PREVIOUSLY
Once that was done, Robin sat back and just stared down at the grave and silent tears started to roll out of his eyes.
It was the first time that he had cried since he was a child. It was also the first time he had lost someone so close to him. Before coming here, all his grandparents were still alive and so were their siblings. His parents were alive and so were all his cousins. He had never felt this kind of lost before, and thus he just sat there quietly mourning.
After sitting there for the next few hours, Robin stood up and went to find Goku and just sat next to him to think. The next few days would be rough, but Robin knew that things would turn out fine as he started to play with Goku's hair.
Chapter 14: Over the Years
The first month after Gohan's death was pretty hard on both Robin and Goku. For Goku it was because he lost one of the two people he had known. For Robin it was a mix of two things, one of them is the fact that he had only just felt he belonged when one of the few people he cared about died. Another was that he now had a specific amount of time to train incase anything went awry before or during the search for the Dragon Balls several years later.
Not much progress was made though as he and Goku were mourning and un-energized. They spent most of their time surviving and rebuilding the small home that they lived in. But as time passed, things started to get slightly better and by the end of that first month, things were mostly back to the way they were.
During that month, Robin had at some time found out that he forgot to give Gohan the medal he had received. Robin had hung it on the small marker that he had placed at the spot of Gohan's burial.
Not long after that, Robin got around to making a better grave marker for Gohan and had carved a cross shaped piece of wood. On it he engraved the following: 'Grandfather, Friend, Master Martial Artist, Defender, Loving and Caring. Gohan was many great things and remained humble throughout his life. This is where he lies to rest forever in peace. Age ? – Age 746'
Robin felt he did a good job with it; the only thing he wished he knew was the age in which Gohan was born. He also got Goku to help him plant some nice plants around the grave and now it looked almost professional.
Other than those things though, not much else happened. It was the next few months where stuff started to really kick up.
Three months after Gohan's death, things had been going great for a while. Goku was acting like Goku again, Robin had started training more vigorously and things were peaceful.
Robin had also looked into the weird internet connections that his phone and laptop had but there was no online web. It confused him a bit but then he realized that his devices are programmed to work in his world, not this one.
Robin had also made a few trips back to Orange Star City. One time it was to see if there were any batteries that would work for his electronics. There were none for his laptop and cell phone, but there were some that fit in his camera. Good thing AAA batteries had been around long enough for them to be in this world created in the 80's.
Other times were just to get sweets and other foods every once in a while. Robin also tried to hang out with the few friends he made but usually only saw Cindy since she seemed to work like every day. She still flirted with him but it seemed to turn into a friendly manner. Her father always seemed to catch her too.
Not long before his death, Gohan had shown where he kept his left over money from the previous tournaments since he knew that Goku wouldn't know how to use money. There was around 80,000 zeni which seemed like much but Robin knew how much a saiyan could spend on food, so he kept it to sporadic, human sized purchases of sweets and snacks.
The most expensive thing he bought was a twelve pack of AAA batteries for his camera. He had only paid 190 zeni for them.
He had also made some decent progress in his training. He had pretty much mastered flight; he had trouble with flying at high speeds without it bothering his eyes though. He had also mastered charging his fists. He couldn't quite seem to make it work with his legs though.
Robin can use ki beams quite easily now, but he's still struggling with making them steady. He was spending most of the time learning to control his ki by moving ki balls in all sorts of directions. While he became much better at outward ki manipulation, there were some things that he couldn't quite grasp.
One thing was trying to access the well of power he felt when he saw Gohan get hit by a mortar. He had a strong theory that that power must have been caused by extreme emotion while being saiyan. Kind of like a transformation, but nowhere near powerful enough to sustain an actual transformation. Sort of like when kid Gohan had a fit of rage against Raditz, or against second and third form Friezas.
