AN: I GOT 100 REVIEWS!!!!! (*Does happy Snoopy dance!*) Triple Creasent
has the honor of being my 100th reviewer, and (using her other pen name),
was my first reviewer as well!! How very special...and, as a reward... I'm
going to get closer to what she wants to hear. I think what she wants will
have to take place a more... humorous... time. Anyway, this should be an
excruciatingly long chapter, but some interesting stuff happens (at least I
hope it's interesting).
SO ON WITH THE STORY
Chapter 16 The Truth Foretold
Videl sat in class, staring off into space, *That voice... it's so familiar. Who is it though? The voice is male, and I said "son" while talking to him. I know he's the son of a former world champion, one who was killed by Cell seven years ago, and he may know how the mysterious fighters at the Cell Games seemed to fly and blow things up. WHO IS HE?! And why can't I remember having that conversation...* Videl looked over at her fellow classmates. Sharpner was sitting with his head in his hands, trying, yet failing, to stay awake. Erasa was shifting her gaze between the teacher and the boy sitting next to her, spending more time staring at the boy than at the teacher. Gohan was being Gohan, paying attention to the teacher while being at least three steps ahead of her at the same time. Finally Videl's gaze fell on Lime. When she had first met Lime she hadn't liked her that much, Lime kept secrets, something Videl didn't like. But, like Gohan, she had a pure and innocent soul, one that made her hard to hate, even with her secrets.
The bell finally rang, causing all the students to jump up and run for the door, all the students except for a few towards the back. Gohan and his friends were in no particular rush to leave school that day; they still had a project to work on. After packing up and walking out the door the teens split up and went to their respective lockers before meeting in front of the school a few minutes later.
"Ok," Videl started, "I have permission to fly as far as West City but we can't all fit in my jet copter."
"Well I can take someone with me in my car and we can drive," Sharpner volunteered, "but you'll get there before me Videl, so we should meet somewhere."
"I have an idea," Lime chimed in, "Why don't Gohan and I go with Videl and Erasa go with you and we all meet up at Capsule Corp. That is if it's ok with you Videl?" Lime smiled sweetly at Videl.
"Well," Videl said, "I guess that works." *And I'll have ample time to question Gohan and Lime about what they are both hiding...* "So let's get going." Gohan shook his head in amazement; Lime had worked out her plan perfectly. Videl de-capsulated her jet copter and the trio got inside and took off.
"So..." Lime said after a few minutes of tense silence.
"Why did you want me, you and Gohan in the jet copter, Lime?" Videl asked glaring at Lime suspiciously out of the corner of her eye.
"Oh, that, well I thought it was a really good idea at the time. But I did have an ulterior motive.. I don't want anything to do with your project, way too many bad memories, but Gohan convinced me to stay in West City with him until this whole project thing is done. I really just wanted a quick ride back to CC and I didn't feel like going with Sharpner or Erasa, so here we are."
"Ok, that explains why you wanted to meet at Capsule Corp but why didn't you just use your normal ride home, and why is Gohan here... No offense to you Gohan."
"Right..." Gohan said sarcastically. Videl turned and glared at him, "I was joking, just watch where we're going please Videl. I hate these old jet copter things..."
"OLD!!! This thing is the best jet copter on the market!"
"Exactly, Bulma doesn't release anything for sale until she already has created something at least twice as good, it guarantees that she'll have the best there is for sale."
"Whatever, are you going to answer my questions or not Lime?"
"Yeah, that was amusing though. Well I didn't use Nimbus cause Goten has it for the time being."
"LIME!!! She's not supposed to know about Nimbus!"
"Um... oops. She saw me use it when you were away Gohan, I'm really sorry.." Lime said, her green eyes brimming with tears.
"No don't cry!" Gohan said waving his hands in front of him as if to ward of the action, "It's all right, just don't cry." Lime smiled smugly at Gohan as he continued, "So Videl, what did you think of Nimbus?"
"Actually I want to know something Gohan, how is it that your father knew Master Roshi?"
"Umm..." Gohan gulped, "actually, my dad trained under Master Roshi..."
"YOUR father knew martial arts?"
"Yeah, he knew a little, he only trained under him for a year or so though." (AN: Technically he only trained with Master Roshi for that year before the first Tournament, unless my sense of DB/Z time is distorted again...)
"Oh, well, I do like the cloud. Do you think that I could ride it sometime?"
"Well, he is kinda picky about whom he lets ride, but you're welcome to try someday if you really want to."
"Thanks a lot Gohan; I've always wanted to fly without one of these jet copters, ever since I saw the Cell Games broadcast... but Dad says they only flew by using tricks." Videl sighed. Gohan looked over to Videl wondering, *I wonder what she thinks of my flying all the time when I help her fight crime, no wonder she wants to find Saiyaman's alter ego, she wants to see how it is that I fly the way I do...*
"That must have been heartbreaking, hearing that you couldn't fly the way they could." Lime said to Videl, but watching Gohan's expression as he stared at Videl.
"Yeah, it kinda was..." Gohan sat deep in thought, *Maybe I'll talk to her as Saiyaman, explain that I really can fly, hey maybe I can even teach her one day... when she's ready for the truth.* "Well, we're here." Videl said as the Capsule Corp building came into sight. "Gohan, where should I land this thing?"
"Hmm... never really thought of that..... Well, just land in the grass there in the back of the building." Gohan pointed to a large open area close to CC's main building. Videl landed the jet copter and the trio stepped out. Videl re-capsulated the vehicle and they walked inside the building via a back door. The teens walked through some of the hallways looking for Bulma.
"Hey Gohan, Lime," said a voice from behind them. Gohan turned and saw Trunks standing behind them.
"Oh, hi Trunks; where're your parents at?"
"Well mom's out in the hanger and dad's training like normal... The other one is in the park; he always seems really excited to hang out or actually train with dad but he also has this tendency to sit in the park and stare at the trees and stuff like a sap."
"Be nice Trunks, he had a really hard life. How would you like it if Vegeta and Goten and everyone else were dead? His home was decimated; nature is something he's never really seen in its entirety." Gohan said, once again making Videl suspicious of his words.
"What do you mean "other one" and what happened to him?" Videl asked looking to Trunks for the answers, since she knew Gohan would never give her a straight answer.
"The "other one" is a relative, he looks almost exactly like an adult version of me," Trunks said while participating in a glaring contest with Gohan, "and his whole town and everything and everyone in and around it were destroyed when he was just a kid. His mother, his sensei, and he were the only survivors."
"Oh, I'm so sorry..." Videl said averting her eyes to the ground.
"Don't worry about it Videl," Gohan said taking his eyes off of Trunks, "Why don't you and Lime go to the private living room and wait, while I go and find Bulma?" Videl and Lime both nodded their heads and Lime led the way down the hall. Gohan then turned back to Trunks. "Ya know, I think I overestimated your evil streak Trunks. I could have sworn that you would have used that opportunity to tell Videl about, well, everything."
