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.
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Tournament Troubles
Videl's eyes slowly opened. Her vision was blurry. She could make out the sky above her, but not much else. Her brain kicked into gear. 'What happened?' She closed her eyes and the memory came flooding back to her.
She remembered a transformed Gohan fighting that demon guy. She remembered the demon guy firing one of those light beams. She remembered it piercing her. She remembered falling back.
Then nothing.
She reopened her eyes. Her vision cleared up pretty good. Oddly, she wasn't in any pain.
Then a green head with pointy ears and antenna poked into her vision and spoke to her. "How are you feeling?"
Videl's eyes became wide and she scrambled back, trying to get away from the green thing. It didn't follow her.
Her back ran into a pair of legs. She looked back and up to see Gohan, still in that gold haired transformation. "Gohan? Is that you?"
Gohan's eyebrow perked up. "Of course it's me, who else would I be?"
"Gohan?" The green man looked up to Gohan with a smile on his face. "You're still a super saiyan."
Gohan pulled down a strand of hair and examined it. "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize it." He took a deep breath, and the gold hair faded back to black as he released the breath. He looked down at Videl with a smile, offering his hand to help her up.
Videl took his hand and pulled herself up, looking around. "Gohan, what are we doing here? And where is here?"
"This is the Lookout. I took you here so you can get healed. You were in bad shape." Gohan indicated his gi, which was covered in blood.
Remembering the wound, Videl reached up to her shoulder. There was a coin sized hole in her clothes, but the skin underneath was pink and healthy.
Videl looked at the green man. "You healed me? Um, thank you."
The green man looked at her. "No problem. I'm always willing to help a friend of Gohan's. My name's Dende."
Videl smiled. "Nice to meet you, Dende. My name's Videl Satan."
"Satan? Oh, your Mr. Satan's daughter, right?" Videl nodded, and Dende gave Gohan a weird look that she couldn't decipher. Gohan gave him the Son grin and scratched the back of his head.
Videl tugged on Gohan shirt, indicating she wanted him to bend down. Gohan complied, and Videl whispered in his ear. "Um…why is Dende green?"
Dende looked at Videl. "I'm green because I'm not really from around here. I'm a Namek." Videl started. She didn't think he had heard her. She blushed a little, embarrassed.
Dende smiled. "I've got really good hearing. And don't worry too much about it, it's a good question from your point of view. I'm a Namek, so that means that I have the ability to heal and to create the Dragonballs. Speaking of which…" Dende gave Gohan a look.
Gohan nodded. "I've got some work to do, don't I?"
"You sure do, Gohan." Videl looked to right, towards the source of the voice. There was another Namek walking out from a building structure, except this one looked older. He was much taller than Dende, and he wore a dark gi with a white turban and white shoulder pads with cape.
Gohan looked over to the new guy. "Hey, Piccollo. Yeah, a lot of people died today. I'll need to collect the Dragonballs to bring them back. But first off…Dende, could you tell me how my mother, brother, and the others are doing?"
Dende nodded, and walked to the edge of the plateform. Curious, Videl walked to the edge to and looked down.
And boy, did she look down. And down. And down.
Videl involuntarly took a few steps back. Gohan smiled. "Yeah, we're up pretty high."
Videl nodded, her eyes wide. "No kidding. How did we get up here?"
"We flew."
Dende looked back to Gohan. "Gohan, all of them are ok. Most of them are heading back to Capsule Corporation, but your brother and Trunks are…" Dende pointed to the lip of the plateform, and in that instant, Goten and Trunks shot up, transformed into Golden fighters as well.
"Brother! You're here! Is your girlfriend ok?"
Both Videl and Gohan turned red. Gohan put his hands up. "She's not my girlfriend! But she's ok. Dende healed her."
"Gohan." The namek named Piccollo was looking at Gohan. "You had better go find Bulma and get the Dragon radar and find the Dragonballs."
Gohan nodded. "Right."
But Videl wasn't about to let him go without an explanation of what in the world was going on. "GOHAN!"
Gohan cringed, and looked over to Videl. "You…probably want an explanation, right?"
Videl glared and slowly nodded her head.
