Destiny's Blessings

By

Starfire Grace

*Author's Note*

Ok this is the sequel to Hope for the Future, its taking place in the current timeline. I hope you; my faithful readers enjoy it as much as the first story.

Ok at the beginning of this story, the adults and Trunks and Goten, look like they did during the Buu saga, Pan and Bra will look like they did during the end of DBZ. Then during the GT part of this story the adults look like they did during the ending of DBZ, then they'll later look like they did on GT. Just in case if you wanted to ask me.

In the first flashback Gohan is 16/17 and Videl is 16 and in the second flashback Gohan is 17/ 18 and Videl is 17. Then he's 20 when Pan is born and Videl is 18/19. The hyperbolic time chamber messed up Gohan's age that's why he's older when he has Pan, unlike Mirai Gohan who had Pan when he was 18. Hope that helps with the age confusion.

*Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z or any anime for that matter.*

*Prologue: Gohan's Point Of View*

It has been four years since my dad has been gone, since Trunks and Pan went back to their own timeline. A lot of things have happened since the Cell Games, a few months after the defeat of Cell, my mom found out she was pregnant with my baby brother Goten, who looks exactly like my dad did when he was a kid. He is now three, Krillin is married to Eighteen and they have a two year old daughter Marron, Vegeta did the proper thing and married Bulma. Trunks is now four and they also have one year old daughter named Bra and I'm married to the most brave, strong and beautiful woman, Videl.

I remember the day I meant her like it was yesterday.

*Flashback*

"Hello there, are you Son Gohan, by any chance?" asked my homeroom teacher.

I smiled at the man. "Yes Sir," I replied politely.

My teacher smiled and patted me on the shoulder. "It is nice of you to join us my boy, I will finally have someone intelligent in my class." said my teacher, referring to my scores on the entrance exams, no one in the history of the school had ever gotten full marks on every single test given. "Please, wait here until I call you in," said the man as he walked back into the classroom.

"Just great," I sighed, I would have rather slipped inside the room silently instead of being introduced by the teacher, I hated the attention. Crossing my arms, I rested my back against the wall behind me as I waited for my teacher to call me in. Using my saiyan hearing, I heard what the teacher was telling my class mates, "This student we have joining us today is a real scholar, he received one hundred percent on all the tests he wrote during the entrance exams, you all could learn from his example."

"Oh man! He just had to make everybody hate me before they even met me," I muttered to myself as I rolled my eyes.

The door suddenly opened. "You can come in now Gohan," My teacher told me.

I nodded with a sigh, taking a deep breath; I walked into the classroom with my teacher. The room was more like a lecture hall than a normal classroom, which was probably made to adjust to the increase of high school students in the city. I saw that all eyes followed me as I walked to the center of the front of the classroom, and it annoyed me, I just hated all this attention.

I looked up at the class a bit nervous, "Hi I'm Son Gohan, it's really a great pleasure to meet you all," I said with a small smile on my face as I gave a slight bow.

"Okay Gohan, feel free to sit anywhere you want," said the teacher as he walked back to behind his desk.

I looked back at the direction of my fellow students, and saw that many of the girls were eyeing me. I always had problems with the opposite sex, my brains were only extremely talented in academics and martial arts, but when it comes to girls, I was as clueless as my father was before he married my mother.

In the brief seconds that I had been scanning through the many possible seats that I could take, my eyes suddenly landed on a pair of gorgeous blue eyes. They were so captivating. I had never seen anything like it; it was like those eyes were drawing me closer to them.

Then a voice came from beside the person with the beautiful eyes. "Hey, new boy, you can sit here of you want!" cried a blonde girl with a smile on her face.

I didn't really want to sit beside a girl, but I wanted to find out more about the person with the blue eyes, so I nodded with a soft smile. "Thank you," I said as I began to walk up the stairs to find my seat.

All the while, I could do nothing but stare into the pair of amazing blue eyes; I had never encountered anything with such allure. After the first few seconds, which felt like a forever, I focused on the owner of those blue eyes, and what I saw almost took my breath away. It was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen in my life.

