The Ferryman Charon

By: Andross937

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the rights to Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, or anything related to them. I claim no ownership over the characters related to these series nor anything related to them. The original characters featured in this fic are not copyrighted and there fore may be used by anyone without claiming ownership. If anyone of the owners of any three of the series should wish it, I will remove this story from the internet. I am making no profit from this story. The events of this story are completely fictional.

If anyone is seriously offended by any of the material contained in this story, I will attempt to remove it from the story. I have no intentions of offending anyone. I will remove the story if it is impossible to remove the material and attempt to rewrite it in a way to remove the material. If it is not possible, I may leave it off the internet.

Summery: Gohan goes on a school trip with his class to an archeological dig on another continent. How will he be Saiyaman in the city and Gohan at the dig site without anyone suspecting? How will he hide his secret when serious trouble erupts at the dig site and Saiyaman must make an appearance? Will Videl suspect him for who he really is?

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Gohan walked out of class for the day, happy to be out of the boring class. He seriously found the classes to be extremely boring, since he learned all of the material when he was four years old. A smile graced his features when he remembered his mother's hard teaching habits when he was that age, always wanting him to be a good scholar when he grew up.

If it hadn't been for the coming of the Saiyans, he would have been past college level by the time he was seven years old. As it was, he was past that level by the time he was twelve! His smile only grew as he remembered the only reason he came to this school at all, to make friends his age.

It was then that his friends decided to make their presence known to him with a good throat clearing behind him. He turned and smiled at Erasa and Sharpener as they stood behind him.

"Hey guys!" he said with a bit of nervousness to his voice. They had that mischievous look to their eyes.

"Who were you thinking about Gohan?" Erasa asked 'innocently'.

"A girl I bet you." Sharpener said with a smirk.

"W-what!? Nonononono! I wasn't thinking of anyone! Honestly!" he pleaded, now even more nervous then before. "What would give you that idea?" he said with his eyes closed, a grin plastered on his face in earnest, and his hand scratching the back of his neck in the classic 'Son' pose that he, his brother, and his father were famous for.

Suddenly his smile almost dropped completely off of his face at the thought of his father. He didn't have to die. If only Gohan had listened to him and killed Cell earlier. It was his fault, yet it wasn't. He had just about gotten over it by then, but it still hurt to think of it.

"He stopped smiling because he knows we're right." Sharpener said, still with his smirk on his face.

"What? No, I just thought of something painful, that's all." Gohan said more calmly now.

"Well, maybe you'll cheer up when you think of the class trip we're taking in two days." Erasa reminded him. "It's going to be, like, so cool! There'll be so many places to shop around there!" she exclaimed.

"I thought we were going to be visiting the dig site mostly, not the malls." Gohan said with a sweat drop going down the back of his head as he slumped over a bit at thinking about having to carry the mountains of bags that she would most likely buy on a shopping spree. 'After all, what are friends for?' he echoed Erasa's words in his mind.

"Of course silly, but we will have three hours to ourselves every day! We can all go shopping then!" she exclaimed even happier.

"You mean that you can go shopping and drag us along…" Sharpener muttered under his breath. Gohan's sensitive hearing picking it up easily, but so did Erasa. She slammed her purse over his head quickly.

"You know very well that you'd find the first exercise store and stay there the whole day, not like Gohan here who happens to be a true gentleman! So stop your complaining!" she scolded.

"Well, I have to admit, that I'll be enjoying this week if only to get away from school for a while." Gohan stated with a small grin on his face.

Erasa and Sharpener just stared at him with blank, an almost frightened look to their faces. Suddenly Videl came walking up next to them. She held more of a smirk on her face.

"So, Gohan actually happy to get away from school? That's a first one! You've never wanted to get away from school before, any special reason now?" she asked.

"Yeah Gohan, who is she? You know someone living where we're going, or just looking forward to some alone time with one of the girls in our class?" Sharpener asked with his grin returning full force.

"What?! NO! It's just that school has been so boring! That's all! I swear! I'm just anxious to get away from school and my mother is all!" he answered quickly. "She's been on my case about my grades lately and I'm looking forward to getting away from it for a while." he said, a bit calmer this time.

Erasa looked hardly convinced while Sharpener just shrugged. "Why would your mother get on you about your grades when you can make straight A's without even being awake in class?" he asked.

