Chapter 5 - Training and an overnight stay

That evening I went to bed pretty early. It had been an exhausting day today.
The next morning I helped my parents around the house and did some exercise in the afternoon.
The next 2 days were pretty calm. I helped my parents and went shopping once. There I met some of my classmates, mostly girls, of course.
On Monday, when school started again, I went to school with a pounding heart. I didn't know how the others dealt with the fact that I had participated in the big tournament and had also beaten Goten. Already in the yard I met Trunks and Goten, who greeted me happily. "Hi Lia," they greeted me. "Hello you two. Did you have a big party after the tournament? After all, your father won Goten," I wanted to know from him. "Of course, we had a big party at Trunks, why did you go straight away, we wanted to invite you too," said the person addressed."No, I'm not that much of a party person and besides, I had had enough excitement for the day and just wanted to go to bed," I replied and went into the school building with the two of them. "Say was that your first tournament?" Trunks asked me. "Yes, unfortunately it was only my first. Before we lived so far away and my parents didn't want it. Otherwise I would have participated much earlier. When was your first tournament?" I reply. "I took part in the tournament for the first time when I was 7 years old and Goten when I was 6," he replied. My mouth almost fell open. "At the age of 6 and 7? Since when have you been fighting?" I asked in disbelief. "Always. Our fathers are also good fights and have, so to speak, transferred their hobby to us and also train us," Trunks explained to me. However, we could not continue to talk because the others had noticed us and were now pestering us with questions. But I quickly snuck away and went to our classroom.I sat down on my seat and hoped that the doorbell would ring soon and the pack would have to go to class. But now some girls came up to me. "Lia, I didn't even know that you were fighting with Trunks and Goten in the big tournament. Why didn't you tell us?", One of the girls wanted to know. "I just forgot and I thought you wouldn't care anyway," I tried to talk myself out of it. "Is it true that you defeated Goten and finished 2nd overall?" Asked a boy who had come to me. "Uh, yes that's true, but I was also very lucky," I said, embarrassed. The others were just about to ask more questions when the doorbell rang. Now Trunks and Goten came into the classroom a little late.
The lesson was reasonably quiet, only some of our classmates could not keep their mouths shut again.
After the lesson, I quickly crumbled into the changing rooms with Trunks and Goten so that at least the students from the other classes would not be punished.I changed quickly and waited for the other girls, who came shortly afterwards. "Oh, here you are Lia, the others have already been looking for you," one of the girls said to me. "I already thought so, that's why I left quickly. That's why I don't like to be the center of attention," I tried to talk myself out of it. The others were satisfied with that and left me alone. But the boys outside pestered me with questions because they didn't really want to believe that I was really the same Lia who came 2nd in the big tournament. But luckily we had to run, so the boys didn't have too much time to pierce me and the hour passed.
During the lunch break I had withdrawn into a quiet corner that hardly any student knew, where no one could disturb me. When I thought I was alone, two people came up to her around the corner. I was relieved to see that it was just Trunks and Goths."Hey, could you escape too?" I asked cheekily to draw her attention to me. They turned around in shock and looked at me in amazement. "You are not the only ones who know this hiding place", I said with a shrug and went back to my lunch. Only now did I notice that both of them had a large backpack with them, but I couldn't figure it out until they took out the contents. We could leave our things in the classrooms. The two took a lot of food out of the backpacks and started eating and at what a pace. "My goodness, you can really tell that you are related to Son Goku," I said to Goten with a grin. "Why?" Asked the one addressed between two bites. "Because your father also has a very healthy appetite, that's why. Oh and you don't talk with your mouth full," I replied and went back to my food. The rest of the meal passed in silence, apart from the boys smacking their lips. 'How can you have such manners?'I thought, shaking my head, but didn't go into it any further.
Trunks was the first of the two to finish. "Tell me, Lia, how long have you been fighting?" He asked me. "For as long as I can remember, I've just been enjoying it. But you should know that, right?" I replied. He just nodded.
