Chapter 24: Banana the
Gorilla
'What the heck does Bra have
in plan for me?' Marron wondered as she made a left turn for Satan Park in her
little air car. It was a surprisingly sunny day and the sunrays beamed directly
into her eyes; Marron frowned, pulled out a pair of sunglasses from the back
pocket of her shirt.
"That's better," she
murmured to herself as she perched the glasses on the ledge of her nose. She
made another turn to the right and pulled to a stop at the front gate of Satan
Park. Marron hopped out of her little car and put it back into a capsule. She
dropped the capsule into her pocket and entered the park.
"At the lake of Satan Park…"
Marron glanced around for a map. There was none to be found. "Shit, now what?"
she cursed.
All of a sudden, a pair of
large, hairy hands grabbed her head from behind and covered her eyes. Marron
let out a loud shriek. "Ah! Let go of me!" she tried to kick her attacker from
behind. "Oh boy, at times like these, I really wish I had inherited some of
mom's inhuman fighting powers."
The hands let go of her
instantly and Marron let out a sigh of relief. She turned around to see her
attacker. "Mister, it is NOT nice to grab somebody from behind and…OH DENDE!"
her eyes widened as she caught the sight of a huge gorilla dressed in a red
baseball cap and a pair of red and white stripped trousers.
"Um…" a large sweat drop
appeared at the back of Marron's head. "Do I know you?"
"Of course you do!" the
gorilla said, he pulled out a large yellow paper crown and set it on Marron's
head and handed her a cherry lollipop. Then he took out a harmonica from
beneath his cap and started singing. "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to
you, happy birthday to YOU! Happy birthday to you!"
"Bra is giving me an early
birthday party?" Marron wondered as the gorilla ushered her over towards a
picnic table full of treats. There was a huge birthday cake covered with pink
icing that said "Happy 5th birthday, Ray!"
'Oh, I see now.' Marron
turned towards the gorilla. "Sorry sir, but even if I still put my hair up in
two pigtails, I'm not five years old. Besides, my name is Marron, not Ray."
"What?" the gorilla grabbed
his head and with a slight jerk, he twisted it off his shoulders -- revealing
an old man who looked to be about sixty. "Darn those stupid kiddie parties!
Sorry Missy, I gave you a real scare didn't I?" he gave her a toothy smile.
Marron managed to return the
smile, "Uh…that's okay but you better go find the birthday girl right now."
Almost instantly, they heard a little girl's voice yell from somewhere nearby:
"But Mommy! You PROMISED! I
want Banana the Gorilla!"
"Oh dear," the old man
sighed. He stuck the gorilla head back on top of his head. "See you later
Missy," he waved at Marron before running off towards the little girl.
"Sir! Hey! Your mask is on
backwards!" Marron yelled after the old man but he didn't seemed to hear her.
"Oh well," Marron gave a little shrug, threw the crown and the lollipop in the
nearest garbage can and continued on her way towards Satan Lake.
~*~*~*~*~*
Meanwhile at Spring Pond,
Lee, Bra, Pan, Trunks, and Goten are celebrating over a table full of delicious
Chinese dishes. "Hold on," Bra said before they started eating. "I need to make
a call, you guys can go ahead and eat first." She reached into her purse and
grabbed her cell phone.
She quickly punched in a
number. "Hello? Ubuu? Is Marron there yet?"
"Nope…hold on! I see her!
Um, can't talk now – bye!"
Bra heard a click. "Mission
accomplished." She said quietly to herself as she closed up her cell phone in
satisfaction. But the scene of Chelsea fainting played back at her and she felt
a wave of guilt crash over her. "Guys," she said slowly. "Do you think what we did
was a little harsh?"
Everybody exchanged glances
between each other. "Nah!" they all said in unison.
"I thought so," Bra nodded,
holding up her chopsticks. "Now let's eat! Uh, never mind." She stared at the
empty dishes and Goten, who was busy stuffing a plate of fried shrimp into his
mouth. "Lee, do you think you could get us some more food?"
