Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ.
This is Gohan/Videl, probably some romance but that isn't the main purpose of this fic. The main purpose is 2 fold.
Firstly this is a challenge to myself to write something with chapters shorter than 5000 words, and preferably in the 2000 to 3000 word range. Both just for the heck of it, and to do something about my sister's (Pteska) need to impress me with longer chapters ;). Also to stop myself from constantly saying mine's bigger ;).
Pteska saying: I object your honour.
Judge saying: Approved.
TW saying: Withdrawn.
//Note, those last three lines are by Pteska.
Second it's a place for me to use all my rejected but funny scenes, as well as some new for this fic and funny scenes.
Gohan Goes To Highschool
Chapter 8: Survival Adventures
"So," Krillin asked turning Gohan, "what sort of camp is this exactly?"
"Oh, didn't I mention that? They're calling it a survival camp, though from Videl's explanation of her view of the concept I don't really see how it relates to survival."
Krillin chuckled. "We can't all go for the 'let's get dropped in the wilderness for six months' package Gohan."
"I suppose so, but what does wild water rafting have to do with survival. Do you take a raft everywhere you go, does anyone?"
"Probably not, well maybe Bulma, I think she usually carries every capsule known to mankind with her."
"You're exagerating Krillin, it's just every capsule to come out in the last two or three years."
"I stand corrected."
"You know Bulma was at my school yesterday for Career day, and she had Veggie with her."
"Oh boy I would have loved to have seen that. Vegeta in a school full of teenagers."
"Yeah I think he came along to try and torture me or something, but he failed miserably. I was only ever worried when it looked like he wanted to attack one of my classmates."
"Who was it? Videl? Is she your girlfriend?"
"Krillin!" Gohan's response was in the low growling voice Videl had heard him use the day before when adressing Vegeta. "She is not my girlfriend and no he didn't try to attack her. One of the guys made a remark about Bulma being hot and you know how possesive he can be..." Gohan left the sentence unfinished. All Z-fighters knew how possesive Vegeta could be, especially Yamcha who on one occasion had been lightly scorched before Gohan and Bulma could intervene, the former with force and the latter with threats.
"Well." Krillin said. "It's been nice meeting you but I have to get going, I promised my wife I'd spar with her this afternoon."
"Okay, take care bro, and give my best to her, Marron and Roshi."
"Will do, see you around Gohan."
Gohan nodded and Krillin turned and walked back into the woods, knowing better than the fly in front of the unitiated.
"So what are we doing this afternoon?" Gohan asked, aiming to break the silence that had fallen.
Videl nodded in agreement with the question and nudged Antino in the ribs when he didn't respond.
"Oh uhm, right, uhm..." Antino's brain seemed to have a little trouble starting up. "Uhm, this afternoon, we hadn't eh, decided yet. I'd best go talk to Mr. Stevenson."
With that he walked off leaving Gohan and Videl by themselves.
"So..." Videl said.
Gohan just smiled in return.
"So," Videl started again, "how do you know all these people? And how do they all know each other? Because from what I could tell Krillin knows Yamcha and Bulma as well."
"Yeah they all know each other. I guess that's all because of my dad. When he was younger he met Bulma. To make a long story short they travelled together for a while and met several people. That included Yamcha, my mom and Roshi the Turtle-hermit. Later my dad went to train with master Roshi, where he met Krillin, who also sought the master's training. Anyway, to keep making our long story very short, they met up with Bulma and Yamcha again at the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai, which Roshi sent them to as part of their training. After that the story becomes way too long to tell you, so suffice it to say that a couple of more people were added to the group along the way and some, like myself, were basically born into the group."
"So this is like some sort of extended fa..."
Videl was cut off by Mr. Stevenson's voice, amplified by a megaphone. "Everybody please gather round."
Gohan and Videl complied and so did the others, gathering near Mr. Stevenson and Antino.
"Alright everyone," even without the megaphone Mr. Stevenson's voice managed to reach a very respectable volume, "here's what were going to do the rest of this afternoon. We'll start with another hike." Most of the class groaned at this point, but the teacher continued seemingly undisturbed. "That should take about an hour and lead us to the top of that cliff." He pointed to a cliff not to far from their campsite. "Then we'll descend from there and get back here in time to get dinner started."
Gohan found the hike to the top of the cliff to be extremely boring. First of all he could have flown there in a half a second, and secondly they'd been grouped two by two with Antino taking Videl beside him. That left Gohan with Erasa, a match he was less than happy with to say the least.
