Hello there to all who have been following this story up to now. I was simply hoping what your thoughts are on the story progression so far and would really like some feedback on what you think is good and what could be improved. So, little warning, I was gonna keep this chapter short because I've been kind of busy this week, just so ya know. Anyway, enjoy!

The legend of our hero Son Goku and the many allies and friends, alongside the many enemies that they have made has ended. His story is one retold through the descendants of his friends, as well as himself, a story of epic sagas and power, a myth that will never be forgotten. But above all, his story has now given way to a new generation.

"Woah," Ryun said in awe as he looked around like a child in a museum full of dinosaur bones, "This is what you call a cafeteria?? It's pretty big. But can it really fit everyone in the school?"

"Yes, it can, but most people prefer to eat out on the courtyard," Espo answered him as she reached forward, grabbing three trays and handing two of them to Ryun, who passed the third one down to Gokan

Espo sighed when Ryun got to the food selection as his eyes were practically popping out at how much food was in store for him

"He really was not from around here," Espo noted to herself

As the boy looked looked at each serving tray with hesitation and indecisiveness, Espo simply growled to herself silently in frustration

"What's with the face?" Asked Gokan who popped up next to her while chewing on a slice of pizza that he had picked out, "You look like you wanna strangle him or something. This your OCD kicking in or something?"

"What!? No!!!" Espo retorted, "I just wish that he would pick something out already. I mean, how long can it take for someone to decide what they want to eat!!"

Gokan sighed, when he said silently, "Yup. Definitely the OCD."

"Shut up!" Espo growled, "Do you even know how that works!?"

"Yuppers," Gokan answered, "Like for example. You're probably thinking that by the time we get to our table, it's already going to be taken or Ryun is gonna end up spreading germs to all the other dishes if he keeps picking his way through them. Am I wrong?"

"I-" Espo started, before stopping herself as she felt at a loss for words, and Gokan smiled as he turned around to go as he said, "Don't worry. I've got the table part covered. How about helping him out, eh?"

Espo sighed, rolling her eyes as she said to herself, "Shut up."

The girl turned over to see how Ryun was doing

The boy, having finally finished picking what he wanted to eat, walked over to Espo, his plate filled with a serving of fries, a baked potato partially wrapped in foil with butter, pepper, and salt, a carton of milk and a very large serving of strawberries

Espo raised her eyebrow at the baked potato option. If anything, she remembers that someone said that it didn't even taste like a potato, but rather bland

Ryun smiled at Espo, before holding up his tray and pointing to the strawberries, "Question, what are these little things called?"

Espo raised an eyebrow, asking another question instead, "What, you don't know what those are? Why did you get them then?"

"Oh, well, they tasted pretty sweet when I sampled them," Ryun said with an oblivious smile, "Out of the fruit I sampled back there, these ones tasted the best!"

"Wait, you sampled them?" Espo asked Ryun in disbelief

"No, he wouldn't. He has more sense than that. Yeah, he couldn't be that dumb and ru-"

"Yup! Sampled them all!" Ryun said with a chilidish giggle

"He's an idiot. And gross."

Espo simply rolled her eyes in annoyance, before grabbing Ryun's arm, who yelped as she dragged him over towards their table

As she forced Ryun into his seat, Gokan looked up at them as he gave a teasing smile, saying, "Hey, you two done yet?"

"Shut up," Espo snapped at him, her eyes twitching in annoyance as she sat down, "Who told you to tease?"

"No one. But I like doing it anyway," Gokan said with a smile that made Espo want to tear his eyes out

Espo crossed her legs from underneath the table, delicately picking up her fork as she began to eat her bowl of Macaroni and Cheese

It was like eating cheese flavored rubber

As the trio ate their food, Gokan striked up a conversation with Ryun as he asked, "Sooooo, Ryun, where are you from? I mean, where did you come from?"

Ryun looked up at Gokan, his mouth full of baked potato as he said while still chewing, "Oh, Planet Yardrat! My home!!"

"Tch, can you swallow your food before speaking?" Espo scolded the boy

Ryun blinked as his gaze turned to her, and he smiled at her while tilting his head slightly as he answered her, having mostly finished his food, "Oh, my bad. Sorry about that!"

Espo huffed, turning away her gaze as she replied, "Whatever."

