YAY! Another chapter of my fic is done and on the net! I hope you like it. Special thanks to Mystic Grey, Daniel of Lorien, Something like Human, Sharon Toggle, FateChica, and anyone else I missed for your thoughts on how to handle the Ginyu Force. Well, here we go!
Gohan's Story of DragonBall
OR
How to Tell the Woman of Your Dreams You're a Space Alien
It was Sunday morning, and Gohan had just awoken from his slumber. And the first thought on his mind was (surprise!) NOT FOOD? That was the second thought that Gohan had that morning. He had woken up thinking about Videl and how she would be waiting to hear more of his story today. "What is wrong with me?" he thought.
Just then, Chi Chi yelled at Gohan. "Come on, Gohan! You don't wanna miss breakfast, do you?" Gohan jumped out of bed and ran downstairs, knowing that his dad and brother would eat everything long before he got there if he didn't hurry. He hit his plate running and had devoured all his food in a heartbeat.
"I gotta go, Mom! I'm spending the day with Videl!" he said as he ran out the door.
Chi Chi sighed at that. "Ah, I'll be having grandbabies so soon..." she thought. And its a good thing she only thought it, because Gohan would've had a fit over that.
Out on the skies, Gohan was making pretty good time. Videl wouldn't have even left her house yet if he hurried. He swung down low, as to not be seen as he closed in on her home, then flew up to her bedroom window.
"RAPP RAPP RAPP!" Videl heard on her window and spun to face it. She only barely maintained the hold on her towel. There was Gohan, a goofy grin on his face, knocking on the window. Then, he noticed what he was looking at and looked away, blushing. Videl had just gotten out of the shower, but thankfully, she still had a towel around her. She harrumphed, walked over to the window, and shut the curtains. Only then did she take off the towel and get dressed.
Outside, Gohan felt QUITE embarrassed. He had been meaning to surprise her, and it looked as though he had done a better job than he ever could have hoped for. He quickly flew around to the door, still blushing, and knocked. A servant opened it and let him into the house. Gohan just took a seat in the entryway, trying to stop blushing.
The servant was just wondering what in the world was going on. This young man, apparently one of Ms. Videl's friends, just knocked on the door, flushed crimson. "What had happened to him?" the servant thought as he went to get Videl from her room.
He knocked on the door and Videl yelled out "Tell him I'll be ready in a minute!" The servant, taken aback that she knew her guest was here, walked away to tell the young man in the entryway that she would be with him shortly.
In the entryway, Gohan was waiting nervously when the servant came back in. "Sir, Ms. Videl will be with you in a moment. She isn't quite ready for you yet." Now the servant's mind was grinding away, full tilt. "Why is this young man so nervous? Is he...? Oh, my! He and Ms. Videl! I have to tell the master!" The servant ran out of the room, heading for Hercule's room.
Videl walked in to find Gohan patiently (though nervously) waiting for her. There was a moment of silence before Gohan began "I'm sorry, Videl. I didn't think you'd be, uh..." He couldn't find a way to finish his sentence without blushing even more.
"Well," she replied, "don't do it again!" In her head, though, some part of Videl was telling her that "but if you do, I won't mind..." She mentally slapped herself, then she and Gohan left.
Moments after they walked out, Hercule Satan entered the room, yelling for his daughter. The servant had told him (his version of) the whole story, and Hercule WAS NOT PLEASED! "When I get my hands on that little..." he said, scaring the servant who had followed him back. The servant quickly ran off to find some other job to attend to, and Hercule just stormed around, imagining what he would do to Gohan when he saw him next.
(Author's Note : Sorry, I just couldn't help myself on that line. I always get a kick out of Hercule announcing he will destroy/maim/hurt one of the Z fighters, especially since any one of them could flatten him with one arm tied behind their backs.)
By this time, Gohan and Videl were nearly to their lake, but, as they approached it, they noticed that it had a few extra occupants, today. It seemed that a family had set up a camp there, so it looked like they were going somewhere else. "Well, Videl, where should we go today? We can't really go down there..."
"How about Dende's lookout? I love the view from up there, and I haven't been there since, uh...you know." He thought about it for a minute, then looked at her and asked her if she was sure. "Sure I'm sure!" she said, grinning.
"Dende's it is, then. It'll be nice to see Dende again, too." With that, the two of them took off for Dende's lookout. When they arrove, they saw Mr. Popo standing near the edge, though Dende was nowhere to be seen.
"Hi, Mr. Popo! Where is Dende at?"
"Oh, its you kids! What brings you two up here?"
