Death
Videl
Mate of the Mystic Warrior
They were flying toward home. After everybody was up and moving, Videl decided that she needed to get some things from her house and make sure everything was all right. It was good to prepare for battles but they seemed to forget that after the endless and bloody fights they needed to come back to they life. It would not be good to come back from a hard battle just to remember you forget to close the faucet and see the house flooding. It may seem insignificant but it was real life, and so that why she was there, preparing herself for the short trip.
At the beginning, it was going to be only her, but in front of all the opposition, decided to take her husband with her. By then Gohan decided to take Mirai-Trunks with him so that he could see were he had been living all this time and, of course, as soon as Pan heard that, she toke the decision to tag along. What begin as a small trip turned into a veritable expedition.
She was not technically mad, after all, it was true that she had thing to do in the house, but she would lies if she said that she aren't wanted to take this time to have a serious talk with Gohan. The presence of Pan and Mirai-Trunks prevented any serious conversation.
So that why, in this ungodly hour, they were soaring above the purple sky toward they home while making conversation with Mirai-Trunks on what was going on in his side of the timeline.
For Pan it was the moment she had been waiting for, the moment were she could ask him the things she couldn't have earlier in the presence of Bulma and Vegeta. Of course, she had to be careful so that she didn't go overboard because her father would stop the interrogation within ten seconds. Now Gohan just took it as simple young (saiyin) girl curiosity toward an older, stronger, prettier saiyin male.
As if! She knew her daughter better then that. Videl sneak a little glance toward the other warrior. She, by far, preferred they Trunks; in her humble opinion, 'Mirai' didn't seem to have any backbones, had less power and even less personality, and much more mental problem then the average saiyin. Of course, he did manage to save both earths somehow and was the only warrior in his time but that all! Goku had made much more thing for the earth and he was not-
"Videl!"
"Huh?!"
"I have been calling your name for a good ten minutes, you were lost in though." Blushing slightly, she enter the house she had been standing in front for the last few minutes and were everybody had already disappears. Everybody except her dear husband who was smirking at her from where he was standing: inch from her face.
"Thinking about something, or should I said someone?"
"Gohan, please" snorting at him she went were she could sense Mirai was. When she saw him, he was standing before they big library.
When he heard her come, he turned his head.
"The library is just beautiful! Is that all your books?"
"No, actually most of them his Gohan."
" Really?" He turned toward the library again. Leaning his head on the side, he looked thoughtful. "Strange, in my time Gohan never was much of a reader." Then he gives a little chuckle and look at her in the corner of his eye "Of course, my Gohan was a little busy with other…things."
She was literally fuming "This is not a funny matter! I really don't see what amusing about the fact that my husband was too busy saving your sorry ass to do what he liked best!" This was actually this kind of nonsense that just pisses her off!
"I was referring to the fact that my Gohan preferring sparing then reading. Each time he had a free time, meaning he was healing injury from previous battle, he preferred going sparing with me, since we didn't know if we could have this privilege in a later time." Going to the entrance, he opened the door. With his back to her, he whispered so softly that she had to strain her ear to hear what he was saying.
"Please tell Gohan I went outside for a while." Then he silently left.
She sighted. Okay, she may have been wrong this time, but only thins time. She just didn't like the many implication he seems to make anytime he was speaking about Gohan. And frankly, he really didn't seem that well, that sane. He seemed almost desperate in the way he acted, and he was excessively paranoia. The boy just reeked insani-
"What's going on, where Trunks, heu, I mean Mirai went"
"Out, look I want to talk a little bit before Pan or somebody else come in" taking his hand she dragging him in they room.
"Talk now? But why, we have all the time ahead of us." She frowned, he seemed nervous, correction, he was nervous, seem she was right in this case; there were many thing that Gohan didn't tell her and she was about to find each one of those little secret.
"Gohan, you know well enough that after we head back to CC it would be impossible to have any kind of private conversation without everybody with sharp hearing eavesdropping on us.» Inch by inch, she got closer to him, and punctuating each word with a finger stabbing him. She make sure to speak clearly so that no misinterpretation lay between them " You, Will, Tell, Me, The, Truth"
Grinning like the village idiot, Gohan put his head behind is head "Videl, please you make it sound as if we were hiding something from you, but hey you didn't answers my question, were he went"
"And I told you out, Gohan! You promise me we were going to have a little talk about Mirai after the little scene at the table and now I heard something that I think you should hear."
"Something I should hear?" now he was sweating profusely " Oh well…why did he went out?"
