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TW saying: Withdrawn.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.
Responses to reviews:
Moved to the bottom because of extreme length for this chapter.
Gohan Goes To Highschool
Chapter 9: Camp Continues
A few hours after dinner Videl was walking through the camp. Most of the others were already asleep, or trying to fall asleep, as they were tired from the day's activities, but Videl who was used to long days of training felt no inclination to sleep yet. There was little to do here however and so she found herself wandering around the camp semi-aimlessly until she noticed the vague shine of fire coming from the mouth of what was now being called 'Gohan's cave'. The others had only found out about Gohan's unusual lodgings during dinner, and while nobody had questioned him about them after the cliff-and-trees-incident, most thought it very odd indeed. Gohan just seemed to be a different person out here, almost as if some part of himself that he normally kept hidden took over.
Seeing the light coming from the cave Videl decided to investigate and headed over there.
The first thing Videl noticed when she stepped into the mouth of the cave was once again how much larger it was beyond. Gohan had now made several fires that lit up the walls on either side but the stream that ran through it still disappeared into the darkness on either end, though it seemed to Videl as if the cave turned into a tunnel both ways, with the stream and some rather narrow banks for a bottom. The second thing she noticed was a huge fish skeleton that now lay in the cave near the largest of the fires. And the third thing she noticed was Gohan eating what looked like some fish sitting next to the stream.
"Hey, Videl." He barely looked up as he greeted her. "Come on in."
"Hey Gohan." His easy tone kind of knocked her out of balance mentally.
She stepped inside anyway, but found herself staring at the huge fish carcass rather than speaking with Gohan.
Gohan's voice almost startled her when it came again. "I see you've noticed the remains of my dinner." He saw her surprised look and continued. "Well you've seen me eat, you didn't really think that the bit of food they served was going to satisfy my appetite did you?"
Videl shook her head, wondering how she could have forgotten.
Gohan continued yet again, taking her silence as a sign for him to keep talking.
"Anyway, I assume you're here because you wanted to talk." He chuckled as Videl's expression once again turned to surprise. "It's not that hard to deduce Videl. You've been trying to talk with me all day, and now you show up here. I have no reason to assume that you've given up on talking with me and no other possible reason for you being here. After all you couldn't know about the fish, so you couldn't be here to eat."
"And why couldn't I know about the fish, I could have seen you carry it through camp." Videl said, assuming he must have caught it somewhere outside.
"It didn't come through camp, it came from downstream." Gohan said, indicating the small stream. "Follow me, and I'll show you something, and then we can talk."
Without even waiting for an answer he started away from the fire, into the near pitch-black darkness that hung in the tunnel through which the stream left the large cave. Videl followed him and found that once her eyes had adjusted she could see reasonably well in the tunnel. It was not very large but high enough for even Gohan to stand up straight and the banks of the stream were wide enough that the two of them could have walked side by side had they wanted to. She was perfectly content however to follow after Gohan so that he would slip first should the banks be wet anywhere.
After about ten minutes the tunnel started to get lighter and Videl slowly started to see the opening. Also she started to hear the roar of a waterfall. It all became clear to her when the reached the end of the tunnel, She could see the water from the stream falling down and a huge sheet of water falling about 10 feet in front of it. She and Gohan were standing on a protrusion of rock next to the small waterfall, and to her surprise he took her hand, to lead her. Her surprise faded when she noticed that where he led her, on a ledge that went of to the side, the rock was wet and slippery.
She wondered why Gohan had led her here when she suddenly saw it. They were out from behind the waterfall and when Gohan stopped and she turned she could see it, a large lake with the two waterfalls falling into it. One side of the lake was formed by a range of cliffs, from the top of which the large waterfall came, while the other sides were normal green banks, and in one section even a small sandy beach.
"That's where the fish came from." Gohan whispered pointing at the lake. "And that," now he was pointing between the two waterfalls, "is where we're going to talk."
It took Videl a little while to see what he meant, because it was shrouded in the mist of the large waterfall, but then suddenly she saw it, a rock, that looked flat on top that was about at the top of the mist, some 2 or three feet beneath the top of the small waterfall, literally a place to sit in-between the two waterfalls.
She followed Gohan back to the protrusion of rock they'd been standing on earlier, next to the small waterfall. Then to her surprise he simply jumped onto the lower rock, she hesitated only for a second and then followed him.
