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Chapter 3
Piccolo touched down in a small pond in the wasteland that he had been training in for the past few years with the kid underneath his arm. He held out the kid so he could look at the small child more closely. The kid didn't look like much but Piccolo knew that this small boy had more power in him than even he did. Piccolo grunted but knew that if he couldn't get this kid into fighting shape they may not have a chance against the saiyans.
"Wake up you snot-nosed little brat, boot camp is about to begin." Piccolo turned the kid around so he could see the boy's face but the kid was still asleep. Piccolo grunted and then dropped the boy into the pond he was standing in. After a few seconds the kid woke up and flapped his arms around as he panicked not knowing where he was. Piccolo watched as the boy got out of the water and began crying. Piccolo walked towards the boy, his sensitive ears ringing from the loud whining coming from the small boy.
"Quiet! I can't take that noise anymore!" The kid stifled his tears but Piccolo could still hear the boy whimpering. Piccolo shrugged figuring that was the best he could get from the spoiled brat.
"Good, that's better. Now do you remember your power?" The kid did not answer as he continued to whimper in front of the tall green man. "Well do you remember?"
The kid finally stopped whimpering long enough to answer Piccolo's question. "My power? What do you mean by that?"
Piccolo smirked at the small kid in front of him. "Let me show you," he said deviously. He grabbed the kid's head, palming it with his large hands, and despite the kid's cries he threw the boy at a nearby mountain. Piccolo watched as the kid, who was crying again, neared the mountain.
Then Piccolo saw the kid power up and a white sphere of energy surrounded the kid. Piccolo watched in awe as the kid released a powerful energy wave at the mountain he was flying towards. There was a flash of white light and Piccolo had to cover his eyes as he was completely blinded by the light and to protect himself from the ferocious wind that had been caused by the attack. When the wind had finally stopped, Piccolo looked up to see a huge carved out path of destruction caused by the energy wave.
"Wow, no way!" exclaimed Piccolo as he continued to stare at the endless path of destruction that carried on as far as he could see. If there had been any doubt in his mind that kid's power had just been a fluke, then that doubt had just been evaporated like the mountain the kid had destroyed. Piccolo knew that this kid's power had to be harnessed so he could help defeat the saiyans.
Piccolo walked over to the kid who had been blasted back towards Piccolo from his own blast. The kid was in awe of the scene before him.
"Wow look at that," Piccolo heard the kid saying to himself. "What happened?"
"You did that little trick all by yourself kid, with your own power." answered Piccolo. "It's rare to have such power at your age but you need to learn how to control it. That's why we're here." Piccolo looked down at the confused boy. "I'm going to train you. I'm going to teach you how to use that power so you can help us."
"How come? I mean, I'm just a boy and you're the second strongest guy on Earth next to dad."
Piccolo snorted when he heard the boy say that he was second to Goku. Yeah right who's the one who killed Raditz. "Is that what he tells you? Anyway that doesn't matter because the guy me and your dad fought was even stronger and there's two more just like him on the way. Your dad let me take you so I could train you so you can help us fight these saiyans that are coming to Earth."
Piccolo could tell that the boy relaxed a little after hearing that his dad had let Piccolo take him. Piccolo watched as the boy discarded the ridiculous green outfit he was wearing until he was in a white undershirt and green pants. Piccolo snorted again when he saw the kid neatly folding his clothes that he had been wearing.
Pampered and spoiled, I'm going to have my work cut out for me. I'm going to have to get those weak traits out of him some way. He's no were near ready to actually learn how to fight yet. I think I have just the thing for him though. Piccolo smiled evilly at the kid as he walked up to the green fighter.
"I'm ready Mr. Piccolo. What do I do first for the training?"
"You just live. You don't have to anything but just live Gohan."
"Huh, just live."
"That's right. Survive out here for a little while and then I'll teach you how to fight."
Piccolo just smiled at the kid who was still in shock from being told that he was being left alone. "Oh no! I can't stay out here alone, by myself!"
