This is an AU about the world martial arts tournament. It's a Gohan and
Videl fic, so those who for some twisted reason don't like those, just
click on that little button labeled "back". In this version, Gohan, Goten,
and Trunks are the only ones who have entered the tournament. Goku is not
coming back, and Vegeta and the rest of the gang are not entering either.
Some are spectators in the stands, like Yamcha was. Also, Gohan felt that
Videl was getting too close to finding out he was Saiyaman, so he had
Saiyaman disappear. It's explained earlier in the fic.
Disclaimer: Hey, if I owned DBZ, this would be on TV and not on Fanfiction.net, right?
PLEASE READ AND REVIEW, THIS IS MY FIRST!
Tournament Troubles
Light. All she could see was a bright light as she stepped out of the waiting area and into the stadium. Finally, Videl Satan's eyes adjusted to the sun and let her see around her. Her father, Mr. Satan, was facing the audience with both hands in the air, victory signs on both of them. The crowd was up, waving their arms in excitement. The announcer was facing her, smiling, announcing her arrival. She would have heard him if her ears were functioning properly, but in her focused state no outside noises could be heard. All Videl heard was the beating of her heart and her forced breathing.
Videl began her walk up the ring. As she neared the stairs to ascend to the ring platform, a dark cloud began to block the sun. The cloud created a shadow that slowly covered the first half the ring, the half that Videl would begin the fight in. As she walked up the stairs, the shadow spread, covering more of the ring, and when Videl was in position in the ring, the shadow covered the entire ring in its darkness.
With that, Videl turned, and for the first time since entering the ring, looked directly at her opponent. Her teacher. Her father. The mightiest person in the world. Mr. Satan. Mr. Satan also turned towards his opponent, a smirk on his face. Like he knew he had this fight in the bag. He was probably right.
'Don't think like that!' Videl started at those words. They were the words Gohan told her before she walked out onto the ring. She recalled the advice he had given her. 'A true warrior fights with the mind. If you just fight with your usual determination, there's now way even Mr. Satan can beat you. But your so closed minded and sure that he's going to win that you can't do that. So forget about who he is and what he's done and just fight as hard as you can. Fight to win. You'll really be surprised at what you can do.'
Videl watched her father again turn around to the crowd and cheer. The crowd didn't matter to Videl. She was here to fight, and the crowd wasn't a factor in her mind. She couldn't even hear them. They were muted to her ears, as was the announcer. The only sounds she heard came from her and her father.
Somehow she became aware of the start of the match. Looking back in the days to come, she wonders how she knew the fight had started, since she was not able to hear the announcer announce the start of the fight, but somehow she still knew the fight had started.
Videl turned her body into her fighting stance, standing sideways with her left side forward, her legs spread and weight balanced, her left arm up in a high guard, and her right held back ready to strike quick.
Mr. Satan turned back to his daughter, his arms crossed, his expression cocky.
The fight started with a charge from Mr. Satan. Coming with a hard right, Videl brought up her guard by crossing her arms in front of her and took the punch. Mr. Satan continued to punch left, right, left, right on the crossed arms of Videl, each impact scooting Videl back a little bit towards the edge of the ring. Eventually, Mr. Satan came low with a punch to the stomach, surprising Videl and getting through her block. She jumped, more in shock than real pain. Mr. Satan backed off, with a smile on his face, and turned to cheer on the crowd.
Videl stood there, recovering from the shock of the hit. It took a few seconds for it the wear off, then she put her guard up again and waited for her dad to make his move. (A/N Notice that Videl is completely defensive here – she isn't attacking at all) She stared hard at her father, daring him to try again.
Mr. Satan turned back to his daughter, smirking. He took the dare, charging for another round. Punches flew and kicked reached out, but Videl managed to block them all. She figured that he was only toying with her, playing for the crowd, or else he would have tried his best. There was no way that this was the best that he could do. Blocking the blows was way too easy.
~0~
Mr. Satan backed off from his attack with raised eyebrows. He would never admit it to her or his fans, but Videl's ability to block all of what he was dishing out was a lot more than he bargained for. He was going all out, and nothing got through. It was time for something drastic.
~0~
"Videl, you're shoe's untied…"
Videl was surprised at his words. 'I don't even have shoelaces…' Mr. Satan took the brief moment of confusion to kick out Videl's feet from under her.