"I only kept my moth shut because I was hoping that you would, maybe... not punish me for what I did at your school?" Trunks tried to look as innocent as possible, but, being the son of Vegeta, it was a task that he could not easily accomplish.
"Don't think so Trunks, but if you keep up the nice kid act 'til then maybe I'll lessen it... just a little." Gohan waved to Trunks as he headed towards the hanger where Bulma was fixing up the spaceship that Gohan had taken into space.
"Yeah right," Trunks muttered as he watched Gohan's retreating figure, "If you won't do that for me maybe I should tell dad your little secret, like who that girl REALLY is..." Trunks smirked and walked off to find the two girls who had been left alone somewhere in CC. Trunks walked down the halls for ten minutes, trying to remember where it was that Gohan had told them to wait. "Damn, why can't I find those two in my own house? I wonder where dad is.. Hehe, he's not in the GR anymore, wait... Why don't I just sense them out?" Trunks slapped his hand up against his forehead as he extended his senses and located the two girls, only two rooms away from his current location.
Lime and Videl had gotten slightly lost in their search for the private living area. As they walked through the halls Videl suddenly stooped in front of a door that was slightly ajar. "Hey, what's in here?" she asked pushing the door open as she spoke.
"Videl! You really shouldn't snoop around; Vegeta would be really pissed if he found you somewhere you REALLY shouldn't be." Lime attempted to pull the girl down the hall but Videl broke free of her grip and entered the room.
The room itself looked like a library of sorts, but it also had a large screen hanging on one wall and a projector facing it. The walls themselves were filled top to bottom with books and plans; some looked very old while others were still glistening with wet ink. There was a large fireplace off to one side and a loveseat facing the fire, a small end table off to one side of it. The mantle of the fireplace was the thing that Videl eventually focused on. It was full of pictures, pictures of Bulma and people that looked like her friends and family.
Videl picked up a picture taken of Bulma and her friends when she was only a teenager. "This is Ms. Briefs... and the man with his arm on her shoulder is Yamcha isn't it?" Lime looked over Videl's shoulder and glanced at the picture.
"Yeah, I think that's Yamcha, they used to date, and the cat above their heads is named Puar, he's Yamcha's oldest friend. The two kids are Krillin, he's the bald one, and the other one is Gohan's father. I don't know about that pig though, or the other woman..." Videl nodded her head and looked at the photo for a moment longer before replacing it and picking up another.
This was a photo of Goku and the others after the 23rd Tournament. "Ya know," Videl said, "This guy, you said he was Gohan's father, he looks really familiar." Lime looked at the picture for a moment seemingly deep in thought.
"Well I guess he would look really familiar to you, since you are a fighter and all. Gohan has this same picture at his house, he said it was taken after his parents wedding, that's them in the middle," she said pointing to Goku and Chichi, "There's Master Roshi and the others I said before, oh and those two are Tien and Chaoutzu, Tien may look familiar as well cause he was the winner of the 22nd Tournament..."
"You two really shouldn't be in here." The two girls jumped at the sound, Videl dropped the picture causing the glass to shatter as it hit the ground. "Mom liked that picture too. She said it celebrated the "victory of a true warrior and not a buffoon", it was the only thing mom and dad could really agree upon when it came to Goku."
"I'm sure that's not true," Videl said as she started to pick up the pieces that had scattered all around her, "there are some things that you can't argue... Like a person's name for instance."
"Nope," Trunks said as he sat down on the loveseat to watch the girls pick up the glass on the ground, "they couldn't even agree on that, dad says that since Goku isn't his real name he shouldn't have to call him by it."
"Goku... That name sounds so familiar..." Videl trailed off as she tried to think off where she had heard that name before. She stopped though when she caught something out of the corner of her eye. She picked it up, *Hmmm... I wonder what this is? It must have been hidden inside of the picture but why?* Videl opened the small piece of paper and gasped. "What the hell!!??" Trunks was up faster than they could see and snatched the photo right from Videl's hands.
He looked at the picture and paled, "This is something that proves you shouldn't be in here at all. Now, why don't I take you to the proper place and you can wait for Gohan. Oh and don't mention that you saw this picture, not to anyone or you'll not like what you're told." The two girls followed behind Trunks as the young boy led them to the private living area and told them to stay put, then left them there.
"The people in that picture, they were floating!" Videl said angrily to Lime after Trunks was gone, "How do people do tricks like that? And why does Bulma Briefs have a picture of people floating, and one of them was her husband!!"
"Videl, please be quiet!" Lime said trying to calm the older girl down, "I hate to tell you this Videl but Vegeta doesn't like people very much, and if he heard you calling him Bulma's "husband" he'd kick your a$$."
"Yeah right, I AM the daughter of the World Champion and the second strongest person in the world, he couldn't beat me if he wanted to."
"Ya know Videl," Lime was glaring at Videl rather angrily, "you really aren't the second strongest in the world, and don't interrupt me," she said as she saw Videl open her mouth to protest, "If you would stop being so arrogant and closed minded you might just learn something. There are other ways of doing things then the way you know, maybe, just maybe, people really can fly; and if so then maybe those people are stronger than you. If you just thought for a second that there is more out there than you can explain then maybe you'd have more friends. You spend all your time trying to find a flaw in the people around you, you don't have any faith in people Videl and that scares people away. I do understand that you are skeptical of people due to your line of work as a crime fighter but that doesn't give you the right to interrogate innocent people. Gohan and I both have our secrets as do many people, and maybe if you were a more accepting person then people would open up more to you." Lime sighed heavily and sat back down next to the shocked Videl. She placed her head n her hands and began to silently cry.
Videl just sat there in shock. *Is that what I am, closed minded? Am I really that hard to talk to? Maybe she is right... maybe if I weren't such a horrible person then I would have more friends. Gohan seems like such a nice guy, even if he is a little quirky, and all I have ever done is interrogate him about his secrets, why do Lime and him even talk to me?* "Lime," Videl said softly, "I... I'm so sorry. You're right... I'm such a horrible person, why do you even have anything to do with me?"
Lime looked up, her face stained with tears, "Because Videl, you have a destiny, I know it for a fact that you will have an important role to play in the history of this world, and because you're not a horrible person. You ARE in need of a little work but, deep down, you are a good person. You care about people, that's why you risk your life to save so many, and that's what attracts kindred spirits, like Gohan's, the two of you are more alike then you know Videl, just give him a chance. Stop listening to your head and listen to your heart for a change, he won't hurt you and neither will I." Videl looked at Lime as she dried her eyes and smiled lightly at Videl. Videl smiled in return.
