Usagi felt her body go numb as her vision went black. She couldn't feel her energy within her anymore. She collapsed to the ground.
Gohan blocked Usagi's blast with his hands. It was very powerful and he had never felt any Ki blast that strong come from a beginner. Even though she was a Saiyan, it was still too strong to be normal. He lowered his arms and looked in the direction of where is sister was standing. "Huh?" He didn't see her standing there anymore. "Where did she go?" He looked to his left and then to his right and still didn't see her. "What the…" He looked to the ground. He was horrified at what he saw. "OH SHIT!" He saw his baby sister lying on the ground. "No! She used too much of her energy. Usagi! Why did you tell me that you were fine?!"
Gohan ran to his sister's side and shook her with his hands. "Usagi! Usagi wake up!" He put his ear to her chest to make sure she was still breathing. "Damn, she's barely breathing." He lifted her wrist to check her pulse. Her heart was still beating at the normal rate. Gohan picked up his sister from the ground and stood up. He looked at her face. She looked so helpless. "Dad is going to kill me. I was supposed to train her, not nearly kill her." Gohan raced to his father. Usagi needed help and she needed it fast.
Goku saw Gohan running to where he was out of the corner of his eye. He looked at Minako who wasn't quite able to grasp the whole concentrate your energy in your body thing. "Stop trying Minako."
Minako looked up at Goku. "Huh?" She couldn't understand why on earth he would tell her to stop. She looked past him and saw Gohan running towards them.
Goku knew something was wrong. He turned around to see Gohan running towards him with Usagi in his arms. Goku's eyes began to widen as Gohan ran closer. Goku began to run to meet his son half way. He took one look at Usagi and freaked out. "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED GOHAN!?" Goku took his daughter from his son and held her close to him in his arms. He looked to his son for answers.
Gohan didn't know how to tell his father what had just happened. He didn't think that he would take it so bad. He had never seen his father so angry. "Well, Usagi was making great progress. She had already learned to fly the first time I told her how. She felt kind of dizzy afterwards." Gohan paused a moment to look down at his sister who lay in her father's arms.
Minako and Makoto ran up to see what was going on. They both looked up to their sensei and saw the fear of a father in his eyes.
Makoto looked to her friend and gasped. "Oh my gosh. What happened to Usagi?" She walked closer to get a better look. Usagi didn't seem to have any more wounds on her body then when she saw her earlier that day. She looked up at Gohan and frowned. 'He must have done something to her.'
Goku didn't take his attention away from Gohan. "Please go on Gohan. I need to know what happened." Goku feared for Usagi's life.
Gohan looked back into his father's black eyes. "I asked her if she was feeling alright. If she was up to going on to Ki blasts. She said she was fine and so I told her how to make a Ki blast. When she first made one, it was small, like any beginner's. I commented about it being small so she said she could make a bigger blast. I didn't see the harm in it so I let her. She built up a massive amount of energy and released it at me. I blocked up. When I looked to see her again, she was lying on the ground."
Goku looked back down to his unconscious daughter. "She used too much energy." He pulled her closer to him and put his face to hers.
Gohan felt horrible. If he had known that Usagi was low on energy, none of this would have ever happened. "Dad, I didn't think that this would happen. I'm sorry."
Goku didn't look up. "It's all right. I blame myself. I should have been the one to teach her. I would have been able to tell if she was nearly tapped out." He jumped in the air and looked at Minako and Makoto. "I'm sorry but I have to leave girls." He looked over to Gohan. "Gohan please make sure that they get home safely for me. I'm going to take Usagi home. I have to get her some help. Bring a doctor with you." In a flash Goku was gone and out of sight.
Gohan watched his father fly away with his sister. 'I hope she's ok. She's in good hands.' He looked back to Minako and Makoto once he couldn't see him anymore. "Guys, I'm sorry this had to happen."
Minako looked at him with sympathy. "It's ok Gohan. We understand. Right Makoto?" She turned to her friend.
Makoto looked at her friend. "Yeah. I just hope that Usagi is ok." She had already forgiven Gohan in her mind. She now knew that it wasn't his fault.
Gohan looked back up to the sky. "Yeah, I hope so too."
