Legacy of Chaos
Chapter 4
A/N: I've decided to lift any changes that Kaioshin (Supreme Kai) made during the Buu Saga (e.g. the fusion he made with Kibito). I honestly don't like the way he looks by the end of the Buu saga.
"So you're from…the U.S.?" Erasa asked. Dune nodded as she nibbled her sandwich. "Wow! That must be a pretty big change. You speak Japanese pretty good for a immigrant." [1]
"Arigato!" Dune said with a smile, showing off her use of the language. Dune, Videl, and Erasa were sitting on the bleachers by themselves, eating lunch. The guys and Christy were playing 'teen' soccer while Pearl was hanging out with more posh girls.
"So tell us more about yourselves," Videl suggested, very curious of the new kids.
"My parents died in a…fatal car accident. Since I'm of legal age, I took custody of my younger sisters and we moved here for a new life." Erasa and Videl gave looks of sympathy.
"I'm sorry," Videl apologized. "I didn't know." She looked away, slightly embarrassed. "But what about relatives?"
"None we could find."
"That's sad," Erasa said. "But at least you got us now!" That somehow lightened the mood. Dune decided it was time for a subject change.
"So Videl," she began. "How long have you and Gohan known each other?" Videl blushed somewhat.
"About a year," she answered truthfully. Dune noted the blush and stored that information away for later.
"And are you guys romantically involved?" That sent Videl in a frantic blush of embarrassment, so bad that she couldn't even reply.
"Gah…I muh…uh…he…rom…eh?" she fumbled.
"What Videl means to say," Erasa covered. "Is that she and Gohan are not an item. So he's up for grabs."
"That's not what I said!" Videl protested.
"But you two aren't involve, am I right?" Dune asked.
"Well…no…" Videl said carefully.
"Why? Gonna make a move on him, Dune?" Erasa asked slyly. Dune did not react like Videl and Erasa expected. Instead, she snarled slightly.
"Unlikely," she scoffed. "Videl, has he ever lied to you?" Videl turned crimson.
"What's with all the personal questions?" she debated.
"Oh I'm sorry," Dune replied, eyes closed. But the question did have Videl thinking. 'Has he ever lied?' she thought to herself.
There were a few incidents she could bring to mind, but they were lies to protect his family's privacy, so she could forgive him. Although one lie had ticked her off. The one about his father. When she had asked if Gohan's father was with another woman since he was never around, he said yes. That wasn't true at all. It wasn't even remotely protecting anyone.
"He's told a few…" Videl answered Dune. "Maybe once or twice, but with good reason."
"I see." Dune pretended to check her watch. "I've gotta go find my other two sisters. We need to meet after school and I have to tell them." Erasa and Videl nodded, understanding. "See ya!" Dune grabbed her bag and walked on to the soccer field where Christy was.
As she approached, a stray soccer ball came flying her way.
"Dune! Look out!" Sharpner shouted. Using speed that even Burter of the Ginyu Force would be envious of, Dune kicked the ball high into the air and across the field. All the players stood frozen and shocked. Especially the goalie, which happened to be Gohan, who standing just a few feet in front of the ball.
Dune had managed to score a goal.
But that's not what they were shocked about. They were shocked about…
"The ball's on FIRE!!" yelled Gohan. A couple teens ran to get the hose while Gohan took his sweater off and tried to muffle the flames.
Christy slapped a hand over her face in embarrassment. She stomped over to Dune and dragged her off the field to a safe distance away.
"What were you thinking?!" Christy screamed. "Showing off your powers to all those over-reacting humans?"
"Oh shut up!" Dune yelled. "I'm the one in charge so you take orders from me!" She glared at her younger sister. "Now go find Pearl!"
Not even ten minutes later, Christy had retrieved Pearl.
"Good," Dune said, closing her eyes. "Now, I found out new information that might help us. The Hostess has a crush on the Golden Light. We might be able to use this to our advantage."
"Like?" Pearl asked curiously.
"Turn her against him and him alone."
*~*~*~*
"Back so soon?" Vegeta asked, amused. He opened the door wide enough so Gohan could get in.
"I got new info on them," he began, getting straight to the point. "They're strong. And unbelievably fast! At least Dune is." Vegeta raised an eyebrow as the two made their way to the living room where Trunks was watching TV. "We were playing soccer and I was in net. Then she walks on the field and when the ball went flying at her head, she jumped up and kicked it so fast that I didn't even catch her movements. And believe me, it takes a lot to move faster than I can see. And not only that, the ball was moving so fast that it caught fire! It burned a hole right through the net!" Suddenly, Vegeta burst out laughing. Gohan and Trunks looked at him weirdly. This lasted for five minutes before he regain some composer.
"She…set the ball on fire?" he laughed in between chuckles. "That's classic!"
