Post by Goten on Oct 1, 2010 12:47:19 GMT -5
Far into the deepest regions of the sky stood the giant vertical tower that reach upwards towards the heavens. The night sky slowly vanished as its nemesis the light of the sun washed away the darkness and like a giant tidal wave the sea blue sky started to emerge, and the fluffy white clouds were like boats gently sailing the seas of the sky. The sun happily beamed its rays of light down below over nature’s tranquil and peaceful creations, from forests, to grass and leaves and even to the flowers and animals, which basked in its glory. In the middle of the giant thin tower stood three large circle like platform, which appeared underneath each other at certain distances. Each one had a spiral staircase, which led to the other platforms. Deep within second platform a familiar smell began to brew while a familiar cat carrying a walking stick was at work preparing some breakfast, this time it was a pork ramen with rice cakes. Korin quietly stirred the ingredients with a wooden spoon and gently sniffed the aroma, which gently massaged its nose with some mouth-watering smells. With a sigh of content he began to carefully make the rice cakes while keeping the close eye on the Ramen which was beginning to cook and smell really lovely. When it comes to the martial arts Korin is someone to ask for, as his wisdom is always something to remember. But when it comes to cooking Korin was a natural but he would rather just sit back and train people while tending to the Senzu beans. However his very life was on the line as Chi-Chi Goten’s mother vowed to do something really horrible to him if Goten wasn’t properly looked after.
And everybody knows when Chi-Chi is angry no one is really safe! South of the kitchen stood a vertical oblong shaped screen which shielded the temporary bedroom from eyesight. Just behind this screen laid a large roll up bed, which was coloured purple, the pillow was square shaped but was as soft as a bundle of feathers as it comforted Goten’s head within its gentle nature. However the sweet smell of food drifted from the northern end of the kitchen and flowed straight past the screen and appeared above Goten’s nose. The smell soon awakened the senses and immediately Goten sniffed the air and slowly his eyes slowly opened to see the dome shaped roof within his eyesight. He slowly pushed himself upwards slightly and until he was sitting bolt up right and soon closed his eyes and stretched out his left and right arms while letting out a big yawn causing his mouth to open and close due to the size of the yawn. Realising that a new day had appeared once again Goten moved his legs out of the bed sheets until he was just sitting on the bed itself. From there he reached down for his shoes and placed each foot into their respected holes of the shoes and quickly tied the laces up in a tight knot. Then he pick up his orange suit like trousers and placed his legs into the left and right holes and pulled the trousers up to this waist level. Then he picked up his navy blue shirt and placed it over his head and pulled it downwards. Next he took his orange shirt and again placed it over his head and downwards over his navy blue shirt and then tucked them into his trousers. Finally to finish his training clothes he took a thin long horizontal black belt and gently placed it around the middle of his waist. But he took the end and tied it around the East Side of his waist and dropped the black belt so that it tightly sat around his waist but flowed down the East Side instead of the normal centre of the waist.
With a smile he pushed the screen to one side and headed over towards the circle shaped kitchen table. Korin soon heard the footstep of his young pupil and turned to look over at this shoulder and saw the happy looking Goten who looked ready for another days training, with a smirk he said “Hey kid Good morning how do you feel?” Goten actually felt a lot better he could feel that his body was good as new, placing both his legs and feet together followed by the palms of his hands together he bowed his head slightly and said “ Good morning Mister Korin I feel much better thanks”. He said while sitting down on the western stool that sat near the table, Breakfast was finally ready as Korin took two bowels over in his hands and guided them over to the table. There he placed one bowel in front of Goten and another near his seat, then he also went back to the kitchen and placed one glass of milk neat Goten’s bowel and one near his. Finally he placed a small plate of home-made rice cakes in the centre of the table and said “ Breakfast is served kid dig in”. And soon both master and pupil began to enjoy a good breakfast resulting in Goten using the chopsticks and munched away at rapid speeds while Korin calmly had his breakfast. With each bite Goten could feel the softness of the pork in his mouth but he soon enjoyed the other sections of the ramen, a few minutes later Goten placed the chopsticks into the empty bowel and picked up the glass of milk and gulped in down in one go. A gentle sigh escaped his mouth and soon held his stomach in complete satisfaction and said “ AH! That sure hit the spot thanks mister Korin”, the master of the martial arts nodded in response and stood up from his stool and said to Goten “ I’m glad you liked it Goten. But today your mother should be coming to pick you up, so lets start our training right away!” With a smile Goten felt excited about seeing his mom decided to give it his best and said “UH HUH!” while nodding. The youngster followed Korin over to the spiral staircase and climbed it as it went around and around until finally the final step reached the first of the three platforms. Like always Goten walked towards the middle of the platform while Korin who held his walking stick stood before him and said “Kid you’ve done my proud. Your training has been nothing short of excellent. Now then let’s us begin the training as normal, again see you can catch me”.
