The Torment 11: Father's Revenge
Disclaimer: DBZ belongs to Akira Toriyama, and Funimation, while Ranma ½ belongs to someone that I can't remember, but will worship anyway1
A/N: This is taking place turning the Great Saiyaman saga, after the World Martial Arts tournament, but before Buu. I have no idea how long that space of time actually was, but Goku is dead, although I think I'll have him show up for the wedding.
He had felt it.
It was an energy that he had not felt for so long, one that he had thought was killed several years ago, by the alien Saiya-jins that had tried to destroy this world.
He didn't really have a name, not anymore. It had died with his son, in that tournament, so many years ago.
When Ma shown himself, he had killed several people, not just those finalists of the Tournament. He had killed anyone with a Dragon Ball.
His son had found the shiny bauble, and liked it a lot. He had told his father that he had it, and then he had left after the tournament.
He had never came back.
Heart torn, he had sworn revenge.
Then it was taken from him, and now he found out he was alive again.
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The two mates slept peacefully, oblivious to whatever was going on around them. They didn't notice the shadow that fell over them, looking at the seemingly human pair.
He had traced the energy signature to this waterfall, and deduced that there must have been something behind it. Climbing up, and masking his own ki, he had found the sleeping couple.
At first, he didn't know what to think. He saw a perfectly human looking couple.
There was something strange though, about both of them. He would watch, and see what would develop. Maybe they could lead him to the demon Piccolo.
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"Wake up, kids," said a sneering voice.
Gohan groaned, hearing that voice, but didn't really register.
Piccolo-chan slept on, but couldn't sleep through the boot to her ribs. Jumping up, she attacked the owner of the boot, and that boot was nearly ripped off. Chi-Chi was not happy about that.
She had gone with Bulma and Vegeta when Vegeta had reacted to the feeling of the pair's activities. It t hadn't taken Vegeta all that long to find them, even though they were dead asleep, and Chi-Chi was not happy with what she had found. Then she was on her rear, with an enraged green-haired Amazon trying to rip off her foot.
"Pic- uh- Clair-chan, stop!" Gohan shouted, coming fully awake. He noticed his lover trying to maim his mother, and decided to intercede.
"Gomen!" Piccolo-chan mumbled when she realized what was going on.
Vegeta, Bulma and Chi-Chi looked at the two, who were still naked, and face-vaulted.
It was kind of funny; at least, that was what Vegeta thought. He started laughing.
Chi-Chi fainted.
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"I can't believe it," Videl muttered, as she looked over at the shamed looking Piccolo-chan. "I leave you alone for about two months, and this is what happens! You get knocked up!"
Piccolo-chan opened her mouth to answer, but strangely couldn't. Looking up at the other girl, she saw something that she had never seen from Videl before. Tears.
"Oh, Kami-sama," she moaned, realizing something. Being a girl had given her certain insights, and this one was of them.
"You loved Gohan, didn't you?"
Heartbreak; that was the expression on Videl's face. Piccolo-chan recognized it, because it was something she had seen from the inside time and again.
Videl had sat down on her bed, (they were at her house) and was staring out at nothing, tears silently streaming down her face.
"I loved him," she whispered," but I guess I never laid my claim. I never told him what I felt, and you got to him, fair and square. I shouldn't- I should be happy for you, not –"
She broke down completely, and Piccolo-chan looked at her helplessly for a few moments. Then she did something that she had never done before. She sat down next to her, and put an arm around her shoulder.
Videl, not thinking, wrapped her arms around Piccolo-chan and sobbed her eyes out. Piccolo-chan tried to ignore the warm feeling that she got from helping someone in a way that did not involve fighting.
It felt good, hugging someone. Why, she didn't know. She thought maybe it was because she felt friendship for this girl, someone how had given a great deal of trouble, though she was not the cause of the most of it. Someone who had explained the strangeness that was being human and female, and other than Gohan, her only friend, and she couldn't let a friend cry.
"Thank you," Piccolo-chan whispered into her ear, and Videl broke off her tears, looking surprised at Piccolo-chan.
"You, Daimou Piccolo-san, Ma jr., are thanking me? For what?"
"For helping a very confused Namek survive as a human, even if you did make it difficult at times."
Videl chuckled wetly.
"I, would you please do me the favor of being my maid of honor?"
Videl sweat-dropped, and fell over, her feet up in the air. Then she sat up and grinned.
"Of course, but, you're getting married?"
Piccolo-chan looked glum. "Chi-Chi is making us, since we are both technically minors. We'll also have to live with her."
Videl started to giggle at Piccolo-chan's plight. Chi-Chi was not a mother in law she wanted.
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The wedding took place at Kami's Lookout.