"He was upset. Gohan did you know that your Mirai have killed my father and probably hurt the other me?" they nose were practically touching now.
"Heu…hurt you? Really? Wow, heu… well…he-he upset about what again? I didn't catch it"
"I didn't say. You know, it seem that Mirai was very close to his Gohan and that he was totally devastated when he die, in fact, I heard it was because of his death that he went super saiyin."
"Yeah I know he became super saiyin very young, seem that I was the one too training him, so tell me why did he leave." Growling, she step away from him, and went to the window. He just impossible! He didn't answers any one of my questions!
"Videl, is they something wrong? Are you hungry, I mean we did left early…"
"No Gohan I am not hungry!" this is ridiculous, why don't he tell me what going on, it not as if Mirai will try something on Gohan they are only friend!
"Well in that case can you tell me why he left? He was upset about what?"
And beside, he love me and Pan dearly, it not as if he will left me for Mirai, we are together until death tear us apart and with the dragon ball even that is not certain. "He left because of a comment I say about the you, well more about the you of his time"
But the dragon ball are gone now, it-
"I'm going after him! When you're finish with the bag just call us, or better raise you ki we will come back as quickly as we can, be careful!"
What! Turning away from the window she run outside her room but it was too late, he was already in the sky. She was left standing, mouth open staring at the trail in the sky.
"What are you looking out mother?"
She was so shocked that she answered without meaning to "he left to go look after Mirai"
"Really?"
"Yes…." He just left in the middle of the conversation, without giving me any answers! And what that mean 'when you are finish with the bag call me or, or "Or raise your ki and I will come.' When you're done with the bag just raise your ki and we will come!!!!" she practically yelled the last word.
"So if I understand correctly what he meant was 'I went with the other Trunks but if you happen to be in danger I will try to drag him with me to go help you"
It hurt. What Pan said hurt. Not because it was all lie or because it was the truth but because deep inside her she had been thinking the exact same thing. Nevertheless, she couldn't let Pan saw what her comment did to her, because if she saw she may think it the truth when as a matter if fact she knew it was a lie. How did she know? Because she was certain of his love? Because she knew that if he had too choose between the both of them he would choose her? No
She knew it because Gohan was like his father. He will help, save, defend everybody…everyone…even those…even those he may no longer love…
Turning away from her daughter, she scolded her and sends her to her room. However, Pan was no fool, she knew what was going on. She is her father daughter, so smart and intelligent.
Shaking her head, she begins packing, it was not the time to linger, there was a monster in the loose, and they were not in an advantage if he were to come now. So now, the sun found her putting the necessaries thing in her bag for in extended vacation and checking the house to make sure everything was all right.
It would be ironic if the Medusa come right now and kill me. With Dende gone, they would be nothing standing between Mirai and Gohan…what a silly though!
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Slowly, quietly, dangerously, a dark shadow his descending on the house.
In the middle of the innocent and open face, two red eyes are glowing.
They shall all perish.
All.
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She had been working for a little while now. Actually it at taken longer then she had wanted, not only she had to make the bag for everyone (Pan was still sulking even with after the small girl talk they had) and went through the entire house to see if thing was okay, but it seem that everybody had decided to come together to call Gohan. For some reason, they all seem to think that dear old teacher Gohan would know why there were major destruction in a worldwide scale.
Mmmm wonder why they would think that…
And even if she was loathe to admit it, she was beginning to get hungry, leaving around saiyin had somewhat gained her some bad habit, one of them been to eat while she can. Now, she know it by experience, it was a bad thing to go into battle hungry. It was probably why she didn't sense him right away. Or maybe it was the fact that she was tired, she had sleep kind of late and raised quite early, as far as she had been concerned it was going to be a grab and go thing.
On the other hand, maybe it was the combination of both of them, whatever the case, when she finally sense him it was already too late.
He was in kitchens just behind her.
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She was dealing with the last things when he senses something behind her. Turning around she had the surprise of her life, well maybe not of her life but at least of the day. He had come back. It took her three second to get from upsets to ecstatic and one second to fall down to fear. It didn't take her very long to know that this, this was not her husband and even less time to know what she had to do.
"Pan! Run" Turning around she leap up the stair and run toward her daughter room, as soon as she set feet inside she closed the door behind. Looking widely around she discover Pan the same way she left her earlier: sitting on the bed, back to the door, sulking.
"Pan! Run now!" Pan practically jumped five feet in the air. When she finally settles down (landing right on her back) she glared at her.
"Mother, why did you do that, you scared the hell out of me!"
