Chapter 5
Hello its me again with another chapter, now enough with the greetings lets get to the story.
[recap.]
In the previous event they had a quick adventure, when goku suddenly returned to kame house with a miniature bulma that became not so miniature, after trading and screaming at the old man, she got a quick submarine and roshi got a watch that could minimize him but only for a limited time, or until Bulma and the boys return, as they go towards the area of the dragon ball, where they were taken to an underground or underwater pirates hideout, where they had faced many strong creations, such as the attacks from the red ribbon army, fight with an ancient robot to protect there treasure, and to fight a weird blond guy who tried to blow up everyone.
[present.]
"Well, how long will your new invention take?" Alexander asked he walked with his hands next to bulma.
"Well it should be done within a day or two, but finding Goku would take the dragon radar, and that would need another day or so to integrate it to the flying bot," Bulma said as she twisted around her incomplete radar, to disassemble it and implant it towards the flying bot.
"Alright, what about you Krillin?"
"Don't know, with in that day we could probably swim to the main land and find Goku ourselves,"
"But if we do that how will we find Goku? I mean there aren't many people looking for a monkey kid or looking up at the sky enough to look for a yellow cloud that's moving at speeds faster than a race car.
"But what will we do? I mean theres literally nothing to do in this small island," a dish hit his head.
"DON'T INSULT YOUR ELDERS CHOICE OF HOUSING,"
"I'm sorry master Roshi," Krillin bowed deeply.
"We could train, the sand here is squishy so you would train on being light on your feet, the water here is deep so we could train and hunt under the water, plus with master Roshi's shells we could train pretty effectively,"
"Alex has a good point, but I don't think its best to do that now, seeing as Goku is out there hunting for the dragon balls he might need our help far earlier than expected, so train light and rest well since we don't know what will happen,"
"Alright master," me and Krillin said.
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"Sooooo, what now?"
"Fish hunting? Biggest catch wins?"
"Your on Alex,"
"Alright in three," me and Krillin got on a running stance.
"THREE," I yelled out surprising Krillin and giving me a head start.
"Hey that's not fair," Krillin got up.
"You snooze you lose," I said as I dived into the salty water with goggles already being placed over my eyes.
"Wait, I forgot," Krillin said as he rushed back into the house and grabbed his goggles and followed after Alexander.
"Hmm, boys always so energetic," master Roshi said as he stared at Bulma wiggling around on her knees making her new radar.
"Hehe, there finer things in life, hm hm," he silently said to himself as blood started dripping from his nose.
"Oh my master Roshi are you alright?" Launch said as she kneeled down next to him to wipe his nose.
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[two days later]
"So when is it going to fly?"
"Shut up Alex, this isn't something you can rush into," she said as she is currently dismantling a security camera along with one of her portable drones,"
"Come on Bulma don't blame the guy, we just thought, this would be, umm, you know…,"
"Faster?"
"Yeah that's the word," and Bulma's vain bulged.
"WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP, ITS BAD ENOUGH THAT I FORGOT TO MAINTAIN THE STUPID DRONE, YOU TWO ARE JUST MAKING THIS WORSE!!!!!" She screamed at us while swinging her wrench, I ducked and Krillin got domed, and I crawled out with a Krillin holding his head for dear life.
"I think we pissed her off enough Krillin,"
"You got that right, but seriously if she takes martial arts training we might be in serious trouble,"
"You can say that again, by the way is your head ok?"
"I'm good, that bullet training from Launch really hardened up our skin,"
[four days later]
"Yay its working," Bulma said as she raised the machine she had.
"Finally, but umm, how does it work?"
"Its simple Alexander we just do this," she said as she typed on a keyboard.
"And this," she continued to type.
"And this should do," as she tapped a wider button than the rest, the drone flew up and went straight towards the closest civilization.
"Oh wow, look at it go,"
"But how will we see where its going Bulma,"
"That's simple Krillin, with the modified camera I placed inside it we should be able to see where its going," she said as she typed in something and a video of the sky could be seen.
"So what now?"
"Well it should take some time for it to calibrated its surroundings and when its finished with the scan it should lock on to a dragon ball, with any luck it would be Goku, and if no trial and error," she said as she stood up and went to the kitchen, Krillin and launch followed her to get some thing too, master Roshi tried to mess with the drone but I slapped his hand away.
Seconds later Bulma and the rest came back and Krillin handed me a cola. "So when will it be finished calibrating,"
"A few hours give or take, depends really, I did however set it so that when it finds a dragon ball it will automatically lock on and follow," Bulma took a swig of her can.
"Wait isn't the red ribbon army also looking for the dragon balls?"
"Yeah what of it?"
"If there looking for them shouldn't it mean that Goku would be heading towards the red ribbon bace?" And there facial expressions changed from questioning to staring at me.
"What?"
"Alex, you're a dam genius," Bulma said as she got on to her laptop and started typing.
"Wait what?" I asked even more confused than before.
"Thanks to your word, we can now easily find where Goku is now," Bulma said while typing away, and as she finished her words she snapped her fingers. "I found them," she said as she pointed at a forest area.
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"MASTER BLAST THE ROCKETS!!!!" I screamed out while shaking my master begging to save our lives.
"Wha, wha, wha, stop, shaking, meeeeee," he said as everything suddenly shifted as Bulma got hold of the drive seat and began to maneuver it like a mad man, turning around, flipping over, doing barrel rolls, and dodging the rockets from side to side.
"WHAT ARE THESE," Bulma screamed out because they seem to still be following them.
"THERE PROBABLY HEAT SEEKING! GET RID OF THE TURBO ADD ON!!" Yamcha yelled out and soon Bulma pressed a button and soon the rockets followed suit and exploded.