~*~*~
Goku flew home as fast as he could. He didn't want to waste anytime. He wanted to get Usagi in a bed as soon as possible. He looked down at her. He hoped that she wasn't suffering from any kind of pain. "How could I have done that? Usagi has a special kind of power. I should have been the one to train her." Goku left a long trail of blue energy behind him as he speed up to his full speed.
~*~*~
Chi-Chi was lying on her bed talking to Bulma. She had the phone cord wrapped around her finger. "So Bulma how's…" Chi-Chi was interrupted by a crash in the family room.
Bulma heard it over the phone. "What was that Chi-Chi?"
Chi-Chi didn't have the foggiest idea of what could have made such a sound. She wasn't expecting Goku or Usagi home anytime soon. "I don't know Bulma. It sounded like somebody just kicked the front door in." Chi-Chi thought to herself for a moment. "Oh my god Bulma, what if it's a burglar. Or what if it's just someone who attacks people in their homes. I've heard of a lot of attacks like that. Oh no, and Goku isn't here to protect me. What am I going to do Bulma?"
Bulma could hear Chi-Chi getting frantic over the line. "Chi-Chi, calm down. You can fight, remember?"
Chi-Chi stood up from her bed. "That was years ago, but if I must protect my house, I will."
"That's the spirit Chi-Chi." Bulma heard Chi-Chi throw the phone down on the ground. "I hope she can protect herself." Bulma hung up her phone.
~*~*~
Chi-Chi hid behind the wall that created the archway from the hallway into the family room. She could feel her heart beat rapidly in her chest as she stood there wondering, hoping that she could defend herself. 'Alright,' She thought to herself, 'It's now or never.'
Chi-Chi jumped out from behind her protection and immediately got into a fighting stance. "All right who ever you are…" Chi-Chi relaxed when she saw that it was just Goku. "Goku what are you doing here so soon?" She looked down to the door. It looked like it had been kicked in. "Goku, what did you…" She paused when she saw her daughter lying unconscious in her husband's arms. She put her hands to her mouth. "What happened to my baby? Oh my god, I knew that this would happen. Didn't I tell you this would happen."
Goku didn't reply. Instead he just walked past her and headed towards Usagi's room. He was worried. Usagi should have waken up by now.
Chi-Chi followed her husband into her daughter's room. She watched as he lay her as gently as he could in her bed. "Goku…is she alright?"
Goku looked to his wife. He knew she was worried. He too was worried. "I don't know." Goku saw the fear increase in her eyes when he said this. He hated that look. "Gohan will be here with a doctor soon. All we can do right now is wait." Goku pulled the chair from Usagi's desk and set it by her bed. He sat down in it and put his hand on her head.
Chi-Chi walked up to the foot of Usagi's bed and sat down. She looked to Goku and put her hand on his knee. Goku was startled. He looked to his wife. He saw tears in her eyes. "It's all my fault Chi-Chi."
Chi-Chi pulled back her hand. "Tell me what happened Goku. Tell me why my baby is unconscious."
Goku sighed as he looked back to his daughter. She looked peaceful but he couldn't be sure. He wanted desperately to know what was wrong with her. "I let Gohan be the one to train her how to fly and use Ki blasts. I should have been the one to teach her. She told Gohan she was fine, that she had enough energy. In the end, she over exerted herself. I would have been able to tell if she was out of energy. It's all my fault." Goku made a fist with his hands and dug his nails into his skin.
For once Chi-Chi wasn't mad at her husband. She understood. "Goku…It's not your fault. You didn't know that this would happen. There was no way to know. Don't blame yourself."
Goku didn't look up to his wife. He just kept his eye on Usagi. He wanted to make sure her condition didn't worsen. "Thank you Chi-Chi. Gohan is nearing our house. I can feel him getting closer. Why don't you go and meet him. I'll stay here."
Chi-Chi stood up from the bed. She could tell that Goku was having a harder time with this then herself. She felt so bad for him. There was nothing she could do for him either which made her feel even worse. "Ok Goku. I'll bring the doctor in the moment he gets here." Goku didn't turn around. 'He really does care about her.' She turned around and left the room.
~*~*~
Gohan landed with Usagi's doctor in front of his childhood house. He set the doctor down on the ground next to him. The doctor brushed himself off and looked around. "Whooo, what an experience."
Chi-Chi ran out from her house. "Gohan, Dr. Carrington, I'm so happy that you are here. Usagi is still passed out."