Gohan mumbled something they couldn't understand, almost as if he were ashamed. Finally, after they leaned closer and closer to listen to what he said he spoke more clearly.

"I missed one of the questions on my test a week ago. She hasn't let up on me since. I just filled in the wrong space on accident is all. It really was a pure mistake." he said still quietly.

Sharpener couldn't help but fall over and laugh his head off, mumbling something about nerds and their grades the whole time while Erasa just kicked him in the ribs a few times.

"Wow Gohan, your mom's strict." Videl commented. "I'm just looking forward to a week without any crime fighting." she said with a smile.

"What?!" exclaimed both Sharpener and Erasa. "But we thought that your wouldn't go because-" Erasa began.

"-You wouldn't leave the Police force to fend for themselves for a week!" Sharpener finished.

"Nope!" she said with a smile. "They assured me that I can go and not worry about a thing. They assured me that they will be just fine, calling in several officers off of their vacations and such to make up the difference to show their appreciation for all my hard work! They also said they would be fine with Saiyaman still here, for a week at least." she said coolly, watching Gohans expression carefully. She still suspected that he had at least something to do with Saiyaman.

Gohan did the famous Son grin and put his hand behind his head nervously. He knew she was trying to figure out more of his secrets. He had to keep his cool, or else she would blow his cover easily.

"Wow, that's great Videl. It's nice to know that you can actually take a brake without the city falling apart at the seems without you." he said nervously. This would be a long vacation. He could tell that she had only begun her constant effort to uncover the truth behind him.

However, she backed off for now and started conversation with Erasa. He sighed in relief as the heat seemed to die down around him now that the spotlight had been removed from him. He had to be careful now that she had an entire week to focus her attention on trying to interrogate him into telling her the truth.

Then it hit him that she would get suspicious if she came back after a week and found that Saiyaman hadn't made even one appearance while she was gone. That would lead her to believe even more that Saiyaman was going to their school and even in her class! It would only be a matter of time before she narrowed it down to him after that. Luckily he had prepared for that.

His mind wondered to the time he had spent training with Piccolo and Krillin recently learning the split form technique. He smiled as he remembered that he had finally mastered it, but almost frowned when he remembered that he would be unable to go super saiyan while in the split form. That shouldn't be a problem though, as he doubted he would have to go super saiyan to protected the city for a week.

He kept an almost goofy smile on his face while walking with his friends thanks to knowing he had an advantage in this game to find out his secrets that Videl played. He almost didn't notice his friends stop their talking and start to stare at him strangely. His nervousness returned full force as he realized that they had asked him a question and he wasn't paying attention.

"I'm sorry, what did you ask?" he said while doing the 'Son' smile, nervousness written all over his face.

"We were just wondering why you were following us to mall to buy clothes. Did you finally decide to ditch these horrible fashion disasters?" Erasa asked.

"Um, no! I just got caught up in my thoughts and followed you guys out of habit. Actually, I have to go visit some family friends before going home. See ya!" he shouted as he ran off in a different direction.

The girls just shrugged as they dragged Sharpener along to help carry Erasa's clothes. Videl silently wondered what Gohan was thinking about, and why he really had had that goofy grin on his face. 'Why was he headed to Capsule Corp?' she wondered to herself.

As soon as Gohan was safely out of sight, he kicked up his speed a few notches. He ran so fast that no normal human could see him as he arrived at the gate of Capsule Corp in three seconds. Quickly putting in his code, he walked through the gate before anyone noticed him on the streets. He made his way to the front door and entered his code, waiting for the door to open.

The door opened and he walked in. The door shut behind him and he started to walk for Bulma's lab. Suddenly he heard it.

"GOHAN!!!" came a voice loud enough to be heard outside the door as a small impression in the shape of a body was made into the wall visible from the street. Gohan looked down to find that it had been Goten that had tackled him with so much force. He had almost forgotten that he had come over today.

"Hey squirt! How ya doing?" he asked as he managed to get up again and Goten detached himself from him.

"I'mgreat!How'reyoudoingGohan?Trunksandmeplayedtraininggamesallday!Vegetaevenletususethegravityroomforawhile!Itwassocool!!!" Goten said in three seconds.

