Ok I realise my chapters are STILL really short, but at least they keep on growing longer each time.
Hope you enjoy it. By the way, thanx to the ppl who have reviewed this, its sooo kewl 2 know wot ppl think. The storyline gets pretty complicated so if you have n e questions just email me. I'll stop babbling on now and let you read this chapter. Bye!
ChickFlick Chapter 7
Chichi was nervous, but she didn't want the others to know. It was going to take all of her willpower and concentration to control the huge combined power of the Shield and the hologram. As she started creating the hologram she almost felt the Shield crumble, but she clamped her teeth together and held it firmly in place. Now the combined hologram and Shield was almost 5m wide, and Chichi was starting to make it rise. Up they flew, with the bubble around them. They could see the whole city spread out below them.
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[Note: Don't start panicking and saying 'who the Hell is Jack Williams?!'. Coz I invented him, so you probably wouldn't have heard of him b4. :))
Little 6-year-old Jack Williams sucked his thumb and held a helium balloon tightly in his other little fist. He was so tired, and his feet were so sore! His Mum and Dad had been marching him all over the city while they bought all kinds of boring stuff. Suddenly he felt a kind of electricity running through his body, like someone had recharged his batteries. For no particular reason, he looked up. And then he saw it. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a sort of shimmering patch in the air, like the heat waves you see above the road on a hot day. He blinked and took a closer look, but it was gone. The energy which had previously flooded his body had evaporated. He shook his head, sighed, and kept trudging along behind his parents.
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Wisps of cloud started floating past their faces as the group rose even higher.
"D'YOU RECKON THIS IS ENOUGH?" Chichi yelled to the others over the hum of the Shield. "I DUNNO IF I CAN KEEP THIS UP MUCH LONGER."
"YEAH, IT SHOULD BE OK." They agreed. So the four of them started powering up, while Chichi held the shield in place. They all flashed each other nervous grins as they counted down together.
('Omigod I don't know if I can do this!' thought Bulma)...3...... ('Come on, I know we can do it!' thought Videl.)...2...... ('Lets go girls!' thought Eighteen hysterically, unable to stop the grin spreading across her face)...1......('YEEHAH!!!' screamed Pan inside her head)......BLASTOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ie very dramatic].
[note: MAJOR CLICHÉ COMING UP! Just a warning].
Chichi just had time to think one line of thought before everything seemed to explode:
"Let's kick some butt."
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But in the next few seconds Chichi didn't have time to think anything. She had to extend the shield around the whole lake area. [ie a lot of power] [ie needing a lot of concentration].
She felt her will power exploding. Not simply crumbling away, but exploding into a million pieces. Yet the shield was still surrounding them. She knew her friends were all around her, blasting down into the lake with all their might. But she only knew this because she was having to use the shield to stop the water from the lake flooding into the hole. But apart from the electric hum of the shield, there was a ringing silence filling her ears. She had lost all control now... she was floating away...
But as she fell downwards towards the surface of the lake, she knew it didn't matter; they were through.
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'I don't know if I can do this!' fretted Bulma to herself as they counted down. But she firmly took hold of her fears and tried to concentrate. She had powered up and could already feel the energy surging through her. She focused it into her hands...
"MA...SIN...KAAA!!!" The blast blew her back a few metres in the air. She could see three other beams of energy racing towards the same area of the lake as hers. Just before they hit the surface of the water they combined. There was an extra big flash of light and when Bulma opened her eyes, there was a small and almost perfectly circular hole in the middle of the lake. She was about to cheer when she saw Chichi about to fall...
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'Come on, I know we can do it!' Videl tried to radiate her feelings out to the others as she prepared for the blast. She focused on the small boulder under the surface of the lake. That was their target. She took a deep breath.
"STAR...BLAST!!!" [yes I made that attack myself; 10 small balls of powerful, concentrated energy shaped like small stars fly from the outstretched fingertips. 10 energy balls and 10 fingertips. Get it? N e way.]