But after an hour or so of walking they arrived at the top of the cliff where there was a plateau large enough for the whole class to stand on. Once there the pairings collapsed and people paired of more or less naturally again, which had Videl standing next to Gohan for various reasons.
Gohan himself was standing quite close to the edge of the cliff, he wasn't afraid of heights, and the view was actually pretty good.
"So, Gohan..." Videl tried to resume her questioning but was cut off by Mr. Stevenson's voice.
"Well everybody, we've reached the top of the cliff, so now we can start our descend. Now..." He was about tot explain the use of the ropes and the safety harness when a shriek, coming from Erasa, cut him off.
His first reaction to this cry of surprise and fear was to look over the edge where to his surprise he saw Gohan, who was falling, no was diving, towards the ground. The other students now all gathered near the edge of the cliff and he could hear their whispers around him. He, however didn't say anything and found himself unable to pull his eyes off the falling youth.
Gohan meanwhile was wholly unaware that the eyes of his classmates were fixed on him filled with shock. He was focused solely on his goal, the trees below. Soon he was level with their highest branches and it wasn't long before he managed to grab the first branch. Once he had a hold of it he spun around it several times to lose some of his speed, before releasing it and grabbing another, which he used in the same fashion. He repeated the process several times until finally on his sixth branch his feet nearly hit the ground when he spun around it vertically. When he released that branch he choose his moment of release to give him an upward trajectory, which he used for a triple somersault to loose some more speed before landing by first hitting the ground with his hands which he used to push off into half a stretched somersault so he landed on his feet.
It would of course have been much easier for him to use his Ki to slow himself down, but the whole game was to not use Ki, on top of which he didn't want to use his Ki in front of his classmates.
When he looked back up to the top of the cliff he could see, even from the distance, that his classmates looked shock. Their shock surprised for while he hadn't expected any of them to use the same method of descend, other than maybe Videl is she was having a very good day, the move didn't seem all that spectacular to him. It didn't involve Ki so with practice anyone could learn how to do it, then again anyone could learn how to use Ki, but humans didn't seem capable of figuring out how to do that by themselves.
As he continued to look he saw Mr. Stevenson getting out his mega-phone again and soon Gohan could hear his voice, though from the sound of it he didn't really need a megaphone just to get his voice to carry to the bottom of the cliff.
"Mr. Son, get back up here NOW!"
Gohan wondered at just how he was supposed to do this. He couldn't fly in front of his classmates and walking again would take a long time, at least half an hour, at least if he didn't want to arouse their suspicions by his speed. The only other option was scaling the cliff, which while it was the fastest option would certainly take him five or ten minutes.
With a sigh, dedicated to the stupidity of first telling him to go down here and then yelling at him to get back up to the top of the cliff, he grabbed hold of a protrusion on the rock face and started to climb.
He was about 30 feet off the ground when he felt a familiar Ki, relatively near by, it wasn't a human or indeed a humanoid Ki, but he still recognised it.
"What's he doing near here?" He wondered aloud, before bringing one hand to his mouth, cupping it as best he could without removing the other from the rock face. "ICARUS!!!"
At the top of the cliff Videl watched in surprise when Gohan quite calmly started to scale the near vertical cliff and with even more surprise when he removed one hand from where it was holding him. His yell surprised her even more and she briefly had time to wonder what he was yelling for when she saw what looked like a small, purple, winged Dinosaur heading towards Gohan at an impressive speed. Though it didn't posses a great wingspan the creature seemed to be traveling at well over a hundred miles an hour.
It came to a stop just below Gohan and to her ever growing surprise the teenager lowered himself onto its back and leaned over to whisper something to it. The little dinosaur then took off, heading upwards in a near perfect vertical line shooting up way over their heads before coming back down and landing at the top of the cliff where Gohan got off.
"Good boy Iccy." Gohan said with a laugh as his purple friend licked his face. "I'll get you some berries later okay."
Even though Gohan didn't know how, he was sure that Icarus could understand him and he could have sworn the dinosaur nodded as he said this. They'd landed about a hundred feet or so away from the others but now they were slowly being surrounded.
"Are you crazy, jumping of a cliff this size?!" Mr. Stevenson's tone of enquiry was not exactly gentle.
"Well I know it's not high enough to get really good speed, but it's still the easiest way down." Gohan reasoned.
"How on Earth can you do something like that without getting hurt?" Videl asked.