Gohan sighed. "Alright, but we've got work to do if we want to fix all this. Let's talk on the way, please?"
Videl's expression softened. "Alright" Then she remember something.
"Um, Gohan, how do we get down?"
"Oh! Um…You can't fly, so I guess that one of us will have to carry you."
Goten and Trunks looked at each other. They both said at the same time, "Don't look at us, we'd drop her!"
Gohan nodded. "Ok, I'll carry you." Gohan walked over and but his arms around her waist. He was also blushing a great deal. Then again, so was Videl.
Videl wasn't expecting him to just jump off the plateform. All four of them were dropping at an incredible speed. She yelled, thinking that he was insane, and wrapped her arms around Gohan's neck tightly.
"V…Videl…you're choking me…"
When the ground became visible, Gohan, Goten and Trunks leveled off, then sped towards West city and Capsule Corporation. Videl was able to get her breathing under control.
She glared up at Gohan. "You could have warned me! You nearly scared me to death!"
Gohan gave her the Son grin. "Sorry! I guess it can be a little nerve racking…" Videl let it go. She hated to admit it, but she couldn't fight the power of the Son grin.
"Boy, we sure are moving fast! Hey, Gohan? What are Dragonballs?"
"Dragonballs are very special. There are seven in all, scattered across the globe. However, once all seven are collected, the eternal dragon Shenlong will arise to grant two wishes."
"That's sounds unbelievable. Is it for real?"
"Yep. And you don't know what unbelievable is until you've hung around with me for a while."
"So I guess that I'll be learning what unbelievable is in a little while?"
Gohan blushed red. "I…guess so…"
"So why do we need them?"
"With the wishes, we can wish back all those who were killed at the stadium today."
"You mean like what happened after Cell was defeated?"
Gohan nodded. "Yeah, everyone coming back after Cell was destroyed was due to the Dragonballs. We gathered them and used the wishes to bring back everyone."
"Incredible…um, who was that Omega guy anyway?"
Gohan shook his head. "His name WAS Cooler. He was a murderer, killed countless people. However, my Dad killed him over nine years ago. I don't know how he came back or what he wanted."
"Ok….hey, the gold fighter, it was really you, right?"
"Uh….yes. I'm sorry I lied to you…I just didn't want everyone to know!"
"So seven years ago, that strange group of people who showed up during the fight with Cell…that was you guys! And you were the little boy that was with them, weren't you?"
Gohan looked straight ahead, not looking at Videl. He gave her a little nod of the head.
"Then, my father wasn't the one who beat Cell, was he? No, it was you!"
Gohan kept looking forward. "Yes…it was."
Videl absorbed this knowledge, and began to process it. It was a real shock for her. But as she thought about it, she unconsciously brought her head up to rest on Gohan's chest.
~0~
Gohan was really worried about Videl. Ever since he admitted that he was the one to defeat Cell, she hadn't spoken a word. He had been worried at what her reaction would have been when she found out, and it looks like he had been right to worry.
He knew that Videl had a lot more questions to ask, but she just didn't ask them. 'Most of her beliefs and worlds have been shook or shattered today. Maybe it was too much for her.'
Gohan and the boys continued their trek to West City. Twenty minutes later, they arrived at the outskirts of the city, and two minutes later they landed at the entrance to Capsule Corp.
Gohan reluctantly let go of Videl. Videl kept near Gohan, but her head was down and her right arm was pressed up against her chest upwards, like she does when she is thinking hard.
Gohan put a hand on her shoulder and looked down at her. "Are you going to be ok?" She didn't respond.
Goten and Trunks raced forward to the door. Trunks quickly punched in the access code to the front door, and they raced in. Gohan followed suit and Videl was following him. Gohan took it as a good sign that she was keeping with him.
Chichi, Bulma, Krillin, Yamcha, Eighteen, Marron, Ox King, Oolong, and Puar were waiting in the front room. Chichi stood up when she saw the group enter.
"Gohan! Where have you been? Answer me!"
Goten spook up first. "Brother needed to help Videl! She got hurt!"
Gohan looked at his mother. "That guy hurt her pretty bad. I needed to get her to Dende before it was too late."