"That's not funny," Gohan grumbled. "I don't know. Like you said, she could be trouble! If she could move faster than I could pick up-"
"That's only because you've been slacking off in training. You probably weren't focused or prepared. Stop beating yourself up about this before I beat you up!" Gohan gulped. Trunks snorted a bit before quickly shutting up when Vegeta shot him a look.
*~*~*~*
Kaioshin let out a heavy sigh. Watching the entire universe, underworld, heaven, and those feuding Kais, it was more than enough to drive him over the edge. He definitely had his had his work cut out for him. He sighed again when he got a knock on his realm door. He installed a realm door for his planet for easy access, designed for souls who wanted to visit. He had become much more lenient since Buu had been defeated. A few visitors every now and then was nice.
"Come in!" he called. The portal opened and North Kai came rushing in.
"Kaioshin!" he said, forcing back his chuckles. "I just came up with the greatest joke!"
"Not now, North Kai," Kaioshin said as politely as possible. "I'm a little busy."
"This'll only take a second."
"Please, North Kai. I'm terribly busy. I have many errands to run." North pretended to pout.
"Fine," he whined. "If you insist." He dragged his heels to the realm door. "Are you sure?" Kaioshin looked up from the crystal the Old Kaio gave him.
"Positive."
"C'mon! It'll only take a second!" Kaioshin sighed and gave in.
"Fine."
"Great! Now, why did the chicken cross the playground?" Kaioshin nearly fell over. A crossing chicken joke?! That was the best he could come up with? "To get to the other slide! Get it?!" The blue Kai burst out laughing. Kaioshin mildly smiled but quickly shooed the comedian of a god away. North Kai grinned and left.
Moments later, there was another knock.
"North Kai, if that's you, I said I was busy!" Kaioshin was quickly losing his patience. Not even five seconds later, the realm door open. "North Kai!" Kaioshin looked up, expecting to see the blue god, but instead, his eyes were met by that of a woman with pale purple skin, and light blue hair.
"I assure you, I'm not North Kai," she stated calmly. "In fact…he used to work for me at one point." Kaioshin's eyes widened in recognition.
"You're…you're…Sukoshin!" he gasped. "The Supreme Kai from 10, 000 years ago!" Sukoshin grinned warmly.
"Yes, and you, dear Kaioshin, are in my chair," she chuckled.
*~*~*~*
The next day at school, Videl and her friends got to class on time and ready for school. At least everyone but Gohan. He got caught by the fan girls…again. School normally starts at 8:00am, but Gohan came rolling in, or more like barging in, at around 8:15am.
"Late again, Mr. Son?" Ms. Brady asked politely.
"Sorry..." Gohan whimpered. He hauled himself to his seat next to Erasa and let his head bang against the desk. Erasa peeked up from her book and nudged him.
"What happened?" she whispered questioningly. "You look terrible. Did you get any sleep late night?" Gohan lifted his head weakly.
"They…found me…" he uttered. "That annoying GGS club found my address. They were at my house all night! My mom thought it was amusing, and my dad didn't really notice. The only one who was as equally annoyed as I was last night was my little brother. That's only because he says they were breaking his concentration while he was playing Ico." Erasa gave him a look of pity.
"Poor kid," she said, sympathy lining her voice. "You go ahead and take a nap. I'll cover for ya." Gohan raised his head a little higher.
"You'd do that for me?"
"Sure! What are friends for?" Erasa winked at him. He managed to control his blush and slumped forward in his chair so his head was resting on his desk.
The bell rang an hour later, signalling first period over. Erasa shook Gohan awake and told him class was over. He blinked his eyes a few times, trying to awake himself.
"I can't believe I slept through first period!" he yawned. He followed his friends out the door and went to his locker. To his dismay, Dune was waiting for him.
"Gohan, how did you sleep?" she asked, smirking. Gohan rubbed his eyes.
"Not well. Can you believe the GGS club found my house? I live in the wilderness, for Dende's sake!"
"Too bad. They'll probably be there awhile." She pushed herself off his locker. "See you later." Gohan stared at her as she walked away. He shook his head clear and opened his locker. 'I just don't understand her motives.'
*~*~*~*
Videl wandered around the school on fifth period. Her math teacher had asked her to run an errand. Passing by the main hall, she spotted a crowd of girls hovering around a door. Deciding to go in for a closer look, Videl squeezed her way passed the crowd and saw what they were all staring, or rather drooling, over. Gohan, oblivious to the attention he was receiving, was in the library, doing what he did best: studying. The little fan girls weren't only staring, they were taking pictures. Videl shook her head, annoyed that these girls had nothing better to do with their free time and began shooing them away, threatening to get the principal. Once everyone was gone, she tapped on the window of the door and got Gohan's attention. He looked up and at her, then grinned. She sighed. He had no idea how many pictures of him were going to get published on the net in the next 24 hours.