Goten smiled and stepped to one side, placed his feet apart and stood ready. As Korin looked into the seven year old boy’s eye he threw down the walking stick and stood ready, then like a bell ringing to signal the start of a wrestling match the stick landed with a thud which made Korin’s young pupil to dash forwards. But as he charged Korin gasped at the boy’s speed and used all the agility he had to escape Goten’s hands. He reappeared in mid air and but soon looked like he saw a ghost as the boy simply jumped diagonally towards him from the position that Korin stood before “The chase the cat” exercise began. Korin used his speed to appear just near the ground but Goten simply did the same and used all of his agility to try and catch is mentor. Both mentor and student used their agility to appear across the first platform while Goten used jumps, side dashes and somersaults to try and catch Korin and each time he grew closer to grabbing him and even had a finger on Korin’s tail but it was still no use. A few short hours passed and both Goten and Korin reappeared back on the ground, Goten bent down slightly and held his knees as his breathed in and out, even Korin himself looked abit out of shape. As they both began to catch their own breaths Korin was quite proud and said “ Huh, Huh, Goten! You are definitely getting strong and faster! You’re a Saiyan all right. Huh, huh, I’m getting told old”. The boy breathed in and out and slowly looked back up towards Korin and smirked happily and rubbed the back of his spiky hair and replied “ Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh its all because of your training Mister Korin”. He said with a grin of excitement on his face, Korin stood regained his breath and nodded in agreement, yes Goten had come a long way in his training and it wasn’t long before Chi-Chi would arrive and pick up Goten so time was wasting away.
Standing tall Goten stood ready as Korin picked up his walking stick and said, “ Alright Goten lets us continue with some more physical training. I want you to give me two thousand push-ups”. The Saiyan hybrid gasped in amazement could he really two thousand push-ups when he could barely do one thousand? He looked abit nervous but Goten stared hard into his teachers cat like eyes and saw that he truly believed that he could do it, and since his mom was on his way to pick him up there was no time like the present to make her proud. Without hesitation he got down on all fours and pushed his legs out behind him and slowly placed both hands on the ground, from there he pushed his body weight downwards so that the pressure would build in both of his hands. It was going to be a tough task but Goten was someone who thrived on life and never gave up, he pushed down slowly and then back up. His feet balanced on the ground to help him push up and down “ One… two… three…” With each push downwards he began to count upwards towards the goal of two thousand. Hours passed and back on the first platform Goten was struggling but maintaining his balance with his hands and feet.
The boy’s face was covered in sweat as it dropped down in front of him. His hands revealed his veins as he gritted his teeth and continued counting “One thousand, nine hundred and five, Ngh. One thousand, nine hundred and, Ugh six!” Drops of sweat dripped down from his face but he was almost there and continued onwards for his mom, brother and father. He began to push downwards and upwards slowly but in a struggling like way. After a few more push ups Goten said “ Aaargh! One Thousand nine hundred and ninety nine… Ugh, T… Two, thousand!” And soon dropped down the floor in exhaustion, he breathed in and out heavily as just laid there as he was out of breath and tried desperately to recover to full strength. Korin simply walked over to him and said “You did good kid, rest for a short while you deserve it”. He stood watch as Goten tried to recover from his two thousand push-ups but even though he was out of breath he couldn’t believe that he had actually did it. And he now knew that he could do thousands push-ups, sit ups, pull-ups or handstand push-ups if he really needed to. If Chi-Chi knew what he was doing then she’d had to pull her jaw up from the ground. He watched as drops of sweat dropped down from his forehead and nose and slowly began to move, being as gently as he could Goten slowly moved his arms as they began to ache slightly but he wanted to continue onwards in his training no matter how achy he felt. Picking himself up Goten sighed and slowly stood back up onto his feet again and slowly his breathing slowed down and went back to calm status, Korin watched him pick himself up from the ground and stood ready for more instructions.
