MYSTERIES

VIDEL

Gohan… why won't you look at me?

Videl looked at Gohan helplessly. His back was turned to her, and he hadn't spoken a word to her, much less acknowledged her existence. Gohan… please look at me. Videl was vaguely aware of her surroundings- there was plenty of green in the corners of her eyes, so she assumed they must be in a forest, or perhaps a park. She didn't really care at this point, though, because all she could think about was Gohan and why he wouldn't talk to her.

GOHAN! LOOK AT ME!

Gohan appeared to be enjoying his view. His head routinely moved up and down, as if he was surveying the land. His hands were in his pockets. His hands are never in his pockets…

Videl was on the verge of tears now, not understanding why he was ignoring her. Can he hear me? Gohan?

Gohan started to walk off, leaving Videl behind. Anguished, Videl crys out "GOHAN, STOP!"

Gohan stops, hearing Videl. Videl strains to hold back the tears, even though she doesn't understand where they are coming from. Why won't you look at me…

Dark, rumbling rain clouds loom overhead, and rain starts to fall. Videl is thankful for the rain, because it will hide the tears she feels running down her cheeks. "Gohan, please."

Gohan turns, slowly, darkness shrouding his face from Videl. He starts to walk towards her, his hands out of his pockets now. As he closes the distance, Videl feels her anguish and fear intensify two-fold, and she can barely stop herself from crying out. Gohan stops in front of her, tilting his head down to look at her. Lightning flashes, illuminating his face. Only, it's not his face. Staring down into Videl's eyes are a pair of teal eyes, so familiar, yet so foreign…

"Wake up, Videl. Dreams can't last forever," he whispers. Videl looks up at him, puzzled, before he gently pushes her off the precipice they stood upon.

Gohan…

GOHAN

Gohan yawned as he flew high over the countryside on his way back home. It was late, far later than he ever stayed up on a school night. "I figure it was needed, though," he yawned as he descended towards his house. All of the lights were off, reassuring Gohan that his family hadn't noticed his absence. I mean, it wouldn't really make sense for them too, right? It's not like everyone wakes up in the middle of the night for no reason. He chuckled to himself as he slowly creaked open the front door and slid inside.

He walked slowly through the kitchen toward the staircase. He frowned at the kitchen, wondering for a moment if he were in the right house. It's so clean… I've never seen that sink before. He stretches and yawns as he heads up the stairs, figuring he'll get to the bottom of this kitchen situation when he gets some rest.

"Gohan," Goku whispers, "that was the longest bathroom break ever."

Gohan nearly fell down the stairs head first. "D-dad!" he quietly yells. "How...what are you doing up?"

Goku grinned, crossing his arms. "After being dead for a few years, sleep isn't the most exciting thing for me," he says with a laugh. Gohan figures he knows what the most exciting thing for his father is, but he doesn't really feel like raiding the fridge with his dad right now. "Well, that sucks dad. If you don't mind moving out of the doorway, I'll just let you do whatever you do in the middle of the night and get some shuteye. I have school tomorrow, you know."

Goku smirks at Gohan, tapping his head. "Don't think I don't know, son! I was awake when you left. You walked right past me in the kitchen and out of front door. I would have said something, but…" Goku trails off, staring downstairs intently.

Gohan blinks at his father. "But… what?"

Goku blinks, looking back at his son. "Oh, yeah. She thinks it's funny to put the cake at the very back of the fridge. It's impossible to reach and grab it while holding the rest of my midnight snack."

Gohan blinks slowly at his gluttonous father. "Can we talk about this tomorrow, dad? I really, really do need to get to sleep."

Goku frowns a moment before stepping out of the way. "I think I know why you were out… but we can talk about it later. Good night, Gohan."

"Night, dad," Gohan mutters as he shuts the door. Stripping down quickly, Gohan falls onto his bed, exhausted. I'd rather fight Cell at this point than deal with all of this girl drama. Gohan yawns and stretches once more, before drifting off to sleep.

VIDEL

Videl shot up in her bed, drowsy and confused. Ugh! My head. That was the worst dream I've ever had.

Dragging herself out of bed, Videl grabs her phone and begins to text Erasa while getting dressed and ready for school.

"Mondays are weak," reads Erasa's message from five minutes before. Videl grimaces in agreement. "I had the weirdest dream last night." Videl says aloud as she types the message into her phone and sends it to Erasa. "Last night… oh," Videl's eyes widen with the memory of Saiyaman's visit last night. "That couldn't of been a dream. It was real…" Videl trails off, biting her nails. Why did he have to come here and say those things? Gohan's the one being a doucher for keeping secrets.

Videl shakes her head, grabbing her bag and heading for the JetCopter to take to school. "Hopefully I can avoid having to deal with this for a while. It's really making my head hurt."

ERASA

"Wait, wait, wait," Erasa interjects. "You went to see Videl- in her house- in the middle of the night?" Gohan fidgets a little at the emphasis in Erasa's voice, before slowly nodding his head. "Oh, my, gosh, Gohan! After all that happened yesterday, you really wanted to go and try and patch things up as SAIYAMAN of all people?" Erasa frowned at Gohan. She knew that he was new to the school and being around other kids his age, but this seemed a bit ridiculous.

"Well," Gohan finally spoke, "I don't think I could really get things much worse. She gets mad at for me not telling her something she didn't really need to know, for not kissing her in a timely manner… What's next? Is she going to start raging at me for having good-looking hair?"

Erasa smirked at Gohan as they walked together through the halls towards their first class, which they usually sat together with Videl in. "Gohan, sweetie, let me try and take care of this, okay?" Erasa smiles at Gohan, but inside, she is well aware that Gohan is in deep and it's going to be a lot of work to get Videl to calm down. She's just so hard-headed.

GUSTAT

Huddled into his tiny ship, Gustat ponders the asteroid field before him. "The mighty planet Vegeta, now nothing but a bump in the road." Gustat snickers to himself. "It has taken me many, many years to reach this point, and to see that someone has already beat me to it is… quite frankly, amusing! Ha ha ha ha!"

Punching in a new set of coordinates, Gustat engages his ship's engines. "Next stop, planet Namek. Word around the grapevine is that some Saiyans were seen there. Seems to me like a good lead!" Taking one last look at the asteroid field, Gustat closes his eyes and relaxes his tensed muscles. Saiyans…

Gustat opens his eyes, peering around at his surroundings. Among him are many of his own kind, gathered around a group of Saiyans who landed in their pods. Their leader, a despical Saiyan specimen calling himself "Prince Vegeta", was eye-balling the entire area while Gustat's leader tried to speak with him.

"Listen up, you pathetic alien trash," Vegeta spits, "shut up, and line yourselves up in a nice, neat line so that we can kill you all quickly." The group of Saiyans begin to snicker and chortle, while the mass of Gustat's species grows restless.

"Prince Vegeta, what have we done to deserve this genocidal behavior? We are a peaceful people…" Gustat's leader says. Pathetic. It's a wonder our people managed to live for so long under such a feeble caretaker.

Prince Vegeta spit in the alien's face, provoking instant yells and screams from the crowd as the Saiyan's descended upon them.

Gustat slowly opened his eyes. Back on his ship, he checked his course heading once more. "Perhaps Namek will know where these elusive Saiyan's are hiding. It just wouldn't do to find them all extinct."