Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Chosen One ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

The Chosen One

Chapter One

Gohan yawned. It was eight o'clock at night and he was stuck studying ancient civilizations. Add that to the fact that he had been suffering from insomnia for the past few days, and you have a thirteen-year-old that wants nothing but to climb in bed and catch some shut-eye. He was halfway through Egyptian hieroglyphics when there was a tapping on his window. He looked up and saw his mentor, Piccolo. The Namekian gestured for Gohan to open the window. 'He must want to talk to me,' he thought as he opened the window.

"Gohan, I want you to come with me for a short time," Piccolo told the young teen.

"Why?" Gohan asked.

"I need you to help me figure something out. Come on."

Gohan thought for a moment. Chi-chi was out for the evening, but he had given his mother his word that he would finish the chapter on ancient Egypt.

"All right, but it has to be quick. Mom has been on my case lately for falling asleep during assignments and leaving them half-finished."

Piccolo chuckled. "They're that boring, huh?"

Gohan shook his head. "It's not that, it's just the fact that I've only slept five hours in the past three nights."

Piccolo frowned. "Why?"

Gohan shrugged. "That's the weird part. I've never had sleeping difficulties before."

Piccolo backed up to let Gohan out the window. "Anyway, I need your help with something. Follow me and hurry."

"We're here," Piccolo declared. Gohan looked around. They were in the middle of a desert. Pyramids stood in a couple of places.

"What's here?" Gohan asked, but Piccolo had begun to meditate and did not respond. He could see Piccolo was straining on something. Suddenly, one of the pyramids began to lift out of the sand. It rose in the air and settled down about one hundred yards away. Piccolo stopped concentrating and opened his eyes.

"Look where the pyramid was," Piccolo told the teen. Gohan did as he was told and let his jaw drop in surprise. Where the pyramid had been was a funnel-like hole. The pyramid had been above it. Hieroglyphics covered a square foot near the hole. Gohan and Piccolo descended to the hole. "Can you tell me what this says?" Piccolo asked.

"I don't know," Gohan said. "This is what I was studying before you interrupted me." He pulled out something that looked like a cross between a calculator and a projector. He pressed a few buttons and the device emitted a laser. He ran the laser over the hieroglyphics. The device projected a result. " It looks like it says, 'Only the chosen one may enter.'"

"What do you think?" Piccolo asked. "I think we should look into it. This 'chosen one' is probably long dead by now." He began his descent into the hole. Gohan followed suit. Beneath the hole was a long corridor. Gohan found an unlighted torch and lit it.

"Be careful where you step," Gohan told Piccolo. "There are booby traps in these old tombs to keep grave robbers out."

Piccolo looked back and smirked at him. "Like any booby trap could stop me." He stepped aside to let Gohan in front of him.

"It looks like we've hit a dead end," Gohan declared. They had been walking for about half an hour, and aside from a spiked ceiling and a trapdoor, it had been uneventful. Now they had hit a wall of solid stone. Gohan rapped gently on the wall. "It's thin," he remarked. "There must be a room on the other side."

"Stand back," Piccolo ordered. He began to charge a blast.

"Wait!" Gohan told him. "We don't want to damage anything valuable on the other side. Let me do this." He planted his hand on the center of the wall, then pulled it back to strike. However, before he could do so, the wall slowly swung away.

"What the . . . ?" Piccolo wondered aloud. Gohan shrugged. They walked in. It was a long room, but it seemed empty save a treasure chest in the far corner. They began to walk toward the chest. Suddenly, Gohan's foot caught a loose brick and he tripped. Piccolo stopped to help him up when there was a roar. The ceiling in front of them opened and a humanoid mass of stones dropped down.

"Damn!" Piccolo interjected. "Why do things always turn out this way?"

"Do you think it's hostile?" Gohan asked.

"It's a human-like mass of stones in the middle of a chamber deep underground with a valuable treasure ten thousand years old!" Piccolo responded. "Of course it's hostile!" As if to confirm the assessment, the stone giant swung a huge fist at them. Piccolo and Gohan leaped away.

Gohan looked over at Piccolo. "Stand back!" he stated. "I'm powering up!" Gohan spread his legs and brought his elbows to his waist, fists up, and yelled. The teen's hair stood straight up save one clump and his pupils vanished. A bright flash radiated from him and his hair turned yellow and his pupils reappeared, only green. A golden aura crackling with electricity surrounded him.

