Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Warrior Soul ❯ Raikou Gohan ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ, nor do I claim to do so. I make no profit off my work. Everything that everybody knows is DBZ in this story belongs to Akira Toriyama, anything doesn't belongs to me. Please do not use my character, Naa, without my permission. Enjoy all!

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Raikou Gohan

"Yosh Gohan, don't be afraid to attack." Gokou says as he blocks Gohans halfhearted attempt.

"Ya Gohan, you want me to fight otousan?" Goten snickers.

Floating in the air, Gohan glares at Goten and prepares for a more serious attack. Powering up, a white aura bursts into flames around him and he streaks towards Gokou.

"That's it, don't be afraid to use your power. Cell at least got you to show it and make you use it… umph." The end of Gokou's sentence was garbled as Gohan flies up to Gokou and moved so quickly that it looked like he disappeared. Gohan showed up behind Gokou and before Gokou could block, Gohan kicked Gokou in the ribs. Turning with the kick Gokou throws a volley of ki balls at Gohan. Goten smirks again as Gohan dodges them all, but the smirk was whipped off his face as he releases that all the ki balls Gohan dodged were coming straight at him.

"Arrghh…Baka!!!" Goten yells as he barely dodges them also. "You could of hit me with those things!"

Ignoring him, Gokou knees Gohan in the stomach and brings his left elbow down on Gohan's now exposed neck. The blow knocks Gohan down into the ground, embedding Gohan under a pile of boulders. Gokou floats over the rubble anxiously waiting for Gohan to appear. Suddenly Gohan yells as he builds up his ki and blasts his way out of the rubble. Gokou had to dodge quickly to avoid being hit by flying boulders and debris and flies straight at Gohan, aiming a punch with his right hand. Gohan dodges to his right and punches Gokou in the ribs where he had kicked earlier, forcing Gokou back. Gohan follows up with a series of punches into Gokou's stomach, with Gokou grunting with each hit. Gohan brings his hands, palm together in the front, and ki blasts Gokou into the ground.

"Yosh." Gohan says with a smirk.

"Yatta Gohan, didn't know you had it in you." Goten cheers from the sidelines.

"Hush up Goten or you're next." Gohan chides as he floats closer to Goten. Goten just sticks out his tongue at him. Suddenly, like a cannon ball being shot out of a cannon, Gokou emerges from the rubble on the ground and speeds towards his sons. Gohan barely has time to put his arms up in a block before Gokou hits. Gohan, getting the full impact flies backwards into Goten, who had not been prepared for the attack. Both fall off in different directions, rapidly approaching the ground, in what would be an impressive impact.

Gohan scrunches his eyes closed as he waits for his body to hit the ground but he suddenly hears chanting fading in and out.

Quid illo fict …Ades dun

Suddenly it seems as if time has slowed down. Instead of the harsh winds passing him as he was falling, it is now a gentle breeze. A sense of peace steals over Gohan, a feeling he has not experienced since before Radditz came to Chikyuu.

Adsequor … evalesco … subvernio

Gohan looks up at his father and sees Gokou flying towards him. Gohan then turns his head and looks at Goten also falling towards the ground. *Something does not seem right.* Gohan thinks, drawing his eyebrows down. Then suddenly it occurred to him, they are moving in slow motion, time has seem to slow down for everybody but him. Once again Gohan hears the chanting.

Pro re nata … Adminculum!

The wind rushes past Gohan rapidly, whatever had slowed time down has stopped, and Gohan has now resumed his rapid decent. Just before Gohan impacts in the ground he disappears in a flash of blinding white light and reappears in a dark room. Unfortunately Gohan does not have time to inspect the room as the speed from his descent carried over in his transportation and he precedes to impact into the wall on the far side of the room. Landing upside down and about five inches into the wall Gohan looks up (or is it down?) to the man standing over him. Looking around Gohan sees twelve other men, varying in ages, forming a circle in the center of the room; most of them are trying hard not to laugh. Finally a few snickers break loose and the man staring at Gohan whips his head around to glare at the offenders. They quickly lower their head in deference.

"Quiet all of you, do you not show the proper reverence for our Kyuusai-sha? All of you but Haki leave the room!" The old man standing over Gohan commands.

A man Gohan had not noticed before steps out of the shadows and quietly ushers the other twelve men out of the room and shuts the door quietly behind them. The old man again turns to Gohan and holds out his hand to Gohan.

"Kyuusai-sha, please let me help you up." The old man says.

"Thank you sir… uh, what is your name?" Gohan asks as he straightens himself the correct side up and waves away the old man and the man called Haki assistance.

"I have many names, most call me priest or honored one but you can call me Nagi." The priest replied.

"I would be pleased to meet you under better circumstances Nagi-san, but I have no idea what's going on." Gohan says as he stands up and pats his traditional blue gi.

"Please Kyuusai-sha time is off the essence…" Haki starts to say.