"I have one question to start with." She said after she'd landed. "How are we supposed to get back up there?" She pointed to the tunnel entrance.
Gohan pointed in to the mist where she could now see vague black shapes. "You can't see them very well from up here, but there are some stepping stones down there, if we follow them we should be able to get back to the ledge and then to the cave."
Videl nodded and followed Gohan's example as he sat down cross-legged.
"Can I ask a question?"
Gohan smiled. "You just did, and even so, if I say no will it stop you from asking another?"
Videl couldn't help but smile a little herself as she shook her head in denial. "Probably not."
"Then by all means fire away."
"You mentioned your dad earlier, but you didn't tell me his name. If he met Krillin because they trained together he must be a martial artist as well."
"He was." Gohan said, and Videl couldn't help but notice the past tense. "He died about seven years ago. But if you must know, his name was Goku."
It took Videl's mind a couple of seconds to make the connection, Son Gohan... Son Goku. Despite the excitement she felt she managed to stay calm as she talked to Gohan. "You mean Son Goku, the winner of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai?" She asked.
Gohan just nodded, not really seeing how it was relevant.
"So you must know martial arts as well."
"I thought that much should be obvious from the gi, and the way I got down from the cliff."
"Well that cliff was more gymnastics than martial arts really."
Gohan shrugged his shoulders. "Depends how you look at it. Gymnastics, martial arts, to an extend it's all the same thing. It's all about your body and how well you control it."
"Okay, I suppose that makes sense." Videl had to admit. "Still I've never seen anyone move like that before."
Gohan shrugged again. "It's not all that hard, with a little practice you should be able to do it as well. You have to have a cliff at least twice as high for things to get really interesting and difficult, the higher you are the faster you're falling when you reach the trees."
Videl nodded, that much made sense, it was just basic physics. "What is the use of this in fighting precisely?" She asked.
"Depends, if you've got the jumping power, or if you're fighting in a high place it's a good thing to know some air manoeuvres. Other than that it's all about speed, reaction time and nerves. Especially speed and manoeuvrability are important, if you just go for strength you'll end up loosing if your opponent is weaker, but so fast you can't hit him, or her. Sharpner's strong and he's got big muscles, but with just a little training Erasa could take him down, because she could run circles around him."
Videl nodded again. She'd had the same experience with some criminals. They were strong, but she could kick them in the back of the head before they even realised she was behind them.
"You know," she said after a moment of silence, "I was cut off when I wanted to ask you this earlier but I was wondering, this group of people you were talking about this morning, with Bulma and Krillin and Yamcha in it. Is it like some sort of extended family?"
Gohan thought for a while. "I suppose you could call it that. Among ourselves it's usually just 'the gang'. Let's get 'the gang' together for this, or wait till I tell the rest of 'the gang'. Sometimes even something as simple as wait till I tell the others, refers to this specific group. And it's quite predictable really. By now everyone knows about you. Bulma probably didn't notice you because you didn't really stand out during career day, and I'm not sure if Yamcha told everyone. But Krillin has undoubtedly told everyone all about this morning by now."
Videl nodded faintly, wondering what it was like to be part of a group that close, and for a long time they just sat there cross-legged, watching the moon rise behind the big waterfall.
They sat there for hours, lost in their own thoughts until Videl suddenly couldn't suppress a yawn.
"I think it's time we get back to camp." Gohan said, even though he wasn't tired yet himself. "We'll have to be fit for tomorrow, I hear they're planning some kind of dropping tomorrow night."
Videl nodded and silently, suppressing another yawn, followed Gohan down, over the stepping-stones, then up again and through the tunnel to the main cavern. There they quietly said goodbye to each other and while Gohan threw some sand on what little remained of his fire to put it out completely, Videl stepped into the night air outside the cave.
She paused briefly surprised that this place was almost as peaceful as the waterfall had been and then went to her tent. Once there she quickly changed into her nightclothes and got into her sleeping bag, falling asleep almost before her head hit the pillow.
Videl was the second person to get up the next morning. At first she thought she was the first until she noticed Gohan sitting on a high branch in a tree overlooking the camp. She quickly walked over there and made her way up to sit on another branch at the same level, but about a third of the trunk away from Gohan's.
"Morning." Gohan remarked.
"Morning." She replied.
"Seems like we're the two short sleepers here." He continued.
