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TW saying: Withdrawn.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:
To Bcat:
As you may have seen by now, I've reviewed your DBZ story. Anyway in response to your review: "YAY, you updated. Life has meaning once again." Glad to give some meaning to your life, here, have some more.
To Krista:
Fight the T-rex? Wait and see.
To Lady Foeseeker:
Well I left you hanging for a while again, but now you're unhung. (Is that a word?)
To Stoked:
Nice idea, to bring back that T-rex, but I don't think it would survive swimming over the ocean to get off its island. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter.
To Tin Man:
Yes, you got to be #100 congratulations. I'll have to look into springing that revelation on him, there's not a lot of talk about that in this chapter, but we'll work something out.
To Emotionless Shadow:
I'm curious, what exactly does the word gimboid mean?
To Exarikun:
You're complaining about my updates? At least I didn't keep people waiting since April 4th (until yesterday). Seriously though, this was a bit longer in coming than I would have liked, but I don't always have the time I would like to have to write.
To Everyone:
There are simply too many of you these days for me to acknowledge each of you properly. Thank you all.
Gohan Goes To Highschool
Chapter 11: Night-Time Adventures
"... Is that clear?!" Gohan's yell tore through the woods, leaving a stunned silence in its wake.
He looked around and saw with some satisfaction that his classmates all looked somewhat bewildered, but clearly willing to follow his instructions, while Mr. Stevenson looked ready to soil himself more than anything, but fear should serve to keep him in line at least. There were lives at stake after all, and Gohan took lives at stake very seriously.
He turned to Videl who seemed to be least affected out of the whole group, but that was to be expect as she'd seen glimpses of his true self a couple of times before.
"Videl, could you get up that tree." He pointed to one and she nodded, seeming somewhat perplexed by the request. "Get as high as you can and look for the following things, a sharp peak with a smaller equally sharp one beside it, a lake, that should hopefully reflect what little light there is, and a hill, that comes only slightly above the tops of the trees and has a single tree on top of it." She nodded again. "Good, then do that, and stay up there so you can point in the exact directions, we should be able to see you against the night sky."
Videl was a bit surprised that Gohan had asked her to climb the tree when he could do so easily himself, but he seemed to have some sort of master plan, which was more than anyone else could claim. Once she got to a good level in the tree, where she could see over the tops of the other trees she started to look around, interpreting the silhouettes various things formed against the mostly clouded night sky as best she could.
Meanwhile on the ground Gohan was staring up at the sky intently, wrecking his brain and trying to place the loose segments of stars visible through the openings in the clouds. What he needed to do was find the North Star, or at least figure out where it should be, to get a compass bearing. If Videl could find the three points he needed that should allow him to at least make a decent guess about their position, but to get the group back to camp he would need to know exactly which way they were headed all of the time. There was only one place where they could hope to get through the line of cliffs and back to the safe side, where their camp was. And with no light that was going to be hard to find. The valley was quite large, but the entrance was narrow and obscured by some loose chunks of rock standing near it, in the starlight those would be virtually indistinguishable from the cliff-face even to Saiyan eyes.
Finally his stargazing paid of as a cloud moved and allowed him a view of the North Star itself.
Quickly he used his foot to draw a line in the earth, pointing towards the star. A single point would not allow him to identify anything if he changed position, but the line was sufficiently clear to be seen in the dim light.
"Videl!" He yelled. "If you've got them I'm ready for those bearings now."
"Okay!" She shouted back. "Here they come! I've got the mountains, they're that way." She pointed somewhat to the right. "The hill with the tree is that way." She changed to point almost straight ahead. "And the lake is that way." Now she was pointing left slightly.
"Thanks!" Gohan shouted back. "You can come down now."
Videl made her way down and then walked over to find Gohan studying four lines he appeared to have made in the sand.
"What is this?" She asked, pointing to the faintly visible lines.
"The three shorter ones are the directions you indicated," he replied, "and the long one is straight north. With this I should be able to work out where we are and what route we need to take from here to get to the valley that cuts through the cliffs."
"So, where are we?" Videl asked.
"That's difficult to explain. I know this entire area from the air, so I know where we are, we're about a hundred yards away from a small stream that's due east of us. But that doesn't tell you a thing."
"Alright then, where do we go from here?"