She had never concentrated so hard. Her hands and the energy streaming from them were filling her whole vision. She just had time to notice that they were pulsing slightly before she saw Chichi falling...
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'Let's go gals!' said Eighteen wickedly, allowing herself a private grin. She was trying to appear confident, but her internal organs had decided to have a lesson in gymnastics and were currently cartwheeling all over the place. What would happen when she came face to face with Cell? It would be the first time since... and Cell wasn't going to let her take it easily, after what she had been trying to do...
But she jerked herself away from that line of thought. 'That doesn't matter now,' she told herself, 'after all; a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do!' She allowed herself one more secretive smile then started building up the Destructo Disc; an attack she had learned from Krillin. And on the signal, she let fly. She watched long enough to see that the energy beams had successfully combined and blasted through the lake, then turned to Chichi to see what she thought about their victory.
Chichi's closed eyelids were flickering and her fists were tightly clenched. As Eighteen watched, Chichi's eyelids stopped flickering and her hands relaxed and unclenched; she had fainted. Almost as if she was in slow motion, she fell through the sky. . .
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'YEEHAH!!!' screamed Pan inside her head. She could feel the adrenaline pumping through her now, almost as strong as the energy itself. And she knew now, more than ever, there was Saiyajin blood in the midst of all that energy and adrenaline, and she was proud of it.
"Oh, you better watch out Cell, coz here... we... COME!" and with that she blasted a strong Kahmehahmeha at her target. She saw the smouldering hole in the middle of the lake and turned to face Chichi.
"That was the most satisfying thing I've ever..." but her voice faltered, then stopped. Chichi wasn't there. She was a long way below, only a few metres away from the surface of the lake and still falling.
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As one, the four of them dived, hurtling towards the water's surface. It was a race between them and Chichi's limp body. Luckily, it was them who won, but only just. They all reached her at the same time, about a metre above the surface. They supported her gently between the four of them and looked downwards. Almost directly below them was the whole in the lake. It was only about two metres in diametre and the water was pouring through; the shield had failed as soon as Chichi blacked out. They all thought that they had better make this quick. Glancing around at them all, Videl said
"We'd better get out of sight. People will start turning up soon, and they might want to know just why we blew a hole in the town lake. And I really do not want to have to answer that question right now." She looked pointedly at the lake and they somehow all managed to squeeze through, still supporting Chichi. They lowered her gently onto the driest piece of ground they could find, and looked around. They were in a tunnel which seemed to stretch away forever into the darkness.
"We must be in the Tunnel of Dangers." Whispered Eighteen. There was no reason for her to whisper, but a hush had fallen on the whole group.
"Well..." said Bulma, trying to break the silence, "... I reckon three of us should go up that way a bit and see if there's anything to see..." here she indicated the inky blackness before them,"and one of us should stay and look after Chichi."
At the mention of her name everyone glanced down at her. She was still lying completely still and lifeless at their feet.
"What happened up there?" asked Pan curiously. "Why did she..." Her voice trailed away and she looked up at her mother's face. Videl was staring at Chichi without really seeing her.
"So much power..." murmured Videl, to herself more than anyone else, "So much power... and trying to control it..." After this statement there was a minute of thoughtful silence.
Bulma stirred them all back into life, saying
"She should be okay; she just needs to rest. How about you guys check out the tunnel and I'll stay here with Chichi." The others thought this was a good idea, so they hugged Bulma, wished each other good luck, and were about to leave when Eighteen said
"Hey Bulma; if we don't come back after about half an hour... don't come after us. Grab Chichi and get the heck out of here, ok?"
"Don't worry," Bulma said, "you'll be fine." Eighteen, Videl and Pan all nodded and strode off into the darkness.
Bulma knelt down beside Chichi's unconscious body to wait for their return. She watched the water cascading through the hole and shivered. It was so dark and cold and damp in here. At least her eyes were finally beginning to adjust. This place reminded her of the forest in her dream. She shivered again.