Piccolo finally got tired of the kid's whining. "Quiet! Don't be weak! There's a great power sleeping inside of you. Use it, rely on it, and face your fears."
The kid began to cry. "But I'm scared to."
Piccolo laughed and began to turn away. "You'll laugh at your fears when you find out who you really are."
Gohan realized that Piccolo was leaving and began to beg. "No please don't leave me by myself. I'll come with you; I'll do whatever you want. Okay Mr. Piccolo."
Piccolo prepared to blast off leaving Gohan alone. "Sorry kid, its time to grow up and handle things for yourself." Piccolo then blasted off into the sky, ignoring the kid's cries for him to come back. As Piccolo flew away to go begin his own training Piccolo felt something.
Piccolo stopped flying as he tried to figure out what it was he was feeling. It wasn't any of the emotions demons like himself were suppose to feel. It was more like protectiveness for Gohan or regret for leaving the kid alone. Piccolo snorted, he was a demon that was going to conquer the world why should he care about that stupid brat.
However as much as Piccolo tried to convince himself to leave the kid, Piccolo found that he could not just leave the kid. I must be going soft thought Piccolo as he turned around and set his sights on the small kid to watch over him.
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"Okay just set him down right here, yeah that should be good." Krillin and Master Roshi sat Goku down on one of the guest bed in Kame House. Bulma had wanted to take Goku to a hospital but Goku had adamantly refused to go to one, so they had just returned to Kame House and Bulma was beginning to treat Goku's various wounds.
"I can't believe you let Piccolo take Gohan Goku." said Krillin as he and Master Roshi watched Bulma wrap Goku up in bandages.
"Yeah Goku, how could you let that monster take your son?" asked Bulma.
"You guys, I'm sure Gohan's fine. Piccolo gave me his word after all that he would take care of him." Goku responded.
"Goku you can't trust him. Don't you remember that he tried to kill you and take over the world at the last World Martial Arts Tournament?" exclaimed Krillin.
"You guys don't understand. Gohan needs to be trained. Chi-Chi would never let me do it or any of you for that matter. Piccolo's one of the strongest people on Earth so he can make Gohan into one of the strongest fighters as well."
"But Goku he's just a kid. Don't you think he's a little young to be training to fight these saiyans?" questioned Bulma.
Goku sighed. "You guys didn't see him today. Gohan brought down Raditz in one hit. Neither me, Piccolo, or Tien had come anywhere close to even making Raditz flinch before Gohan put him on the ground with one blow. He needs to be trained because we're going to need him for the fight against the saiyans, and Piccolo's the man for the job." The group sat in silence as they thought about the fate of the world with the coming of the saiyans being only a year away.
Goku broke the silence as he looked up at the ceiling and said, "Also, I think Piccolo's changing." The others in the room looked at Goku like he was crazy. "Yeah, I could feel it. Something changed inside of him when we were fighting Raditz. I'm not sure what happened but I could tell that it was a good thing."
"Well I'm all done." stated Bulma as she stood up from the chair she had been operating in. "I'm going to go downstairs and work on that thing Raditz had on his eye and try and get it working again." She left the room leaving the former pupils and their master alone.
"Goku do you want me to call Chi-Chi and tell her what happened?" asked Master Roshi. Goku's face dropped as he thought about what his wife would do to him when she found out what had happened.
"No, I'll do it. Just get me a phone." Master Roshi nodded and walked out of the room. Krillin and Goku heard him talking to Bulma and then they heard a loud smack. The two friends began to chuckle as they realized their old master was up to his old tricks.
Goku groaned as he lay back onto the bed. "Chi-Chi's going to kill me," he moaned.
Krillin nodded his bald head. "Probably, sorry buddy but you're done for. Especially after she hears you gave Gohan to Piccolo." Goku just groaned again.
"Here you go Goku," said Master Roshi as he handed a phone to Goku. Krillin snickered as he saw the large red handprint on the side of Master Roshi's face. Goku sighed and then began to dial his home phone number. Roshi and Krillin waited in breathless anticipation as he they heard the phone ringing. Finally they heard a voice on the other side of the phone.
