Currency convergence- $1.00 (USD) ZZ3.12 (Zenni)
** Telepathy/Psychic Bond **
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
:: Yasai ::
"First part of a sentence / followed by another part", first person speaks/ flows into second (depends on the amount of backslashes and people speaking).
"Simultaneous Speech (replace with thought, yasai, etc.)", first person initialsecond person initial.
By the way, did you guys know that Saiyan children can survive temperatures hotter than the surface of the Sun? So, theoretically, adult Saiyans - who have some degree of radiation resistance- should be able to stand on the surface of the Sun without burning since the majority of Solar Radiation has too high a wavelength to cause damage to humans. The deadly radiation comes from Solar Flares (CME's), Solar Winds and from deep space. But unfortunately, those things are almost always happening. All this assuming they can withstand the gravity.
I, in no way own DB comic, DB, DBZ, DBGT, Kai, (Hoshi) or their subsequent masteries. All DB works are owned by FUNimation, Toei Animations, Fuji Media Holdings Inc. (Fuji TV), 4kids TV, and Akira Toriyama.
Rewriting chapters 12, 13, and 14. Chapter 15 on the way.
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The bell sounded, and the four teens made their way to the gym. Lime noticed Videl hanging a ways back, so she slowed and slipped a hand around her waist.
"What's up?" She asked, breaking Videl out of her train of thoughts.
"No, it's nothing." She replied, in truth she had been thinking about the connection between Kem and Gohan. She still didn't know what happened to make Kem hate Gohan and his father. Plus she had to deal with that hate putting a strain on their relationship. All she wanted was to get to know him better, but the closer she got to him, the stronger the funny feeling in her chest got. "Um…Lime?" The girl looked over at her with a questioning glance. "What's Gohan like?"
"Well, he's kind and loyal to and mercifully to a fault, he's a bit naïve too. I guess that's I love him." She beamed, but she couldn't help but notice that Videl looked a bit downcast.
"Not that kind of love." She soothed, Videl visibly relaxed.
Lime's explanation and cheerful attitude helped her to perk up, but she still had some doubt.
"Cheer up!" Lime continued, knowing what Videl was contemplating on, "I can feel your emotions, you're worried. I'm guessing you've never had feeling for someone beyond a simple crush."
Videl blushed deeply. Lime giggled and tightened her grip around Videl's waist.
"Just keep doing what you've been doing," She started, "I'm sure Ani will take notice."
Videl pouted, "…Eventually." At least she was back to her normal self.
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Now, the evaluation period was over so today was the first normal day of gym. For the first hour and a half; theory, second hour and a half; practical. The form 4's and 5's did gym together.
Now, as we come to find out, Orange Star High isn't exactly Orange Star High. In fact, its registered name was Orange Star Educational Complex, consisting of a primary school, secondary school, 6th form education (Community College: 2 years) and University. Each institute had its own facilities, though sometimes shared, and their own badge: P, H, CU1 & CU2 and U respectively. The entire thing took up more than 8 km2, with six gated entrances. The entire thing was smacked right in the East corner of the city with the University section having access to Mt. Satan, which, unfortunately for its name sake, is still a part of the Mt. Paozu mountain range.
The teens headed to one of the lecture halls in the College portion of the complex for a lesson in Martial Arts History with Videl's mother. Taking their seats in the curved theatre-like hall, Tsana began. "Good afternoon students. Now that Son and company have decided not to skip this class…" she said, casting a glance at said company. "We will begin the second part of the curriculum."
Gohan slid forward in his seat and leaned back, he doubted that the small retractable table top could support his weight. Lime was leaning back in her chair, so Gohan's head was resting on her upper arm. Videl, who was sitting behind him frowned slightly, the 'unwanted' feelings returning again. She looked at Kem, who was too busy arguing with Mirai to notice her dilemma. Good, the last thing see needs for either of the two boys to notice her feelings and create more bad blood…not that they felt they needed a reason.
Tsana was writing out the topic for the 2nd term when she noticed only one of the 'twins' was awake…though she probably was too busy looking at the purple haired boy next to her to at least try to pay attention. She also noticed her daughter sending a distasteful frown to said girl.
"OK class, let us begin. But before that, Gohan, just to let you know, feigning arrogance will not get you paid faster." As soon as she said this, Gohan immediately opened his eyes, crossed his arms and scoffed. "Good. Now, does anyone know what ki is?"
All three of the hybrids perked up, distressed, no one was supposed to know that term. Sure, it was written in a handful of ancient scrolls, but of the thousands of martial arts schools, only and handful knew of its existence, and only two were ever confirmed to use it. Tsana smirked, knowing she had gained their attention.
She stood behind her desk and began her lecture. "Anyone?"
Kem raised his hand. "It is the energy created by one's will. The stronger the person, the more they can creat-"
Mirai sputtered and laughter. His sudden outburst caused the other two to start laughing. Videl watch him curiously, he tried multiple times to stop, but he couldn't. Tsana looked coolly at him. "Any reason why you three are disrupting my class?"
