Chapter 3: The Door on the Right I

AN: I don't own DBZ. Anyway, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! All right, All Right, ALL RIGHT! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR again! The story was supposed to end there! I thought it would be cool! But NO! "No cliffy!" "We want more!" Fine! You know, I didn't even know which one he chose. I thought that either ending would be too cliche and I didn't know which one to use so I didn't put one! For those of you who aren't satisfied with what I thought to be a really cool ending, I have decided to write both of the possible endings to this story seeing as I couldn't figure out which one to use. Oh, and I hope I didn't make anyone who wanted to read the rest feel bad. It just gets kind of annoying when you think you're done with a story and you're ready to work on the two billion you've all ready got in the works to find out that you have to write two more chapters that are both endings! So no offense. Plus I don't want anyone to come and tear me limb from limb. Oh, and thanks for the plug, Candyland.

Videl was frantically searching in every direction she could, trying not to be blinded by tears. "Where could he be?" she thought. "I have to stop him! How could this have happened?" She kept looking, hoping that the others were fairing better than she was.

However, she was not alone in her hopelessness. Those who could sense power levels could not find Gohan's anywhere. If he was still alive, he was hiding his power level really well.

A huge explosion cut through the air. A large blast of light was striking off in the distance. Everyone froze and looked.

"That must be Gohan!" they all thought at, like, the same time (I don't know, it's a cartoon thing). Everyone went rushing off in the direction that they saw the blast come from.

Videl was the closest. She flew as fast as she could against the shock waves that were coming from his ultimate attack against himself. "Gohan!" she thought. "Please don't be dead! I need you!" The aftershocks were dying down, and Videl rushed to the now visible plain where the blast had taken place.

Necro watched Gohan as he went through the door. He pulled out a clipboard and check something off. "So this is your decision," he thought. "I don't care. I have other appointments." Necro vanished to his next victim, and time began again for the young Saiyan, if he needed it...

Videl continued to hurry down to the plain. Suddenly, a large rock came flying up at her. She managed to dodge it, however, and landed, running into the center of the crater where she was sure Gohan would be. He was.

"Gohan!" she cried, and rushed over to his body. It was seemingly lifeless and covered with blood. Videl cradelled his head and looked down on his empty face. "No!" she exclaimed. "You can't be dead! I won't let you die!" She began crying.

"I'll get you some help!" she said through her tears. "Just don't leave me!"

Piccolo came rushing down, as he was the next closest. "You've found him," he said as he watched the girl with tears running down her face hold the unconcious boy. "Come on," he said after watching this scene for a while. He picked up Gohan. "We'd better go and find someone to help him. I don't know if he'll make it if we stay any longer."

"Okay," Videl replied, drying her eyes and wondering if blood washed out of her clothes. "Let's go." They flew off toward the Son house, the others joining in as they came across them.

When Gohan next opened his eyes, it took a while for him to figure out his surroundings. There seemed to be a strange light glowing around him. As his eyes focused on the area, he suddenly realized where he was.

It was his bedroom. He wasn't sure what time it was, or even what day it was, but he was lying in his bed and there were lots of flowers and stuff around him. He suddenly heard a high pitched squeal from off to his left.

"You're awake!!!!!!!!!" Goten suddenly lept onto his brother. "You woke up! You woke up! You've been asleep for two days! Mom said you wouldn't wake up but you did! You were hurt pretty bad, you know. What happened? Did you get in a fight or something?"

Gohan, realizing that his little brother did not understand the concept of suicide, just smiled and said, "It's hard to explain. Now get off of me, I'm really sore!" They heard footsteps rushing to the door.

Videl came skidding around the corner, and saw Goten clasped onto his now awoken brothers neck. Gohan, not noticing her, was trying to get him to let go because he was in a lot of pain just then.

"Gohan, you're awake!" she cried, which caught both of the boys attentions.

"Oh, hey Videl," Gohan replied.

"HI!!!" Goten screamed.

"He's up, everybody!" Videl called out of the room to the others. Goten had finally let go of Gohan (much to his relief) and was jumping up and down with excitement. As everyone else arrived there, the little boy had made his way to the door.

"Hey, Mom, guess what?" he said, still jumping. "Gohan woke up!"

"I can see that, sweetie, now get out of my way."

"But, Mom, he's..."

"I SAID MOVE IT!" Goten ceased his bouncing and looked very hurt as Chi Chi pushed her way in.

"Oh, my poor baby!" she screamed as she grabbed him around his neck and hugged him for all he was worth. "It's all my fault! I should have never been so hard on you! You can go and do you Sai-pet thing or whatever it is! I'm so sorry!!!!" She dissolved into tears, still embracing him.