All of a sudden she was in her dream again. Something dropped down on top of her, wrestling her to the ground. It pinned her hands behind her back to stop her blasting energy. She struggled, but felt something sharp inject itself into her neck. She felt all the energy draining out of her body. She felt something like a mouth tighten itself around her waist, and for a second she thought that she was going to be eaten, without even getting a glimpse of her attacker before she died.
Suddenly she snapped out of her dream and returned to real life. This didn't improve things much; her dream had been real, and she was still in the grasp of the creature.
The creature wasn't eating her, only picking her up and carrying her away. And she could finally see what it was; a huge spider, more than three metres long. She knew it was no good calling out for help. The others would be too far away to hear her right now. Besides, she didn't seem to have any energy left, even for yelling. Her whole body felt limp and useless. She just managed to work up enough energy to twist in the spider's grasp and look over its shoulder to where Chichi was still lying. As she watched, she saw a dark, shadowy figure dart out of a corner, seize Chichi by the wrists and start to drag her away.
This time Bulma had to cry out.
"Chichi!!!" she yelled in panic, "Chichi... WAKE UP!!"
But Chichi only stirred slightly in the shadowy figure's grasp, and soon she had been dragged out of sight.
This sapped any remaining energy that Bulma might have had left, and she slumped down again. She tried to think through the fog in her cloudy brain. 'Must be a mild sedative poison...' She felt so tired...
The spider seemed to be carrying her to a crack in the rock wall at the opposite end of the tunnel to the direction the others had taken. The spider narrowly managed to squeeze through the gap and kept on scuttling down the narrow passageway beyond. For a few minutes, there was no sound except for the scuffling of the spider's feet on the floor. It finally came to a halt. Bulma tried to find the energy to lift her head, but there was nothing there. She just hung from the spider's jaws, waiting to see what it would do next.
To her great surprise, the spider dropped her. Instead of hitting the floor after a fall of a couple of metres, like the assumed, she kept falling. She started thinking that maybe the spider had disposed of her by dropping her off a cliff. She had fallen about 20 metres when, face-up, she suddenly hit something that was soft, slightly bouncy and extremely sticky. Immediately Bulma felt like she had been stuck down with super glue. She managed to twist her head to one side and saw that she was caught in a huge, horizontal spiderweb, which spanned across a huge, deep chasm; the bottom was lost in the darkness. She twisted her head the other way and saw the spider picking its way down the rough surface of the cliff, down to the 'floor' that the web created.
Bulma started feeling a little more energised. But just as she was thinking about blasting herself out of there, the spider scuttled across the web towards her. She fought back the urge to scream in fear and frustration as it bit her again. And this time the spider injected so much venom into her body that it didn't only make her weak; she was only just barely hanging on to consciousness.
Luckily for Bulma, the spider did not seem to be hungry for the moment, but it obviously preferred fresh food; it started to wrap her up in the same sticky thread as the web was made out of. Starting from her feet, the spider wound the thread tightly around her body. A wave of sick revulsion washed through her as the spider's thread crept up to her stomach. Soon her arms were pinned down and it was up to her neck... in her mind she was screaming out for help... and soon she was completely encased by the dark, stuffy, sticky thread.
Bulma thought the spider had probably gone to rest somewhere as the web beneath her was no longer vibrating with its scuttling footsteps. She was now left with her foggy brain, trapped inside a basically useless body. She kept telling her arms and legs to struggle, but somehow the instructions got lost on the way and she just lay there.
For the first few minutes she could still just breathe with the small amount of air that was filtering through the thread, but soon the air in her prison started to go stale. She struggled to draw breath. A red mist started clouding around her eyes, and she felt her mind slip away into darkness
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Well hopefully this chapter is a lot longer than the others. Soon I'll have to try to insert a diagram and publish it in html form, coz... well I can't tell u y but you will probably need a diagram to understand the next bit. Just never mind, ok? It doesn't need to come yet anyway. Ok I'll shut up now.
Please review!!! You don't even wanna know my hit to review ratio. As I said b4, thanx to all the people who have already reviewed. C ya!
