Chapter 6: Goodbyes

When I woke up the next morning my vision began blurry. Once it cleared up I realized that I was still at my Grandpa Goku's little hut. My head was resting in Karina's lap, and she was stroking my hair. I couldn't remember a thing that happened last night. The last thing I could think of was seeing the full moon.

Oh, that's right.

I transformed into Oozaru. When a Saiyan looks at the full moon while at the same time having a tail, they turn into a giant ape. Most native Saiyans received training on Vegeta in order to control their Oozaru form, so that they're still conscious after transforming, and have increased their strength tenfold. I on the other hand am not a native Saiyan and instead I was raised on Earth, so I became unconscious and probably went on a whole rampage. I just hope that Karina was able to stop me before I caused too much damage. I looked up at Karina, and we smiled at each other. This was the first time that I actually had a clear view at her eyes. They were brown.

"Sorry about last night. If anyone knows how to ruin a good time it's me," I said.

"It's fine," she said, "I'm just glad that I was able to stop you before you destroyed the planet."

"Yeah, I should work on training that. You never know when something like that can become useful."

I was finally able to get up. When I finally stood up a fell forwards. There was a strange lightness along my backside. Oh, that's right, my tail's gone. I'm always use to my tail providing weight behind me so I can stay balanced. It'll take time to get use to managing without it.

"Yeah, I had to cut your tail off in order for you to change back. But it'll grow back, right?" she asked. I nodded.

Once I regained my balance I noticed that I was in different clothes. I was in the clothes that were in Grandpa Goku's hut.

"When you transformed you grew so big that it destroyed your clothes, so I had to bring you back here and uh...redress you," she said blushing. I was blushing as well. We both could tell that the other was embarrassed. I actually liked the new clothes. Since my Grandpa Goku got transformed into a kid while wearing the other clothes, they always seemed to be slightly tight. These new clothes were looser, more room to move.

"Well forget about that," I said, "The past is the past. Let's think about the present. We have two dragon balls and there are five more to go. If we ride the flying nimbus to the next destinations, we should have no problem gathering the rest," I run into the hut, grab the power pole and put the it around me, grab the dragon balls (which were now inside a gray sack) and hop on the flying nimbus, "Let's go."

"Wait," Karina said, "Give me the two dragon balls that you have."

"What?"

"We both are pretty sure that the earthquake that happened wasn't just a regular earthquake. What if you encounter whatever caused that earthquake and takes the dragon balls from you? Give them to me and when you find the other five come back here using the radar and then make the wish. Eliminate a problem before it happens," she explained.

"Okay, but how do I know that you won't encounter whatever caused the earthquake?" I asked.

"You have a much greater power level than I do. It would think to go eliminate the threat with the greatest power level first. Wouldn't that be what you would do?" she responded.

"I suppose it is," I say. I hop off the nimbus cloud and take out the dragon balls from the sack. I hand them to her and she puts them in her pockets.

"I guess I'm off," I say, turning around.

"One last thing," she says. As I turn around she quickly steps up close to me and kisses me. As I close my eyes I feel her warm lips against mine and I'm showered with a feeling of happiness. I put my arms around her and she puts her arms around me. After we pull our lips apart I rest my forehead on hers and stroke my hand through her hair.

"Goodbye for now," she whispers to me.

"Goodbye," I say back.

As I hopped onto the flying nimbus I looked back to her one last time and told the nimbus to fly off.

About half an hour later, as the wind blew through my hair I looked down at the dragon radar. There's a dragon ball really far away from where I am, but with the flying nimbus it shouldn't take too long.

"Faster, nimbus," I told it.

Eventually the forest had disappeared and turned into the ocean. The shore escaped from my sight rather quickly I felt like I was flying faster than my mind could perceive. It wasn't long until all I could see was blue, whether it was the ocean or the sky. It was all blue. Once again I looked at the radar I was actually just about right on top of it. I looked around but all I could see was blue. Maybe it was in the water. I flew closer to the water and looked carefully. Couldn't see it. Suddenly something caught my eye. It was an island. A small circular island. I spotted something pink. I flew down to the island and hopped onto the sand. The little pink speck turned out to be a house, but apparently this house had a name.

Kame House it read above the door.