And now for the next chapter of
Gohan's Story of DragonBall
OR
How to Tell the Woman of Your Dreams You're a Space Alien
The next morning, Gohan woke up bright and early. He had spent a lot of time the night before going over and over in his mind how he would tell Videl the next part. Since she knew Vegeta, it would be both a little easier and a little harder. "The really difficult thing," Gohan had thought to himself the night before, "will be when I tell her about Cell."
"She knows that her dad didn't beat him, but how do I tell her that I did without seeming like I'm just trying to take credit for someone else's work?" Gohan had mulled that thought over quite a bit the night before, too. He had eventually decided to go to his father for advice.
"Dad," Gohan said to Goku, who sat at the table, just after breakfast, "I need your help with something."
"What is it, son?"
"Well...Videl asked me about, uh, things...and I've been telling her..." Despite Gohan's extremely vague statement, Goku managed to understand what he meant by 'things.' Or, so Goku thought.
"So, you finally decided to propose to her?" Goku asked, grinning like an idiot.
"DAD!" Gohan shouted, blushing deep crimson. "Not THOSE kinds of things...like, about Saiyans and stuff things!"
"OH!" Goku replied. "Why didn't you just say so? Geez, and I thought your mom was right and you were about to get married!"
"Mom???" Gohan asked, directing the comment at his mother who was putting dishes away.
Chi Chi looked rather embarrassed herself at that, and she attempted to reply. "Uh, what, sweetheart?"
"Just WHAT did you tell Dad?"
"Well, son, you have been spending a LOT of time with her lately, and you've been coming home late lately, and, uh, SO WHEN AM I GONNA BE A GRANDMA?" The words catapulted themselves from Chi Chi's mouth before she could stop them. "Uh oh..." Chi Chi thought. "It looks like Mt Gohan is about to blow..."
Oh, Chi Chi was DEFINITELY right. Gohan nearly exploded at that comment. "WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU, MOM? WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT STUFF! WE AREN'T 'MAKING BABIES' OR SOMETHING! JUST TALKING!" Before Gohan could blow the house down, Goku laid a strong hand on Gohan's shoulder.
"Whoa, there, killer! No need to blow your mom away or anything...just calm down. Your mother is just overreacting a bit, okay? So just settle down... Ok, that's better. Now, what did you want to ask me about?" Gohan had reined in his emotions by this point and he sat back down to talk to his father.
"Ok, I've been telling Videl all about Saiyans and dragon balls and stuff. She asked me about it pretty pointedly, so I decided to tell her the whole story. I've gotten up to the point where you are about to train with King Kai and I was training with Mr. Piccolo, and Vegeta and Nappa were a year away. I just don't know how to tell her about it all. I want to, I just can't figure out how. What should I do, Dad?"
"Well, Gohan, you should do exactly what you are doing. Explain it all to her and let her figure it all out. Just tell her the honest truth, all of it, and you can't go wrong." Goku's words seemed to give Gohan the resolve he needed to do things right. After thanking his father, Gohan walked out the door and then flew off for school.
School that day, though, was anything but simple. It started in first period. Videl's communicator went off about five minutes into class, and then the two of them had to leave to stop a bank heist. They got back just in time to take the quiz for that class and then they were off to their next classes. Then in third hour, during gym, Gohan was so nervous about telling Videl his story that he didn't control his power well enough and nearly broke a hole in the ceiling doing jumping jacks. By this time, thankfully, the gym coach knew about Gohan and only told him to control himself. The rest of the class, however, stared at the half-Saiyan in the rafters for quite some time.
Then it was lunch. All Gohan could think about was the story, but for some reason, Videl hadn't said a word about it to him all day. She wasn't very talkative at all, either. It was starting to worry him, like maybe he had said something wrong, or maybe she was disgusted by his heritage, or something. Finally, during lunch, he and Videl sat alone at a table in the corner.
"I know you said not to ask questions until you were done, Gohan, but I really have to know. It has been bugging me all day. Is there some connection between that Radditz character and Vegeta? I mean, they both called your dad 'Kakkarot.' So, come on, Gohan. Spill it!" Videl asked in a hushed voice.
