QUEST FOR POWER :


THE WARLORD
By Konrad Gateau

PART 1


?	Hello, this is my first, and rather ambitious, attempt at making a DBZ fanfic. This little(?) story takes place right after the Cell saga, only instead of returning immediately to the future, Trunks stays in our time to train for a while. That explains his presence in my fanfic. That’s all I wanted to say so I’ll shut up now and let you read my QUEST FOR POWER series, starting with the WARLORD section. Enjoy (I hope)!



In field about a mile from where Son Gohan lives, two warriors are involved in a bout. After having received a severe beating, the shorter one, with golden spiked hair, a tank top and jeans, launched an energy attack.

“Burning Attack”, the young man shouted, but his adversary avoided the beam and teleported behind him.

“You’re way too slow, Trunks.”, he says.
“You wish”, Trunks replies. He roundhoused the other warrior straight in the jaw then tried to land consecutive punches and kicks. But they were easily blocked. The second warrior, tall and green,  then countered with two kicks ad two punches to Trunks’ stomach and face. The young Saiyajin was sent in the air and landed about thirty feet back, bleeding a little bit from the mouth.

“I think I’ve had enough for today, Piccolo” Trunks said as he got back on his feet. He powered down to his regular appearance, purple hair and all.

“Nice training. You’ve improved” Piccolo replied. “But why the rush?” 

“I’m supposed to meet Gohan at my mother’s house. Wanna go downtown with us?”

“It’s not like I got anything better to do, so yes.”

Just as Trunks picked up his jacket and his sword, the two warriors noticed two young girls around Trunks’ age. As they walked by, the girls smiled and blushed looking at our heroes’ well-built bodies. Trunks found them quite attractive but, somehow, he didn’t feel like he’d want to go out with either of them.

“How about them?” said Piccolo as they started to walk.

“Umm… nope.”

“What do you mean, no?”

“They weren’t my type.” Trunks said briefly.

“They were gorgeous, what other types do you need?”

“I don’t know”. A moment of silence fell. “Do you think I’ll ever find love?”, Trunks started again.

“Considering your current track record?”, Piccolo replied.

“No, seriously, do you think that love exists?”

“Yes. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t still be on this planet.”

“What do you mean?”
 
“I’m here only for the women. There aren’t any females on Namek. When I learned that, I decided I wasn’t going back there.” Piccolo continued, smiling.

The two soldiers burst in laughter as they continued to walk. Suddenly, Trunks stopped laughing. 

“What the hell is that?” he yelled, pointing at the sky.

Piccolo looked up to see a spaceship descending rapidly towards Earth with a trail of fire behind it.

“Piccolo, what do you think? I can sense a rather weak power up there.” Trunks said.   

“Yeah, so can I. I wonder who can be foolish to come here and challenge us…”

“Obviously, whoever is up there cannot be here to fight… unless they’re supressing their ki!”

“That’s something we’re going to find out… once we meet this «visitor»”, Piccolo added.

“Right!” replied Trunks. “ Look, it’s heading in the direction of my mother’s house where my father and Gohan should be right now.”

“Then that’s where we should be too! Let’s go!”



Meanwhile…
At Lunch’s place, Lunch, Android 18 and Chaozu are watching as Krillin is sparring with Tenshinhan. Krillin was losing badly. He threw a Destructo disc but Tenshinhan blocked it with a standard energy ball.

“They’ve both gotten stronger”, 18 says to Lunch.

The machine-gun-wielding blonde didn’t respond. She just smiled. She’s been happy ever since, after the defeat of Cell three weeks, Tenshinhan decided to go live with her. He also brought Chaozu with him, of course.

Tenshinhan threw another ki ball but it missed when Krillin jumped and let the ball hit the ground. However, the dust resulting from the explosion prevented him from seeing Tenshinhan coming at him at full speed. The Triclops ramed him down to the ground.

“AAARGH…Um, 18, can you please step in for me? I’m getting tired and weak here.”

“Oh, very well then, dear”. She turned to Tenshinhan. “Ready, Tenshinhan?”

“You want to fight me? Well, ok then.”, he replied.

The Triclops descended back down to the ground before charging at 18. He launched a relentless volley of punches and kicks but the Android blocked all his shots while backing up at the same time. Seeing an opening, she hit him in the ribs with a left, then smacked him with her backhand. Tenshinhan then tried to pull a quick one by teleporting behind her. But she saw it coming and, as soon he was behind her, she elbowed him in the gut before uppercutting him in the jaw. Krillin cheered while Chaozu and Lunch were booing.

Miraculously, Tenshinhan landed on his feet. He was visibly shooken up. 18 started to move rapidly around him to bring his concentration down. He did his best to block her shots when she got near him but she eventually rammed him from behind. When he got up, Tenshinhan was bleeding a little from the mouth and had a few cuts and bruises on his body.

