High School Conversation
It was his second day at Sunnydale High School and Gohan was seriously starting to regret his decision to use high school as a way to get closer to the Slayer. Even if he ignored the fact that he knew everything that he was being taught. There was that while the students were his age he had nothing in common with them, in fact, he got on better with the teachers, which led someone to call him a teacher's pet, whatever that meant. Knowing more than the other students didn't seem to go down too well with them either, they called him a nerd, again something he didn't understand, but he got the feeling it wasn't anything nice. On top of all that no one was really talking to him. Except for Buffy and her friends yesterday, which was alright as they were the ones he needed to get close to anyway.
That was all pretty easy to deal with, as he didn't really mind it at all. The biggest reason that he regretted his choice to enrol had nothing to do with the school its self, which he was finding to be a fascinating experience overall, but himself. His entire life everyone that he knew, knew of or possessed themselves the abilities that he had. Therefore he'd never had to hide them, other than to prevent breaking anything. There had been a few times when he'd had to stop himself from using his aura to get through the crowds in the corridor between classes, he'd never been claustrophobic before, but that had been getting very close it. At least it was the end of the day, and he could relax for the evening. Maybe he should find that Angel guy, he'd panicked last night, it had been rude to run away like that, and a bit embarrassing, if Vegeta found out about that he'd never hear the end of it. It was probably a good idea to explain some-things to him, as he already knew Gohan wasn't fully human. If the vampire wasn't sure before, he sure was after that reaction. It was a bad idea to let him have any false impressions of him. Oh and while he was thinking about that.
"Piccolo?" He sent out the telepathic message, as he was making his way to his locker. The response came almost instantly.
"Yeah, kid." Piccolo said. "How's it going?" Gohan frowned.
"Oddly." He said, he could almost see Piccolo raise a non-existent eyebrow.
"How so?" Gohan sighed.
"I enrolled in high school." He said and paused.
"Your mother will be pleased." Piccolo said.
Gohan could almost hear the smirk. He rolled his eyes.
"I'm sure she will be." He said. "I did it to get close to this slayer girl, Buffy. But it's just that... That the people here are so weird." He said, just as he reached his locker. He could have sworn he heard Piccolo snort at that.
"They are teenagers and American. That's the worst you can get." He said, then almost as an afterthought. "Or so I've heard." Gohan smirked, as he arranged the objects in his locker. "But you didn't contact me to talk about that, did you?" Gohan sighed again.
"No I didn't." He said, and paused. "Do you or did Kami, know anything about vampires?" He asked. There was a short pause.
"Kami knew about them." Piccolo said. "Is that what you're up against? You shouldn't have any trouble against them, they're only just stronger than an avenge human."
"No, I had no problems." Gohan smirked at the memory of how easy they had been to defeat. "It's just, well, what can you tell me about them?" There was another slight pause.
"Vampires are demons that have taken over the body of a dead person." Piccolo said.
"So they're dead?"
"Yes."
"And they haven't got souls?" Gohan asked.
"Yes." Well, that would explain the weird ki signal he got from them, Gohan thought.
"Last night, I met a vampire who said he had a soul." Gohan said.
"What was his name?"
"Er. Angel."
"Kami knew about him. He does have a soul. He was cursed by gypsies." Cursed? That must have been some very strong magic, Gohan thought. He'd only ever heard of the Eternal Dragon, bringing a soul back from the Other World. And it seemed a very unfair thing for the gypsies to do, in Gohan's opinion. To rip this Angel guy's soul from whatever he was doing in Other World and forcing him to live in a monster's body, it wasn't even him that had been killing people!
"Do you think I can trust him?"
"Probably, why?"
"Well, he sorta said that he knew I wasn't completely human." He said.
"What did you say?"
"I...I ran away." Gohan said wasn't sure what he expected, if it were Vegeta, he'd get a long rant on pride and not running away. Piccolo wasn't that bad, but he wouldn't approve either.
"You should talk to him." After a pause.
"Huh?" Gohan said in surprise.
"If you leave it like that, he's going to think you're half demon."
"What! Why would he think that!"
"Because, to him, if your not human than you're a vampire or a demon, he won't even think about an alien, good or otherwise. If you want his help, which I would advise it would be easier that way, you will have to explain."
"I guess." Gohan said a little defeated, but he was worried about being seen as a freak. "But what if he thinks I'm a freak?" Somewhere thousands of miles away and miles above the ground a sweat drop appeared on a certain green-skinned alien.
"Look kid, he's a vampire, I don't think you'll have to worry about that."
"Oh yeah." Gohan said sheepishly.
It had been taking so much concentration to appear normal and talking to Piccolo, that Gohan hadn't been paying attention to the ki's nearby.
"Hi!" Buffy said cheerfully from behind him, just as he was closing his locker. He jumped a bit in surprise and bent the handle of the locker in his hand.
"Kuso!" Gohan cursed and spun, making sure that he was in front of locker, so she couldn't see the bent metal.
"Er, hi." He said weakly, quickly bending the metal back to normal behind his back.
"Your very jumpy aren't you." Buffy said. Gohan grinned.
"Well, you surprised me, that's all." He said.
"Gohan?" Piccolo asked.
"I have to go now Piccolo, Buffy's here." Gohan said to him. "I'll talk to you later."
"Sure thing kid." Then the connection was cut. Buffy seemed not to notice his far away look when he talked to Piccolo.
"Well anyway. My friends and I are going to the Bronze tonight, you wanna come?" She asked. Gohan blinked and tried to understand what she'd said and failed.
"Er, what's the Bronze?" He asked.
"Oh, it's the place to be in this town." She said, and when Gohan continued to look lost she added. "It's a club."
"Oh, okay." Gohan said. Then a moment later. "Erm, Buffy, what's a club?" Buffy looked at him surprised then chucked. She stopped moments later when she realised he was serious.
"A club, you know, somewhere to met people. Drinking, dancing and general fun things." She said slowly as if talking to a child. Oh Gohan thought, sounds a bit like one of Bulma's reunions.
"Erm, okay, I can come I guess." He said. Buffy gave him a funny look then smiled.
"Great!" She said loudly, making Gohan suppress a wince. "I'll see ya there!" She virtually bounced off down the now near empty hallway.
Gohan watched her leave. She was a strange girl, he'd never met anyone like her before. Then again his only experience of girls his age was Lime, and she was more like a sister. Buffy was well, different she was strong, and that skirt shows a lot of leg flesh, she was very excitable, and she had a very firm behind... Whoa where the hell did that come from! He felt his face turn red as he realised what he'd just thought. But his mind provided a picture of something he'd never even considered before. He felt heat rise again in his face and somewhere else... Oh crap, I seriously need to go train! He turned and fled from the school.