He knew he had the power there, and he can feel it while training, but without the emotional trigger, he's been having trouble breaking the barrier that keeps it locked up. What did help make progress in working towards it though were Goku's words when in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. "The power comes in response to a need, not a desire. You have to create that need." Robin knew it was only a matter of time before he would find his need.
It has been roughly half a year since Gohan has passed away and things finally seemed completely at ease. Goku was back into his own training full force, going over everything he had ever learned from Gohan. Robin even sparred with Goku every once and a while.
Robin noticed that it was around this time that Goku started to almost worship the four star dragon ball. Robin knew that in the anime, Goku viewed the ball as sort of Gohan's spirit, but Robin never really thought much about it. He simply guessed that it was Goku's way to help deal with the grief of losing his grandpa. Robin wasn't a psychologist though and wasn't completely sure if it was a good or bad thing. Ultimately, he decided to let it be, somewhat afraid of the future backlash that may occur if he changes Goku too much.
Robin had also worked on his personal skills too. He still couldn't quite access with full power, but he knew he was much better at controlling his ki. He could now fly around the whole planet in forty minutes, and he can control the direction of ki beams.
He had also tried working on using ki as psychic powers but hadn't made much progress with it. The most he's done is make a few pebbles shake and have water droplets float in mid air for a few seconds.
Another thing he worked on was creating a ki barrier. It was simply to figure out how to do it, but he realized that barriers take up a lot more energy since you're constantly pouring energy in it to keep it solid.
Lastly, he worked on his ground speed. He bought weights at a fitness store in Orange Star City, and he would strap them to his clothing and run around the hills while wearing them. The biggest challenge was that he refused to use his energy while doing it so he felt the full weight; which was roughly a hundred pounds.
Other than that, not too much has been going on in Goku and Robin's lives. Robin had continued visiting the city every now and then, sometimes seeing some of the few people he knew. He had also tried to listen for political news about Orange Star City, just in case the rebels decide to come back.
The only big news about the city is that a new dojo opened up, increasing the city's population slightly. Its name is Satan Castle. Robin was slightly confused by the name at first because he had grown up under a catholic household, but then remembered Mark's last name.
Interested, Robin went to check it out one day and learned that Mark's father had opened it up because he felt that the other dojo was too soft and wanted to teach his own developed style. This was something that Robin didn't remember Akira Toriyama talking about but he guessed that he spent enough time there for new things to come out of the creator's mouth.
Mark, obviously also transferred to this new school and he seemed to be becoming more arrogant and cocky, but Robin decided to let him be. Mariah, had also started to do a bit of martial arts, Robin guessed that it was to be closer to Mark. She also started singing in a school band.
When Robin was in the city that day, he also saw Cindy. But this time it wasn't at the bakery, it was at the park. Robin was just walking around a bit, hanging out with Mariah and Mark after they finished their session for the day and they decided to take a walk through the park since it was spring and it was nice out.
As they were walking through, they spotted Cindy sitting on a bench with someone that Robin only recognized as a baker at the bakery. He only ever saw him once though as he brought out a fresh batch of cookies to Cindy.
At this point, Robin had two guesses, the guy would be Erasa's father as he also had blonde hair and blue eyes, or that they were simply high school sweethearts. They were obviously a couple though as they were making out and Robin swore he could smell their hormones.
It was Mariah that suggested they go see them, even though Robin felt it wouldn't be a good idea to interrupt them. He knew how easy it was to annoy horny teenagers. Heck, he's still a teenager himself. But before he could say anything, Mariah ran up to say hi.
Robin looked over to Mark and could tell that Mark thought it was a bad idea too. In the end though, it wasn't too bad though Robin had to breathe with his mouth due to the scent of cologne, perfume and teenager. Cindy had introduced the three of them to Stone. Robin had to hold in a snicker at the name because he had a picture in his mind that the guy's parents were stoners.
It's now been a year and things have been going smoothly. A few big things have happened. To start things off, Robin's one year anniversary of being here passed and Robin really missed his parents and friends but he's been making new friends and family to help make up for it.