Gohan shrugged his shoulders. "Just practice, I've been getting down from cliffs that way since I was about five or six. It's not all that difficult, the vertical spins around the branches slow you down, so all you have to do is make sure you get to the first branch okay and time your releases correctly, the rest is a piece of cake."
"And what is this thing?" It seemed to have turned into a general question round because this time Sharpner was the one doing the asking as he indicated Icarus.
"He's Icarus." Gohan said, fondly stroking the dinosaur's neck. "I guess you could call him my pet, though he doesn't live with us. He does come when ever I'm near and call him."
"Is he dangerous?" Erasa who was near Icarus head asked, eyeing him as though she was afraid he'd bite.
"No, he's a herbivor." Gohan aswered. "He only eats plants."
"Oh, eh, well, eh, right." Mr. Stevenson clearly wanted to take charge of the conversation again but didn't seem to find anything to say.
"Shouldn't someone be looking after Antino?" Gohan asked, seeing the man lying unconscious near the edge of the cliff. "I think he fainted a while ago. Probably either when I jumped or when I came back up, considering where he is."
Mr. Stevenson nodded and grabbed his first aid capsule, using some of it's contents to wake Antino.
It took a few minutes but soon Antino was on his feet again and the class was ready to start their descend.
"Do you mind if I use my own way down again?" Gohan asked Mr. Stevenson.
Mr. Stevenson thought for a few seconds and then let him. As Gohan jumped again Antino let out a scream and promptly fainted once more, which was what Mr. Stevenson had secretly been hoping for. He didn't really like Antino and so seeing him humiliated like this was a great thing.
After Antino had regained consciousness yet again, the whole class made its descend using the ropes and returned to the camp-site for dinner.
***
Next time on Gohan goes to Highschool, Gohan and Videl talk as night falls over camp. Will this bring them closer together, or will it end in a fight, pushing them farther apart. Don't miss the next exciting chapter of Gohan goes to Highschool.
Well it's taken me a while to get this one out, but since it's the holidays my life is more hectic than usual. I have to catch a plane to actually go on holiday in a few hours but I've managed to get this out, which is pretty good, I think. This hasn't been beta-read, so there maybe a few mistakes in it. Anyway I hope you enjoyed it, please review.
This is Gohan/Videl, probably some romance but that isn't the main purpose of this fic. The main purpose is 2 fold.
Firstly this is a challenge to myself to write something with chapters shorter than 5000 words, and preferably in the 2000 to 3000 word range. Both just for the heck of it, and to do something about my sister's (Pteska) need to impress me with longer chapters ;). Also to stop myself from constantly saying mine's bigger ;).
Pteska saying: I object your honour.
Judge saying: Approved.
TW saying: Withdrawn.
//Note, those last three lines are by Pteska.
Second it's a place for me to use all my rejected but funny scenes, as well as some new for this fic and funny scenes.
Gohan Goes To Highschool
Chapter 8: Survival Adventures
"So," Krillin asked turning Gohan, "what sort of camp is this exactly?"
"Oh, didn't I mention that? They're calling it a survival camp, though from Videl's explanation of her view of the concept I don't really see how it relates to survival."
Krillin chuckled. "We can't all go for the 'let's get dropped in the wilderness for six months' package Gohan."
"I suppose so, but what does wild water rafting have to do with survival. Do you take a raft everywhere you go, does anyone?"
"Probably not, well maybe Bulma, I think she usually carries every capsule known to mankind with her."
"You're exagerating Krillin, it's just every capsule to come out in the last two or three years."
"I stand corrected."
"You know Bulma was at my school yesterday for Career day, and she had Veggie with her."
"Oh boy I would have loved to have seen that. Vegeta in a school full of teenagers."
"Yeah I think he came along to try and torture me or something, but he failed miserably. I was only ever worried when it looked like he wanted to attack one of my classmates."
"Who was it? Videl? Is she your girlfriend?"
"Krillin!" Gohan's response was in the low growling voice Videl had heard him use the day before when adressing Vegeta. "She is not my girlfriend and no he didn't try to attack her. One of the guys made a remark about Bulma being hot and you know how possesive he can be..." Gohan left the sentence unfinished. All Z-fighters knew how possesive Vegeta could be, especially Yamcha who on one occasion had been lightly scorched before Gohan and Bulma could intervene, the former with force and the latter with threats.
"Well." Krillin said. "It's been nice meeting you but I have to get going, I promised my wife I'd spar with her this afternoon."
