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I don't own DBZ. End of story.
Author's note:
Looky! Two parts in one day! HoorayJ But just because you may read both parts at once doesn't mean you should only comment on this one. If you didn't comment on part two, get your butt back there and do it now! The same for part one! If you did comment, thank you, AND DO IT AGAIN! I'm feeling bossy today, can you tell? Hey, I told these parts would be longer didn't I? Well here you go. Read and enjoy. AND COMMENT!
Outbreak: Weird Science (part 3)
Chi Chi sat in stunned silence as she watched the news on TV. Over five hundred people from Satan City in the hospital and more were arriving every minute. All do to a mysterious virus that seems to have popped up out of know where. It seems that though scientists have been trying to study it, each who gets close to discovering its origins and methods comes down sick with it. Thank Kame no one had died from this threat as of yet.
She listened to the announcer as she listed off some of the problems that go along with this virus. Chi Chi very nearly revised her last thought; no body should have to suffer like that. NO, that doesn't mean they should die either. Next the news screen flashed to on sight camera work. Chi Chi thought she might sick up at the sight. If only the Dragon balls had not been used in so recent a time. After seeing those pictures, she would have gone out herself to find them and rid the world of this virus.
The sounds of giddy laughter and loud chatting wafted through her open windows. Looking out, she saw the two people that lit her life, Goku and Gohan, just about falling over laughing about something. That was all it took to bring a smile to her face. She was sometimes sure she didn't have just one little boy, but two. Oh, but that did make life a good deal more interesting. Glancing back at the TV, more blood and sickness was revealed to her eyes. Chi Chi cringed and clicked the off button on the remote. Those were very important problems, but just for tonight she thought they could wait.
After all, Her little Gohan and her dearest husband were bringing home fish for dinner and obviously a good mood as well. Yes, a quiet evening with her child and husband was in order. They couldn't do anything about what was afflicting the town any way. Not with out the eternal dragon they couldn't. And the news had just said that no one knew how the virus spread, so there was no way to defend against it. So calling the local physician for advice would do no good.
Her thoughts were interrupted as the door was opened and in walked her husband and son. Happy evening or no, they were later than they had said they would be coming home. Chi Chi readied herself to chew out her two boys for their mistake. As she did so, Goku set the fish on the counter and turned to face her. Putting on a very good innocent look and lacing a hand through the hair on the back of his head, Goku said meekly, "Chi Chi, dear, don't be angry. Gohan and I had a great time out playing in the water on this beautiful day, we lost track of time a little, Hehe."
Chi Chi put the hand she had been holding up with index finger held out down to her side. When had she become so transparent? This made her a touch angrier. "Mom Please, we're sorry mom. Besides, we brought peace offerings." Gohan stated while pointing at the cleaned and gutted fish sitting on the counter.
Chi Chi shook her head and laughed despite herself. "Right, fish that you also expect me to cook and serve for you." She laughed again. "I'm not angry you two, I think tonight should be a nice happy evening, and I won't be the one to ruin it."
Goku and Gohan shared a dumbfounded look when Chi Chi turned to the counter and began setting up the fish to cook. She, WASN'T angry? Miracles did happen. "Goku, you can go watch TV if you would like while supper is cooking. Gohan, you should get in some study time while you can dear."
Gohan sighed and looked at his father, who shrugged and grinned and walked off to the living room. Gohan, seeing no other choice, walked to his own room, to (shudder) study. The boy took a seat at his desk chair and dropped one of his many books open on his desk. He didn't really care which one. He looked at it for a few minutes before deciding it was a pointless effort. Leaning back in his chair, Gohan studied the world outside as the sun's dying rays draped it in shades of red and gold.
Abruptly the demi-saiyin closed his eyes and suppressed the urge to groan. Dropping the chair back onto all four of its legs, Gohan pressed a hand tightly to his stomach. Oh he really had swallowed too much lake water. His stomach was telling him all about it. Another wave of pain radiated from his tummy area and this time Gohan did groan. His dad had warned him when he was younger that swallowing lake water was a bad thing when you were swimming. But did Gohan listen, oh no.