"Haha, were safe,"
"Were safe,"
"Yeah, were safe," everyone celebrated hysterically.
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[Minutes before]
Bulma managed to get Yamcha on the phone and we got on the flying ship, Bulma then pointed at a forest where the rumored red ribbon bace was placed.
After that Yamcha who was whipped agreed and flew there where we wore then attacked seeing as we wore unauthorized, which lead to that situation.
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"HEY LOOK ITS GOKU!!!" I yelled out as I saw a yellow cloud and a red dot jumping down.
"Bulma get us down, we'll break down the gate," Krillin said and soon we landed, and before anyone could speak me and Krillin rushed in and smashed the wall, and as it flew a few surviving soldiers instantly looked back, but before they could do anything they suddenly got attacked.
"Look for Goku," I said
"Split!!" Krillin finished.
And soon enough we went our own way striking down everyone we found while dodging the bullets, soon after we spotted a robot jumping up and Goku along with it.
"THERE HE IS!!" I yelled out as it punched goku down, "KRILLIN CATCH!!" I yelled out as I jumped as hard as I could to intercept the giant robot flying down to strike at Goku.
"I got him," Krillin said as he caught Goku.
"Ugh, huh?" Goku looked at Krillin and me, surprised at our sudden appearance, "Ohh boy am I glad to see you two, hahaha," Goku then got on his feet.
"How do we fight him?" Krillin asked as he too got into a fighting stance.
"Hahaha!!! Stupid children, don't you know I am invincible in this armor, not even your strongest friend could stand a chance," he said as he then Laughed inside the machine taunting us.
"You tried the kamehameha on him yet?" I whispered so that only the three of us could hear.
"Not yet, but I cant charge up since he won't let me," Goku said with slight frustration.
"Alright, me and Krillin will hold him off, Goku you prepare a kamehameha," I said.
"Wh-why me?" Krillin asked in fear.
"Its either that or we die one at a time," I said which got Krillin to audibly gulp.
"Alright, b-but i'm only doing this because your clearly not strong enough without me," he said as he got behind Alexander.
"3, 2, 1, GO!!" I counted down to prepare each other.
"Hahaha, you think you can do something, EAT LEAD!!!!" He then opened up both palms to present a gatling gun that began to endlessly shower lead at us at us, but thanks to all our training we managed to deflect them, we weren't ready to catch them like master Roshi since we feared the bullets would blast through our hands, but matching the speed of the bullet and flicking it to the side is possible, problem is if we are to slow at doing it we can get our skin scraped off, but even if we do it perfectly the heat of the bullets still burns, but over all thanks to all our training from master Roshi we managed to get close enough to deliver a strike.
Krillin went for a strong kick, it was strong enough to make the thing wobble, seeing it wobble I then kicked it in the leg to off balance it, "KRILLIN IRON FINGERS!!" I yelled at him signaling to get on top and start mashing him like how Roshi trained our fingers and hands to increase their durability so it would be less likely that we injure our hands in combat.
Anyways he jumped on top of him while I got behind him, and then we began to shower him with punches seeing that trying to stab metal with our fingers would probably break them. "Why you!!!" General black then slapped us away from him.
"Alex watch out!!" Krillin screamed out as I was thrown at a spiky barricade, seeing that it was iron spikes I just grabbed the metal piece behind the iron spike and flipped myself on my feet, but sadly the iron pole wasn't smooth since I got multiple scratches on my palms.
"I'll kill you, you little rats!!" He said angrily as he got up showing the large amount of dents that me and Krillin left behind.
"Ahem," I sounded out to catch his attention, "I think your forgetting someone," I said with a smile, he was confused that was until he heard someone saying ha, I then smiled and pointed to my left showing Goku with a fully charged kamehameha, he then tried to fly away but it was very clear that we damaged the robot enough seeing that it couldn't fly well, and the fact that the kamehameha was way faster than his little robot.
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After the fight with general black we celebrated with a big hug, to which we figured out why Goku was going around and gathering the dragon balls, it was for a new friend he meet, and it seems like Goku was indirectly the cause of his new friends dead father, and so he gathered the balls to help.
After that we found a small problem, we couldn't find the final dragon ball, Bulma then tried to tweak the dragon radar but sadly nothing happened, that was until master Roshi chimed in, talking about something like his sister could help but there was a price, me not listening just agreed and went to a desert where we found an old hag that was riding a crystal ball.
There we found the price, and it was about a hundred thousand yen, but due to master Roshi's previous debt she didn't accept Bulma just paying and master Roshi antagonizing his sister didn't clearly help all that much, and so lead us to where we are currently, in a tournament fighting four of baba's prized fighters, first up was Krillin vs a vampire.
"KICK HIS ASS KRILLIN!!" I cheered on the side drowned out by Roshi's surprisingly loud voice for an old man.
The fight wasn't really good since it was all tricks, the vampire turned into smoke blinding Krillin and basically drink his blood from the top of his head, but apparently due to Krillins training and being a monk previously made his blood apparently poisonous to him, but that's where his luck ended, since the second fighter was invisible which ended Krillin's winning streak.
Second fighter was Yamcha, sadly it was the same seeing as he couldn't see where he was at, but after a little help from me he managed to fight back, sadly I got silenced by the old hag, luckily Roshi managed to help with his horny actions as his nose bleed covered the invisible man, which Yamcha took advantage of to land a.
[wolf fang fist]
After that we finally entered the building, and there we were supposed to fight inside a bridge made by two demon head's tongues, there they were floating on top of hot bubbling magma, while we were staring in curiosity a coffin appeared and a mummy person came out of it, we thought of sending in Yamcha again but sadly he apparently received a large amount of damage, enough to stop him from fighting next.
