Krillin's High School Diaries

Chapter 3: Surviving Dragon High

We arrived at Mr. Gero class just in time before the late bell rang. I observed the small classroom, which contained its seated students in even vertical rows surrounded by posters of math equations and robot schematics and found myself a bit disappointed by the plain, dull aura of my first High School class.

Mr. Gero was nowhere to be found but each desk had a student nametag for assigned seating, Goku and I, fortunately enough, were assigned to sit next together, but for some reason, I found myself behind yet another fat kid, only this time it was a dude with pale skin and creepy ice-blue eyes. The things almost freaked me out when Goku and I walked over to our desks and I noticed his constant gaze staring at us the whole time.

The classroom door opened and I prepared myself to see my First Period math teacher but instead I saw a pretty, preppy-looking, blue haired girl, carefully tiptoe into our class and anxiously observe the classroom then give a deep sigh of relief, "Thank God, Mr. Gero isn't here yet!"

"Hey Bulma!" Goku greeted with a friendly wave.

"Goku!" Bulma smiled back as she rushed over and sat in the seat in front of Goku.

I blinked as I looked at Bulma, "Wait a second, you're Vegeta's girlfriend, aren't you?"

Bulma rolled her eyes, "Yeah, like the whole school didn't know that already, duh."

"He didn't know, Bulma. Krillin, here, is just a freshman." Goku spoke.

"Freshman, yuck! What am I doing in class with a Freshman?"

I raised an eyebrow, "But this whole class is for Freshman, aren't you one?"

"No way!" Bulma exclaimed, "Sophomores are High School vets compared to Freshman, as a matter-of-fact, Goku, what are you doing up here, aren't you a Sophomore too?"

Goku grinned, "Well, I sorta got held back so I got to repeat Freshman year again."

A surprised Bulma reached into her pocket and pulled out her own class program, "Oh no! I went to Mr. Gero for the wrong period, I have him second!" Bulma exclaimed before taking a deep sigh, "Oh well, I'm already late to my actual first period anyway, I might as well just stay and relax in here."

The classroom door opened up, once again, and this time, a skinny, fairly tall old man walked into the room possessing the same creepy, ice blue eyes as the fat kid in front of me. Ironically, the fat kid was the first to greet the old man, "Hello, Mr. Gero."

Mr. Gero smiled, "Hello there, 19."

"Hey Mr. Gero!" Goku yelled unnecessarily.

Mr. Gero's smile quickly turned into a frown at Goku's salute, "Goku…"

Goku laughed, "Yeah, looks like I'm your class again, huh, Mr. Gero?"

I could see the vague expressions of detest and disgust on Mr. Gero's face begin to fail to remain hidden, "Yes…what-a-surprise."

At that moment, the P.A. activated in our class for the morning announcement, "Good morning students and teachers of Dragon High School, Home of the Shenlongs! I, Principal Freeza, will be looking toward a fantastic year with all of you from now to the first annual school field trip, at the end of the year, when all of you will search for Dragonballs to give me Eternal li—err…I mean, an eternal wisdom of our great environment. Well, have a good day and don't let me catch you in trouble or else I will kill you, goodbye!"

Mr. Gero cleared his throat and put his arms behind his back as he prepared to address the class after the announcement, "Hello class and welcome to ninth grade Math. My name is Mr. Gero and according to the school, I am supposed to be your teacher for this semester, any questions so far?"

Bulma raised her hand.

"Yes?" Mr. Gero asked.

"Um, I'm sorry Mr. Gero, but, I'm in the wrong period, you see I'm a Sophomore and I had a little mix up with my schedule and ended up coming here to First Period when I really have it second, but since I'm already late I hope you wont mind if I spend the rest of the time in here?"

Mr. Gero snickered, "Now, normally I wouldn't condone such behavior but today I have made an exception…"

"Hey, this guy seems like he's pretty cool." I whispered over to Goku.

"Yeah…he's changed a lot since last year." Goku nodded.

