went at least ten feet high before Goku got off and threw the fish towards the island.

Krillin was picking up seashells, unaware of the incoming fish. "Krillin! Watch out!!" But it was too late. By the time the bald headed monk looked up, the fish had already tackled him to the ground. Goku and Gohan rushed on over to see that neither the fish nor their friend underneath it moved.

"Krillin…" Gohan trailed off as the fish rolled over; revealing a coughing Krillin underneath.

"EW!!! Now I smell like slimy old fish!"

"Oh come on! You've gotta love it!" Goku laughed. Krillin looked at Goku as of he was insane before allowing himself to fall back down in the sand.

"Of course you like it you bum…" He mumbled as he stared up at the partly cloudy sky.

Gohan smiled before running back in the water to try and catch a big wish like his father. Soon enough, the clouds were a way of warning them of a large storm that was on its way as high winds blew the palm trees side ways and caused the waves to get higher.

By the time Gohan noticed the storm that had begun; he was already about three miles out in the water all by himself. 'I better head on back...' He told himself. But as he was about to fly back, he noticed the winds would blow him away like he was nothing but a feather. If he swam, the waves would surly pound on him until the currents washed him away or kept him under water.

"Wow, where did this storm come from?!" Master Roshi asked as he grabbed his flying magazines and ran in side with Bulma. Krillin was about to head in as well when he noticed Goku looking out in the water.

"What's wrong?"

"Where's Gohan?" Goku asked in a worried tone. Krillin thought for a moment as he remembered he heard a splash when he was lying down in the sand.

"I think he's still in the water!"

Goku continued to search for his son's energy reading, but the energy in the air from the storm was masking it. 'Darn it! Why didn't I go with him?!'

Gohan tried to swim as fast as he could back to island, but the waves kept plummeting on top of him. Salty water kept finding its way in the young saiyans mouth as his lack of oxygen was beginning to take its toll.

Goku struggled as he flew above the water battling against the winds enormous strength as he searched for Gohan; Krillin right behind him.

Gohan tried to keep his mouth shut, but his body made him gasp for air only receiving a mouth full of polluted salty water.

"GOHAN!!!"

"GOHAN!!!" He heard both his father and friend say. But there was no way of letting them know where he was. His vision was failing and he felt himself slipping away. The last thing he saw was a shadow move above him before he fell unconscious.


"GOHAN!!!" Goku cried louder along with Krillin. The storm was still raging after about an hour of searching and there was no sign of him any where. Krillin kept on saying that he might have made it back to Roshi's island, but Goku could feel that his son was still lost at sea. They never gave up and they searched for hours and hours….


Gohan finally began to feel his freezing limps responding to his commands before coughing up a mixture of blood and water. 'Where…where am I?' He slowly opened his eyes only to see a haze of what looked like a sort of cave. By the looks of where he was at, it seemed to him that he was actually at the mouth; not in the tunnel. He turned to his right to hear the steady pace the water went through as it slowly hit the walls of the small cave. 'It must be an underwater cave…' Another sound that would prove his assumption was the sound of dripping water from the ceiling that seemed to echo everywhere as he weakly turned his head to the left with hopes of seeing more.

'If it is underwater, what's that light?' He asked himself as he saw a small little glimmer of light flickering deeper into the cave. 'I guess I better find out…'