With a nod he said, “ Alright Goten let us head back to teaching you how to fly. Now do the same thing again but this time see if you can control your energy and fly in any direction you want to go. Just don’t do flying out of the tower other wise Chi-Chi will kill me”. Giving Korin a nod back he smiled and said “Oh, ok!” Then just like before he looked downwards at his feet and reached deep into his soul, then slowly he concentrated his energy and lifted himself up in mid air. Slowly he smiled happily but not once did he lose concentration, first he aimed for going left and left was exactly where he went but instead of casual floating in mid air he was actually flying but at low speeds. He laughed in excitement and guided himself towards the right and flew right with ease, back down on the ground Korin simply smiled and watched Goten literally play in mid air “Goten is a birdie, Goten is a birdie!” He said in joy but he soon floated back down to the ground and landed perfectly with both feet on the ground, Korin nodded and approval and said, “Well done Goten all you need now is some practice. Keep practising and you will be a pro in no time!” Goten smiled back to Korin’s comments was now more determined then ever to train some more. Korin quickly changed the subject and said, “ Ok lets move on! I want you to punch the air four hundred times for each arm”. With a nod Goten stood side way and stood ready to attack the air.
Then clenching his fists he pushed his left arm forwards and pushed his clenched fist in front of him. But unlike the push-ups he used his agility and pushed his left clenched hand forwards in a rapid machine gun like way. With each punch he quietly counted as he made his way towards the four hundred mark, moments passed and Goten switched to his right arm and punched away as fast as he could go. An hour later and he gave a few punches straight towards the invisible air itself and finally stopped, now his arms were really aching but Korin soon gave a remedy to cure that, however it was a verbal cure the fluffy white cat said “ Nice job Goten. Come let us eat”. Goten happily smiled and followed his cat mentor westwards of the spiral staircase and walked downwards following the spiral path back down towards the second platform, Korin headed northwards towards the kitchen and quickly picked out a few ingredients from the cupboards and turn on the oven. Goten walked over towards his seat and saw down while stretching his arms a little bit while trying to get shake of the ache and pains he was getting, half an hour later Korin brought out lunch which was chicken drumsticks, meatballs and rice.
However first of all he grabbed a nearby towel and handed it towards Goten while saying, “Here ya go kid for the sweat”. With a look of gratitude he took hold of the towel and gently wiped his forehead and face to get rid of any sweat, and quickly handed the towel back to Korin who instantly threw it to one side. Then he placed a plate full of the mouth-watering food before his young student and immediately Goten grabbed the bone side of the chicken drumsticks and bite his way threw the tenderness of the meat. He enjoyed each bite and swallowed them to help soothing his groaning stomach, Korin soon gave his young student another glass of milk and watched as Goten ate and drank like a happy barbarian. He ate the entire chicken drumstick but left the bone and soon went to another one and did the same over and over until his plate was empty, even the meatballs were all gone. Goten leaned back and rubbed the centre of his stomach and placed a satisfied smile on his face and said to Korin “ AH that was delicious! Thanks Mister Korin!” The cat smiled and nodded while he finished his plate and stood up from his stool, there he picked up Goten’s plate and wondered over to the sink while Goten drank all his milk in one go. With a happy sigh Korin said, “ All right Goten shall we continue your training?” Goten happily nodded and immediately replied “Yeah”. And once again both mentor and student headed back up the spiral stair case and followed it upwards towards the first platform, there Goten walked towards the middle of the platform while Korin stood ready to train Goten. With a nod to his pupil Korin said, “So be it Goten I want you to do your best and give me two thousand handstand push ups”. With a smile Goten nodded and did a backward somersault to land on his hands and pushed his legs straight up towards the dome like roof of the first platform, his body weight caused pressure to build on his hands and slowly he pushed downwards and upwards. He felt his hands do their best to hold his weight in the handstand motion but he pressed onwards and went into a rhythm. Several hours passed and just like a broken dam Goten’s forehead and face were covered in drops of sweat as it slowly dripped down his face and down towards the middle of his hands.
He could feel the muscles in his arms begin to throb like a heart beat. But just like before with the push-ups he gritted his teeth and did his best to ignore the pain, he slowly pushed downwards and then upwards while saying ““ Aaargh! One Thousand nine hundred and ninety nine… Ugh, T… Two, thousand!” And quickly fell to the ground with a thud, this time he turned himself around so that his back was turned. His eyes were closed and he breathed in and out in exhaustion, but a smile crept up and let out a tiny laugh in complete joy, as another two thousand-limit exercise was complete. Korin was about to compliment Goten but his ears soon heard something, he looked eastwards and soon saw familiar flying car, which zoomed at high speeds towards his tower, Goten breathed in and out but soon he too heard the engine and opened his eyes. He happily smiled as Chi-Chi drove the car towards the platform and stopped in mid air, still wearing her favourite dress and shawl the mighty Chi-Chi jumped down from the car after activating the autopilot and landed with both feet on the ground. Her love for her youngest son was soon revealed on her face as called out “ Goten! Mommies here sweetie where are you?”. Korin allowed Goten to get some rest and headed westwards towards the spiral stair case and slowly walked downwards until he stopped half way and called downwards towards Chi-Chi “HEY CHI-CHI UP HERE!” The mother of the Son family immediately heard Korin’s face and ran up the spiral stair case as fast as her body could go and brushed past Korin who literally bounced down the staircase like a bouncing ball and headed down towards the second platform.