Mr. Gero continued on, "…since I plan on making this my final year in teaching here at Dragon High School, I'll make sure that it won't matter if you miss your First Period or not, or second, third or fourth, for that matter and that goes for all of you. You see, over time I've really grown to hate you teenaged kids, one of you in particular…"

Goku scratched his head, "I wonder who it could be?"

"…and I am saddened to say that none of you will pass my class this year or even make it out of First Period…alive."

I gulped, "Okay, what is he talking about?"

Mr. Gero gave a sadistic grin, "19, will you come up here?"

The fat kid known as 19, stood up and walked over beside Mr. Gero, "Now, 19 here is a perfect example of adolescent maturity and competence, I would know since I built him myself, which, is why I brought him here this morning to help me with my little First Day of School massacre!"

19 blasted onto the right half of the class with energy beams from his eyes and obliterated it completely in a large explosion that caused me to duck for cover and made Bulma scream in horror. A kid tried to make a run for the door but Mr. Gero caught him by the back of his shirt and smashed him into a nearby wall. 19, meanwhile, jumped onto various desks, punching and kicking the scared and screaming students in each one.

Bulma and I, along with a couple of surviving students, hutched together, fearfully, on the side of a wall while 19 continued his rampage into the back of the class, Mr. Gero, however, walked over to our side of the room with the same murderous grin on his face. Goku, who surprisingly had been in his seat the whole time, had his head down with his large, unruly hair covering his face as he began to shake and quiver.

"What's the matter, Goku?" Mr. Gero laughed, "Don't tell me you're scared now, you seemed to have had so much fun when you destroyed my priceless, one-of-a-kind, miniature Red Ribbon Army collectables."

"I told you it was an accident…" Goku began, "…besides, I'm not trembling because I'm scared, I trembling because I'm PISSED!"

Goku burst into a blur of golden-colored energy that dyed his warped hair as well as eyebrows, golden. He jumped up from his seat and dashed to the back of the class, where, 19 had been choking a girl when Goku ran up, unknowingly, behind him and ran through nearly his entire right forearm into 19's back, letting loose a surge of energy at the same time through his arm and into 19's body, causing him to explode into smoking pieces.

Turning his attention back to Mr. Gero, Goku, in a single bound, landed in front of a shaking Mr. Gero, whose stunning state of shock never allowed him to react or see the powerful uppercut that Goku's exploded onto his chin, hurling his body through the first story roof, the second story roof, out the school's roof and finally into the atmosphere.

Powering down, Goku took a sigh and looked at the remaining surviving students in the classroom, myself included, who stared back, "Well…I told him it was an accident."

The bell that ended First Period rang and nearly everybody rushed out of the classroom quickly, Bulma and I, however, waited for Goku before we made a run for it into the hallway.

"Wow, I can't believe I was almost killed on my first day of school." I panted as all three of us leaned onto a nearby row of lockers.

"Well that's Dragon High School for ya." Bulma fanned herself, "Might as well cross out going to Second Period, today. Thanks for saving us Goku."

"No problem." Goku shrugged.

"Yamcha was right, you really are the strongest fighter in the school." I nudged at Goku.

Goku chuckled modestly, "It's really nothing, as a matter-of-fact, I feel pretty guilty for killing Mr. Gero and that our other classmate."

Bulma snorted, "Good riddance, if you ask me. I've still got too much to live for, for some psychotic old man to kill me. Anyway, I think I'll see you guys later, I need to get some water and maybe get ready for the rest of the day."

As Bulma left, she reminded me of the fact that I still had three more classes left, "This is going to be a long day." I sighed.

"Don't worry Krillin, it could be worse." Goku smiled.

"How?" I looked up to Goku.

Goku opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by a sharp voice, "Goku!"

I saw his skin turn white and look over to the direction of the voice, "I take that back, it could be worse, much worse."

I had no idea what Goku was talking about till a stern-faced girl walked up to Goku.

"Well Goku, you mind telling me why you never called me over the whole summertime?" She asked firmly.

Goku chuckled nervously, "Err…uh…Krillin, allow me to introduce you to my girlfriend, Chichi."

END OF CHAPTER THREE