State of Mind

Beaner-Bop

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Disclaimer: No.

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Chapter Fourteen: Changing Nightmares

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Videl sighed as she stood up from her bed, getting the cricks out of her neck by twisting it around. She walked over to her closet and began to grab some clothes. She grabbed a black bag that looked a lot like what doctors would carry back when they made house calls. And began to put some of the clothes into it. A pair of jeans, some shorts, a shirt or two… She thought to herself silently as she began to pile all of the clothes into the black bag, sighing silently, wondering if what she was doing was a little rash.

She woke up from another nightmare. It was different from all of the others that she had. She felt as though she actually had to act now that this one came. It didn't start like the other's and didn't end like them either.

~Dream~

Videl was at first only able to see black but it seemed that she was in a room, of course all black, except from where there was a little white dot on the other side of the room. Videl began to walk over to it, wincing at the noise her feet made as the stepped onto the cold marble floor, echoing to the point her ears hurt.

This didn't stop her from going over to it though, just to take a look at it. What was a white dot doing in a black room? For that matter, what was she?

When she was close enough to touch the dot at an arm's length, the dot slowly began to grow. Videl watched with interest, wondering what was about to happened when slowly, the white dot soon turned into a white arm, and was grabbing her around the throat.

She began to struggle, not noticing that she didn't need the air that it wasn't allowing her to get, and tried as hard as she could to get away from it, but it wouldn't allow it as it slowly began to pull her into the hole of white.

She found herself in a room once again, much like the last one except that the room was painted all white with a screen on one side and a white chair sitting in front of it. Guessing that it was there for her she went and sat down in it.

The screen came to life and Videl watched as a rocky landscape came into her a view, the wind blew and she felt it herself, soon feeling as though she was actually there, even some dust was hitting her and getting into her eyes.

She felt panicked for some reason. Well, she didn't, but the body she was with seemed panicked. She started to pay more attention to her surroundings and saw a large blue dome about three hundred yards away from the cliff she was standing on. She began to climb down the cliff, not listening to the voices that were telling her not to, that she would be killed if she did. She ignored them all as she climbed as quickly as she could to get to the bottom of the cliff.

Gotta help Gohan… Have to get to Gohan… Have to help him… That stopped Videl for a moment, making her wonder what was really going on. The body she was in didn't stop for a second as she began to run the moment her feet touched the ground over to the blue dome. Videl was beginning to hear more screams from the top of the cliff. She tried to see who was screaming at them but her 'body' was moving to quickly for her to get a clear picture of what was going on.

She turned back and saw that they were closer to the dome but still had quite a distance to run. Up on the cliff she could see nothing except blue lightning bolts and shades of blue mixing together and separating from each other, but as she got closer, she was able to see to images in the dome, both looked beat up. She felt the 'other girl's' heart drop when she saw the body on the right. It was the one looking worse for wear. Bloody clothes, bloody limbs, dirt mixing into them, and it didn't look like he was having the easiest time breathing either. It was labored so much that Videl could hear it from where they were currently at and it got louder all the time.

Videl looked at both of the men in the dome, studying them as the body kept running closer and closer to them. Her eyes widened as they came to recognize both of them. They're the same person! She thought to herself, even though they were so torn up, you could still see the huge similarities between them. She didn't wonder why 'twins' were fighting each other, the thought never even came into her head. She saw the man on the left lift up his arm and yell something. Her body began to run even faster, then stopped quickly, raising it's own hand, yelling something. Videl's eyes widened as she saw the two 'lights' mix together and the one that her body sent hit the other one, knocking it off it's course and making it rip through one of the many cliffs they were around instead.

Before she could continue running she saw a flash of silver hair and a girl who looked extremely familiar was standing in front of her with a very angry look on her face. Videl wondered why 'her' body was feeling such dread at facing this opponent. Judging by the looks of her, she couldn't be much of a fight. She was however proven wrong a few moments later.

"Why did you do that, 'del?" Nothing came from her body except the girl getting into attack position. Videl bit her lip when she saw the other girl was doing the same. Maybe she underestimated her…

"No reason for you to know." Videl's body said with a voice that sounded an awful lot like her own. The silver haired girl shrugged her shoulders disinterestedly as she was looking at Videl, not paying attention to the dome behind her, unlike Videl. She was staring at it every now and then, watching as the one boy went over to the one on the left and began to talk to them, pointing over here every now and then. Why is he doing that? She thought to herself silently, trying to figure out what was going on and still not having a clue.

"Suit yourself." The silver haired girl then sent a punch her way that Videl was surprised she was able to duck for. Apparently the other girl was too but she didn't mention it, not particularly caring from what Videl could see. The two of them then proceeded to spar until Videl's body seemed to get more sluggish and sluggish while the other girl's seemed to get more and more energized. Soon the silver haired girl's hand was wrapped painfully around Videl's body's throat, and Videl could feel the beginning of tears coming from her eyes.

"Pl-" She coughed up some blood before continuing, "Please…"

"'Please' what, girly?" Videl's body sniffed and shuddered violently before sending more blood and mucus onto the ground.

"Let-Let-"

"Let you what?"

"Let me, me, say go-good bye to-" She coughed up some more blood. "G-gohan. I-I only wanted to-to he-help…Gohan…" Her breathing began to calm down and Videl was worried that that meant she was going to die. Blackness began to overtake her and the words of the silver haired girl were in her ears.

"Maybe…"

~End Dream~

She sighed as she sneaked out of the house. Did she really have to do this? A small voice in the back of her mind spoke up.

If you want to get away…

She decided to listen to it.

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A/N: Short and only for Videl but I didn't have many ideas for this story, o well. Hopefully it was good. Laterz.

Beaner-Bop