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Also, Upside Down is on hiatus for rewrite! (it can take a while since I'm busy and write only when I have the chance…)

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Chapter 21

The anger grew into Vegeta's body. Not only Kakarot went further on his power but his son also! The urge to get stronger hit him once more and he felt the power inside him rise at such a high level that it hurt his entirely body. With a yell he felt his energy transform his muscles, his hair grew; he smiled after feeling his power. He had reached the same level as them. As Goku feel on his side after a hit, Gohan landed ruffian on the ground ahead; Vegeta charged immediately at the boy, punched him a few times on his belly and torso, sending him a few meters ahead after a ki blast. Turning to Goku he smiled; the face of the other full saiyan was priceless.

"You can turn super saiyan 3 too?!" Goku got up fast, excitement on his features. "We are going to have a spar after this!" Vegeta blinked, sure he wanted that spar much more now but it wasn't the time for telling it!

"Shut up! We have to focus here!" It was when he was hit by a black Kamehameha and sent flying away. Goku focused on his son in search of a sign of fatigue; nothing. He felt Kuririn and the others coming back with Videl and he didn't understand why. 'Shouldn't they be fighting her or something?' The fight restarted, more intensity on it this time, all Gohan was trying to do was kill Goku, and that intrigued him. 'Why is he so intense only to me? He's not like that with Vegeta! Is it perhaps…' He got away feeling Vegeta charging at the boy. He observed the fight and noticed Gohan's attention go to him a few times. 'That's it…!'

"Stop Gohan!" For a moment his son obeyed, it was enough for Vegeta hit a punch with all his strength on the stomach of his enemy, the boy flew away, kicking up dust by the fall. "It worked!" Vegeta turned to him.

"He seemed to hear your voice, perhaps…" Goku smiled triumphantly.

"He is still there! We can bring him out!" The voice that came after this make him looks at his friends, who landed right beside him.

"We still have time to save your son. Keep calling him, I'll try to bring him out." Goku's eyes stood on Videl for a brief time and as if she read his mind the girl smiled. "Don't worry. I'm no longer the girl you knew, but, I have her memories. I can bring him out with your help." Goku frowned; he wasn't sure about that.

"Believe in her. We are running out of time." Piccolo's voice came out as a murmur; he wasn't pleased to get her help either, but for the sake of Gohan and the Earth, they had to do it her way.

"Ok. Let's go Vegeta!" The prince nodded and both saiyans charged after the half and evil being. For the first time since the battle began, Vegeta and Goku fought coordinated. Fists and kicks meet the face and others parts of Gohan's body, but his hits doing much more damage to the two fighters than they could do to him. The three smiled in the heat of the battle; after all saiyans love to fight. Each time they managed to hit a strong attack was due to Goku calling out for his son, and even for a second the boy's eyes locked into his father before turning back to battle. Goku wasn't the type to give up anyway.

"Gohan! Wake up! You're stronger than him!" He shouted before getting a punch on his face, blood coming out of the impact.

Noises, was all he could hear but, could he understand them? No. His eyes didn't open, even with him trying his best and hardest; it was no use. The noise was getting stronger, so his will to open his eyes to try to understand was getting bigger, he gritted his teeth in annoyance and then he did it.

Darkness

He gulped; where was he, and better, who is he? He couldn't remember anything. He had no memories of what happened and who he was at all. Shaking his head he looked down at his body and gulped. Countless tubes were embedding on his skin; the end of them couldn't be seen as they went to the ceiling and the darkness above embraced it.

…..

There it was the same sound again. What was that? He was trying hard to understand, but he couldn't.

"What are you trying to say?! I can't understand you!" He shouted to the darkness ahead not really expecting an answer, so he got startled once he heard one.

"I'm glad that I am not too late." He turned his face to the source of the sound, he couldn't see who was standing there looking at him into the darkness, but he felt a nostalgic feeling.

"Who are you?"

"Shouldn't you be curious about who you are? I am not the important person here." Gohan blinked, the noise came again but this time was a bit clearer to his ears.

…up!

"Do you know who I am?" Even in the darkness he could see a smile on the figure's smile.

"Yes I know." His head started to ache, should he trust this… person, thing? It wasn't like he really had a choice at the moment…

"Can you tell me?" He heard footsteps coming closer; the figure was now in front of him.

"I can't tell you that. You have to remember by yourself but, I can help you find it." The boy frowned; how's that supposed to help him? By seeing his doubt the figure smiled again. "Focus on the voice."