"Well, Mr. Popo, we just were looking for someplace to come where we wouldn't be bothered, and it seemed like a good idea to come up here."
Just then, a short little green guy came running out of the building. "Gohan! Videl! How are the two of you today? And what brings you up here?"
"Well," Gohan said, answering that question again, "Videl and I were just looking for someplace quiet, and up here seemed like a great place to go."
"Well, then...enjoy your stay, Gohan!" Dende walked over to Mr. Popo and began to look out at the planet, not wanting to disturb his friends' solitude. Gohan and Videl walked around and found a comfortable place to sit near the edge of the platform and looked out. They just stared out at the earth, seeing far and wide. Gohan looked out as far as he could see, noticing places he'd been and others he'd seen. Videl slid a little closer to the naive half-Saiyan, who either didn't notice or didn't know how to respond.
Gohan was looking out at the place where they had fought with Androids 19 and 20 years ago when he noticed Videl move closer to him. "Maybe she's a little cold," he thought, remembering that it was only about 50 degrees out up here. "Well, what can I do to help warm her up...let's see...no coat, no shirt to take off...hmmm...I know!" Gohan reached an arm out and wrapped it around Videl, trying to help her warm up.
That surprised Videl, who didn't know how to take it. Did he..actually CARE about her? "Well, of course he's my friend," she thought, "but...friends don't hold each other..." Trying to sort things out, she slid closer to him.
Gohan noticed her slide in and held her tighter. "Wow...she must REALLY be cold...maybe it was a mistake to come all the way up here..." He also couldn't help notice how warm her body was. "Now, how can she be so cold when she's so warm?" he thought.
At that moment, Dende looked over toward the two of them. "Ah, so that is why they wanted some solitude, eh, Popo?" He and Mr. Popo looked over at them, then back to looking out over the Earth. "Well, let's try not to bother them."
Videl sat there, with Gohan's arm wrapped around her, still unsure of what to do. "Wow...I think he really does like me...he's gotta, the way he's holding me. This is such a dream come true! I've dreamt of Gohan so much lately, I knew it had to be something...and, when he saw me this morning, anyone else...I would have beaten them into the ground...but Gohan I just forgave..."
That was when Videl decided to find out for sure. She leaned her head over on Gohan's shoulder and sighed, preparing herself. Gohan just wondered what was going on. She sure wasn't cold so..."Wow, that feels so...nice...with her leaning on my shoulder like that. Just like its always supposed to be this way..."
"Ok, I'm ready!" Videl thought to herself. With that, she turned her head toward Gohan's and softly whispered his name. "Gohan..." Gohan turned and looked at Videl, who's face was only inches from his own.
"Uh...yes, Videl?" He sat there, looking into her eyes, utterly transfixed by them. Videl leaned forward a bit, closing the gap between their faces and tilted her own a bit. Gohan only now began to see what was going on, and he was far too wrapped up in it to stop her, so he too leaned forward and tipped his head to the side. Their faces met in a passionate kiss, the first that the two had ever succumbed too, either with each other or with someone else. They stayed that way for a very long moment, and, when they had broken it, they just looked in one another's eyes, almost unable to look away.
That was when they heard the WHIRR..CLICK! of an automatic camera. Their pose was broken by the noise, and they looked over to see Trunks and Goten snapping away. The boys knew the jig was up as soon as they were seen and raced off, toward Capsule Corp. It took Gohan and Videl a moment to register what had just happened, though it had surely broken the mood. Gohan realized there was no way he could hope to catch the boys with that much of a head start, then he remembered why they were up here in the first place. Videl just wondered how they had been found.
(Author's Note : And just how HAD they been found? Don't forget, the Z fighters can follow you by your energy alone. And at this point, Gohan is the most powerful non-fused energy source on the planet.)
"Ummm...Videl...didn't we come up here for a reason?"
"Oh..yeah, you were telling me about...uh..Namek, right?" Videl struggled to remember, not only why they had come here, but where 'here' was. That little episode had stopped all thought processes for a while for her. Gohan wasn't quite himself, yet, either, so he excused himself to get some water. He returned a moment later with two glasses and handed one to Videl. They both drank up, and the cold water seemed to refresh their minds.
"Well...uh...back to the story, ok? Let's see, where was I? Oh, yeah!" Gohan said, finally getting back into his groove. "The Ginyu Force!"
"The who?" Videl asked, not sure if Gohan had explained them to her already and her brain was still frazzled or if he hadn't told her about them yet.
