Ox King's Castle On Fire

Kalan healed Goku and kindly materialized a new set of dougi for him.

"Thanks, Kalan." Goku thanked.

"I can't believe how strong Piccolo has become... Kami had already pushed me so hard, yet I still wasn't his match." Goku was still shocked by Piccolo's strength, it was on a whole other level compared to King Piccolo's.

"Yeah... He's pretty talented." Kalan agreed.

"Maybe I should study under you?" Goku asked.

"Uh... All I did was beat him up for 3 years straight..." Kalan said embarrassed.

"Ah?! Maybe he improved himself so he wouldn't get beaten up again?" Goku wondered.

"Well, he did get better. But he still gets beaten up just as much, since I just increased my power a tiny bit to match him." Kalan said honestly.

"..." The group stared dumbly at Kalan. He had shamelessly claimed he trained Piccolo, but what he did was simply beating him up for 3 years straight.

"Well... Since Mr. Piccolo has left before he took the prize money, I'll hand it to you instead." The announcer came over and handed the prize money to Kalan. Since he heard from their earlier talk, he knew Kalan was Piccolo's teacher.

"Alright, by the way, your announcing wasn't so good. You should learn some martial arts from my dojo so you can at least follow the fights." Kalan took the money and invited the announcer to join his dojo. The announcer had only yelled around excitedly without having a clue of the actual happenings of the fight.

"Yes, I've had quite a bit of trouble with regards to this... Even the cameras are unable to catch all the movements... You guys really improve too much. In the past, the camera could catch some of your moves. Please take care of me." The announcer happily agreed.

"Kakarot, why don't you take the money? You guys are getting married, you will need to spend quite a bit for the wedding." Kalan handed Goku the prize money, inside the paper bag was 2 million Zeni.

"The wedding costs money? Okay, thanks." Goku thanked Kalan. He was still clueless about the workings of money. But soon, Chi Chi would teach him that.

Goku and Chi Chi flew on his cloud to Ox King's new castle, they would share the news to the Ox King first and then go to Mt. Paozu and inform Grandpa Gohan. The reason they're going to Ox King first is because Goku doesn't see why it is so important to announce their wedding, but Chi Chi wanted her father to know the news first.

Kalan, Bulma, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Lunch and Yamcha went back to his dojo. Not long after, a frantic Goku and Chi Chi begged Kalan to save Ox King. They were talking about the wedding, when suddenly flames burst out. In order to save her wedding dress, Ox King stayed behind and was now trapped in his castle. Even Goku's Kamehameha couldn't extinguish the flames completely. After the flames were gone, it reappeared moments later. Although the Ox King asked for the Basho Fan, they had no idea where to find it since Master Roshi had throw it away. But they remembered how Kalan had walked through the flames on Mt. Frypan and came out unscathed in the past.

"Kalan, please save my father!" Chi Chi begged.

"No worries, let's go." Kalan followed Goku and Chi Chi to Ox King's castle.

The flames burst out from underground like a volcano, the flames reached up the sky, with it's actual ends unseenable to the eyes.

"Kalan, will you be alright?" Goku asked worriedly. Unlike the flames in the past, this one was much more ferocious.

"Let me try first." Kalan said and stepped inside, he generated a strong Ki Barrier to protect him and had no trouble at all. The flames was much stronger than in the past, but with 10,000 battle power worth of Ki put in the barrier, he was unscathed.

A few moments later, Kalan came out with the Ox King inside his Ki Barrier. Ox King had hugged the wedding dress tightly, letting his body get charred from the flames while the dress was umblemished and still snow white.

"Father!" Chi Chi cried out in joy.

"Ox King old man! Kalan!" Goku was also happy.

"Thank you, Kalan." Ox King thanked.

"No worries." Kalan smiled.

"How are we supposed to extinguish the flames? Do we still need to get the Bansho Fan?" Goku asked.

"Bansho Fan should be able to extinguish any flames." Ox King said confidently.

"Forget about the fan, the flames above won't get extinguished unless you can extinguish the flame source from underground." Kalan explained.

"Underground? The flames do seems to be coming from underground..." Chi Chi was in deep thoughts.

Kalan knew how to fix the flames, so he brought Goku and Chi Chi to Mt. Five Elements. There were illusions blocking them, but Kalan blasted away all the illusions with a Kiai and brought the two to Furnance of Eight Divisions.

"Eh? What a surprise, it's not often I get visitors." Annin come forth to see who the visitors were.

"Are you the pyre keeper?" Goku asked.

"That's right, what do you seek from me?" Annin spoke in a girlish tone, quite unimaginable considering her age being over 1,000.

Goku and Chi Chi explained that Ox King's castle were on fire, Annin immediately guessed the reason being a hole in the furnace which leaked out the flames to Ox King's castle.

"Turn off the furnance! It's burning down Ox King's Castle!" Goku said.

"Impossible! Without the mist coming out from the pan, the dark spirits will take over the living world!" Annin refused.

"Annin, look!" Kalan brought out King Enma's personal medallion.

"Ah!? King Enma-sama's personal medallion!" Annin worked under King Enma and immediately recognized the medallion.

"Annin greets lord." Annin greeted Kalan respectfully as if he was her boss.

"Enough of the formalities, just lift the pan and I'll patch the hole." Kalan wasn't interested in these mythological lores. Annin might be famous for being a amiable deity, but that didn't interest Kalan.

"Ah? You want to jump onto the Furnace of Eight Divisions? You'll die! Even I don't dare to jump inside!" Annin hurriedly refused.