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| Chp 3-History in the Making |
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| "Cal....Cal. Wake up! Please wake up!" Zoa`s pleading voice seemed so far away. Slowly, Cal`s vision cleared. Zoa was lying beside her. |
| "Ugh, what happened?" The darkness had engulfed Cal so immensely, since she had taken most of the blow, that she had trouble clearing her mind and sorting through her thoughts. |
| "I...don`t know. But I think we ran into a traffic jam with some rocks and then everything went black. Oww!" Zoa wailed as she struggled to sit up. Her hands went straight to her head and she moaned as she layed down again. "My head really hurts!" |
| "Don`t worry, so does mine. That`s the problem with being a saiyan. Fighting is in your blood. Eventually, you will get used to the pain that comes with it. It won`t completely go away, but it won`t hurt quite as much." Cal said wisely, wincing as she too struggled to sit up. Suddenly, after a minute of trying, she layed back down again. "Okay, I lied. It doesn`t make it any easier." She said, holding her head in her hands gingerly. |
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| Zoa suppressed a giggle. "So, what are we supposed to do now? Just lie here? Give me some advice, oh wise one!" She smiled. Cal laughed a pathetically sarcastic 'a heh heh`. |
| "Well, no. Eventually, we will have to get up. I mean, I personally don`t want to die miserably here on this cold tile floor!" Cal giggled and Zoa joined in. |
| "So, are we getting up, or not?" Zoa pressed, inquiringly. |
| "Not until we are damn good and ready!" Cal exclaimed. "But right now, I think what we really need, is some rest. Try to sleep." Zoa nodded, and closed her eyes. Instinctively, Cal pulled Zoa close to her to share their body heat. Then, she too slipped into the deep, dark recess of sleep. |
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| "Are you sure you`re prepared for this son? It is a big change, and may be too overwhelming for you." Goku pressed his son. |
| "I am positive." Gohan grinded his teeth in determination. "I can do this Dad." |
| Goku`s eyes lit up with excitement and worry. "Alright son. Remember, use the pain of loss. The power comes in response to a need, not a desire. You have to create that need. Remember this, and you can do it." Goku looked uncertainly into the face of his son. He saw some doubt in Gohan`s eyes. "This is serious son. If you are not up to this, don`t do it." |
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| "I told you Dad! I can do this!" Gohan said, practically shouting at his father. Goku`s face formed into a straight line as he charged up, with his aura of energy growing larger by the second. When it was a sufficient size, Goku slowly started floating up into the sky. Stopping, Goku muttered to himself, "I hope you are ready for this...son." Then he cupped his hands in the usual 'u` shape, and placed them to his side. |
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| "Ka... me... ha... meeee...." Energy started sparking from a ball that appeared in between the hands. Goku held it expertly and strained his eyes to read the expression on his son`s face. |
| Gohan shook with nervousness. What if he couldn`t pull it off? What if he failed his father, his only parent? Who Goku hate him for it? Unsteadily, Gohan prepared himself for the attack. |
| "HAAAAA!!!!!" Goku cried as he let go a huge kamehameha blast. It sped quickly to Gohan who readied himself and made a small barrier to stop it`s progress. Gohan tried to clear his mind. He started crying inside about his mother, but the feeling was clouded with doubt and worry. With a scream, Gohan was hit with the full force of the beam as his shield disappeared. He felt the full force of his father`s power in the strength of the energy beam. It blew him away, knocking him unconscious as he bounced a few times along the ground. The blast continued it`s descent into the earth, creating quite a crater when it finally died down. |
| Goku`s heart leapt into his throat. "GOHAN!!" He screamed as he rushed to his son`s side. Gohan`s vacant stare made him feel hollow inside. Despair clawed at his soul and made him short of breath. He had already lost one loved one, and he wasn`t about to lose another. He fumbled with the small package which held the valuable senzu beans. His hands shaking, he grasped one and tilted Gohan`s head up. He slipped the small, hard bean into Gohan`s mouth, and begged him to swallow. |
| To his relief, Gohan swallowed the bean and regained his health. Life came back to his body, and his eyes blinked, as if pushing away darkness. "D-Dad?" He mumbled. |
| "Gohan! Thank Kami! Are you alright?" Goku asked his son worriedly. He hugged him quickly, yet firmly. |
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| "I-I`m fine, I really am." Gohan mumbled standing up. "Just a little bruised is all." He said. |
| "Gohan, I am so sorry I asked you to do this. What kind of dad can I be if I don`t even look out for my own child`s well-being? You will never have to go through something like this again." Surprising Goku, Gohan pushed Goku away so that he faced him. |
| "Dad. I-I want to try it again." He said, looking evenly into his father`s eyes. |
| "YOU WHAT?" Goku cried. "I could have killed you! I was stupid, I admit it! You are just too young." |