She says one word, one word that told her all.
"The Medusa"
Pan looked at her, the fear and apprehension she thought she would see in the eye were gone, they was only one thing and one thing only, Determination. Determination that she was not going to let some monster from another world destroyed the people she loved, the people she cared about.
She was pride of her, she may be stubborn and sometime pigheaded, but she was also very loyal and knew what must be done. Unfortunately, she also knew what must be done. This was not going to be an easy decision, but at least whatever happens, she knew that her daughter would be fine.
"Pan go." Videl looked at her right into her eyes
"Not without you." Pan looked right back at her.
Coming closer to her she gripped her arm "Pan listen to me, you have to go in run to your father, while you at it, raise your power level so that he knew that something is wrong. Raised it as far a you can!"
"I can do that but I don't understand why I should be away I could stay right next to you"
"That because if you do this there he will surely come after you, now stop asking question and go, every minute we wasting argu-" She never had the chance to finish since The medusa who had inexplicably stayed silence until then decide that it was time to go.
Pushing Pan out the window, she turned toward him and raised her ki.
"Mother! It father!" she could hears her frantic call from there but she knew she had to concentrate on the battle. She was not kidding herself: the best she could do was by time until Gohan and Mirai come and pray Dende that he decided to play with her a little bit, if he was in any kind of hurry…well let just say she may have some problem.
"Pan! Just for once, listen to me! This is not your father, now go get him now" then giving a last look she jump on him.
I may not be strong but I'm going to make sure to give him a workout he's sure to remember! Pushing her Ki to the maximum she begin hitting him with a flurry of punch that would have make even Vegeta impress…okay well maybe not but it would have raising a few eyes.She had to keep fighting to buy some time until Gohan and Mirai-Trunks came. Since they were fighting inside the house, the battle was restrained to say the least and the entire bedroom was been destroyed, but it was a small price to pay.
As son as she begin she run into a problem, she may know in her head that it was just a monster personifying her husband, but her heart keep telling him that she was hurting the one she promise to love and cherish until death tears them apart.
Closing briefly her eye (not something she will recommend people but it always worked for her) she opened them again, seeing him not like she though he was but as he was really. The resemblance was uncanny but they were some error in it. Frowning, she looked at him. The cloths were wrong, the colors were inversed, and in the face, there were hardness to him that Gohan had never had. The stance was okay but… there was something off…
She was not able to think more into the matter since he decided to retaliate. To her surprise, he was not that extremely strong. She could feel her punch hurting him somehow, although not enough to make him stop and run away.
Talk about bad luck.
While avoiding a punch destined for her right cheek, she begins asking question about that. After all, it was strange, this creature had killed Piccolo, Krillin and defeated the stronger warrior on the universe so how in hell was she able to hit him so often.
Leaping in the air, she gives him a double kick right on the head sending him a few steps back. She was going to press the advantage when a power level rising near the house distracted her. For one awful second she thought they were a new enemy but then it hit her, it must be Pan alerting the other. Sensing her courage raising at the same rate as her daughter ki she begin fighting anew, but she was not fooling herself, she knew that the other better come soon because even if her kick were hitting him, and hurting him somehow (she had to guess from his wince and growl) he was not demising is attack on her.
Again she couldn't help noticing some tiny thing on this version of Gohan, his technique, for some reason remind her of Piccolo technique and a little bit but just a little bit of Vegeta's. Some of the move he just make, well it was good thing that it at miss because if not it would have killed her right then and there, thank god it didn't have much power. Nevertheless, it still puzzles her, why did the illusion have so many flaws? By what she had heard, when they were in the past Chichi illusions was totally perfect. And why did he seem so much weaker? The original Gohan was way stronger then her, but this thing seemed just a notch above her.
Making a faint on the left, she blasted him with a ki ball. With a growl, he hit the floor.
He was also more ruthless, more harsh and much more older then her Gohan although they looked like they had the same age. However, he seemed older.
Like Trunks and Mirai-Trunks…Mirai-Trunks…Mirai…
That when it hit her, the illusion was perfect, it just that it take the wrong original! After all they were two Gohan! And that why he was so damn weak! Smiling at her discovering she regains some strength and begins a new assault. She new thing would be all right, she had figured something, and she knew one of his weaknesses. Seem the Medusa was only as strong as the people he impersonate. This was a valuable lesson and the other needed to know it.
"Why is not there?" Gohan was looking at her with a confuse look on his face. "She calls him but he don't come."