"How did you get do smart?"
"I had a good teacher, and I wonder what happened to him... Gohan should have been back a while ago..."
"I'm here," Gohan said as he walked into the room, "I was just making sure it was ok that we all meet here at CC. Bulma turned on some of the remote cameras; they should tell us when Sharpner and Erasa enter the city and then give us a warning a few minutes before they arrive. I think it's better if Sharpner NOT come back in here, Vegeta may decide not to let him live this time." Gohan said grinning at the thought.
"Well," Videl said, "I think that Vegeta guy needs some anger management or something."
"Do I now?" The trio turned to the door, only to find Vegeta standing there leaning up against the door frame, Trunks was at his heels smirking. "Brat, what did I tell you about bringing weaklings like her into my house, it's bad enough that that other girl is here but I thought I told you NOT to bring any more here?"
"I know Vegeta and I apologize. This is my friend Videl, she didn't mean what she just said and she's not staying for very long. I promise that she will be of no bother to you." Vegeta just glared at Videl, while Videl herself glared at Gohan.
"Who said I was sorry?" Videl asked angrily, "Anyone who attempts to kill people should be locked up, and don't speak for me Gohan, my father does that enough as it is!"
"Please Videl," Gohan sighed, "just drop it."
"He doesn't scare me; I'm the daughter of Mr. Satan and..." Videl stopped as she saw Vegeta lunge forward. She braced herself for the attack, but it never came. She looked up and found Gohan standing in front of her, his hand tightly clasped around Vegeta's wrist.
"How dare you!" Vegeta said, standing up and reclaiming his fist, "You brought the daughter of that f*&%ing b@$%@*d into MY home! You have stepped over the line this time boy. I do not understand why you let that sad, pathetic, lying excuse for a man live after what he did to you and your family."
"Gohan," Videl squeaked, "What is he taking about? What did my father do?"
"It doesn't matter Videl," Gohan said sadly, looking at the ground as he spoke, "We should go wait somewhere else, let's go." Videl continued to stare at Gohan, dumbstruck, but she followed after him anyway. Gohan stopped in the doorway and held the door open for the two girls to pass though. They walked into the hall and continued down the hallway a little ways, as they did this Gohan turned to face the enraged Prince. "Ya know Vegeta, you should be very glad that none of us here on Earth have the same attitude as you do, cause if we did you probably would be dead right now. We don't hold your crimes against Trunks, and we don't hold the crimes of your people against you; in return you should not hold Mr. Satan's actions against his daughter, she is an innocent Vegeta, something that you can not claim yourself." With that Gohan walked out the door and down the hall. He passed the two girls who were waiting for him and kept walking at the same pace down the hall, causing the girls to jog to catch up with him.
"Gohan what was that all about?" Videl asked cautiously.
"That was Vegeta being a jerk. Videl, don't pay any attention to what Vegeta said about your father, he's not a very sociable person."
"But what did my father do to make him so mad? What did he do to you Gohan; I want to know, please!" Gohan stopped and looked into Videl's eyes for a moment, *She seems to honestly want to know, does she really care about what her father did to upset my friends so much? Well, maybe I'll tell her a little about her father's true self, she deserves to be told the about her father, even if she is too stubborn to believe me...*
"I guess you should know the truth about your own father, at least what I can tell you of it... Hey Lime, do me a favor and go and tell Bulma that we'll be in the animal park until the others arrive, ok?"
"Sure Gohan," Lime said smiling lightly before turning and walking down the hall to find Bulma. Gohan led Videl into the park and they sat down next to each other under a tree. They sat in silence for moment as Gohan worked out what he was going to say.
"I really don't know how to say any of this Videl."
Videl smiled, "Stop being so shy and just tell me why it is that my family is hated by you and your group of friends."
"They don't have anything against you personally Videl; it's just what you represent to them. We gave Vegeta a second chance and, although he's annoying most of the time, he has proven himself as a powerful ally. Vegeta has trained to be the strongest fighter in the universe since the day he was born, he considers your father's actions and boasts to be in contradiction of what he believes a warrior's actions should be."
"Well on that point I actually agree with Vegeta, my father doesn't even train anymore, he's so cocky that he'll win every fight since he's the "Great Savior of the World" he always says that he can't be beat... oh my Kami... do I act like that?"
"Well..."
"I guess Lime was right, I never give ANYONE a chance anymore."
"You could say that or you could just say that you're overly cautious about people's motives is all."
"Gohan I am so sorry for everything. I was so horrible to you, and everyone for that matter," she began to cry causing Gohan to panic.
"No, no it's all right Videl, it really is..... besides you had a good reason for always being on my case, and that reason was that, although I tried not to, I did lie to you sometimes. I hate having to lie and hide who I am all the time, if people were a little more open then maybe I wouldn't... but I can't change everyone so I guess it doesn't really matter. So I should be the one apologizing to you! Just stop crying please!!" Videl looked up and sniffed, then dried her eyes.
"Ya know, you're right, you should be the one apologizing, but I promise to leave you alone from now on. I guess you have the right to your secrets, just like everyone else... But don't think that gets you off the hook today, you still haven't told me what my father did to you and your family."
"Oh well..."
"And don't lie to me!"
"Ok, you remember when my mom said that she was a fighter?" Videl nodded, "Well my father was also a fighter, and he trained under Master Roshi for a little while when he was a young boy. My grand father was also a student of Master Roshi a long time before my father and that's how my dad met Roshi and my mother."
"And your father's name is Goku?"
"Yup."
"Son Goku?"
"Uh, yeah..."
"Your father is the former World Champion!?" Gohan nodded, cringing I anticipation of her next words, "Why do I feel like we've had this conversation before?" She sighed and leaned back up against the tree, her eyes closed. Gohan stopped cringing and blinked at her confused by her response.
"Actually... we have, please let me finish before you yell though," Gohan added anticipating a barrage of questions form the girl beside him, "When I told you before you reacted rather badly, so I asked the former God of the Earth to erase your memory of the event, so that when I told you at another point in time, after we knew each other more, I could explain things fully without worrying about you telling anyone or demanding a deciding fight between the two of us."
"Gohan, I never would have told, I did want to fight you, but that was because I believed I was the best out there, and I believed my father's lies about the previous winners using tricks to fight. I am sorry, and I promise not to tell, on one condition..." Gohan gulped, "you have to teach me how to fly, I know you have to know how seeing as I saw your father flying in an old video of the 23rd Tournament... and a picture of Vegeta flying with Bulma." Gohan sighed heavily.
"And I thought you'd ask for a fight again."
"Well," Videl said her eyes gleaming with deviousness, "I do still want to fight, but I want you to go to the World Championships in two months so I can fight you there. You owe me that for erasing my memory, plus the winner gets 10milion Zennie, but of course you'll have to go through me and my father first..." She smiled at him as sweetly as she could manage, causing him to bury his head in his hands.
