A/N: Hey everyone! I'm sorry I haven't updated in a long-a** time. I was actually pretty busy, going on a vacation in the boonies, then immediately starting school and dealing with that whole mess. I really didn't mean to forget about this story! I actually felt pretty bad about that, so I tried to write a whole bunch in this chapter! (Apology over) Oh, and thanks to every one who favorited, followed, reviewed, or even PM'd my story, it always makes meh so happy to know that people enjoy this! And do not fear, I have every intention to finish this story! I'll stop rambling now, and let you read this new chapter. Ja ne~
Chapter 6
I couldn't believe my eyes. There, right in front of me, was THE King Kai, the first trainer of Goku, and now maybe me too! 'Oh my gosh, this is so cool!' I inwardly squeal before I noticed that King Kai said something.
"I-I'm sorry, what did you say?" I ask embarrased
"Ah, its fine, I was just wondering how you were feeling."
"Oh, haha. Sorry, I guess I was a little star-struck when I recognized you." I say blushing slightly, much to his amusement.
"Well, I'm flattered that you recognize me! I didn't realize I was THAT popular!" He said laughing good-heartedly, causing me to giggle too.
"Ah, well~ you know~" I said unsure what to say. King Kai, realizing my problem, cleared his throat and put his hands behind his back again.
"Well, I'm pretty sure this house visit has a purpose behind it, am I right?"
"Yes sir, it does.. I-" I got cut off by a loud growling coming from my stomach, which makes me immediately blush and cover it embarrassedly. King Kai blinks, before laughing loudly at my body's reaction.
"Well, I'm sure that this business of yours can wait until after you eat something. I'm sure you've been without food for quite some time now, haven't you?"
"Yes sir, Since the day I started out on snake way." King Kai nods, but blinks suddenly when he notices something missing above my head.
"Wait, you lasted that whole journey without food, and your still living?" King Kai said disbelivingly. I sheepishly nod, and avert his disapproving gaze.
"W-well, it wasn't like there was grass or fruit trees growing along the way.." I mumble quietly. King Kai frowns, and hums, before turning and strutting to the door.
"Well, what type of host would I be if I denied my guest her food?" He opens the door, but stops and turns his head to me.
"By the way, whats your name? You already know mine."
"O-Oh! How rude, my name is Melon Suji!" King Kai smiles before nodding and walking out.
"Well, welcome to my home Melon Suji." He drifts off as he walks away and the door shuts. I stare at the door for a minute before sighing, and forcing my head to look at the light blue ceiling again.
'I made it.' A relieved sigh escapes my slightly chapped lips as I close my eyes in relief. 'Now, how should I plead my case, is the next question. Should I just be blunt and say that I need to be trained in order to survive and save the world? Nah, that might confuse him.. hn. Maybe I should just butter him up a bit, then sweetly ask if I could stay?' a stray thought of that situation ran through my mind causing me to cringe and shake my head weakly. 'Definitely not. Wait, maybe I could tell him I came from another dimension, and I have little-to-no means of protecting myself? Well, that seems decent enough, I guess. Probably shouldn't tell him that he's part of a tv show though. I bet he'd think I'd be crazy and kick me back onto Snake Way!' A giggle escaped me at the thought, before I sighed, and opened my eyes to stare at the ceiling.
'Well, he knows a bit about dimensions, right? So he probably won't think I'm completely crazy.. He actually might be able to help me get back home now that I think about it.. That would be amazingly simple! Hmm, well, lets just take this one step at a time. Don't get too ahead of yourself. So, during dinner, I explain to him that I need help with martial arts, and the reason why is because I've come from another dimension where everyone has low power levels. Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable, I guess.' I grin, before blinking and sighing. 'Alright. Now onto step two: Being able to actually sit up so I can eat the damn food without being hand-fed.'
Cringing at the thought of King Kai hand-feeding me, I focus all of my strength into slowly sitting up. I managed to get 1/4th of the way up before I collapsed again. Harsh breaths escaped my mouth and a sweat bead fell down by my ear.
'This is way harder than it should be..' I try to get up again, and managed to get up a few centimeters farther before being forced to collapse again. I growl quietly and regain my breath, inwardly cursing the ridiculous gravity. Once more, I lean up, gritting my teeth in determination before getting halfway up. A small, tight smile was on my lips, and I immediately scooted my heavy arms up to hold my body up a little.
My smile disappeared, though, the instant my body quivered and fell down again.
