DBZ: Ascending

3 - Learn From The Witch

Satori scoffed slightly before giving a grin at the man. "You gonna be lonely without me?"

*Thwack*

He received a hit from such comment and glared at the boy would clutched onto his head in pain. "Get going already and stop wasting time!"

"I really do feel like I'm losing brain cells..."

"Then I hope you'll enjoy losing more!"

Satori floated up when the Namekian raised his fist once more while waving his hands around in a gesture to stop the man from hitting him. "I'm going. I'm going. Jeez, it was just a joke." Looking towards a location from the information he received in which would lead towards the right direction he was expecting to fly at, he gave a small wave to Piccolo before increasing his flight in the air and leaving the Namekian to watch slightly with the breeze brushing his cloak back.

"Hmph, You'd better be stronger when you come back, brat."

XXX

"And that's the gist of it."

The old lady who known as Fortuneteller Baba has a very old and weathered appearance. She was short enough that her body could neatly fit on top of the floating crystal ball that she used to move around on. Most of her hair was covered up by her black pointed hat which only gave a better image of the person before him of being a witch. Although his arrival was unannounced, the woman was already present to greet him even though she had a slight frown on her face.

Perhaps it was due to him being so young or for another reason entirely that he wouldn't receive an answer to as the women simply sighed after staying silent to his explanation as to why he was here.

"I've already been notified of your arrival recently. An unusual person being taught by the Demon King Piccolo himself. Tell me, what did you do to get such occurrence to happen?"

Satori titled his head to the question as he visualised to the reason of the Namekian actually teaching him. The boy winced when all he could remember was the constant pain that was healed over time before applying new wounds. "I guess you could say I could handle the 'extreme' torture."

"You mean training, I believe." She attempted to correct the boy on for him to shake his head in a negative.

"I know what I said, but thanks anyway."

"Well, it doesn't really matter to me what you call it, having that person not going on a rampage just for the sake of it at this current time is more than enough to cover your cost in assisting you to further your knowledge of sorcery. You'll find my experience on the stuff to be much higher than Piccolo's own knowledge he had provided."

Satori nodded his head with a smile on being accepted without any issues and followed the floating women inside the building. "Wait you said cost?"

"Ah, don't worry about it, even if I was to have you do a trial, I doubt they would be a match for you. It's best to speed things up and have you finish soon. Especially with what the future holds with someone like you."

"Before that," Satori stopped following with forced the woman to stop and look back at the boy in wonder, "Piccolo once asked if I was human. Do you know what I am?" The only thing he got from his question was a weird look before shaking her head with a slight scoff.

"Don't take what the Demon King said for granted, there's a lot of weird things in this world that are different to others which are common. Some are giants while some are small-"

"Like you? ACHUGH!!" He was whacked on the head with a stick that appeared out of nowhere.

"As I was saying, no one is the same, you having a sharper and longer ears compared to a rounder one isn't unusual no matter what others say. For all I know, your just another human child who somehow has a high maturity for someone your age."

Satori sighed and simply smiled at her answer, the explanation eased his mind as to him being misplaced if he were to arrive at a city but it seemed to be just a mindless worry. She was indeed correct that Piccolo couldn't be the best excuse since he was still well known for terrorising the world all those years ago and some wouldn't forget such an event, especially when it was live during the Martial Arts Tournament. "Thanks for that, I'll do my best to learn everything to the best of my ability."

"Good, I expect as much for someone who carries a high aptitude for both types of energy. If you can master the art of channeling both magic and Ki, you'll find more ideas in how you use those types of energy." Turning back to face the building, she gestured for the boy to follow. "Now if you don't have anything else to say, let's go in, shall we?"

"Alright."

XXX

It had been approximately a month now soon after the departure of Satori in his search to study further with Baba which left with the Namekian to mostly meditate with no one else to physically train with as well as not having a higher proficiency in altering weights compared to the boy but was decent enough. The tension upon his mind was erratic and strange, however such emotions began to simmer upon the arrival of the boy which developed a newfound expression. It was bizarre thing to occur to someone like him but not something he was opposed to, especially when the strength he gained was increase from his time with Satori.

As of now, the increase in power was reduced with his absence but that did not mean he was dependent on the boy in the first place, it was after all a simple experiment which began to turn into a bond of teacher and student. The boy's emotion of the reason was highly dull and lacked any fear to his statements which may have been due to his maturity. Reincarnation wasn't something he expected the first time to be the explanation of his appearance but not something that was unusual if he took his predicament as an example. 'He' birthed him as an heir which was typically the same in making sure to follow the plan which was ruined. I'm an act of revenge, Piccolo himself followed the memories and experience and improved himself further in order to not make the same mistake only to actually cause it happen nonetheless.

Such loss would not happen this time round when he would fully prepare himself.

?!

Piccolo turned to face another direction when he felt a high amount of energy proceed to approach his destination. "W-what is this power I'm sensing? It can't be..." The familiar energy almost confused due to the similarities to that of his rival. "Goku?!" He shook his head as he noticed the nature of the energy to be darker that would have been an anomaly to Goku's own and yet the one who possessed this amount of energy completely surpassed his and Goku's own strength combined."Whose that?"

The figure began to be more visible as the being flew at a quick pace before learning in front of the Namekian giving a smirk and with his arms crossed.

"You're not Kakarot..."