"I'll ask if it's ok, and, while I'm at it, I'll invite everyone else I know who used to fight at the tournaments." Gohan smirked at her, "They all know how to fly and many are former champs themselves." Videl rolled her eyes.
"So now all you have to do is TELL ME HOW YOU KNOW GOD!!!" Gohan covered his ears with his hands as she screamed at him, and from only a foot away!
"That's a long story that I promise to tell you at another time, but Lime just walked in, don't ask me explain how I know that, but we should go." Gohan stood up and extended his hand to help Videl to her feet. Videl stared at his hand for a moment, trying to figure out how Gohan was so polite all the time, then grabbed a hold of it and jumped up. The two began walking and momentarily came upon Lime waving at them to get their attention.
"Well, it's time for the two of you to go, Sharpner and Erasa should be here in a few minutes and Vegeta is out near the front of the house so you should probably go out the back to avoid him."
"Thanks Lime, I appreciate it. Are you sure that you don't want to come with us?"
"I'm sure; I have things to do before I leave next week."
"And when are you going to tell me where you're going? I promised your grandfather I'd look after you, and I refuse to break my promise, so where are you going?"
"Alright, I'll tell you, but not now, your friends are coming soon and you need to get going."
"We're going, but you'd better tell me when I get back."
"Lime nodded, "Have fun, and watch out for strangers!" Lime smiled cheerily. Gohan looked at her for a moment as he thought, *I really don't understand her sometimes, she always seems to know more than she lets on...*
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Videl snapped rather angrily.
"Well you're in a good mood aren't you...? Did I interrupt something important?" She looked from Videl to Gohan smiling mischievously.
"No Lime you didn't I just have a lot on my mind, I'm sorry for snapping."
"Hmm... Well, I didn't mean anything really, just a comment," Lim stated, "No its time to go, bye!" Lime waved as the couple walked out the doors of the park area.
"So what did they talk about?" Lime asked to the air.
"Nothing much," came the reply, "I think Gohan likes her though, he didn't even notice I was here." Lime looked up as Mirai leaped from the trees and landed behind her. Lime smiled at him.
"I know... Oh, I was wondering if you could do me a favor." Mirai looked at her questioningly, "It's nothing big, but Gohan promised to teach me to fly; he taught me the basics of ki control in his spare time but, after your little meeting tonight, I don't think that Gohan will have the time to finish before I leave next week."
"HOW do you know about the meeting??"
"I have my ways, but now's not the time. Will you teach me or not?" *Please say yes!!* Lime thought, *I need to keep him occupied for just a little while... and learning how to fly while I do it is just a pleasant side effect.*
"Fine, I guess... You're a strange girl you know that?" Lime smiled sweetly at him causing him to laugh, "So, where do you want to start..."
Gohan and Videl walked out the doors deep in conversation. "I promise I'll teach you how to fly, just not tonight, I have a previous engagement..."
"Flying is easy," claimed a feminine voice that drifted down to them from the trees. Gohan and Videl looked around for a moment before coming across an astonishing sight. There, standing gracefully on a small limb of a tree a hundred feet above their heads, was a young woman. She looked no older then twenty five, and was staring at them intently with her piercing sapphire eyes. With a small giggle she leaped off the branch and landed, in a sitting position, on another branch about ten feet above the ground. She wore black leather pants with tall black boots; and a tight, black spandex, sleeveless top. Her long black hair hung down behind her, an interracially designed golden ring about halfway down the length of her hair was holding it together. She had a sword with a golden hilt hanging from her hip on a thick black belt and a knife strapped to her thigh. She smiled at the two of them as they stared at her. "Now, now, Gohan it's not nice to stare... Your friend, Videl is it? She might get jealous." She giggled again, her laugh was slightly childish and innocent in nature and Gohan would have thought her completely harmless, were it not for her weapons and unusually low ki.
"Who are you? And how do you know my name?" Gohan asked.
"And why should I not know of your identity? You are the famous Son Gohan, the boy who defeated Cell and banished the worm Garlic Jr. into the Dead Zone. The son of Son Goku, the man who, not only defeated the Red Ribbon Army and Demon King Piccolo single handedly, but became the World Martial Arts Champion at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, the first Super Saiyan in a thousand years and is one of the last of the Saiyan race."
"Who are you and what do you want?" Gohan moved in front of Videl in case she decided to attack suddenly.
She began to laugh once again, "I am no threat to you; I know you could defeat me in an instant if you used your full power, but I am not interested in fighting you right now... Although I could use good spar, I haven't had one in..." the woman paused, reflecting on the memory, "well it really doesn't matter. The only reason I am here," she said softly as she floated down closer to the ground, stopping about six feet above the grass, her feet did not touch the ground although her hair was brushing the longer blades of grass very lightly. Her eyes were even with Gohan's, and only a few inches away from his, as she resumed speaking, "is to introduce myself to you, well, after a fashion at least... It has been a pleasure young hero; I look forward to our next meeting. Keep alert though, for I can guarantee that I will see you before you can see me." She smiled again, and blowing a kiss to Gohan, disappeared into the trees, jumping nimbly from limb to limb without making a sound or moving a leaf.
"Gohan, who the HELL was that, and what the HELL was she talking about!" Videl looked rather upset at the woman's audacity and Gohan's response to her.
"Ya know Videl, I really don't have a clue, but I think we should be on guard, she may be an ally, or a new enemy..." Gohan stood, staring off into the trees where the mysterious woman had disappeared into.
AN: I love mysterious figures. I'm sure some of you know who she is (like the one who created her) but I'm not gonna tell you specifically here in case you don't though. She's one of my favorite original characters, I'm so happy that I'm the one that gets to write about her, that way she stays my favorite! Yay!! Anyway, I have to say something that you all might not like very much, I'm taking a small break from this. I have hit a little writer's block, I know where I want to go with stuff but I can't seem to discover how to get there. Plus I was re reading my old chapters and noticed the ST1 was right in his review. I know I can write better than I have in some of my older chapters, so I'm gonna go back and edit them all, making them better and longer (I hope) and maybe adding in a few new scenes, hopefully nothing that will alter the plotline though. That's where my mailing list comes into play, if I massively change a chapter I will email everyone o the list when I post it, just in case they are bored enough to read it. Don't hurt me though, I won't be gone long, I will put up a new chapter when I come back from London in the middle of March (I'm going to London! I'm going to London! I'm so happy!!!), until then everything will probably be just a rewrite. I'm gonna add a useless facts portion too so if you have any random uselees (or useful facts) that somehow relate to DB/Z or something that people don't seem to really get about it then email it to me. Oh, and I have a new story up (it's an original though) that I'm told its funny... It was inspired by Goku in DB and way too many hours of pointless RPG side-quests (especially the Final Fantasy series and Zelda...) others helped with it, yadda, yadda... Feel free to email me anytime about anything, I love email... And don't forget to REVIEW!!!!!
