Chapter 5: The Secret of The Dragonballs!
Minutes later the two had made it to Goku's abode.
"What a run- down place…" Bulma whispers to herself while looking around.
She wasn't wrong, most of the structures that were privy to the elements were missing corners with splinted rooves and cracked walls. It was clear that Goku wasn't particularly good at fixing things. As Goku pulled the doors open and strolled in, Bulma was expecting his grandpa, but before wondering about that, her eyes were drawn to something else.
"Grandpa, look! It's a girl!" He cheerfully prayed to the shrine. On it, of course being the orb.
"That's the Dragonball!" Bulma couldn't contain herself, pointing at the ball. "I knew it was somewhere around here!"
"Huh? You know grandpa?" Goku asked curiously.
"Grandpa?" She was confused but brought back to her senses after she remembered what she came here for. "Fine, fine, I'll explain it for you." She reached into the bag on her waist, and to Goku's surprise pulled out two balls almost identical to grandpa!
"Eeehh!! G-grandpa, you have two of them?!" He exclaimed out to Bulma.
Bulma leant down and placed the two orbs down on the table. "Hehe, these are called Dragonballs." She informed the boy.
"Dragon… Balls?" Goku's head twisted in confusion.
Bulma picked on up and looked into the two stars sat in the centre. "I found one in the cellar at home, I was wondering what it was, so I asked around. Though no one knew. But after doing a lot of research I found some documents that recorded some myths from hundreds of years ago!" She excitedly placed the ball back on the table.
"Apparently they are called 'Dragonballs', there are seven in all. They all shine mysteriously and have a number of stars on them, ranging from one to seven!" She recounted, looking back at Goku he was glancing closely at his own Dragonball.
"Hey, you're right! Grandpas has four stars!" He pointed out white his beady eyes reflected of the surface.
"Yeah, I found the 2- star ball in my cellar. This one I found in a valley to the north around ten days ago." She lifted the Dragonball with five stars.
"Wow so you're searching for them all?" He asked back.
"Yeah! Collecting all seven is going to be pretty difficult." She grimaced, though she secretly enjoyed the challenge. There was a reason she was searching for these after all.
"But why are you collecting them?" He questioned inquisitively, he wasn't that interested at first, but when it came to his grandpa's memento, he became much more curious.
"That's the thing, according to the legends, something amazing happens when you collect all seven!"
At this Goku was sat on the edge of his seat, listening earnestly. "What- what happens?!"
Bulma chuckled, thinking of his reaction to this part. "Apparently after reciting specific words when all seven are together… Shenron, the dragon god appears to answer a single wish!!"
"EEEEHHHH!" The boys' eyes almost shot out of his skull. "That's AMAZING!!"
"Yeah, it's what the legend states. Though I don't really believe that part…" She whispered the last part before realizing something and turning back to Goku. "Say, you talk about your grandpa a lot, but where is he?" She had a bad feeling in her stomach, but she wanted to clear it up first.
"Hmm, he's right here." He pointed down to the ball he was carrying.
"G-goku, you know that's just a ball, right?"
"No! It was grandpa's memento, he left it behind when he went away!" This all but confirmed the bad feeling she was having.
"What do you mean by 'went away'?" She asked carefully.
"The full- moon monster got him and took him away! I was asleep at the time, but the only thing left was the ball." He pumped the ball in the air. "A few days later a little old person came here to say that grandpa had gone somewhere else, and we will meet again someday. He told me that the ball was grandpa's memento and to keep care of it!"
Bulma grimaced at the news, it sounded like he passed away. But from how the story went, Goku could have been abandoned… Usually she didn't feel much when other people lost their loved ones, she never had any friends to care about either. Though something hit differently with this young child completely accepting that someone will be gone from their life forever, especially when it's the only person he's ever known…
"Hey, Goku?"
"Hmm?" He questioned earnestly.
"Why don't you come with me to search for the Dragonballs?" She blurted out without thinking.
"Huh? You mean like, away from home?" He asked.
"Yeah, it will be like a big adventure to find hidden treasure! What do you think?"
Goku was in thought for a moment, his eyes drifted to his grandpa's Dragonball, then round the room he had lived in his entire life. For some reason he never thought about leaving, he knew he could come back, but for some reason it never even came to mind. After a few moments of thinking, a wide grin spread across his face.
"Yeah! Let's go on an adventure!" He beamed upwards before grabbing his staff and bolting through the door.
"Huh? W-wait! Goku!" She had only just made it to the door with Goku around twenty meters away already, looking back at her, obviously waited to see what she wanted.
"I've got to fix my car first; I can't run as fast as you and the journey will take way too long anyway!" She blurted out, the kid's absentmindedness, while soothing at first was starting to get on her nerves.
"Oh!" He sat on the ground by the path. "Oh yeah, hahaha!" He chuckled away as Bulma slowly caught up to him with a sigh.
*sigh "This is why I hate kids." She murmured with a smile.
Fixing the car would only take a few hours, after that the journey would begin!
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(This little section is just for fun, don't take it too seriously, though if it pulls you out of the story too much, please say and I'll get rid of them.)
[Son Goku]
Strength: 4
Vitality: 5
Agility: 3
Intelligence: 1
Wisdom: 1
(Skills):
(Techniques):
Goku Style Martial Arts (E-)
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pulsesplice It should be obvious enough now how much I'm planning to change their characters. Hope I still managed to inject decent humor into despite taking a lot out of the original source.
Again, please say if the chapters are too short, too long or whatever. This chapter is a little shorter since I think it's a better end point.
The little bit at the end is just a fun little thing for me.
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