A/N: Yay!! Jezzica has inspired me to type the next chapter up! I've been really, really busy, and I just thought I'd check my reviews and what did I see??? Have You Had Your Break Today. I was beginning to think I was the only one who remembered the old McDonalds slogan.
Disclaimer: Me no own … well, much of anything, but especially DBZ!
Well, on with the next instalment! And there are 2 words (or three, with the hyphen):
Chapter 4: Break Me Off A Piece of That …
Videl dropped the 'belt', and her lower jaw. For a few moments, there was absolute silence. No teacher had managed to wrangle this kind of silence and attention from the students in the history of Orange Star High. Mr. Shinara's mouth opened and closed, trying to say … something … he wasn't quite sure what, but it didn't seem possible that anybody could just crumple like that, not even the resident nerd. But as with all good things (as far as teachers are concerned), the silence couldn't last, and the moment was over.
"Did you see that?"
"I can't believe it?"
"Is the nerd dead?"
"I dunno, someone poke him!"
"With what?"
"Your foot, dummy!"
"Hey, why don't you do it?"
"I'm not crazy!!"
"And you think I am!?!"
At this point, an impromptu martial arts match started. Mr. Shinara would've stopped it as soon as it started, unfortunately, he was too busy trying to decide what to do. He'd never had anybody die in his class, but there was always a first time for everything. He looked at Videl, who was now standing staring at Gohan, her hands still in the position they had been when she had grabbed the fuzzy thing.
Making up his mind that knowing his student was dead would be better than not knowing, or heaven forbid calling the school nurse (who scared pretty much everyone at Orange Star. She had the record for one of the most accident-safe schools, but not for lack of accidents. Students usually only visited the nurse when they broke bones or something equally serious. Even the teachers were sympathetic to the plight of their students and helped them bandage up after fights, rather than having to take them to the nurses, and be forced to repeat the whole incident to Mrs. White.).
Wishing he was anywhere else, Mr. Shinara cautiously approached Gohan. Pausing to gently nudge Videl away from the body, snapping her out of her shock enough to notice her teacher was about to check on Gohan.
Kneeling beside Gohan, Mr. Shinara proceeded to check to see whether Gohan was still breathing. Videl crouched beside Mr. Shinara and grabbed one of his wrists to check his pulse. Mr. Shinara completed his check-over and turned to Videl.
"Well he's breathing properly, and it doesn't look like there's anything wrong with him."
"His pulse is a little fast, but it's not enough to be concerned with." Videl responded.
"Let's just roll him over, this position can't be too comfortable." Mr. Shinara nodded at Gohan's arm lying upside down, tush in the air, and legs strewn about, not to mention the fuzzy thing.
Taking care not to jostle the young man, they turned him over, Videl blushed as she had to grab his very muscular arms to roll him. So he's kind-of a nut, but he's a gorgeous nut … WAIT-A-MINUTE … did I just say Gohan is a gorgeous anything!! Snap out of it Videl!!
Hoping Mr. Shinara wasn't looking at her, she ran a hand across what she was sure were cherry red cheeks. Thankfully, Mr. Shinara was otherwise occupied with making sure his student was more or less comfortable. Sitting back to survey the 'damage', Mr. Shinara concluded this couldn't be any worse than lacrosse week, and the boy's mother couldn't get too upset over this if Gohan woke up soon.
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Miles away… Chichi sneezed violently. "I wonder if I'm coming down with something. Oh well, I guess we could have chicken soup tonight. Not that my boys will care, as long as it's edible."
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Five minutes had passed. The gym class was pretty much running itself, in other words, not much was being accomplished. The boys had started an loose pyramid to impress the girls with their strength. This was not working for a number of reasons, including things like the larger boys hadn't started the pyramid, Sharpner wanting to flex his muscles while he was holding up part of the middle and shouldn't be moving, and the girls were more interested in the latest gossip about Mary, who was apparently going out with Jeff, who she had broken up with last month when a friend told her that her friend had overheard Scott tell Mark and Greg that Jeff had apparently commented on Karen's new hairdo. In Jeff's defence, it was noted that it was hard not to notice Karen's new hairdo, as she had gone from a brunette to a 5-cloured spike arrangement.
All in all, the only ones paying any attention to Videl, Mr. Shinara and Gohan were themselves, a god, and a certain former god, who had noticed Gohan's power drop off considerably and had thought it might be a good idea to check out the situation. There had been too much peace over the last seven years, and he was worried it was about time another stronger evil showed up on Earth, and knowing how much evil powers seemed to like to attack Gohan without any particular reason, he decided it would be better safe than sorry.
Had Gohan been conscious, he may have been able to reassure Piccolo of his well-being and dissuade his well-meaning mentor from coming to his 'rescue'. Unfortunately for Gohan, he was currently zonked right out of it, having a rather disturbing dream.
"Nmmm … not my uncle … goway…" He mumbled.
"Huh?" Videl commented. Moments before, Mr. Shinara had decided that it may be a good idea to brave bothering Mrs. White, and had gone off with instructions to send someone after him if he wasn't back in an hour.
Gohan, blissfully unaware of what was going on around him, continued to talk in his sleep, unaware Videl was now listening very closely to what he was saying, hoping to figure out the enigma (mystery) that was Gohan.
"mmm … Radditz … leave my daddy alone … don't … no … can't … Piclo … too scared … no … Vegeta … don't kill dad … won't let you … he's too strong … destroy Earth …"
Videl leaned closer, hoping to find out what Gohan was babbling about.
"What's going on here!?!" A gruff voice barked.
Videl spun around and …
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That's all she wrote this time folks! I'm trying not to make this story too rushed (without dragging it out too much), please let me know if you think I'm doing it one way or the other. Thanks to everyone else who had taken time to review (I still can't believe this many people like my story!), and constructive criticism is most definitely appreciated.
