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TW saying: Withdrawn.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 Exarikun:
You asked for 'really heavy' boy are you going to get it. One of the reasons this chapter was so long in coming was how hard it was for me to write parts of it, the other reasons are the research I had to do and other things I had to do. Anyway, enjoy the 'heavy events' next chapter will probably get lighter again (somewhere in the next chapter at any rate).
To Siver Warrior:
You're right, Hercule does have some humiliation coming his way, which is why I amply provide him with it (or at least try to) in my fics.
To wind:
Very observant of you to notice the cliff-thing, it will be explained somewhat more fully this chapter. As for everyone's reaction, you'll just have to read this chapter.
To Hirokono:
Glad you like Gohan beating Hercule, I know I do. As for why he didn't turn Super-Saiyan, you have to remember that Sayaman has an open helmet in this fic, so his hair shows, turning Super-Saiyan would give that away (besides I'm having him transform this chapter, I was saving the effect).
To Snow:
Good to know I have your vote for the Greatest Gohan fic award, just one question: Where exactly can one get such an award? ;) (though I doubt I'd really win)
To Bcat:
Well I don't have to ask what you were on when you wrote that review, it was by your own admission caffine. Gohan is turning out to be rather tough (even tougher than I'd actually intended in this fic, though maybe not the toughest I'll ever write) but I kind of like him that way, hope you enjoy this chapter as well.
To Rogue1615:
I agree on the mental powers, we don't see them often, except when we get the whole Saiyan bonding thing. Still we do see some in the series, Tien and Chaozu are telepathic; Goku telepathically communicates with Oozaru Gohan during the Saiyan Saga; the mind-spar I've literally taken from the series, where Gohan and Krillin do it while their traveling to Namek, so I'm just putting some more emphasis on it.
To Stoked (aka the Knight who says Ni):
Well, well, a Monty Python review, what do we call it? Monty Python's revenge? Well I must say I'm not impressed by the word Ni, but if you keep it up some shrubberies are going to die. * grins evil grin * How do you like that, knight who says Ni?
And a special response from my sister Pteska:
'Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zu-owly-zhiv'
Author's note: Just a little warning, this chapter is rather heavy, more serious than humour this time.
Gohan Goes To Highschool
Chapter 13 (or 12b for the superstitious): Shock
Gohan waited somewhat impatiently for the applause to die down. He felt ungrateful because of his impatience, but in his eyes the event did not merit the praise. He'd beaten up a weakling, granted the weakling in question was thought by many to be virtually invincible, but that didn't give the fight, or the victory, any substance.
He bowed as thanks, feeling somewhat awkward as he did so, but the politeness his mother had instilled in him since he was young seemed to take over. Finally the cheering and clapping stopped and he could walk out of the ring.
Videl was the first of his fellow students to walk up to him.
"You were great Gohan."
He just shrugged, the challenge certainly hadn't called for greatness.
"Frankly you were a better opponent." He replied. "You wouldn't exactly have a great deal of trouble beating him yourself."
"Still..."
She seemed a bit lost on any further reply and he turned to face Mr. Stevenson again.
"Well, like I said, can we get the second part of this little surprise over with while we're still young or what?"
Mr. Stevenson looked rather nervous, but answered non-the less.
"Well I really do think we ought to wait for the champ to wake up."
Gohan shrugged. "With the way I hit him that might be a long wait, if I'm any judge sleeping ugly over there will be out like a light for the next hour or so at least."
"I still think we should wait for him." Mr. Stevenson said, digging in his verbal heels. "Who knows, he might wake sooner than you think."
"Yeah who knows," Gohan muttered under his breath, "you might actually figure out what your brain is for. It's just not bloody likely."
"What was that Mr. Son?" The teacher asked.
"Nothing." Gohan replied quickly, before turning and walking away from the group.
Gohan walked away aimlessly, lost in thought. Inside his own mind he was fighting himself, fighting to retain his composure and sanity. He could almost feel his footing in that fight start to slip, earlier when he was talking to Videl before the fight with Hercule he'd been unable to tear his eyes from the cliff behind her and for a moment his memories had come with such force that he'd actually seen his friends standing there, cheering him on, and then being attacked by the Cell juniors.
And even as he fought to retain his sanity part of him seemed to be conspiring against that as he inadvertently made his way to the end of the canyon where he'd been standing nearly seven years before. The place he'd been standing when in a release of great power and fury he'd ended Cell's life with a one-handed Kamehameha wave.