Which lead me to fight next, the fight wasn't much, the mummy man wasn't really a fighter seeing as all he knew was tricks, using bandages to wrap me up and tried to throw me into the magma, sadly it didn't do much seeing as I could easily pull the bandages and counter, but the next fight I accepted to switch seeing as Goku wanted to continue the fight, which became a bore as his special skill couldn't even harm Goku.
It was called [the devil might beam] a beam that turns even a drop of evil into an explosion inside the body destroying him from the inside out, but to Goku who had basically almost no evil within him it had no effect, so the best it did was make a great light show.
The devil man gave up leading Goku to continue, outside he fought a man with a cat mast and a halo above his head.
Goku fought him and absolutely wrecked him and even pulled out his tale at one point, but funnily enough when he was about to win he suddenly gave up then showing that he apparently was Goku's dead grandfather, after that we were given a location of the final dragon ball, it was on a pink car being driven by a familiar group, not to me, roshi, and Krillin but was very familiar to the others.
Baba telling Goku their location Goku went there with nimbus, after that everyone just split up, Yamcha being beaten so badly by an invisible man, and was being basically guided by a small kid which only used sound and visual cues to tell him where he is, leading to Yamcha coming to a conclusion that he needs to train his instincts more, for his move known as the [wolf fang fist] instincts could evolve it to the next level.
Bulma just went home to finish her school year and take over her family business.
Puar went with Yamcha, Ulong went out on his own since Bulma wouldn't take him with her.
Me and Krillin went with master Roshi, funnily enough we didn't go with Bulma since Roshi saw this as a good training chance, but before we could start he gave us some turtle shells, 100 kg to be exact, then he forced us to run and swim towards the island.
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Its been a few hours now and we are swimming towards the island the sky suddenly went dark and we stopped on a small island, looking up we waited, waiting for what you ask? Well we were waiting for the dragon ball to fly passed us, and oh boy it was gorgeous as fire made a line through the dark sky that swallowed all the light, "man I though we would be lucky enough to have one of the balls to drop on our lap," master Roshi said catching our attention, "Welp lets continue," he said with a smile as he jumped into the water and proceeded to perform butterfly swims.
After the light show we continued our little swim, reaching the island master Roshi's wish was apparently answered, because one of the dragon balls smashed through his roof, checking in on the damage it was hilarious where it landed, inside master Roshi's room it smashed inside his closet and conveniently landed on his porn mag, destroying hundreds years of collection for a rounded stone, which we knew was a dormant dragon ball.
He was left in a depressed rut, which me and Krillin just shrugged as we went back outside which we trained like every day.
There me and Krillin trained day in and day out, we slept well, we trained well, and we rest well, we even had laughs since blue Launch returned, and blond Launch left, and most of our laughs were on the face of master Roshi since he always tried, it came to the point that blond Launch basically lived here, she even brought her own little boat house, inside was pretty clean, since Launch lived there, and the fridge was basically full of beer and fruits and vegetables fitting both Launch's personalities, the kitchen was neat and tidy while the boat's secret storage was full of weapons.
Ignoring that Launch really didn't do much, aside from the weekends she slept inside kame house from drinking to much, which I may add was the worst part since they didn't want to sleep next to her or even wake her up by moving her to her boat, but do you know who could since he wasn't burdened by the knowledge of modern times, yup it was me, but I was to lazy to do it which I then basically slept around her, and making sure to wake up earlier than her, since I don't want to wake up with a grenade or a gun in my mouth.
[months have passed]
Alex could be seen meditating at the edge of the water, but as he sat there the water couldn't reach him, not from the front, the sides, or the back, for where he sat a circle of dry sand untouched by the raising current of the water.
"Well done Alex, to use Ki at such a young age is a wonderful achievement," Roshi said as he walked around us, Krillin was beside Alex, but sadly for Krillin he couldn't stop all the water that came his way, the front of him was clearly dry but his sides and back weren't.
"Do not worry Krillin, your talent has clearly surpassed mine, and to see that your ki mimics your personality is a great thing, alex uses his like a shield surrounding him to protect once self showing a protective personality, while yours is straight forward and simple, proving a tactical mind and a straight forward personality," Roshi said after looking at Krillin's progress. 'Krillin clearly shows a tactful mind, I just need to sharpen it, though Alexander seems like a sponge, scarily similar to Goku, but slower, its scary to have two students with such talent, if this continues these two could be capable of destroying this world, but if I give them my time and care they could grow to protect and search for improvement,' Roshi thought as he looked at there growth.
"That's enough boys," Roshi said as Alex and Krillin stopped there training letting the water soak the sand.
"Phew, man i'm hungry," Krillin said as he stood up.
"You get the fish i'll look for some wood," Alexander said as he stripped and began to swim to the near island.
"Ugh…" Krillin tried to tell Alex something but he couldn't continue it, "doesn't he seem… a bit high strong?" Krillin asked while looking at Roshi as he began to prepare to dive in the water.
"He does," Roshi said as he looked at Alex who swam away, 'That boy, how far will you go,' Roshi silently thought as he then turned back and walked towards the house, "make sure to get something big Krillin," Roshi said with his old man laugh.
[with Alex]
"Wonder how much wood I can gather today," Alex said with a serious look.
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With in an island near the kame island, was an island that held a massive forest known as the infinity forest, it was dubbed as such due to some people trying to deforest the island to make room for a new city, but sadly the forest didn't let them as the next day tree's were already half grown, rip the trunk from its roots a new tree would take its place, burn the forest a new one would take its place, so over all they gave up, and now it is the biggest wood factory in the world, but due to the fact that they cant build here they had to do specific plans making it expensive.