"Hey that's great little guy! Listen, I have to talk to Bulma for a while before we can go home. Do you know where she is?" Gohan asked his little brother as he bent down to his eye level.

"Um… no. Trunks might!" with that Goten began to lead Gohan in the direction of Trunks.

As they rounded the corner nearing the gravity room, suddenly Gohan detected a sharp jump in ki nearby. Before he could react, Trunks leapt from behind cover and charged. He swung his fist at Goten, but missed and slammed his fist into Gohan's left cheek. Gohan flew into the wall, managing to keep from going through it.

"Owww! What was that?!" he practically shouted.

Trunks suddenly had a look of terror on his face as he expected Gohan to lunge at him any second. "Sorry Gohan! I really didn't mean to do that! It was an accident! Honest!" he exclaimed as he backed away while Gohan rubbed his cheek.

A low laughter filled the hall as they turned to see Vegeta standing there in his usual crossed arms pose watching Gohan with amusement. The smirk on his face was slightly larger then usual.

"Maybe that will teach you to be more observant to what's going on around you brat of Kakarot." he said coolly.

"Yeah whatever Vegeta. Where's Bulma?" Gohan asked as he once again stood after an attack of the chibis.

Vegeta turned around and shouted into a random lab door. "Woman!"

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"So you're saying that one of the girls in your class, Videl, is suspecting you of being Saiyaman. Also she is becoming suspicious about how your coming to school everyday from the 439 mountain district without ever having seen you in any kind of transportation. Am I right so far?" Bulma asked.

Gohan nodded from his seat as he looked Bulma in the face after explaining his situation to her.

"you've already figured out how to have Saiyaman here while you're at the class trip, but you need to have some kind of transportation to show when you need to get somewhere without flying around. Well, first of all I need to see something. Stand up." she ordered.

Gohan obeyed and stood before her. She stood also and walked right in front of him, examining him for a moment before giving her next order. "Do this split form thing."

Gohan concentrated for a moment, then his body seemed to float to both his left and his right, forming two identical Gohan's. They both smiled the 'Son' grin at her. She examined both closely for a moment. "Activate your watches." she ordered again.

Both Gohans pressed their watch buttons and then there were two Saiyaman's standing in front of Bulma. She examined both for a moment longer. Then she stood back and let out a sigh of relief.

"Good. I had to make sure that your Saiyaman transformation watch would work for both your forms. Anyways, you can combine again." she said, waving her arm as she sat down again.

The Gohan's sighed relief and combined again before deactivating the watch. Gohan sat down again. Suddenly he caught a packet of capsules that had been tossed at his head by Bulma. He looked at her questioningly for a moment.

"That's a packet of our best capsules. Consider it a gift for your last birthday since we weren't able to go to your party. I had meant to give it to you earlier, but hadn't got around to it until now." Bulma shrugged as she said all this.

Gohan glanced at the drawer that she was closing after retrieving the packet. A reflection of light caught his eye for a moment. He suddenly recognized it and nearly fell out of his chair.

"Isn't that a dragon ball?!" he exclaimed as he pointed at the small round object in the drawer. Bulma looked down at it and smiled.

"Yup! I got them all here in this drawer. You never know when we might need to use them again, you know. Figured that we might as well have them nearby." she answered.

Suddenly Trunks and Goten shot into the room and surrounded Gohan. They were looking at him with puppy eyes. Gohan prepared himself for what was coming next.

"Gohan, come train with us!" they both said at once, their voices blending together.

"But I have nothing to train in." Gohan said to them.

Suddenly Gohan caught another object that had been flying for his head. His reflexes had been on full alert since Trunks nailed him in the face. He looked down at the new watch in his hand. He looked up at Bulma puzzled.

"It's a new kind of transformation watch that I've been working on. It replaces your clothes with Saiyan armor, the same kind as Vegeta's. The difference is that when you deactivate the watch, it begins to repair the armor. If you were to completely destroy the armor, it would be fully repaired after a few hours of deactivation. Pretty cool huh?" she asked with a smile.

"Yeah, but what about the watch I have right now?" he asked.

"Give it over, I'll modify it to have the same armor and the Saiyaman outfit. It'll be done by the time that your done training. Until then, have fun with the kids." she said as she shoved them into the hall and took his current watch.