Once he realised that was where he was a new flood of memories came. He could see Cell at the other end of it in his minds eye, and feel the intensity of the energy between them again.
In an instant he found himself physically shaking to repress the urge to transform. The urge passed only slowly and it was all he could do to keep his Ki from flaring. Once he'd succeeded in calming himself down again he turned and deliberately walked away from the canyon, there was still tension running wild all through his body and he needed to try and relax it. With that in mind he walked over to a couple of loose boulders standing nearby. Among them he found shelter, not from people, or nature, but from the sights around him.
As he relaxed his mind his body relaxed too and he ended up slumped against one of the boulders. His breathing was ragged, and his entire sense of reality seemed distant. He was more aware of his heavy breathing because of the sound than because of his rising and falling chest.
Part of him just wanted to sit down with his hands around his knees and cry, another part seemed to be screaming for action, this was a typically Saiyan part that seemed to feel an urge to drown all memories in blood, his own or that of others.
Finally the third and more sensible part of him won out and he settled on meditating. In the relative piece of his meditation the forces in his mind met to do battle. Gohan could almost see the different streams of his thoughts moving in the blackness behind his eyelids. He could feel the heat and rush of battle and for a moment his vision seemed to turn red in spite of his closed eyes. Finally his will power prevailed over all fight and flight reactions and slowly forced some stability back into his system. Once that was established he settled back into a much easier meditation to clear his mind, and soon forgot almost everything around him.
When Gohan opened his eyes, he was immediately aware of the passage of time. His instincts somehow told him that nearly an hour had passed. The change in the direction of the shadows around him was as clear to him as a watch in indicating what time it was.
He got up slowly. His movements felt strained, as though some part of his body was still resisting the calmness he'd imposed upon it, as if part of him still wanted to react to his surroundings, some deep need to turn to anger or sadness that wouldn't quite be repressed.
"Hopefully it'll get better when we get out of here." He muttered.
Still forcing himself to an extend he walked back towards the group just in time, from the way his Ki felt it seemed Hercule was just about to wake up.
"Gohan!" Videl's yell reached him as soon as he'd entered the groups' sight.
He just nodded and continued on his way towards them as she ran to meet him.
"Where were you? We were all talking about your fight with my dad, we hardly even noticed you were gone at first."
"I was meditating, I'm not having a good day today."
"This isn't a good day?"
"Not mentally at any rate. As far as the physical combat is concerned, my form was no different from what I'd expect it to be on any given day."
"So is my dad ever going to wake up?"
"I'd guess in a couple of minutes. Then hopefully we can get the rest of today's program over with and get out of here."
"Yeah, I wonder what they have in store for us."
"Given the way this day is going for me, I have a sneaky suspicion it's nothing I'm going to like."
"Come on Gohan, I'm sure it's not going to be that bad."
"Don't be so sure, if there's one thing I've learned over the years it's always to fear the worst, that way there's at least a small chance of being pleasantly surprised."
Videl nodded, sort of dismissively. "Now let's go join your newly formed fan club."
Videl chuckled as she looked at Gohan. Nearly everybody seemed to be trying to talk to him at once. Only a few of the boys, led by Sharpner and Antino were standing some way off by themselves. They'd been talking amongst themselves about tricks and how Gohan could have possibly done what he did, coming up with explanations ranging from invisible walls, to force fields. But from what she'd seen those explanations were just a form of grasping at straws. Gohan had clearly shown that he wouldn't have needed any intricate device or trick, and using a trick that could possibly be exposed to counter the allegation of the use of tricks was too silly for Gohan to have done. Besides which the telepathic abilities Gohan had demonstrated already pulled all 'tricks' into the realm of the possible in one fell swoop.
Her chuckle died as she caught a glimpse of Gohan's eyes. As she saw them she realised what Gohan had meant when he'd said this wasn't a good day for him. They seemed almost hollow, with a hint of danger in them, almost as if he had withdrawn from the world mentally to some dangerous memory or fantasy.
Fortunately the groups' attention was pulled away from Gohan by mister Stevenson yelling: "Hey, he's waking up." From the ring.
Finally another ten minutes later the entire class was seated in a capsule pavilion and a large screen had been positioned over the edge of the crater where the ring had once been.
Videl had found a seat just of the centre aisle with Gohan sitting next to her. They were almost perfectly in the centre of the Pavilion, out of the aisle of course but in the middle row, front to back.