"Fine, Videl, but this isn't the place. Let's go out to lunch." With that, Gohan scooped up his and Videl's things and walked out of the cafeteria toward the door. Videl scrambled to catch up.
"What are you doing, Gohan? We only have a little bit of lunchtime left! We'll be late coming back if we leave now!"
"Well, Videl...do you want to know or not?" Put so plainly, Videl could only answer one way. She ran to the principal's office and said the police needed her and Gohan to help out with some terrorists and then she ran back out to Gohan.
"Let's go, story boy!" With that, she ran out the front door and took off into the sky.
Gohan shook his head at her little display, then took off after her. He pressed the button on his watch to activate his Saiyaman costume so he wouldn't be recognized, then flew after her. "Well, then, now that we've ditched school for the day, where should we head to?"
"How about our lake?" Videl regretted having said 'our' the moment it popped out of her mouth. "Whoops!" she thought. "Now he's going to think...wait, what is he going to think? And, is it that bad that he thinks it?"
Gohan, too, caught that little snippet. "Our lake," he thought, "that sounds really romantic...almost like that's how she means it...I wonder..." While both were deep in thought, they caught each others eyes and both began to laugh at the perplexed looks on each other's face. They both laughed for a few moments, until Videl lunged for Gohan's watch and pulled it off. His Saiyaman costume immediately disappeared.
"HEY! What did you do that for, Videl?" he asked, acting hurt. She saw right through him.
"Its tough to look you in the eyes with those glasses on... I thought I might as well change that," she replied.
"Oh, okay...if that's how you want to play it..." Then, in a flash, Gohan was behind Videl in the air, and he started to tickle her. She collapsed into his arms, unable to fly while laughing so hard. He easily caught her. They looked at one another, and both blushed.
Neither one wanted to end it, but after a few moments, Videl broke the tension. "Uh..." Videl said, "We should get going...I really want to hear more about everything." Unsaid, but only barely, she added "Not that I don't like flying in your arms, or anything..." Somehow, Gohan caught that unsaid remark, but he dismissed it as his own overactive imagination.
They flew back to 'their' lake and landed. Both of them sat down in their normal spots, and Videl again asked Gohan. "So, about my question... What's with Vegeta and that Radditz guy?"
"Well, Videl...remember how I said that two much more powerful Saiyans were coming to the Earth for the dragon balls. Well, Vegeta was one of them. You see, Vegeta's father, also called Vegeta, was the King of the Saiyans. That is, until the Saiyan homeworld was destroyed and all but 5 Saiyans with it. Vegeta and his royal bodyguard, Nappa, had also been off planet, doing Kami knows what. They were the Saiyans Radditz spoke of. And they were coming to Earth."
"My dad was dead but not gone. Kami took my dad before King Yemma (yes, the one who judges the dead) and argued to let my dad attempt to travel Snake Way and train with King Kai. I guess I should explain about the Kais here, too. You see, there is a sort of heirachy among the heavens. The Guardian of a planet, like Dende is now, is at one stage. Above that, fulfilling a similar role, are the Kais. There is one Kai for each of the 4 quadrants of the galaxy. Ours is North, so that makes our King Kai the North Kai. Above them is a Grand Kai. Then, there are 3 other Grand Kais, each with his own galaxy, and, at the top, is the (sorry, I don't have the proper translation YET, working on it) Kai-o-Shin. That is who we met at the Tournament. But, I digress..."
"So, my dad was heading down Snake Way to train with King Kai. All of his friends began to train as well. And Piccolo took me to train with him. He left me in the middle of nowhere, in the wilderness to fend for myself for quite some time. Finally, he came back. I had went from being a sheltered little boy to being a self-sufficient (well, for a 5 year old) young warrior. My Saiyan heritage gave me a LOT of energy to throw around, and Piccolo's training helped me to control it."
"Well, suffice it to say that a year passed. Piccolo and I went to Kame House to meet up with the others. A wish had already been used so that my dad, when his training was complete, could return to life. We were as ready as we could be. Unfortunately, my dad forgot one thing. It would take him two days, even with his power, to make it back across Snake Way. He forgot to allow that, and so he was two days late getting to the fight. Thankfully, the other Saiyans had taken longer than just a year to get here. They got here after a year and 36 hours. That only left about 12 hours for us to stall them until my dad would be there."
