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Our story begins when a young boy named Goku meets a girl named Bulma. Goku decides to join Bulma on her journey to find all 7 of the magical Dragon Balls. Bulma wants to find all 7 Dragon Balls to wish for a boyfriend, after of course she learns to legend of the Dragon Balls. Of course, a good story needs a bad villain. In this case, we meet a little runt named Pilaf, the king of some small kingdom, and his henchmen, Mai (a girl) and Shao (a ninja dog), all of which want to find the Dragon Balls too, and use them for bad things. Along the way on their Dragon Ball quest, Goku and Bulma meet many interesting friends. First, they encounter a lost turtle named Turtle. Bulma and Goku help Turtle find his way back home, where they meet an old man named Master Roshi. From Roshi, Goku is given the "Flying Nimbus", a flying cloud that can only be ridden by those pure of heart, which of course Goku qualifies for. The Flying Nimbus becomes Goku's main source of transportation throughout the rest of the series. Goku and Bulma soon find their way into what seems to be a deserted city. When they find the townspeople in hiding, they assume that there is something terrorizing their city. A monster named Oolong is the culprit. Oolong is a shapeshifting pig looking for a bride in the town. After an encounter in the city, Goku defeats Oolong. The pig decides to join Goku and Bulma on their quest. The 3 soon find their way into a vast wasteland known as the Diablo Desert. Oolong tells them of a bandit guarding the desert, driving away trespassers who stumble upon this home. his name is Yamcha, the Desert Bandit, a ruthless martial arts master. Yamcha, and his shapeshifting partner Puar (he went to Shapeshifting Academy with Oolong) find the group and engages in battle with Goku. Yamcha is defeated of course, and he and Puar tag along with Oolong, Bulma and Goku. From that moment on, Yamcha and Bulma sort of have a "thing" going on between them. On the top of a mountain called Frying-Pan is where they find a Dragon ball, and where the group meets another ally, this time in a man named the Ox-King (a student of Master Roshi), and his daughter named Chi-Chi. The top of the mountain has also caught on fire. To help with this, Master Roshi comes and delivers a special power ball called the "Kamehameha Wave" which blows out the fire. Master Roshi claims it took him 50 years to learn this move. Goku sees this and decides to try it out for himself. To everyone's amazement, he nails it on the first try! Goku and Chi-Chi get into talking, and Chi-Chi asks if Goku will marry her when she and him are old enough. Goku, using the "brain-power" he has, (thinking that marriage is some kind of food) heartily agrees. Now the group travels to the palace of Pilaf to gather the Dragon Balls he had collected. Pilaf captures them and steals their Dragon Ball. He then proceeds to make his evil wish: to what else? Rule to world of course. He summons the Eternal Dragon by putting all of the Dragon Balls next to eachother. Goku tries to break a hole in the wall of the cell he and his friends are put in by using his new technique, the Kamehameha Wave. The wave makes a small hole in the wall. Now, all of them are too small for the whole, but by converting into bats, they fly through the hole in the wall. Oolong of all people saves the day right before Pilaf makes his wish by making a wish of his own: a pair of women's underwear! The Dragon grants his wish and the Dragon Balls turn to stone and once again are scattered throughout the face of the globe, waiting to be activated in one year. Pilaf gets really P.O.ed by this and puts the group into a large cell with a glass roof, where they can fry the next morning.Outside is a full moon. Goku glances up and remembers of a large monkey monster who killed his grandpa Gohan while there was a full moon out. Before dying, Gohan tells Goku to never, ever look at the full moon. Goku says he doesn't remember a thing because he slept through it and does not remember the monster. The team starts to get a bit shaky, hoping that Goku isn't that same monster. Bulma tells Goku not to look at the moon. Goku wonders why and turns around to face the moon. Goku then begins to transform into a giant weremonkey known as an Oozaru. While growing, Goku bursts through the glass top of the cell, freeing him and his friends. They were safe from being turned into fried chicken, but were not safe from their enlarged friend Goku. They try to cut off his tail to see if it works, and does. Goku shrinks down to his normal, human, nude self. The group decides not to tell Goku what happened because it would break him if he were to find out he was the monster who killed his grandpa. After that, the group decides what to do. Goku says he shall train with Master Roshi on his island, while the others decide to live in the city. Since she already has her wish (a boyfriend, named Yamcha), Bulma gives Goku her Dragon Radar to help him find his grandfather's four-star Dragon ball again 1 year later. After a few goodbyes, the group departs their own ways.  
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