Hope you enjoy it. By the way, thanx to the ppl who have reviewed this, its sooo kewl 2 know wot ppl think. The storyline gets pretty complicated so if you have n e questions just email me. I'll stop babbling on now and let you read this chapter. Bye!
ChickFlick Chapter 7
Chichi was nervous, but she didn't want the others to know. It was going to take all of her willpower and concentration to control the huge combined power of the Shield and the hologram. As she started creating the hologram she almost felt the Shield crumble, but she clamped her teeth together and held it firmly in place. Now the combined hologram and Shield was almost 5m wide, and Chichi was starting to make it rise. Up they flew, with the bubble around them. They could see the whole city spread out below them.
* * * * *
[Note: Don't start panicking and saying 'who the Hell is Jack Williams?!'. Coz I invented him, so you probably wouldn't have heard of him b4. :))
Little 6-year-old Jack Williams sucked his thumb and held a helium balloon tightly in his other little fist. He was so tired, and his feet were so sore! His Mum and Dad had been marching him all over the city while they bought all kinds of boring stuff. Suddenly he felt a kind of electricity running through his body, like someone had recharged his batteries. For no particular reason, he looked up. And then he saw it. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a sort of shimmering patch in the air, like the heat waves you see above the road on a hot day. He blinked and took a closer look, but it was gone. The energy which had previously flooded his body had evaporated. He shook his head, sighed, and kept trudging along behind his parents.
* * * * *
Wisps of cloud started floating past their faces as the group rose even higher.
"D'YOU RECKON THIS IS ENOUGH?" Chichi yelled to the others over the hum of the Shield. "I DUNNO IF I CAN KEEP THIS UP MUCH LONGER."
"YEAH, IT SHOULD BE OK." They agreed. So the four of them started powering up, while Chichi held the shield in place. They all flashed each other nervous grins as they counted down together.
('Omigod I don't know if I can do this!' thought Bulma)...3...... ('Come on, I know we can do it!' thought Videl.)...2...... ('Lets go girls!' thought Eighteen hysterically, unable to stop the grin spreading across her face)...1......('YEEHAH!!!' screamed Pan inside her head)......BLASTOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ie very dramatic].
[note: MAJOR CLICHÉ COMING UP! Just a warning].
Chichi just had time to think one line of thought before everything seemed to explode:
"Let's kick some butt."
* * * * *
But in the next few seconds Chichi didn't have time to think anything. She had to extend the shield around the whole lake area. [ie a lot of power] [ie needing a lot of concentration].
She felt her will power exploding. Not simply crumbling away, but exploding into a million pieces. Yet the shield was still surrounding them. She knew her friends were all around her, blasting down into the lake with all their might. But she only knew this because she was having to use the shield to stop the water from the lake flooding into the hole. But apart from the electric hum of the shield, there was a ringing silence filling her ears. She had lost all control now... she was floating away...
But as she fell downwards towards the surface of the lake, she knew it didn't matter; they were through.
* * * * *
'I don't know if I can do this!' fretted Bulma to herself as they counted down. But she firmly took hold of her fears and tried to concentrate. She had powered up and could already feel the energy surging through her. She focused it into her hands...
"MA...SIN...KAAA!!!" The blast blew her back a few metres in the air. She could see three other beams of energy racing towards the same area of the lake as hers. Just before they hit the surface of the water they combined. There was an extra big flash of light and when Bulma opened her eyes, there was a small and almost perfectly circular hole in the middle of the lake. She was about to cheer when she saw Chichi about to fall...
* * * * *
'Come on, I know we can do it!' Videl tried to radiate her feelings out to the others as she prepared for the blast. She focused on the small boulder under the surface of the lake. That was their target. She took a deep breath.
"STAR...BLAST!!!" [yes I made that attack myself; 10 small balls of powerful, concentrated energy shaped like small stars fly from the outstretched fingertips. 10 energy balls and 10 fingertips. Get it? N e way.]
