NOTE: After much consideration (which is why it took me so long to finally write this chaptor), i've decided that if i DID own DBZ then Yamcha wouldn't have a miserable peeing disorder, if it were really up to me then he wouldn't be able to pee, because he would be asexual. Then he wouldn't be such a friggin' skirt chaser, and Bulma wouldn't be so pissy about him cheating all the time.


I suggest you actually listen to the music as you read.







Gohan twitched in utter agony. His body spasming uncrontrollably as it desperately tried to heal the searing wounds he had inflicted on himself. he was lying against a wet cold wall, his body exposed, save for a modest loin cloth someone must've fastened while he was unconsciouse. He couldn't seem to care, not about the pain, or the cold wet air that clung to his body, weakening him more.

He was bathed in total darkness. he couldn't see the sun or the moon, he couldn't see anything. He never got hungry, or thirsty, he hadn't got tired and slept yet, he just lay on the cold black stone.

That now seemed to be his purpose in life... to exist in this darkness, to be with the cold.

Time passed...

"Gohan" a distant voice called.

Gohan flinched, it was unfamiliar to him to hear anything but his own quiet breething and the ocassional drip of water from somewhere in the dark.

"Gohan" he heard again

He struggled to recognise the voice

"Can you hear me?" the voice asked.

"K.. Krillin..." he felt a smile come to his lips as he recognised his friends' raspy voice

'Krillin where are you" Gohan whispered on the verge of break-down.

"Open your eyes Gohan" the munk said.

Gohan didn't know he had them closed. But he did as Krillin asked and tried to open his eyes, he found it surprisingly difficult, he was so weak his lids felt almost to heavy to lift.

Light viciously attacked Gohan's tender pupils, making it that much harder to open his eyes. After a few seconds, he could see...

Krillin and Chi Chi stood over him, his mom with an almost terrified look on her face, Krillin showing almost the same degree of concern. He tried to lift his head to look to see where he was, but found it too strenuous. But a moment later, a lulling, familier scent flooded his nose, and he knew he was home, in his room. It was the scent of cloves. His mother always liked to sprinkle cinnimon, or cloves on the carpet before vacuuming, leaving the Son house always smelling very pleasent.

He looked at his mother, who suddenly blurred in his vision as his eyes welled up with tears. He never thought he would be so happy, so ensnared with joy just knowing the fact that someone, somebody just existed.

"Your going to be ok buddy" Krillin told him, his voice holding that ever present humorouse quality.

Krillin was holding his hand re-assuringly...

Gohan felt someone else enter the room, again he tried to get up to look, but Krillin pushed him back down onto the bed he was lying in. He was too weak to sense exactly who it was.

"It's okay Gohan, it's me." Gohan felt overwhelming joy as he heard the voice.

"Piccolo?" Gohan called.

"Shh, just lie down and be still, Dende will be here soon to heal your injuries" Piccolo told him. That made Gohan feel better knowing that his friend was coming to help.

"What happened?" Gohan asked weakly

It was Krillin who responded. "Gohan you almost killed yourself pulling that little stunt of yours" He said.

"Gohan, what possesed you to go out and do something like that? What if there had been a village nearby?" Chi Chi asked worried.

Gohan couldn't answer, He didn't know, he wanted someone to tell him what was happening, he wanted someone to tell him that everything was normal again, but it wasn't, this wasn't normal. something in the back of his mind trying to tell him something. He dismissed the feeling as exhaustion and tried to focas on staying awake.

"I'm dissapointed in you Gohan" Krillin said. "You really screwed up..."

He knew something was wrong.

"You've shamed us all, what would Goku think if he were here?" Krillin asked ironicly. sqeezing Gohan's hand tighter.

"Krillin, your hurting me" Gohan pleaded.

"Listen to him Gohan" Chi Chi said angrilly.

Gohan tried to get up, but Krillin's other hand came down on his arm, threatening to break it if he made a move to sit up.

"My poor Gohan, look what you've done to us all." Chi Chi said, moving so she was directly in Gohan's line of sight.

"Please let me go! Mr. Piccolo please help me!" Gohan implored.

