6 Chapter 6 - Frypan Mountain
In the distance, a flame reaching towards the heavens was erected in the along the dirt road.
"A-Are we really going to Frypan Mountain? I-It isn't too late to turn back.
Looking at Goku's seemingly innocent smile that had a murderous intent underneath it, Oolong subservient nature kicked in and quickly backed down.
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They shortly arrived at a town nearby the castle. The town was in ruins as people skeletons are scattered about,
"Wow, you can feel the heat from here!" Goku was currently looking at the mesmerizing sight of the dancing flames from the distance.
"Goku, can you go up to the castle and retrieve the Dragon Ball?"
Bulma was pointing at the lone castle that sat atop the roaring flames like a boat floating in an Ocean.
"Yeah right, I will be cooked like a lobster in a pot. We need another plan to get rid of the flames."
"Hey, you!" From behind, a monster like voice spoke from behind them.
You can hear the rustic sound of metal screeching as Bulma and Oolong slowly turned their heads around like a machine that hasn't had oil applied in a long time.
Soon, a giant of a man appeared with an ax in his hand making him look more intimidated. He had a helmet that had devil horns jutted out on both ends living true to his name as the Demon King.
Bulma and Oolong ran and hide behind Goku using him as a shield to the great evil.
"Where did you get that Flying Nimbus?!"
Spit was practically flying everywhere as the Ox-King questioned Goku right in his face.
"Kame-Sennin gave it to me." Goku flatly stated as he wiped spit off his face.
"WHAT! Do you know where he is now?"
Goku stared at him dumbfounded. He proceeded to wipe the spit off AGAIN.
"Yeah, he lives off the coast."
As soon as Goku said that, the Ox-King started laughing in happiness. He even wiped a tear off his eye because of how much he was laughing.
Losing all hope, he did not stop the Ox-King from this revelation as he let the spit accumulate on his face and hair.
After trading his help for searching for Master Roshi and ChiChi for the Dragon Ball. Goku set off in his Flying Nimbus.
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Goku found ChiChi easily enough after dodging multiple lasers and an incredibly sharp boomerang for a minute straight.
Goku managed to calm her down and explained the situation when they were flying to the Kame House on Kintoun.
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"How about trading the Bansho Fan for letting me touch that young ladies boobs."
Roshi was trying to convince Goku to take the deal as he thought it was a pretty fair trade.
Actually, pretty unfair as saving a castle full of treasures was incomparable to preying on a 16-year old girl as a 300+-year-old man.
Goku suddenly had a mischievous idea and grinned inwardly, but his face betrayed his emotions as it was calm as a cucumber.
"Eh, I...fine. She will even do more than that if you want!"
Roshi suddenly started to drool at the prospect of 'more'.
"However, this deal is the Bansho Fan for the groping ok?"
Roshi nodded too fast making Goku feel a little creep out.
"If we do not receive the fan, you still must take out the fire. Your former student house is in flames, you must have a conscience."
"Of course, of course. I understand let me look for the fan right away! I know I have!"
Roshi agreed quickly thinking that some of his perverted families will come to life.
However, his fantasies quickly shattered as he desperately started looking for the fan uprooting the entire house in the process.
Roshi was rapidly becoming hysteric calling in the turtle for help not realizing that Turtle was not going to improve the situation anytime soon.
"Kame-Sennin, don't you remember? You used it as a table cloth that one time." Turtle was feeling extremely embarrassed and exasperated at Roshi's enthusiasm for getting that fan.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Roshi fell onto his knees crying profusely.
Roshi was feeling incredibly dejected, but he couldn't help but feel that he just go duped by Goku. But he couldn't have known that he didn't actually have the Bansho Fan right?
Roshi doubted that assumption as Goku was calm as water talking to ChiChi about random topics.
Seeing Roshi's reaction, Goku quickly asked him will inwardly celebrating an easy win.
"Great esteemed Turtle Hermit, you do not have the Bansho Fan? I did not expect this! How would we put out the flames now?"
Doubt began swelling inside Roshi after watching Goku's bad acting despite his calm appearance. Roshi charted it off as him trying to contain his excitement because there was no way that Goku could have known the future.
Right?
Right?!!
Roshi was crying inwardly as he called out for his Magic Carpet that recently came back from the dry cleaning of the 'fish spit' and headed towards Frypan to put off the flames.
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Bulma and Goku were currently high fiving and giggling at what Goku did to trick the famous Master Roshi as the object of humiliation are on top of a stone wall looking towards the giant flaming mountain.
Goku this time was watching intently at the master as he was about to fire off the famous Kamehameha Wave.
