Let the evilness continue.  Bwahahaha!

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~0~Tournament Troubles~0~

The adult was hurt.  And the child was in fear.

One of the black winged one's smaller minions had come.

The rest were coming, and the black winged one was right behind them.

~0~

Gohan knelt beside the beat up form of Videl.  She didn't look so good. 

Videl looked like she was only wearing the t-shirt she worn to bed, and it was torn to shreds.  She was covered in cuts and bruises.  It didn't look like she had actually been stabbed, but the quantity of wounds certainly made up for the quality.

Afraid to move her due to the number of injuries, Gohan's options were dwindling.  He didn't have any sensu beans with him – he had left all of his at his home.  He couldn't move her, so he couldn't bring her to Dende either.  And her energy was fading.

Sweating furiously from worriment, Gohan ripped a strip of cloth from his gi and reached down to wipe away the blood.  However, the moment that he touched her she jerked away and cried out in pain. 

Panicing, Gohan did not realize that his energy was spiking.  He was too engrossed with Videl to notice.

~0~

Krillin waited outside Kami house for Gohan to arrive.  Gohan was supposed to have been here over an hour ago, to watch Marron while Krillen and Eighteen went out, but at this rate they would be too late to do anything.

Then the short man looked up.  There were a lot of dark clouds brewing, and fast.  It was kind of ominous.

'Where is Gohan?'  Krillin closed his eyes and reached out with his mind.  'There is a lot of energy out there . . .'

The waves of the ocean around the island became rougher, crashing to shore with an incredible intensity that drew the attention of everyone on the island.

Krillen reopened his eyes to find Roshi, Eighteen, and Marron standing near him.  He unconsciously put himself between his wife and Master Roshi, to keep Roshi away from Eighteen.  For his own good.

But women were not among Roshi's priorities right now.

"Krillin, do you feel this weird energy?"

"Yeah."

"But . . . where is it coming from?"

"I dunno . . . and I'm starting to worry about Gohan.  I sensed him coming, but now I don't sense him at all."

Roshi nodded.  A moment passed by in silence.  The sky grew darker and the lightning grew more intense.  In fact, it seemed like sections of the sky were even glowing.  It wasn't lightning.  These sections seemed otherworldly. 

Then they both gasped at a new sensation. 

"Do you feel that, Krillin?"

"That's Gohan alright, but he's pretty far away.  His energy is pretty frantic, too.  You better go check it out Krillen."

"Right."  Krillin took off, fighting the storm that seemed to grow more intense by the second.

Roshi watched him go.  He had a bad feeling about this. 

Then he smiled.  He was alone with Eighteen.  Might as well have some fun. 

~0~

Gohan brushed away Videl's hair, and wiped away the blood there.

"Come on, Videl, don't you dare give out on me now."

In response to him, her breath shuddered, and with it came a trickle of blood.  Gohan was running out of options.  In his head, he was reliving all the memories of her training and fighting crime.  He had never seen her this bad.

Lighting bolts flashed in the background.  Then a bolt struck an unlit lamp post.  The electricity from the bolt caused the bulb to shine like it was turned on a brief moment before it exploded a millisecond later. 

It gave Gohan an idea.

Taking his hand, he ran down the side of Videl's face and neck, stopping at her chest near her heart. (All hentai please keep quiet.)  Gohan focused his energy, but in a way that he hadn't really tried before except with his father.

Videl's body began to glow with a golden light, and her breathing became calm and even.

Gohan sighed.  By transferring his energy into her body, he could at least keep her alive until help arrived.  But now he couldn't leave to go get help by himself.

~0~

Krillen sped off, dodging the occasional lightning bolt.  It was weird.  He had traveled the entire globe, but he had yet to get past the storm.

Either the storm was following him, or the storm was raging everywhere.  And the sky still had those weird glowing areas.  He poured on the speed.  He wasn't as fast as the saiyans, but he certainly could get somewhere when he wanted to.

