Quickly looking at her watch to see if it still worked it read 06:04 as she suddenly heard something coming out of the treeline as she panicked about what she was about to face.

We meet at last

Son Household 04:45

"Wake up Icarus." Gohan said, wearing his dark blue gi with red belt and wristbands, as he began shaking Icarus lightly, Icarus opened one eye and turned to his other side. Gohan stood back as a smirk came across his face he bent down to Icarus' ear and whispered: "Want breakfast?" Immediately Icarus sprung up. "Sorry bud, it's too early for that right now. I want you to bring me to their camp." Gohan said as he brought the piece of the H. E. S. F.-uniform to Icarus' nose. After Icarus sniffed once and let out a little growl Gohan continued: "We leave this early so we can catch them before they wake up and decide to relocate."

They started to walk out of the small barn specially build for Icarus if he came for a 'sleepover'. "Were going to walk okay buddy? Flying might be a little too much for you of the blood loss you suffered." Gohan said as Icarus face showed a look of disappointment, he loved to fly. Seeing this Gohan said: "I'll make your favorite when we get back, sabersteak with red wildberry-sauce." Immediately Icarus' mouth watered and his face took a happy expression, Gohan chuckled at the sight.

In ten minutes they arrived at what remained of the camp, Gohan bent down and started searching the remains. Finding the broken capsule which contained a vehicle a smile appeared on his face. 'They can't be far, we will find them.' Gohan thought to himself.

06:00

The two were walking through the forest searching for the H. E. S. F.-people, as Gohan jumped up plucking two apples out of a tree. Giving one to Icarus who immediately swallowed the apple down without chewing, Gohan laughed. While eating his own apple Gohan petted Icarus on the head as he said: "You know Icarus, you're doing very well and I don't see you limping or anything."

Acknowledging the compliment Icarus licked Gohan from the belt to chin before putting his tongue back in his mouth. "Icarus, look what you did, you soaked my shirt (top part of fighting gi)." Gohan said not angry as he removed the wetted part remaining in his gi-pants and belt and footgear. Putting his wet top part in the satchel, which hung around Icarus' neck, he walked towards the lake. Meanwhile Icarus started to get more apples by eating them out of the tree like a giraffe. 'If they are surviving in this forest they are probably near water.' Gohan thought as he glanced at his watch. '06:04 hopefully mom isn't going to worry if I'm late for breakfast.' Gohan thought as he walked past the last tree clearing the woods as he let out a loud yawn.

Meanwhile Videl had quickly hid herself in the bushes, upon hearing the humanlike yawn she sighed of relief that it weren't more sabertooth tigers. Looking to the direction of the sound she saw Gohan, standing 6 feet before the lake looking over it, less than 60 feet to her left. Studying the young man intently she thought:

'Man he's hot, I knew he had a good figure but now without his shirt he's gorgeous, I wonder… NO! Bad Videl! I don't see him carrying any weapons of sort, if he's unarmed I can better face him now then later.'

Jumping out of her hiding place Gohan turned, as he felt a ki beginning to rise, facing Videl. Videl upon seeing his eyes staring into hers, got into a fighting stance 20 feet away from Gohan. Standing with his arms folded and a little smirk on his face Gohan started: "A little hostile aren't we today? H. E. S. F.-lackey."

'Busted, no use in hiding anything anymore.' Videl thought "Guess we are, Son Gohan." Videl responded still in fighting stance.

Gohan getting into his own fighting stance he began to observe his opponent. She was a young woman who had nice short black hair (like when Videl cut it in the serie) and looked about his own age. Surprising Gohan a bit, he expected to find a 30-40 year old guy to be the H. E. S. F.-operative, not a pretty lady his own age. She had beautiful blue eyes and from the shoulders downward her wet clothes clung to her body showing every curve. He could conclude she was very attractive young woman, though not getting distracted by that now.

