Part Two!!
Gohan groaned and sat up, rubbing his bleary eyes.
Not remembering where he was for a moment, he looked around, then smiled
in realization when he saw he was in the forest clearing.
Thinking back a little, Gohan chuckled. What
a stupid dream he'd had… turning into a girl…that was just ridiculous.
After a few seconds, he realized something
was wrong. He looked down. His face fell immediately. He had…he had those…
feminine things again!
"It rained last night." Piccolo explained
from his meditating position a few feet away. Gohan sighed. So it hadn't
been a dream after all…
"What are you going to do now?" asked the
Namek. Gohan shrugged and leaned back against a tree.
"I dunno… figure out a way to get back to
normal, I guess…"
"I think you should tell your mother about
this, first. You can't keep it from her forever." Gohan nodded dejectedly.
"I guess you're right… she's not gonna be
happy about this…but where can I get some hot water first? I don't want
to face mom as a girl right off the bat…" Piccolo just shrugged. Hot water
wasn't very easy to come by in the forest…
The awkward silence was broken when Gohan's
cell phone started playing Mary had a Little Lamb. Piccolo gave him a weird
look, but Gohan snatched the tiny phone up and pressed a small combination
of numbers. He promptly went pale, and started looking at the phone as
though he were holding a poisonous rattlesnake.
"It's Videl!!!" he cried in a panicky voice,
holding the phone out at arm's length. "What do I do?! What do I do?! What
do I do?!" Piccolo solved the problem by frying the phone with a quick
laser blast from his eyes.
Gohan stared at the ashen remains of his phone,
then looked up at Piccolo, cocking an eyebrow.
"I don't suppose you can just zap up a cell
phone like you do your clothes?" Piccolo blinked.
"Nope. I don't do cell phones. "
Eventually, Gohan said goodbye to Piccolo and
flew off to his house. Okay Gohan. You sneak in the back way, get some
hot water on you, then go up and tell mom the news…and don't tell her about
the cell phone! He thought to himself as he zoomed through the air.
Finally, he landed in his backyard. Taking
a quick look around, he grinned. The coast was clear. He quietly snuck
in the back door and into the kitchen, wherupon he poured a bit of hot
water from the sink onto himself. He looked down and grinned, glad to be
male again.
"Hey Mom, I'm home!" he cried, stepping into
the main hallway.
"Goten, get back here!! No squirt guns in
the hou--!!"
Gohan felt a splash of cold water, then grimaced.
Goten stood in front of him, holding a large super soaker 3000, while Chi
Chi stood behind him. Both of them were staring at him with eyes the size
of dinner plates.
"G…Go…han?" Chi Chi said weakly. "Is that…you?
Why are you…" Gohan took a deep breath.
"We-ell, y'see, when we went training, I had
this little…accident…"
As it turned out, Chi Chi took the news quite
well…Well, she hadn't fainted, which, in Gohan's books, was a good sign.
Goten actually thought Gohan's curse was pretty cool. As he put it, "Now
I have an onii-chan and an onee-chan!!" Chi Chi had even offered
Gohan some of her clothes for when he was in girl form, but Gohan had vehemently
refused.
"Well, it doesn't matter, anyway." She said
after he had refused the fifth dress. "You can just get the dragonballs
together and wish yourself back to normal again." Gohan burst into a huge
grin.
"Oh yeah!! Why didn't I think of that?!" Chi
Chi smiled sympathetically.
"Oh, don't worry about it dear, it was probably
just the shock of getting—"
"…Feminine things…" Gohan said miserably,
looking down at his chest. It was going to take a while to get used to
this…. With that, he retreated up to his room, flopping down spread-eagled
on the bed, he thought things over a bit.
Okay. Getting the dragonballs would be easy,
he'd just have to visit Bulma and borrow the dragon radar. Then it would
only take him a day or two, three days at most, to find them all. But until
then, he couldn't let Videl or Mr. Satan know about this whole curse thing…
Videl narrowed her eyes, concentrating on her
target. She took a breath, let out a short yell, and her foot shot out,
hitting the stuffed training dummy so hard that it snapped right off of
the wooden post that kept it upright and slammed into the garage wall,
making a small crater.
Her arms flopped to her sides, and she scowled.
That was the fourteenth training dummy she'd annihilated since she'd gotten
the message on the answering machine last night.
Videl went over and picked up the remains
of the training dummy, then chucked them in the trash can, which was already
overflowing with dummy body parts.
"Stupid Gohan…" she muttered to herself. She'd
been okay with him breaking the date. Shocked and disappointed, but she'd
been okay. What made her mad was the fact that every time she'd called
him on his cell phone that morning, he hadn't picked up. It was almost
as though he were deliberately ignoring her.
Is there another girl…? There had better
not be another girl, because if there is, super saiyajin or no super saiyajin,
he is DEAD!
She turned around, tightened the belt on her
karate gi, and then stormed into the house to get something to eat.
If he wouldn't answer the phone, she'd just
have to strike from another angle…
Gohan sat up, a determined look on his face.