Chapter 16 The Truth Foretold
Videl sat in class, staring off into space, *That voice... it's so familiar. Who is it though? The voice is male, and I said "son" while talking to him. I know he's the son of a former world champion, one who was killed by Cell seven years ago, and he may know how the mysterious fighters at the Cell Games seemed to fly and blow things up. WHO IS HE?! And why can't I remember having that conversation...* Videl looked over at her fellow classmates. Sharpner was sitting with his head in his hands, trying, yet failing, to stay awake. Erasa was shifting her gaze between the teacher and the boy sitting next to her, spending more time staring at the boy than at the teacher. Gohan was being Gohan, paying attention to the teacher while being at least three steps ahead of her at the same time. Finally Videl's gaze fell on Lime. When she had first met Lime she hadn't liked her that much, Lime kept secrets, something Videl didn't like. But, like Gohan, she had a pure and innocent soul, one that made her hard to hate, even with her secrets.
The bell finally rang, causing all the students to jump up and run for the door, all the students except for a few towards the back. Gohan and his friends were in no particular rush to leave school that day; they still had a project to work on. After packing up and walking out the door the teens split up and went to their respective lockers before meeting in front of the school a few minutes later.
"Ok," Videl started, "I have permission to fly as far as West City but we can't all fit in my jet copter."
"Well I can take someone with me in my car and we can drive," Sharpner volunteered, "but you'll get there before me Videl, so we should meet somewhere."
"I have an idea," Lime chimed in, "Why don't Gohan and I go with Videl and Erasa go with you and we all meet up at Capsule Corp. That is if it's ok with you Videl?" Lime smiled sweetly at Videl.
"Well," Videl said, "I guess that works." *And I'll have ample time to question Gohan and Lime about what they are both hiding...* "So let's get going." Gohan shook his head in amazement; Lime had worked out her plan perfectly. Videl de-capsulated her jet copter and the trio got inside and took off.
"So..." Lime said after a few minutes of tense silence.
"Why did you want me, you and Gohan in the jet copter, Lime?" Videl asked glaring at Lime suspiciously out of the corner of her eye.
"Oh, that, well I thought it was a really good idea at the time. But I did have an ulterior motive.. I don't want anything to do with your project, way too many bad memories, but Gohan convinced me to stay in West City with him until this whole project thing is done. I really just wanted a quick ride back to CC and I didn't feel like going with Sharpner or Erasa, so here we are."
"Ok, that explains why you wanted to meet at Capsule Corp but why didn't you just use your normal ride home, and why is Gohan here... No offense to you Gohan."
"Right..." Gohan said sarcastically. Videl turned and glared at him, "I was joking, just watch where we're going please Videl. I hate these old jet copter things..."
"OLD!!! This thing is the best jet copter on the market!"
"Exactly, Bulma doesn't release anything for sale until she already has created something at least twice as good, it guarantees that she'll have the best there is for sale."
"Whatever, are you going to answer my questions or not Lime?"
"Yeah, that was amusing though. Well I didn't use Nimbus cause Goten has it for the time being."
"LIME!!! She's not supposed to know about Nimbus!"
"Um... oops. She saw me use it when you were away Gohan, I'm really sorry.." Lime said, her green eyes brimming with tears.
"No don't cry!" Gohan said waving his hands in front of him as if to ward of the action, "It's all right, just don't cry." Lime smiled smugly at Gohan as he continued, "So Videl, what did you think of Nimbus?"
"Actually I want to know something Gohan, how is it that your father knew Master Roshi?"
"Umm..." Gohan gulped, "actually, my dad trained under Master Roshi..."
"YOUR father knew martial arts?"
"Yeah, he knew a little, he only trained under him for a year or so though." (AN: Technically he only trained with Master Roshi for that year before the first Tournament, unless my sense of DB/Z time is distorted again...)
"Oh, well, I do like the cloud. Do you think that I could ride it sometime?"
"Well, he is kinda picky about whom he lets ride, but you're welcome to try someday if you really want to."
"Thanks a lot Gohan; I've always wanted to fly without one of these jet copters, ever since I saw the Cell Games broadcast... but Dad says they only flew by using tricks." Videl sighed. Gohan looked over to Videl wondering, *I wonder what she thinks of my flying all the time when I help her fight crime, no wonder she wants to find Saiyaman's alter ego, she wants to see how it is that I fly the way I do...*
"That must have been heartbreaking, hearing that you couldn't fly the way they could." Lime said to Videl, but watching Gohan's expression as he stared at Videl.
"Yeah, it kinda was..." Gohan sat deep in thought, *Maybe I'll talk to her as Saiyaman, explain that I really can fly, hey maybe I can even teach her one day... when she's ready for the truth.* "Well, we're here." Videl said as the Capsule Corp building came into sight. "Gohan, where should I land this thing?"
"Hmm... never really thought of that..... Well, just land in the grass there in the back of the building." Gohan pointed to a large open area close to CC's main building. Videl landed the jet copter and the trio stepped out. Videl re-capsulated the vehicle and they walked inside the building via a back door. The teens walked through some of the hallways looking for Bulma.
"Hey Gohan, Lime," said a voice from behind them. Gohan turned and saw Trunks standing behind them.
"Oh, hi Trunks; where're your parents at?"
"Well mom's out in the hanger and dad's training like normal... The other one is in the park; he always seems really excited to hang out or actually train with dad but he also has this tendency to sit in the park and stare at the trees and stuff like a sap."
"Be nice Trunks, he had a really hard life. How would you like it if Vegeta and Goten and everyone else were dead? His home was decimated; nature is something he's never really seen in its entirety." Gohan said, once again making Videl suspicious of his words.
"What do you mean "other one" and what happened to him?" Videl asked looking to Trunks for the answers, since she knew Gohan would never give her a straight answer.
"The "other one" is a relative, he looks almost exactly like an adult version of me," Trunks said while participating in a glaring contest with Gohan, "and his whole town and everything and everyone in and around it were destroyed when he was just a kid. His mother, his sensei, and he were the only survivors."
"Oh, I'm so sorry..." Videl said averting her eyes to the ground.
"Don't worry about it Videl," Gohan said taking his eyes off of Trunks, "Why don't you and Lime go to the private living room and wait, while I go and find Bulma?" Videl and Lime both nodded their heads and Lime led the way down the hall. Gohan then turned back to Trunks. "Ya know, I think I overestimated your evil streak Trunks. I could have sworn that you would have used that opportunity to tell Videl about, well, everything."