As she arrived on the first platform she saw her youngest son slowly picking himself up and looked abit out of breath. But he looked up towards his mother and said “Mom you’re here!” Which caused Chi-Chi to run over to her seven-year-old son and gave him the biggest hug her strength could muster, Goten simply laughed in excitement as he once again felt the warmth of his mother’s hug. He really missed his mother very much but he also enjoyed training with Master Korin, speaking of Korin the master cat of the martial arts dragged himself up the spiral staircase and rubbed his head but he wouldn’t day challenge Chi-Chi for knocking him down the staircase. Instead he regained his composure and said, “AHEM, welcome back to my tower Chi-Chi. Your son Goten has been training really well, in fact we are almost there in his training for today why not watch him for a bit?” Chi-Chi pulled away and looked down at her son who nodded happily, with a sigh she stepped back wards until she was standing next to Korin and said “ Alright cat, but remember you better have taken care of my son while I was away”. Korin began to sweat a little bit but he soon shook it off and concentrated on Goten.
Chi-Chi looked down at her young son and somehow she noticed that Goten seemed abit different. I mean Goten looked just the same as normal but there was definitely something that was different about him that Chi-Chi couldn’t get a grasp of. Still she watched him like a hawk while Korin said “ All right kid let finish off the day with four hundred kicks per leg”. Goten nodded and knew it was time to show his mom just how strong he had gotten, during his three day training with Korin, soon he stood to his left side and stood ready to attack. Soon he lifted his leg up and kicked the air with all his might using his left leg. But he soon used all the agility he had as he kicked the air in a machine gun like motion, to reach the four hundred mark. Chi-Chi gasped in amazement as Goten revealed how fast he had gotten but she soon smiled as she felt proud of her son who was training well in front of him. She could barely see the feet of Goten’s kicks but Goten still remembered the promise he made to his mother and that was to not over do things. But still he continued on kicking with all the speed he had. An hour later Goten changed legs and kicked out with his right leg and again moved his leg kicking at his fastest speed in hopes of reaching the four hundred mark and show his mom the results of Korin’s training.
Another hour passed and finally Goten gave a few more kicks and stopped. He bent forwards a little bit and sighed breathed in and out as he felt the muscles of his legs and arms begin to throb some more in pain, Korin sighed happily and said “ Well done kid that’s it for today come lets have a bit to eat”. Goten slowly nodded and watched as Korin walked down the spiral staircase, Chi-Chi walked over towards his son and smiled while saying “ Goten I am proud of you sweetheart. Korin’s training has made you a lot stronger Goten”. The boy simply nodded in response and stood up to be by his mothers side, the two nodded to each other and headed down the spiral stair case towards the second platform, as they arrived Korin was busy as ever preparing dinner. Both mother and son sat down at the table just next to each other, Goten happily explained to his mom about the training sessions he did with Korin and how he fared in each training exercise. Chi-Chi happily listened and felt proud of Goten for going threw such hard training lessons; she was even more surprised when she learnt that her son had begun to learn how to fly. Korin soon walked away from the kitchen and placed a bowel of rice in front of Goten, Chi-Chi and himself. Chi-Chi and Korin held their chopsticks but soon watched as Goten grabbed the bowel with his right hand and used his left hand to hold the chopsticks and dug into his dinner.
Nightfall soon descended upon the sky and Goten who had finished his rice soon rubbed his stomach as it hit the very soft spot of his tummy. But he quickly turned to look at his mom and said “Mom can I ask you something?” Chi-Chi turned to look at her seven year old son and replied “What is it sweetie?” Goten slowly made a huge gulp from his throat and spoke in total honesty to his mom “ Would it be ok if I stayed here for a few more days? I just want to make sure I can fly properly. Then I was thinking of having some good training sessions before we head back home”. She stared hard into Goten’s loving eyes and soon she sighed and smiled with a reply “Alright Goten just for a few more days”. He happily smiled and said, “Thanks mom! Is that ok mister Korin?” The cat slowly nodded his head and smiled with approval.