"That's what I'm trying to remember. We could follow the stream to the cliffs, but that would put us a long way away from the valley. In the end we're to the south and slightly to the east of the lake. And the valley is nearly dead south of the lake, so we'll have to head south and slightly west. From the angles at which the lines intersect I guess we have a two or three mile hike to get to the valley. And from there it should be another two to reach our camp."
"So we're looking at ninety minutes or so of hiking?"
"No, I'd say two hours at least. It's night, we're a large group, and it's not the easiest terrain."
"Well we should get going then, but what happens if we run into a T-rex?"
"Nothing too bad." Gohan replied. "I should be able to handle one, or even two or three long enough to give you a chance to escape."
"How, how can you expect to handle a dinosaur with your bare hands?"
"I know their weaknesses. Besides, I have my sword strapped across my back under my Gi, I can handle any T-rex with my sword."
"Well, I hope you can, because I'm afraid a run in with them might be a disaster otherwise."
"Don't worry. Now if we can just get to group together and start moving."
She nodded.
"Good, if you wouldn't mind bringing up the rear and making sure no-one is left behind, I'll take the front."
The first 45 minutes of their hike, at least 45 to Videl's best estimate, passed with no bigger events than kids whining about the walking and Mr. Stevenson occasionally muttering under his breath about loss of authority and lack of respect from kids these days.
Then Videl suddenly felt the ground start to shake. She looked around but saw nothing until Gohan appeared next to her.
"One of the Rexes." He commented. "Apparently it's either spotted us or picked up our scent. They only stamp like this when they run."
Only a second later Videl saw the dinosaur's form outlined against the sky behind them and heard a loud roar.
Gohan still seemed unfazed next to her as he kept up his commentary. "He's trying to call the rest of the pack - there's no reply. That's good that means they're not coming. They must be out of range, Rexes have lousy hearing anyway."
"So what do we do?" She cursed her voice as it shook with fear.
"You take charge and lead the others from here, just keep going the same direction we were going, and yell if there's a problem. I'll stay here for the time being, to keep this one of your backs, and then try and catch up again."
"But..." Suddenly words failed her, as she wanted to say he couldn't stay on his own.
"No buts, I'll be fine. Now you get the rest together and move!"
At his yell she regained her sense of action and turned around the face the rest of the group.
"Come on! Get going! But stay together."
The group took a few more seconds to respond but then it did, with Videl leading from the rear, to make sure nobody was left behind or left the group. As they put some distance between themselves and Gohan, Videl looked over her shoulder for a second.
In the dim light he was still surprisingly visible as he reached behind his back and pulled out something that flashed with light. She realised this must be his sword reflecting what starlight there was, but looked in front of her again after noting that the T-Rex had now approached to within a few yards of Gohan.
Behind her she could still hear his voice, luring the animal away from them with texts like:
"Here Rexy, Rexy Rexy. Nice Rexy. I bet you'd like to eat me, well come and get me."
She shook her head to clear it of the mental image that last statement had produced and then kept moving again, urging Erasa who'd stopped at Gohan's statement forward with a hand on her back, while shouting orders to others that looked like they might wander off to the left or right of the group.
The next ten minutes seemed like the longest ten minutes of Videl's life, suddenly with Gohan now gone, behind them, luring the Tyrannosaur along she felt the full weight and responsibility of the situation thrust onto her shoulders and wondered briefly how Gohan had managed to take it for three quarters of an hour.
The cliffs had become clear black against the sky up ahead and just as the front of the group was about to hit them she heard a voice next to her.
"Hi, I'm back."
"Gohan!" She had to fight the urge to hug him with joy.
"You were expecting someone else?" He asked in a humorous tone.
"Of course not, I was just wondering what kept you." She said casually.
"The T-Rex, I could have taken him out with my sword, but I don't like killing, so I had to lure him away nearly a mile then swim a river and climb a steep bank on the other side. He's probably still trying to climb that bank, they're not too bright."
She nodded slowly, not sure what she was acknowledging, though her best guess was his expertise on Dinosaurs.
Gohan was now looking at their surrounding in the pale moonlight that was becoming visible as the cloud cover slowly cleared.
"We're about a hundred, maybe two hundred, yards of course, so now we have to turn left along the cliffs, and then the entrance to the valley should be marked by a huge boulder."
She nodded and shouted directions to those who had not overheard their conversation. Slowly the group started moving again, making it's way along the cliff.
