Lo people. I'm back again, I'm sick and ill, but I'm still writing, as I'm terrified of getting a flame demanding me to update. +_+
Anyway, I haven't replied to your reviews even though on the 100 mark because, it was a choice between that, and this chapter, so I guessed that you would prefer this (Aren't I nice?)
Anyway the winner to the competition was hard to choose, so everyone who competed gets a muffin.…. but the winner is….Poppy, as her idea was properly something that he would do. ^_^;
Oh and manda gets a muffin too as she was the 200th reviewer.
Disclaimer: If I had to think up disclaimers I wouldn't be here now!
Blood Lust: Chapter 8: Spin the BottleVidel sat alone staring at the empty mushroom houses. Her life had been turned upside down. She was stuck in the woods, with nineteen morons. Well one exceptionally bright, naïve kid, her best dizty friend, and a bunch of morons. Her father was probably still at that Army camp base. Leaving her to use her wits against a pile of trees and rocks, and at the moment the rocks were winning. Infact if it hadn't been for Gohan. . .
Gohan was acting strange. It was weird that no one else noticed it. Sure he went overboard on the torture-thing, but he started to go weird before that. He had started to stand up for himself for one thing, normally he would never do that.
Videl was jumped out of her thoughts by a streak of gold zooming past her. She looked around wildly for where the light went, or where it came from. Seeing nothing, she shook her head believing that she REALLY needed to get out of these woods, and soon before she went completely mad.
She glimpsed something out of the corner of her eye. She yelped. There was a HUGE fish heading towards her, it was flying. She blinked, and rubbed her eyes. She guessed that she had finally cracked. Her first instinct was to instantly believe that either Gohan, or that flash of Gold was responsible for that fish. She shook her head. She was being suspicious again, sure she had a 93% positive belief that Gohan was Saiyaman, especially when he managed to bring down an entire base by himself-even with a bomb.
"Hi Videl!" Came the voice from the fish.
This time she KNEW she was mad. Talking, flying fish were just a bit too much to bare. What was weird was that the fish had Erasa voice. THE FISH MUST HAVE EATEN ERASA!
"Wait," she told herself, softly. "Your overreacting, just like Gohan did. Stay calm there must be a rational explanation for this." She glanced at the mushroom houses, there was no clear and logical explanation for THAT.
The fish carried on walking….Wait now it was walking, it had legs, how come she hadn't spotted them before. . . "It must be lack of caffeine," she muttered to herself. She hadn't had caffeine for AGES.
"You know talking to yourself is the first sign of madness." Came Erasa's voice again. This time right beside her. Videl jumped slightly, so that only the people who were watching carefully would notice.
It was Erasa, she noticed, and the flying fish thing was actually her class, carrying a fish. Another fish was right behind them.
"Well maybe it the second sign of madness," Erasa carried on. Oblivious to her friend. "But it's one of the top three for sure!"
Videl growled quietly under her breath. Great now my best friend thinks I'm mad. But then again I thought that the fish was flying, that's something that Sharpener or Shoelace would probably do. If I'm mad, was I making that Gold light thing up?
She glimpsed it again. A flash of light, kind of big, the size of a small kid maybe. It was too fast to see clearly, but she felt the breeze it gave off as it went past. This time was was definitely NOT imagining it. " Oi, you bright-light-UFO-thing," she yelled, as she started to storm off in the direction that it went. "Come back here!"
Gohan realised that the Ki belonged to Goten. That was easy, he knew his kid brother Ki, well. . . like his own. The thing that was troubling is that the Ki had grown enormously.
Goten was now a Super Saiyan.
Gohan smiled as he felt how proud he was, his little brother was the youngest Super Saiyan ever. The chibi even managed to do it completely on his own.
Gohan frowned as he remembered the first time he went Super Saiyan, the pure anger that he had felt, and the hunger to kill, destroy and feed. If Goten was feeling that at the moment…
Videl gasped, as she saw the light in the distance. It stopped and came straight back. Aiming at her, with speed to fast to imagine.
Then it stopped, suddenly leaving a very cute Chibi, with spiky blond hair.
"Hi!" The Chibi said.
Videl fell over.
"Hi…ummmm hi- HOW THE HELL CAN YOU DO THAT!"
"Do what?" replied the kid naively. Videl thought that the Chibi reminded her of someone?
"HOW CAN YOU GLOW YELLOW." She yelled. Everyone in hearing distance heard her, and came over to look at the weird glowing kid, who was currently rubbing his ears in pain.
"What's your name, Kid?" asked someone who liked talking to kids.
"My name is Go-" He quickly gagged himself with his hands. No one was supposed to know that he could go Super, except his Ka-san. He didn't want anyone else to know.
"Huh?" asked someone.
"He won't speak." Said someone else, who liked stating the obvious.
Goten said, "I can speak if I want too," but his still had his hands on his mouth, so everyone else only heard a mumble.