Gokan titled his milk carton down, chugging down the drink

Once he finished, he set the empty milk carton down, wiping his mouth as he asked Ryun, "Planet Yardrat. Never really been there, but sounds pretty cool!! But why did you leave?"

The girl huffed slightly as she had to restrain herself from lecturing Gokan on what a napkin was, but her interest piqued when Ryun suddenly replied, "Well, something bad happened and had to leave."

Gokan and Espo were both silent after that.

Ryun tilted his head in curiosity as he noticed their sudden silence, and asked in an innocent tone, "Hey, why did you guys suddenly go silent? Did I say something wrong? Oh no, I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean t-"

"No, you are alright," Gokan answered him, "It's just that we were thinking about something."

"Yeah," Espo agreed, "Just thinking."

"Oh, well phew, I was worried for a moment there," Ryun said relieved

However, Espo and Gokan looked at one another

Just like hers, Gokan's expression was concerned

Espo couldn't help but want to ask him, "Are you thinking the same thing that I am?"

And the look that Gokan almost seemed to agree with her

Why did he leave? What possibly could have happened that this boy, so………..oblivious and naive, could have ended up with him having to leave? Surely they didn't kick him out. Did they?

Espo could feel the doubt beginning to creep in little by little. Why did they kick him out? Was he some kind of crinimal or something? Was this front that he had put up so far some kind of act? Was he actually as innocent and annoying as he had shown so far? Or was he something else?

Espo eyed the boy as he chugged down a third carton of milk, and she couldn't help but comment in a questioning tone, "Wow, you sure eat a lot, don't you?"

Ryun set the empty milk carton down, wiping his mouth with his sleeve, making Espo want to shove a napkin into his face, and he answered her with a shy smile, "Well, I kind of get hungry a lot. But do you know if I could get more?"

"Eh?" Gokan and Espo both said as they looked down at his plate. Some way and somehow, the boy had gotten ahold of five more servings of a baked potato, three more servings of strawberries, and three cartons of milk plus four cookie wrappers that were on his tray

Espo simply sighed as she put her head in her hand when she heard someone say, "Hey, where'd my cookie go?"

Gokan blinked as he looked at Ryun's empty and littered tray in awe, saying as he rubbed the back of his head, "Wow. I mean, I get pretty hungry too, but not to where I would eat that much of the school food."

"Gokan, me and you. Over here," Espo ordered, grabbing Gokan's shirt and practically dragged him outside of the cafeteria

"Huh? Where are you guys going?" Ryun asked as he gave them a curious look, and Espo gave him a forced smile, saying in a cheery tone, "Oh, don't worry about it. You just wait there!"

"Ok!" Ryun replied, apparently ignoring Gokan's cries and protests for help as Espo dragged him out of the door

"Wahhhhhh!!! Sheisgonnahitmeagainfornoreason!!!!!!" Gokan cried out dramatically as he felt the door to the cafeteria close, "Helpmeee!!"

"Shut up," Espo growled at him, swinging him in an arc around her and sending his back slamming into the wall of the hall, and she pointed her finger at him as she asked him, "Alright, listen up and listen close. Obviously this kid has lived under a rock, and I ain't gonna be taking responsibility for any trouble that he causes. SO if he ends up breaking something or getting someone mad, either you're taking care of it or he is gonna take a fall, got it?"

"Ok, ok, geez," Gokan said, "What, you really hate this kid that much to where you ain't gonna stick for him? Is this what happens when someone makes you blush?"

Espo felt the tinge of red threatening to come back again, and she growled at him, "You're responsible for him."

"Alright, alright, jeez, I get the job," Gokan sighed while rolling his eyes

"Did you just roll your eyes at me!?"

"What!? No!! W-wait-"

SMACK


Ryun sighed to himself, holding up a fourth carton of milk to his mouth as he chugged it down quickly

Once he had emptied the container, he let it drop down onto his tray. This food wasn't exactly the best, but man was Ryun hungry enough to eat a lot of it. Especially after having to sit through three classes. English Literature, Geometry, and History.

Master Pybic had already taught him the first two, so they were in fact much too easy for him to actually be anything that would keep him busy. And the third one wasn't too hard to catch onto.

