The Dragon and the Moon
By Silver and Emerald
A/N-This is Emerald, but you can call me Cat, 'cause that's my name. So anyway, it's my turn to write. :People yell BRING BACK HOPE BRING BACK HOPE!: :Cat glares at them but continues: Basic Disclaimers apply and don't forget to review.
"Dad?" Gohan called to the man who was looking over a book. The word 'dad' sounded strange on the boy's tongue considering his father was dead and he hadn't used it in a while.
"Yes Gohan?" Knusko responded.
"Can I borrow your cell phone to call Trunks and find out where he is?" Gohan requested, not that he actually knew if Trunks had a phone.
"Sure." Knusko tossed Gohan the black phone and Gohan took it to a secluded place in the book store.
Gohan dialed the number and waited a few rings before Trunks answered. "Hey Trunks, it's me. What's up?"
"Oh hi Gohan. I talked to Mr.Popo and found out that those people in the picture are our parents."
"Yeah I kinda realized that. Our dad's name is Knusko and our mother's name is Lilia. Anything else?"
"We have to go to school," Trunks said in a grim voice.
"You're kidding? Damn I just finished all my mother's tutoring classes a few months ago and that was more than enough school for me. Is that it? Did you find out any new information about the enemies?" Gohan inquired.
"No. All Dente could tell me is that the 5 men don't have a power level or anything like that, only the women do. Where are you anyway?"
"At the mall. Actually it would be a good place to start searching for the women at least. Do you think you could teleport here? No one's around."
"Can we use our powers in this world?" Trunks wondered.
"There's only one way to find out," was Gohan's contradiction. "Try at least."
"Okay." The phone line cut off with a beep and Gohan waited for a few minuets to see if Trunks could teleport. Sure enough the violet haired boy was standing in front of Gohan in a matter of seconds. "Good, this will help us travel since we don't have a car."
"Yeah," Gohan agreed. "Let's go see if the enemies are in the mall." Trunks agreed and followed his friend to where their father was still looking at books.
"Trunks? I didn't know you were at the mall," Knusko said in surprise.
"Oh yeah, right. I needed some things for school," Trunks lied. "Can Gohan come help me look for them?"
"Sure. Meet me here in an hour?"
"Yeah," the two boys agreed and left the book store. Out side the entrance, the mall was crowded and loud. It took a moment for Trunks to center his thoughts so that he could sense any sort of power level.
"You feel anything Gohan?"
"No. Let's head towards some of the department stores. Maybe they're buying clothes," Gohan suggested. The 2 walked towards Bloomingdales, swerving through the throngs of people that were always there on Saturdays. For a moment Trunks couldn't keep concentration and he had to close his eyes again. That was a mistake because he bumped into another body and being strong as he was, pushed the person to the ground.
"Excuse me weakling, but I had the right of way," the boy on the ground informed Trunks with a tart voice.
"Sorry guess I wasn't looking where I walking." Trunks held his hand out to help the fallen boy. The black haired person glared at Trunks and rejected the helpful hand.
"It would be expected of anyone as weak and stupid as you. Try not to let it happen again. I would not like to have to hurt you"
Trunks could have walked away but his mouth got the better of him and he had to speak, "You couldn't even touch me" Gohan heard this and smacked the back of Trunks head.
"Idiot," Gohan whispered, "now you have to fight. Make it quick."
"Is that a challenge?" the boy asked.
"Yeah I guess so," Trunks said, backing away and taking regular fighting stance. -This is going to be so easy.- The other boy took fighting stance and was ready to lunge when a muscular boy with shaggy brown hair and piercing blue eyes stepped in the way.
"Wufei, I would have assumed you know better. Even Duo knows not to fight with civilians. Come on. We have work to do."
"But he challenged me," Wu-fei objected, standing up straight.
"I'm sure they have things to do just like we do," said another taller boy who had brown hair covering one side of his face. "I'll spar with you as soon as we find a place if a fight is all you're looking for."
Trunks and Gohan stood back to observe this little group. -Count them, 5- Gohan thought. He turned to Trunks to see if he had noticed the same. Trunks had. There were 3 boys, about 16 like them and then 2 other boys standing off to the side, but still part of the group.
"What should we do? Stun them?" Gohan suggested.