Most of the girls sighed at the cute Chibi.
Goten took the hands out of his mouth. "My name is…"
"The Gold Fighter," Videl whispered.
"Yes that's my name. Hi, I'm the Gold Fighter."
"But the last time people saw him he was six feet tall, minus the hair." She said wondering if Golden Fighters could shrink at will.
"Ummmm, well …." Goten thought hard. "My Ka-san put me in the wash, and I got shrunk!" Giving her the best puppy-dog eyed look that he could muster, just incase she didn't believe him.
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Do you think he like a mini me?" One student asked loudly to another. "You know? Identical in every way except one eighth his size?"
"Hey, I'm idunt…Indent…really like 'Ni-chan!"
"Ah Hah!" Exclaimed Videl almost pouncing on the Chibi. "So the Gold fighter is your brother?"
"NO!" Yelled Goten. "Ni-Chan is not my brother!" He face took on a puzzled look as he rethought what he said. "Gold fighter is not my brother."
"So who is he then?"
"Ni-c-" He quickly stuffed both hands into his mouth. "Not telling" came the muffled reply.
While this was happening, Marker and Shoelace had walked to Sharpener to talk. The said teen, was leaning on a tree, looking really out of it, and kept on talking to himself, and passing insects.
"Hey that kids a freak, right?" Asked Marker.
"Yep" Shoelace replied.
"And he is unique, right?"
"Yep"
"So he'll be worth a few zillion, on the market"
"Do you think so?" Questioned Shoelace.
"Well if we can't sell him to a collector, we could, like, sell him to the Government, so they could make the real Golden Fighter do whatever they wanted to."
"Cool"
This conversation sank into Sharpener's drug infused brain. The first thing he noticed was the word 'Zillion'. Wow a few zillion, he thought. If I had THAT, much money then Videl will have to like me for sure. He eyes started to focus on his friends. Then he noticed the glowing Chibi, still surrounded by the group of teens. I'll do something better, I'll make sure that she notices me.
One hand slowly, reached for the bag on his back. With much concentration on his part, he felt something sharp bite into his hand. He carefully lifted it out. It was a switchblade, which he nicked from the Army barracks instead of having a Swiss Army Knife. He noticed that he had left it open. It didn't matter.
He ran for the Chibi, taking down the stronger and faster six year old, purely by surprise. He sat on the Chibi's torso, pinning the kid down. Digging the blade into the chibi's neck he noticed blood was slowly covering his hands, and the thrashing Chibi's neck. He grinned.
"I'm going to kill you kid."
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"What did you just say?" The voice was Ice. It was not emotionless, but filled with menace.
It was the real golden fighter. The class quaked with fright. This was the image that nightmares where made of. Unnaturally bright Aqua Green eyes, looked at them filled with rage. Little lightening bolts bounced off him, lightly toasting the grass.
He looked mad.
Well no wonder the demi Saiyan looked mad, he had realised that Goten was talking to his classmates, so he couldn't grab him. He waited on the outskirts of the clearing, waiting for his chance. He had heard the whole conversation between Shoelace and Sharpener. It had had made him very mad. Mad enough to turn to Super Saiyan.
Then he saw Sharpener run at his little brother. To him it wasn't such a big deal, Goten could fight off Sharpener with both hands tied behind his back. However Goten went down. He was thrashing on the floor, covered in blood.
He clenched his fists. He heard Sharpener's whisper.
It was too much to bare. He stepped out.
"What did you just say?" He sneered, watching the class go pale.
Sharpener on the other hand was still trying to kill the 'Mini Goldern Fighter'. Maybe if he was less doped, then he would notice that the thrashing Chibi was not screaming in pain, but giggling. And the blood that covered them both was from Sharpener's hands that got sliced
Maybe if he was less doped he would have noticed the very grumpy Super Saiyan behind him.
Shoelace and Marker, tried run for it, cowering. They didn't make it very far, Gohan had wrapped an invisible Ki wall around them. Without even a glance at them, he lifted them up effortlessly and slammed them into a tree.
He reached his brother, and lifted Sharpener off, the blond teen's neck was in a vicelike grip.
Goten got to his feet, and gulped. Ni-chan looked VERY mad. "Hi Ni-chan…I mean Golden Fighter…I mean…" Goten sighed as he noticed that Gohan wasn't looking at him, but at the blond tall guy.
"What the hell do you think you were trying to do to my brother?" Growled Gohan. "You slimy coward." He shoved Sharpener against a tree. "Picking on a little child? You bully. You don't even deserve to die"
Videl had by then, managed to get over her shock. With all the force that she could muster she stormed over to the Golden Fighter, and slid between the two blonds. "Stop it!" She yelled. She tried to knock away the hand that pinned Sharpener to the tree. She failed, it didn't even budge, it was like stone. "Your brother is fine" she yelled at the Golden Fighter.