Trunks smiled, finding an opportunity to cause mischief. "Yeah, there's no way Gohan would let anything happen to his girlfriend."
"She's not…"
"Gohan, you've got a girlfriend and you didn't tell me?!?"
"Mom, please, she's…"
"You don't keep secrets from your mother, you know that, young man!"
"But…"
Bulma decided to interrupt before it got too out of hand. "Videl is her name? Videl Satan, Hercule's daughter?"
Gohan nodded. "Yeah, and…she just found out."
Everyone glanced at Videl and at each other. They knew what that meant.
Gohan decided to change the subject, he didn't want everyone talking about Videl. She wouldn't like everyone fawning over her. "Um…don't we need to get the Dragonballs?"
Bulma nodded. "Yeah, we were waiting for you. We're ready to go."
"Let's go." Gohan jumped. Those were the first words Videl had spoken for a while. Everyone looked at her. She was looking up again, no longer holding her head down.
Videl smiled. "I always had I feeling about the Cell Games. It just seemed strange to me that my father was capable of that kind of strength. Now it all makes sense. I'm glad I know the truth. Now maybe I can really help. Let's get going."
~0~0~0~
Not a real evil cliffy, but, hey, it is a cliffy.
Response to Reviews:
gerrys giant green grassmonkey – If you think that was evil, just wait until you see how this story develops!
xT-Zealot – if you do that with this cliffy, you'll be craze by the end of the fic.
The Smooster – everyone dead…stadium destroyed…I'd say so.
Kamislash – Edge of the seat, huh? By the end, I'll have you running around in suspense!
Dragon Empress – I needed to end it quick, or else Videl wouldn't have lived though it.
Sorceress Fujin – YES YES YES YES!!! Hehehe
Karisah – First licorice, now twinkies? What are you, addicted to sugar?
vsd2oc – Of course Videl made it, I didn't want to deal with all the angry fans if she died.
Tessa-Chan – HERE!
100 reviews! Yes! Thank you! ::Does dance even Saiyaman would find embarrassing:: Now let's turn up the heat…
Disclaimer: I look out the window, I see the rain, and then I realize, I DON'T OWN DBZ!
PLEASE READ AND REVIEW, THIS IS MY FIRST!
Tournament Troubles
Videl's eyes slowly opened. Her vision was blurry. She could make out the sky above her, but not much else. Her brain kicked into gear. 'What happened?' She closed her eyes and the memory came flooding back to her.
She remembered a transformed Gohan fighting that demon guy. She remembered the demon guy firing one of those light beams. She remembered it piercing her. She remembered falling back.
Then nothing.
She reopened her eyes. Her vision cleared up pretty good. Oddly, she wasn't in any pain.
Then a green head with pointy ears and antenna poked into her vision and spoke to her. "How are you feeling?"
Videl's eyes became wide and she scrambled back, trying to get away from the green thing. It didn't follow her.
Her back ran into a pair of legs. She looked back and up to see Gohan, still in that gold haired transformation. "Gohan? Is that you?"
Gohan's eyebrow perked up. "Of course it's me, who else would I be?"
"Gohan?" The green man looked up to Gohan with a smile on his face. "You're still a super saiyan."
Gohan pulled down a strand of hair and examined it. "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize it." He took a deep breath, and the gold hair faded back to black as he released the breath. He looked down at Videl with a smile, offering his hand to help her up.
Videl took his hand and pulled herself up, looking around. "Gohan, what are we doing here? And where is here?"
"This is the Lookout. I took you here so you can get healed. You were in bad shape." Gohan indicated his gi, which was covered in blood.
Remembering the wound, Videl reached up to her shoulder. There was a coin sized hole in her clothes, but the skin underneath was pink and healthy.
Videl looked at the green man. "You healed me? Um, thank you."
The green man looked at her. "No problem. I'm always willing to help a friend of Gohan's. My name's Dende."
Videl smiled. "Nice to meet you, Dende. My name's Videl Satan."
"Satan? Oh, your Mr. Satan's daughter, right?" Videl nodded, and Dende gave Gohan a weird look that she couldn't decipher. Gohan gave him the Son grin and scratched the back of his head.