"Seems like it. But I expect Mr. Stevenson has an alarm clock and he'll get the others up soon. Then it's breakfast, and then whatever they have planned for today."
Gohan nodded and together they watched the camp slowly come to life before heading down to join the others for breakfast.
After breakfast, just as the group was preparing to go rafting in the near by rapids Gohan suddenly looked up. Videl who noticed looked up as well and saw two young boys quickly running towards them.
She barely had time to notice that one of them had lavender hair, and the other black spiky hair, before they came to a stop in front of Gohan.
"Hi * pant * Gohan." The purple haired boy greeted.
"Hey Trunks, hey Goten." If Gohan was more than just very mildly surprise he was covering it up well. Videl at least couldn't detect anything unusual about his voice or attitude.
"Hi * pant * brother." The black haired one that Gohan had addressed as Goten answered.
"Why are you here?" Gohan asked, a theory already forming in his mind as he felt another power approaching.
"Well, uhm, my dad's after us." Trunks explained.
"That much is obvious. Gohan stated as an angry Vegeta stomped out into the open from between the trees.
Videl looked slightly bewildered at the scene that developed in front of her. The instant they saw Vegeta, Trunks and Goten each grabbed onto one of Gohan's legs, seemingly trying to hide behind them. Videl giggled a little at what happened next as the two boys tried to look out between Gohan's legs at the same time and bumped their heads. Then after a look at each other, Goten lowered his head a little so that they could watch at the same time.
About ten feet from them Vegeta came to a stop.
"I should have known I'd find them hiding behind you!" He exclaimed, eyeing Gohan aggressively. "They managed to loose me and I had to stop flying to follow their track on the ground."
Gohan smiled, Vegeta still had some small problems tracking Ki when he was very angry.
"What did they do to get you upset this time Vegeta?" He asked, sounding more bored than anything else, as far as Videl could tell.
"They were sparring and they wrecked the GR." Vegeta replied, still clearly angry.
'What the hell is a GR?' Videl wondered. 'And how does one wreck it during sparring? Why would kids their age spar anyway?'
"Is that all?" Gohan clearly let Vegeta know he wasn't impressed.
"Yes and it's plenty."
[You need to cool off Vegeta.] Gohan thought, pushing the thought telepathically as he maintained eye contact with the older man.
[What do you propose brat?]
[I'll come spar with you on Saturday, but until then, and mind spar. You and me, right here, right now.]
[Very well, we fight on the count of three. One, Two, Three.]
Videl looked on slightly bewildered as Gohan and Vegeta just kept staring at each other unblinkingly.
"What are they doing?" She thought out loud, more than actually asked.
Goten's response was immediate however. "They're sparring."
Videl blinked in surprise. "But they're not even moving."
"It's a mind spar silly." Trunks said. "They're sparring telepathically."
Videl had to work very hard this time not to gasp in shock. She'd always thought telepathy was impossible, but the kid, who she gathered was Vegeta's and therefore Bulma's, son had said it with such conviction that she didn't know whether it was open to doubt. She certainly couldn't find another, better, explanation for the way Gohan and Vegeta were staring into each other's eyes.
After about three minutes the two of them suddenly broke eye contact again.
"So what time will you be there Saturday?" Vegeta asked, as though something about Saturday had been mentioned earlier.
"I don't know for sure yet, but probably no later than eleven." Gohan answered. "If you could ask Bulma if it's okay if Goten and I stay for lunch."
"I'm sure it will be fine with the woman. And just so you know, you won't be able to do what you did just now to me in a real spar."
"We'll see, Vegeta. Just save your strength for Saturday."
"I will, now if my brat and your brother would be so kind as to come with me, I'll take them back home."
"Okay. Just go with him guys."
To Videl's surprise the two kids got out from behind Gohan and walked up to Vegeta not seeming scared at all.
He acknowledged their presence only with a nod and then walked back into the forest with the two kids following closely behind him.
"Well," Videl managed to say, once they'd disappeared into the forest again, "that was, interesting."
***
Next time on Gohan goes to Highschool, camp just keeps going on and in the afternoon Videl and Gohan will have another chance to talk. What will happen this time? And what about the rafting excursion or the nighttime dropping. Will something happen to the group of students, dropped in the night as they try to get back to camp?
Well, I started some work on this during my vacation, about the first ten lines, but didn't really have a lot of time. I'm back home now but I still don't have a lot of time, I've found out I actually have a life and it's catching up with me. ;)
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review.