Moments later Chi-Chi stood near Goten who walked over towards the big screen and opened it revealing the small man made bed. As he laid down with his head resting on the softness of the pillow Chi-Chi bent down and kissed him on the forehead “ Good night Goten”. Goten replied “Good Night mom I really missed you”. And he soon drifted off into a happy but cosy sleep. Chi-Chi picked herself up and closed the screen to allow her son some rest and quietly said “ I missed you too son”. As the starry night sky shone brightly over the sleeping Goten to bring an end to a hard day.
And everybody knows when Chi-Chi is angry no one is really safe! South of the kitchen stood a vertical oblong shaped screen which shielded the temporary bedroom from eyesight. Just behind this screen laid a large roll up bed, which was coloured purple, the pillow was square shaped but was as soft as a bundle of feathers as it comforted Goten’s head within its gentle nature. However the sweet smell of food drifted from the northern end of the kitchen and flowed straight past the screen and appeared above Goten’s nose. The smell soon awakened the senses and immediately Goten sniffed the air and slowly his eyes slowly opened to see the dome shaped roof within his eyesight. He slowly pushed himself upwards slightly and until he was sitting bolt up right and soon closed his eyes and stretched out his left and right arms while letting out a big yawn causing his mouth to open and close due to the size of the yawn. Realising that a new day had appeared once again Goten moved his legs out of the bed sheets until he was just sitting on the bed itself. From there he reached down for his shoes and placed each foot into their respected holes of the shoes and quickly tied the laces up in a tight knot. Then he pick up his orange suit like trousers and placed his legs into the left and right holes and pulled the trousers up to this waist level. Then he picked up his navy blue shirt and placed it over his head and pulled it downwards. Next he took his orange shirt and again placed it over his head and downwards over his navy blue shirt and then tucked them into his trousers. Finally to finish his training clothes he took a thin long horizontal black belt and gently placed it around the middle of his waist. But he took the end and tied it around the East Side of his waist and dropped the black belt so that it tightly sat around his waist but flowed down the East Side instead of the normal centre of the waist.
With a smile he pushed the screen to one side and headed over towards the circle shaped kitchen table. Korin soon heard the footstep of his young pupil and turned to look over at this shoulder and saw the happy looking Goten who looked ready for another days training, with a smirk he said “Hey kid Good morning how do you feel?” Goten actually felt a lot better he could feel that his body was good as new, placing both his legs and feet together followed by the palms of his hands together he bowed his head slightly and said “ Good morning Mister Korin I feel much better thanks”. He said while sitting down on the western stool that sat near the table, Breakfast was finally ready as Korin took two bowels over in his hands and guided them over to the table. There he placed one bowel in front of Goten and another near his seat, then he also went back to the kitchen and placed one glass of milk neat Goten’s bowel and one near his. Finally he placed a small plate of home-made rice cakes in the centre of the table and said “ Breakfast is served kid dig in”. And soon both master and pupil began to enjoy a good breakfast resulting in Goten using the chopsticks and munched away at rapid speeds while Korin calmly had his breakfast. With each bite Goten could feel the softness of the pork in his mouth but he soon enjoyed the other sections of the ramen, a few minutes later Goten placed the chopsticks into the empty bowel and picked up the glass of milk and gulped in down in one go. A gentle sigh escaped his mouth and soon held his stomach in complete satisfaction and said “ AH! That sure hit the spot thanks mister Korin”, the master of the martial arts nodded in response and stood up from his stool and said to Goten “ I’m glad you liked it Goten. But today your mother should be coming to pick you up, so lets start our training right away!” With a smile Goten felt excited about seeing his mom decided to give it his best and said “UH HUH!” while nodding. The youngster followed Korin over to the spiral staircase and climbed it as it went around and around until finally the final step reached the first of the three platforms. Like always Goten walked towards the middle of the platform while Korin who held his walking stick stood before him and said “Kid you’ve done my proud. Your training has been nothing short of excellent. Now then let’s us begin the training as normal, again see you can catch me”.
