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Chapter 7: Epiphany
a/n: Just a reminder, I use these quotations ( "word" ) for speech and these ( 'word' ) for thoughts.
The early morning hours seemed to stimulate the air, making it more appealing to fly through the countryside. The mountains and lower landforms seemed more mysterious and elegant in the early shadows. Yamcha was flying. Didn't know where, but he had to get out of the house that he was sharing with Vegeta. It seemed that the saiyan prince had taken a liking to berate Yamcha with insults just because he was ahead in there competition. So what if the record was 34 to 0, that didn't give Vegeta the right to insult and belittle him every seven minutes. Right? Right?
'Right..?'
He flew an little faster and dropped his altitude as he headed into a now heavily mountainous area. He'd been flying for hours.
Tien purged the ground below him as he landed, slightly tearing up the grass. Attracting the attention of Goku and his teenage son, Gohan, who ran out of their cottage home type thing.
"We have a problem…" Tien stated as he pulled out the dragonball and began explaining the situation to the two saiyan fighters.
…
After the explanation Goku looked off in the distance somewhere, while his son and Tien gave him a curious look.
"So what do we do dad?" said Gohan, now looking back to Tien, who shook his shoulders.
"We wait son" Goku replied. Both Gohan and Goku looked puzzled, but soon realized that they had no other choice, since they didn't know enough about their enemy to make a move. "But we should probably warn the others" Goku finished, and with that they nodded, powered up and flew off in the sky. Eventually they separated, Gohan and Goku going to Capsule Corp. and Tien headed for Turtle Island.
Krillin sat a top a big building looking into the streets below. It was a busy day with lots of people doing their individual duties, not paying any mind to anyone else. But Krillin was paying mind to someone. He'd spotted her from the sky and landed on top of the building awhile ago. He watched her come out of the store she'd walked in 10 minutes ago with some bags. He also watched her put them in her small compact, get in, and drive off. Then he sighed. '18….' He was leaning against a large upper wall when he backed up and walked off the building backwards, with his arms outward and eyes closed. Falling until he decided to open his eyes and spin his body into a front crawl position and placing his arms in front of him and flying off.
'18…' he thought to himself. 'Its strange, but while the others can't sense your energy. Sometime… I feel I can… sense you… maybe not your energy but something else.
He picked up speed. 'someday… I'll make you mine…' Then he spotted what looked like a man on top of a skyscraper. He didn't seem the to be from around here, seeing as he had on western style clothing; fitted work jeans, with a white t-shirt under a brown jacket and wearing a… cowboy hat? But the oddest thing was, there was no pent house or door leading up to the roof. It's almost like he just appeared up there. 'Or flew' Krillin jokingly thought to himself. The man seemed to be looking for something, and he picked the tallest spot to search for. He then just walked right off the edge of the building.
"Hey!" said Krillin, who picked up speed and flew over to the other side of the building to try and catch the man. "Suicidal manic… wha?" he looked around. He saw no man. He then flew closer to the ground but saw nothing there either. "Man… following 18… seeing mirages of people trying to commit suicide and trying to save those mirages… I'm losing it, I need to head back home…". And with that, Krillin flew away toward the Kamehouse. He didn't seem to notice the small holes in the walls that lead to the other side of the building the man had climbed to, in the process of evading Krillin. The man was surprised at how easily Krillin had given up. He chuckled to himself thinking of the inexperience of the young monks ability to find him. "Rookie…" he grunted and climbed back up to the top of the building. He the looked out and spotted a large neon sign. He wasn't from around here, he didn't even dress like it, but he could easily read the kanji that meant Bank. "Japan…" he said… "I'd know it anywhere, regardless of what time or reality I'm in… it still feels like home…" He rubbed his knuckles and continued searching.