"Hey Chi-Chi," began Goku. "You'll never guess what happened today." Goku laughed and gave one of his signature Son smiles and put his hand behind his head as he began to recount the day's events.
"Where's Gohan Goku? Is my baby okay!"
"Well Chi-Chi about that," Goku laughed nervously into the phone. "I sort of let Piccolo take him to train him for the saiyans I told you about that are coming to Earth."
"WHAT!"
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Piccolo hovered high in the air as he continued to watch over his young pupil. Several hours ago, Gohan had again used his power to escape a dinosaur and he was now on top of one of the mountains. Even though Piccolo was far away, his super hearing ears still picked up the kid's crying.
Piccolo still could not figure out why he was still hanging around the kid. He was suppose to be letting the kid survive on his own and if Gohan wasn't tough enough to survive out here, then there was no reason to train him to fight. Piccolo clenched his fist as he watched the son of his rival pace around the top of the mountain.
Do I really care what happens to this kid? Piccolo asked himself as he continued to keep a watchful eye on Gohan. Piccolo heard the kid complaining about him starving to death. Piccolo chuckled. Piccolo doubted this kid had ever gone a few hours without eating something. The way his father went through food they needed a feast for every meal.
Even so, this was the kid's first night so Piccolo decided to be generous. Piccolo quickly flew to the nearby forest and swiped two apples from a tree. Piccolo returned to where he had been earlier and saw that the kid had his eyes closed. Piccolo smirked and quickly flew past where the kid was, dropping the apples as he went by.
Piccolo watched with some satisfaction as the kid seemed to notice the disturbance in the wind. Gohan soon found the apples and quickly grabbed them. Piccolo watched as the kid looked around trying to find the source of the mysterious food. Piccolo made sure that he was out of the kid's sight and then watched as the kid quickly devoured the two apples.
Sleep well my little friend. Piccolo saw the kid go to sleep and he began to mediate. He decided he needed to stay for a little while longer just to make sure the kid made it through the night alright. Of course I'll stay in the general area of where the kid is until I'm sure the kid had gotten use to being in the wild. It's just a precaution, not that I actually care about the kid. Having convinced himself that he was still heartless, Piccolo mediated in peace for several hours.
Piccolo opened his eyes when he felt the kid's energy rising from where it had been while he was sleeping. Piccolo saw the kid stirring and then Gohan stood up and looked up at the moon. Then suddenly, Piccolo saw that Gohan had gone rigid and was completely still. Piccolo uncrossed his legs and stared at Gohan who was now trembling. Suddenly Gohan began growing fur from every part of his body and his body began to grow exponentially and a loud roar echoed across the plain. Piccolo stared in horror as the kid turned into a giant monkey.
"NO!" yelled Piccolo as the giant monkey's weight caused the mountain he was standing on to crumble underneath him. The monkey began to punch every mountain near him and then he opened his mouth and a large energy wave come out of it and obliterated the area it was sent towards.
"Wow what power!" exclaimed Piccolo as he was nearly blown away by the shear force of energy coming off of the energy waves the giant monkey was sending in every direction. These energy waves were making what Gohan had done earlier that day look like child's play.
"I've got to figure out a way to stop this monster or there will be no Earth left to defend. But how am I going to, woo!" exclaimed Piccolo as an energy wave was sent flying towards him. He evaded the blast and flew higher into the air trying to escape the monster's wrath. ", stop that huge thing."
Piccolo suddenly remembered what Raditz had told Goku about earlier when they had been discussing Goku's missing tail. Something about transforming at the moon…
"That's it the moon!" Piccolo spun around to look at the moon. "They need the moon," stated Piccolo as he began to gather energy in his hand. With a yell, Piccolo released his energy wave and the wave raced towards the full moon. As the wave hit, the moon turned into a golden color and then exploded. Piccolo grunted and closed as his eyes as the light from the explosion temporally blinded him. Piccolo heard one last roar and then he turned back to look at the ground and saw Gohan lying on the ground naked.