"Voice…?" Then it came again, the noise. He decided to pay attention this time, noticing that it was indeed a voice, and he knew it! "I-I know this voice! But… to whom…"

I said to wake up!

It was when a bright light came and lit the place. For a second he saw the person in front of him, it was a girl, but her voice was different from the one he remembered. She smiled before vanishing into nothingness.

"V-Videl?" But he had no time to think about the girl, the light faded and he now could see images. Two blonde persons were fighting along against someone… against him. Gohan gulped… these people… he knew them. "Vegeta… Father…!"

"He's awakening." Videl spoke as she got up from her sitting position on the ground; looking at the three persons at her side she got serious. "Remember what to do once they got separated. As this body isn't as strong as Gohan's, and he don't have any of his other selfs anymore, you'll have to finish him." They nodded. In the end there wasn't another option.

"I said…" Goku charged a ki blast at Gohan and Vegeta did the same; he even finished his partner's speech.

"Wake up!" The yell was united with the combined attack; they even stopped at the same stance. Gohan put his hands on his head after getting hit by the duo, something was wrong and he knew it.

"What did you do?!" He looked at Videl, his eyes glaring at her as if he just noticed she was there, angry growing up on his features. "You!" A yell came out of his mouth, everyone protected their ears with their hands, and the sound was piercing. It went for a few minutes, until his body started to shake; his skin started to change colors, going from gray to black, spike shapes coming out of his whole body, until it all came out. Gohan's body hit the ground with a loud sound, the goop floating above him in silence. The Z warriors were holding their breaths; did they do it in time? A cough came from the teen soon enough to make it clear that at least he was alive.

"Don't relax!" Videl shouted. In a flash the goop was right in front of her, a gray aura shining around it. "You just have one chance!" She said her last words with a smile; the goop shouted itself forward, enwrapping her body. It only took a few seconds for it to adapt itself, but he didn't have the chance to be out.

"Die." Piccolo said while shouting a ki blast at what once was Videl, turning her into nothing. He wasn't happy about killing the girl, but he had no other choice.

"Piccolo! What did you do?!" Goku said landing at his side, he was angry; the namekian could tell that much. "We could've saved her!" Piccolo didn't answer; instead he started to walk to Gohan. "Piccolo!" The saiyan shouted after the alien who didn't look back not even once.

"Stop Goku." Kuririn said looking down; the sadness on his voice got his friend's attention. "We didn't want to do that either but… we didn't have a choice." The short man looked up to his friend. "She said she consumed Videl. She… had to do so in order to help Gohan. If we didn't kill her… the Evil would just go back to Gohan over and over again… So please… don't be like that with Piccolo." Goku frowned and looked at the namekian that was now crouched beside his former pupil; with a sigh he went to both.

"Sorry." He said while putting a hand on his friend's shoulder. Piccolo just nodded.

It took a few days to Gohan wake up, and after hearing all that happened the boy was silence and just spoke when his friends told him that they would use the dragon balls to fix all that have happened.

"We depend too much on them. Don't use it." Was all he used to say before going back to his room, letting his friends by themselves at the meeting room. It happened several times; what was wrong with using the dragon balls after all?

"Why we should listen to him?" Vegeta said annoyed; he couldn't understand why the boy was like that. Sure he understood Gohan was feeling guilty towards what happened to Videl, but they could simply bring her back!

"Because he does have a point." Piccolo was the one who broke up the silence that came after the prince talked, getting everyone's attention. "We do depend too much on them. It's like we use the dragon balls every single time we have something bigger than we can handle." Goku frowned at that while remembering the times they used it in the past.

"We… really used it a lot huh…" He scratched the back of his head while a grin was on his face. "But we don't have a choice this time right? I mean, we can fix everything that happened." At that Piccolo got up from his chair and headed for the door.

"I'll talk to him first. Then we can see if we'll use them or not." Vegeta growled in anger; who the namekian thought he was to give orders? But as he noticed he was the only one with some type of complain, the prince let it go.

Gohan was sitting on the royal garden, the sun warming up his skin while a soft breeze touched his skin. He felt three ki approaching him, but he didn't open his eyes, with a soft sound he knew Erasa, Sharpener and Eve had sat down by his side. Gohan didn't talk to them after he woke up from that day; he felt too guilty about Videl's death to even face them. He felt a small hand travel on his short hair; Eve he thought, and he was right. He remembered the promise he did to Videl, about trying to understand the kid, so he didn't do a thing about how close she was to him at that moment.

