Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Daughter Of A Warrior ❯ The Oozaru ( Chapter 8 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
Chapter Eight - The Oozaru

Over a week had passed since Sakura had arrived on the planet Earth, and she and Gohan had become much closer. They had trained together, eaten together, walked together; in fact, it was a very rare occurrence for you to see one without the other. One day, at lunch, Sakura brought up an interesting point.

"So Gohan," she said, a mischievous smile on her face. When are you going to take me on that date you promised me?"

Gohan nearly choked on his egg rolls. "What?" he choked, staring at her? "Oh, that, er, well, we could go tonight if you want, I know a really good restaurant in the city. We could go there if you want, about eight o'clock?" He and Sakura made arrangements over dinner to meet outside Gohan's house at eight o'clock.

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Sakura walked towards Gohan's house at seven thirty that night. She was wearing a midnight blue v-bottomed dress to just above her knee, and the silver locket her father had given her before his death stood out against the blue. She had a blue ribbon in her hair, which fell down loose to below her hips and her tail was wrapped tightly around her waist.

Sakura looked up at the moon as it emerged from behind a cloud, the beautiful orb that seemed to penetrate her very skin as she looked up at it. A strange feeling suddenly took over Sakura's body. The clothes she was wearing began to rip as her body swelled, hair began to sprout from her whole body, and her eyes glowed a bright scarlet. The Oozaru turned its face in the direction of the city miles away, and began to move.

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The city was filled with the sounds of terror, people screaming wherever you looked. Amidst the chaos, a great beast could be seen, demolishing any buildings in its path. People ran in all directions, trying to escape from the Oozaru's deadly path of destruction, many of them barely escaping, just inches from being crushed under the Oozaru's enormous feet. People looked up to see people being scooped up into the Oozaru's grasp and then being simply tossed aside, metres and metres from its huge hands.

Helicopters flew overhead, while military forces and tanks circled the Oozaru's feet.

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It was half past eight, and Gohan stood outside his house, still waiting for Sakura. Gohan looked up as he suddenly sensed a power level. It was Piccolo landing several feet away. He looked up and ran towards Gohan, a look of urgency on his face.

"Oozaru!" he gasped, a bead of sweat rolling down his forehead. "I went to Bulma's home looking for Vegeta, and Bulma was watching the television. They've sent military people to kill it. I haven't a clue who it is. Where are you going?"

Gohan had rushed into his house, leaving Piccolo looking extremely confused. "It's Sakura!" he called back as Piccolo followed him into the house. Gohan rushed into his bedroom, closely followed by Piccolo. He ran up to a large chest at the end of his bed, and delivered a punch to the front of it, destroying the lock. He opened the chest to reveal swords, axes, crossbows and some weapons that even Piccolo did not know the name of. Gohan grabbed a sword from the pile, sheathed it and swung the sheath over his shoulder, one hand on its leather strap. He grabbed a blanket from his bed, and went to leave the house, but Piccolo stood blocking the doorway.

"Piccolo move." Gohan ordered with little expression in his voice, but a furious look on his face. Piccolo did not budge.

"Listen kid," he told Gohan sternly, still not moving an inch. "Just let the officials deal with this, you know what will happen - they don't have a chance of catching a moving Oozaru, so they can't kill her, just hold her back." Gohan just stared at him like he had lost his mind.

"PICCOLO!" he yelled, a yellow aura suddenly blazing around him, as he transformed into a Super Saiya-jin, his black hair turning blonde and spiky, and his eyes turning a turquoise blue. "Right now, Sakura is huge. They can't possibly miss her, and I have the strangest feeling that even an Oozaru wouldn't come out to well after a bomb or something like that hit it. They are going to KILL her!"

Piccolo still did not move, and Gohan snapped. He took a step back, clenched his fist and punched Piccolo in the stomach with tremendous force. Piccolo keeled over, and Gohan hit him in the back of the head with both fists. Piccolo fell unconscious to the floor and Gohan walked out of the house. Somehow, leaving Piccolo lying out cold on his bedroom floor did not seem a very good omen.