Arriving in Satan City, Krillin realized that he was close to Gohan.  'But what is he doing here?  This is in the opposite direction of Kami House.  Damn, he's ruining my day with Eighteen . . .'

Narrowing down the search, he sped off in the direction of Gohan's signal.  It wasn't long before he reached the largest house in the city.

'Or was.  It looks like it's pretty beat up.  What happened here?  Gohan's definitely down there, through.'

Krillen landed near the demolished gate.  Noticing something, he walked over to the side of the wall to discover . . . 'A BODY?  What the . . .?'  Krillen knelt down to inspect the body.

'He's dressed like a guard.  There's even a unit patch.  Hmmm. . . . Satan Security?  So this is that goof's place?  Let's see . . . these guys are pretty dead.  By the look of it, they were stabbed by some sort of claw.  And the killer was fast too.  These guys don't even have their guns in their hands.'

Walking past them, he arrived at the still intact door to enter the almost intact front room.  It looked like a wall had been blown out.

There, he saw Gohan kneeling next to a figure.

Then he got a second look at the figure.  "VIDEL?!?  Gohan, what happened?"

"To be blunt, she got beat up.  Listen, Krillen, I'm glad you're here, but she's dying.  Get to Korin tower or my house, quick, and grab some sensu beans.  I can't, I'm the only thing keeping her alive.  Hurry!"

"Right!"

Krillen blasted off through the blown-out wall and rocketed out of Satan City, heading for the closer Korin tower.  He traveled for about two minutes before another figure shot past him.

'What the . . .?  Was that Piccolo?'

Krillin shot back towards the rocketing figure until a bolt of lightning illuminated the figure, confirming it was Piccolo.

"Piccolo!  Are you heading towards Gohan?"

"Yeah, I sensed he was in trouble."

"He's fine, but his friend isn't!  Do you have any sensu beans?"

"Yeah, I try to keep a few with me at all times."

"Good, then, let's hurry."

Together, they streaked off through the storm.

~0~

Gohan wiped sweat from his eyes and continued to focus his energy into Videl.  It didn't take much to keep her alive, but he lost a lot in the transfer.  He was growing tired. 

"Brother!"

"Goten!?!"

Sure enough, Goten, followed by Trunks, stormed into the mansion.  "Gohan, we sensed you, and Trunks said that we should . . . what happened to Videl?!?"

"She was attacked.  Do you two have sensu beans?"

Trunks shook his head.  "No, Dad doesn't trust us with them."

Gohan sighed.

"But I think they do."  Trunks pointed out the blown-out wall, and sure enough, Krillen and Piccolo landed inside the mansion, running up to Gohan, Videl, Goten, and Trunks. 

"Here, I think that she could use these."  Piccolo said as he tossed a small bag to Gohan.  Gohan caught it and opened it up.

"Sensu beans!  Thank you, Piccolo." 

"Don't mention it."

Gohan opened the sack and picked up one of the small beans.  He leaned over Videl and tried to put the bean in her mouth.  Unfortunately, her mouth was closed tight because she was in so much pain.

"Come on, Videl."  Gohan pleaded.  "Open your mouth.  I have something for you that will help you.  Come on . . ." 

Gohan reached out with his other hand and stroked her check.  The second he touched her she relaxed.

"Come on, Videl, open your mouth . . ."  Almost as if she could hear him while unconscious, her mouth did open a little.  Gohan placed the sensu bean in her mouth.  She swallowed it.

Gohan waited, hanging above Videl, their faces about two feet apart.  Her wounds closed and the blood disappeared from her body.  Her fists unclenched and her face relaxed.

Then, as always the case with sensu beans, her eyes snapped open and she bolted upright.  Unfortunately, with Gohan so close to her, it was a painful move as their foreheads connected with a very loud thud.

Gohan tumbled backwards, clutching his head while Videl remained sitting also holding her head.  She glared at Gohan with one eye, the other closed in shock and tears.  "Gohan, what's your head made off!?!"

"Owww. . ."

"If you two are quite done, I need to talk to you, Gohan."  The look in Piccolo's eyes said that he was being totally serious.