"Sorry," Mirai choked out, "but that's not correct at all."
Lime clamped her hand down on Gohan's mouth, "Where do you guys find this stuff. Ki is the energy each and every object, living or not. You have it from the point of your creation until death."
"What does it do?" Videl asked suspiciously.
Gohan looked at his two friends before trying to formulate an answer. "Well," he started uncertainly, "for normal people? Not much more than keep up alert. They won't die if it runs out, because it replenishes."
"And for abnormal people?" She pressed.
"Remember when you ask me if tricks were real?" He looked back and she nodded, "That's ki. Oh, and those kind of people will die if they run out completely."
"So all the things Guardian and Angel do are all real?" She asked, Gohan nodded.
Tsana remained quiet, she was listening to their conversation with increasing interest. "Well don't just sit there." She said to the rest of the class, "Questions, comments?"
One of the jock shouted from the back, "That sounds bogus!"
An underclassman agreed, "There just tricks, like Mr Satan says."
"Yes, but Daddy is the only one who started saying they were tricks. He says the world was fooled by the previous world champion Son Gokuu."
A window near her cracked. Gohan put his hands on his head. Didn't her mother say Gohan's name was Son? But Son Gokku had no children.
"So because one man say so, it makes it true?" Gohan said, irritated, "What makes Hercule such an 'expert', huh?!"
No one could answer. Most of the class looked at him in disdain. Tsana spoke up.
"You're right Gohan, what can one man say to change history?" She said, she was obviously trying to pacify the boy.
"But there's no way people can fly and shoot lasers!" An underclassman yelled. "It has to be a trick!"
"But what about all the videos from the 21st up to the 23rd WMAT?" Mint asked, "The entire ring blew up and the Moon disappeared. They really went up into space and couldn't find it!"
"Hahaha! Right you are!" Gohan said uncertainly, throwing a nervous smile in her direction, she blushed slightly. Angela jabbed her in the side and glared fiercely at her.
"Well…" Videl started, "I've almost been hit by some of them and they feel real to me. They couldn't have planted explosives on police cruisers or in the walls like Dad said. They leave now residue."
"Then how come not everybody can't do them?" Sharpner asked.
"Need I remind you how stupid the human race is?" Lime asked, "They go around killing each in wars because they can't agree. What do you think would happen if everyone could use ki?"
"War, possible mass extinction?" Videl asked.
"Yes precisely." Tsana said, "Such is human nature. To take what you want, when you have the power to take it."
The bell rang, signalling that theory session was over. The students left the lecture theatre and headed to the locker rooms.
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Videl walked outside with her friends. She hadn't paid much attention during History, she was still thinking about ki. Gohan, who was walking behind the group, knew what she was thinking and dreaded restarting that thin ice conversation, but she was bound to walk into something if she just kept thinking.
"By chance," he started in his confident round-a-bout questioning style, but he slowly lost that confidence, "are you still thinking about what happened in class? And, if you are, why does it seem like you're planning something…?"
"Yeah, I am planning something." She said smiling, Gohan had a feeling this wasn't going to end well for him. He saw the other two demis already backing away.
"Well, if that's the case…" he turned around, and tried to bolt "I going home, thank you very much! Seeya tomorrow-Woah, don't pull!"
Videl had advanced and grabbed his collar. Lime shot him an apologetic look before turning and briskly walking off. "Ah ah ah!" Videl chided, walking up to her, "Not…so…fast."
She jabbed her shoulder with every word. "You're powers wouldn't happen to be ki, would they?"
The other three looked on in confusion. "Powers? What powers?!" Erasa squealed. Gohan cover his ears and Mirai recoiled sharply. She clamped her hands over her mouth and apologized.
"You mean like Guardian and Angel, and the guys from the Cell Game?"
"No." Gohan answer quickly. "I'm surprised Videl never told you-"
"I can keep a secret." Said girl huffed indignantly.
"Why didn't you tell me?!" Erasa pouted
Sharpner scoffed, "Since when do you keep other person's secrets?"
Gohan raised his hand and quieted the group. "Keep your voices down, or it won't be much of a secret anymore." He said indicating to the passing upperclassmen. "Videl wasn't supposed to find out either."
"Careless mistakes." Lime added, folding her arms.
"Anyways we don't need ki / to do use the abilities but / it would take off a / huge stain." L/G said. "What do you want it for?"
Videl spun him around to face her and looked up at him. "Read my mind and find out." She said playfully.
"I'd…rather not." Gohan tried his best not to stare into her baggy shirt. She pouted.
"You're no fun." She said, punching him in the arm. "Anyways, I need your powers to get in contact with Guardian."
"…Why?"
"Because over the past two months, he doesn't stick around much at a crime scene and you two run off every time I ask about them."
"…That's because," Lime began, "We don't know-"
"Don't try that." Videl interrupted, "I mentioned Gohan's name and Angel started looking around for him."
Gohan shot a piercing glace at his sister before pinching the bridge of his nose. "God dammit…well, I'm not going to tell you their names-"
Videl was about to continue when Erasa started to complain, "Can we talk about this later? We gotta leave now if we want to get the Black Star City in time!"