"Okay, take care bro, and give my best to her, Marron and Roshi."
"Will do, see you around Gohan."
Gohan nodded and Krillin turned and walked back into the woods, knowing better than the fly in front of the unitiated.
"So what are we doing this afternoon?" Gohan asked, aiming to break the silence that had fallen.
Videl nodded in agreement with the question and nudged Antino in the ribs when he didn't respond.
"Oh uhm, right, uhm..." Antino's brain seemed to have a little trouble starting up. "Uhm, this afternoon, we hadn't eh, decided yet. I'd best go talk to Mr. Stevenson."
With that he walked off leaving Gohan and Videl by themselves.
"So..." Videl said.
Gohan just smiled in return.
"So," Videl started again, "how do you know all these people? And how do they all know each other? Because from what I could tell Krillin knows Yamcha and Bulma as well."
"Yeah they all know each other. I guess that's all because of my dad. When he was younger he met Bulma. To make a long story short they travelled together for a while and met several people. That included Yamcha, my mom and Roshi the Turtle-hermit. Later my dad went to train with master Roshi, where he met Krillin, who also sought the master's training. Anyway, to keep making our long story very short, they met up with Bulma and Yamcha again at the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai, which Roshi sent them to as part of their training. After that the story becomes way too long to tell you, so suffice it to say that a couple of more people were added to the group along the way and some, like myself, were basically born into the group."
"So this is like some sort of extended fa..."
Videl was cut off by Mr. Stevenson's voice, amplified by a megaphone. "Everybody please gather round."
Gohan and Videl complied and so did the others, gathering near Mr. Stevenson and Antino.
"Alright everyone," even without the megaphone Mr. Stevenson's voice managed to reach a very respectable volume, "here's what were going to do the rest of this afternoon. We'll start with another hike." Most of the class groaned at this point, but the teacher continued seemingly undisturbed. "That should take about an hour and lead us to the top of that cliff." He pointed to a cliff not to far from their campsite. "Then we'll descend from there and get back here in time to get dinner started."
Gohan found the hike to the top of the cliff to be extremely boring. First of all he could have flown there in a half a second, and secondly they'd been grouped two by two with Antino taking Videl beside him. That left Gohan with Erasa, a match he was less than happy with to say the least.
But after an hour or so of walking they arrived at the top of the cliff where there was a plateau large enough for the whole class to stand on. Once there the pairings collapsed and people paired of more or less naturally again, which had Videl standing next to Gohan for various reasons.
Gohan himself was standing quite close to the edge of the cliff, he wasn't afraid of heights, and the view was actually pretty good.
"So, Gohan..." Videl tried to resume her questioning but was cut off by Mr. Stevenson's voice.
"Well everybody, we've reached the top of the cliff, so now we can start our descend. Now..." He was about tot explain the use of the ropes and the safety harness when a shriek, coming from Erasa, cut him off.
His first reaction to this cry of surprise and fear was to look over the edge where to his surprise he saw Gohan, who was falling, no was diving, towards the ground. The other students now all gathered near the edge of the cliff and he could hear their whispers around him. He, however didn't say anything and found himself unable to pull his eyes off the falling youth.
Gohan meanwhile was wholly unaware that the eyes of his classmates were fixed on him filled with shock. He was focused solely on his goal, the trees below. Soon he was level with their highest branches and it wasn't long before he managed to grab the first branch. Once he had a hold of it he spun around it several times to lose some of his speed, before releasing it and grabbing another, which he used in the same fashion. He repeated the process several times until finally on his sixth branch his feet nearly hit the ground when he spun around it vertically. When he released that branch he choose his moment of release to give him an upward trajectory, which he used for a triple somersault to loose some more speed before landing by first hitting the ground with his hands which he used to push off into half a stretched somersault so he landed on his feet.
It would of course have been much easier for him to use his Ki to slow himself down, but the whole game was to not use Ki, on top of which he didn't want to use his Ki in front of his classmates.
When he looked back up to the top of the cliff he could see, even from the distance, that his classmates looked shock. Their shock surprised for while he hadn't expected any of them to use the same method of descend, other than maybe Videl is she was having a very good day, the move didn't seem all that spectacular to him. It didn't involve Ki so with practice anyone could learn how to do it, then again anyone could learn how to use Ki, but humans didn't seem capable of figuring out how to do that by themselves.