"Ok, ok, Piccolo, what is it?"

Piccolo looked surprised.  "You mean, you don't sense it?"

"Sense what?"  Gohan shut is eyes and reached out with his senses.  "Whoa!  What the…?  What is going on here?  It like the planet's energy is wrapping around and twisting around the planet."

Videl just looked confused.

"They're dimensional gates.  They are opening up all around the planet.  I don't know what to make out of it."

"So that's what those strange glowing things are up in the clouds?"

"That's right Krillin.  But I don't know what they are doing there or how they got there."

A voice sounded out from outside the mansion.  "I . . . do . . ."

Looking outside, the group flew (Videl included, she can fly) out of the wall and looked around for the source of the voice.

"Morons . . .you left . . . me over . . .here . . ."

Gohan turned and saw a monstrosity.

There were the remains of Thayne, the man who attack Videl.  Or what was left of him.  Gohan's blast was pretty powerful, because it severed off his entire body save for his head, part of a shoulder, and an arm.  Blood coated most of what remained. 

"But . . . you should be dead!"

"You're right, but I'm already dead, eh, cutie?"

Videl looked pale when she spoke.  "Thayne was the first person I had ever had to track down for my work with the police.  He's a psychopath and serial killer.  But he wasn't nearly as powerful as he is, er, was, er, nevermind.  But he is a lot stronger.  However, when I caught him two years ago, he was sentenced to death.  The execution was carried out over a year ago."

"That's riiiiiiiiight!"  Thayne smirked, obviously enjoying this.

"So how in the world did you get to this dimension!?!"

Thayne smirked.  "The green one has already mentioned it."

Piccolo looked shocked.  "The dimensional gates opening around the world.  You…you came from them?"

Thayne looked smug.

"Then those gates lead to the Other World, the world of the dead!  But why are they even opening?  Who is causing this disturbance?!?"

"My master.  He send Omega here in the first place, to check on the rumors that this is were the 'Great Goku' came from.  He wanted to make sure.  If he's right, then we will kill you all."

"Who's 'we'?"

"The army of warriors collected from the Other World.  Soon, this army will descend from the hundreads of portals that my master has opened.  They will fall, thousands strong, and everyone single one a thousand times more powerful than myself.  I only went first so that I could kill the Satan girl.  Some personal revenge."

"When?  When will they be here?"

"Any second now.  You're dead!  This whole planet's dead!  So it doesn't matter if I didn't kill you, girlie, you're dead anyways!  ha hahahaha!"

Three beams, one from Gohan, Piccolo, and Krillen converged on what was left of Thayne at once, turning the mad man into nothing but charred ash.

~0~

Videl shook uncontrollably.  Thayne had been horrible when he was alive, what he did to his victims and what he could have done to her.  But coming back from the dead was something she had never before imagined.

Gohan was speaking.  "What can we do about this?"

Piccolo answered.  "I don't know.  We don't know how strong these guys that thing mentioned really are.  Even if we can easily defeat them, they will be spread out throughout the globe.  I know that we are powerful, but we are only a handful of people.  Even we can't be everywhere at once."

"And if I read that guy right, they plan to massacure every person on this planet.  But even so, we can ressurect them with the dragonballs, right?"

"True, but as long as those portals remain open, they'll keep coming.  We need to find the being that opened the portals.  Once we kill that being, the portals will probably close."

Videl spoke up.  "It will be a man with black wings."

"Huh?"

"What?"

"Videl, how do you know this?"

Videl looked very pale.  "I've been having these . . . dreams, I guess.  But they came even when I was awake.  A man with black wings, coming with thousands of evil men, destroying everything.  I could feel that he was pure evil and very powerful, like nothing I've felt before."  Videl shook as from a chill.  "I . . . I thought that I was just being paranoid, but they seemed so real. . ."

Gohan walked forward and held her in his arms.  "It will be okay, Videl.  I promise."  He looked up into the sky. 

There, he could see black figures already descending from the glowing portions of the dark clouds.

~0~0~0~

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