Piccolo landed on the ground and took a while to catch his breath. That attack he had used to destroy the moon had taken a lot out of him. Piccolo looked down at the kid and saw what had caused this entire problem.
"That's the other part of the problem, that damn tail." With a pull, Piccolo yanked the tail out and held it up. He looked at it for a while and then threw it on the ground. Piccolo looked back down at the naked child. He raised two fingers in the air and then pointed them at Gohan and a small beam of energy hit the small boy. The beam caused Gohan to be covered in an outfit similar to his dad's and Piccolo gave him a sword.
"There, now you can't say Piccolo never gave you anything. The clothes are similar to your dad's but the symbol shows that you're from my camp." Piccolo looked down at Gohan and decided that the kid would be fine. "I have to leave you now to train myself but I'll be back, and when I return I'll teach how to fight, the hard way. Do me one favor while I'm gone though. Stay alive, I'll be counting on it Gohan."
Piccolo smiled down at the kid and blasted off into the sky. While it was true that he was leaving, he was still going to stay close by for awhile. Just to check up on the kid."
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Tien finally touched down on to the long winding road of Snake Way. He had been flying as fast as he could for hours now and now he had no energy left. He grabbed his knees as he bent over trying to catch his breath. When Tien stood up straight again he looked down again at the long, seemingly never ending, road that would lead him to the mysterious King Kai.
"While since I don't have enough energy to fly I guess I'm going to have to do something that doesn't require me to use energy. I guess I'm going to be running for awhile." Tien began to run down the long winding path as he continued on his way to King Kai's.
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Goku was sleeping when Chi-Chi arrived at Kame House. He however did not remain asleep for long as he heard his wife screams echoing throughout the house demanding to see where her husband was. Goku cringed as he heard Master Roshi leading his wife up the stairs towards him.
Krillin cringed as he heard the screams from upstairs. He was sitting in the kitchen with Bulma who was working on the scouter Raditz had, which left the kitchen in awkward silence as they heard Chi-Chi's tirade. Krillin was relieved when he heard a knock coming from the door. He quickly sprang up to get the door.
"I wonder who this could be?" he asked himself as he opened the door. What he found when he opened the door was something he did not expect. There was short fat man standing in the doorway complaining about how the door hadn't been opened soon enough. Krillin quickly recognized the complaining samurai as Yajirobe.
"Hey Yajirobe what's up?" Krillin asked as the fat man barraged into Kame House.
"Hum nice place you got here. Got any food?" Krillin looked at Yajirobe dumbfounded. He was always eating just like Goku.
"In the kitchen." Yajirobe sped towards the kitchen, almost knocking over Bulma who had just stood up after fixing the scouter.
"Hey watch it you big oaf!" she yelled but Yajirobe just ignored her and began searching the fridge for food. Bulma huffed and down turned her attention towards Krillin.
"Hey you guys hop to! I need to test this baby out." She pressed a button on the green scouter and numbers began to flash across the screen.
Krillin stood up from the couch he had sat down on and so did Master Roshi. "What does that thing even do Bulma?"
"Well it's suppose to give me a reading of someone's power, or I guess you could call it your power level. So Roshi, how would you like to know your power level?" The blue haired genius looked over at the old master and pressed a button on the scouter. The green screen began to flash as numbers appeared on the screen.
"139. That's probably pretty good for someone your age I guess. Okay Krillin how about you next."
Krillin perked up a little. "Sure I would love to know my power level."
Bulma nodded and pressed the button again on the scouter. "206! Not bad Krillin."
Krillin looked over at his old master with a goofy grin on his face. "Hey Master Roshi that means I'm stronger than you are!"
Master Roshi shook his head. "That's it, that thing must be broken."
Bulma nodded. "I do need something to make sure the calibration is correct." She spotted Turtle lying on the ground. "Okay Turtle put up your dukes!" Bulma laughed when she saw the power level of the Turtle. "0.001. Sorry guys but this baby is spot on." Suddenly the scouter began to beep as another power level came into range.