Ryun sighed happily as he chewed on a piece of….whatever this was. A meat patty in between two pieces of bread with lettuce, tomato, and a slice of some sort of yellow gooey stuff squished inbetween it as well

It had a slight sweet taste to it, with a little bit of smokey juiceness, the meat tender and he bread adding a nice warmth and the yellow thingie just adding nice flavor as well, the tomato and lettuce giving it a little kick as well

Ryun couldn't help but sigh out of pleasure as he kept eating the burger

However, he didn't at all notice the three shadowy figures that loomed over him

At first, all Ryun heard was a barely noticeable noise that seemed a little out of place in the bustle of the cafeteria noise, but he dismissed it as he kept biting into the burger

However, that noise sounded out again, this time a but clearer

"Hey," a voice behind him said, and Ryun turned his head around to see three boys, all three of them looking at Ryun with a menacing glare

"If I'm not mistaken, that's my food that you have right there," the boy in front of Ryun said, a tall guy with blond hair and brown eyes

Ryun blinked, before then tilting his head at the boy, asking, "Who are you?"

"Names Jack. I'm just here because you took my lunch," the boy said, before thrusting his knuckles into his palm, saying with a mischievous grin, "And I'm here for a repayment."

Ryun looked at the three boys with a quizical look, tilting his head in curiosity as he analyzed each of them

All three of them had a strong and lean figure, and definitely didn't seem like pushovers. But……Ryun didn't really sense much energy coming from them. Maybe they didn't learn how to harness ki?

Ryun put a finger to his chin in thought as he said to himself, "Huh, I wonder how long it would take to learn."

However, suddenly, a hard plastic tray came flying downward from above Ryun's head as one of the boys had grabbed a tray and brought it swinging downward onto Ryun

The tray shattered as soon as it hit Ryun's head, pieces of the hard plastic flying in every direction, when at the same time someone fist came flying in from the side, hitting Ryun's cheek with a clean solid blow

Simultaneously, the third one held a broom in their hands, swinging it and hitting Ryun's neck cleanly with the stick handle

The room fell silent.

Ryun sat there, blinking at the three who stared at him dumbfounded, and the boy asked them, "Uh, what are you doing?"

The broomstick had snapped in half against Ryun's neck, the boy who had punched him giving out a cry of pain as they stumbled back, holding their fist as they began to cry

And the kid who had broke a tray over Ryun's head took one step, two steps back, staring at Ryun dumbfounded

The leader of the group, the one with the broomstick, held up their makeshift weapon, the half of the stick barely hanging on as he stared at Ryun in utter disbelief

Ryun put a hand on his chin, sighing as he wondered aloud, "Huh, I really do wonder how long it would take you to learn."

"W-what!?" the ringleader asked in a slightly unsettled tone, a singular bead of sweat sliding down the side of their head

"You know, learn how to use it," Ryun said, pointing his finger at the other boy as he said, "I wonder how long it will take you to use it properly."

"W-whaaa?? How does he know!? How does he know that I-I-I'm trying to use something that I've never been able to master before!!? Does he know that I've been trying but failing to use AI to give me answers for my tests!? That I'm trying to learn how to use a bat and that broomstick was a test swing but in all actuality I suck!? That I don't even know how to cook an egg!? W-wait, just exactly how much does he know!!?"

The boy gave a cheeky smile, as Ryun then said in a good-natured voice, "Oh well, you've got potential, I can say that. Buuuuuuuut, why were you tapping me with a stick just right now? Was it like a game or something?"

The boy stood there, a dumbfounded look on his face as he said, "Y-you serious? Are you being serious right now!? S-stop playing with me you little piece of sh-t!"

"Eh? What are you talking about?" Ryun asked with a confused expression, his face making Jack's blood boil. Here he was, being mocked and made a laugingstock in front of everyone!

The boy shot back up to his feet, and while waving his fists around and running towards Ryun, Jack raved, "I'm gonna make you pay for messing with me you little piece of sh-"

"Ohhh, free hugs!?"

"Huh!!?"

Ryun suddenly shot forward, scooping the taller boy in a powerful bear-hug, Jack's eyes buldging cartoonishly from his sockets as he strained to try and move, struggling to even breathe as he squirmed and flailed his legs around, "G-gack!! P-put me d-d-down!!"