Responses to reviews:
From chapter 7:
To saiyanprincessvidel:
Why can't I just kill off the blondes? I wouldn't have anyone to stand around and look stupid if I did. And in doing so they serve a major purpose in this fic.
From Chapter 8:
To ~*Crystal Lily*~:
Glad you liked the Antino faint. It was my sister's (Pteska's) idea, so full credit to her.
To Snow:
I wasn't quite sure where to put you since you left me three reviews since chapter eight came out and I usually follow the order in which the reviews came in. I'm glad you like this fic so much. It is a shame we can't add more categories than just the two but if we could, most of my fics would probably have 5 or 6 of them as I think I include bits from most genre's in my fics. As for the keep it up gurl, it's nice to see you've corrected yourself, but I'll tell you one thing, your review wasn't nearly as confusing as the time when I had I'm Just A Girl, by No Doubt, in my head and couldn't get it our for days. I wrote chapter two, with the song scene set on that song during those days.
To SwomeSwan and vsd2oc:
Glad you like the show off element. I'm trying to keep it where he either has to or doesn't know any better. Which I thinks works for Gohan. That classic son innocence looks good on him, if taken in moderation.
To ShadowMage (and Immortal7 for the last sentence):
That's exactly how I first described it. My first description to my sister was: "How does a Son get down from a mountain?" Anyway, this is one of those longer chapters you asked for last time.
To Jer:
I can honestly say I did not read that Spiderman novel, so I came up with the idea myself. Still it is something I could see Spidey doing something like that. Anyway, Videl's world is still going nuts this chapter. Especially the last part, and will continue to go nuts next chapter, maybe even for a while after that.
To bcat:
First read your review, and most others in an Internet Café in the city of London, not much trouble finding one there. Still it's good to know that my work can be enjoyed from anywhere around the globe.
To Toadzg1:
Gohan is a little ooc and I think I've remarked on that somewhere before. My main point is that keeping everyone In Character would defeat the purpose and indeed the concept of fanfiction. I just like this Gohan better, he's more or less based on the way Gohan is when he is younger rather than on the teenage Gohan.
To Everyone(both chapters):
Thanks a lot. There's just too many of you to answer every review this time.
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.
Responses to reviews:
Moved to the bottom because of extreme length for this chapter.
Gohan Goes To Highschool
Chapter 9: Camp Continues
A few hours after dinner Videl was walking through the camp. Most of the others were already asleep, or trying to fall asleep, as they were tired from the day's activities, but Videl who was used to long days of training felt no inclination to sleep yet. There was little to do here however and so she found herself wandering around the camp semi-aimlessly until she noticed the vague shine of fire coming from the mouth of what was now being called 'Gohan's cave'. The others had only found out about Gohan's unusual lodgings during dinner, and while nobody had questioned him about them after the cliff-and-trees-incident, most thought it very odd indeed. Gohan just seemed to be a different person out here, almost as if some part of himself that he normally kept hidden took over.
Seeing the light coming from the cave Videl decided to investigate and headed over there.
The first thing Videl noticed when she stepped into the mouth of the cave was once again how much larger it was beyond. Gohan had now made several fires that lit up the walls on either side but the stream that ran through it still disappeared into the darkness on either end, though it seemed to Videl as if the cave turned into a tunnel both ways, with the stream and some rather narrow banks for a bottom. The second thing she noticed was a huge fish skeleton that now lay in the cave near the largest of the fires. And the third thing she noticed was Gohan eating what looked like some fish sitting next to the stream.
"Hey, Videl." He barely looked up as he greeted her. "Come on in."
"Hey Gohan." His easy tone kind of knocked her out of balance mentally.
She stepped inside anyway, but found herself staring at the huge fish carcass rather than speaking with Gohan.
Gohan's voice almost startled her when it came again. "I see you've noticed the remains of my dinner." He saw her surprised look and continued. "Well you've seen me eat, you didn't really think that the bit of food they served was going to satisfy my appetite did you?"
Videl shook her head, wondering how she could have forgotten.
Gohan continued yet again, taking her silence as a sign for him to keep talking.
"Anyway, I assume you're here because you wanted to talk." He chuckled as Videl's expression once again turned to surprise. "It's not that hard to deduce Videl. You've been trying to talk with me all day, and now you show up here. I have no reason to assume that you've given up on talking with me and no other possible reason for you being here. After all you couldn't know about the fish, so you couldn't be here to eat."
