Chapter Thirty-FIVE: Time travel bug: AFTER PARTY
It was a week after the Cell Games and a party was being thrown in to celebrate Hercules Satan beating Cell. Being members of the family that founded Capsule Corporation it was expected for Gohan and Bulma to attend the party.
"I hate these parties'" Gohan complained as his mother fixed up his suit. "And what happens if people recognise me from the Cell games footage."
"They didn't recognise you on the day while you where super saiyan, what makes you think that they would recognise you now?" Bulma enquired.
"Because I am still me even when I am super saiyan" the young hero pouted.
"Don't worry about it, everything will be fine. So how do I look?" Bulma asked as she did a quick twirl.
"You're the prettiest mum in the world" Gohan answered with a grin.
"Why thank you, my handsome young son. But don't think flattery is going to get you out the party tonight" Bulma said as she did one final preen before grabbing a set of keys.
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Gohan looked around at all the people in the crowd, some of the people he recognised from parties and functions that he and his mother had attended before, but there were many more people in the crowd that he didn't recognise then what he did. As normal before any large function Gohan had something to eat before he came, but that didn't make the food on the centre table any less tempting.
Gohan observed that like most functions there weren't many children there. The few children that he did see there he already knew from past functions. There was one girl in particular that he tried to avoid; Princess Clara. Not being able to control his strength properly when he was three years old Gohan had accidently pushed her down the stairs which ended up with Princess Clara having to visit the emergency room and having her arm in a cast for six weeks. The princess liked to hold grudges and hadn't been very kind to Gohan since then, which was why Gohan was on the opposite side of the room to her.
The man of the hour finally came out followed by Hercules son who was wearing a similar suit to the young Briefs boy. "Wait a minute, Hercules doesn't have a son." Gohan said out loud. He'd been at many events before and remembered quiet clearly that Hercules had a daughter, whom at the last function had been wearing a very pink frilly dress with her long black hair pulled back with an equally pink frilly bow and her hair in ringlets. Besides wearing a suit her hair was just below her ears, you could hardly recognise her as the same person. Gohan guessed that was the haircut she got when they both had their hair cut. Gohan and his mother where the first two to get there haircut that day. Hercules had been after his mother so the hairdresser hadn't got to the young Satan girl before Gohan and Bulma left.
Apparently Princess Clara didn't recognise the young Satan girl; she walked up to the suit wearing Satan all giggly. "I didn't know that Videl had a cute brother."
"As far as I'm aware I don't have a brother" the Satan girl snapped, she either didn't like being mistaken for a boy, didn't like Clara or both. Gohan wondered if she would dress like that if she didn't want to be mistaken for a boy.
"Videl, what are you doing dressed like that, come with me and I will get you all prettied up" the young Princess said cheerfully.
"Drop the act Clara, I know you hate me. Just because my dad beat Cell is no reason to be nice to me." Videl bluntly stated. Gohan was impressed; there weren't many people that would talk back to the princess, including most the kids and adults attending the party. The risk of potential competition was enough to keep most people trying to suck up to each other.
"That's Princess Clara to you!" the princess automatically answered.
"Now leave me alone. That goes for all of you, just because my dad beat Cell is no reason for you all to treat me different then before!" she shouted before storming off, but not before Gohan noticed tears streaming down her face.
Gohan had always been on good terms with Videl, so he decided to go see what had upset her.
"Are you here to suck up to me as well?" she snapped as Gohan walked onto the balcony that Videl had run off to.
"I was just checking to see if you where alright, Clara can be a bit of a handful at time ... I mean Princess Clara" the real person who beat Cell stuttered out.
"I accidently stood on her foot and she wouldn't even look at me for the next two functions we were at" Videl sighed "Now she's acting like she's my best friend, just like most the kids at school have been doing. My dad's always been rich and famous but having that extra title of saving the world has changed everyone else attitude towards me, except for a couple of the kids that I have been friends with for ages, they still treat me the exact same. You really learn who your true friends are in situations like this."
"I accidently broke Clara's arm when we were both three, a few months later, maybe even a year later she tried to make all the kids that I would talk to at different functions stop talking to me." Gohan reminisced, hoping that he was helping and not just rambling on about something pointless. "Even now if she talks to me, she usually doesn't have anything nice to say."
"I remember that now" Videl actually smiled for the first time that evening. "You cried the whole night because none of the other kids would talk to you."
A couple girls came out to where the pair where standing was standing, giggling and whispering to each other as they walked onto the balcony.
"Wow Videl, I wouldn't have recognised you if Princess Clara hadn't told us who you where." a girl who Gohan recognise but didn't know the name of said.
"See what I told you" Videl mumbled and made a run for it.
Gohan barley saw Videl the rest of the night. She spent the whole time hiding in different places, including in the chandelier. Gohan had wondered how she had got up there without anyone noticing.
Gohan watched all the fuss that people made about Hercules and defeating Cell. Gohan was so glad that no one recognised that he was at the Cell games, and being famous for defeating Cell was one less thing that he had to worry about being famous for.
AN: Next couple of chapters are quiet short. Also I have put up a new story Life Changing Moments: A Time Travellers Tail. It is about what happened in Trunks time line, first few chapters are similar to some of the chapters in LCM with slight differences and branches off when the androids attack, not much has been posted yet and will be a lot shorter then Life Changing Moments which is not even near being finished yet.