Here's chapter 10. Hope you like it. For the disclaimer, check my earlier chapters.
Chapter 10:
As the two teens were within a few milimeters of touching their lips to the other's, they heard a loud bang from a door closing downstairs. Quickly becoming aware of their surroundings, Gohan and Videl's faces became bright red as they got off of the bed to go downstairs to see who had entered.
When they made it downstairs, Gohan heard someone opening and closing drawers and rummaging through them. He had a look of annoyance as he signaled for Videl to stay quiet and to keep behind him.
Gohan quietly walked into the kitchen followed by Videl and spotted a tall, well built man wearing a black shirt and cargo pants, with a black bulletproof vest on his torso and a black mask on his head.
The man had is back to where Gohan and Videl were and didn't seem to notice that they were there. Gohan entered the kitchen silently and stealthily picked up a kitchen knife that just happened to be on the counter and signaled for Videl to stay out of the way.
As the young soldier reached the masked man, the guy turned around and whipped out a silenced 9mm pistol. Not expecting to see the firearm, Gohan's eyes widened and he dove out of the way as he heard a click and the sound of sumthing passing by his face at a high rate of speed.
He quickly got up and rushed the man and slashed at him with the knife, trying to catch him in the arm to force him to drop the gun. Sadly, his attack missed its target.
The man popped off another shot at Gohan, barely missing his target. Feeling the silenced bullet fly by him, Gohan twirled his knife in his hand so he could stab with it.
Gohan swung for the man again, but the man in black blocked his attack with his gun and sent a fist flying towards Gohan's stomach, connecting with a solid THUNK!
Really back from the punch, Gohan grabbed his stomach and held the knife in his other hand. Just then, Gohan heard another click and felt a searing hot pain in his left shoulder.
He looked at his shoulder and saw his shirt quickly becoming dark maroon where he felt the pain. The bastard had just shot him!
Gohan yelled and lashed out at the smirking man and this time, connected with his attack. Gohan stuck the point of the knife into the man's arm and kept adding as much force as possible on the handle. Quickly, the knife was handle deep, buried in the man's forearm, extruding from the other side. Somehow, the knife had missed the guy's tibia and radius and traveled clean through his arm.
The man jerked his arm back, yelling in pain. Gohan tackeled the intruder to the gound, grabbed his throat, and started slamming his opponent's head into the floor, gashing open his head and blood started to pool beneath them.
Gohan took his knife out of the wounded attacker's arm and held it to his throat.
"Listen here, you fuck. I want to know why the hell you are in my house. And don't even THINK about lying to me! Because I will not hesitate to slice open that throat of yours." Gohan said to the man, his voice seething with anger.
The barely concious man looked at Gohan and spat in his face. The action earned him a growl from Gohan and his head slammed into the floor again.
Just then, the door opened again and Chichi and Goten entered. Seeing a some what frightened Videl, Chichi immediately got worried and looked into the kitchen. She almost fainted at what she saw. She saw her eldest son holding a man on the ground in a pool of blood, holding a bloody knife to the man's throat and Gohan's shoulder bleeding profusely.
"Oh, my God! Gohan! Are you ok?" Chichi screamed.
Angrily, Gohan answered, "Yeah, I'm ok. Call the cops mom."
Doing as her son said, Chichi called the police, who arrived shortly afterward.
Gohan was sitting on a chair that the paramedics had on the ambulance while the EMT worked on bandaging his shoulder. While the medic was doing as trained, two uniformed officers walked up to Gohan. Both were in dark blue police uniforms, while one was obviously taller than the other, they were both well built.
The taller one coughed to clear his throat while his shorter partner took out a small writing pad and pen.
"Mr. Gohan Son?" Gettign a nod, he continued. "We checked on the guy you just stuck a knife into. He had a tattoo on his arm resembling a cricket holding a flag on fire with a gun in the other. Stupid, we know, but would you happen to know what that tattoo means?"
Gohan thought it over and remembered something that his father had mentioned before he died on his rescue mission.
FLASHBACK:
Sgt. Goku was sitting around at the kitchen table looking at a manilla folder, its contents spread out on the table. He was highly stressed about his next mission. He had to go to another country to rescue some hostages with his team, but the kick was that the hostage takers were part of a terrorist organization that was quickly making a sadistic name for itself. The Cell, they called themselves. Strange, but they still ment business and were out to terrorize its innocent victims.
It was late at night and he was about to go to sleep when he heard footsteps. Goku looked up and saw his son Gohan in the doorway looking at him, sleep drooping his eyes. Goku smiled as he saw his son, showing his love for him. He always had a feeling that Gohan would follow in his steps as a military man, but he didn't want to see it happen. He didn't want his son to be exposed to the violent world that was Goku's job.
Goku stood up and walked over to his son and picked him up. In a soft voice, Goku asked, "Hey, son. What are you doing up? I thought you went to bed a couple of hours ago."
"I did daddy, but I couldn't *YAWN* sleep. I keep worrying that you won't come back from work daddy." The small child said, getting a sympathetic look from his father. Goku knew his job was dangerous, but he hated that he made his family worry so much about him.
"Listen son, I know that you and mommy worry about me, but my job involves me saving and protecting people, Gohan. I love protecting people, especially you and your mother. And being my son, I have a feeling that you're going to be a great protector Gohan."
"Yeah, dad. I'me going to be just as good as a protector as you dad," Gohan said with a smile. He wanted to grow up and be just like his father.
"You will, Gohan. You'll be a great protector. And right now, my job has me going somewhere far away to save a few people Gohan."
"Are bad people hurting people, daddy?" Gohan asked frowning.
"Yes, they are Gohan. I don't want like those people, Gohan, becasue they are harming innocent people. And it's my job to stop them."
"How do you know which people are the bad people, dad?" Gohan asked.
"Well, Gohan, this certain group of bad people all have a tattoo of a cricket on their body, and the cricket is holding a flag and a gun." Goku said.
"Oh, that's funny," Gohan said with a small laugh.
"It is, isn't it?" Goku chuckled "Alright bud, its time for you to go back to bed, son."
Gohan nodded, was put back on the floor by Goku, and stepped over to the doorway to the kitchen.
"I love you, dad," Gohan said to his father.
"I love you, too, son," Goku said.
End FLASHBACK
Neither Goku or Gohan knew that would be the last time they would see eachother. Before sunrise, Goku was on a helicopter on his way to a outpost set up by the military near where he was to go on his mission. Sadly, he never came back.
Gohan looked up at the two officers and said, "Yeah, I know what the tattoo means. My dad told me the relation of the tattoo before he went on his last mission over eight years ago."
Suprised at Gohan acually knowing about the tattoo, the officer asked, "Som, would you mind telling us the relation of the tattoo?"
Gohan lowered his head and said, "It's the symbol of the CELL terrorist organization. The bastards killed my father and know it seems that they're after me.."
End Chapter 10
Chapter 10. Hope you liked it. Please Review!