Gohan stood in the middle of the hall an put on the new watch. He pressed the button and suddenly his body was surrounded in light. When the light died down again, he was wearing the same kind of saiyan armor as Vegeta usually wore. It all reminded him of so many memories.

Gohan shook his head for a moment, clearing his mind of the memories for now. He had a sparring match with the kids and he would have to concentrate on it alone judging from the strength of Trunk's punch earlier. They walked to one of the gravity rooms that Vegeta wasn't using at the moment.

Before Gohan knew it Trunks had activated it and set the gravity level at one hundred times normal gravity. Gohan almost freaked at first, until he noticed that Goten and Trunks seemed quite fine under so much force, only slowed down somewhat. Before he could say a word, they had jumped at him.

Immediately he began to duck under their punches and kicks, every blow becoming harder to dodge. They had been training together long enough to know where each of them would try to hit and made a formidable team as they slowly began to overwhelm him. Trunks concentrating on his upper body since he could fly, and Goten concentrating on his lower half since he couldn't.

Gohan realized he would have to go super to get the upper hand again, but then a smirk came across his face. He formed a quick plan and began to block their attacks instead of dodging them. Finally he was ready and he threw them back with a quick burst of his ki outward. The few seconds it afforded him were all he needed as he used his split form technique.

Both forms of him charged the chibis. Each form took on one of the two, evening things up quite a bit. The kids were very frustrated with this move, but they only fought harder. Every move that Gohan would pull, they would match it and come closer and closer to getting through his defenses with a move of their own.

Deciding that it was time that they use their own advantages in the battle, they began to get underneath and behind their opponents. The two Gohans had a hard time countering this as they were so fast. Trunks began to fly around the room, causing his Gohan opponent to follow him closely.

Goten suddenly demonstrated that even though he couldn't fly, the gravity was unable to stop him from jumping to the ceiling. Launching himself off of the ceiling he forced his opponent to retreat in the air as he took pursuit. The Gohans were paying so much attention to what their respective chibi was doing that they didn't notice they were being herded into a corner of the room.

Suddenly Goten launched himself at his Gohan, who dodged. However, the other Gohan had been behind him and got nailed in the back with a head butt from Goten. Using this distraction Trunks flew around his opponent and nailed the first Gohan in the face with a ki blast. The two Gohans were forced further into corner, until it was impossible to retreat any further back.

The two chibis suddenly charged full speed and began to throw attacks at full speeds at them, almost too fast for the Gohans to react to. When it seemed that the Gohans were finally able to start to get out of the corner again, the impossible happened to him. The two chibis went super saiyan and kicked them both hard in the stomach.

The two Gohans slammed into each other and formed into one again. He looked in amazement at the two super saiyans before him. He was shocked!

"Y-you're s-s-SUPER SAIYANS!" he shouted out.

The two looked down at themselves for a moment before looking up at him again.

"Oops, we were suppose to wait until later before we told anyone. You won't tell dad, will you?!" Trunks asked worried.

"Umm, no I won't I guess. But, you better power down before he notices the high ki rises. Goten, does Mom know about this?"

"Yeah, she was there when I first transformed. I guess she was pretty upset and didn't like it. She called me a little monster and told me not to transform again." Goten said worriedly.

"Well, don't worry. She was just a little upset. You're not a monster, and if you are then you're the best little monster I know." he said with a laugh. "Anyways, that's enough fighting for today. We have to get home Goten. Hey, since I'm going on a class trip for a week, how about you teach Goten how to fly Trunks. It'll be payment for me keeping silent, okay?"

"Sure! He'll be flying high by the time you get back. Then we can have some real sparring!" Trunks said excitedly.

"Yeah! I get to fly like a birdie!" Goten exclaimed.

With that they powered down and exited the gravity room, headed for the lab Bulma was in. They had to get Gohan's watch and leave. When they entered Bulma handed him his newly improved watch. It now had two colored buttons, one red for the Saiyaman costume, and one blue for the saiyan armor. Gohan thanked her and he and Goten left Capsule Crop riding Nimbus. Gohan had a smile on his face as he headed home.

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Gohan checked over the all of his bags again. They had all been labeled and checked over three times by his mother, but there was plenty of time and there was no harm in being careful. After deciding that he had everything he needed, and even some extra things just in case, he decided to say goodbye.

Chi-Chi gave him a few extra food capsules. "Just in case your more hungry then I thought when I packed your food capsules." she said with a smile.