"Oh hello Alex, here for fire wood again?" A man who usually came here said.
"Ahh boton," Alex said as he looked at the man who looked like a bear, "yes I am," I said as I scratched the back of my head.
"Well we have those over there," the man then pointed at a pile of scrap wood that was shaved off.
"Ok, so whats the catch?" Alex asked knowing this man.
"Sharp as ever I see," Boton said as he laughed, "Well you see that big tree over there," he said while pointing at a particularly large tree that seems to be 20 people wide.
"Ok, that's easy," Alex said with a grin as he walked towards the log, everyone already knew the process when seeing the orange Gi, everyone spread out as Alex walked close to the giant tree, he stood there and focused for a bit and after a second Alex punched at such speeds that no normal man could see it, there the tree split and then he lifted the tree and plopped it down.
"Its always a treat to see you at work Alex," Boton said as he laughed.
"Don't sweat it man," Alex said.
After some chat and compensation Alex pulled out a capsule and tosses it at the water, after a puff of smoke a big rowboat that could house a small house, there Alex loaded the wood which was nearly a ton in weight, after that Alex proceeded to strap a rope over his body and began to swim back towards the kame house.
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Arriving at kame house there a giant shark that could be seen strung upside down from a far, after that another explosion occurred as Krillin had defeated a giant sword fish, "ugh, MASTER ROSHI!!! ALEX IS BACK!!!" Krillin yelled out.
"I'm back master!!!" I yelled out as I did butterfly strokes in the water.
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"Do not be guided by the force, for that is a show of weakness, as a martial artist you must discipline yourself, you must control it, guide it, for us to become strong we must strengthen not just our body but our mind," Roshi said while Alex, Krillin, and surprisingly Launch were doing muscle control training by punching slowly. (Imagine old asian men doing taichi)
"Why is this important master?" I asked since my experience with master Roshi's training was all about breaking human limits and nothing like this.
"Well as you know our previous training was all about increasing power," he demonstrated by piercing a rock with nothing but his finger that he lightly pushed into it, "With this new power harming another is simple, so in order to prevent such occurrence we must master ourselves," Roshi said as he then pressed his finger on it, but unlike before it didn't pierce the rock but pushed it, "With enough time and training this to can be achieved," he said.
"Oh wow, I didn't know you were so strong master Roshi," Launch said while applauding him.
"Hehehe, it comes with diligence and training," Roshi said with a goofy smile.
"Like this?" Alex said as he tried to push the rock with nothing but his finger, but expectedly it crumbled from the amount of pressure Alex had placed into it, "Man this is harder than I thought," Alex then pushed a rock with his palms which he left an indent when he pushed it.
"Good Alex, with that I bet you understand the difference and skill you would need," Roshi said.
"Yes master," Alex got back into line next to Krillin who was writing down something.
"Alright back to topic," he then coughed into his hand, "This training as I bet you are aware is not just to practice restrain, but it to is to practice the basics of ki control," Roshi said as Launch raised his hand, "Yes Launch?"
"Isn't ki only a myth?" Launch asked.
"In some practices yes, but for us its real, plus if it wasn't how would I even be able to shoot my kamahame wave," he was then cut off by krillin raising his hand.
"So how do we know that were doing it correctly?" Krillin asked.
"Oh you'll feel it, its like a cold breeze in the warm summer heat, you cant know when but you will know," Roshi said, cryptically, "Anyways lets continue with ki control training," Roshi then made us follow some slow movements that forced us to focus more than we expect, except for master Roshi he's been staring at Launch the moment she started sweating.
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Months has past since then and we've improved steadily, and out of the two of us, well three if you count Launch, but for the fighters, Krillin seems to be the one improving a lot recently since not only is he able to now move a bolder the same size as him with ease only using one finger without breaking it.
But i'm no slouch either seeing as i'm only slightly behind him as I can do the same but I leave a slight dent behind, but putting out ki control training aside, my strength and power clearly surpasses Krillin's by a long shot as thanks to my higher stature I can abuse a longer reach and seeing as unlike Krillin I kind of train more, while yes we both train equally, its kind of the fact that Krillin doesn't see me like how he does Goku.
Krillin imagines me as the older brother of the group chalking up the difference to age, that is despite master Roshi and I constantly telling him its not the case, but its not something we can fix currently, but compared to his ki control I am no match, and its clear by the fact that master Roshi has already started training Krillin in the art of the kamehameha, though it doesn't bother me seeing as I still need to learn what I did back in the world martial arts tournament, I want to know what I did that time, I want to learn, I want to understand it, and possibly improve it some day.
But for me I followed what master had taught me, first step was being able to emit it trained through meditation, second step was feel and manipulate it, being sure to feel the energy within and manipulate it, step three was magnify seeing as ki is more than just the body, ki is life itself which means that the stronger ones will and body the stronger the ki one can utilize.
And with those three steps I rinse and refine, using master Roshi's teachings and applying them of different steps, using step one and three I can repel the water that comes.
Mixing two and three I can expand it from my body giving me the ability of telekinesis, though the power is very weak its still usable, and while they aren't looking or when i'm off to hunt I train these abilities.
And most favorable of all is when I combine the three steps, though I skip the meditation aspect and just put it all on focus, and their I focus ki on my fist and arm, i then manipulate it to travel from my shoulder to my arm, and magnifying it to increase speed, afterwards I punch sending a shockwave that easily punches a whole through its body.
