Teachings of the child, a Dragonball Roleplay (Caelum x Nydie)

[Caelum]

Watching through the window, he bit his lip and thought for a moment. He seemed to be ignoring the girls comments for now, distracted... The look on the boys face. He was dead serious about something, and the paleness that touched his core shook him a bit. For many, it would seem like minutes, to him, only a moment in time. Rapidly, he tried to source the power. It was large, but fluxating. Multiple power levels? No, it was one being, evil at its core... Far in the sky, past what could be seen. At one moment, it was at a power beyond anything Gohan could ever imagine. The next, it was lower then a human child's... It sent shivers down his spine, and in the back of his mind, Gohan wondered if Vegeta and the others would be okay.

After a few moments of tension, he suddenly turned around. A smile was plastered on his face, and the warmth and pinkness had toned back in in an instant.

"Um, no... You could just say I'm a skilled martial artist." The boy tried to explain, waving one hand in the air. "When you start to get really strong, the effects of weather don't hurt you anymore." He continued. Even for a scholar-in-the-making, it was extremely hard to explain stuff this girl probably would not be learning for years and years, like temperature effects on the body. He probably would imagine his Saiyan blood would have something to do with it to, because he could recall more then one time of Saiyans being in space, which was a very, very cold place.

"But really, you and your family should get out of here. There is a special evacuation cave I can take you to up in the mountains, its much safer then here, trust me." Gohan finished with a wide smile, pointing towards the door.

[Nydie]

Shilia continued to stare at Gohan, not entirely buying into his speech about strength and whatever it was he had rambled on about. She had her attention had been lost when he talked about martial arts. Still, the girl had to admit he didn't seem like a bad person, if he had she was sure someone would have been hurt already, at least as hurt as a kid her age could hurt people. If she had thought about it more she probably would have concocted one of her crazy stories, but instead she kept jumping around from thought to thought without putting too much focus into any one thing.

Head tilting to the side, she scrunched her nose up at his final words. Eyes following the direction of his point, Shilia blinked in surprise. "Okay genius, I get it. But what you don't get is we don't have any way to get there. You're a kid, what are you going to do, carry us all one by one, piggyback up a mountain?" Lips curling into a grin, the little girl began to giggle at the thought of her family sitting on the couch while Gohan carried it up a mountain; the idea was funny for a second until she realized she'd be on the couch as well.

"I don't see what the big deal is." Shilia finally commented, her hands going back to rest on her hips. "It's just a silly rainstorm. It's not like the house is going to fill up and drown us all."

It was at that moment that her mother reentered the hall, and Shilia received a small bop to the top of her head as the woman passed. "Stop with the imagination Shi." Before the girl could give a response, her mother was questioning Gohan. "How much worse can it get? I'd really rather not leave, especially since we have no way to go anywhere."

"Don't worry mom." Shilia said with a confident voice. "Gohan has got anti-rain powers and he's going to carry us all piggyback." The girl of course was teasing, not believing for a second that Gohan could possibly carry her mother or two older brothers. She knew he could probably carry her, and Kenji, but even that was pushing it. The rain and the wind combined were enough to make things difficult, and the girl wasn't entirely sure that she wanted to go out into it, especially with someone who wasn't much bigger than her carrying her. She wasn't being mean, she was just very doubtful.

Stepping up to stand beside her mother, Shilia gave Gohan another questioning stare. Her brain was supplying her with dozens of questions, but one glance at her mother's worried face silenced her silliness and caused the girl to reach up and take her mother's hand. She wanted to say something encouraging, but from the way Gohan was acting like they had little choice but to vacate their house, she could not muster up any words. So Shilia waited for Gohan to answer her mother's question in silence, still having her doubts as to whether the boy could pull off exactly what he was implying that he could.

[Caelum]

Gohan blinked, watching all of them hold hands together. Slowly, his face grimaced once again, and it was clear by now he was hiding something.

"There are things here that are worse then rain." He muttered, looking out the window at the falling rain. It pitter pattered hard against the glass, and the boy could only shake his head. "We have to go, now. I can carry you all, but you are all going to have to grab o-" He was interrupted, suddenly, by a bright, purple flash in the sky. It broke apart the clouds in the form of a long, cylinder shaped blast, which headed straight for the house. Gohan could sense it before it parted the clouds, and powered up in an instant, darting for the first person he could grab onto and slamming them to the floor, under the cover of the boys body, as well as the heavy cloak made by his old mentor.

Everything behind and in front of them though, were in for some trouble. The bright flair of energy blew apart the building, instantly incinerating everything withing 300 meters of the house. Like a raging blast of fire it turned everything it touched to ash, and all that was not touched was blown back, tossed like play things. It was like a miniature nuclear blast had suddenly gone off.

The smoke slowly rose from the crater that once was the house, the rain still falling blissfully onto the ground below. It seemed all was gone. All but one small piece of land... Where a golden aura laid, covering a child's body. Using his strength, Gohan had managed to block the blast from destroying at least one of the children, leaving them completely unharmed- But he was sure that the rest were gone, and it had drained a large portion of his power in the process. With a grunt and a sigh, his hair fell back from its gold to a deep black, and with much effort, he flipped onto his back, heaving heavily as the rain fell down onto his damaged body.

He didn't know what had hit them, but it was coming from the source of that large power. He could tell he wasn't the only one who was struck, as well. Tien, Vegeta, Piccolo, Krillin... They were all hit in separate blasts... And there power levels... They were fading. Something had specifically targeted the strongest beings on the planet- Including his friends. He wanted to get up, and try and find his friends, or see if anyone was okay... But his body needed a moment to recover from the blast it had just suffered. So he simply lied there, heaving for a moment, before looking over to the one person he had saved- The young girl.

