Chapter 31: Which Z Fighter Will Wield The Ancient Sword, Wisheater?
"Krillin, how about you give it a try?" Bulma asks the short man as she passed the sheathe over to him.
"Nah." He responds. "If Vegeta and Piccolo couldn't pull it out, I don't think i'll be able to."
"You should atleast give it a try Krillin." I insisted with a smile. "It wouldn't hurt to try and besides, the sword says that a kind-hearted person should be able to draw it. Forget about Vegeta! Of course the sword wouldn't draw out for the likes of him."
"I don't know..."
"Would you just stop resisting and actually attempt pulling this thing out!" Bulma yelled, causing Krillin to have a shiver down his spine.
"Fine, i'll do it geez."
Using extreme caution, Krillin gripped his hand on the blade. There was slight fear hinted in his eyes before he pulled. Bolts began to fight to keep his hand off. However, Krillin began to pull as hard as he could.
"He's actually doing it!" Vegeta remarks in shock.
"Keep going Krillin! You can do it!" Gohan cheered as the blade began to slowly come out.
"I'm really doing this!" Krillin announces with joy. inch by inch the large blade began to reveal its brilliance.
Unfortunately, before Krillin could get it to go at least halfway, The bolts intensified ten fold and electrocuted him worse than it did to Vegeta. He was pushed very far from us violently."
"Krillin!" I yelled from where I was as I saw him quickly recover, wiping his gi clean. "You alright buddy?!"
"Yeah!" He yells back, flying back over. "That's one heck of a barrier!"
"Can Trunks and I try too?" Gohan's little brother asks me with puppy dog eyes. So cute!
"I'm sorry, but I have to say no." I eventually refused. The boy began to cry hysterically.
"W-wait p-please don't cry." I begged the kid, but to no effect.
"All w-we wanted was t-to t-try." Goten sobbed even louder. "WAHHHHHHH!"
I felt so guilty. I looked over to Gohan who was giving me the no sign.
"He's fake crying." Gohan claimed. "Goten, stop it."
"B-BUT GOHAN! WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
"Please Goten." Says Chichi as she picked the boy up. "We don't need you getting hurt okay?"
The boy sniffed then returned to his normal state looking disappointed. The other boy tugged very hard on my tail.
"OW!" I screamed. "Don't touch that!"
"Why not?" He asks as he began to tug harder, making me feel very weak suddenly. "Trunks do something?! He's your little brother isn't he?"
Trunks just looked at me and then spoke. "Actually Tania, that's me, only younger. I'm not from this time."
"You c-cant be serious?!"
Trunks nodded.
"I give up already..." I declare.
Knowing that my strength was completely useless, I fell to the ground unable to move a muscle.
"That's enough playing around Trunks, let go of her tail." Vegeta ordered to which the boy obeyed.
"Sorry dad." He apologized. Vegeta's his dad?! Man, I think i'm gonna faint.
Slowly, my muscles regained their strength and I ran over to Vegeta and hugged him. "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you so much."
The gang fell over.
"Get off of me!" Vegeta demanded as he tried to push me off of him without overdoing it. I resisted.
"Come on Vegeta." Bulma responds to the situation. "She's only showing you how much she appreciates your help. You can at least say your welcome."
"I'll pass." He denied.
"Good enough." I reply as I released him. He gave me an uncomfortable facial expression.
"We're friends now, right Vegeta?"
There was a small blush on his face after I asked him that. He crossed his arms and turned away. "Hmph, whatever."
"The best!" I express. Everyone began to laugh except for Vegeta who was pretty much embarrassed by the whole thing.
"Now..." Gohan speaks as he cracks his knuckles. "I think i'll give it a shot!"
"No." I refused capturing his attention. "I'm going!"
He smiled. "I don't think so."
I smiled back. "Let me."
"Sorry."
"Who's the one that brought this sword over here in the first place?!" I argued.
"You are, but I was the one who took care of you while you were sick!" Gohan grunted.
The next thing I knew, we got into a big argument about who's turn it should be.
"Stop fighting you two!" ChiChi demanded as she pulled onto both of our ears, dragging us somewhere else. We squirmed around as she did that. Finally, she released her tight grip after we were inside a room. "Since you two want to act like a bunch of three-year-olds, i'm gonna lock you up in here like three-year-olds!"
"But mom..." Gohan whined.
"No buts Gohan." She replies after reaching into her unusual big bag. "Besides son, I think its about time you got back to focusing and completing your homework and assignments." She took out huge stacks of textbooks and setted it on the floor next to Gohan.
"Anything but that mom."
"A mother knows whats best." She smiled. I felt bad for him. That looked extremely hard to do.
"Tania dear?"
"Yes ChiChi?"
"I want you to study also." She says shocking Gohan and myself.
"But why?" I asked confused. Not trying to be disrespectful to her or anything, but I don't think i'm going to like that one bit.
"I know i'm not your real mother or anything, but i've been thinking lately and..." She trails off smiling to the ceiling daydreaming. Gohan and I just continued to stare at her with questioning eyes.
"Well, I was thinking about enrolling you two to Orange Star High School once the earth is in peace again."
Gohan and I fell over from complete disbelief and shock.
"That's my decision, whether you like it or not. You two need to go and meet a lot more people your age and befriend them. Your gonna have to get use to being around your peers eventually. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes ma'am." Gohan and I clarify before ChiChi left out of the room.