Piccolo-chan did her best to pretend that she didn't know the people there already, as they gathered to congratulate Gohan on getting married. It made Piccolo-chan grateful for Videl and Dende, who knew who she actually was.
Dende was conducting the wedding. He still felt shamed at what had happened to Piccolo-chan, and was wanting in some way to atone for it, and Gohan had been one of his best friends. They stood in the dressing room, where the 'bride' was being attended, and the others were outside waiting.
"You look great, why are you freaking out like this, Piccolo?" Videl asked, when she had nearly had to knock the transsexual, trans-species girl out to keep her there.
You couldn't have told, now, that she had been acting like any other bride. She was sitting, and floating in mid air, meditating. Although, since she was wearing a white kimono, she was having a little trouble with her normal sitting position. Videl smiled faintly, looking at the kimono. Chi-Chi had made Piccolo-chan wear it to conceal the fact that they had taken so long to plan the wedding that she was starting to show.
Piccolo-chan opened her eyes, and there was something strange there.
"I don't know, I just don't know if I'm ready for this. What will happen when I turn back into Piccolo, my old self? Will Gohan still-" She shut her mouth, giving soft noise, and put her hand over her belly.
"What is it?" Videl asked worried.
"Should Baby be moving this early?"
"I have no idea."
There was a loud crash from outside the door, and a dazed looking Goku staring at the two girls.
Or rather, at Piccolo-chan.
"Piccolo?" he asked, his eyes as wide as they would go. Apparently, he had been listening at the door.
"Son?" Piccolo-chan asked, and noticed the golden halo above his head.
"I was coming to meet my new daughter in law, and I heard you say the name 'Piccolo' and I kinda jumped… This is some kind of joke, right? I mean, you knew I was out there, and were teasing, right?"
For some reason Piccolo-chan couldn't lie to the somewhat dimwitted warrior. He deserved to know…
"Its not a joke, Goku. I am Piccolo." She started to tell him about what had happened to cause him to become a her.
"I didn't plan on falling in love with Gohan, I just did."
Goku, with his usual cheer, grinned. "I'm happy that you found someone to love, Piccolo! Isn't it funny, though that you're having my grandkid?"
Piccolo-chan groaned, and put her hand to her swollen middle. "I'm used to hating you, but I also respect you. Now, hells, I don't know what to think."
Goku just kept up that silly, happy smile of his. "Can I touch the Baby?" he asked, putting out a hand. Piccolo-chan flinched, but let him.
His face turned solemn, touching, and he closed his eyes in concentration.
"It's a girl!" he shouted, and everyone on the Lookout must have heard him.
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For Piccolo-chan, the rest of the day was a blur. There was only one part that she did remember.
It was a Western style ceremony, despite Piccolo-chan wearing a white kimono.
The two met at the altar, and their eyes met. As their vows were stated, their minds touched, and it was all mirrors, reflecting what the other felt, until at some point, their souls seemed to touch, and merge. The feeling was the most profound thing that Piccolo-chan had ever felt, and from the look on Gohan's face, he was feeling the same thing.
As they kissed, it hurt, because they were so close.
But never, ever alone again.
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"This has got to be the strangest honeymoon that anyone has ever come up with," Gohan commented, as both he and Piccolo-chan hiked through the woods.
Because of school, Gohan and Piccolo-chan were only getting the weekend after their wedding for a honeymoon, and had decided to go for a very, very long hike.
Actually, Piccolo-chan, now in her second trimester, because of Chi-Chi's planning, had hoped to make it into a training journey, but since she was waddling more than walking, and having really, really nasty morning sickness, it was decided that she should just walk.
It was then that Piccolo-chan felt that familiar niggling in her throat, and just barely lunged off the trail before her breakfast decided to reverse itself.
Gohan held her hair as she puked up everything she had eaten that day.
"Is this supposed to be this way?" he asked, when she finally wiped her mouth with the back of her hand.
"I read a book on this, I guess it is." Suddenly, she looked accusingly at Gohan.
"This is all your fault! If you hadn't gotten me stuck like this, if you hadn't been hormonal that night, I could still be my normal green self, no eating, no morning sickness, no having to be stuck as a weak human! ARGH!"
Her hands flew into the air, exasperated, and Gohan watched as his wife of a day stomped off, then flew away.
"Piccolo-chan," he cried, looking at the direction she had gone, and flew off after her.
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He had been listening to their conversation, as he had been for the past several months. It confirmed his suspicions.
"Piccolo is alive, and is about to spawn its own child. I cannot let this abomination to happen," he mumbled to himself.
He found himself grinning cruelly as a thought came to him.
He didn't even have to kill the monster; all he had to do was turn her back into a him before the abomination was born.
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