Videl tugged on Gohan shirt, indicating she wanted him to bend down. Gohan complied, and Videl whispered in his ear. "Um…why is Dende green?"
Dende looked at Videl. "I'm green because I'm not really from around here. I'm a Namek." Videl started. She didn't think he had heard her. She blushed a little, embarrassed.
Dende smiled. "I've got really good hearing. And don't worry too much about it, it's a good question from your point of view. I'm a Namek, so that means that I have the ability to heal and to create the Dragonballs. Speaking of which…" Dende gave Gohan a look.
Gohan nodded. "I've got some work to do, don't I?"
"You sure do, Gohan." Videl looked to right, towards the source of the voice. There was another Namek walking out from a building structure, except this one looked older. He was much taller than Dende, and he wore a dark gi with a white turban and white shoulder pads with cape.
Gohan looked over to the new guy. "Hey, Piccollo. Yeah, a lot of people died today. I'll need to collect the Dragonballs to bring them back. But first off…Dende, could you tell me how my mother, brother, and the others are doing?"
Dende nodded, and walked to the edge of the plateform. Curious, Videl walked to the edge to and looked down.
And boy, did she look down. And down. And down.
Videl involuntarly took a few steps back. Gohan smiled. "Yeah, we're up pretty high."
Videl nodded, her eyes wide. "No kidding. How did we get up here?"
"We flew."
Dende looked back to Gohan. "Gohan, all of them are ok. Most of them are heading back to Capsule Corporation, but your brother and Trunks are…" Dende pointed to the lip of the plateform, and in that instant, Goten and Trunks shot up, transformed into Golden fighters as well.
"Brother! You're here! Is your girlfriend ok?"
Both Videl and Gohan turned red. Gohan put his hands up. "She's not my girlfriend! But she's ok. Dende healed her."
"Gohan." The namek named Piccollo was looking at Gohan. "You had better go find Bulma and get the Dragon radar and find the Dragonballs."
Gohan nodded. "Right."
But Videl wasn't about to let him go without an explanation of what in the world was going on. "GOHAN!"
Gohan cringed, and looked over to Videl. "You…probably want an explanation, right?"
Videl glared and slowly nodded her head.
Gohan sighed. "Alright, but we've got work to do if we want to fix all this. Let's talk on the way, please?"
Videl's expression softened. "Alright" Then she remember something.
"Um, Gohan, how do we get down?"
"Oh! Um…You can't fly, so I guess that one of us will have to carry you."
Goten and Trunks looked at each other. They both said at the same time, "Don't look at us, we'd drop her!"
Gohan nodded. "Ok, I'll carry you." Gohan walked over and but his arms around her waist. He was also blushing a great deal. Then again, so was Videl.
Videl wasn't expecting him to just jump off the plateform. All four of them were dropping at an incredible speed. She yelled, thinking that he was insane, and wrapped her arms around Gohan's neck tightly.
"V…Videl…you're choking me…"
When the ground became visible, Gohan, Goten and Trunks leveled off, then sped towards West city and Capsule Corporation. Videl was able to get her breathing under control.
She glared up at Gohan. "You could have warned me! You nearly scared me to death!"
Gohan gave her the Son grin. "Sorry! I guess it can be a little nerve racking…" Videl let it go. She hated to admit it, but she couldn't fight the power of the Son grin.
"Boy, we sure are moving fast! Hey, Gohan? What are Dragonballs?"
"Dragonballs are very special. There are seven in all, scattered across the globe. However, once all seven are collected, the eternal dragon Shenlong will arise to grant two wishes."
"That's sounds unbelievable. Is it for real?"
"Yep. And you don't know what unbelievable is until you've hung around with me for a while."
"So I guess that I'll be learning what unbelievable is in a little while?"
Gohan blushed red. "I…guess so…"
"So why do we need them?"
"With the wishes, we can wish back all those who were killed at the stadium today."
"You mean like what happened after Cell was defeated?"
Gohan nodded. "Yeah, everyone coming back after Cell was destroyed was due to the Dragonballs. We gathered them and used the wishes to bring back everyone."
"Incredible…um, who was that Omega guy anyway?"
