I felt a potential story coming on! For now, though, it will be a test story, so I am relying on you awesome people to let me know what you think about it!
This story is set in an Alternative Universe… as most of my fics are because I can -insert wicked grin- so things like character ages might not correlate to the cannon show.
I don't own DBZ or any of its characters! I only own my OCs…
My name is Katherine, Kat or Kit for short, I'm 23 years old and this is my story…
Chapter One – Waking up or am I dreaming?
What was that noise? Is… is that birds chirping? But… but I live in the city! There aren't any birds chirping in the city! Especially ones singing as beautiful as these. I groaned softly as I tried to make my body conform to the idea of moving so that I could get up. Opening my eyes slowly, I groaned as I was almost blinded by the sun, my hand coming up automatically to shield my eyes from the light that washed over me. After a few moments my eyes adjusted to the sunlight and I sat up slowly, eyes widening as I took in my surroundings "Oh man…" I mumbled softly as I looked over the landscape, which looked so damned familiar but I couldn't yet put my finger on why. It was beautiful… tranquil and I couldn't help but sit there, open mouthed as I took it all in, the way the sun bathed the land in its early morning glow, the way the grass moved in the light welcoming breeze and the way the water in the river to my right sparkled as the sun beamed down upon it.
Rubbing my eyes, I tried to figure out how in the hell I had gotten here, considering that the last thing I remembered was crawling into my bed the night before after working on my latest novel, the bed, in my apartment, in the city. I didn't even think I lived anywhere close to the countryside and I sure as hell didn't remember there being something so beautiful nearby to the ugly stale grey buildings that I had been accustomed to for the last three years. Sighing somewhat, I decided that sitting around and trying to rationalise was a fruitless task and so I pulled myself to my feet and began to walk… I mean sure, this might be the countryside but there had to be a house around here somewhere, a village? Maybe even a telephone that I could use to call a cab to take me home and I could forget this ever happened… maybe it's just a dream… yeah a dream! That's it! I mean seriously, I fell asleep in my bed in my apartment and woke up in this unbelievable setting.
Halting in my movements, I thought back on the idea that this was all a dream.
I'd had dreams like this before, they had started when I first moved to the city, where I had woken up in beautiful fields and well, oddly enough I didn't remember a lot of what happened in my dreams except that each time I had these dreams, I ended up meeting with the Z-fighters… which in itself is ridiculous because it's just a cartoon… right? Each and every time I had always woken up in my bed, at home to the sounds of the city roaring in my ears. The weird part about this all… was I hadn't had one of those dreams for over a year now and yet… and yet this seemed oddly familiar. Scrunching my nose up at the thoughts running through my head, I began to walk again, trudging slowly through the grass, enjoying the dewy blades caressing my bare feet as I wandered.
It was at that point, I decided to look down at myself… usually when I had these dreams I would be wearing whatever I had fallen asleep in and this time, it seemed no different. When I had crawled into bed the night before, I hadn't bothered to undress and I didn't surprise me that, when I looked down, I saw the faded black skinny jeans and oversized grey tee with a giant yellow smiley face printed across it. It sucked that I was barefoot though because god knows what you might stand in when walking through a field! Wild animals roam around and well… you know what wild animals do in the grass! Shaking my head softly, my footsteps took me further through the beautiful scenery that seemed to go on forever into the distance, the wild flowers and tall grasses danced gracefully as another breeze rolled through the valley and I sighed softly. It was only when I had been walking for about fifteen minutes that yet again, I paused in my movements, jaw dropping some as I took in the very familiar looking house before me "Oh… my…" I managed, gasping as a sharp pain bolted like lightning through my head, my hands coming up to grasp either side of my head as I dropped to my knees, snippets from my previous dreams rushed through my head… or were they memories? I curled up in the grass, gasping as the images flickered like a bad television set, showing me things I had long forgotten.
When the pain subsided, I opened my eyes, breathing heavily as I tried to piece together what in the hell had just happened! What the hell was that?! My gaze darted left and right, slightly panicked for a moment… those images were so familiar… like long forgotten memories rushing in after a bout of amnesia and I began shaking my head some. No… this couldn't be right… I couldn't be having those dreams again… I had always thought the dreams were strange, especially when I couldn't remember what I had dreamed about, considering I always remembered my dreams. My gaze finally drifted to the house that I had stared at just before that searing pain had scorched through me and I began shaking my head furiously "No way… this can't be right…" I mumbled softly, running a hand through my hair as I stared at the house before me… The home of Chi Chi and Goku and their two sons Gohan and Goten.