The rest of the class's nightly journey was quite uneventful. With Gohan back at the head of the group they quickly found the valley where they rested for a little while, as no T-Rex could get there. After ten minutes or so of rest they pressed on again, through the valley and then somewhat to the left to reach their campsite a little over two hours after they'd been dropped.
Gohan was the first person to get up again on Thursday morning. Even with the late night and the pressure of leading his classmates to safety his Saiyan physiology had required little sleep. Not that anyone would have much sleep before getting up, Mr. Stevenson had spend at least an hour after their return shouting at Antino, keeping the whole camp awake as he tried to shift the blame for the abominably picked dropping area from him self and wholly to Antino. In the end they'd only shut up after Videl had yelled she'd kick their butts if they kept anyone awake any longer.
Now Gohan was sitting in the same tree he'd sat in the morning before again, watching the dew glisten on the grass in the light of the rising sun. The whole camp lay so quiet that he actually jumped in surprise when the sound of Mr. Stevenson's alarm clock shattered the silence.
Mr. Stevenson entered the picture not too long after his alarm had gone and proceeded to wake the rest of the campers with the aid of his megaphone.
Gohan simply slid jumped out of the tree as this happened and waited on the ground for breakfast to start.
That was a fifteen minute wait, but still some girls, like Erasa and even some guys, like Sharpner, were complaining that they hadn't had time to do their hair, and god knows what else, yet.
As breakfast started Mr. Stevenson got out his megaphone again, an action that had taken on an almost ominous nature to the students whose attentions were immediately drawn to the audio enhancing device.
"Alright kids!" He yelled. "We've got a surprise for you today. You've been told that your martial arts session with Mr. Satan would be tomorrow, but it will be today, in the form of a tournament, at the site of the Cell-games, to mark the seven-year anniversary of the Cell's announcement. And after that we've got another special surprise waiting for you."
***
Next time on Gohan Goes To Highschool, will the second surprise be even more trouble than the first, and how will the tournament go. What will Gohan do? Will he keep his abilities hidden, or will he reveal at least part of his skill?
Well here it is, again a long time between updates, but some things are interfering with my writing, writer's block, real life, stuff like that.
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:
To Bcat:
As you may have seen by now, I've reviewed your DBZ story. Anyway in response to your review: "YAY, you updated. Life has meaning once again." Glad to give some meaning to your life, here, have some more.
To Krista:
Fight the T-rex? Wait and see.
To Lady Foeseeker:
Well I left you hanging for a while again, but now you're unhung. (Is that a word?)
To Stoked:
Nice idea, to bring back that T-rex, but I don't think it would survive swimming over the ocean to get off its island. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter.
To Tin Man:
Yes, you got to be #100 congratulations. I'll have to look into springing that revelation on him, there's not a lot of talk about that in this chapter, but we'll work something out.
To Emotionless Shadow:
I'm curious, what exactly does the word gimboid mean?
To Exarikun:
You're complaining about my updates? At least I didn't keep people waiting since April 4th (until yesterday). Seriously though, this was a bit longer in coming than I would have liked, but I don't always have the time I would like to have to write.
To Everyone:
There are simply too many of you these days for me to acknowledge each of you properly. Thank you all.
Gohan Goes To Highschool
Chapter 11: Night-Time Adventures
"... Is that clear?!" Gohan's yell tore through the woods, leaving a stunned silence in its wake.
He looked around and saw with some satisfaction that his classmates all looked somewhat bewildered, but clearly willing to follow his instructions, while Mr. Stevenson looked ready to soil himself more than anything, but fear should serve to keep him in line at least. There were lives at stake after all, and Gohan took lives at stake very seriously.
He turned to Videl who seemed to be least affected out of the whole group, but that was to be expect as she'd seen glimpses of his true self a couple of times before.
"Videl, could you get up that tree." He pointed to one and she nodded, seeming somewhat perplexed by the request. "Get as high as you can and look for the following things, a sharp peak with a smaller equally sharp one beside it, a lake, that should hopefully reflect what little light there is, and a hill, that comes only slightly above the tops of the trees and has a single tree on top of it." She nodded again. "Good, then do that, and stay up there so you can point in the exact directions, we should be able to see you against the night sky."
