Chapter 01 Monkey kid and Dragon Balls
Edited by
megrisvernin.
AN: Since most people reading this are probably familiar with Dragon Ball, I am going to skip a few things. Also the AU tag is there for a reason, see if you can spot the differences!
"You have a grandfather that turned into a ball too?" asked Goku, placing his Dragon ball near hers to compare them. His had four stars whereas hers had just one.
"No, kid. These are not people, they are Dragon balls. These spheres have the power to do incredible things. Let's just say if these fell into the wrong hands, horrible things could happen," said Bulma with her best smile, remembering the legends she had read when doing her research.
"What… what do they do?" asked Goku, staring at him and holding his Dragon ball close to his chest.
"Are you sure you want to know?" asked Bulma, hesitating. What if he just decided to steal her Dragon ball and get a wish for himself? The kid named Goku was strong enough to punch a hole in a car, and she didn't have any capsule left to fight someone like that. Why did she have to leave the robot suit capsule at home? Ah right, the stupid thing was broken and she didn't have time to fix it because her Dragon Radar had detected a few of the Dragon balls moving.
"Yes please," said Goku, kneeling down next to where Bulma had sat at the table. A table made of a giant rock but whatever, she was supposed to rough it in this quest, wasn't she? Plus she was the best girl scout seven years in a row, well six years in a row, she missed one year due to space camp but whatever, it was camping in space!
"Fine. If you get all seven of them together they can make a wish come true! A legend I read said someone long ago used the wish to become a king." That would explain why the ruler of the country of Lalala was a cat when talking cats weren't the dominant species.
"Uh... What's a king?" The kid with the monkey tail asked.
"The ruler of a country."
"What's a ruler or a country?"
'This... this is going to take a while, right?' Thought the blue-haired girl.
Several hours and a brief pause for breakfast later...
"So you want to get these seven Dragon balls together to grant you a wish, and I can get my Dragon ball back after you make your wish? And I will probably fight strong people during the journey?" Goku asked to a tired looking Bulma.
"Yes!" Bulma answered, who knew talking to a weird monkey kid would take this long?
"Oh okay, you are a girl and my grandfather told me to be nice to girls. Are you sure my Dragon ball really isn't my grandfather?"
"Yes, sorry kid but your grandfather either left somewhere to never return... or he is dead. Although if he is dead there should have been a body," Bulma explained.
'This kid killed a giant lizard for breakfast, so I don't want to find out what he will do to me if I lie to him.' Thought Bulma.
"Uh... maybe the werewolves stole him away? Grandpa always told me to not look right at the full moon or werewolves would appear," Goku said.
'Okay a kid with a monkey tail? My neighbor is a catgirl. Him being so strong? Not weirder than talking dinosaurs, but werewolves? That is just crazy talk!' Bulma thought, but didn't say it out loud.
"Yeah, maybe you are right. So are you ready to go?" Bulma told Goku.
"Yes!" The kid shouted... then ran behind a few bushes making Bulma sweatdrop. Had he just been holding his need to pee to listen to her explanations?
'Crazy kid,' Bulma thought and started to wonder if this whole thing was a good idea to start with. Then again maybe it would be fun?
Meanwhile, far away in the middle of a desert, in what looked like an abandoned temple (but was actually a tourist attraction), the future king of Lalala, (or so he thought of himself), was in search of Dragon balls too.
The short blue imp like person moved between two other people, a dog like man behind him and a really attractive dark-haired teen girl in front of him. The girl used to be in her early thirties but... Let's just say she fell prey to a prank from a fox and leave it like that.
The teen kicked the fake temple doors open, "Hi! We are looking for Dragon balls!"
"Ugh... what did that poor dragon do to you?" The someway stupid dog man asked.
"For the last time, it's not those kinds of dragon balls you idiot!" The blue imp said and slapped the dog.
Then all three noticed the fake temple... looked kind of abandoned.