Goten smiled and stepped to one side, placed his feet apart and stood ready. As Korin looked into the seven year old boy’s eye he threw down the walking stick and stood ready, then like a bell ringing to signal the start of a wrestling match the stick landed with a thud which made Korin’s young pupil to dash forwards. But as he charged Korin gasped at the boy’s speed and used all the agility he had to escape Goten’s hands. He reappeared in mid air and but soon looked like he saw a ghost as the boy simply jumped diagonally towards him from the position that Korin stood before “The chase the cat” exercise began. Korin used his speed to appear just near the ground but Goten simply did the same and used all of his agility to try and catch is mentor. Both mentor and student used their agility to appear across the first platform while Goten used jumps, side dashes and somersaults to try and catch Korin and each time he grew closer to grabbing him and even had a finger on Korin’s tail but it was still no use. A few short hours passed and both Goten and Korin reappeared back on the ground, Goten bent down slightly and held his knees as his breathed in and out, even Korin himself looked abit out of shape. As they both began to catch their own breaths Korin was quite proud and said “ Huh, Huh, Goten! You are definitely getting strong and faster! You’re a Saiyan all right. Huh, huh, I’m getting told old”. The boy breathed in and out and slowly looked back up towards Korin and smirked happily and rubbed the back of his spiky hair and replied “ Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh its all because of your training Mister Korin”. He said with a grin of excitement on his face, Korin stood regained his breath and nodded in agreement, yes Goten had come a long way in his training and it wasn’t long before Chi-Chi would arrive and pick up Goten so time was wasting away.
Standing tall Goten stood ready as Korin picked up his walking stick and said, “ Alright Goten lets us continue with some more physical training. I want you to give me two thousand push-ups”. The Saiyan hybrid gasped in amazement could he really two thousand push-ups when he could barely do one thousand? He looked abit nervous but Goten stared hard into his teachers cat like eyes and saw that he truly believed that he could do it, and since his mom was on his way to pick him up there was no time like the present to make her proud. Without hesitation he got down on all fours and pushed his legs out behind him and slowly placed both hands on the ground, from there he pushed his body weight downwards so that the pressure would build in both of his hands. It was going to be a tough task but Goten was someone who thrived on life and never gave up, he pushed down slowly and then back up. His feet balanced on the ground to help him push up and down “ One… two… three…” With each push downwards he began to count upwards towards the goal of two thousand. Hours passed and back on the first platform Goten was struggling but maintaining his balance with his hands and feet.
The boy’s face was covered in sweat as it dropped down in front of him. His hands revealed his veins as he gritted his teeth and continued counting “One thousand, nine hundred and five, Ngh. One thousand, nine hundred and, Ugh six!” Drops of sweat dripped down from his face but he was almost there and continued onwards for his mom, brother and father. He began to push downwards and upwards slowly but in a struggling like way. After a few more push ups Goten said “ Aaargh! One Thousand nine hundred and ninety nine… Ugh, T… Two, thousand!” And soon dropped down the floor in exhaustion, he breathed in and out heavily as just laid there as he was out of breath and tried desperately to recover to full strength. Korin simply walked over to him and said “You did good kid, rest for a short while you deserve it”. He stood watch as Goten tried to recover from his two thousand push-ups but even though he was out of breath he couldn’t believe that he had actually did it. And he now knew that he could do thousands push-ups, sit ups, pull-ups or handstand push-ups if he really needed to. If Chi-Chi knew what he was doing then she’d had to pull her jaw up from the ground. He watched as drops of sweat dropped down from his forehead and nose and slowly began to move, being as gently as he could Goten slowly moved his arms as they began to ache slightly but he wanted to continue onwards in his training no matter how achy he felt. Picking himself up Goten sighed and slowly stood back up onto his feet again and slowly his breathing slowed down and went back to calm status, Korin watched him pick himself up from the ground and stood ready for more instructions.
With a nod he said, “ Alright Goten let us head back to teaching you how to fly. Now do the same thing again but this time see if you can control your energy and fly in any direction you want to go. Just don’t do flying out of the tower other wise Chi-Chi will kill me”. Giving Korin a nod back he smiled and said “Oh, ok!” Then just like before he looked downwards at his feet and reached deep into his soul, then slowly he concentrated his energy and lifted himself up in mid air. Slowly he smiled happily but not once did he lose concentration, first he aimed for going left and left was exactly where he went but instead of casual floating in mid air he was actually flying but at low speeds. He laughed in excitement and guided himself towards the right and flew right with ease, back down on the ground Korin simply smiled and watched Goten literally play in mid air “Goten is a birdie, Goten is a birdie!” He said in joy but he soon floated back down to the ground and landed perfectly with both feet on the ground, Korin nodded and approval and said, “Well done Goten all you need now is some practice. Keep practising and you will be a pro in no time!” Goten smiled back to Korin’s comments was now more determined then ever to train some more. Korin quickly changed the subject and said, “ Ok lets move on! I want you to punch the air four hundred times for each arm”. With a nod Goten stood side way and stood ready to attack the air.