Videl was a bit surprised that Gohan had asked her to climb the tree when he could do so easily himself, but he seemed to have some sort of master plan, which was more than anyone else could claim. Once she got to a good level in the tree, where she could see over the tops of the other trees she started to look around, interpreting the silhouettes various things formed against the mostly clouded night sky as best she could.
Meanwhile on the ground Gohan was staring up at the sky intently, wrecking his brain and trying to place the loose segments of stars visible through the openings in the clouds. What he needed to do was find the North Star, or at least figure out where it should be, to get a compass bearing. If Videl could find the three points he needed that should allow him to at least make a decent guess about their position, but to get the group back to camp he would need to know exactly which way they were headed all of the time. There was only one place where they could hope to get through the line of cliffs and back to the safe side, where their camp was. And with no light that was going to be hard to find. The valley was quite large, but the entrance was narrow and obscured by some loose chunks of rock standing near it, in the starlight those would be virtually indistinguishable from the cliff-face even to Saiyan eyes.
Finally his stargazing paid of as a cloud moved and allowed him a view of the North Star itself.
Quickly he used his foot to draw a line in the earth, pointing towards the star. A single point would not allow him to identify anything if he changed position, but the line was sufficiently clear to be seen in the dim light.
"Videl!" He yelled. "If you've got them I'm ready for those bearings now."
"Okay!" She shouted back. "Here they come! I've got the mountains, they're that way." She pointed somewhat to the right. "The hill with the tree is that way." She changed to point almost straight ahead. "And the lake is that way." Now she was pointing left slightly.
"Thanks!" Gohan shouted back. "You can come down now."
Videl made her way down and then walked over to find Gohan studying four lines he appeared to have made in the sand.
"What is this?" She asked, pointing to the faintly visible lines.
"The three shorter ones are the directions you indicated," he replied, "and the long one is straight north. With this I should be able to work out where we are and what route we need to take from here to get to the valley that cuts through the cliffs."
"So, where are we?" Videl asked.
"That's difficult to explain. I know this entire area from the air, so I know where we are, we're about a hundred yards away from a small stream that's due east of us. But that doesn't tell you a thing."
"Alright then, where do we go from here?"
"That's what I'm trying to remember. We could follow the stream to the cliffs, but that would put us a long way away from the valley. In the end we're to the south and slightly to the east of the lake. And the valley is nearly dead south of the lake, so we'll have to head south and slightly west. From the angles at which the lines intersect I guess we have a two or three mile hike to get to the valley. And from there it should be another two to reach our camp."
"So we're looking at ninety minutes or so of hiking?"
"No, I'd say two hours at least. It's night, we're a large group, and it's not the easiest terrain."
"Well we should get going then, but what happens if we run into a T-rex?"
"Nothing too bad." Gohan replied. "I should be able to handle one, or even two or three long enough to give you a chance to escape."
"How, how can you expect to handle a dinosaur with your bare hands?"
"I know their weaknesses. Besides, I have my sword strapped across my back under my Gi, I can handle any T-rex with my sword."
"Well, I hope you can, because I'm afraid a run in with them might be a disaster otherwise."
"Don't worry. Now if we can just get to group together and start moving."
She nodded.
"Good, if you wouldn't mind bringing up the rear and making sure no-one is left behind, I'll take the front."
The first 45 minutes of their hike, at least 45 to Videl's best estimate, passed with no bigger events than kids whining about the walking and Mr. Stevenson occasionally muttering under his breath about loss of authority and lack of respect from kids these days.
Then Videl suddenly felt the ground start to shake. She looked around but saw nothing until Gohan appeared next to her.
"One of the Rexes." He commented. "Apparently it's either spotted us or picked up our scent. They only stamp like this when they run."
Only a second later Videl saw the dinosaur's form outlined against the sky behind them and heard a loud roar.
Gohan still seemed unfazed next to her as he kept up his commentary. "He's trying to call the rest of the pack - there's no reply. That's good that means they're not coming. They must be out of range, Rexes have lousy hearing anyway."
"So what do we do?" She cursed her voice as it shook with fear.
"You take charge and lead the others from here, just keep going the same direction we were going, and yell if there's a problem. I'll stay here for the time being, to keep this one of your backs, and then try and catch up again."
"But..." Suddenly words failed her, as she wanted to say he couldn't stay on his own.
"No buts, I'll be fine. Now you get the rest together and move!"
