Legacy of Chaos
Chapter 3
At third period, the lunch bell rang and the students of Orange Star High filed outside to eat in various places. Gohan and his friends met up at the usual bleachers out on the field.
"So you guys," Erasa said, beginning the conversation, like usual. "Heard anything about the new kids?"
"I dunno," Sharpner said, picking at his pizza. "They seem very quiet and secretive."
"I wonder what it's like to have triplet sisters!" Erasa giggled.
"Actually, they're not triplets," Videl corrected. "Pearl skipped a couple grades, and Dune failed 11th and 12th grade. She was supposed to graduate last year before us. Christy's the only one who's in the right grade."
"Where'd you hear all that?" Gohan asked.
"Look who you're talking to. I can find out anything about anyone anytime."
"It took you weeks to find out I was Saiyaman, and even then, it was because I let it slip." Videl open her mouth to speak, but quickly shut it, knowing she'd say something stupid. She simply glared at Gohan.
"Didn't you want to ask me a favour?" she demanded instead.
"Oh yeah! The girl problem. Could you-"
Erasa paused in mid-chew when she spotted the new girls, sitting by themselves under a nearby tree. "Hey guys!" she cheered, interrupting Gohan and getting her friends' attention. "There they are! Let's go say 'hi' to them!" The others groaned and muttered some sort of excuse. "Oh c'mon! You guys are no fun." Erasa grabbed Gohan and Sharpner by the backs of their shirts and dragged them with surprising strength.
Dune looked up in surprise when a blond girl approached her, two guys in tow. Dune recognized one of boys as the one who made eye contact with her.
"Hey, you're the new girl, right?" the blond greeted, dropping the two guys. "I'm Erasa and these two are my good friends, Gohan and Sharpner."
"Why does his name get said first?" Sharpner asked in a whiney voice.
"My friend, Videl, is over there," Erasa said to Dune, ignoring Sharpner's comment. Dune raised an eyebrow at the mention of Videl's name. Videl walked over to the group and practically fell to the ground, bored.
"Videl Satan?" Dune asked curiously.
"The one and only!" Erasa boasted. "Daughter of the three-time champion and saviour twice in a row, Mr. Satan himself." Dune tugged on her sister's shirt, getting Pearl's attention. They stared at each other for a few seconds, and then Pearl turned around, like nothing had happened. Erasa, of course, dismissed that strange interaction, but Gohan had picked up on something…something he couldn't quite figure out.
"So those are your sisters?" Sharpner asked slyly, hoping to get a date. Dune shot him a sharp glare. "Never mind…"
"Are you the Great Saiyaman?" Christy asked Gohan. The young demi-saiya-jin blushed slightly.
"Uh…yeah…" he answered cautiously. "That's me…"
"Look's like you were right, Dune," Pearl snickered. "Hey Gohan, if you're Saiyaman, would that mean you're the Gold Fighter too?"
"Um…yeah…" The three sisters smirked. Their questions were making him uncomfortable. They knew which buttons to push now.
"So how exactly do you make your hair turn blond anyway?"
"I'm…not sure," Gohan answered truthfully. He wasn't sure what made his hair blond besides being half saiya-jin.
"I remember hearing about an alien attack when I was 7," Dune said smugly.
'Crap!'
"My sisters were too young to remember, but these aliens were called…saiya-jins." Gohan began to squirm. "How come you call yourself Saiyaman? Any connection?" Everyone looked at Gohan as he started to sweat bullets. He began laughing nervously.
"No…what makes you say that? What, you think I'm an alien or something?" he said quickly, covering up. "No way! I remember that fight too. I thought it'd be cool to name a super hero after that. Besides, only two aliens showed up and they were adults. I was five when the whole thing happened." Dune grinned.
"Curious…you remember more details than I do, even though you were younger. You speak as if you were actually there."
"No! Ah…I mean…no, I wasn't there. Why would a five year old show up at a major fight?"
"You tell me, Gold boy." Dune packed up her things and nudged her sisters. "Let's go," she said to them. When they were out of sight, Gohan breathed a sigh of relief.
"What strange girls…" he muttered to himself.
"They sure were nice!" Erasa exclaimed. Gohan gave her a weird glace.
"Erasa, were you even paying attention to them?" he asked.
"Yay, so they were curious. Big whoop. I still think they were nice."
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The final bell of the day rang and hundreds of students left their classes to go home. Gohan headed straight to Bulma's house. He needed to speak with Vegeta. 'Whoa! I actually need to talk with Vegeta of all people,' he thought to himself. The dome-shaped house came into view quickly and he descended to the front door and rang the bell. Moments later, the saiya-jin prince himself answered the door.
"Brat, you should keep your ki masked at all times," he warned. "I could sense you a mile away." He smirked his casual trademark grin. "So what do you want? Another ridiculous outfit to play Saiyaman in?"
"Actually, Vegeta," Gohan corrected. "I came to speak with you."
"Me?" the older saiya-jin chuckled. "I don't know whether I should slam the door on your face or be flattered." He pretended to give it some thought. "I'm gonna go with door #1." He started closing the door, but Gohan quickly stepped in.