Then clenching his fists he pushed his left arm forwards and pushed his clenched fist in front of him. But unlike the push-ups he used his agility and pushed his left clenched hand forwards in a rapid machine gun like way. With each punch he quietly counted as he made his way towards the four hundred mark, moments passed and Goten switched to his right arm and punched away as fast as he could go. An hour later and he gave a few punches straight towards the invisible air itself and finally stopped, now his arms were really aching but Korin soon gave a remedy to cure that, however it was a verbal cure the fluffy white cat said “ Nice job Goten. Come let us eat”. Goten happily smiled and followed his cat mentor westwards of the spiral staircase and walked downwards following the spiral path back down towards the second platform, Korin headed northwards towards the kitchen and quickly picked out a few ingredients from the cupboards and turn on the oven. Goten walked over towards his seat and saw down while stretching his arms a little bit while trying to get shake of the ache and pains he was getting, half an hour later Korin brought out lunch which was chicken drumsticks, meatballs and rice.
However first of all he grabbed a nearby towel and handed it towards Goten while saying, “Here ya go kid for the sweat”. With a look of gratitude he took hold of the towel and gently wiped his forehead and face to get rid of any sweat, and quickly handed the towel back to Korin who instantly threw it to one side. Then he placed a plate full of the mouth-watering food before his young student and immediately Goten grabbed the bone side of the chicken drumsticks and bite his way threw the tenderness of the meat. He enjoyed each bite and swallowed them to help soothing his groaning stomach, Korin soon gave his young student another glass of milk and watched as Goten ate and drank like a happy barbarian. He ate the entire chicken drumstick but left the bone and soon went to another one and did the same over and over until his plate was empty, even the meatballs were all gone. Goten leaned back and rubbed the centre of his stomach and placed a satisfied smile on his face and said to Korin “ AH that was delicious! Thanks Mister Korin!” The cat smiled and nodded while he finished his plate and stood up from his stool, there he picked up Goten’s plate and wondered over to the sink while Goten drank all his milk in one go. With a happy sigh Korin said, “ All right Goten shall we continue your training?” Goten happily nodded and immediately replied “Yeah”. And once again both mentor and student headed back up the spiral stair case and followed it upwards towards the first platform, there Goten walked towards the middle of the platform while Korin stood ready to train Goten. With a nod to his pupil Korin said, “So be it Goten I want you to do your best and give me two thousand handstand push ups”. With a smile Goten nodded and did a backward somersault to land on his hands and pushed his legs straight up towards the dome like roof of the first platform, his body weight caused pressure to build on his hands and slowly he pushed downwards and upwards. He felt his hands do their best to hold his weight in the handstand motion but he pressed onwards and went into a rhythm. Several hours passed and just like a broken dam Goten’s forehead and face were covered in drops of sweat as it slowly dripped down his face and down towards the middle of his hands.
He could feel the muscles in his arms begin to throb like a heart beat. But just like before with the push-ups he gritted his teeth and did his best to ignore the pain, he slowly pushed downwards and then upwards while saying ““ Aaargh! One Thousand nine hundred and ninety nine… Ugh, T… Two, thousand!” And quickly fell to the ground with a thud, this time he turned himself around so that his back was turned. His eyes were closed and he breathed in and out in exhaustion, but a smile crept up and let out a tiny laugh in complete joy, as another two thousand-limit exercise was complete. Korin was about to compliment Goten but his ears soon heard something, he looked eastwards and soon saw familiar flying car, which zoomed at high speeds towards his tower, Goten breathed in and out but soon he too heard the engine and opened his eyes. He happily smiled as Chi-Chi drove the car towards the platform and stopped in mid air, still wearing her favourite dress and shawl the mighty Chi-Chi jumped down from the car after activating the autopilot and landed with both feet on the ground. Her love for her youngest son was soon revealed on her face as called out “ Goten! Mommies here sweetie where are you?”. Korin allowed Goten to get some rest and headed westwards towards the spiral stair case and slowly walked downwards until he stopped half way and called downwards towards Chi-Chi “HEY CHI-CHI UP HERE!” The mother of the Son family immediately heard Korin’s face and ran up the spiral stair case as fast as her body could go and brushed past Korin who literally bounced down the staircase like a bouncing ball and headed down towards the second platform.
