Dragon Ball ½
Chapter 2
By: Aarashi
Notes: Hi everyone! How'd you like the first chapter? I'm still sort of deciding who to curse & who not to, but it's still fun writing. ^_^ On another note, FF.net really messed up the format of the first chapter. I'm waiting to see if they'll do it again. Enjoy! Oh yeah, in case you were wondering, these three aren't the only cursees. There'll be more!
Disclaimer: DBZ and all that good stuff belongs to Akira Toriyama, blah blah blah, and the Jusenkyo curse (and the guide) belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
The Cursed
The Jusenkyo guide, Goku, and Gohan stared expectantly at the spring where Vegeta had jumped in.
Goku and Gohan, of course, were both fairly sure that Vegeta would emerge.
The guide, however, knew that an animal, or even… a girl… would surface.
They waited at the spring for a few seconds.
Bubble rose up from the water, then…
A medium-sized, slinky, wet, black cat clambered out of the pool.
"Oh! Sir is fallen in 'Spring of Drowned Cat'! Is very tragic legend of cat who drown in spring eighteen hundred year ago. Now who fall in spring, take body of cat." The guide informed.
"THAT CAT IS VEGETA?!" Goku stared at the feline.
Gohan remained silent. The guide nodded.
Goku picked up 'Vegeta' around the stomach, and looked at him. "Vegeta? Is that you in there?"
The cat responded by hissing, and attempting to scratch Goku's face off.
"Ow!" Goku dropped the kitty and clapped his hands over his face. "I guess it IS Vegeta,… but how?"
The guide shook his head. "Sir is not understanding…"
Meanwhile, Gohan had wandered over to another pool.
"How can ordinary water do something like that?" He questioned quietly to himself.
Gohan looked around at the ground, and decided on a leaf. He picked it up, and tossed it into the pool.
The leaf floated there & didn't do a thing.
"Hmm…" Gohan picked up a pebble, and lightly tossed it in. The pebble sank to the bottom and nothing happened.
He looked at the other side of the pool, and saw an innocent little bug buzzing around something on the ground.
Gohan cautiously and quietly started moving toward the bug. However, he didn't see the little puddle of water… SPLASH!
Over with Vegeta-neko, Goku, and the guide, they had gone into the guide's house to heat up some water. Vegeta-neko was sitting on the table, and the guide was watching the water. Goku was wondering if there was anything to eat.
"Water is almost warm enough, sirs…" The guide motioned at the pot. Goku picked up Vegeta-kitty and dropped him on the counter next to the stove.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
All three of them looked up at the sound of a girl's scream.
"I'll go see what's wrong!" Goku said, sprinting out the door.
Once near enough to see her, he saw she had short, Bulma-length, Chi-Chi colored hair. She looked to be a little shorter than Gohan, and around Gohan's age.
"Excuse me, miss, are you okay?" Goku asked her back.
The girl whirled around. "DO I LOOK OKAY TO YOU?!" She shrieked.
Goku took a step back. "Well… you look fine to me!" He put a hand behind his head, and looked around a little bit.
The only other person out there was that girl. "Hey… you haven't seen a boy about you height, with spiky hair, have you?"
He looked at the girl again. Her chest was heaving up & down, and she was breathing so heavy he could hear it from where he was. "Is there something wrong?"
"WHAT DO YOU THINK?!"
Goku lowered his hand. "You know, you're acting a lot like Chi-Chi!" The girl twitched.
"DON'T YOU RECOGNIZE ME?! EVEN A LITTLE?!"
Goku did a Son smile. "Not a bit!"
At this, she apparently grew angry, and started to stomp off towards the guard's house. "I can't believe not even my own FATHER doesn't recognize me!!" She slammed the door of the house shut.
Goku blinked, disbelievingly. "Did… did she say 'father'?! GOHAN?!"
In the guard's house, Vegeta was there with a towel wrapped around his waist. The guard looked at the girl, who was apparently Gohan.
"Oh… Sir must fallen into 'Spring of Drowned Girl'. Tragic legend, very tragic, about girl who fall into spring, and drown there one-thousand five-hundred year ago!" The guide shook his head sadly. "Sirs was told to leave, but sirs didn't listen… Hot water all use up. No more."
Gohan-chan banged her head down on the table once, and repeated. "Stupid, stupid, STUPID!"
Vegeta leaned against the wall, looking down at the floor silently.
Then suddenly the door banged open, and Goku stood in the doorway. "Thuh…those springs ARE cursed!"
At that, Vegeta, and Gohan-chan fell over. The guide did as well.
Goku walked further into the room, with the cat ears on his head slightly down, and his tail twitching after him.
Gohan-chan & Vegeta did a double take.
Cat ears & a tail?!
The guide shook his head again.
"Sir fell into 'Spring of Drowned Cat-Boy'. Is sad legend of man holding cat what drown there two-hundred-thousand year ago."
Jusenkyo has struck twice more, but the curse wasn't satisfied with just three people…
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So, how was it? Three curses down, more to go! ^_^ Leave a review, and make me happy. 3rd chapter coming soon!
(Sorry this chapter was kinda short, BTW.)
~Aarashi
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