Consciousness of the Heart Chapter Two

Split Personality *************************************************************

"Excuse me; may I borrow your book?" Pepper asked the short-haired blonde in front of her.

"The blonde just turned around and snorted, "You know, black really isn't your color."

"Yeah well blue and purple seem to be the best colors for you." Pepper snapped and walked to the back of the room.

"I'm sorry about knocking you down today." A voice said timidly.

"You can look at my book." Gohan suggested flashing an innocent smile.

Pepper nodded and took out her English folder. *************************************************************

'He's grown so big.' Pepper thought.

Why she thought it? She didn't know, it just popped in there.

She had a sudden urge to get up and strangle him, instead she ran to the bathroom mumbling something about throwing up.

Leaning against the sink she looked up into her deep black eyes.

Wait...she had brown eyes. *************************************************************

"We found the missing soul sir." The ogre announced.

"Good, who is it?" Yemma asked.

"It's a sayain." The ogre said again.

"I don't care what it is, I care who it is." Yemma replied loudly.

"Sorry sir...but what I mean by we found it...I mean we only found some details." The ogre stammered.

"You imbecile!" Yemma shouted rising out from behind his desk.

"Eeee!" The ogre screamed and ran out of the office.

"Great! We have a missing sayain and no one has any idea who or where it is!" Yemma thundered.

"We have an idea where it is sir." A young female said approaching him with confidence.

"Where?" Yemma inquired.

"We keep files on all the door ways correct?" She asked.

"Correct." He answered calming down.

"Even the back door way?" She asked smirking.

King Yemma stood flabbergasted.

"We have recordings on the dream realm." She continued, slapping a huge file down on his desk.

"I'm the head of the dream division, I let souls visit their family's dreams, somehow one of the souls from deep hell escaped and got into the program due to the door you were ordered to close but never did." She accused.

"I ordered it to be closed off." He stuttered.

"No, and, don't lie to me, I hate liars." She said and walked even closer to his desk.

"I need you to capture that soul, bring it back, and close off that door. Do that and we won't have any problems." She said and turned on her heel.

"Who are you?" Yemma asked, curious to know who would dare to challenge him.

"As of now, your new boss." She said and closed his door.

"Get me King Kai!" Yemma yelled over the phone.

"Yes sir!" The secretary stuttered. *************************************************************

'Goku! Goku!'

"Hey, King Kai! We haven't talked in a long time!" Goku exclaimed excitedly a second before Vegeta's foot slammed into the side of his face.

"Wait Vegeta!" Goku called out.

Vegeta 'Hmphed' and dropped out of super sayain.

'Goku, we have trouble!'

"Trouble?" Goku asked seriously.

'A soul has escaped from hell and made its way to earth.'

"Well how much harm can a ghost do?" Goku asked.

'Enough trouble. If it is able to, it can feed off a human's soul and take over their body, like a parasite.'

"Have you found out who it is in?" Goku asked.

'Er...no...that's why I contacted you'

"Don't worry I'll help." Goku said. *************************************************************

"Brown! Brown!" She demanded beating her fists against the mirror.

"I have brown eyes!" She cried and turned away from the mirror.

Gathering all her papers up she placed them back into the backpack she had thrown on the ground.

'I can't stay here." She said and left through the window. *************************************************************

Pepper crawled through her window and into her tiny room.

Emptying her backpack she threw in some clothes and her life's savings.

"Do you want to go with me?" She asked and grabbed the small rodent.

It only squeaked in protest.

"You never like me anyway." She said and dropped it back into the cage.

"I should just kill the damn thing." She said and immediately covered her mouth. She was thinking and saying weird, scary things.

Grabbing a pen and a short piece of paper she jotted down,

Vell,

So sorry to leave you hanging like this. But I have to get away. Hopefully we'll meet up again. I may not have made it as far as I have if it weren't for you. I have only two small requests, don't kill my haster, and never forget me.

P.S. He likes sunflower seeds, and his favorite past-time is biting.

Peppermint*

Sighing, she taped it to the side of the cage and picked the entire cage up by the handle. Holding her backpack in one hand, and the cage in the other, she walked out of her house and walked down the street to Vell's.

When they were in fifth grade Vell had secretly given Pepper a key to her house. Pepper would constantly slip into their house and stay the night, it was her home away from home.

Setting the cage and the key side by side on the table, Pepper turned around and left without looking back.

She knew that if she had looked back she would've not been able to make her way to the bus station. *************************************************************

"One ticket to as far away as this will get me." Pepper said placing most of her money on the counter of the ticket booth.

"Here you go sugar." The lady said smiling down at her.

"Thank-you." Pepper said politely and took the ticket without looking at it.

She didn't know where she was going and she didn't want to know until she got there. *************************************************************

"Pepper? Is Pepper here?" The teacher called out.

"She left at the beginning of class to use the bathroom." Gohan said.

"But that was forty-five minutes ago!" The teacher exclaimed.

"She's probably all doped up in the bathroom." Sharpener laughed. *************************************************************