"Okay. I'll go over to Capsule Corp right
after lunch today, I'll find the dragonballs, get rid of this curse, then
ask Videl out on another date to replace the one I canceled out on. Perfect!"
Standing up, he changed from his training gi into a regular T-shirt and
jeans. The shirt was way too big for his female body, but at least it didn't
show off his cleavage like the gi did.
The doorbell rang.
Strolling downstairs, Gohan gave the doorknob
a light twist and pulled the door open.
He promptly froze.
Videl was staring him right in the eye.
"Hello…" she said, giving him an odd look.
Gohan just stared at her, mouth hanging open, completely at a loss for
words, although a part of him was vaguely annoyed to realize that his girl
form was shorter than Videl was. Then Goten trotted up behind him. His
face immediately lit up in a bright grin.
"Hi Videl!!" Videl smiled, as though relieved
that she had somebody she actually knew at the door.
"Hey Goten. Is your brother around?" Goten
opened his mouth to answer, but Gohan hurriedly cut him off.
"No, no he's not!" Videl glared at him.
"Thanks, but I didn't ask you. Who are you,
anyway? And why are you wearing Gohan's T-shirt?" Gohan froze again.
"I'm…I'm…"
"Goha…" started Goten.
"—Nah!" Gohan interrupted. Videl cocked an
eyebrow.
"Go…Hannah?" Gohan nodded enthusiastically.
Goten looked kind of confused. "Are you related to Gohan or something?
You look an awful lot like him…"
"I'm his…cousin! On his mother's side! It's
weird how family genes can go around, ne? I don't look a thing like my
mother! Hahahahaha!" Gohan said, ending his feeble explanation with a nervous
laugh.
"…Right. Well, Gohannah, can you tell
me when Gohan's going to get back? I'd like to talk to him…" Gohan gulped.
He could tell by the glint in Videl's eye that the talk she wanted have
with him about wasn't going to be pleasant.
"Nuh-not for a couple of days yet!" A vein
bulged in Videl's forehead.
"A couple of days?! Where is he?!"
"He's…he's…It's a guy thing…" he finished
lamely. Videl eyed Gohan suspiciously.
"A guy thing, huh…? Did he happen to bring
his cell phone with him?"
"It wasn't m…his fault! It got blown up!"
Gohan blurted. Videl's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"How did you know…?" Gohan backed away from
Videl.
"He called from a pay phone…" Videl glared
at him for another minute or so, then abruptly turned around and started
walking off.
"Well, tell Son Gohan that when he gets back,
Videl wants to have a little chat with him…" she called over her shoulder.
"W-will do!" Gohan said with a chipperness
that he didn't feel. He waved goodbye to her, and when Goten finally shut
the door, he collapsed on the couch in the living room.
"Oh man…Videl's gonna kill me…I've got to
get those dragonballs together fast…Goten, could you do me a favor and
get me some hot water?" Goten nodded, but gave him a bit of a strange look.
"What's wrong?" Gohan finally asked.
"Why did you say your name was Gohannah?"
"Because…well, I don't want her to know that
Gohan and Gohannah are the same person, okay? It wouldn't be good for our
relationship." Goten gave him a long stare, and then ran off to the kitchen,
returning with a kettle of hot water.
"I don't think you should've lied to her.
I like Videl. She'd make a good onee-san." He said solemnly as Gohan poured
the water over his head. Gohan sighed.
"Yeah, I know. I like Videl too." He sat up
and got off the couch, stretching his arms out above his head.
"Don't worry about it. I'm gonna eat some lunch
and then fix this whole turning-into-a-girl thing. Then I'll explain it
all to Videl and everything will be back to normal."
Goten shook his head.
"What?" Gohan questioned, cocking an eyebrow
at his little brother.
"You don't like Videl." Gohan's eyes bugged
out of his head.
"WHAT?! Of course I like Videl! I—" Goten
suddenly grinned up at him.
"You LOO-OOVE Videl!!" he cried, dancing away
from him and giggling insanely. "Gohan and Vide-el, sitting in a tree!
K-I-S-S-I—" Gohan grinned, but sweatdropped at the same time.
"Stop that! I bet you learned that one from
Trunks, didn't you?"
"—N-G!"
"Cut it out, Goten!" Gohan said, blushing
in embarrassment. Goten grinned even more and dashed down the hallway.
"First comes lo-ove, then comes marriage!
Then comes a baby in a baby—"
"CUT IT OUT!!!" Gohan cried, laughing as he
chased after his brother.
About two hours later, Videl flopped down on
her bed and crossed her arms over her chest, staring in fury at the ceiling.
Okay… Gohan breaks a date, which he almost
never does…he doesn't answer the phone at all, and then that…that Gohannah
girl turns up out of nowhere, saying Gohan won't be back for a couple of
days… there's something strange going on here…
She rolled over onto her side and grabbed
hold of a book on anger management that she had been reading.
Just you wait Gohannah… I know there's
something between you and Gohan, and I'm not going to rest until I find
out what it is!!!
As Gohan flew across the horizon, dragon radar
in hand and knapsack strapped to his back, he sneezed.
Hmm, that's weird… he thought to himself.
Somebody must be talking about me…