Videl landed hard, and before she could even get up, Mr. Satan landed a hard kick to her stomach. The pain shot through her spine and down her arms and legs, shocking her into stillness. With the blow came a lingering stiffness and a great sense of doubt. 'I can't beat him…I can't…' It hurt to move, so she lay quietly and closed her eyes, waiting for the count. 'I've lost…'
'What are you talking about?' That voice…it seemed to come out of nowhere…it sounded like Gohan… 'Giving up already? That isn't like you, Videl… Get up and show that doofus what you're made out of!'
Videl's eyes snapped open, and with that her determination returned to her. She flipped over onto her stomach. Every movement was painful because it felt like her spine had been crushed, but she continued on. Slowly she pushed her body up, and slowly was able to get up on one knee. As she continued her trek towards standing, her determination, her desire to win grew.
As her determinatation grew, it seemed to spread throughout her body, giving her strength, willing her to continue on, and to win.
~0~
Gohan watched the fight with great interest. He was worried about Videl. She had yet to throw one punch. All she ever did was block. It really wasn't like the go and get them Videl he knew.
When Mr. Satan pulled that stunt with the shoelaces, he growled. That was a low way to win. Even lower was when he hit Videl when she was down. He didn't think she would be able to get up after a blow like that.
However, as she struggled to get up, Gohan left her energy level increase. It looked like she got her determination back. However, her energy continued to grow. 'Whoa. For someone at her level, that's one heck of an increase. How did she do it?'
~0~
Videl, still on one knee, watched as her father walked up to her, his intent obviously to throw her from the ring. She had to do something fast. She couldn't get up in time to stop him. Mr. Satan pulled back his fist, about to land the blow to end the match.
She could feel her determination surging though her body, as if it were liquid and spreading through her veins. It also seemed to have a mind of its own, for as Mr. Satan was about to strike, it screamed 'ATTACK!'. Therefore she did.
Mr. Satan still had his fist pulled back when Videl struck. She gave him all she had, burying her fist deep into his stomach before he even realized she was attacking. The blow left him reeling backwards, clutching his stomach and leaving his mouth gaping, his eyes and lips twitching and a trickle of blood running down from his mouth to his chin, and too stunned to do anything but stand there.
Videl used the time to blow gave her to get back on her feet. She saw her father standing there, obviously in pain. She stared hard at Mr. Satan, as if she was mocking him. However, the time was used to help Videl recover from the previous blows and letting her determination flow through her.
Finally, Mr. Satan was able to do something besides gape. He glared at his daughter, and charged once again, ready to strike.
Videl saw the attack coming. She waited, and when Mr. Satan was close enough, her determination screamed 'ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!'. She did, giving her father a one, two, three combo in the gut, and then with all of her strength, brought up her knee, the same knee that Krillin's stomach had the unfortunate meeting with, up to Mr. Satan's chin.
The hard blow sent Mr. Satan flying back and landing on his back a few feet from the edge of the ring. He lay there as the count started and took him till the count of six to start to move again. It was obvious that he was in a lot of pain as he struggled to get up before the count was over. He barely made it to his feet before ten, ending the count, but a second later he fell back down on his hands and knees. Struggling to get back to the fight, Mr. Satan tried to get up only to fall on his butt.
"This…this can't be! I'm the…World…Champ!"
Videl narrowed her eyes, smirking. It took him a while before he was able to stay standing for more than a second. Suddenly, she charged at her father, as if the land a devastating blow. Before she did, however, she stopped dead right in front of Mr. Satan. Then, using one finger, gave him a push. That little touch was enough to send the staggering Mr. Satan stumbling backwards and out of the ring.
The moment Mr. Satan was out of the ring, Videl's hearing returned to normal. She could hear the announcer yelling out that Videl had won, and the crowd either cheering insanely (girls and cops) or extremely silent in shock that their champ had lost so early.
Videl looked down at her father eagle spread on the stadium floor and the realization of what happened hit her. 'I..I just beat…my father…Cool!' She raised her hands in triumph and the crowd's roar hit spectacular levels.
Slowly, Mr. Satan got back up and went into his superman pose. The crowd died almost instantly as he got back up onto the ring and look the crowd over. After a moments pause, he gave his insane laugh and said, "Come on, do you really think I would have beaten up my own daughter? HaHaHa!"
The crowd murmured their agreement and cheered on Mr. Satan.
Videl kept her smile on. 'Yeah, right, Dad. You gave it your all, you just don't want to admit that you got beat by a girl. I know you better than that.'
Videl walked back to the waiting area while her father went to the private room he had been all throughout the tournament, probably to scream and holler in pain in private. Videl knew he was hurting and badly.
Gohan was waiting for her, smilling brightly. "See, I told you you would win."