She had never concentrated so hard. Her hands and the energy streaming from them were filling her whole vision. She just had time to notice that they were pulsing slightly before she saw Chichi falling...
* * * * *
'Let's go gals!' said Eighteen wickedly, allowing herself a private grin. She was trying to appear confident, but her internal organs had decided to have a lesson in gymnastics and were currently cartwheeling all over the place. What would happen when she came face to face with Cell? It would be the first time since... and Cell wasn't going to let her take it easily, after what she had been trying to do...
But she jerked herself away from that line of thought. 'That doesn't matter now,' she told herself, 'after all; a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do!' She allowed herself one more secretive smile then started building up the Destructo Disc; an attack she had learned from Krillin. And on the signal, she let fly. She watched long enough to see that the energy beams had successfully combined and blasted through the lake, then turned to Chichi to see what she thought about their victory.
Chichi's closed eyelids were flickering and her fists were tightly clenched. As Eighteen watched, Chichi's eyelids stopped flickering and her hands relaxed and unclenched; she had fainted. Almost as if she was in slow motion, she fell through the sky. . .
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'YEEHAH!!!' screamed Pan inside her head. She could feel the adrenaline pumping through her now, almost as strong as the energy itself. And she knew now, more than ever, there was Saiyajin blood in the midst of all that energy and adrenaline, and she was proud of it.
"Oh, you better watch out Cell, coz here... we... COME!" and with that she blasted a strong Kahmehahmeha at her target. She saw the smouldering hole in the middle of the lake and turned to face Chichi.
"That was the most satisfying thing I've ever..." but her voice faltered, then stopped. Chichi wasn't there. She was a long way below, only a few metres away from the surface of the lake and still falling.
* * * * *
As one, the four of them dived, hurtling towards the water's surface. It was a race between them and Chichi's limp body. Luckily, it was them who won, but only just. They all reached her at the same time, about a metre above the surface. They supported her gently between the four of them and looked downwards. Almost directly below them was the whole in the lake. It was only about two metres in diametre and the water was pouring through; the shield had failed as soon as Chichi blacked out. They all thought that they had better make this quick. Glancing around at them all, Videl said
"We'd better get out of sight. People will start turning up soon, and they might want to know just why we blew a hole in the town lake. And I really do not want to have to answer that question right now." She looked pointedly at the lake and they somehow all managed to squeeze through, still supporting Chichi. They lowered her gently onto the driest piece of ground they could find, and looked around. They were in a tunnel which seemed to stretch away forever into the darkness.
"We must be in the Tunnel of Dangers." Whispered Eighteen. There was no reason for her to whisper, but a hush had fallen on the whole group.
"Well..." said Bulma, trying to break the silence, "... I reckon three of us should go up that way a bit and see if there's anything to see..." here she indicated the inky blackness before them,"and one of us should stay and look after Chichi."
At the mention of her name everyone glanced down at her. She was still lying completely still and lifeless at their feet.
"What happened up there?" asked Pan curiously. "Why did she..." Her voice trailed away and she looked up at her mother's face. Videl was staring at Chichi without really seeing her.
"So much power..." murmured Videl, to herself more than anyone else, "So much power... and trying to control it..." After this statement there was a minute of thoughtful silence.
Bulma stirred them all back into life, saying
"She should be okay; she just needs to rest. How about you guys check out the tunnel and I'll stay here with Chichi." The others thought this was a good idea, so they hugged Bulma, wished each other good luck, and were about to leave when Eighteen said
"Hey Bulma; if we don't come back after about half an hour... don't come after us. Grab Chichi and get the heck out of here, ok?"
"Don't worry," Bulma said, "you'll be fine." Eighteen, Videl and Pan all nodded and strode off into the darkness.
Bulma knelt down beside Chichi's unconscious body to wait for their return. She watched the water cascading through the hole and shivered. It was so dark and cold and damp in here. At least her eyes were finally beginning to adjust. This place reminded her of the forest in her dream. She shivered again.