"Boss, wasn't this some kind of tourist trap?" The teen girl asked.
"Yes, it says so on my tourist guide of Lalala Kingdom, I memorized it since I was a kid!"
"And... how long ago was that?" The dog man asked, proving why he was only somewhat stupid.
"Thirty years ago, more or less. We had my birthday party last week, remember? And I got this book when I was five!" The imp said, sounding proud for some reason as he held the tourist guide in his hands.
"Lord Pilaf..." The teen girl said slowly and then held the blue imp, by his tunic, up so he could see her angry eyes. "THAT MEANS THAT TOURIST GUIDE IS COMPLETELY OUTDATED, YOU BLUE IDIOT!"
"Mei I am your boss, I am the one who should yell at you for being an idiot!"
"Then don't act like an idiot you idiot!" Mei yelled to Lord Pilaf.
"Uh... We're not looking for this?" the dog man said as he held a two star Dragon ball that he picked from inside the fake temple when the two were busy arguing.
"Oh I could kiss you right now Shu, only not cause dog fur, eeew!" Mei the teenage girl said as she dropped Lord Pilaf. "I know, since this place is abandoned it could be our base!"
"Ehem, Mei I am the one paying you two, remember?" Lord Pilaf said, sounding upset.
"I mean this could be Lord Pilaf's new wonderful castle!" Mei quickly added.
"That's better." Lord Pilaf then looked at the place again. "Yes! This definitely can work!"
"Uh... what if someone comes with the papers proving this place is theirs?" Shu, the dog man dressed like a blue ninja, asked.
"We are in the middle of nowhere, we can just kill that person!" Mei said then looked at the disgusted faces of the other two. "I mean... tickle the person until he or she signs the ownership of this place to Lord Pilaf? I mean Shu is a certified notary, aren't you Shu?"
"Yes I am," Shu the dog man answered.
"Ahh this is so slow! We have been at this for months but we only got two Dragon balls counting this new one!' The blue imp complained.
"My Lord, you need all seven Dragon balls to make a wish. Do I need to pull out the sock puppets to explain it again?" Shu asked. Yes, that was the same Shu who had forgotten that the dragon balls weren't a certain part of a dragon's anatomy.
"No, not the stupid puppets again! But okay. Just imagine it, once I awake the glorious eternal dragon all for the sole purpose of granting me my wish, any wish I want, then I will finally be prom queen!" Lord Pilaf said.
Mei then slapped the blue imp.
"I mean, I will finally be the King of Lalala Kingdom! And you two will get huge, big paychecks of course!"
"Thinking about that... you haven't paid us in a while... Lord Pilaf," Mei said, making a thinking pose as she held her chin with her left hand. While holding her gun in her right hand.
"But I invited you two to my birthday!" Pilaf protested.
"Yes, I loved the chocolate cake!" Shu said, his tail wagging. Mei thought for a moment if she should tell him chocolate wasn't good for dogs, then dismissed the idea. If the idiot died it wasn't her problem.
Lord Pilaf wondered, for the third time that day, why he was even hiring those two, then remembered that no one else had answered his newspaper ad for henchmen.
"Anyway, Come on Shu, Mei... let's go to explore my new castle and see where we can park the Dragon radar truck so it doesn't get ruined by the rain again," Lord Pilaf said in a resigned tone.
Now back with monkey boy and blue-haired girl...
"Anyway... after your little break, let's go get the Dragon balls!" Bulma said as she took a capsule, pushed a button and threw it to the ground, there was an explosion and a hoverbike appeared.
"Wow! Are you a witch?" Goku asked.
"No, I am a scientist... it is basically the same but with machines," Bulma said, dumbing down her explanation a lot, as she didn't want to keep wasting time explaining things to Goku. She was a mad scientist's daughter not a teacher!
"Ah okay. Is that thing like a car but smaller?"