Gohan stared at his mother. "Still? She should have waken up by now." 'Oh god. What have I done?'
Dr. Carrington looked at the woman before his eyes. "Why hello Mrs. Son, it's so nice to see you again. Where is the little patient?"
"There is no time to talk. My little Usagi needs help." Chi-Chi grabbed the doctor's arm and pulled him into the house.
Gohan followed the two inside. He wanted to see his sister again. He wanted to apologize to her and his parents. He felt responsible for what he had done. When he got into Usagi's room his father was sitting by her bed watching her. Not only could Gohan sense his father's pain, but he could see it too. "Father…"
Goku turned his head to look up at his son. "Gohan, I'm glad you are here." He stood up and looked to the doctor. "I'll give you time alone with her." He walked towards the door and motioned for his wife and son to follow him out.
~*~*~
Goku's legs felt like putty beneath him. His whole body felt strange. He walked over to the sofa and sat down and just stared forward at the blank TV screen.
Gohan sat next to his father. "Look, dad, I'm so sorry."
Without turning his head, Goku put his hand on his son's knee. "It's alright, Gohan, it's not your fault. It's mine."
Chi-Chi walked in front of the two men and put her hands on her waist. "It's neither of your faults. What's wrong with you two? There was no way of telling that she would have done that. It's not important whose fault it is. What is important is Usagi's safety. Now come on. Stop griping about whose fault it is and worry more about what we are going to do to prevent this from ever happening again."
Goku stared up at his wife. For once, she was right. He stood up. "Chi-Chi, you are totally right. It was no one's fault. And next time she shows signs of exhaustion, we will just make her stop for the day. I don't ever want this to happen again."
At that moment Dr. Carrington came out of Usagi's room. Chi-Chi ran over to him and grabbed his shoulders. She shook him. "Is she all right? Is my baby going to be ok?"
The doctor pulled Chi-Chi's hands off of him and smiled. "She will be fine. She's just tired from the loss of energy. Her breathing, her heart beat rate, everything is fine. She will wake up when she has regained enough energy."
Chi-Chi could have kissed the doctor when she heard his words. "Oh thank you Doctor. I'm so happy to hear that." She hugged him instead.
Goku stood up. "Well now I will sleep a little better knowing that she's ok." He walked to the doctor and shook his hand. "Thank you for coming to examine her."
Dr. Carrington smiled. He loved to see the happy faces of parents. "It was my pleasure. Anything to help a child." He looked at his watch. "I really must be leaving now, though."
Gohan stood up. "I guess I can take you back. I have to be heading home anyways." He turned to his parents. "I'll be back tomorrow to see how she's doing." He hugged his mother. "Good bye you guys."
"Good bye Gohan."
"Good bye son." Goku shook hands with his son as a sign of respect.
Chi-Chi turned to Goku and hugged him. "I'm so happy that she's going to be fine. I was really worried there."
Goku ran his fingers through his wife's hair. "So was I, so was I."
~*~*~
Next day around 4:00 P.M.…
Usagi opened her eyes for the first time since she had fainted and looked to her right. She saw her father sitting by her bed. He looked like he was nodding off to sleep. She turned over onto her side and rubbed her eyes. "Huh? Where am I?" She began to sit up.
Goku forced himself awake when he heard his daughter. He gently put his hand on her back. Usagi looked up at her father. Goku shook his head. "Lay back down Usagi, you need your rest."
Usagi did as she was told. She looked up at her father who, in return, looked down to her. "What happened daddy?"
"Don't you remember what happened?" Goku hoped that she did. He wanted to ask her a few questions.
"Not really." Usagi stared up at the ceiling of her room. She had a headache and felt quite weak. She slightly shook whenever she would try to move.
"Would you mind telling me what you do remember?"
Usagi thought for a moment. She tried to recall the things that had happened the day before. "I remember that we sparred yesterday. I remember that I learned how to fly. And I remember shooting a Ki blast at Gohan, then I don't remember anything." Usagi curled up beneath her covers.
"Do you remember any loss of energy or anything like that?" Goku rubbed his hand down his daughter's check.
"Kind of. After I shot my Ki blast at Gohan, I felt weak. Even before that, like after I had learned how to fly, I felt kind of light-headed." Usagi closed her eyes. Although she had just slept for about 24 hrs, she was still very tired.