Along with that, Robin turned eighteen years old. He felt it was kind of funny though, because he still looked and felt sixteen. Goku also turned nine. Robin noticed that Goku didn't really grow much either, except he might be an inch taller than before.
Goku's strength was increasing, so was Robin's. They had both spent a lot of time training, Robin's strength increasing much more drastically, but Goku's technique was more refined than Robin's since he had been training for a lot longer.
In the last six months of training, Robin felt as though he had made a breakthrough. One day when he was practicing some sort of telekinesis type move, he accidentally made the object sort of magnetize the other things around it. At first he was confused, but later found out that by using ki, he could give non-metallic objects a magnetic force.
It drained his power a lot and thus he started practicing it to increase his total energy. By doing so he was slowly discovering more things he could use ki to do. One day, when he was attempting to use ki to create a magnetic field around him, it dawned on him that ki just might be more than simply a being's life force.
With this realization, he started trying to sense for ki in inanimate objects. He knew that his sensing wasn't very honed, but there was always a small buzz that he felt about him. Soon, he almost became obsessed with learning everything he could about ki, be he knew how to keep his sanity. However, he pretty much secluded himself for a few months straight just to hone his sensing and ki control.
One day, he came up with the idea of trying to super charge inanimate objects with his own ki to see if it would be his own energy, or maybe he would be strengthening something else's ki. It was this day that he was sure ki didn't only exist in living objects, but instead it existed in the atomic make up of other things. He knew that this didn't really change much, but it helped him gain a better perspective on the world around him.
After those few months of seclusion and neglecting his physical skills and form, he got back into his old routine of visiting the city once every few weeks and making sure to work on breaking the barrier that holds all his power. He also began using his new ki knowledge to advance his training by charging his body weights with ki to make them heavier.
Roughly a year and eight months have passed since Gohan's passing. One Sunday morning, the day after Robin visited Orange Star City. He wasn't one hundred percent because he was invited to a party that Cindy's friend was throwing since it was the end of the school year, and Robin was up until three in the morning.
He hadn't had anything to drink, but it was actually fun to feel like a normal teenager once again, even though the smell of booze, perfume and sex stung his nose, it's probably what he'd of been doing anyways if he had not come to this world considering he'd be nineteen in a few months if he actually aged.
But anyways, he was up a bit later than usual (roughly noon) and he felt a bit sluggish. After eating lunch with Goku and having a slight spar with him, he went off to do his own training. It was this day that he would break that barrier, but only under these circumstances it seemed, that it could happen.
Robin had just fired a powerful beam and steered it into himself and created a barrier around him to try and guard himself instead of blocking it with his hands. Once the barrier went down, he dropped to his knees in exhaustion, with his vision blurring; he fell into a semi-conscious trance.
When he came to, he knew instantly that he wasn't really awake, but in some sort of dream state. The biggest give away was that things looked real again instead of like an anime, but everything was really blurred and overly bright.
Robin didn't quite know where he was, but he was almost positive he was in a church of some sort. There was stained glass covering the length of the side walls and he was standing in the middle of an aisle between two rows of benches.
Things started to become less bright, and as he looked around, people dressed in black started to appear sitting down on the benches. Their faces were blurred, and he noticed that he was invisible. He started to walk down the aisle; he could almost feel the depressing atmosphere around the place get heavier.
From what he remembered, he was sure he was at a funeral. As he made it to the front of the benches, more things started to appear around him, and noise started to hit his ears. He couldn't make out what was being said but as things became clearer, he started recognizing people sitting near the front.
People that he knew throughout his childhood, his friends from his two best friends from his old school were there. Charles, a guy that moved to Robin's old city from France in grade six, Robin was one of the few people that could also speak french so they became good friends almost instantly.
The other was Rebecca, the girl that lived next door to him his whole life until he moved, she was a year older than him, but was held back in elementary school and was put in his class, she was sort of an older sister figure to him growing up.
