Hello, it's 3picDragonBall and here are some replies to reviews. :D Thank you all, I really appreciate the constructive criticism. =)
Dbzultrafan: I LOVE SOUL EATER! :D AND I LOVE CRONA! HEHEHEHEHE! Soul Eater is one of the very few animes I've watched. o_o Though in this case, black blood doesn't help Pan. =)
dianaloveanime: Hehe! xD I hope to throw as much surprises I can! =]
On Pan's behalf, Marron left the room so Pan could rest. Marron leaned against the glossy, wooden door. As she closed her eyes, the sound of footsteps bounced off the walls of the hallways. Alert, Marron watched carefully who was rounding around the corner.
"Marron, I got the doctor," Bulla said as she gestured to the doctor.
"What's wrong, dear?" the doctor asked with concern in her voice.
"Pan coughed up blood. Black blood," Marron said just as low as a whisper.
The doctor rushed inside the room, slamming the door closed, leaving Marron and Bulla outside.
"What should we do now?" Bulla asked. "I'm sort of creeped out by this place." She shivered and wrapped her arms around herself. "Can we go back home now?"
Marron nodded, half-listening to Bulla and half-watching Pan's door.
"Well let's go then!" Bulla said as she grabbed Marron and started walking down the hallways of the hospital.
The haunting lights shone above them, giving Bulla the chills, but Marron was on full-alert.
"We've got to find Goten and Trunks," Marron said as their pace quickened.
"Why?"
"We have to tell them all we know."
And with that, both Marron and Bulla ran right into Valese.
"Ow!" Valese cried as she landed on the floor.
"Sorry, we gotta go," Bulla said as she took off with Marron trailing behind.
"Hmph! The things I do," Valese pouted and started gathering the flowers her parents had bought for Pan. Supposedly, they told Valese to deliver it to her as a sign of kindness and tried to mend the bond they girls had torn apart.
Who says there is a bond? Valese thought as she stomped down to Pan's room.
Marron pushed the doors open and the girls trampled outside and into West City.
"Where would they be?" Marron asked, thinking for a moment. Getting shoved and pushed around by the busy workers didn't help one bit.
"I'll track their power levels," Bulla suggested over the noisy crowd.
Marron turned to the blue-head. "You can sense power levels now?"
Bulla rolled her eyes. "No. I'll just text Trunks." Bulla pulled out her cellphone and started texting Trunks. Once she sent it, there was an almost immediate response. Over the bustling, even Marron could here Bulla's ringtone.
"Hello?" Bulla asked into the phone, even though she knew who it was already.
"What do you want?" Trunks asked. "Is there some kind of emergency?"
"No. Where are you?" Bulla asked nonchalantly.
"You and Marron stay back. I don't want you guys to be involved with this."
"Why not?" Bulla pouted.
"It's too dangerous for a girl, much less two girls."
"Are you serious, Trunks? You jerk! Why-" Bulla said before Trunks hung up. She shoves the phone back into her pocket. "He's so ugh!"
"Ugh?" Marron asked with a raised eyebrow. "Hey, hand me your phone please."
First, Bulla hesitated, but then she handed her phone over to Marron. Speeding through like a zipping mouse, Marron was able to locate where Trunks was at using his cellphone as a tracker.
"Voila!" Marron said. She turned the screen around for Bulla to see. "Let's get going!"
With Marron leading, Bulla followed her through the sky and towards Trunks and Goten's location.
". . . and that's why we can deflect bullets," Gohan concluded. He then wrapped his middle and index fingers around the handle of his mug and took a sip of coffee. Trunks and Goten watched him silently, brains brewing. "Why did you want to know?"
Trunks straightened and sweat-dropped. He held his hands up in defense. "Oh, it's nothing. I just thought it was a bit odd, you know?" Trunks said nervously.
"Oh," said Gohan.
Suddenly, the door burst open with Bulla in the front and Marron right behind.
"Trunks!" Marron shouted, but there was no need to shout.
Trunks stood up, worried.
"What's wrong?" he asked after he had sped-walked towards his sister and friend.
"The bullets, they're made of something called Katchin," Bulla quickly said before anyone could intercept.
"Katchin?" Trunks questioned. "What's that?"
"Katchin?" Gohan mimicked. He stood up and adjusted his glasses. "That's the strongest metal in all known galaxies. Even the Z-Sword couldn't break it." Gohan started laughing nervously.
Everyone in the room stared at Gohan as he covered his mouth and recovered.
"No wonder!" Goten yelled in frustration.
"Gohan, if we get hit by a Katchin bullet, will it actually go through us?" Trunks asked, turning his attention back at Gohan.
"Yeah, if you mean all four of you, possibly even more if the force is great," Gohan said, thinking about it. "Why'd ja ask?"
Trunks gritted his teeth and curled up his fists. He had to tell Gohan, but just couldn't bring himself to it. At last, he said, "Gohan, did you know someone shot Pan? With a Katchin bullet?"
The mug Gohan had been holding fell to the floor and smashed into bits. The white pottery scattered everywhere and Gohan didn't even budge.
"What happened?!" Gohan shouted angrily. His temper rose and his hair began to flash blond.
"Calm down, Gohan!" said Goten. He walked backwards and shielded Bulla just in case and Trunks followed suit.
"Where's Pan?" asked Gohan harshly. He had no patience. "I said where's Pan?!"
"She's at West City hospital!" Marron cried, remembering the name.
Gohan dashed to the door and ran right through it. He took off faster than anyone had ever seen him fly.
"Trunks, we met the lady," said Bulla. Trunks and Goten turned around to listen more about what Bulla was about to say. "Pan caught the bullet, but it made a long, deep line on her palm and has injected some sort of poison in her bloodstream. I don't know what that means, or what the venom is, but it's going to kill her for sure."
Trunks' expression softened and he looked at the ground. Silently, they prayed for Pan's recovery.
With his head jerking upward, Trunks was once again ready to find out who the culprit was.
"You said she was a lady?"
Marron nodded.
"Could it be Valese? I mean she hates Pan's guts to the core," Trunks said, but was sure it couldn't have been Valese. With those scrawny arms, she couldn't even lift a pencil.
"That narrows it down," Marron said sarcastically.
Trunks snapped, literally with his fingers.
"Why didn't I think of this sooner? Why don't we kill the virus inside of Pan?" Trunks said loudly. Everyone looked curious, but continued listening. "If you have the same blood type, maybe you can shrink and kill Pan's virus like when Gogeta was inside Buu."
Nobody knew Pan's blood type though. It wasn't a topic teenagers would talk about.
"I think her birth certificate is in one of those files that Gohan has stored on his bookshelf," Goten thought out loud.
"Great," Trunks said as he walked over to Gohan's office. Goten gulped.
"But he doesn't want anyone in there. He'll kill all of us!" Goten said unsteadily.
"I'll take the chances," Trunks said as he waved it off.
Marron got an unsteadily feeling, but she didn't say a word.
Trunks walked solo into Gohan's office and looked through the files to find Pan's birth certificate.