He knew of the beauties of women, sometimes he would come home late saying he was late from work when he actually was asked out on a date by somebody from work. Like by the lady who helped out in the cantina, the lady who brought the mail, the female receptionist and once by the daughter of one of the managers of CC in South City he met in a meeting. He didn't really have an interest in any of them, but being the nice guy he was he couldn't say no. Though after having his ears talked of about shopping and other girly things at the dates, he politely told them he thought that this wouldn't work out. He never told his mother about his dates for she would get ideas stuck in her head.

'His stance is flawless and he probably didn't have to sleep on stone for the past two nights, I don't think I can actually win this.' Videl thought as she noticed something purple moving out of the woods. 'The dragon, shit, now what do I do? Wait! What was his name again? Ica..res? No, Icarus that's the one, maybe he won't attack me if I call him by his name.'

"Hey Icarus, back on your feet I see, you're a tough one aren't you?" Videl said playfully with a trace of nervousness in her voice.

Icarus taking this as a compliment slowly made his way towards Videl, the surprised Gohan, even getting more surprised when he saw Icarus licked her right arm. The lick was so strong that its pressure against the wound hurt Videl and loosened the bandage. Now noticing the improvised bandage falling off, revealing the wound Gohan asked: "What happened?"

Busy trying to get the bandage back in place with her left hand she didn't pay attention "There was a sabertooth tiger attack…" Videl stopped as she felt one hand hold her upper right arm as the other took her left hand off the wound. Looking up she saw black eyes looking with care at her arm as she felt something getting wrapped around her upper arm.

Gohan, being the kind-hearted fellow he is, decided to help her even though he knew she was somebody from H. E. S. F. He figured out of Icarus' reaction to her she wasn't a threat, he took his own belt off, the gi-pants sat now looser but they didn't fall down. Removing the wet pieces of shirt which acted as bandages, he began bandaging the wound with his belt (consisting out of a large strip of fabric, not one of leather with a buckle). Noticing she had fallen silent he looked down into her eyes and said with a smile: "Please, continue."

'Man he's tall, I have to look up to see him in the eyes. Those eyes, those beautiful black eyes on his handsome face, eyes which emit with care. Why does he care about me? Why is he doing this? Can somebody really be this kind-hearted? Aaargh! What is he doing to me?' Videl thought as she remembered she was telling about what happened.

"The uh, attack yeah…" Videl stuttered as she felt a blush creeping on her cheeks. "He jumped at me putting one of his claws on my arm as you can see." At this Gohan nodded as he finished bandaging it. "After I managed to kill him I got back up and then we continued our journey…"

"We? Where are the others?" Gohan asked, raising an eyebrow as he cut in.

Realizing she hadn't mentioned the others, Videl began "The others are in a cave behind the waterfall, I'll go get them."

Gohan nodded as she carefully began jumping back to the cave, Gohan didn't worry about them trying anything funny for he knew he could finish it in an instant.

As she returned with Erasa and Sharpener, Icarus started to growl, Gohan noticing this began: "So I will begin with the obvious question, which one of you shot Icarus?"

"I did." Videl said, taking responsibility as team captain.

"What's your name?" Gohan asked.

"Videl." Videl answered.

"Well Videl, I don't believe that and according to Icarus he doesn't believe it either, though it's noble to take responsibility for someone else's mistake. So who did it really?" Gohan continued.

"Like I said I did." Videl began, "As leader of the team all consequences of the actions made by this team are mine."

"I did it." Sharpener spoke up.

"And who are you?" Gohan asked.

"Sharpener," Sharpener began gesturing to Erasa. "Erasa and I were getting back to camp to get food as we saw your dragon, Videl wasn't there so I took the initiative."

"May I ask why you shot him?" Gohan asked.

"He was walking through our camp rummaging through our stuff." Sharpener said.

"Would you have given the order to shoot if you were there?" Gohan asked Videl.

"No, I wouldn't harm somebody for being curious." Videl said honestly

"And do you expect me to do the same for you three?" Gohan said as he looked at the group with a serious expression on his face.

(A. N. Sorry for the previous chapter to be so short in Word I just looked at the amount of words not the amounts of 'enters' I've used.)