"No. There are too many people around plus we don't know that these are the ones we're looking for. It's not like there aren't other groups of 5," Trunks pointed out.
"What if they are the guys though? How will we be able to know?"
"We'll just have to talked to them and get them to slip up some where. How smart can they be, they're as old as us," Trunks said. Then he turned to the blue eyed boy who had broken up the fight, "I'm sorry to cause so much trouble with your friend and all. Maybe we could get some coffee or something then we could fight outside where we wouldn't hurt anyone."
The two boys who had first spoken to Wufei seemed to be the leaders of the group and Gohan saw that they were skeptical. "We're new here and we would love to get to know some of the natives."
"Really? We're new too," a boy with a long chestnut braid chirped energetically. "I'm Duo, that's Heero, Quatre, Trowa and the one with a stick up his ass is Wufei."
"Oh you're new too," Gohan said inquisitively. The enemies would have to be new too. That's one check. "That's even more of a reason for us to talk. Us newbies should stick together." Gohan could have gagged at using the word newbie but it was the only one that fit.
"Right," Duo said slowly, raising his eye brow at the use of a dorky word like newbie. "You guys," he said, turning to his friends, "some food would be nice."
"Yeah. It was a long trip," the blonde one, Quatre said.
Trunks smiled, -They don't suspect anything and they just gave away 2 pieces of information.- "Food will be my treat. Let my just call my father and tell him to go home without us."
"I guess it would be okay, what do you think Heero?" Trowa inquired.
"Sure," Heero grunted and stared skeptically again at Trunks and Gohan.
"We'll be right back. We're gonna go call our dad. You guys figure out where you want to eat," Gohan lied and pulled Trunks to a corner. "Heero and Trowa are more cautious than the rest, especially Heero. Quatre would spill everything if you asked him the right questions."
"What about Duo and Wufei?" Trunks asked, agreeing completely with Gohan's other assessments.
"Duo acts stupid but his smart. Once Heero alerts him of what's happening he won't say much. Wufei just a hot tempered snob. Can't wait to see you kick his butt in the parking lot after we're done eating," Gohan said with a smile.
"I'm not so sure I could beat him. If Wufei is part of the group that plans to take over the world he must have some sort of power or something. Let's just have lunch first," Trunks said. He took out his cell phone ,called Knsuko and told him about the lunch idea. Their father said it would be fine and hung up.
"Are you done yet?" Heero asked solemnly.
"Yeah, do you know where you want to eat?" Gohan asked with a cheerful voice despite how cold Heero was acting.
"There is a Burger King on the second floor. Duo says they have good food."
"Okay let's go," Trunks agreed. The group of boys walked up to the second floor and to the Burger King. "What does everyone want?" Trunks asked when they got there.
"A large drink, 2 quater pounder hamburgers, a few biggie fries and a 20 piece of chicken wings," Duo told him.
"That's for all of you," Trunks assumed.
"No that's just for me. I don't know what the others want," Duo said. The rest of the group sweat dropped and gave Trunks their orders. At first all the food was a total of $57.89 but once they cut down some of Duo's food it was only 20 bucks.
The boys took a few seats scatter through out the restaurant since there wasn't enough room for them all to sit together. Heero and Trowa sat in a slightly secluded place so they could discuss, as Duo put it, whatever the co-captains discussed.
"They seemed eager to meet us," Trowa commented, chewing on a french fry.
"Uh hmm. They're also new. I don't know though, they seem too normal to be a regular goon trying to take over the world. The dark haired one, Gohan, is just like Duo only a little more serious," Heero countered.
"I suppose we will have to do our own investigations. You can use your computer to hack into the FBI files and see if they check out normal and stuff," Trowa said.
Heero was silent and watched the entrance of the Burger King. Things felt so normal here, not like there were a group of mad people trying to take over the world and threaten Releana. Maybe this was all a trick was what his gut was suggesting but with what he was eating right now, Heero wasn't willing to trust his gut.
Gohan, Trunks, Duo and Quatre sat across the restaurant from Heero and Trowa and were talking like they had known each other for all their lives, not a few minuets. "So where are you guys all staying?" Gohan asked innocently.
"Right now we're staying with Releana Peacecraft but we have a house in Sakura where we usually live," Quatre told him.