I let out a shaky laugh "I'm dreaming… yeah that's right… I'm dreaming this… it can't be real… nope… not real… just a dream" I muttered to myself, despite the realization that everything felt so… Real. Shaking my head, I turned and started walking away. Snap out of it… you have to wake up! This is just a dream… but why am I so worried about it all? I pinched my arm hard and yelped loudly. That fucking hurt! I mumbled some under my breath, rubbing my arm where a nice red mark had appeared just above my elbow.
It was only as I got a few feet away from the house in my retreat that I heard a voice calling to me… a familiar male voice, calling out after me as I continued to wander barefoot through the grasses.
"Kitsana! Wait! Kitsana?"
I continued walking, clearly the person calling at me had me confused with someone else… my name isn't Kitsana… its Katherine, or Kat, or Kit for short… but not Kitsana, never Kitsana, never has been and probably never will be. Wrapping my arms around myself, I continued walking on until I felt a hand gently come to lay on my shoulder and I turned to come face to face with… Gohan?! I squealed and nearly fell over, backing up away from him, watching as his brows furrowed in confusion and concern. This Gohan was different from the cartoons I had seen… he was older, probably about my age and yet… and yet there was something familiar about this which in turn somewhat calmed my racing heart.
"Kitsana… are you okay? You look like you just saw a ghost?" He watched me for a moment, his hand having dropped to his side when I backed away.
"My… my name isn't Kitsana… its Katherine… you must have me confused with someone else…" I managed, my voice shaking some at the familiar way he was speaking with me, as if he knew who I was and as if I was supposed to know him on a friendlier level than just watching him on a cartoon show. I was scared now… this all seemed so vivid and real, not like a dream at all and I was still questioning why on earth I was having these dreams a year after they stopped. Why now, of all times in my life did my brain decide that it wanted to start putting me through those weird dreams again… it would all just end up with me waking up in my bed with just a few fading moments of the dream lingering after the haze of sleep wore off and I would remain confused for a little while and then forget all about it…. Again.
I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't realize Gohan was speaking to me until he waved a hand at me, drawing me from my thoughts as he repeated himself.
"…. Did you bump your head while you were away?" he asked with a soft laugh, taking a step towards me as he spoke, my instincts told me to take a step away and he frowned again "Don't… don't you remember who I am?" he asked, tilting his head to the side some as he watched my nervous movements, my only response was to shake my head furiously and take another step back.
I mean sure… I knew who he was at face value… he was Son Gohan, eldest child of Goku and Chi Chi and he had a younger brother, Goten and well… he had saved the world numerous times with his father and the Z-fighters… but that was the knowledge I had from the cartoons I had watched… I didn't know him on any other level, even if my senses were telling me I knew him better than my mind was letting on right now.
Wait… did he say while I was away? That had me begin to panic somewhat, like the dream seemed to know I hadn't had this dream for a long while and then a foggy memory flashed through my mind.
I had woken up with the dissolving fragments of the dream still in my mind and had headed to the bathroom to wash my face… Only… when I was in the bathroom I had leaned down to splash water in my face, straightening back up to see, through water fogged vision, what I thought was a freaking Men in Black agent or something. I had screamed and slipped over in the bathroom, cracking my head off the side of the tub, waking up a couple of days later in hospital with no recollection of how I had smacked my head… though for a few weeks after that I kept having this strange reoccurring dream about men in black suits and ties rushing round a laboratory, doing some kind of tests… and I was in a giant tube, just watching… unable to move… unable to speak… just watching.
I shook myself from my thoughts when Gohan took another step towards me "Kitsana… don't you remember who I am?" his voice sounded overly concerned with a hint of fear behind it and that did NOT help how I was feeling right now, the pressure to remember somebody… or some memory and I couldn't… I just couldn't!
"I… I don't…" It came out as barely a whisper, my arms tightening around myself as I could feel tears of confusion prickling at the corners of my eyes as Gohan continued to watch me. "I'm sorry…" I managed before I turned and began to run, finding that I only managed a few feet of space from him before my vision clouded over and that searing pain returned. Screaming out, I dropped towards the ground, the last thing I felt was a pair of strong arms catch me before I fell into darkness…
Okay! This was just something that had been swimming around in my mind… I do have ideas for a second chapter, if of course you guys want to see it!
Let me know by hitting that review button, what you think about the story so far
-Also on a side note, if you liked this, please check out my other stories that I have written for Dragonball Z and Card Captor Sakura!
~Sunni-Chan