"Gohan!" Piccolo yelled. "I don't think Level Two is necessary for this monster!"

"Well, I'm not taking any chances!" Gohan shouted back. "I'm going to finish it quickly!" He raised his arms over his head. "Masenko . . ." He brought his arms down. "HAAA!" A massive beam erupted from his hands and engulfed the stone giant. When the dust settled the stone giant still stood, minus a hand. Gohan was taken aback, as was Piccolo. "Well, that's not all!" Gohan shouted at the monster. "I have another card up my sleeve!" He brought his hands behind his body. "Kaa . . . mee . . . haaa . . . meee . . ." A ball of energy formed in his hands. Suddenly he thrust his hands forward. "HAAA!" An even larger beam than the previous attack erupted from his hands and shot at the monster. As soon as the monster was engulfed, he directed the attack upward, so it would go into space. When the dust settled, Gohan and Piccolo were shocked to find the monster still standing, minus an arm.

Gohan turned to Piccolo. "I can't keep going much longer! That Kamehameha was twice the power of the one I used to destroy Cell!" In response, Piccolo flung his cape and his turban off and began to power up himself. "What are you doing? You don't stand a chance if I don't!" Piccolo ignored him, reached full power, and began gathering energy in his right index and middle fingers.

Piccolo looked over at Gohan. "Charge another Kamehameha!" he shouted. Gohan pulled his hands back and began to chant. Soon, both attacks were ready.

"KAMEHAMEHA!"

"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!"

The two attacks lanced forward and blasted the stone giant. They impacted in the same spot: the giant's other arm. An explosion resulted and when the light died down the giant was still there, only half of its body was gone. A strange glow emanated from the hole. After a few seconds, Gohan doubled over. "Piccolo! I think I'm going to be sick!"

"Damn!" Piccolo exclaimed. "I think it's radioactive! Gohan, you're getting radiation sickness! Vegeta said Saiyans are extremely weak against radioactivity! Get out!"

"But what about you?"

"I'll be fine for a while! Namekians have a high radiation tolerance!" Gohan began to walk away, but then changed his mind. When he turned around, he found two Piccolos. They started whirling around the stone giant then stopped, one in front, one behind. They simultaneously then fired their Special Beam Cannons at its head. The head exploded, along with the rest of the body. The two Piccolos merged again as Gohan ran toward the treasure chest. When he reached it, he promptly vomited. Piccolo landed next to him.

"We'd better hurry and open this up," Piccolo said. "We can't let you get much hotter." (AN: the term "hot" is used to describe something affected by radioactivity.) Gohan, arms trembling, opened the chest. Inside was a sword. Gohan saw some hieroglyphics and pulled out the written language translator.

"Let's s-see," Gohan said. "Our p-planet was attacked by aliens. W-we barely managed t-to drive them off, but they will r-return in t-ten thousand years - hang on." Gohan turned away and vomited again. "Only the ch-chosen one can d-defeat them. Only the chosen one, a half-alien himself, c-can wield this legendary sword and s-stop these aliens from c-conquering the universe. This s-sword, the Testament Sword, has a m-magical power that only the chosen one c-can use, and its p-power will differ depending on the s-strength of the chosen one at the time." Gohan grabbed the sword, which was in its scabbard, and felt a warmth radiate through his body. He hooked the scabbard on his belt.

"We've been here too long!" Piccolo stated. "Let's go, now!"

"WHAT? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Gohan opened his eyes. He was in a hospital room. An angry female voice was screaming outside.

"HOW COULD YOU LET HIM GET IRRADIATED?" The door flung open and Chi-chi rushed in, tightly embracing her eldest son. "Gohan, my precious dear!" she sobbed.

"Mom, it's all right!" Gohan protested. "I just got radiation sickness!"

"Oh, you're delirious!" Chi-chi cried, and hugged her son tighter.

"AIR!" Gohan choked out. Chi-chi lightened her grip on him. Piccolo stood in the doorway. "Hey, Piccolo, where's the sword?"

Chi-chi turned around, with a look that could strike fear into even Frieza's heart. "GET OUT! NOW!"

"But Mom," Gohan protested, "Where's the sword?"

"Oh, you're still delirious! Oh Gohan, everything will be fine!" With that, Chi-chi fainted. Piccolo stepped into the room.

"The sword is up at Dende's place," Piccolo said. "They are inspecting and decontaminating it."

"Okay." Gohan laid back down on the bed and went back to sleep.