Just then, Videl's communicator beeped, but it wasn't the police. It was Hercule. "Videl, why weren't you in school this afternoon? The principal called me when you didn't return to class after you left to stop some 'terrorists.' I called the police and they said they only called you once this morning, and that was a bank heist. And, what, may I ask, is Gohan doing there with you? The principal said you had both left, so spill it, young lady!"
"I'm sorry, Dad," Videl said, "I can't hear you...its breaking up on my end..." While she said that, she took a few dried leaves and began to crumple them by the communicator, then she shut it off. Ok, that'll give me a few minutes, but I should get home before he gets any madder...can we talk later, Gohan? Maybe on the phone or something?"
"Sure, Videl," he replied, "Just don't get into any trouble on my account!"
She waved at him, then flew off toward home. Gohan took off for home a minute later, but then realized just as he took to the sky, "She still has my watch! Great, now I can't turn into the Great Saiyaman until I get it back...grr..." Then he laughed at himself for such silly thoughts and flew for home, his spirits buoyed by his afternoon with Videl.
Videl, too, was in a good mood, at least until she got home. Her dad was about as mad as she had seen him in a while, and that is saying a lot, if you know what I mean. He kept going off about how he was sure she had skipped school to go out on a date with Gohan, and that even though he had passed the test and could date her didn't mean they could skip school to do it! She just ignored him and thought about Gohan. "What must it have been like," she thought, "to train like that, in the wilderness, with just one other person? And to fight these heroic battles...he really is some guy..." That thought ran through her head quite a few times that night, as did a similar thought run through Gohan's.
"I can't wait to tell her more," Gohan thought as he fell asleep. "There is so much more to tell her..."
Well, I know Gohan didn't tell very much about the story in that chapter, but I think the focus on Gohan and Videl was a refreshing change from things. Keep up the reviews, I love ya all!
-htmLord
Gohan's Story of DragonBall
OR
How to Tell the Woman of Your Dreams You're a Space Alien
The next morning, Gohan woke up bright and early. He had spent a lot of time the night before going over and over in his mind how he would tell Videl the next part. Since she knew Vegeta, it would be both a little easier and a little harder. "The really difficult thing," Gohan had thought to himself the night before, "will be when I tell her about Cell."
"She knows that her dad didn't beat him, but how do I tell her that I did without seeming like I'm just trying to take credit for someone else's work?" Gohan had mulled that thought over quite a bit the night before, too. He had eventually decided to go to his father for advice.
"Dad," Gohan said to Goku, who sat at the table, just after breakfast, "I need your help with something."
"What is it, son?"
"Well...Videl asked me about, uh, things...and I've been telling her..." Despite Gohan's extremely vague statement, Goku managed to understand what he meant by 'things.' Or, so Goku thought.
"So, you finally decided to propose to her?" Goku asked, grinning like an idiot.
"DAD!" Gohan shouted, blushing deep crimson. "Not THOSE kinds of things...like, about Saiyans and stuff things!"
"OH!" Goku replied. "Why didn't you just say so? Geez, and I thought your mom was right and you were about to get married!"
"Mom???" Gohan asked, directing the comment at his mother who was putting dishes away.
Chi Chi looked rather embarrassed herself at that, and she attempted to reply. "Uh, what, sweetheart?"
"Just WHAT did you tell Dad?"
"Well, son, you have been spending a LOT of time with her lately, and you've been coming home late lately, and, uh, SO WHEN AM I GONNA BE A GRANDMA?" The words catapulted themselves from Chi Chi's mouth before she could stop them. "Uh oh..." Chi Chi thought. "It looks like Mt Gohan is about to blow..."
Oh, Chi Chi was DEFINITELY right. Gohan nearly exploded at that comment. "WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU, MOM? WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT STUFF! WE AREN'T 'MAKING BABIES' OR SOMETHING! JUST TALKING!" Before Gohan could blow the house down, Goku laid a strong hand on Gohan's shoulder.