The nature of the second part of the surprise had been revealed and Videl found herself dreading it slightly. Apparently OSH had managed to get some never before seen footage of the Cell-games and they were going to show it. At that news Gohan had visibly tensed while her father had paled. Considering what she'd found out in the last week Videl certainly wasn't surprised by her father's reaction and Gohan's, though she didn't have a full explanation for it, did fit with the fact that he obviously knew more about these matters.
For a moment snow filled the huge screen, but then the film started up, showing the desert with the Cell games ring still intact.
Next to her Videl heard Gohan mutter something under his breath.
"What?" She whispered.
"I was reminding myself to get Bulma to fire some-one." He whispered back. "This footage, I can tell from the way it looks that this comes from a composite of several CC observation satellites, this definitely wouldn't be released to the public, so some-one must have stolen it off a CC computer and only employees have that kind of access."
She nodded and continued to watch, Cell was standing in the centre of the ring and it looked as though no-one had arrived yet. Then all of a sudden a section of the screen was enlarged, showing a reporter and his cameraman.
The reporter was talking about the start of the Cell-games being just twenty minutes away and then switched the topic to her father as a large black car raced in announcing his arrival.
The next ten minutes of film were extremely boring as her father first called down the reporter and then proceeded to insult an obviously stoic Cell.
Then all of a sudden the film started another automatic blow-up that showed a flying man, who reminded Videl of Bulma's husband, Vegeta, approach and then land near the edge of the ring.
The reporter tried to approach the man, but ran away to hide behind her father when the stranger complained about his insolence and told him to get out of his face.
The reporter quickly launched into another rant after that, but just as he was finishing the recording switched angels to show a tall red-haired man flying in.
Videl could hear gasps and various exclamations of surprise ripple through the crowd as Cell spoke to the newcomer.
"Well, what a surprise. Android Sixteen, you're still alive and kicking and with beautiful repairs no less."
After a comment by her father, about being able to tell by his outfit that the guy was a nobody, which made Videl wonder what her father's own awful dress-sense made him, Cell suddenly chuckled.
"Ah, there you are Goku, and just in time. I can hardly wait."
The camera angel switched again to show the back of Cell's head and a close-up window of an entire group of people flying towards him.
"Keep it rolling." The reporter choked out, indicating that he'd spotted them as well.
The group suddenly accelerated slightly and then started it's descend seven people all told landing next to each other in a space of just seconds, behind the first flying arrival.
Videl quickly scanned the group, one person she was sure of, a little kid with blond hair, who she realised must be Sayaman.
Of the others several looked familiar, one of them, to her surprise, was Yamcha and another looked surprisingly like Krillin.
The film soon recaptured her attention, but she couldn't really make heads or tales of any of the conversation going on between the new-comers, and felt like digging a hole under her seat to hide in when her father got in on the act. When her father's students added to the fun as well, turning her embarrasment up to a new level. A level that in fact, made her earlier wish for a hole to hide in seem in adequate and made her wish for a meteor-impact crater instead.
And then, after a fight by her father that almost made his students look capable, finally one of the strangers, the large man with blond hair, stepped up to fight.
Just as he stepped into the ring on screen the picture froze, and only a fraction of a second later Videl felt a burst of heat next to her, where Gohan was seated, followed by a yell, that seemed to cut through everything and chill her right to the bone.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The heat next to her surged again and as she finally turned her head she saw a gold glow enveloping Gohan, his hair changed to a blond colour and his eyes turned teal. Then the process continued and as the aura around him intensified, his hair lengthened slightly, still standing up but with just a little more volume and his muscles seemed to grow.
Gohan's eyes remained locked on the screen and just a Videl tried to move her hand to snap him out of it, the aura around him expanded, enveloping the whole group and forming a layer over them like a second skin, which prevented her movement.
'How...?' Videl cut of her own thoughts when she noticed the look in Gohan's eyes, somehow they seemed empty, as if all thought behind them was gone.
***
Next time on Gohan Goes to Highschool, what exactly has happened to Gohan? And what exactly has Gohan done? Will Videl be able to move again? Will I be able to write it somewhat more quickly? Will I write another next time on composed entire of questions?
Well this chapter was a long time in the coming. I had to rewatch most of the Cell-games and then decide not to use most of it, but it still took time, and time is pretty scarce for me right now (should have been studying, exams coming up starting November 6th etc.). Hopefully the next chapter should be a little lighter again, though probably not in the first half of the chapter.
Anyway if you liked 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.