But there is a problem with this method, it's the fact that it leaves my arm numb the more powerful the strike is, in which I planned to do two things, one is train my body so that it doesn't become a problem in the near future, two is train my ki control to make such problems inert, or a possible third option is do both, since if I train both I can get the benefits of both paths, though the training would become very exhausting, but as master Roshi said, no pain no gain.
[11 months later]
"Take care Alex," master Roshi said his goodbye as I left using the boat Krillin used to come here with.
"Bye bye Alex, make sure you train hard or i'll easily beat you at the next tournament," Krillin waved his goodbye.
"Make sure you eat plenty alright, and when your lonely you can come back anytime," Launch in her blue haired form said, forgetting the fact that just last week when I told them I was leaving and traveling the world like Goku her blond form had pulled out a semi auto gun and tried to make me swiss cheese.
"Bye everyone, i'll miss all of you!!" I waved back.
It was about a week ago I told them I wanted to leave, "Master Roshi is it ok if I were to leave and train through the world?" I asked casually one night when watching tv.
"Its not a problem to me, you just need to make sure that you don't cause any problems and to uphold justice," he said equalling the casualty that I had asked.
Of course Krillin and Launch had problems with this but apparently Roshi had the same mind, he even offered the same to Krillin which he declined and said he had much to learn from master Roshi, Launch on the other hand had sneezed from the shock and was surprisingly angry with me leaving.
After that master Roshi, me, and Krillin had one final week to train as much as we could, we trained hard in the morning, we rested at the afternoon, and we trained till we passed out at night, all the while Launch made sure to cook delicious and bountiful amount of food.
That all continued until I had left, I wore the orange turtle hermit gi with the kanji for turtle on the back and on the right chest of the front, my orange pants was held by the blue belt that was used to tie it all together, while the sandals were optional I still wore them since I had nothing else to wear.
"Its time for my journey to begin," Alexander said as he looked out at the vast see, taking in a deep breath I then looked back, sat down and rowed, away from the island, "Wonder what I should do first?" Alex asked himself as he passed a speed boat shocking the people with bulging eyes.
As Alex rowed he reached the main land faster than he had thought, which was half an hour at best, as he got there he couldn't help but reminisce on the memories where he first meet Goku, or where they had saved him, he was young and small, someone attacked me and I couldn't fight back.
Walking more I saw a cliff side, I traced it and there I found a small path through the cliff, it went upwards allowing people to walk out of the beach, but as I walked there I couldn't help but notice something, it flapped in the wind, it was being held up by a broken stick, and walking closer I saw it, it was my old hut, there I smiled as I saw a surprisingly still intact spear.
"Hmm, looks like things still survived," Alex smiled to himself as he remembered his belongings, he had forgotten about them due to the chaos of his life, at first he wanted to train to return, but after a year of training and fun I had forgotten my objective, I wonder if that was master Roshi's plan? "At least I know your still intact," Alex said as he opened a small box that he had used as a table, inside the box was a small sling bag, and inside the small sling bag was was a pendant and a rusted hunting knife.
After that he sheathed the rusty blade, he then used the rope on the leather sheath to the sling of the old leather pouch, "hello guys, i'm back," Alex said as he pulled out the pendant and pressed on its side, there it opened showing two pictures.
One side had a family photo, there was a 5 year old me holding a young brown haired baby, I was on a bicep of a very tall man, he had black hair and his hair covered his eyes, he had a smile, and he was wearing a Hawaiian shirt which was unbuttoned showing his ripped abs and chest.
Next to him was a brown haired rabbit woman, she was about chest hight compared to my giant of a dad who was 6'6 feet tall, she showed a calm and gentle smile, but even through the picture he saw her worried about me and my new sister being so high up.
A tear dropped on to the glass of the picture, I gritted my teeth as I remembered the grief I had felt when the red ribbon army had raided our town, I was told to run by my father as he brandished a gauntlet that had a silver shield attached to it, and I did what he wanted me to do, I was young, 6 at the very best.
I tried to look for my sister but I was thrown out of the window when my dad crashed through the wall, I saw he was damaged and wounded, I tried to help but when he looked at me panic rushed through his eyes and with grief he picked me up and threw me, it wasn't like when he tossed me up, since this time he was wounded and in tears, my final sight of him was a man damaged and worried.
That was the last I saw of my brave and strong father, a man who could take on the wild buffalo, and a man so gentle that he wouldn't harm a single petal on a flower, but I wasn't running without a plan, since I remembered there was a small village close to ours, about a day of travel away.
Though those thoughts vanished as I had come to realize that compared to my father's strength and inexhaustible stamina my little legs and lungs needed rest, and when I got there they were already mobilized, but it wasn't to save but to move away, I had tried to ask for help but I was ignored and was taken in, I bet they thought of me as one of the protesting children.
There I realized no one would help me, and with gritted teeth and unstoppable tears I slept, it took us a month to find a new area to settle In.
Tents were built, camp was settled, and everyone had a role, and for me I started to leave the village every day so I could possibly look for my mother and sister, I couldn't see them and father did tell me to not assume when something is dead when you haven't seen the body, so with that in mind I searched, I moved from settlement to settlement giving people a long look at my pendant, some tried to steal it since it looked like gold and I always took good care of it so it almost still looks brand new.
But as the years passed by I lost faith and by the age of 12 he lost hope, he was tired, exhausted, and had lost hope in ever finding his family, his mother Viola and his sister Violet was to his mind his last hopes, but remembering his fathers eyes that looked like he was giving me his final wishes, and it finally settle down, and finally it hit me, I was now alone.
While his mother had some look alike and similar names to other women I knew it wasn't them, I even encountered a small girl that would be around Violet's age but when I turned her around she had blue eyes instead of the vibrant blood red my mother had, I left after that.