"And why couldn't I know about the fish, I could have seen you carry it through camp." Videl said, assuming he must have caught it somewhere outside.
"It didn't come through camp, it came from downstream." Gohan said, indicating the small stream. "Follow me, and I'll show you something, and then we can talk."
Without even waiting for an answer he started away from the fire, into the near pitch-black darkness that hung in the tunnel through which the stream left the large cave. Videl followed him and found that once her eyes had adjusted she could see reasonably well in the tunnel. It was not very large but high enough for even Gohan to stand up straight and the banks of the stream were wide enough that the two of them could have walked side by side had they wanted to. She was perfectly content however to follow after Gohan so that he would slip first should the banks be wet anywhere.
After about ten minutes the tunnel started to get lighter and Videl slowly started to see the opening. Also she started to hear the roar of a waterfall. It all became clear to her when the reached the end of the tunnel, She could see the water from the stream falling down and a huge sheet of water falling about 10 feet in front of it. She and Gohan were standing on a protrusion of rock next to the small waterfall, and to her surprise he took her hand, to lead her. Her surprise faded when she noticed that where he led her, on a ledge that went of to the side, the rock was wet and slippery.
She wondered why Gohan had led her here when she suddenly saw it. They were out from behind the waterfall and when Gohan stopped and she turned she could see it, a large lake with the two waterfalls falling into it. One side of the lake was formed by a range of cliffs, from the top of which the large waterfall came, while the other sides were normal green banks, and in one section even a small sandy beach.
"That's where the fish came from." Gohan whispered pointing at the lake. "And that," now he was pointing between the two waterfalls, "is where we're going to talk."
It took Videl a little while to see what he meant, because it was shrouded in the mist of the large waterfall, but then suddenly she saw it, a rock, that looked flat on top that was about at the top of the mist, some 2 or three feet beneath the top of the small waterfall, literally a place to sit in-between the two waterfalls.
She followed Gohan back to the protrusion of rock they'd been standing on earlier, next to the small waterfall. Then to her surprise he simply jumped onto the lower rock, she hesitated only for a second and then followed him.
"I have one question to start with." She said after she'd landed. "How are we supposed to get back up there?" She pointed to the tunnel entrance.
Gohan pointed in to the mist where she could now see vague black shapes. "You can't see them very well from up here, but there are some stepping stones down there, if we follow them we should be able to get back to the ledge and then to the cave."
Videl nodded and followed Gohan's example as he sat down cross-legged.
"Can I ask a question?"
Gohan smiled. "You just did, and even so, if I say no will it stop you from asking another?"
Videl couldn't help but smile a little herself as she shook her head in denial. "Probably not."
"Then by all means fire away."
"You mentioned your dad earlier, but you didn't tell me his name. If he met Krillin because they trained together he must be a martial artist as well."
"He was." Gohan said, and Videl couldn't help but notice the past tense. "He died about seven years ago. But if you must know, his name was Goku."
It took Videl's mind a couple of seconds to make the connection, Son Gohan... Son Goku. Despite the excitement she felt she managed to stay calm as she talked to Gohan. "You mean Son Goku, the winner of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai?" She asked.
Gohan just nodded, not really seeing how it was relevant.
"So you must know martial arts as well."
"I thought that much should be obvious from the gi, and the way I got down from the cliff."
"Well that cliff was more gymnastics than martial arts really."
Gohan shrugged his shoulders. "Depends how you look at it. Gymnastics, martial arts, to an extend it's all the same thing. It's all about your body and how well you control it."
"Okay, I suppose that makes sense." Videl had to admit. "Still I've never seen anyone move like that before."
Gohan shrugged again. "It's not all that hard, with a little practice you should be able to do it as well. You have to have a cliff at least twice as high for things to get really interesting and difficult, the higher you are the faster you're falling when you reach the trees."
Videl nodded, that much made sense, it was just basic physics. "What is the use of this in fighting precisely?" She asked.
"Depends, if you've got the jumping power, or if you're fighting in a high place it's a good thing to know some air manoeuvres. Other than that it's all about speed, reaction time and nerves. Especially speed and manoeuvrability are important, if you just go for strength you'll end up loosing if your opponent is weaker, but so fast you can't hit him, or her. Sharpner's strong and he's got big muscles, but with just a little training Erasa could take him down, because she could run circles around him."