| "No Dad. Now that I have felt your power, I must have it. I must be able to protect my friends when they need help. The reason it didn`t work before, was because I doubted myself. Now I don`t. I am thinking clearer than ever before." Goku still looked unconvinced. "And besides, I am stronger than I was before. I almost died, so I became stronger. You have to know that." |
| "But...but I can`t risk losing you too!" Goku cried. He remembered the panic feeling he had gotten when Gohan was hit, and he was dead set against it once more. "No. I can`t, I can`t." Goku had started pacing now, thinking things over in his head. |
| "Believe me Dad. I can take it this time. I am focussed. And you know that I have a great loss to feel pain." Goku quickly swung his head up and looked in to the face of his young son. "I have to do this Dad." The determined look on his son`s face made Goku cave in. |
| "If you are absolutely positively sure, that you can take it, we can try once more." Goku looked uneasily at his son. |
| "Bring on the noise." Gohan exclaimed as he powered up and got ready. Goku also charged up, although a bit uneasily. He rose in the air and cupped his hands. As he prepared himself, he could see that his son was no longer uncertain of himself. He had a look of confidence on his face now and didn`t look afraid. New reassurance replaced Goku`s fear, and he once again believed that his son was a super saiyan at heart. Taking a deep breath, and hoping for the best, Goku started. |
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| "Ka...Me...Ha...Me," Gohan cleared his mind and began producing his shield. |
| "HAAAAAA!!!!!! Goku cried. The beam shot towards Gohan on the ground. This time, Gohan was ready for it. He received the beam in his shield and struggled to keep it alive. |
| 'I must do this!` he thought, his head whirling. 'I must do this for Kryillin, Dad, Mr. Piccolo, and most of all Mom.` He swam in his thoughts. Pictures from his childhood flashed in front of him. Remembering the many good times he had shared with his mother, he could hear his father`s words echoing inside his head. |
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| His mother, was gone. She was gone. He had to say good bye. "G-good-bye ... mom." Swirls of color flashed before his eyes and power spilled forth from a hidden source somewhere deep inside him, seeming to come from his emotions themselves. |
| Gohan underwent a magnificent transformation. His hair turned a bright blonde and his eyes turned turquoise. He put all of his frustration, despair and sadness into a return kamehameha. The power spilled forth from his overcharged body and quickly enveloped his father`s own beam. His father dodged the beam just in time and it flew off into the space beyond. |
| Goku looked with overwhelming pride down at his now super saiyan son. "Wow...my son is a super saiyan!" He said to himself. Quickly, he shot down from the sky. The instant he touched the earth, he sped to his son. "Well done Gohan! I am so very proud of you!" Goku exclaimed. |
| He patted Gohan on the shoulder, realizing that Gohan hadn`t come out of super saiyan yet. It could be overwhelming him, and that could do more damage that shooting a fatal kamehameha could ever do. "Gohan, listen to me. You have to calm down. Try to focus your energy!" |
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| Gohan felt the overwhelming power that now belonged to him and began to get scared. 'Oh no!` he thought. 'Sure I`ve got all of this power, now what do I do with it.` Following his father`s instructions however, Gohan didn`t have that hard of a time suppressing his power. |
| As his power decreased, so did his energy. Struggling to stay standing, Gohan fainted from the sheer exhilaration of it all. Goku caught him before he hit the ground and smiled. Carrying him gently, he lifted off the ground and soared across their training field and back toward the house. |
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| "Wake up, sleepy head, wake up!" Zoa cried, kicking Cal playfully in the side. After rolling over once, Cal woke up and stopped herself. |
| "Hey, what was that for?" She asked accusingly. She flipped herself into a handstand and twirled as she fell to face Zoa. Zoa was amazed for an instant. The flexibility of Cal`s movements astounded her sometimes. |
| "Isn`t it obvious? You sleep like a log! I have been trying to wake you for ages!" Zoa exclaimed, walking up to her and poking her gently in the side and handing her a broom. "We have to clean this place up. The asteroid field that we went through tossed everything out of place and now this spaceship looks like a nuclear explosion occurred." |
| Cal stood up straight, stretching. "Wait a minute, don`t get ahead of yourself there!" She exclaimed. "SOMEONE has to check out the damage to the space craft, and I think I`m the perfect one for the job! Oh, and I uh, believe this belongs to you!" Cal smiled, shoving the broom to Zoa`s hands and skipping off without giving Zoa a chance to retaliate. |
| After she was gone, Zoa stomped her foot. "Some nerve. Getting up late, not helping out with the chores, and she didn`t even notice the great breakfast I prepared for her!" she fumed. There in her other hand was a plate piled high with burnt eggs and toast. "I tell ya. I sure get taken for granted here!" She sighed, tossing the food into the garbage. "Well, better get started. This dump isn`t gonna clean itself." |
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