"Whoa, there, killer! No need to blow your mom away or anything...just calm down. Your mother is just overreacting a bit, okay? So just settle down... Ok, that's better. Now, what did you want to ask me about?" Gohan had reined in his emotions by this point and he sat back down to talk to his father.
"Ok, I've been telling Videl all about Saiyans and dragon balls and stuff. She asked me about it pretty pointedly, so I decided to tell her the whole story. I've gotten up to the point where you are about to train with King Kai and I was training with Mr. Piccolo, and Vegeta and Nappa were a year away. I just don't know how to tell her about it all. I want to, I just can't figure out how. What should I do, Dad?"
"Well, Gohan, you should do exactly what you are doing. Explain it all to her and let her figure it all out. Just tell her the honest truth, all of it, and you can't go wrong." Goku's words seemed to give Gohan the resolve he needed to do things right. After thanking his father, Gohan walked out the door and then flew off for school.
School that day, though, was anything but simple. It started in first period. Videl's communicator went off about five minutes into class, and then the two of them had to leave to stop a bank heist. They got back just in time to take the quiz for that class and then they were off to their next classes. Then in third hour, during gym, Gohan was so nervous about telling Videl his story that he didn't control his power well enough and nearly broke a hole in the ceiling doing jumping jacks. By this time, thankfully, the gym coach knew about Gohan and only told him to control himself. The rest of the class, however, stared at the half-Saiyan in the rafters for quite some time.
Then it was lunch. All Gohan could think about was the story, but for some reason, Videl hadn't said a word about it to him all day. She wasn't very talkative at all, either. It was starting to worry him, like maybe he had said something wrong, or maybe she was disgusted by his heritage, or something. Finally, during lunch, he and Videl sat alone at a table in the corner.
"I know you said not to ask questions until you were done, Gohan, but I really have to know. It has been bugging me all day. Is there some connection between that Radditz character and Vegeta? I mean, they both called your dad 'Kakkarot.' So, come on, Gohan. Spill it!" Videl asked in a hushed voice.
"Fine, Videl, but this isn't the place. Let's go out to lunch." With that, Gohan scooped up his and Videl's things and walked out of the cafeteria toward the door. Videl scrambled to catch up.
"What are you doing, Gohan? We only have a little bit of lunchtime left! We'll be late coming back if we leave now!"
"Well, Videl...do you want to know or not?" Put so plainly, Videl could only answer one way. She ran to the principal's office and said the police needed her and Gohan to help out with some terrorists and then she ran back out to Gohan.
"Let's go, story boy!" With that, she ran out the front door and took off into the sky.
Gohan shook his head at her little display, then took off after her. He pressed the button on his watch to activate his Saiyaman costume so he wouldn't be recognized, then flew after her. "Well, then, now that we've ditched school for the day, where should we head to?"
"How about our lake?" Videl regretted having said 'our' the moment it popped out of her mouth. "Whoops!" she thought. "Now he's going to think...wait, what is he going to think? And, is it that bad that he thinks it?"
Gohan, too, caught that little snippet. "Our lake," he thought, "that sounds really romantic...almost like that's how she means it...I wonder..." While both were deep in thought, they caught each others eyes and both began to laugh at the perplexed looks on each other's face. They both laughed for a few moments, until Videl lunged for Gohan's watch and pulled it off. His Saiyaman costume immediately disappeared.
"HEY! What did you do that for, Videl?" he asked, acting hurt. She saw right through him.
"Its tough to look you in the eyes with those glasses on... I thought I might as well change that," she replied.
"Oh, okay...if that's how you want to play it..." Then, in a flash, Gohan was behind Videl in the air, and he started to tickle her. She collapsed into his arms, unable to fly while laughing so hard. He easily caught her. They looked at one another, and both blushed.
Neither one wanted to end it, but after a few moments, Videl broke the tension. "Uh..." Videl said, "We should get going...I really want to hear more about everything." Unsaid, but only barely, she added "Not that I don't like flying in your arms, or anything..." Somehow, Gohan caught that unsaid remark, but he dismissed it as his own overactive imagination.