~*~*~*~*~*
Ubuu stared at Marron as she
made her way towards the lake. He thought she looked like an angel with her
blond hair tied up in two pigtails. 'Yeah, I'm such a sap.' He thought dryly.
She didn't seem to notice
him and that's exactly the way he intended it to be. He jumped down from the
tree he was sitting on and quietly flew behind her. He reached out and covered
her eyes with his hands.
To his surprise, she didn't
even shriek or jump in surprise. "Dende, Banana the Gorilla or whatever your
name is, I am not the birthday girl! I'm twenty-five for heaven's sake! Not
five! Are you frigging blind?"
"What the heck are you
talking about?" Ubuu asked in confusion and let go of his grasp on Marron.
"Ubuu?" Marron's voice had
take on a surprised tone. She turned around to face him. "What are you doing
here?" she asked coldly.
"Look, I just want to…" Ubuu
began.
"Save it, I'm really not
interested." Marron started to walk away.
"Wait!" Ubuu grabbed
Marron's arm. "Can you at least hear me out first?"
Marron sighed. "You have
three minutes, then I'm leaving." To kill Bra, she added silently.
"Well…" Ubuu sucked in a
deep breath. "I just want you to know that I really, really like you and I
really didn't mean for that elevator thing to happen that way and I'm really,
really sorry. I was really just desperate for a chance to be with you, you
know? Anyways…uh, please don't be mad at me. Please?" he looked up at her
hopefully.
For a long time, Marron
didn't say anything. Then a tiny smile cracked on her face. "That's a lot of
"really", Ubuu." She laughed.
"So you're not mad anymore."
"No…I guess not. I'm too
nice to stay mad for long – ask all my friends that. But I didn't like being
played like that, Ubuu." Marron stared at him straight in the eye. "If you like
me, just tell me, okay?"
"Right, I know that." Ubuu
responded. He glanced around. "Now it's a really nice day."
"Yes,"
"And it's still early,"
"Your point is?"
"Wanna go for a dinner and a
movie?" Ubuu offered Marron his hand.
"Hell, why not!" Marron
nodded. "One thing though."
"What?" Ubuu asked.
"We don't watch Banana the
Gorilla, the movie."
"Deal."
"Let's go then."
~*~*~*~*~*
A couple of weeks later, the
gang met at the Briefs' house. It was Friday night, everybody was all dressed
up and everything but there's one tiny little problem: they had nowhere to go.
"Bra! I TOLD you this was a
bad idea!" Pan complained loudly while she tugged at the orange tank top she
had on. "Six people trying to find a movie that everybody wants to watch and
starts at exactly the right time is just impossible!"
"Yeah Bra," Marron peeped
in. She was wearing a red dress with spaghetti straps. "We had been arguing for
five hours! Maybe we should just go to a club or something."
"No way!" Goten protested.
"In case you forgot, there are some people here that hate dancing!" he paused
for a minute, then a big cheesy smile appeared on his lips. "How about we go
sparring?"
"Shut up! I got the perfect
plan!" Trunks yelled. After he made sure that he got everybody's attention, he
spoke. "We are going to battle Pokémon on our Gameboys and find out once and
for all, whose the real Pokémon master!"
"Trunks!" Pan threw a pillow
at her boyfriend. "Like hell-o? How old are you? Eight? I say that we play that
kick-ass fighting game you got for your Play Station last week. Now that's an
awesome game!"
"People! I don't like video
games for Pete's sake! I say that we go bowling!"
"Again? That's the fourth
time this month!"
"I want to go to dinner!"
"Goten, we already ate!"
"But I'm still hungry!"
"Urgh…"
~THE END~
Author's note: Ah…and the
arguments go on and on but you know that they love each other. Anyways, this
story ends here. So…hope you enjoyed it. Maybe I'll write a sequel to it but I
don't know about that yet and thank you for all those reviews!