"I only kept my moth shut because I was hoping that you would, maybe... not punish me for what I did at your school?" Trunks tried to look as innocent as possible, but, being the son of Vegeta, it was a task that he could not easily accomplish.
"Don't think so Trunks, but if you keep up the nice kid act 'til then maybe I'll lessen it... just a little." Gohan waved to Trunks as he headed towards the hanger where Bulma was fixing up the spaceship that Gohan had taken into space.
"Yeah right," Trunks muttered as he watched Gohan's retreating figure, "If you won't do that for me maybe I should tell dad your little secret, like who that girl REALLY is..." Trunks smirked and walked off to find the two girls who had been left alone somewhere in CC. Trunks walked down the halls for ten minutes, trying to remember where it was that Gohan had told them to wait. "Damn, why can't I find those two in my own house? I wonder where dad is.. Hehe, he's not in the GR anymore, wait... Why don't I just sense them out?" Trunks slapped his hand up against his forehead as he extended his senses and located the two girls, only two rooms away from his current location.
Lime and Videl had gotten slightly lost in their search for the private living area. As they walked through the halls Videl suddenly stooped in front of a door that was slightly ajar. "Hey, what's in here?" she asked pushing the door open as she spoke.
"Videl! You really shouldn't snoop around; Vegeta would be really pissed if he found you somewhere you REALLY shouldn't be." Lime attempted to pull the girl down the hall but Videl broke free of her grip and entered the room.
The room itself looked like a library of sorts, but it also had a large screen hanging on one wall and a projector facing it. The walls themselves were filled top to bottom with books and plans; some looked very old while others were still glistening with wet ink. There was a large fireplace off to one side and a loveseat facing the fire, a small end table off to one side of it. The mantle of the fireplace was the thing that Videl eventually focused on. It was full of pictures, pictures of Bulma and people that looked like her friends and family.
Videl picked up a picture taken of Bulma and her friends when she was only a teenager. "This is Ms. Briefs... and the man with his arm on her shoulder is Yamcha isn't it?" Lime looked over Videl's shoulder and glanced at the picture.
"Yeah, I think that's Yamcha, they used to date, and the cat above their heads is named Puar, he's Yamcha's oldest friend. The two kids are Krillin, he's the bald one, and the other one is Gohan's father. I don't know about that pig though, or the other woman..." Videl nodded her head and looked at the photo for a moment longer before replacing it and picking up another.
This was a photo of Goku and the others after the 23rd Tournament. "Ya know," Videl said, "This guy, you said he was Gohan's father, he looks really familiar." Lime looked at the picture for a moment seemingly deep in thought.
"Well I guess he would look really familiar to you, since you are a fighter and all. Gohan has this same picture at his house, he said it was taken after his parents wedding, that's them in the middle," she said pointing to Goku and Chichi, "There's Master Roshi and the others I said before, oh and those two are Tien and Chaoutzu, Tien may look familiar as well cause he was the winner of the 22nd Tournament..."
"You two really shouldn't be in here." The two girls jumped at the sound, Videl dropped the picture causing the glass to shatter as it hit the ground. "Mom liked that picture too. She said it celebrated the "victory of a true warrior and not a buffoon", it was the only thing mom and dad could really agree upon when it came to Goku."
"I'm sure that's not true," Videl said as she started to pick up the pieces that had scattered all around her, "there are some things that you can't argue... Like a person's name for instance."
"Nope," Trunks said as he sat down on the loveseat to watch the girls pick up the glass on the ground, "they couldn't even agree on that, dad says that since Goku isn't his real name he shouldn't have to call him by it."
"Goku... That name sounds so familiar..." Videl trailed off as she tried to think off where she had heard that name before. She stopped though when she caught something out of the corner of her eye. She picked it up, *Hmmm... I wonder what this is? It must have been hidden inside of the picture but why?* Videl opened the small piece of paper and gasped. "What the hell!!??" Trunks was up faster than they could see and snatched the photo right from Videl's hands.
He looked at the picture and paled, "This is something that proves you shouldn't be in here at all. Now, why don't I take you to the proper place and you can wait for Gohan. Oh and don't mention that you saw this picture, not to anyone or you'll not like what you're told." The two girls followed behind Trunks as the young boy led them to the private living area and told them to stay put, then left them there.
"The people in that picture, they were floating!" Videl said angrily to Lime after Trunks was gone, "How do people do tricks like that? And why does Bulma Briefs have a picture of people floating, and one of them was her husband!!"
"Videl, please be quiet!" Lime said trying to calm the older girl down, "I hate to tell you this Videl but Vegeta doesn't like people very much, and if he heard you calling him Bulma's "husband" he'd kick your a$$."
"Yeah right, I AM the daughter of the World Champion and the second strongest person in the world, he couldn't beat me if he wanted to."
"Ya know Videl," Lime was glaring at Videl rather angrily, "you really aren't the second strongest in the world, and don't interrupt me," she said as she saw Videl open her mouth to protest, "If you would stop being so arrogant and closed minded you might just learn something. There are other ways of doing things then the way you know, maybe, just maybe, people really can fly; and if so then maybe those people are stronger than you. If you just thought for a second that there is more out there than you can explain then maybe you'd have more friends. You spend all your time trying to find a flaw in the people around you, you don't have any faith in people Videl and that scares people away. I do understand that you are skeptical of people due to your line of work as a crime fighter but that doesn't give you the right to interrogate innocent people. Gohan and I both have our secrets as do many people, and maybe if you were a more accepting person then people would open up more to you." Lime sighed heavily and sat back down next to the shocked Videl. She placed her head n her hands and began to silently cry.
Videl just sat there in shock. *Is that what I am, closed minded? Am I really that hard to talk to? Maybe she is right... maybe if I weren't such a horrible person then I would have more friends. Gohan seems like such a nice guy, even if he is a little quirky, and all I have ever done is interrogate him about his secrets, why do Lime and him even talk to me?* "Lime," Videl said softly, "I... I'm so sorry. You're right... I'm such a horrible person, why do you even have anything to do with me?"
Lime looked up, her face stained with tears, "Because Videl, you have a destiny, I know it for a fact that you will have an important role to play in the history of this world, and because you're not a horrible person. You ARE in need of a little work but, deep down, you are a good person. You care about people, that's why you risk your life to save so many, and that's what attracts kindred spirits, like Gohan's, the two of you are more alike then you know Videl, just give him a chance. Stop listening to your head and listen to your heart for a change, he won't hurt you and neither will I." Videl looked at Lime as she dried her eyes and smiled lightly at Videl. Videl smiled in return.
"How did you get do smart?"
"I had a good teacher, and I wonder what happened to him... Gohan should have been back a while ago..."