"Vegeta, I'm serious," he said, agitated. "There's something wrong at school. We got these three new girls in the class and-"
"Wait…girls?" Vegeta scoffed. "Forget it! I'm not getting involved with your twisted love life. For Kami's sake, isn't this the kind of stuff you're supposed to talk about with your baka father? Wait a second. Scratch that. He's probably too stupid to know what the hell you're talking about."
"That's not it!" Gohan yelled. "There's something weird about them. They know things no normal humans should know. And they're hiding something." Vegeta's eyes narrowed.
"Such as…?"
"I'm not sure." Gohan began walking to the living room so he could sit.
"If you're not sure, then where do you get your assumptions from?"
"Well, this morning, when they walked into the class, the oldest one gave me this creepy stare."
"So she judges books by their covers. Big deal."
"It's not just that. When I looked in her eyes, I got this feeling…I can't describe. Didn't you ever feel…terrified by someone's stare?" Vegeta looked back and forth.
"What you're about to hear, I don't want you repeating to another soul. If you do, I'll rip out your eyes and shove them down your throat!" Gohan gulped. "Back when I was a hell of a lot younger, I used to look up to my father because he could scare anyone, frozen in their spot, simply by staring at them, me included."
"That was how I felt when she looked at me. It reminded me of Cell." Vegeta gave that some thought.
"What else happened?"
"Well, at lunch, she and her sisters started throwing questions at me. They were straying dangerously close to the truth."
"The truth…?"
"That we're aliens."
"Oh. What kind of questions?"
"They asked if I was Saiyaman and the Gold Fighter. I said yeah. They were asking how my hair turns blond. I told them I didn't know. Then they brought up the incident when you first showed up. They didn't say your name, though, but they asked if there was any connection between me and the saiya-jins." Vegeta pondered a bit.
"Anything else?"
"Yeah, just one more thing. The oldest, Dune, nudged the youngest, Pearl, and they sat there for a few seconds, just staring at each other, not blinking! Then Pearl turned around and went back to her lunch." Vegeta gave a slightly impressed look.
"Telepathy. They were using their thoughts to communicate."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive. Telepathy involves full eye contact without blinking. They could be trouble. Keep a close eye on them, boy. We don't want another Majin Buu crisis on our hands."
"Thanks, Vegeta-san. I'll keep you informed. Uh…do you think I should tell the others?"
"No need to involve them. Only if the problem escalates should you involve them."
"Alright. I better get home. See ya later!" Gohan grabbed his book bag and headed out the door.
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"Gohan! Where have you been?" Chi-chi demanded. Gohan shrugged casually.
"Fan girls," he answered simply. He didn't want to alarm his mother by telling her that he was at Vegeta's house, discussing possible new enemies. She seemed to accept his answer.
"Oh…well have a seat. We were about to have dinner." Gohan eagerly took his seat and began eating. "So, how was school?"
"We got a couple new students."
"Oh really? Guys or girls?"
"Mooomm…" Gohan whined.
"They're girls!" Goten laughed.
"Yeah, so what? They scare the crap outta me!"
"Gohan, watch your language," Chi-chi stated firmly.
"It doesn't matter if they're girls," Goku added. "He wouldn't have the hots for them anyway because he's got Videl."
"Dad!!" Gohan yelped as he blushed. "Videl and I are only friends!"
"You've been telling me that for nearly a year. Ask her out sometime! It wouldn't hurt."
"Yeah, but…" Gohan couldn't think of an adequate excuse, so he stuck his tongue out.
"Nice comeback," Goten snickered.
"Shut up." Gohan secretly flicked some rice at his younger brother. "And what have you been doing all day? Playing video games?"
"I'll have you know that Ico is actually making me smarter. Mom said so.[1]"
"Yeah right! You can't even get past the draw bridges."
"Shut up!"
*~*~*~*
"All the key players have been identified," Doom announced proudly to her sisters. They were in their ship, at an abandoned clearing somewhere within the forest, but close to society. They had managed to transform it into a capsule-looking house so it would go unnoticed.
"We have found the host," Doom continued. "We know who the Golden Light is, and all that needs to be done is locating the three Temples of Orin. Get the Book of the Morning Star. We need the coordinates." Peril heaved the heavy book to the table and opened to a random page. They flipped through until they found what they were looking for.
"'The Temples of Orin can be found along 29 degrees north 58' 51" and 31 degrees east.' Crisis, get a world map!" Crisis complied and fetched a world map of Chikyuu. Doom skimmed through until she found the location as specified in the book.
"So the temples are in Egypt?"
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A hooded figure sat in a dark room, illuminated only by the window to space and a glowing sphere. She had been recently awakened by a disturbance of unknown calibre. She breathed sharply when she saw her crystal ball change from blue to red.
"Should the blue meet the red, it means trouble," the figure whispered. She drew back her hood, revealing a woman with pale lavender skin and pale blue hair. "Time's not on my side. They've discovered the secrets and time's running out."
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[1] 'Ico' is a PS2 game which involves rescuing a dumbass princess and solving many puzzles as well as traveling through various mazes and such.