"Somewhat," Bulma said sitting on the hoverbike and turning it on, it then floated about ten centimeters over the ground.
"That thing floats?" Goku asked surprised.
"Yes, now sit behind me in the hoverbike, the next Dragon ball is not that far away."
"Okay." Goku did so and held his hands to her waist and they took off on the hoverbike.
Then an alarm in the hoverboard sounded and Bulma had to accelerate even more to avoid a flying dinosaur attacking them.
"Goku, could you deal with this pest? I am not anyone's food!" Bulma said, 'If the kid can break a car with a punch, a dinosaur should be okay, right?'
"Okay," Goku said, jumping off the bike and punching the dinosaur, knocking it out. "I am hungry, can we stop and eat it?"
Bulma had stopped the hoverboard already, realizing it wasn't safe for her to stay too far away from Goku during this adventure.
"Yeah, sure. I read a book about how to cook dinosaur meat and I wanted to try cooking a Pterodactyl anyway." That might or not be a dinosaur but again she was not fond of the idea of explaining things to Goku.
"A what?" The monkey boy asked.
"That's what that beast is called," the girl with blue hair answered.
"Okay, I got a girl to cook for me, grandpa would be proud!" Goku said.
"That's.. you know what? Just kill the thing already, I am getting hungry too," Bulma said with a resigned tone.
Later, when they were eating the dinosaur, cooked with a lot of spices and things that made it taste yummier...
"Bulma?" asked Goku as he finished most of the meat himself, the kid sure had a healthy stomach.
"What?" Bulma asked, dreading having to explain even more things.
"Have you ever done this before, I mean the cities are really far from here… is it common to travel far from home?" asked Goku with his eyes full of curiosity.
"Not on my own but yes, I went with my family once when Father decided camping was good fun for the whole family. And I used to be a girl scout. But it was usually to safer places. I kinda left home in a hurry when my Dragon radar," Bulma pointed to her pocketwatch looking device with a computer screen on it, "Showed me that some of the Dragon balls were moving. Hence why I didn't have any weapons. If you weren't with me I would have needed to either go back home or call someone to get me my weapons."
"Do most people use weapons a lot when they travel?" Goku asked.
"Most people are not as strong as you or a trained martial artist, so that tends to be the norm," Bulma answered.
"I haven't traveled this far since my grandfather is gone, and even then I just went with him to a town to buy supplies," Goku said looking sad.
"So you have run out of toothpaste then?" Bulma asked.
"What's toothpaste?" Of course Goku didn't know what that was.
"It's a paste that... help me pack and I will explain later," Bulma said, almost yelling.
'At this rate I might as well build a teaching robot for Goku after the whole adventure is over.'
'Thinking about it... what am I going to wish for? I am kind of a pervert, but also shy with boys. And the idea of wishing for the perfect boyfriend seems kind of silly... I wonder why I ever had that idea to start with?'
Bulma looked at Goku... nope, the boy wasn't doing anything for her. Maybe in five years more... anyway, they were done with lunch. Goku helped her pack her camp cooking supplies in the huge backpack and that backpack went back into a capsule. Thankfully the blue-haired girl had at least remembered to get her traveling and camping capsules or things would be worse.
'Thinking about it, why not take a nap after lunch? Ah right the next Dragon ball isn't that far away and I have to explain something to Goku.... ugh...' Bulma thought.
"Hey Bulma look what I got for dinner!" Goku said carrying a giant sea turtle... had he gone to the sea and back or what? That was fast!
"Goku, we just had lunch! Just leave that turtle where you found him... or her."
"I am a male turtle and... Could you help me?" The sea turtle asked.
"I just told Goku to not eat you, what more do you want?" Bulma yelled. 'Really, some people... err turtles can get really rude!'
"Saltwater... and maybe take me back to my owner? Or at least to the sea?" The sea turtle said.
"Fine," Bulma said while cursing her love for talking animals! Because of that now she was stuck doing side-quests!