I didn't even know how to describe it, but it felt like my reality had halted for a second the moment I laid my eyes on the girl.

I finally made it to my seat and the blonde girl smile at me again. "Hello, your name's Gohan right?"

I looked at her and gave her a smile, "Yes, It's nice to meet you."

The girl giggled and blushed a little. "It's nice to meet you too, I'm Erasa," said the girl in a very cheerful voice.

I then noticed a guy with long blonde hair sitting next to Erasa. The blonde guy looked over and gave me a smirk. "Hey man, the name's Sharpner, what's up?" he asked as he extended his hand to me.

I gave Sharpner my best Vegeta smirk and gripped his hand firmly. "It's nice to meet you." I was glad to meet a guy friend at school; it would have made me uncomfortable if all of my friends were girls.

"You've got a firm grip there, Gohan. I respect that," Sharpner chuckled.

Erasa smiled at us and looked back at me. "Hey Gohan, you'll never guess who this girl is," she said gesturing to the girl I couldn't stop staring at earlier.

Now I had a reason to look over at the girl that looked like an angel, and I was relishing the brief seconds. I smiled at her as kindly as possible and extended my hand. "Hi, I'm Gohan."

The girl was also staring into my eyes with a rather serious expression, but eventually broke into small smile. "Hi, I'm Videl Satan," said the girl.

My heart skipped a beat at the girl's smile, it made her beautiful face even more angelic. But after a few seconds, her words finally sunk into my mind. Her last name was Satan! My eyes were wide as I stared back at the girl. "Satan! As in Hercule Satan?!" I asked her with surprise.

Videl looked a little annoyed at me as Erasa and Sharpner, giggled and smirked. "Wow, you've got it Gohan!" Erasa said as she winked at me. "Yep, Videl here is the daughter of the man that saved us all from Cell!"

I suppressed the temptation to burst out laughing; it was hilarious to me that the general population would believe a baka like Hercule Satan was the one that defeated Cell, when in fact my fellow students were sitting with one of the two people who actually defeated Cell.

I forced a smile on my face as I looked back at Videl, "Well it must be very cool, being the daughter of Mr. Satan."

Videl cracked a small smile, but I could tell it was a little forced.

Erasa giggled again, "Yeah and being a friend of the daughter of the champ is pretty cool too!"

I smiled but couldn't help thinking if Erasa was really a true friend of Videl's or not, I himself hated it when people tried to become friends with others simply because of one's status or wealth.

I forced out a few chuckles and nodded slightly, "Yeah," I said with a less than eager tone, I saw Videl looking at me with surprise.

Erasa suddenly perked up again as she poked my arm with her pencil. "Hey, did you hear about the Gold Fighter that captured the thieves at the bank this morning?"

I was surprised at how quickly the news was spreading. You see, earlier that morning before I got to school, I stumbled onto some bank robbers and turned super saiyan so I wouldn't be recognized and stopped the thieves.

"The Gold Fighter?" I asked trying to sound confused. "No, I haven't heard of this yet, what happened?"

Erasa smiled back at me. "Wow, you are out of the gossip loop," she said as I looked sheepish. "Well, the Gold Fighter is supposedly a super human that helped the police stop a bunch of crooks that tried to rob the local bank."

Sharpner nodded in agreement. "Yeah, and people say that this Gold Fighter is an incredible fighter, he even flew out the area right after the police cuffed the robbers."

I acted amazed, "Wow, that's cool!" I said with a smile on my face.

Erasa nodded. "Yep and Videl here saw him with her own eyes!" chirped the girl happily.

Videl crossed her arms to her midsection, "Yeah and what I found interesting was..." started the girl as she looked over at me. "The Gold Fighter this morning was wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, black vest with the orange star high pin and red trousers. Sound familiar Gohan?"

My three new potential friends looked over at me and saw that I was wearing the exact same clothes as the Gold Fighter!

I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly. "Wow, that sure is odd, what a coincidence." I laughed nervously, a trait I had inherited from my dad.

