[Quest]

Ben Weeks
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story to that address. DO NOT send them to TOD or anywhere else, as I'm sure they will
be highly annoyed with me. -_-; Thanks for reading, and thanks for the input!  I 
always respond to emails, so let me know what you think!!  That is all--Ben out.





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Chapter Two
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	Darkness.


	What makes a good story?  Is it the plot?  Perhaps, but then again,
not always.  Many popular things are huge but when you get right down to
the nitty-gritty, they have a bad/incomprehensible plot.	
	Is it the characters?  Large part, perhaps, but not all of it.
	Well, then, what of the writing style?  Again, that's a large part
indeed, but not all.  There's something more, some indefinable air of 
quality, of feeling, of a story that makes tears come to your eyes.  

	That's what separates excellent stories from the good ones.

	When I'm finished reading a good book, I close it and sit back,
contemplating upon it, an air of euphoria over me.

	When I'm finished with an excellent book, I almost immediately feel
emotions stirring up into me.  I always feel a little choked up.

	What words do these authors use?  What a magical hold they have! 
What wouldn't I give to have that same hold..
	
	
	Every good story needs despair, a thought that the good guys will 
lose.
	
	And the DBZ Saga desperately needs a good story where the Bad Guys
Win after all is said and done.  

	Will I provide that story?

	Read and you shall find out....





	Dawn.



	Gohan felt himself falling out of a pit of despair into a country of
pain.  He went from feeling that he had somehow failed in every aspect to
physically feeling like he'd been drug behind a Mack Truck for several 
miles, then dumped into a garbage heap.

	He gasped for air and coughed up blood, leaning up and opening his
eyes slowly.

	Thin light trickled in and he gasped in pain, shutting them again.

	The ground below him was soft...but not bed-soft.  Sand?

	Yes, it was sand.  Why sand?  Where was he?  What was going on?

	Gohan opened his eyes again hesistantly.  This time there was no
pain, just a little ache as they grew accustomed to the