Goku could tell that she was still very tired. He would leave her room once he was finished talking to her. "Usagi, when you first feel a loss of energy, you should always stop and let yourself recuperate. It's always better to do it that way, then to be in a situation like this." Goku knew that if he didn't say anything quick, Usagi would think that he was mad at her. "I'm not mad at you Usagi. I was just worried about you."
Usagi opened her eyes and looked at her father. "Really?"
Goku nodded. "Yes, really. I love you and I don't want anything bad to ever happen to you. If anything ever did happen to you, I don't know what I would do." Goku leaned down to give his daughter a kiss. "I'll leave you to get some rest now. If you need anything just call and either your mother or I will come." Goku stood up and started walking to the door.
"Ok. But one thing."
Goku stopped and turned around. "Yes?"
"What day is it?"
Goku smiled. "It's Friday." He turned around and left the room.
Usagi closed her eyes again. She breathed heavily as she began to drift of to sleep. Just as Usagi was nearly all the way asleep, Chi-Chi opened the door. Usagi sluggishly opened her eyes when she heard the door to her room close. She saw her mother walking towards her. "Mommy?"
Chi-Chi walked to the chair that sat besides her daughter's bed. She sat down and put her hand on Usagi's leg. "You gave us all quite a scare yesterday."
Usagi was tired and didn't want to deal with her mother at the moment. She knew that she would just obsess over something that didn't need to be obsessed over. "I'm sorry mommy."
Chi-Chi was shocked at her daughter's reply. She hadn't accused her of anything. "It's not your fault Usagi." She waited for her daughter to say something. When it was apparent that she wasn't going to say anything, Chi-Chi decided to instead. "I just wanted to see how you were feeling."
Usagi turned her head to look at her mother. Even that took a lot of effort. "I have a headache and my body feels weak. I'm really tired too."
Chi-Chi took that as a sign that Usagi wanted her to leave. "Well that is to be expected. You pretty much tapped out your energy supply yesterday." She stood up. "I guess I should let you rest now." She walked out of her daughter's room. Before Chi-Chi had even left, Usagi had fallen fast asleep.
~*~*~
Usagi woke up again the next day. She felt a lot stronger then she had the day before. She sat up in her bed and looked at the clock. "Wow, it's already 12:30. It must be Saturday already." She put her hand on her forehead. "Man, I slept through two days.
Usagi climbed out of bed and looked at herself in the mirror that sat on her dresser. The place where her father had hit her on Thursday had almost completely turned into a bruise. She poked at it. Her stomach started to gurgle. "I'm hungry." Usagi left her room to go to the kitchen.
Her father was sitting on the sofa watching TV just outside her room. He didn't seem to notice her. She sat down next to him. "What are you doing here daddy?"
Goku looked at his daughter and smiled. "Oh hi sweetie. You feeling better?"
Usagi nodded. She looked at the TV screen to see what he was watching. "You're watching cartoons without me?" Usagi curiously looked at her father.
"Well I didn't want to wake you up. You needed your rest." Goku looked back to the TV.
Usagi climbed onto her father's lap. "Shouldn't you be training Makoto and Minako?"
Goku shook his head. "I gave them the day off. They trained with Vejita yesterday. They learned how to control their energy and are going to practice flying and using Ki blasts on their own." The truth was that he wanted to be home when Usagi got out of bed. He had Gohan training with Makoto and Minako that day.
Usagi looked back at the TV. "Oh. Cool. So when do I get the day off too?"
Goku once again shook his head. "Nope. You've just had your day off. You slept right through it. I'm going to train you today. Just let me finish this show first and then we can start."
"Ok, but I want to get something to eat first. I'm starving." Usagi jumped off the sofa.
"I'll bet." Goku watched his daughter run off to the kitchen.
~*~*~
"Mommy…" Usagi yelled as she happily ran into her mother. "I'm hungry."
Chi-Chi was just putting the dishes away from lunch. "Usagi, you've finally decided to wake up I see. You are just lucky that I saved you some lunch for when you woke up. If I hadn't, your father would have eaten it all."
Usagi giggled. "As always." She sat down at the table as her mother put a plate out on the table for her.
"Do you feel better today?" Chi-Chi served her daughter her food.