"Kyuusai-sha? What? Who? I have no idea what you are talking about. Who or what is this Kyuusai-sha?" Gohan interrupts.

"You are the Kyuusai-sha," Nagi tells Gohan, "you are the person who is to save us from the Hakai-sha. You are the person who our legends say will save us. The Hakai-sha is the one who will destroy us. Savior to Destroyer. Light to Darkness. Please honored one, will you save us? The Hakai-sha is heading this way now to destroy us."

"What?" Gohan's head lifts up as he stretches his senses to feel any nearby ki. In a distance he feels a strong ki approaching his location. The ki is not stronger than his but it is strong enough to do more than their fair share of damage. "Yes Nagi-san I can feel him coming, he'll be here in just a few minutes."

"Please Kyuusai-sha, I formally ask you on behalf of my people, will you save us?" Both Nagi and Haki bow when Nagi asks the request formally.

Gohan, blushing a bit at being treated so formally, stammers a bit, "Please Nagi-san, Haki-san don't do that. You do not have to bow to me; I am just a person like everybody else. I'll help you and your people, I'll need to leave soon if I'm to intercept him before he reaches your village so if a battle does happen it won't do any damage here. Can you show me the way out of this place?"

"Of course honored one." Haki says

"Please, my name is Gohan. You don't have to address me like that." Gohan says embarrassed again, cheeks redden slightly.

"As you wish Gohan-san." Nagi says, then turns to address the other man beside him, "Haki, can you run ahead and get the chief, tell him the Gods have answered our prayers and the Koshou was completed with success. Tell him to meet us out front."

"Hai sensei." Haki bows to both and leaves the room.

"Please, Gohan-san, will you follow me out?" Nagi asks, at Gohan's nod they proceed to leave the building. As they leave the room and walk the corridors Nagi's curiosity got the better of him. "Gohan-san if you don't mind me asking, what planet do you come from?"

"You mean you don't know? You're the one who called me." Gohan says.

Now it was Nagi's turn to blush, "Well, uh, you see, we've never done this before. We prayed to our Gods for a savior and they delivered you."

"I see." Gohan says with a smile, "I come from a planet called Chikyuu. It is a beautiful blue planet, with plenty of water and life. It's the third planet from the sun in our solar system of nine planets." Gohan tells Nagi as they walk towards the front door.

"Our world used to be like that, before the Great War. As you can see," Nagi says as he opens the door to the outside, "it's now a desert terrain."

Gohan takes in his surroundings in stunned silence; he looks around in the moonless night to see the village lit up with many torches, and various villagers huddled together in groups, looking at him in quiet awe and respect. A tall man forces his way through a group of villagers and walks up to them, breaking the silence.

"So this is supposed to be the Savior that our Gods have sent us. I thought he was supposed to be a great warrior. He has got some height on him but not much bulk. Let's see what he's got." The man says.

"Please my chief, he just got here and the Hakai-sha is close." Nagi pleads.

"How is he supposed to save us if he can't fight! We did not need anybody else; my warriors could defeat the Hakai-sha on their own. Now stranger show me what you can do." The chief says crouching down in a fighting stance.

"Sir, please, I don't want to hurt you…," Gohan says holding his hands up in supplication.

"Ha, you hurt me, what a laugh. Now defend yourself!" With that the chief charges. Gohan steps out of the way and the chief barrels past him. Enraged the chief turns back around and charges Gohan again, attempting to get him in a wrestling hold, but once again Gohan avoids him. "Stand and fight like a man!" The chief bellows.

"Alright," Gohan says with a sigh, "remember you asked for it."

So Gohan stands still like the chief asks, with a laugh the chief launches his right fist at Gohan's jaw, putting all his weight behind it, hits Gohan. Everybody holds their breath to see what happens when the chiefs fist lands on Gohan's jaw. For a moment there is silence as Gohan just stands there with the chiefs fist against his jaw, then howling bloody murder the chief jumps back cradling his hand.

"ARRGGGHHH, SHIMATTA THAT HURT!" The chief yells, once the throbbing in his hand had died down, the chief says, "It felt like I hit stone." Looking at Gohan, the chief does not see a single mark where he hit him, grudgingly says, "You look like you are made out of sterner stuff, you just might be the Savior after all. I give my blessing and follow up on the request I'm sure our priest as already asked of you." Bowing to Gohan the chief formally asks, "Will you save our people?"

Nagi looks quickly at Gohan, Gohan nods reassuringly to the priest and utters the words he said to Nagi before, "You do not have to bow to me; I am just a person like everybody else. I will help you and your people." Once again he stretched his senses to feel the approaching ki. He turns and addresses all the inhabitants of the village, making brief eye contact with the chief and priest, "The other ki is getting closer, I must leave now before he reaches this village and has a chance to do damage to it. I'll do my best. Ja Matta." Gohan gathers his ki around him and jumps high into the moonless, dark sky, flying towards the approaching ki and wondering why he has a feeling things will never be the same again.

04.15.99