Warning: Short chapter

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Italics are thoughts

* Dream sequence*

Chapter 21- The Dream

Gohan lay in his bed, unable to fall asleep. He kept going over and over things in his head. He couldn't stop thinking about what Vegeta had said earlier in the day.

If what Vegeta said was true, and I really am building up energy, then what's going to happen when I let it out? What if I hurt somebody? *sigh* I guess I'll just have to wait and see what'll happen! Maybe with all this energy, I'll be able to easily defeat Cell when he comes!

Gohan rolled over in his bed. He felt very tired and weak but he could not fall asleep.

Gohan believed that what Vegeta had said was true. He remembered when he was 10. He had had terrible nightmares about Cell killing his family and friends. He eventually woke to find he was still in the hyperbolic time chamber. His father had told him that he had had a fever. Later, when they went out to train, Gohan still didn't fell like himself. His father had defeated him in a spar but Gohan didn't want to give up. He pushed all the energy out of him. He remembered felling strange; it felt as though he was dealing with someone else's power. As fast as it has come, it had disappeared. The last thing he remembered seeing before he passed out was a look of shock, or maybe it was fear, on his fathers face. After he had released that energy, and he had woken up again, he felt like his old self.

Gohan rolled over in his bed.

I wonder what everyone dreams about? thought Gohan. He was only trying to keep his mind busy while he waited for sleep to come. He thought about his 3 new friends. Erasa is probably dreaming about boys. Sharpner is probably dreaming about him being the strongest person in the world and Videl is probably dreaming about the Gold Fighter.

Gohan knew it. He knew Videl had some sort of feelings for the Gold Fighter. He had guessed it when he thought back to the kiss and realized that she had not pulled away when he unhooked her bra.

If Videl ever found out I'm the Gold Fighter, she'd be sooooooooo mad at me!

For some reason, Gohan couldn't get Videl's face off his mind. He thought back to earlier in the day when they were fighting. When she had asked if he wasn't fighting back because she was a girl, Gohan had lied and said yes, he had never fought a girl before. That was not true.

When Gohan was 12, (A/N: not sure of the age, just making it up) just before Goten was born, he had fought a very large green man with orange hair named Bojack. One of Bojack's henchmen happened to be a woman.

Gohan rolled over yet again. Finally, he started to feel tired. He closed his eyes and listened to the wind outside his window. With Videl's face still in his mind, he fell asleep.

Videl lay in her bed, unable to fall asleep. She was thinking about Gohan.

He seems so much different from when we first met him. He doesn't seem like such a nerd anymore. A nerd would definitely not have been able to dodge my punches. And how cool is it that he can ride a motorcycle.

Videl's thoughts then went to the Gold Fighter, or G, as she was allowed to call him.

He said an old friend calls him G. I wonder who it is. I'll have to keep my ears open!

Videl's eyes slowly started to fall, and she fell into a deep sleep filled with vision of the Gold Fighter.

*Videl was standing in a large black room that seemed to go on forever. Nothing was around her. There was no light to be found anywhere except for a tiny dot up above. The small source of light began to grow larger and larger. It was coming right towards Videl.

She was not running away. She was a fighter and would face anything that comes at her.

It was coming faster and faster.

This wasn't a normal opponent. It was a giant ball of light that could not be defeated with a punch or a kick. As it approached faster and faster, Videl started to get pushed back by an unseen force.

With a closer look, one could see that it was not a ball but a beam. The light coming from the beam allowed you to see that it was coming from a dark shadow up in the air.

Within seconds the beam of light was going to hit Videl…*

It was around 4:00 am.

Gohan woke with a start, covered in sweat. He quickly pushed back his covers and climbed out of bed. He went to the window, threw it open, pulled off his shirt and leaned out the window. He allowed the cold night air to cool him down.

He felt like he was going to be sick, so he sat back down on his bed and put his hands on his knees with the fabric of his pants, clutched in his fist.

After a couple minutes, Gohan felt much better. He got up, closed his window, pull on his shirt, and crawl under his covers again.

He didn't remember much about the dream, only the fact that someone had shot an energy blast at Videl. It was right when she was about to be hit, that Gohan woke up.

Gohan didn't know what this meant, but he had had similar dreams before.

Back before he fought Cell, he had a dream about his father being in the black room. Goku has his two fingers on his forehead and that was when Gohan woke up, covered in sweat and feeling sick, just like he did now. It was later in the day when Goku died.

As Gohan remembered this, he began to feel panicked. What if Videl dies today? What if it's going to be my fault again? Gohan really didn't like that idea. No! I won't let that happen! I'll make sure she stays alive!

Gohan thought back to his dream. He remembered the figure that had shot the beam. If he wasn't mistaken, he could have sworn it was Cell.

Gohan decided to watch Videl closely when he got to school, but at the present moment, his body was begging him to get some more sleep.

I'll keep you safe Videl if it's the last thing i do, I promise! Gohan closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Sorry the chapter isn't very long. Im not really interested in this story anymore. I've grown tired with the "Gohan's secrets get revealed while he's in high school" stories. Im now reading the "Gohan gets kidnapped by Radditz and turns evil" stories- so if you know any really good ones, let me know.

Anyway, PLEASE REVIEW!