"Oh, come on!" I groan quietly. "There's gotta be a better way to do this.." I glare at the ceiling, before suddenly a thought hit me.
'If I can't sit up by myself, why don't I lean on something then! Oh, why didn't I think of this before!' I look around quickly, before tilting my head behind me to see the wall. Grinning, I slowly used my stomach and arm muscles to raise myself and onto the wall. After a solid minute or two of struggling, I managed to fully lean on the wall. Even though I was breathing heavily, and my head wanted to fall onto my lap, I managed to let out a weak, "HA!". I waited until my breath caught up to me, before grunting and tilting my head back a bit, so it could be straight up.
I looked around my temporary room in a new light. Across from me, was a room to a closet, and straight to the left was a bookcase with a few books and miscellaneous items. On the wall next to it was the closed door, and on the right side was a wooden chair. Next to the bed was a dresser that I didn't notice before, which had a normal-looking vase with yellow daisies in it. Nothing too special was in here, so I am confident that I'm in the quest room.
I turned my head and looked towards the closet, and down towards my arm, which was lying limp. Gritting my teeth, I slowly raised my forearm as high it could go, before slowly lowering it. Exhaling, I repeat the action again and again in an attempt to get used to the gravity. After a few moments, I raised my arm higher and higher until eventually it could reach my mouth with some ease. Dropping my arm back to the bed, I laugh quietly in relief.
'Now that wasn't so bad.' Suddenly, I hear a small knock, and I look at the doorway just in time to see King Kai walking in with a GIGANTIC plate of food. Just entering caused a heavenly aroma to accost my senses and send my mouth watering.
"Here ya go, sorry for the wait, but I had to cook this fresh. Oh, I see you managed to sit up. Does that mean your finally becoming used to the gravity?" King Kai states while setting the plate on my lap. I reluctantly tear my gaze from the plate and look at King Kai gratefully.
"Yeah, I'm slowly getting used to it. Thank you so much." I said, my eyes watering slightly in relief at the fact that I could eat.
"Ah, its my pleasure, really. Please, do eat up though. You are quite malnourished." King Kai said, pulling the chair over and sitting in it calmly. I nod, and look to my food, whispering "itadakimasu!"* under my breath before picking up a bowl of rice and the chopsticks. I carefully scooped some rice onto the sticks and put it into my mouth, sighing contently after it went down smoothly. Looking at all the large portions of meat, vegetables, and rice, I swiftly reach over and pluck a strip of meat and bite it, pausing momentarily to savor the flavor. King Kai chuckles, causing me to lightly jump and look at him in my peripheral.
"Oh, don't mind me, continue eating, you definitely need it." I blink and blush slightly, before subtly nodding and picking up some more meat. I continued eating at a moderately fast pase, when I decide to slow down and explain some things to him. Sitting up straight, I turn and face King Kai and smile, to which he returns with a smile of his own.
"I'm sure by now, you want some things explained." I state rather than ask. King Kai only nods patiently and I exhale and blow some of my hair out of my eyes before continuing.
"Well, where do I start?" I ponder aloud, pouting and chewing some rice.
"Well, why don't we start with where your from? Or how this trek began?" King Kai suggested helpfully. Nodding, I swallow and sit back, awkwardly scratching my neck.
"Well, you might think my story's crazy, but I'm letting you know now, it all happened, and it's all true." I say staring determinedly into King Kai's eyes. He hums, and nods, leaning back into his chair contentedly.
"Well, it starts like this.."
~Time skip~
It was silent as King Kai quietly took in my story, and I waited patiently with downcast eyes. My focus was stacking and rearranging my empty dishes as I waited for Kai to come to his own solution to my problem. Suddenly, I hear a grunt, and I immediately look up at King Kai, curious as to what he had to say.
"..Well, Melon. That sounds like quite the trip. Straight from one earth and into the afterlife, and you also want to help protect this new earth? Even though your lost and you've never seen it before?" I nod determinedly.
"Yes sir, I traveled with this other man on the way up here, and he explained how he was on a mission to protect the earth from these Saiyans who want to destroy it for no reason. Like you said, I was ripped from my world and into this one, and even though this earth isn't my earth, I would like to protect her all the same. I mean, there are people there, and this pre-planned senseless murder doesn't sit well with me. If I can, I'd love to learn how to protect it." King Kai nods in understanding and smiles confidently at me.
"Well, you're already here, and with a determined mind like that, who am I to hinder you?" My eyes widen in excitement as he continues on. "Melon, I shall take you under my wing and teach you how to protect earth." King Kai smiles and stands, and I squeal and jump happily on the bed in pure happiness.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" I yell, while King Kai laughs.