"183! I wonder who that is," exclaimed Bulma as she swung her head around wildly looking for the source of the power level. Her eyes finally settled on Yajirobe as he sat down to eat the large amount of food he had pulled from the fridge.
"Yajirobe?" said Bulma confused as it became clear the high power level was coming from the fat human.
"It must be broken!" yelled Master Roshi when he learned that even Yajirobe had a higher power level than him. Krillin chuckled at his master's behavior.
"So Yajirobe, why did you come over? I'm sure it wasn't just for the food." Krillin asked.
Yajirobe stopped eating for a second and looked up at Krillin. "Kami sent me," he stated bluntly before returning to his food.
Krillin stood up from his seat in excitement. Kami the guardian of the Earth had sent Yajirobe to come see him! "While why did he send you over here?" asked Krillin.
"He says that he wants you to report to Korin tower for special training."
"You mean like the training Goku got before the last World Martial Arts Tournament?"
"Yeah, he also wants you to bring your friend Yamacha. He sent me to give the message to all of the world's strongest fighters. We're all supposed to meet up at the bottom of Korin's tower in a week."
Krillin jumped into the air for joy. He was going to receive special training from the guardian of the Earth himself. "Alright thanks Yajirobe. Wait can Goku come to?"
Yajirobe shrugged as he stood up to leave. "I guess if he really wanted to, but he's already had the training so he might not want to." Yajirobe walked outside to his hover car with the small group of people following him. He jumped into his car and was about to leave when he remembered the last thing Kami had told him.
"Oh I almost forgot, Kami says not to wish back Tien until a year from now when the saiyans are about to arrive." His statement caused shock and confusion to come from the group.
"What why?" asked the confused Bulma.
"Beats me, I'm just telling you want Kami told me. He isn't even given me anything for doing all this for him. It's such a rip off!" After his complaining was finished Yajirobe sped off away from the small island.
"Huh that's weird, but oh well special training from Kami himself, oh boy. I've got to tell Goku." Krillin sped into the house up the stairs and into the room before he remembered who also was in the room with Goku.
"Hey Goku you won't believe this… Oh hi Chi-Chi." The annoyed looking woman just huffed and turned her back on the pair of friends.
"Goku guess what! Kami has asked all of Earth's strongest fighters to go to Korin's tower and receive special training. I'm suppose to get Yamacha and we're going to meet up with the other fighters at Korin's tower in a week! I was wondering if you're going to come with us up there."
Goku laughed. "That's great Krillin. You guys are going to get a lot stronger training up there with Kami. But sorry pal, I already promised Piccolo I would train with him when I get better and plus Bulma says I won't be at full strength for at least a month, so I would just slow down your guys training."
Krillin hung his head as he realized Goku was right and he wouldn't be training with his best friend for the next year. Suddenly the silence was broken from an unlikely source.
"I'm going with you Krillin." Krillin and Goku looked over at Chi-Chi in shock from what she had just said.
"What Chi-Chi I thought you hated fighting." said Krillin.
Chi-Chi looked at Krillin with a furious glare that shrunk the short man even more. "I'll have you know Krillin that I use to be a pretty strong fighter myself. My dad is the Ox King you know. Also how do you think I keep Goku and Gohan in line? It's not easy being married to strongest man in the world who always wants you to spar with him!"
Goku laughed nervously. "But honey I thought you gave up fighting when Gohan was born."
Chi-Chi turned her gaze to her husband. "Well seeing as how you've drafted my son into this fight there's no way I'm not going to be there to protect my little boy. Even if it means I have to beat these saiyans myself."
Goku looked away from his wife's angry glance. "Why couldn't you have been like this when I wanted to spar?" he mumbled.
Krillin looked over at Goku trying to see what his friend's reaction was to his wife's demand to train with him. Krillin got no answer from his old friend so he gulped and looked back over at the determined Chi-Chi.
"But Chi-Chi I'm not sure I've you'll be able to keep up, and we have a lot of work to do if we want to…"
"No you listen here mister! You're taking me to this Kami person whether you like it or not! Got it!" Krillin was surprised by the speed the woman possessed as she had traveled the length of the room to get in his face in a mere second.