[Nydie]

Shilia let out a sharp, panicked cry when Gohan rushed at her, but her shocked mind could not form any coherent thoughts. One second she was holding hands with her mom, the next the wind had been knocked out of her and Gohan was hovering over her. What had happened after that was a blur, and the girl sat up struggling to figure out just what had happened.

Her first instinct was to yell at Gohan for knocking her over, but when the girl finally sat up and took notice of the crater she was sitting in, the words dried up in her throat. Light brown eyes lifting in search of her house, her family, anything that had been standing in the area just moments ago. Finding nothing but an empty crater and Gohan, Shilia hopped to her feet and charged at the crater's wall. "Mom? Kenji? Roku? Anybody? Get us out of here!"

Oblivious to the rain pour down on her and the wind blowing above her head, the little girl dug her hands into the mud and tried to force her way up, only managing to be forced back down on the ground as the mud slide through her fingers. Landing on her butt, Shilia threw her head back and stared up at the edge of the crater, eyes squinting against the rain as she searched for any signs of her family. A part of her knew it was a hopeless search. There wasn't a single trace of her house left, not even a hint of the foundation that it had once stood on.

"Momma?" Shilia called out one more time. The answering rush of wind and rain was enough to hit the girl with the realization that there was no one there, only her and Gohan remained, at least within the area. For all she knew, the house and her family could have been blown away.

Eyes brimming over with tears, the girl charged over Gohan, standing over him with her hands balled into fists at her sides. "What happened to my house? Where's my mom and brothers at?" Overwhelmed with anger and sadness, Shilia was forcing herself not to give in to her urge to kick the boy while he lay there. Shilia knew that he had done something, just what her mind could not inform her, everything had been so rushed she hadn't had a chance to make sense of it. Even though she knew that he hadn't destroyed her house or caused her family's disappearance, she wanted to take out her anger on something. The only thing that stopped the girl in her tracks was the fact that Gohan was just laying there looking at her.

"Come on, Gohan." She whined, not meaning to sound like a baby, but she was desperate to find her family, if they could be found. "Get up and help me find my mom!"

[Caelum]

His ears were still ringing. His eyes gazed around the area, and he could hear the faint sound of the girl whining at him. He closed his eyes, trying to concentrate. With a heavy final sigh, he slowly pushed his way out of the mud and shook his head. It still throbbed, but... He had to know. What of everyone else?

He tried to check for any life signs in the area. They were gone. All gone. His friends, this girls family, all anhialated by... Something. Something evil. He had no idea what to say or do at this point. He looked over to the girl, then, behind him, where the scars in the mud were all that remained of the family that once was. A single tear dropped down his cheek, unseeable midst the rain and mud. His right hand clenched, and the frustration in his heart grew. The more the girl spoke, the more his anger surged. The water in the crater began to rumble and swirl around, as lightning began to crash more frequently from the skies.

"Monster..." He growled, eyes locked on the ground.

"Hmahaha... Did I ruin the little tea party?" A deep, thundering voice asked from above.

Gohan continued to lock eyes with the ground. He didn't need to look up to know who it was. He knew all he needed- He was a monster. But to anyone else that looked, it was a large, titan of a man, at least 9 feet in height. Its slick purple body shined its abs, and the only clothing to be shown was the gi type pants he wore. Besides that, he was completely bare skinned, and the look in his lifeless hollow black eyes showed no remorse for his actions.

"It seems I underestimated your strength in particular, little boy..." The thunderous voice echoed, smirking. "Your friends were not prepared, they went down without a fight- You it seems... Are different. I might just let you live." He said with a sneer, turning away.

Gohan simply stood there, a slow aura of yellow energy rising around him as his hair spiked up, and flashed yellow multiple times.

[Nydie]

Shilia's eyes swung up to the being looming above her and Gohan. The man, or what she could only assume was a man, was the largest person she had every laid eyes on, and a little too much for her already uncertain mind to take. A part of the girl wanted to run screaming in terror, but the other part, the part that had taken over since her family's mysterious disappearance stood motionless, her light brown eyes boring into the man's face.

Feet planted in the mud, she stood her ground, her small hands resting on her hips. Shilia's emotions were running rampant, jumping from confusion, to sadness, to anger, and then she just didn't feel anything at all. She was alone, at least for now as far as she knew. There was no trace or sign of anyone of anything she cared about, and it was starting to sink in that there probably wouldn't be anytime in the future. She was sure if her mother was alive, she would be screaming out Shilia's name and searching for her frantically.

Her eyes shifted when Gohan's hair started to change, and Shilia couldn't understand what was going on, she wasn't even sure if she cared anymore. It didn't matter to her what went on, she was stuck in a crater with some strange boy who's hair randomly changed colors that she barely knew, a monster of a man glaring down at them, and nothing else but the storm that was causing havoc overhead.

Still, Shilia knew she should be afraid. The man above her was a mountain and she was positive if he wanted to tear her apart limb by limb he could do so easily. The thought managed to spark a little emotion from her, but oddly enough it wasn't fear, it was anger. Growling angrily, the little girl stomped her foot down in the mood, ignoring the water the splashed up in her face and the icky feeling of the mud as it squished into her socks. "Listen you big jerk, I don't know who you are, but get out of here already. I need to find my mother and you're just standing there running your mouth. Why don't you do something useful instead of trying to bully a bunch of kids!"