"Thanks Mom." he said as he gave her a hug. She immediately went about checking over his bags once again for good measure.

Goten tackled his brother once again and squeezed him hard around the chest. Gohan was having a hard time breathing, but gave him a tight hug back. Finally his brother released him and backed away.

"Hey little guy, I expect you to be flying around when I return, okay?" Gohan said with a smile.

"Alright big brother! I'll be flying around like a birdie!" he said happily.

"Alright, I have to go now, I love you both." Gohan said as he mother finished her inspection of the bags.

"I love you too honey. Oh, and hey, will I be having grandchildren when you come back?" Chi-Chi asked with hearts in her eyes.

"W..WHAT?! MOM!!! I don't even have a girlfriend!" Gohan exclaimed.

"But I bet the girls throw themselves at you!" Chi-Chi said happily.

Gohan had to stop to think of a response to that. It was true, from what he could tell he had a small fan club forming for him. He thought it to be nothing more then rumors, but he didn't know that the fan club actually existed and was made up of almost half the school. All he knew was that there was almost always a girl asking him out. There was even that one girl that blackmailed him.

"I thought you didn't like that kind of girl mom." Gohan stated, finally coming up with a response his mother couldn't argue with.

"I don't, but you might find a good one in there somewhere." she said hopefully.

"Mom… fine. I don't promise you any grandchildren anytime soon. I want to at least finish school first for goodness sakes. But, if I find a girl I like, then I'll bring her by for dinner sometime, if you promise to not get on her about grandchildren. Okay?" he said.

Chi-Chi just smiled as Gohan put all of his bags into a container, then pressed a button. The container disappeared in a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, there was a capsule in its place. Gohan picked it up and put it in his pocket.

Gohan smiled one last time at his family and pressed the red button on his watch. His Saiyaman costume appeared on his body and he took to the air. His mother whipped tears out of her eyes as he flew away.

"I'll have grandchildren yet…" she said in a whisper.

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Gohan flew in his Saiyaman outfit almost all the way to school. When he was about three miles away, he landed on a random roof where he wouldn't be seen. He deactivated his costume and pulled out a capsule. It was suppose to be a personal jet, supposedly his transportation from home to school.

He pressed the button and threw it at the roof. The familiar puff of smoke came out, and then there was the personal jet. It was the newest model straight from Capsule Corp. He frowned at it, knowing there was very little ways he could explain this, short of steeling it. Finally he decided to tell the truth that it was a gift from a close friend of the family that has connections with Capsule Corp. He just wouldn't say how close of connections…

He hoped in the pilot seat. He decided it was a good thing that Bulma had taught him how to fly one of these things a few years ago. It took off of the roof at a speed much faster then he wanted it too, but he soon regained control over the metal beast. Within a minute he was on the school roof.

There she was too. Videl had just landed her chopper and had gotten out. He jumped out of the jet just as she packed away her chopper in its capsule. She looked at him doing the same to his jet with her eyebrow raised in question.

"I know what you're thinking. I got this from a close friend of the family that I've known since I was four years old. They have connections at Capsule Corp and got it for me for a birthday gift, along with some other things." Gohan explained.

Videl looked at him closely. Her years of helping the police force had allowed her to know when someone was lying to her. She examined his face and bodily movements closely for a moment. Finally she excepted that he was telling the truth, but was still hiding something from her.

'I'll find out your secrets Son Gohan.' she thought to herself with a smirk.

"Whatever Gohan. Let's get downstairs and join the class waiting at the school entrance."

The two walked down the stairs to the ground level together, talking the whole way about what they were looking forward too about the class trip. Finally they joined Erasa and Sharpener. They waited together until finally the teacher that had been elected to take them on the class trip stepped up and called their attention.

"Attention class. We will be getting on the bus in a minute, so please get together with who you want to sit with now." he said.

"There he is! I'm going to sit with him!" called one of the girls in the class.

Before he knew what had happened, Gohan had been swamped by a dozen girls trying to convince him to sit with him. Some of them were even becoming violent about it. Screams erupted around him and limbs began to flail about. His ears were being assaulted by the horrible sounds and his vision was becoming blurred with all the activity.

