The next morning, Ryu was reading a book, while walking to school. He seemed perfectly fine too. No fainting, no nothing. He even had his cast off. A black and brown Ford Excursion stopped at an intersection behind Ryu. It's window rolled down. The man from last night at the hospital was talking on the phone.
"I have a visual." Shaw said.
"Green light, Shaw. Green light. Make sure it's done." Vegeta Jr. said over the phone.
Shaw hung up. and rolled up his window. He slammed on the gas pedal, and his wheels screeched. The SUV was was speeding after Ryu, who was totally oblivious to what was going on. Shaw smiled. Just moments away from killing the poor boy. He wouldn't know what hit him.
Suddenly, Ryu's eyes widened. Somehow he knew something was coming at him. He didn't know how. It was just as if he sensed it.
Ryu did a twenty foot back-flip into the air, over the car dropping his book. Shaw's eyes widened and his jaw dropped, just at Ryu, but at the tree in front of him.
While the car slammed into the tree Ryu landed safely on the ground. The air bag had not gone off.
Some air bag, Shaw thought.
"Mister! Oh, my God! Are you ok?!" Ryu shouted, running towards the car.
Shaw pulled a gun out of his pocket. Ryu continued to run to the car. Shaw smiled looking in the side mirror. Then, Ryu saw the gun in the same side mirror. Suddenly, Shaw frowned. He poked his head out the car and gritted his teeth as he watched the boy run away.
Shaw's phone rang. He picked it up.
"Report." Vegeta Jr. said.
"Sir? You're not going to beleive this, but..." Shaw explained what had happened, as he explained it, Vegeta Jr.'s eyes got wider and wider.
"Sir?" Shaw asked.
"Abort." Vegeta Jr. ordered hastily.
"Are you sure, sir? I can go to his home and..."
"Abort! I want to study that kid, not kill him!" Vegeta Jr. shouted.
When Ryu got home he rushed into his basement. He put his hand onto the side of his head.
"What the heck is going on? I mean, what the heck is going on?" Ryu asked frantically, even though there was noone there to see him.
Ryu slid his hand around his neck. He tried to think. He had heard stories of when his great grandfather had first met this lady named Bulma. Who would name their kid Bulma? Supposedly, Goku had been able to lift an entire car up? Was that even possible? He was only twelve. But then, he remembered when he flipped Charles over in the hall yesterday. He must have weighed three times Ryu's size. Was that so different? He had heard other stories too, although he thought they were just stories. He remembered hearing one about how his grandfather had one second place in a World Martial Arts Tournament. Something that was before Ryu's time. Or about how, he had beaten a famous martial artist named Mercenary Tao. Wasn't there a newspaper article on that guy or something? Then he remembered the incident with that van earlier. How he had did a backflip over it without even thinking. How he had known it was coming for him.
"I knew that van was coming for me, I knew it." Ryu said coming to a realization.
He logged onto the internet. He went to google.com He typed in: Goku Son. He clicked on one link. Nothing. He tried clicking on another link. Bingo.
Goku is the hero of Earth, has one the World Martial Arts Tournament twice, and his fate is a mystery to most people.
"Well, whaddaya think of that." Ryu said.
He scrolled down a little bit.
He is peaceful, good-natured and loving. Just stuff about his personality and whatnot. He researched all sorts of things about his family and anscestors. After several hours he got tired and looked up of the window. It was dark, and the moon was very bright.
Uh-oh, Ryu thought.
"Ryu, get up here. Now!" Videl yelled from the top of the stairs. Ryu swallowed hard.
Ryu leaned against the wall. Videl and Gohan stood in front of him.
"So I get a call at work, and the principal's office says that he didn't even go to school today." Videl explained.
"Where have you been all day, Ryu?" Gohan asked.
"I was in my lab." Ryu replied looking down at the floor.
"What were you doing?" Gohan asked more sternly.
Ryu was silent.
"Hello?" Gohan asked, getting angry.
"I didn't feel like going to school today, alright?!" Ryu snapped.
"Didn't 'Feel like' going?" Videl aksed sarcastically.
Ryu gave Videl a look.
"He didn't feel like going?!" Videl laughed.
"School isn't the party you think it is, alright?" Ryu said trying to think of something to defend himself with.
"Well, you're not supposed to be having a party, young man, you're supposed to be in school to learn!" Gohan said.
"Yeah, I know." Ryu said.
He started to sweat. He felt anger and power rise up withing him.
"Now I know that what happened on the field trip was embarrasing. I can see that, but..."
"Are you feeling all right?" Gohan asked cutting Videl off.
"I'M FINE!" Ryu shouted.
He slammed his fist against the wall nearly making a clear hole into the wall. The debris that flew out of the wall slammed against the other wall.
"Ryu?" Gohan asked, startled.
Ryu pulled his fist away from the wall. When he saw what he did, he was surprised himself.
"Uh, who exactly do you think you're talking to with that mouth?" Videl asked, struggling for words.
Ryu covered his fist up with his hand as if to hide it or protect it.
"Maybe you need to go to your room for the night and think about things." Gohan asked apparently unphased by the sudden occurence of events.
"Go to my room?! I'm fifteen years old!" Ryu shouted.
"Go." Gohan said almost shouting.
"GOD!" Ryu shouted throwing his arms up into the air. Ryu walked up the stairs went into his room and closed his door with a very loud-- SLAM!
"Kid had a tough week." Gohan said smiling.
"I know." Videl agreed.
"This too shall pass." Gohan added.
"I know. Maybe I'll bring some banana bread later." Videl suggested.
"Putting him in his room is punishment enough." Gohan said.
Hours later Ryu was asleep in his red pajamas with book on entimology lying on his chest. He was sweating.
"AAAH!" he said almost shouting. He woken up from a nightmare (duh!)
He put his hand on the side of his head. He looked at the clock. It was 4:12 am. He layed back down on the bed looking up at the cieling. He thought for a few minutes. If his great grandpa had powers then maybe he had powers too.
He tried clearing his mind of all thoughts. Nothing. Just quietly meditating. He felt himself slowly rising up out of the bed. Almost floating, as if he were controlling gravity itself. He was scared too open his eyes. He though that if he did he would lose his concentration and flop back down onto the bed. Ryu opened his eyes.
He was upside down. "Whoa... cool."
Thanx for reading
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