"The Ginyu Force! They had just arrived, but we didn't quite know it yet. They were a band of famous space mercenaries who Frieza had hired to help find the dragon balls on Namek. And they were DORKS! When they got there, they did these silly little dances and poses, and you wouldn't believe how stupid they looked!" Videl just busted up laughing, unable to control herself. "What? What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing, Gohan! Nothing at all!" she said, fighting with all her willpower not to add her next thought. "It just sounds just like you when you introduce yourself as the 'Great Saiyaman!'" She couldn't help herself and it slipped out.
"WHAT? I DO NOT LOOK LIKE THEM WHEN I POSE AS SAIYAMAN! I AM MUCH COOLER LOOKING THAN THEY EVER WERE!" Gohan's scream nearly deafened him and Videl, so he toned it down a bit. "You have to be kidding, Videl! I mean, they looked like total rejects! And Saiyaman looks SO cool!"
"Yeah, you bet, Gohan..." Now that she thought about it, he didn't really look as bad as she had first thought he looked when he was Saiyaman. In fact, he looked pretty good...
"Well, as I was saying, the Ginyu Force got there. We had just gotten back to the dragon balls and they challenged us to a fight. They were a lot stronger than us, and they played rock-scissors-paper to see who would fight us. This little four eyed guy would fight me and Krillin and the big one named Racoome would fight Vegeta. Well, lets say that the little one surprised us but couldn't quite beat us. You see, he could stop time, and he tried to get us both while time was stopped, but couldn't quite do it. Then, he stopped time for us and threw a tree at Krillin. Just before it connected, though, Vegeta killed the little guy and saved Krillin."
"We were both pretty stunned at that, and I even thanked Vegeta, who said something about 'evening out the numbers.' Next, Racoome and Vegeta fought. It looked like Vegeta would easily win, but then Racoome did a Racoome Kick to Vegeta and sent him flying. They fought some more, and then Racoome did some sort of speed up manuever and started to trounce Vegeta. Krillin and I start to jump into the fight, but the others stomp us pretty good. And that is when my dad got there."
Well, I believe I'll end the chapter there. Now, I know I didn't add a whole lot of the recounting into this chapter, but I hope that you are all satisfied with the Gohan/Videl interactions. If you want me to, I can put a bit more into them as Gohan tells the story (more cut scenes and the like) or I can stick to the story. That is a call for you, my loyal readers, to make. So, enjoy the story and please please please review! I love ya all for it!
htmLord
Gohan's Story of DragonBall
OR
How to Tell the Woman of Your Dreams You're a Space Alien
It was Sunday morning, and Gohan had just awoken from his slumber. And the first thought on his mind was (surprise!) NOT FOOD? That was the second thought that Gohan had that morning. He had woken up thinking about Videl and how she would be waiting to hear more of his story today. "What is wrong with me?" he thought.
Just then, Chi Chi yelled at Gohan. "Come on, Gohan! You don't wanna miss breakfast, do you?" Gohan jumped out of bed and ran downstairs, knowing that his dad and brother would eat everything long before he got there if he didn't hurry. He hit his plate running and had devoured all his food in a heartbeat.
"I gotta go, Mom! I'm spending the day with Videl!" he said as he ran out the door.
Chi Chi sighed at that. "Ah, I'll be having grandbabies so soon..." she thought. And its a good thing she only thought it, because Gohan would've had a fit over that.
Out on the skies, Gohan was making pretty good time. Videl wouldn't have even left her house yet if he hurried. He swung down low, as to not be seen as he closed in on her home, then flew up to her bedroom window.
"RAPP RAPP RAPP!" Videl heard on her window and spun to face it. She only barely maintained the hold on her towel. There was Gohan, a goofy grin on his face, knocking on the window. Then, he noticed what he was looking at and looked away, blushing. Videl had just gotten out of the shower, but thankfully, she still had a towel around her. She harrumphed, walked over to the window, and shut the curtains. Only then did she take off the towel and get dressed.
Outside, Gohan felt QUITE embarrassed. He had been meaning to surprise her, and it looked as though he had done a better job than he ever could have hoped for. He quickly flew around to the door, still blushing, and knocked. A servant opened it and let him into the house. Gohan just took a seat in the entryway, trying to stop blushing.
The servant was just wondering what in the world was going on. This young man, apparently one of Ms. Videl's friends, just knocked on the door, flushed crimson. "What had happened to him?" the servant thought as he went to get Videl from her room.
He knocked on the door and Videl yelled out "Tell him I'll be ready in a minute!" The servant, taken aback that she knew her guest was here, walked away to tell the young man in the entryway that she would be with him shortly.