Videl walked away from the library and continued her errand. Something had to be done about those fan girls. They obviously were driving Gohan insane, and now they were starting to bug Videl.
'Why should they be bugging?' she thought. 'After all, fan girls are just girls who will never get the man of their dreams.' But something else was bothering the daughter of Mr. Satan. There was always that one chance that one of those girls actually might end up getting a date with Gohan. He was just a sucker for that kind of thing. The problem with him was that he could never say no to a girl. It almost made her jealous.
'What? I'm not jealous! He wants nothing to do with those girls!' Then again, he had once mentioned that he didn't really mind, as side from them following him everywhere. Did he actually like the attention?
'Yeah right,' Videl thought. 'Like he's an attention-starved teen.' She pushed that nagging thought to the back of her mind and continued to the math office where she was supposed to make her errand.
*~*~*~*
"Phase one is complete," Dune declared. "The witnesses for Plan B are in place. Now all we need is to set up plan A." The sisters were at home once more from a day at school.
"You are so gay," Pearl remarked. "I can't believe you named plan A: Operation Rumours, and plan B: Operation Deadly Kiss. What kind of moron names their plans?"
"Shut up," Dune sighed. "Shut up before I bitch-slap you!" Pearl squeaked and backed up. "Anyways! Crisis, you know what to do. Peril, start the rumour tomorrow." The others nodded and went their separate ways. Dune checked her digital watch, which had a programmed calendar. She bit her bottom lip when she saw the date. March 3rd. She had a little under a month to get things going in full swing. "When the spring equinox occurs, all hell's gonna break loose."
*~*~*~*
"Vegeta?" Bulma whispered softly. She had checked the gravity room for him, but was nowhere to be seen. Allowing her emotional bond to guide her, she found herself in one of her many labs located on the Capsule housing grounds. Hunched over a computer, Vegeta seemed to be looking at something…or looking for something.
"Vegeta!" she whispered loudly, if there were such a thing. Her voice stunned him, for he had not been paying attention to her ki at the moment.
"Woman!" he hissed. "Don't you know better than to sneak up on a saiya-jin? Let alone a fully charged super saiya-jin?"
"I was wondering where…" She trailed off when she spotted the contents of the computer screen. "What are you doing?" Vegeta gave a humph.
"Looking for information…" he said secretively in his Vegeta fashion. Bulma gave a curious look.
"Looking for what information?" she inquired.
"Looking for information regarding a few trouble-making humans giving that brat, Gohan a hard time." This statement made Bulma gasp. Not because of his motives, but because of his intentions.
"You're actually going to help Gohan? I thought you didn't like him."
"Three things. One, I don't dislike him for him. I dislike him because he doesn't like to fight. Not enough saiya-jin in him. Two, it's not him I really dislike. It's his worthless, baka father. And three, I'm helping him because I don't think these trouble-makers are even human. They pose a threat and I want it dealt with before anything bad happens." Now Bulma was shocked. First, he just openly admitted that he actually was fond of 'Kakorrot's' spawn. And second, he was in fact interested in ensuring Earth's safety. Those were things that weren't to be associated with grumpy Vegeta.
Snapping out of her shock, she said, "How do you plan on helping?" Vegeta smirked.
"Simple. Find out if they're really humans." He pointed to the screen. "Their last name is Armagen. I did a thorough search on the Earth's planetary ID system after hacking into it, and came up null. So I looked on the databases of the Japanese Immigrant system as well. See, they're supposed to keep track of every immigrant who comes into the country. Again, no results. I've come to the conclusion that they obviously have no records of being on Earth. It's like they never existed." Bulma stood, stunned and slack-jawed. "Woman?" Vegeta sighed and poked her shoulder, shattering her silence.
"How did you…I didn't know…you never told me…" she stuttered.
"What, you didn't really think I was computer illiterate, did you?" Vegeta asked, miffed. "For crying out loud, I worked for Freeza of all people! I had to know computer basics as well as how to hack, reroute signals, and understand computer code! This human-based technology is child's play to even a third-class saiya-jin warrior, although Kakorrot wouldn't be the best example. We saiya-jins are not as dumb as you may think." Vegeta finished his speech by closing Bulma's open jaw. "Now go to sleep so I can finish my work." She nodded numbly and turned to leave.
"Uh, just one more thing," she said just before she left. "If you know all this…do you know how to cook?"
"A million times better than you," Vegeta answered truthfully, staring at the screen.
"Why didn't you even cook meals for us?" Bulma demanded. Vegeta turned to her and smirked.
"You never asked." He turned his attention back to the computer. "Goodnight." Bulma nodded once more, still getting over her shock. No matter how long she had known him, there were always more secrets he could hide.
[1] For the sake of argument, let's pretend they're all speaking Japanese but it's translated.