They both looked very sad, and Robin started to get a strange feeling inside of him, looking to the other side, he saw his parents. That's when things hit him hard. Without even looking at the casket, he knew he was watching his own funeral.
Taking a peak into the open casket next to him, he saw himself. He almost didn't recognize himself at first because he had gotten used to his new looks. But the dirty blond hair and facial structure were things he'd never forget.
He turned fully around and faced the rest of the people. Their faces one by one became clear as he recognized them; they all looked solemn or were crying. He started to feel sad and guilty inside. Another feeling started to well up inside of him too, soon he started to lose himself again and things began blurring.
The noise faded and was replaced by a small noise that started to get louder. He couldn't understand it at first, but as everything became black, he could start hearing it. "Big brother, get up… Robin… Wake up…"
It started to get even louder until he could recognize it as Goku yelling at him. "ROBIN! GET UP! PLEASE!"
That's when the barrier inside of him gave out and a large light blue aura exploded around Robin and blew Goku away. Robin stood up confused at first; he could feel all the energy much better than the first time it came out on the battlefield. Robin looked over to Goku and felt the energy leave him quickly but he didn't feel tired anymore.
"Goku, are you okay?" Robin asked when he noticed Goku had tears in his eyes. "Ye-yeah, it's just, I thought I lost you too when you weren't getting up." Goku said as struggled to hold in his tears. "Sorry about that Goku, I was just really tired okay?" Robin assured Goku as he went over and offered Goku a hand as he was still sitting on the ground from being blasted away.
"Okay big brother, just promise you won't leave got it?" Goku asked as he stood up with the help of Robin. "I promise." Robin said, "Now how about we go have supper?" Robin asked Goku. Goku just nodded vigorously with a grin on his face and ran ahead towards the house.
Robin new that today marked a new point in his training, he found his need. That need was to become powerful enough to one day make it home to his family and friends. He felt guilty for causing their sadness in that vision or whatever it was, but he felt it was his duty to go home to them.
and could freely access that well of energy he felt. He walked over to the edge of the lake and powered up to his max. 'Nope, not a super saiyan.' He thought to himself as nothing about his appearance changed, but he still found the colour of his aura a bit weird.
Two and a half years after Gohan has passed away. In that time, Robin made an extreme amount of progress in his training. After he that strange day in which he unlocked some of his endless well of power, he started to train extra hard to gain complete control over it.
He also felt that he had truly mastered telekinesis, shield making, and creating blasts. H knew that his form was still lacking, but he wasn't quite sure on what to do to fix it since he's been mostly self teaching himself.
He knew though, that even if his form wasn't perfect, if he could move faster, hit harder, and had better senses than his opponent by a large margin, he could beat them.
He had also been working on using ki for other things, with the base telekinesis, he started to use it on a grander scale by sort of bending then ground around him. He did take a bit of inspiration from Avatar, and it was actually pretty fun and could be useful against weaker enemies. Like trapping them in a rock cage, or launching things at them.
He also started trying to control the ki of other things. He didn't want to try it on living beings because he was afraid of what it might do to them, but he learned that he could control the different elements in the air around him. Each element of the periodic table seemed to have a different feel, but he didn't quite know which is which. Maybe he would study chemistry one day, but for now he would continue training.
He had also been working on trying to figure out other people's different moves from the series. One of them was the clothes beam thing that piccolo could do. Not much progress was made with it, but he had a theory that maybe it was using ki to change the atomic structure of atoms around someone to create clothing. He would hold off on that though instead of accidentally turning his own skin into wool or something.
In non-training related news, a lot has happened. One day when Robin was visiting the city, he learned that there was a new holiday named Hero's Day. It would celebrate the victory over the rebels, and Robin had become somewhat of an icon.
He didn't quite feel comfortable with the holiday, but there wasn't much he could do about besides hope that maybe in the future, the holiday would fade and become obsolete.