Erasa giggled and leaned closer to me. "Wow Gohan, you're a Gold Fighter look-a-like."

Sharpner chuckled when he saw the suspicious look on Videl's face. "Don't tell me that you think that Gohan here is the Gold Fighter, Videl?" Sharpner asked as he tried to looked over at Videl. "I'll admit that Gohan is a buff looking guy, but even if his clothes match the guy, he doesn't have glowing blonde hair or something like that."

I looked over at the Videl with surprise, was she already onto my act as the Gold Fighter?

Videl waved Sharpner off with a slight scoff and ignored his protest, she stared slightly at me before she looked back down on her own desk.

*End Flashback*

After that it was one adventure after another with Videl, from her finding out I was the Great Saiyaman to her making me teach her to fly and use ki to me finally revealing to her who I really was. I thought she going to think I was a nut job when I told her I was half alien but she knew I was telling the truth and accepted it, we had been dating a year then.

Hercule Satan wasn't too happy at first when he found out I was dating his daughter, saying she couldn't go out with any boy unless he was stronger than him,

*Flashback*

"I forbid it! You are never to talk or ever see this boy again, Videl!" Hercule Satan yelled.

Videl and I were at her house to tell her father we were dating and to ask for his blessing.

"Daddy you can't stop me from seeing Gohan, I love him and he loves me," Videl told her father as she held to my arm.

Hercule narrowed his eyes at me and I looked at him calmly, "Sir I love Videl with all my heart and I'd give my life for her in second," Hercule looked like he didn't believe me.

"You two are still in high school! You don't know what love is boy! If you love my daughter as claim you do then you will fight me for her!" was he serious?

"Sir I will not fight over Videl like she's some prize to win! If you won't give me your blessing, then fine. But I refuse to stop seeing her," I told him before I started to walk away.

Hercule started laughing at me, "Too scared to challenge the man who defeated Cell hah? You're a coward!" he spat.

I ignored him and was about to head out the door when Videl stopped me, "Fight him Gohan," She whispered to me.

I looked at her surprised, "What?"

"You heard me, fight my father. He's let people thinking he defeated Cell get over his head; it's about time he gets a hard slap of reality. He needs to know that there are people out there stronger than he is," She told me.

I sighed but smiled at her, "Ok Videl, I'll do it for you," I turned back to Hercule, "Alright Sir, I'll fight you!"

"Be prepared to pounded into the ground boy!" Hercule told me as he led me to his training room.

I couldn't help snickering to myself; if anyone was going to be ponded into the ground it was going to be Hercule Satan.

We both got into a fighting stance before Hercule ran at me, he tried to make a punch at me but I dodged it. Every move he tried to make at me I dodged with ease. I was holding most of my strength back when I punch him but I guess it was still pretty hard because it sent him flying and crashing hard to the wall, leaving an imprint.

He got back up, you could tell he was in pain but he was hiding it, "That was a lucky shot kid! But you're not going be that lucky again!" Hercule ran at me again.

I decided it was time to end this before I wound up killing the guy. I stayed where I was standing and turned super saiyan, stopping Hercule in his tracks with a shocked and scared look on his face.

I swept Hercule off his feet and went back to normal as he looked up at me, "I-I-it's you! Y-you're one o-of those people who were at the Cell Games!"

I nodded my head yes, "I was the teenage boy that actually defeated Cell," I told him.

"What the heck are you?!" Hercule asked me.

Well seeing as was planning to marry his daughter someday I proceeded to tell him everything from my father, to being half alien and what race of alien I was.

After a while he seemed to sink it all in, he got this panicky look on his face, "Hey kid I'm sorry I took your credit for defeating Cell. But everybody thought it was me and when nobody walked up correct it I just…" I cut him off by putting my hand up.

"I don't care about the credit Mr. Satan. Heck! You did me a favor. My family and I like our privacy, all I would like from you is your blessing to date and someday marry your daughter," I told him.

"But what about that girl that help you defeat Cell? She doesn't want the credit either?" Hercule asked me.