"I can't believe this!" I pouted. "Again? When will this nightmare end?"
"What are you talking about?" Gohan questioned.
I sighed. "Forget it."
"A-Alright."
Gohan then opened up his math textbook and began writing down some notes. I also did the same with the language arts book and flipped it to a random page. What is this?! There's no way I could be able to read and also all these questions. This is what advanced college students take.
I peaked over Gohan's shoulder to see that the textbook he had was also from a university. I allowed my jaw to drop after witnessing how fast he was writing down all the answers. He sure is a huge nerd!
Looking back to my assignment, I struggled to even read everything correctly. Geez, I don't even remember taking classes with assignments this hard at the school I went to. School...
"That's right!" I shout very loud scaring Gohan to death.
"Oops, i'm sorry Gohan."
The teen rubbed onto his ear in pain. "It's okay. Just promise me not to do that again, I think I almost went deaf."
I chuckled. "I promise."
After that, he returned back to his studies and so did I.
FUTURE TRUNK'S P.O.V
"Well since those two are gone and I haven't gone yet, how about I give it a try?"
"Here you go Trunks." Mother gave me the blade. "Just try to be careful and put your heart into it son. Remember, this sword is not gonna draw out by how strong you are, it's by how pure your heart is."
"I know mother."
She smiled. "Give it you're best son."
"I will."
Relaxing a bit and taking a deep breath, I rested my hand on the sword and began to pull. Just like everyone else's turn, the charged electric bolts came thrashing right out of the blade. I managed to put up a fight long enough to start actually slid the sword out of its sheathe.
Little by little, I took my time with it and calmed my spirit so that I might be able to wield it. Once the sword got to where Krillin got it to be, I felt and sensed that the bolts had gotten stronger ten fold. As the power increased I went ahead and turned super saiyan so that I wouldn't be that affected to the stings and shocks.
"Keep going Trunks!" Mom cheered.
I looked over to my father from the corner of my eye and saw that he actually looked impressed by how close I was to obtaining the ancient thing.
Suddenly, a huge bolt shot through my body and I was force to let one arm loose off the handle since the sword had damaged it mildly. Using one arm, I continued to unshield the blade.
"That's it Trunks!" Piccolo spoke. "You almost have it!"
I smiled. There was no mistaking it, I was going to be the obtainer.
However I was wrong, only being about 95% close to drawing out the sword, it thrusted my other arm and my whole body backwards. I caught mysef and stared at it. There was a light pink aura coming out of it with lightning bolts.
It slided itself back into the sheathe. I sighed. "Oh well, I guess it's either Gohan or Tania who might be able to draw it out."
"I wouldn't think about it too much Trunks." Krillin openly expressed. "Out of all us, you have the purest heart so far."
"Thanks Krillin."
"No problem, just stating facts."
"ChiChi?" Mom called. "You're gonna have to get Tania and Gohan so we can see if one of those two can pull it out."
"I'm not to sure about that Bulma."
"Why not?" Mom asked. "You and I both know that those two are two of the kindest in this family."
"Hmmm." ChiChi continued thinking.
"ChiChi trust me, even if the sword did reject them, it wouldn't even hurt them that much." I admitted.
"He's right ChiChi. It might've looked like it had some damage, but it actually didn't." Krillin claimed with a huge grin.
"I'll go get them for you mom." Goten offers while pulling on her kimono.
"Alright..." ChiChi agrees much to everyone's joy.
TANIA'S P.O.V
Alright, why is it that I can remember going to school and everything, but I can't remember everyone else that much? An image popped into my head of me throwing paper airplanes at Gohan while he studied. After it ended, I looked at him and blushed. He sure looks a lot different from that image.
He's a lot taller and mature looking. Gohan also got much more handsome than I remember. I wonder if me and him are...
SNAP OUT OF IT GIRL!
I shrugged the feeling off and actually read what the story said. After a while, I lost focus and once more gazed at Gohan. He's so cute! I'm actually pretty glad that were together, alone, in this room! eeep! Am I dreaming or is this foreal?
The whole time I was daydreaming about him, I didn't notice that my hand had taken control of what I was doing. I looked back onto my sheet to see that I had accidentally drawn a picture of him. I lifted it up and sighed. I can't get him out of my mind...
"Tania, my mommy said that-" I hear Goten's voice from behind and turned back to see that little Trunks was also staring at the picture I had drawn.
"Did you draw a picture of Go-" Trunks begins to speak before I covered his mouth with my hand.
"You better not say anything that you just witness or you'll be sorry, you understand?!" I whisper very serious into his ear. The boy looked at me and nodded. Thankfully, Goten was naive enough to not know who drawn the picture and why.
Gohan stacked his books away and came over to the three of us. "What did you say mom wanted Goten?"
"She said that you and Tania can get out of this room now if you want."
"Really?!" Gohan asks surprised. "Even if we're not done?"
Goten nodded. "Yep. She says that one you two can test out the sword since the other Trunks didn't succeed."
I looked over to Gohan after letting go of Trunks. "I've decided to just let you go first."
"You sure?"
"Positive. I believe in you Gohan." I confessed.
He smiled and grabbed onto my hand. "Lets get going then."
As we walked back, Trunks had started teasing me about being in love with Gohan and scolding me for not telling him so. I sent him a cold glare which made him coward away in fear. He didn't use words to let me know what he was trying to say to me without Gohan knowing, instead he used his odd facial expressions.
As for Goten... He was absolutely clueless.