King Kai, the watcher of the North Quadrant of the universe was currently doing his job as his greatest pupil, Son Goku furiously trained in his Ascended Super Saiyan transformation.
The short rotund deity of the north noticed some peculiar happening on earth." Goku, come quick. Something is happening on earth," he called over his shoulder.
Goku quickly ceased his training and rushed over to his teacher. "What's happening King Kai?" He asked.
"Something's happening to Haru," the Kai answered worriedly. "Place your hand on my shoulder to see," he ordered in the same worried tone.
Goku reverted back to his base form and quickly grabbed hold of the deity to witness the chain of events that had transpired and was at a loss of words.
"What's happening to Haru?" He questioned.
"I don't know Goku," King Kai answered.
The next thing to happen put everyone in even more shocked states. Haru began to rapidly lose power.
"It's taking his power!" Vegeta exclaimed as he shot a weak Ki blast at the fire.
It was bounced back by some invisible shield and he smacked it away into the distance.
Too bad no one thought of an aerial rescue. But wait, one did. The Nimbus cloud swooped in from the sky and entered the confines of flames and tried to get under Haru to lift him up and out to safety.
Piccolo lunged forward in an attempt to rescue his first friend and the magical cloud because its attempt to rescue the boy was seemingly futile.
But just then, the ring above Haru sealed itself into a disk. Trapping both Haru and Nimbus before it dropped to the ground, trapping Haru inside a cylinder of flames.
"Get out of there, Haru!" A voice shouted from the sky.
Everyone looked up in search for Goku but they couldn't see him. He must've been watching this play out from otherworld.
"Haru, move!" Goku shouted again.
The boy couldn't even move with his power being sapped. At the rate it was falling, he'd be dead in no time.
However, it stopped falling at just above Chi Chi's in power and stabilized there. He was now weak.
"You've got to get out of there!" Goku shouted again.
However, just as everyone was about to try and help, the flame engulfed Haru entirely.
"Agh!" Haru screamed in pain as the blue flames danced on his flesh.
In otherworld, Goku made a critical decision and placed two fingers to his forehead.
"Goku, you can't," King Kai tried to warn him.
Goku didn't listen as he used Instant Transmission to get to earth.
He arrived just feet from Haru and dived at his son. But as soon as he left the ground, the flame suddenly disappeared with Haru!
Everyone gasped at the sight of Goku. They didn't expect the earth raised Saiyan to appear. But as fast as he did arrive, he was gone, leaving them just as confused as before.
"Was that Kakarot?" Vegeta questioned.
"Yeah, that was Goku." Yamcha answered.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BABY!?" Chi Chi shrieked before she fainted, hitting the ground with a thud. Apparently, seeing her son disappear and her dead husband appear was enough to make her pass out.
The Z-Fighters all made their way to the spot Haru had just been standing.
Burned into the ground, was a message:
"He was chosen," Krillin read it aloud.
"Chosen?" Roshi repeated.
"Chosen for what?" Piccolo snarled, angry at the loss of his pupil.
"What happened to Haru?" Naru questioned with years already streaming down her face.
"Where'd he go, mom?" Trunks asked, tugging on Bulma's arm.
"Why don't we just use the Dragonballs?" Bulma ignored her son's question to ask her own.
Everyone seemed to become calm again. The Dragonballs had to be the solution.
Ten minutes later, the entire group was on the lookout facing the Eternal Dragon, Shenron. There was no need to recite everything that happened to Dende.
The wish for Haru to come back to life had already been asked for and the mortals were waiting for a response from Shenron.
"Your wish can not be granted," the Dragon answered in its booming voice.
"What?!" They all questioned together. Chi Chi fainted again.
"Mighty Shenron, why can you not bring him back to life?" Dende politely asked.
"Because the one called Haru does not exist." Shenron boomed.
"WHAT!?" They all gasped.
"That is preposterous!" Vegeta bellowed. "Today is his birthday!" He shouted.
Shenron was contemplating this for several minutes; in fact, nearly ten minutes passed before the wish granting dragon responded: "The one called Haru did exist but does not anymore."
"How is that possible?" Bulma questioned. Her scientific mind is searching for an explanation.
"You ask a lot of questions. Do you have a wish or not?" Shenron questioned.
"We wish to know what happened to him!" Krillin shouted.
Shenron's eyes narrowed, causing the ex monk to shrink back a little. "That wish cannot be granted," the dragon replied. "It is beyond the knowledge of I, the Eternal Dragon," Shenron told them.
The heroes all looked to each other in hope that one of them had an idea. They all had saddened faces as they either looked away or held their heads down in shame.
"Then… you can return to your slumber." Dende told the dragon.
"Farewell," Shenron said as he returned to his home in the balls.
"Gosh, what are we gonna do you guys?" Krillin sighed in defeat.
Piccolo flew off angrily. The loss of his only pupil was getting to him and he needed to go release this anger somewhere before he killed someone.
Vegeta took Bulma into his arms and ordered Trunks to follow. The lavender-haired half-Saiyan bid farewell to Naru once more before leaving.
Tien and Chautzu both left, followed by Yamcha, and Krillin; the ex-monk needed to shed some tears in private and his wife knew this.
Master Roshi, Eighteen, Marron Puar, Oolong, and Turtle boarded the JetCopter that belonged to the old hermit before flying off.
The Ox King was left with his granddaughter and his unconscious daughter on the Lookout with Popo and Dende trying to help get her awake. The big man couldn't help but cry like Naru. Even Dende shed tears.