It was a cool summer night. the sound of crickets chirping and waves lapping against the shore filled the air. Greg ran down the boardwalk in search of the giant, pink haired woman from earlier. T-shirt in hand, he skidded to a halt as he reached a fence. A sign hung on it That read "Keep out! Trespassers will be" the next few words were blacked out and underneath the words "Escorted off the property" were written in a different handwriting. It was then that he noticed a small figure on the other side. It looked like a child of some kind. He couldn't make out much else because of the distance. Maybe the kid had seen her. "Hey!" Greg called as he climbed over the fence, "Little kid! Can I talk to you?"
The child turned to look at him for a second, before seeming to disappear in a rush of wind. Greg blinked in surprise. He looked around wildly for the small child, but he was nowhere to be seen. Then he felt a rush of wind from behind him. Greg yelped and turned around to find himself face to face with a little green being with antenna looking up at him. "Um…Hi?" Greg greeted awkwardly. The little green creature didn't respond. It just stared up at him. "Uh, I was wondering if you could tell me if you've seen a tall, pink haired woman around here?" he asked.
Once again, the child did not answer his question. There was a minute of awkward silence before the child finally spoke. It pointed at his guitar and said "What's that?"
"Oh, this is my guitar!" Greg explained, turning the instrument around so the little green creature could get a better look. "It's a musical instrument," he explained, strumming it slightly, "It's not plugged in though, so it doesn't sound as good as if it were."
The child nodded. "I want it," he stated.
Greg turned his attention back to the strange child in confusion. "Huh?" he asked.
"Give it to me," the creature demanded, extending his hand outward.
"What? No!" Greg snapped, "You can't have my guitar. I nee-" Before he could continue, however, the green child suddenly lunged forward, tearing the strap with his claws and grabbing the instrument. He then proceeded to run away with it, dragging the instrument behind him. "Hey!" Greg called as he began to chase after the child, "Give that back! Or at least stop dragging it! You'll get sand in the circuitry!" He ran after the surprisingly speedy dwarf until he saw it disappear inside a cavern in the side of a cliff. Above it stood a statue of a giant woman. He followed the child up the stairs leading into the cavern.
Once he got close, he could hear voices coming from the inside. "Piccolo what are you doing with that?" a gruff voice spoke, "You know you're not supposed to be collecting human junk. You're already in big enough trouble with the local fishermen for dismantling their boats. Now hand it over."
"No! It's mine!" the child's voice rang out. Greg peaked out from around the corner to see what appeared to be a teenage boy with spiky black hair trying to pry the electric guitar from the hands of the green child, who was apparently called Piccolo.
The teenager managed to succeed and examined the musical instrument. "What even is this? Where do you get this from?" he asked.
"Doesn't matter, It's mine now. Give it back!" the green child snapped. The child then grabbed something that flowed down from the teenager's back and bit it. Hard. The teenage tensed up and dropped the guitar.
"OUCH!" the teen yelled, before turning to the child. "Why you little brat!" he growled starting to chase the kid, the thing the child bit now lashing back and forth. It was at that moment that Greg realised the teenager had a tail.
Greg gasped before quickly covering his mouth. However, it was already too late. The teenage and the green child both stopped and turned to look at him. "Oh…" the teen said with narrowed eyes, "So that's where you got it."
Greg gulped as the teenager approached him. Even though, he was only a little taller than greg himself, the boy was still very intimidating.
"I don't know who you are or what you're doing here, but you need to leave. Now," the teen said, folding his arms and glaring at the shorter man, "Humans aren't allowed on this part of the beach."
"Look I'm really sorry," Greg said, backing up, "I just really want my guitar back. Also I'm looking for a tall woman with pink hair. I don't suppose you've seen her by chance, have you?"
The boy raised an eyebrow before narrowing his eyes in suspicion. He grabbed the front of Greg's shirt and hoisted him up. "How do you know Rose? Why are you asking for her?" he questioned, "Talk."
Beads of sweat trickled down Greg's face. "I-I just wanted to...," he started.
"Just wanted to what?" the boy growled, "Explain yourself or I'll throw you back over the fence now." Greg gulped loudly. He was to scared to say a word. Suddenly, a third boy entered the scene.
He flew into the cavern on a yellow cloud. His hair was wild and he had a tail like the teenager currently threatening him, but he was much shorter. He had a sack tucked under his arm. "Guys I'm back! And you'll never believe what I found!" he called cheerfully but his smile quickly faded as he saw the scene before him. "Vegeta? What are you doing?" he said in confusion, "You promised not to hurt anyone anymore!"
"I wasn't going to hurt him...much. This human trespassed onto our property and was looking for Rose," Vegeta stated, dropping Greg, "I was trying to figure out why he's here."
The boy hopped of the cloud. "It didn't look like you were asking him a question," the boy said, walking up to them. He then cocked his head to the side as he turned his attention towards Greg. "I haven't seen a human that looked like you before. Especially your hair. I don't think I've met any human with hair that long," he noted, " My name's Goku. Are you new around here?"
"Nice to meet you. Yeah, I'm sort of just passing through here," he responded, feeling a bit more comfortable talking to the younger boy. "Your friend Rose was at my concert, and she forgot her free t-shirt," he explained, holding up the garment, "I tried to ask the little green guy over there for directions, but he stole my guitar and bolted." The two tail baring boys looked over their shoulders to see that said green alien had reclaimed the musical instrument.
"Well if that's all you wanted, I don't see what's wrong with that," Goku started, turning back to him, "I'll go get her for you!"
The boy then hopped away to the door in the back of the cavern. Vegeta said nothing but simply crossed his arms as he watched Goku. Greg noticed that the door had a gemstone embedded into a star on it, and had several other spaces where stones could be, but they were empty. There was also a circle lower on the door. The boy placed his hand on the circle and the door opened. About a minute later, he returned holding Rose's hand and leading her outside. "See, I told you there was a human here for you!" he chattered as he pointed to Greg.
"Mr. Universe?" Rose asked in surprise.
"Hi…" Greg waved sheepishly as he got up and dusted himself off, "Nice to see you again. You ah...Forgot your free shirt."
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And thats how they all met Greg. You know, it's funny to think about how young piccolo is compared to Goku and Vegeta. I mean seriously. He's canonically only about four years older than Gohan...O.o And from what I remember of him as a kid, he was kinda creepy. So have tiny troublemaker Piccolo. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Let me know what you think and thanks for the reviews.