Gohan looked behind him, Goten gave a nervous grin and waved. The Super Saiyan turned back to Videl. "He tried to kill my brother, It is my right to kill him in return." Stated Gohan, his tongue remembering an old ancient law.
"But…So.." Videl was slightly distracted by the fact that over the Golden Fighter's shoulder she could see Marker and Shoelace being repeatedly picked up and thrown at trees. "I'll… I'll spar you for him."
He raised one golden eyebrow. "Really?" He asked mockingly. "I don't think so." He turned away from her, dropping Sharpener to the floor.
"Why not, you scared?"
He walked over to Goten, and wiped off the blood of the blond chibi's neck, checking for any signs of cuts. "Why should I be scared? You don't have a chance in hell?"
"Don't worry Ni-chan, I'm fine." Whispered Goten guessing what Gohan was worried about. "I'm strong, knives don't hurt me."
Gohan smiled, and ruffled the chibi spiky hair. Then he looked up and saw Videl's face, and gave a mocking smile
"My apology." He Ki blasted the two fish, leaving them cooked and ready to eat.
As most of the class ran for the food, Videl watched the brothers fly away. She was mad at them for sure, but she knew she had forgotten something. Something very important. She remembered.
She should have told them to save the class, they were stuck in the woods after all.
She looked around and noticed that someone was missing. "Wait a second, where is Gohan?" she asked?
"I'm here," yelled Gohan. He was sitting on some log on the other side of the clearing.
"Did you see all that?" she yelled.
"Yeah, scary wasn't it?"
"Well he isn't THAT tough… Aren't you going to eat?"
"No eaten already."
"Okay. I'll just bandage Sharpener hand before he bleeds to death."
Gohan watched the class devour the two fish. He noticed a nice taste in his mouth, he looked and saw that he was sucking on his hands. The problem was that they were still covered in Sharpeners blood. Ewwwwwwe.
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A few hours later.
"I'm bored"
"How can you be Erasa, we only been walking though the woods for . . . ages." Secretly Videl thought Erasa was right. Sure being one with nature was okay, but she needed her punch bag, and was dying for chocolate or at least coffee.
"We need to do something, "
"How about truth or dare?" Asked Videl, wondering what questions that she could ask Gohan.
"No way, how old do you think we are? Ten? We've got to do something . . . fun. "
"Good lot of help THAT will do us." Muttered Videl
"I know let's play spin the bottle!"
"And where exactly will we find this bottle? We are in the middle of the woods for Kami's sake."
"We can always use a rock or something," answered Erasa bouncing up and down, being happy once again. "And Gohan will proberly camp next to a cave or something. We can use that instead of a cupboard."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah like totally."
"You don't fool me Erasa, lose the 'Dumb Blond' act."
Erasa grinned sheepishly. "Okay. It's just that I really want to, you know . . ."
"Huh?"
"I really fancy Gohan!" Erasa blurted. "It's just that I feel so good when I'm around him, I feel protected, ya know?"
Videl was silent. Thinking.
"And he is so nice, cute, funny, gorgeous, sexy, devilishly handsome…."
There was something wrong about this picture. Something not right. She considered Gohan like a friend, but she couldn't be . . . Jealous, could she?
If Gohan had to choose between herself and Erasa, he would choose Erasa. They all did, as long as they weren't fame-obsessed freaks like Sharpener. Erasa was blond, bubbly, friendly, everything that she was not. Even worse Erasa had Dimples. Videl had heard that no man on earth could resist the Dimples.
If Videl was the Devil, then Erasa was the angel, and that was the way it was. No question about it. Videl had never questioned it before.
But at that second, she felt as if life sucked to be Satan, Videl.
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"Who is going to spin the bottle?"
"I will!" Screamed a nameless guy.
He grabbed the 'so called' bottle and it span around. Landing on Gohan.
10 girls hearts sped up as they realised that the hunk of their dreams was only a bottle away.
Gohan didn't comprehend what it meant. He was too busy concentrating that his little brother Ki didn't appear suddenly again.
One of the girls, named Sarah, began to turn bright red, then fainted from the rush of blood to the head.
The bottle span around again. Girls watched it with hawk like eyes and bated breath. The bottle slowed, and landed on a person.
A sigh was heard.
Whispers began to fill the air.
Gohan looked at Videl and shrugged.
One person was very smug that the bottle was pointing her way.
Someone screeched out her name
"ERASA?"
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(1) Just be glad, I was going to leave you there ^_^
Dodges rotten fruit and vegetables . . . and stray Ki blasts . . . and flames . . the odd Hamtoro's (0_o) . . . and Howlers.
Cliffys, don't you just love them? Well if you're writing them, but it is a fact that cliffys make more people want to flame you… Maybe I shouldn't have done cliffy then… ^_^;;
People before you burn me too much, just make sure I survive, because otherwise the next chapter wont be coming out. Constructive criticism adored.
Anyway... I know the fish thing was BAD, But I did write it really late at night, when I was high on coke.
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