Responses to reviews:
To Exarikun:
You asked for 'really heavy' boy are you going to get it. One of the reasons this chapter was so long in coming was how hard it was for me to write parts of it, the other reasons are the research I had to do and other things I had to do. Anyway, enjoy the 'heavy events' next chapter will probably get lighter again (somewhere in the next chapter at any rate).
To Siver Warrior:
You're right, Hercule does have some humiliation coming his way, which is why I amply provide him with it (or at least try to) in my fics.
To wind:
Very observant of you to notice the cliff-thing, it will be explained somewhat more fully this chapter. As for everyone's reaction, you'll just have to read this chapter.
To Hirokono:
Glad you like Gohan beating Hercule, I know I do. As for why he didn't turn Super-Saiyan, you have to remember that Sayaman has an open helmet in this fic, so his hair shows, turning Super-Saiyan would give that away (besides I'm having him transform this chapter, I was saving the effect).
To Snow:
Good to know I have your vote for the Greatest Gohan fic award, just one question: Where exactly can one get such an award? ;) (though I doubt I'd really win)
To Bcat:
Well I don't have to ask what you were on when you wrote that review, it was by your own admission caffine. Gohan is turning out to be rather tough (even tougher than I'd actually intended in this fic, though maybe not the toughest I'll ever write) but I kind of like him that way, hope you enjoy this chapter as well.
To Rogue1615:
I agree on the mental powers, we don't see them often, except when we get the whole Saiyan bonding thing. Still we do see some in the series, Tien and Chaozu are telepathic; Goku telepathically communicates with Oozaru Gohan during the Saiyan Saga; the mind-spar I've literally taken from the series, where Gohan and Krillin do it while their traveling to Namek, so I'm just putting some more emphasis on it.
To Stoked (aka the Knight who says Ni):
Well, well, a Monty Python review, what do we call it? Monty Python's revenge? Well I must say I'm not impressed by the word Ni, but if you keep it up some shrubberies are going to die. * grins evil grin * How do you like that, knight who says Ni?
And a special response from my sister Pteska:
'Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zu-owly-zhiv'
Author's note: Just a little warning, this chapter is rather heavy, more serious than humour this time.
Gohan Goes To Highschool
Chapter 13 (or 12b for the superstitious): Shock
Gohan waited somewhat impatiently for the applause to die down. He felt ungrateful because of his impatience, but in his eyes the event did not merit the praise. He'd beaten up a weakling, granted the weakling in question was thought by many to be virtually invincible, but that didn't give the fight, or the victory, any substance.
He bowed as thanks, feeling somewhat awkward as he did so, but the politeness his mother had instilled in him since he was young seemed to take over. Finally the cheering and clapping stopped and he could walk out of the ring.
Videl was the first of his fellow students to walk up to him.
"You were great Gohan."
He just shrugged, the challenge certainly hadn't called for greatness.
"Frankly you were a better opponent." He replied. "You wouldn't exactly have a great deal of trouble beating him yourself."
"Still..."
She seemed a bit lost on any further reply and he turned to face Mr. Stevenson again.
"Well, like I said, can we get the second part of this little surprise over with while we're still young or what?"
Mr. Stevenson looked rather nervous, but answered non-the less.
"Well I really do think we ought to wait for the champ to wake up."
Gohan shrugged. "With the way I hit him that might be a long wait, if I'm any judge sleeping ugly over there will be out like a light for the next hour or so at least."
"I still think we should wait for him." Mr. Stevenson said, digging in his verbal heels. "Who knows, he might wake sooner than you think."
"Yeah who knows," Gohan muttered under his breath, "you might actually figure out what your brain is for. It's just not bloody likely."
"What was that Mr. Son?" The teacher asked.
"Nothing." Gohan replied quickly, before turning and walking away from the group.
Gohan walked away aimlessly, lost in thought. Inside his own mind he was fighting himself, fighting to retain his composure and sanity. He could almost feel his footing in that fight start to slip, earlier when he was talking to Videl before the fight with Hercule he'd been unable to tear his eyes from the cliff behind her and for a moment his memories had come with such force that he'd actually seen his friends standing there, cheering him on, and then being attacked by the Cell juniors.
And even as he fought to retain his sanity part of him seemed to be conspiring against that as he inadvertently made his way to the end of the canyon where he'd been standing nearly seven years before. The place he'd been standing when in a release of great power and fury he'd ended Cell's life with a one-handed Kamehameha wave.