Videl nodded again. She'd had the same experience with some criminals. They were strong, but she could kick them in the back of the head before they even realised she was behind them.
"You know," she said after a moment of silence, "I was cut off when I wanted to ask you this earlier but I was wondering, this group of people you were talking about this morning, with Bulma and Krillin and Yamcha in it. Is it like some sort of extended family?"
Gohan thought for a while. "I suppose you could call it that. Among ourselves it's usually just 'the gang'. Let's get 'the gang' together for this, or wait till I tell the rest of 'the gang'. Sometimes even something as simple as wait till I tell the others, refers to this specific group. And it's quite predictable really. By now everyone knows about you. Bulma probably didn't notice you because you didn't really stand out during career day, and I'm not sure if Yamcha told everyone. But Krillin has undoubtedly told everyone all about this morning by now."
Videl nodded faintly, wondering what it was like to be part of a group that close, and for a long time they just sat there cross-legged, watching the moon rise behind the big waterfall.
They sat there for hours, lost in their own thoughts until Videl suddenly couldn't suppress a yawn.
"I think it's time we get back to camp." Gohan said, even though he wasn't tired yet himself. "We'll have to be fit for tomorrow, I hear they're planning some kind of dropping tomorrow night."
Videl nodded and silently, suppressing another yawn, followed Gohan down, over the stepping-stones, then up again and through the tunnel to the main cavern. There they quietly said goodbye to each other and while Gohan threw some sand on what little remained of his fire to put it out completely, Videl stepped into the night air outside the cave.
She paused briefly surprised that this place was almost as peaceful as the waterfall had been and then went to her tent. Once there she quickly changed into her nightclothes and got into her sleeping bag, falling asleep almost before her head hit the pillow.
Videl was the second person to get up the next morning. At first she thought she was the first until she noticed Gohan sitting on a high branch in a tree overlooking the camp. She quickly walked over there and made her way up to sit on another branch at the same level, but about a third of the trunk away from Gohan's.
"Morning." Gohan remarked.
"Morning." She replied.
"Seems like we're the two short sleepers here." He continued.
"Seems like it. But I expect Mr. Stevenson has an alarm clock and he'll get the others up soon. Then it's breakfast, and then whatever they have planned for today."
Gohan nodded and together they watched the camp slowly come to life before heading down to join the others for breakfast.
After breakfast, just as the group was preparing to go rafting in the near by rapids Gohan suddenly looked up. Videl who noticed looked up as well and saw two young boys quickly running towards them.
She barely had time to notice that one of them had lavender hair, and the other black spiky hair, before they came to a stop in front of Gohan.
"Hi * pant * Gohan." The purple haired boy greeted.
"Hey Trunks, hey Goten." If Gohan was more than just very mildly surprise he was covering it up well. Videl at least couldn't detect anything unusual about his voice or attitude.
"Hi * pant * brother." The black haired one that Gohan had addressed as Goten answered.
"Why are you here?" Gohan asked, a theory already forming in his mind as he felt another power approaching.
"Well, uhm, my dad's after us." Trunks explained.
"That much is obvious. Gohan stated as an angry Vegeta stomped out into the open from between the trees.
Videl looked slightly bewildered at the scene that developed in front of her. The instant they saw Vegeta, Trunks and Goten each grabbed onto one of Gohan's legs, seemingly trying to hide behind them. Videl giggled a little at what happened next as the two boys tried to look out between Gohan's legs at the same time and bumped their heads. Then after a look at each other, Goten lowered his head a little so that they could watch at the same time.
About ten feet from them Vegeta came to a stop.
"I should have known I'd find them hiding behind you!" He exclaimed, eyeing Gohan aggressively. "They managed to loose me and I had to stop flying to follow their track on the ground."
Gohan smiled, Vegeta still had some small problems tracking Ki when he was very angry.
"What did they do to get you upset this time Vegeta?" He asked, sounding more bored than anything else, as far as Videl could tell.
"They were sparring and they wrecked the GR." Vegeta replied, still clearly angry.
'What the hell is a GR?' Videl wondered. 'And how does one wreck it during sparring? Why would kids their age spar anyway?'
"Is that all?" Gohan clearly let Vegeta know he wasn't impressed.
"Yes and it's plenty."
[You need to cool off Vegeta.] Gohan thought, pushing the thought telepathically as he maintained eye contact with the older man.