“Omigosh! You’re bleeding pretty badly. Are you ok?” asked 18, feeling guilty about hurting him more than expected.

“It’s nothing I can’t handle.”, Tenshinhan replied, not too embarassed at having been beaten up pretty badly. “But you haven’t won yet. I still got one more trick that might give you some trouble.”

“Really?” said the Android in a rather monotonous tone. To put in simply, she wasn’t overly excited at the idea of continuing this bout.

“Yeah, I developped it recently and you’re the first person I’m going to try it on. I call it the Shiheita and it’s extremely powerful. For you, I’m only going to charge it at medium power.”

“Whatever.”

Tenshinhan took a deep breath, then he concentrated on powering up his ki. His aura developped around him and got bigger. His third eye on his forehead turned completely white and glowed.

At first, 18 was unimpressed by the energy gathering. But quickly the energy acumulating in Tenshinhan’s third eye was approaching the level of 18’s own power. It got bigger and bigger until it even surpassed the Android’s power. At this point, 18 was shocked and started to worry about wether or not she can handle this new technique. Krillin, Chaozu and Lunch were also awed by this power which they never suspected Tenshinhan had.

“Finally!”, Tenshinhan said. “You’re about to witness the power of the Shiheita.” He was finally getting ready to unleash his move but, suddenly, they all heard a roaring sound above their heads growing louder and louder. They all looked up to the sky to see a triangular shaped spaceship racing through the clouds.

“What the hell is that?” asked Krillin.

“Does it look like I know?” Chaozu shot back.

“Well, the obvious thing to do would be to check it out.” Said 18.

“What about our fight?” said Tenshinhan.

“We’ll continue some other time, okay?”

“Alright, hold on a second.”, he added. In a few second, he made all the energy he had accumulated for the Shiheita dissipate. “Alright, let’s go!”

Lunch held on to Tenshinhan and the warriors took off to follow the mysteirous craft.


Meanwhile…
At the Briefs’ residence, Gohan rang the bell and found himself face-to-face with Vegeta holding 1-year-old baby Trunks.

“What are you doing here, squirt?”, Vegeta greeted him. “Get outta here!”

“Hey! You can’t kick me out just like that!”, Gohan replied.

“You’re right. Technically, you’re still outside. Now go!”

“I need to see Trunks.” Gohan said.

“Here he is.” Vegeta said mockingly as he handed Gohan the baby. Trunks smiled and giggled.

“I mean the other Trunks. You know who I’m talking about, the 18 year old with the Capsule Corporation jacket and the sword!”

“Well, this kid will be 18 in 17 years if you can wait that long. Bulma can probably give him a jacket, no problem. But a sword, now? Hmmm… That’ll be more difficult.”

“Ok, that was so not funny.”, Gohan said.

“He’s out training with Piccolo.”, Vegeta replied.

“Again? That’s all he’s been doing recently. I hate that.”

“He’s just thriving to be the best just like his father.”

“He should do like me and concentrate on studying rather than fighting.”

“What? You stopped training?”, asked Vegeta.

“Well, yeah. I haven’t trained since the fight with Cell.”

“What are you, stupid? You’ve got lots of potential.”, Vegeta added.

“I don’t like fighting and I don’t need it anymore.”, Gohan responded.

The prince of Saiyajin took a more serious tone. “Listen, squirt…”

“Stop calling me that!” Gohan yelled.

“Listen. It’s important that you don’t take your training and your for granted. You may be only 10 years old but, should I die, you might end up being the leader of the Z squad. You’re goingto have to stand up to the universe’s fiercest warriors and it’s not your studying or your books that are going save the lives of billions.”

Gohan just stood there saying nothing. Once more, Vegeta smiled mockingly. “Of course, I’m not trying to put pressure on you”

“Oh yeah, that worked fine.”

They both paused for a moment.

“Squirt”, Vegeta whispered.

“I heard that, punk!”, Gohan says.

“What…”, Vageta started.

“I heard what youm said.”

“No, you stupid brat. I mean what’s that sound?” the Saiyajin Prince asked as he looked up in the sky.

A loud roaring emerged from the horizon and was getting closer. Next thing they knew, Vegeta and Gohan saw a spaceship approaching. The craft slowed down before landing next to them. It’s main body was triangular and it had wings with engines at the tips. It looked large enough to hold about a dozen people.

Suddenly, a door opened on the side of the ship. Vegeta stood on guard, ready to react at any sign of hostility, while Gohan held the baby closer to him. A young man, with brown hair and a green suit, stepped out of the craft.

“I come on behalf of the Jubian people. Please, we need your help to save us from the warlord Dudan and his forces.”

Gohan and Vegeta looked at each other puzzled. They had never heard of Jubians or their homespace. And who was this Dudan? 



END OF PART ONE