Gohan ducked into the group, slowly making his way out. Finally he crawled out the other side without any of them noticing and considered just riding on top of the bus. Suddenly Sharpener grabbed him and dragged him into the bus quickly. They took a seat in the back, across from Videl and Erasa. Gohan took the window seat and sat down hard, letting out a sigh of relief.

"What was all that about?" Videl asked.

"I have no idea." Gohan breathed, before suddenly ducking down out of sight as some of the girls realized that he wasn't in the pile anymore and decided to check the bus.

They began to make their way to the back of the bus, when Videl suddenly shot a glare at them that would make Vegeta smile. The girls stopped for a moment, considering whether it would be worth it to risk Videl's wrath. Videl slowly began to crack her knuckles, and the girls began to back away, deciding they would try again for Gohan later.

Gohan slowly began to sit back up in his seat. When he noticed that only guys were heading for the back of they bus, and even they were reluctant, he cast a glance to Videl.

"Thanks." he said.

"No problem Gohan. Why were they chasing you?" Videl asked.

"You mean you don't know?" Erasa asked, almost giggling.

"Know what?" Gohan asked curiously.

"According to the rumors in school, you're the most chased after guy in school Gohan." Erasa said with a huge smile.

"W-what?!" Gohan exclaimed.

"Attention class! We are now leaving for the airport. Please keep all talking to a minimum." and with that the teacher took his seat at the front of the bus. Almost immediately the bus erupted into talking.

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Gohan settled into his plane seat thankfully. So many of the girls had been practically stalking him, hoping to get the seat next to him. He had been lucky enough to have Erasa get the seat next to his. Still, girls kept coming up and asking to change seats with her. Erasa however, wouldn't budge, on Videl's orders.

Videl didn't like Gohan too much, because of all of his hidden secrets, but she didn't want to put him through that kind of torture. Gohan just sat back and relaxed, thinking of all the stress he was getting away from. No more sparring with Vegeta, grandchildren obsessed mother, hyperactive chibis, and no more pointlessly studying material he had learned at age four!

Unfortunately for Gohan, Erasa had a whole lot of rumors and gossip that she just had to tell Gohan about! He wouldn't have minded so much, if she hadn't been talking almost twice as fast as Goten could, and in a voice he just couldn't seem to block out even with headphones tuned to the movie playing! After half an hour of it, it was coming close to breaking his sanity!

Finally relief came in the for of a fellow student, Bull, Red Bull. He came walking down the center of the plane towards them and stopped next to Erasa.

"Excuse me Erasa, but would you kindly change seats with me? The girl next to me needs someone to talk to, and I'm just not that person." he said nicely.

Erasa looked at him for a moment, considering abandoning her post of guarding Gohan from the girls. Finally she decided that Videl wouldn't mind too much. She nodded at him.

"Sure Bull. Just, don't let any girls sit next to Gohan here." she said as she stood and walked towards the seat that Bull had been previously sitting in.

Gohan looked at Bull with tears in his eyes by the time he had sat down. He grabbed his hand and began to shake it furiously.

"THANK YOU!!!" he exclaimed loud enough to get complaints from those sitting near him.

"That's alright man, I was having the same problem with the girl I was sitting next to. I saw what you were going through, and figured we could help each other. So, what's been happening in your life lately? Looking forward to this trip?" Bull asked with a smile.

"You bet! No more studying for a week! No more mother, hyper brother and his equally hyper best friend, and no more sparring with Vegeta!" Gohan said happily, accidentally letting the last part slip out.

"You spar? Cool, I do that almost every day after school. I didn't know that the school's resident genius could do martial arts. Are you any good?" Bull asked, genially interested.

"Yeah, pretty good." Gohan had to say with a 'Son' grin.

"Cool, maybe we could spar sometime. You want to?" Bull asked.

"Maybe sometime…" Gohan said.

They talked for nearly another hour about just about anything normal that wouldn't give away too much about Gohan. Gohan discovered that they could become great friends, having quite a bit in common, since Bull was quite intelligent and skilled in martial arts as well. They would probably have already been friends if Bull didn't sit in a corner of the class away from Gohan.

Eventually, the next in-flight movie came on. It was something about the Cell games, promoting something else for Hercule's fame. As soon as Bull lied eyes on the image of Hercule on the screen, his body began to shake with barely contained rage. Gohan became concerned.