At that Piccolo came face to face with Gohan, "You mean like you helped me when Cell was killing me while i was trying to prevent him from absorbing the adroids?" Piccolo asked. The skin on his face stretching, his jaw practicly unhinged, blood began dripping from his nose and his skin tore. "Did you even TRY to help me Gohan! You let me suffer... well KID what comes around GOES arOuNd" Piccolo yelled, saliva dripping from his mouth onto Gohan

Gohan trembled in complete terror as the room dimmed. He deserved this, everything he had been thinking about in the darkness, the way he failed his friends, the way he failed Piccolo, his father...

Piccolo moved to the other side of the bed and pinned Gohan's other arm down. Gohan looked to his left to see Krillin's face in almost the same condition only one of his eyes had slipped horrificly from it's socket... Gohan sobbed.

Metal wire wrapped around Gohan's hands and feet and waist as Krillin and Piccolo let go. The bed he was strapped to was then slammed vertically against the wall, Gohan along with it. he could now see the entire room and everyone in it clearly.

Chi Chi staggered towards Gohan as her soft creamy peach skin turned grey and slimy. Her eyes, Her once cheerfull loving charcoal eyes, turned red and terrifying as blood began to pour freely from them. cob-like purple veighns appeared in most of her face, and the grey dead skin of her body slightly pealed.

"Why Gohan? Why couldn't you have done what i told you!" she moaned. "YOU couldn't have stayed at home with me and just studied like a good boy, like the good boy you used to be, no you had to listen to this vulgar fucking music!" she said turning on the sterio loud as it would go. Gohan's ears bled. she screamed above the sterio "You think i don't know what's best? if you had done what i'd told you THIS wouldn't have happened!" She shreiked louder as she held her wrist before herself so he could plainly see the deep, still bleeding flesh wounds. "Mommy hurts GOHAN!"

Piccolo and Krillin were both on either sides of Chi Chi, their mouths unhinged now down to their color bones.

He sobbed uncontrollably, his body shaking.

He couldn't listen to this anymore, his mind wasn't responding to his commands. He just wanted to die. It was driving him mad. music blurred seemingly shaking the room, deafeningly loud. it was something he'd never heard before... but they made him listen




Why does it feel like night today?
Something in here's not right today.
Why am I so uptight today?
Paranoia's all I got left
I don't know what stressed me first
Or how the pressure was fed
But I know just what it feels like
To have a voice in the back of my head
It's like a face that I hold inside
A face that awakes when I close my eyes
A face watches every time I lie
A face that laughs every time I fall
(And watches everything)
So I know that when it's time to sink or swim
That the face inside is hearing me
Right underneath my skin



Krillin laughed in a low insane voice as his head began to pulse slightly. The eye that was left inplace beeding

Piccolo screamed silently as his ears began to blead profusely.



It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin


Parts of Chi Chi's skin began to peal off during the strong bass points of the song

Something deep inside Gohan began to stir.


I know I've got a face in me
Points out all my mistakes to me
You've got a face on the inside too and
Your paranoia's probably worse
I don't know what set me off first but I know what I can't stand
Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is
I can't add up to what you can but
Everybody has a face that they hold inside
A face that awakes when I close my eyes
A face watches every time they lie
A face that laughs every time they fall
(And watches everything)
So you know that when it's time to sink or swim
That the face inside is watching you too
Right inside your skin

It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin


The air in Gohan's room began to spark gold, along with his hair,



It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back
It's like a whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin!!!


(the face inside is right beneath my skin)
(the face inside is right beneath my skin)
(the face inside is right beneath my skin)

THE SUN GOES DOWN!
I FEEL THE LIGHT BETRAY ME!


The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me

THE SUN! I FEEL THE LIGHT BETRAY ME!

(It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back)
(It's like a whirlwind inside of my head)
(It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within)
(It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin!!!)

tHE SuN! I FEEL THE LIGHT BETRAY ME!




The glass in Gohan's room shattered outwards. And finally he screamed. until there was nothing left but darkness...

(It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back)
(It's like a whirlwind inside of my head)
(It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within)






Gohan flinched in the darkness, waking, as a drop of water from somewhere above in his cold damp prison, fell onto his arm, sending a cold shiver down his spine. He couldn't find the stregth in his limbs to wipe the drop off. he briefly considered asking whomever it was he felt sitting opposite of himself in the pure darkness to help, but before he could , he felt an overwhelming sense of virtigo, as he lost all thought and consciousness...






It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin...