Silver Demon, Golden Knight
Chapter 7- Preparation
"I see you got Videl!" Bulma said ushering the two inside.
Shortly after Gohan's encounter with Videl they had flown in Videl's helicopter to Capsule Corp. They would have flown without the helicopter but Videl wasn't exactly invisible with her full-grown wings. She would attract unneeded attention in Satan City's busy airstrip.
Videl looked around the house. "I can't believe that I'm here! The Capsule Corp building" she said. "Wow!"
"Believe it!" Bulma said amused at Videl's amazement. "But now's not the—"
There was the sound of doors slamming and then the last person that Gohan would have expected to show up did. "Gohan!" It was his mom, holding a huge suitcase. Dropping the suitcase, she went over to him and inspected him making sure that he wasn't missing any important body parts.
"Are you alright?!" Chi Chi asked eying Videl and her wings.
Videl glared back at Chi Chi her wings fluttering angrily. Gohan laughed nervously. "Yeah mom!" he said. "What are you doing here."
"Well for your information young man, Bulma was nice enough to tell me that you were still alive!" Chi Chi said indignantly. "You didn't come home to tell me anything did you!"
"Sorry mom!" Gohan said scratching his head nervously. He had hoped his mom would leave it at that.
He wasn't that lucky. "Lets go Gohan, you and Miss Videl over here have lots of packing to do!" Chi Chi said as she dragged Gohan into a room.
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"Mom!" Gohan pleaded. "I won't be able to make it one mile, not even to talk about two hundred with all this stuff!"
"But dear!" Chi Chi said trying to close an overstuffed suitcase. "You have to take care of yourself!"
"Okay, but can I take out a few things?" Gohan said. "Just for it to be a little easier."
Chi Chi nodded. "I don't see why not."
Gohan took the suitcase and dumped everything out. He got a bag that was lying on the bed and put in one outfit, some underwear and shoes, ignoring that his mom's mouth was on the floor. "Gohan! Are you trying to kill yourself?!" she shrieked.
"Don't worry mom! This is more than enough," Gohan said.
"But Honey!" Chi Chi insisted gesturing at the suitcase.
Gohan sighed. This was going to take a long time.
* * * * *
Videl and Bulma had gone into Bulma's spacious walk in closet (I bet she has one x.x).
"How are you feeling?" Bulma asked as Videl was packing a medium sized duffle bag.
Videl couldn't go home, her father would have a heart attack, and so Bulma was giving some clothes. Bulma held up a pink dress that said Bulma. "Ah!! I haven't seen this in a long time!" Bulma said starting to feel nostalgic. "Those were the days! Me and Goku and the others hunting for dragonballs…"
Videl gave the dress an incredulous look. If Mrs. Briefs thought she was going to get into that thing, she had another thing coming to her. "Uhh…Mrs. Briefs?" Videl starting trying to find words for what she wanted to say.
"Hmm?" Bulma said taking her eyes off the dress.
"Well that dress…"
"Oh! I'm not going to force you to wear it!" Bulma said getting the hint.
Videl sighed in relief and took up her pair of scissors. She had to make cuts in the back of her shirts to give her wings room for when she tried to put it on.
"Don't worry about the long walk Videl," Bulma mused. "Gohan said he's done this sort of thing before."
"He has?" Videl asked curiously. "Where?"
Just then they heard yells coming from another room. "That's probably Chi Chi," Bulma said shrugging. "Don't worry its normal."
"Yeah, she was like that when I first met her." Videl said with a laugh.
"We're finished!" Chi Chi called out from the hall.
Videl zipped her duffle bag up. "So am I," she said looking to Bulma who nodded.
The two went out to see Chi Chi standing next to Gohan who was carrying a duffle bag similar to Videl's, but bulging. Gohan looked resigned and Chi Chi felt satisfied. "We just finished," Bulma said Videl holding up her own duffle bag to show.
"Us too," Gohan said.
Then Chi Chi hugged Gohan. "Don't be careless Gohan!" she said.
"You two Videl," Bulma said giving Videl a thumbs up.
Videl managed a weak smile and went next to Gohan. "You ready?" she asked.
"Yeah, lets go."
* * * * * *
Videl was sitting in the back of the plane. Gohan was the only one of the two that knew where to go so she gladly let him take the controls. Flying a plane with full-grown human sized wings was a little too cramped for comfort. She was trying to make herself as comfortable as she could. Sighing she closed her eyes…
And the image of Enjeli came instantly to her mind. "Take off the pendant," Videl could hear the voice inside her head.
The pendant felt hot and heavy all of a sudden. Videl's hand closed over the pendant, which had started to glow again. "Take it off!" again she heard it.
She could barely stand it anymore. The pendent seemed to be trying to push its self into her. It seemed that the whole plane was pressing down on her. Videl tugged at pendant breathing heavily. "Must take it off…" she breathed tugging harder.
"Videl!" It was Gohan.
He stared at Videl, eyes noticing the hand pulling on the pendant. "What's going on."
When Videl didn't answer him he immediately landed the plain on an open field and let Videl out into the open air, making the plane go back into its little capsule. "Sorry!" Videl gasped.
"What happened?" Gohan asked still holding her.
"I think I'm claustrophobic," Videl said taking deep breaths.
"What?"
"I don't know," Videl said breathing a bit better now. "I think it's the wings, I was really cramped in there, and I started feeling weird."
"Damn," Gohan said deep in thought.
Videl put a hand to her pendant. "Enjeli is still there, and she almost made me take it off."
Gohan's head snapped up. "Videl are you in the mood to fly?"
Videl flapped her wings once. They felt okay. "Yeah why?"
"It's going to be a long flight but I think we can make it." Gohan said.
"What about people seeing my wings? Like in Satan City"
"It's not as crowded here. If we're high enough they'll mistake you for an eagle." Gohan said starting to float up in the air.
Videl also jumped in the air using her ki at first to hold her up. Then she flapped her wings as high as she could and spread them out as wide as she could. She could feel the thermals pushing her up and giggled with delight as she started to soar. "Hey Gohan!"
* * * * *
Gohan looked down at Videl who was busy flipping around and using her wings like a glider. It was one of the first times that he had seen Videl truly at peace ever since Enjeli came out. He grinned back. "Maybe I should get a pair of those," he joked.
"Yeah and it comes free with claustrophobia!" Videl said sarcastically.
Gohan couldn't say anything to that but kept flying. Videl could fly faster now with her wings. It was almost as if she was born with them.
So it was a surprise when Videl started to falter. "My wings are cramping!" she cried out trying to move a stiff wing.
"Don't use them, your ki can still hold you up."
Videl nodded rearing her wings back and then she regained a bit of altitude as she used her inner powers to hold her up in the air.
They flew on for a while, the miles passing like sand in an hourglass, both of them silent, Gohan not knowing not to say and Videl trying to concentrate on flying. "I see something!" Videl pointed.
"Dende told me that there was a village before the forbidden jungle." Gohan said. "We should stop by there and get a map."
The two started to descend the village right in their vicinity.