"I'm here," Gohan said as he walked into the room, "I was just making sure it was ok that we all meet here at CC. Bulma turned on some of the remote cameras; they should tell us when Sharpner and Erasa enter the city and then give us a warning a few minutes before they arrive. I think it's better if Sharpner NOT come back in here, Vegeta may decide not to let him live this time." Gohan said grinning at the thought.
"Well," Videl said, "I think that Vegeta guy needs some anger management or something."
"Do I now?" The trio turned to the door, only to find Vegeta standing there leaning up against the door frame, Trunks was at his heels smirking. "Brat, what did I tell you about bringing weaklings like her into my house, it's bad enough that that other girl is here but I thought I told you NOT to bring any more here?"
"I know Vegeta and I apologize. This is my friend Videl, she didn't mean what she just said and she's not staying for very long. I promise that she will be of no bother to you." Vegeta just glared at Videl, while Videl herself glared at Gohan.
"Who said I was sorry?" Videl asked angrily, "Anyone who attempts to kill people should be locked up, and don't speak for me Gohan, my father does that enough as it is!"
"Please Videl," Gohan sighed, "just drop it."
"He doesn't scare me; I'm the daughter of Mr. Satan and..." Videl stopped as she saw Vegeta lunge forward. She braced herself for the attack, but it never came. She looked up and found Gohan standing in front of her, his hand tightly clasped around Vegeta's wrist.
"How dare you!" Vegeta said, standing up and reclaiming his fist, "You brought the daughter of that f*&%ing b@$%@*d into MY home! You have stepped over the line this time boy. I do not understand why you let that sad, pathetic, lying excuse for a man live after what he did to you and your family."
"Gohan," Videl squeaked, "What is he taking about? What did my father do?"
"It doesn't matter Videl," Gohan said sadly, looking at the ground as he spoke, "We should go wait somewhere else, let's go." Videl continued to stare at Gohan, dumbstruck, but she followed after him anyway. Gohan stopped in the doorway and held the door open for the two girls to pass though. They walked into the hall and continued down the hallway a little ways, as they did this Gohan turned to face the enraged Prince. "Ya know Vegeta, you should be very glad that none of us here on Earth have the same attitude as you do, cause if we did you probably would be dead right now. We don't hold your crimes against Trunks, and we don't hold the crimes of your people against you; in return you should not hold Mr. Satan's actions against his daughter, she is an innocent Vegeta, something that you can not claim yourself." With that Gohan walked out the door and down the hall. He passed the two girls who were waiting for him and kept walking at the same pace down the hall, causing the girls to jog to catch up with him.
"Gohan what was that all about?" Videl asked cautiously.
"That was Vegeta being a jerk. Videl, don't pay any attention to what Vegeta said about your father, he's not a very sociable person."
"But what did my father do to make him so mad? What did he do to you Gohan; I want to know, please!" Gohan stopped and looked into Videl's eyes for a moment, *She seems to honestly want to know, does she really care about what her father did to upset my friends so much? Well, maybe I'll tell her a little about her father's true self, she deserves to be told the about her father, even if she is too stubborn to believe me...*
"I guess you should know the truth about your own father, at least what I can tell you of it... Hey Lime, do me a favor and go and tell Bulma that we'll be in the animal park until the others arrive, ok?"
"Sure Gohan," Lime said smiling lightly before turning and walking down the hall to find Bulma. Gohan led Videl into the park and they sat down next to each other under a tree. They sat in silence for moment as Gohan worked out what he was going to say.
"I really don't know how to say any of this Videl."
Videl smiled, "Stop being so shy and just tell me why it is that my family is hated by you and your group of friends."
"They don't have anything against you personally Videl; it's just what you represent to them. We gave Vegeta a second chance and, although he's annoying most of the time, he has proven himself as a powerful ally. Vegeta has trained to be the strongest fighter in the universe since the day he was born, he considers your father's actions and boasts to be in contradiction of what he believes a warrior's actions should be."
"Well on that point I actually agree with Vegeta, my father doesn't even train anymore, he's so cocky that he'll win every fight since he's the "Great Savior of the World" he always says that he can't be beat... oh my Kami... do I act like that?"
"Well..."
"I guess Lime was right, I never give ANYONE a chance anymore."
"You could say that or you could just say that you're overly cautious about people's motives is all."
"Gohan I am so sorry for everything. I was so horrible to you, and everyone for that matter," she began to cry causing Gohan to panic.
"No, no it's all right Videl, it really is..... besides you had a good reason for always being on my case, and that reason was that, although I tried not to, I did lie to you sometimes. I hate having to lie and hide who I am all the time, if people were a little more open then maybe I wouldn't... but I can't change everyone so I guess it doesn't really matter. So I should be the one apologizing to you! Just stop crying please!!" Videl looked up and sniffed, then dried her eyes.
"Ya know, you're right, you should be the one apologizing, but I promise to leave you alone from now on. I guess you have the right to your secrets, just like everyone else... But don't think that gets you off the hook today, you still haven't told me what my father did to you and your family."
"Oh well..."
"And don't lie to me!"
"Ok, you remember when my mom said that she was a fighter?" Videl nodded, "Well my father was also a fighter, and he trained under Master Roshi for a little while when he was a young boy. My grand father was also a student of Master Roshi a long time before my father and that's how my dad met Roshi and my mother."
"And your father's name is Goku?"
"Yup."
"Son Goku?"
"Uh, yeah..."
"Your father is the former World Champion!?" Gohan nodded, cringing I anticipation of her next words, "Why do I feel like we've had this conversation before?" She sighed and leaned back up against the tree, her eyes closed. Gohan stopped cringing and blinked at her confused by her response.
"Actually... we have, please let me finish before you yell though," Gohan added anticipating a barrage of questions form the girl beside him, "When I told you before you reacted rather badly, so I asked the former God of the Earth to erase your memory of the event, so that when I told you at another point in time, after we knew each other more, I could explain things fully without worrying about you telling anyone or demanding a deciding fight between the two of us."
"Gohan, I never would have told, I did want to fight you, but that was because I believed I was the best out there, and I believed my father's lies about the previous winners using tricks to fight. I am sorry, and I promise not to tell, on one condition..." Gohan gulped, "you have to teach me how to fly, I know you have to know how seeing as I saw your father flying in an old video of the 23rd Tournament... and a picture of Vegeta flying with Bulma." Gohan sighed heavily.
"And I thought you'd ask for a fight again."
"Well," Videl said her eyes gleaming with deviousness, "I do still want to fight, but I want you to go to the World Championships in two months so I can fight you there. You owe me that for erasing my memory, plus the winner gets 10milion Zennie, but of course you'll have to go through me and my father first..." She smiled at him as sweetly as she could manage, causing him to bury his head in his hands.
"I'll ask if it's ok, and, while I'm at it, I'll invite everyone else I know who used to fight at the tournaments." Gohan smirked at her, "They all know how to fly and many are former champs themselves." Videl rolled her eyes.