In the entryway, Gohan was waiting nervously when the servant came back in. "Sir, Ms. Videl will be with you in a moment. She isn't quite ready for you yet." Now the servant's mind was grinding away, full tilt. "Why is this young man so nervous? Is he...? Oh, my! He and Ms. Videl! I have to tell the master!" The servant ran out of the room, heading for Hercule's room.
Videl walked in to find Gohan patiently (though nervously) waiting for her. There was a moment of silence before Gohan began "I'm sorry, Videl. I didn't think you'd be, uh..." He couldn't find a way to finish his sentence without blushing even more.
"Well," she replied, "don't do it again!" In her head, though, some part of Videl was telling her that "but if you do, I won't mind..." She mentally slapped herself, then she and Gohan left.
Moments after they walked out, Hercule Satan entered the room, yelling for his daughter. The servant had told him (his version of) the whole story, and Hercule WAS NOT PLEASED! "When I get my hands on that little..." he said, scaring the servant who had followed him back. The servant quickly ran off to find some other job to attend to, and Hercule just stormed around, imagining what he would do to Gohan when he saw him next.
(Author's Note : Sorry, I just couldn't help myself on that line. I always get a kick out of Hercule announcing he will destroy/maim/hurt one of the Z fighters, especially since any one of them could flatten him with one arm tied behind their backs.)
By this time, Gohan and Videl were nearly to their lake, but, as they approached it, they noticed that it had a few extra occupants, today. It seemed that a family had set up a camp there, so it looked like they were going somewhere else. "Well, Videl, where should we go today? We can't really go down there..."
"How about Dende's lookout? I love the view from up there, and I haven't been there since, uh...you know." He thought about it for a minute, then looked at her and asked her if she was sure. "Sure I'm sure!" she said, grinning.
"Dende's it is, then. It'll be nice to see Dende again, too." With that, the two of them took off for Dende's lookout. When they arrove, they saw Mr. Popo standing near the edge, though Dende was nowhere to be seen.
"Hi, Mr. Popo! Where is Dende at?"
"Oh, its you kids! What brings you two up here?"
"Well, Mr. Popo, we just were looking for someplace to come where we wouldn't be bothered, and it seemed like a good idea to come up here."
Just then, a short little green guy came running out of the building. "Gohan! Videl! How are the two of you today? And what brings you up here?"
"Well," Gohan said, answering that question again, "Videl and I were just looking for someplace quiet, and up here seemed like a great place to go."
"Well, then...enjoy your stay, Gohan!" Dende walked over to Mr. Popo and began to look out at the planet, not wanting to disturb his friends' solitude. Gohan and Videl walked around and found a comfortable place to sit near the edge of the platform and looked out. They just stared out at the earth, seeing far and wide. Gohan looked out as far as he could see, noticing places he'd been and others he'd seen. Videl slid a little closer to the naive half-Saiyan, who either didn't notice or didn't know how to respond.
Gohan was looking out at the place where they had fought with Androids 19 and 20 years ago when he noticed Videl move closer to him. "Maybe she's a little cold," he thought, remembering that it was only about 50 degrees out up here. "Well, what can I do to help warm her up...let's see...no coat, no shirt to take off...hmmm...I know!" Gohan reached an arm out and wrapped it around Videl, trying to help her warm up.
That surprised Videl, who didn't know how to take it. Did he..actually CARE about her? "Well, of course he's my friend," she thought, "but...friends don't hold each other..." Trying to sort things out, she slid closer to him.
Gohan noticed her slide in and held her tighter. "Wow...she must REALLY be cold...maybe it was a mistake to come all the way up here..." He also couldn't help notice how warm her body was. "Now, how can she be so cold when she's so warm?" he thought.
At that moment, Dende looked over toward the two of them. "Ah, so that is why they wanted some solitude, eh, Popo?" He and Mr. Popo looked over at them, then back to looking out over the Earth. "Well, let's try not to bother them."
Videl sat there, with Gohan's arm wrapped around her, still unsure of what to do. "Wow...I think he really does like me...he's gotta, the way he's holding me. This is such a dream come true! I've dreamt of Gohan so much lately, I knew it had to be something...and, when he saw me this morning, anyone else...I would have beaten them into the ground...but Gohan I just forgave..."
That was when Videl decided to find out for sure. She leaned her head over on Gohan's shoulder and sighed, preparing herself. Gohan just wondered what was going on. She sure wasn't cold so..."Wow, that feels so...nice...with her leaning on my shoulder like that. Just like its always supposed to be this way..."