Yamcha had continued his flight all day. The sun had fully risen and gone down again, switching shifts with the moon. By the time the sun was again rising early next morning, Yamcha was now hiking in a dense mountain. He'd gotten so tired of flying that he took a break and walked to recovery his energy. Then, when he'd recovered he'd ended up in a cave, no way to fly. When he'd exited the cave he'd ended up in this forest and figured 'what the hell, I'll walk, I'm out exploring anyway. No fun from the sky. Yamcha continued his journey when he spotted a man. He was Japanese. 'Well… I guess I'm still in Japan. Thought I'd flew across an ocean but guess not. Maybe this is just an island or something…' Yamcha thought. He then took a good look at the man, he was pretty young and had short brown hair. And he wore… a fighting gi? Yamcha grinned at the thought of a spar, but then it passed as he realized beating up this guy wouldn't help him get any stronger. After all, this guy was only human. There's no way this guy could increase Yamcha's potential. So Yamcha just let the thought pass. But this man was also a fighter, and he'd seen the fighting spirit in Yamcha's eyes, but just for a second. He turned his attention towards Yamcha.
"Who are you?" the man said.
"Who are you!?" Yamcha shouted back.
"That is none of your concern. I live and train in these mountains. This is my home, now tell me who you are. Besides I asked you first", the man replied.
'Oh great… another boy who grew up in the woods. Just what I need, another Goku' "My name is Yamcha. What is yours?"
"That is none of your concern."
"What is your problem!?" screamed Yamcha. He was getting very annoyed and very angry.
"My problem? … That is none of your concern" the man said. 'He gets very angry, very quickly.'
"You know what!? I don't have to deal with this!" Yamcha said and walked off.
"You're anger is pointless… simply because I refuse to give you my name. You were quick to give yours, meaning you are quick at heart. But being quick can be a bad thing, if you rush into a bad situation too quickly." the man said. Yamcha stopped and turned around.
"Are you threatening me!?" Yamcha said.
"…Maybe."
"ARGH!! You know what!? You're just human, there's no point in fighting you." Yamcha scowled. He then realized what he just said. And who he sounded like… Vegeta. Meanwhile the man looked back at Yamcha puzzled.
"Just human?" the man said. "Are you not one yourself?"
"Yes… unfortunately" Yamcha looked at the ground. The man looked at him puzzled.
"Why is that so unfortunate?"
"Because I have reached my fighting potential… there's no way for me to get stronger." The man's interest spiked up.
"Fight me."
"What?" Said Yamcha. He looked up but as he did as the man had charged forward and kicked at Yamcha's head. Yamcha ducked and swept the guy's feet, though the guy just flipped back ward. He then took out some red cloth and wrapped it around his forehead.
"A head band?" Yamcha said grinning. "Sorry, but it won't help you in this fight." He finished switching to his patented wolf fang stance.
"It reminds me to stay focus… something you need to learn to do… I wear it in serious fights" the man replied taking his own stance. Just then Yamcha charge forward delivering a barrage of open and closed fist punches throwing the man backward and off his guard until Yamcha could sweep his feet again. This time the guy fell on his back. Then Yamcha jumped up, ricocheting off of trees until he positioned himself right above the guy. He then made a loud howling noise, to which the guy looked up at.
"Here I go!" Yamcha yelled. "WOLF FANG FIST!!" Yamcha then propelled himself downwards as Sky Blue colored energy formed in his extended palm. He then closed his eyes triumphantly. 'its over… I win…' he said grinning. He then opened his eyes to see the man standing with a swirling blue aura around him.
"What the?" said Yamcha as the man jumped up towards him, extending his fist.
"SHO-RYU-KEN!!" he yelled, extended his fist which was wrapped in a form of blue energy that Yamcha didn't recognize. He couldn't even sense it, it couldn't be ki.
'Sho what who!?' Yamcha thought as the mans fist collided with his own and dissipated Yamcha's Wolf Fang Fist's energy before colliding with his jaw, knocking Yamcha on to his back. Yamcha saw the trees and the sky and a big blue and green spinning blur. He then saw the man walking up to him as his vision returned. He looked up with a confused scowl (is that even possible) on his face. Then the man spoke.
"My name… is Ryu…" he said.
'Ryu?' Yamcha thought as he got up. 'Well don't get all cocky… I'm not done yet…'
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