"Yeah, no kidding. You were right; all I needed was to fight with determination. It felt weird, though."
"What did?"
"When I decided not to give up, I felt this…something flooding through me, giving me strength. I thought it was my determination, but…it was weird."
~0~
Gohan listened to what happened in the fight with raised eyebrows. From what it sounded like, it seemed Videl powered up. For someone not trained in energy manipulation, that was incredible. She thought that it her determination. 'If she could do that, without training or learning about her energy, at her age, it means she must have a lot of potential. I've never heard of any human being able to do that without being trained or taking fifty years to learn, not even Krillin or Yamcha. Amazing! And to think that she's the dummy's daughter!'
"Hey, Videl?"
"Yeah, Gohan?"
"What happened to you out there is something I can teach you to do at will, although to do that without specific training like you just did is something else."
"You can? Is this how you do all that weird stuff, like lifting buses?" Gohan nodded. Videl looked down at her hands. "Incredible…"
~0~0~0~
PLEASE REVIEW, I WORKED HARD ON THIS ONE!
Whoa, that's a lot of reviews….and I've promised to respond to all of them, didn't I? Ho boy, here we go…
Response to Reviews:
Rinoa Almasy – That's Ok, everyone makes mistakes. Just some don't want to admit it.
kyllir – Well, I tried to make it exciting. I hope you like it. But there's more on the way!
vsd2oc – I know it was mean, but, hey, more suspense.
Frozenflower – No evil cliffy this time, stay tune through I'll put some more up just for you.
Dragon Empress – What's wrong with cliffys? They add to the suspense. I've gotten more response from this one chapter than all the rest!
xT-Zealot – I thought you were a SSJ3. Why punish yourself with going just Ultimate? Besides, Mystic beats them all.
edward-tivrusky-5 – Not even I am that evil. Videl lose to Mr. Satan? That's injustice in the highest degree. Although I was thinking about him using an extremely cheap trick to win, but I decided I liked my head were it was.
The Sh33p – Never underestimate how evil I can be. I have my limits, but there are pretty deep. I might even push them in later chapters.
The Smooster – Funny? I tried not to be too comical, I wanted this to mean something to Videl, but I think the ending 'blow' was comical. This was based off the Cell fight.
Enishi – Thanks for the compliment. I try my best.
Nagini – Well, you got more. About Chi-chi, maybe I should look it up on dragonballz.com….
Wufeidragon – Of course he going to pull one of those stunts. Mr. Satan's got an ego that's bigger than Vegeta's! He wouldn't be Mr. Satan if he didn't!
Disclaimer: Hey, if I owned DBZ, this would be on TV and not on Fanfiction.net, right?
PLEASE READ AND REVIEW, THIS IS MY FIRST!
Tournament Troubles
Light. All she could see was a bright light as she stepped out of the waiting area and into the stadium. Finally, Videl Satan's eyes adjusted to the sun and let her see around her. Her father, Mr. Satan, was facing the audience with both hands in the air, victory signs on both of them. The crowd was up, waving their arms in excitement. The announcer was facing her, smiling, announcing her arrival. She would have heard him if her ears were functioning properly, but in her focused state no outside noises could be heard. All Videl heard was the beating of her heart and her forced breathing.
Videl began her walk up the ring. As she neared the stairs to ascend to the ring platform, a dark cloud began to block the sun. The cloud created a shadow that slowly covered the first half the ring, the half that Videl would begin the fight in. As she walked up the stairs, the shadow spread, covering more of the ring, and when Videl was in position in the ring, the shadow covered the entire ring in its darkness.
With that, Videl turned, and for the first time since entering the ring, looked directly at her opponent. Her teacher. Her father. The mightiest person in the world. Mr. Satan. Mr. Satan also turned towards his opponent, a smirk on his face. Like he knew he had this fight in the bag. He was probably right.
'Don't think like that!' Videl started at those words. They were the words Gohan told her before she walked out onto the ring. She recalled the advice he had given her. 'A true warrior fights with the mind. If you just fight with your usual determination, there's now way even Mr. Satan can beat you. But your so closed minded and sure that he's going to win that you can't do that. So forget about who he is and what he's done and just fight as hard as you can. Fight to win. You'll really be surprised at what you can do.'
Videl watched her father again turn around to the crowd and cheer. The crowd didn't matter to Videl. She was here to fight, and the crowd wasn't a factor in her mind. She couldn't even hear them. They were muted to her ears, as was the announcer. The only sounds she heard came from her and her father.