[What do you propose brat?]
[I'll come spar with you on Saturday, but until then, and mind spar. You and me, right here, right now.]
[Very well, we fight on the count of three. One, Two, Three.]
Videl looked on slightly bewildered as Gohan and Vegeta just kept staring at each other unblinkingly.
"What are they doing?" She thought out loud, more than actually asked.
Goten's response was immediate however. "They're sparring."
Videl blinked in surprise. "But they're not even moving."
"It's a mind spar silly." Trunks said. "They're sparring telepathically."
Videl had to work very hard this time not to gasp in shock. She'd always thought telepathy was impossible, but the kid, who she gathered was Vegeta's and therefore Bulma's, son had said it with such conviction that she didn't know whether it was open to doubt. She certainly couldn't find another, better, explanation for the way Gohan and Vegeta were staring into each other's eyes.
After about three minutes the two of them suddenly broke eye contact again.
"So what time will you be there Saturday?" Vegeta asked, as though something about Saturday had been mentioned earlier.
"I don't know for sure yet, but probably no later than eleven." Gohan answered. "If you could ask Bulma if it's okay if Goten and I stay for lunch."
"I'm sure it will be fine with the woman. And just so you know, you won't be able to do what you did just now to me in a real spar."
"We'll see, Vegeta. Just save your strength for Saturday."
"I will, now if my brat and your brother would be so kind as to come with me, I'll take them back home."
"Okay. Just go with him guys."
To Videl's surprise the two kids got out from behind Gohan and walked up to Vegeta not seeming scared at all.
He acknowledged their presence only with a nod and then walked back into the forest with the two kids following closely behind him.
"Well," Videl managed to say, once they'd disappeared into the forest again, "that was, interesting."
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Next time on Gohan goes to Highschool, camp just keeps going on and in the afternoon Videl and Gohan will have another chance to talk. What will happen this time? And what about the rafting excursion or the nighttime dropping. Will something happen to the group of students, dropped in the night as they try to get back to camp?
Well, I started some work on this during my vacation, about the first ten lines, but didn't really have a lot of time. I'm back home now but I still don't have a lot of time, I've found out I actually have a life and it's catching up with me. ;)
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review.
Responses to reviews:
From chapter 7:
To saiyanprincessvidel:
Why can't I just kill off the blondes? I wouldn't have anyone to stand around and look stupid if I did. And in doing so they serve a major purpose in this fic.
From Chapter 8:
To ~*Crystal Lily*~:
Glad you liked the Antino faint. It was my sister's (Pteska's) idea, so full credit to her.
To Snow:
I wasn't quite sure where to put you since you left me three reviews since chapter eight came out and I usually follow the order in which the reviews came in. I'm glad you like this fic so much. It is a shame we can't add more categories than just the two but if we could, most of my fics would probably have 5 or 6 of them as I think I include bits from most genre's in my fics. As for the keep it up gurl, it's nice to see you've corrected yourself, but I'll tell you one thing, your review wasn't nearly as confusing as the time when I had I'm Just A Girl, by No Doubt, in my head and couldn't get it our for days. I wrote chapter two, with the song scene set on that song during those days.
To SwomeSwan and vsd2oc:
Glad you like the show off element. I'm trying to keep it where he either has to or doesn't know any better. Which I thinks works for Gohan. That classic son innocence looks good on him, if taken in moderation.
To ShadowMage (and Immortal7 for the last sentence):
That's exactly how I first described it. My first description to my sister was: "How does a Son get down from a mountain?" Anyway, this is one of those longer chapters you asked for last time.
To Jer:
I can honestly say I did not read that Spiderman novel, so I came up with the idea myself. Still it is something I could see Spidey doing something like that. Anyway, Videl's world is still going nuts this chapter. Especially the last part, and will continue to go nuts next chapter, maybe even for a while after that.
To bcat:
First read your review, and most others in an Internet Café in the city of London, not much trouble finding one there. Still it's good to know that my work can be enjoyed from anywhere around the globe.
To Toadzg1:
Gohan is a little ooc and I think I've remarked on that somewhere before. My main point is that keeping everyone In Character would defeat the purpose and indeed the concept of fanfiction. I just like this Gohan better, he's more or less based on the way Gohan is when he is younger rather than on the teenage Gohan.
To Everyone(both chapters):
Thanks a lot. There's just too many of you to answer every review this time.