At his yell she regained her sense of action and turned around the face the rest of the group.
"Come on! Get going! But stay together."
The group took a few more seconds to respond but then it did, with Videl leading from the rear, to make sure nobody was left behind or left the group. As they put some distance between themselves and Gohan, Videl looked over her shoulder for a second.
In the dim light he was still surprisingly visible as he reached behind his back and pulled out something that flashed with light. She realised this must be his sword reflecting what starlight there was, but looked in front of her again after noting that the T-Rex had now approached to within a few yards of Gohan.
Behind her she could still hear his voice, luring the animal away from them with texts like:
"Here Rexy, Rexy Rexy. Nice Rexy. I bet you'd like to eat me, well come and get me."
She shook her head to clear it of the mental image that last statement had produced and then kept moving again, urging Erasa who'd stopped at Gohan's statement forward with a hand on her back, while shouting orders to others that looked like they might wander off to the left or right of the group.
The next ten minutes seemed like the longest ten minutes of Videl's life, suddenly with Gohan now gone, behind them, luring the Tyrannosaur along she felt the full weight and responsibility of the situation thrust onto her shoulders and wondered briefly how Gohan had managed to take it for three quarters of an hour.
The cliffs had become clear black against the sky up ahead and just as the front of the group was about to hit them she heard a voice next to her.
"Hi, I'm back."
"Gohan!" She had to fight the urge to hug him with joy.
"You were expecting someone else?" He asked in a humorous tone.
"Of course not, I was just wondering what kept you." She said casually.
"The T-Rex, I could have taken him out with my sword, but I don't like killing, so I had to lure him away nearly a mile then swim a river and climb a steep bank on the other side. He's probably still trying to climb that bank, they're not too bright."
She nodded slowly, not sure what she was acknowledging, though her best guess was his expertise on Dinosaurs.
Gohan was now looking at their surrounding in the pale moonlight that was becoming visible as the cloud cover slowly cleared.
"We're about a hundred, maybe two hundred, yards of course, so now we have to turn left along the cliffs, and then the entrance to the valley should be marked by a huge boulder."
She nodded and shouted directions to those who had not overheard their conversation. Slowly the group started moving again, making it's way along the cliff.
The rest of the class's nightly journey was quite uneventful. With Gohan back at the head of the group they quickly found the valley where they rested for a little while, as no T-Rex could get there. After ten minutes or so of rest they pressed on again, through the valley and then somewhat to the left to reach their campsite a little over two hours after they'd been dropped.
Gohan was the first person to get up again on Thursday morning. Even with the late night and the pressure of leading his classmates to safety his Saiyan physiology had required little sleep. Not that anyone would have much sleep before getting up, Mr. Stevenson had spend at least an hour after their return shouting at Antino, keeping the whole camp awake as he tried to shift the blame for the abominably picked dropping area from him self and wholly to Antino. In the end they'd only shut up after Videl had yelled she'd kick their butts if they kept anyone awake any longer.
Now Gohan was sitting in the same tree he'd sat in the morning before again, watching the dew glisten on the grass in the light of the rising sun. The whole camp lay so quiet that he actually jumped in surprise when the sound of Mr. Stevenson's alarm clock shattered the silence.
Mr. Stevenson entered the picture not too long after his alarm had gone and proceeded to wake the rest of the campers with the aid of his megaphone.
Gohan simply slid jumped out of the tree as this happened and waited on the ground for breakfast to start.
That was a fifteen minute wait, but still some girls, like Erasa and even some guys, like Sharpner, were complaining that they hadn't had time to do their hair, and god knows what else, yet.
As breakfast started Mr. Stevenson got out his megaphone again, an action that had taken on an almost ominous nature to the students whose attentions were immediately drawn to the audio enhancing device.
"Alright kids!" He yelled. "We've got a surprise for you today. You've been told that your martial arts session with Mr. Satan would be tomorrow, but it will be today, in the form of a tournament, at the site of the Cell-games, to mark the seven-year anniversary of the Cell's announcement. And after that we've got another special surprise waiting for you."
***
Next time on Gohan Goes To Highschool, will the second surprise be even more trouble than the first, and how will the tournament go. What will Gohan do? Will he keep his abilities hidden, or will he reveal at least part of his skill?
Well here it is, again a long time between updates, but some things are interfering with my writing, writer's block, real life, stuff like that.