In social news, Mariah and Mark started dating which was something that Robin could have easily guessed would happen, especially now that they were both in high school. It turned out that Mariah had skipped a grade in middle school so even though she was only thirteen, she was a high school freshman.
Cindy and Stone had been going pretty strong too, the chances of them one day having a child seemed to become greater in Robin's mind. Especially since they would both be graduating this year.
One tragic thing that happened in this time was Mark's father was murdered when they were on vacation in South City for a tournament. This surprised Robin quite a bit since he never knew it would happen. Making him realize that though he knew a lot about Dragon Ball, there was a lot that he didn't know about.
According to Mark, the man that did it was a guy in a pink robe with a long braid. Robin instantly knew that it was Mercenary Tao. This was another thing he didn't know about. So it seemed that Toriyama had been coming up with quite a bit of stuff while he'd been in there.
Not much else happened in that time; Robin however was staring to become anxious as it was coming extremely close to whenever Bulma would show up wanting to hunt dragon balls. He hoped that he wouldn't change the hunt too much because it's very crucial to Goku's training and becoming one of the most powerful warriors ever.
September 1st, Age 749. Almost three years after Gohan's death.
Robin is spending some time walking around Orange Star City, for some reason today felt special so when he woke up, he came to the city to visit Mariah and Mark considering Cindy had left for university in East City.
They were just chilling at a park enjoying the weather as summer was almost ending and their school year would be started in a few days. One thing Robin never missed was sitting on small plastic chairs in classrooms for six hours a day.
He was just thinking about everything he did over the summer and thinking about how he was going to be twenty soon but didn't feel any more mature or older than he had over three years ago when he first got sent here.
He had spent most of his time refining his skills and not really making any new breakthroughs or developing new skills. If he could guess, he'd say he's around a power level of maybe five thousand. He knew it would be enough for now, especially since he was sure to get even stronger and learn new moves over time.
He also knew that Bulma would be showing up sometime soon. Goku would be turning eleven in about a month and Robin was just sitting around waiting. He decided not long ago that he wouldn't let thoughts of a different future worry him too much.
Unbeknownst to him, a very well known scene was playing out not too far away in the mountains. One that would set forth a chain of events that would lead to an amazing story that will last for a long time.
Goku had just caught a nice big fish that he was going to make for lunch and was dragging it down the path that leads back home. The weather was great and everything seemed normal, but a noise caught Goku's attention.
It was a very loud noise, made even louder by Goku's sensitive hearing. He turned around in time to see a big object that he believed to be some sort of monster speeding down the path towards him. "Eeeuuu!" He squealed out in shock as the thing skidded into him and hit him into a nearby tree.
The object is actually a car being driven by a teenage girl with blue-green hair. "Yikes, is he dead?" The girl asked aloud with a trembling voice, too scared to open her eyes at first. Goku got back up and moved towards the vehicle. "What the?" He asked while moving towards it.
"Wow, you're alive?" The girl asked while leaning out the window slightly. "Err, so you thought you finished me off? Well you're not going to get my fish that easy you big monster!" Goku yelled back at it without realizing that it's a person speaking. He then went over and picked up the car.
"Ahh stop it, what are you doing?" The girl questioned slightly frightened. "This is for hitting me!" Goku yelled as he tossed the car.
The car landed on its side and some of the tires flew off of it. "There, that'll teach you not to steal my fish; sneaking up on me like that." Goku proclaimed as he pulled out his power pole and held it above his head. "Well I'm ready for you this time. Why don't you come out of your shell and fight? What's wrong, don't tell me you used up all of your power already monster." He continued.
"Not quite!" The girl yelled as she pulled out a pistol and started shooting at Goku, even hitting him a few times. Goku flew back because of the impacting bullets but they weren't strong enough to pierce his skin. "Holy cow, what was that?!" He questioned while sitting up and holding his head.