"Uh, Mom, I can't breathe..."

"Oh, Gohan, don't you ever leave me again!"

"Mom...?"

"Yes, sweetie," she said, letting go and drying her eyes.

"Um, I'm kind of in a lot of pain right now and your attempt to asphyxiate me didn't help very much."

"Oh I'm so sorry!" she cried, reaching for him again.

"NO DON'T!" Ox King and Krillin had manged to restrain her as she resumed crying.

"So, how 'ya doing?" Ox King asked in his usual cheerful tone.

"I've been better."

"Of course you have!" Krillin replied. "You gave us a real scare back then, did you know that? But, um we're all really sorry about what happened last week."

"Yeah," Bulma added. "We should have watched what we were doing and listened to you."

"Um, yes, I think I knew that," Gohan responded.

"DON'T YOU GIVE US THAT, WE'RE TRYING TO BE NICE TO YOU!" Chi Chi screamed.

"... Okay, Mom..."

"Oh, I'm sorry!"

"Somebody take Chi Chi out of here," Bulma said, realizing that his mother's presence was doing more harm than good. Ox King lead her out, while she was still in tears.

"Well, now that that's over," Krillin said once Chi Chi was a safe distance away, "so, are you feeling better than you were the other day? We thought we'd lost you!"

"Yeah," Trunks added, leaning on the bedside with Goten. "Piccolo and Videl brought you back here and then this green dude came and healed you but you still wouldn't wake up."

"That's right!" Goten added. "Bendy said you had a lot of head drama."

"His name was Dende and it's head trauma."

"No more than usual," Vegeta retorted, who had finally made his way up to the room while taking his own sweet time.

"VEGETA!" Bulma exclaimed. The Saiyan Prince snorted and leaned in the door frame, staring at the ground as he always did.

"Well, Gohan," Piccolo, who had been standing in corner said as he made his way over, "you've managed to pull your way through another situation and live."

"Heh, I guess so," he answered. "But I'm kind of surprised myself, after the way I was feeling. I think I saw my life flash before my eyes! But I'm sorry, too, you guys, I shouldn't have done what I did." There was one of those emotional moments of silence.

Krillin suddenly walked up to him. Not being able to figure out a way to express his happiness without touching him, he raised his hands in the air and said, "It's good to see that you're all right Gohan!" 18 gave Gohan a brief glance that for her said, "I agree." Maron, yet again, looked confused.

"We're all glad to see you're all right," Piccolo said, smiling. "Now don't go pulling anything stupid again and we'll try our best not to."

"What were you mad at me for, anyway?" Gohan asked.

"Oh no, we're not getting into this again!" Piccolo looked very strict for a half a second, but slowly eased off his expression. Everyone stared at him for a moment longer.

"I think we should let him rest, you guys," Bulma finally said. "I mean, it's not like he's going anywhere! Oops, I mean, uh..."

"It's fine, Bulma," Gohan replied. "I won't do anything stupid. I promise."

"Good! Now let's go!" She took Vegeta by the arm and led him out, Piccolo and Krillin's family follwing them. "Come on, Trunks!"

"Aw, Mom, can't I stay just a little bit..."

"I SAID MOVE IT, MISTER!"

"Okay, see ya, Gohan!" Trunks exclaimed and ran out. Goten took another look at his brother and ran off after his friend.

"I'm glad that's over," he muttered. Suddenly, he noticed that Videl was still standing in the corner watching him with tears in her eyes.

"Oh, hi Videl," he said in surprise.

"Hi, Gohan," she said, trying her best not to break down.

"So, um..."

"Oh, Gohan!" she suddenly exclaimed, losing all control of herself, and rushed over and threw her arms around his neck.

"Not again!" he thought.

"Oh, Gohan," she continued. "I thought I was going to loose you! I'm so sorry about the other day! I shouldn't have said any of that. I'm so sorry!"

"Uh, it... it's okay Videl. Now, if you would let me breathe again..." Videl, however, was too lost in her tears to let go, and Gohan eventually gave up and began blushing a little.

"Hey, Gohan?" Goten began, popping his head back in the door. "Mom was wondering... oh! I'm sorry. I'll leave you two alone..."

"No, Goten!" he exclaimed. "It's... it's not!" Goten had disappeared. "Oh well." Videl was still srying and Gohan had a feeling that in a way, she would never let go.

The End

AN: Yucky! That was way too sappy for my tastes! The things I'll write for impact... Oh well. The other ending won't be nearly this disgusting for those of you who think like me. However, it may end up being on the other end of my scale. Oh, the things I do for my readers! All four of them... Okay, now I'm just being weird. Forget those last few sentences.