Somehow she became aware of the start of the match. Looking back in the days to come, she wonders how she knew the fight had started, since she was not able to hear the announcer announce the start of the fight, but somehow she still knew the fight had started.
Videl turned her body into her fighting stance, standing sideways with her left side forward, her legs spread and weight balanced, her left arm up in a high guard, and her right held back ready to strike quick.
Mr. Satan turned back to his daughter, his arms crossed, his expression cocky.
The fight started with a charge from Mr. Satan. Coming with a hard right, Videl brought up her guard by crossing her arms in front of her and took the punch. Mr. Satan continued to punch left, right, left, right on the crossed arms of Videl, each impact scooting Videl back a little bit towards the edge of the ring. Eventually, Mr. Satan came low with a punch to the stomach, surprising Videl and getting through her block. She jumped, more in shock than real pain. Mr. Satan backed off, with a smile on his face, and turned to cheer on the crowd.
Videl stood there, recovering from the shock of the hit. It took a few seconds for it the wear off, then she put her guard up again and waited for her dad to make his move. (A/N Notice that Videl is completely defensive here – she isn't attacking at all) She stared hard at her father, daring him to try again.
Mr. Satan turned back to his daughter, smirking. He took the dare, charging for another round. Punches flew and kicked reached out, but Videl managed to block them all. She figured that he was only toying with her, playing for the crowd, or else he would have tried his best. There was no way that this was the best that he could do. Blocking the blows was way too easy.
~0~
Mr. Satan backed off from his attack with raised eyebrows. He would never admit it to her or his fans, but Videl's ability to block all of what he was dishing out was a lot more than he bargained for. He was going all out, and nothing got through. It was time for something drastic.
~0~
"Videl, you're shoe's untied…"
Videl was surprised at his words. 'I don't even have shoelaces…' Mr. Satan took the brief moment of confusion to kick out Videl's feet from under her.
Videl landed hard, and before she could even get up, Mr. Satan landed a hard kick to her stomach. The pain shot through her spine and down her arms and legs, shocking her into stillness. With the blow came a lingering stiffness and a great sense of doubt. 'I can't beat him…I can't…' It hurt to move, so she lay quietly and closed her eyes, waiting for the count. 'I've lost…'
'What are you talking about?' That voice…it seemed to come out of nowhere…it sounded like Gohan… 'Giving up already? That isn't like you, Videl… Get up and show that doofus what you're made out of!'
Videl's eyes snapped open, and with that her determination returned to her. She flipped over onto her stomach. Every movement was painful because it felt like her spine had been crushed, but she continued on. Slowly she pushed her body up, and slowly was able to get up on one knee. As she continued her trek towards standing, her determination, her desire to win grew.
As her determinatation grew, it seemed to spread throughout her body, giving her strength, willing her to continue on, and to win.
~0~
Gohan watched the fight with great interest. He was worried about Videl. She had yet to throw one punch. All she ever did was block. It really wasn't like the go and get them Videl he knew.
When Mr. Satan pulled that stunt with the shoelaces, he growled. That was a low way to win. Even lower was when he hit Videl when she was down. He didn't think she would be able to get up after a blow like that.
However, as she struggled to get up, Gohan left her energy level increase. It looked like she got her determination back. However, her energy continued to grow. 'Whoa. For someone at her level, that's one heck of an increase. How did she do it?'
~0~
Videl, still on one knee, watched as her father walked up to her, his intent obviously to throw her from the ring. She had to do something fast. She couldn't get up in time to stop him. Mr. Satan pulled back his fist, about to land the blow to end the match.
She could feel her determination surging though her body, as if it were liquid and spreading through her veins. It also seemed to have a mind of its own, for as Mr. Satan was about to strike, it screamed 'ATTACK!'. Therefore she did.
Mr. Satan still had his fist pulled back when Videl struck. She gave him all she had, burying her fist deep into his stomach before he even realized she was attacking. The blow left him reeling backwards, clutching his stomach and leaving his mouth gaping, his eyes and lips twitching and a trickle of blood running down from his mouth to his chin, and too stunned to do anything but stand there.
Videl used the time to blow gave her to get back on her feet. She saw her father standing there, obviously in pain. She stared hard at Mr. Satan, as if she was mocking him. However, the time was used to help Videl recover from the previous blows and letting her determination flow through her.
Finally, Mr. Satan was able to do something besides gape. He glared at his daughter, and charged once again, ready to strike.
Videl saw the attack coming. She waited, and when Mr. Satan was close enough, her determination screamed 'ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!'. She did, giving her father a one, two, three combo in the gut, and then with all of her strength, brought up her knee, the same knee that Krillin's stomach had the unfortunate meeting with, up to Mr. Satan's chin.
