Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball Z and if the name Barlow comes from anything I don't own that too.

Chapter 2: Enrolling and going home and exams

~~~~~~~~~~~~~At Barlow Academy~~~~~~~~~~~

Barlow Academy was located on planet Vert the planet of trees. The school was made of all bricks. The main building of the school was large, but it had no real shape. There were windows of glass about one foot from each other. Scattered about a mile around the school were smaller building. Around each of the smaller building were houses. Just regular houses. They were all different colors, blue, yellow, green, and so forth. About ten miles from the houses were arenas. These arenas were huge. All made of marble. One for each of the sports Barlow had.

In front of the school a blue and white light appeared form the sky. It descended to the front of the school. Once the light went away Mr. Bask, Chi-Chi, and Goten appeared.

"Here we are Mrs. Son, good bye Mrs. Son. See you in class Goten."

With that he disappeared into the blue and white light. Mother and son turned to each other.

"Mom, where are we?"

"We're at your new school honey. You're going to live here for awhile. Come on Goten lets go inside."

They start to walk towards the big oak doors of the school. Chi-Chi knocked on the door. It creaked opened. From the outside the inside of the school looked like a small church. Once stepping inside of the school it changed dramatically. The ceilings were high and they were painted with every different color. The walls where all made of red bricks. The doors on the inside were made of oak with about half of the door being made of glass. There was a sign that said front office, with an arrow pointing to the left.

"This way Goten," she said pulling his to a hallway on the left. But before they could get into the hallway on the left a man walked out of it.

"Hello Chi-Chi nice to see you," he said catching them both off guard.

"Hi do I know you," replied Chi-Chi holding Goten close to her

"Oh yea your right it been a long time. Forgive me my name is Hector Zing. We use to have chemistry together. You know before you left and got married."

Oh hector I remember you. We use to sit next to each other all the time in class. Well long time not see. This is my son Goten." She said.

"Hello little man how you doing?"

"Hi." Said Goten hiding behind his mother.

Well we better get going I have to get him enrolled."

Actually that's why I'm here. We have this new system where we collect data about the children before they enroll. So he just needs to take his entrance exams. Come here I will show you to his room.

They walked outside and headed towards the houses. They made it to the houses. Sorry Goten all the other houses are full. For awhile you will be by yourself for sometime. Why don't you look around the house and pick out the room you want. I need to speak to your mother."

Goten ran inside the house and he could be heard running around the house.

Chi-Chi you have to leave for the exams. You have to leave now. Sorry."

"Okay. Goten I need to speak to you." Goten came out running to her.

"Yes mom,"

Goten I need to go now. You're going to stay here. I'll come by with gohan to visit from time to time. So bye. Have fun okay,"

A man appeared next to Hector.

Hector I need to take him now to his exams,"

Okay. Goten I need you to go with Mr. Monte. Chi-Chi I'll take you home.

Chi-Chi hugged Goten good bye. Chi-Chi disappeared into the blue and white light again. Mr. Monte turned to Goten.

"Come on you need to take your tests now.

"Okay"

An hour later Goten was in a large classroom. He was sitting in one of the many desks in the room and Mr. Monte was sitting at a teacher's desk. He was asking Goten questions.

"Mothers name?"

"Chi-Chi"

"Father's name?"

"Goku "

"Siblings?"

"A brother."

"Name?"

"Gohan "

"Grade level?"

"Haven't started"

"Good it means we're starting fresh. What is your favorite thing to do?"

"Sparing with my Trunks."

"Who is Trunks?"

"My best friend."

"Do you understand why you are here?"

"To go to school."

"Yes you will be taught by the best teachers in the universe. So far from the look of things you will start school tomorrow morning. There will be somebody to get you. They will accompany you all day."

"Will school be hard? Cause Gohan and Trunks say it is."

"Only if you don't pay attention. Come on let's get some dinner. Stay by my side the whole time. I don't want you lost before you start."

Okay. Are there a lot of other kids here?"

"Yes but over the years they quit school so it will only be about twenty students by the time you finish school."

"Oh okay."

So they went to a large room with small tables. Many people where sitting at some of the tables. All of the people there were children none older than about twelve years old.

"Is this the whole school?"

"No this is about half of them. When you're thirteen and fourteen you take your exams to see if you are fit to move on in to our high school area. If you pass you go to Barlow Academy if you don't then we erase your memory. All problems are then dealt with. You go on with your life we go on with ours. Now sit at any table and someone will be right over to make sure you are taken care of."

Goten chose a table near the middle of the room where not a lot of children were sitting there. Then a short pixie like man with red eyes, purple hair, and wearing a green waiters outfit appeared at Goten's table.

"Hello young sir, what can I get for you this evening?"

"I don't know what I want. What do you have?"

"We have an excellent grilled cheese sandwich, with red hot tomato soup as our special today."

"Okay I guess I'll have ten of those thank you."

"No problem."

Goten enjoyed his meal that night. Someone did find him halfway through his meal. This person brought him to a Victorian style house where he was told to stay and explor to and they next day thay would have all his information sorted out.

Meanwhile at home….

Gohan stared out of his room window looking at nothing in particular. A bright light appeared in the corner of his room.

"Gohan I need you to listen to me." Said Chi-Chi dreading the conversation that followed.

"Why?" questioned Gohan.

"This might also affect you."

"What?!"

"Gohan calm down. I'll explain. You know how in the bible it's said that there was a fight in between angels and demons. It's true that that did happen. There was one man that believed that certain powerful families should not have to choose which side to take. So certain families refused to take part in the war. Once the war ended those families that didn't take a side were punished by both the angels and the demons. Their punishment was that for every second that those families didn't fight they would have to repay to the angels and demons. Someone in each family would at the age of eight go to a school, named after the man that convinced them not to fight, and they would devote their life to repaying back to the angels and demons. For every second the chosen person would have to give one year of their life. What they had to do is unknown to me?"

"What does this have to do with us?"

"Our family was one of those families. Goten is the second child so he has to go to the school called Barlow Academy. I was just like you I was born first but I did have a twin sister and since she was born second she had to go to Barlow. My father and I tried to hide her but they set the mountain that we lived in on fire. While we tried take out the fire they took her and killed our mother for trying to hide her. In that fire I met your father." Exclaimed Chi-Chi tears now rolling down her face.

"What?"

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