"Yes ma'am," whimpered Krillin as he cringed his head, half expecting a frying pan to come crashing down on his head.
"Good," said the now calm Chi-Chi. "Then it's settled. We'll go to my house first so I can get clothes for the trip and then we'll go get Yamacha. Okay Krillin."
Krillin just nodded. Chi-Chi, now satisfied, walked past Krillin and out of the room. She put her head back through the door and looked back over at her husband.
"And you're not out of trouble yet mister. Once I deal with these saiyans I'm going to take care of you Goku." Goku just laughed nervously as his wife stalked down the stairs.
Goku looked out the door to make sure she had left and then he pulled Krillin closer. "Watch out she's a feisty one. You never know what tricks she has up her sleeve."
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"Hey Chi-Chi slow down will you. You're going to kill us before we can even begin the training." shouted Yamacha over the roar of the hover car as it sped towards the large tower that rose up into the sky. Chi-Chi ignored the cries of her passengers and continued speeding towards the forest the tower was in. Krillin and Yamacha just held on to the back of their seats as they were almost thrown out of the hover car by the crazy driving of Chi-Chi.
Yamacha turned to his friend as they sped into the forest. "Hey you remembered to get that scouter from Bulma right."
Krillin nodded. "Yeah I got it. Now we'll be able to check our fighting powers to see the increases in them."
Yamacha smirked. "Good, I want to see how strong I get from this training we're going to get from Kami." The two friends nodded at each other, but their strength was quickly tested as they were almost thrown from the car once again.
At the speed they were driving, the three fighters arrived at the base of Korin tower in no time. As they stepped out of the car, Krillin and Yamacha walked over to were a little pale man was sitting on a log. Chi-Chi capsuled her car and then walked over to join the other three fighters.
"Hey Chiaotzu, how are you holding up man?" asked Yamacha as he and Krillin walked over to the small man.
"Alright I guess," he replied. "It helps to know that we'll be able to wish him back. It also helps that I'm going to be training with you guys for the next year. It's good to see you all again."
"You to buddy." Krillin clamped his hand on Chiaotzu's small shoulder. "Don't worry though, after this training there's no way these saiyans will even stand a chance!"
"Yeah we've got these saiyans number!" said Yamacha clenching his fist. Chiaotzu raised his head and nodded at his two friends. Chi-Chi just smiled at the boys.
Krillin looked around and noticed one person was missing. "Hey where's Yajirobe at? I thought he was supposed to go up with us and train as well?"
"He's already up at the top of Korin's tower, which will be the first part of our journey." The group of fighters turned to see a tall teenage man walking towards the group. The teenager was well muscled and he looked to be an Indian from his clothes and his tanned skin. He had a long black hair that was pulled into a ponytail that ended at the middle of his back and he had dark black eyes.
"Who are you and what do you want?" asked Yamacha defensively as he got into a fighting stance just in case the stranger was harmful.
The young man calmly walked over to the group. "I am Upa. My people have been the guardians of Korin's tower for generations and I am going with you all to train with Kami for the oncoming saiyans."
Everyone looked at this newcomer with suspicion. "How do you know about the saiyans?" asked Krillin.
"Korin told me while I was up there training with him. He sent me back down to guide you all up to the top of the tower and from there to Kami's lookout." replied Upa. Upa motioned for the other four fighters to follow him. They all stood up and followed him over to the tower.
"Our first challenge is to climb up the tower and to the top where Korin lives. From there we can make the remaining trip to Kami's lookout." Upa stated as he pointed up to the seemingly never ending tower that rose high into the sky. Krillin gulped as the five fighters prepared to travel up Korin's tower.
Yes I chose two fighters to join the other Z Fighters up at Kami's lookout for training instead of just one. I chose Chi-Chi because she seemed the most asked for choice and I just fell in love with the Upa idea. It was just so original! It was a brilliant idea and I loved it. Also now there are now 6 fighters up there training so everyone will have a sparring partner.
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