They flew back to 'their' lake and landed. Both of them sat down in their normal spots, and Videl again asked Gohan. "So, about my question... What's with Vegeta and that Radditz guy?"
"Well, Videl...remember how I said that two much more powerful Saiyans were coming to the Earth for the dragon balls. Well, Vegeta was one of them. You see, Vegeta's father, also called Vegeta, was the King of the Saiyans. That is, until the Saiyan homeworld was destroyed and all but 5 Saiyans with it. Vegeta and his royal bodyguard, Nappa, had also been off planet, doing Kami knows what. They were the Saiyans Radditz spoke of. And they were coming to Earth."
"My dad was dead but not gone. Kami took my dad before King Yemma (yes, the one who judges the dead) and argued to let my dad attempt to travel Snake Way and train with King Kai. I guess I should explain about the Kais here, too. You see, there is a sort of heirachy among the heavens. The Guardian of a planet, like Dende is now, is at one stage. Above that, fulfilling a similar role, are the Kais. There is one Kai for each of the 4 quadrants of the galaxy. Ours is North, so that makes our King Kai the North Kai. Above them is a Grand Kai. Then, there are 3 other Grand Kais, each with his own galaxy, and, at the top, is the (sorry, I don't have the proper translation YET, working on it) Kai-o-Shin. That is who we met at the Tournament. But, I digress..."
"So, my dad was heading down Snake Way to train with King Kai. All of his friends began to train as well. And Piccolo took me to train with him. He left me in the middle of nowhere, in the wilderness to fend for myself for quite some time. Finally, he came back. I had went from being a sheltered little boy to being a self-sufficient (well, for a 5 year old) young warrior. My Saiyan heritage gave me a LOT of energy to throw around, and Piccolo's training helped me to control it."
"Well, suffice it to say that a year passed. Piccolo and I went to Kame House to meet up with the others. A wish had already been used so that my dad, when his training was complete, could return to life. We were as ready as we could be. Unfortunately, my dad forgot one thing. It would take him two days, even with his power, to make it back across Snake Way. He forgot to allow that, and so he was two days late getting to the fight. Thankfully, the other Saiyans had taken longer than just a year to get here. They got here after a year and 36 hours. That only left about 12 hours for us to stall them until my dad would be there."
Just then, Videl's communicator beeped, but it wasn't the police. It was Hercule. "Videl, why weren't you in school this afternoon? The principal called me when you didn't return to class after you left to stop some 'terrorists.' I called the police and they said they only called you once this morning, and that was a bank heist. And, what, may I ask, is Gohan doing there with you? The principal said you had both left, so spill it, young lady!"
"I'm sorry, Dad," Videl said, "I can't hear you...its breaking up on my end..." While she said that, she took a few dried leaves and began to crumple them by the communicator, then she shut it off. Ok, that'll give me a few minutes, but I should get home before he gets any madder...can we talk later, Gohan? Maybe on the phone or something?"
"Sure, Videl," he replied, "Just don't get into any trouble on my account!"
She waved at him, then flew off toward home. Gohan took off for home a minute later, but then realized just as he took to the sky, "She still has my watch! Great, now I can't turn into the Great Saiyaman until I get it back...grr..." Then he laughed at himself for such silly thoughts and flew for home, his spirits buoyed by his afternoon with Videl.
Videl, too, was in a good mood, at least until she got home. Her dad was about as mad as she had seen him in a while, and that is saying a lot, if you know what I mean. He kept going off about how he was sure she had skipped school to go out on a date with Gohan, and that even though he had passed the test and could date her didn't mean they could skip school to do it! She just ignored him and thought about Gohan. "What must it have been like," she thought, "to train like that, in the wilderness, with just one other person? And to fight these heroic battles...he really is some guy..." That thought ran through her head quite a few times that night, as did a similar thought run through Gohan's.
"I can't wait to tell her more," Gohan thought as he fell asleep. "There is so much more to tell her..."
Well, I know Gohan didn't tell very much about the story in that chapter, but I think the focus on Gohan and Videl was a refreshing change from things. Keep up the reviews, I love ya all!
-htmLord