I shook my head no, "No she doesn't want it either and she doesn't live here anyway," I said telling him the truth since Trunks and Pan went back to their own timeline a long time ago.

Hercule sighed deeply, "Alright Gohan you have my blessing. But if you do anything to hurt my daughter, I don't care if you're half alien, I'll come after you," Hercule threaten which made me chuckle a little.

"I would never do anything to hurt Videl sir I love her too much," Videl ran up to me and kissed me on the cheek.

"Thank you daddy, you don't know how happy you've made me."

*End Flashback*

Videl and I married a few months after we graduated from Orange Star High, and went to the University together. Four months into our marriage, Videl found out she was pregnant with our daughter.

Now Videl is nine months into her pregnancy. We were all having dinner when the chief of the Satan City police department called me telling me that the bank was being robbed.

I groaned, "Don't criminals ever take a day off?" I asked myself.

Videl chuckled, "Well why don't you retire from being the Great Saiyaman."

"I can't do that," I told her, "Well not until at least Goten is old enough to take over for me."

"Ooo I'm gonna be a super hero just like you, Gohan?!" Goten asked excitedly.

I chuckled at my little brother and ruffled his hair, "Yep, when you're older," I told him.

"Have fun Gohan, I'll save you some desert," My mom told me.

Without another word I changed into my costume and headed out the door to Satan City. I was within the limits of Satan City in under half an hour and quickly began to fly towards the scene of the robbery.

With my saiyan hearing, I could tell where the gun shots were coming from, and it was not far from orange star high school.

I landed on a nearby rooftop. Looking down from my vantage point, I could see that there were several police cars barricading the main exits of the bank, but they were also used to protect all of the police force from the bullets of the robber from inside the bank. I could see inside the bank, and I counted that there were at least five hostages inside, and all of them were close to at least one shooter. The police couldn't do anything because they couldn't risk the lives of the hostages.

There was another shooter that was outside of the bank and was shooting at the police officers like a mad man. I sighed at this as I charged up a small ki blast in my hand, aiming at the shooter and threw it at the man.

The blast travel as fast as a bullet towards the shooter, and before the man could react; the energy ball blasted him from where he stood and threw him up against the bank wall.

I floated down to the ground and walked up to the chief of the police. "Oh thank goodness you're here Saiyaman, things have gotten crazy and we can't get the hostages out," the Chief told me.

"How many robber are in the bank?" I asked.

"There are a total of four robbers inside, and all of them are in shooting range of the hostages, so there is nothing we can do."

I nodded as he peered my gaze back into the bank. "This should be easy enough."

"Good luck Saiyaman!" The Chief told me as walk up to the bank, I went inside the bank and sighed, "Won't you crooks ever learn that you can never get away with this?" I asked a little annoyed.

The robbers all decided to teach me a lesson, so they all aimed their machine guns at me and opened fired. But much to their shock, all their bullets just bounce off my body, they tried to shoot my face, but I caught their bullets with my bare hands. Common I've been the Great Saiyaman since I was in high school, you think they would have learned by now that bullets don't work on me.

"I'm only gonna tell you this once, if you don't turn yourselves in, you're gonna experience pain," I told the now paling thieves.

They dropped their weapons and put their hand in the air, I looked over at the police, "You can cuff them now," I told them.

Four police officers walked in the bank and cuffed the robber as I freed the hostages.

That's when my cell phone started ringing, "Hello?"

"Gohan sweetie, it's mom."

"Oh hi mom, what's up?" I asked.

"Gohan," mom started calmly, "VIDEL'S IN LABOR YOU HAVE TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL NOW!" My mom screamed almost busting my eardrums.

"Okay, okay, okay, I'm on my way!" I said as I hung up the phone.

A big smile spread across my face, "My baby's coming!" I shouted for joy. The polices officers all cheered and congratulated me.

"Tell Saiyawoman, congratulations from us," The police chief told me.

I smiled at him, "Will do chief," I ran out of the bank and flew off for the Satan city hospital, "Woohoo! My baby girl is coming!"

