On the last day of break, Yuuki was having a weird dream. He was in a castle, it was made completely of these purple crystals. He walked towards it and the drawbridge fell down. 'What is this place?' thought Yuuki walking into the throne room. Suddenly, a woman appeared in all purple clothes. She smiled in a neutral way which prevented Yuuki from knowing if she was good or evil.
"Yuuki, the power is inside of you, remember that." she tapped his chest on the right side adjacent from his heart.
"Wait, what do you mean!?" asked Yuuki grabbing her arm. She just smiled for a second and laughed before disappearing. "Ugh." Yuuki said as he kicked at the floor. Suddenly he woke up with a start but didn't notice the glowing again. He rolled out of bed before his sister barged in.
Yuuki! Get ready for your first day of school!" she said already in her school uniform.
"Huh what? Five more minutes." moaned Yuuki rolling on his bed. His Yui smirked with a sly grin on her face.
"Oh were your up all night?" she asked.
"No way!" said Yuuki jumping only tired a bit. His sister smiled and let it go.
"Oh yeah, you have 10 minutes to get ready." she sent a peace sign before skipping out.
"Oh crap!" yelled Yuuki quickly fixing up his bed. He splashed some water on his face and body then charged up to dry off. Only taking him 5 minutes, he got ready and stuffed his food down as fast as he could.
"What's the rush, doesn't school start in an hour." his mom laughed pouring him some more milk.
"Yuiiiiii!" Yuuki said getting angry, he'd get revenge one day but for now he'd take a real nap. He went to sleep on the couch and dreamt about an endless supply of food.
"Yuuki you can leave now." called his mom. "Aw man back to school." groaned Yuuki pulling himself off of the couch and flying out the window. 'I wonder what summer was like for the others!' thought Yuuki excitedly turning super saiyan. Suddenly a jolt of pain shot through his chest making him clutch it yelling in agony. He powered down bout failed to notice his eyes temporarily flash red. Powering down Yuuki faltered a little recovering in time. Rubbing his chest slightly he flew faster in his base state wondering about the odd reaction. He landed on school grounds and ran to the orientation day.
"Oiiiii Goken!" called Yuuki jogging over to his friend.
"Oh what's up Yuuki how was your summer?"
"Wait, we should get the whole gang back together first. I want to see how it's been." replied Yuuki. He looked closer at Goken and noticed that he was stronger looking, and his hair was a little longer. They sensed for Akira's kai and found him preparing for something.
"What's up?" asked Goken patting Akira on the back. Akira's hair also grew longer and was two inches past the shoulders.
"Oh hey guys, I was just getting ready for the orientation. I have to do a speech on academics and independent work and need you guys to demonstrate some of our inventions. To the first years." he said in a rush.
"Okay, we can show them the virtual simulation game." suggested Yuuki.
"Good idea Yuuki, we better go get it." said Akira. They went to their room and took the simulation along with a monitor.
"Welcome first years of Vegetasei Academy, we are going to have some demonstrations by our 8th graders Jenny and Katie. Yuuki looked up with interest and saw the two girls step on the stage.
"Hi guys, I'm Jenny and she's Katie." announced Jenny pointing to herself and Katie respectively. Yuuki was closely watching them barely looking around.
"At Vegetasei academy, there is no uniform everyday except for assemblies and special days in school. Other than that, it's quite diverse. Here people have many friends they can rely on, people get along well and fighting is allowed in school arenas. Lunch is great, the dorms can be decorated as you please and clubs are very diverse." Katie gave the general overview and Yuuki's thoughts were more negative than usual.
'I had two friends and can barely consider the other 4 as friends. I was bullied by Toma since school started but at least the food is good.'
"Yuuki, we're up!" Goken poked Yuuki and he jumped a little. They walked up and Akira started.
"Hello students, we decided to show you our virtual simulation game." Yuuki put on the helmet and laid on the platform. The monitor flashed the title that read Z Legacy.
"Basically," said Goken, "you start as a saiyan and can chose your discipline/archtype. Your choices are Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, Goten, Krillen, Piccolo, Freiza, Cooler, Cell, and Buu. We chose these people because of their significance in the Z era. Then you pick a sub-type of attack, defense, speed, support, balance, and special. You can change these but not your discipline. This is the gamma version as we're still updating the game. Yuuki here chose Goku and balance and is a level 25 the monitor showed his character who looked just like him. This influences his attacks and what he can learn in the game. After about 2 weeks, the game will be available at the school store so look out for it!" Most of the students clapped but some just ignored it. Yuuki took off the helmet and they took the equipment off.
"Way to steal the show!" said Katie lightly punching Yuuki on his arm.
"Ha it's not our fault we're geniuses!" joked Yuuki. "So what did you guys do for summer?"
"Training." said Toma
"Running." Goken smiled.
"Studying." Akira sighed.
"Hanging with friends." said Jenny
"Working." said Katie
"Babysitting." laughed Lala.