"Yep. Daddy says he's gonna train with me after he watches a cartoon." She started eating her food.
Chi-Chi couldn't believe it. Usagi had just recovered and now her husband was immediately going to take her out and train her some more. "Are you sure you can handle it?" Usagi nodded as she stuffed her face with food. "But you just woke up. Don't you think you should rest a little bit?"
Usagi shook her head. "Mommy, if I relax all the time, I'm never going to get strong like daddy."
Usagi's statement hit her mother in the face. 'It's official, she's going to be fighter. I might as well give up now. I don't have the strength to fight her. As long as she stays safe.' "Be careful this time Usagi, all right?"
~*~*~
Goku didn't take Usagi anywhere to fight that day. Because they weren't going to be doing any real fighting, they just stayed by the house instead.
Goku stood face to face with his daughter. He would make sure that she didn't loose her energy again. "Ok Usagi, we are going to work on flying first. Do you remember how to do that?"
"I think so. Do you want me to do it?" Goku nodded. "K!" Usagi noticed her mother standing by the house. "Hi mommy! Watch what I can do!" Usagi cleared her mind and began to concentrate her energy into her body.
Goku felt the energy build up in his daughter's body. He grinned to himself. 'Impressive.' "Ok, now, use that energy to lift yourself off of the ground." Goku crossed his arms and watched his daughter.
Usagi did as she was told. She could no longer feel the ground beneath her feet. She smiled. "Yay! I can still do it."
Goku backed up. "Good. Now, what I want you to do is move yourself to me."
Usagi concentrated her energy to move forward to her father. She slowly started to move. "Wow." She whispered to herself. She slowly flew to her father. She couldn't fly in a constant line. Her altitude would decrease and then increase again. She never fell to the ground.
As Usagi got closer, Goku would back up, forcing her to keep flying. "Are you still ok? Are you getting dizzy or anything yet?"
"No." Usagi swayed back and fourth.
"Try to keep your energy at one constant. You will find that you can fly better that way. You won't be able to do it at first though so don't worry about getting it right the first time." Goku continued to back up. He would keep backing up until he felt that she could keep a straight enough line.
"This is fun daddy." Usagi concentrated more energy and speed up. "Cool!"
Goku laughed. "I guess it could be fun." He saw that she was starting to keep her altitude the same and stopped. "Ok good. Just a little bit further."
Usagi continued to fly. She was getting the hang of it quite fast. She speed up a little bit right before she reached her father.
"Don't over work yourself Usagi." He held out his arms and grabbed Usagi when she got close enough. He set her on the ground.
Usagi looked up at her father. "I'm not daddy."
Goku looked at his daughter. 'She really does learn fast.' "Ok, I think with a little bit more practice you will have flying down pat. Why don't we work on your energy attacks?"
Usagi smiled. "Yeah!"
Goku laughed at his daughter. She wasn't anything like his sons. The only reason why Gohan fought was because he had to. Goten didn't really like fighting. Goku had always had to force him to train. Usagi was different. She wanted to fight. This intrigued him. "Why don't you show me what you've got. I can't criticize you until I see what you can do."
"Ok." Usagi put her hands together and concentrated energy in them like she had before. When she thought that she had gathered enough energy she released it at her father.
A golden Ki blast came spiraling at Goku. He put his arms together and formed a cross with them. They would act as a shield. He let the attack smash into him. "Wow Usagi. That was really good."
Usagi was surprised. She didn't think that it was all that good. "Really?"
Goku nodded. "Yes. I wouldn't lie about something like this. I really don't have that much to say at this point. For a beginner, that was good. When you get older and have more experience, you will be very powerful."
Usagi let her father's words sink into her head. "Really?" She couldn't wait until she got older so she could be stronger.
"You are already strong. You are the first person I know of who learned how to fly as fast as you did and who learned how to make a Ki blast as fast as you did. That was a pretty strong Ki blast too. You are just like me when I was your age. I'm proud of you. You just need a little bit more practice." Goku saw the happiness in his daughter's eyes.
Usagi was so overjoyed that she wanted to scream and yell. "This is so cool daddy." 'Wait until Haruka and Michiru see me on Monday.'
(Ok, that's it for this chapter. What do you think? Is it good or bad? Please review. Thank you ^_^)