As I sat there remembering my past I rubbed the pendant clean and shiny, I did it with a piece of cloth that I carried with me just incase I need it, the box also has a handkerchief but it was dusty and old, it also wasn't washed, I took that too, and as I prepared to leave.
"Would you look at this," a similar sounding bear man said as he called in his friends.
"His a bit scrawny but we can split him apart," a purple boar man said wearing a bit of armor and white pants.
"I'd like his brains," a chicken man said.
"Alright we'll have to slice him apart first," the bear said as he gleefully brandished his scimitar.
"Hehehe," the chicken said as he prepared his claws and the boar man's hands turned into wood.
But before they could get any closer Alex punched the bear's scimitar, it shattered and Alex's hand continued uncontested shattering his armor and doubling the man over, the boar was shocked and in a panic he attacked.
Alex vanished when his roots were only inches away from him, the chicken man tried to look for the boy but soon realized that he was behind him, Alex placed his hands together and smashed the chicken man on the head launching him down creating a crater.
The boar man in a panic tried to run this time, but before he could move far the boy was already in front of him preparing a punch, before he could speak it landed and unlike when it happened to the bear his fist didn't only shatter his armor but also his body, but unlike what Alex had expected it wasn't blood, bones, and organs but instead it was wood.
"I'll make sure you never cause problems ever again," Alex said as he walked towards the bear.
"P-please, s-spare me," the bear man said in fear.
"I wonder how many times have you heard those very words," Alex said as he saw it in the bear man's eyes, he was genuine, he knew he didn't want to die, but he also knew that he killed more than he had saved, and he even took glee in preparing to kill a 16 year old teen.
"Please, i-I I promise i'll stop, j-jus-" he was cut off as a fist punched through his body and crushed his heart with the blow.
I then gathered the pieces if wood and the chicken man who's head I caved in, I then set them a blaze, as I made sure to watch them burn, I had left when their bodies were burnt to charcoal black.
I left now armed with what fueled my path to power, I was now lost, unlike before where I only focused on training and improving, unlike the others who just wanted to train and become stronger for the purest reason I was striving for it to retrieve a memento, which funnily enough I had forgotten about.
So I am currently lost, while yes I was dragged around a bit, joining martial arts tournaments, being taught how to dodge and counter, and being trained by the world's strongest martial artist, its still surprising how weird and goofy he was, since I expected someone more… sage like, I mean don't get me wrong the old man's got moves and skills, but under all that was a person, he wasn't driven by morals, a greater will, or even an other worldly force, he just wanted to be popular.
So currently i'm hoping to find my own path, being taught by master I have picked up on various things, one is that weight can help surpass limits, represented by the giant turtle shell i'm currently still wearing, two is that the human bodies have limits that cannot be surpassed with just constant training, so in order to move past it one must strengthen their spirit and mind, aka mastering of ki, Alex then forced controlled his ki to wrap around his arm showing a silvery blue light that coated it in a fire like display.
And thirdly to improve is to better the past, Alex then chopped a tree with nothing but a knife hand.
Alex hasn't experienced much in the ways of ki or anything resembling it since the users are far to few and to most it's rather farfetched, something like ki sounds to supernatural in the modern day society, I mean there are similarities to it, like magic, I mean I didn't believe in it until I saw master Roshi's sister, she summoned people from what I can only believe were from the depths of the under world or somewhere different entirely.
"That's it," Alex said as he had an idea while in the mince of preparing camp, "I'll learn magic, it should help me train in a manner of sorts since they must have something other than transformation, that settles it i'll go to Bulma and ask for a full body or clothing version of this turtle shell then go learn magic," Alex then wrote it down so he doesn't forget.
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[next day]
After waking up Alex dug a deep hole, it wasn't to deep just deep enough to bury the bones of what he called a giant chicken, though it had a snake's head for a tail, it was delicious with some herbs from the forest and some salt that he still had in his pouch.
"Now where is Bulma?" I asked myself since I didn't know where, I don't even know where I am, but when in this situation there was only one thing to do, Alex picked up a stick and made sure one side was sharper than the other, he then tossed it upwards with a spin and it landed west (Alex doesn't know that and no i'm not doing this for cliché, I spun a wheel of all 8 directions and it landed on west, i'm not joking)
"Welp looks like I know where i'm going," Alex said as he followed the arrow. (Also roughly he is where it says Yamcha alternative home, roughly around the beach side there, also I don't know map of dbz so I just googled it)
Alex hopping to find a civilization close by to get some direction ran there, he mostly followed the beach path since he know that most settlements like to live near water, and the ocean is very much near water, and additional to that is the fact that fishing villages tend to be friendlier than others, so with the hope of that he ran near the ocean.
After an hour of running Alex felt tired, so instead of running he walked adjusting the straps of the turtle shell since its starting to dig into his shoulders, I mean he could easily change the shell for a lighter one but that would feel awkward since he got so used to it, well not the straps but the added weight, since he always trained after the world martial arts tournament he kind of got used to it, hell he got so used to it that sometimes Roshi or Krillin could see Alex sleeping inside the shell like an actual turtle, be it shell up or shell down.
"I need some snacks," Alex said as he entered a small forest near by, there he picked up some edible fruits and berries, he couldn't carry all of it forever and putting them in his satchel would become awkward if he wants to use it for other things, so he had a plan.
Alex went back to the beach and dug a little sand pit where he placed his fruits and berries in and buried them only where he then placed a stone pattern over it so he doesn't forget.