As suddenly as the pain struck him it was gone and Gohan relaxed. It was then that he realized that he had not only one hand pressed to his middle, but both of them. And he was probably going to have a nasty bruise there from the pressure. All well. This time when he looked at his book, he had a far easier time actually reading it.
When a cry from his mother about supper being done finally came, Gohan had put his miniature ordeal behind him. He stood up and stretched before heading to the kitchen/dinning room. A crash followed by a thud, thud thud of running feet said that his dad sat eating dinner at a break neck pace and that the lamp next to the couch was probably broken again. A yelp of "GOKU!" proved is last assumption to be true. Gohan made his way to the table at a leisurely pace. For all the ruff housing he and his father did today, Gohan found that he just wasn't all that hungry.
Taking his place at the table, Gohan laid his napkin out on his lap as his mother had taught him to do and thanked Chi Chi when she handed him a plate of fish. He picked up a knife and a fork and carefully sawed off a piece of fish and stuck it in his mouth. Gohan chewed this with care and swallowed. Oh how he wished he hadn't. As soon as that hunk of fish hit bottom, his stomach flopped about as if IT were a fish.
This time he did suppress a groan and sufficed himself with picking at the fish on his plate.
Goku finished his portion of fish in record time. Chi Chi's food, as always, was delicious. And as always, he would never have enough of it. He looked around at the rest of his family and saw Chi Chi sawing off chunks of fish delicately, daintily and eating them one piece at a time. That was Chi Chi for you. His son on the other hand was out of character. Gohan sat sort of forlornly looking at his fish and poking it with his fork as if it were still alive.
"Gohan, why aren't you eating your fish. Your mother did a very nice job on cooking it, you should really eat it you know." Goku said.
Gohan looked up from his prodding as if coming out of a daze. "Huh? Wha? Oh, I think I swallowed about half of the lake today. With all of that water sloshing around I can't find the room for anything else." Pushing his plate towards his father Gohan continued, "You can have this Dad. I'm going to go back to my room and study a little more before I go to bed. If I don't come out before hand, Goodnight." The last he said while standing up. Gohan placed a kiss on the cheek of his mother and gave his father a hug before trotting off to his room.
Goku looked at the second plate that had been placed before him and back up to his wife. Chi Chi had turned to follow their son to his room with her eyes. "Do you think he is all right Goku?"
"I don't know. Maybe we just wore him out a little too much today. He should be all right in the morning." This said, Goku dove into the second serving of supper that had been given to him. Chi Chi shot a last worried gaze to Gohan's door before turning to finish her own meal.
If Gohan would have heard that statement right then, he wouldn't have been to quick to agree. He did not go back to his room to study. He couldn't have studied had he wanted to. Instead he sat curled in a tight ball on his bed. His face was in a grimace of pain. He was rather proud of himself for keeping a straight face as long as he had at the dinner table. He only hoped that his torment was not somehow being radiated through his Ki. He really didn't want to make his parents worry. Especially not over swallowing too much lake water.
That had to be the cause of this, he hoped. Oh, but he had swallowed lake water before, and gotten a stomachache with it, it was NOTHING compared to this. Gohan rolled onto his other side and held his midriff tightly. He could not stop any groans now; he only sought to keep them to low for his parents to hear.
Then, once again, like before, the pain was suddenly gone. Gohan blinked. He then sat up and wiped tears he wasn't before aware of from his eyes. The boy pulled off his shoes and pulled on pajamas. This day had definitely worn him out. Crawling under the blankets, he went to sleep.
Only to be awoke a few hours later by a pain that would wrench tears from his eyes. And each time that pain struck Gohan, Goku would awake as well. The pain did radiate through his Ki. And each time this strange thing would hurt his son, Goku would shudder. By the third time he was awoken by this, Goku walked to Gohan's room to see what exactly was going on.
I was going to post this and the second part yesterday, but I couldn't get onto the site! All well. Just thought you should know. I feel bad, look what I'm doing to my poor baby. Barbo-chan put it very well when she said that you hurt the ones you love. Sigh.