I quickly made it to the Satan City hospital just as Videl being taken to her room, "Excuse me, sorry, will be father coming through," I said as I tried not to bump into the hospital staff.

"Gohan!" my mom screeched as I came into the waiting room they were in. Everyone was there. My mom and Goten, Bulma, Vegeta, Trunks and baby Bra, Krillin, Eighteen and little Marron and my father-in-law Hercule.

"Where's Videl's room?!" I asked half excitedly half panicky. It really didn't matter if you were human or saiyan, becoming a father really takes it on your nerves.

A nurses came up behind me, "Are you Mr. Son?" the nurse asked me.

"Yes, where's my wife's room?" I asked still trying to catch my breath from all the flying and running I did to get here.

"It's right over there on the left, room 222," The nurse told me pointing down the hall.

"Thank you, thank you," I said slightly bowing before running down the hall. I made it to the room to see Videl with a nurse as they were counting down her contractions.

"Gohan!" Videl said happily. I ran to her bed side and held her hand, "Hey sweetheart, I'm here. I wasn't about to miss out on our child's birth," I said laughing.

She let out a light chuckle before pain crossed her face and she started screaming in pain.

"Keep her calm and I'll go get the doctor," the nurse told me as she left the room.

"It's gonna be okay Videl," I said stroking her hair lovingly, "We're gonna welcome our baby into the world soon," I told her as I kissed the top of her head.

Several hours later, we welcomed our daughter into the world.

"Uh, sir it appears your daughter has a tail," the doctor told me nervously.

I looked at my daughter thrashing and crying on the cleaning table, "Wow would you look at that," I said chuckling, "What do you want to do Videl," I asked her, "My mom had my brother's cut off when he was born and Bulma had Trunks' and Bra's cut off when they were born too. They didn't want the rick of them looking at the moon."

Videl nodded, "I don't want that rick either, cut it off," Videl told the doctor.

The doctor blinked a little, "You heard the lady, cut off her tail," I demanded.

"Videl, would you like me to get our family and friends now?" I asked her. She smiled at me and nodded, "You better or Chichi and Bulma are gonna bust down the door any minute now," Videl laughed.

I smiled at her and walked out the door, running down the hall I heard the complaints in the waiting room.

"When is my grandbaby coming?" I heard my mother say a little anxiously.

"Mommy, I'm tired. I want to go home!" complained four year old Trunks.

"Trunks we have to wait first, if you're really tired, then take a nap on your daddy's lap," Bulma told Trunks.

I ran into the waiting room, flashing the biggest Son grin I could muster, "She's here!" I told everyone.

"Ah!" my mom and Bulma screamed making me and Vegeta flinch because our sensitive ears, it woke up the kids, poor baby Bra was crying from being woken up from her nap.

My mom ran up to me, "What are we waiting for? Take us to them," my mother demanded.

I chuckled as I rubbed the back of my head, "Okay, okay, common then."

We all walked down the hall and into the room, Videl was holding our baby wrapped in a pink blanket.

"How are you feeling honey?" mom asked Videl.

"I'm fine but tired," Videl told her but smiled none the less. I sat on the edge of her bed and wrapped my arm around her shoulder and kissed the top of my beautiful wife's head.

"What should we name her Gohan?" Videl asked me.

I had big smile on his face, knowing all too well what we going to name our daughter, "Pan."

"That's a beautiful name, Gohan. How'd you come up with that?" she asked.

I couldn't help smiling, "From a friend of mine," I told her, as I thought of Mirai Pan.

My life couldn't have turned out better, I had my wife and beautiful daughter, my mother and brother and all my friends. My daughter was gonna have so much love in her life. It would have been completely perfect if my dad was here though, I really missed him but I knew he was with us there in spirit. I couldn't help chuckling to myself though, thinking if he was here, he'd be cowering in the corner thinking the doctors were going to give him a shot.

I gave Pan to my mother first, I saw the sparkle in my mother's eyes as she held Pan. I guess she was finally happy I made her a grandmother.

