Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Chosen One ❯ Chapter Eleven ( Chapter 11 )

The Chosen One

Chapter 11

"That's it . . ." Tien said. "Just a little more . . ." Gohan stood on the other side of the training room, his arms crossed and his energy focused. Suddenly, one more Gohan appeared in the room. The Gohans stopped focusing their energy and stood up straight.

"Excellent!" Tien exclaimed. "You've done it! Now, do you both have the personal gravity devices?" Both Gohans looked at their wrists and nodded. "Okay, then I'll leave and let you two go at it."

The next morning, Gohan lay in his bed, thinking. First, he thought of Quarr. The governor had promised Gohan a reward for getting rid of the Roxians, but Gohan did not know what he wanted yet. He asked for more time to think about it, and the governor was happy to oblige. Also, today was his sixteenth birthday. He wondered if anybody else remembered. Suddenly, an announcement rang through the ship. "Gohan, this is Bulma! We need you on the bridge!" Gohan was about to leave the room when he remembered that he was wearing only his boxers. Quickly, he pulled on his battle armor and he ran up to the bridge.

Gohan was surprised to find the lights off. He slid his hand along the wall, fumbling for the switch. He found it and turned the lights on.

"SURPRISE!!" Gohan blinked. Everybody was there and the bridge was decorated. There was a table with breakfast on it, and a birthday cake sat in the middle, bearing the message HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOHAN! Gohan sat at the table and began to eat breakfast.

WHAM!

The entire ship shook and the empty dishes were thrown from the table. Bulma ran to the pilot's seat and pulled up a hologram of the ship. A section on the port wing was flashing.

WHAM!

The ship shook again and everyone but Bulma was thrown to the floor. Flashing lights came on. Frantically, Bulma checked outside the ship and was shocked at what she saw. "You guys!" Bulma shouted. "We're in the middle of an asteroid field! Strap yourselves in!" Bulma tried her best to navigate through the asteroids, but they were too numerous and kept hitting the ship. A light began to flash on the control panel. "Oh, no! We're caught in a planet's gravitational pull! Hang on!" The ship began a sudden nosedive at the planet, made it into the atmosphere, and began picking up speed. Bulma pulled back as hard as she could, but she was unable to stop the descent. Bulma activated the landing gear, reduced the incline of the dive as much as she could, and braced for impact.

Gohan woke up on his back, gazing up at the morning sky. He tried to get up, but pain suddenly shot through his right leg. He could tell right away that it was broken, and noticed he had no control over his left arm. Using his right arm and left leg, he pushed off and hovered for a moment. He then moved to the ship. From what he could tell, it was in bad shape. The nose cone had been broken in two, the wings had been reduced to rubble, and two engines were severely damaged. Gohan pulled a pouch from his belt. Somehow, the Senzu Beans Korin had given him were still intact. He popped one in his mouth and felt feeling return to his arm and pain recede from his leg. Gohan then drifted over to Piccolo and began to shake him in order to wake him up.

"Oh, man . . ."

"Piccolo!" Gohan exclaimed. "Are you all right?"

Piccolo opened his eyes. "Yeah, I guess so." He then lifted up his right arm and saw only a stump.

"Oh man!" Gohan yelped. "Here! You need a Senzu Bean!"

"Save it," Piccolo said. He then focused his energy and a new arm shot out.

A few minutes later, everyone else was found and revived. "So, where are we?" Gohan asked.

"I don't know," Bulma said. "I doubt the star chart is intact."

Vegeta sighed. "Honestly, woman, you must think we're all as ill-prepared as you. I have a portable star chart right here!" Vegeta pulled a wafer-thin device out from underneath his armor and pressed a button. A holographic star chart came up. After looking at it for a few minutes, Vegeta put it away.

"We are on the planet Gabria, about two hundred light years from Earth," Vegeta explained. "The Gabrians are a welcoming race with angel-like wings on their backs. They live in a monarchy with knights and a kingdom, just like my home planet had been."

"Where is the nearest Gabrian settlement?" Gohan asked. "Our ship is too badly damaged to fly. We need to repair it."

"Yeah, but that's going to be a problem," Bulma said. "I don't have the necessary replacement parts, and I only have Earth money."

"Absolutely not!" Bulma had found only one repair shop in town that had all the parts she needed, and the shop's owner refused to take Earth money. "Earth money is useless here! I need shekels!"

"Is there a currency exchange station nearby?" Gohan asked.

"I told you before, Earth money is worth nothing here!" the shop's owner said. "The only way for you to get shekels is to earn them!"

"Yeah, well, thanks for nothing," Bulma remarked and walked out of the shop. Gohan, however, stopped to look at a poster.

"Hey! This is perfect!" Gohan exclaimed.

Bulma turned around. "What's perfect?" she asked.

"Look at this!" Gohan responded. "There's a two-on-two fighting tournament today! The winners get two million shekels each!"

Bulma whipped around to look at the shop's owner. "Excuse me, but can you tell me how much these parts are going to cost altogether?"

The shop's owner pulled out a calculator. "About one hundred thousand shekels," he answered.

"YES!"

"So you're saying we just have to win a tournament?" Android 18 asked. "It'll be easier than taking candy from a baby."

"Not necessarily," Piccolo responded. "We don't know how strong the fighters in this tournament are. Our best bet is to have Gohan be one of the competitors. His teammate should be someone who knows his fighting style well and works well with him."

"I'll do it," Krillin said. "My knowledge of Gohan's fighting style is matched only by Piccolo, and we've worked efficiently in the past."

"Okay, it's settled," Piccolo said. "Krillin and Gohan will be participating in the tournament."