"Man, it's been a pretty long time since I've had a hug!" Ryun said, oblivious to the pained expression that Jack had, whose face began to turn purple

"Ryun!!" a voice said, causing Ryun to jump and let go of Jack, who fell to the ground in a tumble and gasping breath, the voice repeating, "Ryun, what are you doing!?"

Ryun gave an embarrassed smile, rubbing the back of his head as he said while grinning, "Well, this man here was giving me a hug so he was going to hug me back."

The person who spoke came into Jack's view, a wimpy kid taht Jack had been known to call Gokack

Gokan took one look at Ryun and then at Jack, uncertainty and a little bit of amusement written on his face as he asked the red irised boy, "Hey, what is happening here? Cause it kind of looks like I missed something."

"Oh, well, that guy ran at me like he wanted a hug, so I gave him one. Doesn't seem like much to miss to me," Ryun said with a shrug

Espo sighed, having sat down on a table bench next to Gokan, and putting her head on her hands as she said in a disappointed sigh, "Under a rock. Under a rock."

"Eh?" Ryun asked as Gokan chuckled, walking to Jack, patting Ryun's shoulder as he passed by as he told him, "Don't mind her."

Gokan held out his hand to Jack, giving a smirk as he said, "Sorry Jack, my friend is new here so he doesn't really know his way around here. I'm assuming you guys know each other already?"

"Tch, leave me alone," Jack said, refusing Gokan's offering hand as he stood up, dusting himself off while making sure his gaze never met Ryun's, "Just make sure he doesn't do anything else to bother me or you'll regret it."

Gokan simply chuckled, giving a smug smile in response, "Alright then."

Jack scoffed, turning his back as he walked off

Gokan gave a sigh of amusement, before walking over to Ryun as he said, "Hey bud, how are you feeling?"

"Uhhh, puny?" Ryun asked while gesturing to the rest of the room

Almost all of the eyes in the room were turned over and looking at Ryun's direction

Gokan wondered what it felt like, to have everyone's attention on you, for them to be thinking, 'Wow, he's so cool' or 'I wonder who that cool kid is.' But then he remembered that their attention was on Ryun. So if they knew that Ryun was his friend………

Gokan suddenly swung his arm around Ryun, facing himself and him to the students as he waved out at them, giving a winning smile and saying, "Hey you guys!! He's new here, and his name's Ryun!! So how about giving him a little welcoming noise!!"

Silence. That was all that followed at first, with Gokan standing there looking stupid with a smile and his hand in the air, his arm around Ryun who simply had shrunk back slightly

"Huh, well, guess this is going down in the records," Espo said to herself while sitting back against a lunch table, "Seriously Gokan, all you're doing is embarrassing both me, the new kid, and yours-"

It was then that it happened. A singular clap. Followed by a second clap. Then a third. And then two more. Three, four, eight, ten, not so long later the entire cafeteria was clapping, kids whooping and cheering as they definitely indeed gave a welcoming noise

"Seriously?"

Espo knew that Jack was a bully, but she didn't think he was so big that the entirety of the cafeteria would celebrate the fact that someone kicked his arse. And what was more that more kids were rushing in, drawn to the fact that someone had beaten down Jack, and not so long after they would clap as well because they didn't know what else to do after that

Espo took a look over at the boys to see how they were doing

Gokan had a bright smile, seeming to enjoy himself as he waved at the crowd, while Ryun didn't seem to be liking the attention as much as Gokan. The boy had a tinge of red on his face, having shrunk back a bit while giving shy small occasional waves of his hand

Espo couldn't help but simply feel her lips curl up into a smile. Something about Ryun's uneasiness to the crowd made him look, well, kind of cute.

Espo mentally slapped herself as she stood up, walking over to the two boys and grabbing them both by the back of their shirt collars, and dragged them out of the cafeteria


Jack felt his face grow hot, the urge to smash in the face of any stranger that passed by him growing with each passing moment

"That damned kid, humiliating me like that in front of all those people. I can't allow it. I can't allow it!" Jack shouted, his teeth gritted as he held his fist clenched in front of him.

"That ain't no normal kid, no way, no normal human could ever give me a crush like that!! I'll find out what you are, I swear! Even if it's the last thing I do!" Jack practically yelled out loud in fury, anger painted across his voice, "I WILL find out what you are!!!! I WILL humiliate you for what you've done to me, Ry…... uh…..whatever your name is."