Stopped fighting, they looked at each other. For a full second, she tough that she had imagined the entire thing and that it was just he and she on a sparring session. This thought lasted until the pain in her four-cracked ribs and her broken left wrist make themselves know. This was not a friendly match. But then what was he talking. She calls him but he don't come…Pan! Looking frantically around finally sense her far away from the battle and that when she notice it.
Gohan hadn't move, neither did Mirai for that matter. In fact they seemed farter then before. And not only they didn't move but it looked as if they hadn't any intention to move anytime soon. She sense Pan raised her ki as high as she could and she felt a tremor in the ki of the other saiyin far away, but nothing more. They didn't move. They didn't react.
"He wills not come. You shall die" and with a speed that was too fast for her eye he hit her, sending her crashing on the wall, pass trough it and fly into a nearby mountain.
Sprawling on the ground she couldn't find her breath, the hit was stronger they whatever he has been giving her until then. The truth hurt as much as the punch and maybe more: He had been toying with her since the beginning, and Gohan did not intend to come to save her.
As much as she wanted to put the tears running on her cheek on the burning pain in her chest, she couldn't fool herself…He was not going to come…
Where at first desperation habited, now rage and anger reign "Well in that case I will defeat this monster on my own" going up once again on her feet, she blasted him with the biggest ki-ball she could muster in such a short time. But it was quite evident to anybody that she was no match to him. Yet again, she found herself on the ground, trying to find her breath that seemed harder and harder to find.
Seem that he was going to be serious this time and that meant that she didn't have any chance of winning this fight. Her eye closed, she taught about all the things she tough she discovers. All this time, he was playing with me, it was a ploy, it was a lie…
Hearing a sound, she opened her eye only to see what was going to be her last sight on this dimension.
Her husband standing hovering above her, his beautiful green eyes looking at her with no emotion what so over. Green eyes... Videl chuckle, she didn't see him with his green eyes since the battle with Majin Buu some years ago. Now she knew was seemed so damn off in this Gohan. It was a strange combination, those back hair and those greens eyes. Those green eyes never hold any emotion except rage and anger…and surprise? Confuse she watched as he was send scrolling toward sharp edged rocks. In front of her stand her Pan. Her beautiful daughter, she looked like her father and so many ways. Her dear Pan, Pan…Oh God Pan!
"Pan what are you doing here, leave right this instant! It too dangerous" Wincing, she tried to stand; she had to protect her at al cost!
" No. I'm not going to leave you here! Father his not coming, I bet Mirai is holding him up! And you hurt! We are going to fight him together!"
"His too strong! And I'm sure your father have some problem over there, they is no way he would have let us down." She nearly choked on the lie.
"In that case let escape together, but whatever happen we are going to go together!"
Watching her daughter, she couldn't help but been pride of her, she had grown so much in so little time, she was a trued warriors in her heart just like her father and grand father. Pride, courageous and determined to right all wrong, a true defender of justice. "And that why you have to leave Pan, I am not going to let you die here with me and it just impossible to flew together, he will catch us for sure» Seeing him walks toward her, she knew there time were counted and that would be the last time she would she her daughter in this dimension. Raising to her shaking feet, she hold Pan in her arm and whispered in her ears what he wanted to tell her, she didn't want anyone to hear even if they was no body around "Pan, you are my only child, my only daughter and I love you dearly, I don't want to let you die like this. I know your father would have come if he could, something obviously retain him. Please, watch over him for me and be strong!" Kissing her on her heard she pushed away.
She could see tear in her eyes but she knew that was she was doing was he good thing. "Now go"
Turning away, she flew over the monster that had destroyed her life, not once looking back toward her daughter. She needed to be strong for them; she needed to buy time so that her daughter could live. And she was no going to fell. She was the daughter of Mr. Satan, the Champ, she was the wife of Son Gohan, she will not fell and what ever come her way, death or pain, she will endure all.
"Listen to me, you monster, and listen good. I am Videl and I am not going to let you hurt those I love! Tell me what are you doing this tell me right now" for a few second the Medusa looked at her with confusing eye. Then he eyes begin to change into a lowing red.
"The master have ordered it"
"Who is your master?"
"The end of all thing, and now it will be your end" with that said he lunched over her.
She didn't stand a chance against him.
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Videl had fight till the end for Pan her daughter and Gohan her husband.
Videl, daughter of the champ, mate of the mystic warrior lay on the ground, black eye looked at the sky, blood sipping from the open wound on her chest.
Death.
Videl, mate of the mystic warrior had lived as in hero and as a hero she dies.
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