"Stuff." Yuuki scratched the back of his head and laughed a little. Of course he wouldn't say how he dated Lala and she dumped him twice over the summer. It still had him feeling a little depressed.
"Oh yeah one more thing," said Yuuki, "on my way to school, I tried turning super saiyan but I couldn't and my chest hurt a lot." Everyone besides Toma turned pale.
"That could be the heart virus, we need to get him a doctor!" said Katie. She grabbed his hand and pulled him to the school doctor's office in the south wing.
"Mr. Pill We need you!" said Goken knocking on the door. The door opened and a man in his mid-thirties that was bald besides his thick mustache rubbed his eyes a little.
"Yes what is it?" he asked curiously looking at the seven saiyans.
"We think Yuuki might have the heart virus." explain Akira getting straight to the point. "When he tried to turn Super Saiyan, it hurt his chest."
"Ah let me do an X-ray, if he has the heart virus, his heart will look torn up." he put a lead vest on Yuuki and placed him on a table. A machine scanned over his torso and a projector showed his insides. Everyone except Yuuki who couldn't see it gasped.
"What? I wanna see." said Yuuki.
"Sit still kid." Dr. Pill swiveled the table and then Yuuki gasped. On the X-ray, adjacent to his heart, on the right side of his body was a purple jagged stone.
"I had a dream this morning and this woman said something about the power inside of me, this is what she was talking about?"
Dr. Pill turned even paler. "No kid, this means you've been chosen."
"For what?" asked Yuuki totally oblivious.
"Yuuki for someone so smart, you can be stupid at times, this means you've been chosen by the crystal gods. There are seven of them and if they come to you in a dream, you are granted with amazing power, you wield the stone of darkness."
"Cool!" said Yuuki jumping off the table. "Well let's get going guys!"
"Wait what about the super saiyan problem?" asked Lala.
"Oh that will subside after he accepts his new personality…" said Dr. Pill as the kids walked out.
"New personality? I don't like the sound of that." said Goken shivering a little.
"It's no big deal, what's the worst that can happen?" asked Yuuki being carefree.
"Yo Ossan!" said a student from the year younger than Yuuki. He had short hair that spiked to the left and a bandanna. Anime veins appeared on Yuki's forehead and he sent him a look.
"I'm not old, I'm less than thirty, call me Yuuki."
"Ok Yuuki Ossan. " said the boy smiling. "I'm Danny by the way. I bought your game and it's awesome! The only problem is it's kind of hard to save up money and the mobs are kind of hard."
"Thanks for that information, I'll lower the costs of some items, and talk to the guys about lowering the monster levels. I put them into classes, Saibamen are the most common and the rarer the color the stronger, they are weak. The middle is cell juniors the rarer the color is the stronger and majins are the strongest mobs, then there are bosses."
"Awesome! Thanks for the info Yuuki Ossan!" Danny flipped away and Yuuki chuckled to himself, this kid was pretty smart.
"ATTENTION STUDENTS THE HALLOWEEN DANCE IS OCTOBER 31st A DATE IS REQUIRED!" Yuuki paled when he heard that. Jenny practically ignored him, Lala practically ignored him too only saying "Hi" and "Bye". Katie was way too confusing, they were good friends and all but he was positive she had not a drop of romantic feelings for him. Sure she comforted him after his breakup with Lala but it was something friends do. Yuuki sighed and walked to his room, maybe they could go as friends?
"Hey guys did you hear the announcement?" asked Yuuki.
"Yeah of course," said Goken. "I already have a date."
"Who?"
"Lala."
"…"
"Sorry," Goken tried consoling his friend but failed terribly.
"Why not go with Katie?" Suggested Akira.
"She obviously only likes me as a friend," explained Yuuki. "It might make our friendship awkward.
"You know for someone so smart, you can be an idiot sometimes." laughed Goken.
"What?" asked Yuuki confused he was only telling the truth.
"Man I still can't turn super saiyan…" panted Yuuki during his training. His limiter was off and he was training in the gravity chamber. After grabbing a water bottle and a towel, he drank the water and dried himself off. He draped the cloth over his shoulders and left.
"What next? Classes for us don't start until next week, I could spar with Toma but he's crazy, I'm not going to hang out with those two… the guys are updating our game, Katie's messing with her watch, I guess I can check for crime…" suddenly he realized he forgot to train his kaioken technique! Running back to the chamber Yuuki took off his limiter. "Three, two, one. KAIOKEN TIMES FIFTY!" Yuuki charged up in a flash of light red. "KAIOKEN TIMES SIXTY FIVE!" 'This was my limit last year but I'm past that…' "KAIOKEN TIMES ONE HUNDRED!" the red kai was joined by blue as Yuuki pushed to his limit. The gravity was weighing him down but he was still flying exceptionally fast. He started punching and kicking as fast as his body would allow which was fast indeed. He launched a Kamehameha with all of his might and ended his training. "Now that's better!" sighed Yuuki. He could longer retain this form but it still made his body burn with pain. He left again and wandered the campus.
"I wonder what's in store for me?"