Once he realised that was where he was a new flood of memories came. He could see Cell at the other end of it in his minds eye, and feel the intensity of the energy between them again.
In an instant he found himself physically shaking to repress the urge to transform. The urge passed only slowly and it was all he could do to keep his Ki from flaring. Once he'd succeeded in calming himself down again he turned and deliberately walked away from the canyon, there was still tension running wild all through his body and he needed to try and relax it. With that in mind he walked over to a couple of loose boulders standing nearby. Among them he found shelter, not from people, or nature, but from the sights around him.
As he relaxed his mind his body relaxed too and he ended up slumped against one of the boulders. His breathing was ragged, and his entire sense of reality seemed distant. He was more aware of his heavy breathing because of the sound than because of his rising and falling chest.
Part of him just wanted to sit down with his hands around his knees and cry, another part seemed to be screaming for action, this was a typically Saiyan part that seemed to feel an urge to drown all memories in blood, his own or that of others.
Finally the third and more sensible part of him won out and he settled on meditating. In the relative piece of his meditation the forces in his mind met to do battle. Gohan could almost see the different streams of his thoughts moving in the blackness behind his eyelids. He could feel the heat and rush of battle and for a moment his vision seemed to turn red in spite of his closed eyes. Finally his will power prevailed over all fight and flight reactions and slowly forced some stability back into his system. Once that was established he settled back into a much easier meditation to clear his mind, and soon forgot almost everything around him.
When Gohan opened his eyes, he was immediately aware of the passage of time. His instincts somehow told him that nearly an hour had passed. The change in the direction of the shadows around him was as clear to him as a watch in indicating what time it was.
He got up slowly. His movements felt strained, as though some part of his body was still resisting the calmness he'd imposed upon it, as if part of him still wanted to react to his surroundings, some deep need to turn to anger or sadness that wouldn't quite be repressed.
"Hopefully it'll get better when we get out of here." He muttered.
Still forcing himself to an extend he walked back towards the group just in time, from the way his Ki felt it seemed Hercule was just about to wake up.
"Gohan!" Videl's yell reached him as soon as he'd entered the groups' sight.
He just nodded and continued on his way towards them as she ran to meet him.
"Where were you? We were all talking about your fight with my dad, we hardly even noticed you were gone at first."
"I was meditating, I'm not having a good day today."
"This isn't a good day?"
"Not mentally at any rate. As far as the physical combat is concerned, my form was no different from what I'd expect it to be on any given day."
"So is my dad ever going to wake up?"
"I'd guess in a couple of minutes. Then hopefully we can get the rest of today's program over with and get out of here."
"Yeah, I wonder what they have in store for us."
"Given the way this day is going for me, I have a sneaky suspicion it's nothing I'm going to like."
"Come on Gohan, I'm sure it's not going to be that bad."
"Don't be so sure, if there's one thing I've learned over the years it's always to fear the worst, that way there's at least a small chance of being pleasantly surprised."
Videl nodded, sort of dismissively. "Now let's go join your newly formed fan club."
Videl chuckled as she looked at Gohan. Nearly everybody seemed to be trying to talk to him at once. Only a few of the boys, led by Sharpner and Antino were standing some way off by themselves. They'd been talking amongst themselves about tricks and how Gohan could have possibly done what he did, coming up with explanations ranging from invisible walls, to force fields. But from what she'd seen those explanations were just a form of grasping at straws. Gohan had clearly shown that he wouldn't have needed any intricate device or trick, and using a trick that could possibly be exposed to counter the allegation of the use of tricks was too silly for Gohan to have done. Besides which the telepathic abilities Gohan had demonstrated already pulled all 'tricks' into the realm of the possible in one fell swoop.
Her chuckle died as she caught a glimpse of Gohan's eyes. As she saw them she realised what Gohan had meant when he'd said this wasn't a good day for him. They seemed almost hollow, with a hint of danger in them, almost as if he had withdrawn from the world mentally to some dangerous memory or fantasy.
Fortunately the groups' attention was pulled away from Gohan by mister Stevenson yelling: "Hey, he's waking up." From the ring.
Finally another ten minutes later the entire class was seated in a capsule pavilion and a large screen had been positioned over the edge of the crater where the ring had once been.
Videl had found a seat just of the centre aisle with Gohan sitting next to her. They were almost perfectly in the centre of the Pavilion, out of the aisle of course but in the middle row, front to back.