As he continued to look he saw Mr. Stevenson getting out his mega-phone again and soon Gohan could hear his voice, though from the sound of it he didn't really need a megaphone just to get his voice to carry to the bottom of the cliff.
"Mr. Son, get back up here NOW!"
Gohan wondered at just how he was supposed to do this. He couldn't fly in front of his classmates and walking again would take a long time, at least half an hour, at least if he didn't want to arouse their suspicions by his speed. The only other option was scaling the cliff, which while it was the fastest option would certainly take him five or ten minutes.
With a sigh, dedicated to the stupidity of first telling him to go down here and then yelling at him to get back up to the top of the cliff, he grabbed hold of a protrusion on the rock face and started to climb.
He was about 30 feet off the ground when he felt a familiar Ki, relatively near by, it wasn't a human or indeed a humanoid Ki, but he still recognised it.
"What's he doing near here?" He wondered aloud, before bringing one hand to his mouth, cupping it as best he could without removing the other from the rock face. "ICARUS!!!"
At the top of the cliff Videl watched in surprise when Gohan quite calmly started to scale the near vertical cliff and with even more surprise when he removed one hand from where it was holding him. His yell surprised her even more and she briefly had time to wonder what he was yelling for when she saw what looked like a small, purple, winged Dinosaur heading towards Gohan at an impressive speed. Though it didn't posses a great wingspan the creature seemed to be traveling at well over a hundred miles an hour.
It came to a stop just below Gohan and to her ever growing surprise the teenager lowered himself onto its back and leaned over to whisper something to it. The little dinosaur then took off, heading upwards in a near perfect vertical line shooting up way over their heads before coming back down and landing at the top of the cliff where Gohan got off.
"Good boy Iccy." Gohan said with a laugh as his purple friend licked his face. "I'll get you some berries later okay."
Even though Gohan didn't know how, he was sure that Icarus could understand him and he could have sworn the dinosaur nodded as he said this. They'd landed about a hundred feet or so away from the others but now they were slowly being surrounded.
"Are you crazy, jumping of a cliff this size?!" Mr. Stevenson's tone of enquiry was not exactly gentle.
"Well I know it's not high enough to get really good speed, but it's still the easiest way down." Gohan reasoned.
"How on Earth can you do something like that without getting hurt?" Videl asked.
Gohan shrugged his shoulders. "Just practice, I've been getting down from cliffs that way since I was about five or six. It's not all that difficult, the vertical spins around the branches slow you down, so all you have to do is make sure you get to the first branch okay and time your releases correctly, the rest is a piece of cake."
"And what is this thing?" It seemed to have turned into a general question round because this time Sharpner was the one doing the asking as he indicated Icarus.
"He's Icarus." Gohan said, fondly stroking the dinosaur's neck. "I guess you could call him my pet, though he doesn't live with us. He does come when ever I'm near and call him."
"Is he dangerous?" Erasa who was near Icarus head asked, eyeing him as though she was afraid he'd bite.
"No, he's a herbivor." Gohan aswered. "He only eats plants."
"Oh, eh, well, eh, right." Mr. Stevenson clearly wanted to take charge of the conversation again but didn't seem to find anything to say.
"Shouldn't someone be looking after Antino?" Gohan asked, seeing the man lying unconscious near the edge of the cliff. "I think he fainted a while ago. Probably either when I jumped or when I came back up, considering where he is."
Mr. Stevenson nodded and grabbed his first aid capsule, using some of it's contents to wake Antino.
It took a few minutes but soon Antino was on his feet again and the class was ready to start their descend.
"Do you mind if I use my own way down again?" Gohan asked Mr. Stevenson.
Mr. Stevenson thought for a few seconds and then let him. As Gohan jumped again Antino let out a scream and promptly fainted once more, which was what Mr. Stevenson had secretly been hoping for. He didn't really like Antino and so seeing him humiliated like this was a great thing.
After Antino had regained consciousness yet again, the whole class made its descend using the ropes and returned to the camp-site for dinner.
***
Next time on Gohan goes to Highschool, Gohan and Videl talk as night falls over camp. Will this bring them closer together, or will it end in a fight, pushing them farther apart. Don't miss the next exciting chapter of Gohan goes to Highschool.
Well it's taken me a while to get this one out, but since it's the holidays my life is more hectic than usual. I have to catch a plane to actually go on holiday in a few hours but I've managed to get this out, which is pretty good, I think. This hasn't been beta-read, so there maybe a few mistakes in it. Anyway I hope you enjoyed it, please review.