"So now all you have to do is TELL ME HOW YOU KNOW GOD!!!" Gohan covered his ears with his hands as she screamed at him, and from only a foot away!
"That's a long story that I promise to tell you at another time, but Lime just walked in, don't ask me explain how I know that, but we should go." Gohan stood up and extended his hand to help Videl to her feet. Videl stared at his hand for a moment, trying to figure out how Gohan was so polite all the time, then grabbed a hold of it and jumped up. The two began walking and momentarily came upon Lime waving at them to get their attention.
"Well, it's time for the two of you to go, Sharpner and Erasa should be here in a few minutes and Vegeta is out near the front of the house so you should probably go out the back to avoid him."
"Thanks Lime, I appreciate it. Are you sure that you don't want to come with us?"
"I'm sure; I have things to do before I leave next week."
"And when are you going to tell me where you're going? I promised your grandfather I'd look after you, and I refuse to break my promise, so where are you going?"
"Alright, I'll tell you, but not now, your friends are coming soon and you need to get going."
"We're going, but you'd better tell me when I get back."
"Lime nodded, "Have fun, and watch out for strangers!" Lime smiled cheerily. Gohan looked at her for a moment as he thought, *I really don't understand her sometimes, she always seems to know more than she lets on...*
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Videl snapped rather angrily.
"Well you're in a good mood aren't you...? Did I interrupt something important?" She looked from Videl to Gohan smiling mischievously.
"No Lime you didn't I just have a lot on my mind, I'm sorry for snapping."
"Hmm... Well, I didn't mean anything really, just a comment," Lim stated, "No its time to go, bye!" Lime waved as the couple walked out the doors of the park area.
"So what did they talk about?" Lime asked to the air.
"Nothing much," came the reply, "I think Gohan likes her though, he didn't even notice I was here." Lime looked up as Mirai leaped from the trees and landed behind her. Lime smiled at him.
"I know... Oh, I was wondering if you could do me a favor." Mirai looked at her questioningly, "It's nothing big, but Gohan promised to teach me to fly; he taught me the basics of ki control in his spare time but, after your little meeting tonight, I don't think that Gohan will have the time to finish before I leave next week."
"HOW do you know about the meeting??"
"I have my ways, but now's not the time. Will you teach me or not?" *Please say yes!!* Lime thought, *I need to keep him occupied for just a little while... and learning how to fly while I do it is just a pleasant side effect.*
"Fine, I guess... You're a strange girl you know that?" Lime smiled sweetly at him causing him to laugh, "So, where do you want to start..."
Gohan and Videl walked out the doors deep in conversation. "I promise I'll teach you how to fly, just not tonight, I have a previous engagement..."
"Flying is easy," claimed a feminine voice that drifted down to them from the trees. Gohan and Videl looked around for a moment before coming across an astonishing sight. There, standing gracefully on a small limb of a tree a hundred feet above their heads, was a young woman. She looked no older then twenty five, and was staring at them intently with her piercing sapphire eyes. With a small giggle she leaped off the branch and landed, in a sitting position, on another branch about ten feet above the ground. She wore black leather pants with tall black boots; and a tight, black spandex, sleeveless top. Her long black hair hung down behind her, an interracially designed golden ring about halfway down the length of her hair was holding it together. She had a sword with a golden hilt hanging from her hip on a thick black belt and a knife strapped to her thigh. She smiled at the two of them as they stared at her. "Now, now, Gohan it's not nice to stare... Your friend, Videl is it? She might get jealous." She giggled again, her laugh was slightly childish and innocent in nature and Gohan would have thought her completely harmless, were it not for her weapons and unusually low ki.
"Who are you? And how do you know my name?" Gohan asked.
"And why should I not know of your identity? You are the famous Son Gohan, the boy who defeated Cell and banished the worm Garlic Jr. into the Dead Zone. The son of Son Goku, the man who, not only defeated the Red Ribbon Army and Demon King Piccolo single handedly, but became the World Martial Arts Champion at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, the first Super Saiyan in a thousand years and is one of the last of the Saiyan race."
"Who are you and what do you want?" Gohan moved in front of Videl in case she decided to attack suddenly.
She began to laugh once again, "I am no threat to you; I know you could defeat me in an instant if you used your full power, but I am not interested in fighting you right now... Although I could use good spar, I haven't had one in..." the woman paused, reflecting on the memory, "well it really doesn't matter. The only reason I am here," she said softly as she floated down closer to the ground, stopping about six feet above the grass, her feet did not touch the ground although her hair was brushing the longer blades of grass very lightly. Her eyes were even with Gohan's, and only a few inches away from his, as she resumed speaking, "is to introduce myself to you, well, after a fashion at least... It has been a pleasure young hero; I look forward to our next meeting. Keep alert though, for I can guarantee that I will see you before you can see me." She smiled again, and blowing a kiss to Gohan, disappeared into the trees, jumping nimbly from limb to limb without making a sound or moving a leaf.
"Gohan, who the HELL was that, and what the HELL was she talking about!" Videl looked rather upset at the woman's audacity and Gohan's response to her.
"Ya know Videl, I really don't have a clue, but I think we should be on guard, she may be an ally, or a new enemy..." Gohan stood, staring off into the trees where the mysterious woman had disappeared into.
AN: I love mysterious figures. I'm sure some of you know who she is (like the one who created her) but I'm not gonna tell you specifically here in case you don't though. She's one of my favorite original characters, I'm so happy that I'm the one that gets to write about her, that way she stays my favorite! Yay!! Anyway, I have to say something that you all might not like very much, I'm taking a small break from this. I have hit a little writer's block, I know where I want to go with stuff but I can't seem to discover how to get there. Plus I was re reading my old chapters and noticed the ST1 was right in his review. I know I can write better than I have in some of my older chapters, so I'm gonna go back and edit them all, making them better and longer (I hope) and maybe adding in a few new scenes, hopefully nothing that will alter the plotline though. That's where my mailing list comes into play, if I massively change a chapter I will email everyone o the list when I post it, just in case they are bored enough to read it. Don't hurt me though, I won't be gone long, I will put up a new chapter when I come back from London in the middle of March (I'm going to London! I'm going to London! I'm so happy!!!), until then everything will probably be just a rewrite. I'm gonna add a useless facts portion too so if you have any random uselees (or useful facts) that somehow relate to DB/Z or something that people don't seem to really get about it then email it to me. Oh, and I have a new story up (it's an original though) that I'm told its funny... It was inspired by Goku in DB and way too many hours of pointless RPG side-quests (especially the Final Fantasy series and Zelda...) others helped with it, yadda, yadda... Feel free to email me anytime about anything, I love email... And don't forget to REVIEW!!!!!