The nature of the second part of the surprise had been revealed and Videl found herself dreading it slightly. Apparently OSH had managed to get some never before seen footage of the Cell-games and they were going to show it. At that news Gohan had visibly tensed while her father had paled. Considering what she'd found out in the last week Videl certainly wasn't surprised by her father's reaction and Gohan's, though she didn't have a full explanation for it, did fit with the fact that he obviously knew more about these matters.
For a moment snow filled the huge screen, but then the film started up, showing the desert with the Cell games ring still intact.
Next to her Videl heard Gohan mutter something under his breath.
"What?" She whispered.
"I was reminding myself to get Bulma to fire some-one." He whispered back. "This footage, I can tell from the way it looks that this comes from a composite of several CC observation satellites, this definitely wouldn't be released to the public, so some-one must have stolen it off a CC computer and only employees have that kind of access."
She nodded and continued to watch, Cell was standing in the centre of the ring and it looked as though no-one had arrived yet. Then all of a sudden a section of the screen was enlarged, showing a reporter and his cameraman.
The reporter was talking about the start of the Cell-games being just twenty minutes away and then switched the topic to her father as a large black car raced in announcing his arrival.
The next ten minutes of film were extremely boring as her father first called down the reporter and then proceeded to insult an obviously stoic Cell.
Then all of a sudden the film started another automatic blow-up that showed a flying man, who reminded Videl of Bulma's husband, Vegeta, approach and then land near the edge of the ring.
The reporter tried to approach the man, but ran away to hide behind her father when the stranger complained about his insolence and told him to get out of his face.
The reporter quickly launched into another rant after that, but just as he was finishing the recording switched angels to show a tall red-haired man flying in.
Videl could hear gasps and various exclamations of surprise ripple through the crowd as Cell spoke to the newcomer.
"Well, what a surprise. Android Sixteen, you're still alive and kicking and with beautiful repairs no less."
After a comment by her father, about being able to tell by his outfit that the guy was a nobody, which made Videl wonder what her father's own awful dress-sense made him, Cell suddenly chuckled.
"Ah, there you are Goku, and just in time. I can hardly wait."
The camera angel switched again to show the back of Cell's head and a close-up window of an entire group of people flying towards him.
"Keep it rolling." The reporter choked out, indicating that he'd spotted them as well.
The group suddenly accelerated slightly and then started it's descend seven people all told landing next to each other in a space of just seconds, behind the first flying arrival.
Videl quickly scanned the group, one person she was sure of, a little kid with blond hair, who she realised must be Sayaman.
Of the others several looked familiar, one of them, to her surprise, was Yamcha and another looked surprisingly like Krillin.
The film soon recaptured her attention, but she couldn't really make heads or tales of any of the conversation going on between the new-comers, and felt like digging a hole under her seat to hide in when her father got in on the act. When her father's students added to the fun as well, turning her embarrasment up to a new level. A level that in fact, made her earlier wish for a hole to hide in seem in adequate and made her wish for a meteor-impact crater instead.
And then, after a fight by her father that almost made his students look capable, finally one of the strangers, the large man with blond hair, stepped up to fight.
Just as he stepped into the ring on screen the picture froze, and only a fraction of a second later Videl felt a burst of heat next to her, where Gohan was seated, followed by a yell, that seemed to cut through everything and chill her right to the bone.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The heat next to her surged again and as she finally turned her head she saw a gold glow enveloping Gohan, his hair changed to a blond colour and his eyes turned teal. Then the process continued and as the aura around him intensified, his hair lengthened slightly, still standing up but with just a little more volume and his muscles seemed to grow.
Gohan's eyes remained locked on the screen and just a Videl tried to move her hand to snap him out of it, the aura around him expanded, enveloping the whole group and forming a layer over them like a second skin, which prevented her movement.
'How...?' Videl cut of her own thoughts when she noticed the look in Gohan's eyes, somehow they seemed empty, as if all thought behind them was gone.
***
Next time on Gohan Goes to Highschool, what exactly has happened to Gohan? And what exactly has Gohan done? Will Videl be able to move again? Will I be able to write it somewhat more quickly? Will I write another next time on composed entire of questions?
Well this chapter was a long time in the coming. I had to rewatch most of the Cell-games and then decide not to use most of it, but it still took time, and time is pretty scarce for me right now (should have been studying, exams coming up starting November 6th etc.). Hopefully the next chapter should be a little lighter again, though probably not in the first half of the chapter.
Anyway if you liked it please review.