"But how'd you… you shouldn't be alive kid." The girl said, obviously surprised. "So you thought you finished me off again huh? Well Grandpa told me about evil creatures like you; your black arts won't work on me! Alright monster, it's your turn!" Goku yelled as he prepared to attack the vehicle with his power pole.
"Monster? Hold on I'm not a monster kid! I'm a human being just like you are!" The girl yelled as she dropped her pistol and put her hands up. Goku stopped himself from attacking the vehicle. "Huh, you are, uh.. really?" He asked.
"Yes, of course I am." She said it like it was obvious and got out of the overturned vehicle. "You can see that for yourself, can't you? Look, I won't bite." She said with her hands up and taking a few steps towards Goku. He jumped away from her though. "Stay back, a human you say?" He questioned as he started to walk towards her slowly while pointing his power pole at her.
"That's right, want to see my certificate of authenticity?" She said somewhat sassily. "Umm, no thanks." Goku said while circling her. "How long is this going to take?" She asked as Goku kept examining her. "Will you hush up." He snapped back then continued. "Well you look human enough, but you're different. You're thin and scrawny."
"I'm a girl silly, that's why." She told him. "A girl? Oh so that's what you are." Goku said. "Oh my gosh, are you saying you've never seen a girl before?" She questioned. "Nope, besides my grandpa and older brother, you're the only human being that I've ever seen." Goku replied. The girl seemed slightly shocked at this but Goku continued. "But Grandpa told me about girls. He told me that if I ever ran into a girl, that I should be as polite as I possibly could." He finished.
"I see. Well, what a nice thing to say. Your grandpa seems like a very wise man, is he?" She asked as she winked at Goku. "Well he was… he died a long time ago." Goku told her. "Huh?" He looked at him questioningly but then Goku pushed up the bottom of her shirt skirt thing with his power pole and she snapped at him.
"Shame on you, what do you think you're doing?!" She yelled as she turned around and held her clothing down. "I was just checking to see if you had a tail." Goku said a bit quietly not knowing what he did wrong. "Huh? Ohh…" She noticed his tail swinging behind him.
"Don't worry. Maybe it just takes girls longer to grow theirs?" He suggested. The girl just smiled at him cheekily and then gave a fake laugh. "Eheh, I'm sure it'll sprout up at any time now kid." She said. 'What a weirdo.' She thought right after.
"How did you get that monster to do what you wanted it to do?" Goku questioned as he pointed towards the overturned vehicle next to them. "That's not a monster silly, that's a car." She explained. "Oh so this is a car? Grandpa told me about them but I've never actually seen one" Goku said as he jumped up onto it and started tapping it with his foot.
"You know, for a little kid, you're really strong." The girl remarked. "Thanks, Grandpa trained me to be like steel. Hey… you were driving a car around right? So does that mean you're from one of the big cities?" Goku asked the girl. "You got it." The girl answered.
"Wow… why don't you come to my house with me and I'll cook you some lunch? You can tell me all about the city you're from." Goku exclaimed as he ran over to the fish by the tree to pick it up. "Come on!" He yelled excitedly turning around to beckon her.
"Hold on, just a second." The girl said as she put out her hand in a stop signal. She then took a radar out of the purse over her shoulder to check it. 'It looks like the dragon ball is right down the road. Maybe it's at this little kid's house.' She thought while looking at it.
"I think it's safe to assume we'll be having fish for lunch. Well alright, so what's on the agenda?" She asked him. "Well, we can have a bite to eat and talk, then play together." Goku said while smiling up at her. "Now look, if you think we're going to do anything improper, you can forget it." She told him.
"Improper, what does that mean?" Goku asked innocently. The girl blushed at this. "Oh never mind." She said as she looked down. She then chuckled and thought to herself. 'I guess Grandpa hasn't told him about that yet. This kid's so innocent that he's adorable.' Then she laughed some more.
