DRAGONBALL REALITY

Chapter 8

Carl danced out of the ring witht he grace of a ballerina, and he was singing. Eric sighed, Carl was a master of annoying people. He turned his attention to his own foe, Gozan. Dressed in a simple black version of Goku's gi, Gozan seemed oddly

relaxed. Eric wasn't sure what types of attacks his foe used, but he doubted it would be a major issue.

"Alright everyone, a five minute break til the next match!" The ref shouted.

"Its so goooood to be meeeeeee! I only wish I could be mooooooore like meeeeeee!" Carl sang.

"Carl is still as strange as ever," Alex noted.

"I think the whole issue with Sharlene drove him nuts," Eric said stoicly.

Alex sighed as he said "C'mon man, you don't still blame me for what happened do you? Seriously, I had nothing to do with it!"

"Sure, and pigs fly," Eric said sarcasticly, then walked off ignoring his cousin.

"This might be harder than I thought," Alex decided scratching the back of his head.

Eric walked up to Carl and said "Stop singing, you might scare everyone away,"

"Oh come on! I'm a good singer, I'll be a famous rockstar someday you know," Carl declared.

Eric quirked an eyebrow as he asked "Weren't you going for the trophy for best surfer in the world?"

"That too," Carl said.

"You my friend, are nucking futs," Eric said with a slight chuckle.

They were interrupted by the sounds of angry stomping and a declleration of "I'm gonna kill you!!" They looked over to see an enraged Sharlene rapidly approaching.

Carl visibly paled before saying to Eric "Hey, I'll be back in time for my next match, but I gotta go for a bit,"

"I'll drag my fight out a bit," Eric replied. Carl nodded his thanks, then shot into the sky as fast as possible with Sharlene only a second behind.

"Breaks over, will contestants Eric and Gozan please head to the ring!" The ref suddenly called out.

Eric jumped into the ring while Gozan walked in almost lazily with a carefree smile. Eric's eyes narrowed, this guy was almost to relaxed.

"Hey, good luck," Gozan said casually with a grin.

"You too," Eric replied.

"Begin!" The ref shouted, and suddenly Gozan was standing back to back with Eric with a smug grin.

Eric's eyes widened as he thought 'Thats why he's so relaxed,' For a moment he just stood there, then he slowly turned to see Gozan standing there. Eric tensed his muscles before whirling around with a punch that only hit air while Gozan

lightly touched down on the other side of the ring. Eric suddenly decided that he was in some serious trouble.

"A bit on the slow side aren't ya!?" Gozan called with a cheery laugh. Eric phazed, behind Gozan, except his foe was not there. Gozan came from behind Eric with a vicious kick that threw Eric to the middle of the ring where Gozan was

already waiting with an upper-cut that launched Eric into the air, where his foe came down from above with a two fisted smash that launched him into the ring with such force that he smashed clean through the concrete and vanished from sight.

From where he was watching Alex said "Hm, how about that,"

Suddenly Eric burst out of the crater and let out a yell as his aura erupted to life and he set down lightly on one side of it, while Gozan landed on the other. For a moment they faced off, before Eric let out a shout and his aura turned red as

he shouted "Kaio Ken!!" Then they both took off so fast that they vanished from sight, a series of shockwaves and sonic booms being the only trace of their battle.