"Tell me, what do you think of training with us. It's definitely more fun than alone. What do you think?" He asked me then. I thought about it for a while and then agreed. "But I have to go home first and let my parents know. How about I come to the CC around 4am?" I suggested. "Yes, that's okay. I'm looking forward to it," he said. Then the doorbell rang again and we went into the classroom. There were our classmates again who wanted to overwhelm us with questions again, but this was prevented by our teacher, who entered the classroom at that moment.So the lesson was pretty quiet.
After school, I quickly made my way home. Firstly, because I still wanted to go to the CC and I didn't want to be pestered with questions from the others.
After five minutes I got home, where my mother was waiting to eat. "Hello, do you mind if I go to the CC afterwards?" I asked her. She looked at me a little puzzled. "What do you want there?", She wanted to know from me. "I planned to train a little with Trunks and Goten. The two boys from my class that I already told you about," I explained to her. "Are they the same guys from the tournament where you beat one of them?" She asked. "Yes, I defeated Goten at the big tournament," I answered in the affirmative. "And they didn't say anything about your strength?" She said to me, a little incredulously. "No, that surprised me a bit too, but I have a suspicion. Actually, it can't be people as much as they eat," I explained my assumption to her."And what do you think they are?" She asked me. She knew that there were also other forms of life than humans and animals. I wasn't human myself and she knew that too. "I don't know exactly yet. There are some contradictions that I have to clarify first," I told her.
My mother agreed that I trained with Trunks and Goten in the CC. I also stood in front of the door punctually at 4 a.m. and rang the bell. I had put on a spaghetti top and long sports pants. I tied my hair in a ponytail to cover my ears. I heard a loud rumble down the stairs and something coming down. A few moments the door opened and a girl with blue hair stood in front of me. I estimated her to be 13 or 14 years old. "Hello, I'm Lia. Is your brother here?" I asked her gently. I just concluded that she looks like Bulma, Trunks' younger sister."Yes, he just has to get up," she said a little cheekily and moved a little to the side. At the end of the stairs Trunks and Goten were lying and seemed to be fighting over something. 'So it was Trunks and Goths who fell down the stairs. "Sorry, I still have something to do," said Trunks sister goodbye to me and went upstairs, I guess she still had to do something for school. Trunks and Goten still didn't calm down when I stepped in. "Hey you two fighters, I don't want to interrupt your incredibly important argument, but I actually came here to train and not to watch you fight," I said to the two in a louder tone so that they would also listen to me. They both got up quickly and apologized to me because I looked a little angry. "Sorry. Will not happen again", Trunks assured me and I put on a relaxed face again. "I want to hope that for you too, because then I'll get really angry," I said.“But I'm not here to talk either, but to train.” The two nodded and walked ahead. We walked through the CC for a while until it got too colorful and I asked. "Where are we actually going?" "We're going to the GR. This is a room in which you can increase gravity. Trunks mother built it," Goten explained to me. It sounded interesting, I'd never trained in multiple gravity before. I was excited like a little child. After a while we arrived at a door, from which there were already fighting noises and I had such a faint suspicion who it might be. My suspicions were confirmed when Trunks entered something into the external computer and opened the door. Vegeta was standing there with only short, tight pants and blond hair. 'Didn't he have black hair? That would match the characteristics of Saiajins if I'm not mistaken, 'I thought. Vegeta had already discovered us and quickly got black hair again.The boys looked at me quickly to see if I had heard. Since I didn't want to hear lazy excuses, I pretended to take a closer look at the room itself. The boys breathed a sigh of relief. Vegeta passed us with a not exactly friendly look, not without giving me a disapproving look. I didn't care, it was mutual. The two briefly explained to me how the GR worked and we turned the gravity up. It was unusual for me but not really difficult to cope with. Whenever I got used to gravity, we shifted up a bit, but stopped at 150. Since it had gotten a bit late in the meantime and I didn't have to give any explanations to the boys, they were amazed when I exceeded the 50 limit and the boys' faces became more confused with every increase. We also did exercise, at every level of difficulty. The boys had a small advantage, as they had often trained with increased gravity.Towards evening I wanted to go home again, but then I ran into Bulma. "Lia, nice to see you. Wouldn't