5. Chapter 5: The Day of Reckoning (1/2)

chapter 5- "are we there yet?" "no." "are we there yet?" "yes!" "yaaaay!"

age 755...

chi-chi sat cross legged, having been trying desperately to attain ki control. but even if she focused her whole being on it, she could only produce a spark of glow in her palm. but she was determined. and each time she tried, it got a little bit bigger, and a little bit

ighter. and then one day...

chi-chi looked down to see not just a glow, or tiny sparks, but a ball. it was small, and fluctuated, as if it was barley maintaining its existence. but it was there none the less. she inhaled. "i did it! i finally did it!" shegot up a took the stance used by roshi and goku, he legs bent and her hands cupped at her sides, and she began to chant, "ka... me... ha... me..." she grit her teeth, trying to focus all of her energy into the ball of energy, now her second one, trying to make it larger. and as she did, the tiny yellow orb shifted to blue, eventually beginning to become white in the center.

"ha!" chi-chi thrust her hands forwards. the blue ball, still the same size as before, but somewhat stable now, shot her hands. not quite the kamehameha wave, but launching that ball of energy was a start. the ball sputtered out of existence about thirty meters away from chi-chi.

age 756, april, kami's lookout...

booosh!

gokus skidded to halt,

acing himself for another attack. the guardian of earth lunged forwards striking at goku with his palm.

"yaaaah!" goku ducked and unleashed a kiai, sending kami flying backwards into the air. "kamehameha!" goku pulled his hands to his side, and threw them forward, unleashing a blue sphere.

"kamihameha!" the guardian of earth unleashed his own version of the attack, sending forth a pure white sphere. the sphere crashed into each other, bending into blood cell like shapes as their owners pushed them with all of their might.

"haaaaa!" goku's blue sphere pushed forward, ripping through kami's kamihameha. quickly, kami deflected the attack with all of his strength to protect the lookout.

the once elderly guardian looked on his pupil, and said "there is one month left. you've surpassed me, even after i have trained with my youth. goku, you are the strongest in the world. if you can't defeat piccolo daimao, then no one can."

"raaaaaaahhhhhhh!" piccolo's energy rocketed upwards, turning his aura into a dark pillar. "tch." the demon king smiled. "this is it. i am the strongest. if goku can defeat me, then there's no one who can stop that oaf."

sighing, a blue haired woman in the capsule corporation thought, 'i miss goku... it's been kinda lonely not having him around for the last few years. i wonder what he's like now? he was so much more... mature the last time i saw him. it was like the kid i knew just turned into a my prince charming, or a knight in shining armor...' she turned toward the calendar. 'just three more weeks. three more weeks and it'll be may 7th, and goku'll be done training!'

outside the temple of the tenkaichi budokai...

"man. first bulma dumps me, now i'm the weakest out of all of us. this stinks."

"yamcha, if ya' hadn't been so lazy, neither of those woulda happened! but you too neither the training nor your love life seriously! ya let that babe go!" said the ancient kame-sennin.

"yeah yamcha. you're a lot stronger, but you didn't learn any new techniques, and you could be even stronger. i mean, you were as strong as goku when you met him. you should be stronger than piccolo when he fought goku, but you're only at a level just below him," said a dice headed monk.

"well i'm sorry that i'm not super devoted like you. besides, it's not like any of us could fight piccolo. so all we need to do is be able to beat his kids!" said the bandit, trying to cover for himself.

"whatever you say, yamcha." the crane hermit's former disciple touched down, and turned his three eyes on yamcha. he pulled out a capsule from his belt. "i got the capsule house from bulma like you asked, krillin."

"thanks tien! now we can be here for the tournament before everyone else! it'll be nice to relax for a few weeks," replied the short monk. tien clicked the button on the capsule and tossed it out over the ocean, where it poof'd and produced a large float with a capsule house built of stilts. underneath, the house was a deck sitting on the float itself.

may 7th, age 756, korin's tower...

"tanks korin!" goku said, waving good bye to his former mentor.