Alex stripped some logs and began to twist them between his palms, he then combined two, and three, it was all to make it stronger, he then returned to the beach and looked for a coconut tree, there he got a coconut and ripped the husk off where he then sliced the coconut in two, he drunk the juice and scraped off the flesh as a light snack, he punched a hole on the bottom using his finger where he tied his on the bottom, and another hole on top, he then made a makeshift storage. (Imagine a ball that can open up in two)
Alex placed the fruit in the coconut and walked towards his fruit, where he stored them inside, and before he left he dunked his fruit in the water to remove the sand that stuck to his fruit.
Now armed with snacks he continued his run through the beach, running wasn't bad for Alex, it was part of his life basically, running from people, running from village to village, running with milk through the whole island, i've been basically running a lot.
But as I reached half an hour of my constant running I couldn't help but notice that the sun was already setting, "Well looks like gathering and making the rope took more time than expected," Alex said as he turned back and walked towards the forest.
When Alex entered he removed some wood to make some chairs and fire wood, Alex then found some dry sticks and abandoned bird nest or something dry and fine that he could use to burn, and in the mince of looking for material to start a fire but in the mince of hunting something stabbed a long spear in front of him.
Alex dodged it and looking further Alex had now recognized the spear, but it wasn't a spear, since it was a long spider leg, and looking up I was greeted with 8 red eyes, and hairy but shiny legs, "Well hello there big fella, you wouldn't be to hungry right?" I asked but something dropped down, and looking where the liquid dropped he saw that it melted into the ground.
Seconds later.
Deep into the forest something exploded and purple liquid rained, the birds flew away, animals began to flee, and foot steps that could only sound like a giant, but as it got clearer and clearer, you could only see a teen dragging a spider the size of a 2 story house, Alex then dropped the bug on his camp where it shook.
Alex then began to walk to the spider's back and began to rip off some fur on it, since he realized that if he could see nothing he might as well use something, so now having a handful of spider hair, Alex then piled it in the middle of his log camp, why he made a camp? Well that's simple, its because so when someone is lost they still have a chance to find this place.
Surprisingly spider fur was very flammable, and spider meat was edible, not the worst thing he had, but its not very tasty and the slimy juice made it worse, but cooking it was perfect, since it made it taste like crab meat, though roasting it feels wrong, but I also don't have a pot to boil it in so I had to manage, also I think its better this way since the purple juice flowed through the hole.
Though the torso is surprisingly juicy, not in the same way that the arms are, but in a savory sense, it was also rich in flavor since I hardly needed to salt it, I just needed to burn the hairs and barbecue the meat, after eating he slept.
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[next day]
Alex did the same as before, but this time he kept a piece of its shell to cover his chest, something like armor but more natural, since unlike its face, punching it actually hurt and it was tougher than those bears, though I think that came from using that punching technique that I use which made my hand numb.
Now finished in covering the camp fire with dirt, he moved closer to the ocean and moved following its shore, I haven't encountered any small villages of late but i've only been traveling for 2 days so its not unusual.
As Alex ran along the shore he played around with his shell, using it as a surfboard when he encounters hill of sands, wielding it like a shield to bash through small boulders, or old tree's that could fall down on everyone if left to rot longer, and occasionally throwing it at the stray sand beast.
But in his fun in abusing the shell and his body he found a small village attached to what can only be called a remanence of a mountain, it was hilly and mountainous, but it didn't have its mountain almost like it was blasted off or something, but he didn't falter as he walked down and looked for the biggest house or the house in the tallest spot, I didn't take long to find since he just followed the road.
He found the house, but as he walked towards the mountain he couldn't help but hear a man telling a young girl something.
"Listen Chichi, girls aren't as strong as men since their muscles are less likely to become denser and dynamic, but that isn't a problem, because just like your mother you have a strong will and dedication, now instead of pure power we must train your flexibility and reaction speed," a man said to a girl who is training herself, she was currently doing the horse riding stance while a boulder twice her size was balanced above her.
When I saw this I was curious since I never saw anyone else training, aside from me, Goku, and Krillin I never got to see others training, since what I had assume something else like lifting weights, balancing on top a boulder, or training to bend a steel beam, but it was fascinating to watch someone else, plus if I watch longer I might see them fight to which I can develop my own fighting style since I practically only know how to counter, block, parry, and strike, come to think of it master Roshi never taught us how to fight and instead honed our bodies and instincts through weird yet effective training, like dodging bee's, holding up giant shark mouth's and catching dinosaur tails when it whips it towards you, honestly master Roshi never taught us to fight but instead sharpened our minds and body, hmm wonder if that's the real turtle hermit way.
"Was mother stronger than you?" A little girl asked as her voice was strainer from holding up the rock.
"Very much, she was unlike any other, she was capable of swift and destructive attacks, she was also a flexible and confident fighter, though I was like a mountain compared to her she faced me as if she was larger, my attacks were useless as she had dodged them with only an inch of space from my axe or fist, her gentle hands broke and pierced through my body, she was like a storm of flowers, uncountable and unpredictable," he said with a smile unknowing of the small boy behind him writhing down what he had said.
'So skills is what I need, martial arts help with developing the body while experience develops the skills, and learning from others and their mistakes help in its development,' Alex though to himself as he broke down his words, swift and destructive could be skills, while flexibility and confidence could mean experience or skills, he doesn't know that's its actually a metaphor of what he had seen in her but clearly it was meant to be romantic and not advice.
"Oh dad, you and your poems to mom," Chichi said as she knew her dad.
"Hahaha, now my little flower its time to train your skills," the giant man said as he turned around and was shocked to see a teenager, "Who are you?" The man asked since he didn't ask anyone to come here.