"It's not your fault you know?" Sharpener talked, not really waiting an answer – that never came. "She was just like her mother, always doing whatever came to her mind." He heard a soft giggle coming from Erasa.

"Yeah, remember that time on kindergarten?! She swore she could run faster than anyone else, and in the end she was so tired that we had to carry her to the infirmary!" Sharpener snorted; he remembered that story too well. After carrying Videl on his back it let a pain that stood there for three days. As they keep talking Gohan just stood there, quiet, until a voice came into his head.

"You should at least talk to them. They know it wasn't your fault." It took a while, but he answered to Piccolo.

"I know. But I still feel guilty. And using the dragon balls will not help either… if we just could use them to fix all this mess once and for all… I wouldn't use them again after that." Gohan still didn't open his eyes, even though he almost did it when Piccolo didn't answer him. "Piccolo?"

"There is a way." That made the boy sat up fast, searching for his former mentor's ki. It took a while to find him; he was right above him, looking him on the eyes.

"Gohan? What's wrong?" Eve asked and looked up after seeing that Gohan's eyes were locked there; then looked down at her two older friends. "We should go."

"Why?" Erasa asked confused, but seeing the look on the kid's face she nodded. The trio got up and walked back inside, letting the two outside.

"Do you really want to fix everything?" Piccolo asked firmly and at seeing the resolve on his former pupil's eyes he smiled. "Meet me at the Kami's place. I'll bring the dragon balls." A confident smile came to Gohan's face and after charging up he flew away. The namekian looked at the half-saiyan flying away until he couldn't see him anymore.

"Where is he going?" For Piccolo's surprise Goten was stopped in the air right beside him. His eyes were sad; there wasn't the hate they used to have anymore. "Is he leaving us again?"

"No. He'll solve everything this time." Piccolo smiled sadly and that made Goten frown; why he was sad if everything would turn out fine?

"Is something wrong?" Piccolo giggled.

"Not at all." He then looked at the kid with a smirk as an idea crossed his mind. "Goten, I have a job for you and Trunks."

"He's late." Gohan was seated down at the edge of the lookout, he was there for several minutes now and he had no sign of Piccolo.

"He'll come, don't worry." Dende said getting a spot at his side. "Did he tell you how all this will work?" The guardian was now looking far away on the distance, but he still could see the odd look that Gohan was giving him.

"No… why? Is there something I should know?" Dende smiled.

"Let's… just wait he arrive ok? I'm sure he wants to be the one to tell you that." The half alien now looked at the horizon with a frown; there was something else into that. The duo lost track of how long they stood there waiting for Piccolo, but it wasn't an awkward time. They were still good friends, even after all that happened in those seven years. The sound that predominated over the lookout when Piccolo arrived was laugh, and that made him smile. At least Gohan and Dende were happy. They stopped their talk after seeing the older namek, and with a smile on each face they looked at him.

"Hey Piccolo! What took you so long?" The former teacher walked to them and sat right beside them.

"Well, I asked Trunks and Goten to do a… distraction for everyone else. That, was the funniest thing I could do. They did pranks and traps all over the place and even I had trouble to go and steal all the dragon balls." Dende chuckled at that; he imagined all things that could happen with those two.

"I see." Gohan smile grew at the explanation. "But, Dende asked me something odd while we were waiting for you." Piccolo raised one eyebrow at that, and looked at the young namek with a hard glare that made Dende look away.

"He did?" He then looked at Gohan who nodded; with a sigh he decided to talk. "Well, to fix everything we have to do a thing for the wish." The half being blinked, he didn't get it at all. "Look, the wish you want to do, believe me I know what it is, will cost more than just a wish from Shenlong."

"What? I don't get it…" He scratched the back of his head while his eyebrows and eyes showed confusion.

"Look, to do this wish… Shenlong will need more power. The only way to give him that is if I, as former kami and original creator of the Earth dragon balls, and Dende, the actual kami, give him that. The way is to give him our life forces." Gohan looked at both with a blank stare; he couldn't do the wish if that was the way to fix everything. Knowing what he was thinking Dende talked to easy his decision.

"It's fine Gohan. After the wish it'll be like nothing has happened, so we are fine with this decision. Do the wish… The Earth needs it. You need it." Gohan's eyes traveled from Dende to Piccolo a few times, and seeing the resolution on their eyes he nodded.

"Ok. I'll do it."

The dragon balls were put together.

The enchant phrase was said.

"Shenlong, I have a wish."