"Time for what?" Mirai asked.
Erasa put a certain smile on her face that Gohan saw quite frequently on his mother and Bulma usually put on when they wanted-
"To go shopping of course!" She squealed
"FUCK NO!" GM yelled.
"Why not?!" She whined, "You guys always say no!"
Lime laughed nervously, "You haven't met our mothers. There's some deep trauma running there…"
Erasa walked over to her best friend, "Please Videl, you gotta get them to come!" She whispered as she pulled the ebony haired fighter from the rest of the group. Out of courtesy, the demis didn't bother trying to escape. "You'll get to spend more time with Gohan." She added suggestively.
Videl tried her best to keep her composure and not blush as she walked back to the group. She avoided eye contact with Gohan. "I guess it'd be fine. If Erasa promises not to go overboar-"
"Yay! Come on, the next sky train leaves in 15 minutes!" She squealed before grabbing onto Sharpner and Lime and walking off, leaving Gohan to follow, stringing curse words together in his strange language.
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Gohan stood in front of the massive four storey building. Not even West Capital had a mall this big! He really didn't want to in there, the thought of the amount of people and the noise and the fast food joints that not even his father would eat at…
He was right, as soon as they stepped through the doors, they were greeted by waves of noisy commuters. Gohan envied his sister for not having develop her superior hearing as yet. Because right now, he wanted to blow out his ear drums, Mirai looked just about ready to decapsulate Hero Sword and start slicing.
Erasa had already dashed off with Sharpner and Kem. Gohan figured she needed bag boys and thanked God he wasn't one of them. Little did he know that she was actually trying to get Gohan and Videl by themselves.
Mirai walked around aimlessly until he saw noise cancelling headphones. He dashed in quickly and bought three pairs of the highest quality. "Gohan, catch!" He tossed two pairs to Gohan, who in turn tossed one over his shoulder to Lime, who caught it effortlessly.
Gohan quickly slipped them on and sighed with relief. He shot Mirai a look of pure appreciation before turning his attention to Lime, who was already thinking off installing waveform detection op amps to single out voices and out of place sound, while cancelling other harmful sounds. Then, she suddenly latched onto Mirai and led him away somewhere, leaving Gohan and Videl behind.
An awkward silence passed between the two, until Videl spoke up. "I hate shopping." She said
"You and me both." Gohan said lightly, removing the headset from one ear to hear her. The pair made their way up to the second floor. They passed a group of girls giggling in a shop. Videl sighed.
"Erasa's right. Maybe I sound start dressing more like a girl."
"Why?" Gohan asked, eying a training store a ways down. "You've got good visual appeal as you are now Blue-eyes."
He was telling the truth, so he didn't catch the affect it had on the older girl. Videl blushed furiously, she raised her hands to cover her face. Another silence passed between. Videl walked into the training store Gohan spotted earlier. "I wanna see what they have. Will you wait for me?"
Gohan nodded and headed to the back of the store. He placed the headset back in place and started to look around. Soon he found an entire aisle dedicated to Hercule themed merchandise. He snorted and laughed before going through the items.
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Unsatisfied with the quality of the goods she was seeing, Videl wondered if should meet up with Gohan. His comment still rang in her mind, and he didn't even seem to realize what he'd said. Over the past month, Lime had tried to convince her that Gohan liked her, but the bastard was extremely good at hiding his feeling.
Videl found him laughing at her father's items, some of which were extremely embarrassing. She started to close the distance between them when she noticed that there was a little boys climbing the shelves behind him. Videl's fears were realized when the boy slipped and started to fall. She prepared to jump forward when something extremely odd stopped her in her tracks.
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Gohan was vaguely aware of the boy behind him, but he was too busy trying not to choke looking at Hercules products. He felt sorry for Videl. He couldn't help but think of her life at home dealing with that man. As a matter of fact, he couldn't stop thinking about her in general. Lime would often tease him about it in their sparring sessions. He did admit he liked the girl, but he really couldn't say why, it was irrational, Videl reminded him of his mother in so many ways.
His train of thought was broken when the young boy's ki spiked out of fear. Gohan soon realized that he had climbed all the way up to the top shelf and had lost his grip. Gohan reach out and grabbed the child and set him on the ground.
"You shouldn't climb anything but trees child." He said monotonously. Deep down though, he felt guilty for not paying enough attention.
The child bowed, "Thank you, Onii-chan." Before running off. Gohan watch as he ran passed a stunned Videl. It was then Gohan came to realize why she was stunned. As soon as Videl tried to open her mouth, Gohan closed the distance between them faster than Videl could actually see. He clamped his and over her mouth and swiftly and stealthily pulled her out of the store and into an empty elevator around the corner.
He hit the button for the fourth floor. When he felt it lurch upward he removed his hand from Videl's mouth and slumped to the floor. Even with the headphones on, he could hear her screaming at him:
"YOU HAVE A TAIL?!"
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Finished, someone said the chapters should be longer, so I'll make some of them longer from now on.