"What brings you here?" Trunks inquired.
"The schools," Duo said quickly before Quatre gave away their whole mission. "Releana owns a school here and she offered to pay for our tuition."
"Really? That's cool," Gohan said. -They seem normal enough, no one who would take over the world. They're even going to school and have a place to live.-
"Is Wufei always so anti-social?" Trunks asked, looking over at the fighter who was eating by himself.
"Yeah but he likes it that way so we don't bother him about it," Quatre said.
"Yeah I know someone like that," Gohan said, thinking of Vegeta who always wanted to train by himself and was mean to everyone, even Trunks.
Duo was about to add a comment about Wufei when 2 girls walked into the King. "Woah. Check them out," he said in awe instead.
"Who?" Gohan asked, looking around.
"Them," Duo said again and pointed to the two girls who were now ordering their food.
The other 3 guys saw who Duo was looking at. Gohan whistled low while Quatre just blushed a little and trunks just rolled his eyes. The girls who came into the restaurant looked heavenly or something close to that. The girl leading had golden hair in 2 buns on the tops of her head and long pig tails intermixed with ribbon flowing down from each bun. Her eyes were sky blue and had a kind warmest to them.
The other girl was more serious but still nice. She had raven black hair that had a purple shine in the fluorescent light and dark eyes that seemed amused with the antics of her friend.
"Think we should go meet them?" Gohan pondered. Duo looked at him happily and nodded. "Okay, let's wait till they sit down then we'll move in."
"You guys are so weird," Quatre said.
Duo and Gohan took ignored what Quatre said and watched the girls take their food to a near by table. "Now," Duo whispered and got up from his seat. Gohan did the same and they walked over to the girls.
"Hi I'm Duo and this is Gohan. We're new and we were wondering if you could show us around," Duo said humbly.
The blonde girl looked at the girl with black hair with a pleading look. "Fine," she said. "I'm Raye and this is Sereana. We're new here too so we're not the ones to ask."
"Oh well then maybe we could just get together and explore the town," Gohan suggested.
"Well....." Raye paused.
"Of course," Sereana said energetically. "We would love to. When? We have to go to school tomorrow so how about Friday after noon at 3?"
"Uh okay," Gohan said once all of it processed through his mind. -I like this girl, very take charge.- "What school are you attending?"
"Peacecrafts?" Raye asked if they had heard of it.
"I'm a friend of Releana, the owner of the school. The place is pretty good, as far as school goes," Duo complimented.
"Yeah," Gohan said, seeing that Trunks was waving at him, "we have to go. See ya tomorrow. Wear something nice," he added before dragging Duo off.
"It's time to go Duo," Heero, who was standing next to Trunks, said.
"Okay," Duo said easily. " 'Till tomorrow Gohan. Bye Trunks." The 5 boys walked out of the Burger King and then out of the mall.
"What do you think about them now?" Trunks asked.
"They aren't the ones. Duo's cool. There's no way he could be one of the guys taking over the world. I bet we'll find them at school, the evil ones," Gohan guessed.
"And what about those two girls?" Trunks said, gesturing to Raye and Sereana.
"Oh. I guess I kinda forgot about that possibility. Duo and I are going out with them tomorrow afternoon, I'll see if I can find anything out then."
"Okay. Just don't forget that they could be evil," Trunks warned. "Sure we can't feel their power level but it could be like it was with the androids."
"Yeah, sure," Gohan said, not really listening. He was still looking at Sereana push her hair out of her face and reveal those beautiful blue eyes.
"Gohan..Gohan.."
"Huh? What?" he said, coming back to the real world.
"I was saying that it was time to teleport home. Pay attention. We are still on a mission to save the Earth. We don't have time for you to stare at girls."
"That's easy for you to say. You've been 16 before, you had your chance with girls. I haven't. Let me have my fun." Gohan whined as they walked into the bathroom.
"Uh huh. You'll just have to control it for now and when we get the enemies you can stare at all the girls you want. I promise," Trunks said and they both transmitted home.
A/N-That was the end of chapter 2, yeaaa. Now it's Silver/Hope's turn to write. Yeaaaa. Don't forget to review, kay? Then I can say yeaaaaa.