"Alright, now why don't you get some rest, then we can work on easing you into my planet's gravity." King Kai states walking to the doorway. Nodding, I salute him and say, "Aye aye sir!" Before scooting myself back down onto the bed and pulling the sheets up to my chin. King kai chuckles before turning off the light and closing the door, but not without saying "goodnight".
~Time skip: 13 weeks later~
It's been a bit over two months, and I can proudly say that King Kai's training has helped improve my fighting skills. He has successfully taught me how to fly, even though I am still a bit new at it. He also taught me how to detect energy and to harness some of it into my hand! Currently, I am sitting lotus-style, a few feet above the ground, harnessing power into my open palms in front of me. My tail swung limply under me, and my hair swayed in the wind. Inside, I could hear the sink running, and I knew that Kai was washing some vegetables for lunch. That's another thing he helped me with, He helped me regain at least 15 pounds. Really, 15 pounds! I honestly couldn't believe how thin I was, you could see me ribs for crying out loud!
Inhaling then exhaling, I stare into my hands at the glowing blue orb and smile softly. Somewhere deep inside, I know the ozaru, the mighty saiyan ape resides quietly, mostly dormant, actually, inside my soul somewhere. She came out when I was first accessing my ki, but she really doesn't cause to much of a fuss. It might be normal, it might be unusual, I don't really know, and I don't really care too much either. As long as she doesn't decide to destroy this place or something. I'd definitely hate cleaning that mess up. Once the ball was stable, I added more of my ki, and the orb expanded slightly. Becoming more confident, I enlarge it some more and grinned when it stabilized quickly. Suddenly, I hear a strange noise on the wind and frown, looking around confused. It got louder, and sounded like it was approaching the planet, and finally pinpointing the strange and unfamiliar ki, I turn my head and look past the Kai house just to see an object rapidly descend and crash into the planet. The loud bang startled me, and caused me to gasp and loose control of my orb, which then exploded in my hands. The minute the thing exploded, I shrieked and fell backwards onto land. I groaned in slight pain and I hear the screen door shut and footsteps walk toward me. Squinting, I encounter the amused, yet slightly exasperated face of my Sensei**.
"Do I want to know what happened?" He asked holding out a wet rag and motioning to my face.
"I, uh.. dropped it?" I said sheepishly, while wiping my face clean. King Kai sighed, before flicking me on the head lightly.
"Never lose your concentration. Imagine if that was bigger, you would of lost your face!" I giggled slightly, before bowing my head quickly.
"Gomen***, Sensei, I'll do better next time." King Kai huffs, before holding out a hand. Taking it, I pull myself up, and wipe some dust off of my new training clothes. You see, before, my clothes were so far gone that Kai just decided to make me a replacement pair instead of bothering to repair them. Now, I wore a royal blue tank top, with baggy black gi pants.
"Well, why don't we see what that racket was out front, hmm?" King Kai suggests, while I nod and walk with him around to the front. The minute we get around, we both freeze, one in confusion and the other in shock at the absurdness of the scene. Before us, was the world's future protector, waddling around like an ape, properly copying bubbles. Trying to stifle the hysterical laughter, I covered my mouth in a weak attempt to hold my giggles at bay, but to no avail. When Goku and Bubbles both heard my laughter, they both looked over to us. Bubbles, who had taken a liking to me, ran over and jumped into my arms, whooping in his ape language. I easily caught bubbles, but I still couldn't find it in me to stop laughing, so I tried my best to stifle my laugh to a bunch of giggles. Goku, confused, and looking like he was severely constipated (cue a few more giggles for Melon) decided to finally voice his confusion.
"Hey, who are you?!" King Kai stared for a few more minutes, frowning, and I could tell he was inwardly calling Goku a weirdo. Honestly, if I didn't know Goku personally, I would of thought the same thing. Taking a few deep breaths, I straighten up and wipe the tears from my eyes, the smile hadn't left though. King Kai, coughed, stood straighter, and announced with all the proud in the world;
"I am King Kai." A small bout of silence, then-
"NO WAY! I thought that was the Monkey!" and cue for King Kai to momentarily go into shock and nearly fall down.. and for me to burst into hysterical laughter again.
* Japanese for 'lets eat'. Basically, shes just saying grace.
** Japanese for 'teacher'
*** Short for gomenasai, which is 'I'm sorry' in Japanese