"Golly, girls sure are strange." Goku said to himself then spoke up more. "Well anyway let's go" He then turned around and started dragging the fish down the path. "Sounds good, well I'll just follow the giant fish." The girl said as she started following him.
"So kid, what's your name anyway?" The girl asked him as they were walking. "My name is Goku, G-O-K-U, ahahah. What's yours?" Goku asked back. "Uh… my name, mine?" The girl asked. "Uhuh." Goku just confirmed. "Bulma." She said quietly. "Hmm? Haha, that's funny." Goku said humorously. "Hey Goku's not exactly normal so there." She replied. "Heh yeah, but it's not as weird as yours." Goku said while smiling sheepishly at her while chuckling.
"Hey you be quiet, Bulma happens to be very eloquent. It's a lot better than Goku, that's for sure!" She started to become annoyed. After that, they walked the remaining distance quietly. Once they got there, Bulma spoke up. "Wow, that's a nice little place you got there kid."
"Gee thanks." Goku said as he dropped the fish in front of the house. "Just wait here one second." He told Bulma as he ran into the house. The second he opened the door however, he stopped in place because the four star ball was glowing.
"Listen." He said as Bulma came up behind him. "What's up?" She asked. "Grandpa's trying to talk to me." He said as he stared at the dragon ball. "But Goku, I don't hear anyone tal… huh?" She noticed the glowing dragon ball at this point. "Ahh, oh my goodness, it's a dragon ball!" She exclaimed while pushing Goku out of the way to get closer to it and pick it up.
"Hey, give me my grandpa back now!" Goku demanded as he grabbed onto Bulma. "Huh… your grandpa?" She asked him quietly. "You mean this?" She asked him as she held up the dragon ball to him. "Yeah! This is the only thing that my grandpa gave me and Robin to remember him by! Nobody can touch it but us." Goku said as he yanked it out of her hands.
"Look, look what it's doing! I think Grandpa's trying to talk to me." He said as the dragon ball continued to glow. "What do you think he's saying?" He asked Bulma. "I hate to do this, but I don't really have a choice." Bulma said while digging around in her purse. "See?" She pulled out two more dragon balls and showed them to Goku.
"What?! You've got to be kidding! You've got two grandpas, no way!" Goku was quite surprised at seeing this. "They're not grandpas, they're called Dragon Balls." She explained to him. "You sure about that?" Goku asked while looking down at the one in his hands. "Definitely, I'm positive." Bulma replied. "Your ball started glowing because it was reacting to the two I have." Bulma continued as she set hers down on the table. "Look, put yours down." She told him.
"Well, okay. But just for a second." Goku said as he placed the four star one next to the other two. "Pretty cool huh?" Bulma asked him as they started to glow. "Yeah these gems have the power to do great things, and not so great. Let's just say if a bad person got a hold of these balls, he could really wreak some havoc." She explained.
"Well what do these things do?" Goku asked her. "They grant wishes." Another voice said from the doorway.
So... I've been gone for quite a while. I'm truly sorry about that. September was quite a busy month for me with school and travelling but one of the biggest factors in me not writing this sooner was because I didn't have much time to start re-watching Dragon Ball. This chapter marks the real start of the story as it will follow the Dragon Ball canon with a few differences. Chapters will also become much longer because I'm going to put several episodes into single chapters and because I never realized how many words it would take to write up some of the scenes (Goku and Bulma's first encounter takes up about 6 minutes in the anime yet took me over 1.7k words to write). Hopefully I will be able to come out with those chapters sooner though since I won't need to improvise as often.
In other news, I was going to have this chapter be longer, but I felt that it would be better to end it here. Because of this, I already have about 400 words written into the next chapter. Also, I made a cover image for the story not long after the previous chapter came out. It's supposed to represent what Robin looks like. I'm not much of an artist though so it's not quite the way I envisioned his hairstyle but it's close enough for me.
Well that's about all I have to say so have a good day!