All of a sudden she was in her dream again. Something dropped down on top of her, wrestling her to the ground. It pinned her hands behind her back to stop her blasting energy. She struggled, but felt something sharp inject itself into her neck. She felt all the energy draining out of her body. She felt something like a mouth tighten itself around her waist, and for a second she thought that she was going to be eaten, without even getting a glimpse of her attacker before she died.
Suddenly she snapped out of her dream and returned to real life. This didn't improve things much; her dream had been real, and she was still in the grasp of the creature.
The creature wasn't eating her, only picking her up and carrying her away. And she could finally see what it was; a huge spider, more than three metres long. She knew it was no good calling out for help. The others would be too far away to hear her right now. Besides, she didn't seem to have any energy left, even for yelling. Her whole body felt limp and useless. She just managed to work up enough energy to twist in the spider's grasp and look over its shoulder to where Chichi was still lying. As she watched, she saw a dark, shadowy figure dart out of a corner, seize Chichi by the wrists and start to drag her away.
This time Bulma had to cry out.
"Chichi!!!" she yelled in panic, "Chichi... WAKE UP!!"
But Chichi only stirred slightly in the shadowy figure's grasp, and soon she had been dragged out of sight.
This sapped any remaining energy that Bulma might have had left, and she slumped down again. She tried to think through the fog in her cloudy brain. 'Must be a mild sedative poison...' She felt so tired...
The spider seemed to be carrying her to a crack in the rock wall at the opposite end of the tunnel to the direction the others had taken. The spider narrowly managed to squeeze through the gap and kept on scuttling down the narrow passageway beyond. For a few minutes, there was no sound except for the scuffling of the spider's feet on the floor. It finally came to a halt. Bulma tried to find the energy to lift her head, but there was nothing there. She just hung from the spider's jaws, waiting to see what it would do next.
To her great surprise, the spider dropped her. Instead of hitting the floor after a fall of a couple of metres, like the assumed, she kept falling. She started thinking that maybe the spider had disposed of her by dropping her off a cliff. She had fallen about 20 metres when, face-up, she suddenly hit something that was soft, slightly bouncy and extremely sticky. Immediately Bulma felt like she had been stuck down with super glue. She managed to twist her head to one side and saw that she was caught in a huge, horizontal spiderweb, which spanned across a huge, deep chasm; the bottom was lost in the darkness. She twisted her head the other way and saw the spider picking its way down the rough surface of the cliff, down to the 'floor' that the web created.
Bulma started feeling a little more energised. But just as she was thinking about blasting herself out of there, the spider scuttled across the web towards her. She fought back the urge to scream in fear and frustration as it bit her again. And this time the spider injected so much venom into her body that it didn't only make her weak; she was only just barely hanging on to consciousness.
Luckily for Bulma, the spider did not seem to be hungry for the moment, but it obviously preferred fresh food; it started to wrap her up in the same sticky thread as the web was made out of. Starting from her feet, the spider wound the thread tightly around her body. A wave of sick revulsion washed through her as the spider's thread crept up to her stomach. Soon her arms were pinned down and it was up to her neck... in her mind she was screaming out for help... and soon she was completely encased by the dark, stuffy, sticky thread.
Bulma thought the spider had probably gone to rest somewhere as the web beneath her was no longer vibrating with its scuttling footsteps. She was now left with her foggy brain, trapped inside a basically useless body. She kept telling her arms and legs to struggle, but somehow the instructions got lost on the way and she just lay there.
For the first few minutes she could still just breathe with the small amount of air that was filtering through the thread, but soon the air in her prison started to go stale. She struggled to draw breath. A red mist started clouding around her eyes, and she felt her mind slip away into darkness
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Well hopefully this chapter is a lot longer than the others. Soon I'll have to try to insert a diagram and publish it in html form, coz... well I can't tell u y but you will probably need a diagram to understand the next bit. Just never mind, ok? It doesn't need to come yet anyway. Ok I'll shut up now.
Please review!!! You don't even wanna know my hit to review ratio. As I said b4, thanx to all the people who have already reviewed. C ya!