Gohan shook his head. "His name WAS Cooler. He was a murderer, killed countless people. However, my Dad killed him over nine years ago. I don't know how he came back or what he wanted."
"Ok….hey, the gold fighter, it was really you, right?"
"Uh….yes. I'm sorry I lied to you…I just didn't want everyone to know!"
"So seven years ago, that strange group of people who showed up during the fight with Cell…that was you guys! And you were the little boy that was with them, weren't you?"
Gohan looked straight ahead, not looking at Videl. He gave her a little nod of the head.
"Then, my father wasn't the one who beat Cell, was he? No, it was you!"
Gohan kept looking forward. "Yes…it was."
Videl absorbed this knowledge, and began to process it. It was a real shock for her. But as she thought about it, she unconsciously brought her head up to rest on Gohan's chest.
~0~
Gohan was really worried about Videl. Ever since he admitted that he was the one to defeat Cell, she hadn't spoken a word. He had been worried at what her reaction would have been when she found out, and it looks like he had been right to worry.
He knew that Videl had a lot more questions to ask, but she just didn't ask them. 'Most of her beliefs and worlds have been shook or shattered today. Maybe it was too much for her.'
Gohan and the boys continued their trek to West City. Twenty minutes later, they arrived at the outskirts of the city, and two minutes later they landed at the entrance to Capsule Corp.
Gohan reluctantly let go of Videl. Videl kept near Gohan, but her head was down and her right arm was pressed up against her chest upwards, like she does when she is thinking hard.
Gohan put a hand on her shoulder and looked down at her. "Are you going to be ok?" She didn't respond.
Goten and Trunks raced forward to the door. Trunks quickly punched in the access code to the front door, and they raced in. Gohan followed suit and Videl was following him. Gohan took it as a good sign that she was keeping with him.
Chichi, Bulma, Krillin, Yamcha, Eighteen, Marron, Ox King, Oolong, and Puar were waiting in the front room. Chichi stood up when she saw the group enter.
"Gohan! Where have you been? Answer me!"
Goten spook up first. "Brother needed to help Videl! She got hurt!"
Gohan looked at his mother. "That guy hurt her pretty bad. I needed to get her to Dende before it was too late."
Trunks smiled, finding an opportunity to cause mischief. "Yeah, there's no way Gohan would let anything happen to his girlfriend."
"She's not…"
"Gohan, you've got a girlfriend and you didn't tell me?!?"
"Mom, please, she's…"
"You don't keep secrets from your mother, you know that, young man!"
"But…"
Bulma decided to interrupt before it got too out of hand. "Videl is her name? Videl Satan, Hercule's daughter?"
Gohan nodded. "Yeah, and…she just found out."
Everyone glanced at Videl and at each other. They knew what that meant.
Gohan decided to change the subject, he didn't want everyone talking about Videl. She wouldn't like everyone fawning over her. "Um…don't we need to get the Dragonballs?"
Bulma nodded. "Yeah, we were waiting for you. We're ready to go."
"Let's go." Gohan jumped. Those were the first words Videl had spoken for a while. Everyone looked at her. She was looking up again, no longer holding her head down.
Videl smiled. "I always had I feeling about the Cell Games. It just seemed strange to me that my father was capable of that kind of strength. Now it all makes sense. I'm glad I know the truth. Now maybe I can really help. Let's get going."
~0~0~0~
Not a real evil cliffy, but, hey, it is a cliffy.
Response to Reviews:
gerrys giant green grassmonkey – If you think that was evil, just wait until you see how this story develops!
xT-Zealot – if you do that with this cliffy, you'll be craze by the end of the fic.
The Smooster – everyone dead…stadium destroyed…I'd say so.
Kamislash – Edge of the seat, huh? By the end, I'll have you running around in suspense!
Dragon Empress – I needed to end it quick, or else Videl wouldn't have lived though it.
Sorceress Fujin – YES YES YES YES!!! Hehehe
Karisah – First licorice, now twinkies? What are you, addicted to sugar?
vsd2oc – Of course Videl made it, I didn't want to deal with all the angry fans if she died.
Tessa-Chan – HERE!