As she arrived on the first platform she saw her youngest son slowly picking himself up and looked abit out of breath. But he looked up towards his mother and said “Mom you’re here!” Which caused Chi-Chi to run over to her seven-year-old son and gave him the biggest hug her strength could muster, Goten simply laughed in excitement as he once again felt the warmth of his mother’s hug. He really missed his mother very much but he also enjoyed training with Master Korin, speaking of Korin the master cat of the martial arts dragged himself up the spiral staircase and rubbed his head but he wouldn’t day challenge Chi-Chi for knocking him down the staircase. Instead he regained his composure and said, “AHEM, welcome back to my tower Chi-Chi. Your son Goten has been training really well, in fact we are almost there in his training for today why not watch him for a bit?” Chi-Chi pulled away and looked down at her son who nodded happily, with a sigh she stepped back wards until she was standing next to Korin and said “ Alright cat, but remember you better have taken care of my son while I was away”. Korin began to sweat a little bit but he soon shook it off and concentrated on Goten.
Chi-Chi looked down at her young son and somehow she noticed that Goten seemed abit different. I mean Goten looked just the same as normal but there was definitely something that was different about him that Chi-Chi couldn’t get a grasp of. Still she watched him like a hawk while Korin said “ All right kid let finish off the day with four hundred kicks per leg”. Goten nodded and knew it was time to show his mom just how strong he had gotten, during his three day training with Korin, soon he stood to his left side and stood ready to attack. Soon he lifted his leg up and kicked the air with all his might using his left leg. But he soon used all the agility he had as he kicked the air in a machine gun like motion, to reach the four hundred mark. Chi-Chi gasped in amazement as Goten revealed how fast he had gotten but she soon smiled as she felt proud of her son who was training well in front of him. She could barely see the feet of Goten’s kicks but Goten still remembered the promise he made to his mother and that was to not over do things. But still he continued on kicking with all the speed he had. An hour later Goten changed legs and kicked out with his right leg and again moved his leg kicking at his fastest speed in hopes of reaching the four hundred mark and show his mom the results of Korin’s training.
Another hour passed and finally Goten gave a few more kicks and stopped. He bent forwards a little bit and sighed breathed in and out as he felt the muscles of his legs and arms begin to throb some more in pain, Korin sighed happily and said “ Well done kid that’s it for today come lets have a bit to eat”. Goten slowly nodded and watched as Korin walked down the spiral staircase, Chi-Chi walked over towards his son and smiled while saying “ Goten I am proud of you sweetheart. Korin’s training has made you a lot stronger Goten”. The boy simply nodded in response and stood up to be by his mothers side, the two nodded to each other and headed down the spiral stair case towards the second platform, as they arrived Korin was busy as ever preparing dinner. Both mother and son sat down at the table just next to each other, Goten happily explained to his mom about the training sessions he did with Korin and how he fared in each training exercise. Chi-Chi happily listened and felt proud of Goten for going threw such hard training lessons; she was even more surprised when she learnt that her son had begun to learn how to fly. Korin soon walked away from the kitchen and placed a bowel of rice in front of Goten, Chi-Chi and himself. Chi-Chi and Korin held their chopsticks but soon watched as Goten grabbed the bowel with his right hand and used his left hand to hold the chopsticks and dug into his dinner.
Nightfall soon descended upon the sky and Goten who had finished his rice soon rubbed his stomach as it hit the very soft spot of his tummy. But he quickly turned to look at his mom and said “Mom can I ask you something?” Chi-Chi turned to look at her seven year old son and replied “What is it sweetie?” Goten slowly made a huge gulp from his throat and spoke in total honesty to his mom “ Would it be ok if I stayed here for a few more days? I just want to make sure I can fly properly. Then I was thinking of having some good training sessions before we head back home”. She stared hard into Goten’s loving eyes and soon she sighed and smiled with a reply “Alright Goten just for a few more days”. He happily smiled and said, “Thanks mom! Is that ok mister Korin?” The cat slowly nodded his head and smiled with approval.
Moments later Chi-Chi stood near Goten who walked over towards the big screen and opened it revealing the small man made bed. As he laid down with his head resting on the softness of the pillow Chi-Chi bent down and kissed him on the forehead “ Good night Goten”. Goten replied “Good Night mom I really missed you”. And he soon drifted off into a happy but cosy sleep. Chi-Chi picked herself up and closed the screen to allow her son some rest and quietly said “ I missed you too son”. As the starry night sky shone brightly over the sleeping Goten to bring an end to a hard day.