"Ok, I'm ready!" Videl thought to herself. With that, she turned her head toward Gohan's and softly whispered his name. "Gohan..." Gohan turned and looked at Videl, who's face was only inches from his own.
"Uh...yes, Videl?" He sat there, looking into her eyes, utterly transfixed by them. Videl leaned forward a bit, closing the gap between their faces and tilted her own a bit. Gohan only now began to see what was going on, and he was far too wrapped up in it to stop her, so he too leaned forward and tipped his head to the side. Their faces met in a passionate kiss, the first that the two had ever succumbed too, either with each other or with someone else. They stayed that way for a very long moment, and, when they had broken it, they just looked in one another's eyes, almost unable to look away.
That was when they heard the WHIRR..CLICK! of an automatic camera. Their pose was broken by the noise, and they looked over to see Trunks and Goten snapping away. The boys knew the jig was up as soon as they were seen and raced off, toward Capsule Corp. It took Gohan and Videl a moment to register what had just happened, though it had surely broken the mood. Gohan realized there was no way he could hope to catch the boys with that much of a head start, then he remembered why they were up here in the first place. Videl just wondered how they had been found.
(Author's Note : And just how HAD they been found? Don't forget, the Z fighters can follow you by your energy alone. And at this point, Gohan is the most powerful non-fused energy source on the planet.)
"Ummm...Videl...didn't we come up here for a reason?"
"Oh..yeah, you were telling me about...uh..Namek, right?" Videl struggled to remember, not only why they had come here, but where 'here' was. That little episode had stopped all thought processes for a while for her. Gohan wasn't quite himself, yet, either, so he excused himself to get some water. He returned a moment later with two glasses and handed one to Videl. They both drank up, and the cold water seemed to refresh their minds.
"Well...uh...back to the story, ok? Let's see, where was I? Oh, yeah!" Gohan said, finally getting back into his groove. "The Ginyu Force!"
"The who?" Videl asked, not sure if Gohan had explained them to her already and her brain was still frazzled or if he hadn't told her about them yet.
"The Ginyu Force! They had just arrived, but we didn't quite know it yet. They were a band of famous space mercenaries who Frieza had hired to help find the dragon balls on Namek. And they were DORKS! When they got there, they did these silly little dances and poses, and you wouldn't believe how stupid they looked!" Videl just busted up laughing, unable to control herself. "What? What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing, Gohan! Nothing at all!" she said, fighting with all her willpower not to add her next thought. "It just sounds just like you when you introduce yourself as the 'Great Saiyaman!'" She couldn't help herself and it slipped out.
"WHAT? I DO NOT LOOK LIKE THEM WHEN I POSE AS SAIYAMAN! I AM MUCH COOLER LOOKING THAN THEY EVER WERE!" Gohan's scream nearly deafened him and Videl, so he toned it down a bit. "You have to be kidding, Videl! I mean, they looked like total rejects! And Saiyaman looks SO cool!"
"Yeah, you bet, Gohan..." Now that she thought about it, he didn't really look as bad as she had first thought he looked when he was Saiyaman. In fact, he looked pretty good...
"Well, as I was saying, the Ginyu Force got there. We had just gotten back to the dragon balls and they challenged us to a fight. They were a lot stronger than us, and they played rock-scissors-paper to see who would fight us. This little four eyed guy would fight me and Krillin and the big one named Racoome would fight Vegeta. Well, lets say that the little one surprised us but couldn't quite beat us. You see, he could stop time, and he tried to get us both while time was stopped, but couldn't quite do it. Then, he stopped time for us and threw a tree at Krillin. Just before it connected, though, Vegeta killed the little guy and saved Krillin."
"We were both pretty stunned at that, and I even thanked Vegeta, who said something about 'evening out the numbers.' Next, Racoome and Vegeta fought. It looked like Vegeta would easily win, but then Racoome did a Racoome Kick to Vegeta and sent him flying. They fought some more, and then Racoome did some sort of speed up manuever and started to trounce Vegeta. Krillin and I start to jump into the fight, but the others stomp us pretty good. And that is when my dad got there."
Well, I believe I'll end the chapter there. Now, I know I didn't add a whole lot of the recounting into this chapter, but I hope that you are all satisfied with the Gohan/Videl interactions. If you want me to, I can put a bit more into them as Gohan tells the story (more cut scenes and the like) or I can stick to the story. That is a call for you, my loyal readers, to make. So, enjoy the story and please please please review! I love ya all for it!
htmLord