"Who is it dad?" Chichi asked as she dropped the boulder shaking the mountain they were on and climbed over his back.
"Um, hi, i'm Alexander or Alex for short, I came here to ask if you know of a person named Bulma or a place called capsule corp?" Alex asked while looking up to the big man.
"Oh that easy, you can just follow that road there," he said while pointing out at a highway street that went straight, "You should see a sign where it splits to know where west city is," he said.
"Thank you very much, i'll be on my way now," Alex said as he waved back, but before he could leave.
"WAIT!!!" The small girl said as she rushed ahead of him to stop him, "Do you know a boy named Goku?" She asked.
"Oh you know Goku to, do you know how he's doing right now?" I asked, but I was confused when she said.
"You don't know where he is either?" She asked a little dejected.
"Oh your one of master Roshi's new students right?," he asked.
"Oh you're a student of master Roshi to?" I asked him.
"Yes, I am the great ox king master of this frypan mountain, but as of recent happenings I had to blow it up due to a mistake in casting a protective spell," he said while rubbing the back of his head.
"Ohhh, do you mind if I ask you where you got that magician? And if there is any school of magician nearby where I can learn magic?" I asked Ox king.
"Well I don't advice you learning it since its difficult for martial artist to do so, but if you want there is a generic magical school where east city and jingle village meet," he said while stroking his chin.
"I see, I see, that makes it easier," I wrote it down.
But as we spoke someone was beginning to boil due to being ignored, "Hey," Chichi said loudly as she tried to slap me, but I simple dodged it.
"Yes?" I asked as she nearly lost her balance.
"Do you know where Goku is?" She asked instantly forgetting about her rage.
"I don't know, last we heard of him was he was going to travel the world and train," I said which made her a little sad, worried about her I decided to spin a little lie, "But I did hear he meet a special someone and is looking forward to when they will meet again," I said which brightened her up, though it was a light it wasn't a complete lie since he did say that to grandpa Gohan.
"Oh Goku," she said while blushing.
"Hey, Ox man i'm going to go now," I whispered to Ox king.
"Sure, make sure to visit once and a while, its kind of hard to find visitors and company," he whispered back.
"Will do," I said as I sneakily walked off and towards the road, reaching far enough I ran as fast as I could following the road and looking for some signs.
"Oh wait, I wanted to… ask… something," she then sighed as she couldn't ask him.
"Whats wrong my little Ox princess? Something got you down?" Ox king asked.
"I wanted to ask about the funny looking turtle shell on his back and why he was wearing it," she said.
"Oh, ohhhh," Ox king then planted his hand genteelly on his palm, " I figured out what I was missing," he said as he went into his house and looked for a number.
Mean while Alex was running through the clear path, running just on the corner of the highway, mean while shocking most people as they never expected to ever be out speed by a 16 year old, with a 150kg turtle shell on his back and to add a cherry on top he's thinking of changing weights since he's already feeling that the weight is a little to light for him, but the uncomfortable feeling is still their so he'll keep it for now.
After running awhile he suddenly skidded to a stop, "Neat," Alex said as he looked at a sign pointing at west with the words west city on it, "Looks like I know where i'm going now, lets hope nothing distracts me on my way there," Alex then rushed forward, running at top speed, its to train his stamina and get there faster since the quicker he gets there the faster he gets what he wants from Bulma.
But as he was traveling there he had an idea, master Roshi said the best training is done along when its mixed with other training, and so he stopped for a bit, Alex then focused on his ki, he felt it churning and flowing inside of him, like a river that circulates inside his body and flows from the depths of his chest to the tips of his fingers.
He then halted the execs that exudes from the tips of his hair to the soles of his feet, now that the flow was halted he proceeded to compact and condense the ki to his muscles, master Roshi said that the form was meant to keep the extra ki inside his body from constantly spilling out whenever he uses the kamehame wave, and expanding his body helped with it, though accidental the concentration helped improve not only his ki control but his physical power to, though his speed drastically diminished so its used sparingly, but I have a feeling that if I master this form and modify it, it would be possible for more than its intended for, and who ever said that humans keep themselves grounded on one spot.
As Alexander's body began to expand he halted it when it suddenly felt like he was about to burst, after that he focused it more, his body has expanded due to it overflowing with ki, but master Roshi never said I couldn't condense the ki further while keeping the power I had used to expand my body, and thanks to the principles of the kamehameha I was taught how to condense ki in order to make sure that the blast has enough mass to travel and not just disperse mid air.
My plan was clean in theory but it wasn't yet in practice, since the only thing that changed was my hight and mass, though I feel my power more stream line, it wasn't what I was going for, but all skill isn't perfect, specially when done the first time so it wasn't a step back, but it was a starting line and now I just need to reach the goal.
Alex then began to run, while the weight was easier to manage his speed has decreased, as compared to before he was much slower, its like comparing a state if the art race car and a cargo truck full of items Inside, though still faster than most vehicles he was currently slower than a race car.
And so as Alex pushes his ki control and his body to the limit he rushed forward to west city and ask our genius Bulma for something, what will he ask for? Well that's not for us to know now but later, toon in next time for dragon ball: i'm only human.
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Chapter end.
Sup folks its been a while since I updated so yeah, also I got this bitch planned out now, and before someone asks no, Alex is not going to be super op, and the limits will be in dragon ball power lvls, though everyone might be slightly stronger when Z roles in.
Also sorry for not updating for so long, and it isn't even writers block since its more like an overflow, since I watch and play some anime and games to get some inspiration for what i'm doing right now, and they kind of pull and tug my brain left and right which makes my brain want to implement that then its to op or it makes no sense so scrap it, and this repeats for a while.
Anyways fish out.