The hard blow sent Mr. Satan flying back and landing on his back a few feet from the edge of the ring. He lay there as the count started and took him till the count of six to start to move again. It was obvious that he was in a lot of pain as he struggled to get up before the count was over. He barely made it to his feet before ten, ending the count, but a second later he fell back down on his hands and knees. Struggling to get back to the fight, Mr. Satan tried to get up only to fall on his butt.
"This…this can't be! I'm the…World…Champ!"
Videl narrowed her eyes, smirking. It took him a while before he was able to stay standing for more than a second. Suddenly, she charged at her father, as if the land a devastating blow. Before she did, however, she stopped dead right in front of Mr. Satan. Then, using one finger, gave him a push. That little touch was enough to send the staggering Mr. Satan stumbling backwards and out of the ring.
The moment Mr. Satan was out of the ring, Videl's hearing returned to normal. She could hear the announcer yelling out that Videl had won, and the crowd either cheering insanely (girls and cops) or extremely silent in shock that their champ had lost so early.
Videl looked down at her father eagle spread on the stadium floor and the realization of what happened hit her. 'I..I just beat…my father…Cool!' She raised her hands in triumph and the crowd's roar hit spectacular levels.
Slowly, Mr. Satan got back up and went into his superman pose. The crowd died almost instantly as he got back up onto the ring and look the crowd over. After a moments pause, he gave his insane laugh and said, "Come on, do you really think I would have beaten up my own daughter? HaHaHa!"
The crowd murmured their agreement and cheered on Mr. Satan.
Videl kept her smile on. 'Yeah, right, Dad. You gave it your all, you just don't want to admit that you got beat by a girl. I know you better than that.'
Videl walked back to the waiting area while her father went to the private room he had been all throughout the tournament, probably to scream and holler in pain in private. Videl knew he was hurting and badly.
Gohan was waiting for her, smilling brightly. "See, I told you you would win."
"Yeah, no kidding. You were right; all I needed was to fight with determination. It felt weird, though."
"What did?"
"When I decided not to give up, I felt this…something flooding through me, giving me strength. I thought it was my determination, but…it was weird."
~0~
Gohan listened to what happened in the fight with raised eyebrows. From what it sounded like, it seemed Videl powered up. For someone not trained in energy manipulation, that was incredible. She thought that it her determination. 'If she could do that, without training or learning about her energy, at her age, it means she must have a lot of potential. I've never heard of any human being able to do that without being trained or taking fifty years to learn, not even Krillin or Yamcha. Amazing! And to think that she's the dummy's daughter!'
"Hey, Videl?"
"Yeah, Gohan?"
"What happened to you out there is something I can teach you to do at will, although to do that without specific training like you just did is something else."
"You can? Is this how you do all that weird stuff, like lifting buses?" Gohan nodded. Videl looked down at her hands. "Incredible…"
~0~0~0~
PLEASE REVIEW, I WORKED HARD ON THIS ONE!
Whoa, that's a lot of reviews….and I've promised to respond to all of them, didn't I? Ho boy, here we go…
Response to Reviews:
Rinoa Almasy – That's Ok, everyone makes mistakes. Just some don't want to admit it.
kyllir – Well, I tried to make it exciting. I hope you like it. But there's more on the way!
vsd2oc – I know it was mean, but, hey, more suspense.
Frozenflower – No evil cliffy this time, stay tune through I'll put some more up just for you.
Dragon Empress – What's wrong with cliffys? They add to the suspense. I've gotten more response from this one chapter than all the rest!
xT-Zealot – I thought you were a SSJ3. Why punish yourself with going just Ultimate? Besides, Mystic beats them all.
edward-tivrusky-5 – Not even I am that evil. Videl lose to Mr. Satan? That's injustice in the highest degree. Although I was thinking about him using an extremely cheap trick to win, but I decided I liked my head were it was.
The Sh33p – Never underestimate how evil I can be. I have my limits, but there are pretty deep. I might even push them in later chapters.
The Smooster – Funny? I tried not to be too comical, I wanted this to mean something to Videl, but I think the ending 'blow' was comical. This was based off the Cell fight.
Enishi – Thanks for the compliment. I try my best.
Nagini – Well, you got more. About Chi-chi, maybe I should look it up on dragonballz.com….
Wufeidragon – Of course he going to pull one of those stunts. Mr. Satan's got an ego that's bigger than Vegeta's! He wouldn't be Mr. Satan if he didn't!