Goten looked up at Pan with curiosity, I saw a look of wonder on his face, "Mommy she's tiny," Goten said looking at his new niece.

My mom and I laughed at that, "Of course she's tiny, Goten sweetie, she's a baby," mom chuckled.

Bulma was the next to hold Pan, she had always viewed Mirai Pan like a daughter. Pan could be like a second daughter to her now, "Hey there Pan, you and Bra gonna be the best of friends when you girls get a little older I just know it," Bulma told her. She held Pan out for Vegeta to hold, he got this annoyed look on his face and denied to hold the baby.

"Vegeta hold her at once!" Bulma ordered.

"Why should I?!" Vegeta growled, "She's not my daughter. Besides, I've got our own brat here squawking. I don't need to hold another one," he said referring to Bra who was crying in his arms.

Bulma sighed deeply, "Give me Bra and you hold Pan, NOW!" Bulma ordered giving her husband a death glare.

Without hesitation, Vegeta gave Bra to Bulma and Bulma gave Pan to him. He looked at her thrashing in his arms for a bit before she started sucking on her thumb, then Vegeta did something that surprised me. He smiled at her, I couldn't believe it! Vegeta smiling, even if it was a quick one.

Vegeta gave Pan to Krillin for him to hold next, "Awe, she beautiful Gohan," Krillin said smiling, "So when are you going to start her training?" Krillin asked me.

"I don't know, for now I want to enjoy the time I have with her while she's still a baby," I told him.

Krillin then gave the baby to Eighteen. She smiled at Panny, "Hey there short stuff, when you get old enough to talk you can call me auntie Eighteen," Pan cooed back in response.

Finally it was Hercule turn to hold Pan, "Hey there, Pan I'm your Grandpa," Hercule said happily before Pan started thrashing in his arms. He got a confuse look on his face and my mother started laughing.

"Oh, Hercule it looks like Pan doesn't like you," my mom chuckled.

"Mom that's not true," I told her when I saw the sad look on my father-in-law's face.

"No wait, I got it, you don't want to call me grandpa, do you Pan?" Hercule asked. Pan thrashed in response, "Okay how about Granddad?" Pan kept crying, "Grapey, Grandpapa, Grandfather, Pops, Gramps?" at the last one Pan stopped crying and started giggling.

"Gramps? You want to call me Gramps?!" Hercule asked. Pan cooed as if to say yes.

"Awe man, I wanted to be called Grandpa," Pan started crying again.

This made us all laugh.

Mom clicked her tongue and wagged her figure, "No, no, no, Hercule. That title is reserved for my Goku," My mother told him and Pan giggled when my mom said that, "See? Granma knows what she talking about."

Hercule gave Pan back to me, I smiled when an idea popped into my head. I walked over to where Trunks was sitting, "Trunks?" I asked bending down to his eye level, "Would you like to hold Pan?"

Trunks looked up at his mother, and she gave him an encouraging nod. He looked back at me and I smiled at him holding Pan out for him to hold, "Okay, Gohan I'll hold her," Trunks said smiling.

I gently placed Pan in Trunks' arms and walked back over to Videl's bed side. As soon as Pan was placed in Trunks' arms, she opened her eyes. Her onix eyes looking into Trunks' crystal blue ones. She smiled widely which made Trunks smile as well. He held her close in his arms and rocked her a little making her giggle.

"Hi Pan, I'm Trunks, are you going be my new best friend?" I could see Trunks' eyes light up and a big smile on his face as he kept talking to Pan, it didn't really matter what timeline they were in. Trunks and Pan were always meant for each other. *Oh, Pan, Trunks, I hope you guys are happy in your timeline, I wish nothing but the best for you two.*

The adventures of our lives was just beginning, I can't wait to watch them all grow up together, Trunks, Goten, Pan, Bra, and Marron. I'm gonna love every minute of it.

Well that's the starting of my story, a bit long but I wanted to tell Gohan and Videl's story. Please review and tell me what you think.