Goku, along with his ki control exercises, tried multiple times to do a Kamehameha correctly in his practice but could never truly nail it.
Understanding his knowledge of ki is extremely limited, Goku put all his attention towards the now buff Master Roshi.
"Kame..." Master Roshi held his arms wide towards the sky summoning the ki from his body to his hands. He then slowly brought his outstretched claw hands together chanting the verse.
"...Hame..." His arms slowly pulled back to behind him while still linking his hands. The at first yellow ki changed to blue so fast you would think that it would have started it in blue. The compressed ki was constantly getting fed with Roshi's ki as he was doing the movement making the ball of energy more compact and explosive.
"...HA!" Just as the ball of ki was going to explode like a grenade, Roshi thrust his arms forward launching a blinding blue beam towards its unsuspecting target.
Goku, the battle genius that the Saiyan is, was able to perceive all the changes and flow of ki realizing all his mistakes that he has done in the past.
Doing the motions of the Turtle School, he mimicked the great Master technique correcting himself on the way.
In the meantime, Bulma and ChiChi were talking and quickly getting to know each other.
"You live in West City? I have never been to the city before. It must be really nice." Chichi had stars in her eyes at the prospects of leaving the confines of her house.
"Really? You should come over to my house sometime! We can hang out and go shopping! To be honest, I don't have many girlfriends but you seem to be really nice and easy-going. Besides you can even ride Kintoun so I know you going to be a great friend."
"G-Girlfriend? Like a girl that is a friend? I-I don't know, I have to ask my dad first. He is really protective of me."
Goku finally revise his technique and launched his hands into motion while compressing the ki into a stable ball. He finally released it when he felt his ki reserves unable to keep up and the blue beam sped to the wall that Master Roshi was standing on earlier.
Master Roshi and the Ox-King were wide-eyed in shock at the display of the Kamehameha Wave for Goku's 'first try.'
"H-How did you do that!" Ox-King was teary-eyed because he never was able to learn the technique.
"I trained a lot when I was a kid with my Grandpa Gohan."
The duo's wide eyes suddenly stretched outward leaving their eye-sockets behind. After questioning the youth's heritage, Roshi posed him a question unhesitantly.
"Hey kid, you want to come to my island to train? You should know that I am the great Turtle Hermit. You can become as strong or even stronger than me!"
Goku was about to agree until he remembered Bulma's proposal when they first started their journey. Although he didn't say yes, it still felt wrongdoing his own thing without giving her a reason.
Goku excused himself and approached the girls as they were chatting away. ChiChi blushed a little but Goku didn't notice because he was looking at Bulma.
"Hey Bulma, Master Roshi offered me to train under him. I was planning to go after our adventure but I know that you wanted me to take that bodyguard job. Is it alright if I consider it after my training?"
Honestly, Bulma forgot all about the child-labor that she asked of Goku because of the craziness of the adventure so far. Bulma was flattered that he told her and remembered what she said.
"Sure, after all, if you train then my bodyguard will be that much stronger."
After her confirmation, Goku gave his confirmation to Master Roshi. After confirming that they got the Dragon Ball from Oolong with the rest of them. The duo left when Oolong wanted to go along with Roshi because of some shared 'interest'.
As his use was already expired, they left him and ventured off to the last Dragon Ball.
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(Kris 13-years Old)
"Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!"
A voice came out from the computer station on Kris's desk. Kris himself was watching on his chair with stars coming out of his eyes.
He ran to the living room to see his parents as they were home for the weekend.
Kris's parents laid there on the couch panting with sweat other liquids littered the ground beneath them. Just as they were going to go another round, Kris's interrupted them.
"Mom, Dad! I want to learn martial arts!"
They looked at him in surprise before looking back at each other. Kris has never been interested in something like sports let alone the rough training of a martial artist.
"Well, what do you want to learn?" His mom asked looking at his face for a response.
Kris who ran down here without thinking or researching the topic further was at a loss for words.
"Uhhh...Karate?" Kris's mom, being the elite spy that she is, quickly defused this situation on the impulse of the male teenager when she spotted the look of loss in his eyes.
His father, doing the same thing, spoke next, "Son if you don't even know what you want to learn. We can't help you. Maybe when you are older and have more confidence in yourself you can do martial arts. If you still think this way later and have researched the hardships of it as well, we will consider it."
Kris, dejected, walked back to his room as his parents quickly went back to lovemaking as if nothing had interrupted them.
He walked back to his computer to search up different martial art styles.
Clicking video after video, recommendation after recommendation, he was soon lost in the void of the martial arts world.
Even forgetting that he wanted to actually learn martial arts.