"Hey, are you okay? What's the matter Bull?" Gohan asked worried.

"I hate Hercule." Bull stated, his voice full of anger, hurt, and extreme hate.

Gohan was shocked at first. Everyone thought that Hercule had saved the world from Cell. Why would Bull hate him. Was it possible that he knew the truth about Hercule's lies.

"That jerk didn't kill Cell when he had the chance before the Cell games. Because of him, my parents are dead." Bull said with the same tone as before.

"What do you mean Bull?" Gohan asked.

"My parents were very sick seven years ago. They had a very rare and very serious virus. A group of very talented scientists were on the verge of developing a cure for them a few cities away. Cell attacked that city and killed them, stopping them from their research.

My parents died from the virus before a cure could be developed for it. It turned out that Hercule was in that city. Instead of killing Cell when he had the chance, he hid away from him. He waiting too long to kill Cell, and my parents are dead because of it.!"

Gohan suddenly realized that the reason his parents weren't brought back through the dragon balls was because they died of a natural cause. The Dragon couldn't bring back people who died because of natural causes. Now Hercule was being blamed because of his inability to kill Cell before it happened.

"Anyways, I don't have anything against Videl. At least she doesn't wait to help people. She does all she can to make sure people are safe, unlike her coward of a father. He only stood up against Cell because it was convenient for his image. Lets talk about something else Gohan." Bull said, voice suddenly tired and full of sadness.

"Sure." Gohan answered, still quite concerned for his new friend. He couldn't tell him the truth, because he would use it against Hercule, and that would affect Videl. He didn't want to hurt Videl.

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The sounds of digging filled the air. Dirt was being scooped out of the hole at near incredible rates, considering the amount of care the archeologists were using. After they had been given that anonymous tip to dig in this area, the tension had been thick. Now it seemed to only get thicker with every inch they dug.

They could all tell that something was going to happen soon. They didn't know what exactly, but they knew it would be big! Something life altering. Every inch deeper that they got, the heat in the air rose more. It was getting to be unbearable to them. They didn't stop though, or even slow down.

Determination filled each and everyone of them. They wanted to find what had been buried here. They wanted to find what piece of history had been hidden away here. If they didn't find something soon, their funding would be pulled, and they would be forced to leave without a job.

Suddenly they found something. A strange type of stone! They began to furiously dig to uncover it, yet extreme caution was used to keep from damaging anything. When they finally uncovered it, they found it to be a door.

On this door was a strange symbol. It wasn't wore out at all, almost as if it had been carved a few hours ago. The archeologists were unable to identify it, or even the language of it at all. It was completely foreign to them, and almost had a strange glow to it.

Suddenly, the ground under one of them slipped for a second, causing the archeologists to loose his balance. He fell into another person, who reached out to steady himself. His hand barely brushed against the stone door for a second.

A crack formed on the door in the blink of an eye. Before anyone knew what happened, steam poured out of the crack and over the archeologist who had touched it. The steam burned him as it shot out into the fresh air above them.

He screamed and fell backwards, everyone crowding around him to see if he was alright. He seemed to be alright as he calmed down, the burns only being slight, giving him a burn much like a sunburn. Suddenly a sound caught their attention and brought it back to the door. It seemed to groan and shudder, before suddenly crumbling and turning to dust.

A wave of cool air swept over them from the freshly opened cave. The archeologists starred at the opening in awe. Suddenly, a chill ran through their spines. If it was from the cool air flowing from the cave after all that heat, or from the seemingly impossible things they had just seen happen, they didn't know. Slowly they began to enter into the cave.

Above their heads, where none of them looked, focusing so much on the cave entrance, hovered the cloud of steam. It stayed there a moment, almost as if it were observing them. Then, just as quickly as it had come from the crack in the stone door, it dissipated into the air. A soft whisper left floating in the air a moment.

"My time to reap the life force of the mortals for my master has come again."

Well…? What did you think? Let me know in a review! I have some pretty neat stuff coming soon. I really would have continued, and probably have written the entire story as one chapter, but my motivation suddenly drained away from me. Don't worry! I won't be abandoning this story!

This is only the beginning of a series I intend to start! A saga of my own until I can get a hold of the Buu saga and watch it! Then I'll see where I go from there. See ya!

"Life could be a little more gay, but not much." - unknown